15 20 5666 https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/a25477633f40c38b686dd675793dda8d.pdf eeeeec4f7760b9c5798c685284b8d1e8 PDF Text Text Charles G. Bell, 1260 Canyon Road, or St. John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico SYMBOLIC HISTORY: 37: !•) , Japan (Heian) 87501 THROUGH SIGHT AND SOUND 20th Cent. C: VJorld Melt 11th c. silk painting, Dai-itoku Myo-o, Fine Arts, Boston MUSIC: Peking c. 1850 opera. Beheading a Son, opening, RCA-V LM 6057 How can an entropic universe be other than a tragic universe, its glory reared on the leap of flame? Our task is to celebrate the dangerous radiance of the later West, without the soul-abandon of. Jeffers' dance around the funeral pyre: passed me, saying, "I am Tamar Caldwell, "Someone flamelike I have my desire." Not by an image of fire itself, or any of the burnings of history, but by a silk painting from 11th century Japan, Dai-itoku Myo-o, fire-guardian of the Buddhist Pantheon (with Peking opera) we grip the pathos of the West in the life-death abstraction ) of energy. . 2) (fade music) Fr. Gothic 13th-16th cent., N.Porch and N.Tower, Cathedral of Chartres (CGB '59) Had not the choice been made with Gothic - its last phase, as in the North Tower of Chartres, called Flamboyant, after flame? In music, the old descent of the Greek tetrachord, settling through its Semitone to the Dorian tonic E - a recollection retained in Gregorian: MUSIC: Gregorian, Easter Mass, dote of Terra treauit, MHS 915 — that downward scale inverts with early organum, climbs through the leading tone to a forbidden tonic C: MUSIC: School of St. Martial at Limoges, Melismat'ic Organum from -------------------------- the Benidicamus Domino, Haydn Soc. L-2071 — Dante's Paradise of flame already fulfilled in Perotin: ‘ �20th Cent. Melt - 2 C.G. Bell MUSIC: Perotin c. 1200, Quadruplum close of Sederunt, Cape, ARC-14068 3) Phillipe de Loutherbourg c. 1800, Coalbrookdale at Night, Science Mus., London With the blast furnaces of the 1800 Midlands, how earth-involved the flames have become, Faust's sky-hunger conflagrant with the hell compact — the combustion and flood of Wagner's Valhalla — soaring to an always higher diapason. Nietzsche: "Above all a living thing wants to discharge its energy." ‘ MUSIC: Wagner 1874, Gotterdammerung, close, Seraphim, 4) 1st Atomic Bomb-, July 16, '45, N.M. 60003 ("Trinity") (Al .Cooke, America, 334) (close Wagner) 5) G. Coustou c. 1730, Portrait of his Brother, Louvre, Paris MUSIC: Bach c. 1715?, Little Fugue in G Minor, opening, Biggs, ----- ----- ' -... ----- Col. MS6261 If dissolving is in question, what energized human greatness (as in the character of a lost father) was to be treasured in that Western assertive command of the incarhate field. in the Age of Enlightenment, how Coustou's Yet even here, portrait of a brother, reasonable as MontesquieuSpirit of the Laws, flames toward excess; how even the most cheerful of Bach's fugues breaks in storm-tossed inwardness, beyond measure. 6) Canova 1803-22 -i (fade Bach) (a copy?), Bust of Napoleon,Gal.d'arte Moderna, Pitti, Florence MUSIC: Beethoven 1804-8, toward close 1st myt, 5th Symphonie, --------. _ . --. ... Deutsche Gram. LPM-188 04 In Canova's Napoleonic transformation, "makes war on itself". (as Hegel says) Revolutionary hope (Wordsworth's "A Blackbird's whistle in a vernal grove") with ardent eyes". spirit turns to "hissing factionists Yet superimposed on that yielding up moral �C.G. Bell 20th Cent. Melt - 3 questions in despair, the now existential will has seized the grim hammer to forge something. minimal or the maximal state? Was Rousseau's Contract for the Thus the motion of liberation which had prevailed since Renaissance becomes the motion of constriction, 7) Arno Breker c. 1938, Nazi Carving, Preparedness which has Hitlerized the later West. (Kunst *81) (fade Beethoven 5th) We will not sift the recorded sounds of National Socialist rallies "With Songs and Cheers", for a music of the reign of Professor Doctor Peter Raabe, blatant as Arno Breker's 1938 "Preparedness" — as if totalitarian "Renaissance" could turn back the clock of Spenglerian time, renewing the civic power of Michelangelo's David against Eliot's "Gerontion" warning: "Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism." Hitler: ) We must be ruthless... Terror is the most effective political instrument...A violently active, dominating intrepid, brutal youth — that is what I am after... 8) Paul Klee 1940, Death and Fire, MUSIC: A.Berg 1935, Klee Foundation, Bern, Switzerland from Violin Concerto, death passage Against the Nazi head set what its call to strength had exiled. Paul Klee, most insistently subconscious of the great moderns, was purged frpm the Dusseldorf academy in 1933. He settled in Bern, where he died in 1940, the year of this picture, "Death and Fire", a wry handling of his own and the world's dissolution. Mein Kampf quell the fires by which it was forged? But could Berg's Violin Concerto on Manon Gropius' death of polio-myelitis; Rilke's surreal landscape of laments in the Tenth Duino Elegy, — with everything from Einstein's relativity, Heisenberg's indeterminacy, Godel' s anti-proof, back to Marx'* Manifesto and Rimbaud's "drunken gnat at the inn's urinal, in love with the barage and dissolved �20th Cent, Melt C.G. Bell in a sunbeam"? 4 (fade music) Did these, as so many assumed, portend the decay of Western power? 9) Rom'q-Gothic Castle 1228, Chateau-de-Mer, Sidon, Lebanon By 1228 the crusading drive of Medieval chivalry had left this Chateau-de-Mer at Sidon, on the Lebanese coast of Asia Minor. 10) Moorish in Spain 14th cent., Torre del Damas & garden, Granada In Granada, this 14th century Torre del Damas, with its garden, pool and Asian lion, marks the last Moorish foothold on the contested sub-continent of Spain. 11) Turkish in Europe 16th cent.. Old Bridge, Minarets etc., Mostar, Yugoslavia As late as the Renaissance the Ottoman Turk was pressing the bounds of Vienna, holding Bosnia and Herzegovina, building this Mostar bridge, minarets and towers in what would later be Austria Hungary, and then Yugoslavia. 12) V.Dyck c. 1633, Wm. Fielding, Yet by the next century 1st Earl of Denbigh, Nat.Gal., London (33 years after Queen Elizabeth had licensed the East India Company), Van Dyck hugely captured what was to become the whole Pukka-Sahib imperial westernizing of the globe; 13) John Nash & others 1815-21, The Royal Pavilion, Brighton, England • With Brighton Pavilion, fashioned for George, Prince Regent, from 1815 to '21, like an Eastern Pleasure-dome (though with the structural lightening of cast-iron), the counter-current of empire draws the styles of exotic lands to the novelty-seeking core. On the tide of post-romantic desire, who is fo be conquered by whom? 14) German Renaissance c. 1500, Dinkelsbuhl, center (CGB *59) No doubt the energy that would revolutionize every phase of �M C.G. Bell 20th Cent. Melt - 5 Western and human life had already, in the Renaissance German town (here Dinkelsbiihl) , given Gothic testimony of its soaring dialectic, the free individual empowered in the civic frame. Yet even as the « traffic of another world explodes those towns, how remote they seem 15) Empire State Building, looking up from the street, NYC from the Empire State culmination of that Faustian alchemy. In a community of nations preparing again to tear itself to pieces. New York was skyscraping center, that slogan-capitalist worldhive, with the stock-market of its troubled art soul: — 16) Salvator Dali 1936, Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonitions of Civil War), Arenburg Col'n, Philadelphia Mus. Dali's 1936 "Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonitions of Civil War)" dished up what was hatching from post-romantic, depression and Fascism (as birds crack the shell). In that turning of liberalism on itself, transvaluing polarities were everywhere dividing and inbreeding. Left fought right, socialist communist, Trotskyite Stalinist; yet ultimate right and ultimate left converged in totalitarian seizure. In art, realism rose against avant-garde, avant-garde split abstract from surreal; isms splintered and cross-multiplied; while through them all cut the psychic cleavage of backward regret or forward euphoria -whether the manic-depressive should affirm or deny. 17) CanoVa 1804-19, Theseus Battles the Centaur, Kunsthist. Mus., Vienna In the Napoleonic upheaval, Canova thought to battle down centaur violence, summoning the heroic image of Theseus (though already strength swells too much toward a Mussolini pugilist). While in Schubert's last symphony, classical form still masters the rebellious dissonance of Beethoven. MUSIC: Schubert 1826, 7th Symphony, 2nd mvt, nearing close, ------ ——---------------------------------- — Col.ML 5619 (fade) �C.G. Bell 20th Cent. Melt 6 18) j,ipschitz 193B, Rape ol' Europa. .bronze, Musee d*Arte Moderne, Pai is Since Nietzsche's transvaluation of value, that brute seizure Picasso's IS our own-- Lipsckitz' Europa, like/ bull and minotaur. assumpticns of conquering So Schonberg's espousal of emanicipated dissonance. MUSIC: Schonberg 1936, Vln Concerto,- 2nd mvt, brief forte, h through. Col. M2S 679 (fade) Yeats, for all his concern with "traditional sanctity and loveliness", must side with the "roof-levelling wind", the irrational cry of Juno's Peacock, the "old man's frenzy" of his own epitaph: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by. 19) Raeburn c. 1810?, Rev. Robert Walker Skating, Nat. Gal., Edinburgh Has the complicity of alienation removed us forevear from the human image as Romantic inherited it from Enlightenment — Raeburn's Preacher Walker skating, from the time of Wordsworth's Prelude: ("Fair seed-time had my soul") We hiss'd along the polish'd ice...while the stars Eastward, were sparkling clear, and in the west The orange sky of evening died away. Have we now the option of that Vicar of Wakefield wholeness? 20) H.Matisse 1905, Joy of Life, study, Haas Coll'n, S.Francisco MUSIC: Ravel 1909, Daphnis & Chloe Suite II, opening. Col. MS 5397 When Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Seurat meet in the Fauves, those "Wild Beasts" (this Matisse 1905 Joy of Life), Symbolist rupture and escape soar to mythic elation — as in Ravel's 1909 Daphnis and Chloe. And although the Bacchic dream of Mann's Aschenbach attends Death-in-Venice, it was still with the rapture of Molly Bloom that Joyce would close the Dublin wanderings of �M M C.G. Bell 20th Cent. Melt - 7 Ulysses, June 16, 1904: and Gibralter as a girl where I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair... and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes. 21) Picasso 1903, Life, Mus. of Art, Cleveland, Ohio And though Picasso had begun in the Symbolist Blue vein of early Yeats: "The wind blows over the lonely of heart/ And the lonely of heart is withered away/" — what Debussy had poured into the last phrase of Maeterlink's Pelleas and Mellisande, "It's the turn of the poor little child" MUSIC: Debussy 1892-1902, close of Pelleas & Mellisande, Col. M3 30119 (whatever Spectre of a Rose would be enacted in the new Ballet of Diaghilev or in the Diaghilev-haunted fate of Nijinsky) — (fade Pelleas & Mellisande) 22) Picasso 1907, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Mus. of Mod. Art, NYC Picasso by 1907 would have broken through that "Hollow Man" anemia, MUSIC: Stravinsky 1912-13, from Le Sacre du Printemps, Col. MG3 1202 striking d’eep into the mother-lode of Faust, Nietzsche and Rimbaud, bulldozing for Joyce the abstract violence of Ulysses' Circebrothel, and for Stravinsky this 1912 Rite of Spring. As Picasso revealed, the crapping pose on the right is as much the earthmother crouch of delivery. Was it not known from the start that when stressed forms are broken, energy flames? 23) (fade Stravinsky) Franz Marc 1914, Heitere Formen (A Schardt, F. Marc p. 160) Perhaps the visual ecstasy peaks (Fauve, Cubist, Futurist) A i �C.G.'^ Bell 20th Cent. Melt - 8 Franz Marc's 1914 "Happy Forms" — such an overflow as Rilke gave words in the Second Duino Elegy, the perilous Archangel t. having advanced one step from behind the stars (Leishman & Spender) ranges, summits, dawn-red ridges of all beginning, — pollen of blossoming godhead (Pollen der bllihenden Gottheit, Gelenke des Lichtes, Gange, Treppen, Throne...) hinges of light, corridors, stairways, thrones, spaces of being, shields of felicity, tumults of stormily-rapturous feeling, and suddenly, separate, mirrors, drawing up their own outstreamed beauty into their faces again. — "the eternal torrent" roaring its way through all realms, inward, outward — until creative ecstasy climaxes in terror. 24) Franz Marc 1914, Kampfende Formen, Neue Pinakothek, Munich (CGB *59) It is the break implied in this "Battling Forms", Marc's other masterpiece of 1914, that year of the Great War, when man appeared the Faustian bungler off migratory course (Rilke): ...outstript and late, we thrust up suddenly into the wind, to fall upon inhospitable ponds — Und fallen ein auf teilnahmlosen Teich. In 1911 the young poet Heym imagined the catastrophe he did not live to see: A great city sank down in yellow smoke. Sucked without a sound into the ground; Vast above the ruins War heaves his' brand... 25) Geo. Davis 1916?, "Putting out his eyes". Imperial War Mus., London Only above the sodden trenches and barbed v/ire could that First World action hold the Fauve adventure of Homeric war — Yeats, "An Irish Airman Foresees his Death": A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds; �20th Cent. Melt C.G. Bell 9 I balanced all, brought all to mind. The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death. 26) Nevinson c. 1918, Bearing the Wounded Over No Man's Land (Studio: Mod. Engl. Art) Below, Rilke's first flame elation at the "hearsaid, remote, incredible War God", with George's, and Hesse's, mired in the this of doomed Hyperion landscape of/Nevinson and/Owen: It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down sortie profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had groined. Yet also there encumbered sleepers groaned. Too fast in thought or death to be be.stirred. Then, as I probed them, one sprang up, and stared... By.his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell... "I am the enemy you killed, my friend... 27) George Gross 1917-18, To Oskar Panizza, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart George Gross's 1917-18 Kermess of Death whirls us from Owen beyond embittered Sassoon -Does it matter? — losing your legs?... For people will always be kind... And no one will worry a bit — to the armistice debunking of All Quiet on the Western Front and No More Parad.es. Under the Dada compact to mock, the surreal to estrange. Pound hones Hysterias, trench confessions. Laughter out of dead bellies... There died a myriad. And of the best among them. For an old bitch gone in the teeth,' For a botched civilization... 28) 0.Kokoschka 1909-10, the Marquis & Marquise de Rohan-Montesquieu, Nat.Mus., Stockholm, & P.E. Geier Coll'n, Rome But the war shift from euphoria to bitterness was a change of stress. By 1910 Eliot's Prufrock seems indecision of "entre deux guerres" to have entered the ("I am no prophet — and �C 20th Cent. Melt • B011 here's no great matter"). 10 At the same time Kokoschka, in Vienna and Svvitzerland had uncovered the more blasted international neurotics of Eliot's post-war "Gerontion": Mr. Silvero With caressing hands, at Limoges Who walked all night in the next room... Madame de Tornquist, in the dark room Shifting the candles... so the Waste Land also about 1919: Under the firelight, under the brush, her hair Spread out in fiery points Glowed into words, then would be- savagely still. "My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me... I never know what you are thinking. Think." 29) Brancusi 1919, Mile Pogany (bronze) (Life, Dec. 5, '55) MUSIC: Stravinsky 1922, Octet for Wind Instruments, from First . Mvt. --- ---------------------------------- ^---------------------- Col. SM 30579 In Brancusi's 1919 Mile Pogany, as in the jazz polyphonies of post-war Stravinsky, abstract sophistication leaves no clue to the mutilations style has plowed under. In that civilization of Chaplinesque extremes, what crack-ups were waiting under the brilliance of League of Nations, boom and bust, flapper dress and skeletal steel? 30) (fade Stravinsky) M.Duchamp 1912, Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2, Mus. of Art, . Philadelphia Before the war Duchamp had painted for the Armory Show of 1912 this Cubist and Futurist analysis of motion, charged somehow with the excitement of the atomic physics of those years — however the American public mocked it as "Nude Falling Down Stairs", or "Explosion in a Shingle Factory". 31) Duchamp 1915-23, The Large Glass: The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors Even, Mus. of Art, Philadelphia But the war made Duchamp too a mocker. New York leader of �C.G. Bell 20th Cent. Melt 11 International Dada, with its nihilist debunking of civilized values. Such this "Large Glass: The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even" philosophy) (as bare as Wittgenstein would strip —, this love-burlesque of scrap metal and pseudo­ dynamo, to which Duchamp gave ten years of assembling and laissez-faire destruct. tion by negation, Yet how soon in the Avant-garde affirma­ its junk and nose-thumbing would point the path of higher abandon (William Carlos Williams' "No ideas but in things"), to become the dynamic of a New Frontier. 32) Mondrian 1936-42, Rythm of Straight Lines, H.Clifford, Philadelphia, (now D^lsseldorf) MUSIC: Varese 1931, Ionization, Col. MS 6146 (about 2/3 in^after siren) In the tightening of the '20's, Mondrian, who had begun by abstracting from nature, stripped the canvas to ruled rectangles of white and primary colors. Was Varese on such a course in the percussions and sirens of his 1931 Ionization? Or Gertrude Stein in her most arid reductions: Red Roses. A cool red rose and a pink cut pink, a collapse and a sold hole, a little less hot... Custard. Custard is this. It has aches, aches when. Not to be. Not to be narrowly. This makes a whole little hill. Better'her dying question: answer came): 33) "What's the answer?" (and when no "In that case, what's the question?" (end Varese) Japanese (Early Edo) 17th c., Jodan-no-ma, room in Shin Shoin Katsura, Imperial Villa, Kyoto, Japan MUSIC: Japanese Koto(Izumi Kai), Rokudan: close, Everest 3206 How much of the modern has its cognates in Medieval, Eastern, Primitive. Such rectangular grids as Mondrian contrived for panel painting Imperial Villa. unfold to articulated wonder in the Kyoto The conscious inventive novelty of the modern -- �20th Cent. Melt C.G. Bell "Well then, what’s the question?" recedes before the spatial ceremony of this life-room. 34) 12 (end Koto music) Le Corbusier & others 1937-43-, Ministry of Education, Rio de Janeiro In architecture what had seemed the rectangular quirk of painting gathers the powers of reinforced concrete, steel and glass for the functional enclosure of space (so Le Corbusier's Rio de Janeiro Ministry of Education). The art struggle which • c ruled lines had bypassed (Cezanne's life-fight for geometry in nature) resurrects in the tensile strategy of rearing against gravity (as Buckminster Fuller used to ask at architectural meetings: 35) "What does yctr building weigh?") . Frank Lloyd Wright 1909-10, Robie House, Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL (CGB *60) The most extraordinary genius of architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright, was also herald of a new America: a new ideal of civilization...based on the freedom of man's mind guided by his conscience... Those wonderful houses, where nature flows in and out: (Wright) We have no longer an outside as outside. Now the outside may come inside, and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other... There can be no separation between our architecture and our culture. Nor any separation of either from our happiness. — from the Prairie Houses of the early century, the great one built for Coonley, or this for Robie in Chicago; 36) F.L. Wright 1952, Mrs. Clinton Walker House, Carmel, CA through the Pasadena houses of the '20's, or Pennsylvania "Falling Water" from the '30's, to this on the Carmel coast, 1952 — democratic vision, empowered by wealth and daring, went on affirming itself, through war. Lost Generation, Depression, Nazi �C.G. Bell 20th Cent. Melt 13 war, the advance of Communism, New Frontier, down to Silent Spring and the napalm bombing of Vietnam. Wright: There is a new integrity in America, alive and working with new means...for freedom and beauty — yours and mine and our children's — in the realm of the new architecture. 37) Same, interior looking out to the ocean What did that private ocean-pavilion of steel and glass affirm? The splurge of America, the huge canvases of the N.Y. School, oil slicks, the looming energy crisis? Did it affirm its own negation? -- not far away along the same beach, the hand-built tower of stone from which Spenglerian Jeffers had written in the 1920's: "meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic", and "This coast crying out for tragedy like all beautiful places"..."Burn as before with bitter wonders, land and ocean and the Carmel water." The very year of the house the vision of Adlai Stevenson would go down before Eisenhower and Nixon: 38) O land, 0 cities; and down to tbe salt sea again. Grant Wood 1932, Daughters of the American Revolution, Art. Mus., Cincinatti Both Wright's avant-garde and his dream of America having been opposed, since the eddies and cross-currents of between-wars, by Philistine tradition — against which Grant Wood and Sinclair Lewis had thought to wield an ironic scalpel: There is a character in spectacles. '. .Babbitt' s spectacles had huge circular frameless lenses of the very best glass; the ear pieces were thin bars of gold. In them he was the modern business man; one who gave orders to clerks and drove a car and played occasional golf and was scholarly in regard to Salesmanship...With respect you beheld him put on the rest of his uniform as Solid Citizen. Yet what is such an art mocking but its own limitations, consanguinities? its �20th Cent. Melt C.G. Bell 39) 14 Picasso 1930, Seated Bather, Museum of Modern Art, NYC Copland 1930, from the Eiano Variations (close) Dover HCR MUSIC: ------------ - ----------- ------- bT-7014A'~ Picasso's mandibled Bather voiced the same desiccation more radically. It was just the translation of worn-out content into the elemental charge of distilled abstraction that gave inter­ national modernism its hard vitality. So Copland (with less acclaim) in the hermetic experiment of the 1930 Piano Variations. 40) J.S. Curry 1929, Tornado over Kansas, Hadley Art Gal., Muskegan, MI or RCA LSC 31^4 MUSIC: Copland -1938, from Billie the Kid, 1st scene. Col. MS 6175 Meanwhile the counterdrive (this 1929 Curry) pushed sanity in art and reattachment to nature and man — to avoid what Marsh called "fantastic nonsense" and Benton of Missouri "sickly rationalizations, psychic inversions and God-awful cultivations". Life magazine and the WPA helped, Copland too, as if to show that a clever man can change styles like dress, led music on the tabloid tack. (fade Copland) Typical of the aesthetic war, that when Barnett Newman, in 1942, attacked "Isolationist painting, which they named the American Renaissance... not an art but an expanded Currier and Ives revival", he identified it with Hitlerism: Art in America today stands at a point where anything that cannot fit into the American scene label is doomed to be completely ignored...an ever expanding school of genre painters... telling the story of America's life of humdrum...instead of the old oaken bucket, it based its appeal on the hurricane cellar. 41) Barnett Newman 1949, Concord, Met. Museum, NYC from MUSIC: ■ Subotnick (b. 19'33), Electronic Synthesizer/"Silver Apples of —---------------------------- :------ the Moon", Nonesuch 47174 (Sf. Jno) (hear close of Pt. Ill �20th Cent. Melt C.G. Bell 15 --here Subotnick-Though in a short time (while the synthesizei/ gained in music), the work of Newman himself, this two-lined color-ground called Concord, based on the European abstract, but rapturously, almost (strange as the word seems) organically new, the mystic color pools of Rothko, action swirls of De Kooning and Pollock,^ with numberless variants of other experimenters — all that had pushed the, representational in turn almost to the wall. 42) (fade Subotnick) Max Ernst 1943, The Eye of Silence, Washington Univ., Mus. of Art Had reattachment been an eddy in the always remoter flight from things of the earth; or is it a recurrent calling? Dylan Thomas at any rat:e, began (1934) with estrangement, surreal as this Max Ernst, The Eye of Silence; ■ Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart Push in their tides; And, broken ghosts with glowworms in their heads. The things of light File through the flesh where no flesh decks the bones... 43) Jack B. Yeats 1952, The Morning Sea, J.D. Rockefeller, NY But by 1946, the rapture of "Fern Hill" ("Down rivers of the windfall light") or of "Poem in October", suggests an art as immediate in earth-praise as the Irish landscapes of Jack Yeats, painter-brother of William Butler Yeats, the poet: t It was my thirtieth year to heaven Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood And the mussel pooled and heron Priested shore The morning beckon... And I rose In rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days... 44) P.Mondrian 1942-3, Broadway Boogie V'Joogie, Mus. Modern Art, NYC MUSIC: Boogie Woogie (1936) Count Basie, etc. Did even Mondrian, in wartime New York, follow the trend of �V 9 C.G. Bell 20th Cent. Melt - 16 earth-yea to the jazzing of his squares in what he called "Broadway Boogie Woogie"— catchy as Cuininings' take-off on first love as driving a car" she being Brand -new; and you know consequently a little stiff i was careful of her and (having thoroughly oiled the universal joint tasted my gas felt of her radiator made sure her springs were O. K.) i went right to it flooded-the-carburetor cranked her up, slipped the clutch... just as we turned the corner of Divinity avenue i touched the accelerator and give her the juice, good (it was the first ride and .believe i we was happy to see how nice she acted right up to the last minute coming back down by the Public Gardens i slammed on the internalexpanding & externalcontracting brakes Bothatonce and brought allofher tremB -ling to a-:dead. stand;Still) (end Boogie Woogie) 45) Diego Rivera 1932, Man and Machinery, Detroit Inst, of Arts MUSIC: Honegger 1924, Pacific 231, (close). Vanguard SRV-274 SD; -——— cf. Mussolov c. 1928, Steel Foundry or Symph. of Machines, -------------------------------------------- old 78 PAT-X96300 The Left had begun Avant-garde, politics. iconoclastic in art as in (MOssolov's 1928 Machine music communizes this 1924 �20th Cent. Melt C.G. Bell Honegger "Pacific 231".) 17 But the populist rallying, even as it absorbed the radical, veered in counter-revolt against it. In a Mexico which called itself Marxist, Diego Rivera (with others) forged abstract into realism, satire into proletarian acclaim.Meanwhile Left and Right enforced totalitarian conformity. One was tempted to divide Western Civilization into three overlapping spans: 1st, the mystico-ascetic or Medieval; 2nd, the free-humanlst, rising from that ground to Renaissance vigor, 17th century formulation, 18th and 19th century climax, with orgies of lacerative individualism extending into this century; 3rd, the ordered-materialist, growing from the industrial revolution to the state assertions of pur time. (end Pacific 231) From the pragmatic perspective of this third, what was the whole surreal and abstract wave but a bourgeois pathology? As from the flight of Symbolist vision, the mass hardening was a reactionary pathos of between-wars. 46) 0.Kokoschka 1913, Dolomite Landscape: Tre Croci, Horstmann Coll'n, Hamburg Against its blatancy, stands the wonder of the ultimate modern: -- Rilke's last Duino Elegy, the Tenth, gleaming as far as its "stars of the Land of Pain" — "Die Sterne des Leidlands" over the art scene. MUSIC: Alb.Berg 1935, Vln Concerto, Philips ST 802-785 LY (opening) What can we do but invoke it again, and with it, also the music its death molting claims — Berg's Violin Concerto, which brings the sensory renewal of the 'thirties to a like transcendence? It was before the First War, and in the vein of rapt wonder Kokoschka approached in that Austria, that Rilke received the first fifteen lines, ending: �20th Cent. Melt C.G. Bell 18 We wasters of sorrows — wir, Vergeuder der Schmerzen -...though they are nothing else Than our winter foliage, our somber evergreen... Place and settlement, camp, soil and dwelling. When the poet, in the trough of between-wars, found his way back to these Elegies begun at Duino, 47) Paul Klee 1915, Der Niesen, Hermann Rupf, Bern the tenth had become a surreal pilgrimage: How strange alas are the streets of the city of pain... Franz Marc having fallen in the great blood-letting, who could advance with Rilke out through the "wide landscape of laments" — "die weite Landschaft der Klagen"? plumbed the subconscious. Klee, as much as anyone, But can Klee's clever miniatures, here Mount Niesen, behind the Lake of Thun, match Berg's requiem for Manon Gropius, much less Rilke's ascent with the Early Dead? (Leishman & Spender) ...in silence the elder Lament brings him as far as the gorge where it gleams in the moonlight, — there, the source of joy — 48) Kandinsky 1913, Improvisation (The Flood), Stadtische Gal., Munich MUSIC: still Berg, Vln Concerto, skip to stormy death It was Klee's miraculous inventions which had mediated the 1 1920 change in Kandinsky. Surely, there is a proportionality between the pre-war and post-war styles in Kandinsky and Rilke. The Apocalyptic storm by which Kandinsky turns his 1913 Flood disaster to a color vortex of earth-swallowing spirit, matches the 1912 stratum of the Tenth Elegy: "that secret weeping may blossom" -- "dass das unscheinbare Weinen bluhe", heart's looser night-surrender to the inconsolable sisters' loosened hair. 49) Kandinsky 1926, Several Circles, detail, Guggenheim Museum, NYC �20th Cent. Melt - 19 C.G. Bell MUSIC; Berg continued into the Choral While when Kandinsky comes, through Dada, Klee and Bauhaus, to the ethereal geometry of this 1926 "Several Circles", it is as if Berg had brought Bach's "Es ist genug" out of a 12 tone agony, or Rilke, under pain ranges had found the "well of joy", ...with awe she names it, says "Among men it's a carrying stream" —"Bei den Menschen/ ist sie ein tragender Strom"— (fade Berg Vln Concerto & skip to the close) So the close of the Berg, like the Rilke — up heights seeded with catkins and the spring rain — climbs the vanishing diapason, to the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls. die uns beinah besturzt, wenn ein Gluckliches fallt. (close of the Berg, without speech) 50) Russian Byzantine 1508, Fresco of Last Judgment, Cathedral of the Annunciation, Kremlin, Moscow MUSIC: Russian 16th c(?), Christmas Hymn, Anthol. Sonore LP-10, A, 1 It is of crucial significance that the materialist nation of the future, Rhssia, should have remained so long immersed .in the lavic appropriation of Byzantine, (this 1508 Kremlin chapel), an orthodoxy 19th century Slavophils must turn into an earth-might — even to the passionate harmonization of all ancient chant, Against so national a mystique, how could Marx say: (fade chant) "The working­ men have no country"? 51) Kiprensky 1827, Portrait of Pushkin, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow In the romantic westernization of that Russia, this portrayed Pushkin, sad singer of autumn — "Sweet mournful days, lure of �C.G. Bell 20th Cent. Melt 20 leave-taking eyes" — is .also the prophet a six-winged seraph gave in the waste, eagle eyes, ears to hear the spheres "And the green vine in the valley climbing", for his own lying tongue that of the wise serpent, and for his human heart a coal of fire. So he wakes to the voice of God: Wander the gray seas and earth roads And burn men's hearts with this, my Word! Was it then that he called to the mine prisoners of Siberia?: The walls will crumble at a word... And brothers give you back the sword. 52) Malevich 1911, Taking in Harvest, Stedelijk Mus., Amsterdam In the Avant-garde revolt of the first quarter of this century, Russians leapt to the fore. and Stravinsky, lived abroad. representation kept pace, Paris. Though most, like Kandinsky Not Malevich, whose break with from year to year, with Munich and With the exception of a brief stay in France, 1912, and in Germany, 1926, he stuck it out, through war and revolution, in Moscow. In this 1911 Harvest Scene, the observed puts on the barrels of cylindrical abstraction. 53) Malevich 1913, Head of a Peasant Girl, Stedelijk Mus., Amsterdam In this 1913 "Head of a Peasant Girl" Malevich moves, under the impact of Picasso's cubism, toward what he would formulate as "a feeling for the absence of the object." By 1916 this compl of curved foldings had also yielded to a Constructivism of plane geometry, culminating in the nuclear ultimate of "Suprematism". As Malevich wrote: 54) Malevich c. 1915, Black Square, Russian Museum, Leningrad Suprematism compresses all of painting into a black square on a white canvas. I did not have to invent anything. It was the absolute night I felt in me; in that,- I perceived the creation, and I called it Suprematism. It expresses itself in the black plane in the form of a square. �s 20th Cent. Melt - 21 C.G. Bell Though Diaghilev had observed in the cresting of 1905; We are witnesses of...a new and unknown culture which will be created by us, and which will also sweep us away. While the Revolution thought itself avant-garde, Malevich had art power in Russia. From Trotsky ("The mind of the artist will limp after the reality the politicians are creating") to Stalin, reaction hardened (was it the outrage of that Internationale where ground and trees were painted in loud geometries?)- When Malevich died in 1935, it was in poverty and neglect, his once Bolshevik attempt called "Bourgeois formalism". 55) Boris Johanson 1933, Interrogation of two Communists, USSR At what flaming acts and inertia of art that overthrow and changing of the tinctures connived. Here a 1933 Interrogation of two Communists, with Shostakovich and Sholokov: . , < (Kouseva tsky; MUSIC: Shostakovich 1937, Fifth Symphony, 1st Mvt, before climax, / =: .. ■ -- Col ML 47 39 Bravely, proudly lifting his head, Podtielkov mounted the stool beneath the noose, unbuttoned the collar around his stout sv/arthy neck, and without the tremor of a muscle, himself set the soapy rope... "See -how few* are left to look on at our death... You have been deceived. The revolutionary government will come, and you will see where the truth was. The finest sons of the gentle Don you have laid in that hole." (fade Fifth Symphony) Let this picture from the year Hitler came to power exemplify the state realism Stalin also enforced. 56) Pavlo Filonov c. 1935?, Fragment of Faces ("Hidden Soviet Art", Life Mar.28, 1960) MUSIC: Shostakovich 1936, close of Symph. 4, Melodiya-Angel SR-40177 And only long after, with the literary underground we know of, paintings would appear of an Avant-garde suppressed under Soviet �20th Cent. Melt C.G,. Bell conformity: 22 this mosaic of distrubed faces by Filonov, Leningrad painter who died in 1941. Suddenly one would realize what one must have known before, that consciousness is like a gene-pool; post-romantic civilizations may demand, resolve; but they cannot obliterate what has been experienced by the soul. It is a tribute to Shostakovich that in his experimental works, condemned or quietly withdrawn, we are hypnotized toward that other focus — as with the mysterious -close of the disapproved Fourth Symphony. 57) (close Shostakovich 4th) Peter Blume 1934-7, The Eternal City, Mus. of Modern Art, NYC When Mussolini in 1923 popped out of the Pandora box, among battered books and broken statues of the Eternal City, he did not 'look so green-faced as Peter Blume would make him more than twelve years later. Lincoln Steffens in fact had thought him God's clc.rifying thunderbolt. asked. "You're a correspondent?" "You saw the war? Revolution in Russia? anything... Listen. Yes. Yes. And the peace? Well," he sneered, Mussolini had Yes. And the "did you learn Do you think now any of the things you thought before you saw the war, the peace and the revolution?" But if that was God's thunderbolt, Steffens obscured the ■h' turning of God on himself — how Futurist ecstatic rant and d'Annunzio's foaming poems, leagued with Mussolini and castor oil to make the trains run on time, might overshoot. no more of the brotherhood, "Let us hear sisterhood and other bastard relations of nations; all relations of nations are those of power"... 58) Hitler c. 1920?, early painting of a dream castle, Life 10/30/39 — So darkening Europe under Flying Fortresses. Since meanwhile a most inadequate representational painter. �20th Cent. Melt C.G. Bell 23 the Austrian, Adolf Hitler, had concretized, and, in the bitterness of German defeat and inflation, was deflecting his art from such paintings as this castle (dream madhouse he might have escaped from) to a Mein Kampf veering of Socialist Workers to the turgid Right. As Dante had said of the wrathful: "Portando dentro accidioso fummo." With the Dachau smoke of that strange incinerator, the pathos of moral rearmament and soul-hardening would spread over Europe the fiercest realism of all. 59) Adolf- Wamper c. 1938, Genius of Victory, Kunst Vol 81, 1933-40 In the "Genius of Victory" by Wamper (another Adolf), everything from abstract and Expressionist, D^da and Surreal is forcibly reversed in the Charles Atlas imperative of totalitarian renewal — caricature of Nietzsche's call to higher living: A ruling race can only grow from terrible and violent beginnings. Where are the barbarians of the twentieth century? (If only the Germans could have claimed a monopoly of theml) 60) Double: Saint-Sever Apocalypse c. 1050, Flood, Bibl.Nat., Paris; and Picasso 1937, Guernica, det. of Left portion, Barcelona? "The tiger springs in the new year . ' Us he devours." T.S. Elio,t in "Gerontion" had voiced that cyclical Coming — so "the innumerable clanging wings" and "Sailing to Byzantium" of Yeats' War, Civil War and post-war Tower. Even Picasso, though more Socialist than Christian, has visibly rested his 1937 bombing of Guernica on a Flood destruction from the Saint Severs Apocalypse of 1050. So the Wasteland had shaped for its age a mythology of earth-sabotage: What is the city over mountains Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air Falling towers Jerusalem Athens Vienna London Unreal... Alexandria �C.G. Bell 20th Cent. Melt - 24 (To which the Second War would add Warsaw, Rotterdam, Dresden, and all the rest.) Double: Picasso 1937, Guernica 1st State; and Final State Against the Communist realism of Russia, Picasso's Partisan testimony fragments space and abstracts emotion. From the first state of the Guernica (below) to the last (above), human content (the redemptive pain of the warrior stretched out as if crucified) is calcined and suppressed. Yet in a pictography where perspective, foreshortening, chiaroscuro go under, force flames some Heraclitean inverse of negation. While the claimants of world order cranked up their rhetoric, Picasso locked horns with god in the whirlwind. •_Picasso 1937, Guernica 2nd State det. Warrior's raised fist rays & corn; and Final State det., sword hand with flowers Even so, programmatic message — Rilke's hazel catkins from the dead land, rooted far back in the Revolutionary and Romantic, s Weary the winters, at the last comes corn" — has shaped in the photographed second state of the painting (above), such a sun-rayed promise of grain from the warrior's raised fist. And although the symbolic arm was to disappear under the writhing horse, it is in the final state (below) hand of a dead woman, spray of flowers; that what had been the long since painted out, would resurrect as a Dante's "so long as hope puts up a blade of green"; Rilke's "Heilkraut" of the Fifth Elegy, his "Singing plant" on the peaks of the heart". hand, Leafing up from the clenched sword it counters annihilation. ^_War II photo 1945, Demolition on Iwo Jima, Eastman House, Rochester So where the First War had ended in capitalist debunking, the Second swelled through Partisan alliance to a crusade of the �20th Cent. Melt - 25 C.G. Bell "Peace-loving Peoples", while Churchills's rhetoric of "blood, sweat and tears" and "Fight them on the beaches, fight them at sea, fight them in the air", revived the myth of heroic action. -- How fragile, in the wa^ of Eliot's West: I was neither at the hot gates Nor fought in the warm rain... My house is a decayed house... I an old man A dull head among windy spaces. and: Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still -- how vulnerable to My Lai. 64) Joan Miro 1942, Woman & Bird in front of the Sun Yet through the war and the decade after, down to the overflow of Hippie wish, something extraordinary happened; the partisan crusade incredibly veered through the reversal of Cold War into New Frontiers and the dream of free enterprise opulence. At the same time those arts which had begun in Dada mockery expand the same techniques (this 1942 Miro) to visionary wonder. In Finnegan's Wake of 1939, Joyce led all artificers of transverbal myth: We who live under heaven, we of the clovery kingdom, we middlesins people have often watched the sky overreaching the land. We suddenly have... A kind of a thinglike all trayloggedthen pubably it resymbles a pelvic or some kvind then props an acutebacked quadrangle with aslant off ohahnthenth a wenchyou may cuddler, lying with �20th Cent. Melt - 26 C.G. Bell her royal Irish uppershoes among the theeckleaves. Signs are on of a mere by token that wills still to be becoming upon this there once a here was world. As the dayeleyves unfolden them. In the wake of the blackshape... 65) Arshile Gorky, 1944, "How mv Mother's Embroidered Apron Unfolds in my Life", Coll'n Bagiev Wright, Seattle MUbiC: Carter 1959. Str.Qrt 2, near close. Col RJi272l At the same time the Turkish Armenian immigr^Kt Gorki (up to his accident and suicide) had seized on and was melting down the abstract and the surreal extremes of Avant-garde, crashing through about 1941 to a subconscious plasticity of paint-fused canvas, drips and all, as it has been called, "a ' phenomenology of the invisibile". �20th Cent. Melt - 27 C • G. Bel 1 Was the musical tie back to Ives, or to his followers, here Carter? (fade Carter) It was Gorki's flag which bannered the pfncer attack (action painting and color field) of the New York School, of which Motherwell would write: The present vitality of American Art is connected with the unparallelled depth of our democracy. 66) 0. Pollock 1943, Pasiphae, Coll'n Lee K. Pollock (or a later one?) Pollock's liberation is like that of a Cage happening. MUSIC: John Cage c. 1954?, from Variations IV, a live performance. Everest 3132 In poetry it was the old Pound (though hardly democratic) whose Canto's stirred such unleashing. The stench of wet coal, politicians ............... e and ...........in, their wrists bound to their ankles Standing bare bum Faces smeared on their rumps, wide eye on flat buttock. Bush hanging for beard, Addressing crowds through their arse-holes. Addressing the multitudes in the ooze, newts, water-slugs, water-maggots... howling, as of a hen-yard in a printing house, the clatter of presses... foetor, sweat, the stench of stale oranges, dung, last cess-pool of the universe... the great arse-hole, broken with piles, hanging stalactites, greasy as sky over Westminster... chewed cigar-butts, without dignity, without tragedy, ........m Episcopus, waving a condom full of black-beetles, monopolists, obstructors of knowledge, obstructors of distribution. (end Cage) 67) Franz Kline 1959, Initial. Robt. S. Scull. Gt. Neck, N.Y. In that booming growth market of elemental art, when the international Black Mountain voice of Franz Kline lets loose, in one of those huge free-brush signatures (this of 1959, called Initial), what is that 100 inch vehemence of Chinese caligraphy turned to muscular release telling us of? If of Jung's "superhuman world of contrasting light and darkness"-- �20th Cent. Melt - 28 C.G. Bell the primordial experience rends from top to bottom the curtain upon which is painted the picture Of an ordered cosmos, and allows a glimpse into the unfathomed abyss of what has not yet become -What of Jung's warning: "to which one is therefore in danger of suc­ cumbing"? 68) Jim Gilbert 1949?, Chicago River, detail. CGB & D^B, Santa Fe And when that last old master, Jim Gilbert, about 1949, so aware of post-war experiment, yet pursuing on his own the Cezanne problem of color shapes through the visible (the darks of this detail not unlike those of Kline's ink-writing), when Gilbert gloomed the Chicago River, what does that melancholy bum see in the clouded water but hints of Asian war and ecological catastrophe — Pollock's open-throttle democracy, slinging oil, ready to sling a rod? RocKefexler, Ketropoli ta.n 69) N. Amer. Indian, Mississippi Stage, Duck River, Stone Man, Mus. Prim. Art NYC How much, all over the world, has been melted down into the restless improbability of that chain-reaction. With what timeless sufficiency the stone man of the Tennessee Moundbuilders looks back at the museum lookers of New York. To tell those upstarts how long that forest crouch could have been maintained. 70) Oscar Howe 1962, Medicine Man, US Dept, of the Interior MUSIC: Native American Church, tape of chant with drums Today, even in the Peyote-cult chant of the Native American church (Christian), the irreversible trend is of the melting pot. In this 1962 Medicine Man by Oscar Howe (a Sioux trained in Santa Fe), Indian life gives theme and local color to a panal of which the consciousness and cubistic techniques are world-modern. 711 Clas^sical Mava c. 700, Hill temple stripped of trees, Yaxchilan. Chig,pas —^^-----------------------(Gertrude^om) In 500 years Classical Maya culture had exhausted its habitat �20th Cent. Melt - 29 C.G. Bell (no doubt by cropping the jungle around such populations centers as this Yaxchilan, sacred city in a great bend of the Usumacinta. Abandoned about 1300, it is only now that the temples have been cleared of whelming forest. As when facing the monuments of the Near-East, of India, China, or the Cambodian ruins of the Kingdom of the Khmers, we are staggered by the contrasting glories of pre-Western man, each isolated fastness flowering in its own life and style. 72) Maya c. 800, Jaina Style, painted pottery (whistle). Lovers, Bliss Coll_l£ ---- ----Nat. Gal., wash. DC —'■ '' .So in the late Classical Maya, the Gulf Coast island of Jaina produced wonderfully refined painted pottery figurines, in which ari­ stocratic life is depicted with a finesse and verve as of the Orient, though with a fusion of beauty and the mocking grotesque elsewhere un­ paralleled -- a tragi-comic individuation on its own human terms, to which we have lost the clue. 73) M. Ocoranza C. 1870?, The Withered Flower, Bellas Artes, Mexico DF How weird, after the conquest, to see the whole expanse, from Toltec through Aztec to Maya, take up the leavings of Europe — Ocoranza, sentimentalist of the Federal District, receiving from Greuze of The Broken Pitcher this erotic double-talk of lechery and morality the poor debauched girl tearfully contemplating her snapped lily. 74) Orozco 1937, Hidalgo, fresco det., stairhall. Pal de Govierno, Guadalajara No wonder the mawkish mummery broke to Orozco's frescoes of the Revolution, where the Meschittf firebrand Hidalgo frees the enslaved masses. Though that would-be socialist upheaval empowered another exploitation by the few. 75) Orozco 1939, Man of Flame, fresco, Hospicio Cabanas, Guadalajara Prophetic, that the national series of between-war Orozcos should A, �20th Cent. Melt - 30 C.G, Bell culminate in the cupola of the Hospicio Cabanas in Guadalajara, the dilemma of the man of flames -- as with Kazantzakis' Odysseus -- that to live is to be consumed, the ascent of man inevitably his conflagration. 76) L. Garcia Guerreo 1961, Pintura 99, Priv. Coll'n, Mexico, DF Meanwhile art-Mexico settled from the '30's peak of Expressionist propaganda realism to the undifferentiated internationalism -- whether weak or strong -- of Guerrero's flame and black abstraction, entitled, after Kandinsky and the rest. Picture 99, 1961. Nok Sculpture of Nigeria c. 600 BC, 77) MUSIC: ------- Terra Cotta Head, Inst, of Arts, Detroit Malinke (14th c. Mali of E. African), Percussion Dance (calabash water drums tuned in 4ths) 01ympic:Atlas 6110 The African Black enters art in the Nok terra cottas of Nigeria about 600 BC, these heads as charged with force as the drum rythms which, from that continental base (here the 14th century Mali of East Africa) and with unparallelled dispatch, would ravish the entire world. 78) Hellenistic c. 1st cent.BS, Young Negro Musician, bronze, det. Chalons-sur-Saone A measure of that power (with which Faulkner, who calls it indomitable, has energized his fiction), that when it fans out 500 years later from the Nile into Graeco-Rome, the most sophistic Hellenistic bronzes suddenly sway with the pulse of black body and the throb of black soul. 79) Eakins 1878, Negro Boy Dancing, watercolor, Metro. Mus, NYC A measure — that when in Eakins' Emancipated Philadelphia (after the Civil War) the lithe banjoist strikes up, it is recognizably in the same beat; and when the boy responds for his father with a dance, it is with the unaltered suppleness of abandoned ligatures. No doubt, through all vicissitudes, the Negro, as unmistakably as any group in history, will have held his own. (fade Malinke drums) 80) Abu Salley (US Black) 1977, acquatint & etching; "And they tried to kill all our Buffalo"; C.G. Bell Coll'n �20.th Cent. Melt - 31 C.6. Bel 1 Yet when today's American Black rouses the Irish blood of his ancient servitude, and under the Mohammedan name of Abu Salley, takes over, in post-Gdya etching (with the hanged Christ), the dismembered totems of our Indian tragedy -- "They tried to kill all our Buffalo" -- he is as catastrophically world-modern as the French, or English poems of the New Africa • this Parkes, of Ghana, "Apocalypse"; In the last days'. Strange sights shall visit the earth. Sights that may turn to blood the moon. This sun to midnight -- in the last days. But now, when swords are not yet ploughshares. And spears still spears... Remember, my little ones... If in this strange sub-human realm Your eyes fall on a stone, a hard black stone. Lifeless and muddy, that has grown a beard. Pray children...ask no questions... If perchance you see a hare that roars Or an ape perched in a palanquin. Look on in silence. Quickly pass by. Quickly. 81) Double: Attic c. 285 BC (replica). Head of Epicurus, Met. Mus., NYC; and Hadda (Gandhara) c. 4th cent. AD, Stucco bust of an Ascetic, Mus., Kabul MUSIC: ______ Bismillah Khan (Benares) Shehnai (cf. oboe) & acc't, Raga-Lalat, Odeon V..::::: ------------MOAE 113 The excavations of the Indus Valley reach back to the earliest civilizations of the third millennium; but the India we think of as primordial, has elaborated its arts since contact with Alexander. As Dion Chrysostom records (c. 80 AD) : "even among the Indians, they say, Homer's poetry is sung, having been translated by them into their own dialect." If the epics so implied .claim -- like the Vedas — the second millennium of Aryan conquest, the earliest Sanscrit inscription remains of 150 AD; and who can rear a history of thought, poetry and music over the flux of oral tradition? In art, on the contrary, we perceive at a glance the Indianization of the Greek philosopher �•$ C.G. Bell 20th Cent. Melt - 32 image, from this urbane Epicurus (left) stemming from the 3rd century BC; to the Gandharan ascetic of Hadda (right), in what is now Afganistan. 82) Indian (Madya Pradesh) c. 1000 AD, Kandarya-Makadeo (Siva) Temple, Kajuraho, N. India When Bismillah Khan of Benares performs on the Shehnai (a kind of oboe) this Raga-Lalat, a melody of morning pathos, to the tablat 16 beat Teental rythm, that improvisation of today issues like robed Brahmins from the por­ tal of the living past -- this lOOOAD Shiva temple in Madya Pradesh. Here no revolution has occurred; in art, in music, in the recitation of Sanscrit hymns, it might seem timeless India was flowering still. (jump to close of ■ Ra^ 83) Indian scene, on the banks of the Ganges in Benares (Hurlimann,) Though the whole life of India, through British occupation, Ghandi and the achievement of independence, cries out (as here on the Benares banks of the Ganges) how desperately that soul-stretched land is caught in the aTl-melting whirl of modern necessity ; good nighti" "Do not go gentle into that It is the Third World of Galway Kinnell's "To a Child in Calcutta"; In Calcutta, I thought. Every pimp, taxi driver, whore and begger. Dowsed for me through the alleys day and night -In Bandook Gulli I came upon you, I On a street crossed by fading songs I held you in my arms Until you slept, in these arms. In rags, in the pain of a little flesh. 84) Affandi (Indonesian Expressionist) c. 1940?, The Barber, Museo d'Arte Orientale, Rome And when Buddhist India spilled over into the Cambodian Kingdom of the Khmers, how remote that jungle majesty from what the Wes tern-trained Expressionist, Affandi, has recorded in his "Barber" -- not to speak of the Manifesto now invading the Indonesian poverty- vacuum of coca-cola exploitation �ts 20th Cent. Melt - 33 C.G. Bell and napalm-war. 85) China (end Raga) (Sung) c. 12th cent., Kuan-yin (Bodhisattva), Fine Arts, Boston MUSIC: Ancient Chinese, Tzuey Ueng Charn, played on the chyn (zither), RCA-V-LM ---■ —----------------------------------------------------^--------------- 6057, Side 1, Band 1 Erom the imperial China of this 12th century polychromed wood; Kuan-yin Compassionate Bodhisattva in the posture of Royal relaxatioi^a figure of meditational command, with a zither tune of refined intoxication, 86) (end zither) Hua T'ien-yu (Chinese Sculptor) c. 1940?, Air Raid, Priv. Coll'n, Paris the same time-vortex whirls us (about 1940?) into the "Air Raid" of Paris trained Hua t'ien-yu; where Oriental mother and children, stretched on the. wish and danger of romantic self and mechanized war, seek, like a bomb shelter, the containment of abstraction. Though again what would intervene would be the Communist absorption of individual desire in a realism no lessTfestern than propaganda gladness -87) No. Korean 1975, "The Fatherly Leader Marshal Kim.II Sung with our Compatriots, from Japan", Commun. Publication here from the-Democratic People's Republic of North Korea, "The Fatherly Leader Marshal. Kim II Sung with our Compatriots from Japan" -- which, though it purports to be most militantly of the East, has scarcely a trace of anything Less Euro-American than pie in the sky. Is not the touted "Immortal Juche Idea" of the fatherly leader himself a plural rehandling of the most blatant Victorian poem, Henley's "Invictus": "I am the master of my fate...the captain of my soul"? At the same time that the East has materialized that promise -88) India (N.W. Deccan) MUSIC: 5th Cent., Gautama, the Buddha, Cave 10, Ajanta Tibet, Lamaist Chanting, RCA-V-LM 6067, Side II, Band 1,b the flower-child West, alienated from those goods, reverts to a quietism the Orient has abandoned — this haloed Gautama Buddha of 5th century Ajanta, with �20th Cent. Melt - 34 C.G. Bell Tibetan drums and chant. That an ancient cave religion, however, stemming from the earth-denial and search of soul it shared with early Christianity, could now, uprooted from its habitat, answer for mechanized man, seems as in­ congruous as when a Buddhist monk rides a motor bike to his protest immolation, 89) (fade Lamaist chant) Blue glow of Neutrons in a high flux reactor. Oak Ridge, Tenn. and uses the gasoline to set himself on fire. Here art images knock under; since that blue grotto of neutrons in the water of a high flux reactor at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, says things no painting, statue or building will ever say about the Promethean overweening of our three­ fold world, its fission and fusion building to a threshold, whether of advance or catastrophe is not yet decipherable in the cards. 90) Double: Paul Klee l903. Portrait of the Artist's Sister, and 1918, "Einst dem Grau der Nacht enttaucht", both Klee Foundation, Bern Is the spaceflight from connection the only art-vivifier, where syn­ thesizing responsibility has gone stale? Thus Klee from 1903 (left) to 1918 (right); and surely if realism offers so little in the treatment of a loved sister, it must be time to dissolve those constructs of the physical, into cryptographs of lettered color-squares: "Einst den] Grau der Nacht enttaucht" — "Once from the gray of nighd; emerged/ The heavy and dear/ and strong from fire" -- with the rest of the fathomless message, penned above and painted below. 91) Mexico, Mahogany Logs on a pon. , near Lacanha, Chiapas (C6B '78) Was there a tie, when the abstract chessboard took over, in the break­ down of realistic cultivation — a link always stronger from war through between-war and second war, to now (mahogany logs floating on a lake in the vanishing Lacandon rain-forest, Chiapas)-- a tie between the miscarriage of earth and of art-representation -- �20th Cent. Melt - 35 C.G. Bell 92) Skylab nears reentry 1979, NASA (Smithsonian May 79) as between the desperate gamble of other worlds (Skylab 1979, nearing reentry), and the assault of abstract art on the secrets of the void? 93) Geo. Catlin 1836, Sioux Indians pursuing a stag in a- canoe, Smithsonian ------------- ----------- —-----------------Wash. DC Wherever-polarities, (Empedocles'^Eros and Eris, Love and Hate) are to be drawn, like light and dark, from the mottlings of the actual -- all phenomena, all experienced states, though we give them polar names (as bound and free), can no more coincide with their limits than a hyperbola can touch its asymptotes. Fire and water treated as symbolic opposites are other than their haunting appearances in nature and history. As far back as Catlin's first studies of fhe American West, this water-rich concord of man and nature sets firestick killer against grazer. 94) Catlin 1830, Prarie meadows burning, upper Missouri, Smithsonian, Wash.__DC As here the same upper-Missouri sets, against the slow uprearing of plant, fire -- both Heraclitean, all-consuming limit, and a seasonal process, destruction contained in the form-building balances of nature. Already Catlin's America is stretched over straining absolutes of leaf and flam^. 95) Japan (Heian Period) MUSIC: lOth-llth cent., Dai-itoku Myo-o, Fine Arts, Boston, Peking c. 1850,opera. Beheading a Son, close, RCA-V-LM—6057 (1 ,6.) So if they were indeed gods, those worshipped ambivalencies (this Daiitoku Myo-o, fire guardian of the Esoteric Buddhist Pantheon, with whom our World Melt began — here too with Peking opera), they must have stared through it all before, like Yeats' "Old Rocky Face" — laughing "in tragic joy". (end Peking Opera) Foreseeing that at the end of romantic reversal and abstract splurge. �20th Cent. Melt - 36 C.G. Bell from between wars and after, to the Hippie disburdening of all restraint, ■96) M. Rothko 1936, Self Portrait, estate of Mary A. Rothko ther^ would come a man named Rothko, American, born in Russia 1902, his 1936 Self Portrait the burnt-out malaise of old Europe landed in Melting Pot New York, — that pathos of the '30's crying for the ab­ stract conversion of the '50's, compared by some with Paul's cataclysm by blinding light — though William Carlos Williams' "I gave up" had explored the way -- based everywhere, from fceat defiance to drugged hope, on the same desperate evidence, to boost ultimate negation into transration orbit; -97V Rothko 1938, Subway Scene, Rothko Estate (Guggenheim Rothko show). Foreseeable, he would try New Deal realism, still groping at age 36 — this Subway, he would try, and fail, rather inconspicuously; until surreal and abstract, Kandinsky, Miro, Gorky came to the rescue 98) Rothko 1945, Primeval Landscape, Estate of the Artist (Guggenheim Show) (this primeval Landscape of 1945) — as he would later theorize: The progression of a painter's work as it travels in time from point to point, will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and between the idea and the observer. As examples of such obstacles, I give (among others) memory, history or geometry, which are swamps of generalization from’which one might pull out parodies of ideas (which are ghosts) but never an idea in itself. To achieve this clarity is, inevitably, to be understood -ignoring Jung's devouring abyss, where Idea, stripped of world-content converges the limits of infinte and void -- what Sylvia Plath longed toward in her "Poppies in July": Little poppies, little hell flames, Do you do no harm?... A mouth just bloodied. Little bloody skirts 1... If I could bleed, or sleepl -- �■ » 45 20th Cent. Melt - 37 C..G. Bell If my mouth could marry a hurt like thatl... But colourless. Colourless. He on the verge of that, talking of myth and the collective un­ conscious, yet drawing from the abstract surreal no such archetype as Picasso's GLsrrrica, still searching, through dream roots, swirl and vegetation, a 43 year old genius, not yet sure -- the private life also in upheaval... 99) Rothko 1961, Number 118, Nordrhein-Westfalen Coll'n, Dusseldorf MUSIC: Messiaen 1940, Quatour pour la Fin du Temps, Beginning of last mvt, ----------------------------------- —---------------------------------- Deutsche Gram. 2531 093 When suddenly, 1949, almost ten years after Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, Rothko, in touch with Barnett Newman, who had like­ wise probed the surreal, and then struck deep into color pools crossed by one or two (more vital than geometric) bands -- now Rothko, nearing 50, took up the rapturous drowning -- those soul absorbing color glows, melting at the edges like cloud: -- such a breakthrough as the poet Roethke's, though his led, outwardly, to classical measure: In a dark time, the eye begins to see, I meet my shadow in the deepening shade... I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I learn by going where I have to go. How slowly dark comes down on what we do. 100) (fade Messiaen) Rothko 1970, Black on Gray, Acrylic, Anon, owner (Guggenheim show) MUSIC: same Messiaen, close of last movement Although the soul-solitude of those paradox voids plagued Rothko with continual self-doubt, for 20 years he pursued the logic and mystery of that inmersion, culminating in the '60's in contemplative rooms of such hypnotic panels. Though of those for the Chapel of Religious �20th Cent. Melt - 38 C.6. Bel 1 Meditation in Houston, arranged like ikons by singles and triptychs (in suggested accord with the Passion of Christ) he said in disappoint­ ment, shortly before his suicide; "I was always looking for something new more." He was 67, in poor health and with/family troubles; yet the release of the primordial, to draw an always expected more from an always attenuated less, until the infinite hangs on the zero, gives that death symbolic dimension. At the end, he thinned to acrylic in this horizoned Black on Gray, whose Dark Light, draws us on, as to a landing on a formless planet, to grope the alien atmosphere for whatever we once called our own. ... Is this the way The world melts, on the wind suffers a cloud change? (close Messiaen) � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Charles G. Bell's Symbolic History: Through Sight and Sound Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Meem Library Description An account of the resource Scripts of Mr. Charles G. 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Bach, 1721, 6th Brandenburg Concerto, opening, LLP 144 Time has turned to a myth while I have thought to close Symbolic History with a show called NOW, and still I ask: "Which Now, the fleeting or eternal? Whose Now, mine or of the world?" For five years that Immanence has defied me, while thirty-eight other realms have been subdued, slide-taped, then videoed — until all my Panzer divisions press this threshold, where the flying god with the scythe, who mows the past, gathers that conscious harvest to sow a future. 2) Qoya C.1798, Spain, Music: and iHjstory, !JFine Slrts, ‘Boston; + ‘U detail Haydn 1794, Symphony #101 in D Major, close of 2nd movement ("The Clock"), Westminster WL5102 In 1985 I thought a single NOW could be shaped along with the four shows of this century — as if the modern rush would round to its own containment. Twice I announced deadline dates. The dates were accomplished, but not the Now.Once I presented such fragments as had been recorded. I resurrect the opening: (Haydn, continues through forte) 3) 3a) SLpoUo Module over the moon ^ (d ^ ‘Triton, SatelUte ofpdgptune, 14n£ust 1989j /l. fa. ^ Either we cannot make a show of Now, or we have been doing it all along, since all history is of nows, and it is all past. Waiting for that Now is like waiting with Weil or Becket for God or Godot. 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 1 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History In what sense is the moonflight and landing of 1969 (or Voyager's '89 scan of Triton, satellite of Neptune) more with us than the Age of Revolution or the Birth of Christ? Though all exist in consciousness, where the oldest may mean most, we, the living, can have lived through some and not through others. 4) Victor !Hu£o, 1867, ‘Wave qfi\{y (Destiny, (Hugo's House, (Paris; + V detaiC So there is a relative now of our own experience, cresting, like Victor Hugo's Life-wave, toward an Absolute Now — Shakespeare's "pro­ phetic soul/ Of the wide world dreaming on things to come". Surely that soul, like ours, is a working presence^ where past and future merge and are remade. (close Haydn) 5) (African ((RS’Cent) from (HfiotCesia (ZezuruF) (Demon (Has!^ (Museum fur voC^rl^nde, HamSurg; first, V detail. Music; African drums from Haiti, Elektra ELK-130, B Since nothing that has furrowed perceptive space-time is so past or dead that it cannot be quickened to growth. Thus the oldest, or if recent, most remote record of man's beginnings in the alienation of mask (like the African beat which has wild-fired over the world, here from a New World base in Haiti), (end drums) 6) (Paul (Kfee, c.1920-24, (Mas^ (fCeditfieim QcUlery, ‘BerUn; + V detail 6 a) (DouBCe of 5 and 6 66) (DouBCe: [A] (Picasso, 1932, detail of Qid at a (Mirror, and[(B] (Maslu (F^a^ (Brit.ColumBia Music; from Jelly Roll Morton's Doctor Jazz, to Stravinsky, Histoire du Soldat Suite, from 5th movement. Philips A 01193 L could open through Picasso to this sophistic Klee of the Munich 1920s. Is Chaplin intended, or the blazing absurdity of Hitler, ha­ ranguing first followers in the Hofbrauhaus? While Jelly Roll Morton's "Doctor Jazz" took art-Stravinsky by storm. From Rhodesian mask, to mask return, history brings jungle voodoo to the soul crisis of mechanized man. 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 2 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History Though the Now is more brain-involuted than any simple cut can imply (fade Stravinsky) a7) 7) Jan van T,yc(<u 1434, JimoCfiniManure, Same, dehsi Music; QaCCery, London ^ Dufay, c.1440, Adieu m'Amour (Cape) AS 43, or EMS 206 a crux of the three-fold mystery of time: wheel of return, arrow of advance, pool of what abides. Lear: "And we'll wear out in a walled prison packs and sects of great ones that ebb and flow by the moon." In that manifold, Paul was more real for Luther than the Papal bull threatening from Rome. So the mirror inscription of Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Marriage — "Johannes de Eyck fuit hie," "Jan van Eyck was here" — turns the moment to a testimony — not "was" but "is" — present as the Dufay which might almost have sounded in that room; though it had to die away and be reborn out of scholarship and Cape's Pro Musica of Brussels; yet to a life as real as jazz. 8) 9) ^nne ^uefuman CrosSy, 1372-3, dleatfi of ^Brocris Marda Simpson, '74, ^Uie TCace; Botfi CQ. & (DM. (BdC, Santa J^e What longing of the modern soul, tender as Hellenistic nostalgia (attested by the art of friends: Anne Buchanan Crosby's Myth of Procris, Marcia Simpson's The Place) has pushed the vielle poignance of Dufay to recorded admiration? (dose Dufay) 10) (DouBCe: [Si] "Egypt, Dynasty I"U, c. 2700 (B.C., (Hs^erve JCead, (KjmstfOstorisefies Museum, "l^ienna, and [B] (Dpiasty XVlII, c. 1370 (B.C., (PCaster Mas^Jrom Studio of scuCptor Ihutmose, Simama, (BerUn; + detaiC cf 10(B From culture to culture we have witnessed that buildup of yearning, as of sensuous person: Egypt, from the dawn smile of an Old Kingdom head, to a plaster mask from a New Kingdom studio in Ikhnaton's Amarna, so touchingly enfleshed, who can tell if its veri­ similitude is modelled or cast from life? 3/1994 NOW — Alpha �C.G. Bell 11) Symbolic History (DouBCe: [J^j ‘Etruscan, c. 530 ®.C./ Sarcopfu^us, ^oung 5iiisBan(C and ^fe (Cerveteri), VUCa QiuCia, fl(pme, and [(B] Znd-lst unU ‘B.O, OCd fHusBand and Wife, ‘]/oCterra, Italy So with Etruscan tomb couples, from 6th-century Odysseyan god-favor, to a weighty mortality, after 500 years, under the civil strife of Republican Rome. But is there not a time when the reverse tide sets in, IZ) (DouBCe: ^Rpman HCeads: [H] 1st unt., front Ostia, and [B] 4tB unt., from ‘Uia 5ippia! BotB, Uiermae Museum, fRpme (C(fB fomenting a mystery beyond the personal? Again Rome, from the Julio-Claudian burden of temptation and responsibility, to a 4thcentury stripping off of that too-human consciousness — surely dis­ solving here in some cult of immortality. 13) ‘DotiBCe: [51] !Rpman, Cate 4tfi cent. 5UD., Mosaic Bead, from ‘l^ida at CasaCe, SiciCy; and [B] tRpman-CBristian mosaic, 5tB cent.. Bead of an Ancestor of CBrist, S. Lorenzo, Milan So to Augustine's dire antinomy of the City of Caesar and the City of God. Two mosaic heads, 4th-century pagan, from a Sicilian hunting villa, 5th-century Christian, a prophet from Milan, shift (with the whites of the eyes) from dejected selfhood to the ecstatic frenzy of creed. 14) BouBCe: [SI] Sleyean (‘Uiera), c. 1500 B.C., fresco, fuCC-Breasted woman, and [B] QreeRi c. TOO B.C., Warrior; BotB, MytionaC Museum, SltBens; first, ‘UdetaiCs V In Vico's youth-to-age sequence of cultures, barbarian sion seeds again, on such late-cycle search, "divine and heroic That rape is brought before us (as in Kazantzakis' Odyssey) linking this Theran lady, from the Aegean luxury before the war, to a Greek warrior of the folk-wanderings which brought Iron Age. 3/1994 NOW — Alpha incur­ times". by our Trojan in the 4 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History IS) (DouBCe: MicfuCan^eCo [A] lSOl-04, (David, Accxidemia, S^Corence, and [(Bl 15SS-64, (Rgndanini (Bkta, Sforza CastCe, (fdiCan ISa) Same, actaus,lMW^ uLlh. V Aa a ^ But the patterns we have applied to societies (as if they too "must have like death that we have") are the groundswell of our lives. From the proud, if troubled, command of Michelangelo's 1504 David, to the transfigured humanity he carved, in his last days, from the abandoned Rondanini Pieta, is not only an outward motion from youth to age, but a miraculous beginning, a reach beyond death itself. 16) (DouBCe: (Hs-mBrandt [A] c. 1629, Self-(Portrait in a Qor^et; and [(BJ1669, Cast SeCf-(Portrait; BotB (Mauritsfmis, iSie S{ci£ue; + video sin^Ces And Rembrandt, a hundred years later, in two self-portraits in the Mauritshuis, perfected his life-pilgrimage from this almost Car­ tesian jubilance of youth: "I think; therefore, I am!", to the dying ac­ ceptance of a defeat and malady which affirms mysteriously beyond itself. ^al 7) LefimBrucCii 1907, (fdotfier and Cfuld, CfoCBsvang (Museum, Tssen 17) Same, Figm our own perilous century, no artist has made of his life . and work as tragic and transcendent prophecy as the German sculptor Lehmbruck, genius child of a coal miner. Where is the af- firmation of sensuous flesh more rapturously ideaF than in this 1907/ Mother and Child? al8) (DouBCe: detaUsofl8.Aand*B 18) SlouBCe: LefmBrucCi [A] 1911, SQteeCin^ Woman, and [(BJ 1913, Ascendant O'outB; BotB, (MunicipaC(Museum, (DuisBur^; + video singCes ^ )> From 1911 to 1913, as the artist labours "to and reconstitute it as spiritual reality" (so August assume a symbolic ambivalence. The tender pathos "Kneeling Woman", the burdened overreach of the 3/1994 NOW — Alpha disassemble body Hoff), the sexes of this Gretchen striding "Ascen- -5 , �C.G. Bell Symbolic History dant Man," rear toward the Great War the looming fatality of the Faustian West. 19) (DouBU: LeftmSruc^ fJl] 191S-16, y^aCCen Warrior, (CetaiC; antC pB] 1918 laying QirC; Both, *Municipa( Museum, ^isBury How the same polarity, carried through the defeat and embitterments of the War, joins the stark negation of this "Fallen Warrior" (detail), to the always more disembodied hope (1918) of a "Praying Girl". 20) LefmBruc^ steads of Lovers, L>uisBur£ Museum (?) Where else can such a sequence be brought to such a close as in the volatile cement of the 1918 "Heads of Lovers," breathing, as we have elsewhere said, "the Orphism of Lehmbruck's suicide" — a sui­ cide of earth, which is" still, unbelievably, an earth-transcendence? I S^Zl) (B(al^, 1804-6, LfruuC Qateway, p. 70 ofStirCina lerusaUm. (B21) ConstaBCe, 1835, Stonefieii£e, watercoCor, Victoria & MBert Mus., London 21) . dlouBCe of S421 and (B21 This is the freedom and bondage of history, that the past, which conditions and limits, structures the realities of a creative calling. We accept the likelihoods of the material; to enter and leave a room we commonly use the door. But spirit too has such thresh­ olds. The submission and defiance of soul is to feel them out — to train probability on the wonder of a quantum leap. Thus Blake and Constable, diverging from the 1800 ground, limn eternal opposites of Stonehenge, inward and outward, of imagination and physicality. 22) 22a) 22B) 22c) (Rgdon, 1883, Sea Slnemone, LitBograpB, MffiionaC QaUery Wasfiington, (D.C (DetaiC(f22 vn-) f) DouBCe (f22 and23 joriyinnf rifitB-^ndhpefftra^ Details of same Music: 3/1994 Debussy, 1890(?), Reverie, Philips St PHC 5-012, side 9 NOW — Alpha -6 �C.G. Bell Symbolic Redon's Anemone (wind-flower, soul-flower) Debussy's "Reverie," or de Nerval's "Vers Dories": History opens as to And like a nascent eye covered by its lids A pure spirit grows beneath the skin of stones. But here, after 1975, among Santa Fe friends, how radical the estrangement of art has become (fade Debussy): Gardiner Jencks, com­ posing like a secret Scriabin in Tesuque — Music: Gardiner Jencks, close of 1979 #21, recorded by C.G. Bell no chord but is dissonant now, yet a dissonance guided, as by a new law of tones, toward the meditational and home-seeking. Z3) 1375, #1, CQ. (Bdlcodectum, Santa ^fe 23aj cf23'jTcMn Japanese Sum CvrcCe 235)^^^^ul^23 (LZc>cj>^ 2,3 "^ This picture by Phoebe Douglas of the Douglas clan, reader of Dante and Middle English, Zen pilgrim, writer of haiku; a diabetic, she was put on oral insulin, suffered a stroke, partial paralysis, the loss of most of her speech — as caught as a jellyfish in a wave breaking up the strand. Yet through that barrier she found a Sumi way, her "Opus One" where shapes abstract a password of search and entrance. (close Jencks) 24) iKefhnistic ruins under zoater, coast ofdiirl^ ("^tny) 24a) Sitfiens, 447 c. 143 J4.CD., (Partfienon over Odeum (C^(B '77) So in the larger paralysis: when Graeco-Rome settled toward the symbolic ruins which lie in water off Mediterranean shores, Au­ gustine did not attempt to revive the lost Republic or Vergilian epic, much less the Periclean city with its drama of tragic heroes thrown to the ritual ground. Like today's world losses, that was all gone beyond probability; and even genius must feel out the odds. S 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 7 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History 25) ItaCian (Byzantine, 549, S. SipoCCinare in CCasse, (Hg.venna 25a) Tpfiesus, 5tfi cent., (Bust ofTutropius, HQmstfiistorisCfies (Museum, 14^n Music: Gregorian (Solesmes), Messe de la F6te Dieu, Oculis Omnium, opening, French Decca St 7543 B (2) Augustine took the gradient of the church of faith reared on the pagan fall; yet in that submission he created revelational history, The City of God, with spiritual autobiography, The Confessions, clue to the inwardness of a civilization unborn, 26) Apse mosaic’from 25, S. ApoOinare in CCasse, SHeep in a green pasture 26 a) (Detail, photo ofSimone Weil, (MarseiCCe, spring 1941 26B) (Rgvenna, 6th unt., (Mosaic, Christ, detail, S. Apoltinare (^ijwvo How many have felt our Gregorian we hear was recovered, the monks of Solesmes Abbey, focus, the Easter of my 1938 visit, Weil: Now-imperative the same? The under that cyclical supposition, by where the Christ-search came to in the mystical intensity of Simone "Fall on your knees with love, as if this were indeed the place where truth existed." I obeyed, (fade Gregorian) Yet how far into self-denial and humility, the Byzantine Creator and Redeemer had fallen — 2 7) Qreehi Cater 5th cent. (B.C., head offounger (Rjau Warrior, (Museum, (BsggioCaCaBna; + detail after the absolute life-fulness of this fifth century Riace Warrior, a mortal, surely, but with the presence of a Greek God. Such the reality General Marshall claimed for Thucydides during the last great war: "more contemporary than the daily news from the battlefields of Europe." The antinomy has racked the West, from Christ to Now, 3/1994 NOW — Alpha �C.G. Bell Symbolic History Z8} Cimc^ue, 1278-80) St. Srancis, detaiC fresco of Madonna andSingeCs, Lower Cfiurdi ofSt. ^Francis, ^sisi 28a) Midi^mo, 1465, (Dante and fiis Toem, (Duomo, S^Corence; + ^detaUs Music: Italian,.!3th cent., Laud to San Lorenzo, Tinayre, Lumen 32018 Even after thirteen centuries, in the tide of renewal leading to St. Francis and this Cimabue depiction of him (with a Penitential Laude), Dante's answer to Virgil's pagan question: "Why do you not climb the delectable mountain, which is the beginning and cause of every joy?" can hardly surprise us: "Look! The beasts of sin!" Thus the only road was down through Hell and up through Purgatory. (fade Lauda) 29) SeBastiano deC (PiomBo, 1516-18, Man in Sirmor, Wadswortfi SltBenaeum, Sdartford, Connecticut; first, video detail Music: Don Luys Milan, 1535-6, Pavan #3, Pujol, AS 40A So viewed, the Renaissance seems in part a Greek recovery, yet clouded and complex, a displaced heir contending for perilous powers — as in a portrait by Michelangelo's pupil, del Piombo, with a Milan Pavan. (cut Milan) 30) *Bemini, c.1635, (Du^ (BaoCo Orsini, Castle of (Bracciano; + Vdetail Music: Busca, later 17th cent., Occhi Belli, Max Meili, AS 79 From then almost to now, a tide of rising expectations has bred comic (or disastrous) effects. Bernini's Duke Orsini of Bracciano, Busca's "Beautiful eyes, don't blast me!" spread the wings of Baroque bouyancy — under Papal privilege. (cut Busca) 31) ndiorwaldsen, 1810-11, (Bust of SHmself, Museum, Copenhagen; + V detail Music: Beethoven, 1811, Egmont Overture, close; DG-643 630, in the Beethoven Edition, Vol. 11 By 1811, in Beethoven's Egmont, or Thorwaldsen's Self, the world is swept from the old limits and enclosures on a revolutionary 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 9 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History wave, culminant proclamation of human will as a phenomenon of hope. Hegel: "man, as man, is free; it is the freedom of spirit which constitutes its essence." Small wonder Greek sculpture was imitated. (end Beethoven) 32) CourBet, c. 1847, SeCf witB a (Pipe, CBarcoaC, WadstvortB Athenaeum, 9{ar^or(C, Connecticut 32 a) CourBet, c. 1844, Sdf zoitfi. (Buc^ifecC *BeCt, Lowore, Taris (xndeo, detaiC only) Music; Liszt 1862, Mephisto Waltz, close, Rubenstein, VLM-1905 By the middle of that century, in Courbet's Self (time of the Communist Manifesto, of Balzac, Hugo, Melville, Wagner, this Liszt), how stormily conscious of "the thorns of life" aftd "bleeding heart" that self-asserting spirit has become. (end Liszt) a33) Qeor£e tRpuauCt, 1903, (Drun^n Woman, Museum of Modem 14rt, (Paris; + ^ detaiC B33) (DouBCe: [3L] Matisse, 1903, Woman witfi Qreen Stripe, Copeniia£en, and [(BJ (RpuauCt 1306, tragedian, (HafmCoser, Wintertfmr 33) (PpuauCt, 1903, ^Uie CoupCe, Le CCery CoUection, (Paris; + ^detail Since Baudelaire's poems, since Flaubert's 1860 letter, the bru­ talization of what was called the external world (though perhaps it was within), had broken, as on late Rome, in. recurrent waves. Reactions came equal and opposite. Just when the Fauves and even Picasso rocketed into euphoria, Rouault gashed down. Music: Stravinsky, 1910-11 (revised 1947), from Petrushka, close, Col. MG 31202 Rouault's Couple of 1905, like early Joyce, like the mocking of Petrushka, strips bourgeois and romantic sentiment to Eliot's "lonely men in shirtsleeves, leaning out of windows" ... "The burnt-out ends of smoky days"... 34) T,Ci Levin, c. 1963(F), (Prepnant SGppie, etcfiin£, C.Q. BeCC, Santa !f^e; / V detaiCs' Vsik 3/1994 NOW — Alpha VO �C.G. Bell Symbolic History Or "Apeneck Sweeney" jackknifing out of bed — a debunking carried through Depression America to Santa Fe Levin's Pregnant Hippie. (Society back to its vomit; another inveterate habit of Now.) (fade Petrushka) Has art, which we call creative, no power to make history, but only to exhibit symptoms? *]/a35) iI(puauCtj 1905, nJie y-cUCen *Eve, (C^rt 9/[o((eme, Taris 35) 5(puauCt, 1906, {Prostitute at Mirror, Museum of Modem S^, {Paris 35a) {l^puauCt, c. 1924, *lHree Judges, {Private Codection, SxoitzerCand In that case, Rouault displayed two. As in Hellenistic sculpture, a waste-of-life, surfacing in the grotesque and ugly, presaged mys­ tery cults; so Rouault's more-than-Toulouse nightmaring of prostitu­ tion and greed, foments faith — "the hope only," says Eliot, "Of empty men." So the soul-search Flaubert predicted from romantic pain: ("We shall see a return of world-sickness. Music: Stravinsky, 1930, Symphony of Psalms, from 1; Philips A01193L 36) {pj^uauCt, 1936, Cfrrist xvitfi {pgised 5lrms, ^dmore, fEJ? 36a) Same, 1942, Cfirist Moc^d, Museum of 5lrt, Stut^art; + Vdetail (video tfien returns to a detail of 36) beliefs in the Last Day, expectations of a Messiah...") has been vari­ ously wish-enacted, in Rouault's Christs, mediated by the color-forms of stained glass; in the neo-sceptic detente of Eliot's Christianity: "Teach us to care and not to care/ Teach us to sit still"; most power­ fully in the ritual sequences of Stravinsky's Symphony of the Psalms fusing the modern with Russian Byzantine and Gothic Perotin. (close Stravinsky) The first polarity of my 1930s youth was between that cyclical Christ 3/1994 NOW — Alpha irl �C.G. Bell Symbolic History a3 7) ‘Ben Sfiafin, 1931-2, (Passion cfSacco and ‘Uanzetti, d^nnedy QcdCeries) 3 7) (Hj£fit-fiand£Toup, TidUtney Museum, (SUfC (video, details only) and the socialist vision, more moving in the letters of Sacco and Vanzetti than in Ben Shahn's lean satire on that mal-trial and execution: so Vanzetti's death-prophecy of a time when their passion ("the taking of our lives — lives of a good shoemaker and a poor fishpeddler") will be seen as a triumph over "this bumt-out age where man was wolf to the man". a3S) Strunnikpv, 1929, (Partisan Lunev, ‘Tretya^v QaUery, (Moscow; first, ‘U details 38) (DouBCe: (H^uauCt, 1939, Cfirist (Moc^d, HBrams family, (MyC; and [B] Sunni^v, 1929, (Partisan Lunev, as in a38, aSove 38 a) (DouBCe: BarlacB [H] 1914, Siven£er, and [B] 1938, (fCoating lln£d (video taCifs these singCt^^c^<. , n '2-,^ A In Stalinist Russia the state realism of that cry had hardened to such Partisan rigor of utopian claim as Sholokov's Bolshevists con­ tinually voice: The government must be thrown aside like an old rag. The lords must be stripped of their fleece; they've murdered the people too long... When every govern­ ment is a workers' government, they won't fight any more... One beautiful life all over the world... I'd pour out my blood drop by drop to see that day. Between so demotic a religion of the material, and the drooping aesthetic of "briared hands" and "world wound" (another "Christ Mocked" by Rouault), one hesitated, as before a crazed antinomy, less inclined to say "I embrace the poles" than "a plague on both your houses". Though my Augustinian poems of the early '40s saw the Communist rallying as only a postponement of soul's confrontation —some late-cycle resolve: "To goad the world to order!" That is the last spun thread, and when it severs? 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 12 �Symbolic C.G. Bell History Then comes the timeless trial, the pure affliction, Until we die in wisdom. a39) HitCer at a (Parade, 1938, ‘W.W.II (cf. (Sfa^re 62) (video, detail oidy) 39) (Ma?c(Beclitndnn, 1944, SeCf-(Portrait, (h^ue Staats£atCerie, (Munidi (CQ(B '59); + V detaiC For Symbolic History, however, it was necessary somehow to participate in every crucial earth-search and experience, even of National Socialism, which added another pole to the ChristMaterialist antinomy, another sort of face to the Western sequence we have been pursuing. Strange that Beckmann, always in flight from the Nazis, should exhibit in this self-portrait (begun in Amster­ dam and finished in New York, 1944), under an ironic and ques­ tioning mask, the very hardening of German enterprise and Faustian will, from which he had fled into exile. a40) ^Euricfi, 1940, (Dunquerque, OdfftionaC Qf^ry of Canada 640) Soviet War (Poster, 1941, ^"l^he *Enemy ShdC (S^ver ‘Escape Our Wrat6' (detail of Atomic 5\pe 125) 40) James QiWert, 1961, (RicEard (Jregg (canvas stolen, pHotoyrapfiedin 1967 6y CQ(B); + detaiC Whatever Beckmann represented. Hitler's demonic attack im­ possibly united the Anglo and free-enterprise West with the Com­ munist East, in a crusade of "Peace-loving Peoples"; though after victory had reinstated cold war, another contrary would appear, between police-state Russia and the America of this Richard Gregg, painted 1961 by his friend and mine, Jim Gilbert; Gregg, consultant of Gandhi, Second War pacifist, welcomed as Micah Glenn into my Half Gods — there a martyr to the hope of self-rule against the mass. For that openness too was vulnerable. 41) Cfiurdutt, (RgoseveCt andSta&n at Ofalta, LI^PE: W.W.II: + V details Already one could have prophesied that global leadership was likely to incline. West or East, to the best blend of productive free­ dom and planned world-discipline. One asked; Which is more feasi3/1994 NOW — Alpha 13 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History ble. for capitalist energy to bind itself to the greater earth-good (as Roosevelt surely intended); or for a socialist order of the whole to in­ corporate the lively freedoms of incentive and criticism? Before Vietnam, it may have seemed that the odds were with the West. 42) ^eti Sfiafm, 1947, Spring, S4(Brigfit galCery, ^BuffaCo, 0^; + ^detait But what of our post-war euphorias, from Boom to Hippie bust, all media chain-reactions of my "Atomic Age" — tough-minded Ben Shahn, American Hebrew Lithuanian, lured from social satire to this romantic 1947 Spring? As if free enterprise could mount the parti­ san wave, voicing the poetic raptures of Dylan Thomas: Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means. Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea. 43) Cfmsto, 1943, Surrounding Islands, off Miami; first, ^ detail But time was running out on that squandering of resources to turn earth into an exploding star —for which the wildest art symbol is Christo s earth-alterations — the latest, and most astonishing (for fish off Florida) being the more than 7000 square meters of pink plastic, promoted under the rapture of "Let a thousand islands bloom — a garden in the sea." a44) 644) *Uc44) d44) Slustrian, c. 1770, grandfather dochi Chet Johnson, Santa fe TngCish TCane Tree, S4nnej(j Oxford (cgB '90) CgB in ^Princeton Seech tree, Oct.1946 ‘EdMarshaCC(Photo, 1973: Cg(B in apihon ooerSanta (pe Music; Return to Haydn "Clock" Symphony, opening of 2nd Movement. Here, the first fruits of what I had called NOW, the Bondage and Ereedom—of History, trailed off, groping through time for a deeper underlay — not the ticking clockwork, but the cosmic tree, rooted as far back as memory and evidence go; reaching up, through an abid­ ing present, toward the promise of things to come. And because the 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 14 �Symbolic C.G. Bell History first locus of that awareness is personal, I had variously introduced the art and music of friends. (Fade Haydn “Clock") 44) (Durftam Catlu(CraC, IGtfi-cmtury cCocl^in IZtfi-century Soutfi transept 44a) 9^remBer£ Christ, c. 1520-30, C.Q & (D.M. ^eCC (C§‘B '63); + ^(UtaiC 44B) ^Daumier, 1870, 5)on Qy-V(pte, ^Pimhpthehi Munich {cf V Music: Bach: return to 6th Brandenburg, close of 1st movement But had I escaped from my opening: "Either we cannot make a show of Now, or we have been doing it all along"? Was it clock-time I had set up in the sanctum itself? As Virgil told Dante: "I will lead you through an eternal place"; or Christ his followers: "There be some standing here who shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of Man coming in his Kingdom." Was I no nearer, than in my other shows, to the ultimate Now, which is eternal? Against that Protean giant, Quixote had to sally out again. (Close Bach, 1st movement) 44 c) ‘BarBara BruneCege / Bugcm fisher, CDouBCc ^inBoxo over SpicCer 5(pcl(j Canyon dc ChcCCy (Sacred BCaces 1990); first, V detaU (0 Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort : Music: 45) Eternity, you thunder-word.) J.S, Bach, from the opening of Cantata 20, MHS 7281 Chorus, title words: 0 Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort (fade) (DouBCe overCay: C.Q. BeCC, Lacanha xvater, Ceaves, stars;^^^video detaiC 45a) ZndoverCay: C.Q. Bed(, lo zvith voCcanoes, stars, etc.; + VdetaiC Every, Now exists in consciousness. But consciousness is amor­ phous, an emergence of self in all — Walt Whitman's "separate per­ son" swirled with solids and liquids, roots, quadrupeds, birds. When the spirit moved on the waters, its first commands were three: "Divide! Divide! Divide!": light from darkness; a distinguishing fir­ mament; and beneath, land from seas. How can our Now but cleave into shows of self and world, a fused complementarity — the great I AM and the small. Begin with the small. 46) first WorhC War, 1918, US. photo, trenches under gas attache 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 15 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History I was born in 1916, when the explosion of modernity seared earth-soul with the tanks and machine guns, shells and gas of trench warfare. 47) ralCy for !HitCer's SOtH Birtfiday, 1939; video, details only 1 reached creative awareness as the totalitarian takeovers — Mussolini's, Huey Long's, Stalin's — swelled to Hitler's. Such the context of my 1936 Atlantic crossing in Delta Return: I set my face to the wind, satanic compact. In that Europe a Wagnerian screamed for thousands: "Like a somnambulist I go the way God has chosen." — Clouds to the hunger of storm ... 48) U^Came-tfirozvers moppiny up in the Tacific, etc 48a) HdfutronyCozv at Oah^iRidye, n3SC(<f. ‘WorldOdeCt 89) I came home to the consequent agony of all that. The Half Gods, of a 1945 newsreel: Thus from Smoky Yanks turned a flame thrower on an embank­ ment. Japs ran out burning. One veered toward the camera, collapsed in a pile ten yards away. To moans from the audience came the announcer's spruce words: "the little yellow bellies are getting their medicine." Next day the long and secretly expected bomb fell on Hiroshima. The genie was out of the bottle. The war was at an end. 49) Currier & Ives, 1866, ^RgumG-ny a ‘Bend in the (Mississippi; + ‘17 detail How far from such world explosion, the Huck Finn River of my boyhood haunts — the side- and stern-wheelers still plying the ox­ bow bends: and at dusk from a floating Log I have seen them go flickering down and down. Bright bearers of cotton into those mirrored glooms. 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 16 �Symbolic C.G. Bell $0) History Currier and Ives, 186Z, ‘BomSardment and Capture of Island #10, on tHe ^Mississippi, IRgy ^n£ Collection Though in the time of my grandparents that South (and North too) had pioneered precursive war — in which the southern grand­ father had fought; the northern one, who would come down river later, seems to have battled only — if challenged — with his fists. 51) Charles Q. Bed, photographer, conversation xoith himself We see him, the old photographer, who would die before I was born, in mystical conversation with himself. He had practiced his art before the Civil War in the Ohio basin, with an earlier family. When that broke up, he worked, a52) C.Q. Bell, c. 1880, xvith his travelling studio-tent 52) Bed, c. 1873(F), Bhoto of5(adie Owens, to Be his wife after the war, with a portable studio, up and down the Mississippi, until, in a Kentucky river town, he won that child beauty, come, with a rose, for her portrait (as Fra Lippo Lippi finished his novitiate model with the picture), took her down to Greenville, and set up house and studio. 53) (DouBle: [Si] Tde dreaming photographer, and [B] his driving wife; + ISsingle/ d-a The elemental polarity that flexes my Now had an inverse ori­ gin in that family. The gentle old photographer becomes the yielding mystery of air and water; his wife the hardness and drive of rock and fire. How could a son (my father) but love more the impractical dreamer with his musing smile and art — love but not imitate, his life-ambitions formed by the mother's daemonic will. 54) B>ouBle: Bercy Bdl: [SL] Mouthful dreamer, and [B] fighting lawyer CV’ 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 17 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History Two photographs, from his teens through his twenties, take him from the art-ideal of the father (his college hopes of being a scholar, thinker, writer), to the mother's pragmatic claim — lawyerpolitician called home by family debt to an ultimately luckless race for power. 55) 5)ou6Ce: [R] (Percy (BeU, c. 1900, and [B] 9(pm Oliver 5lrcfier, c. 1905(F); + detail of (B 1/5^, Now his elements are earth and fire; he searches the state, country, even abroad and chooses (Sylph and Ondine memory of a dreaming father?) my nature-mystic mother — costly for him, but for the protagonist of The Married Lanc^just the disposition of male and ^ female^romantic theory called for. 56) (DouBCe: [5L] C.Q. (Bell, 1947, at Blac^lMountam CoUege, (hlC., and [IB] (Percy Bell5r., c.1935, Qreenville, (Mississippi; + V single details Let a snapshot of me from the summer of 1947, when I was showing Symbolic History at Black Mountain College, with a 1935-6 portrait of my brother before he went to Sewanee, knit up the argu­ ment of generative dipoles. What speaks here is not simply the androgynous blend, but the subtle order of the blending — from which another contrariety arises. In me both natures are affirmed — the father-force embraced in the mother's transcendental quiet. In my brother, most creatively brilliant of us, her tender sensibility rides and repudiates the father's troubled quest. 57) Bed 5^use, Qreenville, (MS (CQB, (March 1945) Here is the house that father's ambition built for a wife who did not require such outwardness. On the banks of what was once Rattlesnake Bayou, it confronts River and slough with the fagade of Greece. So I issued from the womb to the antinomies of Delta Return. a58) Windsor ruin at dusl^ near (Port QiBson, (MS, (CQB '80) 58) Old CQB pHoto, 1912, Breal^ at (PantHer (forest 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 18 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History In this night land and by the rising waters We plant homes; kindle fire, and praise In song, the death and void of love's return. What pressed from over the levee was such a bore of water as the old photographer snapped in this 1912 break at Panther Forest — a punitive backlash which by 1927, with deforestation of tributary valleys, slopes, ranges — aSB) ffarn^umsefCooded to the ro<rf, 1927 %l,c) 6SB) (DeCta, 1927, iCCvnois Central washed out SB) ^lUe £reat flood of1927, ^reenzHUe. BdS ((Brown Studio) gave Faulkner's Old Man its climactic setting — climax too of a boy's earth-wonder: the whole Delta from where the hills recede below Memphis to where they bend back at Vicksburg, and eastward to the Yazoo, a crescent 150 miles long by 60 deep — a million and a half acres, with Greenville at its center — gone to swirling water. 60) John S. Curry, 193S, ^The (Mississippi, St. Louis Slrt (Museum Did heart and mind take sides? (Delta Return^: God of brown water and sun, you spawned these blacks. Brood of-'your deeper wild, singing its songs. Sign of your savage bounty on the land ... I slipped to the prow a61) (BrownStudio, 1927 flood, (Delta, tom up railroad 61) Slthens, Sth unt. (B.C. and after, Slcropolis, (CQ(B '77) Where the river voiced its life in roaring mouths. Sometimes Apocalypse seems the only road: To join the avenger, pour this human form Out in the blind occult, world-nature, storm. Could even the tragic Greeks hold their templed headlands without sacrificing, below, to the Furies in Python caves? 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 19 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History 6Z) fRit-Bens, c. 1625, 9^fit Li£fiinw£, ^ 5^uerBur£, 5(mt6ur0! + V detaiC 62a) ‘Ec^Ce O^Buta, 9dl6, 9{(Ue. OBseTvatoTiesTSiA.t^(.4^i GrgAyi-fe> 62 B) OUpes and sun, near Medina, CalaBria, Italy ^eny) X Such the pantheist celebration of Rubens’ night nature; such the core of an organic physics I drew, from entropic paradox, in Iowa, those March thunderstorms of 1944: I walked into the woods and climbed a great oak, clouds boiling above, batteries of lightning bursting around; sat with my shoulder to the twisting trunk and pondered the astonishing world... When I came home I wrote: "All matter, systems, worlds and living things express the need of energy to buttress against its own decay. In this sense cosmic history is a height­ ening and unfolding of the perceptive ambivalence of energy: that its activity is the fall by which it dies, its life in time a transcendence using and used by the de­ structive urge. a63) Snapshot, ‘BedCfHbuse, QreentHICe, MS, in 1927IfCood 63) Qmco-i^inan, 118-34 SL(D., Canopus, Hadrian's ViCCa (CQ(B ’87) That house of mine, trying to uphold through world storm and on such a floodplain, our always threatened heritage — as of Greece and Rome, lodged in Christianity and revived through Renaissance to the European plateau of thought, art and vision, law, conduct, humor — the cultural polyphony I am fated to bring together and celebrate in these shows: a64) TaUadio, c. 1550, ^UCa ^Rptunda, near Vkenza, 3/4 front 64) Same, fuUfront view (Both CQ*B 1959; \ ^ Palladio, with the voice-overlappings of Gibbons, "Ah Dear Heart," sung almost sixty years ago by the London Madrigalists, though with more sensitivity than any recording since; Music: 3/1994 Orlando Gibbons, 16lS, Ah Dear Heart, old Victor 4317 B NOW — Alpha 20 �C.G. Bell 65) Symbolic History Iiti£o Jones, 1616-35, TJie Q}ieen's 5(otise, from ^ soutfi, Qreemmcfi, London, (Cg(B 74) then the wonder of Inigo Jones' English adaptation, the Queen's House in Greenwich (1616-35), 65a) Same, Qiteen's Jiouse, Co^gia oBove (C<fB 74; cf. JdiCton, 4Za) with its south-facing loggia — 0, 66) 5{enry 5{oare, Tadadian iBarf^ Stourfiead, WiCtsfUre a harmony reaching down the centuries: in Stourhead Park, this sylvan Pantheon over the lake; 66 a) Widiam 5(gntfor dhomas Co^, *EarC of Leicester, 1734-59, tHe JdarBCe 5MC of tKoC^am, iMinfoO^ ‘England (tndeoS\>d7i7> "Mvro OA^di or, for an interior, the Marble Hall of Holkham — how that Classical resolve assumes, as it nears our time, the retrospection of a lost cause. 67) Judge (Percy (Beds 1914 5Couse, Qreenxnde (Miss (C(fB '60); first, detaU (cut Gibbons at "must part”) My Symbolic History house ("Elutings of freedom, cloud pillars of our science"), heaved like a frog over media bogs — these United Snakes of slogan capitalism — as if to turn Spengler's Untergang, Jeffers' "dance of dream-led masses down the dark mountain," into a cosmic celebration — a house so arched and shadowed by its oaks, it was easier to drop assignments, steal out and swing the night branches — a6S, 68, 68a & 6) (Detai^^nd neca:::wBeh(^ Joe (Haydoc^s 1988 Cartoon for ^ 'CUdd of (Revolt'from Ddfa (Return (C^); ^r-otBerA^ defrtik once (as my friend Haydock depicts from Delta Return^, by throwing acorns at passing cars, to fetch the cops: 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 21 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History The searchbeam took me: 'Hey boy, come down.' My answer was a leap ... Beneath the moon, I swung The trees' great circle and dropped to the ground. Curious, this lighted Ariel clasps a twig fit to support a grass­ hopper; where the dark alter ego, shadowed, but on no surface, grips a solid limb. "Child of Revolt" is the title; and yet that book con­ structs on the Delta floodplain a poetic triangle of three times fiveto-the-fifth-power. Inside the house, our library, about the size of this showy room in the Brighton Royal Pavilion, but nobler; our space lined all around with books in glass-faced mahogany cases, those limited editions of authors, America^, English, Continental, with translations from Greece and Rome, Burton's Arabia, a sprinkling from as far as India, China, Japan. a70) WfiistCer, c. 181S(?), (Prince (Rs£^nt as Cupi^, (RpyaC (PaviCion, ‘Brykton 70) (Dorotfiea Lange, 1936 photo, (PCantation near CCgrhsdaCe, (hCS 70a & 6) 1937 judge (Percy (Be^, 'Lion in his (Den and '39 snapshot Though even the Prince Regent might have offered a sounder base for culture than the plantation backdrop of the Delta scene, 1936, such a planter group as I would drive my father to, in the Depression, between the flood and dust — sit in an oven car by a clapboard store. While he talked, encouraged, farmed the claims... Himself the most in debt, and the life-dream torn By politicians and a failing farm. Private loss and Hitler, our world-betrayal. At night I have seen him when he could not sleep Sit up in bed to light his pipe, the weak Flame rising and falling like the pulse of his hope... 71) Si. (Rpthstein, (Photo, 1936, (fleeing a (Dust Storm, ORfahoma 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 22 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History While across the Mississippi, the great brown clouds of dust came rolling in, driven, with migrant workers from the plains. Our folk-plural of "children" had always been the Black one, "chillun". These refugees gave it a drawling whine: "Miz Bail, You gwine bring the chern?" 72) Ife (O^eria), 12tfi-14l£ cent., Oni, Bronze, (BritisB Mtiseuny + V (ktaiC 72 a) (Benin (9%eria), IStd-lGtfi cent., ^fCute (BCayer, (Britisfi (Museum (vMeo, detail onCy) Thus, to the problem of African Blacks, torn from jungle cul­ tures (this bronze King of Ife) through slavery and emancipated poverty, to sharecropper bondage — eighty percent of the population of the Delta, living half-literate and in a flux of mores the master culture feared (though they were loveable, and with a rhythm of soul-music, art-attested from their origins) — to that problem was added now the Depression influx of red-necks and po-whites, hating those blacks and competing with them in a stalled economy. 73) ‘BddHbuse, coCumnedporch, south view (CQ^ 1945) 73 a) 14.frican (Bud *ECepfiant Such the alluvium on which one had thought to build, like a columned house. Western Culture: sonnets, democracy, and madrigals. There, the wartime Halloween of 1916, I came into residence, while the circus carts passed our house, rumbling from the train to the south field; and my sister, almost two, being apprised of her baby brother, squealed: "See the elephants!" As in "The Circus" of Delta Return: I The swaying elephants and caged lions. And curtained vans with the still sleeping stars. 74) (Photo of C.Q. (BedIII, Sprite 1917, Qreenvide, (MS: first, video detail 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 23 �*> Jt C.G. Bell Here is first memory can just, by and stare (it bathroom. TS) Symbolic History my cheerful state, perhaps a year and a half after. My cannot be from much later; since, as in the picture, I propping myself on my arms and shoulders, lean over is late at night) into the flushed toilet of my mother's ^fiirCpooC9^6xUa in Canes ‘Uemtici, zuitfi companion The experience is not at all scatological but cosmic. What I see is a foaming vortex, clue to a Book of Knowledge quest of tornadoes, whirlpools, spiral nebulae. Surely it was the wonder of science which so imprinted my consciousness. Leonardo: "the sea at Piompino, all foaming water." a76) “Book ofKnowCedpe, ^oC. X, pp. 525Z-3, Qiui^ and^J/oCcanoes, detaiC 676) Same, zufioCe: dotiB[epa£e 76) Same, VoL DC, pp. 2916-7, from IchtByosaur tofossiC;^ Vdetails That twenty-volume Book of Knowledge worked my first hyp­ nosis by image and by word. Its illustrations from astronomy, geo­ logy, evolution, physics fired the reading of my earliest years. Could an heir to war and violence be unmoved by this double page of earthquake and volcano? Or one already swayed to the romantic capture of time past in time present, not take up the earth-dream (inspired by Leonardo) of these six panels, where Ichthyosaur and his Mesozoic anibiance are fossilized for modem recovery? 77) WinsCoto Ulomer, 1891, ^Hie Boatman, watercoCor, Brooklyn Museum; first, V det'aiC I hardly felt the reality of stories until the River and cave exploits of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn gave my own such hankerings deeper-than-life imperative. And when I came to art, how could my thought not translate Homer's northern watercolor of a boatman to a mythic convergence of Mark Twain's Missouri and my own Delta sculling on our ox-bow lakes: Washington, Lee, and Bolivar? ^T6e BCeiades, neBuCous, 3/1994 Slstronomu NOW — Alpha 24 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History 78 a) (DouBCe: (Diagrams of B£fit [S^] as corpusdes^(^d [CB] as xvaves (K. Next, my two-and-0fte-half-inch refractor, through years of book-guided sky-search, affirmed my organic existence and contain­ ment in a form-building cosmos of galaxies, suns, worlds in space — revelational backdrop for a planet run amuck. Also from that reading I grappled, before 1933, with the complementarity of light as particle and wave, a creative antinomy central to my thought, action, being — spring of that Odyssean many-mindedness our Now requires of us for global sailing, as between Charybdis and Scylla. 79) ‘EcOwaT(C 9{opper, 1939, yor^^MozHe, Museum of Modem Sin, MyO . details 79 a) WaP^r (Percy, c. 1980, from Hdie Second Coming dust jac^t (video, details onCy) Of course we went to the movies, Saturday afternoons; though not even the horror films, Dracula and Frankenstein, took me like the river, earth and sky. Had I been a painter, I would hardly have shown the Paramount, as Hopper did, magically commonplace; nor with Walker Percy, who joined my school and grade in Junior High, have named my first book The Moviegoer: though between his "cer­ tification" and those "repetitions" by which a segment of "lapsed time can be savored of itself," Walker (like Proust: "fragments of existence removed outside the realm of time") has hypnotized duration, as I would hypnotize the Now. 80) CPicago, 1933 WorCds (fair, viezuedST, across Qrant (Parp, 80a) CPicago, 1931-2, Pomeless unentpCoyed men in Qrant (Parli Before going to the University of Virginia in the fall of 1933, I spent much of the summer at the Chicago Century of Progress World's Fair. For a Greenville dealer, I would drive old cars up and new ones back, staying between-times, a week or so, at the Y, for fifty cents a night. What had polarized my thought for years — the promise of Science and break-down of Depression — peaked in the 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 25 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History Exposition and unemployment of that dynamic city: homeless bums, beggars, apple polishers, what a comedown, after futuristic dreams. 81) WaC^r ‘Evans, 1936, ‘Tenant 9^amiCy, pfioto from Let ‘Us fUarv (Braise ‘Fatn/iiL< 2!£siy By names Tiyee; first, video details 81a) ‘BfiiC Everyood, 1937, Timerkan ‘Trayedy, mriyfit, ‘Bujfialo; video, detail only Science seemed to suggest a rational solution. My last year in high school I had won first prize in the state with my own oration on what Roosevelt had called the "Forgotten Man," that blight on America, from northern cities to the tenant farms of Agee's Let Us Mow Praise Famous Mgh, with Walker Evans haunting photographs. My speech was the manifesto of a socialism I thought I had invented: all men to work and share. But the apocalyptic rhetoric of its close, those eagles of freedom stormed down in the worid- and intestinebroils of a lost democracy, pointed — like the stom^ the science I loved — rather to a tragic outcome. S2) !l^eTS(m,fimsfied1824, ‘The Lazvn, ‘University of‘UiTyinia ‘1282 a) Same, ‘the Lawn thronyh portico coCumns 826) Same, view of the fHptunda (alC cg‘B, 1986) It was at Virginia that the question of civilization, up or down, anabolic or catabolic, would be pressed; at Jefferson’s University, noblest monument of neoclassic in the world, reared against demo­ cratic erosion Hamilton's Bank heightening inequalities, until we would come "to eat one another, as they do in Europe." Education was Jefferson's answer — his plan for free schools of selective excel­ lence to go down before Jackson's egalitarian "same for all"; and still the democratic poles remain unbridged, unstated: basic instruc­ tion for all, not to preclude the pubUc training of a creative elite. 83) Thoto, c. 1940, Strinyfedow Earr andScott ‘Buchanan 83 a) Chicayo fair, 1933, ‘TraveC and ‘Transport ‘Buildiny (ivith video return to ‘Barr detail) 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 26 �Symbolic C.G. Bell History At Virginia I encountered Stringfellow Barr (on the left here, with Scott Buchanan), Upset by the cyclical determinism of his history lectures, I went up and tried to argue with him, advancing against Spengler the science and architecture of the Century of Progress, with the new and thrilling art of the color-organ — merely the plus side of my Chicago conflict. In three minutes he turned the Exposition to the commercial pastime of a late civilization, its shoddy "As for the colorstructures like Alexandrian pleasure pavilions. organ," he said, "it's a fad. But Bach is real; Beethoven is real." He concluded: "You can't argue about history unless you know the artifacts." S4) "Egypt, c. 2540, (Dynasty IV, d^fre, 3/4 view, diorite, (Museum, Cairo; + ^ (CetaiC 84 a) Same statue, coCor, frontaC view <rf fiead, (Museum, Cairo Music: J.S. Bach, c.l740(?), Credo, Mass in B Minor, Angel 3500C So I had to know them. By making the dean's list, I was freed from classes. I took up art in the library, music in the music room. This Old Kingdom Khafre I fixed to my wall: a serenity to be marvelled at, as Hawthorne's of the Great Stone Face. The older com­ poser mentioned by Barr was Bach. From the B Minor Mass take the Pose Barr's question: Credo with the mighty ground-bass tread. "does modernity offer such transpersonal individuation within the wholeness of common faith?" (fade Bach Credo) V 85) "Egypt, c, 1370, (Dynasty X"Uin, face of coCossaC I^naton^ /\ 85a) Same, c. 1370, Qyeen (M^fertiti, (luartzite witfi coCor, Cairo hn^o returns to 85, detaU) ' ^ 856) Iffmaton, coCor pr(rfik (f 85, (Museum^^m 5%^ 85c) (DouBCe: [5L] SMaBaster fiead of (Kfaj^^nd [(B] pCaster mas^ of IkBnatoy ^ 'Bai^ "Egyptian (Museum, "Berlin " ^ Music: Beethoven, 1825, "beklemmt" from Cavatina of Quartet #13 Go to the counterpole, Ikhnaton of the New Empire, here from the colossal sandstone in Cairo; and since the later composer cited 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 27 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History was Beethoven, why not sound a personal phrase, the mystical beklemmt ("anguished") from the soaring Cavatina of the Opus 130 Quartet. Though closer to us, Ikhnaton's sensuous hunger did not reach my wall. Perhaps I felt I could supply that yearning myself. Hardly the Homeric distance of Khafre's Old Kingdom. Already I was caught in the stretch of what I had thought to argue. But could our music, over eighty-five years, exhibit what Egyptian art had spread over twelve-hundred — the shift from epic celebration to introspec­ tive spiritual quest? Clearly, in Symbolic History. I had a life-work before me. (fade Cavatina) a86) 86) 86a) 86B) HacoBean, 1618, 9MC of T,7^ter Cottege, 07(ford (CQ(B '80) CoCor-print of 0?ford, c. 1830(F), Bou^fit tBerc, 1936, By C<fB ‘Bavaria from 9lndedis ‘Totuer (CQB '59, cf (DeCta I,‘D,Z,c) fCorencefrom the BiazzaCe MicBdanydo (C^ '59) And now by luck I won a scholarship to Oxford, changed fields from physics to English, and spent my vacations on the art-rich Continent. The old polarity our house had reared over the floodplain, assumed the form I would articulate in a Delta poem: ...domes and spires of Oxford through the cloud Taking an aureole light in the meadowed land; Or upland wheat fields of Bavaria, Clean stands of fir under mountain snows; Or down those mountains south to the heart's best home. Nest of the migrant wings, the Tuscan town And singing towers of the Western dawn... 87) OCdC.Q. BdCpfioto, c.1912, Qremville, 9dS, from tfie river 87a) Broxvnphoto, 1927 fCood, ‘Washinyton 5ivenue, QreenviCCe, MS But that poem ends with the periodic Delta Return: As I, come back that evening, stood alone Over this landing, on the levee's crown — West the wide river, Venus, and the moon. 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 28 �»■ i C.G. Bell Symbolic History And east three lighted blocks in the Delta's dark — I felt the strangeness of being localized, By an accident of birth to be held and hold This poor spot of earth on the turbulent flood A center always of the wheeling stars. 88) (Percy (BeCCjr., 1936-7, SouC(freecC, C.Q. (BeUcoition; first, video detail 88a) C.Q. (B^, summer 1937, '(Boundon a rvhed(rffvre' For my brother had killed himself, and I had come to pass the summer with my parents. Again Delta Return: At your death I was abroad; I crossed The ocean to a sad home. A grief unhouseled As from beyond the tomb, settled upon me. Here, one of his last watercolors, a feminine (yet phallic) Soul Freed, like a bird from the hand. Against it, I risk the almost opposite symbol I then drew and colored. Bound to Life, as inscribed from King Lear: "Bound on a wheel of fire ... Tears like molten lead ..." That fall, Oxford claimed me with new force. 89) Qerman, 1235fif., WedfHouse, (Jester (MauC6ronn; 89 a) Same, detail cftfie fountain Music: from French Motet c. 1250, Descende in Hortum, Lumen 32027 Gothic (though I had still to discover the music) became the flame-center — that lightening of stone which, in the well-house of Maulbronn cloister, joins the mystery of water. Dante: And I saw light in the form of a river, A river of fire between two shores Painted with spring's miraculous colors ... (fade Descende) 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 29 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History a90) (DouBCe: [Si] Sroasti^ Banners from 90, and [B] MeniCing, 1487, 9/ir£in untfi an SippCe, St. Jofins SBospitai, Bruges (video td(gs these singCy]^'^ 90) 90) Vdgzi 9\^ht BfitCy, 1938, Tarty Bay, 9\BiretnBer£ 90 a) Simo andTonte *Uecchio, (fBorence, from Ujfizi (CQB '39) 90B) QioT£ione, c. 1510, BastoraC Concert, Louvre, Baris (video, detait otiCy) a As if to preserve the complementarity of outward alarm and soul-search, the Europe of our travels was racked, those years, by successive crises, building to the outbreak of the Second War. Weird, after 15th-century Bruges, to thread Germany, from the Night of Crystal in Cologne (the streets, by scorched synagogues, sprinkled with glass), south, through cities aglare with Hitler's rants and rallies (this Party Night in Nuremberg), to the Tuscan complement of Memling's Bruges, Medici Florence. A staggering contrast, to which, returning through Paris, music would be added — that eight-hour day in the airless listening booth of a record store, when the Anthology of Sound, Lumen, and the rest would open at last their polyphonic treasures of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. a91) SBo^ein the (youn£er, 1523, Bortrait cfBrasmus^ Loux/re 91) MaBuse CJ.Qossaert), c. 1510, 9]]ght ih(g.tivity; + V detail 91a) Mante£na, erri?H3-53, Vir£in and Child, BerUn Museum ) ’ _ ^ Let what that day began weave into this Now the riches of before and after 1500 — Europe everywhere rising to its hopeful peak of Christian humanity and charm — Mouton's "Nesciens Mater," with the art of the birth in the stable, sung by angels, hailed by shepherds as we had read it around the Christmas tree from my earliest years. ^ Music: Jean Moutons^esoens Mater (Munrow) Seraphim SIC 6104 / And Mary brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 30 ^ �C.G. Bell Symbolic History a92) jean (Bourdicfum, c. 1506, !^el to Sfiepfierds, Qrandes j{eures of Sinne de ‘Bretagne, Bi6C, Vdffi., Baris; + ‘U detail 92) Qeertgen ‘Tot Sint Jans, 1490-5, 5{jgfit OdgUvity, j^tionaC QaUery, Tondon; + V detail 92 a) Meister des jdarietUeSens, 1460-80, Tlngels from Coronation (rf 9dary, detail, S4lte Binal^tfie^ 9dunicfi (C^ 59)^ o-f And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them: "Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you. Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger." And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men." 93) Qrimani Breoiary, c. 1500-10, nativity, Marciana LiBrary, Venice (video: details only, aSove and Bdow) 93a) Lucca della B^BBia, c.l450(F), (Madonna d^ (Mela, Bargello, (Florence And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, "Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us." And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. And when they had seen, it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them con­ cerning this child. And all they which heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds. But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart. 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 3 1 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History a94) (DouBCe: [Si] SMinom, c. 1500-14S0 ‘B.C., fresco, '{Parisienne,' iHera^ion Museum and [(B] Qree^ c. 710 (B.C, smaCC Bronze zuarrioT, detaU, Mgtioncd Museum SltBens B94) *EBBo ^ospe(, c. 8Z5,f.6ov, St Mar^ ‘BiBB Mun. ‘Epemay 94) 9ipman, Ist-Zndc. SUD., SLrem, fBuCa, 0a[matia. (CQB.'T?) 94 a) fHjfman, ZZ5 SL(D., Tetronius' (Portico, ^uBurBo, Tunisia 94 B) CBartres, c. IISO, a O^ouny d^ny, (Bpyat (Ported, CatBedred 94 c) EcoCoyy 1990, (BraziBan rainforest Buminy The other face of this early-cycle espousal was a first repudi­ ation of the romantic I was rooted in. As if we must practice such a stripping as from ripe Minoan and Aegean to primitive Greek. In a poem written at an Oxford concert, 1939, I muse, like some future Dark Age scop (so the author of the Anglo-Saxon "Ruin": "Well wrought this wall-stone, broken by Weird; the work of giants is crumbling"). I wrote: When these walls ivy covered stand in ruins. Gray to the night of faintly altered stars. And men beholding strike the savage harp And sing the work of heroes, giants of old — They will not know that in this crusted hall Where music wails the specter of a rose, A man of peace leagued with an age of wars. Welcomed destruction, famine and the plague. To find again, strength, without compromise. As if cultures could go on forever, with Trojan Wars and bar­ barian renewals. Though our own war and the ecology crisis have spelled out \vhat we might have foreseen, that now the globe is at stake — World Melt or melt-down. a9S & 9S) (Birds soaring ayainst trees and cCouds (CQB '90; video reverses the order and adds an overCay of tBz two) 9Sa) (Ry-Bens, 1636, Chateau de Steen Landscape, detaU, (Hg.tionaC QaUery, London So even during the war, and in a place no more scenic than Iowa, the spring of 1943* called me from "Augustinian Wisdom" to a 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 32 �Symbolic C.G. Bell History celebration of nature — not simply a Romantic return. What sustains this "Patterned Evening" is the organizing physics of entropic hjB against down: ' ^ Image of the world, mirror to all time: — Clouds, winds, and waves of light, senselessly beautiful. Moved by the force that moves, borne down the stream. Flung from the high to low, seeking repose; And birds, bearers of life, that sing and soar. Fired with a god-like will, breasters of the wind. Beating bold wings up a torrent sky. Feeding the sweet blaze of eternal desire. 9G) ^—' Sfvotdo, c. 1S30(F), St. SLntfwny tempted, 96a & 5) metaUs cf 96, SavoCdo 3 ^ San (Die^o Princeton would have seemed a motion back to the closures of East, from Emerson to Hawthorne, with sin and psychosis. Thus in Savoldo's 1530(?) Temptation, St.Anthony, headed for that nature Renaissance has opened, turns in terror, back to a Bosch pursuing Nightmare. As I wrote on a conference of Atomic Scientists: "Still mad Prometheans,/ Or broken drudges working death's weapons/ Irrelevant what cause. So all props prove/ At last abortive, built of the crumbling tuff." Such the departmental gab and hollowness, smart erosion of honesty and courage, from which I did well to be fired, leaving the old life behind me. Or was escape an illusion? 97) Turner, C.180S-10, On the Thames(?), ^{ptionaC QaTery, London 97a) Turner, c.1830, (Death on a (Pale 9{orse, Tate Qallery, London Had not Turner been driven a century and a half before, from the calm irradiation of an early oil sketch along the Thames, to the Apocalyptic expressionism of this late "Death on a Pale Horse"? The polarities had been dangerously entangled since Blake's Marriage of 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 33 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History Heaven and Hell — or as he would say, since the Creation, which was the Fall. 98) T,rich 9(gJi[er, pfioto By ^nide ^yCeisdman, 1351, l^estscfiriBt; first, video iUtail 98 a) QaCway IKjnneO, CBuBBed at Sehta, iMarcfi 26,1965 Yet it was from Princeton that I received the Great Europeans (Great - Germans one might say, but they were Jews), Erich Kahler, wisest of them really, humanitarian philosopher-historian, whom I described in his Festschrift, pacing the room, pulling his hair, talking of transcendence, "while insights opened and spread around me like realms of light; for there is no one else that can talk like Erich Kahler." And for an American power, the closest of my students, Galway Kinnell, here clubbed by police at the Selma march, wakes in the arms of a Black Madonna. How death crowds, in his love poems: "I touch your face,/ I move my hand over/ Slopes, falls, lumps of sight..." a99) Qoya, 1824-25, 9(yde against rocl^, !fme 5lrts, (Boston; + V (UtaiC 99) Os^r (Kp^sfi^, 1914, *lHe ^Tempest, (Kpnstmuseunt, (BaseC; + ^ detaiC 99 a) Joan Jdiro, 1938, Sdf-portrait, J/T3o6y, 9^zv Canaan, CT; + V (CetaiC What the old Goya, more than a century before, sought in the form of a nude, her lights drawn by water dropped on blackened ivory. "A cheek-bone,/ A curved piece of brow,/ A pale eyelid/ Float in the dark,/ And now I make out/ An eye, dark,/ Wormed with faroff, unaccountable lights." Like Kokoshka's 1914 Tempest love for Alma Mahler: "And now the day, raft that breaks up, comes on./ I think of a few bones/ Floating qn a river at night,/ The starlight blowing in place on the water,/ The river leaning like a wave toward the emptiness." Yet all of these, heirs to Isolde's Liebestod, affirm whatever brings us to this brunt. Even Miro, in his 1938 Self-portrait, as he melts into shapes of earth and sky: Kinnell: "How many nights/ Have I lain in terror,/ 0 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 34 �Symbolic C.G. Bell History Creator Spirit, Maker of night and day,// only to walk out/ the next morning over the frozen world/ hearing under the creaking of snow/ faint, peaceful breaths.,./ snake,/ bear, earthworm, ant...// and above me/ a wild crow crying 'yaw yaw yaw' / from a branch nothing cried from ever in my life." alOO) 5100) Cfiica£o from CS(ffiura£ ^History Museum (C(fB, Sept. '60) CCaude Lorrain, 1678, Landscape vH-t^ Shepherds, !f(}m5a(d Museum, !Lort Worth, Le^as 100) SCoBBema, 1689, rChe Siventie, Mg-tionaC QaUery, London; + V detaiC 100a) CCatide Lorrain, 1648, Tdnds'cape Dancin£ S^igures, QaUery Gloria ^amphdi, 9(pme So I came back to the Chicago of my youth, to teach in Hutchins' University, where Anti-fascist exile, Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, ipomed_Jai:gfi*_ Tie~had ^written iiPIKTee fdng^S^S'lTpoenr orliiilife: "Easter Sunday, 1945". ^ m/- Music: Boccherini, c.l775(?), Adagio, Sonata 6 (Casals) DB-1392 A The Italian boyhood took the classical style of Manzoni, to be imaged wherever that dream has fructified, from Claude, to Dutch Hobbema's Poplar Avenue; in music, let it be Casals' Boccherini: — "0 Sicilia, o Toscana, ove sostai fanciullo, o dolce pian di Lombardia" (as translated): 0 Sicily, 0 Tuscany, where I paused In boyhood, 0 sweet Lombardy plain, M6asured by mulberry trees, fanned by the feathers Of poplars, where no more I tread your ways. Lifting my eyes to townships brown along Your hills, or coming home to trusty eyenings Seeking the marble pinnacles of Milan Softened by the breathing of the meadows Where the cloud lingered. Now no more — non piu; (fade Boccherini) alOl) Cams, c. 1830, Wanderer at the City Qate, (9(unst. 1932); video, details only 101) Ludzoi£ fHichter, 1837(?), DerSchrechgnstein, Mas. Leipzi£; + ^detail 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 35 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History W'j't 101a) ^rC (BCecfien, iKeid^er^ T^ower, ^nstfiafh, ‘Bremen 10IB) ^Fnedncfi Lessing, c.l950(?), ‘WoodCed ^nge, watercoCor, ‘BerCin Music: Schumann, 1841, Symphony #1 ("Spring"), 1st movement, opening, (Klemperer, New Philharmonia) Angel 36353 dich nicht, Deutschland, Erde meiner zweiten Friihe... The German student-wanderings take the language of Goethe and Holderlin (here with Schumann, Carus, Richter, Blechen): Germany, land of my second prime, where clear streams Rushed through the fragrant darkness of the night. The slowly yielding woodland night, and flowers. Geraniums, from balconies at morning. Laughed like a thousand girls, but I went, lonely. Wandered from ridge to ridge, climbing bell-towers Of immemorial red, listened to music Enclosed in depths, and with my loving eyes Held that strange beauty. Now no more! — die fremde Schone mit verliebtem Auge fasste: nicht mehr: 0 Tenebrae! 0 Aceldama! (fade Schumann) al02j B102) (DotiBCe: [^] ^RgmBrandt, 165S, y^CayedOTO Lot^e; and[‘B] Soutine, 1926, Carcass of‘Beef, 9dme ‘Bignou, (Paris; ^ stng^duaUs '] tmBy (Marc CB^ad, 1947. ffCayedOtc, (Private CoC^tion, (Paris; + ‘1/details 102) , (Marc CfiagaCC, 1947 (on earCier sBptcBes) Hie (faCCing Singed, (Private Collection, ‘Based ui4\joPs-^ V’i/lo (^a 102a) Same, detail (xvitfi otfi^ ^^et^ from 102^j In the last section of his poem, Borgese, in war-time America, forges an English out of Shakespeare and the modern. Thus Rem­ brandt's Slaughtered Ox, as symbolic as realistic, has variously in­ formed our century. Here, in 1926, before the rise of Hitler, Soutine's existential reminder already distills Holocaust. 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 36 �**».■ ♦ C.G. Bell Music: Symbolic History Bartok, 1943, Concerto for Orchestra, from 3rd movement (Elegy), (Reiner) RCA AGL 1-2909 By Chagall's 1947 ox lapping its own blood. Holocaust was real; but the alarm of the night town, the celestial warning voice, weave a Crucifixion magic around Nazi Europe and the trial of the Jews. And in Chagall's Falling Angel, variously painted from 1923 to 1947, as in the Elegy from Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, or the close of Borgese's Easter poem — disaster flames affirmation: You passers-by who stop and wonder what I in uncommuning sounds lament; it is as if I had left home at noon and looked homeward before sundown; I see the barns aflame, the house a rump, the trees writhing in, desperate embraces; death with claws of strangling smoke grips ground and air. The silence is one shriek, one chasm the paths. So let me step westward; my shadow is long. In unmediated transcendence, that striding shadow is cast exactly by the burning world-past — "my shadow is long". (fade Bartok) 103) iPfioto of Qiuseppe ShvUmio (Bor^ese, Italy, Spriny, 19S2 103a) iHenry Moore, 1343-7, Tlie (Private CoCCection 1036) S^yain 103, a closer view oflBoryese Has Borgese, secretary of Hutchins' Committee to Frame a World Constitution, editor of its magazine Common Cause, veered here from planned Reconstruction to an Avant Garde firework af­ firming the negative itself, that blaze of world destruction? Any such antinomy — form against flux, man's- stable earth against Apocalypse — fuses in the actual. When Borgese read that poem, so deeply rooted in its languages, yet so voiced that all languages sounded like Italian, I sensed some modern liberation of dissonance and flame. Yet the Roman will of that thrust-out lip, the conscious command of tradition and form, decried the hermetic shell-game of 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 37 �C.G. Bell Symbolic modernity. It was Farinata who had raised himself up: Farinata, che s'e dritto." History "vedi la, al04) Josepfi MBers, 13S3, SBomage to tfie Square: SlscetuCin^; Wfiitney Vttuseum, 6104) James I. Qi£6ert, c, 1948, Trairie S^des (canvas version), ‘Estate; first, vuCeo ^taiC 104) J. MSers, 1958, SBomage to tfie S<ju.are: SiitardanSo; Janis QcUCery, Remembering my summer with the embattled Erich at Black Mountain, where Albers and his followers were pursuing what would become this "Homage to the Square", I wrote: The modern abstract has been the expression of man reduced from humanity to function or confronted with that reduction, of nature desicated out of organic interplay to symbolic paradigm... It abandoned spacetime for the boom of the Marabar caves. In opposition to this, the new organic reaffirms the meaningful con­ cordances of spirit and matter, of world and man. (An affirmation for which Jim Gilbert, teaching at Chicago with me, became my art-example, as in his prairie and city nudes — though he deplored historical programs.) As for the abstract, I had long felt the beauty of the Godel Proof, to float mathematics again on paradox, the suspension of its axiomatic claims — and not simply the beauty of that result; but of the very proof, of abstraction trained to reflect on and delimit itself. Yet what were the abstractions of Albers proving? alOS) ‘Wiflem de 9(ponvn£, c. 1947, fBindiSfngd, SiSUtney Museum, 105) de %gonvngi c, 1945, ‘iHe Marshes, University Museum, CBerl^Cey (video adds detaUs of al05, then of 105) 105a) (PisaneCCo, 1441-3, LeoneCCo dEste medat, verso, tripCe-faud youth Meanwhile de Kooning, rendering Angel and Marsh, spread an Action-Painting-wing of the New-York-School-flight — an energy 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 38 �Symbolic C.G. Bell released by the dissolution of forms. with the euphoria of flux? History Had not Plato ironically toyed Socrates: Their first principle is that...there is nothing but motion .... everything is becoming and in relation, and being must be altogether abolished... Thus in the language of nature all things are coming into being and passing into new forms; nor can any name fix or detain them... 0 Theaetetus, are not these speculations sweet as honey? And do you not like the taste of them in the mouth? With such modem excitement, I too had risked, from my youth, a dialectic of paradox — though my aim was to enlarge reason, as Socrates did by sophistic contradiction. al06) BIOS) 106) CHicago ^eacfi, 57tfi-53rd, (Daimy & CaroCa (CQ^ 1931) jTX. Wriyfitj 1909-10, 9(pBie 9{ouse, Cfucago (CQ(B '60) !y.L. 1940, Lwiii£ area, LCoyd LettHs Odotise, LiBertyvUCe, IL, rvitfi 3am Overton & (CQ% '60) 106a) ^et, ITtfi-century (DcUai Lama Talace, Lfiasa, zvithfCags 106B) 9(enry Moore, 1359-64, Standtn£ 3^i£ure, Bronze 106c) 9(prea: sBeCCiny of Inchon, 1950; Life at 9^ar 106(C) CfCaminy Santa Cfe sunset (CQ% Sum 1990) And there I found myself by the windy shore of the Century of Progress Fair, breasting Whitman's "oceanic amplitude and rush of these great cities" — I, teaching, with humanities and history, art appreciation, especially of the modem. From our leaded Tudor panes we could look across to Wright's Robie House, or visit with friends the one he built for his cousin near Libertyville. To take the thrill of those spaces; to affirm again the daring of the West, the present wonder of the world. In the glow of German Goethe, Schelling, and the music of Beethoven, to span the global reach of Adlai's speeches, the Marshall Plan recovery of Europe, what seemed the geniality of British socialism, the advancing American pursuit of rights; to plant that leaven of hope — though in the stubborn dough of Cold War, Korea, cyclical history, the Greek tragedy and Thucydides I was 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 39 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History teaching — such was the crucible of "Diretro al SqI,” affirmation of tragic America, its title from Dante (Ulysses; "To sail beyond the sunset" — that paean to "the mad flight," "il folle volo," that took him under: "The sea closed over us, as it pleased another".) alOT) Qeoj^ia. O'HC^efe, 1926, City 9^6% Tstate cfJ^rtist 107) (DouBCe: [J^j LaBrouste, 1862-8, iRpom, ‘BiBC. 9{flt., (Boris) otuC [(B] 9\(g,Tvi, (PaCace, cf (under construction), (Turin; + V sinyCe detoUs c/i^srudluS/\/V\oh. On that peak and defile (our freedom aimed at Vietnam, our boom at ecology crisis), my art class was responding to the new architecture, as Georgia O'Keefe had in her New York phase — the explosion of materials, the phenomenal expansion of powers (as from the 1860s wrought iron reading room of the National Library in Paris, to Nervi's post-war Palace of Work, here being built in Turin). al08) SuMvan andITidCer, 1887-9, SUiditorium (Buildiny, CBicayo 108) A Qaudi, 1891 ff, LaSamada (famiBa, (BarceCona; first, video C^taiC 'fo e'\PefiKodL \f{x^ us\<U/' V'uS/tu—\ I was tracing from the 19th century the interplay within a continuing polarity: a straight-lined functionality, as of Bauhaus, rooted far back in the Scott Mackintosh, Hoffman in Vienna, here, the skeletal steel of Chicago's Sullivan and Adler; at the other extreme, a fantasy of organic growth — sprung up like Jack's beanstalk, though not overnight — Gaudfs 300-foot stone towers of the Barcelona Church of the Sacred Family, begun in 1891 and still to be completed. al09) 7.L. Wriyfit, 1954, desiyn, BetB SBoCem Synayoyue Bl09) Wriyfti, 1954, same Synayoyue, (BBUodeCpBia (CQ(B 59) 109) 94hTy(tt, anotfier viezv of tBe same BuUdiny (C^, ^ . V/ So to Frank Lloyd Wright's synthesis and transcendence of the poles — here, in what he was then designing, this Philadelphia Syn­ agogue, defying, as it were, all deaths by war and holocaust — one of which Dylan Thomas had refused to mourn: Never until the mankind making Bird beast and flower 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 40 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History Fathering and all humbling darkness Tells with silence the last light breaking And the still hour Is come of the sea tumbling in harness And I must enter again the round Zion of the water bead And the synagogue of the ear of corn Shall I let pray the shadow of a sound Or sow my salt seed In the least valley of sackcloth to mourn The majesty and burning of the child's death... alio) Mies v.cC. ^fie, c. 1968, vkiofrom 1‘BM(BuiCdin^, Cfucago; + V BllO) (DeCaunay, 1910, TiffeC^ower, JQmstmuseum, *Basd; video, details only 110) 91ou6Ce: [Jij (Ddaunay, 6110 TiffeC^l^ower; and [(B] ^^.L.^Wriyht, desiynfor t6e MUe 9{ig6 Illinois, stiCC unSuiCt (video scans Wright's Shy City)>^ J0 So the fall of 1951 brings me to my own poem, "Beyond the Sunset," with Beethoven, and a whole horizon of art. Music: Beethoven 1834, 3rd Movement (Adagio), 9th Symphony, (Toscanini)-V-LM 6901, side 13 Driven home along the Outer-drive from a wine-tasting in the Electric Club, by the fearless skill of Elizabeth Mann Borgese, I sat at my desk, just able, with so much tasting, to hold the pen. But this is what I scrawled: over the gulf and soaring of the city We came at dusk to the roof-garden rail. Darkness flowed in the streets; the sheer beauty Of towered steel rose in the violet air — Bands and heights of light under the sky^ plumes; Cars to the suburbs bum the long road lanes. Delaunay's 1910 Eiffel Tower had expressed the ecstasy which would lead Frank Lloyd Wright, after two wars, to conceive his still unbuilt Mile High Sky-city, charged with Icarian overweenings: tandem-cab, ratchet-guided, atomic-powered elevators! 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 41 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History alll) UnitedOdg-tions ^uU(Cin£, O^orf^City (indeo, details only) 111) IDeCaunay, 1910-12, La ^iCCe de (Baris, Mush (KyiionaC d^rt Modeme, (Baris; first, video detail Here on the terrace, drinking wine and eating, ^People of every nation, hearts unquelled !Ky By the • encroaching shadows, mingle, speaking Tongues of kindred lands. Their voices tell Of customs and of needs, of the fools who rule; They are loose in talk and laughter, slurs and dreams. (How my Dionysiac poem, beyond conscious programs of worldrescue, kindles a pyre of fatal celebration.) While from the luminist rapture of Delaunay's 1912 City of Paris, 112) J.I. QiWert, c, 1948, (Brairie Vdydes (pond version); C^, Santa iTe 112 a) Copy ofSLttic, c. 430 (B.C; (Berides Bust, (BritisB (Museum, London 1126) (Bfiidian(?), c. 440 (B.C., lounger of the (Hjace Bronze Warriors, detail, (Museum, (Rs££io-Ca(aBria 112c) (Detailof 112, QilBert; *BdlcoClection (andCQ(B photo) Gilbert caught a vision of such Cezanne-nudes over prairie, bridged river, cliffs like roofs of Chicago. And the clouds relinquish the sun's brown setting. Twilight deepens as the city glows. Out of the past of another world-evening Spirit has suffered, a great voice looms; It i’s Pericles — with Athens at the bourn Of her adventurous sailing into ruin: "We are the school of Hellas. Wonder unending Of after ages will be ours. We have Made sea and land the highway of our daring. If now obedient to the general law We invite decay, the greatness we have known Will be some break of beauty in that gloom." 113) (Mies v.d. (Rphe, 1938, Seayram ‘Building, (BarhiSLvenue, (M^fC; + *1^ detail 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 42 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History 113 a) Same, c. 1968, I(BM (BuUcCing, Cfiicc^o, side view, xvi^ trees (CQ(B '83); + video pan 1136) Same 6uUdin£, front view (CQ^ '83) (Mies van der Rohe already raising his towers of steel and glass in America): These words echo in the mind. From dark flashing Along the gray shore and the wash of waves. Towers, and cars streaming. Up vibrant air reaching Cones of light catch at the destinate planes. The roar west and east. Here in the hum Of mingled voices, careless freedom sings. And we too have lived the dayspring and daring Which all time will remember; we have seen Over the earth-foreclosure of our wasting. Still the incredible brightening of the dream... Now promise is almost presence under the dome Of night stirred with light and the rush of wings. (fade Beethoven) all4) Sane Overton^, 1990, Chicago window with weird manikin; + ^ detaiC 6114) Same, Skyscrapers of Chicago cll4) Same, Street scene 114) Same, Shop vHndow rvith photo-mani%i and r^Cections 114 a) Same, again, the ma£e modd, nearer Since the poem is elegiac, I have let it speak, though its pathos was the flaw of the vision. Adlai's rhetoric had no escape from bas­ tion enterprise, with the hot Koreas of cold war. So a sequel would attend a later visit — a conversation with a manikin in a shop win­ dow: Chicago Twenty Years After The city always taller over the shore; The sirens of its promise heavier; I almost caught in the dream rush as before. 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 43 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History Ask the manikin whose mythic hair Slogans a costly tweed: "Was the Western star We pledged with life, tinsel as you are?" Smiles lewd, smiles last: "What Promethean lure Set your soul to sell, in a mortgaged store. That three-piece suit of freedom, profit, war?" allS) Laf^ ^BoUvar atuC^eer Crufu MS, c. 19ZS (BCuejUter) 6115) Be(X graves, Cemetery, greenvUCe MS (CgB '89, Blue fiCter); + ^ detail ^Hiver Bridge soutB. of greenvUCe, MS (Cg(B '89, Blue filter) 115) 115a) greenvUCe Cemetery (CgB Blue copy of UleCta III,U},3,d) 115B) Urau^ZuUb, 1988, pBoto overlay of tree and nlglit sBy Meanwhile, the poems of westward flight fSongs for a New America) were hardly done when I took the bus south (such a polarity as X against Y) to visit my mother in that Delta of water, night and void. The last return was to the cemetery and my father's grave. There, past the trees and plantings, cars take the speedway for the river bridge: And say, like Herodotus' Libyans, we come to sleep. For divination, on our fathers' tombs. How can their ghosts but point us on and on: Over poisoned fields, up a strand of steel. Where a space-bridge arches a river star-coiled. Such the graveyard close of Delta Return: Therefore this dark of the water-spilled gray moon And oaks by the river over the watered plain. And moon-gray sky and sky's legend of stars. Are the ebb and flow where we go up and down The swirls of Delta night — space, place, haunt, home. 116) Siztec, 1324-15Z1, Calendar or Sun Stone, Mytional Museum of Sintfiropology, Mej(ico City; + V detaU 116a) greenvUCe Cemetery, Muffuletto angel ICgO '89; Blue filter; video shows first a detaU of 115a) 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 44 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History Break off. Quixote’s second venture, to probe the sfnall now for the Now of consciousness, has come round also to a time-plot, in this case personal. How far from the cosmic cycles (Tiger, Water, Wind and Fire) of the Aztec Sun Stone. Where is the Sipapu opening from self to world, the Apocalypse opening from world to All? On the cast of a last hope, I take up the Five Chambered Heart (poems of Love, Lust, Earth, Waste, Soul); focusing on those of the fifth state (Soul), I set three to images, and why not music? 117) !fTiedricft, c,1818(?), Hkoo Men ‘Watcfi tfie Moon over tHe Sea, 9{emuta£e, Leningrad (center-spread of tfie picture); + ^ detail Music: Alban Berg, 1935, Violin Concerto, (Grumiaux & Amsterdam) Philips ST 802-785 LY, from the last forte to the close There is the shift from self to earth, and greater, from earth to cosmos. I once experienced it in a dream, to be treated thereafter in fiction and poetry — in The Half Gods under the rubric "the Metamor­ phosis of-the Cave." 118) USX Cokg- Wor^, Cfairston, gfoomy viezo; first, V detail Through labyrinthine closures of the planet we have raped and soiled, we wander as though lost in an overarching cavern, an underworld. But since that vault is the fact of the sky-smogged, trashed and poisoned globe, the poetic distillation (from the Five Chambered Heart") takes the title of "World Cave." 119) Old ^ook of Xnozuledpe print of a torefi raised in Mammotfi Cave The first response is of repudiation: I light the torch And lift it to inscribe in smoke My curse, my warning on the wall. IZO) Ceiling (Utailfrom Carlsdad Cavern, using BluefUter 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 45 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History Then, as if the very blaze of wrong had kindled stalactite sparks above, perception, groping the starred dark, shifts and widens — as through speculations of earth: Is it rock crystal Shining? — 121) Qada (PCacida tomB, iRg-vetma, mosaic vauCt of stars; + V detail to the illusionistic jewellings of Early Christian art, this star-dome at Ravenna — the poem questioning: Gold mosaics? while the ceiling spreads and recedes, past the speed of light — 122) SpCendour of the ^leavens, Judy sl^, soutfi, over London; + ^ detail the closure of the Platonic cave become this star-cloud universe of worlds in space, with constellations of a symbolic destiny: Shapes I have known: —three, a moving sequence in the summer sky 123) CQ(B's schematized pattern, prichfd and photqyraphed as of pain, celebration, transcendence: Cross, Lyre, Crown. 124) fP.fP. Jipos, C.1680F, Landscape with a Qrotto, !H£,rmita£e; video, detail ondy 125) Qlints on snow, undere7(posed, with hCuefidter (CQ^B '90) 126) l4nother of 123, aSove: 'stars' of Cross, Lyre, Croton So, with a swifter sequence, the poem sounds again: 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 46 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History World-Cave I light the torch And lift it to inscribe in smoke My curse, my warning on the wall. Is it rock crystal Shining? Gold mosaics? Shapes I have known: Cross, Lyre, Crown! (Close of Berg) 12 7) Sunset (CQ*B SLu^ust '78) 127a) Larger copy cfSarafi il(p6inson's eye CCf ^ ^ 12 75) fHfiinBozo cast By crystal on a white surface (CQ^ ’90) ^127c) ^Bens, c. 1630, Cattle Lrinhing at sunset, tnash^detail, Louvre The next poem is called "Speculum Mundi" — Mirror, or Image, of the world. It came to me in age, as I watched another sunset, aware that for Greek philosophy, seeing is a kind of mating, where masculine light (form or eidos, image or speculum) begets in receptive organs the things of sight. And imagining that I, body's hatching place of sense, might soon, by a dissolving return, become the light itself, I took up nature's love-death praise in a distillate of mirrored words. (For which the music can only be: Beethoven's "Heilige Dankgesang in der lydischen Tonart".) [Six images follow, each circularly niasked] 128) ConstaBle, c. 1821, branch iKitt Tond, Hlampstead, Victoria and MBert Mtiseum 129) Friedrich, 1834, 9(^t after ^Harvest, ‘Dresden Qallery 130) Splendour of die Hleavens. c. 1930, ‘Ihe OdidnightSun 131) Sarah IRpBinson's eye (C^ 1990) 132) Ifm-^ang Odontage, rvith sun and Sarah's eye (CQ‘B 90) 133) Idriedrich, c.1818, ‘Woman facing sunset, Museum, ‘Essen Music: 3/1994 Beethoven, 1825-7, from the Adagio of the A Minor Quartet, Opus 132, (Budapest) Col. MBS 677 NOW — Alpha 47 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History Light through cloud now poured from the spent sun Receiver I to the childing of your touch I who next will be the very light Poured down cloud for the receiving eye Great either way sight cloud and sun You into me with the same spending touch As I then into you with child by my light. (End Beethoven) a,B,cl34) Ci^fitest ey(posures erf 134, Bdow V(C134 (BCan^ a wfiite screen (video onCy) 134) C.Q. ^eU in recessive imayes formed By tBree mirrors 134 a) 14n asymmetric variant of the same When the mirrored self Fades into light Beyond the light Who calls? I am nothing But one with the one That makes the nothing All. Remembering my grandfather's photo-montage of himself in circular array, I had thought to close this Alpha search with mirror reflections of myself, fading into light with the poem you have just heard. But that was not the original poem. It had waked me from sleep deep in the night when an old Princeton friend (as I would learn) had died. al35) LimBoury ‘Brotders, 1415-16, Sky-detailfrom Cfvrist in gethsemane, Ores (Rudies iHeures 14Zv, Music Conde, CBantiUy [video first sBozvs a detail of 135, Belotv] 135) (Frank^Zudo, 1388, pfioto-numtaye, niyfit sky over rocks And the fading there was into star-strewn space. The poem (a ballad stanza broken up and spread over eight lines) is too short for any music but its own: 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 48 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History Gnomic The night each plows A furrow of death In the field of stars Who calls? I am nothing But one with the one That makes the nothing AU. 3/1994 NOW — Alpha 49 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Charles G. Bell's Symbolic History: Through Sight and Sound Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Meem Library Description An account of the resource Scripts of Mr. Charles G. Bell's Symbolic History series. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. 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BELL ST. JOHN’S COLLEGE SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO or 1260 CANYON ROAD SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO 87501 March 1994 Last revised June 1996 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History SJM'BOLIC nifirougfi Sight and Sound 39. 1) NOW - Omega $fwtommt^e: Tanfi among stars, tuitfi JgiWert's C.QdBeU; + ^ detait By a leap of impossibility, the^ Now Alpha and Now Omega have to draw together. The task of the Alpha was to render what is mine to earth and cosmos; the Omega must treat earth and cosmos as my own. The mode of this convergence can only be the continual em­ brace and transcendence of antinomy. It is creative paradox which besouls the worlds. 2J ^ree sfiots: ^indres SiigCa, at 11 montfis, (earns to zoal^ What is the paradox of walking? To fall and not to fall. To turn incipient falling to a directed, on-going progress. Here Andres Aigla, 11 months old, explores that simple skill, which the tottering earth has desperately to learn. ^a3) ^iezo rvest from Sangre de Cdristo (C(g%'78) 3) Tfioto-composite of T,artfi, Sofar Corona, and 9doon (or gCazed ^3) '’3 a) MSTm^nSerg photo, eclipse of sun in muCtipCe e?(posure *U3B) MandeCSrot, (Fractal: ’(Blanetrise,'etc. Music: Leonin, 1160-90, from Deum Tim§ (Yves Tinayre), Lumen 32017 We come to life adapted to wonders of earth and sky as beyond known chance or causal prediction as the myths of East or West (say Genesis) assume — all the inwrought balances Newton's science had to ascribe "to the counsel and dominion of an intel&gent and power­ ful being." Above us circle two spheres, so disposed as to seem of equal (hence eclipsing) size — the coronal passion of the sun, lord of day; the sterile death of the moon, goddess of night — an archetypal antinomy. June 1996 NOW — Omega 1 �C.G. Bell Symbolic And in music, the two-voiced stretch of Gothic Leonin History (fade) 4 ) detail of3: Corona cfecGpsedsun Beside faCC moon ^4 a) f^pBaeC, 1517-19, Loggia, Isaac andf^Becca 4 B) Teter ^ys, c.1670, S^Xegory of OsQgBt, HOinstBistonscBes 9duseum, I4^n; witfi V details Music: Minischalchi, c.1630, lo tento in van (Max Meili) A.S. 79 swells to the recitative and ground bass of baroque Minischalchi. Though in the opposition of the sky, romance has leaned from the busy action of male day, to the moony Beulah of embracing shade: (Milton) sweet the coming on Of grateful Evening milde, then silent Night With this her solemn Bird and this fair Moon, And these the Gemms of Heav'n her starrie train... (cut Minischalchi) VaS) Sfiip 9(pd(, (h&d, far-off (C(fB, 7ali 1968) B 5) *Eartfi vwwedfrom sateCUte, sfiowin£ ^Europe and Sifrica c5) TCiocene restoration, Ximerican West, Museum of MflturaC 5fistory, (Cg^ '79) 5) 9kmi 9(pusseau, 1891, Surprised, 9^tionaC QdCery, London; + ^details Music: Mahler, 1909, Ninth Symphony, from 4th movement passage for violin and double bass (Horenstein) Vox Box 116 How often, in later music, from Bach to this Mahler, the tangled fabric cleaves^ to a dialogue of high and low. So on the round earth, tensile limits reappear: sea and land, mountains and plain, desert and fertile ground, farm and forest. From the dawn of life, entropic up-and-down reflects itself in leaf and flame, plant and animal, graz­ ers and hunters — this panorama of the American Pliocene. "Douanier" Rousseau, charmed by tropical shows in the Paris Exposition of 1889, caught nature's ambivalence in this painting called "Surprised": lightning from rain, wind-tossed trees, the tiger pushing through reeds. (fade Mahler) June 1996 NOW — Omega 2 �Symbolic C.G. Bell 6) History ^avid SlUan, 1781, ^Tfie ^KaCkptt y^amiCy, Cf\^HonaC QalCery of ScotCamC, ‘E([in6ur£fi} + deiaUs Music: Gretry, 1782, Gavotte de Colinette a la Cour, Col. (78)x-126 No doubt the Enlightened taming of the British landscape and family scene (this David Allan of 1781) appeared to have put to rest the old Behemoth-Leviathan raging and uprooting through time and space — fate soothed, as it were, by Orphic airs and country dance (Gretry’s pre-revolutionary fluff). Even Wordsworth would dream "that Nature never did betray/ The heart that loved her." (fade Gretry) a7) 7) W. (BCa^, 1773, enyravitt£, Josepfi of ^rimatfiea, iritisfi fhfuseum; + ^detaiC 1793-4, *Jhe Qood and‘Evil SlngeCs, Uduseum, ‘Bedford; + V details Though the Bible and Shakespeare were still read, and Blake had already summoned this Michelangelaic Joseph of Arimathea to Albion's rocky coast. By 1793 (about when Beethoven went "to re­ ceive the spirit of Mozart from the hands of Haydn"), Music: Beethoven, 1799, Quartet #4,1st mvt. Coda, (Vegh) HSQ 44 Blake would be limning and voicing the radical ambivalence of these Angels contending for the human child — as in The Marriage of Heav­ en and Hell, the passive obedience called "Good," the shackled desire called "Evil" by the world, but by Blake, "Energy... the only life." (end Beethoven) t a8) (Dul^ photographed6y yowny on Sipodo-IG MoonwaCSu 1972 8) 9l^ht-earth ;dith (yhts andfires, art-composite cf satelUte-viezvs, Scientific ^bnerican, Sept. 1989; + ‘U details So, upon this threshing-floor, Odyssean earthlings push off from island domesticities into storm-ocean and star-void. Appropri­ ately, with the globe already (as in this painted composite of satellite night-views) fired so wastefully: the spread of cities, slash-and-burn of tropic jungles, flaming grasslands of the sub-Sahara, burn-off of June 1996 NOW — Omega 3 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History natural gas around the Persian Gulf and in Siberia, flood-lighted squid-fishing off Japan. 9) !Hans kHbCSein tfU O^owiger, 1528, Music: and CluCdren, (BaseC; zvitfi V details Hieronymus Vinders, 0 Mors..., Archiv Stereo 2533 360 What can the Now be but the rooted outreaching of the whole tree of consciousness, as patiently enduring as Holbein's waiting family — earth's sentient ingathering, wliere the coded past (in each as in all) presses the probabilities of a present, to shape some future, hung between leaf and flame? (fade O Mors) 10) 10a) ^106) VlOc) Suffan (Brenner, 1558, T^aBCe-cCocd^untfi ^troCoBe, LuBecli, 5lrray cf cCoc^ in Chet Johnson's repair shop, Santa J^e Iface of Chet's pendulum cloche (C(fB, '90) CarihSean spiralsh^ from a cruise advertisement That Now is a transformational one-many, far from the dimen­ sionless instant ticked between lost past and unformed future, which the science of chronology seems to make of it. Examine a timepiece closely (this one, say, of 1558). What are its elements? First, some vibrating recurrence. Without flywheel, pejidulum, pulsing crystal, no clock could keep tiihe, any more than than earth, without rotation and revolution, could measure days and years. But that oscillation returns where it was, a dead beat» always the same. So every clock requires another element, a numbered advance, by which the future succeeds the past. Has the union of these two, wheel and arrow, compassed ’ time? 11) California sundial shell, Jlrchitectonica ^ranulata iCQ‘B '81) [video inserts photograph cf snails mating, from (Mature 106, and returns to 11] No. The spiral that knits these poles requires a body of percep­ tion. Like a recording clock, the mollusk of a Sundial shell graphs its growth in this demarcated coil. The shell alone is a spiral resolution of the arrow and the wheel; but it contained a Now, perceptive wholeness of a living process. Without that threshold of organic ac- June 1996 NOW — Omega 4 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History tion, this Architectonica could not have shared in time, creeping, feeding on his stomach-foot, a gastropod. 12) 12 a) Vl2B) 12c) Jost (BuT£i, 1S94, Star-^loBe cCoc^ Landesmuseum, Zuricfi {Bine slopes £. of San CristoBaC, CfUapas (C^ jfeBruary 1975) Compound eyes in Bead of a Bors^ly % Odponan, photo, midge coming from xvater-phase to air Are the heavens comprehended in Burgi’s 1594 clock of planets and the starry sphere? What of the eternally rooted Now of inward­ ness, as cosmically free and bound as "I am that I am"? Had not Heraclitus, for all his burning antinomies ("We are and we are not"), made thisclear: "Not on my authority, but on that of truth (A,oyO(;), accept the fact that all things are one." And Leibniz: "The machines of nature are still machines in their smallest parts ad infinitum." Here a midge struggles from larva and water to wings and air — Dante's sky-search that racks the globe: "Worms born to form the angelic butterfly." 13) Shane-^Wirtanen composite photo-map of1,000,000gaCo}^ 13 a) SpiralgaCofQ) 9d 83, Centaurus, violin. Scientific S4merican, August '93 13 B) Lava and Lightning on Sahyra Sima, Japan's South Island The cosmos — like a protoplasmic bubble, this photocomposite of a million mapped galaxies (from an estimated one hundred billion, each averaging ten billion suns), evolving at all levels, energy, parti­ cles, atoms, chemicals, through dust-clouds, galaxies, suns forming and exploding, dark stars, planets, satellites — from the assumed bang to tfie earth-now of man — this cosmos has kept all processes going, in creative interplay, aeons before we brought our observations to the scene. al4) South (Polar Star troche, Shu & Lelescope. JFeBruary 1986 14) Ivan SlWrght, 1967, Self-Portrait, (foutgstoum, Ohio Surely, without cosmic consciousness — some print of mind on the radiant void — there could be no cosmos; the problem is to put ourselves in touch with it. For we are earthlings still, earth-ravishJune 1996 NOW — Omega 5 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History ers, and each pretends, like this Albright, to be himself alone — a slime-mould eddy on the chute of entropy — alS) Cascades at ^^gua SizuC in CfUapas, OdejQco (C(^ 1978) 15) iS^prtfiem zuatesfalC rvitfi salmon leaping up that gravitational axiom (in a universe lively for fifteen billion years), that whatever happens is sure to have had a gradient for happening, where a gradient, by definition, goes downhill. But what of the salmon's gradient to leap up waterfalls? Does quantum uncer­ tainty herald a nature where (as de Nerval wrote) "life breaks forth in everything"? al6) 9(psette 9(g6uCa (O^C 2244), tviift stars formed andforming 16) (Beta Tguuleus (Bictoris, 1984 — Solar systemforming? In any case, in cosmic extension, the axiom of closed-system decay rounds on itself, nature not admitting of one-way formula­ tions. "Proliferate" has as strong an imperative as "subside to rest." Like the stars sowed by this Rosette Nebula — stars, any one of which might in its origin be wrapped in such a halo of dust and gas as this recently studied Beta Pictoris (first photographed evidence of a solar system apparently in process of formation) — like those stars, al7) (tropicalgrozotfi, Mayaguez, (Puerto (^o (S. (Mason, 1955) 17) (Bfiotograpfi of a squash bed, Santa (Fe, 9^ (CQ^B '90); + ^ detail every weed seeds itself -as if to take over the earth. But as entropic down swerves to up, so proliferation can turn exuberance to a throt­ tling: "Spirit, at war with itself." I lay in the gourd-bed, flowered, fruitful. Slipping curved fingers down the tendrils To feel the clutch of subtle runners. Twisting a noose for the throats of grasses. 18) SLttic Cup, c. 500 (B.C., J4phrodisiac orgy, Louvre Q 13 *Ul8a) (More startling groups from the same cup June 1996 NOW — Omega 6 �C.G. Bell Music: Symbolic History Bessie Smith: "i'm wiid about that thing," Col.GP33, side 3 Once the thrast of human sexuality mounted the oldest fertility urge, what was to limit orgiastic celebration? The Greeks could prac­ tice our "illegal obscenities" in sacred precincts with temple courte­ sans consecrated to Aphrodite and Dionysus, as in Pindar's skolion. al9) Mndu, 1000 fHitud orgies, LaH^fimtim temple, iKfiajurafio ^619) ImCian (diniaiure, c. 1750, T5ie mounted 6y dl creatures, detaU, witfi horse and ape-man, 5(ptah State, fHgjastan cl9) Same, detaiC, zoith hear and elephant 19) Same, zvhoCe; + three V details In India, such rituals appear in stone on the heaven-bands of Hindu temples, here at Khajuraho, 1000 AD — while the West cow­ ered under die penitential climax of the Dark Ages. Small wonder the procreative drive, here symbolized in an Indian miniature of the 18th century, where the Nayika is the coupling mate of all creatures — those beasts, who in the upper section, work God's command: Be fruitful and multiply — no wonder that rapture is so hard to damp today, even where it over-populates the earth. (fade Bessie Smith) 20) 5{indu, 10th cent, (Dahini zoith demons, drinking Blood, !Kfiandaroa 9dahadava temple, fKfipjurho, India 20a) !Hmdu, 9th cent., Shiva, doing penance, (Bhuvanesvara; + V detail In truth that older world had harsh ways of stemming the overflow. Those very temples of erotic abandon equally enshrine the skeletal attendants of Kali, drinking blood on the battlefield. The same Shiva who wreathes in bliss with Sakti and Parvati withers to the death-lord of Yoga, doing penance. How soon is the world to become as ruthless in paradox as the old sacrificial gods? Must we steel our hard-won humanity against ideal and sentimental pretences? 21) 21a) June Ifamine in Besieged (Biafra, Life, 5Utgust 23,1968 (video: details only) ^Ethiopia, 1985: zooman (f 28 Being preparedfor Burid 1996 NOW — Omega 7 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History ^2la) ‘Etfiwpian£roup taitfl starving oCdmm 2lB) CfttCdrenfrom tfie Sudan, (wing on the streets of (I^rtoum, Life, Sum '88 A simple fact: there was never a more ideal or sentimental folly than that by which modern hygiene and medicine were spread abroad, without any thought or concern, much less program, how one planet might house and feed the resulting population. Though war and politics have used famine in Biafra and Ethiopia, drought and crop-failure played a typically Third-World role. So also with the 10,000 Sudanese children, refugees from civil strife and want, who in 1988 slept and begged on the streets of the capital city, Khartoum. 22) (Frogs: fenuiCe, wildi two fertiCizing maCes; first, video^ detail Music: Bessie Smith: Close of "I'm wild about thatihingf Yet still, like these mating frogs — female clutched by two males to fertilize the extruded eggs — black tribesmen and white Christians join in protesting birth control. (fade Bessie Smith) a23) Qiotto, 1306, detail of Injustiu, ^ena Cfiapd, (Padua; first, V detail ^623) *Fony (Priu, Sltomic ImB Jun^Crucifhc, detail (C<fB '90); first, *1^ closer de­ tail c23) (PBoto of a Swiss (ifticlear (H^tor (Scientific Slmerican, SepUmBer 1990) 23) (Hgssian tanB§ move into (Pragtie, Life 1968 (V23: Wider), The indulgence of freedom builds a counter-tension to the common good — radically in Giotto's detail of Injustice. By the com­ promise of law, each must forgo Iiis savage claim to kill, rape, and rob. Such the minimal contract Hobbes and Locke would think ade­ quate. But can we stop there? Even Adam Smith gives society "the duty of protecting... every member... from the injustice or oppression of every other". What then of economic oppression? What if industry work injury? What if our Keynesian boom produced opulent dysecology? Must not June 1996 NOW — Omega 8 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History Smith's "natural liberty" explore some maximal contract for the lifegood of the whole? Despite w'hich, the First World War, the Nazi war, and even the half century of Cold War — here Russian tanks on the streets of Prague — have been lived and presented as the struggle of freedom against tyranny. Si24) Tersiaiij c. SOO ^diers cf (Darius I, Louvre, (Paris (B24) Qreef^ c. 443 (B.C., 3(ydria-Bearers from (^Q ^frieze of tfie (Bartfienoti, McropoGs Museum, J4.tfiens 24) (DouBCe: [21] (Persian ^Ircfiers, and{(Bj Partfierum frieze Our model for that was Greek: in Herodotus' History, how the invading Persian hordes, lashed to the pass of Thermopylae by cap­ tains of squadrons, rued the courage of Leonidas and his Spartans — those men of whom Demaratus had warned Xerxes: "They are free, yet not wholly free; for law is their master. What their law bids them, that they do." A strength subtly expressed in Simonides' in­ scription: "Stranger, tell the Spartans we lie here, obedient to their bidding," where "obedient" is the middle-passive participle of "per­ suade," implying: "We lie here, to their bidding self-persuaded." (For an art-contrast, the 500-B.C. Archers of Darius I confront the 443-B.C. freedom of the Parthenon freize.) a2S) Qree^ c. 460 (B,C., (Rjdns of the 2kus ^empCe, OCytnpia 25) Same, another viexo (Both '77) Yet t’he Greeks, in their very prime of civic life and art, saw such exercise of human daring as a field of mythic overweening and tragic fall, to which their land attests — Holderlein: But where are the thrones and temples, where the vessels. Brimmed once with nectar, delight of the gods, with song?. (CGB) Music: June 1996 Greek, 2nd cent. B.C., First Delphic Hymn, sung by J.E. Butt NOW — Omega 9 �Symbolic C.G. Bell History — The great Zieus temple of Olympia, reduced by earthquake to these shattered ruins. a26) Qrufii c.. 460, Metope from the Zeus ^empCe, iHercuCes shows J4thena the StymphaCian (Birds; Museum, Olympia; first, Va26, detail 26) Same, West (Pediment, Centaur hitiny a Lapith, Olympia 26 a) Same, "East (Pediment, the old diviner. Museum, Olympia; + ^detail Of which the remnant carvings — most dramatic sequence of Greek art exhibit (though from different myths) the phases of Aes­ chylean tragedy. lu this Metope from the labors of Hercules, the hero brings the man-eating Stymphalian birds to his barefoot pa­ troness Athena. It is god-given power in superhuman act. In the West Pediment, the battle of Lapiths and Centaurs be­ comes such a net of death as is spread in the Agamemnon and Choephere: "Who shall tear the curse from their blood? ...The end shall be destiny." For the third phase we draw from the East Pediment the mys­ tery of the rapt diviner, seeing as through loss and turmoil some healing transcendence. Let that cathartic tfiad of power, overreach, and prophecy res­ onate as the noose tightens on the world. a2 7) (Riace bronzes. Both warriors, (R^yyio-CalaBria Museum; + detail 2 7) Same, younger warrior, from waist up (CQ*B ’84); video, detail only Surely “it resonated for Graeco-Rome. The first chorus of the Antigone is a praise of man: "Many a wonder..." But the Greek word for wonder is deina, as in dinosaur — a greatness also to be feared. So in the Riace Warriors, Greek energy risks the hybris of the Pelo­ ponnesian War. It is Plato's "fair and spangled state... ready to burst with liberty." June 1996 NOW — Omega 10 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History In our pursuit of happiness, we forget how far the revolt of agriculture seemed a profane plowing up and seeding of our mother, Goddess Earth. Delphic Hymn) 28) *Rgman (Bust, c. 66-68, O^o/ Musea CapitoG.no, (Rpim; + V detail 280.) (Rpman, 66-67RUD,, coin zoitG (S^o, American (Slptnisnuitic Society By Nero's Rome the outrage is too blatant, too devastating. The preface of Livy’s Histgry (c. 10 A.D.?) foreshadows not only the crisis then festering at the heart of empire, but every such degradation (to quote Thucydides) "as long as the nature of man remains the same." This Livy translation is from a Phi Beta Kappa address by Gordon Craig: ...Poverty with us went hand in hand with content­ ment. Of late years, wealth has made us greedy, and self-indulgence has brought us — through every form of sensual excess — to be, if I may so put it, in love with death, both individual and collective... a29) (Rpnuin Christian, earCy Jrd cent», *lHe Qood Sfiepderd, crypt of Cucina, Cemetery of CaGy(tus, (Rptne 29) (Rpman Christian, c. 470, mosaic, St. J4.m6rose and St. ^RCatemus, San J4m6rosio, (Milan; first, video cUtail Already the followers of Christus were being burnt for noctur­ nal lights (so Tacitus) in Nero's gardens. Strange, the claimants of an embodied Saviour should have withdrawn to catacomb entombments of flesh and outwardness. Music: Pre-Gregorian Sanctus, Mass for the Dead, (Solesmes) DP7532 But it was flesh God had taken, and, as we have centrally pur­ sued, that Judgment ultimatum to declining Rome would incarnate in the West a body of assertive temporality, reaching from the humbled earth-denial of this 5th-century mosaic of St.Ambrose and St. Matemus in Milan. (close Sanctus) Va30) Gemini, Singd, 1673-4, Sacrament SUtar, StlPeter's, (Rgme June 1996 NOW — Omega 11 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History VB30) (Bemim, 1668-70, toUfi. scroUandtfioms, S> ^Indrea d. VcdU 30) ^Bernini, 1670-71, wMi scroll, IBonte Sant'Sln£e(o, i^pme 30 a) (Detad of same Music: J.-B. Lully, c. 1670(?), Amen from the Dies Irae, ARC 3097 through a Christian antithesis of Baroque exuberance, assertive, whether for joy or grief — here, about 1670, with Bernini and Lully — (close Dies Irae) 31) (DouBle: Bernini [Si] 1634-70, Constantine, Scala Bs£ia, Vatican, and [B] 1663-7, drazoing, ^Equestrian Louis XlV, 9d.useo Civico, Bassano (zndeo sfunus first Si and B separate^; see ziideofUe) Music: Lully, c. 1670, Te DSum, close of "Et in saeculum saeculi", London DTL 93043, side 2 an assurance always primed for the heroic miscarriages of church and state (Bernini's Constantine and his Louis XIV). Through that (fade Te Deum) 32) % BiuCe, 1833-6, La MarseUlaise, Sire de ^riompBe, Baris; witB V details Music: Berlioz, 1830, Symphonie Fantastique, close, London CM 9227 to the secular explosion of the French Revolution, this 1792 rallying of volunteers, carved forty years later, when surely it smacked of some Faustian compact — even in Rude’s Arc de Triomphe commem­ oration, where the face of War (above) follows Michelangelo's sketch of a Fury: So why not pair it with the close of Berlioz' Fantastique March and double fugue? (end Berlioz) 33) ^Triple: [Si] SimBrose mosaic (detail of 29); [B] Bernini Singel (30); and [C] fKitde, La Marseidaise, plaster model, Musie IRyde, Byon (variant of 32) Taking this sequence as a springboard — from the disclaimer of earth, with hope in God; through a godhead seated in the physical, its space, time, and cause; shrunk then to a Deist ground of mere nature, for the hue and cry of Liberty, Equality and Brotherhood — hurled, as June 1996 NOW — Omega 12 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History we are, on that springboard toward an alarming future, we know that the tragic vaunt of freedom is not Greek or past, but with us, an archetypal antinomy in the Now. a34 & 34) ^oya, 1810-20, Masters (rf the War, 11 and 33 Since- between the "Call to Arms" and Rude's reenactment, had come the Rhine invasion upon which we have quoted elsewhere from Goethe's Hermann...md Dorothea: May I never again in such contemptuous madness Look upon man! Better the beast in his rage! Never let him speak of freedom, as if he could Rule lii§ own passions! — (CGB) and after twenty years of outrage, the Peninsular Campaign, with the long agony of guerrilla warfare, to be recorded by Goya in searing prints and canvases. 33) *B[ahp, 1793, Qood and iviC Angeds, coCor print, *Tate QaUery, London; + V detail (note Va33: possiSCe douBCe ^rfsRde 7, above, and of this 33) So what was Blake's prophecy, when in 1795, a year after the watercolor we saw earlier, he magnified (and reversed) its scene of Good and Evil Angels struggling for a child — to produce this mono­ print, where the energy figure has hardened (as froin Lucifer to Satan) — the French Revolution meanwhile exhibiting at home and abroad the fipree scaling-over of what Blake would call the "Ore Cycle", where: Rebellion' struck the tyrant dead. Became a tyrant in his stead... a36) 536) Vc36) 36) June American, 1826, Vernon Church, Vernon, Mass, (CQ(B '46); + V detail 9lgi£h6orCy 6am-6uildin£/1888, Museum, Massillon, 031; + V detail Side rHexu cf36, Monticedo (CQ(B '62) S^e-rson, 1769-1809, Mgnticello, Charlottesvide, Virpinia 1996 NOW — Omega 13 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History America seemed to avoid such a reversal. Our revolution hardly stirred the social fabric. It was the educated men of property and substance who took over here; and what they made constitu­ tional Was the liberal heritage of British law and institutions, local government, schools and churches. The have-nots could pioneer; the haves reasonably accej)ted that the "unalienable rights" of the Declaratioir would in time be spread around — as a century later, in the prosperous Midwest, at this neighborly construction of a barn. Though Pain^, our only radical, was exhorting, "We must think as if we were the first men that thought," while the unflawed spirit of Jefferson seemed to share that boldness (at Monticello, three prac­ tical stories contrived and disguised under the mask of one); yet in architecture, as in politics, the genius of the new republic was the caution of its originality, its power of invention within the traditions of the past, here of Palladio. 37) 37a) 376) 9/3 7c) 3 7 d) Scfiin^, 1826-7, CHarCoUenfurf, Sans Souci, (Potsdam (Peittef, Qerman, c. 1939, War, from SlpocaCypse tapestry design ScBin^C 1838, ScfiCoss OrCanda, Crimea, (HhdC and garden Same, S^tcdifor tfie CCassicaC gaUery liilXiam siirsU ttjc/ ZOtfi unt., CoCumnedpooC, San Simeon, CSL Compare the house "Schinkel built in Sans SouCi park about 1826 for the Prussian Princess Charlotte, by marriage Queen of Russia. Its academic neo-Greek wairts the freshness of Monticello; but the clean modesty might almost have raised Jeffersonian hopes for feLegel'i Germany. Though in fact» the whole country would veer in a century to the frenzied excesses of a madman's tyranny. Another Schinkel design may give a blue to the fatal entanglement of that Europe. Here, a Jairy-tale vision he would sketch for the same Charlotte (and her husband Nicholas I, that "Iron Tsar") — a mon­ strous, somehow Graeco-Moorish palace, never built, by the Black Sea on the Crimea, it is the sort of exhibition Hearst would first spring on America — at some cost to Jeffersonian democracy. a38) June WoodviCCe, 1831, Waiting for t/ie Stage, Corcoran QaCCery, Wasfi., (D.C. 1996 NOW — Omega 14 �C.G. Bell 638) c38) 38) 38a) 386) Symbolic History Wtieghd, 1568, iBaraSCe of the ^Cind, Capodimonti, 5dgpCes) + V detail •Banquet ofO^w O^or^pCutocrats, p6oto£rapfi, c. 1900(F); first, video detail V^xv O^or^Hdodem, •World•Trade Center, 9ddnluittan Burning tropical vegetation, photograph, 1989 fKgininger TUBS photo of fKflrposi's sarcoma (9(git (Meei^) Would R.C. Woodville's 1851 irony of the man shrouded behind dark glasses searching the news in The Spy, while he waits with oth­ ers for a stagecoach, have let it out, that the Fathers' trust in a free press to bring truth to a free people, might (as the blind lead the blind in Brueghel) end in the ditch of slogan-sale and media de­ bauchery — as when the children turn on the telly, and soul cries out: "Who let the enemy in the house?" Surely a prophet could have seen, that when neglect of Rous­ "because the force of circumstance tends always to seau's dictum destroy equality, the force of legislation must tend to maintain k" — had installed plutocracy, even our balanced freedoms would join the death-dance of the planet, that great Kermess of arrogation, strung from the May pole of the twin towers of World Trade, out through all competing nations and bank-colonies, to the last burning of jungles for the brief Agricultural failure the tropics allow. As Prometheus says in Aeschylus, "Besides this I gave them fire." So freedom chases the old beast around the tree until the pursuer becomes the pursued — hounded to death in the hunt for happiness. Thus our lot too may harden to a planned order of the whole: our freedom death, our liferoad regimen. a39) David, 1797-8, Unfinished9lgpoleon, Louvre, Baris; + •l7a39, detail 639) Canova, 1803-22, Bust ofO^oleon, detail, Bitti, (Tlorence 39) BouSle: [51] (David, (S^oleon, as in a39, and[B] Qothic, c. 1245, (Head of a •Woman, from (S(^ Bortal, Odptre 0ame, Baris; found 6uried in 1977 (from •Metropolitan (Museum Show); video uses glazed double, *1)39 39 a) CanoVa, 1787-93, Bros and the reclining Bsyche, Louvre Around the 1800 switch from loose-rein to curb-rein, when a liberation still functional in America veered in Revolutionary France June 1996 NOW — Omega 15 �Symbolic C.G. Bell History toward the control of Europe — in that explosion of hope, how deeply David’s unfinished 1797 Napoleon is cloven. So in Rousseau's Social Contract: does the General Will ask Jefferson's state of minimal in­ terference, or the maximal state Marx would infer from the same text? Rousseau: ...the general will is always right and tends to the pub­ lic advantage; but it does not follow that the delibera­ tions of the people have always the same rectitude... Some must have their wills made conformable to their reason, and others must be taught what it is they will... From thence is bom the necessity of a legislator... In that lawgiver proclaiming like a shaman the General Will, Sovereign over all, lurked the Revolutionary Republic of Virtue, 1793: when the Council of the Commune would require the destruc­ tion of all relics "of superstition and feudalism" — here, from Notre Dame, a face ot Gothic humanity, buried almost two hundred years. Under Hebert, Notre Dame became "The Temple of Reason," where the nude dancer Maillart impersonated Truth, until the scan­ dal of her rites gave Deist Robespierre cause for guillotining the radi­ cal faction: extremists in extremis. ^40) y^riedricfi, c. 1810, pen-draxmng Self, 'hlg.tional QaUery, ^edin; + detail 40) ^)ou6Ce: [Ji] SL40, ^rkdricfi, SeCfi-and[(B] 40B, Qericault, i^/jide (see V40) 40(B) Qericoitlt, 1804-12, (Male ^djJLde, ^eatui-Arts, (Hffuen (vuUo: dalf-Cesigtfi <mly) Musle: Schubert, t827, Die Winterreis^, Irom "Fruhlingstraum," f=ischer.Dieskau, Angel 3640 @ Two phrases from Schubert’s Winterreise occasion two images. From "A Dream of Spring" (Fruhlingstraum), where the frost on the window suggests leaves and flowers, the incalculable yearning of the tearful major has summoned Caspar David Friedrich's pen-magic of the searching Transcendental self, (fade FrOhlingstraum) Against which, Schubert's "Mut" breaks into proud defiance: "If there are no gods on earth/ We will be gods Ourselves." " June 1996 NOW — Omega 16 �C.G. Bell Symbolic Music: History Also Winterreise, close of "Mut". Angel 3640 B The urge to that was already in Friedrich's longing, as it had been in Goethe; but Gericault's nude gives it the desperate muscle of Napo­ leonic France. Prophetic rumblings from the tragic Continent. a41) 641) 41) 4la) ^Bingham, 1847) fR^tsmen TCaying Carets, Museum, StXouis C6iea£o, 1831 (SM. Teto, 1866, ^Kg^ourcfis and iBrospects) Currier & Ives, 1871, CZTte Qreat C^cago y^ire CurrUr & Ives, 1892, Cfikago from Latip Michigan} + V detail While here the confrontation was delayed — not yCt the Promethean vaunt, or fatal rupture. Yet the very energy and expansive success of America — Chicago from the fort and trading post of 1831, through the spur and stimulus of the Great Fire of 1871, to the 1892 spread of shipping and trade, industry and housing — that surge of powers would launch us on some such tragic risk as Promethean Greece had signalized. a4Z) 42) 42 a) V42B) 42 c) TatUus van I/ianen, c. 1603, Lmdscape tvith river and raftsmen, pen and wash, Museum of fine ^rts, Budapest} + V detad *E/D. Luhfis, 1872, Susquehanna at Conowaga Bridge, Bf.M, Bed} + V detail Mississippi ildver,. 1988 Cow water. Barges strandaC Crashed UCawaiian Beach, 1988, plastic, etc (Deforestation, 1989, Cascades, State of Washington \ Since our freedom of quest, Adam Smith's quick and happy way to clear a land and build a booming nation, rested on what had long sustained the prosperity of Europe — that taming of nature which ties this van Vianen 1600 log-rafting down some German river, to Lukas' Susquehanna of 1872 — America still counting on what Smith and Marx both assume (their common and fatal error), that nature is inexhaustible and works gratuitously. June 1996 NOW — Omega 17 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History But we know too well what price Nature exacts — we who face the extremes of a changing climate, Gaia's great storms and droughts (summer, 198S, these barges stranded on the old Father of Waters, near my home-town of Greenville, Mississippi); we who feel the more actinic rays of the sun, who experience polluted streams, trashed beaches, garbage-fills, the old timber clear-cut from the ranges; and we shall know and feel more, as the world-pinch for food and water, raw materials and energy advances. d43) 43) 43 a) 43B) (Dinosaur s^^tons, (Sifitural(History (Museum, (SQCC (CQ*B'79) (DouBCe: [PL] [FisB in tfie ocean, and[(B] Toune mammals and Birds (DouBCe: Upper Cretaceous, reptiles of land, sea, air Iraqi tan^ 1990, (Persian Qulf crisis, (Mexysweefc Consider the rise and fall of dinosaurs; such adaptive radiation and earth-seizure must throw life-balances, genetic or social, out of whack. Organic causality is a complex interplay. The fall of comets or of asteroids could only have posed a general challenge, which, in fact, fishes in the sea (even sharks), first birds in the air, reptile sprawlers (lizards, snakes and crocodiles), besides early mammals, managed to live through; where all ruling reptiles ("dinosaurs"), large or small, of diverse orders, in ocean, air and all continents, became extinct. External impingement hardly accounts for so selective a catastrophe — from which man should learn, if learning is possible. Since the human assault on the globe, through mechanized war and peace — capitalist, communist, third world — exhibits some such unorganized chain-reaction as must have marked the evolutionary crisis of the higher reptiles — some irreversibility of cultural, as of genetic process. a44) VB44) c44) d44) 44) 44 a) ^44B) Coa£~Bumin£ plant, 1989, San Snan, Olgrv OdcKtco Savonks Solar generator, 1990, (Hawaii Conifers deadfrom acid rain, Scientific PLmerican, 1991 India, Qan^es (River, poCCufion and cocd’Bumit^ plant (Rpmaman polluted town of Cepsa (Mica, 1990! first, ^ detail (Pottutionfrom a (l^w Jersey oil refinery (MeMco City slums, junlcfieap millions. Scientific Pimerican, 1989 June 1996 NOW — Omega 18 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History Take the burning of coal for an always unchecked upward spi­ ral of population and energy-demand — here the Four Corners plant, San Juan, New Mexico, belching dioxides of carbon and sulfur. "The feedbacks are enormously complex," say company scientists, mean­ ing: "We can't act because we can't be sure." While the production of solar panels is neglected or suppressed: "Hardly cost-effective" — de­ ceiving and deceived, by an economics df the fragmented particular, which obscures the cost of greenhouse gases and acid rain. Fourier at the beginning and Arrhenius at the end of the last century had linked carbon-dioxide to climate (I heard of it in 1934 from Barr at Virginia); meanwhile, industry has plunged dead ahead. No doubt one reads now of "sustainable development," and that such polluting power plants as this on the Ganges fail to comply; but how is book-knowledge to change the politics of need and greed? Worst of all when the so-called "planned societies," who took up the banner of world-hope, plan nothing but police enforcement of their own dogmatic rule, blind to the tensile tie of means and ends — materialist hicks who, as Simone Weil said, have fallen to the top in the gravity of power — this Romanian town of Copsa Mica, become under suppression of comment, "the most polluted place on earth". And those other hicks on the Western side, who called them­ selves political scientists and economists, and who take pride in having persuaded America that "plan" is a dirty word — all incapable of polyvalent thinking — as if an essential ingredient (Adam Smith's fess—-fiMStpnss. or Marx's laborl were the entire recipe and cause of prosperity, or of value. a4S) 45) 45a) ^45B) 45c) June tHuman Body, CopiUary circuCaHon, BCood to tissue Odacropfiage, wfUte BCood uCC, Bunting *EncBeridia CoU 'WBite BCood ceU dratving in Bacteria By pseudopods 1851, CCipper SBip, \Cfie CFCying CCoucC Cut-out montage, eartB against ^iCBy ^ay 1996 NOW — Omega 19 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History They deplore organic analogies. But the goal-directed symbio­ sis of the body is not totalitarian. Evolution has endowed its cells with genes of common loyalty and service. For each to pursue its own gain, as our politicians, bankers, and realtors do, would be can­ cerous. That is where the media have let democracy down. They should have built a gene-pool conscience of the race. Observe this microphage white blood cell pouring itself out after bacteria: that is the immune response. You see no policeman but the cell itself, no central authority. Nor with this hoplite, wrapping invaders in ar­ rowed pseudopods. He is on his own. But the whole action is moral and for the whole. It is only by plan that we can salvage the earth. But not a plan of the dumb and tyrannical. We have to constitute a feedback commufiity of observing and governing intelligence — some many-minded Odyssean navigator. This program smapks of a new religion, a love and worship of the mothering earth, floating at ease in the cosmos. But we cannot simply trust to Tellus Gaia. If that orb is alive, it is vulnerable, like every living being, to sickness and death — our death. We must in­ tensify science to keep it green, but a new science of the mysterious whole, redeemed from short-sighted bondage to logic, profit and war. a46) 646) 46) 4 6a) 463) CDdacrovQ 1830, LiBerty Lmdwy... L(nwre (CQ(B '80) Daumier, 1834, On tfie (Barricades, ^S(fltionaC Q(Ukry, (Prague (Hbudan, c. 1778, (Terra Cotta 6ustcf3J> (Rpusseau, OtCeans (Higfigate Cemetery, London, Qiant memoriaC head of Mavc (TripCe: (Photos: [SI] (JdussoCvni, [(B] Wilson, and [C] Lenin, c.1920 So we scheme; while revolutions of two centuries have height­ ened at once intemperate hope and violence. After the French Reign of Terror and Napoleon, came the inconsequential Paris uprising of 1830 (which would only change one Bourbon for another); yet to what crux of reckless zeal Delacroix has lashed it, in his "Liberty Leading the People". Next the workers' insurrection and brief com­ mune of 1848 (just when Marx and Engels had released their Mani­ festo!. would prompt Daumier's partisan response, as in this Les Miserable^ group "On the Barricades". June 1996 NOW — Omega 20 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History In a calmer century Rousseau had doubted the emergence of good laws from civil strife and hatred — Many governments have been established in war, famine or sedition; but they are the very governments that destroy the state... The choice of the time for in­ stituting any law is one of the surest criteria whether it be the work of a legislator or tyrant. — prophetic condemnation of militant prophets, whether of left, right, or middle. So the Manifesto — The Communists' ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. — of which it could be asked: "What's all that hate doing in there?" Though the curse of hate would fall on all parties, the child father to the man: this beween-wars trio of Mussolini, Wilson, Lenin — all fatefully snared. The tide has swept us forward. a4 7) 4 7) 4 7a) 4 76) However — iK^ssian poster of1905, Cftains (Brol^n ftRussia in iRevolutionh + V detaiC Custodiev, 1905, iR^vofution striding the streets (same voCume) Caricature of 47: fR^wCutum as striding sRfCeton (same volume) Cartoon, c. 1917, QoCd-£reedy Capitalist 5{op (same volume) Music: Scriabin, 1907, from Poem of Ecstasy, London OES 6915 1905-6 is the date of the first Russian Revolution — such a frenzy of defiant hope, joined with Nietzschean scorn ("We have to be destroyers!") as, in this poster ("Chains Broken"), heightens the peti­ tion and massacre of the same year; while in music Scriabin's 1907 "Poem of Ecstasy" cradles its Orphic Egg of explosive yearnings — a complicity of yea-shouts and poignant cries. So Custodiev's absolute peasant-worker giant, trampling and shattering the established city, stirs the privileged to alarm and hate June 1996 NOW — Omega 21 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History — a wizard of terror that blasts the great rebel to a skeleton trailing blood and fire —> as it counter-blasts those of station to the beast and enemy — this gold-greedy hog of Capital. (fade Scriabin) 48) S. TAsenstun, ^en (Daus tHat Sfiook the ^orCd. ih^f^ndrov, as Lmin, speads at tfU ifinCatuCStation What can it mean that Shostakovich in the climactic forte of his withdrawn 4th Symphony (two-and-a-half minutes of inwrought, percussive dissonance) cleaves the stark violence of two Great Wars and of Revolution from its former ecstasy, crusting the volcanic brew of Eisenstein's Ten. Days that Shook the World? a49) S^irst World War: Cong-distance artiUery firing 649 Samcj aBout 1917, BattCe in t^ trendies 49) iRyssian Taster, C.191T-18, '51/2% War (Bonds' Music: Shostakovich, 1935-6, Symphony No.4, final brass chorale, MHS 824958Z Drums, Gannon (Krupp and Allied) shell both fronts. West and East, the carnage of trench warfare. Spent Russia still lashed to the field this poster for five-and-a-half percent war bonds. 50) Sussia in (Revolution, c. 1920(7), Lenin Harangues tBepeopCe SOa) Same, 1917, Litovsky (Prison Burning, (Petrograd From April 1917 on, Lenin was there, (with Trotsky below: "The end justifies all means". Trotsky, to workers on strike and peti­ tioning revdlutionary sailors: 'Til shoot you like pheasants!" In that kindled pyre of burning, looting, purging, starving, the population of Petrograd fell from two-and-a-half million to five-hundred-thou­ sand. 51) Same, c. 1920(F), White CKecution qf(Bolshez^ 5la) Same, 1921, Corpse-Butcher peasants zoith canniBaC meat SlB) Same, (Poster, 1922, Caricature of the League cf actions June 1996 NOW — Omega 22 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History All parties, White, Red, Socialist, espoused terrorism. Produc­ tion failed; money more or less disappeared. By 1921, when Trotsky had broken the Civil War, famine and disease were rife; even canni­ balism surfaced — these butchers of the human dead. Lenin: "We are beggars, hungry, ruined beggars." Yet hate laid the blame (why not?) on the swollen capitalist powers: France, the U.S.A., England. 52) tRussia in ^evoCution, 1929/ Stalin, xoitfi (Party (Ddeyates What ecstasy could remain, once the plotting exterminator of the old Soviet vanguard — Stalin — had tightened his rule? 53) Spanish Civil 1936-9, (payees at ilie IFrench border Meanwhile, the war of Left and Right spread over the world — Spain: refugees by a gutted farm turn to France. 54) Sino-Japanese War, 1937, troops on the Qreat Wall 54 a) Same: May 3,1939, (BomBiny of Cfvunyhiny, Life 546) Same, (Bodies of zvomen and children after an air-raid fronic chance, that the only appearance in these shows of the Great Chinese Wall, is for the 1937 movement of troops in the SinoJapanese War — from which the most appalling pictures show the bombing of Chunking —with the air-raid slaughter of women and children. 55) (S^i (Reserves, 1939, addressed 6y Mtler at a (RyUy 56) St (Pauls, London, the niyht of (DecemSer29,1940 56 a) Moscozv BomBed, (KfemGn, niyht ofSuly 23,1941 Then it was the Nazi build-up... for the assault on Europe: London... Moscow... 57) 58) World War II, (Ryins of Wesel, Churchill (Life) atomic (BomB, RuyustS, 1945, over Olgyasaici, Japan June 1996 NOW — Omega 23 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History "I will repay," saith the Lord — Wesel, on the Rhine, north of the Ruhr. Could the climax be other than the atomic cloud, of which Oppenheimer averred: "I am Shiva, destroyer of worlds"? (from brass forte to dark brooding) 59) 60) 61) 62) (KCayaret ^our^-Ti^te, 194S, ^uchemvcUd, CiBerated Hervs 0(prea, 1950, iMmines retreat over their ozim dead Vietnam, 3une 1966, {Phoipfwrous Som6 on ajungCe viUage iR^mama, 1989, 5^ired(BaCau cf Communist Boss, Ciaucescu Here, Shostakovich's clang of ordnance gives way to a muffled span of brooding, dark as the trial of the Jews, or Russia's Gulag Archipelago... Or the no-win aftermaths of cold war: Korea, 1950... Vietnam, 1966 (phosphorous bombs on a jungle village)... These brasses smoldering, like Soviet misrule in East Europe, down to the fired palace of Romanian Ceaucescu. What is the prophecy? (cut dark brooding section) Va63 Cathedral of die 5innunciatum, 1484-9, QQrendm, Cfdoscozv 63) Zagorsli^Sdfry, 1741-69, near Moscotv, Russia 64) Ryssia, c. 1917, 9day (Day, Communist (Poster Qreetiny 64 a) (Kpndinshy, 1926, Several Circles, Quyyenheim (Museum, (J^C Music: To the celeste passage closing the Shostakovich Fourth What, most of all, when Shostokovich, after such intensities of attack and repression, distills for the symphony's close a space of mysterious intimation, sprinkled with rising arpeggios of the heaven­ ly celeste?, Whp can hear it as die pealing bells of an Orthodox past? Or attach it to the frail posters of Soviet hope — the exploded delight of this 1917 May Day? Exiled Kandinsky's spiritual abstractions (this 1926 rapture of "Several Circles") seem nearer. If such was the artaffinity, no wonder Shostokovich withdrew the Fourth. 65) 66) 67) 68) (Decender 1989, (Protest at the (Berlin WalO + zHdeo variant, V65a (N^emher 1989, 5lavels victory sign to the people of (Prague 1965, (Blach^protest and arson in Watts, Los Slngdes 1989, Oveiflozving larufm of consumer zvastes, IfJ. June 1996 NOW — Omega 24 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History But if prophecy, why not of the coming wave of liberation — this joyful breaching of the Berlin Wall, Christmas, 1989? Or is that promise as vain as the other claims? (close Shostokovich, 4th — celeste passage) Some open-throttle drive to supermarket expansion: consumer goods and energy? Could even Havel’s victory-sign, made over the streets of Prague, erase the unsolved troubles of the West, which had brought in rigors of Right and Left? Or can today's spendthrift opu­ lence obscure our own crisis of inequality and foreclosure, racial slums, violence, the speculative wars Marx deceived himself to avoid?... But our fate is intensified by what Marx was blind to — ev­ erywhere the power of an earth-rape, defiant of plan, whelming na­ ture in wastes of productivity and poisons of science. 69) 'Eye of tofiite-suCed do^ftin tfirouyfi nyCon of a drift-net Music: Ockeghem; from intemerata Dei mater (Munrow) Seraphim 6104 Through such buildup in the mechanized ravage of war, the ecological havoc of peace, the globe with all its creatures, chiefly man, is snared, like this dolphin, whose dying eye looks through ny­ lon strands of a thirty-five-miler, ocean-exhausting drift-net. 70) Cdortres CathedraC, IStfi cent., ^nyel over Cftoir QaBCe 70 a) Iraqi War, 1991, fKivwaiti OiC T^erminaC 'Burning So a centennial question mounts like an ancient prayer: whether th6 reconstructive earth (here suggested, as through past wars, by the guardian angel over Chartres) can so far assert itself, as to avoid impending catastrophe. That question is being tested, mo­ ment by moment; it has even, of late, almost been answered in the negative. (close Ockeghem) 71) (Dot^Ce: [PI] 'Egypt, (Dynasty III, c. 2660, !Kjng Zoser, detail, (Museum, Cairo, and[B] Sumerian, c. 2700 B.C., (Headof orant from 'Esdjmnna, 'Bcgdad 7111) (Head of (King Zoser (from 71) 71(B) (Head of orant (from 71) June 1996 NOW — Omega 25 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History Tic) ^atollaA !f(jfiotneini, c. 1978, MusCim (efldkr of Iran Appalling, the intensity of faith and will it took to produce civi­ lization, to rear Egypt and Mesopotamia from the bogs of pre-agricultural man — both peoples Semitic, of kipdred, yet warring tribes: here from Egypt, Saq^ara, Third Dynasty, of the Step Pyramid, about 2660 B.C., King Zoser's mutilated statue, its jewel eyes gouged out by later vandals; and from 2700 B.C. Sumeria, a gypsum orant now in the Baghdad Museum, menaced, perhaps, by bombs. As if the tiaemonic force it took to found higher culture must become, in the reactive chemrs^try of place and race, the bane of its continuance. a 72) Assyrian/ 883-59 Lion fmnt rdi^, HLirom room, TaCace of Assumasirpal II, *BriHsfi ^Museum, London 72) Site of5eiiHsh defianu cf9(pme, A.(D. 70, ^di^cf 9dasada Let two relics bridge the millennia since those origins: 9th century BC and after, reliefs of hunting and war, to be transported wholesale from palace rjuins of Assyrian conquerors to the British Museum; and, shrine of the conquered, this Rock of Masada, where the Jews, most God-inspired, jnSligned and persecuted of those peo­ ple, chose in 70 A.D. mass-suicide, men> women and children, rather than submit to Rome. A two-edged precedent. a73) 573) 73) 73 a) 73 B) 73c) Ifoyi tan^ enter S^yrvait, Anyust2,1990 DouBCef [A] 5{ussein and [(BJ (Bus5 QuCf *War, 1991: US. ntissiCe and BomSiny attach OilspUCin the (Persian QuCf Stans von (Briesen BoCdhy scales to the sfiy (CQ% '91); + ‘U detail Lta Carina ndtUaand 1843 nova /Scientific American. ApriC.1973) It is in these faith-cradles of civilization that the question of its future looms. Now, when the will and drive of the whole United Nations, free enterprise, communist, third world, should be creatively focused on a rethinking and reordering of everything — population, diversity, production, distribution, resources, energy — where every June 1^96 NOW — Omega 26 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History leader needs to plan and implement vision, this imbroglio of desert and Crescent shows leadership impotent but for bungling to the chaos of war; to have fostered and armed a gambler like Saddam Hussein, as reckless as unprincipled, for manifest aggression until, tempted by our own devil, we espouse the mischief — down to our saturation plane-and-missile bombing, Ms. oil-sabotage of the Persian Gulf. In a world so dangerously poised, so bereft of formative con­ trol, so driven to catabolic stampede, the balance Zeus and Jove hung in the sky must read: global catastrophe — advancing at its own chain-reactive rate. That fact seems less in question than whether the calamity will be total or corrective. Here the Janus counsel of wisdom should be: to work for corrective containment, although aware that the cosmos we praise, may -- among countless worlds — already have seeded (by our connivance) the miscarriage of earth. Va 74) 674) c74) 74) finotfier of von (Briesen fioCdin£ tfie scales 9i{emG.ii£, 1466-75, from judgment, weighing souls, 5)anzig! + V detail 5(pger Van der Leyden, 1443-6, judgment, same, Beaune; first, detail QisleSertus, 1130-40, ngmpanum judgment, same detail, ^tun And yet those heavenly scales span a contradiction. Do they herald a fate, or (from the name, Libra') a libration? In Daniel V: 27, God, under that image, warns Belshazz^: "Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting." Milton follows in Paradise Lost: "The Fiend lookt up and knew/ His mounted scale aloft." So in this Memling Judgment, the good soul, to the angel's right; settles, like gold; the sinner risesi like dross. Contrast the Iliad: "The Father balanced his golden scales... The Achaians' death-day was heaviest." Here down is bad, as with van der Weyden's sinking sinner on the angel's left. But the paradox is not the ambiguity of up and down; it is of gravity and spirit — that the weighing of souls (swhyed, in this Autun carving, by angel and devil) must share, with life, some more than quantum uncertainty. June 1996 NOW — Omega 27 �C.G. Bell Va75j 6 7S) H7c7S) 75) 75a) Symbolic History ^u^arians demand reform, *Decem6er 1989, after forty years 9dafiatma,0andfU, c. 1940, seated in Cotus posture, toritiny Cactus fCotuer, Cfuapas, Me7(ico (C^ 1978) flower pfiotoyrapfis: video (V75) Lady's slipper, pHotoyrapfl (CQ*B 60); slide sfmW (75) ^iSiscus, pfiotqyrapfi (CQ*B '91) Ihlalloween pump^n, carved andpfiotoyrapfied By C.Q. *BeU, 1985 So too with the fate of the world; it is not determined but prob­ able. Man% conscious feedbacks may cross the threshold of surprise, almost of miracle. We have again to assess the odds, more searchingly, beginning with the wheel-and-arrow projections pf hisTtory; while the organiz­ ing power and fate of all our shows draws to this here and NOW, as in the plants of Goethe's Metamorphosis: When the plant vegetates, flowers, fructifies, it is still the same organs which under protean shape, expand as leaves, contract to the calyx, expand again in a petalled crown, contract to the organs of reproduction, then expand, for the last time, as fruit. a76) (DouBle: [SI] SltBens, c. 540 Teplos 9(pre, Bead, SLcropolis; and [B] iHead of Slntonia Minor, lira Bacis, 13-9 B.C., Byrne; first, V: SI and B 6 76) Striple: Tyypt: [SI] Old Bjnydom, iffiafre; [B] Middle, SpBinJc (fSUnenemBet III; [C] MfW, Limestone Ilfmatdn; aU details,, Cairo 76) friple: [SI] CBartres, c. 1210, MelcBisukBi detail] [B] Bernini, c. 1615, Msyr. Santoni, S. Brasede, Byrne; and [C] Bicas&o, 1907, Self Brayue What is New in Vico's Science of cycles, of 1725 and '44? That his "nations'^ are less political states than cultures; that their causality shifts from what is outward (as war) to what is inward (as religion and poetry), anticipating our great pulses of consciousness, or soul — such a mutation as from this Archaic Greek Peplos Kore, 6th century B.C.; to a face from the Ara Pacis, under the doubts of Aii^ustan Rome. Yet Vico's pattern for this is a wheel of recurrent Ages: of Gods, of Heroes, of Men (in Egypt: from the pyramid-building Old June 1996 NOW — Omega 28 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History Kingdom, through a Middle Kingdom of weighty control, to the hu­ man quest and yearning of the New). Or we might extend Vico to our own time, charting the Christian West, from the God-force of Chartres (1210), through Bernini's embattled Monsignor Santoni (1615), to a Picasso Self (of 1907), between the human and a Kafka mask. a7T) (DouBCe: ^Jffieran, c. 1500 (B.Cj fresco of a Cady; and [(B] Qreef^ c. TOO •warrior; Bothf i^CfitiotuiC 9duseum, Adiens. 77) (DouBCe:, !^pman, c. 400 5L(D:, Priestess at an Sdtar, (DiptycB of tfie (S^comadii and SymmacBi, Victoria and MBert (Museum^ London; and [(B] QaCdc, c, 400 SUD., 9dan in a tunic, yoCdy (C)um6arton Oa^ 7751) (Che priestess, from 77, oBove (zndeo, detaiC only) In the Cycles show, the Greek show, and even in the personal review of NQW-Alpha. we have dramatized the confrontation at each turning of this wheel, where late-cycle luxury is ravished by barbar­ ian renewal — this Theran lady about 1500 B.C., with an Iron Age warrior of the sequent Time of Troubles. Yet there is something rather static about the imaged repeti­ tions; thus (after two millennia, say 4(X) A.D., in the twilight of pagan Rome) this (ivory) high-born priestess at the altar of Jove, confronts a gold statuette of some tunicate chieftain of Gaul. Too static, when moderns jmake Vico predictive, as Spengler, Toynbee, on the slopes of Western decadence, conjure force from nostalgias. What hierophant, in the circle of Yeats, Pound, H.D., will this priestess evoke? Or where, in her ambiance, will Nietzsche’s "barbarians of the 20th century" appear? I a78) (Boec^ffn, 1880, IsCe of the (Dead, (Kpnstmusemn, (baseC 78) (Dad, 1935, (PaCCadio's Corridor of (Dramatic Surprise, (Museum of (Modem 5Lrt, (NHXC Ominous, when the post-romantic brooding and pseudomysti­ cism of Boecklin's (powerfully painted) Isle of the Dead — the sheeted soul rowed to the hollow of grave and birth, between rock flanks, under shade of cypress — when that yearning spawns the hysteria of June 1996 NOW — Omega 29 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History Dali's 1935 Palladio's Corridor of Dramatic Surprise — Palladio, Renaissance founder of our trusted Jeffersonian orders — his barrel vault collapsiilg^ among surreal vulgarities. Surely a static determin­ ism of history, a 79) Q^mran, Before 68 part of Isaiafi stroll 79) $• l^Ldinza Mosaic, c. 410, Cftrist enthroned xvidi Stposdes Against that classical wheel of time, the Hebrew arrow had been launched (as from Isaiah, this Dead Sea Scroll): "Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son... Emmanuel... The Prince of Peace"; through John the Baptist: "The kingdom of heaven is at hand"; to John the Divine: "Christ hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father." But that City of God was more within than without, of eternity more than of time. Church and state had not withered away. aSO) MicBoUis of Verdun, 1181, enameCs: from ^ tripU rows (ri£fit side), four columns of tiiru, (video: of these scenes, the four (ow^r right, with a detail of one, V580, the ^htrrozihng of 9hU), Mtar, H^stemeuBurg 80) Same, two each from Cower and middle rows, especially [Below] Moses ^R^ives the Laws, and [aBove] Desert of the iKoly Spirit (video shows the Cower two first, V80a, then the middle two, V80B) By the 12th century, Joachim de Floris, extending Biblical his­ tory to present and future, foresaw an actual Coming, in time, of the Holy Ghost — such freedom as Virgil assures Dantd at the top of Purgatory: "I crown and mitre you oVer yourself." If Nicholas of Verdun's Correspondences, as (left) from Moses! receiving God's Law, to the Disciples' receiving his Spirit, were pushed to a mystic now, what would it be but Joachim's Third Kingdom of Grace abounding? a81) IHfLeims, West Windows, 12S4-90ff., from the !h(g.ve (CQIB,'S9) 81) IBaris, Mptre Dame, c, 1270, 9lprth Iransept IRpse, unter-spread 81a) Same, South Iransept IRpse, unter spread; + V details of Both Joachim: "The first a^e (of the Old Testament) should be as­ signed to the Father, the second (of the New) to the Son, and the third to the Holy Spirit... when that promise begun in a few will be June 1996 NOW — Omega 30 �Symbolic C.G. Bell History consummated in many... Joel: 'I will pour out my spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters will prophecy.'" Similarly in the "New Light" of Gothic, rose windows spread radiance from God the Father, or from the Mother and Child, out through patriarchs and saints, to the life aftd occupations of the world. (So Rheims and Paris; a82) ^or({^9^inster, c. 1338,3{eart detaiCfrom West ^ndoiu; + cCpser detail 682) Sainte CftapeUe, IStfi unt., iRpse Window, (Baris (C(^, '59) 82). §iotto, 1304-6, (f^gitvity, detail ^em Cdapel (Padua; first V cCoser detail then the flower-wreathed heart of York.) In the sun^-sphere of Dante's Paradise, it is Franciscan Bonaventura, opponent (with Dominic?^n St Thomas) of Joachim's promise, who is made to introduce and praise him. Here Dante, uplifted by the paired circling dance of such ordained lights of Intellect and Love, is suddenly dazzled by a far brighter horizon of soul-sparks: "new spirits making a ring beyond the other circles" (so these music­ making elders of the Sainte Chapelle) — "Oh vero sfavillar del Santo Spiro" — "Oh very sparkling of the Holy Ghost" — at which Beatrice smiles! So Dante hails the spiritual seeding of earth. Had not the windows of three centuries told as much; or in painting, Giotto's radi­ ant humanizing of the birth of God? 083, *UB83, c83, Vc83, Vd83, 83, V83a & 83a) Qrunewald, 1512-16, eentralspread of Isenhem Mtar, unth details, especudCy the spin qfSleavenltf QCory over the mountain rvorCd, (Mother and Child, Music; ’ Josquin des Pres, 1515-20(7), 3rd Agnus, Missa Range Lingua, The Taliis Scholars, Gimell 1585T-09i How successive waves of Reformation take up the Earthly Kingdom of Joachim's Franciscan followers: Luther — before the vio­ lence his preaching loosed threw him into fear and trembling — writing in confident joy of "the inestimable power and liberty of Christians"; Josquin's climactic masses, the Pange Lingua Agnus; and (Incarnation summit in all art) Griinewald's spill of light and angels June 1996 NOW — Omega 31 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History from the Father in glory into a mountain landscape, where the Child is dandled by Mary, beside a rose without thorns. (fade Josquin) a84) ^Ks-mBrandt, c. 1669, Simeon mtk the ChUd, 9dus., Stochholm; + ^detail 84) iH^mBrandt, 1641, Landscape •with a Coach, Wadau, London 84 a) 5. Cooper, c. 16SS(F), OUver Cromwed, Odptional iPortrait Qtdlery, London; + V detaiC Music: Schutz, 1629, Sackbut overture, Fili mi Absalon, MHS 4504 By the time of Milton, Rembrandt, and Schutz, the same Godtrust rests always more on^ the weight and solemnity of the human drama. In the radiant landscape it is the sun, down clouds, which sanctifies the spatial recess. In CromweU's England the Fifth Monarchy Men expect the coming and present kingship of Christ, (fad© SchQtz) The stakes are always higher, the faith-wars more charged with material detonation. 85) Sacques-Louis 5)avid, 1793, SJdarat dead, detaU, (Beaune Arts, (BrusseCs; + VeCoser detaU The next revolutionary move brings us back to France, 1793, Marat's assassination, under the cleaving shears of fact and dream. For Condorcef's History the blade* of hope (non-Christian) was for a Tenth-Epoch perfection and fulfillment of man; the blade of fact was the mounting Reign of Terror, which pursued him to a prison death. a86) l^ripCe: (Portraits, 1792-1820(7), [A] SCe^eC, [B] SBoCderCin, and [C] Schedinff (here video adds V686, (^n£e, detaiC, then C of a86, Sckeltip£ aCone) 86, 86a) (Kiin^e, 9domin£, Smad and Lar^e, (KpnstfudCe, SdimBur^; + V detaUs In thought, it was Germany which brought to fruition, in three astonishing schoolmates, Hegel, Holderlin, and Schelling, radical transformations of Joachim's temporal Coming (blended sometimes with Vico's cycles). / Music: Beethoven, 1799-1800, First Symphony, opening, Toscanini I June 1996 NOW — Omega 32 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History — All (at that turn to the 1800s) as if launched on Beethoven's early symphonies, toward Promethean daring, Schelling, youngest of the three, by 1809 had completed O f Human Freedom, tracing, from the primal dark ground of nature, and self-willed battle of hisTtory, God’s physical emergence as light. His moral emergence as Spirit. At the same time Runge was composing versions, small and large, of his transcendental Morning to image the life-forces of earth, as in Bohme's Sacred Element. (fade First) a8 7) Hofin Martin, 1852, Tlie (jrerft (Day of (His Wratfi; first,, video detaiCs 87) Same, ^Tfie (PCains of (Heaven, Botfi Hate QaUery, London) + V detaiC Music: Beethoven, *1800-5, Fifth Symphony, from Trio, Toscanini No one has formulated the death-drive of history more power­ fully than Hegel, where a God at war with himself is only to be ac­ tualized through successive alienations; so the fruit that every cul­ ture ripens and hungers for, becomes a poison draught to it, and yet at the same time the rise of a higher principle. By this cunning of reason, every decay, and fall from China to the West, advances the self-realization of spirit, (as with Schelling) actually and" concretely, in the World. In such a theodicy, John Martin, Victorian fantast, leads from his "Great Day of God's Wrath" to these earthly "Plains of Heaven," white witli souls. (fade Fifth) a88) B88) 88) V88a) V88B) 88c) ^88 d) (PasteC of (HoCderCin, 1792, ScfiUCer Museum, MarBacfi; first, video detail MidieCanyelo, 1532-3, 5(gsurrection dratviny, (Bntisfi. Museum Mfiens, c. 600 (B.C.,, (Kpuros, Metropolitan Museum, Mdf.C '79) ^tBena Qyantomadiia, c. 525 (B.C., SlcropoCis Museum, SLtfiens (CQ^ '77) SipolCo tempCe of Corintli, 6tfi unt, (B.C. (CQ‘B '77) Landscape, nortB of Logo di Qarda (CQ^ '59) Landscape, norpBem (Bavaria (CQ(B '59) Music: June 1996 Beethoven, 1804, Third Symphony, 1st movement, Toscanini NOW — Omega 33 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History The third schoolmate and transformer of history was Holderlin, most enrapt elegiac poet of the West, undervalued through life and mad for almost forty years, for whom (as Nietzsche would elaborate) the expected German Coming would not be Christian, but Greek. Aftef the long night of Olympian withdrawal (for which Christ, sec­ ond Dionysus, gave ritual comforts), Holderlin foreknows the dawnecstasy and mythic-return of the keen deities of earth and sky. (The translations that follow are by C.G. Bell.) So the gods of heaven come in, with such deep trem­ bling, Down through the shadows their day-spring breaks among men. (Beethoven's Third, evincing most, how "the Zeus-eagle, from Indus and Parnassus and the votive hills of Italy," Exultant, over the Alps, wings on at last. And sees, wide spread, the many-patterned lands. To wake that Germany, Holderlin, in "Bread and Wine," his greatest poem, invokes the Hellas he would never see: a89) 689) 89) 89 a) Qreece, coast of Taros, pfwto^rapfi (Tpy 9i{oore); or Va89 (De^fii, ^^mpCe of ^oWo and Mt. Tamassus, pfioto£Taph (CQT 77) (De[p6i, Uieatre and n^empU from aSovc (C(fB 77) Qrcece, Mtica, Toy at Sounion, photograph (Tpy Moore) By. day and by night, godlike fire drives us on... Wherefore, To the Isthmus come, there, Where the open sea roars under Parnassus, and snow gleams on the rock cliffs above Delphi; There to Olympian lands and Bacchic heights of Cithaeron; Among pines and firs, over slopes mantled with grapes. June 1996 NOW — Omega 34 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History Where Thebe below and Ismenos sound in the land of Cadmus; Thence comes, ^nd points us thither, the past and coming God. Yet every invocation of that lost and expected glory: Greece, feast-hall floored with ocean, tables mountain Peaks, lifted time out, of mind for a destinate coming — a90) 690) 90) 90 a) ffriedricfi, c. 1830, ^empU erfJuno atS^grigento, (Dortmund (DeCpfii, *Temp(e>of S^oCCo mins, dar^r pfiotojjrapfi (C§(B't?) (Hitn£e, 1799, Crayon Sdf, detail, d^nsthade, dlamSur^ d^riedridi, c. 1818,> CCim6er over (Mists, dOinst^alh, diamBur^ Music: Beethoven, Third Symphony, 2nd movement, Toscanini recalls the desolation: Where are the groves and temples? Delphi slumbers, and where now does the great fate sound? No more in Greece; nor yet in Germany. "We come too late" — or too soon. So the will to anticipate that Coming: -r- Look, we are it, ourselves, we, fruit of Hesperia — darkens the lonely task of unshared prophecy: "And wherefore poets in a time of dearth? — "und wozu Dichter in durftiger Zeit?" Until, in "The Blind Singer," stretched to madness, he prays release: Take from my heart, that I may bear it. Life, the gOd-like, take from me. a91) d7B91 91) 91a) 9lB) June d^riedrUfh 180^-10, (Mon^By the Sea, ChaHottenBurg, (BerCin Same, 1817, (MemoriaC Landscape, CharCottenBurg, (BerCin Cams, c, 1823, Wanderer jat the City Qate, detail (rf9lB, BeCozv Boideo tahgs a detadfrom this, and a under detailfrom die zvhoCe) (K^Ci^ of Susette Qotitard, (HuCderCin's (Diotima Cams, c. 1823, zvhoCe f91 ((Kunst, 1932); first, video detail of the shy 1996 NOW — Omega 35 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History Yet in what dusk-love paean he hymns that Night itself, of which he wouW "foresee the dawn. The opening of "Bread and Wine" brims the -conscious space of the distych with the soul-inebriated gloaming of that solitude — a mood-suffusion not even Beethoven's Funeral March approximates (fade Beethoven); only Schubert's graveward yearning in The Winter-Journey, with the soul-search of Friedrich and Carus. Music: Schubert, 1827, Die Winterreise: Der Wegweiser, Angei S3640B Ringsum ruhet die Stadt; still wird die erleuchtete Gasse, Und, mit Fakeln geschmiikt, rauschen die Wagen hinweg. Quiet spreads over the town, hushed now are the glimmering byways. And, with torches agleam, rustling the wagons depart... Ah, but the sweep of strings sounds far from gardens... fountains Ever-bubbling and fresh whisper on vaporous beds. Still in dusk-laden aij, roll the echoing bells of evening... (fade Der Wegweiser) — Fruitless, to transcribe mere objects, which that German floats in a liquid of mood-sounds: "Still in dammriger Luft ertonen gelautete Glocken"; only music pours back those volatile pools, or art, in its Way: Cams' Wanderer at the City Gate, with the love-death pil­ grim of Schubert's Winterreise: a92) 92) ‘l^92a 926) 9^riedrkh, 182S, ‘Evening, tHbuse By a Qrove, 9^Cn y^rieHricfi, 1830-35, Easter: to tBe Cemetery; ErWate, London fLriedricB, 1824, ‘Widows and ‘Moon, ‘Wadraf-Eichartz, 9(pCn Sitfiens, Eartfienon from EftUopappou 9{id, yUotograyfi (Hipy Moore) Music: June 1996 Again Schubert's Wegweiser, final repeat of last stanza NOW — Omega 36 �Symbolic C.G. Bell History Momently wakens a wind and stirs in the peaks of the forest; See, and the shadow-image of earth, the moon, se­ cretly Comes- also, and Night, swirled in stars, and little con­ cerned With us, spectrally hovering there, a stranger to what is mortal. Far over rock-heights hung, glances, supernal and sad. Glanzt die Erstaunende dort, die Fremdlingin unter den Menschen,. liber Gebirgeshohn traurig und prachtig herauf. (end Wegwelser) In that prophetic Night, in the death-joy of the god’s betrayal, today's tragic earth-triumph finds its utterance. a93) 0ou6Ce: [SijTompeii, Cst cent. (Portrait of a gift, (h(ptionaC(J^useum, (HflpCes) ancC [*B] Munch, 189S, Self(Portrait, (S^tionaC gallery, Oslo; + VsinyCe of(B 93) 0ouSCe: [A] Christian, c. 300, Orant, CatacomB of S. CaCCisto; and [(B] (Henry LamB, 1914, Lytton Stracfey, detail, Southampton gallery; + V detail cfB Music; Dvorak, 1893, New World Symphony, from 2nd Movement, AngOl $35615 Whereas any Vico-to-Toynbee Cycle would have led the ripe nostalgias of Rome or the West (Arnold's "strange disease of modern life" and j"take me, cowled forms") as Eliot would lead his Lost Generations of“ Prufrock, Gerontion, Hollow Men, "beyond the orbit of the shuddering Beaf — (tade Dvorak) Music; Gregoridn Mass for the Dead, introit. Requiem, MHS 915 and with the luck of the poor in spirit — through alienation and scep­ tic denial, to await in. the desert the Plainsong descent of an "Ash Wednesday" priest (surely hot Christ); while Eliot's "(Bless me father) though I do not wish to wish these things," would lure his convert June 1996 NOW — Omega 37 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History Quartets, into a rose-garden moment of late-cycle nostalgia; "human kind/ Cannot bear very much reality." (fade Gregorian) 94) triple: "Epstein, [^] 1921, Senegdese H^oman, Bronze; [(B] 1919, (Day, stone; and [C] 1939, SliBm, cdoBaster, from riyfit When I began this study during the Nazi overthrow of Eliot's Between Wars, it seemed the sculptor Epstein, from the romantic realism of his portraits, through the hardening abstraction of Cubism, to the world plight of his 1939, Adam, had pursued some such cycli­ cal course as Eliot's, though with more fierceness and humanity. Nor could I avoid comparison with Stravinsky's 1930 Symphony of Psalms. 95-99) Epstein: 1919, (Day; 1929, (f^Bt; 1931, (PrimevaC Qod; 1939, Sidam, from front-C^t; and same, profUe detail aBove Music: Stravinsky, 1930, Symphony of Psalms, I, opening and close. Philips A01193L, with the five slides (holding 99 over) Yet as I review the sequence now, fifty years afterwards, Epstein's Adam puts the Aquarian question: was this the stylized objectificatidn of man's post-romantic agony, or did it purpose, as Symbolic History must, to rear a tragic containment for the crisis of earth itself? alOO) BlOO) 100) VlOOa) 100B) PLuyustus JoBn, 1907, W.(B. yeats, Eate Qadery, London 1918, ErencB warfare in the 9deMse-5byonne 5dosaic of Chrysostom, lOth unt., St. Sophia/ Constantinople Stme, 12th cent., St. John, detailfrom the (Deesis (Band Mso St. Sophia, (Mosaic, 12th cent(F), Christ, S. Qcdery Music: From "Bhroque Harp,"' (Elena Polenska). 2nd Irish Air; TV4069 Meanwhile, our greatest poet, Yeats, in his early dreams of an Irish "Golden Dawn," had hailed Joachim's "Holy Spirit" as a "multi­ tudinous influx," to bring back Celtic myth and the gods of Eri. (fade Irish Air) That wind of change was tied (as Nietzsche's had been) to the spiritual winnowing of "an impending European war". But after June 1996 NOW — Omega 38 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History twenty years and the actuality of World War I ("We... are but weasels fighting in a hole”), even Yeats toyed with the cycle of Christ's return, as Eliot was doing. Thus the imagined Sailing from sensuous Ireland, "To the holy city of Byzantium": "Consume my heart away; sick with desire/ And... gather me/ Into the artifice of eternity." So in "Demon and Beast," we hear: "0 what a sweetness strayed/ Through barren Thebaid," when Saint Anthony and his monks "Starved upon the shore/ And withered to a bag of bones". 101) Constance Qore-^Bootfi, pHotograpd, c. 1885(?), SCigo (CQ^ '80); first, video detaUs 101a) ^R^m8randt, 1631, TfuCosopfier under a tvinding stair, Louvre; + *1^ detail Music: 2nd Irish Air (as above): pick up 2nd phrase But Yeats perceived that the Christ program would take him through Plato and Pfotinus to the deserts of theology; while in fact he was an Irish poet, and "what theme had Homer but original sin?" (fade Irish Air) (Here, from their County Sligo youth, Constance GoreBooth, "The beauty of her country-side" — later, "A Political Prisoner.") So between Yeats' own search and his wife's spiritual dictations (he brooding, like Rembrandt's "Philosopher under a Spiral Stair"), they hit on a two-lobed cycle of intersecting cones, alternating in time, somehow combining Vico vdth Holderlin (whom Yeats could hardly have read, though he had browsed upon Nietzsche). alOZ) BlOZ) VclOZ) lOZ) lOZe) June feats' QHoof (BadyCee, Qort, County Qtdway (C^, '80) Upper fe/t settion cflOZ: Mttic ^Kpater, Beside cone-spirals detail Oletail cf BlOZ, Attic l^aur (CgO '77) Superimposed'cone-spirols)^ Lunar andSoCar; at tfie comers: A) Attic, 8tfi unt., ffunerary Kjater; ^)!Herculaneum, 1st cent. A.L>., (Dmn^^lercuCes, blouse of tfie Sta^s; C) 9tfi cent, Qerolxeuz, (Dorn, fKpCn; D) TeneCope Jenc^, 1980, 'l^alerie (tvith video^^spiraC,and picture detaiCs, as ^lOZfB-C, douBCe of*B & C — (dosin£ on VlOZD': Valerie) DouBCe: Tros fKg.Cos, c. 300 D.C., [A] Louvre vase, Satyr-nympB dance; and [CB] Derdn, CoupUng Satyrs and fSf^pBs 1996 NOW — Omega 39 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History The stair was in his restored Medieval tower near Gort. The tower — most relevant to the early violent phase of Western culture, or to the renewed violence of that time of civil war — could also con­ tain the great gyres of history. Briefly, from a vertex above (that Zeus-kindling of Homeric Greece, here sampled in a funerary urn — Yeats: "I imagined the an­ nunciation that founded Greece as made to Leda... and that from one of her eggs came Love and from the other War"), a twelve-phased lunar gyre of myth and sensuous gods descends, widening toward its late-classical variety, instanced by a drunk Hercules. Yeats: "In pity for man's darkening thought/ He walked that room )and issued thence/ In Galilean turbulence..." Here the absolute incursion of Christ born and crucified sum­ mons (below) to the vertex of a solar cone, a culture of ope God, the­ ology, rational science. So that spiral mounts to our age of "Turning and turning in the widening gyre," where (to a Penelope Jenks' terra­ cotta called Valerie) the "beast... to be born" should recur in Dionysiac rape. Thus in Yeats' "News for the Delphic Oracle": "Nymphs and satyrs/ Copulate in the foam" — a "changing of the tinctures" for which the poet, at 68, would undergo Steinach rejuvenation, to be­ come the incarnate voice of that passion. As an intimate has told of his last euphoria: "He spoke of nothing but sex, mysticism, and his­ tory — all one in his mind." 103) SdttmeC iPaCmer, 1879, H^fie LoneCy *Tower, etcMng, Victoria ancC ^6ert Museum, London 103a) fRgmJ^randt, 1647,9^fit iRsst on die J^Ggfit, (DuBGn QaCCery The central room of the tower was Yeats' , place of night study — as he enacted "II Penseroso's Platonist" (with Palmer's engraving): Or let my lamp at midnight hour. Be seen in som high lonely Towr... June 1996 NOW — Omega 40 �C.ij. Bell Symbolic History So Milton; and Yeats — with Rembrandt’s Rest on the Flight, in the Dublin National Gallery: Benighted travellers From markets and from fairs Have seen his midnight candle glimmering. 104) fDouBCe: [Jl] (Print of a Samurai, and [*B] from friedricA: a netv moon; + video details, first of % tfieh ofSI On the study table lay Sato's sword, curved and stainless as a new moon, gift of a Japanese admirer, sign of the rending and creat­ ing absolute at the vertex of every historical cone — that past and coming violence Yeats had to fear and affirm: AH changed, changed utterly; A terrible beauty is born. 105) CooCe (Parli garden, Qort, (Bust of (hdaecenas (Cg(B 1980) ^lOSa (Picasso, 1901, S^sintfie (DrinAgr, QersAzvin Codection, (SC>% 10SB) CooCe (ParSu stone BencA under ancient yew (Cg*B '80) Music: 2nd Irish Air (as above): pick up 3rd phrase A few miles west. Lady Gregory's house, and especially her garden with its bust of Virgil's patron Maecenas, upheld the Western plateau of aristocratic life and art. So in Yeats' "A Prayer for my Daughter," he, hierOphant of "The Second Coming": "The ceremony of innocence Is drowned" — soon to turn his pen to Crazy Jane — prays that his d^ghter may come into a house of custom and ceremony, innocence and beauty; (end Irish Air for harp) 106) *BattCements ofCfea^' *Xbwer (CgOB '80) 106a) (Ry-in near feats' tower (Cg(B,'80) Music: Bartok, 1928, Fourth Quartet, Last Movement, (Fine Arts), CS501 though lifi. has been on the wind^lashed battlements of the tower: "Imagining in excited reverie/ That the future years had come,/ Dancing to a frenzied drum,/ Out of the murderous innocence of the June 1996 NOW — Omega 41 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History sea." (For Lady Gregory's innocence of custom, this Gita iilnocence of Sato's sword.) (fade Bartok) 10.7) (Bfwto£rapfi ofO^eats, 1937-38, 6ro(uCcasiin£ in a (BiBC stucCio 107a) TfiotograpH (fuCC-face) of Maud gonne, 1897 No doubt, when Vico's millwheel of return, Joachim's fire-arrow and assault of spirit, had become for Yeats a paradox road of poetry — to affirm both — that oscillating whorl between "dire antinomies" required some resolving timeless embrace. In Yeats' early worship of Maud Gonne, such need had found a Platonic voice: "Lives on this lonely face," and "Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?" al08) Anotfier p/iotqgrapfi (profile) of Maud Qonne in fier youtft 108) ‘DonateCCo, c. 1453, Mary Magdalen, profile of face (first, video adds V6i08, same, from tfie waist up) (Duomo Museum, J-lorence In the 1928 volume named The Tower, beside poems of polar­ ity, gyres and cycles, one of the greatest, "Among Schoolchildren," sets a memory of Maud's youth against her present state. (Surely the reference is to Donatello's penitent old Magdalen of the 1400s, then in the Florentine Baptistery): Did Quattrocento fingers fashion it Hollow of cheek as if it drank the wind And took a mess of shadows for its meat? al09) (DouBle ejqposure: Jo.and Jofin Malins over MeligenBlutfi, xuitfi giovanni CBellini, Madonna and sleeping cfiild (Cg%'59); + 9/ detail 109) Morse chestnut, photograph (CgiB); video uses ^109 109 a) (DouBle: photographs (Cg(B) [J4.J Leaf-Bloom of horse chestnut, and pB] its Bole 109B) Martha graham, c. 1938, 'Marlequinade' (Barbara Morgan) How startlingly the heart-break of our condition, stretched between flesh and eternal Presences (those "self-born mockers of man's en­ terprise"), is consumed in a vitally altered Platonism, where the im­ aged wholeness of a chestnut tree fuses into love, music, and dance, the old antinomies of beauty and wisdom, body and soul: June 1996 NOW — Omega 42 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History 0 chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer. Are you the leaf, the blossom, or the bole? 0 body swayed to music, 0 brightening glance. How can we know the dancer from the dance? 110) Soutfi Cfiina, Sung, c. 1200, Ma ^uan, semi-routuC of infiaiuC coCor on sUIq ‘Bare ‘WiUo'WS and Mountains; O^ine J4rts, (Boston Think now, in the ad-libbed in all symbolized philosophy, — wheel, the flowing stream, and round. For which I interpolate Chambered Heart: "Pool of Tao": visuals of this homing sequence, as we must mind at once arrow and its expansion or convergence into a poetic discourse from my Five alll) (Durer, 1493-9, (Pond in the Woods, watercoCor, (British Museum V6111) (Kp Son, c. 1830(F), On the Wing, (BihC. Mgt., (Baris 111) (ppSens, c. 1630(F) (forest at ‘Evening, CoUection SLugust (S^tierhurg 111a) ‘Bid ‘WhaCen, c. 1980, (P^Cecting ‘Tam, 'WatercoCor; C.Q. & ‘D.M. ‘Bed I waited the fulness of time. As sunset deepened The wind died. In the hush the pool Was an iris of trees Fringing a sky — Motionless, until A flight of geese passed over; Then I heard the sound Of water, a stream That falls to the pool. Lingers, and falls away. When the geese were gone The sky gave over The motion received; But mine was full. Holding flight and water. The arrow aM ths. wheel. allZ) (BCahp, 1800-03, Jacob's Ladder, (British Museum, London; first, video detaiC June 1996 NOW — Omega 43 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History 112) *]/enice, 13tfi cent., iAfosaic of Creation, J^trium cfScin ^\(arco 112a) Cfiuan£ *Tsu, Japanese Screen 19tfi cent,, Cfiinese Immortals (video sfiozvs de­ tails only, aSove and BeCow, and adds a central detail cf 112) So in the final form of A Vision. Yeats conceives a 13th cycle, cone, or sphere (like Blake's convergent point of Jacob's Stair), mys­ teriously surrounding the historical pulses, altering thoir determin­ ism and bringing Will, human and divine, into the temporal and ma­ terial. (Did not Epicurus make his atoms swerve to spring the deter­ minism of Democritus, as quantum uncertainty has opened up our physics?). Yeats: The Thirteenth Cycle... or the twelve cycles of time less sphere... within which set free, and every Daimon Cone... may deliver us from and space... it is the phase­ live all souls that have been and Ghostly Self." (These Chinese Immortals in a Japanese screen.) intends we cannot precisely say, for there the both in us and beyond. "The particulars are the teenth... cycle, which is in every man and called freedom." What that sphere unique intervenes, work of the thir­ by every man his Conrad V. Soest, 1403-4, ll^tivity detail, ‘BadI^Hddunyen Mtar 1^6113) Vermeer, c. 1663, QirC zoitfi veil, ‘Wriyfvtsman, Balm Beach 113) iMunch, 1893, ‘Death and the 9daiden, Udunch iMuseum, Oslo; video, central detail only; see ‘1^113 alls) It is "the uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor." Crazy Janes dark Christian word: "For nothing can be sole or whole/ That has not been rent," climaxes in "The Circus Animals Desertion" (Last Epemg). Yeats knows, that when his high visions have failed: I must lie down where all the ladders start. In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart. 114) JdicheCanyeCo, 1508-12, Sistine vault. Lunettes, Ancestors of Christ, OCd Spinner, ‘Uatican 114 a) Burne-Jones, 1881-98, JLrthur in S4.vaCon, Oduseo, Bonce, Buerto BJeo June 1996 NOW — Omega 44 �C.G. Bell Symbolic History Yet the poet who accepts that resides in the Oneness of the Thirteenth Sphere — simultaneous repository of all that has been or is to be. "Cast a cold eye/ On life, on death./ Horseman, pass by!" His is the other knowledge of "The Curse of Cromwell": That the swordsmen and the ladies can still keep com­ pany ... That I am still their servant though all are under­ ground. allS) Cftinese, ^en 9{ui, 13tfi cent., I'iefi taiC, Cfiiou-ji ^empCe, ^oto 115) Same, zoUoCe; + otfier video detaiCs Music: *Taoist InwwrtaC, coCor on siC!^ de- Japanese Bamboo flute, Yamaguchi, Koku-Reibo, close, H72025 The problem goes to the very core of thought, the complemen­ tarity of knowledge. Neither mind nor soul can embrace a fabric which does not unite the trial and search of becoming with the source of all Greek wonder. Being. Here, to the Zen flute, a supreme picture by Chinese Yen Hui, late 13th century, this silk painting of a Taoist Immortal, who in his crippled beggar's body, sees himself, on a cloud-track above, taking the sky-road. 116) a)ou6Ce: ^Ks-mBrandt [Si] c. 1660(F), iPaCCas Mena, QuCBenfiian; and [(B] 1665-9, Lady witB a !PinlQ MetropoCitan, (eacB aCso appears sitwCy, Si Before tfie douBCe, (B after) Music: Purcell, .1680, Fantasy (In Nomine) for seven viols, ARC 3007 I Even in the proud embodiments of the West, all souls of depth so thread the one-and-many, weaving the actual and visionary to a robe as seamless as the polyphony of Purcell's /« Nomine for seven viols. So, from Rembrandt's last decade, we draw a complementary pair, immortal, and mortal: the triumphant Pallas Athena; the whim­ sical sad Lady with a Pink, musing on our happiness, "that passeth soone as floures faire." all?) (BotticeUi, c. 1493-7, Dante Drazuing, (ParadiseXXX June 1996 NOW — Omega 45 �C.G. Bell 6117) 117) ^117a 117B) 117c) Symbolic History T>ori, 1857-68, (Dante HXustrations: (Paradise XXXI Stars over Arizona rocfi and tree; (DuntBSed Odg-BuCa (^venna mosaic, 6tfi cent.. Stars and Cross, S. Sipodinare in CCasse Spiral ^aCa^q/ 5d0C 2997, CamBridpe AtCas of Slstronomu In Dante's Empyrean, God's Spirit first appears flowing out through time and space — as in Botticelli's drawing, a stream of sparks between flowered shores; but when the poet has dipped his eyes, those "shadowy presages" gather to the eternal round of the rose of Paradise (here by Dore). While the Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise, all end with the word stelle, stars: "E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle." — And we came thence to see again the stars. — "Puro e disposto a salire a le stelle" Pure and disposed to ascend to the stars... "L'amor che move il sole e Valtre stelle." — The love that moves the sun and other stars. Surely, it is in this cosmos that the Omega earth began, has evolved, and ultimately will end. (fade Purcell) 118) Sifrican weaver ants fioCding territories in the trees 118 a) China, !Ju{y 1989, danh^ in dien an Men Square, Beijing While Marx, despising mystics and romantics, trusted a parti­ san upheaval to institute a classless brotherhood, where, as the Joachites had phrased it, church and state would wither away. How much glory and agony these never-withering states have extracted Trom that promise. Which brings us back to where Shostakovich left us, at the end of a century of global wars and revo­ lutions. all9) Christo, 1968, 5,000 cuBic meter pachg£e, erect, CasseC 119) Same, Cranes Ciftinpi the 'pacfiigge', CasseC, West germany 119 a) May 6, 1937, ZeppeCin von (HindenBury Burning, Jersey History, seen as from the outside, is a configuration in time and space — like Christo's great sausage blown up over the park and city June 1996 NOW — Omega 46 �C.G. Bell of Cassel. Symbolic History But from within and in its own right (as we who inhabit its curvatures experience it) world history is the shape of space-time it­ self. No doubt Christo s phallus is a comic array; whereas that his­ tory (everywhere webbed with waves and fields of electromagnetic messengers, relativistically eternal; since at the speed of light time ceases, and all causalities act in mythic simultaneity) rather suggests the 1937 flame-cascade of the Zeppelin von Hindenburg — alZO) LimBours 'Brot/iers, 1413-16, m of the fR^BeCSlttseCs, ^res <RicA,s f£4 V. Music Condi, CBantidy; + V details 120) (Burning ZQizoait oiC^ zvdCs, fired By Saddam Olussein, 1991 such a chain-reactive Now as we must steel ourselves to convey, whether of achievement or catastrophe. Music: Purcell, 1680, In Nomine for seven viols, close, ARC 3007 There is no division between that Now and what has been ripening since the fall of Lucifer — this earth-harvest, of which we have to inquire: what appears on the plus side, what hopes of a liferoad? But here th^e "insfa-ucmrsU^$_claimed in A Vtj;ion tell me to break off; since that must be the closing thrust of tfie t^uneJ^QW Symbolic—History’s last and fortieth show — entitled "T^he Rooted • June 1996 (end of Purcell, In Nomine) NOW — Omega 47 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Charles G. Bell's Symbolic History: Through Sight and Sound Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Meem Library Description An account of the resource Scripts of Mr. Charles G. 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Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Santa Fe, NM Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1964 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Meem Library has been given permission to add this item to its collections. Type The nature or genre of the resource text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Subject The topic of the resource Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. 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Type The nature or genre of the resource text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Subject The topic of the resource Mathematics Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 24000022 Friday night lecture https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/c1dd9dc27d89edcf00bb910706d2e8f8.mp4 592d22a220fc730420865d2d95e68dc3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource Items in this collection are part of a series of lectures given every year at St. John's College. During the Fall and Spring semesters, lectures are given on Friday nights. 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Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data mov Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 00:52:53 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Madness/Enchantment: Don Quixote and the Contest of the Real Description An account of the resource Video recording of a lecture delivered on August 30, 2024, by Annapolis tutor Nicholas Bellinson as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Bellinson, Nicholas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2024-08-30 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In copyright. <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource moving image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource mp4 Subject The topic of the resource Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. 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Visit <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/st-johns-college-annapolis-lectures/id1695157772">Apple Podcasts</a> or <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6GDsIRqC8SWZ28AY72BsYM?si=f2ecfa9e247a456f" title="Spotify">Spotify</a> to listen and subscribe. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library Title A name given to the resource St. John's College Formal Lecture Series—Annapolis Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context formallectureseriesannapolis Hyperlink A link, or reference, to another resource on the Internet. URL <a href="https://youtu.be/dcxOD61TXK8?si=JcqrX2VOcjlB9BqQ">https://youtu.be/dcxOD61TXK8?si=JcqrX2VOcjlB9BqQ</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <a href="https://youtu.be/dcxOD61TXK8?si=JcqrX2VOcjlB9BqQ" target="_blank" title="The Womb of Time: Drama as Pregnancy in Shakespeare and Elsewhere" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Womb of Time: Drama as Pregnancy in Shakespeare and Elsewhere</a> Description An account of the resource Video recording of a lecture delivered on September 12, 2025, by Annapolis tutor Nicholas Bellinson as part of the Formal Lecture Series. <br /><br />Mr. Bellinson offers the following description of his lecture: "What kind of relationship to time underlies the urge to attend the theater? Shakespeare points to this question in various plays through the metaphor of time's pregnancy. Over and over, his characters stage this very relationship to time, as we will see in four plays: <em>Othello</em>, <em>Hamlet</em>, <em>As You Like It</em>, and <em>Love's Labour's Lost</em>. We will then ask what philosophical attitudes arise when we consider time to have or not to have the metaphorical capacity for pregnancy." Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Bellinson, Nicholas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2025-09-12 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource moving image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource YouTube video Subject The topic of the resource Pregnancy in literature Time in literature Time--Philosophy Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Othello Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. As you like it Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Love's labour's lost Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LEC_Bellinson_Nicholas_2025-09-12 Friday night lecture Tutors https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/2845f459c4c94e73305ac72d79c5596b.pdf 80cf72c0c2d56af7d6fe29900a0ee277 PDF Text Text �~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ ~ ~ The Young Men's Store ~ ~ ~ I Clothing, Tailoring, Furnishings, Hats ~ ~ ~ ~ EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTERS OF ~ {lo.~ "College Brand'' Clothing ~ ~ ~ or~ ~ {lo.~ ~ Desig ned expressly fo r dressy young men whose ideas of personal appearance are bein g wisely cu ltivated. They combin e a lot of distincti ve style with superlative quality of Material and Tailoring, and are the top notch of swagger effect in myriad. (_jJ Important details w hich lend perfection of fit and general attractiveness. (_jJ ~ "The Collegian" Hat ~ ~ ~ fJ ~ ~ ~ fJ ~ fJ ~ ~ ~ {/i~ (jJ An ideal knockabou t shape that conforms with every requiremen t of th e nobby dresser. A varie ty of popular shades. ~ STRAUS BROTHERS ~ ~ 20 WEST BALTIMORE STREET ~ ~ A DJ OI NING NEW B & 0 . BUILDING. ~ rJ/1 ~ ~ or~ ~ Between Charles and Hano ver Sts . BALTIMORE MD. ~ {lo.~ ~ ~ fJ ' ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ �Published Annually by the 'Junior <!ria~~ of ~t.Jfoun' s ~ollcgc £lnnapolis, .1)fll:J. VOLUME IX . E . ELMER BENNETT , E dito r• in · Chief. EDGAR H. McBRIDE , Assistant Edito r. �J. Chas. Linthicum, Senator from the third district of Balt imore City, was born at Linthicum, Anne Arundel County, November 26, 1867, of English descent and of a family that t races its history back to the co lonial days. Mr. Linthicum received his early education in the public schoo ls of his native county, and of Baltimore City, later he entered the Normal School from which he graduated in 1886, after which he became principal of Braddock School, Frederick County, which position he so capably filled. Returning to Baltimore he took a special course in the Historical and Political Departments of Johns Hopkins University, from there he entered the Maryland University School of Law where he grad uated in 1890 with the degree LL.B. He has since been engaged in the practice of law in Baltimore City, under the firm name of J. Charles Linthicum & Bro. He also fills the chair of Medical Jurisprudence in the Maryland Medical College, which has conferred upon him the honorary degree of M.D. Mr. Linthicum has always taken great interest in the political affairs of both state and city, in the we!fare of which he is deeply interested. In 1903 he was elected to the House of Delegates from Baltimore City. During the session of the Legislature, Mr. Linthicum served on many important committees, also as chairman of the City Delegation, and performed valuable services for the interest of the State. In 1905 he was elected to the State Senate from the third district of Baltimore City, and in this capacity served in many important positions, at all times proving himself worthy of the confidence and trust the people of Baltimore City have reposed in him. Although Mr. Linthicum is not an alumnus of this institution, his interests have always been very closely affiliated with St. John's, having had two brothers who graduated here. In 1904 Mr. Linthicum served as chairman of the committee appointed by the Legislature to inspect St. John's College; it was largely owing to their favorable report and his earnest support that our appropriation was increased. Probably no one has done more in a quiet and unassuming way for this venerable institution than Mr. Linthicum, and it is to show our respect and appreciation that we respectfully dedicate this issue of our annual to him. J. CHAS. LINTHICUM. 3 �Introduction. m:>et:Jication . TO THE HoN. J. CHAS . LINTHICUM, OuR FRIEND AND BENEFACTOR, THIS V o LUME IS RE SPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY THE CLASS OF In plac in g before the public this volume, t he first fruits of our liter ary labors we are too conscious of our m any shortcom ings to hope that the work will n ot be subj ected to the consuming fire of publi c criti c: isrn,- not of the mild and harmless nature, bu t t he kind that destroys all at one fell swoo p , leaving its charred remains as a monument to its m emory. We hope nevert heless that the consideration that t his is our maiden effort, may temper this crit icism to something like the friend ly warmth of sympathy from those for whose eye t he book is primarily intended. Ever since t he Class of '97 became so wise that they determined to give definite shape to t heir budding genius in t he form of a book, it h as fallen to t he lot of each su cceeding Junior Class to maintain th e law of precedent. H ence it is, that we set ourselves, unskilled as we are, to the task of editing this book, which we hope whether it stands the t est of higher critic ism or not, may stand the t est of time, may ser ve its purpose well , and m ay rem ain a m on umen t to our Co llege and to the Class of 1907 . R emembering t he old adage , "He t hat excuses himself , accuses himself ," we deem it proper to say the least possible, relative to the shortco mings of our publication. We trust however t hat t he reader in making up his judgment of t he effort, will be ever mindful of the" midnight oil " expended upon it, the long and tedious hours spent over its m anuscripts, t he recitations that have been "skipped" for its sake, and of the m any other agencies that have favored and hindered the bringing forth of the 1906 RAT-TAT, out of t he vast realm of nothingness, and have at last caused it to take on the likeness of a book. As you peruse the pages of t his volume you will remember t hat its business is to please rather than to enligh ten. In our jocul ar mood s, we have made no serious attempt to stick close to the t rut h , to portray our college affairs as th ey actually exist but rather in many instances have represented them directly opposite to what they are. 5 �The roasts and grinds are given m a spirit of fun, and are not intended to represent the true character of the individuals to whom we pay our respects in this manner. Our object has been to produce a book, which hereafter will awaken in the hearts of those who have left behind them four long but happy years of college associations to enter upon the broad arena of life, some fond memories of old St. .John's. THE EDITORIAL BOARD. To the Reader . Gentle reader, we with pleas ure Give to you our stock and store Give these winsome, winning page~, Strewn with wit and fun galore, Gritty grinds that none but sarres Learned in the Iaugher 's lor:. ' Could dispense in mirthful measure. Listen, please , to the relation Of the Board unto the bored Ere upon our puns you ponder ' And your wrath on us is poured, Ere about our work you wonder And the jolly jokes restored; Ere you ask for explanation; Listen to our situation 'Twas a tough one yo'u '11 admit, One that tries a class' spirit Proves a good one's nerve and grit, Makes us grimly grin and bear it. But. this is the latest hit The nineteen-seven publication. So as you review these riches And bright gems of though~ explore, Treasure after treasure finding That you've never seen before Little "roasts" in nowise minding,' With you as you o'er this pore, Are our best and choicest wishes. 6 7 �' Editorial 'Board. Editor-in-Chief, E. ELMER BEN NETT. Assistant Editor-in-C hie f. EDGAH H. M c BmDE. 111iscellaneous Editor, Business Jl![ anagers, L E E I. HECI-IT, W. B. McKINLEY HUGH A. COULBOURN. Assistant Jl![ iscellaneous Editors , WM. A. STROHM, Assistant Business J anager, ll[ \ Vwr. F. CHILDS , E. P. A. L. 0 C . C. CATT-I CAHT. BuRKE, ARNOLD, a: 0 E. Literary Editor, R . A N DE R SON, <i co vv. BENJ. HAN CE . MAcn u DEn. _J <i Alumni Editor, a: 0 A . C . THOMPSON. f-0 w Assistant Alumni Editor, E. L. BOWEN. Town and Campus Editor, Humorous Editor, R. SMI TH. JOHN T . HAHRI SON. AsHEn Assistant Town and Camptts Editm·, l\1. w. Assistant Humorous Editm·, BORDLEY. InviNG P. KANE. Athletic Editor, RonEn.T C. BRADY. Assistant A thletic Editor, A. lVIcC. STEVENS. Treasurer, F. Secretm·y, B. GWYNN. J. G . SHEAHEH . 9 �Calendar. 1906. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 1907. Board of Visitors and Governors. 20-0pening of Session and Reception of Candidates for Admission. President. (Under the Char ter E lected mmua lly) HIS Ex CELL. N CY E RmvrN vV ARFIELD The Governor of lVIaryland, Annapolis, Md ., 1904. 21-Examination for conditioned and unexamined students in Latin and Greek. TH URSDAY, SEPT. 22-Examination for conditioned and unexamined students in English His tory and Science. FRIDAY , SEPT. SATURDAY, SEPT. 23-Examination for conditioned and unexamined students in President. (PTo-tem. Mathematics . FRIDAY , DE c. S ecretaTy , G .- SSA WAY, E s Q. \ Annapolis, Md. , 189 1. L. Dons "Y l-ION". J . Wrwr R.\:\' DALL. Anna7Jolis, Md. 22-Commencement of Christmas Vacation. 1907. 8-Resumption of College Exercises. MoNDAY, FEB. 11-Second Term B egins . MoNDAY, F EB. 22-Washington's Birthday. FRIDAY, MARCH 29-Good Friday. MoNDAY, APHIL 1-Easter Monday. WEDNESDAY, J uNE 5-Entrance Examination-Latin and Greek. THURSDAY , J uNE 6-Entrance E xamination-English, History and Science. FRIDAY, JuNE 7-Entrance Examination-Mathematics. THURSDAY , J uNE 13-Junior Class Oratorica l Contest. FRIDAY, JuNE 14-Preparatory School Commencement. FRIDAY, JuNE 14-Farewell Ball to Graduating Class. SuNDAY, J UNE 16 (morning) - Baccalaureate Sermon. SuNDAY, J uNE 16 (evening)-Address befor e Y. M. C. A. MoNDAY, J uNE 17-Anniversary of the Philokalian Society. TuESDAY, J uNE 18-Anniversary of the Philomathean Society. WEDNESDAY , J uNE 19-Commencem ent Day. WEDNESDAY , JuNE 19-Address B efor e the Alumni. (Ex Officio.) TuESDAY, J AN. 10 l-IoN . J osEPH B. SJ~'l'H, Pr-esident of the S enate, Rockville, Ho='l . R oN. J oHN P. Il ld . CARVILLE D. BENS0:\1", l-IoN . HENRY PA GE, Speaker of the House of Delegates , Dickeyvill e, i\Id. RoN. JAi\m s M c SmmnY, .J·udge Comt of Appeals, Princess Anne, lVId. H oN. Chief J udge Court of Appeals , Frederick lVId . l-IoN . s .-\M UEL D. S c HMU CKER, I. TH O M~'<S .JoNJ;;s, J udge Comt of Jlppeols E lk Ridge, Md. H oN . A. HuN"rEn Boyo J udge Court of Appeals, Baltimore , Md. l-IoN. DA vm FowLER, B1n scoE, lttdge CouTt of Appeals, Prin ce Frederi ck , Md Judge Court of A7Jpeols Cumberland , Md. HoN . J AMES A. P EARCE, Judge Court of Appeals, T owson , Md. J udge Cow·t of Appeals, Chestertown, lVId. 11 �DANIEL JVI. THOMA S, Baltimore, Mel., 1859. JAMES M MuNROE, Annapolis, Mel. 1896. RoN . J. WIRT RANDALL, Annapolis, Mel. , 1882. RoN . R o BERT Moss, Ann apolis , Mel ., 1897. vVrLLIAM G. RIDOUT, M.D . Annapolis , Mel ., 1882. L. ALLISON vVrLMER, GE ORGE \VELLS, M.D . Annapolis, Mel. , 1882. PHILEMON H. T ucK, Baltimore, Mel. , 1885. L. DoRsJ<JY GA SSAWAY, Annapolis, Mel. , 1891. RoN. DA NIEL R. MAGRUDER , Annapoli s, Mel. , 1891. L a Plata, lVId ., 1897. FHA NK H . STOCKETT , Anna polis, Mel , 1897. JAMES A. FECHTIG B altimore , Mel. , 1899 . CHARLES G. F ELDMEYER Annapolis, 1\'Id . NICHOLAS H RoN. SPENCER C. JoNES. Rockville, Mel., 1892. BLANCHARD RANDALL, Baltimore, Mel. , 1892 . RoN. JAMES REVELL, Annapolis , Mel. , 1893. RoN. JoHN G. RoGERS, E llicott City, Mel. , 1894. RoN. H . W. TALBOTT, Ro ckville, Mel ., 1894. 1899 . GREEN, Ann apolis , Mel ., 1901. JAMES T vVooDWARD , New York, N. Y ., 1901 HARRY J. HoPKINS Annapolis, Mel . 1902. STEVl<JNSON A. vVrLLIAMS, Bel Air, Mel., 1904. Lours T. CLARKE, Ellicott City, Mel. , 1905 12 FA CULT Y �The Faculty. THOMAS F ELL, A.M., Ph.D . LL.D. (President). Professor of Moral Scien ce. B . VERNON CISSEL, M. A. (Vice-President) Graduate of St. J ohn 's College, and Professor of Chemistry and Ph ysics. JoHN B. WHITE, B.A. , M.A. (Graduate of Geneva College) . Professor of Greek and Latin. B . H. W ADDELL, M.A. (Graduate of W ashin gton and Lee University). Professor of Mathem atics. J oHN CLARKE J oHNSON, B. A. (Graduate of University of Mississippi). Professor of E nglish Language, Literature, Logic and Oratory. W ILLIAM A. TH OMPSON, U . S. A. (Ma jor of the United States Arm y). Professor of Military Scien ce and T actics and Lecturer on Internation al and Constit ut ion al Law. F nANCIS E. DANIELS, A.M. (Graduat e of St . J ohn 's Co ll ege). Professor of ·Mech ani cal E ngin eerin g, Botany and Biology. F. J . voN ScHwJ ;;RDTNEn (Graduate of Royal Academy of W ar, Berlin) . P rofessor of French and German . C. W . STRYKER, B.A. (Gradu ate of Un ion College, New York). ProfessoT of History and P oli t ical Economy. JoHN Bn.ocKWAY RIPPERE, B.A. (Gradu ate of ·w esleyan University). Assistant P rofessor of Latin. A. vV. vVooDCOCK, Jr. , B.A. (G raduate of St. J ohn 's Co llege). I nst ru ctor in Latin and Mathematics. S. RoLAND H oPKINS (G raduate St. J ohn 's Co llege). Instru ct or in E nglish and Scien ce. 15 FA C UL T V ( cont i nu ed ) �History of St. John? s College. It would be b ard to imagine a more nearly ideal spot for an institut ion of learnin g, th an th at occupied by St. J ohn 's College, sit uated in the ancient and historical city of Annapo lis, on an emin en ce commanding a view of t he beautifu l Severn River , and t he Chesapeake Bay. On t he side opposite the city, the campus is bounded by a beautiful body of water !m own as Co llege Creek. Th ese and m any other natural ad vantages make this spot seem especially designed by nature fo r such a venerab le institution . Th o campus itself is beautifu ll y sit uated on t he nort hwestern sid e of Anna po lis. The buildin gs are ranged a long the ridge of a slight em inen ce, facing Maryland Aven ue. As one enters the ven erab le ·McDowell Hall , built in J7L whi ch has !4, harbored so many of Mary land's most noted sons, and whi ch has L>ecn the sce ne of so mu ch gayety and splendor durin g the good old Colonial times, one cann ot a void a touch of the feeling that inspired t ho French so ldiers as t hey stood before the pyramids and heard the words of Napo leon : " Soldiers from these heights forty ce nturies loo k down upon yo u. " Wi th t his brief view of the campus, and the natural en vironm ents of the Co llege let us t urn back to its earliest beg innin g and t race its progress to t he enviab le position whi ch it now occupies, as an institution of learning , to uching on ly those par ts which a ppeal most strongly to us and which may be of the greatest interest to t he reader. St. John's College, formerly known as King ·w illiams Schoo l, the first pul> li e free schoo l on the con t inent , and t he fourth existin g collegiate in stitu tion in tl~e land in [)O int of a o ' now claimino· over two ~centuries of cont inuous life and cducao·e 0 t ion a! work , was found ed at St. Mary 's in 1696. The purpose of t he school was dec lared to be th e propaga tion of the Gospe l, and the edu cation of t he youth s of the land in good mann ers and letters. It 'vas maintained at first , large ly by donation s from t he wealt hy plan te rs, wit h small appropriation s from t he General Assembly. The schoo l fl ourished afte r a manner , for a number of years, t hough it could bo ast but one building, wll ich contained quarters for t he master and his students. In 1732, proposals for fo un ding a college at Annapolis were read in the Uppe r House and recommend ed fo r t he consideration of t he popular branch of t he Assem bly. The action of the House of Burgesses was necessarily of a petitionary nature. Delays attendin g the grantin g of appropriations were n umerous, and t he necessity fo r the royal approval of all its pro ceedings, m ade the progress of the first public school in Am erica extremely tedious . No legislative action, however , resul ted then from these proposals. In 1763 the proj ect was rev ived , and it was proposed t hat the College should be provided with seven masters, and five ser vants, to be su pported out of the public fund s, and again the measure failed to pass the Upper House. Ten years later t his project was again revived. The Governor's m ansion , a melan choly and mou ldering old monument, then st yled "Bladen's Palace ," or "Bladon 's Folly," was suggested for the use of the in stitution. This old building, with a few ch anges in its interior is now McDowell Hall of St. J ohn's. Th e measure con templated by t ho Acts of the Assembly were complet ed by t he Act of 1785 , whi ch con veyed the proper ty, fund s, masters an d students, of IGng William 's school to St. John 's sc hool. Th e school was formall y open ed wit h great so lemnity on November 11 , 1789. A pro cession compri sin g the members of the General Assem bly, Judges and city orfi cials, preceded by students and members of the facul ty, formed at the State House and proceeded to College H all where appropr iate exer cises were conducted . Among the early students of St. J ohn' s were men wh oso n ames have sin ce become famous, and who rendered excellent service to t heir state and country; such as George P a rks Custis step-son of our fi rst pres ident, F airfax and Lauren ce W ashington , his nephews, F rancis Scott K ey, Wi lli am Pinkney, Roger Broo ke T aney , Revordy John son, and m an y others. In J anuary, 1806, the Legislature by a m ajority of six voted to withdraw the annuity which h ad been pledged to t he Co llege at t he outset wit h the view of establishing a perman ent fund. Jn an evil hour the College had in curred the dis pleasure of the party t hen dom inant in the State. Th ey smote it with a relentless h and, and it fell. Peace to t heir ashes, t hey knew not wh at t hey did! and th ey knew not , that it should ri se again! A few years later , in an appea l to th e Legi slature to re-establish t he fund, Francis Scott K ey said : " Th irty years ago r stood within t hat H all and bade farewell to t he compani ons and guid es of my you th , to our revered instructor , and received t he parting bened ictions of that beloved and venerated man, who ruled n ot so much by fo rce of auth ori ty as by affection. "In a few short vears I returned; the compan ions and guid es of my youth were gone. Th e glory of "the Temple of Science, whi ch t he wisdom and piety of our forefathers had founded, was depa rted . I beheld in its place a dreary ruin . I wandered over t he beautiful and silent green , no longer sac red to t he n1editat ions of the enraptured yo ut h. I sat down on t hose mould crin g steps and beneath the shadow of that aged t ree, that like me seemed to lament its lost co mpanions, and I mourned over t he m adness that had wrought th is deso lation. " At length in 1866, when the case was about to be taken to t he Supreme Court , t he Legislature voted to restore the arrears and gran ted an annui ty of $12,000 per annum fo r fi ve years. The life of t he College imm ed iate ly received a new impetus, the Co llege buildings were renovated and put in thorough repair. But after the year 1872 , the great uncertainty of t he appropriation from the Legislature could not fai l to prod uce ill effects, and caused t he Co llege to lapse into its former state and it seemed hovering between life and death. 16 17 �Th e cond it ion of affairs gradu ally became worse. The number of students dwindled. The bui ldin gs deteriorated , and therewas no appreciable progresstoward t he realization of past hopes, and t he fulfillm ent of earl y promises, until the appoin t m ent of Dr. Thom as Fell , as President, at the opening of t he session of 1886. At th at time but six ty students were in attendance, but with the incoming of a new and accomplished Presid ent , new life was at on ce manifest , t he h alls were ren ovated and equipped with modern convenien ces, an d with m any aid s and a ppliances for instruction . The College dom ain is situated on th e Severn River , a few m iles from t he Chesapeake Bay. Its ancient halls, covered wit h ivy, itsvenerabletrees-maples, lindens, poplars-shading t he broad acres of the campus; the histori c "Bladen's Folly," now McDowell H a ll , with its curious old belfry and traces of its old glory when Annapolis wit h its royal charter and governor was a mimi c court of St. James; all com bined , tend to make up a scene of picturesque beauty , not soon to be forgotten by one who has on ce been brought into close contact ·with it and has felt its endearing and ennobling influence. Th e number of students for the present session is about 210, and in all t he military and literary departments of the College, able and progressive work is being accomplished. A more progressive era appears therefore to have dawned upon this, t he fourt h oldest college of the United States, and , in spite of t he numberless vicissitudes which have marked its career, it h as just claims to be ran ked among the leading educational inst it utions of the land. v <0 CXl z (/) z I 0 -, f- (/) 18 �\' \\ ,., ·. \ \, . ) McDowell Hall. ....J ....J <{ I ....J ....J LiJ $: 0 0 0 ~ 'When we imprint our first step on the spacious campus of old St. John's, our eyes are lifted to the lofty dome of .McDowell Hall , the oldest building of St. John 's College. This building, overlooking the Severn River, was erected to be t he Governor's Mansion , but by the Revolution and the frequent disputes between Gov . Bladen an d the Legislature , it was for many years left in an unfinished cond ition and hen ce came to be known as "Bladen' s Folly." So it stood, as a m elancholy monument, until the charter of St. John 's College was granted in 1784. This stru cture is built of brick with a dome of curious, antique style, its peak covered with leaf gold , pierced by a flag-pole , by which the College shows its patriotism; ben eath this dome the rustic, old ch apel-bell is suspended , a nd sends forth its mellow peals every morning at 8 .50, summoning us to our daily work. At the entran ce we find a portico with ;veil worn pi ll a rs, which gives it a stat ely colonial appearance. The interior of ·M cDowell consists of class-room s, ch apel, etc_; the chapel once served as a banquet h all for Washington and Lafayette. To the left of the chapel is a reception room , wbich St. John 's lacked until a few years ago. On the left of th e building is an attractive entrance, the st eps and portico of brown granite, being removed here from the old State H ouse in 1903. The second and third floors a re com posed of class-rooms , an d rooms for the literary societies. McDowell's site is at the center of the campus facing College Avenue, with Pinkney Hall to the left , Humphrey's Hall to the right , the Senior H all and athletic field to the rear , and the beautiful campus or "The Green" to the front. So the historic building known as .McDowell H a ll h as stood since the year 1744. 21 �Pinkney Hall. ..J ..J < I >UJ z ~ z a:: To the left of McDowell Hall we observe a beautiful building adorned with various sh aped turrets and protected by many large pictures que trees, including the an cient Liberty Tree, noted for its age and historic associations; a lso an old holl y tree nex t in age to the popl ar. This building, which is so beautified by its natural setting, is called Pinkney H a ll. It wa. · erected in 1855 while Dr. Humphrey occupied t he presidential chair, and was soon after its erection used for a military hospital , like the rest of the College buildings, unt il the close of the Civi l W ar. Pinkn ey H all h as four stories; as you enter , on the first flo or you find it guarded by a Professo r, who sees that no one participates in a water-fight as th e bath-room is very convenient. Ascending to the second floor we feel a sensation of warmth creeping from the room of the 0. D. , and if by chance you drop a pin , th e hot air that bursts from that domicile of dignity would make the North Pole perspire! After escapin g this region and rising to the third floor you find a wise-look ing old watchman (Prof. D .) always on t he lookout for " the disturbance clu b" and dissipated men , such as the R everend Mr. Potts Miller. Now at last you reach t he well-known " rough-house, water-brigad e," fourth floor , where you see Sophomores ever on watch for fr esh rnen, to quench their t hirst and hunger. Th ey have the air of myst erious wild anim als- at t he present time. You will soon tire of the life of t he moonshiners in cold , un explored regions and be glad to make your descent. In Pinkney Hall every student says he passes his mo st pleasant, frolicksome days and so we fee l greatly inde bted to its found er. 23 �Senior Hall. __J __J <( I a: 0 z w (f) This building, which was built in 1903 by the aid of legislative appropriation, does not possess a name other than that we have used above, principally because it was first occupied by a Senior Class and of course this name must be given until a better one is found, which must or at least ought to be done in the near future . This hall is placed where the gymnasium used to be situated (this, being pushed farther down towards the athletic field), and is constructed of brick with arti fltic white trimmings and a handsomely carved main entrance. The wall s of the large vestibule are decorated with pictures of our athletic teams ;:in ce t he yea r 1888; also an emblem of St. John's purity in all college Eports; it is represented by a frame containing the photographs of our best known athletes. From this vestibule we enter the mess-hall ; this we prize as the most excellent ly finished room here , its wood-work being magnificent . It contains two rear entrances which communicate with the serving-room, basement, kitchen and pant ry . The vestibule above-mentioned also contains a broad antique stairway leading to 1he abode of the Seniors and Juniors. The first fio cr is adorned with dignified (?) Seniors, and if you do not want to see sufferers of that contagious head-swelling disease, you had better make your visit of short duration. At last you reach the third floor occupied by Juniors. That ::twful disease has not developed in this class yet, although Belt is in the first stages, because he is a privileged character and is allowed to salute policemen; but there are exception s to every rule. Each of these floors has a bathroom, and in general these dormitories are most convenient and comfortable. In beauty and comfort it equals, we are sure, any dormitory in a college of this size, and we must express our gratitude to the designer, J VIr. T. H. Randall , of Nevv Y crk , for the excellent judgment manifested in designing it. 25 �Woodward Hall. ...J ...J < I 0 a: < ~ 0 0 0 ~ Woodward H all , at the East ern side of t he large campus was erected in 1900. This bui lding of coloni al style received its n ame from Henry W. Woodward , the father of our great benefactor, J am es T . Woo dward . It is constructed of bri ck with m arble trimmings; t he entran ce, of handsom e marble, leads to t he college library, the biological and chemical laboratories. This building is three stories high. The basement is now used as an armory, bu t in t he near fu ture, when the proposed armory is built , t hi s apartm ent will be used for mechani cal engineering and shopwork , whi ch will greatly facilitate practi cal work in these bran ches. The first floor contains the biological laboratory wit h mi croscopes and other instrum ents necessary for scient ific resear ch; also t he library containin g about 10,000 volumes , besides every peri odi cal of value. This floor is un der the carefu l charge of Professor D aniels. Th e second floor contains chemi cal and physical laboratori es, under charge of Professor Cissel. This la boratory gives th e stud ent practice in the use of m ost chemi cals, of a great number of elect rical applian ces, and of other apparatus needed in the st ud y of Ph ysics . Many of our scien t ific students have here received such instruct ion as has enabled them to win p rizes in com petit ive examin ati ons with high-classed universities . After t he library is removed to t he new buildi ng , whi ch wi ll be soon erected by t he aid of Mr. An drew Carnegie, t he great scholast ic benefacto r, the room wi ll be used for some scient ific work and in a few years the building will contain as complete equipments as is to be foun d in an y college laboratory . 27 �Humphrey Hall. -' -' < I >- UJ a:: I a. ~ :J I The corn er stone of th is ancient edifice was laid in 1835. I t rece ived its name from Dr. Humphrey, the presiden t of the College at that tinte. For so me yea r~ t his hall was inh abi ted by t he Co ll ege stud en ts, but at the present t im e is reser ved for Preps. a lone . Th e building was renovated in 1905, the expenditure bein g over $5000, and on e can hard ly believe it to be t he same old rough-hous() dormitory , that it has been sin ce t he tim e of our forefathers. The first fl oo r is occupied by professo rs; the second and third floors arc do rmitories und er charge of Professors Woodcoc k and Hopkins . Th at portion of th e basement wh ich used to be our dining ha ll is renova ted into a large bat h-room with floor and trimmings of mosaic m arble and contains every con veni ence of an u p-to-elate bath-room. The history of old Humphrey h as been written and disc1;1ssed so many t im es, that it wou ld be useless to worry t he reader with a repeated story, so we have desc ribed t he in terior a ppear an ce and changes during t he past few years. To t he rea r of Humphrey H a ll has been erected a sma ll well equipped bui lding to be used as a hospital in ca ·e of contagiot.:s diseases; this sup plies a long felt need , and lessens the d anger from an epidemic. 29 �To the Old Poplar. 0 so le survivor of t he boundless wood , \Vh o, noblest of thy kind , on high hast borne Thy sturdy limbs an d s preading crest ! Though torn By the ra vr.ges of r,ges t hou hast st ood , Beheld t he exchange cf wa mpum and of rood, The \vel come of the noble Lafayette, The rise of ou r Al ma Mater t hen beset, By evils threatenin g her fam e and goo d. Lang m ay thou st and , t he fittest emb lem be Of a free and undivided land , t ha t sways The t ottering monarch 's t hrone toward liberty, The dearest memory of ou r co llege cl ays. May tho u the fame of Old St. J ohn's.ere see, The t hem e of choiciest dreams, of grandest lays. 31 THE O LD POPL AR �Ode to St. John's. Come, Muse, a nd t each us how to sing, I n gra ndest and sublimest lay, Of her to whom we fond ly cling, W ho guides our footsteps day by day, Vi7ho shelters us from care and ha rm, And 'neath her kind, protecting arm From I gnorance, t he monste r bold , H er loyal sons does she safeguard , enfo ld. (f) z I 0 f- (f) u. Assailed by t he ravages of t ime, She yet has stood the furious test, And now with form erect, su blime, She rears aloft her glorious crest! W hat though t he coun tless years roll by, 'Tis but the t winkling of a n eye To her whose spiri t lives in all Viho come beneath her class ic learned t hrall. Thou Guardian of the P ierian spri ng, Of which we long an d deeply dri nk! To t hee our pra ises loud we bring; Thou dost dear mem 'ries to us link, And fond attachments t hat shall brave Life's stom1s a nd end but in the grave. To t hee our Mother dear a nd kind By chai ns of love we' re bound in heart and m ind . ·wh at cherished scenes t hat bell recalls , As pealing forth sweet-tongued and clear F rom out the chapel 's dome it calls, As it bas done for many a year, The student from his daily care, T o worship a nd to t houghtful p rayer ; Those hallowed relics that wi thin The cha pel 's wa lls recall days that have been. · These ivy-covered , ancient walls , That oft ha ve echoed to t he tread Of m any wh ose sad funereal palls Long since have held their m oldering dead, Re-echoed to t he shouts of glee Of merriment and revelry, Have watched t he long days come a nd go, A cent ury glide away wit h ceaseless flow. 0 0 3: UJ > UJ >UJ c), Cl a: CD what a crowding m ultitude Of m em ories gush upon us here ! The campus that we've often viewed W hen t he leaves were falling, brown and sear, Or the bo ughs were bend ing with t he storm That whistled through its lea A ess form , Or when the fo liage green and thick \ Vas solace to our minds, for nature sick. Cont inue thus, t he guiding Star That lights t he pathway of our yo uth And sends about both far and near Its rays of wisdom and of t ruth ; Be jealous of th y glorious past, P reser ve the fame t hou rightly hast, And t hen for thee will be a name Tha t shall surpass th y fonner brillia nt fame. E. H. M. 33 �St. John's c4lumni. ( By an Alumnus. ) Once more, St. John 's ere yet the hour be past And life's sad schooling term inate at last, \Vith task prepared, once more I wend to you, And that recited, bid your wa lls adieu. Time honored pile ! where once the muse unseen Led my light step a long the moon light green. Scenes of my yo uth! where fancy held her reign, Again beheld, but not enjoyed again! Ah! where is now that vacancy of mind, Prompt in each pleasure som e delight to find, ·when hope to fancy threw the silken rein , Ere folly waked, to find h er dream was vain? How sad , how softened, all the scene appears, Through the long lapse of nearly fifty years. When winds autumnal yonder tree assail It turns to m elody, as sweet the gale, As fair the grounds where sportive urchins play, As jocw1d sounds, in summers break away, As smoot h the creek, from silvery Severn flows, As fa ir the wi ld flower on its border grows . But where is now that vacancy of mind , That tranquil power t o drink the bliss refined? Thoughts long depa rted , come and let me seem To climb the heights that hang o'er Severn's stream, ·where winds its way toward the blue round bay. Let me once more its yellow banks survey, And think the poet on Hymettus' brow, Though graceful Athens decked the pla in below, Saw a sight more exquisitely fair When famed I-Iyssus rolled in beauty there. Nor would I deem its proudest temple vie With that dear steeple stretching to the sky. Again 'tis mine-the lovely landscape's mine, And not t he Arno, purpled with the vine, Not e'en t he landscape from the Umbria n hills, Through Rom e from thence the wondering vision fills, 35 �To m e could give, as fades the evening ray And river, ba y and city m elt awa y , That rapt deli"ht which o 'er the bosom pla ys, ·when first the"muse diverts th e sc_ hoolbo_y's ard ent ga ze . Ere I must own the fond deluswn vam, Let m e recall m y long lost friends again, Let m e again their lightsome st ep recall, Dear love d companion , say-where are you all? 'Twere just as wise t o ask yon poplar 's bough, Last summer 's leaves, old tree , where are they now ? DepartEd friends,-not lost but_ gone ~efore vVe turn the volume of your vntu es o er , And find that m emories fond and fait hful eye , All that is left of pleasure, must supply. Lo as rem embrance drops the sacred t ear, A~d early friendship st ands a mom ent here, For thee first known and lat est lost, for thee, Affection lives, that lives in infancy. . . Long round th ese walls, t h y fame shall flounsh fa~r , And none a higher need of honor share: While yet the poplar yield s its grat eful sh_ade , To lays m ore sweet no tribute shall ~e. pa1d . No m ore his fancy weavES the bnlhant dream, By willows, waving over Severn 's stream. "'illiam Ptnkney~ D.D.~ R t. R ev. William Pinkney, t he fif t h Bishop of :Maryland , was born on t he seventeenth of April , 1810, in the city of Ann apoli s. His grandfather, J on athan Pinkney , immigrated to this count ry before the R evolution ary vVar and settled in Annapolis. Bishop Pinkney spent the first part of his life in the two capitals, Annapolis and Washin gton , but ret ained his residen ce in t he form er city, even after he assum ed the rectorship of a ( hurch in Washington. Y oung Pinlmey was powerfull y influ enced by t his early association with hi · birthpl ace, wit h its college, and with the State . In t he cen ter of a large campus, or , as it has always been called , "The College Green ," st ood St. J ohn 's College, t hen alone in its solitary isolation , quaint in its architecture, and even t hen venerable wi th age and of great repute for t he noble sons she had nurt ured. It was at t his instit ution t hat Pinkney received his education. Hi s early edu cation was for the m ost part received at home, under the careful instructions of his parents . At an unusually early age, \i"Villiam was prepared to en ter St. J ohn 's College, where he was a student from 1822 to 1827. H e completed hi s collegiate course, graduatin g at t he early age of seventeen years, the youn gest m ember of a class noted for abili ty and scholarshi p . In order to maintain an honorabl e st anding he had t o labor arduously at his studies, and succeeded in attaining a high position in his class, bein g chosen to deliver the Valedictory Address at t he Commencement. That va ledictory has been preserved and is marked by unusu al ri chness of t hought and beau ty of expression for one so young. \Vhatever may-have been Pinkney's early predilections for the ministry, they had not at this period of his life any determinative influence upon him. Soon after graduating from St.John's, he com menced th e study of law. He did not, however, enter upon the practi ce of the profession. Hi s heart was never fully in it, and he was ever afterwards inclined to the mini stry, which he considered to be hi s calling. Accordingly he entered Princeton Theological Seminary. After having completed his course there, he was called to St. Anne's Church in Annapoli s, where he was rector of the parish during the year:s 1839-1844 . 37 36 LL.D. �Pinkney also had several calls to parishes elsewhere, among, these being one to the Ascension Church in Washington, D . C., in 1857. Some incidental references to this call , which are found in his notes, show how deeply and alm cst painfully he was t ou ched by leaving old St. Anne 's inAnnapolis . Thus, on the twenty-eighth of August, he has t hi s brief note : " Much disturbed by the call to ·w ashington , and heart sad . Oh! how sad ; but Go d 's will be done." vVhen he had become satisfi ed t hat it was his duty to accept the charge of the Ascension, he no longer hesitated but entered upon the rectorship in the autumn of 1857. He remained as rector of this parish until he was consecrated as the assistant bishop to Bishop Whittingham of the Maryland dioceses. Shortly after this consecration, Bishop Whittingham died and Bishop Pinkn ey became the fifth Bishop of the Maryland dio ceses. From the time Bishop Pinkney entered the ministry to the cl ay of his death, he was loved dearly by all of his p a ri~ hioners The Rt. Rev. William Pinkney D .D . LL.D. , Bishop of Maryland, died July 4, 1883, aged 73 years, and in the t hirteenth year of his Episcopate. He had continued in the field of his labors with unabated zeal and energy, and was found at the t he last call of his Master like a faithful servant at his post of duty. F alling with his armor on , his spirit has ascended to join the Apostles . He has left the priceless legacy of a stainless name and an unblemished ministry . ''He taught us how .to livP, And, oh, too high the price of knowledge, He taught us how to die." WM . PINKNEY 39 �Francis Scott Ke-y. '' There is no isle round which the surges roar; ~o sea that drives its billows to the shore, No clim e where palaces so splendid rise; No hut so hid beneath inclem ent skies, But th ere hath peal 'd the song which ne'er shall die, ·while t he 'Star Spangled Banner' wa vcs on high.'' Fran cis Scott 1\:ey, one of the forem ost graduates of thi s an cien t in stitution , was born in F rederick County , on the first of August, 1779 , and di ed in Baltimore on t he eleventh of J anua ry, 1843 . H e was the son of J ohn Ross Key, a Revolut ionary officer His early edu cation was received in t he publi c schools of Frederick County, after \rhi ch he entered St. J ohn 's Co llege, and proved himself to be a most bri lliant and energetic student. Next h e took u p t he study of law in t he office of his uncle, Philip Barton 1\:ey . In 1801 he comm enced t he practice of law in Frederick, but in a few years rem oved to \iV ashington, where h e was chosen United States District Attorn ey. Mr. K ey was a gen t lem an of th e very hi ghest order, exceptional talent, ardent feelin gs and benevo lent mind , t he fri end and influential counselor of t he R on. John Randolph of Virgini a; and of Gen . Andrew J ackson during hi s presidency . But his title to fame rests prin cipall y upon his soul-stirring song, " The StarSpangled Banner,'' which is known t hroughout the civili zed world , a.· t he famous national song of America. This was written in · comm emoration of Maryland 's triumph durin g t he Bom bardm ent of Fort McHenry, so glowing with t he fire of genius and patriotism t hat it has become the Nation al air. It was this t h at r aised our beloved patriot in th e highest estim ation of all hi s count rymen , and gave him a pbce in the " H alls of Fame,'' whi ch he so justl y deserved. 40 fRANCIS SCOTT KEY �B. dllexatzder CJ(andall. Burton Alexander Randall , one of t he most promin ent physicians of Phi lade lphia, was born in Ann apolis, September 21 , 1858. He comes from one of the leading families of the State, being a son of the late Alexand er and E lizabeth Randall. H e entered t he Freshm en Class a t St. Jo hn's, in 1873, ancl , being a very conscientiou.· stud ent , succeeded in leading hi s class ca.ch of the four years. J n 1877 ~1e graduated with the degree of B.A., and after taking a. post-graduate course received the degree of M.A. the fo ll owin g year. After t akin g the latter degree at St. John 's, he went to the C'niversity of Penn sy lvania, entering th e Medical Depar t ment. H e grnd uatrd from there in 1880, and then too k up a course auxiliary to med icin e, after the completion of \vhi ch , the degree of Ph .D. was conferred upon him. H e acce pted and filled the position of eye and car surgeon to t he Episcopal Hospita l during 1832- 189 1, to the Ghildren 's Hospital during 1885-1896, and to the l\lethodist Hospital during 1896-1901 , all of Philadelphia . H e ha.s held with honor and a bili ty t he following professorsh ips: Asst. Demonstr ator of Histology in t he :\fedical Department of the 'C'niver::>ity of P enn sylvania, during1880- 1882; Professor of Ear D iseases, at the Philade lph iaPo lyc linic Institute during 1888-1902; and Clinical Profes ·or of Ea.r Disease., in the University of Penn sy lvani a in 1801. On May 30, 1803 , h a ma rried Miss E :-nma F. Leavitt. Dr. R and all has held many positions of honor and responsil.Jility, having been President of the Am erican Oto logi cal Society, and being a member of the Ameri can Ophthalmo logical Society , Philadelphia County Yiedica l Society, Anlerican 1\Iedica l Association, Phi ladelphia P athologi cal Society, and the College of Phy.·icians of Phi ladelphia. A man of extraordinary ability and skil l, he has always had his profession at heart. As th e joint author of " Pllot.ographic lllustra.tions of the An ato my of the Ear ," in 1887; aut hor of the American Textboo k of Diseases of t he Rye , Ear, Nose a.nd Throat in 1899 , and the" R efraction of the Eye" in t he American J ournalof M edical Sciences, Ju ly, 1885, he has contribu ted vastly to a better kn o11·ledge and und erstand ing of medicin e. ENOCH M . THOMPSON FERDINAND WILLIAMS B . ALEX. RANDALL WALTER J. HUFFINGTON B . VERNON CISSEL 43 �f. Walter Buffington. Cf3yron 'Vernon Cissel. B. Vernon Cissel, Vice-President of St. J?hn's College, was born at Highland, Howard County, Maryland, December 17, 1868. His early edu cation was received at home under t he direction of a governess; later he attended t he public schoo ls, and in 1886 entered the Freshman Class of St. John's College, from which he graduated in 1890, with the degree of B. S. Professor Cissel always took an active part in athleti cs during his college course, playing center on the football team which ·won the champio~ship of _the South in 1888. In 1891 he was elected vice-principal of Vance Collegtate Institute, located at Seven Springs , North Carolina, which position he resigned in F~br~ary, 1892, to accept a position as instructor of Military Tactics and Mat hemattcs m Dr. J .. B. Gibson's School , Sing Sing, New York. In September , 1892, he was found teachmg Chemistry and Physics at Jarvis H all Military Academy , Denver, Colorado: H ere he took the usual active part in athletics, playing with the students (wluch was permitted at that time) on both the football and baseball teams. After spendino- two years in the delightful western city, he returned to Maryland, and entered '"'the graduate department of Johns Hopkins University, in the fall of 1894, where he studied Chemistry, Mineralogy and Physics; at the same time remembering t he old rivalry between St. Johns and Hopkins, he tool~ _ no active interest in their athletics. In the autumn of 1895 he was offered a posttwn at St. John' s as an instructor in the Prepara.tory school, which he accepted. After renewinrr old acquaintances for one year, he was in 1896 elected to the chair of Chemistry and Physics. In 1903, he was elected vice-president of the College, which position he still holds with great credit to himself; and has shown the rrreatest enthusiasm in connection with the athletics of the College. Every afte:noon during practice both in football and baseball , he is to be seen o~. the field coaching the team , and well has he proved his worth in many a spmted contest. He understands the finer points of the game thoroughly and whatever he says, goes. The students have the greatest confidence in him both as a coach and as an instructor. Prof. Cissel is a great friend of the student body, and also is very popular among the members of the Faculty. Our great desire is that we may always be fortunate enough to keep him in our midst. 44 Another one of our distinguished and successful alumni is J. vValter Huffmgton, Principal of the City Public School of Salisbury, Maryland. H e was born at Allen , a village in \Vicomico County, J anuary 27, 1877, and attended the public schools in his native place until he was sixteen years of age. H e entered the Freshman Class of St. John's College, in September, 1894. During his college course he held many positions of trust and responsibility, graduating in .June, 1898, with the degree of A.B. At graduation, he was Salutatorian of his class and · orator for the intersociety celebration. H e always took a deep and lively interest in whatever pertained to the welfare of this institution during his student clays. Prof. Huffington has been actively engaged in school work ever since graduation, having been principal of a grammar school at Quantico, Maryland, for three years, instructor in German , Latin, and Trigonometry, in the Salisbury High School for two years , and is now completing his third year as principal of the Salisbury High Schoo l. Its name, however, has been changed to the Wicomico High School, and it has t he honor of being the largest high school in Maryland, excepting those in Baltimore City. Prof. Huffington may well be considered one of the most successful teachers t hat has ever graduated from this College and he h as gained prominence throughout the locality in which he has taken up his life work. During the summer of 1905 he took a course at H arvard university, covering pedagogy, platform speaking, vocal culture , and professional reading, for which he was award ed the University certificate of completion. Ferdinand Williams. The subject of this sketch > born in Washington County, Maryland, Novemvas ber 22, 1881 , and lived in Hagerstown until he was ten years of age . From there he entered a grammar school in Baltimore, after which he entered the Baltimore City College. During the summer of 1897 he was successful in a competitive examination for the scholarship to St. John 's and entered the Class of 1901. By hard study he succeeded in making the Class of 1900. In J anuary, 1899, he received.an ai:Jpointment to West Point, and the following March , entered the Class of 1903 from which he graduated with high honors , and was assigned to the Corps of Engineers in the Philippines; since his return he has been promoted to a first lieutenancy. H e is now stationed with his corps in the barracks at Washington. 45 �Enoch M. Thompson. :lin ;fflcmoriam Rev. Enoch M. Tkmpson was born near Gaith erB burg , Montgomery County, Marylan d , July 25 , 1873 At t he age of twelve he went to the Andrew Small Academy , located &t D arnestown, Mr,rylancl , where he spent four years, and from there went t o t he Rockville Academy , where he prepared for St . John 's Co llege. In a competitive examin ation he won the County Scholarship fer St . J ohn 's, and entered t he Sophomore Class in the fall of 1892. Completing the clasoical course in t hree years , he gr aduated with hi gh hon ers, recei vin g the degree of A.B. Durino· his colleo·e career he wor:ked hard and faithfully at his studies , and alsa took b b quite an active part in athletics, both in football and pP.seball. H e was a se rgea~t in Company C in his Junior year , and a lieutenant in the same Company m h1s Seniar year. In the autumn of 1895 .he entered the General Theological Seminal y in New York from whi ch he graduated i~ 1898. While a t heological student he spent two ;ears in mission work on L ong Island under the late Bishop Littlej ohn, and was engaged :::.t the same t ime in Sunday-school,work in Calvary, St. Bartho lomew and Trinity parishes in New York City . After hi s ordainment in 1899, he spent seven years working with Dr. Alfred H ardin g at St. Paul 's Par:sh , vVashingt~n , D . C. On F ebruary 1, 1906, he too k up work at the Pro-Cathedral of the Ascens10n as an assistant t o the Rector. He also founded the Chapel of t h e Nativity in 1903, in W ashington , D. C., in addition to his ot her work ; and since then he has been doing good work among the pC!orer classes of peop'e wit hin t he limits of his diocese. 46 jf. ctugcnc Watbcn Mr. F. Eugene Wathen was born in St. Mary's County, in the year 1858. He entered St John 's College in 1876, where he applied himself rigorously to his studies, gr aduating in 1880 with the degree of B.A. , afterward receiving the degree of M.A. For a number of years Mr. Wathen was the editor and proprietor of the M aryland R epublican, a wee kly newspaper of Annapolis. H e was also a member of the Board of Supervisors of Elections, and in 1894 > vas appointed School Examiner for Anne Arundel County, which position he held until the time of his death. On November 7, 1905, Mr. Wathen suddenly passed away in the parlor of the Maryland Hotel , where he had apartments with his family. Mr. Wathen was highly respected in public affairs, and was.a man of the highest mental caliber, who estab lished himself thoroughly in the public esteem. His death is a great loss to his many friends, in whose estimation he filled a place which cannot easily be supplied . 47 �'R.etrospect. And in yon nichq, from Virgin gold , a cast Of T ommy dear, who loves us first and last. But har k! upon the brink of coming time, I hear a cry that t hrills a ch soul sublim e With fonder locks we lean toward t he pa~t, And watch the length ening shadows that we cast, Then to ourselves we '11 pledge a part ing cup, And b l e~s our Alm a Mater , as we lift it up. Ncar five and one-half t imes a round t he sun , T he circling earth her t ireless comse has run, Sin ce first we m et upon th is classic ground, And , seeking learning, life-long friendship found . Alas ! t hat morning so fa r here from , September, nineteen hundred and one . How strange we felt. " ·hen roused from boyish dreams, v\' e wondered where th e sun had hid his beams; H ow throbbed our hearts when from each Freshman 's cell W e rushed to greet the clang of chapel-bell; \\' hat novel figures drew attention offThe stately Senior and the flippant Soph. E nough of th is come in t he open a ir, Across t he " Grccn"-a group is gathering t here. Strange words I hear-" Freshm en'' and "Glee Clu b.'' The Senior stru t, the Sophomoric snub, Have va nished like mist at nconcl ay sun. v\' e t hough t oursel ves a democratic crowd, Before no barbr'ous leaders to be cowed . W e' re told , dictatorship, alone will do , To lead ou r class and maJ,e it manly,. too. \¥h at velvet smoothn ess hides t he t iger 's claw, Wh at liquid accents fl ush the Sophomore 's jaw. I turn my eyes and see our grand parade, Ambi tion fo oling us ti ll hope delayed ; '\Vhat t itne we stumbled conic sections through, And sho" ·ecl wha t feats blind m emory can do; Or leapt o'er solid t rigonom etry , That .·teeplechase of plain geometry. H ow rich our rccollectioJ1S, as we gaze Upon t hose fea tu res a nd fam.iliar form s, That gave us com age and controlled the storm s ; The lea rned White, who yet looks a Greek; The polished " Ducky," whose mouth could speak; The Roman Stryker, a nd wise Vi' ooclcock too , And " Von ny'' who labo red with a hopeless few; The patient " Pokey'' loo ks clown so mild Beside our '' Turkey," Minerva's m eekest child ; 48 49 �OUR POST-GRADUATE COURSE ��1906 CHARLE S E. CHANCE. Annapolis, Nld. " Th e generality of m en have, like plants, latent properties which Chance brings to light .'' A man who deli ghts in silence and solitude. A bullfrog of Pokey's in hum an form. Shows his love for his m aster , even now, by laughing at his an cient jokes A great chemist who is now tryin g to compound an elix ir of beauty. I s giving Remsen a stiff rub for his job Slighted in his mi litary ambition he finds solace in t he compani onship of Pokey , who is working him to den.th. "Patient , simple and childli ke .'' L.O~LOO! 1-(o~R!)f • . JOH~LVE)\'JP EDWA RD T. CLA ll K. "Ever y way of c~ E lli cott City, Mel. man is right in his own eyes.' ' Ye Gods ! What a beef is t his aw kward , burly piece of hum anity. A football star (?). F ills his position b y size, not deeds Is Ma jor , which account s for his importan ce in his own estim ation. I s very fond of the gentle sex and an ardent lover of roses . Hi s h air is curly, somewhat res mbling Colbert's . H as a brace peculiar to him self , and Belt. I s of a doci le disposition and gentle as a lamb . MOTTO: Multa Capita sed una M ens . COLORS : vYILLI.U• [ Blue and Gray . CuTLER. Annapo lis, 1 \tld. " Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics .' ' CLASS OFFI CERS: E. T. CLARK , . . . . . . . . . . . . ... .. . . . . . . . . . .. .. . . •.. . •. . .. .. . . . . . . . . . J. H . S I NCLAIR , . .. .. .. .. ..• . . . ... ... . ... . . . . . .. ... . . .. ... . . . V ice-President C. F. E. L . G. D. LLOYD , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ... . . . .. . . . . . . . .. President Secretary GosNE Ll", .. . . .. . . . . . . .. .. . . . . . . . . . • . . . .. .. . .•. . . . . . . . . .. . . Tr easurer RILE Y, ... . . . . . . . ... . .. .. . . ...• . . ... • ... . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Historian 52 P. This you th is a veritable H obson among t he ladies and is well known for his osculato ry propensities. Has a childish expression on his face whieh is always ready to break into a smile. I s Captain of Company A and carries himself in a m ost charmin g m ann er Belongs to the elite society of Annapolis and is Valk 's betterhalf. 53 �H ERBERT C. FooKS. Salisb ury, Mel. "Awkward, embaTTass'd, stiff, without the skill, Of moving graceftdl y, or standing still , One leg, as if suspicious of his brother, D esirmts seems to nm away from t'other." This is an Eastern Sho' m an, and a typical one, too . A farm er lad, who has got K eene nervous late ly fo r fear of losing t he Valedictory. Came to St. J ohn's from a musk-rat hole, and t his accounts fo r his gougin g inclinations. H as a voice like t he roarin g bell ow of an infuriated bull. Under t he baneful com panionshi p of Morris we fear his moral t enden cies m ay be weakened. HJCHAH H . H ODGSON. D " DiTe was the clang of plate, of kni fe and fork, 7' hat mere' less fe ll like tomahawks to work ." A very industrious and conscien t ious member of t he "Next-on-You Club." Can eat a half dozen pies in as m any minutes. Is a great gorm andize r. Can eat anyt hin g digestible or otherwise. Has a specia l fo ndness fo r reportin g Sophomores on midnight expeditions. I s sore on t he Military De partment , but is taxed to t he ut most to support t hed ignity of Quartermaster-sergean t . " First on t he meat.'' SAMUEL J. H oHBERGER. E DWARD L. GosNELL , Gran ite Mel. "A n idler is as a watch that wants both hands , As useless i f it goes as when i t stands.'' This young man com es from a hard place and his head seems to ha ve inherited from it, at least, t hat one quality. Is one of our m ost successful loafers except when he has an im portant engagement wi th H oover, H echt and Belt. I s Captain of Company B and never looks so self-important as when R uz is after him for a grease. Most any t im e Mackey can be se n after him , calling ":A..h , Gas.'' E . EARL H EARN. Cambridge, Mel . " 0 wad som e poweT the gi ftie gie us, 1' o see oursels as i thers see us.'' This indefinable, un classified, ossified , gaso lin e bubble of out raged hum anity is a pu zzle to himself and everyone else. Born in Nowhere (Eastern Sho ') he came to St. J ohn 's to worry all classes and conditions of m en . And well has he acquitted hi mself. Alt hough shoc ked at first, everybody is used to his sarcastic remarks. " The sting has left t he adder.'' H as a charming way of saying "Yearn yere.'' 54 Quantico, Mel . Anna polis, Mel. " Silence is a viTtue in those who are deficient in understanding.' Sammi e is well known for his qui et and steady habits and in walking, ri vals " Turkey'' wit h his uniform unaccelerated m otion. Is a lad ies' m an , but oh! don 't ment ion t hose girls he met at T olchester. A noted orator and with that soft, melodious voice he fairly captivates an audience. Is one of our "colored" sergeants. "Along t he cool, sequestered vale of life H e keeps t he even t enor of his way.' ' ALFRED H ousTON. Chili , S. A. " 0 it is excellent to have a giant's strength!'' This jibber-j abbering giant is from the vvild recesses and woody jungles of Sout h Ameri ca, and he is getting a long excellent ly, considerin g t hat this is his first stab at being a civili zed person . H as taken a fan cy to society and is creating a flu tter in t he feminine hearts of Ann apolis. H as a fin e figure, but please don 't ment ion "dat face.'' Often tells in his pidgin English a bout tegers and other wild anim als. 55 �ErtNES'l' LI NTHI C UM . AM OS F. H UT CHI NS. Bm·stowe, Mel. " L migh and ue fat, sir!' ' " Oh! I know Thou hast a tongue to charm the lou dest babies . " This t end er , slim, and timid Ann apolis youth was never known to speak t o anybody but Chan ce and Carter and t hen onl y in monosylla bles . H as never had the pleasure of a good , m erry laugh. Likes Calculus, but hates the trouble of going t o t he board . Beli eves in silence as a virt ue, and t alks in so deliberate a m anner t hat he som etimes has to stop in t he middle of a sentence and begin over. This Barstowe wit has a soft , purring voice and gent le m anners t h at ·win for him th e admiring glan ces of the oth er sex. I s Presiden t of t he Y . lVL C. A. , but that doesn 't signify anythin g. W ears a smile t hat will not come off except when you call him a Rifle-pit-rat. I s very fond of little children , t akin g a great delight in Ben gy H an ce. " Good-night, Bengy .'' "Goodnight , Am os. ' ' C HAllLES lV L-\.RCEL F. Trappe, :VIc!. LLOYD. " By i gnorance t s pride increased; 'J'hey m ost as su m e who know the least. '' Balt im ore, Mel. K EENE . " H e chatters li ke ct blackbird.' ' Whenever you hear someone t ryin g to give hi s opinion on everything when it isn 't asked for , you m ay !mow it is t he villainous tune-murderer Lloyd . Throws his lu ck on t he di ce and his mon ey to R ouse. I s third Li euten ant of Company A and is never so happy as when yellin g at or reporting som e unfortun ate Prep. Accidentally h ad one of his vision ary organs injured last year . Li sten! and you will hear Keeni e ch attering away like a hun gry parrot. H e is a real bright young m an in both brass and cla~s, and receives fine m arks , never having been kn own to m a ke less than5 10. S-s-stutters and c-c-considers it a g-g-great clisaclv-v-vantage. It is a bleE g for us, t he victims of his loquaciousness. sin Is a great act or , · and even furni shed amusement for a crowd of youn g men at the "Prin ce of Pilsen. '' J. A ::\T DRE W P. K ELL Y. Balt imore, Mel . " N o m an teas ever so much deceived by another as by himself.'' This fop , swell , elud e, dand y, coxcomb is a very self-impor t ant person and a society m an of the first wa.t er. H.csem bles greatly t he canin e species in his acial expression. I s a voracious eater and one clay he even beat H odgson . H e is now trainin g for a form al contest wit h t he latter. F alls in love qui ckly , and even so far as to fall in love with hi mself whi ch is a sad state of affairs. 56 Ann apolis, Mel . R o Y M c CARDE LL. H agerstown , Mel. " H ere's ct large mouth , indeed , That S1 forth death and mountains , rocks and seas , Jits T alks as fami liarly of li ons A s m aiden s of thirteen do of puppy dogs.'' F ar beyond my power, indeed , is it to describe t hi s crack-brain ed, n on-convincible athlete and general scamp. H as a very pronounced affini t y fo r t he colored race and becomes excited whenever an y re flection is cast upon them Sprogie is n ever so proud as when he is in front of his band of scalawags t wirlin g a worn out golf st ick . Is a very obstin ate arguer , and would not believe an angel on oath if it was · contrary to his way of thinkin g. 57 �WILLIAM P. C. Monms. Salisbury, Mel. R ommT A. Rousr~. Bel Air, Mel . " I shall think-and thought is silence.'' "Who ventur-es life and soul upon the dic e.'' T his profound thinker and oyster shu cker is from t he Eastern Sho', and a pretty fair specim en, considering all of his faults. H as t aken a bra ce morally and physically sin ce he h as been Li eutenant. His knees like General Grant's, having taken quite a dislike for each other, stand several inches a part and stare at each other in blank amazement. Keeps on the inside track with Hurri cane Bill. H ere is an athlete, lady-killer, bluffer, cli cer and a lot of oth er things too num erous to mention , in cluding running. T akes life as it comes, sifting out the pleasures and leaving t he rest go to t he D-l. I s leader of th e Band and is never so happy as when squealing out harsh , discordant notes on hi s tin seventyfive year old imi tation of a cornet. Is baseball catcher and can catch anythin g from a pea up to a cannon ball. J. H UNTLI~ Y SINCLAIR . EL:\{ER G. PARSLE:Y. " This youth is CL Brookville, Mel. bubble blown up with breath. " A vain and effea1 inate remnant of a once sensible young man , is the notorious E-ball Parsley. Is a successful lover and has captured t he heart of more than one unfortunate girl. Believes in inaction as t he surest balm for an overtaxed brain, and puts his belief in pra ctice wherever possible. Came t o St. John' s with barnyard st ra w on his heels and oh, what a wonderful change has been wrought! A Rifle-pit Rat. Annapo lis, :Md. G. DoNALD RrLEY. "Wit is the most rascally , contemptible beggarly thing on the face of the earth." Don is an ardent imitator of Bill Nye, but how infinitely inferior. H angs on to Pokey's coat tails to learn his dry jokes and get a grease. Don expected to be Captain of Company B , but alas what a disappointment. H ad his way so well greased with Major Thompson that he sli pped and fell in his military expectations. Was Editor-in-Chief of '05 RA'r-TAT, also the Collegian, of which he made a great success, alt hough it made a confli ct with poker. 58 Ridgely, Mel. "But still his tongue ran on, the less Of weight it bore, uith greater ease; And with its everlasting clack, S et all. men's ears upon the rack '' This extremely loqu acious youth is a track team man and talker of great speed. Beli eves in having hi s say-and he has it. If he doesn 't, no one else does . I s well fitted in this respect for his position as Adjutant. Th e poor li ttle t hin g was unkindly treated by McCardell once, vvhi ch nearl y broke his heart. The girls think he is cute-and so does he himself ; indeed so much so t hat we fear h e is becoming conceited . H ENRY F. STURDY. Annapolis, Mel. " H e doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colo ssus; and we petty m en Walk under his huge legs." This long-legged, ghost-like, perambul ating anim al is a member of the species Rodent ia, and the family R abbit, being well known for his jumping pro clivities . H e is a good fellow , perfectly harmless, and alm ost any t im e can be seen going along and clipping off the miles with hi s never-varying gait. H as h eart t roubl e caused by t he atmospheri c pressure not being n ormal at su ch a height. H as a fine mili tary fi gure. 59 �Centerville, iVId. P EllE Vil tLl\H.:R. JoH N M Annapolis Md. THOMPSON. " Some play for- gain; to pass tim e other-s play For- nothing; both play the fool I say." "Th e loud laugh that spok e th g vacan t mind ." This is Pere Wilmer, not the Prep. - alt hough he acts like one sometimes, but the simple, unenlightened Color (ecl) Sergeant Pere Wilm er. I s as fond of girls as he is of rattling t he bones wit h Rouse. I s never so gay as when he is in t he eddying swirl of t he social whirl with an Annapo lis girl. Is t hinkin g seriously about taking a peep inside of a book before he gradua tes. This lit t le boy is scarcely out of his teens and entirely too yo ung, li gh t hearted and headed to be a Senior. H as gained a wide reputation fo r stacking card-gun s, and is a Lieutenant in Company A. Is a t horough convert to t his injun ction "Much st udy is a weariness to t he flesh. '' Is t he class pet , which I su ppose accounts for his being so spoiled. "Come on Rousie ' ' let's get Sm itty and Norman.' ' ARTHUR DE T. VAL K. Annapolis, Mel . "Love is your- master- , for- it master-s you. '' H ere is a lad after our own heart- an d also, for t hat matter after the hearts of t he fair lassies of Annapo lis H as a special laugh of his own and believes everybody else's to be a cheap imi tation, which must be w hen t he original is cheap . Is a great chemist and physicist, and has discovered several errors in Newton's Calculat ions. Ge ts very angry wh en not saluted like an Emperor. '' H ey, Pelouze, going down to the Lab?' J o HN B. vVELLS . vVILLIAYI D. vVmGH'l'SON. New York N.Y. "Let m e have music always and I seek no more deli ght." "Bill'' is a merry , happy-go- lu cky , come-clay-goday fellow, and is t he second ranking man in t he Band. Can play t he saxophone or an y ot her in strument t hat ever had a mouthpiece stuck to it . I s a fine baseball pitcher, and has refused a position as p itcher on t he American League. Is a perseverin g lover, and wit h his beautifu l voice can break down the barriers of an y feminin e heart that ever charmed him. Annapolis, lVId. "As effortless as woodland nooks, Which send up violets and paint them blue.'' A gracious boy, full of all gentleness, who seems always to be afraid of inconveniencing somebody by speaking loud . Has a shock of red h air , which he has to keep away from combustible articles. H as a pleasant coun tenan ce t hat would set the hair on a porcupine. We are m uch inclined t o think he, h11s desperate case of love on hand as he goes around wit h a dreamy far-a-way look in his eyes. 60 61 �"All Freshmen report in Room 35 tonight," was the mandate issued by "BioChief'' A. W. Smith, of the Sophomore Class. In obedience to this commancl we t~e celebrated Class. of 1906, came together for the first time to indulge in gym~ nast1cs and rough-housmg, and this feature of the class has remain ed with it to t he end. Even now our class meetings resemble nothing so much as a Kansas cyclone or." Rousey 's Dutch Band,' ' as they make the walls ring to t he tune of Ta-Ta-TaTa, or "My Irish Mollie 0.'' vVell we went to the" G. 0. H. ,' ' we saw and we conqueTed , as was well attested by the loud laughter as Prep. Gosnell gracefully and almost franti cally chased an im aginary tail attached to his anatomy , trying in vain to catch it. Other stunts, too numerous to mention, were done for the benefit of our learned friends the Sophs, but when it was all over as one of the fellows expressed it We wer~ d-n glad it was through with.'' ' Bed felt pretty good that night , and the Sophs gave us a rest for a few daysthe few should be put in italics-for in a short t ime they required our services again, and at t his meeting t he H a lls rang wJth,-" The Bear Came Over t he Mountain ,'' and other classical ditties for untrained male voices. The Freshman year was over at last, somehow or other the worst things a lways come to an end, and t he darkest hour is just before dawn . We can look back now with complacency and remember the proud and haughty manner in whi ch we went around as Sophomores, feeling that if we did not own the whole earth , at least the larger part belonged to us. With what an air we ordered "Freshmen do this , Freshm en do that ,'' and it certainly is amusing to think that the now lofty and dignified (?) Juni ors were once "but the creature of our wilL'' That year our baseball team was regarded as the best in co llege, but when the ti me came to show our strength , we lost to the Juniors by one run , and a marvelous catch by Pop Willing rob bed us of the game. At t he end of t he year, t he Faculty notified several of our members in cludin oWrightson, Hutchins, Bull H arrison and Riley t hat they were studyin~ too hard~ and conse quently were leaving the less ambitious members of the class far behind. These gent lem en in order to pre ·erve good feeling and keep t he pclL<.: e, sto pped \YOrkin g so hard , an d since t hen have a llowed K eene, Sturdy and ot her lesser lights to co me into scholastic prominence. Th e Junior year began with the loss of so me of our old friend s and the addition of several new ones. A teger from South America was added to our zoo, and became quite noted amongst us, partly on account of a good loo king fac e, and part ly for the t horoughly American m ann e1 in whi ch he caught on to our custom s, such ; as riding automobiles into" J ack'' Rippere 's class, and trying to put " Madam - -'' out of busin ess. Paul Matthews, too , Tejoined us. P aul , however, seem ed to be taking a special course in music and " fussing;" as a consequen ce, -sad to rea tehe left us for good at the end of the year Again we bit the dust in the annual baseball game to the tune of on e run . A boxing match between Sturd y and A. W . Smith-a laughable affair in which Smith was victorious-helped to take away the sting of defeat. Speaking of baseball, cur class, with such players as "Seven'' vVells , who made seven errors in on e inning, and Hut chins, whose specialty is pun ching out on high balls, has al·ways been promin ent on t he diamond. ' Vrightson, Staley, DeVries, lVIcCardell , Rouse and Clark, played on t he first team regularly, and without t hem, in t he words of a player , "there would have been no team at all. '' The ping-pong team composed of vVilmer P. " Glut" Hodgson , Lin t hi cum and " J ack'' Carter have already gone in to trainin g and promise to play a very good game, es pe cially as Hodgson , who is such a fine (?) athlete in every bran ch of athletics , promises to cut out pie eating during t he season. In thi s year we '"ent to the in auguration, and gave Teddy the glad hand as we swung clown Pennsylvania Avenue to the accompaniment of the inevitable No. ll. T eddy expressed him se lf as " de-light-ed ,'' and altogether t he St. John's battalion was pretty warm that day during the parade, and afterward when old friends of t he class were met and of course t reated to coffee (?) and sarsa parilla. Next came the time when vve first began to worry about the appointments. " If Bull was up in his class,'' "Bill Wri ghtson is a good looking man for Major, "Gosnell certainly does know t actics," were t he remarks heard from morning unti l night, while such minor matters as studies and athletics were enti rely lost sight of. Even "Bones' ' Linthicum and Chance exhibited a certain degree of interest and got up enough energy to go to camp. All thi s time "Biddy'' Clark had been lying low, but wh en t he proper mom ent arrived and it came like a shot out of a cann on , we wondered why we had not thought of him when somebody said ," 'Vhat 's the matter wit h 'Bidd y' Clark ?" To tell the truth there wasn't anythin g the m atter , and wh en t he time came to announce t he ~1ajors hip , old "Big, Buxom Bidd y" \valked up and carried away the plum . This is but another instance of t he evolut ion of greatness. When t he R.,. ,,~ TAT came out in our Freshm en year , t he t hree most military(?) men in college ."·ere 62 63 Senior History. �Gladden , Gosnell , aud Cla rk , but behn ld one is Ma:or and the ot her Captain of Company B. Camp this year was at old To lchester and didn't we have a good time . No more guard duty for most of us and plenty of time to show our chevrons. Then again there were such surprises; fellows who at other times would run at the name of "girl'' gallanted many of the fair sex around showing them the camp. " Ma' ' Hearn and Hutchins , for instance, swin ging their partners to the lines of" Bedelia,'' and the "S hade of the Old Apple Tree,'' until you wou ld ha ve thought that they had been brought up in the dancing hall. "E-Ball'' P arsley had tickets galore to the numerous attractions of t he resort, and the way he and his lady friend s flew around the " Hula- Zula'' and the "Merry-go-round'' would make one giddy. These were great old days to be , ure , days fu ll of fun and cementing us together by ties of comradeship and friend shi p that years wi ll never tend to lessen . Then came inspection , a glorious one for old St. John 's. As we went past the reviewing officer, a string stretched from guide to guide would , I believe have touched every chest. Major Thompson wore the smi le that won't come off , and when it was finally announ ced that St. John's had won a place among the first six mili tary co lleges in the country, our pride and elation was somet hing tremendous an d we felt that we cou ld give our rivals M.A. C. the " Merry H a-H a" and say Olil·stay at Tolchester was a pleasant one but when we fina lly pulled up stakes and started for ' Ye Ancient City," I believe we were a ll glad to be on our way homeward We made quite a fine appearance as we went up Prince George Street and on to the cam pus. The Junior Oratorical Contest came off the first night at horne , and although McCardell recited with fee ling and pathos and Ri ley told of the boy drummer who wouldn't beat the retreat , old " Boya'' Clark 's ('Ship of State'' out-sailed all other crafts in sight and crossed the line a winner. When we parted for the summer it was with the realization that our next year would be our last , and that our days at old St. John 's were drawing to a close. 'Vhen we met in September, it was as Seniors, and a year of res ponsiblity and trust has not sobered some of t: s in the least I am afraid, and our class meetings still resemble a hurricane. But of t hese matters let us pass and try before this history draws to a close, to gather some ideas in regard to our class, individua ll y. "Biddy" Clark , our president , has many features, his feet not being cne of the least. Through five years of Co llege life four in the Co llege and one in the Prep. School, he has proven himself the same old " Boya" and the same old curly-headed "Oaksy" that used to wobble around in the Prep. School , almost too fat and babyfied to live . H is march upward has been one of triumph, although it must be confessed he is as fly-footed as ever. Huntly Sinclair is sti ll the gay and happy-hearted boy as of old. Hi s milita ry honors do not seem to have turned his head at a ll. He doesn ' t even like to wear his dress-coat down to the Naval Academy on account of the quantity of gold on his sleeves - just like A. W. Smith! I hear so me one say. Sinny is captain of the track team this year and when he throws back his head and starts he can go like a streak of lightning. He is still in love, but, as E:ipling says, that is another story. Prep. Gosnell, who is in love, spends most of his time moping in dark cornei·s and likes nothing so much as a ride on the Emory Grove car for Hannah More. "E-Ball-1-Ball' ' Parsley! I hear the yell again and in he slips and gets ready to go down to the Legislature. As Commander-in-Chief of the R ifle Pit Rats·, Aunty is something hot, and he, "TVla" Hearn, and Hutchins form about as unholy a combination as was ever put together. Leroy McCardell is still ' 'retching" up for flys, and as captain of our baseball team we expect him to make a record that will be glorious for old St. John 's. Rousey is as foxy as ever, and to his other specialties has added that of going like a squirrel. His accounts of the operations at Manassas are extremely valuable, and form so interesting a story that the War Department has asked him to write the famous stories beginning "Rouse, scout those woods," and" Rouse, how far is the h- 1 of a distance?'' in book form. Judge Kelly spends most of his time in the la boratory and has even had the misfortune to be called the College - -. We won 't giyewayon ''Drusy." P lusCut ler and Face Houston form a very happy family and even Bill Wrightson and his Jew wife Keene live in a state of connubial bliss . " Kid" Lloyd and Pere Wilmer still rattle the bones "Kid" has sto pped running and Pere spends a large percentage of his time in sleeping Good old Pearson Morri s and Fooksey are still together, Fooksey ever willing to help you in Psychology and Morris to give you a " cha w. " The one Latin pony in Senior H a ll seems to lead a precarious existence but it generally finds its way into Hutchin 's room. Amos and " Glut" Hodgson spend their time playing poker for ma tches or discussing their respective chances of graduating. Of the down:own bunch little can be said -nothing to their cretlit They are continually with us, Valks to take us riding(?) in his auto, Sturdy to catch us gouging, John Thompson to use the class ' soothing syrup bottle, and Riley to write odes and sonnets. Most historians say what a sad task it is to ·write the Class Histo ry. 1 do not agree with them . It is a proud moment to be about to set sail upon the ocean of life , but there are indissoluble ties, which wi ll always ho ld us to our Alma Mater. No matter where our paths may lie, there is a straight road which ·will a lways lead from our hearts, to where? Is it necessary to say, St. John's ? Four long years we have st riven in the shades of dear old Pinkney , McDowell ha llowed by sacred memories, then Senior Hall, and at last we have arrived at the eve of graduation. Now indeed we realize what our College has been to us. No matter how bright may be t he outlook for the future , it is with many deep and sincere regrets that we are abo ut to leave our college life. And n0\\" 1 fellows, 64 65 M. A. C. "stung again." �our Class ! our love for her let it never grow less as Lme rolls on, but rather increase as we reali ze that the happiest days of our life have been spent under her protection at old St. John's. Co:ne, fellows, fill your glasses up, The las t t ime now for aye; To drin k a t oast to old St. J ohn's And our loved Blue a nd Gray. He r name we raise exalted, For friends she'll never lac k, \Yhile '06 stands defender Of the Orange and the Black . HISTORIAN . 1lo ~ets 1->s Sh._e~s~i.n 11.nO. tbel'\ - }-te._ Ce. \ eb t<aies .. ()6 ��1907. RoBERT A N D F:H~ON, Jr. " Andy." " Wo rds, mere words, no matter from the heart.'' Thi s gentleman heads t he list a lph r"betically but not otherwise ; one of the hardest stud ents and best all around m en in college, but don 't tell him so, or he m ay become concatefiareous ("stuck up " in common phraseology). A footba ll player of note, an advocate of the honor system , and one of t he few who have rema in ed immune from the attraction s of t he fair sex. A li terary enthusiast, though no t gifted with mu ch gibbosity. Vice-President of Cl ass ; Co rporal, Company B; Ass istant Miscellan eous Editor RATTAT; ifJM. L. AllN ULD , " Pip.'' "Pour the full tide of eloquenc 3 along , S e1 ·enely pure, and yet divinely strcng.'' One of t he mo st pri zed specim en s in St. J ohn 's men ageri e, was ca.ptured after a fierce battle behind one of t he sand dunes of Anne Arund el County, but is now quite docil e. Pip has a beautifu l voice and with a li ttle training would m ake a Singer- Sewin g Machine. Possesses a master mind but was never known to use it. An ath lete, phil osopher , soldi er , scholar , statesm an , and a cran k combined A most profi cient orator and li terary gen us. Spends his t im e thinking of how mu ch :mportan ce he is . Sergeant Company A; Glee Club; Assistant Miscell an eous Editor RAT-TAT ; ifJ M. ALTON MOTTO: Perseverance brings success. COLORS . Blue and White. NORMA N CLASS H. A. OFFICERS. Cou LDOURN, . . . . . . . . . . . . .• .. . . . . . . . ... .. . .. ... . .. . . . . . . . · · Pre 3ident R. A NDE R SON, . . . . . A. C . THOMPSON, .. . . ... . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . S ecretary J. G. A. R. . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vice-President . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. . Treasurer SHEAREH.,.. SMITH ,· . . . . . • . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . ..•.. .. .. . . . . Historian ()8 A. BELT. "Grouchy.'' " R emote, unfriendly , solitary , slow.'' When you see an infinitesimal pi ece of hum ani ty perambu latin g about t he campus , with one should er two in ches hi gher than the other, and hi s chest inflated like a hot a ir balloon , you might know it is Se1·gecmt Belt. H as a natural a rfinity for reportin g fellows, even goin g so far as to report " Tomm y'' for w a l kin ~S on t he grass. Trying to be Ma jor next year , but we think he wou ld m a ke a bett er Co lor Sergeant. Oh! why was su ch a misery thrust upon us. Sergeant Compan y B. 6!) �" [( isser .'' ELMEil BLXNETT. " H e droweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument " Th e Ed ito r-in-Chi ef of t his fam ous (to be) volume and a hot air agent of no mean ability. A wa lkin g encycloped ia and is said to have digested six dictionaries. So metimes t ri es to introdu ce new words in to the vocabulary of the Profs. Continua lly on t he lookout for a n argumen t, and is always found on t he opposite side. Very military , although he cann ot succeed in making other people beli eve it. Has no particular object in li fe, bu t t hinks he might secure a position as hotel porter. "Dadhang it all! when are you fellows going to give me that R .·\T-TAT work.'' Corporal Company B; rP K. ELI Ho 1 ·: wr C. Bn ADY. 11 " E ing. " " Every way of a mon is right in h1:s own opinion.'' Next to Ned Duval this man has a better kno,,·leclge of th e early history of St . J ohn's than any one else. Born in t he m arshlands of Anne Arun de l, and raised on cigarettes. H as recen tly become m elan chol y on accoun t of his ups and " Down s.'' Thinks he can play footba ll. H as a soft melodious vo ice like t he purr of a Numiclian lion . Expects to be captain Company A , next year . Spends most of hi s tim e a t t he waterworks, and has water-works and head-works mixed. Sergeant Company A; Ath letic Ed itor RAT-TAT. ED~1 U:'-1 o "Scrunt. '' M. IV ORTHI:-<uTON BoRDLE Y. "The law pays no attention to little things.'' We do not believe in the t ransmigration of t he so ul , but t his fellow is Prof. V 's second. One of his legs became twisted in a football scrimmage , a nd t he other bowed-out t hrough sympathy. I s one of t he greatest heart smashers. Has a great dislike for any books beside "Diamond Dick's" and " Tip Top's." Was one time known to peacefully slumber for t wo cl ays, without awakenin g. Expects to be Adjutant next year but we fear we would be un ab le to see him . Sergeant Compan y A; Assistan t Town and Campus Editor R AT-T AT; (/J K; (/) }; K LEHOY " R u be.'' "His 1'cndting ambition overlea ps itself.'' One of t he fn rnt ers of the class. When he ca1 r.e to college he was so green he would not even sunburn . His head is so fu ll of hayseeds his hair stands on end. H ails from t he wilds of Sou thern Marylan d , and often gives us an exhi bit ion of how he drives the ox cart. I s a diligent student and a po le vaulter of some promi nen ce. Never was known to loo k at hum an bein gs who wear dresses. An unsophisticated mortal who walks in a sedate m anner, never laughs unless he has to . Member of the Anti-Joke Society ; Corpora l CompanyB; AssistantAlumniEditorRAT-TAT; rP JVI . Bmn:N . 70 1'. B u HK F: , Jr. " Lover " "Affectation is a greater enemy to the fa ce than the smallpox.' ' Belt's sid e pa rtner, in conjun ction wi t h whom he ma kes mi serable t he li ves of t he privates in Company B. Once had a S11·eetheart bu t it is beli eved she jil ted him ; sin ce t hen he has not been held accountable for wh at he does. H as an in exhaustible supply of slang wit h whi ch he kee ps t he class well suppli ed. H as t he greatest aversion for anything resembling work . Broke hi s reeo rd by studying fif teen minutes in one ,,·eek. N fath. fiend, and deli ghts to work in t he bo tani cal laboratory (?) . Looks like an exploded gaso lin e bubble. Sergeant Company B; Glee Club ; Assistan t ·Miscellaneo us Editor R AT-TAT; rP K. " S enator.'' CuTHBERT C. CATH cAnT. " Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.' ' This lad hails from the coal fields of Allegheny County and has not yet su cceeded in removing t he coal dust from hi s eyes and ears. T alks so much and says so li ttle. Best example of a mi li tary school boy tha t can be found . Walks so straight you would t hink he had swallowed a ram-rod . I s of a very invent ive and scien t ific trend of mind, having patented a m achin e to calculate t he number of words H ech t can say in a second , and discovered the kind of bacteria that live on the 129th leg of a centipede. Corporal Company B; Assistan t Business Manager RAT-TAT; rP K. 71 �FnA"crs B. GwYNN. 'VrLLIAM F. CHILDS, Jr. " H e sits amongst " B uclc ." J oHN C. CoLLINSON. " Good looking and knows i t ; A prize- fight er and shows i t.'' m en like a descended God.' ' One of the few youn g id eas of Ann apolis who have m ade a suc cess of life. Keeps a grocery store , and is proud of it. A mi litary man of the first degree, although he is se re on t he mi litary department. Drop a penny in the slot and hea r this cyclone talkin g m achine . H as ~:m inexhaustible supply of hot air , of which he is ever ready to give you the benefit. Always anxious to let you know what he has clone , but never does an yt hin g Uses cheap co logne, and writes to twenty-five different gi rls. Assista nt Miscellaneous Editor RAT-TAT. F ami liari ly c11ll ed " J oe'' on account of hi s stronrr b r esembla,n ce t o the prize fi ghter. Has a Nationa l reputa t ion on acco unt of hi: pugilistic attainments. H as an idea he can play fo otball. Heavy rusher of t he girls, nevert heless, is studious and industrious. Will laugh forty-eight hours about absolutely nothing. Hi s origin is t:nknown, but is supposed to have escaped from Ring Sing. After graduation, wi ll take up the study of hor ticu lture , in the marshy regions of Prince George County. Treasurer of RAT-TAT, consequent ly it is expected that t he Board wi ll have to appeal to the b11nkruptcy laws. Corporal Compan y A; (jJ Jvf. " Johnny.'' BJ-::-IJA:\HK HA "C'E, " B enjy.'' " I n li ttle measU1·es, one m ay be perfect. '' This little fellow is a direct descendant of the " Black Dwarf,' ' at least this is the on ly way we can accoun t for his size. W eight, 56 pounds 7 ounces ; heig ht 4 feet 2 in ches. H e properly belongs in the Prep. school but by some unaccountable means he is allowed to remain in Seni or H all. Very fond of chemistry but P rof. is always worri ed for fear he wi ll fa ll into a test tube and brea k his neck. Great favorite with t he ladies because he is such a "cute chi ld.'' Corporal Compan y A; Li terary Editor RAT-TAT; (jJ K. There is a gi ft beyond the reach of art , that of being eloqtwntl y silent.' ' A sober and industrious youth who escaped from a deaf an d dumb institution and through sympa thy was taken in a.t St. John 's. Looks m ost intelligent when he kn o11·s absolutely nothing about t he subj ect. Completely passive and opposed to exertion of any kind . A member of t he Anti-Joke Society. Trying to get a grease with Major Thompson so he can get a corporalcy next year. H as no reason for li ving , t herefore walks around to save funeral expenses. • H uCJ- A. Cou LBOURN. r "Cue.'' " Th e empty vessel makes the greatest sound.'' Alas ! for t he poverty of the English language when it comes to describing this hot-air m erchan t bluffer, military man , athlete, society man , and what not. Reall y a past master in t he art of bluffing h as succeeded in bluffing hi s way thus far t hrough college. Hankin g offic er of the class, and vmnts everybod y to know it. P lays his card s well and wou ld st and in well with every bod y. Perfectly satisfi ed with him self , but with no one else. His equal for gall and sarcasm cannot. be found. Sergeant Compa~iy J3; President of Class; Busin ess Manager RAT-TAT; (jJ JI!I. J oHN T . HARRI~ ON . " Jak e." "Unbecoming forwar dness often proceeds from - gnorance and i mpudence.'' i Th e su bject ('f t hi s sketch , alias " Mercury," is the swiftest member Gf the class, and a star of the first m agnitude in t he socia l firm ament. Hi s white locks and a labaster face are so becoming that t he girls go wi ld over him. H as a " grease'' with t he Profs. Tryin g hard to be Maj or. Correspon ds with not less th an fifty girls. J ake's greatest fault is his weakn ess for t he fair sex ; has been known to call on t en different girls in one afternoon . Spends most of his t im e " d own town. '' Presid ent of the Ind olen ce Club ; Sergeant Company A ; Town and Campus Editor RAT-TAT; (jJ 72 " Jo e.' ' K; <P Z K. 73 �I saac.' ' one hand he put a penny ~n the urn of po~·­ erty, and with the other he took a shilli ng out.' ' This fellow, we believe, belongs to t he gem;fl " homo ,'' alt hough we will not underta ke to say positively. H as a natura l affinity for m oney, and holds to it so tight he squeezes t he life out of the eagle. During one of his benevo lent m oods he m ade " Tomm y'' a present of $10. Often t reats his friends to ice cream ( ?) . Can talk m ore and say less t han any m an in the class . Very much infatuated with a " Belle.' ' Came from the land of Nowhere (Havre de Grace). Jt is hard to tell whether he will be a philantrophist, or a seller of cheap clot hing. Corpora l Company B; Business lVIannger R A·r-TAT ; 1/J K. " 1 oc.'' ll E DGAR H . McBRIDE. " H e hath a heart as sound as a bell , and his tongue is the clapper , for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks." This m odest , unsophisticated yout h hails from the backwoods (Frederick Count y). H as a mind particularly adapted t o arguing ; will argue that "black is whi te'' for t wenty-four hours, wi thout even stoppin g t o take breath. R eads Latin and Greek for recreation , speaks French and Chin ese flu ently, studies Math and Chemistry for pleasure. A member of the pig-headed , crack-brained , pedagogical pscyhologicalistically inclined band of yout hs. Intends to becom e a member of the Faculty, for which position his n arrow-mindedness and eccentriciti es eminentl y fit him. Assist ant Editor-in-Chief of RAT-TA ·r ; 1/J K . " HT~ th " L oveme.'' P. KA N Jc. "I m eddle with everybody's business but my own." For unmitigat ed " nerve,' ' colossal "gall'' and " butting-in'' propensities t his Ruralite exceeds anyt hing ever introdu ced at St . John 's. H as exercised his favorite pastim e of " butting-in'' t o such an extent t hat he is now nearly ba ld. H as a m ost exalted opinion of himself , and defies mankind to dispute his stat ement. Admitted once that he was wrong. I s m ost familiar to us with a sickly smile on his fa ce. A heavy rusher of the girls, and from this fa ct he derives his ni cknam e. Corporal Company B-; Assistant Hum orous E dit or R AT-TAT; I]J M . IRYING E ucEN J \N. YL~G R U D E n , <; " Gene." " B ehold the child by nature's kindly law, Pleased W'ith a rattle, tickled with a straw.' ' This yout h , after wandering about th e street s of Ann apolis for some t im e, was finally capt ured by the S. P . C. A. and lodged in St . John 's for safe keeping ; and soon became President of the " Disturbance Club ,'' on account of his a bility to create m ore di sturbance than anybody in college. Together wit h Stone, Strohm and Ru z, t hey form the Great Triumvirate and invincible quartette of St . John 's. H as a very bad h abit of m akin g war on " Buzzard 's R oost. '' Corporal Company A; Assistant Miscellaneous Ed itor RAT-TAT; 1/J M. 74 \N AI! l'El t B. McE: n ;LEY. "Curley.'' "He did nothing and he did it well." This curly-h eaded negro preacher hai ls from the lumbering camps of \N ashingt on Coun ty, where he 'vas engaged in teaching the colored popul ation from th e pulpi t . St arted to St. John 's with a baseball reput ation in his trunk , but lost it on the way . Thinks he can do everything, but has only m ade a su ccess in th e art of "bumming tobacco .'' Idles awa y his time and t alks cont inuall y a bout what he has done. Expects to becom e a missionary in the F iji Islands. Sergeant in Band ; Glee Club ; ·Miscellaneous E ditor of R AT-TAT; mM. " P ip.'' " One ear hear-d it, and at the other out it went.' ' This youth , who looks as if he had been sent for and could n ot come, is Thomas Me lvi1~, Ruz 's twin brother and partner in all the t ricks t hat are perpet rated around College. H as an habi tual laugh which he intends to ha ve patented. Very studious, has often been known to st ay up until 6.00 A.M. "studying.'' Never was known to h ave anything whi ch he could borrow. H as a great aversion for any exer cise m ore strenu ous than playin g" m arbles.' ' Corporal Company TH OMAS M E L VI N. A; !/JM. 7.5 �As H l·:n H owAIW T. RuBL. "Father T ime.'' "A babe in a house is a well spring of 7 Jleasure.'' Thi s yo ut h blew in upon L rather suddenly at t he :s beginning of t he year. He is so small (?) that he sits in a high chair and has to be fed wit h a spoon . A Mellin 's F ood ent husia. t , and consumes a great amount or Mrs. ·w i ns low's Soo thin g Sy rup. W e have to kee p him chained to prevent him from bein g lost. Never was known to t hink , a lways lets someone do it fo r him . Con tinually blacks his ·face wit h s hoe- polish instead of his shoes. Mem ber Gf t he Rurali te Club; Assistant Li terary Ed ito r R\ T-T AT; (jJ M . R. SMITH. " Smitt y.'' " fhs disease might be insanity , but that surpasses intelligence.' ' This lad wi t h t he beaut iful fl a xen loc ks ha ils from t he land "w here t hey shove l snow'' (Snow Hill ). Oh! how can one do jL:sti ce in desc ri bin g t he many pec uliarit ies and eccentricit ies of this youth , as mad as a "March H a re'' and as changea ble as t he wind. Smit h, the sc hola r, poet, at hlete, lover and d is penser of hot a ir, ga ve his sui tcase away while returning from St. Louis. H ow much is 91 cents? If l "ncle As her cou ld onl y see m e now ! Corpora l Company A; Hum orous Ed itor HAT-'1\ vr; Class Historian ; (jJ K . ALI':X ANDI·:n NicC . Sn: n :Ns. R AOUL J. Ruz. " Dago .'' " J\1[ en li ke wagons rattle most when th ey are empty." This you th was picked up in H avana, Cuba, an d borne to St. J ohn 's on t he wings of a hurricane. Ever since he has made miserable the lives of t he Prof. an d every body wit h whom he comes in co ntact. A singer of no te, his fa vc rite song being " I stood on the bridge r"t midnight,'' meaning the East por t bri dge . vVe do not know what he intends to do after graduation , but owing to his ability to. clim b lamp-posts and hi s fondness for light work , we proph esy that he will be a lam plighter. Co rporal Company B ; (jJ M. J OHN G. 8 1-1 J·: ARER . " T ubby." " I dleTs cannot even find time to be idle.' ' As his name indicates he is t he most corpulent member of t he class, so much so t hat he can scarcely squeeze into his room. Ta kes li quid nourishment, a nd studies hard to reduce his weight . Never was known to attend more than two recitations per week. H as t he greatest dislike for any kind of exercise. H as no part icul ar aim in life, but lives, for t he sa ke of livi ng. " Will dou btlessly become a coal miner. A mem ber of t he F at Man 's Club. Se rgeant Com pany B ; Secretary R AT-T • Manager F ootba ll T eam ; Class Treas urer ; \T; (jJ M; rP ~ K. 76 "Brick · 'l' op.'' " T hou living ray of intellectucd fir e.'' This yout h , wi t h Emera ld Isle wri tten in bo ld type a ll over his coun tenr.n ce, belongs to the fo ur mem bered red-headed league. T so Irish t hat he will run after s anyt hin g green . Slow and deli berate in s peech and actions, a lways t hin ks t hree times an d never speaks at a ll. H as reeently beco me melancholy and sits around in obscure co rners , cons umi ng en or mous quantities of " bummed'' tobacco , bu t we ma ke a llowances for him , kno,ri ng t hat he has been jilted by a beaut iful Ann apolis belle. Cc rpA l Com pany A; Captain ra Foot ball Team , '06; Assistant Athletic Ed itor R .-I. T T AT; (jJ Jl;f ; (j) ~ IC. R I C J-I A RD STONE. " Dick. " " 7'heTe are bm ying men in the world as well as braying asses.'' The subject of t llis sketc h is one of t he few m en in t he class who reall y has a defini te and well defin ed object in view ; t hat is, to bum tobacco and read cheap li tera ture. Swears by Ru z and Strohm. Occasion ally strays into a class room , wit h t he express purpose of worrying t he Prof. H as a sweet melodious vo ice like a " busted siren." His favorite amusement is in as king foo l questions. H as t aken fi rst prep. Lat in so long that he can recite it by heart. 77 �A. STROH::IL " Du tch,"- " J l1outh.'' " Jll[ adness , we fancy , ga ve an ill-tim ed birth to gr·inning laughter and to fr-antic mirth.' ' Dutch, is a very ami able boy, his on e great redeeming quali ty being his mouth , which extends from on e audi tori al projection to the other, and afford s an excellent opportunity to hide selected cards. An elocutioni st of prominence, wears the same size hat , shoes and collar. His head is so light t hat it is impossibl e for him to eli ve. W alks so straight that you would think it impossible for him to steal ice but he has slipped up on t hat. Sergeant in Band; Assistant Miscellaneous Ed itor RAT-TA'r: rJJ M . ·wiLLIAM CHArtLES__E . TI LGHMAN , ? ? ? "llif elancholy as a loveT' s lute.' ' This lad hails from the confin es of t he " E astern f::l ho' ,'' where he was engaged in training the young m in ds how to shoot. Dropped in upon us rather unexpected ly t hi s year, but we are glad to have a li ttle femininity in the class . Believes t ha t silence is the best pa rt of virtue; will not even cra ck a smile at Pokey's jokes. \¥ as reared in a school for mutes. A member of t he Ruralite and Anti -j oke Societies. Fond of doing a bsolu tely nothing. Expects to engage in farming. (p K Aufwiedersehen . "IVai. '' M. T E RRY. "To despise our species is the price tve must too often 7 1ay for our knowledge of i t.' ' This lad is from the U . S. Naval Academ y and wants everybody to know it. Never was known to speak only in monosyllables. " Say, Nat ''"hose your girl ?'' "Dunno.'' " Have you got one? " " Dunno." W ouldlike to be a society m an if he could. A scholar with loads of learned lum ber in hi s head . Som etimes tries to tea ch the Profs. but has never yet succeeded in convincing "Ducky" that he knows Mat h. Has no ambition except t.o become profi cient in the art of jerking soda water. NATHA N IEL A LJ.;XAl\DErt c. THOMPS ON . " R ev.' ' " Long and lean , lank and thin as one of Satan 's cherubim .' ' Rev. is a cute littl e fell ow who reminds one very forcibly of Ichabod Crane. His long limbs and shovel feet continuall y carry him in t he direction of "Market Space,'' wh ere he sings " Anna virum que cano '' to hi s sweetheart, with th e accent on the "Anna,' ' with appropriate illustrations. The shortest fellow in the class, in fact , so very small that he is familiarly !mown as "Baby Con tee.' ' Has a wonderful im agination, even imagining that he can preach , but we suggest that he make a contract for sweeping clouds from the sky. Corporal Company B; Secretary of Class ; Alu mn i Editor RAT-TAT; rJJ Jl!I . 78 79 �Junior History. A,; ic 11-ou lei take volurn es to relate n,ll c:mcerningth e Class of 190! , it is dee1~1e_d wi se to ment ion on y a ew fa cts which are self- ev id ent. In t he first place ~ ~ IS really a pleasure to write about such a bright looking bun~h of fellows 1~ow ~~andm g o·inninO' of t he rou o·h and stony path way leadmg to t he great ha ll of a t t he be o "' o . ll I . t fame'' all eager to have t heir names in scribed upon tts wa s. n many respec. s the 1 go7 class has not been excelled by any class in the his_tory of the College and m some respects is far superior to m an y. This is shown b~ rts ~·~prcsentattves on t~c different teams, in the different clubs and societ ies, by Its chhgent students, hard working earn est men, and in m any othe : ways needless to m~nt_t ~n: . . . T o be in touch " ·it h present events con cernm g t he class, 1t Js 11 ell to m en tiO n just a few t hings which c-ame to pass in the two years pre vwus. In our first year: very litt le happened, wi t h the except ion of t he f~n the Sopho;11o_res h_ad at om_ tl "Gl Club '' cte .--of course we enJoyedrt (?) . fh1 s was the year . expense, 1e ee , . . . d " B" ll ,, ' Beam that J ohn H arrison won t he co llege cham pionshi p m tenms, an . 1 ) . · . eon templated being eaptain of the n ext year's _football team , be 1de 1n_nnmg l1.1 S. laurels in baseball and t rack . In a little while J.t wa Jun e and we cl epm ted to om hom es for t he ho lid ays. . . 'Nhen \Ve came bac:k in September we were So phomores- felt b Jg~determin ed to have the dwellers of both Pinkney and Humphrey to do our_ brddmg_ . This of co urse was to keep t he yo un g in t he ri ght path . One ra~d foll o,ved . "ncl often t im es in t he dead of night we would go through old Pmkney lt ke anot,l1er, " · . , , t . o·· . la rin o· tai 1 cyclon e from T exas, takin g everythm g and every body as we"' en , J eo all ;ess ;f ;ost, which (to our sorrow) we aft erward s found to be eve~ se venty dollars, which a few fellows kindl y(?) agreed to pay. This was t he year m whiCh Benn e~~ · " . . IOS t IliS "collar· I '' and Smith his "sui t case.'' in whi ch Belt sang Cl Lazy 1\'JI oon , d I and "Cath 'frizzled li ke a fried egg,"' in wh.ieh Ruz "warted for . :ns~r,n e , an Thompson received a telegram which" lookecl li_ke his Sister 's wn t~n ~;, J ac:.::son was married, Oti s Draper" got drunk '' and lVJcl(mley " played po ker , m sum mary , it m ay be fit ly c;a,l led the "Annus Mirabilis.'' . : . , ._ 1\fter t he summ er vacation, we came bac k loo lun g bught and cheerful, dete1 min e.d to 1york hard , t hi s being our Junior year. "\N e had_ to ,"cut out'' all o~,~. 't · " boy1sh t n· cks and be men as 1 " ·ere . "'P on mv word ' rsn t t hat a-b-s-u-r-d . L . ' • o : 80 Hurkc " arrived from Ke" · Ya 11·k, on a li ght uin g ex press, an d upon the inn er elbow of his rear lapel was a bu tton ext racted from the left ca r of Bcclcli a's ri ght shoe ." H e, as usual, was sin gin g" Back , Back, Bac: k to Haltimore.'' D raper hearin g t hi s so melod iously sun g, at once des idcd to go to H op kins. This ;:;onp: a lso in spired " D ick" ~tone and " Du tch'' Strohm to want to fi re " Bu zzard ';; Roost ,'' ;:;o the? 11·ere made leaders of a brigade detailed to r a id t he aforesa id "restin g place.'' During thifi year many t hin gs of importan ce h ave happened. Coul bourn was elected Presid ent wit h Anderson \'i ce- Pres ident of t he elass . And erson , Brady, Bordley and Gwynn m ade t he font ba ll team, 1rhi le Steven::; 11·a;:; elec:tecl captain. E:ane "fell in love," Be lt saluted a policema n," J oe Gan s'' ent·erecl t he prize rin g, and severa l ne11· men entered t he class, a ll of 11·hom pr01·ed themRei ves to be wor thy m em bers. This brings us up to the presen t time wh en Ru z, no longer " 1Yaits upon the Ji:astport bridge at midnight ,' ' but upon t he porch of a stone hou13e, whi le the i3< t imore Coun ty air seems to agree with him. No w it i., t hat even "O icl l\ing" d Brady 's " fan cy light ly t urn s to thoughts of love,"-he has it bad , and he too may be in cluded among that bri lliant" galaxy of lovers,'' of \rhich Burke is the c ter, ·en who spend their tim e in learn ing by heart and compellin g their s11·ecthcart s to li sten to scores of those long and ready m ade speeches fu ll of m oon li ght serenades, peeping stars nestlin g in azure ski es, and long sentences tied up with t rue lovers' knots . Collin son , an un sophisticated sor t of a yo ut h , notices t he " doings'' of hi ;:; fe llow-townsmen , t hough he has but little to say. Hi s friend Chi lds cl esen·es specia l mention , as he is a crac k shot an d supplies the Co llege \\·ith cluc·ks, 1rilcl geese (?), unbeli evable yarns, etc. R u h l, "Father Tim e, the I ,'' and Ti lghm an , his _vo un ger brother are new m en- of these 1re have seen but li tt le and can on!~- t a lk accordingly. So far they have been goo d, earn est, ·hardworkin g fe llo\\·s, and ''"e t hink t hey wi ll " keep the ball a-rolling. " Of McKinley, better kn own as "Nigger Preacher ,'' it is needless t o say a word; his bright open face speaks fo r itself ; in it you can plain ly see those marks a nd ind icat ions by which we determine noble characters and high principles. H ere a 11·ord should be said for Shearer, anot her m an with a bri ght, smi lin g coun tenance a lmost rivaling the sun in brigh t ness. Shearer, " Pots" Mi ller and J\1es ersm ith a re thinking seriously of forming a beef trust. 1\:ane, at t im es called " Love-me," is Shearer 's room -mate-a lover and does "all sorts of funny stunts," but " Joye is blind and lovers cannot see t he petty follies t hey them selves commit.'' Next in line comes Stevens, t he only Irishm an in t he class; he a lso belongs to t he aforesaid " lovers ' galaxy'' and amuses him self by sin gin g " :J'fy Irish Mollie, 0.'' H e an d hi s strenuous room -mate, "Butti nsky'' Coulbourn , som etim es knmvn as "Cue'' are the greatest " rough-housers' ' in the class. H echt and Co ulbourn , on aceo unt of their a bi lity to te ll a - - withasLraight face were made business managers of the " RA'l.'-TAT,'' " ·it h Cathcart their assistant; for the last mentioned we m a~- sn y 81 �that be is one of those men "who willfu l stillness entertain,'' as if to say " L am Sir Oracle (Senator) , when I ope m y lips let no dog bark.' ' Next comes H an ce, "Speeclleburger' '-he rooms with Burke the lover, whom we think is contemplating matrim ony as he h as already started a book, entitled "Confessio Am antis.'' Burke's great chum and ide partner is Belt, whose sweet li ttle smile much resembling a " Lazy Moon ,'' greatly amuses t he fellows. It 's the same old smile he used to ">vipe off" in the "G. 0. H ." Across from Belt, rooms Arnold , "ye call him 'Chief ' and ye do well to call him 'Chief' who for five long years has played upon t his campus and only sixteen times has been mistaken for Co lbert.'' H e and his neighbor Gwynn , known to all as " J oe Gans'' are great pugilist s. Anderson is" Joe 's'' trainer and so far h as been exceedingly su ccessful. H e also h as " Rube'' Bowen and Thompson under his care; they have both developed into fine ath letes. The former IS : The first of us on dri ll a nd roll bco k n am ed Is " ~ndy" Anderson in footba ll famed, Of lll Jghty strength, and bowed out legs and knees ~ studious ('?) brain, black ha ir, a nd eyes t hat ple~se 'I he other sex ; an cater so 'tis said Who like a wolf is rave nous till he's' fed. This swell cadet a se rgeant you would know Though 'twere the first t ime yo u had seen l~im show His stripes, and stru t a round in peacock style· 'Tis Arnold kn own to Vonnie by his wile ' And everyday m idst shouts and sinuinu loud 0 He finds himself by ' foresaid Prof. ";ud oud.' ,' A strong sto ut boy with sinewy hand, Sometimes known as "pole vault man." The latter is: Tall and slim with foreh ead pointed, Lean and lank and double-jointed. In other words they form wh a t is known as the "long and short" of the Class of 1907. Bordley , alias "Bob,'' alias "Scrunt ,'' alias "Vonney ,'' was one of the ch arter members of the class. H as been here so long he is almost bald, and his age is already (?) hastening on to bring its fourth lustrum t o a close. As we have to sto p sometime might as well be now, leaving volum es to remain un told about the class whose triumphs and successes will be renewed wi th greater and greater luster in time to come, when other classes will be forgotten or live only in thesongsof the"RAT-TAT." At first sightof thisconstellation onewould say : " They look bright and ambitious, and t here is no doubt that America wi ll some clay feel their breath u pon her." . In closing let us, one and all , look to that Omnipotent Being who has been so kind to us in the past, who has watched over and helped us when dark shadows seemed to hang aroun d, and wit h all sin cereness say: "Lord of the Universe Shield and protect us, Trusting Thee always," d ear Father in Heaven; Thou ever h as helped us. Now don't neglect us, And ever watch o'er us"- t he Class of '07. HISTORIAN. 82 Junior Poetry. Oh! te ll me how t he next one to describe· Who 's fond of everythin(J" he can im bibe' ' b Salutes p?licemen, si ngs t he " Lazy Moon,'' Infla tes h1s chest somewhat as a balloon? And what a brace ! To see yo u will ha ve felt Yo u 'd know him a lways as t he on ly Belt. Our Editor-in-Chief he is a fake In ~aking bluffs be-well, just ta kes the ca ke; l-Ie IS mdeed polite a nd debonair But wai t un ti l he gets upon a "t~ar.'' By now you know it's Bennett, he a lone Is fond of Math, and just delights to bone. A Vonn ie, Wordie, scruntie lad ies' man With shuffling gait a nd voi~e t hat's und: r ba n, Is Bordley, a football star in his own conceit. You'd think t hat small a nd spare he little could ea t But don 't believe it, for he'd eat up a ll . The grub and piEs t hat are in th Dininu H a ll • b The next in li ne is Bowen, short an d tough H e's good in class but poor to work a bluff: Altho.ugh a·~ Re,ub?" he knows how to poleva uh , And 1f he d1dn t twere a serious fau lt Because 'tis all he's good in,-that 's a' fact, And a fter a ll he's not so good in t hat. 83 �I now refer t o Brady, not the King, Al t hough he m ay be good at detecting All kinds of things he isn 't wanted in . H e's in his elem ent amidst the din Of football fi er ce , in which he is a peach," And t hinks him self "the pebble on the beach." Potts Burke the love r I now in t rcdu cc, The sergeant " Boike,' ' the cra nk , t he silly goc>sc ; He 's light on top , but kno \\·s it not a bi_, t He is indeed a bu bble e \·e ry "·hit . H as lxen in love for gracious k n0 \\'S how long . The fool ! he r eckon s maniage o ne gra nd song. Our Class is fam ed t o ha ve a i:lenator , Alt hough Cath cart is nothin g but a bore; H e likes t o dan ce and jig above H ea rn 's h ead , And rip and tear upon a classmate's bed. Alas ! he was a good boy on ce, t hey say, But n ow he has by H echt been led astray. H e is a boy we'd have you know, before You chan ce to t hink his head is stuffed with lore ; Indeed 'tis qui te a vacuum, all agree, And how he kn ows so mu ch we can not see . His name is Childs , no dou bt you 've hea rd him t a lk . F or with his tongue he 's n ot so apt to balk. A backward lad , of Collinson I speak , H e's got t h e ~ri t but h asn' t got t he cheek , And could not work a skin gam e if h e tried; A sample of the saying I confide, ' In smallest p ar cels goods are pu t up best, 'Tis t r ue, alth o11gh som etimes he is a pest. Another n ow, is Coul bourn yo ung and gay, A h and some boy, but va in as an y jay; An oysterm an of wide repute and fame, From some place tl1 at has Crisfield for its nam e. At Madam e Bond 's he 's ver y fond of lunch, Is Prcsid Pnt of this '07 bund1. Of Gwy1m, th Pre 's nothing mu ch th at can be said , Of whom th e Freshies had a mortal dread; A celebrat ed boxer, he is called " Joe Ga ns,' ' and never yet has been a ppalled By scrapper black C' r whi te, or an y kind. P ossesses t oo mu ch a rm , too little mind. 84 The n ext is H ance , a Speedelb urge r t win , And wi th his foo ks he pa rt nership is in ' Vith Burton, a nd is fri sking hi ther , thither, The goodn ess kn ows n ot how, or wh en , or whi t her ; H e's li t tl e, bu t th ey say th at he's in lo ve Wi t h so me A nnapolis girl- his pea rl , his dove . H e is a m erry chap, an angel-face . Wi th comely shape, a nd limbs so full of g race; A beau , 'mongst ladi s he delights to loll, And t hinks t hat st ud ies a re bu t fol-de-rol. H e's Sergean t, t hinks he 's Colonel- hu t he's not, A t rack rn a n , H a rrison , full of tomm yrot-. The vYandcring .Tow, h ow can I tell H echt 's talc A ho t air pipe, a vo ice wit hout a jail; Of word s he never ha s t he slightes t dearth. Niein Go tt ! I 'll h a ve mv m oney or its wor t h· A Business lVIana!!:er of. t his shcbano' ,..,, A diplomat, a p eer of Li Hung Chang. ~ '' 0 lub m e now" is E:ane beyond a doubt , Wit h brazen cheek , an d proper brai11s wi t hout; A butter-in he is too mu ch we think His hair is slick , 'a nd never has a kinl~ Like Colbert 's or lVJcE:in!P.y 's eit her one. He's good t o laugh , but list not to his p un. llfagruder 's n ext, a t ra ck team m an of speed , A favorite fri end of Vonnie sore in need· H e's fond of Math, and a lmost everythi~g, And to " Dutch' ' Strohrn you 'll a lways see him cling. A negro once his features d isarranged , And since his love for t hem has great ly cha nged . A h am1less guy , I 'd have you know ere you , Believe his yarns, unlikely to be t rue; A studious boy-no m a n by a ny m eans, And yet a n emptier of so up t ureens , :Yieat plat es, teacups, McBride just loves to ca t , And in exam s. t o bone and gouge and cheat. An oth er p reacher, won 't t hey soon be all'! Who pla ys football a nd triEs t o play baseball, 1\'i t h hair like Colbert's, curly, full of kinks, A lot to learn-h e kn O\YS it not, by Jinks ! A maste r of t he noble art of bluff :YJcKinley is a h ypocri t ical t ough. ' 85 �Although " Pip" Melvin has t he grit and nerve , H e fools not with t he Ana lytic cur ve; H e shows his sense in leavin g Ducky be His "Caka lus'' a nd Trigonometry. H e's sma ll but judge him not by shape or size, Or maybe he would op en up your eyes . Of "Slimmie'' Ruhl , t he boxer, now I spea k, Who lo ves his voice, his figure , and his Gree k; Of sh oe-blac k he h as never felt the need, Unaware that a friPnd in need is a friend indeed . His stride is something awful to behold , His limbs a re models for an artist 's mould. The Dago, noted for his love affairs, I s next, and in his heart there 'a lways tears Some cruel, jilted love t hat's d ying ha rd , Or maybe several hours to wa lk on guard; H e's up to t ri cks of ever y sort and kind, We blame not Ru z for we know love is blind. Next, " Tubby" Shearer t ruly I'll describe , A m ember of th e Allegheny t ri be, Who goes to none but " Tommy's'' l3ible Class . A great exponen t of the hot-air gas, Who sits a round , a nd talks t he wh ole long day; A m ass of fat, a mind that's led astray. 11ehold the Dutchman, inn ocent e f g uile! His face is wreathed in an a lkncircling sn~ i b That bids defi an ce to the specter Math , The ca use of a ll o ur s ins of a ll our wrath 1 · So ta lka tive is Strohm , ''tis hard, a To edge in now a nd then a nd h ave it heard. ,,:ord "Xat" Terry next, so s ilen t, strange, a nd grurn , Who 's a lways pu tting som et hing e n t he bt:m; H e likes to stru t around in style, and smo ke, Has never seen the poin t cf any joke. H e's learn ed, doubt it if you will , His brains t he head of a ny pin wou ld fi ll. I now bring for t h a youno- man m odest mild, ' He's yet in clined to be a Uttle ,;,i ld · A li terary (?) genius, talented ' With stuff enough to Jill m o re t ha n one head. H e's from the farm, m ost anyene can see, F or oth erwise a Tilgh-ma n he'd ne t be. And now t he last but not t he leas t indeed I s Thompso n, who for shorter legs has ne~d; A scholar if he'd only study scm e, And we have hoprs t hat needed day m ay com e. A sirnple stuffer like m ost all the res t H e preys upon t he "General 's" food ~vith zest. A yout h with flax en hair and staring eyes, Which cha nges on a -sudden to surprise, As some new thought or idea strikes his m ind; H e in t he British Admira l 's cabin dined , 'Twas butting-in, but this he'll no t agree. Smith lost his suitcase once while on a spree. A red-h aired, bricktop Flanagan Stevens now Presents him self with lazy, slothful bow, H e's captain of our com ing footba ll team, Although 'two uld be the last th ing you would dream; A happy-go-lucky and ne 'er-do-wcll is he, The blindest, looniest, craziest m a n could see. " Dick" Stone, a wild and wofully waywa rd lad, vVho always is laughing, joking, merry and glad; H e's from downtown, and ever has a girl, Who keeps his heart in one continua l whirl. H e's short and small in stature, feet, a nd brain , On the last of which our Logic is a drain. 86 87 �THE ANNAPOLIS GIRL �SOPHOMORE GIRL �MOTTO. " Non nobis sol-um.' ' COLORR . R ed and Gray. CLASS OFF ICERS. G. iYI. AusTI:-<. . . ... . . . . S. A. RrcE. . . . . · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · . President M. T. L uf;B Y. . . .. . .. . .. . ... . . · . · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·· · · ·· · .Vice-President ... . . . . . . . F. L. L HARRELL.. . . . . . . . . . . . · · · · · · · · · · · · • · · · · · · · · ···· · ··.Secretary H. Hutson. . ···· ······ ·· · · · · · · · · .Treasurer ········ · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · . .Historian . .. .. .. .. . . . 90 �Sophomore Class. Brunswi ck , JVL . d ALDER , " Fcriry ," " Light she was and like a fairy .'' Norfolk , Va . LI~ Dr-: N ALr"l·:x , " TVinsome," " The world 's but one g rand m ins trel show upon whose scenes he pla ys an attending p art. " :Mardel a Springs, Mel . GEOHGE M. A usTIN, " Tomm y," " Pleased to m e et you , Dr. Fell. " Quanti co, Mel . vVALTEn BAILEY, " B ill, " " If we could see ourselves as other s see us. " Prince Frederi ck , Mel . LA WrtE ~c r-: M. BmscoE , "Peep, " " Chicle m e not, I am but a child. '' Prin ce Frederick, ~1Id. 'vV. NonwooD BRISCOE, "Judge, " " None but himself can be his parallel. " J a rretts vi lle, Mel . JoHN I. B u RTON, "S peedy," "Su ch men are dangerou s. " W as hington , D. C. NEWTON F . CARPE ~TER , "Ford," " On their own m erits, modest m en are dumb! " E as t on , Mel . FRANK E . C.- ULK, "Cork ," \ " I live to love.'' Millersville, Mel . HowARD L. CloCIL, Turk ey III., "Som e cla y I wll be a milita ry m an . " Annapolis, l\fcl. JAiVms .M. CRESAP, "Jimmy, " " So wise, so young they say d o n e 'er live lon g. " Chaney 's , l\Iel. URQUHART S . D o w ELL, "Crackers," ~I aj o r , U rket , Caterpilla r , H ercules, Spieler. Bright on , Mel. AnTHUR GARTRELL, "Lizzie," " Picks his t eeth with a d agger. " Ann a po lis, }Jcl. FRA NK H . GAuss, " Frankie," " Who thinks too little anJ who t a lks too much. " Perry H a ll, Mel . C. RAYMOND HALBF:RT, "Reds," " A wit "-ith dunces, and a dunce with wits . " B a ltimore, l\'fcl. H ERSCHEL 0. HALBERT, "Lou ," " 0 if I 1rere onl y as famous as my brother!" A. GARLA ~ D 92 J u Lw::; HAu,, " J udy ," Anna polis, Mel. " Like .·om e fair fl o1rer t he ea rl y s pring supplies . " HAROLD H AHDING E, " Bum,' · ' Elli cott City, Mel . "Bid m e discourse I sh a ll enehant thy nam e. " F . LIC: HTFOOT L. HAHH ELL, " J[ ex." l Ahua la lco , lVh )xi co. "Coyote, Afri can us, Greaser , D ago, Sergean t . " B a ltimore, iVId. PHILIP H . HARHJ SOK, " Laml1 ," " Am erica h as at last produ ced a ma.n (in his own estim a tion ) . \ \TrLLLnr E. HA uvr; n , " J ight H awk ," V 1 yersville, :M:d. \I " A proper m an as one sh a ll see on a summ er 's day . " H owAHD H uTSOK, "Cmmtry," Cortner , ~Id . "Swift of foot and keen of limb. " Cum berland , lV[cL Awr rTUn R. LA ~EY, " Fickle W illie ," "~'I an delights n ot me ; n o, nor do women eith er. " Sparrows Point , Md. B u nNs L oc:AN, "Bu ll, " " Ofttimes the y heard a m ost melodious sound. " Co ckeysv ill e, Mel . A. GALLATIN Lov E, " Possum ,'' " Eternal smiles his empt iness bet r ay . " Bowens, Mel. l\Lu~cu::; T . L us BY, " Doc,'' " My n ose is a better trailer than a bloodhound 's. " Jefferson , : el. M ALL.- N C. Mc BmnE, "Cm•sin Cholly II .," \ " One a mong m an y .'' Baltimore, 'Mel. ~EWELL F. 1\lcD o R:vrA N, "J' [ac, " Y " I wi ll never butt-in again. " Annapolis, : el. M J osEPH P. l\I c~I A KI ~, " Joe," "Sublim e t obacco, "-hich from E ast to ·w est ch eers t he t ar 's la bor or t he Turk_ an 's rest . " m A. l\IELSO=", "Whitey,'' " \Vater Spaniel and Hyen a . " Gr:oJWE L . }iiLLEn, " Pots, " "My h eaven for an unwear able quill. " VVA LTER ~'L UN ROE , " R eddy, " " I h a ve no oth er than a woman 's reason , I think h im so becau se I think him so. " \ VILLIAM NEILL, " Pappy,' ' " My heart 's \Yi t h you tonight , Love. " R or:ER V . P AHLETT, " Fats," " My weight is mu ch too great I fear , From drink in g d a ily lager beer. " \VrLLL1.:11 H . P EHKIKs , "Si," " As honest a sou l as ever scuttled a ship. " ~[An vrx 93 R oc kawa lking , Mel. Il'ficlcl letown , Mel . Annapolis, l\Id . Charlestown , W . Va . Anna polis, Mel. Hancock , lVIJ. �ALFONi'iO W . PEZlcT, "Peruna,'' Guatem ala . C. A. "Bring back my bonnie to me.'' Quantico , Mel. PRATT D. PHILIPS, "Pratt ,'' " 0 , if I could only see my future.' ' M Pocomoke City, : el. FRANK A. PINKERTON," Detective,'' " H e still pursues t he villain.'' Sali sbury, Mel. VvALLA CB M. Po>VELL, " L avey,'' "A loveli er creature I never beheld.' ' East on, Mel. ALFRED G. QuiMBY, " Hor se,'' My only books were wom an's looks And folly 's all they've taught me. SAMUJCL A. RrcE , "Samba,' ' Baltimore, Mel. " Does this thing call itself a man?'' FRJCDERI CK H. SASSCER, "Sass y,'' U pper Marlborough, Mel. "vVhat's in a n am e, anyhow.'' CHARLES H . ScHUSTlm, "Goliath,'' J arretsville, Mel. " Wh en I ope my m outh let no other dog baric '' · C}IA RLJ<;s I-I. Sn uG ERT , "Sweets , ' ' Cl1fn I es t own, W . V a. " The taste has soon worn off.'' .J. GRAHAM SHANNAHAN, "Monk,'' East on, Mel. A dinner lubri cates business.'' RoBERT A. ST J;;RNBERG, " Dutch ,'' Catonsville, N . id " And still they gazed and still their wonder grew, That one small head held all the gas he blew." DoNOVAN SwA NN, "Don,'' Baltimore, Mel . " Blessed be he who first invented sleep.'' UPTON H. TA Rm;;RT, "Country ,'' Glen coe, Md. "Although I am not much addicted to booze, I 'm an intim ate friend of the everyday. snooze.'' LLEW I•:LLYN .J. THOMA S, "Chinee,'' Heading, Pa. " \iVh y worry, life will pass any way.'' J OHN B. THOMA S, "Buck,'' BaJtimore, Mel. "A t hing of beauty is a joy forever.'' CHARLES F. THOMAS, "Toady,'' Baltimore , Mel. "A needy, holl ow-eyed , sharp-looking wretch-a li ving dead man.'' vVILFORD H . T OWNSEND, "Rabbi,'' Cheltenh am. Mel . " This is th e Jew t hat Shakespeare drew .'' ()4 Sophomore Histor-y. As the sun was sinking behind the horizon on a cool September evening, the boys who represented the Freshmen Class of last year were marchin g up t he old College walk, sending forth shouts of joy, 'when from t he W alls of old Pinkney came t he echo: Rah! Rah! Rah! Rah! Rah ; Ri! Red and Gray, S . J. C. Rickety R acks ! Rah! Rah! Rate ! Saint John 's, '08 , '08, '08. g iven by members of the Class who had arrived t he day before , and were filled with the Saint John 's spirit. We were ridiculed again and again last year by upper classmen and realizing we were mere Freshies dared not say a word But what a change a year has brought about. Ah! what a difference between the life of a Freshman and that of a Sophomore A new existence seemed to be before us and no doubt it was as Dr. Garver and Squire Willi m, who, in expressing their opinion, claimed they never saw a m errier set of boys than the members of the Class of 1908. As we look back to the time when we were Preps. and Freshmen, and think of being made fun of and run by the Sophomores, we think life was hardly worth living then We did not enjoy making love to a looking-glass or fri zzling like an egg in order that the Sophomores migh t have their fun at our expense, nor did we relish the idea of furnishing amusement for all upper class men, who took a great delight in watching the number and variety of stunts we could do. Many new students were enrolled t his year , and many of them were far enough advanced to become members of such a noble body as ours. These men, however, would sometimes find their beds on the " bum'' then the "gas'' would be turned on, and there was to be found floating around in the room a great deal of "hot air,'' but that only lasted for a short time, when " Windsome' ' Allen would s peak up and say, "Boys you must get accustomed to College life.'' "Windsome'' thinks he shall quit College and go on the stage; all he needs is a monkey and a hand-organ , and h e will be ready to post bills, giving his first performance in Annapolis. His class-mates think this a wi se plan as he is a lways heard if not. seen. His Motto is," No Fool, No Fun.'' "Crackers'' Dowell says he is capable of taking charge of the Battalion this year since the Sophomores bestowed upon him the honor of being Ma jor of his class last year. Dowell would, no doubt , be Major of the Battalion , but unfortunately for him his stunted growth and lack of knowledge in Military Tactics deprives him of this position. Next comes George Miller , more com monly known as "Pots,' ' who is forever 95 �getting himself in troub le by setting off fire-crackers and ra1smg a disturbance , which calls forth the Professors in order that peace might be restored. "Potf;'' says, he thinl.::s by t he time he graduates he wi ll be the leading philosopher of the Co llege, and then " .Pokey' ' Daniels \\-ill have to take a back seat . He is a very important man in Company B. Alt hough he is in the rear rank , his abdom ina l expansion is so great that t he front rank dresses on him . One of t he leading men of our class is Burton , kno \- n as "8peedleburg," who v wa,nts to be an A.B. , Ph.D ., LL.D., by the tim e he graduates. Hi s room-mate, Schuster , from constant ly being in his company, thinks he too 1ri ll be able to get the same degrees , but t hey are advised by the class to go back to t he farm. Now comes Laney, generally called "Fickle vVillie,'' who says he would rather be in Cum berland with t he girl who sto le his heart t han eating "General Grant's'' min ce pies. "Fickle" is a dead game sport and claims to be sornewhatofamusician. Francis Lee Lightfoot H arrell , or the '~ifexic an Greaser,'' " Acting Sergeant of the Fourth floor,'' is making strenuous efforts to get a "grease'' with Major Thompson, in order that he may he Major in his Senior year. Ma jor says, no doubt, he will be a Senior but he must be d- el "pertikler'' if he ever expects to become Major. Quimby, although a football man , lacks his parents' care as he still cries for the bottle. "Mother'' H earn, however, takes great pleasure in visitin g and pacifying him when he is longing for these parental caresses. Austin and Phillips are very close chum s, as quite frequent ly one can hear Austin call dow·n to Phillips: " H ey ! Pratt, where are you at?" Pratt replies , "Down in this here end of the Hall listening to a fiddle." "You know , one of then]. things Pap 's got." "He's got a threshing machine, too, but he saws logs with it.' ' .M cDorman t ries to irn press u pon our minds t he fact t hat he is a singer,·as he is frequ ently heard singing "Back , Back , Back to Baltim ore." It seems as though his heart has lleen captured by some fai r maiden , and his though ts elwell on her constantly . Frank Caulk , a handsome and dashing you th, spends most of his t im e attending shows , and we think from all indications he wi ll become one of the leading men in t he "Prince of Pilsen.'' Tall "Si'' Perkins, who had his arm broken in a game of football last year, we are proud to say, will be in the field again next fall. According to a statement made by his gi rl , his arm is as strong as ever. Among the athletic m E we might mention are Perkins, Hauver, Miller, Halbert, Hutson, n H arrell , Burton and "Peep'' Briscoe in football; McDorman, Briscoe, Caulk , H arrison , H auver an d Quimby in baseball For the track we have H arrison, Hutson , Schuster, Shannahan, Tarbert , H arclinge, Carpenter , Mill er and Gartrell. Our motto is : "Non nobis solum ." By thi s we d esi re, as the motto reads , to live "lll ot for ourselres a! one'' but for the benefit of t hose whom we ean help, and to ollow the teachings of our dear old College. FRESHMAN GIRL 96 �Class of 1909. (f) (f) <( ...J (.) O F FICERS. z <( 2 I (f) G. President B. LEE HuTCHINSON ... .. .. . . . ... ... ... . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vice-President JosEPH '\V. CAULK . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . .. . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . Secretary J . IRVIN G DAWSON . . . . . . . . . .. . ... . ... . . . . . . .. .. .. . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Treasurer B. DAwsoN WRIGHTSON . ... . . .. . ... . ... .. . . .. . .. . . . .. . .. . ... . . . . . SAUNDERS BULLARD ... .. . . .. . . .. ... .. . . . . ..... . . .. . . .. . ... .Historian 98 w a: lJ.. �L J. S I·:LL,1AN-" Zaek" ...... .. . .. . . JoSEPH vV. THOMA S-" Joe " . . ... . .... . . . LLEWELL'>')i THOMA"-" Chinee" . .. . EDWIN liVAHFIELD Jn. -" Governor " ROBERT A . vVrLSON-" Greaser " . . .. JOH N N. \ i\T !Lli:INSON-" Four Eyes" . G. D ,IWSO)J" \ VniGHTSON- "Dock ". Class Roll. E. REA n BicARD-" Whiske rs" . .... . ... . . ... . .. .. . ... ... . .... Baltimore , Mel . B. SA UN DEns B L" LLAHD-" f:h,·inclers" ................. . .. . . .. .. Annapolis, 1\ld. RonEnT 8. B u JtWELL-" Bobby ''. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baltirnore, Mel. J . MARSI-JALL CA I HWLL- "W hi teh ead"-"Frog Eater " . .Baltimore , 'Mel. EDWARD CA Jl iWLl. - " Judge". ................... . .... Belair, -~\'I cl. JOSEPH vV. CAULK-" Duck ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .?dcD a niel , .Mel. JoHN R. CLAllKE-" H orse " ........ . .. ... ..... . .. ......... E llicott City, l\Icl. LECOMPTF: CooK-" Cookie" .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Stevensvi ll e. Mel. HAROLD S. CuTLl':ll-" Pa1 tridge" . . . . . . . . . . . . . Annapolis, ::VIc!. MEDOREM CRAWFORD-" Zip " ... ... . .. . .. . . . . . . . .. Fort McHenry. Md. CHRISTIAN DAMMEYEH-" Eggie " ..... . . . ... .... . ... . .Ann apolis, 'Mel. J. IRVING D .\ WSO)J"- "Daws" . ....... . . . .... . . .. . . . . . . . .. . Leon a rclt0\n1, :Jfcl. THOMA S R. DAwsoN-" Deacon " ... . ... . . .. ..... .. ... . .. .. ... Cambridge, :Jicl . J orIN F . E.-~ RicCii:SON- " Eric" . . .... .. .. . .. . ...... . .. . . ... Stevensvi ll e Mel. W ILJ~IA M E=-<" rs-" Hill " . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anna po is }f d. 7 VIILLIARD Fo 1 m-" J ake".... . .... . .. . Annapolis, 1VIcl. JoHN GLADDE --" H ot Air" . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . .... .... Annapoli s, Mel. RoT~AND r. HARRINGTON-" Dago " .... . . . . .. . . . . .Annapolis 1VIcl. CHAnu:s liVALLACJ~ HIGH-" Venus".. . ... . . . . ... . . .... . . ... Baltimore, Mel. J. EDWIN H ooD-" Father Tim e" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... Melbourne , Fla. F. E. HoovEn-" Fred" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ceci lton ?lid. B. B. HowARD-" Bush ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Annapoli s :J'ld. B L EE HuTCHINSON-" Hutch ". . . . .. . ..... ........ . .Fai rm ont , \¥ . Va. R. ELMJ<:R J O)~E s-''Country " .. ...... . . .. . . . . . . . . . ... Lyn chs, ::Vfd. J. ALEXANDBR KEKDmcK-" Kearn ". .. .. . .. . . . . . . . ... . . . .Ripley, Mel. CLAPHAM P. Knc-"Fats" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . Annapolis, i\Icl. HAHRY LEYRLY-" Levi " ... . .. . . .. . ......... . ..... Annapo is ·Mel. HAmnsoN McALPINE-" Miner " . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Lonaconing, Mel. E W. OnmsoN-"Tubby" . . .... . . . .. . .. . . ... . .. . ...... .. ... Baltimore, :Mel. C. C. REYNOLDs-" Deputy" ......... . ...... .. .......... .. . Rising Sun l\J d. ALnEH T STAHLINGs-" Sain t Albert" .. . . . . .. . .... . . . . . . ... . . . Annapo li s, !\I d. 101 100 . . Baltim ore , Mel. . . Annapo li s, Mel. . .... Burnh am, Pa. .. Annapolis, :Mel . . .. Bel Air, Mel. . Norfolk , Va . . . Easton, Mel. �I fpeJ , as I undertake to write the history of the Class of 1909 that it wilr require a person with a much larger vocabulary than I have to write the many adventures of our Freshman year. The haps and mishaps of our class were many and in the limited space at my command I must fall short of relating them alL It was a day in mid-September that the Class of 1909 made its first appearance in College circles. City boys, dressed in their best, and frostbitten countrymen were to be seen coming in by every train to make up our class. Some young men,. like "Chinee'' Thomas , being so rich as to smoke forty-cent cigarettes,and to ride, up to college in a hack. He is from Pennsylvania ; that is the reason . Historic McDowell Hall, flanked on either side by Humphrey and Pinkney, met our gaze from College Avenue, and as we neared the College, we saw Senior Hall in the spa ce between McDowell and Pinkney. The old halls , which a week before had been silent, now rang with the joyous voices of old students as they greeted their comrades of the year before. The ivy-covered Pinkney Hall was to be our home for the coming nine months ; so we got our things settled and started to make friends with the old students. The fourth floor seemed to be a nest of Freshmen , and we were soon acquainted with all our class mates. The old men seemed glad to meet us and willin g to answer all our curious questions, but a few of us were roped. m by being sent to Major Thompson for the boat-house key. From every train that came in during the next few days , groups of st udents came up to College and were greeted by the ones that had arrived before. The heighth of good feeling reigned between the students, all elasses, old students and new, mingled together for the first few days. We had heard from some of the old students of a rrysterious meeting, called the Glee Club, and were told that it was an initiation into college. That is a ll they would tell us, hence we were left to draw our own co .1clusions. Just before study hour one night , the Saturday after we arrived , the cry rang out in Pinkney Hall , "All Freshmen and new men report in room SA at eleven sharp.'' Oh, what a shock r It came like a bomb in the Freshman camp. The evening passed slowly for us. Many groups of Freshmen congregated in a classmate's room, and talked over the torture that was approachin g. Many comments were made, and many guesses as to what was to happen. Some of the Freshm en were so scared they could hardly keep their knees from shaking , while the more bo ld ones wished the time would come, and " get it over with,' ' as they expressed it. We reported in the room at the appointed hour, roll being called, a few absentees were soon found hid away in dark corners, the Sophs see:-ning to know just where to look for them. When all were ready we were marched to the slaughter house, otherwise known as the" gym." On entering, vre found the room filled with a crowd of upper-classmen waiting to see the fun, Among the many stunts of the evening were: Orrison wrestling with temptation; Ducky Caulk chasing him self around the floor; Bobby Burwell giving his opinion on " Tip Top' ' weekly and his comments were very good, com:idering the fact that he has never read one (?) ; Whitey Carroll and Eareckson playing the cuckoo clock, and many others that I cann ot recall at this moment. After a farewell ditty by all the new men , each singing a different song, we were marched back to Pinkney Hall, and after a few directions were allowed to go to sleep in peace. All went along smoothly until one night , a few days afterward , when we were roughly· pulled out of our beds and stood in the corner, while some ghostly voice read us the rules that we were to obey during the next nine months. Two elaborately printed posters with the rules in glaring letters were left in every Freshman 's room as a memento of the occasion. Soon came the call for football candidates, and we responded with a wi lL Hutchinson , although on ly fifteen years old , became one of St. John's best ends. On the second team we had Jones , High , Warfield, Clarke and Howard , who were· always in the game, and who promise to give someone a rub for their position s next fall On the track we show up equally as well , and in baseball we have pretty near the whole infield in our C'lass . Among those out for baseball are Fred Hoover, Ed . Carroll, Deputy Reynolds and Dock vVrightson . We expect each of these men to do well. On the track we have Govern or Warfield and Venus High, both of whom won medals in their Prep. year. We ha ve made a good showing in athletics and we are proud of it , and h0pe to keep it up in the future. In the social whirl we have ma.n y , am ong whom are Hutchinson , Beard and Duck Caulk, our· class beauty. In both the Mandolin and Glee Clubs, we have some members, and a good many in the Band , who are developing into fair musicians. Although a good many of our class are fonder of pleasure th an rf study, we have man y that stand well in their class, am ong whom are the twin Dawsons , and Frostbitten Kendrick, also Chinee Thomas, who accomplished the feat of getting four · fives in one month . Affairs ran along smocthly with us ex cept for a few unpleasant occurrences with the Sophomores during the winter. Some Saturday evenings, when we were planning a pleasant ca ll at the homed some fair young lady , we were brought up beforethe G. 0. H. , to add our specialties to the program for the Sophs' benefit .. " Four Eyes" vVilkinson, a young lady with a baritone voi ce, used to sing a ballad,. entitled "How 'd you like to have a voice like me?'' The two twins , Eareckson . 102 103 Freshman History. �and Du ck Caulk , would sing comic son gs, Bobby Burwell acting as a hum an being:. and 'vVhitey Carroll sin gin g " Tamm an y .'' Greaser Wilson is still mourning over the Russian defeat by the J apanese, but he has one sn,ti shtcti on left; he in tends sometime to join the Russian :'llarin e Corps. Short ly before Christmas we were vis ited by a band of So phs, who told us that Santa Claus would visit us that ni ght , and advised us to write what we wanted on pi eces of paper and tack them on the outside of our doors, so "Santa Claus'' coul d get them. Vve heard no more about it, but the next m orning all the letters \Yere gone. I ~iYe here a few samples of t he notes written to Santa Cla us : ~t . J olm 's College, Annapolis, :'lid., D ecember 18 , 1905. Dear Santa Claus: :Please bring this poor boy a box of cigarett es . some " Tip T ops'' plenty of matches, "Diamond Dicks ," etc. R. 8. Bu rnvELJ_,. Dear Old Santa: Please bring me s -mething to eat, a. J am not getting mu ch grub here. Also bring me some corn silk to ~moke, for I don ' t sm oke tobacco. Your firm believer, R. E. JoNES. Some evenings, a crowd of Sophomores " ·ould get three Freshmen and m nke t hem act t he D ago and the Monkey : that is, one of the Freslm1en would get in t he clothes-press and sing, another would pl ay Dago and turn the crank , while t he other would play the monkey. Crawford '"as the Freshman usually selected for the organ because he h as su ch a fin e voice; Orrison turned the crank and McAlpine , the boy miner w~~s the m onk. One member of our class, a twin brother of Father Time, J . Edwin Hood by n ame, sometimes forgets him self and frisks around as if he were under forty. H e is very popul ar with t he ladies, especiall y those of the "Gay New York Company.' ' Through it all we have been piloted by old Do ck 'Wrightson, from t he" Eastern Sho ," and no praise is high enough for him t he way he handled class matters. Spring is fast approachin g, and with it examinati ons and the end of our Freshman year , one of the happiest we have ever spent. vVe have made mistakes and we know it, but we hope to profit by the experien ce· we received as a Freshman at Old St. J ohn 's ! 104 �Preparatory School. CATALOGUE OF PUPILS . FIRST LOU I S JAME S H. BRE!lE TON. CLASS. J oHN F . LuTz. c. BYRNES Lr<:ROY G. ME SSERS MITH. { ) ALRB JAMF. S CoATSWORTH. RI CHARD NEWTON GEoRGE J 0 0 B. CoLLINSON. Jar-IN M. (/)· JoH N MoTLEX >a: ALBERT t- ' <{ a: <{' c.. UJ· a: YvoNE KIRKPATRI CK HowAT. R oBERT D . RoGE R ·wALTER I (.) 0 CoNNOLLY. E. E. R STANLEY G. GIRAULT INARFIELD HARRY HOOPE S . Mu u D. uLLMAN SHIPLEY GE O RGE SKINNER. T . RALPH SMOUSJc. JAMI SON . SoMERVILLF:. vv. S TANsBuRY. IsAA C BA GGOTT JONE S. HowARD S . STRANGE RI CHARD A. KA SHNE !l . ALBERT TAR BE RT. a_ JOHN K EA RLLEY KEARN EY . vV A TNEIL L. W EE MS . DAVID JULIUS S. Jo sE PH GEORG E K EGAN . P ERE TYSON KENL Y. ·CHARLJ<:S ALFRED ELY KING . ALLISON WILMER. BuRTON WOOLE Y. EDWARD LLOYD . SECOND CLASS . WARWI CK BAYNJc . GARLAND CHAUNC!<;Y BROOKS . Pr~DRO M ELRN DEZ. JuAN JosE CANAs. FL OYD FRANK CoPP. TH ORNE lVI. E. . J. GoRDON CouNciLMAN. ELMER JoHN FINK. WrLLIAM GRASON HARTMAN. H E I STER Hoo GEN W ERFF lVIILLEH. PETE R S LEROY HAR COUHT SEXTON . .AND!lEW ALEXANDlm HAMILTON . BENJAMIN LINTHI CUM . HowARD E. SKINNER . STREET. LJ%AND VILLAFHA NCA . ROYAL HENRY Pow J cLL HOPKIN S . 107 l-IA YS W IG Lt<;Y �THE ST . JOHN ' S GIRL �PHILOKALIAN SOCIETY �Philokalian Society. ALDER. H ECHT. ALLEN. HOHB ERGER. AusTIN. Ho usTON, BAILEY. H uTCHINS , BENNETT. JO NES . BuRKE. McALPINE . BuRTON. McBRIDE, CATHCART. A. M cBRIDE, E. CAULK F. MILLER, CAULK , J. CLARK, G. MORRIS. E. T . PARSLEY. DAWSON, T. QUIMBY. DuvAL. RILEY. ENNIS . ScHUSTER. FooKs. SHANNAHAN. SINCLAIR. GARTRELL SMITH. HAN CE. HARDING. THOMAS, J. HARRISON , J. HARRISON, p. WILKINSON. HAUVER. WILSON. HEARN. WRIGHTSON, D. 111 • w. TILGHMAN. �· ~ .~.. ~,~ -- -~ ~· :, PHII-OMATHEAN SOCI!':TY ,, �Philomathean Society. BuLLARD . ANDERSON . CARROLL. ARNOLD. BEARD. CARPENTER. BowEN. CouLBOURN. BRIS COE, L. CRAWFORD. BRISCOE , N . EARECKSON. CRESAP. H . 0. HALBERT, GAUSS. HARRELL. GosNELL. HoDGSON. GwYNN. HuTSON. HALBERT, C. R. KANE. KEENE . McCARDELL. LANEY. McKINLEY. LLOYD. MELS ON. LovE . NEILL. MAGRUDER. ORRISON. PERKINS. RICE . PEZET. RuHL. PHILIPS . Ruz. PINKERTON. SELLMAN. PowELL. SHEARER. SHUGERT. THOMAS, STERNBERG. J. B. THOMPSON, STONE. A. C. THOMPSON , STROHM. J. M. TowNSHEND . TERHY. W E LLS. WRIGHTSON , W. ll3 D. �PHI SIGMA KAPPA �Sigma Chapter. May 16, 1903: Institu ted RO L L . MARCELLO WORTHI NGTON BoRDLEY. W I LLIAM NoRwooD BRISCOE. NEWTON FoRD CAR P ENTER. HowARD LEE CECIL. EDWARD T ALBOTT J oHN CLARK. RIDGLEY MEDOREM CLARK. CRAWFORD. W I LLIAM PELOUZE CuTLER. J OHN PHILIP HAXALL ALFRED TRIPLETT H ARRI SON. H ARRISON. HousTON. ANDREW P. KELLY. WILLIAM. NEILL, J r . RoBERT ALFRED ALEXANDER RousE. McCuLLY STEVENS. J OHN GASHORN SHEARER. EDWIN WARFIELD, Jr. ARTHUR DE T ALMA V ALK , FRAT E R S IN FACU LTA T E. T HOMAS FELL, Ph.D., LL.D . .,V. --" BYRON... AMos W . WooDcocK, M.A . C I SSEL, M.A. ROLAND H OPKINS, B . A. F RAT E R IN U RB E . EUGENE I GLEHART. 115 �Sigma Beta. M embers. FRANK ERNEST '08. '09. CAULK, CHARLES WALLA CE HJ GH , ARTHUR REGINALD LAN!';Y , CHARLES FRANCIS LLOY D, '08 . '06. FREDEJUCK HAROLD SASSCF.R, '08. '09. GoE R GE DAw soN ·wRI G HTsoN, SIGMA B ETA 117 �Glee Club. W. D. WRIGHTSON • .. .. ... .. .. .. ... .. . .. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . • . .. . •.... M. S. KEENE . ... . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... E. P . J. H . President Secretary B u RKE . . . . . . .. ... .. . . . . . ... .. . . . .... .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Treasurer SINCLAIR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Business Manager M. S. KEENE, Leader. First Tenor . M. Second Tenor . G. D. RILE Y. E. P. BuRKE . w . D . WRIGHTSON . CRAWFORD . A. L. ARNOLD. L. ALLE N . First Bass . w. P . WILMER. A. R. Second Bass. B. McKINLEY. . T. RuHL. W. MOORE. H LANEY. M. s. KEENE . Dramatic Club. President Secretary A. DE T. VALK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ... .. ... . . . . . . . . . . . . ... .... Treasurer W . D. WRIGHTSON . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . ... .. .. .. .. . . . . . . .. . . . . Business Manager PROF. B . VERNON C I SSEL . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . .. . .. . . . . . . . . . . M. S. KEENE . ... .. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . ... .. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . .. .. . MEMBERS. ALLEN. CRAWFORD. Hous ToN. B U RKE . EARE CKSON. H UTCHINS . RuHL. CARROLL. HARRISON, J. KELLY. SHEARER. HARRISON, P. LLOYD . SINCLAIR. HEARN. PINKERTON. WILMER, P. CLARK, E . T. CuTLER, W. P . 119 RousE. �Cotillion Club. OFFICERS . PERE W. President' V ice-President A . Rou sE . . . . . . . . . • .. . . ... . . . . . . . ... . . ... . . . . ... .. .. . .. Secretary· HousTON . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . ... .. ... . . . .. ... . .. . .. . . . . . . . . Tr easurer WILMER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PELOUZlc RoBERT ALFRED CuTLER .. . . . . . . .. .. .. . . .. . . . . . .. . . . . . . . .. . . .. HOP COMMITTEE. '06. '06 . ARTH_DR DE T. VALK , '06. lVI. W . B ORDLEY, '07 . JoHN T. H ARRI SON, '07. P H ILIP H . HA RRI SON, '08 ... '06. (Chairman) 'vV. P E LOUZE CuTLER, '06 . R onERT A. R ousE, '06. ALFRED H ousToN, '06. EDWARD T. CLARK , '06. CHARLES F. LL OYD , '06 . J. H. SIN CLAIR , P E RE WILMER, ANDRE W P . K ELLY, Series of H ops 1905- 06. February 23d . April 20th. April 27th. May 4th. May llth December 8th December 15th , J anuary 12th. J anuary 19th. February 16t h . 121 �MEMBERS. 1906. F. PERE WILMER. C. W. P. CuTLER. A. E. M. S. KEENE . J. E. L. GosNELL. E. w. R. G . D. RILEY. A. R. E. A. T . CLARK. H . HoDGSON. H ousToN. LLOYD. P. J . H . SINCLAIR. KELLY. G. PARSLEY. A. RousE. A. VALK. B. WELLS . D. WRIGHTSON. H UTCHINS. BATTLE. 1907. M. W. BoRDLEY. B. GWYNN . w. M . T ERRY. E. T. MELVIN . R. Ruz. P. BURKE . N. A. BELT. E. MAGRUDER . E. H . A . CouLBOURN. J. G . SHEARER. I. A. R. J. B. T . HARRISON . HANCE. E. BENNETT. P . KANE. SMITH . A. c. A . M. C. STEVENS. H. T. A. w. T HOM PSON. RuHL. JUn1ot ~ 1908. F. E. CAULK. J. P . McMAKI N. N. BRISCOE. N. P. F. CARPENTER. H ARRISON. F . L. HARRELL. A. G. LovE. A. R. S. A. L ANEY. R I CE. PEZET . P . PHI LLIPS. G. C. SMITH. w. S. T . SHUGART. H . J. D. SwANN. H ARDING, B. J R. NEILL, JR . J . G. SHANN"AHAN. T HOMAS. A. G . ALDER. 1909. J . CLARK. C. L. w. HIGH . HUTCHINSON. J. CAULK. E . WARFI ELD. B. D . WRIGHTSON. T . DAWSON. R. E. BURRELL. J. M. CARRO LL. 122 S. K. BuLLARD . BEARD. M . CRAWFORD. THE ROUGH PATH �Social Life at St. John's. How is a nyone going to study and dance, banquet and train for athletics , ca ll in town and attend inspection on time? It is preposterous to attempt to bring together such incompatible extremes and make them co-ordinate in one system, t he system of pure scholastic attainment . The cadets study of course and they have been known to dance; they call in town and get back in plenty of time for inspection (for corroboration, respectfully referred to " The Society Track Team.' ') This year the regul ar series of hops were given in a very.attractive m anner; t hey were largely attended and much en joyed by a ll. In the Commencement balls held during " June week ,'' social life and enjoyment reaches its climax, not only in the m azes of the light fantastic, but in t he longings of t he cadet, born and matured by t he numerous gayeties of the past ye&r. Many find a greater charm in the quiet and seclusion of the campus, than in the ball room. On t he night of June 16, the Philokalian Society held its annual hop, the first of a seri es of dances of " June week.' ' The hall was tastefully decorated with potted plants and college colors, while Mrs. Fell , and Mr. B. D . Chambers occ upied the receiving stand. The fo llowing night t he Philomathean Society gave its dance and on this occasion Mrs. Cissel and Mr. J . H . Fox received. On the evening of June 20, t he Class of 1906 gave t he Class of 1905 a grand farewell ball. Mrs. Fell an d President Clark of the '06 Class received. The old gymnasium was beautifully and tastefull y decorated for the occasion in the co lors of the two classes. At the fa rt her end of the gymnasium was a chec ker-board arrangement of colors, in blue and gr ay, across this in large letters was t he inscripti<;m, "Farewell1905.' ' The ba ll started with a "Grand March ,'' after which t he couples arranged t hemselves on opposite sides of t he room , while Major Smith , with elaborate ceremonies presented his sword to E. T . Clark , informing him of his appointmen t as Major, and giving over t he Battalion to his care. The dance ·which followed was acknowledged to be the most brilliant and successful " June Ball'' ever given at St. John's. This brought to an end t he social season for t he year 1904-05, and many were t he pleasant memories which we carried with us to our homes . 124 "Spiri t, mind and body" are L t rio whi ch, when evenly balanced and he uniformly developed , m ake t he true man. It is for t his that t he Young Men 's ·Christian Association stands. With this as its motto , t he Association may be considered a powerful auxiliary to our grand old College. We are proud to ha ve an orrranization of such world wide prominence among us. "' The perfection of t hese t hree: spirit , mind and body , constit ute the highest development that can be reached. The Greeks saw this and developed the idea to a high degree of excellence. The young man who means to win in t he battle of life today must consider eac h with equal weight. If he develops two and neglects the third , he is a cripple If he develops mind and body and neglects t he spirit, he enters life immeasurably handicapped. He must be true to a ll. John R. Mott , in an able address at Northfield , said, " There are men in our Co lleges and Universit ies who are fighting losing battles with self and sin, and our organi zation is helpin g just su ch men.'' Som e of the inspiration of Northfield has been transported to our own Assoc iat ion and has permeated all its workings . The meetings have been helpful and much in terest has been taken in t hem. Our officers have been efficient and have commanded t he respect of t he whole student-body. Bible and Mission study have been ably carried on, and we can safely say t hat t he men of our Alma Mater who participated in this work fee l more int imately acq uain ted with t heir Creator and feel t he value of Christianity in a man 's life more deep ly t han ever. . 25 1 �ACTIVE MEMB ERS. BAILEY. J ONES, QunmY. HuTCHI NS. BJ;;:-<NETT. E . RousE . Bow1~ N. Young Men? s Christian Association. R. KEENE. CLARK, E. J(INu, C. P. Ruz. RILEY. President A . C . QuiMBY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . • . . . . . . . . . •.... . . . . . . Vice-President G. L. MILLER . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tr easurer C . R . HALBERT . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . • . . . . • . . . . . . . R ecording Sec1·etary A C. THOMPSON . . . . . . .. . .. . .. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .. . .. . Corresponding Secretary H. ScHUSTER . ... . . . . . . ... . ....• . . . . . . . .. . .. . . ... . .. . . . . . . . . . M c KINLEY. S wA NN. MELVIN. TARBERT , H . HA N C E. C. GwYNN. HALBI<mT, C . R. MILLJ<;R, HAUVI':R. PETERS. HEARN. P I<: ZI':'f . Ho oD. PINKJ':RTON. G. TH OMPSON, A. C . TILGHMAN. ASSOCIATE MEMBERS. MJD I~ RSMITH. SS ALLEN. Dr. T HOMAS PROF . c. v. G. s. SINCLAIR. PRoF. A. W. WooD cocK R PARSLEY. H uTSON. CouLBOURN . LLOYD. R EV. T . P. HALLOWAY FELL A. STRYKER HODGSON. AusTIN. ADVISORY HIGH. ANDICRSON. B uLLARD. M c Bmn~C , CATH CART. M c BRIDE , A. TH OMAS , McALPIN!<: . WILSON. M OHRI S. " WRI GI-ITSON, D . BOARD . BELL DAWSON , COMMI TTEES . DowJ<; LL. Musical. A. C. McBRIDE, W . E. B. P . Chairman. McKINLEY . T. c. R. HALBERT. w . H AUVER. G. B. B. JoN ES . DAWSON. H ANCE . S. BuLLARD. PINKERTON. Social. C. NI embershi p. MILLER, Chairman. G. W . R. E. BuRKE. T. SHANNA HA N • . E. R. HALBERT, Chairman. A. C . Bible Study. QuiMBY, Chairman . A . C. QuiMBY. G. w. R. E. JONES. H. H UT SON. E. E. c. c. c. s. BENNETT. CATCHCART. R eligious Meetings . Chairman. E. MILLER . TILGHMAN. SHANNAHAN . W. B . McKINLEY, Mission Study. E. E. BENNETT, CHAIRMAN. H . T ARBERT. H. G. WILSON . A. C . THOMPSON. T. DAWSON. G. PINKERTON. L. E. 126 McALPINE. BOWEN . McBRIDE. 127 STERNBI<mG . L. J. �8Vlilitar~ _J _J Department. Commandant of Cadets. MA.rOR W. A. THOMPiiON , 4th Ca valry , U . S. A. > a: <( f- Commissioned Staff. _J Cadet Major E. T. Clark . ... . . . . . ..... .. .................. . . . . . ...... Major Cadet Captain J. H Sinclair . .. . .. . . . . .. . .. . . . . .. .... . .. ... . ....... Adjutant Cadet Quartermaster W. C. Morris,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. Quartermaster Cadet Commissary M. S. K Eene ,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .... Commissary Cadet Lieutenant E. G. Parsley, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Ordnance D epartment Cadet Lieutenant A. F. Hutchins, .. .. . .... . . . . . . ... . ... Ordnance Department Cadet Lieutenant E. E. Hearn , ... . . . . . . . . ... .. . . . . .. .. Ordnance Department Cadet Lieutenant vV. L. Moore .... . . . ......... . . . . . .. . Chief of Signal Corps Non-Commissioned Staff. Cadet Sergeant-Major A. P. Kell y,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sergeant Major Cadet Quarter-Master Sergeant R. H. Hodgson ,. . . . Quartermaster Sergeant Cadet Color Sergeants, .. . . . .. . .... .... P. Wi lmer, H. H . Carter, S. S. Hohberger Cadet Corporal Cra wford,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... .... . ... Chief Bugler 129 �STAFF OFFICERS THE BATTALION �C OMPANY A. Captain. W. P. CuTL J•:n. Li eutenants .J . B. W E LLS C. F. J . THOMP::lON (2d) (1st) LLO YD (2d additio nal). Sergeants. H . C. FooKS R. (1st.) J. C . BrtADY, T . HARRI SON. W. M. BOHDLE Y. A. AH OLD Corporals. E. L. F. B . GwYNN , T. lVIELYIN , B. HA NCJ<} vV . MA GRuDER, A. R. B OWEN, A . M. STEVJ<; NS, SMIT H. Privates. ALDER , CuTLmt, KA S HNElt , S ASSC F:H., BAIT-leY , DowELL, KE N DRI CK , S HA NNAHA N, BATTLE, EARE CK SON, J( EN L Y, S HIPLEY , BI<:ARD , ENNI S , L I<:v Jc LY , SM ITH , G. FINK M c BRIDE , SMOUSE M c ALPINE, STANSBURY, BRISCOE, BRISCOE N. L. GLADDE:N. c. BuLLARD , HAL BEwr , c. M c MA c KIN, BYRNES HARIUSON' p. lVJ J<:LENDEZ, TARBER'I', CAR ROLL , H ARTMAN, M uNROE, TH OMA S , CAULK, H UT CHINSON, M u DD , THOMA S, J . B. C HILD S, J ONES, lV1 8LSON, TILGHMAN , C LAHK, JAMISON PARLETT ' W ATNER, CoATSWORTH , KIN G C. A . POW J<;LL, vVoOLLEY. CONNOLLY , Kmc, C . P. E., Rrcr;, LINE OFFICERS 133 S TREET, L. J. �CO MPANY B. Captain. E. L. GosNELL. Lieutenants. A. D. VALK , (1 st Lieut.) G. D. RJLJW (2d Lieut. ) A . HousToN (2d additional) Sergeants E. P. DuvAL, (1st Sergt. ) J. H. A. CouLBOURN IB, E. N. A. BI•:LT, G. SHEARER. P. BuRKE . Corporals . I. P. KANJ<: L . 1. HE CH'l' , R. ANDf-:RSON , Jr. UJ 0 ~ cr: ~ Cl. R. Ruz, E. E. BENNETT, A. C. THOMPSON . C. c. CATHCART, (f) (f) Pri?Jates . UJ cr: 0 E. AUSTIN, Foao, M c BRIDE, BAYNE, HA LL, MILLER, Bun-roN, HARDING, SKINNER H . STilANGE, BUR\VI~ LL H ARR!';LL, Si<:XTON, STON I•:, CANAS , H ARRl NG'l'ON NEILL, TARBERT, CA HPE;NT I•: Il , H ooPES, ORRISON , TJmnY , PHILLIPS Tow Ns H END, CARHOLL , CAU LK , K J. Hoov 1 1l ·: . H OWARD G. tlTA ltLINGS, ST I"RNJ3E RG , P I·:Z ET , VILLA i<'HA NCA, Q UI MBY, i 'fiT A lti"H:Lo, CHAN C I·: J\: ~<;QAN , COLLINSON, LINTHICUM, REYNOLDS , \V EEMs, Coor<, LOGAN, RuLLM AN, V If., KINSON, V CouNci LMAN, LOV I·:, R c H UR'rER, \ 'fiT JLM F:R. CRESAP, L usBY, SHUC:I-:RT WILSON DAMMEYI-:It, J i·:S,.; i•:llSM!TI-I, \1 R uMM F H\ 'ILLI·:. : i VniG HTSON, DAWSON 135 ! ) D. �CJhe Band. Instructor. P ROF. S n1:s. CADET CA PTAIN RoBERT Ro usE , Third Cornez First L ieutenant. W. Q D. WRI GJ-JTSON, First Cornet. Second L ieutenant and Drum Major . J. RoY M cCARDELL. z <1: !D UJ I First Sergeant. 1- W. B. M cK I NLEY, Baritone. S econd S ergeant. W . A. S TROHM , First Cornet. Musicians . B ass Drum GAuss .. ... . .. . .. .. . . . . . Cornet HA UVER .. .. .. . . . .. . . . . . Clarinet HIGH ... . ... • . . . . . . Snare Drum H UTSON ... . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . • B ase KEARNEY ... . . . ... ...... Cymbals LANEY . . . . . .. . .. . . . . . . . . . . Base ALLEN . . . . . . . .. . . ... M c DoRMA N .. .. .Cornet Trombone PINKERTON.. . . . . . . . . . ... Cornet R u HL. . . . . . .. . ... .. . . . . . . . .. Alto SWANN . . . . . . . . . .. . . ... . .. . . . Clarinet SELLMAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alto Wr GLJw . . . . . . . . .. .. .. . ... . . . Clarinet PERKINS. 137 �To/chester Encampment. Camp Warfield. It \vas on the afternoon of the fifth of June, last year, after all examinations were over, that the battalion formed , ready for the trip to Tolchester. For a day or two before, the students had been busying themselves packing their effects into boxes or old trunks, and making many other preparations. Everyone seemed to have caught the excitement and spirit that pervaded the air of these old hall s, and was anticipating a pleaEant t ime. At three o'clock, the battalion with Major A. W. Smith in charge marched down Prince George Street to the wharf , the band in the lead playing a favorite selection. The pavements were lined with a throng of people admiring the fin e appearance and carriage of the cadets. After arriving at the wharf, we had but a short time to wait for the boat, which was the old Emma Giles . We embarked and each one laid aside his gun and other accoutrements as soon as possible, and gave himself up to the undisturbed enjoyment of the ride up t he Bay. It was a beautiful day. A gentle breeze was stirring ·which ruffled the waves and allayed the otherwise sultriness of the day. Arriving at Tolchester, we were marched to the camp. On being dismissed the cadets made a break to pick out their tents and in a short time were arranging their effects in the most co nvenient places. The advance guard, whi ch had arrived on Friday, had laid out the camp and put up the tents; some of them, Smith, Caulk, Shearer and Magruder were especially adept(?) at driving tent pegs, as like " General Grant" they saw double and some of them maybe thrice. But credit must be given to the guard for laying out such a model camp. The first night was a lovely one, to \ hose who had cots, but the others had to spend the best part of the night in trying to so lve the problem of how to maintain t he center of equi librium of their bodies on a bag of straw, about the size and shape of a stovepipe five feet long. The ground was clamp f10m previous rains, and as a result there were very few fellows who were not shivering and chattering with the co ld when revei lle sounded the next morning. About five o'clock, everybody was up , stirring around in their tents, washing, bringing forth soap, towels and vario11s other articles of toi let. The first day was a beautiful one and passed pleasantly for all. The novelty of mi litary camp-life added to the magnifi cent view, and invigorating breezes of the Bay made the spirits of everyone feel buoy ant and ha ppy. 139 �After dri ll in t he afternoon t he fe llows made a break fo r the pa rk , wh ere a ll kinds of amusement 3 were to be found , from t he hair-raising swiftn ess of t he Hula- Zula to the dizzy sensat ion of Pike 's Peale Also t he Carrousel and dancing pavilion were much in evidence; not so much for their in trinsic worth , as for t he pretty girls who constitut ed t heir ornaments. It is, perhaps, need less to say t hat m any li tt le flirtations and pretty sent imentalities which appeal to the youthful heart were indulged in. There are many who wi ll not soon forget t he pleasant hours spent in that park , hours, it m ay be, ·which have linked to t hem tender memories of some fair one. The regular co urse of dri ll proved rather irksome to some who had appointm ents to keep, and to others, to whom the though t of work is disagreeable. But the result of our good and regular drilling was very gratifying when the Inspector came . At nine o'clock, was guard mounting; from half past ten unt il ha lf past eleven, company d rill ; from half past two to ha lf past t hree battalion drill ; and at six o'clock, dress parade. The fence in fron t of t he field was nearl y a ways lined with people who watched t he drills and seemed very much pleased with t he sight . The second night very few of the cadets were out of t heir tents after nine o 'c .ock as they were weary and worn and soon fell asleep Of cour e, H odgson , Draper, McKinley and Clark spent until ten o'clock playing poker. From t his time on every night was occupi<;d in having fun . The "Sour Grape Quartette'' consisting of Allen , Draper, H ance and P arsley, rendered some exce lent selections, and the Band , led by Capt. "Sousa'' McBride, played" In the Shade of t he Old Apple Tree.' ' There was no encore, the Captain could not be found, nor could any of t he others except Allen , who carried the Bass drum, and of course he was laid across it and acted as a substitute for the rest. Aft'er t his, a few Sophs could be seen around a b lanket with a poor Freshie or Prep. in the center, pitching him skyhigh. On t he sixth night of t he encampment, a very great storm came up , which seemed every mom ent to be about to blow over the tents. But owing to t he fact that t hey were put up properly and that everyone was out hanging on to t he guy ropes, they safely withstood it. The next few days nothing occu rred to break t he monotony of camp life unless it was an extra dri ll or an occasional t hunderstorm. Regarding t he mea ls taken at the hotel, it must be said t hat they were very mu ch enjoyed by the cadets . They showed the manager of t he hotel how keen cou d be t heir appetites when healt hy exercise was mingled wit h the pure air of the sea breezes. Many of the young ladies seeking to eat their lunches quitely on t he tables in the park were annoyed by H odgson , P arsley, McBride, and others on account of their continua l "butting-in' ' and exercising that famous boarding-house reach so well executed by H ance. There was no drill on Sunday with t he exception of guard mount and dress parade The last Monday spent in camp was given to cleaning guns and other 140 equpmen ts for the annual inspection and competitive d rill. The cadets too k pride in t he fact t hat they were to have a chan ce to be on e of the"big six military co lleges of the United States. Everyone did hi s best and after drill , fe lt sure t hat old St. John 's would rank as one of them. As t he result she stands as the fourth best mili tary co llege in t his coun try. Company A was decided by the in specting officer ( o be t he better drilled and t herefore entit led to the flag The next clay t he battalion broke camp much to t he regret of all. Camp Warfield has a warm place in t he heart of every cadet for t here were no difficult studies or other t hings to worry t hem, and they were free, to a certain extent, to do as t hey pleased. In leaving camp the Seni ors, especially, felt t hat there were leavin rr it never to return , while t he Juniors looked forward to the next year when they could strut around and have th in gs their own way. May the memories associated with our life at Cam p Warfield remain fresh and indelible in the hearts of all. 141 �SCENE S AT CAMP WARFIELD �c:Athletic c:Association. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. R. P. MELVIN, '99 . ...... . . ..... .. ... . . .......... . . .... ... ...... (Alumni) Prof. B. V. CISSEL .. , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Faculty) W. D . WRIGHTSON, '06 , .......... . . .. .. ... .. ....... (President of Association OFFICERS FOR 1905- 1906 W. D. WRIGHTSON 06 ....... . . ... . . .... .. .. . ........ . .. ... ... .. President J. T . HARRISON, '07 . ... . . .... . ..... ... . ... .. . .... . .. ..... Vice-Presedent J. G. SHEARER, '07 .. . .. . .... .... .. ...... .. ... . . .. .. . .. . . ....... . Secretary M. W. BoRDLEY, '07 ... .. . .. . . . .. .. ..... .... . ........... .. ...... Treasurer BASEBALL TEAM, 1906. J. R. McCARDELL ..... . .... . . . . . .. ..... ...... .... .. . . . ...... . .... Captain E. L. GosNELL .. . ....... . . . .. .. . .... .. .. . . . . . . ... . ...... .. ...... Manager L. I. HECHT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant Manager TRACK TEAM , 1906 J. H . SINcLAIR, .......... . ... ... . . . ... . ..... . .... . .. ... .... . ..... Captain J . T. HARRISON .... . . . . . ... . .... ....... . ..... .. . . . ... ... . . ....... Manager FOOTBALL TEAM 1906. A. M. STEVENS .. ... .. . .... . ........ ...... ....... . ... . ... . . . . . ..... Captain J. G. SHEARER ... .... . .. .... . ... .. ............ .. .... . .... . . . ... . Manager F. CAULK ..... . .. .. . ... . ... . ......... . ............ . . .. . A ssistant Manager 145 �Football Season~ 1905. 0 <{ :::l 0 (fJ At the opening of the session of 1905 , the same old question was as ked : " vVhat kind of a football team will we have?'' lt was doubtful in t he minds of many , if St. J ohn 's could produce a team t h at would win a single v ictory . E ig ht of our best m en , members of t he team of 1904, had gone from Co llege, leaving l\1cCarclell , Cla rk (wh o had been elected Captain in t he place of H.uhl), Duval, and Stevens, "·ho h ad played as regula rs during t he season of 1904. vVe had sol'ne excellent m aterial but it needed de veloping. T o put in t he field a winning team was no easy task , and every one reali zed this fact A call from Captain Clark brought out for ty men, a nd t here was scar cely an aft ernoon t h a t one could n ot count t hat number. Professor Cissel, our faithful friend, was again seen on the field, and in him the team found a much needed coach . During t he season h e was assisted by some of ou r former football stars, namely, Howard , Captain of the Navy , Green, J arnisc'n and Hopkin s. In the fi rst game, which was p layed with Virginia , the team s hmYed u p well, and gave general satisfac ti on. H ere we wish to congratulate our "Scrub T eam ,'' who gave t he team t heir mos t loyal su pport during t he entire season . w·e wi sh t hem su ccess in their efforts, and hope t hey may some cl ay fill t he places of t hose they have so errrnest ly h elped . _J _J <{ aJ 1-0 0 LJ.. SI/O/JL D THE Bf<ANCH 147 BE Cv T ? �FOOTBALL T EAM, 1905. L. HUTCHINSON ........ . .. ..... . .. ... . . ..... . .... . . . . ...... . ..... Left End E. T. CLARK, (Captain) ... . . .. . .. . ... . .... . . .... .. .. ... ........ L eft Tackle H . C. FooKs . ... . .... . .. . ... . .. .... . . . . ... . . . .. .. . . ........ . . . L eft Guard A. HousTON ............. . . .. .. . . .. .... .. . ........... . ... . .. . . .. .. Center W . H . P ERKINS . .. . . . . ............. . ... . . . . .. ..... . . . . ..... . . Right Guard J. R. McCARDELL . . . . . . ..... . ................. .. .......... . ... . R ight T ackle R. C. BRADY .. . . .. ........ . . ... . .. . .. ........ . . ... . . ...... .. . .. . Right End E. P. D uvA L... . ... ... .. . . .. . . . . .. .. . .... . . .... . ............. . Quarterback A M. STEVENS . .. .. ... ... .. . . .. . ..... . .. . ..... . .. . . .. . . . . ... Right Halfback A. G. QuiMBY .. . ... . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. F u llback R. ANDERSON .... . .. .. . .... . . .. . ..... . ..... .. .. .. ... .. ....... L eft Halfback Substitt~tes. :::;:: T. MELVIN M. W . BonDLEY C. G. BA'r'l.'L ic F. B. GwYNN J. H. SINcLAIR <( w 1...J ...J <( aJ 10 0 lJ.. FOOTBALL SCORES. St. John 's. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 St. John '.;.. .. . . .... .. . . ...... . 0 St. John 's .... . ... . ... .. . .. .. . . . 0 St. John's . ..... . . . ..... . .. . . . .. 10 St. John 's .... .. . . .... . . .. . . . ... 10 St. John's ............ .. . . .. . . . . 9 St. John 's ... . ... . . ... . . .. .... .. 5 St. John 's ... . . . . .. . .... .. ...... 11 St. John 's ......... . ........ .. .. 11 St. John 's .. . ... . ... . ..... . . . . .. 6 U ni versi t y of Virginia . ......... .... 30 Navy . . . ........................ 38 Frank lin and Marsha ll ........ . . . .. 18 Virginia Mi litary Institute ....... . ... 11 Ri chmond College ..... ... . .... . . . . 0 George Washington University . ... . . 11 Maryland Agricultural College ....... 27 Ga llaudet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... .. .. 6 Johns Hopkins... ... . . . ... . . . . .. . . 5 Pennsylvania Mi litary Coll ege . . ..... .. 5 149 �Games of the Season. University of Virginia 30; St. John's 6. After training for only ten clays our team lined up at t hree o'clock on Sept em ber 30 again st t he strong University of Virgini a team . Our team was ou tweighed by fifteen to twenty pounds to t he man . At first our line held well , but owing to the short time our team had been trai ning, combined with the overweight of their opponents, they began to weaken. In t he first half the Virgini a t eam m an aged to score twelve points. D urin g t he second half, Virginia made three m ore to uchdowns. It was in the last three m inutes of play that St. J ohn's was able to score, alt hough they had repeat edly gone through Virginia's lin e for som e tellin g gain s. Virginia was held for downs, punting the ball to m id-field, D uval our crack qu arterback cat chin g it ran through our opponent 's team for a touchdown , and ki cked goal maki ng t he scc re Virginia , 30; St . J ohn 's, 6. Navy 38 : St. J ohn 's 0. On the eleventh of October our team lined up against t he strong Navy eleven. During the entire game, rain fell in cessantly. The muddy field was a great handicap to our team, for t hey could not use their trick plays which they depended on ve ry mu ch when fac in g heavier teams. I n the first half, the Navy scored three t ou chdown s. I n t he second ha lf, t hey scored fou r more to uchdowns During the last part of t his half , St. J ohn 's star play 1ras made. Navy ki cked off , :VIcCardell received the ball and returned it forty yard s; on t he next rush Stevens carried the ba ll for ten yards m ore , bu t t hi s ended our rall y and t ime was soon call ed . l\ av ~' 38: St . J ohn 's 0. F ranklin and Marshall 18; St. John 's . The follO\Ying Saturday our team left for Lancaster to play t he Franklin and !viarsh all eleven . 'Ne were at a great di sadvantage by the loss of Duv al, Anderson and Captain Clark , who could not play on acco un t of injuries received in t he Navy game. For t he first ten minutes of t he game we outpl ayed our opponents an d were carrying the ball dqwn t he fi eld for a t ouchdown , when we fum bled, an F . & M. man secured the ball and rdl61 si~ty-fi ve yards for a touchdown . F. & l\1. was able to push th e ba l over our goal line for twelve more poin ts in t he second ha 1f. 1.51 �Virginia Military Institute 11; St. John 's 10. Our team during the next week went through some hard practice. Leaving Annapolis Octo ber 20, they arrived at Lexington the same night. The next day was an ideal one for fo otball and our men made up their minds to give V. M. I. one of the h ardest struggles they had met with during the season. Duval kicked off to V. M. I. but we soon secured the ball on downs. St. John 's now carried the ball by line plunges to our opponents' twenty-yard line, from which point Duval kicked a beautiful field goal. V. M. I. kicked off to us. After gaining about twenty yards the ball went to V. M. I. on downs, and t hey began to pound our line for short gains until they were able to push it over, but fai led at goal. St . John 's received t he next ki ck off , but were soon held for downs. Stevens punted, V M. I.'s man fumbled, and Battle recovered it On a fa ke play, Brady made a forty-yard run for a touchdown . Duval ki cked goal. V. M. I. received the next ki ck and by long end runs combined wi th some hard line plunging carried t he ball fu lly seventy-five yards for a touchdown , and kicked goal. A minute after t he ball was next kicked; t ime was called. In t he second half , neither side was able to score . Most of the playing was done in V. M. I.'s territory , showing that St. John 's were out playing their opponents. Several times St. John 's was in striking distance of the goal, but fai led to make the necessary yards. After twen ty-five minutes of hard playing, the half ended. This game was undoubted ly one of t he best games ou r team put up during the season . he had gone out of bounds. However, we continued to pound their line unt il we rea ched our opponents' five-yard line, from where Duval by a long end run made a touchdown, but failed to kick goal St. John 's kicked off in the second h alf. After ten minutes of play George Washington carried the ball over the line for their first score. We received the next kick but were unable to gain , Duval punted; it was a short ki ck , ana our opponents then pounded our line for another touchdown. We could gain no more ground until the time was nearly up , when we carried the ball to G. W . 's twenty-yard line, where Duval ki cked a difficult goal making score G. W. 12; St. John 's 9. Maryland Agricultural College 27; St. John 's 5. Our next defeat was dealt to us by the M. A. C. aggregation. The result of the game was decidedly a surprise and probably t he least said the better. In the first half, M. A. C. scored fifteen points, t heir gains being made mostly around our ends. In the next half they scored two more touchdowns , kicking both goals. At the last minute of t he game our team by h ard work pushed Stevens over for our only tou chdown. But we failed at goal. Score M. A C. 27 ; St. John 's 5. St. J ohn 's 11 ; Gallaudet, 6. The Saturday following the Richmond game , we met the George Washington Uni versity team. Again we were great ly outweighed. The first half was undoubted ly ours, for t he ball was main ly in George Washington's part of the field. After a few minutes of play, Hut chinson our left end made a beautiful run of sixty yards for a touchdown, but was called back by the referee who claimed that Embittered at our defeat by M. A. C. we lined up on November 18, against Gallaudet. Though we did not run up a large score we completely outplayed our opponents; owing to a miss pass by our quarter, a Gallaudet man secured the ball , making a tou chdown after a run of fifty yards. St. J ohn 's scored in each half by straight football. After plunging through Gallaudet 's line for eighty yards, H auver was pushed over for the first touchdown. Battle missed a difficult goal. The first half ended with the ball in our possession in mid-field. In t he second half, six minutes after the whistle blew, Captain Clark went over the line for a second score. Battle kicked goal. An aoTeement had been made between t he two teams to stop the game at a b certain tim e to allow us to catch the train . When time was called t here remained fourteen minutes to play, with t he ball in our possession on our opponents' ten-yard line. There is no doubt but we could have scored twice more during the remainder of the half . 152 153 St. John's 10; Richmond College 0. On Saturday, October 28, 1905, we played our first game on home grounds, and made a very poor showing against Richmond, as we fully expected a much larger score. Overconfiden ce no doubt played an important part in this game. St. J ohn's was able to score a touchdown in each half, but failed at both goals. George Washington University 12 ; St . John' s 9. �St . John 's 11 ; Hopkins lTniversit y 5. Th e foll owing week , t he conversation chi efly earried on at om clear old Co ll ege h y t he st ud ents wa.. · a bout the H o pkins game. The " Old f-'t . .Jolm ·, :-ipirit'' whi ch h ttcl slumbered during the early part of the senson \Yas once more aroused in ench student 's bosom J< rom three t o six the team was kept busy upon the gridiron . .·\ gain our faithful fri end, Professor Cissel, was there coachin g t he team f0r nll he kn e11· ho1Y , r.ncl 1 vell did his coachin g sh ow Telegrams began to come in from m an y former foot bn.ll heroes. How could the t eam that represented "Old St . J ohn 's" of 1905 fail to do their cluty with all this confront ing t hem . The spiri t and excitemen t was now at it s hi ghest pit ch, recit ations were skipped, and yell-practice was held in their stead Saturd ay dawned an ideal day fo r t h e fray . Every playe r "·ore a smile that would n ot come off. The team , a ccompanied by t he entire student bod y and a host of friends, left on th e noon t rain for Baltimore. Th ese were m et at Oriole P ark by several hundred Alumni , fo rm er stud ents and fri ends. Hopkin s was certain that the game was hers. St. J ohn 's was first upon the fi eld , amid the yells and songs of the rooters. H opkins soon came and received great a pplause F· om h er supporters . The game started at three o ' clock Hopkins kicked off to ::\[cCardell who fumbled the ball, a H opkins man falling upon it on St. J ohn 's twenty-yard lin e. Three times did Hopkins buck the lin e and three t imes the St. John 's line never budged. Our team now rushed the ball for twenty yards, where t hey were held for down s. H opkin s brought the ball back to our two-yard line whe e h ey fumbled, St. J ohn 's securing it . Duval punted out. H opkins was not able t o advance it and were compelled to ki ck; Duval received it and ran l~ ac k fifteen yards Our t eam started down the field for a touchdown , fiTst Anderson and t hen Stevens would plunge through the Hopkins line for a gain from two to five yards; every man was now playing ball for all he was worth. When in mid-field we tried one of the most risk y plays kn own in football ; that of throwing the ball di agon ally across the field for fifteen yards. Anderson caught it and mad e a run for twenty-five yards. On the next play , Duval went around H opkins for fifteen yards. These two plays seemed to bewi lder H opkins for they never knew where the ball would com e from the next time. Anderson , Stevens , McCardell and Clark repeated ly tore through Hopkins line for substantial gains. On H opkins two-yard line, Stevens carri ed the ball over for our first score, Duval ki cked goal. Hopkins next kicked off to us, but we soon lost the ball on downs . Hopkins now began to buck the line and carried t he ball to our twelve-yard line , from where FOO TB A LL V IEWS 155 �Worthington broke through for a touchdown , but failed to kick goal. First halfSt. John 's 6; Hopkins 5. St. John 's kicked off at the beginning of t he secon d half. It was a short ki ck and before a H opkins man could reach it Brady had fallen on the ball. After a series of rushes , Anderson went over for our second touchdown. Duval missed goal. The rooters were wild with excitement ; t hey yelled and sang for now t he game looked as if it belonged to St. John's. They had by this t ime driven t he Hopkins rooter from t he gran d-stand to the other side of the fie ld , by their rootin g. We received t he next kick-off, tried a few more trick plays, mingled ;vith straight fo otball , and rushed t he ball for eighty yards, but lost it on H opkins. three-yard line. After a few exchange of punts the weight of H opkins team and the fearful pace our team had been going, began to tell. We were playing with the same spirit but were growing weary. Hopkins began t o buck our lin e for short gains, and had carried the ball about forty yar ds to mid-field when the whistle blew Up went headgears, nose guards, sweaters, and h ats , for St. J ohn 's had won the day, while the air was rent with cheer aft<:r cheer. Two minutes after t ime was called, a H opkins man could not be found. The team had never played a better game before, as a gent leman rema rked~ " It was like one man playing on t he ball instead of eleven.' The day v va.s over' and the game was won. I St. John 's 6; Pennsylvania Military College 5 . On Thanksgiving Day we played our annual gamewith P. M. C. at Chester" Pennsylvania. It was a bitter cold day and our team did not do themselves much credi t in t he first half. In t his half, P. M. C. scored a touchdown but failed at goal. First halfP.M. C. 5; St. J ohn 's 0. During the second half, our team put up a much better game and completely outplayed their opponents. In the middle of t he h alf, Stevens broke t hrough P. lVI. C. 's line and made a beautiful run of sixty yards for a touchdown .. Duval kicked goal. This ended the scoring. After the game, the P . M. C. students seren aded our team, to which St. John's, rei3ponded by giving yells , showing the good feeling existing between the two· institutions. ] 56 Bcasce BceJ~ §tl\Johns �::;;: <( UJ BASEBALL T EAM. 1.J .J <( L . E. Go~NELL , M an ager, . .. . . . . . ....... .. ..... L. I. H ECHT, A ssistant M anager J. RoY McCARDELL, (Ca ptain) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . · · · .. W . D. WRIGHTSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ~ Pitchers c. C. R EYNOLDS, . . .. .. . . . .... . .. . .... .... . ..... ... . ..... . . . . . . . ) R . A R ousE, .... . .... .. .... . . ... . . ..... .. .. .. ......... . . ........ Catcher E. P . D u vAL, ..... . .... . . ... . . . . ...... . . . . . .. . . . .. .. . .. . .. . .. First B ase F RED. H oovER , . .. .. . . . . .. .. .. . . . . .. .... . . .. ... . .. . . .. .... . .. Second Base E DWA RD CARROLL, .......... . . . . ...... .. . . . . ..... . .... . .. . . .. . Third Base AMos MACKIE, . . .. ..... . . . . .. ..... .. . . .. ... .. . ....... . .. .. ..... . S hortstop G. M. AusTIN, .. . ...... . ... .. . ........ . . . . . ... . ... . . .. . ....... Right Field J . R oY McCARDELL, . . . .. . ... ...... .. . ... . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . .... Left Field D . WRIGHTSON, ..... . . . ... .. .......... . ... . . . . . . . ... .. .... . .. Center Field I CD UJ (/) <( CD Substitutes . CLARK. I· McKI N LE Y SHEARER. �Scores, 1905. St . John's Colleg ' . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 St. John 's College .. . . . . .. . . .. 10 St. John 's College .... ... . . ... .4 St. John 's Colleg . . ...... . . ... 1 St. John's College ..... . ... . .. . 6 St. John 's College . . . ..... . .... 8 St. John's College ... . . ... . . . . . 2 . St. J hn's Coll :ge .. .... . .. . .. 4 St. John's College . ........ . . .. 7 St. John's College ... . ..... . ... 6 St. John 's College ... . ......... 1 St. John 's College . .. . .. .. ... . .:1 St. John 's College .. . ....... .. . 2 St. John's College ...... . .... . 11 St. John 's College ........... . . 4 St. John 's College .. . ... . ..... . 9 St. John 's College . ............ 7 Rock Hill College . .. ... ....... . . .. . .. ... 12 Johns Hopkins University ... . ... . ... . .. . . 7 University of Virginia ........ . ...... . . . .. 9 University of North Carolina .... . .. .. .. . . . 5 Syracuse University ..... ... . .. . . . . ... . . . 20 University of Virginia . .. . ............... 19 Washington and Lee University . . .... . .... 7 Virginia .Military Institute . .. . ... . . . ...... 2 Virginia Polytechnic Institute . . . . .. .. .... . 2 Guilford Co llege . ........... . ...... .. ... . 7 Trinity Co llege .... . .................. . . . 2 Agri cultural and Mech anical College ... ... . 10 Artillery School . ... .................... . 4 Maryland Agricult ural College ..... . ....... 3 Navy .... . .. . . ....... . . . ... . . . .. . . . .... 9 Maryland Agricultural College . ..... . . .... . 3 Gallaudet . ......... .. .... . . ...... ....... 9 Ellicott City, March 29 . On March 29th , twelve of St. John 's ball tossers journeyed to E llicott City, where they furnished slight amusement for the Ro ck Hill College team, and occasioned much harsh criticism from their supporters, by being defeated to the tune of 12 to 3. "Nuff said." Staley's three bagger, and Devries sin gle in the third innin g, scc red St. John 's only run. P atterson of North Carolina had a very deceptive risin g ball , which our batters were unable to land on safely . North Carolina 5; St. John 's 1. Annapolis, Md., April 14. St. J ohn 's received the worst defeat administered to her during the season at the hands of Syracuse University ; by the score of 20 to 6 St. John 's held her opponents clown to six runs until the seventh inning when Syracuse batted the ball over the field, assisted by errors on our part, and sco red fourteen runs. Syracuse 20; St. John's 6 TH E SOUTHERN TRIP. Charlottesville, Va., April 20. The team , with two substitutes, C0ach Bond and Manager Chambers left on April20 , for a series of ten games sout h of t he Potomac. The first game ended rather disastrously for us, by losin g to the University of Virginia by a score of 19 t o 8. Barrin g the last inning when Virginia scored seven runs our team put up a very creditable showing against su ch a strong team. Staley started the game for St. John 's but gave away to ·wrightson after the third inning. Virginia 19 ; St. John 's 8. Lexington, Va. , April 21. The game with Washin gton and Lee University was played in a rain. During the first our innin gs W. & L. managed to sco re seven runs. Duval was substituted for McCardell , and after t his W. & L. never made a hit. J ohnson proved somewhat of a puzzle for St. John's, while he struck out only seven men . W. & L. 7 ; St . John's 2. Lexington , Va., April 22. St. J ohn 's, 4; and Mr. Goodloe, 2 is the story of the game between St. John 's and Virginia Military Institute on Saturday, April 22. Wrightson pitched for St. Jolm 's ; he struck out eleven men and allowed but five hits; two of them , however, were hom e runs by Goodloe. Duval and D evries did t he heaviest batting for St. John 's, the latter making a home run . V. M. I. 2; St. John 's 4 . Annapolis, Md., April 1. Smarting from the defeat administered by Rock Hill, St. John's took a decided brace, and defeated Hopkins by a score of 10 to 7. The feature of the game was St. John 's batting rally in the eighth inning, when out team batted Hopkins' pitchers to the four points of the compass, scoring enough runs to win the game. St. John 's 10 ; H opkins University 7. Annapolis, Mel. , April 7. Rouse, the first man a t the bat , landed on the ball for a home run, St. John 's scored three more runs during the game. In the sixth and seventh innings Virginia's batting rally, coupled wi th errors by St. John 's, netted nine runs These were the only innings Virginia was able to score. Virginia 9; St. John's 4. Annapolis, Mel., April13. North Carolina 's excellent batting, together with an errorless game, was what St. John 's confronted on April 13 . Blacksburg, Va., April24. The bunching of hits in the second and fifth innings was responsible for St. John 's administering to V. P. I. her first defeat of the season. Staley pitched a beautiful game allowing only one hit , while t he team gave him excellent support . The features of the game was the batting of Tarbert, Staley Clark and DeVTies, Devries making his second home run on the t rip. V. P. I. 2; St. John's 7 160 161 �Greensboro , N . C., April25. vVe crossed bats with Guilford College, Greensboro, N. C., on Tuesday afternoon, April 25 , before a large crowd. Wrightson 's disastrous first and third innings allowed Guilford five runs. He was replaced by Duval who had no trouble with the heavy hitting "tar heels.'' But for the misjudging of two flies, the score would have been 6 to 5 in favor of St . John's, as each of these developed into a run . Guilford 7; St. John's 6. The first game was played at College Park. M. A. C. did not make a hit until the sixth inning, nor until two men were out in the ninth did they add another, but as we had a lead of eight runs there was not much fear. of-being overtaken. The feature of the game was our batting rally in the eight inning when two singles, one two-bagger, three three-baggers, with a base on balls, and one error, netted us eight runs. The game was called at the end of the eighth inning to enable us to catch the train. M. A. C. 3; St . John's 11. Durham, N. C., April 27. This was the best game our team put up on the trip. Staley was in the box, and had decidedly the best of the argument, against Bradshere "King of the Southern Diamond.'' He allowed but three hits in the first two innings and one in the seven following, with eight strikeouts to his credit. St. John's made five hits off of Bradshere; this was more than any team had done so far in the season; he also fell two short of his usual number of strikeouts. Jn the last inning with two men on bases, any kind of a hit rr::eant two runs but Clark's two efforts fell foul , one each in right and left field; and our last hope was gone. Trinity 2; St. John 's 1. Annapolis , Md. , May 11. Our next game was with the Navy . Our team put up another excellent game, the score being 4 to 0 in St. John's favor, until the fifth inning , when the Navy got on to Staley's delivery. In the fifth and sixth, they made enough hits to score nine runs . St. John 's outfielded the Navy, making but one error during the game. The feature of the game was the catching of a difficult fly by Duval in deep center Navy 9; St . John's 4. Raleigh, N . C., April 28. Poor playing in general was responsible for the loss of this game. A. & M. scored ten runs in the first three innings from Duval's deli very. In the fourth inning, Staley was put in the box, after which A. & M. never crossed the plate. Our inability to hit Love! kept our score down . Schrock was hit in the eighth, went to the th1rd on a passed ball , and scored on Rouse 's fly to center, thus saving a shut-out. A. & M. 10; St. John 's 1. Fortress· Monroe, Va., April 29. A chance three-bagger with bases full, followed by a single, tells the story, and accounts for the only scoring done by the Soldiers. At no other time was there a show for them to score. Had our hits been bunched the score would have been different. We were up against the fourth "South-paw" on the trip , but could not connect at the right time; this, coupled with some stupid base running, was responsible for losing our last , and what should have been the easiest game of the trip. Artillery School 4; St. John's 2. Annapolis, Md., May 13. St. John's won the second game of the series from M. A. C. Benson, the star pitcher of our opponents, was in the box, but our team had very little difficulty in finding his curves. The feature of the game was a beautiful throw by Duval from deep center to first base, robbing Benson of a clean hit. This play ended the game in a very sensational manner. Wrightson for St. John's, pitched an excellent game and held the "Farmers" down at critical Etages . M. A. C. 3; St. John's 9. Annapolis, Md., May 27. We played our ·ast game with Gallaudet. It was a g me that should have been an easy victory for St. John's . Wrightson pitched a good game but was not given the support he deserved. Gallaudet put up a fine game in the field, and took advantage of every opportunity to make a point. Gallaudet 9 ; St . John's 7. College Park, May 3. Instead of playing Washington College, as was scheduled, we played M. A. C. St. John's and Maryland Agricultural College had formed an Intercollegiate League. Three games were arranged to be played , one at each College, and in case of a tie, the third at Baltimore. 162 163 �CJrack Cfeam. Our track team season started under adverse circum stances, with a meet early in February. The men had no indoor track on which to practice, and t hey could not go outside, so t he work was begun in the gymnasium . One of the greatest. drawbacks was the absence of Captain Gore, who, on account of typhoid fever, was unable to run for some time. Not on ly was he captain but also the fastest man. Th e team went to Baltimore on Saturday, February 11 , 1905, to competeinthe annual indoor track meet held by John s Hopkins University, in t he Hopkins cage. Our opponents were t he University of 1aryland team, against whom we ran a relay race of 1200 yards. Harrison our first man gained about fifteen yards; Duval in165 T RACK TE AM �creased our advantage to twenty yards , but was unable to hold it , owing to lack of training; Melvin, having never run on a banked track, gave the University man an opportunity to pass him , which he took; but , in so doing, he fouled Melvin causing him to loose ten yard ' ; Ruhl was unable to make up the big handicap under which he started and the University won Time 2.40. The next trip was to ·w ashington, to take part in the indoor meet given by Georgetown Universi ty, on Saturday, Feb. 25, in the Convention Hall. Again they ran against the University of Maryland , who had defeated them two weeks before. Harrison started the race, gaining about twenty yards; Sinclair ran next and gained slightly ; Ruhl lost some yards; Gore ran fourth , and being badly fouled on the third turn, the race was given to St. John 's. However, the boys are confident that they would have won anyhow, as Gore, our fastest runner , was by this time in very good form. To avoid overtraining, the men now left off their strenuous life for two weeks . When they started again it was with renewed energy. Twenty-two candidates presented themselves on the track: they were Sinclair, Ruhl , H arrison J., Melvin, Harrison E. , Lloyd , Stevens, Magruder, Beam, Love, Hutson, Harrison P., Carpenter, Saffold, Warfield, King, Sternberg, Hutchinson, Pezet, Williams, and Gwynn. Training was begun for the University of Virginia meet held on April 14. The team did very well on this trip, bringing back six medals: one gold, for first place; four silver, for second place; and one bronze, for third place. The first race in which we competed was the hundred yard dash, in which Stevens t:ecured second place. Gore entered the quarter mile race, winning second by a few feet . The winner's time was fifty-five seconds J . T. Harrisoncame very near winning third place E. A. Harrison came third in the half mile. The winning time was 2 .14. In the mile Hutson sprinted t,he last 200 yards, and lost first place by only two yards. Time 5 .15 The last race of the day, the 220 yards run, was won by Stevens, with Gore second, and Sinclair a close fourth. Time 23t seconds. On April 29, our relay team entered a contest with Allegheny , Maryland Agricultural, St John 's of Fordham, N. Y., Muhlenburg , Western Maryland, Delaware, and Franklin and Marshal Colleges. Our team was composed of J . H arrison , Sinclair, E. Harrison , and Gore J. Harrison , our first runner, got a bad start, principally through the fault of the starter, who fired his pistol while the men were still on their marks. H e finished sixth. Sinclair passed two men, starting E. A Harrison a fourth. Gore started with a twenty-five yard handicap , but passed one man, thus securing third place. St. John's , Fordham won. Time 3. 40}. The Navy gave us a handicap meet on May 13. In this we won four out of six events. 166 The annual field and track meet, to dete mine the class championship, was h eld on May 16 The events were as follow3: 1\)03. ~ 0 'f) 1906. Rouse I Mile Run-5 :l Ot. 440 Yard s- 54-t ... . .. Gore Tarbert 50 Yard Dash-5t . . . . Gore High Jump- 5 ft. 4 in. Smit h Gore 880 Yard Run-2 :15t .. • • 0 •• 100 Yard Dash-lOt .. Shot Put-31ft 9in ... Discus Throw-91ft. 10 :n. Broa d .Jump-19ft. 5 ir . HammerThrow92ft . Ln. 220-Yard Dash-23! 220- Yard Hurdles-28t R e la y -3:5 5 ... . . ... Gore Smith Hopkins Smith Gore Gore Is 3 5 3 1 p '5 1907. p.., ~ Pole Vault- S ft. 7in. rti ..., ..., ·ti ...., 3 ~ I Stevens Harrison, E. 5 5 1 5 Sinclair Houston Houston Sinclair I H ouston 5 Sinclair 5 5 1 1 3 3 3 1 0 0., Bowen Owen McCardell 3 Gwynn H arrison J . Sinclair Sturdy ~ Stevens Harrison , E. Harrison, E. Thompson McKinley Stevens Harrison, E. rti ..., p 1908. '6 5 ~ - 1 1 Hutson 5 1 13 5 Hutson T arbe rt 3 3 5 1 5 Perkins 3 3 Halbert 3 1 1 1 Q Total N'um ber of Point<"j at" Editors . The highest individual scores were, 16 points; and Smith, '05, 13 points Eight new records were made: Fifty in 54! seconds, by Gore; mile, in 5 min Hurdles, in 28.l seconds by Gore; Hamme Jump, 19 ft . 5 in., by Smith; High Jump , 10 in., by Bowen. The last record was aft , Pole Vault record 9ft. 1 in. , The class ot it 3 . 55. Captain Gore ran in the South A land Oval, Baltimore, on May 20. He w second place in the 220-yard dash. At a meeting of the track team , J. Hu and E. A. H arrison , '07 was elected Mana 167 1901- R. B. Spencer, '02 1902-John L. Blecker, '03 1903- Geo. W. Wilson, '04 1904- H arry W . Willing 05 1905- Donald Riley, '06 �The Collegian Editorial Board. E. T. CLARK, '06 .. ... . . ... . ... . .... . ..... .. ... .. .. ........ Editor-in Chief E. E. H EARN, '06 .................. . .... .. . . ...... . .. ....... Assistant Editor A. HOUSTON' '06 ...... . . .... .. .. .. . ... ... .. . . . . . .. . . ... . . H . STURDY, '06 .. . . . .. . .. .. .... .... ... ... . .. . ... .. .... . .. . W. P. MoRRIS, C6 . ... . .. ... .... . .. .. . .. ... ... . . : . . ....... . H. C. FooKs, '06 .. .. . .... . ..... .. .. .... . ... . . . .. .. ... . . . . r Associate Editors W. McKINLEY, '07 ....... .. . .. ..... .... : . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... J B. H ANCE; '07 . . .. . .. . . ..... . .... . ... .. ... .. ......... . . . G. M. AusTI.N, '08 . .... .............. . ............ . .. .. · ·. E L . GosNELL, '06 . . ... . ................ . . . .. . . .. ... · . · \ · R. ·A. .Rous ·, '0~ . . . .... . . ............ .. ........ .. . ... .. . Business NI anag(rs J. T . H ARRISON, '07 . .. . ....... . ... . ... ......... ... . .... j '1 i Former uRat-1 atn Editors. 1901-R. B. Spencer, '02 1902-John L. Blecker, '0:) 1903-Geo. W. Wilson, '04 1904- H arry W . Willing 05 190.5-Donald Riley, '06 1896-Wm. T. Kemp, '97 1897-Dewitt C. T yler, '98 1898-Wm. L. Mays, '99 1899-J . Royal Phelps '00 1900-Andrew H. Krug , '01 E. T . CLARK , Capt . ' 05. J . H. SINCLAIR J . R. McCARDELL ·A. McC. STEVENS , Capt. ' 06. 160 �u Rat- Tat" Staff. Class of 1908. Editor-in-Chief .... . .. . ....... . . .. . . .... . ...... . . . .... . ... George M. Austin Assistant Editor-in-Chief .... .. .................. . ... .. ....... A. C. McBride Miscellaneous Editor ......... . ... .. . .... . ..... . ... . .. ........ . G. L. Miller T. Shugart W. Munroe r M. A. Melson Ass is tan ts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. A. Gartre ll W . E. Hauver W. Bailey Literary Editor . .......... . ...... .. . ... .. . . .. . . ........ ... .. C. H. Sch uster Assistant ........ . ....... . ............. . ...... .. ..... . ... .. J. I. Burton Alumni Editor . ..... . . ..... . ..... ........ .. . . .... . . .. . . .... .. . F. E. Caulk Assistant ....... . .. . .... . . ... . . . .... . . .. .... . ........ . .... .. H. Harding Art Editor ..... . . . ...... . . ... .. ... ...... . .. ... . . .. .. ... . . . D. S. Swann Assistant ......... . . . .......... ..... .... . .. ... . .. . ...... . . . F. L. Harrell Humorous Editor .... ... .. . ........ . .. . ... .... ... . . .. .. ....... . L. Allen Assistant ... . .. . . . ... .. ..... .. . . .... . ... .... ·. .. ........ . . . .. H . Tarbert Town and Campus Editor ........... ........ .. ...... .. ...... . . .. . J. H all Assistant ............... . .. . . .. . .... ... .. . ....... . . . .... . .. P. Harrison Athletic Editor ... . .... . .. . .... .. ... ... ... . ... .. . . . .. . . . .... A. G. Quim by Assistant . .. . ... . ..... .. ........... . . . ..... . . . . .. . . .. . . . . W. H. Perkins · f F. R. Carpenter N. Busmess Managers .. . . . . . . . ... . .. . · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Sternberg i l l Assistant .. . . . . . . . ... . .......... .. .... .. . ... . . ...... .. ...... A. G. Alder Treasurer . . . ... ........ . . . .. . . . ....... ... . ... ... . . ....... ........ S. Rice Secretary .......... ............... .... . .. .. .. . . .. ... . . . . . ... A. G. Laney 170 1 he c4malgamated and Consolidated Order of Junior Gougers. OFFICERS. E. H . McBRlDE . . ... . ... . . . .. ....... . ........ .. .. .. .. .......... Presidmt 0 . H . DRAPER .. ......... ... . . . .. ... .. . . . ......... . ... ...... Vice-President W . M. Mc K INLEY ...... . .... .. .. .. . .. . . ... . .... ... .. . .......... Treasurer E. E. BENNETT ....... .. .... . . . ....... . . .... ... . .... . .. . ....... Secretary MEMBERS (JuNIOR CLASS). The Association meets semi-annually , ten days before the intermediate and final examinations. It is unnecessary to say that these meetings prove very beneficial, and add materially to our welfare. At the last meeting McBride read an excellent paper on "The most successful way to gouge;'' Draper, on "The benefits. of gouging;'' Ruz , "How to skin the Profs;' ' McKinley, " The best way to prepare for an examination;'' Belt, began to read a paper on "The fooli shness of gouging,'' but had not gotten far when he was set upon by all the members present, and kicked down three fiights of stairs. The meeting then ad journ ed with Belt and Burke . arguing furiou sly on the back cam pus. Signed, Secretary. 171 �St. John's dlutomobile Club. St. John 's Boarding Club. (Preamble. ) (Meal hours from 8 A. lVI. to 1 P. M.) MENU. Turkey, Chemistry Sauce. Woodcock, on half shell. Lobster Salad. Bugology, with Stuffed Bullfrogs. Analytics a Ia Ducky. Broiled Cosines. Quail (Bob White) on Greek Toast. Stryker R oast, History Dressing. English Plum Pudding. Rippere Soup. Dutch Pickles. Many of our members have purchased automobiles and found it much more convenient and pleasant to ride than to walk , until exam ination time, when the automobiles get out of repair, or the Cha uffeur becomes a little nervous, and plunges headlong over the precipice of some difficult L atin passage. Such an act invariably precipitates t he rider into the quagmire of Flunkouttown, from which he can only be extricated by the gracious permission of the owner of these domains, " Bob White.' ' More than once has it pleased this H igh MuckyJYi uck, to allow the unfortunate rider to flounder in the mire for four long years, until at last he is able to free himself by a more judicious use of a pony. These automobilists have found it necessary to band themselves together, for the purpose of ease and enj oyment , while on their various excursions, to promote a feeling of good fellowship, and look after the interest and welfare of its members; for this purpose, the following committee was appointed to draft a Constitution and By-Laws. COMMITTEE. AFRICANUS GARVER, Ph.D , LL .D . FERDINAND HORATIUS DAVIS, M .A. AuGUSTUS GREGORY. Prof. of S teamology. A. C. McBRIDE, Prof. of Horticulture. Poker, on Red Chips. Von Schwe1tzer Cheese. DESSERTS. Hurricane Bill's Pie. Ten Demerits. CONSTITUTION. ARTICLE I. This Club shall be known as the "Automobile Club of St. John 's College.'' Its purpose shall be to worry the Faculty, and the propagation of that remarkable feat of thoroughly underst anding the intricate idiosyncrasies of that miraculously constructed piece of mechanism, known as an automobile; also to accurately determine the center of gravity, and maintain your equilibrium on a bucking broncho (pony). 172 173 �AnT li. \iV hen in the course of human carelessness, an autom.obi le stri kes an obstruction , thereby precipitating the rider to the distance of 90 feet, causing· him to revolve six and one ha lf times during the exit, landing on hi s head at t.he feet of Jack Rippere, he shall maintain this position and humbly beg fo r mercy . If thi s gentleman does not at once accede to his entreaties he shall jump up and kick him in the solar plexus, with beth feet simultaneously. AnT. III. If any member divulges or makes known the secrets of the clu b, he shall be bound hand and foot , tied to a 120 horse-power automobile, at the end of a 50-foot rope, and dragged un t il you will have to soak his remains out of the ground with benzine. ART. IV. Every man before becoming a n: ember shall have his life insured to the extent of 99 demerits. JAcK RrPPERE . .... . ... .. . . ... .. . . . .................. . ... . . . .R ubber Down 0. I. C. ITS DnA PER ...... . .. . ... ....... . .. . . . ... . . . . . . . . . .. .Chief Lubricator "DoN QuiXOTE" RILEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . ·w ater Carrier E. S. P . G. R. BuRKE .. . ...... ... . ....... . .. . . .. .. . . .. . . . .. . . Chief Chaffeur A. T. VALK....... . ..... . . . .. . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E. T . CLARK..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistants W. P . CuTLER ... . ........... .. .. . . . ......... . . ...... .... . . .. . 1 PLAIN ORDINARY EVERY DAY RIDERS. MILLER. ANDERSON. CHILDS. RuHL. Gof:iNlcLL. FooKs. SHANNAHAN. HE CHT. BY-LAWS. l. No Chaffeur shall eecome engaged to more than six girls, during his term of service , for fear of a breach of promise suit , which would take him away from his duties. II. If a Chaffeur be apprehended driving his machine at a rate of speed greater than 120 m iles per hour , he shall at once be dismissed from the service. III. It shall be the duty of t he head machinist to thoroughly over-haul all machines and see t hat t hey are in perfect running condition, previous to each examinat ion . AMENDMENT. E . H . McBride shall at all times constitu te a quorum, and no one s hall presum e to dispute his statements. OFFICERS. · CousiN CHARLIE McBRIDE .... .. . .... . . ....... . . ... .. . . ..... .... . .. President MoTHER H EARN ..... . ................ . .......... .. .... . .. . .. Vice-President SPEIDLJ<J BURG HANCE ........... . .......... .. ...... . ..... . . ........ Secretary SrEIDLEBURG II. BuRTON . .. . .. . .... . .... . .... . .. . .. ... ... . .... . . Treasurer ToMMY FELL ........... . . . ..... . . . ........... . ......... .. .. H ead Machinist BoB WHITJ<: . . . . .. : . .. . ......... . ........... . . . . . ... .. . ............ . .Coach A W ouLD- Bic WooDcocK . . ... . ......... . ..... . .... .. .... . . ..... .. .... Trainer 174 175 TILGHMAN. HALBEll'l', c. R. CHANCE. THOMPSON. �Butt-in-sk-y Club. In the world's broad field of butting In the butting-in of life, Be not like stale, rancid butters, Be a butter-in the strife. MOTTO . "Butters butt-in where angels fear to tread.'' EMBLEM -A goat . A membership card from this Club entitles the holder t o butt-in on a ny and all occasions, either private or public. MEMBERS . His Excellency Lord High Chancellor . . . .. . ... .... ... . . Sir William "Goat'' One Stale Rancid Butter. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. . . . ... ... . .... P. HARRISON A Royal Butter from Butters ville ... . . . .. . .. .. ......... .. .... . ... I. P. KANE Soft Butter ........ . ....... . .... .. ... .. ..... ' . . . . . . . . . . . F. CARPENTER Fresh Butter ..... ...... ... . .. .. . . .... . . .. .... . .. . . . . ..... . D. WRIGHTSON Hard Butter . ............. .. .. ... .. . . . ... . ... . ... . .. .. . . .... H. TARBERT Yellow Butter ... . ........... . . . ... . .. .. . .......... . . . . . .. .. J. THOMPSON White Butter ....... .. . . . ... ..... . . ... . .. .... . . .. .... . .. .. ... P. PHILLIPS Fraternal Butter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ..... . . ....... .. . B . HAN CE Butter With Whiskers . .. . . ... . .. . . .. .. ... . . ...... .... . .... ..... . . BEARD Boarding House Butter . . ... . .. ... .... .. ..... ... . ........ . .. . .. CoLLINSON Butter-in Urbe . . . . ............ . ... . · . · . .. .. . · · . · · ·. · · · · · · · · · · · · · MILLER BUTTRESSES. MISCELLANEOUS. Moonlight on the Se'bern. All the air is quiet and hushing , Save the river's onward rushing, Save the nightingale 's sweet gushillg, On the Se vern's banks tonight. Softly, sweetly, serenely streaming Rays of gentlest beauty beaming, From the moon so silvery seeming·, Bathe the earth in silent splendor. Fleecy, furry clouds a re saili ng 'Cross the sky, and partly veiling Shining stars, and even trailinil; Past the Mist ress of th e night. Shado11 s here and there a re flittin g, Moonbeam patches deftly slitting, With a quickness unrem itting, And are skinuning o'er the . wav es . 'Long her shores are lowe ring , dipping, Trees, their foliage drooping, dripping, In her luscious nectar sipping Up a rich and plenteous store. On the rippling waves are dancing, Glancing, netted m oonbeams prancing, Quite entrancing, still enhancing All the beauty of the Sew~ rn . In and out th e wa ves are whirling 'Round the boat's bow purling, curling, And in little eddies twirling, Flashing, splashing as in gl ee . 0 'er th e gliste ning wate r A Substitute Buttress .. . ...... .. .... · · · . .. .. · . · · · · · · . · . · · · · OLE-0-lVIAJORm Sweetest Butter of All . .. . .. . .... . .. . . . ... .... . . H er Ladyship NAN CY GoAT 176 g lidin~, Gently rowing, sli d ing, r idinl!, Through tb r, shado ws soft ali din~[, Flitting, AickEring o 'er the waws. 17 ' �Fragrant, fluttering breezes blowing, Seeds of joy a nd pleasure sowing In our h earts, and p eace bestowing, Glorious, glowing, joyful p eace. F loating in the moon's soft beaming, \Ve are dreams the sweetest dream ing , W l1ile the spark ling waves are gleam ing \Vith the rays of silvery sheen. So we float , of nothing thinking, Float through shadows leering, blinking F loat, the wea lth a nd beauty drinking Of the moonlight of th e Sevcm. All t he a ir is still .and hu shing, Save the river 's rapid ru shing , Save the nigh t ingale's s weet gushing On the Se vern's banks tonight. A Tale of Lo?Je. "In the shade of the old apple t ree,'' " H e fell in love with Polly,'' " Because'' "She was an old sweetheart of his.' ' "Years ago,'' "\¥hen the bees were in the hive,'' and " The sunset turned the ocean's blue to go ld, "He met her'' "Strolling through the Pines.'' " All Alone'' "Tonight,'' h~ said . " Yes,'' she replied , " I 've been loo king for you toni ght.' ' "You are the star of my life,'' and now, " In vacation time,'' " Keep a cozy corner in your heart for me,'' for " I 've got a feeling for you" and " Longing to be with you all the while." " Darling ," he said, "As the moon creeps o'er the P lains'' " Remember me.'' Although " On ly a little bubble on life's mighty wave'' " I want you to think of me'' " vVhen the harvest moon is shining on the river'' and "The whippoorwill is singing in the trees.'' "Don't cry Po lly dear,' ' for " I think so much of you;' ' "But we must part'' for "I'm going "Back, back , back to Baltimore,'' " \¥h ere the Southern roses grow.' ' " It's up to you, John Henry,'' she replied, "St ay with me'' and "I will love you, a lways love you. " ''Marriage is sublime.' ' " vVon 't you fond le me?" "No body is looking but the owl and the moon'' and "You alone.'' "I love you, Polly,'' was his repl y . " Beyond the gates of Paradise,' ' "No sweeter words were ever said.' ' " I wi ll stay with you ,'' and "You alone,'' " I n the shade of the whispering pines.'' " They strolled'' and " By the seashore'' " They talked of love'' unt il the "Waves" sang " Th e songs that they heard in their dream s.'' " The moon is going clown,'' 178 said he, and " We must part.' ' " Just one kiss,'' "My love,'' " Just for tonight. " ("Kisses" ) "Sorrow then sat on their brows.' ' " In drifting apart,'' she said, " I know your heart is warm and true.'' " Under southern skies,'' "vVon 't you love me as of old?'' "\¥hen I gaze into your eyes'' "I cannot say goodbye'' but "Kiss me goodnight , clear love.'' "I'll be longing for you,'' he replied, "vVhen we part ,'' for" I am trying so hard to forget you.'' "Absence makes the heart grow fonder, '' but "Kiss me again'' and "I will go'' "Back, back , back to Baltimore.'' Thereupon Burke, "The man from Baltimore'' sang "Goodbye sweet Marie,'' and departed. Tfte Boat R ace. At St. John's one dark night dreary, slept the Freshie weak a nd weary, Dreaming many a dim and dismal dream of but two-seventy-four; ·while the blast grew cold and cutting, every crack and crevice gutting, Suddenly there came a butting, butting at his ch amber door, " Tis some Sophie cruel," h e mu t tered , "Sophie known by d ee ds of yore, On ly this an d nothing more." "Ah !'' said h e in tone of sorrow, "how I long to see the morrow, And though trouble I 'll not borrow, for I h ave a p lenteous store, Still as a ll I well rem ember that has happened since September, When I first became a m ember of the Freshies fra il and poor, R a ges all the ire within me as it never did before , This it does and nothing more.'' Still h e h eard that furiou s knocking, and with haste the door unlocking, Saw a s igh t t hat thrilled him, filled him with unthought of t error. For the Sophies loudly blating were in greatest rage berating Him for keeping them in wa iting till they nea rly broke his door; Then the Freshie m a de obeisance though he still was so ur and sore, Simply this and nothing more. Then they, ex it quickly making, other Fresh ies also taking Who as yet were but awaking from a slumbrous s nooze and snore; To the chapel steps proceed ing, with the Freshies ' hearts n ear bleeding, Neither Profs. nor 0. D. h eed ing (who is nothing but a bore); 'Vent they to the chapel steps, steps before the ch a pel door. This they did a nd something more. For their h a nds the toothpicks grasping, and th e s waying washbowls clashing, Sat they in the washbowls rowing as they n ever rowed before; But the SophiEs wise were hiding, for they saw a figure gliding In the sha dows d eep abiding by the gloomy chape l door; But th e Freshic s still were rowing with a stEady stroke of oar. Th is they did as ne 'cr before. 179 �And the Prof. by stealth approaching caught a Sophie who was broaching Words of warning to the crew, coaching them as ne'er before. Harder was his lot than any, h is demerits were too many, And the next day saw h im going back to his p arental door. "Ah !'' said he, now sad and sore, "I am stranded on life's shore, For two weeks and nevennore." But my tale still to continue, the Prof. as mad as an Erinnye, Sent the Freshies scattering, scampering to their roost on the fourth floor. Soon in sleep th ey dreams were dream ing, which with boats and oars were teeming, H a ving all the dreadfu l seeming of the night just gone before. But they Freshies are no more, and to Sophies have gone o'er, And shall row, nevermore. E. H . M. Spring. Spring has come. The rich warm blood runs through her veins, And tinges all the leaves a deep green hue. How beautifu l ! The deep and dark , dense fo liage, The broad sky's ethereal blue, The warbling birds, That singing from their woodland bower, Enlivens the scene and enraptures the soul of man. The verdant fields, The blooming meadows and beautiful flowers Are signs of Nature loosed from winter's ban. Songs Each Student Likes to Sing. "I Want My Money Back'' ........ . ........ . .. . . . . . .. . .. ... . .. .. . H ECHT "Just Across the Bridge of Gold" (Severn) .... . .. .. .. . . .. ... . .. ... .. ... R uz "Back, Back , Back to Baltimore" ...... ........... . . . ..... . .. .. ..... BuRKE "Way Down Yonder in the Cornfield" .. . .... .. . ..... .. .... . .... ..... MoRRis "Down on the Farm'' . . . ....... .... . . .. . . ...... .... . ... ...... . .. . TrLGH MAN "Every Little Bit Helps' ' .. .. .................... . . . .. ... . .. . . . . . . HoDGsoN "Four Little Curly Headed Coons'' ............ . .... . ....... . .. . McKINLEY "Don't Care if I Never Wake Up' ' ... ... .. . . . .. . . ... . .. ... . .... . .. .. . BRI SCOJ~ "I Want my Mamma" ................ .. .... . ... . ........ .... ... ... RuHL "Oysters and Clams'' .................... . . .. . . . . . . ........... CouLBOURN "Make a Fuss Over Me'' ......................... . .... . .... . ..... HARRISON 180 "Pals, Good Old Pals'' .......... .. ...... .. . ... . .. . .. .. . .... . Ruz and MELVIN " Rose Without a Thorn. " ....... .. ... . ....... .. . ......... . ........ CLARK "Soldiers'' (Duet) .. .. .............. . . .. ... . . . . ... . .... STONE and STROHM "Up and Down the Boardwalk" .... . ...... ... .. . ....... . ........ BJDNNETT "Under the Anheuser Busch' ' ....... . . . . . . .. . ... .. ...... .. . .. .. ..... Bl~ L'l' "vV on 't you Fondle Me?'' . .... . ..... . . .. ..... . .................. BoRDLEY " I Want to be Loved' ' .. . .. . ... . .. . ... .. .... .. . . .. . . ....... . .... . DRAPER " Dawn of Love'' ...... .. .. . . .. .. . ..... ........ . .... .. . .......... . .. LovE "Lonesome'' ...... .. ... ... .. ... . . . . . .... .. . .. ... . .. ... . . ....... . .. . TJ•;RRY "I See Her in lVIy Dreams'' ........... . . .. . .. ... ..... . .. ...... ..EvERYBODY A Fool's Dictionary. AnsTINEN CJ ,;.-From the P ersian ab (water), and stein, or tankard. Hence, water tankard or "water wagon.'' AnvERSITY.- A bottomless lake, surrounded by near-sighted friends . ALCOHOL.-A liquid for preserving almost everything except money. ANCESTORS.-Th e originators of the Fami ly Tree, a rem arkable sex paradox in whi ch "Ann-sisters' ' are always the four-fathers. ANNA POLis.-A suburb of Eastport. APPENDI CITIS.-A modern pain costing about $200 more than the old-fashioned "cra1np.' 'ATHLETE. -A diginified bunch of muscles unable to split wood, or sift ashes. BACHELOn.-From Latin baculus, a stick , unattached. Hence an unattached m an , which any lady may "stick," stick to, or get stuck on. BACKBITER.- An Annapolis mosquito . BA sE BALL - A game in which the young man who strikes out for him self receives no praise for it. BIGAMY.-A fc rm of insanity in which a m an insists on paying three board bills instead of two. BmTHDAY.- Anniversary of one's birth. Observed only by men and children. BoRROw-(Trans. verb) .- To swap hot air for cold cash. CAVALRY. - That arm of the military service that engages in the real hoss-tilities. CHAMPA GNE.- The stuff that ma kes the world go round. CINDER.- One of the first things to catch your eye in traveling. CoLLEGE.- From French colle, pasted or stuck , and etude, study . A place where. everyone is stuck on study ( ?) . Cnr.DIT. -Something for nothing. 181 �CrrEDITOrr.- Somet hing with nothing. CuLTURE.- A degree of menta l development t hat produces tailor-made women , fantasticall y sheared poodle dogs, and dock-tailed horses. DANCE.- A brisk, physical exercise, invented by St. Vitus. DEAD. - Wi thou t life . DEADER. - Pompei i. D EA DEST. - Ann a polis. Dm.-An effect. DmT.- Frequently a cause. DrPLOMAT.- An international liar, with an elastic conscience and a rubber neck. Docrc - A place for laying up. DocTorr. - One who lays you up. DusT.- Mud wit h the juice squeezed ou t. EARTH. - A solid substance , much desired by the seasick. Eoo .- A wholesome, yet fowl , product of no use until broken. EvoLUTION. - A clever trick performed by one Darwin, who made a monkey of Bordley. Exl';rrcrsE.-Bodi ly exercise requiring a $1000 gymnasium , a 10-acre lot, and impossible raiment. Originally confined to the waRh-tub and the wood-pi le. FAILURF:.- The quickest way through exams. FEINT.- A pugilist's bluff. FAINT.-A woman 's blu ff. FLu E.- An escape for " hot air.'' FLUENCY.- The art of releasing the same. FLusn .-From Greek, " phlox,'' heat. A rush of color to the cheek, or hand, caused by bodily-Dr poker-heat. H AsH .- Ask "General" Grant. H AY FEVER. -A heart trouble caused by fa lling in love · ith a grass widow. w Hit. - A chance for first place, first base, or first blood. l sLAND. - A place where the bottom of t he sea sticks up through t he water. JAo.-From the Spanish word Zaga, meaning a load packed on the outside of a van. In Ameri ca t he load is packed on the inside of a man. JELLY-CAKr-:.-Synonym for a word that rhym es with it. KEYHOLE .- A frequent test for sobriety. Krss.- A good impression. LEISURE.-From lazy, and sure, assured laziness. LIBRARY.-From Fren ch libre, meaning free , and the proper name Andy. Something free from Andy Carnegie. LoBSTEn.-Coulbourn. L ovER.- 13urke. MAGAZINE.-A receptacle for explosives, li terary or mechanical. MARK.- ln Germany, 23 cents. In America, only Twain, MEAL.-?? ? M 1-:NAGEnm.- Pinkney H a ll. MlllA CLE.- A wom an who won 't talk. lVloNE Y.-Don 't know. "Tommy'' has it a ll. N Eo no.- Associates of McCardell. NonrLITY.-The Seniors ( ?) . 0ATS.-England 's horse feed , America's breakfast, and Scotland 's table d 'hall'. OnEsr·ry.-Alder and Mi ller. PASTRY.-A deadly weapon m ade by the chief cook. PoSTSCIUPT. - The only thing reada ble in a woman's letter. QuACK .- The noise m ade by " Ducky" in Math class. RAPID TnA NSIT.-Annapolis Short Line. lhiETOm c.-Language in a dress sui t . SrrmT.-Every man 's bosom friend. TwiNs.-Insult added to injury. UNBOSOMED.- A shirt just returned from the laundry. W HISKIW.- Trouble put up in liquid form. YJo:All N.- Hearn. 182 183 In c4nnapolis. The moonl ight is t he softEs t in Ann apo lis; Summer's days come oft 'est in Annapolis; Friendship is t he longest, Love's fires glow t he strongest, Yet a \\Tong is a lway wrongest in Ann apolis. The summ er 's ever brightest in Annapo lis; The breezes whisper lightest in Anna polis; Plain gir ls are th e fewest, Ma iden 's eyes t he bluest, And their little hearts the truest in Ann apolis. L ife's burdens bear the lightest in Armapo lis; The home fires burn t he brightest in Annapolis; Players are t he keenest, Cards turn out the m ea nes t, The pocket empties clea nest in Ann a polis. Orators a re the grandest in Annapolis ; Officia ls a re t he bla nd est in Annapolis; Jokes are a ll the driest, Danger ever nighest, Taxes a re the highest in Annapo lis. �Hoodoos are the "hoodoost'' in Annapo lis; Bluebloods are the fewest in Annapo lis; Moonlight is the clearest, Best to see your "dearest,' ' And then it acts the queerest in Annapolis. The dove's notes are the saddest in Annapolis; Streams dance on the gladdest in Annapolis; Blockheads are the th ick€st, Crimina ls t he slickest, Trolley cars run quickest in Annapo lis. Songbirds are the sweetest in Annapolis; Thoroughbreds the fleetest in Annapolis; The hillsides tower proudest, Thunder peals the loudest, The landscape is the grandest, And politics the d- dest in Annapolis. Facts. At a recent election, held by the student body, the following "facts" were determined: Best bhcffer . . .. ....... ... .... . .. .. ......... . .. ...... . · . .. . · . ....... · . BELT Best hot-air tank . ................ . . . ...................... . ... M cCARDELL Best butter-in . ............... . . . . ...................... . . . . P. HARil.ISON Best "all (a)round'' athlete . .. ........ . ..... . ... •. . ............. . . .. MILLER Biggest feet . .. . ............. .. ... . . ..... . ... .. . . .. . . . . ....... . ... Q u iMBY .· · B tggest N utsance . . ..... . ....... .. . . .. .. . . · . · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Ruz J\1! ost graceful dancer . ............. . ..... ... ..... .... . .. .. . . .. . .. ORRISON J\1! os t deceitful . ..... . ... . ...... ... ..... ... . . ........ . .... .. ..... McKINLEY B est preacher . ..... . ......... . . . .. ........... Tie between R ousJ<; and Dn.A PE R Best figure . . ....... . ...... . . ...... ........................ . .. . . . DowELL Blackest hair . .... .. ...... .. .......... . .. . . . . ... .. ... WELLS AND STEVENS Biggest eater . . . .............. . ..... . .. . ... ... .. .. .. . . . ........ WILKIN SON The handsomest . ... . ....... . .... .. . .... . ..... . ... . . .. . . . . .... .... STREET The largest man ..... . ... . ... ... · · . .. · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · J. B. JONES The bi ggest devil ........ . . . ............................. . ... .. MAGRUDER J\1! ost industrious . .. ..... . ...... . ... ... .... . ......... .. .. . . .... . .. iVlELVIN Best prevaricator . .. .. . . ............ . ..... .. .... . .................. STROH M J\1! ost skillful gouger .. ... . ..... .. ... .. .. . . . All were candidates for this position 184 Books as We Know Them. . I ·'Younger Brothers."-Hance and Burton. "To Have and to Hold. " -All Freshman property that you wish. " The Wages of Sin. "-Guard duty and demerits. " In His Steps.' '-Smith in t he steps of Belt. "Facing Death.'' - Facing exams. "Forbidden Fruit.' '-All fruit. (Forbidden by Grant.) "Not Like Other Girls.' ' -H ance. "Our Mutual Friend ,' ' -The "pony.'' "The Spy.'' -Officer of the Day. " The Wandering Jew.' ' -H echt and Coulbourn . "The Vultures.'' - Houston , H odgson , Stevens, Harrison J. , Anderson, Harrison P. McCardell. "In the Saddle.' '-While translating our Latin. "Andersen 's Fairy Tales.'' - Most of Andy's yarns . "Black Beauty.' '-Rose (so Biddy says.) "The Deerslayer.'' (Ladykiller) -John H arrison. " The Choir Invisible."-The one at St. J ohn 's. "The Deserted Wife''-Bennett, after Draper ran away. Wants. A bib for Peters. A box of straws for Sinclair. A new class of Sophs , by t he Faculty. A patent on Belt 's brace. Another vocabulary, by Bennett. More music and less noise from t he band. A pack of cards, by Smith and Melvin. A high chair for Ruhl. 185 �Hood cos are the " hood oost'' in Annapo lis; Bluebloods are the fewest in Annapolis; Moonlight is the clearest, Best to see your " dearest,' ' And then it acts the queerest in AnnapoJjs. The dove's notes are the saddest in Annapolis; Streams dance on the gladdest in Annapolis ; Blockhead s are the thickest, Criminals the slickest, Trolley cars run quickest in Annapolis. Songbirds a re the sweetest in Ann a polis; Thoroughbreds the fleetest in Annapolis; The hi llsides tower proudest , Thunder peals the loudest, The landscape is the grandest, And politics the d- dest in Annapo lis. Facts. At a recent election , held by the student body , the fo llowing "facts" were determined: Best bluffer . .. .. .. . .. . .. . .. . . .. . .... . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. . . · · · . . .. ...... · .. B E L'l' Best hot-air tank . .. ..... . . . . ....... .. .... .. ... . .. . . . . .... . . . .. M c CARDELL B est butter-in . .. ... ... . . .. .. . .. . . . .. .... .. .. ....... . . . . .. . . P. HARIUSON B est "all (a)round" athlete. .. . .. . .. ... ...... ,.. . ........ . . . . .... MrLLE il B i ggest feet . ................ . . .. . ........ . . ... . ... . . .. .... .. . . . . . Q u iMBY Bi ggest Nuisance .. . . . .. . .. ..... . ....... . ..... .. .... .. .. . ....... .. · · Ruz Most graceful dancer . .. ....... . ..... . .. ... . . ... .. . .. . .... . ...... ORRISON M os t deceitful . .. . .. ... .......... . .................. ... ... . . .... M c KIN LEY B est preacher . .... . . . . .. . ... .. . . . . .... ....... Tie between Rousl'; and DllA PE R B est figure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. . .... .. ............ . .... ... .. .. DowJ~LL Blackest hair .. .... . . . ... . . . ... . ... .. . .... .. . . .... . .. WELLR AND STEVENS Biggest eater. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . ... . . . ... . . . ...... WILKIN SON The handsom est .. . . .. . .. . ............... .. .. . .. . .. .. . ... . .. . . . ... S TREET The largest man. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I. B. JO NES The biggest devil ......... . ... . . . .... . ......... . . . . . .... . . ... .. MA GRU DE R Most industrious... . . .. . . . . . .. ... .. .. .. . ... .. ... .. .. . . . . . . . MJo; L VI N B est prevaricator . .. . .... . .... .. ..... ................... . . ......... STROHM Most skillful gouger . . . . . .. . ... . . .. ........ All were candidates for this position 184 Books as We Know Them. ·'Younger Brothers."-Hance and Burton. "To Have and to H old. ' '-All Freshman property that you wish. "The Wages of Sin."-Guard duty and demerits. "In His Steps.' '-Smith in the steps of Belt. "Facing Death.' ' -Facing exams. "Forbidden Fruit.' '- All fruit . (Forbidden by Grant.) "Not Like Other Girls.' '-Hance. "Our Mutual Friend,' ' -The " pon y.'' "The Spy."-Officer of the Day. "The Wandering Jew."-Hecht and Coulbourn . "The Vultures.''-Houston , Hodgson , Stevens, Harrison J ., Anderson, Harriso n P . McCardel l. "In the Saddle.'' - While translating our Latin . "Andersen's Fairy Tales.' '-Most of Andy 's yarns. "Black Beauty.' ' -Rose (so Biddy says. ) "The Deerslayer." (Ladykiller)-John Harrison. " The Choir Invisible."-The one at St . John's. "The Deserted Wife." -Bennett, after Draper ran away . Wants. A . bib for Peters. A box of straws for Sinclair. A new class of Sophs, by the F aculty. A patent on Belt's brace. Another vocabulary, by Bennett. lVIore music and less noise from the band. A pack of cards, by Smith and Melvin. A high chair for Ruhl. 185 �A bath , by Draper. Longer legs, by Joe Caulk. A new laugh for Bob White. More money -everybody. Sti lts for John son . A Hair-restorer , by Phi l. Harrison. A substantial meter for Burke's hot-air pipe. A step-ladder to see Sturdy 's face. A new method of asking questions-8mittJ_. A corps of "partikler'' cadets by H urricane Bi ll. A decent walk- Nei l!. A new set of nerves for Ducky. A new fa ce and mirror-Belt. A pair of straight legs for Bordley. Shin guards for gi rls who dance with Clark. A baby do ll-Burke. A new voi ce for Wi lkinson. P laces in Barnum's menagerie-Logan and Cra wford . A smaller mouth for Strohm . To be a girl- High. A tongue to talk less fo r Carpenter. Some shoe polish for Ruhl. A seat for Rtryker in the Matrimonial Stock Exchange. r:A Cf(eceipf for Lo'be. Ta ke first a slice of twin kling stars, And of moonlight quit e a bit, A p iece of nook called Lover's R etreat, A place for just two to sit . A pressure on the dimpled hand, T hat rests within your grasp, :Mix with a whisper a nd a squeeze A murmur a nd a gasp . P our drops of attraction into the bowl Of sweet romance and love, A fo ll y fl avor a nd grating of joy, ::-fow add to the mixture above. Twine a gentle arm And a squeeze will A little screm11, a nd And a litt le show ' round th e slend er wa ist . just be right, anoth er sq ueeze, of affri ght . The oth er arm has found its way, Around her waist, ere th is; And on her sweet delicious lips I s pla nted- well- a kiss. This mixture stir to suit the t aste, Wi th t he spoon of peacefu l bliss, ::-fo limi t ever has been set, To the t imes t hat yo u m ay kiss . This recipe ha s never fai led, On a m oon light starry night; Three are too m any, one too few, nu t for t wo it will be just righ t.. A DREAM - OUR NEW GYMNASIUM 186 187 �We Will Sa)> for the Benefit of Freshmen and Nerw Men: That Garver never acts as of-Ficer of the day. That John H a rrison doesn't own St. J ohn's or any part of it . That Mrs. Diggs isn ' t supposed to tell them when to change underwear. That Prof. Daniels is not the janitor. That Allen must be overlooked . That t he Seniors are not heavenly beings. That t he Sophomcres are not angels (find this out for yourselves). That Bordley is no relation to "Vonny.'' That " Tommy' ' loves " m onon ev. ' ' That t he street cars only run a;.ound Church Circle. That Magruder's hom e isn ' t in "Buzzard 's R oost. '' That Belt eats not hing but "Sergean t's Food.'' Table Talk . vVhen you are in Ro me , do as the Romans do. When yo u eat in a College Club eat as t he Co llegians do. Th e new students have lea rned t hat " a dish by any ot her name will tast.e as sweet.' ' Balls of mud .... . . .... . .. . .. ... . . .... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . ... Codfish balls Staff of life . . . ... . .. . . . . . . . .. . ... .. Bread Walking Samson . . .. .... . ... . . . . .. . . ... . ....... . . . .. . ...... .. . ... . .Butter Ambrosia . . .. ... . . . . .. . . . . . . .... . . . . ..... .. .. . . . .. . . .. . . . . . . . ... ... . Co ffee Hen fruit .. .... ... . . .. . . ..... . . . . .. . .. . .... . ... . . . . .. .... . .. . . ..... . Eggs Hair oil soup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...... .. . . PuddinoN"ectar · · .. · · . . . . . . . . . . . . . .......... .. . .. . . Milk (Chalkwater) Growler, answers to a whi stle . .. ... . . . . .. . . . .. . .. . . . .. . . . . .. . ...... . Sausage Nameless con coction . . . . ... . . . . . . .... . ..... . . . . . ... ... . ... . . ... So up Pressed cow .... . . . .... ..... . . . . ..... .. .. .. . .. ... . . . . . .. . . . .... Dried Beef De com posed mule fl esh . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . ...... . . . . .. . ... . . .. R oast Beef ?· · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·.. . ..... .. .. . ... . . H as h 188 Ye Logik and Englisch. There is a verray perfight, worthy man, lovynge trouth and honour with a ll his herte, t hat teches us ful faire and fetysly t he weyes and mysteries of ye troublesome mal adyes. He is t he docto ur , and we the pac ients but it is poure phisik we can receive. v a re a com panye mery and mirt heful , unwyse in t he rekenynges Ve of sy llogisms and such busynesse. We sc hulde , 0 Reder, thy pardoun first have prayede for so intrud ying with our thoughts; but we good felawes (not to speke conseyted ly) are worthy of a bettre fayte than to fa lle preye to the practise and philoso phie of these burdouns. A Cure for Love. Ta ke twelve oun ces of dislike, one pound of resoluti on , two gra ins of common sense, two ounces of experien ce, a la rge sprig of time, and t hree qua rts of the coo ling water of consideration. Set these ove r the gentle fire of love , sweeten with t he sugar of forgetfuln ess, skim it with the spoon of melancholy, put it in t he bottom of yo ur heart, cork it with the co rk of a clear conscience , let it remain , and you will quickly find relief, and be resto red to yo ur senses again. These things can be had at the apot hecary, or at the hom e of Understanding, next door to R eason , on Prud ent street, in t he village of Contentment. An bndless Chemical CJale. Once upon a time Miss Ethel Bromic!, tired of her lonely place upon t he shelf , was wandering aimlessly around t he labo ratory. Meeting Mr. AI Cobol, she loses he r base, by kissing him too often , and i$ precipitated into a test tube containing H 2 S0 4 . Somewhat sobered she sees Silly Kate and Ben Zene making aqueous , csculatory exchanges through a cambri c filter. Going farther she perceives in a gas stove , Est her Salt s, Laura Noll , Cal Sium , and Polly Saccha rides indulging in hot a ir, which is in te rrupted by Ca l Seumkarbide in a queous solution. The last named is t ried a nd convicted of arson , and sentenced to death by immersion in cacody l. H e leaves a wife , Annie Lynn, three children , Flora Esken, Sallie Sinn, and Nic k O'Teen, and a m ot her-in-law , Rose Annie Lynn . Miss Ethel being a ha logen aristocrat and having the properties of Pandora , becomes ove r curious of other people 's affairs. She surprises Miss Glissie Rol in t he act of embracing t he warm assiduous Nitric-(Here the tale ends, t he Editors know not for what reasn n.) 189 �'Botany and 'Biology, ·• Full many a flower was born lo bluoh unseen, F1dl many a b1tf1 was born to marn unclean.'' (With apologies to Gray.) W e love the beans and p eas. ('Cause we wa nt to get a grease ·with t he Prof. ) . W e love t he gold en grain, That in dishes foul has la in. Long enough. \V e love t he old wh eat rust, And the fertile pollen dust, For you see, It's our one a nd only them e, Our sweet and brightes t dreamBotany. Behold the slugs an d b ugs, Th e squinting screwed-up mugs, At the lens. Th e algae blue a nd green, (A soul inspiring scene), Nature send s T o him who hun ts the frogs, In th e m a rshes a nd th e bogs, Apology; But we value n ot it 's use, 'Tis in deed a great abuse , Biology. Ye Classic Lang'!ages. 0 Latin a nd Gree k , wi t h your numberl ess tales Of t he wild raging wat~ rs, o f s weet p eacefu l dales, Of t he deed s of Ach illes, and the ruin of Troy , 0 1' cunnin g Ul ysses, wh ose long-hoped-for joy, As fo rce d by the Fates o'er strange co untries to roam , D ist a n t seas, hostile isles, was to reach his cl ea r home , Of Apo llo, Dia na , Minerva a nd J ove, And the t hree sister fates who th eir thread s in terwove Of t he F a iries a venging the wTong of the just , Of th e Muses comm ittin g to m orta ls t heir tru st; Th ough your m y ri a ds of form s, conjugations a nd sou nd s, Deponents, conjunctions, declensions a nd noun s, 'Ni th m et ers a nd m easures and stroph es ga lore, Al ca ic, H oratia n a nd Sa pphic of yore, In con t inuous stream m y dazed mind oft confound , I see k you for t reasures with whi ch you abound. 190 French. and German. Je like Ia la ngue franca ise trcs mu ch , Ich kann ni ch t. say wie much p our Dutch; L a one est belle unci d el.Jonnaire, Die a u t re nea rly lifts Ihr ha ir. Die d eutsche l::tn gue ist nich t to m e So sehr bcaucoup as sic might be; Mais it's die best d ie Dutch can do, Unci mit ein shove elle will go through. Die franca ise langue ist so polite Die Frenchmen ni emals have to fight; De fra pper un 2.75 s ur le semi-an J e will do certainment die best ich kann. Die Anglais ist am bcsten yet , De her, tout knowledge je will get; Elle ist Ia Sprache de le world Unborn, unci fl ags wie yet unfurled . f.Math.ematics. Hear the bell'Tis our knell, In pell-mell, Mathematics. Arcs and lines, Poles and sines, Of a ll kinds,Mathematics. (]J •s and n Ma ke us sh y, F ear to tryMathematics. ·w eariness, Stubbornness, Contrarin essMath ematics. Time togoNone say no , Be it soMathematics. 191 �The cAnnapolis Girl. Til e Anmtpolis girl is s11·cet and gmcious, Oh , Gracious ! Wi t h go lden ha ir, And a m atchless pair Of deep blue eyes t hat fairly daze us; \ Vit h form so fa ir a nd face so clear, Oh, dear! ~~T ;th voice so cute, A sil ve ry flute So fu ll of tendern ess and chee r. She is our typ e of love and good ness, Oh , good ness ! A Venus mil d , No Ate wild, ·wh ose wo rds conta in no t ouch of rud eness. Of grace and beauty she is sure, Oh, Sure ! 'Twas preordained She should conta in Such q ualit ies and v irt ues pure. H er head is free from useless lore, Oh, Lor ' ! Bu t fu ll to the brim Of t hought. of him Possessor of her co rclian co re. H er voice has never fo un d a m aster, Oh , Maste l'! H er dimpled chin , And rosy skin , Nor yet her brow of ala baster. H er love can e'er inspi re a nd bless me, Oh , Bless m e ! A shining ray To light t he way, T hrough tasks that could n ot but oppress m e. The Ann a polis gi rl is a n elf from H eaven . Oh, H eaven! A fa iry fa ir, Free from a ll care, A gracious angel to us given . 192 �Locve. It's a sort of palpi tation, P ass ion ate reverberation In the v ital h abitation Of the heart. E ffervescen t osculation , Inexpressible sensation , In continous ro1 ation, Forms a part. A respect in vitation To a very choice collation, Lovely rides of long duration, In his cart. Confidential conversa tion, No attempting ostentation, Never ceasing admiration , On his part. Passionate r eciprocation, Caramels without cessation , Formed in my imagination Cupid's d art . cAn E'benf of Our Old Soph Year. 'Twas a night in our Sophom'Ore year , The year of a ll years most dear, That "Baldy'' concocted a scheme, A Quixotic dream, A dream of our Old So ph Year. Then quickly assembled the boys, \Vith shouts and racket and noise, To hear wha t ' ' Baldy' ' should say On thnt mP.mombl e day That day or our Old So ph Year. 194 "Let's get Tommy 's l1 ose," he said, ' ' And a pillow from each Fres hie's bed, Throw feath ers, squirt water, and run, And have some fun , Som e fun in our Old Sop h Y ear. No sooner said than 'twas done, The hose and pillows were fun, \Ve scattered feathers wide And this is the pride The pride of our Old So ph Year. \Vhen up on this ruinous scene , Came Tommy with t errible mien, "By the great and good owl t here's m e hose 'Tis th e Sophs,'' then our woes , Th e woes of our Old So ph Year. On a d ay soon after th e rampage The Faculty made us pay d amage; "Thou shalt com e and pay up , me son ." So goodbye to "me mon ' ' Goodbye to my Last Two V's. Alas for the tria ls of the seven, ·who with their threa ts menaced heaven, But when the tim e came to pay, All they could say Was "Goodbye to my Last Two V's. "Ikey' ' especially took it hard I ' ve an ali bi, me pard; I'm ruined ! I'm ruined ! Gee Whi z ! I wasn't in t he biz, " F arewell to my Two Little V's. 195 �Who cares for those t roubles now, ·when we r aised now and then such a row! We had our two V 's to pay, l3ut 0, such a day ! That clay of our Old So ph Year. Applied Quotations. PERKINS-" The eart h did surely shake when he was born -" ROUSE-" All studies here he solemnly defies.'' ST URDY-" So witty, wicked , and so thin.'' BURKE-" As self-con ceited as it will do for one t o be and not cra ck open .' ' HEARN-" The tartness of hi s face would sour ripe gra pes." RUZ-" And he was wondrous ri ch in promises.'' TERRY- ' 'A fool thou art and ever shall rem ain.'' PEZET-" Yet he is not altogether an ass .'' BELT- " A sport royal, I warrant you. '' CAULK, J. -" His li ttle body is weary of t hi s great world. " H ANCE-" A still small voice.'' STROHlVI-" Who thinks too little and talks too mu ch. " PROF. C.-"Here 's a gentleman and a fri end of ours .'' ?II ORRIS-" Not all t he pumice of the polished town , Can smooth t he roughn ess of t he barn yard down .'' LLOYD -" His heart was mirthfu l t o exce~s , ' But all hi s mirth was wickedness.'' DRAPER-" As sober as a judge. ' ' BORDLEY -"A mighty hunter , ami his prey was womr.n .' ' H RRISON, J. -" A pretty lad , bu t bursting with con ceit.' ' )1ELVIN-" l 'm li ttle; but, oh m y !" COULBO"CRN -"Conspic uous by his absen ce." If som e ink yo u want to borrow, You will soon get left in sorrow, For each one will swea r he hasn 't got a l.Jit; And a lthough yo u know th ey're lying You must not persist in trying, For som e shoes or books your brazen cheek may hit. Ner ve and cheek is never wanting, Such as Kane is ever fl a unting, And t he Harrisons are very proud to show; 'Tis the natural effervescence Of a known lack of good sense And resembles much the rooster 's silly crow. Never l.Juy what you can borrow, Don 't return it t ill the morrow, And you know th e put-off morrows never come; Even though you gEt a "cussing,'' Still you learn to stand t he fu ssing, Even t hough your bed is always on t he l.Jum. The Borrower. If yo u want to t orrow t rouble, You m ay light upcn it dc uble Any t im e yo u chance t o wan der 'round the H all. You may thin !' ycu are proficient, l3ut yo u '11 ::a y it is s1 ffi cit nt When yo ur eyes are huiscd and bla ckEned in the brmd . 196 197 �Stray Shots. Stray Shots. NicKNAME BoRDLEY ...... . . . ... SMITI·I, A. R ... ... . . . ALLEN ... ... . .... . . . SINCLAIR .......... . . HoovER ...... .. .... . H ARRISON, J . . . . .. .. . CouLnouRN ......... . Dow r;LL ...... . ... . . . H EARN . . ......... .. . B EL'r. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . McCARDELL ...... . .. . MILLER . . . . . . . .. .. .. B uRKE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GRANT,\¥. H ..... . .. BENNETT. . . . . . . . . . . . McKINLEY ... . . . . ... QUIMBY . . . . . . . . . . . . . HECHT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KANE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . STEVENS . . . . . . . . . . . . ALDER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KEENE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HANCF; ..... . . .. ..... MoRRis ... ... . . . ..... R ur-rL . .. ............ McBRIDE . . ..... . . . . . R uz . ....... . . ... . . . Lu sBY . .. .... ... . .. . ANDERSON ... . ..... . . STROHM . ... . . . .. .. . . WILKINSON .... ... .. . RILEY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CLARK . .. . . . .... . .. . CATHCART . . .... . . . . . Vonny . .. . . ... . . . . .. . African Dwarf Suitcase ...... . . . . ... . Chinaman Lindy . . ...... . . . .... . Barnum 's Cir cus . ... . . . ... . . . Scrunt ... . . ...... . .. . Pigmy . ... . ...... . . . . .. ..... . F oo l.. . . . .. .. . . Wilds of Cecil County .... . .. . . J a ke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H asn ' t an y . . . . . . ..... . . Que F leatown ....... .. . . . . . . . . .. . Crackers . . . . . . . . E scaped from a Zoo . . . .. . . .. . Mother ... . . . ..... . ... Afri ca .. . . .. ......... . ... . .. . Grouchy .. .. . . ... . .... Not classifi ed by biologists . . . . Sprogie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ethiopian ...... .. ..... . .. . . . . Potts . .... . . ..... . .. . Nowhere . . . . ... . . . .. . . . . . . . . Lover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Puerto Ri co ... . ........ .... . ? ? ? . .. . .. .. .... . . .. .. .... . Genera l . .. ...... . .. . .. . . .. . ... .. . Kisser ... . ... . . .... .. . Atlantic City Curley . . ... . . . . . . . . .. . Afri ca ..... . .. . . . . . . . ... ... . H orse . . . . . . . .. . ... . . Fiji Islands . . .. . ........ ... . . Ikey ... . .... . . . . . .... . Israelite ... ...... . ... . . .. . .. . Goat .. . .. . . . . . .. .. .... . ... . . Love-m e . . ... .. . . . Brick top . . . . .. . . .. . . Irish .. . . ..... . .... . . . . . . . . . . F airy . .. . . . . ... . . .. . . J1erkshire .. .. .... . . .. .. . ... . . K eeney ... . ........ . . . No one knows .. . .. . ...... . . . Benjy ... .. . .. ... ... . Dwarf .... . ...... .. . . ... . . . . . ? ? ? .......... . .. .. Eastern Sho ' ...... .. ........ . Father Time . . . . . .. . .. Giraffe . . .... .. . . ...... . .... . Cousin Charlie .. . . . .. . Wi lds of Frederick Co .. . . .. .. . Dago ......... ... . . . . Ape . . . .. . . .... .... .. . .. . ... . Dock ... . . . . . . .... . . . Malay . . ..... . . .. .... . . . .. . . . Booby .. .. . .... . ..... Ursiclre . .. . . . ... .. ... .. ... . . . Dutch ............ . . . . Unknown ... . ... . .. .... . .. . . . Four Eyes . .. ... .. .... Hottentot .... . ... .. . . .... . . . Dun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donkey .. . ... . . .. .. . .. . .. . . . Biddy . . . . . . . .. . ..... . Ellicott City's Menageri e . . .. . Senator .. . ....... ... . Hasn 't any ..... .. . . ........ . 198 F uTURE VocATION. P ECULIARIT Y. Vi ·it ing Madame Bonds Shooting Cra p . ..... . . Acting Clown ... . .... After a grease . . . . . . . . Lad y Ki ller . .. . .. . ... D oing Society ...... . . Trying to be funn y . .. Human freak .... . ... Doing everybody . .... Singing Lazy Moon ... Negro lover ... . . . . . .. Using Straws . . . . .... . Doing nothing .. . ... .. Seeing Double . . . . .... Using big words . .. .. . Bluffi ng . .. . ....... .. . Big feet ... . .. . .. . . .. Skinnin g . . . . . ... .. .. . Butting-in ... .. . ... . .. Reading novels . ...... All around athlete . . .. Stut-tut-tuter-ing ... . . Acting girl ... . .... . .. Cha wing cut plug .. . . . Creating disturban ce . . Skipping classes . ..... Bluffing t he profs . . . .. R apid walking. . . . . . . Loafing .... .. . . . .. . . . Big mouth .. . ... . . . .. Squeaky voice. . . . . . . . Carel shark . . .... . . .. Displaying his authcrity T alking too much .. Straight legs .. . . . ... .. Fox hunt ing. List of new questions . . Shoveling snow from Snow Hill. New face .. . .. . .... . . . Scene shifter. Box of all day suckero Filling gasometers. How to play baseba ll .. Mascot for B. B. team. Society etiqu ette . . . .. . Sport. Brains ................ Oyster shucker. F lesh producer . ...... . Chimney sweep. Smaller m outh .. ... ... Reading " Diamond Dicks." Beautifying mirror ... . Capt. of Sah;ation Army. A lesser suppl y of hot air T eaching in Tuskegee. More quills . . . . . . . . . . . Pressing brick. Kew expressions . ... . Making love. Better food . . . . W aiter. J ob as bell boy . . Giving Turkish baths. Curling iron . . . . . . . . . Negro preacher. Hi gh chair .. . . ........ H od Carrier. Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clothing business. Good loo ks ..... . ...... Supplying natural gas. H air dyer .. ... . .. .. . .. Porter. Fat reducer .... . .. . . . . Pri ze figh ter. H air oil . ....... . . . ... Beyond imaginr.t ion. Strength producer ..... Gymnasium instructor. More tobacco . . ....... Following the plow. Shoe polish .... .. . . .. . Steeple climber. Any old thing ........ . Fanner. Natura lizat ion papers .. Bootblack. Longer nose .. ... .... . Street cleaner. More to eat .. . .. . ... . Musici an (?). New laugh. . . . . . Bandmaster. New voice . . . . ..... Minstrel show . R eform .... .. .... .. . . . Gambling. A girl . . ... ... ..... Beer bottler. A new room mate ..... Coal miner. 199 �> . .> .> .> .> Of all t he grafters, yo ung and old , Our St. J ohn 's Clu ll the worst does l1old. H e's fond of gra bbing all nearby, And breaks down doors to steal a pic. ·w elsh rarellits often p lease his taste , And caramels, too, add to this waste. The sugar by t he pound he steals And several desserts at all his m eals. P lates from t he tallle he free ly ta kes, And trouble for some other m akes. He has no scruple s, so it seEms, But grab a nd swallow by som e means, Fork s he carries to his reams; Napkins, dishes , too, and spoons. Kn ives he keeps at ether 's less, Which usuall y makEs the Ge n 'l cross. H is blouse unbuttoned and ope n wide, H e seems to h ave no sort of pride; To him discipline is unknown, H e thinks the din ing-rccm h is own. No matter wh o is t here to see, He gralls and eats most glu ttonously . His selfish " ·ays are ver y strange, For cri ticism ma kes no change. Some have said " he'd soo ner d i e , Than miss a cha n ce to st eal a pie." Being appointed by t he Grand Tribunal of t he Great Amalgamated, In ternation al and Intercontinental Assoeiation fo r the Promotion of Menageries and Zoos; and realizing that my task was a dangerous and arduous one , I to~k all t he precautions known to t he profession , and accordin gly arm ed myself w1th t hree Gatlin g gun s, an in exh ::~,u stibl e supply of ammunit ion, t wo apothecary shops (to eure bites and stings), and a train-load of arm ed attendants. The preparations completed, I at once took up my duties and m ade inspection of t he prineipal zoos in t he Land of t he Risin g Sun , with t he exception of t he oTeatest one ' located at Buzzard 's R oost, Anne Arundel County, as I wanted to t:> . leave t his for my last. Accordingly, I set out from the main office of t he Association , Hell Avenue , North Pole, on the fifth K alends of the month of Desperation, in the year nineteen 200 t housand and fifty, for t he far fam ed place, on the Cannon-Ball Express, via Buzzard 's Roost, Qui ck Line R. R. After an un eventful journey, broken onl y by an ocwsional stop, and curves \vhi ch nearly dis lodged m e, I arrived at m y destination. On alightin g from the tr ain , l asked of a porter where I could find a cab , he replied , " that around th e corner t here was a Cath Cart whi ch would take m e to any part of t he city.'' [ asked the cabm an (Morris) to nam e his fare. H e repli ed "that he would take m e any where for a big cha w of cut plug.'' As this was Yery reason able I jumped aboard , told him where I wanted to go, and was hastily conveyed to the Zoo grounds, althou gh one of t he horses (Clark) seemed very much fatigued . On the trip I was very pleasantly entertained by the cabm an who t old me he had com e from t he swamps of an isolated county, but was now slowly becoming civili zed , and hi s on ly fau lt was "chawing cut plug.'' On arriving at the ground s I went imm edi ately to the office of t he keeper who in t rodu ced himself as Gar vius I. On stating my mi ssion he placed me under t he charge of a very prepossessing old guide , who gave his nam e as Da rius II. My guide at once con ducted m e to the principal building , l)inkneyite H a ll. On enterin g I was at first startled by a grow l and a Si from one of the larger anim als and in m y haste to escape 1 accid entally stumbled over a bon e (Bowen) and Fell head long against the cage of the monkeys (Logan and Crawford) . Fortunately for me t hey did not belong to the gori-ll a fami ly, and were harm less. After my guid e had assured me that everythin g was all right, as the anim a l in question , a big, buxom , brawny cinnamon bear was securely chain ed to prevent hi s givin g Battle to visitors. 1. was first shown t hrough t he section of t he buildin g where t he m ore dangerous anim als were confin ed; a beautiful(?) Mexican \Yild cnt, a fu ll gr01m hyena, capt ured from t he land of Melson , a beauti ful specimen of t he sloth , kn own as Pokey, from the expression on whose face I at onee concluded he was good to Love. A shor t distance clown t he corrid or bro litt le pups were playing, wh ic h ans\rered to t he names of Bob and Von . They also boasted of a cute litt le lamb (Phil Harrison), which the Shearer was already at work upon . On t he next floor was kept t he aviary specimens. In one cage a Turkey and Duck(y) were confi ned , and near by a beautiful peacock (Sm it h) and t he graceful Swann were feeding on Rice and Ri(ley). I was next shown in the sick ward where I found on ly two specimens a sickly looking rabbit (Sturdy), which was bein g given a nouri shment of Shuger (t). .\bo a large rhinocerous (Quimby), which was feed ing on Parsley. This anim al was very large around t he Belt , and if given half a chan ce would make good hi s escape. One of t he most prized animals of the collection was a D warf C Hance) . This little fe llow was captured from t he wi lds of Calvert Coun ty, during one of t he ;nterior excursions of Stanley . As I was walkin g along, watchin g t he anti cs of t hi s 201 �li ttle man, I tripped over a Stone, fell into t he Mudd , but with the aid of a Kane was able to (G)wynn my way out. For fear of boring t he reader with techni calities, I will not give a detailecl descript ion of t he ot her an imals, simply mentioning t hem, such as elephants, a lligators, unicorns, etc. As it was now time to close the Zoo to visitors, I had to take my leave of all its pleasant surroundin gs, and so I bade farewell to th e St. John's Menagerie taking wit h me a report which wi ll place them high in the ranks of the Associ ~tion. The First Book of Chronicles. Now it came to pass in about the Eeventeenth year of the reign of Tommy, that there came into t he land of the Johnnyites a band of wondrous yout hs fair of countenance but green ::cs the grass which grmveth in the pastures. From the four points of the wind did this band of yout hs assemble. And it came to pass t hat about t his time "Biddy'' the Terrible ruled over t he G.O .H . and he immediatelv called together t he wise men , the scribes and Pharisees, and said unto them , L~! a band of mighty warriors have encamped in our territory. And they cried out with a loud voice, saying Let us make war upon them . Then "Biddy'' sent a messenger into their camp and commanded t hem, saying Thou shall report in room 35 at t he setting of t he sun. And they were seized with a great fear ; and t heir lmees did tremble , and smote one against the other , and t here was mu ch sorrow (and cussing) in the camp. And it came to pass after this that their beds would upset them in the dead of night, neither were they allowed to loo k to t he right or the left, nor to speak without saying Sir, nor do any of those things which it had been t heir custom to do in the land of their Fathers. Ariel it came to pass t hat about this t ime t hey chose Solomon the vVise as their King , and they waxed strong and did do battle mightily with the Francais and t he Algebra and before the first feast of the H oldover many there vvere who fell and perished by t he wayside , and t he rest of the tand did mourn ]ono· b and covered themselves with ~ac k c l oth and ashes, fo r their comrades. Many of those that survived did become great hunters, equa l even unto t he " 13ond"-hunters; and many there were who would not worship the God, Twoseventy-five, and when t he Faculty Ea w these things they became exceeding wrot h, and they did reek their ve n gean ~e u pon them . And some there were who did sit at the feet of the doctors and learned men of the land, and did drink in the stores of wisdom. 202 About this time came t he great day of Separation , and t hey departed un to the lands of their Fathers, t here to live in ease and plenty, tending t heir Fathers' sh eep and making merry with the fair damsels. vVith th e shortening of the days came they again into the land of the Collegians and immediately did they set about and prepare to do unto others even as had been clone unto them , and they girded on the sword of Might , and armed t hemselves with the weapons of the "G.O.H.'' and went forth valiantly to war , and great was the sorrow they caused in the camp of the enemy. Now t hey soon found camped around about them many new and dangerous enemies, chief among these was Trig, bu t they did wage war with him and slew him notwithstanding his great strengt h. But some there were whon< h e did take captive and deliver into the hands of his chief priest " Ducky,'' and hard was t heir lot. Now it came t ') pass t hat in this year" Cue'' the Simple was chosen King , and they began to m ake sport with the youths whom they held captive, and did make t hem row even unto the "Chapel Steps," and their fame went abroad throughout all the land. About this time it happened that Tommy, King of t he J ohnnyit es, sent a messenger into their camp saying, Behold , thou art in my debt to the extent of many shekels, an d now wilt t hou pay what thou owest me, and t hey grew so re afraid . And seven there were who agreed to pay t he shekels and the wrath of the King departed from him. And behold the band did begin to look on the m aidens of t he land and t hey were fair to loo k upon , and t hey dan ced vvith them and made merry wit h t he cymbals, the lyre an d the beer-glass, and behold it was well with them . And some t here were among t he band who became proficient in t he gentle art of rushing the-pigskin-tossing the-high ball-and many other gentle ways of the artificer , and great was t he fame of these. And they said one unto the other let us make merry while we li ve for tom orrow we may-go before the Faculty-and they did even as it was spoken by the prophet. And when the learn ed men of the land did see their wisdom they did wonder mu ch and were amazed, and said, vVhat manner of youths are these that t hey have grown so exceeding wise. And n ow was the time nigh unto t he second Separ ation, and they departed out of the land, and great was the rejoicing thereat. And it came to pass that short ly after this t he king of the lan d did call the band together again , and the band came together, ancllo ! five more of their number were missing , and the memory of them was gone forever. And behold ye Scribes and Pharisees how they did walk with a lofty and dignified manner even as doth become " Juniors,'' and the memory of their "stunts'' of the past was departed from them. And they did strive one with the other with t he "quill'' to see who should be greatest amongst them. 203 �And behold! t hey soon found t hat two new and strong enemies were encam ped in t heir territor y, t he Philistines, Physics and Ana lyt ics, and t hese enemies did enter t h e territor y and despoi l the fair p leasures t h ereof. And they did wage war mightily ·with them and before the first feast of the H oldover they did yield up t he ghost and great was t he rej oicing because of it . And t hey cried unto the Philistine Calculus \Yith a loud voice, saying come clown from thy lofty perch , and lo ! he did descend h eavily upon t he backs of some of th em, and at this writing they were still waging \Y ar with him but m any were des pairing of t he struggle. And behold the strengt h and glory of t he band did wax mightier and stronger until their glory \Yent abroad throughout all the land, yea even unto the ends of it and did surmount the h orizon like un to :1 great star , and t heir breath was felt by all peoples, and m an y sang t heir praises. Thus has it been with t hem in t he past, and t hus sayeth the Prophet sh all it be with t hem in the future. Here endet h the first epist le of J ohn unto the Class of 1907. It Is Rumored: That That That That That That That That Th at Th at That That That That That Tha t ~VIaj or Thompson expects to a ttend Ch a pel next year. Shearer has join ed t he Salvation Army. Grant wrapped his legs around a barrel. Pokey takes dancing lessons. H ance and Burton are twins. Bob White \vi ll attend his Latin classes more regula rl y in the future. Ned Duval expects to graduate in 1910. Belt h as stopped saluting policemen. the Sophs have abolished h azing . Turkey uses a pedometer . Gosnell and Riley h ave passed first prep Latin. Otis Draper h as stopped prevaricating and drinking beer . Ru z and Melvin are th inking abou t going t o church. it was Belt's deal when t he light went out . Kane is thinking abou t stopping his butting-1n. Riley got out one issue of the Collegian this year. 204 P arody, on " E'beryhody Works But Father." Everybody loafs in St. J ohn 's, We sit aro und all day. Feet pe rched u p by the fire , Smoking our pi pes of clay. But just before examin ations \V e begin to crru11, Everybody loafs in St. J oh n 's, And we don't give a Everybody loafs but P okey, H e works ha rd all day, Trying to t each the bull-frogs, H yd'ra eggs to la y. Turkey t a kes it easy, And so does Ducky W ad dell. Everybod y loafs in St. J ohn's But Poke an d HurricancBill. Th e U. S. N. A. offi cers, I'T 've orders to salute, e In a quick and soldierly m a nner, Hurricane Bill says do it. The 0 . D. a lso rates one And one to the Profs. is dealt , But nobody salutes policem en , But Norman Belt. Of comrades we have many, For instance Belt and Burke, Also Garver and D aYis , vVho together a lways work. Then t here 's Bordley a nd Vonny, Carter and C. E. Chance. Nobody looks like Burton But Benjie H a nce. Major Clark gets a brace on, And so does Moth er ' 'Yearn' ' Morris, he don 't brace up, 'Cause he don't care a durn . Hurricane Bill says "par t ikler '' About this s 'lntin' game , And Tommy wear your gum shoes, Or you won't be the same. 205 �.. 1905 Shirt Tail Parade Orders/? Some Definitions. LO GlC- An illogical, nonsensical, amalgamated conglomeration of mult ifarious terms , devised by a lunatic. COMMAND FOR EVERYBODY TO GO WHERE THEY PLEASELine of squads on base squad , rear squads right front into lin e. EYES RIGHT- Comm and to stretch your neck SEATS- Signal fo r everybody to grab all t he fo od in sigh t . STUDY PERIOD-A per:od set apart t o raise h- , and have a genera l good tim e. EXAMINATIONS- The Jud gn~ ent day, wh en your head sh all give up knowledge whi ch it does not contain. "RAT-TAT" -The durn 'clst thin g we ever saw, and a cadet 's on ly chan ce to get even with the F aculty. I NTROD UCTION-A favorite way for Professors to kill tim e when they have speeches to m ake and not hing to say. ANALYTICS- An indefin able something, con cocted by Ducky to cause all Juni ors to flunk. REST-8ign al for captains and lieutenants to argue tactics. BIOLOGY - Designed especiall y t o torture bugs and bullfrogs and keep Prof. Daniels in a job. DRILL PERIOD -A tim e when th e Seniors h ave a right to show .t heir authority. BAND -A few boys with tin horn:S, dish-pans,etc ., masqueradingas mw:icians . SKIP-A word often used by those who are indisposed to attend classes. LABORATORY -The firework department. MESS-HALL-An experimental station to find out on how little a m an can live. SOPHOMORES-A number of insignificant parasites, who worry the F aculty and thrive at the expense of t he Freshm en. Found principally in the region of Pinkney Hall. ELOCUTION.-One hour set apart in each week to have all t he fun you can . O.D. - A high mucky-muck who struts around wearing a red sa~h and a tin butcher's knife. T akes a great delight in aiding his authority. 206 R earquarters, St. J ohn 's Co ll ege, Shirt T ail Brigade, lVIay 1st . Attention to Orders. 1- That }[a jor Thompson be orde red to substit ute t he \Yord "careful ' ' for the word "part icular.'' 2-That private J. H arrison be put in an ice chest to keep his head at the normal size. 3-That private Coulbourn be notified to stop carrying quills. 4- That Lieut . McCardell be given 10 demerits for flirting with Mrs . Diggs. 5-That private Fell be not ified t hat H echt lost $10.00. 6- That private I. B . J ones be put on probation for calling the 0 . D. a gent leman. 7- Th at privates :YicKinley and Hutson be suspended for di sturbing t he peace by t rying to imitate "Sousa.'' 8- Th at Sergeant McBride be repor ted for disrespect to Garver. 9- That private Chance be given a chan ce. 10- Thallover Burke be given one box of anti-love tablets. 11 - That Corporal vVhite be redu ced in ranks for skipping Greek Nov. 27th . 12- That privates H an ce and B urton be taken as an example of brotherly love. 13, -That Corporal Magruder be given charge of " Buzzard 's Roost" Brigade. 14- Th at Corporal Townsend be redu ced in r an ks for purloining private H echt's H ebrew prayerbook. 15- That Sergeant Major Rippere be presented with a "Guide to house-keeping.' ' 16- That private Dowell be ordered to stop wearing a football sweater under hi s blouse. 17 - Th at (private) ·w ad dell be promoted to Corporal for explainin g analytics to t he Juniors once during t he year. 18- Th at Captain von Schwerdtner be ordered not to throw any m ore students out of class. Hl - Th at private Street be given an a.veune of escape. 20- Th at private Childs be warn ed not to act so much like a "kid .'' 21 - That Sergean t Draper be given 20 demerits for telling t he t ruth. 22-- Th at a detect ive be detai led t o discover \V here private 13ordl ey spends his evenings. 23- Th at private Magruder be awarded a gold m edal for repelling the attack of the " Buz11arcl's Roost'' Brigade. 207 �dl.n dl.wfu[ T ime. On Juni or fl oo r a Buzza rd fl ew, Met up wi th one-"Sarcastic Cue." Said "Cue'' the sm a rt "Kow loo k a nd learn ,'' l\o tramps allowed, especially "Yea rn!" So " Yearn" got off, brayed like a mu le, And t hrash cl both "Cue" a nd Junior R uhl, This scufH e loud, awoke both Hoors, And boys rushed up in shirt a nd - The hum bled Ruh l boxed Keen y's cars, Then ' ' Sprogie' ' raged a nd whipped '' Bash ears.'' T his Housed up J\an e qu ite overmu ch, And he piled in to poor old " Hutch. " Excited now at t heir poor showing, In to the fra y jumped Reuben Bowen, R ev. Thompso n preached a nd prai. ed t he work 1\' hi le crazy stun ts were clone by Burke. McBride a nd Cutler, Lloyd a nd Tielt, Fought t ill they tho ught for sure they'd melt . " Apologize" said " Yearn" to R uz, But stubborn "Steve" said " \Ve refuse." Then " H ot tie'' Wilmer p itch ed in , too, And Gosnell t ried what he could do. Mcl\inlev th rew him clown t he steps, They b;cl no tim e to fool with " Preps.'' In sleep was Tilghm a n fast and sound, And Ben nett stayed to write it clown . "Come out,'' said "Glu t'' a nd "open your eyes'' " vVhen this thing 's over , I 'll treat to pies," Just t hen a crash, 'twas "Bill '' a nd Gwynn Had stum bled over Fooks a nd "Synn ," I t hotter grew t ill Asher Sm itty,' Fell o'er the feet of "Major Biddy." ''Bob'' BorciLy then with pompo us a ir, Pres un1ecl to pull t he " Bow wow's'' hair, Then I\clly bark ed a nd scratched h is head And Morris shoved t he '' Dog" to bed. By t his t ime th ings looked qui te embarrass in ', And blushes came to " J akey'' H a rriso n. The boys, yo u kn ow, we re clothed so sparsely, They frightened off poor '' Aunty'' Parsley. The " T cger, " too, had mashed in noses, Ti ll faces were as black as "Rose's", .And " ·orse t ha n ever grew their pants, IVhen to t he rescue came ''Benj y'' H ance. \~T h ile civil war th us raged above, And all the boys were in the shove, Lee Isaac H ech t wa> clown below, Selli ng cut-rate t:ckets to t he shows. 208 Junior Statistics. After careful and exhaustive research, t he follow ing facts a nd figures have been prepared , whi ch portrars at a glance t he class sta,tistics. AGE. Average age: 19.745 or more'correctly 10 years 8 months 27 days 17 hours 55 minutes 5n seconds. (Standard time.) vVEI GHT . Average weight: 146 pounds 14 ~ ounces. H ance, Ruh l and Co llinson were too li ght to ma ke an im pre sion on t he scales, but their weigh t was guessed at. H EAD. Average sir-e: 6. 97843. After carefu l calculations it was found that Ca ulbourn's, Belt's and Harrison's had increased two-t hirds of a size after promotions. SHOES . Average sir-e : 0. 25. Terry, E ane and Cathcart we re not measured, because it was t hought t hey \\·ou ld ma ke t he average too high. COLOR OF HAIR. Blonde, 10; B lac k, 14; "Cross," 6; "Sorrel," 1. ALLOWANCE PER MONTH. Average: $12 .349. The allowance of the farmers varies with t he price of potatoes; that of the "Eastern Sho'' m en depends upon t he oyster crop. RISING HOUR Average: 2·· seconds before reveille. B:)l'clley never n ses. 1 209 �College Yells. We will do up J oh nny H op kins, J ohnny H opki ns black a nd blue. Th eir line is not hing but a paper one, lVlndc for o ur backs to go through. \• ' c 've ~ ot a team that's strong and steady, \ A corker a nd a crac kerj ack, 0 rah , rah , rah, n1h , rah, rah , rah, R ah, rah, rah , rah , nth, rah, nth, St.. John 's the Ora nge a nd the Blac k. Tu ne-" Sham e On You ." H opk ins, H op kin s, s ham e on yo u; \\' hat 's th e matter wit h the J3lack and B lue ? Y ou do you r best but wha t's th3 us J, Th e St. J ohn 's t eam will cook yo ur goose, You ' II get wh at you're loo king fo r , You '11 be lucky if you ever score, And " ·hen it's over we will r oar, "Sham e en You ." S-A-I-N-T .J-0 H -N- 'S St. John's ! St. John 's! St . John's ! Hooray, Hooray , S . .J .! S. J .! S. J.! St . .Tolm's ! St.. J ohn 's ! St. J ohn 's ! R icka-Racka ! B oma-L acka! Sis Boom B ah! St. J ohn's! St . J o hn 's! R a h! Rah! Rah! Little Ned! Lightn ing N ed! H eady Ked Du vall PRESIDENT ' S MANSION. STUD Y PERIOD . 211 SNO W BOUND. INTERIOR O F ROOM. B ig, Brawn y Captain Oaks, Clark! Clark! Cla rk! AFTER THE GAME. .. �RAT-TAT SONG. Rat-tat, bed slat, s is, boom , bah! St. J ohn 's, St. J oh n's, rah , rah , rah! Ccm e, boys, togethe r, St. John 's forever , Whoop 'er up for th e ora nge and black , Th ey're the colors t hat we will back. St. J ohn's, oh, St. .John's, Three cheers for old St ..John's. ORA:-.!GE AND BLACK YELL. Orange and Black! O range a nd Black! They' re th e co lors thR.t we will back! f:l is ! Boom! Ba h! St. .John's ! St. John 's ! Rah! H a h! Hah! HOORAY YELL. I-Tcoray ! H coray ! H oo ra y! S. J! S. J! S. J! St. J cl1n's ! St . J ohn's ! St. J ohn's! S. J. YELL. S. J .! S. J! Hi p ! Hip! Hay ! Ray! S. J! S. J ! Hip! Hip! Rny! Ra y! St. J ohn 's ! St. J ohn's ! St. J ohn's! 'I'unc-' 'Bright Eyes.'' H opk ins good -bye , H opk ins don 't cry, \Va it t ill the gmr•e is o'er, W e will knock you so high That your rooters will sigh, ' So good-bye, old Hopkins, good -bye. Ruz- " Thompscn, here 's a telegram fo r you ." THOMPSON-" Th anks; I t hought it looked like my Sister 's writin g." L usnY (To Mc1'1akin)-" What are you making Mack?" PROl•'. D. - " You should say what are you Mac makin ?" BA IW im (To Harri son)-" You and yo ur Brother are such young men I often wonder why you are so bald.'' HAruusoN-' 'If you ' II promi se not to say anything about it I 'll tell you ." BAHBER-" Oh! I won' say a word." H ARRISON (whi sperin g) - " Our hair fell out.'' BoRDLEY (outside t he gate) -" Does your dog bite?'' Miss-(onthe porch) - " Yes,he cl oes;and-oh , please don 'tcomein ! Weare so particular about what we feed him.'' MAJOR TH OMPSON-" Caps are to be worn straight on t he head. you mean by 'vearin g yours croo ked , Belt?" BELT- "Ma jor , it's my head that's crooked ." Wliat do T un e-"Auld La ng Sync." Should all our v ictories be reca lled, Of now a nd long ago You 'd surely find we a lways keep A team that's far from slow. W e play the game a nd win great fam e vVh erever we may rorun, a nd then R igh t back to old St. J oh n 's \V c 'II take th ~ victo ry hom e. Cho.- Come gather around th e orange and black And lift you r vc ice in pra ise Of Alma Mater , loved St. J ohn's And clear old co llege Days. 212 FATHEH-" My child can never be yours." SuiTOR-" Naturally.'' Cour"BOUHN reported Borel ley for not rising at t he comm and-S E A T S l H AUVEH, wan ts to kn ow t he difference between a " ·Welsh-Rarebit" and the kind he shoots at home. "Man wants but li ttle here below''- but Tommy wan ts t he rest. 213 �ALDE it- "Now, Allen, never try t CJ deceive anyone-you wouldn ' t like to be t " ·o-f aced, wou ld you ?' ' ALLEN - "No; t hi s one ifi had enough." 1\: AK I~ - " I 'm afra id m y rncm -m at.e '::; drinkin o· ifi berom in g H erious.' ' HARRISON- ' '\Vh y RO?'' KA :'-<E- "O h! J had it brought holll e to m e last night.' ' This is an " age nf reform ,' ' said Dowell as he bought $2. 00 \\·orth of padding · BEK:\TET'l' (after examin at ions)-"The ''"heels in my head are t ired. '' " .Mine nre not.'' BI·:NNJ ,:TT- " Yours must be rub ber-t ired, th en .'' "~I cBnmE- I put m y arm around her waist, I drew her closely to me; And even as we had em braced , Ye Gods! a pin ran th rough me . Pn oF. D-"You are a hard worker ,- how many guns have yo u cleaned t o-day? HEARN-" K eep quiet , Professor; I a m fooling t he Ma jor. I 've been <:lean ing the sam e gun over and over a ll clay.'' BELT- " F ellows, I know a man who n am ed a roo. te r- l{obin Ron ." MELYIN-" vVhy was t hat?'' J3ELT-" Because he "Crew-so.'' IvhLLEn - " Prof. , I t hink I wi ll start t o keep a diary.'' Pno 1. D - "Going into t he butter busin ess, are yo u ~' ' < l" OYE- ''\iV on 't yo u help a crippl e, and lend me fiv e dollars.'' THOMA S-" How are you crippl ed?' ' Lon;-" F inan cially , as usual. '' A story is told of Lieut. V - , who wa, · endeavorin g to teach some young lad ies the correct position of a soldier. " You must st and erect, allow t he weight of the body to rest naturally and easily upon t he feet , hold your head erect, r hin in , allow the arm s to hang naturally, keep the litll e f-inger of each hand on t he seam of your - -.' ' H ere the Li eutenant had a fit of coughing, and t he dri ll was ended I[Uite a l>ruptly. Calendar Sept.20- Back to Old St. J ohn 's . 11 21-General Grant obser ves 11·it h great pleasure('?) t hat most of t he ne\Y men have large appetites. 11 22- The carpenter kept busy repairing doors in Pinkney . " 23- I-Iom e-sickness s preading among Freshm en on the fourth fio or. 11 24- Glee Club! G. 0. H!!! 11 25- H ance meets Burton and mistakes him for his own gh ost. 11 26- Rouse skins somebod y by sellin g a book twice. 11 27 - " Biddy' ' Clark sho\\·s, 11·ith appropriate demonstrations, t he footba ll candidates ho\\· to tackle t.he dumm y. 11 28- Upper classmen sell back nn ~~'c-ers of the Collegian to t he F reshmen . 11 29- Tomm y hum bly asked t he Sophs not to impose on t he poor little Fresh ies. 11 30- F urnished amusement for t he U. of Va. Oct . 1- " How did Ned make the tou chdown?" II 2- Belt t ries to teach Rouse t he rudiments of po ker. II 3- Belt goes broke. II 4- Hearn is 0. D. II 5--8in clair, Clark and Gosnell made a relay in readin g all the reports. II 6- " Bob'' vVhi te skips Greek! II 7- Pie-Eaters Club organi zed. II 8- Bordley claims he is tall er than Vonn ie. II 9-l\IIcBride and t he So phs at vvar. II 10- ''Peep" Briscoe \Yants to bet a pi e "lv it h a midshi pmanon tomorrow 's game. 214 • 215 ,. �/ Oct. 11 - Kavy wins in a downpour of rain. " 12--B progie tries t o get P ot s Miller out for fo ot ball. " 13- Mi ller is in a h ighly excited co ncliLon (for fear of Sprogie). " 14- F. & M. College has a practice game with us. " 15- Dark clouds of war rolling over from t he direction of Buzzard 's Roost. " 16- H ostilities break out. " 17- Ethiopi ans charge the camp us but are vali ant ly repulsed. " 18-Four Collegians appointed deputi es. Jiagruder hurt. \Vatching and waiting. " 19- Descend ants of H am afraid to at tack, and our fell ows glad of it. " 20- Treaty of peace signed at t he enem y's headquarters, .Jackal Avenue, Buz;mrd 's Roost. " 21 - St . .John 's loses to V. lVL 1.11- 10 " 22-Everybody goes to church but Belt , Rouse, Melvin a.nd Lloyd , who have other busin ess on hand. " 23- 1\Ic..VIakin tries to b low up the laboratory. " 2!- Reynolds receives a letter from Pigeon Hill. " 25- SJ.;ips classes to answer it. " 26- !Vliller 's p~my t hrows him in Latin Class. " 27- Miller decid es to use an automobile. " 28- St. J ohn 's beats Richmond College. " 29- Nothing doin g. " 30- Miller is hurled fr m his auto. " 31 - H alloween. Sophs ring chapel bell , build bonf-ire, carry chairs out of ch apel and raise h- in general. Nov. 1- Belt doesn ' t report anyone at drill. " 2- Quim by finds a pair of shoes large enough to wear (size 12). 3- Johnson comes to Elo cut ion. " 4- George W ashington University, 11 ; St. J ohn 's 9. " " 5-Stevens com plain s of his knee. " 6- Anderson complains of his ankle. " 7- Quimby com plains of his - -. " 8- Biddy tells them it's no use to complain. M. A. C. must be played. " 0-Ste vens and Quimby skin out of it but Andy isn't slick enough. " 10- All ready for lVI. A. C. " 11- W ere we ? ? ? " 12- Disgust. " 13-Wilkinson gets one na te below high C. " 14- Cravvford is mist aken for Sturdy 's canine friend . " 15- Sophomores run Bennie Hance out of Pinkney Hall. " 16- Dowell washes his feet. " 17- Belt salutes a policeman . Nov. 18-Freslunen tell Belt of his mistake. " H)- H e is reported for n at saluting a Naval Offi cer. Says he t hought he was a policeman . " 20-He resolves t0 salute no one. " 21- Bidd y and R ose ha ve a falling out. " 22- Wind puddin g far dinner. " 23-Bennett find s his lang-last coll ar . Great rejoicing. " 24- Tarbert m ade breakfast for mation. I " 25-St. J ohn 's, 11; J ohn s H opkins, 5. H o01:ay ! 26-Every body celebrates. " 27-Turkey Cissel returns from Balt imore. " 28-Every bod y recuperating. " 29- Mi ll er is minus 50 lbs. of fat on account of football. 30-St. J ohn 's 6; P.M. C. 5. Dec. 1-Coulbourn buys a box of m atches. " 2-All Annapolis goes to Princeton to see Arm y-Na vy gam e. " 3- Thanksgiving holid ay ends . " 4- Tomm y F ell gave Ruhl ten cents to buy a box of shoe polish. " 5- 1\iiller is moved to t he fifth fl oor. " 6- Quirnby finds it in convenient to go outside of hi s room to t urn around. " 7- Sophomores are reported for rough-housin g in Pinkney H a ll. " 8- F aculty is summ oned to appear before the Sophomore Class. " 9-Sophs decide t o shi p the F aculty. " 10-Bordl ey comes in at 12 r . M. at ni ght , and gives an enter tainm ent for the benefi t of a ll present. 11 ---8in clair awa rded his contract for qui lls. " 12-liVatner refu ses to "fin" out. " 13- P okey smiles in chapel. " 14- Battle inform s us that the post office is on the corner of State Circ le. " 15-St evens opened his Physics (accidentall y). " 16 -~ed Duval skips a recitation (incomprehensib le) . " 17-" All quiet along the Severn.' ' ,, 18-Eggs (small chickens) for breakfast. " 19- lVIorri s darned his soc ks to have hi s picture t aken. " 20- The evacuation begins. " 21 - Tommy swears vengeance on those who leave before t he holid ay begin s. " 22-St. J ohn 's deserted. J an. 8-College re-opens with everybody sorry t o part from the Chri stmas cake and en joyments Rt hom e. 9-Each one tells of how many hearts he broke and how much cake he ate. " " 10- H echt gets a graft job at t he Legislature. " 11 - H echt ma kes a speech. 216 217 (( (( (( �Jan . 12-Genera l Gmnt is t :)!d he would ma ke a good la \\·yer. " 13-G cn eral 1n atriculates at the }Iaryland LaV\r Schoo l. " 14- Linthi cum laughed. " 15- Rippere's eyes a re fa ili ng . " 16- Th e boys ad vise him to give up classes for a few days . " 17-Bennett and H echt consul t a doctor. " 18- Cathcart and ~I c Bricl e are a rrest ed . " 19 -~I cC ard e ll talks a bout baseball. " 20- Belt gets sick. " 21 - l'>v·e rybo cly skips Sun cby-schoo l. " 22-Sexton reported six tim es by Sergeant-to be Ma jor (?) Belt. " 23-Bennett st ops che\\·ing in ranks. " 24-Wi lkinson tries for the Glee Clu b. " 25- Glee Club breaks up. " 26- Everybody bonin g. " 27-RAT-TA'l' boa rd t a kes a rest . " 28- Nobody skips church but ''Yearn n " 29-Exams begin. " Work for the Night is Comin g.'' " 30- The whole battalion caught in Ducky's room. " 31-Fn lnkecl ~'lat h . C::mldn ' t get the papers. Feb. 1--yicBride caught gouging. " 2- Vonnie and Bordley discover their relationship. " 3-Bordley passes French and German . " 4- ??? " 5-Coulbourn comes in at 1 A. l\'I. and demonstrates the fact thatheis unable t o walk a fl oo r crac k. 6-Cou I bourn has no reveille. " " 7- Burke invents a new phrase about some part of Bedelia's anatomy . " 8-K eene disco vers that " General" Grant 's left leg curves t hrough an are of 180°. 9-Allen succeeds in learnin g the bu g dan ce . " 10-Sin clair gets b m extra desserts . H e and McCardell fight. 11 - Sinclar refuses t o tra in for track team. " " 12- Vonnie vs. Carbon Bisulphide. No German. " 13-Baseball practice begins. " 14- Miller gets an ex press package , pays expressage , and finds he has a package of quills, of whi ch he was in great need . 1.5- Bancl plays t o the cadence of 500 beats per second. Clark says " Take " t he damned Band in.' ' Sprogie takes it in. 16-Dowell came near drowning-in a bathtub. " 17 - Hell in Pinkney H a ll. " 18-A rushing business don e in H arrell 's room. 218 Feb. 19-Ducky tells a Freshman that what he says "ain't good Engli sh. " " 20- Tommy takes precautions against fire. Advi ses H a lbert C. R . and Shugert to keep away from inflammable m ateri a ls. " 21-The striking resemblance of Love to a "possum' ' is noticed. ' · 22- The anriversary of Geo rge ViT ashington 's bi rth cl2.y c.r: d of the last time Orrison took a bath . " 23- f:l ham battle between the companies: 55 killed , 2 (mbbits) wounded. " 24- Hodgson m akes a mistake and t akes his pon y to clr.ss . Makes a 5. " 25- Beard says t hat his father likes a litt le beard , but that he himself inclin es toward a mustache. . " 26 - Burke dreamily, " Backward, turn backward , 0 t ime in thy flight , Give me some sen se again just for tonight.'' " 27 - :McKinley tried to iron the kinks out of hi s hair. " 28 - Joe Caulk discovers that the length of hi s legs vari es inversely as the length of his body. " 29 - No one woke up . Mar. 1- Gosnell, Hoover, Mackey and Belt disso lved partnership and declared a profit of thirteen cents a piece. " 2-8treet turns into an alley. " 3- Kane metamorphosizes into a Stone . " 4- Everybody takes a nap (in church). " 5- Quail beginning to arrive . " 6- A young partridge n1akes its appearance on the can1pus . " 7- Professor Stryker contemplates n1atrjn1ony (precisely). " 8-Belt tortures his face by tryjng to laugh. " 9-Choir fizzled out in chapel. Billy Neill sang a solo. " 10- I. B. Jones gets reported for being too "cute. ' ' " 11 - " Biddy' ' goes to church. " 12- Kane has at last m et hi s equ al- the Fraternity goat. " 13- Frank Caulk and " Tubby'' Shearer visit in Baltimore in cogni lo. " 14- Professor D. runs out of toads. " 15- Buys phrogs from Schuele. " 16- H echt makes an impassion ed speech on the H am an Oyster Bill. " 17 - St. Patrick 's Day . Steven s, ~if ci3ride ::mel Anderson wear t he Rh amro ck (the color is appropriate to them se!Yes) . " 18- Fooks find s out that his room-m ate over indulges him .. elf < tnd pro ceeds to confiscate his spiritua l (ous) stimulant s. " HJ - Fooks stays in bed . " 20- Branch (Gwynn) nne! his bYo clogs Ti ge (Anderson) and H obo (Mcl\:inl ey) looking for stranglers. " 21 - " Turkey" makes a c01wincing speech for th e upbuilding of th e fin e nrt of poker playin g. 219 �Mar. 22 - Many new candid ates out. " 23-Keene adm ires a young lady of t he "Prince of P ilsen,'' who in turn admires his brass . " 24-" Pots'' 'Miller becomes in toxicated. " 25-It is discovered that he d rank a keg of beer. " 26- Valk analyzes one of Vonnie's sentences today, and find s it 20 % Dutch, 30% French , 15% Spanish , 30% Chinese, 2% Italian, and t he rest a jargon of Russian dialects. " 27-D ucky finds t hat t he cosine of Stryker 's nose is . 75 . " 28- P lay Navy baseball. " 29-Tied the Navy. Great rejoicin g. " 30-" Hurricane Bill'' says t hat J a ke H arrison doesn ' t know "b'' from "bull 's foo t' ' abo ut " tic-tacs.'' " 31- H earn 0. D. "Mother Yearn" doesn 't give a durn. Apr. 1- Apri l fool. 220 A Practical Joke. It was a beautiful Jun e morning , and I was sitting at the window of my office idly gazing at t he scene of beauty and grandeur spread before me; t he atmosphere seemed permeated wit h t he invigorating freshness of t he morning , and fill ed with an abundance of ozone wafted up from t he ocean and t he Chesa peake Bay. I was thinking of the long vacation I was to spend at the beautiful Sout hern hom e of my friend George Carroll , of H addon, North Carolina. We were bosom friends while at Yale, and I had promised him t im e and time again t hat I would visit him , but fifteen years had passed and I h ad never seen any of his fami ly. I t hought of the pleasure that was in store for me , to get away from the arduous class room work, and be free to roam among the flowers , to breathe their fragrance , and do nothing but fo llow t he dictates of my desires. The telephone bell rang. " I hope th at 's n othing to detain me!" I exclaim ed, as I placed the receiver to my ear. "Is that you I Mr. vV atson,'' inquired a feminine voice. "Yes.'' "All right; I desire to see you and will be around immediately.' ' '\Vho can it be, I wondered as I hastily fini shed packing my few belongings. A knock at the door and a pretty girl of about eighteen walked in. She wl'ts plainly but neatly dressed, but every lin e on her fresh young face seemed t o indi cate that that she was in great distress. Closing the door with a quick m ovement, and without waiting to ma ke herself known , she advanced and put her hand upon my shoulder, and with an appealin g look exc laimed , "You will protect m e, v 'tyou ?" von "My clear child what in creation - - " "You're t he famous Mr. vVatson, aren't yo u; the m an who always aids others when in distress.'' " I am certainly Mr. W atson. " " Then I am safe ," she sat down with a smile of contentment u pon herface. "My dear child,'' I said sternly, " will you be kind enough to inform me to what I owe t he pleasure of t his visit?'' " They t ld me to come to you.' ' " '\Vho?'' " The people at the station .'' 221 �" The police station?" I asked . "Yes; it was the first offense , you know; they said you \rere kind hearted and "·ould look after me, if I stuck to you .'' It was true that I had been using my influence to aid criminals, but I was not prepared for thi s. "What have you been doing ?'' I asked . "Oh,nothing! only a bracelet this time.'' "People don't know me here," she continued, "I always practised in the country , but really Mr. W atson I 'm tired of it, the life is too exciting; the doctors say so, so I 've come to you.'' This case certainly was a peculiar one but my train left in about a half hour and I could not investigate. " What is your name?'' I asked. "Carrie Smith.'' " 'iV ell, I \vill have your case investigated . Come and see me on my return. If you should need my assistance in the meantime my address will be care of George Carro ll, Haddon, North Carolin a. I will be there.'' "Going now?'' she interrogated. " My train leaves in a few minutes." "I'll go with you, then." For the first time during the interview it dawned upon me that the girl was demented. "Miss Smith, what on earth do you mean; what would they think of me?'' " But what am I to do? Oh, it's nonsense! I shall come, and I will say that I belong to you.'' I opened the door, "Now go or I shall be compell ed to use force in putting you out.'' She smiled, bowed and \Yent, evid ently a most impudent girl, with no sense of modesty about her. I completed my preparations, hastily m ade my way to the st ation , engaged my seat, and settled myself comfortably to peruse my paper, forgetting the incident of the morning. Just as the train was starting I glanced up, and who should I see but that impud ent girl coming to\Yard me. " I nearly missed you," she said flippantly. " I cannot talk to you here," I said severely, "you ar e a disgrace to your - er -sex.'' " lt is all right; I've "·ired to Mr. Carroll." " You've wired to lVIr. Carroll ," I repeated, springing to my feet. "Yes; I didn't \mnt to surprise them, I said you would bring a friend with you. It's all right, Mr. Watson." "I don 't know who you are, or what you are, but these people are respectable, and so am I, and--' ' "That is no reason why you should not sit clown and talk to me.'' "vVhat is the meaning of your insolent behavior?" "Why not be friendly, Mr. 'iV atson. 'iV e 're off now, and I must continue." "I shall give you in charge of the police at the next station.'' "ViT hat for?'' On reflection, I found that she had committed no criminal offense, and with a dignified air I resumed my paper. "I don 't mind your smoking,'' she said, taking out a box of chocolates. I was at my wits' end. This girl was either insane or unscrupulous, and could very easily create a sensation at Haddon when I alighted from the train. What was I to do? "Shall we remain long at Mrs. Carroll's?" she asked. "You will never get there, I assure yo u." "Oh, yes, I shall," was her flippant answer. "Indeed you won't. The police will see to that.'' "I don't care what the police d o; they told me to stick to you, and I am going to stay as lon g as you do.'' I was getting angry but nothing would be gained by losing my temper. Suddenly the thought struck me that I could bribe her, so takin g out a five dollar bill, I said, "If yo u will get off at the next station I will give you this," holding the bill ou t to her. But she only laughed. "You can't bribe me, I'm going t o Mr. Carroll's, but if you will give me ten dollars I will go in the next car and won't bother you any more until we arrive at the station.'' At the station I asked, "What will Mrs. Carroll think when she sees you wit h me?'' "Oh, she won't mind," she replied with a confident air; "she is used to girls like me.' ' I was bested, and could see no way out of my trouble, as she seem determined to destroy the pleasure of my vacation. The train slacked up at the next station the one before Haddon. "Give me the ten dollars and I will get off here in place of going in the next car.'' With a sigh of relief and glad to be rid of her, I h anded her themoney, adding that I never wished to see her face again. The girl must have lied about the telegram, at least George made no reference to it when I arrived. He presented his children to me. "That's my lot, except Clara; she has been away to see some friends but we expect her home any moment.'' When we h ad eaten lunch Mr and Mrs. Carroll insisted that we stroll through the little park in front of the house. 222 223 �Presently the rumble of wheels attraeted m y attention, and the vehicle drew up at the gate. " The bus,'' explained George, " it carri es passengers bet ween here and t he first town on t he railroad. '' I looked , and was horrified to see that girl alight and run toward us. " ~he is a lun at ic !" I cried , " have her arrested; she is crazy ; I kno\Y nothing about her. '' ""What 's th e matte r ?" asked George, not knO\Ying how to explain m y action. " l assure you both t hat I know- - " " Wh at's t he matter with the m an? " the girl as ked joining the group. " That girl," I said. "that girl is crazy, illiterate and everything else." " That girl ," repeated George , astonished; "wh y that girl is m y daughter Clara.' ' " Your d ttughter !" I exclaim ed , nearly falling from the sho ck of t he di scovery , and embarrassed out of my wits by the strange posit ion into which I had been suddenly placed . The little lunatic as I t hought walked up to me " ·ith a smile and said , " I knew Mr. ·w atson that you would he! p anyone you could , t he oth ers said you wouldn 't, but I thought better of you. '' She then and there h ad the boldness to tell her parents all about it . " How clever of you , Clara ; you must forg ive her , J\Ir. w ·atson . Girls are so playful,'' said "Nirs. Carroll. Playfttl , but I never received the ten dollars. Conclusion. 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Frock Suits . $20 up Double Breasted Sui ts, $12 to $25 \ iValking Suits - - - - - - MANUFACTURER O F - - - - - $15 up Business Suits . . . . $10 to $25 Special Designs and Estimates Furnished on Medals for Athletic Meets, Class Pins and Rings, etc. R. C. BLONDELL Our Custon1 Department cannot be Excelled ALL ST. JOHN 'S UNIFORMS MADE HERE DRU(~S E x cLUSIVE HATTER 3 2 6 W. Lexington Street, I door East of Eutaw Street PERFUMERY FANCY GOODS Williamson & Watts DRUG STORES I carry a complete line of NEW YORK, LONDON and PARIS HATS. that will please th e MOST FASTIDIOUS DRESSER Baltimore and Eutaw Streets BETTER LOOK 'EM OVER BEFORE BUYING ELSEWHERE VI Howard and Franklin Streets Op en All Ni g ht BALTIMORE. MD . �At Calvert Street MUNDER-THOMSEN COMPANY READY TO WEAR AND TO ORDER TAILORS PRINTING, ~ ENGRAVING 213-21) North Street, Baltimore SCHOOL CATALOGUES SCHOOL ANNUALS PROGRAMS AND INVITATIONS 211-213 E. BALTIMORE STREET We devote especial attention to designing and producing Catal ogues-of exceptional merit-that attract attenti on. ACKER, MERRALL & CONDIT CO. JOEL GUTMAN & CO. 112 to 122 N. Eutaw Street 220-222 North Charles Street, BALTIMORE, MD. ------IMPORTERS O F - - - - - - Silks, Laces, Women's Suits and Coats, and Milli~ nery. Also Fine and Exclusive Furnishings for Men; Shirts, Neckties, Collars, Bath Robes, etc. Mail Orders Promptly Attended to BALTIMORE, MD. Havana, Key West and Domestic Cigars Write for Free Catalogue HONORS TO GRADUATES ARE FULLY EXPRESSED BY PRESENTING A WINE MERCHANTS IMPORTERS GROCERIES ESTABLISHED J859 HUTCHINSON BROTHERS MANUFACTURERS ~ French Ranges and General Kitchen Apparatus ~ For Hotels and Restaurants Sold by all Reliable Dealers FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS THE STANDARD OF THE WORLD. L. E. WATERMAN CO., BOSTON CHICAGO 173 Broadway, New York MONTREAL SAN FRANCISCO A. F. SCHUELE REPRESENT! NG .,. '----' EVERYBODY BALTIMORE, MD. BALTIMORE, MD., U.S. A. r--' LIKES, BERWANGER & CO.'S ~ 8, 10 16 West Lexington Street viii Office and Salesroom, ll6 N. Howard Street Foundry and Shops, West Street near Ridgely Clothing OEHM & CO . Makers of High Class Uniforms and Civilian Dress. Ranges for Private Residences. Hot Water Steam and Hot-Air Heating Construction Tailoring ~ Furnishing and 12 East Baltimore Street Nea.r Charles Street, BALTIMORE, MD. IX �R. Q. TAYLOR & CO. ~ ~ ESTABLISHED J838 HATS, CAPS, UMBRELLAS, CANES ~ ~ Old Violinst Mandolins and Guitars J4j Leather Hat Boxes, Hand Bags and Steamer Rugs Age nts for DUNLA P & c o. , New Yo r k C HRI STY & co., Lo nd on NEW STORE, ~ ~·} 11 N. CH ARLES STRE ET BALTIMORE, MD. 321 N. Howard Street {·~ ~+ ~- .;.;;',} ·» -i+ ~+ -it} ~} ;<j,'>)- ·» 0:: ~} ·» * +t ~ ·:>} '* ;+ 0:: ~} •'+ -:1} ~ * 0 -:~- ;~ ~ -;'t} ;'J!· -:~- •* ,..,,_ t.Ll > ·:+ .;.; *- < en ~-~- -· >! -:!} -~- ·:+ * -~; +c -:.c ·~ ::E 0 0::: u... 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Th r_,. run uniform in qu a l i t~ ·, a nd as co mplete, pro perly ba la nced , h ighl y clige. ·t ible food s nre es pec- ia lly relished by pl an t s, to the great profi t of users. ~:- {t.!. a = a < -.'S· {•:- -:.:· 0 ifJ t.Ll 0-.c 0-.c ARMOUR FERTILIZERS {<· ~ 0:: :•} ~:- {•:- ~ en .;.} Q) ~ ·X· -~ -~· -:.c J'* .!~- THE ARMOUR FERTILIZER WORKS «· {<~.-:- {•l- AR MO UR & COMPANY, P rop :ietocs .!"'!. {..;{,;. ·X· +.• -:.c ~ ~.-~- -~!. {&:- " -~; r./J ,'t:- -!of ..p;. ~ ~ {•:- >E8I1JE8 mak i n g th e best cocktai l a ntl furn i Hb · ..> in g- H d e lightf ul aro ma! it: l o r al l win e , s p i t·i t au clsofla beverages, a tab l t'to~ p oo nful u f tll c A b Uv tt ·,.: {t:- * -:.c ·~ An g-os t u ra i n a n o un ce of sh e rry o r s weete n t d tt.fter m ea ls ntlbnl s r e lie f aud ui«l s diges ti o n. {•:- ~ w:~te r {ir C. W. ABB OTT & CO ., Ba lti more, Md., U.S . A. -~ -;<- COLLEGE CAPS AND GOWNS, ~ ~ UNIFORM CLOTHING CIVILIAN DRESS - - We Sell Everything for .:1- .:1- 861-869 Calvert Bldg., Baltimore, Md. -:.c {t:- ~ ~ Bran ch Distributing Points Cincinnati N ew Y ork Baltimore Pittsburg B uffalo S an Francisco DistiUe ries R icuerside, 0. P eekski[[, N . Y. The Fleischmann Company DISTILLERS, REDISTILLERS AND BLENDERS Baltimore Branch 1lT 'JJ NORTH AVE. and GAY ST. We ha.ve a 'Well selectee{ stock, a.ncl in orclering Up-to-Da.te Clothing a.t Popular Prices, ca.ll a.t B. WEYFORTH & SONS .;!. Men, Boys and Children, including Shoes and Hats NEW YORK CLOTHING HOUSE l 02 C. H. HILDEBRANDT & SON and 104 East Baltimore Street, BALTIMORE, MD. Popular Priced Tailors 21 7-219 N. PACA STREET BALTIMORE, MD. X Xl �R. Q. TAYLOR & CO. ~ ~ ESTABLISHED !838 HATS, CAPS, UMBRELLAS, CANES ~ ~ Old Violins 1 Mandolins and Guitars Leather Hat Boxes, Hand Bags and Steamer Rugs Agents fo r DUNLAP & co., New Yo r k C HRI STY & co., London ~ 11 N. CH AR LES STREET C. H. HILDEBRANDT & SON BALTIMORE, MD. 32l N. Howard Street i•t ~·} +; .!~ * * ~} ;.,'~·} ;>}- ·:>,'-'..} ~ '+t -+ -',!} * * * -•} : 0::: ::::J i•!· +1- 0 -:s- ;>} -:+ ~ * -s: * * ~ 0::: t.IJ > ;~- '~- <( {•} r.f) ~- ,~- '* * * ~ -~· {a:{i.· {.;- THE ARMOUR FERTILIZER WORKS {!.,'{~- {•:- ARMOUR & COMPANY, Prop :ietocs .!"'!. {t.- ''* +:· ;.:- ~ {ti- * +:· -~ -~; (./') {l..'- ·~ * ..N· * +:· * -~ an d soda bev erages, a t ab l eHpuo nful u fth c A b lJ v Lt '"" An ~o.m~ lllr a in lUI o un ce of ~ !J e rry or s w ee t en f:l l \\'< ~t e r u_rter Ill en is atlonls r elief and ai(_l~ dig-es ti o n. -;<- C. W. ABBOTT & CO ., Baltim ore, Md ., U.S . A. ..... ~ ~ j ~ E~~~~~~~i~titi~Jt~~~~~~~~ ~~ f~~~.~ ~a:l\ r~:~ r:~~ ~~:!~~~l t {1:- ....., ~ -~{!:- COLLEGE CAPS AND GOWNS, ~ ~ .;!. .;!. Branch Distributing Points Cincinnati N ew York Baltimore Pi ttsbu rg B u ffa lo S an Francisco Dis tiUeries Ricverside, 0. P eekski[[, N . Y. The Fleischmann Company DISTILLERS, REDISTILLERS AND BLENDERS Baltimore Branch NORTH AVE. and GAY ST. ITT We have a "Well selected stock, and in ordering 'jJ Up-to-Date Clothing at Popular Prices, call at UNIFORM CLOTHING CIVILIAN DRESS - - We Sell Everything- for 86!-869 Calvert Bldg., Baltimore, Md. '"(\'- a) $.... u.. '~- '~- * * * {a.!. ·~ 0 Are made from Blood, l\feat and B one, co mbin ed wi t h su ch ch e micals as agricul t ura l seience dic tates for different crops, soils a nd clim ates . Th e.\· run uni form in qua lity, a nd as co rn plet e, properl y balanced , hig hly cl igestiblc food s are e,.; pcc·ia ll y relished b.\· p la nt s, to the great profit of users. +:- ?f a ==' a 0::: -:~ {•:- {!:- rJ) <( -~-l>} .!"'!. 0 ~ ~ -!t} ARMOUR FERTILIZERS +:· {t:- ~ 0:: t.IJ ~·} ·!·~ ~ r.f) ~i>,C ·>} ~ NEW STORE, B. WEYFORTH & SONS .;!. Men, Boys and Children, including Shoes and Hats NEW YORK CLOTHING HOUSE 102 and l04 East Baltimore Street, BALTIMORE, MD. X Popular Priced Tailors BALTIMORE, MD. 2l7-2l9 N . PACA STREET Xl �u~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ i ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ u ~ ~ ADMIRAL MARKET WATSON & CO. w Meats, Vegetables, Groceries and Table Luxuries ~ ~ ~ 'f/11 f/b.~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ OLI TE ATTE ND AN T S R OM PT SER VI C E RI CES F AIR WE APPRECIATE TRADE ~ M. D. TRAINOR CASH OR CREDIT N. E. Cor. Eutaw & Lex ington Sts. O utfi tt ers in BALTIMO RE , MD . Men's and L adies' Clothing, Shoes, Hats and Furni shings Professional 425-4 27 N. Eutaw St. ~tl fj, ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ & CO. . Athletic Goods CLASS CAPS TRACK GOODS BASE BALL FOOT BALL, TENNIS THE ~ PHOTOGR APHER KERR, ROLPH ~ j Th e Popu lar Pri ct' Stu dent and Pu blic Balti more , Md . ~ u~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~u xii THE OUTLET And all other Sp orting Goods ~ ~ P Esta blis hed 1882 Md. Pho ne, Co urtland 11 40 11 3 STEWART & N O RTH LI BERTY STRE ET STEEN CO. COLLEGE ENGRAVERS AND PRINTERS . - - - - - - - - MAKERS OF - - - - - -. College and Class-day In v itations, Stationery, Programs, Banquet Menus, Class Pin s and Buttons, Medals for Field Day. Vi siting Cards, Crests and Coats of Arm s, Wedding and Recepti on In vitat ions . . . . . . . . . Phi lade! phia, Pa. 1024 Arch Street xi ii �C. & P . Pho n e , Mt . Ve rn on 570 Always ask for Cardenas Cigars ~ BOOKS AND STATIONERY MADE BY 513 North Eutaw Street Elliot, Ottenheimer & Elliot BA LTIMORE , MD . T E XT BOOKS, Medi cal, Scient ific and Reli gious Books ''EVENING CAPITAL'' ALEX. STEVEBOLD BALTIMORE, MD. ESTABLISHED 22 YEARS The Only Daily of Annapolis POPULAR PRICES 306 W. Camden Street .:1- .:1- Guaranteed Circulation 2500 A SURE RETURN FOR ADVERTISERS AN UP-TO-DATE JOB PLANT WM. M. ABBOTT, The Quick Lunch WHOLESOME FOOD .:1- .:1- .:1- Capital Building, 68 and 70 Conduit Street RAYMOND L. MOSS & CO. $- WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GR 0 c ER s $ A N D DEALER IN CAKES, CRACKERS AND CANDIES AGENT FOR GOLD MEDAL FLOUR Opposite B . & 0. Depot BALTIMORE , MD . 67 WEST STREET, HIRSHBERG ART CO. Successo r to RYAN & WARD Hirshberg-, Hollander & Co. ANNAPOLIS, MD. C. F ra nk W a r d Ch as. T . R y "n J.P. BOWERS BROWNtS SHAVING Designers and M akers of ART DEPARTMENT MEN'S CLOTHES Artists' Supplies and Draw ing Material POOL~ ROOM PARLOR, 135 Main Street, ANNAPOLIS, MD. J6 N . LIBERTY ST. 334 N. HOWARD STREET Md .: Phone , Courtla n d 2579 BALTIMORE, MD. l 08 East Street, Under Brewers' E xchang e BALTIMORE, MD. Robert A. Wooldridge Co. COisit the Retaif Department of Charles DeWitt & Co. High Class Fertilizers Charles and German Streets "MADE ON HONOR" BALTIMORE "SOLD ON MERIT " T empora ry Offices l2l W. Saratog-a St. You can buy here Cu t Gla ss, Erie- a-brae, Dinner S ets, W edding P resents, a t w ho[esa[e prices, at a sa'Ding to you of one-quarter. Baltimore, Md. Good Agents Wanted Hair Cutting, 15 Cents Baths, Hot and Cold, 25 Cents Razors Honed ANNAPOLIS, MD. Estab[ished 1892. ISAAC HOHBERGER Stephen Lane Folger Manufacturer of Tobaccos and Fine Cigars ~ WATCHES, DIAMONDS, JEWELRY Club and College Pins and Rings, Gold and Silver Medals 180 BROADWAY, FINE PIPES A SPECIALTY CHURCH STREET, ANNAPOLIS, MD. [}I(EW YORK x iv X\' �J. NEWTON GILBERT, Ph.G. T. KENT GREEN, Ph.G. DE ALER PHARMACIST IN DRUGS, CHEMICALS TOILET ARTICLES, ~ ~ PERFUMERY Cigars, Tobacco, Etc. E ast Stree t and State Circle, Drugs Annapolis, Md. Cigars Toilet Articles ~ ~ SODA WATER ~ Cigarettes ~ W M. H. THOMAS & CO. Successo rs to M en' s Wea r Sto re o f FRANK A. MUNRO E Formaldehyde Disinfecting a Sp e:ialty ANNAPOLIS , MD. I 70 CHURCH STREET, Mail Young's Hats , One-Ha lf Hats , Fow ne's G loves , Eclipse Shirts, Hos iery, Etc. Trave ling Bags , Trunk s, Suit Cases, Cl othi ers, Hatters and Furni shers READY-TO-WEAR AND IV\ADE TO MEASURE CLOTHING O rd ers P rom p tly A tte nde d to . 138 Main Street, P. K. PARLETT & SKIPPER CoNTRACTORS AND BuiLDERs Office, 46 Eas t Street, A nnapolis, M d. R EFE RENCES: Leo n Gott lieb, Store a nd R es id ence. R. G . C ha ney, Residence, F. H. Sto c kett , Resid ence . G randall , Store. W ieg ard, Sto re and Res id ence. Annapo lis High Sc ho o l. F. ]. Sc hm idt, Store. M ess Ha ll , St. J oh n' s Col lege. CHAS. G. FELDMEYER NEWSDEALER ~~· ·.~~ . S ·- ~ (, ~ Annapolis, Md. 48 Maryland Avenue XVI ATHL E TIC LIBR A RY N o. 250 Spalding's Official Athletic Almanac for 1906, Ed ited by JAMES E . SUL LI VA N All Jn ~e r co ll eg i are and In te rsc h olastic Mee ts and Reco rd s; Amate ur A thl eti c U ni o n R eco rd s; A. A. U . Se n ior and Juni or Ch am pio ns hi ps ; S wimmin g and S ka tin g R eco rd s: A . A . U. B ox in g and Wres tlin g Ch ampi ons hip ; all Sh ot Putt ing and W e igh t Throw ing R eco rd s ; Offi cia l R epo rt of th e L ew is and Cl a rk Ce nte nn ia l A thl e ti c Gam es; p ic tures of Leadin g A th letes, A me ri ca n a nd Fo re ign Tobacco and Cigars SPORTING GOODS A SPECIALTY PALDING'S ~- ------ P RI CE , by M a il, 10 CEN T S Books and Stationery Annapolis, Md. Se nd yo ur nam e a nd address to our neares t s tore fo r Spa ld ing's Ca ta log ue of all Athl etic S ports- it 's free A. G. SPALDING & BROS. N ew Yo r k, San Francisco, C incinna ti, Syracuse, C h ica6o, Boston, P h ilade lph ia , Mo n trea l, Can . S t . Louis , Minneapo li s , Bu ff alo , Lo ndon, E n g. XV II Was h ing to n , Ba ltim ore, De n ve r , N ew Orleans, Kansas City, P itt s bur g, �]. L. HARRINGTON Walter Clark & Co. OLD RELIABLE Naptha Launch, Row and Sail Boats ~ LIQUOR HOUSE ~ FOR HIRE Compromise St., Cor. Church and Green Sts. Annapolis, Mel. ANNAPOLIS, MD. Telephone 127 Carpenters' Tools, A gri c ultural lmpl ements, Saddlery and H arness Ca nned F ruits, Vegetables and Preserves CITY DRUG STORE FELDMEYER BROS., Props. Jones & Franklin ~SODA WATER~ Groceries, Hardware, Woodenware 206 Church St., Cigars, Tobacco, Etc. !62 CHURCH ST. l5 FRANCIS ST. Annapolis, Md. ANNAPOLIS, MD. ROBERT T. CHANCE GEO. W. JONES DEALER IN Books, Stationery Watches, Jewelry and Silverware .. and Newspapers College Seals and Pins I 36 Church Street, 194 Main St., Annapolis, Md. Annapolis, Md. NUF SED! Dr. Charles B. Hinkel THE HUB IN THIS BOOK at Everybody's Store for MARYLAN'D cAVENUE WERE MADE BY ~~ Clothing1 Hats 1 ~ ~ Furnishings and Shoes PHARMACIST, 'Drugs, Medicines and Chemicals ANNAPOLIS, MD. BUFFALO, N 28 and 30 Market Space cANNAPOLIS, eMD. THEELECTRIC CITY ENGRAVING CO. xviii HALF" TONE. MADE. FOR U.S . .NAVAL x ix ACAOE.MY Y . �THEO.WARNER CARVEL JAMES R. PAINE HALL WARNER CO. & ANNAPOLIS, MD. A New and Modern Hotel Suites with Private Baths Special Attention Given to Private Dinner Parties UMBRELLAS HATTERS CANES Agents for Henr y Heath and Walter Barnard 's London Hats 324 West Baltimore Street E. H. PATRICK, Manager BALTIMORE, MD. Larg-est and Best Skylig-ht in the City for Babies Groups and All Instantaneous Work . . • . . BUFFHAM & CO. JEFFRES' fl\(EW STUDIO FINE PHOTOGRAPHY 6 East Lafayette Avenue, One Door from Charles BALTIMORE, MD. SPECIAL RATES TO ST. JOH N'S STUDENTS ANNAPOLIS, MD. Mary land Avenue, C. & P. T elephon e, Mt. V ernon 1298- K Hotel Maryland Parlett & Parlett FOR A FIRST-CLASS THE STUDENTS' STORE Eq uipp ed with Co mfo rtable Roo ms, Pr ivate Baths, Stea m Heat, Telepho ne, Newspaper and Book Stand . . . DEA LE RS I N Shave and Hair Cut PHILIP MILLER COAL, FEED Special Rates t o Students, their Pare nts a nd Re latives GEORGE T. ME LVIN, Proprieto r ANNAPOLIS, MD. ANNAPO LIS, MD. GEO. W. MOSS &CO. CHANEYtS STABLE ]. W . TRAUTWEI N, Propri etor A Complete Line of lver-Johnson BAGGAGE DELIVERED Wag-ons and Carriag-es meet all Trains Revolvers, Guns, Rifles BALLS AND FUNERALS A SPECIALTY .$ .JC .JC and Ammunition Furniture Packed and Stored 130 and 13 2 City D ock c. T elephone Connections XX & P. P hone 45- H ANNAPOLIS, MD. SHOES AND COMPLETE LINE OF a nd GEN ERA L BuiLD ERS' SuPPLIES Foot of Church Street HIRING AND LIVERY . . • HATS~ GO TO W. R. SHIELDS 46 Maryland Ave., Men~ s Annapolis THERE'S Furnishings 30 Market Space, SOMETHING Annapolis SAD abo ut paying more for an article th an it's wo rth, wh en yo u can ge t A . ]. & Co. qua litythe Best- yo u can ge t nothin g b ette r, and w e don't charge for th e nam e. A. J. & Co.'s JERSEYS, CAPS, HATS, & c. are th e standard of q uali ty at many prom inent educati onal institutions. You know th em, too. D o you not ? ARTHUR JOHNSON & CO. 16 EAST 42d STREET ATHLETIC OUTFITTERS, NEW YORK XX I �BASIL BROTHERS Successors to S. S. M. Basil DEALERS IN Hecht's Hotel COAL,WOOD AND ICE ~**~*~******************~*~**~********************************~~ * * t * * :t * * * ;"*;.* : FOR A GOOD PICTURE * * ~ *;.; * * ! "* * * YOU OUGHT TO GO TO -{+ SA WED AND SPLIT WOOD HAVRE DE GRACE, MD. $ $ a Specialty $ $ McABOY £ -{+ l28 Main Street, HERMAN THEISZ - - . D EALE R GENTS' FURNISHINGS, Annapolis, Md. IN _ _ _ SHIRTS, N E CKWEAR, -~ -~ i THE PHOTOGRAPHER i * * -~ "* * MAIN STREET, * t ANNAPOLIS, MD. : * * "* * * * "* * :t Special Rates to St. John's Students. All go there. : * * * * "* * :t .;t. See our Work in the " Rat-Tat " .;t. # * "* ~**************************************************************~ -{+ -{+ TRA VELI N G S ATC H E LS AN D TR U NK S A gent for P earl Steam L aundry 161 M ain Street, AN N A POL IS, MD. B. WIEGA'l(D GOTTLIEBtS Fine Confectioner-y and Ice Cream ~ THE ONLY Department Store Manufactory 8 S tate House Circle, Main Street and State Circle cAnnapolis, JMd. M. M. SMITH W. F. Childs R. R. Magruder LE AD IN G R. R. Magruder & Co. WHOLESALE AND RETA IL GR0 cER s Baker and .!t and Dealers in FRESH MEATS Confectioner 169- 171 Conduit Street 67-69 Maryland Ave. ANNAPOLIS, MD. H uyler' s and W h i tman 's $ Ch ocola tes, & c., a Specialty R. E. STRANGE & SONS RIDOUT BROS. DEALERS IN 1 32 CARDES BROS. ~I~ CREAM AND~ Interior and Exte rior - - DeCOfatOfS ****************************** 157 Main Street, Annapolis, Md. ANNAPOLIS, MD. XXll Ladies' and Gentlemen 's STORES ON 309 Church Street, Phone 32- F · GUIENOT'S CoNFECTIONERY ******~*****~*************•*** Wall Papers, Paints, Oils, Glass Main Street ANN APO LIS , MD . A NNAPOLIS, MD. Ment s Furnishing Goods _ . Dealers in , _ *· DINING:. ROOM West Street and 224 Main Street Cor. Prince George and Randall Sts. ANNAPOLIS, MD . ANNAPOLIS, MD. xxi ii �Men's Furnishings g A complete showing of th e most stylish and best in M e n's wear at moderate pnces. . . . . . . Mutzlcr J&ros. Custom-mad e Shirts g 210-218 N. HOWARD ST. BALTIMORE, MARYLAND I ISAAC BENESCH & Shirts made of the fines t material s, fit g uarant eed . Pri ces ex t reme ly moderate. . . . . SONS The Cheapest and most Reliable Store in the World WHETHER FOR HOME OR PERSONAL W EA R YOU CAN FIND IT HERE ITT Just a Little Better and a Great Deal ~ Cheaper and the T erms Much Easier ISAAC BENESCH & SONS Modern Home Furnishers and Head-to-foot Outfitters 123- 125-127 MAIN STREET AN NAPO LIS, MD. XX\Y � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yearbooks Description An account of the resource This collection contains yearbooks from St. John's College in Annapolis, MD. Yearbooks are sometimes referred to as the "Rat Tat", "Cicerone", or "Canvas". 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Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context yearbooks Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data paper (bound book) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rat-Tat '06 Description An account of the resource Rat-Tat of St. John's College, Volume IX, Class of 1907. Published Annually by the Junior Class. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Bennett, E. Elmer (Editor-in-Chief) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1906 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this publication. Type The nature or genre of the resource text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource McBride, Edgar H. Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1906 https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/58327ef63a881a099ebe0ddfec8b19e3.pdf ac758fb288887aab1b980d06b08575d3 PDF Text Text Bennett 1 The Periodic Appeal of Friedrich Hölderlin by Kelsey L. Bennett I first encountered the works of the romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) at St. John’s College here in Santa Fe, when the tutor Frank Hunt was offering a preceptorial on the poet. We read poems with titles such as “Diotima” (many of these), “At the Source of the Danube,” “The Fettered River,” “Homecoming”; we pondered the similarities between poetic metaphor and wordless music, man’s nearness to and separation from God, the significance of the poet’s profound Hellenism....These topics were inviting, as was the thought of a poet who made it his habit to cross the Alps on foot in the middle of winter. But more arresting than anything else was Hölderlin’s ability to locate and write about an unnamable source (or Quelle) which, for him, so memorably emanates from the places in which some of Europe’s great rivers first arise. Since that time, these qualities, particularly notions of ‘home’ and ‘source,’ have compelled a return to his works. If only, he once lamented, “if only one weren’t so periodical!” Periodicity always suggests a return—but to what? What is the nature of this place? The elegy “Homecoming,” dedicated to his relatives, was written in 1801 when Hölderlin was thirty one, about a year before an accumulation of circumstances culminated in his breakdown and estrangement from his family [here in Michael Hamburger’s translation1]: There in the Alps a gleaming night still delays and, composing Portents of gladness, the cloud covers a valley agape. This way, that way roars and rushes the breeze of the mountains, Teasing, sheer through the firs falls a bright beam, and is lost. 1 Hölderlin, Friedrich. Selected Poems and Fragments. Trans. and intro. Michael Hamburger. New York: Penguin, 1998. 1 �Bennett 2 Slowly it hurries and wars, this Chaos trembling with pleasure, Young in appearance, but strong, celebrates here amid rocks Loving discord, and seethes, shakes in its bounds that are timeless, For more bacchantically now morning approaches within. The lines, full with contradictions, beautifully animate the experience of return, the ways in which things long familiar take on another aspect, as here in the phrase “gleaming night,” the way the valley is doubly concealed in darkness and in cloud until the “bright beam” appears, and disappears once again. The arrival, for the poet, is a celebration of “loving discord” filled with haste (recognition) and slowness (reluctance, perhaps); “Chaos” itself is subject to fatalistic “bounds” that define it. The poet’s thoughts continue their ascent to the whitened peaks and surpass them: “Even higher, beyond the light, does the pure, never clouded / God have his dwelling, whom beams, holy, make glad with their play.” The God, from “beyond the light” acts upon “us mortals grown sad,” as he brings forth the rivers from within the furthermost reaches of the mountains, he “works on the lowest depths to open them up and to brighten / All” and “beauty abounds, as before, and spirit is present, returned now, / And a joyful zest urges furled wings to unfold.” We find that the poet is returning by boat and observing the opening morning from the waters below. As the village emerges from the morning shadows, the opening confusion seems to dispel with it. Now, he comments, “All seems familiar.....And no wonder! Your native country and soil you are walking, / What you seek, it is near, now comes to meet you halfway.” The nearness here speaks on several levels. As he moves across Lake Constance, he approaches the political boundary of his homeland and at the same time, and more importantly, draws near to the sources of rivers such as the Rhine and the Danube. To his German readers, Lindau serves as “not the least of our land’s many hospitable doors, / Urging men to go out allured by the promise of distance.” This is the typical 2 �Bennett 3 understanding of a frontier, the portal through which the young adventurer passes to move on to “Go where the wonders are.” The poet, however, turns from these indeterminate “wonders” and addresses the portal from the other side: “you door that are hallowed, me much more strongly you urge to / Make for home where I know blossoming pathways and lanes,” where he hears once more the voice of his mother, about which he exclaims, “How to your sound respond things that I learned long ago! / Yet they are still themselves!” The nearness here encompasses the past and the present moments of awareness. Somehow this relatively familiar experience is necessary for the poet to approach the thing that he seeks above all else (it is reminiscent of the distinction Kant makes between the beautiful and the sublime), that is, a nearness to the God he names who dwells “beyond the light,” in silence and alone. Now, even as the poem carefully creates a topography of desire for return and nearness, he brings us to the moment that surpasses all sense of place. To measure distance to and from a ubiquitous presence becomes meaningless; this last silent expanse the poet generates proximity through the necessary act of naming. He asks, When we bless the meal, whose name may I speak, and when late we Rest from the life of each day, tell me, to whom give my thanks? Him, the most High, should I name then? A god does not love what’s unseemly, Him to embrace and to hold our joy is too small. Silence often behoves us: deficient in names that are holy, Hearts may beat high, while the lips hesitate, wary of speech? This troubling paradox, shared by many romantic poets, is a necessary condition to the nearness the poet seeks. Travel alone is not enough, willingness or temperament is not enough: the experience of silence peculiar to poetry is the thing that makes the poetry possible. About this moment in the poem Heidegger says, “Silence—does this merely mean: to say nothing, to remain speechless? Or 3 �Bennett 4 can only he who has something to say be truly silent? ...he who would be capable of letting the unsaid appear in his speech...would, precisely though this alone, be capable of silence in the highest degree” (“The Poem” 216).2 Just as Semele could not look straight upon her god without immolation, to avoid this fate, the poet’s path home must be indirect, must make use of language and the act of naming to speak the unnamable. The wisdom of this poem finds its source in the idea that while certain places are more hospitable than others to the development of creativity, the work itself must be the home, full with the contradictions of familiarity constantly shifting into the unfamiliar and back again. And it was well for Hölderlin to come to this conclusion at a time when increasing misfortune would soon impress itself upon his life and work. Before this, however, as Michael Hamburger succinctly presents in the introduction to his translations, the poet’s future was promising. Despite the fact that he lost both his father and stepfather when he was a boy and remained financially tied to his mother for much of his life, he was acquainted with some of the most influential intellectual lights of the time. Among them were Hegel and Schelling, whom he met in Tübingen during his time at the Theological Seminary. Though he passed his examinations, he resisted repeated pressure from his family to become a Lutheran minister. The alternative was, in Hamburger’s words, “the humble drudgery, but relative independence, of a private tutor,” and Schiller himself arranged for Hölderlin’s position with the children of the well-connected Charlotte von Kalb. While under her employment, Hölderlin was able to work on his novel, Hyperion, as well as travel to Jena to listen to Fichte’s lectures and meet Goethe at Weimar. When he was twenty five, Hölderlin found appointment with another wealthy family in Frankfurt. There he entered into a life-altering affair with the mother of his pupils, Susette, and 2 Heidegger, Martin. Elucidations of Hölderlin’s Poetry. Trans. Keith Hoeller. Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2000. 4 �Bennett 5 she appeared transformed into Diotima in his poetry. Unlike the only woman whom Socrates revered as a teacher, she who revealed love’s great and cosmic order as he recounts it in the Symposium, Hölderlin’s Diotima reveals a tenuous presence. In the poems, her fragility is often likened to a blossom in winter, with the attendant feelings of solitude, suffering, and misplacement in the world: “You noble being, silently earthward gaze / At brightest noon, for it’s in vain that / Here in the sunlight you seek your kindred.” The relationship was ended forcibly, along with his position, in 1798, and the poet was soon confronted with his own failure, in spite of his connections, to achieve widespread success through his work, and his own isolation increased. And yet the Diotima poems mirror how, into the new century, Hölderlin would continue his preoccupation with these questions but transpose them into another key entirely. Some of the most powerful instances appear in his poetic meditations on the sources among Europe’s great rivers. In the hymn “Der Rhein,” from its genesis the great river is itself subject to forces alien to its nature. From within the Alpine heights “where, determined in secret / Much even now reaches men,” the poet hears “A destiny.”3 The destiny concerns the river and its Promethian struggles: “There in the coldest chasm / I heard the youth implore / Release.” From the beginning, the “freeborn Rhine” parted and longed to roam, and impatiently His regal soul drove him on towards Asia. Yet in the face of fate Imprudent it is to wish. 3 Anachronistic though it may be, since the advent of CERN, I cannot help thinking about how these ideas have carried over into the present. How are we to take it that modern physicists have penetrated and established their laboratories, sublime in scope, in such close proximity to the places for which the romantic poets held the highest metaphysical regard? 5 �Bennett 6 The “crooked banks” that are “greedily entwining” move the river’s course, instead, to the northwest. However shaped it is to human purposes once it parts from its source, is diverted and channeled to found and maintain cities, even so the poem insists that the river preserves its original character throughout. And from these tensions, some violence necessarily accompanies its compelled course, for “like lightening he [the Rhine] / Must rend the earth.” Similarly, in the lines concluding “Der Ister,” the Greek name for the Danube, Hölderlin writes, “But the rock needs incisions, /And the earth needs furrows, / Would be desolate else, unabiding; / Yet what that one does, the river, / Nobody knows.” The Danube, of course, unlike its north-wending counterpart, succeeds in its eastern course toward “mother Asia” until it disperses itself in the Black Sea. In both cases, not only does the land affect the river, but also the river provides the land with a character, perhaps it is not too much to say that it provides it with a soul. The earth is not significant merely as a smooth surface, featureless—it needs to be split, cracked, and rent for any growth to be possible (in this vein one is reminded of a letter Keats would soon write to his siblings in which he asks, “Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a Soul?”). Which leads the reader to the parallels between the phenomena in the poem and the purpose of the poet. “Der Rhein” eventually concludes with the idea that the poets are needed precisely to make people aware of these correspondences, indeed the forces themselves require their voices, for “The most Blessed in themselves feel nothing / Another .... must, I suppose, / Vicariously feel in the name of the gods, / And him they need.” But the ability to do so demands extreme acts of defiance as well: an aspirant, the poem announces, must bury in the rubble of his house both his father and his child. The image provides a dark counterpart to Wordsworth’s aphorism, to be sure, and shadows forth what was to come. At the beginning of 1802, Hölderlin set out for Bordeaux and what would be his last and short-lived tutoring position. His return to Germany included a long journey through France, and 6 �Bennett 7 included a stop in Paris, about which little is known. The time spent as an alien in a country enthralled by empire, the continuing difficulties with his work and, finally, the devastating news of Susette’s death that summer together altered the poet in such a way that he became estranged from his family and some, though not all, began to suspect the poet of insanity. Finally, Hölderlin had to be moved, against his will, to a mental hospital in Tübingen known for its “treatments” of patients that included a combination of drugs and the use of straitjackets, the silencing Autenrieth mask, and forced cold-water immersion techniques. Unlike others who died of these therapies, Hölderlin survived there for about a year before he was discharged, Hamburger reports, as an “incurable case” and given no more than three years to live. While he was there a local carpenter, Ernst Zimmer, visited the poet and offered to care for him upon his release. Zimmer’s generosity proved to be the best option for Hölderlin, who lived with the family in Tübingen for the rest of his life (it is now a picturesque museum, known as the Hölderlinturm, which stands upon the Neckar river). His mother never visited him there and Zimmer was able to procure funds for Hölderlin’s modest maintenance with difficulty. Worse yet, the family demanded that Hölderlin’s manuscripts containing the poems he was revising be taken from him and sent into their keeping. From 1807 on, as his biographer David Constantine notes, perhaps the least eventful period in the poet’s life is most prolifically documented by visitors more interested in his purported insanity than in his literary achievements.4 Much of the poetry from this period through the end of his life in 1843, reflects simplicity and longing for the past, with occasional gleams from earlier insights. The short poem “To Zimmer,” for instance, speaks to a certain repose the poet seems to have reached: The lines of life are various; they diverge and cease Like footpaths and the mountains’ utmost ends. 4 Constantine, David. Hölderlin. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1988. 7 �Bennett 8 What here we are, elsewhere a God amends With harmonies, eternal recompense and peace. The monumental themes Hölderlin engaged in poems such as “Homecoming” are still present, but scaled in miniature. “What here we are” has a pathetic modesty about it, but still it connects, albeit from a distance, to the world-governing harmonies that, the poet hopes, provide recompense beyond the many things withheld from him on earth. The spiritual and aesthetic tensions between “here” and “elsewhere” inevitably bring me back to the ideas I found when I first turned to the poetry of Hölderlin. In addition to the elusive “Homecoming,” the hymn “As on a holiday...”, for which its first phrase serves as title, again captures this feeling of nearness and separation, and the creative act of naming with exceptional vividness. The poem opens with the experience of a farmer who goes out to observe his land after a deluge to find the river once more returned to its place and new growth beginning to rise. The poet goes on to record what he sees: “the hallowed, my word shall convey, / For she, she herself, who is older than the ages / And higher than the gods of the Orient and Occident, / Nature has now awoken amid the clang of arms” and begets “on holy Chaos” “Delight, the all-creative”; and she (here Nature) “delights in self-renewal.” In harmony with this pantheistic vision, the hymn is filled with the nearness of the gods, the intimation that they, as in the cosmos of the Iliad and the Odyssey, mingle with the living at their pleasure. Semele appears, and the speaker praises her for her selfsacrificing birth to “The thunder-storm’s fruit, to holy Bacchus.” Upon her ashes, mankind may now partake of these fruits “without danger.” The hymn concludes with an exhortation to poets to realize something similar—they should “stand / Bareheaded beneath God’s thunder-storms, / To grasp the Father’s ray, no less, with our own two hands / And, wrapping in song the heavenly gift, / To offer it to the people.” The confidence of these lines radiate romantic idealism—with the 8 �Bennett 9 implied social hierarchy in which the poets are the ones made to stand closest to the gods, the extraordinary purity, recklessness, and visionary capacity that gives them the right to this position, and so on. And yet from here, the poem begins to fragment and the silence again marks its presence on the page, and we are once again back to the uncertainties of “Homecoming” and the paradoxical necessity of silence to this enterprise. Unlike the Landmann, who rejoices in the new growth following the storm’s destruction, the poet concludes That I approached to see the Heavenly, And they themselves cast me down, deep down Below the living, into the dark cast down The false priest that I am, to sing, For those who have ears to hear, a warning song. There And that is all. The fragmentary nature of the closing could be read easily enough as another variation on romantic themes, or again as a foreshadowing of events in Hölderlin’s life, or as an expression not very far from Milton’s Satan or Goethe’s Faust. It is precisely the allusive richness here, and in the other poems, that invites one’s return. One returns to the compelling presence of another “capable of silence in the highest degree.” It is a homecoming that invites one into the idea of “home” as something related to, but not entirely dependent upon, geography or individual desire. It is the intimation that the creative act of naming is not something one does to “fill” the silent spaces, to force familiarity upon the unfamiliar, but that it complements those moments which open themselves only through silence. 9 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "What is Liberal Education For?" 2014 Conference Papers Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Santa Fe Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2014-10 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Meem Library has been given permission to make these items available online. 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Title A name given to the resource Zarathustra's Metamorphosis of the Mind Description An account of the resource Audio recording of a lecture given by Steven Berg on March 7, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra begins with Zarathustra descending from the heights of his overflowing wisdom to effect, in the wake of what he calls the “death of God,” the transformation of the historical destiny of mankind through the dissemination of his teaching of the “overman.” The overman, he proclaims, must now become the “meaning of the earth,” the supreme aim of the human will, and the ultimate object of all human thought and striving. The book ends, however, with Zarathustra, in the aftermath of the collapse of all his efforts to transmit this teaching, renouncing his doctrines of the overman and the will to power, and turning away from human beings and a concern with the historical progress of mankind, in order to retreat once again to his mountain solitude. This turn away from the will and history coincides with a turn toward the quest for truth of the soul and mind in their relations to eternity. The following question must arise for anyone attempting to understand the argument of Thus Spoke Zarathustra: What has happened to Zarathustra during the course of the drama of the book such as to cause this radical transformation of his thought. This lecture will make an attempt to begin to address this question.” Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Berg, Steven, 1959- Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Santa Fe, NM Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2025-03-07 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Meem Library has been given permission to make this item available online. Type The nature or genre of the resource sound Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource mp3 Subject The topic of the resource Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900. 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Title A name given to the resource Universalisms Partially Applied: On Locke's and Kant's Racisms Description An account of the resource Audio recording of a lecture delivered on November 14, 2008, by Robert Bernasconi as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Bernasconi, Robert Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008-11-14 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource A signed permission form has been received stating, "I hereby grant St. John's College permission to tape the lecture that I shall give in Annapolis; make a recording of my lecture available online." 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For years, decades, I consoled myself with the notion that fate had played a cruel trick on me. been with the mind of a jock, my fortune was mitigated, even ridiculed by Mother Nature, who tra:vD ea that mind inside the body of a scholar. not that I didn't try to excel in athletics. I played organized baseball, football (no kidding), and basketball, even in school. But I never actually hit a home run, ran for a touchdown, or scored a winning basket. I could run faster than some people, but not fast enough. Yes, there are some trophies and medals hanging around the but they are all for races in which I won or did well in my age group. I never actually crossed the finish line first. At times the frustration seemed almost overwhelming, so I sought refuge and diversion in various activities. Lately I have been trying out the "Great Books." But every time that I would sit down with a beer in front of the TV to watch a game, I knew that the philosophy and scholarship business was just a sham. This situation was aggravated by natural causes: even the body of a scholar starts to decay as time passes. I found some consolation, however, .in knowing that over the years at least I had kept my mind in shape. Watching all those sporting events on TV helped. The beer hadn't hurt 1 either. Then there was the day dreaming. More than thirty years later, it was the same jock's mind that I had when I was thirteen. This past summer my patience, devotion, and hard work paid off. I received a letter, the beginning of which I quote here. "Exciting, professional hockey action has come to Baltimore, and we would like to invite you to become a member of our team. The Baltimore Bandits, American Hockey League affiliate of the Anaheim Mighty Ducks, will hit the ice in October." The letter was on official Bandits stationery and signed in blue pen by a real person. My first thoughts, of course, were that October is not very far off (I received the letter in July). I would need to get in shape. Maybe have more surgery on my knees. And then there is my commitment to St. John's. We would have to arrange the season's schedule so as not to play on Monday, Thursday, or Friday nights. Finally, there was the matter of skating on ice. I can skate on ice. My wife taught me how when I was in my twenties. Learning the skill so late in life has probably prevented me from achieving true excellence as a skater. And I am rusty, not having skated much after those first few lessons. But I can skate well enough to play hockey. I know because I have played hockey. You can use the stick as a third leg to you remain upright. During the early phase of my hockey career a limitation arose, i.e., having started moving across the ice, I didn't know how to stop, still don't. Fortunately, hockey is a team and there are eleven (I think it's eleven) other skaters out there on the ice with you. My method of stopping is to skate into other players. Huygens would have been impressed with my instinctive understanding of force and motion. So, dreamers, keep the faith, and maybe someday you will get lucky too. And if I miss a seminar or two this year, or perhaps a Friday night lecture, you'll know that the Bandits were unable to reschedule that game. Patience is not its sole reward. tttle Restaurant Since 1924 Mondays And Thursdays Seminar 95~ Draft Whatney's & Guiness $1.75 Thursdays $1.00 Shooters 263-9250 Happy Monday - . . . . . . . . . . . ~ "'.. ,_~~==™*~-~~11 I DraghtDrinks 2 for$1.10 si- ·-· J Rail Michelob: 1 \j~ )jittl~ I 22oz Draught $2.25 -~ All Day 0 rff "';) " \.D Greek Entrees · a.mptt.$' Individual Pizza $4.95 ~ i for Students Anytime 1Jnn 'JI 11AM 'TIL MIDNIGHT Closed Sunday 61-63 Maryland Ave 1/2. Block From State House The Gadfly/ September 12, 1995 3 �Sen. Bob Packwood steooea down as of the Senate Finance Comand anmittee nounced his retirement date as Oct. 1. The move was made drive off had the Governor must call a to Packwood soon after rebefore the end of the year. Several Democratic and l\.epuDm:an three games. The next when the game became official, the game stopped as the crowd gave Rip ken a standing ovation 22 minutes and 15 seconds. Ripken made eight curtain calls, and was forced into a victory lap by his teammates Rafael Palmeiro and Bobby Bonilla. Ripken ran all the way around the warning track, lucky fans a chance to shake his hand. The previous record of 2130 consecutive games, set by Yankee Lou Gehrig, had stood since 1939. Gehrig's streak ended when he took himself out of the because of the fatal illness which now bears his name. nin1t--or<0Till'IP were disLeader Robert Dole's assertion that Packwood be allowed to remain for as long as 90 days. Senator Dole had ""~"~'.,..,""that Packwood, as chair of the Finance Comw ould have been able to Dole's economic Packwood's announcement came after the Senate Select Committee on investigating charges of sexual misconduct and obstruction of justice for 33 months, voted unanimously for his resignation. Sen. Mitch McConnell (Rchair the Ethics Committee, described some of the evidence of Packwood's misconduct: "There was a habitual pattern of aggresive, blatantly sexual advances, mostly directed at members of his own staff whose livelihoods were connected in some way to his power and u.u.uL,_,..l.H BEIJING (AP) - It was an across-the-centuries gender clash. In the shadow of palaces where concubines served China's emperors, pants in a global women's gathering said were reminded of the constraints women have yet to shake off. "The . . . .,.h-1 ·=- ....,.hu!" cratic 4 The Ofl consecutive game for the Baltimore '-'J.J!.v,.-.....,, i-,,..,,,:::iLrrna one of the few records in baseball breakable. missed a game since the Streak started 30, 1982. Camden Yards was filled with an over-capacity crowd of more than 50,000 .., . . . ,.,.., . . . . , including the president and vice-president of the United States. and the Orioles had no problems pleasing the crowd with a 4-2 victory over the California Angels. Much to the fans' de~._, himself hit a solo home run in the fourth ................... ,,_,,his third home run in ... A, ........ , 1995 Senator Packwood was forced to release his audio taped diaries the Senate Committee. was found that had changed and the original tapes were retrieved. The following is an excerpt from one of the original and the altered parts. 27, 1993 with other conferees. "You look at the harem quarters, the throne -- it's centuries and centuries of male domination, right here." The pace of work at the U.N.'s Fourth World Conference on Women slowed Sunday, and a gathering of private women's groups outside had ended. During the conference, China has presented an often-scow ling official mien. The government has chided delegates who criticize China, and many participants have had unpleasant encounters with Chinese security. Some, though, saw lessons for the women's conference in the palace complex's It was designed in accordance with the ancient principles of and yang opposite forces that balance and one another. At the conference, after stressed that both genders should work because a better world's women means a better life for all. As we over the sandy called as an organization with indunes grew into small green hills. All and a good reputation for exat once, majestic green mountains rose cellent teachers, to their country. from the earth and land The first week and a half offered a for miles at the feet of the chance for us to familiarize ourselves mountains. Coming in nearer to the with our environment. Simple things miniature herds of camels, like riding a bus, buying bread and takHV,_..,..__,, sheep ... became evident, clusing a bath became adventures to laugh tered across the steppe. As one body, over with our fellow teachers. We were we breathed in with excitement! This wide-eyed toddlers curious about each was Mongolia! new smell, sound, and sight. Asking For seven weeks this summer, I and questions about everything and try24 other North Americans had the ing new words, we sought to saturate of and teaching in ourselves with Mongolia. Mcmg;oua. The organization we served Besides the newness of the city, the is Language Institute grandeur of the countryside left us It is a Christian ,... ..,"" .." . ..,ry...,!-..,~~ open-mouthed and breathless. "The u~~~ ~· the invitation of the govland of the Blue Sky" (as Mongolians China, and Viet- affectionately call their homeland) nam, serve Asia lived up to its name. The blueness of ivHm12~011ta is in transition from a socialthe sky appeared to be an infinite dome ist economy to capitalism. For this rea- until it met the mountains that spilled son, the leaders of Mongolia have into plains. Horsemen could give their ..... The hills of Mongolia We chatted for a while about some. of the things we wanted and then I got into my complaints withthe National Home Builders. The Oregon Home Builders all said they were mad. They felt like they'd been double crossed, 1 The Gadfly/ September 12, 1995 5 �------------------- ----- gave us a mere compared to the love affair that grew our time there. We began teaching. Almost all of us were novices and with one week of before for we suddenly stood face to face our Could we impress our students (some of the brightest in their country) with our knowledge, wit and creativity?! As a ChrisI can only continue by giving sincere credit to God for with energy, and more every how we that was how we lived: with the grace of God. As hard as we all worked in class we evmoment with our '""'-1-'"'-.l..ll•F. for class). Bas'--'--'-"''-'''-'-' and more times to get to know our students. We visited museums and danced ... .LULAF-."·'"-'A' is u ,_,,_;_,_u.u short time we formed true friendwith our students and other loGod' s grace and love Beyond fascinaresoe1:tnre lands and culL':.A • grew to love each other. As we flew away from the Mon,.,,_,,,.,,J'C. mountains and ~~',,,..,re the land that left not to an experience, or an interesting event that lodged itself in our throats as the probable of became more evident. Our former impressions had faded. Mongolia was no longer panoramic views or a generic mass of people on the other side of the world. Instead, we knew Erdenee, Saichna, Zola, Bot: Individuals that God, our glorious Father and infinite Lover gifted us with. Now, this is Mongolia! 6 The continued on page 5 conversations here aren't limited to the These gram which everyone around me seemed know mtmt:1v1=>lv. in admission office mateseem be an The �We're another year and we the freshmen look- kills them. That's it. If the film redeemed I don't know if this is the kind of question you answer, well, because it's not really a question. I read your column last year every now and then, and never got a chance to it out. So, I thought that while I was thinking about it, I'd just sit down and do it. Okay, when I was in Santa Fe I noticed maybe one girl wearing flip-flops, thongs, whatever, into the shower. I thought that maybe doing that was to that one girt because everybody thought she was a little strange and she was real rich so I she had to be real dainty about things. But, here in Annapolis I'm starting to think I'm the only one not wearing flip-flops in the I really don't have a problem with shower. And that's it made me wonder how effective they really are, presumably from one safe from the threat of to get porous rubber wet, which really isn't ever to dry between showers, won't the prevention actually end up being the that needs a cure? It seems like the flip-flop would get and full of fungus and just end up causing some other sort of infection, or maybe even Athlete's Foot. Wouldn't we be better off stepping on a surface that is cleaned by the house-keeping staff everyday and in addition has hot water and soap on it all flip-flops be done away with? They're so hideous! Continued from page 7 too. Soccer, football, basketball, indoor soccer, handball, and ~~ii are some the choose At the beginning of the sophomore year, team members can be drafted onto other teams. I asked Mark Whipple, captain of the Greenwaves, to explain the process. All freshmen men are assigned to a team when they arrive at St. John's. At the beginning of their sophomore year, all the captains come together at a of the Cup" meeting and choose draft picks. This is done and only involves Sophomore men. i~~,~i,,.,.._, on the other hand, can v'V ... You have an interesting point. I sympathize with what I guess can be called your pet peeve. Perhaps though, you are just having a time adjusting to this new environment and are looking for something to pick on. Why, the other day I was irrationally angered at someone's use of make-up. Since then I've come to understand that that one girl does not the tastes of this entire campus and I've grown to the way she paints her face. I suppose, however, you will not be satisfied if I stop here. I think what you're saying about mold development However, on the porous rubber some Athlete's Foot, as far as I know is a bacterial maybe it's a virus) disease that has to be passed from one person to another. One cannot give oneself this particular ailment. You don't get Athlete's Foot from not washing and dryyour shoes every do Maybe you do. You may be wondering about some other moldrelated diseases at this time. I can't say that I know of any. I think that if you had a massive bleeding gash in your foot and wore, or did not wear, the said you contract then if anything unusual wheels. summer leftovers ,,..., ... ~,, >.~Antonio Banderas? We had little movie called El us. All all we were frustrated that another a collection of short films ~~,~,·~~Four rectors--Tarantino among due out this October. But of those movies now cnr,u -n recommend ... 711 and wrong enters bloodstream then you're in some with or without porous rubber and bacteria-in- Ed Harris as heroic NASA officers. fested tiles. happen any time and may include anyone. Mr. Whipple explained to me that women aren't in the Sophomore draft because not enough women play on the co-ed teams, thoughthey can be traded at other times. In some sports, such as indoor soccer and basketball, the women have their own teams. The intramural sports program tries to include everyone. As I learned, it's a great way to get involved with a team without the committment that's demanded at other schools. I urge everyone who has the time and any interest to come out and play for their team. but we classed as a women's issues comevery scene as he did on the movie. It looks like he but to no avail our exce:;srvelly "' 1 "'''"'-ni- but in a stylized, almost goofy way. There are a tad too many "Oh come on!" moments and the is paper thin. Some thugs killed his gu'ltrJien.d and shot his so he couldn't play He about a man dumb Its solid Khouri. Directing Lass "What's Gilbert Haalstrom who is now makbetter films about America than Americans. H.U..<F,'-''C.."'- ~~+~+'r'~ 8 1995 all the way ULL'V'-<."-'-' "'-'<·KC0£.<:..>Ji:Y of 90210. The The it was be- 1995 the �open arms any men who are interested in the group. Regarding the hateful and not to act of down the thatI put up, like to tell you how it makes me feel. initial reaction was annoyance and anger, but after about it, I feel affronted and and disapTo make an offense like that shows me that someone is trying to get a message across me, in a obvious way. To whomever tore down the would you tell me u.J.L\AUJ.J.L;lllJ", one had torn down some of them and still I must say that I was taken surthis act. That is not to say that but "--'='-~~in­ campus would the idea of a Women's group, but I exi:)ectea that this would come out in a way which would spur a vu..:>u•.... discussion or some ......... ,_.... -.~k debate. Since I've been here at St. John's, (I am a junior now) I have never heard of anyone tearing down someone else's signs. This kind of thing makes it even more clear to me that there is a need for a campus Women's group. I assume that someone thought the the idea of having a Women's group is very offensive (so offensive that he or she that no one should even have a chance to read the signs and decide for themselves). question to this anonymous censor is, what is so threatening about a Women's group? I would love to hear ob1ect1ons, so that I too, can have the chance to consider these apparently strong reasons for St. John's from a Women's group. Thank you, Iertnirer Coonce '97 terested me a note in campus mail about what sorts of interested when you can do and any other relevant information. I'll another notice or send you some-~ ·~~~,....,A· the and then we'll on son1e common and see from there! Coonce x 300" An addition: If interested and don't have concrete ideas or want to make a~~,,....., ......,,+..._....,.,.,.., .. .,,,..,,_.,..,,,,...,, means anyone. keep men from meant that the women. In t::..IV~~ 'a, q.~ B04 Given to Students and ~~~ or sp~~lilnR., as submitted. The ~~~~ ~@©~~@ ~@~©~s 1995 ~~©m ~B. ~~m~~s To the College Lomrnu:mtv: As always, the Dean's office is open for three kinds of business: 1. Real 2. Realer 3. Realest 1) Real business is office stuff. The other kinds are 2) life in general and 3) life in particular (e.g. the papers, books, great and .u.u.-...~CAH•F, On whatever business you may come, you will be welcome. Eva T.H. Brann Dean Dear Students: The "TAKE A TUTOR TO LUNCH" is in operation. It permits you to invite a tutor for that matter, anyone who works for the to have lunch with you in the room now and for free. tell the person at the door. If you are not on the meal plan you can still do it, and you yourself get a free meal too not too often, I hardly need to Tutors, you may be surprised to eat mortal food every day, so will this occasion for roT1uc•rcc1no-with you. Most tutors are very to be asked. You, on the other hand, get to play host in the easiest way, and to have the company of someone you may have wanted to know better for a while. The Food Service and the Dean's Office sponsor this and I would like to see it used often and well. means: Not the same tutor five times a week.) Eva T. H. Brann Dean The Annual Community Art Exhibition will open in January this year! Please save your best pieces. We will collect work in December, before winter As time draws near we will let you know the specifics on delivery dates and locations. Rick 1VI<Hn1gr·en FOR THE FRESHMEN: A correction to Euclid I, Def. 23: "Parallel straight lines are straight lines which, being in the same and being produced indefinitely in both directions, do not meet one another in either direction." I you want to know who beautified your bathrooms. Three members of the housekeeping Barbara Wanda ::ipnggs, and Clara contributed their time and their own resources to sew and install curtains THE TWO PARALLELS Christian Morgenstern* Two Parallels went for a stroll Out to ,.,..j-,,,....,t-u Each was a strictly upright soul Of solid family. did not mean to intersect Until their blessed grave. That's what it was them erectand stave. Their secret But when for ten light-years tramped, Forever side by side, The solitary pair felt damned in its hide. makes the j..l<C-Jll'U.U.1.~.u.u fortable. What a ,.,,.,.,.,,...,....,,,,.-,o,n we EvaT. Dean Brann Dear Students: When Were theirs still parallelic roles? They could not say aright. They two bonded souls Through the Eternal Light. to prove to you this - a substantial sweat shirt with a black-lined hood. It says Whitman all over the it's a fine and who cares what breast bears these Whoever wants and occurs in my office can have it. actufits me, so you can its size Eva T. H. Brann Dean ,..,,.~,~~ *I 871-1914, a surrealistic German poet. The is available in the Dean's Eva T H. Brann. Dear .._,u_._ .... ,_ ... ~.,, esp1ec1au Women Students: Mr. Kalkavage: "Ms. Detch, You've been sublated." Jeanne Detch: 'Tm so ashamed." The An overheard is any comment you think is clever enough to entertain the entire campus. If you hear so1netn1ng that fits this descr1p1:101'.l, and send it to the via campus mail. 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Dear Editors: that Seduction and 11 •4-1,.,,,.,. 1 are interested fabric that differs .,..,...~,l-h·1nn- that the rmplE~mi~nt an himself to the selection process of either the Democratic or Kepub11<:an F<>1''n'H"'" Colin Powell has avoided ga1l.ll11c1et of 'Chis is ,,..,.,?... ,.,.,..i-,.. the Peace and Freewe need Cl part1j'1 assumes economy to imdom and a the meaning, we need a fifth and six th prove, men to party to accommodate Powe/1?1' whose becltmtg their munes I can't reme~mt::ier. So all the serious faces cease an1tagoruz:mLg when the "do we need a third to embrace William F. once the gold standard is re-introduced. Note that the other characteristics of the was to "cut and kill it." It was this boldness that inin£>A..-.l.o are oegrrm1ng as cautiousF<>n~~·~r~ bureaucrat that insiders said that he was in the first Colin Powell has come nearer, however to that he is pr<~s1c1enna1 bid. In the man into the social scene. The idea the freshman with "Seduction and '-'-Hd.U.!JU'"''~• clever. have left their and must learn their own as adults. The The i~n~s1c1ertt. So how is the call for connected the creation of a third po1tentiru run? Given the Recmnp1etlt1on among cai1ru.ctates to see who can ouH<.ea~?:an .,...,,~v:;:iin it would be foolish for anyone who that affirmative action is good, abortion rights okay, gun control nec:essarv. and school prayer unconsti---~~4 . . . ., to contend for the of the Grand Old Party has its President Clinton. As a result, Powell has no national organization or that would be immediately willing to endorse him as a candidate. This is when the "do we need a third assumes the meaning , "do we need a Party to accomodate Powell?" . The answer is no. When you examme the third parties that already exist, The 3 �• I I I sentient beings, we hold in reserve an awesome power to influence the conditions of our immediate existence. Each one of us maintains an ex- For Cary one after another speaker to read about the lives of persecuted women at last evening's Candlelight Vigil for joined in silence as we We listened to stories of kidnapaloud the names, Women's Rights. rape, torture, and harassment. life stories and The vigil was in shock of the was struggles of ten conjunction with ;:,u·v.1.•i:::., but so too was the sense that women whom Amthe closing of the nesty in1:er:na1t101na1 these women UN' s Women's considers to be at Conference held risk in their respecin last tive countries. Our week. silence was To open the strength. We were evening's events, attentive. Silence Ms. Cary read a was our for an poem a hour as we collecfrom India resoaked up the garding silence. names and accounts Silence, the of these persecuted posed, was people. e sally Take for instance language human Eren Keskin, a human rights activist women's of women-like the submissive silence For more information contact the AI of her in the of and defense lawyer in Turkey. She is office in DC. facing imprisonment because she To ensure that Eren Keskin does not wrote an article describing human abuses in the Kurdish ~~-~.,_,,,.. .. go to the killings of ci- Nuzhet Kand.1emir caught in the crossfire. As a result, and due to past legal work repre- Nevertheless, extensive dissension, disagreement and discord can ,.,,,,.,~ 1 / 1 .. dissipate this massive of latent power. The continual presence of such dissonance restricts even our autonomous ability to our existence. So without concordance and co<)PE:>rat10n in matters of mutual concern, we stand to lose not our collective power, but our individual as well. Whether nature or habituawe are undeniably social u<cJ.H~"· on one another for sustenance, happiness and made a decision to become a of this institution of common learning, we have consented to the truth of this. l3ut if we were to attempt to resolve our and avail ourselves of our collective meeting oneto-one with each and every member of the we would have no accomplish '.:>nuH-,1 .......... lh1ere~t01re it is evident that we need some sort of local organizing ...,.,..,,.,..,,.,,.."'1"· we need a unified focus into which we may channel our individual so are ...,..,.,-,,-1-1-1-,-,1... h, ......... addressing our mutual concerns and interests as efficiently and aH·,n,-,f;un as vu::;~11J1e. I that this focus is manifest College representative student gove1rnrne1nt The '--'"<='"'"".a Council is an instrument of the Student --~· which the may effect favorable changes in matters affecting the lives of its members. But the strength of this instrument rests entirely in the Polity's willingness and ability to take advantage of it. . Though the Delegate Council is enhrel y of bringing about ch~ges in our social any of its would be in vain without O"t"l,O?'<>c•DC ~~·~TT~ .... u Closed Sunday 61-63 Ave Block From State House 4 .••. y •• The j �the Dean's annual Off Address to the women's soccer team, delivered to the assembled ........, ",,,."'under the sycamores on -l-n-rnh£>>" 8th: Let me my by taking you into my confidence. This is the first year of my second term as and I mean to start a new life. The first time round I relied on For the next two years I mean to reform for the secand ,_.._,,., _._,c .. ..u. <c offer a bribe. ond It is a nice to go to a person, or persons, who will Q.Ul..U.C.C>C American ofN SEPTEMBER tha t the ficials Bosnian Serbs have agreed to withdraw heavy artillery to a distance of 12.5 miles out of Sarajevo. This was prompted the commencement of hostilities by NATO on August 30. The milit1uv campaign, which was supported by U.S. aircraft and warships, consisted of several bombing raids in conjunction with the firing of cruise missiles by vessels in the Aegean Sea. The terms, which consisted of the of the artillery, the reopening of Sarajevo airport, and improvement of road accessibility to Sarajevo, were agreed to unconditionally, according to American diplomats. In return, NATO has to stop bombing for three after the three 0 days have elapsed, the Bosnian Serbs have begun to remove their pieces, NATO will extend the moratorium on bombing another three days. If the Serbs do nothing about the artilthen the will resume. The decision to begin bombing in order to force a decision was made after 41 months of debate on the of NATO, the European .._.v,............................ the United Nations. The air attacks the Russian were protested government. In fact, Russian President Boris Yeltsin announced the beginning of "a new cold war. On September 13, the American embassy in Moscow was hit with a The acnade. There were no tion was not sp1on:s01:ea committee of questioned eight members of the Hostage Rescue Team in charge of the Ridge siege involved the killing of an unarmed woman. This occured when FBI agents and assaulted a marksmen. The other members claimed cabin housing alleged white supremathat Mr. justified in what cist and aficionado Weaver, he had done by the standard FBI rules his wife Vicki, and his two sons. Lon Horiuchi, the leader of the elite of engagement. The rule that deadly be used when there is sniper team that killed Mrs. Weaver, force may an imminent to an agent's life pleaded the Fifth Amendment and did had to also allow agents not testify at However/ the other members of the team in to shoot at any armed male. In additwo agents claimed that were defense of Horiuchi s action of shootat the same as Mr. in ing Mrs. Weaver twice as she Hc~rn1cn,1, but he shot first. The heara doorway with her Horiuchi had earlier clallIIltea 1 6 The 1995 smirched your awesome name. can assure you that chthoniai is coritznuea on page 9 And this came in the A.D. s "This summer I the Minnea1Jolis ,..,"H 7 ,.,,..,,,. Club. It is interested sailors out evaftemoon on the C&C show 1 how about the skill and the freshman Miss Magee? Her ited is hopes of a season for the women, not to mention her Guardian brothers as well for whom she in the onerninPgame of the men's soccer. For her """'·•-'-unc soccer Miss is named Athlete of the Week. KUNAI fans will be able to see Miss and her sisters in action this weekend in their season opener at Hood Game time is at 2PM. can car sources tell me, drafted for soccer, look kinda much flattened weekend. Take some of those fine old vets, ....,,__,c•u•o:;.1.c:J.. ~o~ot~ne~r. & ~~·~T ~-- .. gram at stead of ,...,~. . . ,...,, .... ..,..,.1. I see roster that the man is a has he been the two This guy is a solid finisher if his first game ever at St. John's is any clue. He scored of goals. For his play, Mr. Fedyashin is Athlete of the Week the men. how about Cobalt Blue's appearance with the Spartans? The coolest dude on campus has found out what it means to be in with it. The 995 7 �What's in blue Jell-0? That's a horse of a different color. Well, what makes the Jell-0 is the color. In fact, what made the horses colored in The Wizard of Oz was Jell-0. There are so dam many shades, wouldn't you say? Thus we have the saying, "That's a horse of a different color," which, if you'll recall, is what the gate keeper I wizard/Professor Marvel/ carriage driver says when Dorothy and the boys are admitted into the palace and they're driving in circles singing merrily. So, blue dye is in blue Jell-0. Do you really If I you, I think you were meaning to tell want to know what is inJell-0, rather than specifically the him that it didn't particularly matter if you took off your blue kind? That's what it sounds like. Well, the first ingrebackpack, because if you wanted to take food out you'd dients, the most important ones, are: sugar, (the mysterijust it in your apparently very large pockets. Is that ous) gelatin, adipic acid, and sodium phosphate. The thing right? And if I understand him rightly from what you've that both you and I are wondering at this time is what this told me, that you are necessarily conveying to me the "gelatin" is. Well, I can't tell you. If you're concerned, and whole truth of the the guy thought that your pock- I think you should be, you can contact General Mills in · ets were worrisome to you and he was concerned about White Plains, New York A few somewhat redeeming things about Jell-0 are: it you. an of the school, didn't want to 20% daily vitamin C can be gleaned get too close to you. If he had been at more liberty, per- contains no haps he would have said something to the effect of, "Oh, from it, and there is one gram of protein (which is just I'm sorry you have such large pockets, be they swell if you're a vegetarian). Please put aside any thoughts of the gelatin's consistfull of whate' er are full of, but I cannot do a to ing of goat hooves. I can't entirely disabuse you of that you; I have no means of remedying your problem." Then he could have been sincerely insensitive, notion, but you know how rumors are. Some have even said that Dr. Pepper is made with prune juice. Go figure. about your big oo:ckE~ts. -AK -AK aul:stzi'Jns about anything to AK clo the Gadfly Ye~;te1~datv. as I was into the cafeteria wearing my I was told the desk guy You can't wear that backpack in there. You have to take it off." So, I did, but then I realized that I had these pockets. So, I said, pockets." The desk guy okay, but I have these said, "I can't do nothing about your pockets." What's going on in the desk guy's mind? 11 1 I'm Valerie the new Student Activities Director new "Jennifer Hoheisel" as some refer to I graduated from St. John's College-Annapolis in 1989. In addition to my job here, I also the Lower School at The Key School. I have worked in Student Activities ments at SJC- Santa Fe and at College in DC. I have worked at the Smithsonian Institution, and have my Masters in folklore from UNC yes, Leo Pickens-SJC Athletic Director-and I are engaged. I'm here to make your life interesting-to provide culture and fun. Much is for the year but I am always for new ideas and am eager to know what you'd like to have happen on campus. You can contact me via campus mail or by (ext. 254). In next week I will send each of you an form with all the semester's expensive, cultural events listed. On this will be from among several <:>Uon·t-C-Barber of the Albee's 8 The 1995 Adrienne Rich-and prepay for them all at once. In this way you have a reserved ticket and I know how many people will attend. You'll understand it when you see the form. played volleyball, soccer and croquet before (9 /2).Two van loads of students were driven to mall and the Harbour Center the first school weekend (9 /3). Johnnies rode the van to see Batman Forever at the 99 cents theater in Eastport (9 I 12), as well as were seen attending the Women's Rights (9 /14). Up to one dozen hardy souls are signed up to undertake the Outdoors Clubs' first hike on Saturday (9 /16). "Make Mine Museums" - on Saturday and Sunday, September 16 & 17, SJC students will be allowed to visit the following museums for FREE: the HammondHarwood House, the William Paca House and the Banneker- Douglass House. These local museums are within walking distance and have either self-guided exhibits or guided tours. Students will be able to visit the museums any time during regular hours that weekend. continued on page 11 attiern:tmgthe various Waltz that she is able to bite her delicate ~ . .,. ..,,....,,,"'at the behaviour of some But she is not so as not to realize that certain among us may never have been educated in the ways of for many and And so, your that she must assume the of her wisdom rel:Jenuerrten aim when and remember that her weapons. the more Waltzes and a traffic tern of sorts will form around the of the dance floor. This moves counter-clockwise and is not for the faint of heart. If you wish to dance more remain in the centre and take heart in the fact ions will revolve around you. ~ ~.i~··~ with you, for it is of those who know to share their wisdom with those who are 10"1"1,,...,.,.,,.,..,-1re1nemt,erthis the next time a Freshman asks you to There are certain traditions in~~··~·~· .... are, as you may know nine and generous third harbors on their sleeve. which do not care to wear their Yet I did not come to discourse on but to invite you to a moment of reflection before the season's official start. So in aid of this aim let me describe two kinds of ~~t-•n;i~T side Let them be nameless for 1. The one free in and has no ~-"·'UJ.•.u the other is ruJe-!;•ov·e-rr1Pd and many more actions are foul than fair. one can take in a space of any the other is confined to a of 100 x 3. The one can and does run ends in 90 minutes on the dot. 4. The One ::llrt·nr1hr 1n I ::>roe one half ag.:urn:;t 5. The continued on 11 officials who have very - or out you go. To sum up: One session of a small elastic .-,u••<=•<=powers who don't want to argue. do you, who bear the free name of Hell Hounds of the Lower submit to the """""'c+i~..., ..... , .... ,.., vail of soccer? guess it because even the canines from hell cannot live in free bliss that there must be the and toil of~'"' .... .,.,.1 .... u•~~ field ........ ,., . . . ation of the seminar. One last word: You in your fierceness may think cer has,.,,,..,.....,~ .. '"'·~The word comes from the name of the game, "association football." In that kinder and I wish you a season of soccer and associations. Let's kick off! "'-.1.L on it. 7. In the one case the Sh<lP(~le~;s and round sometimes filled with hot in the other and under controlled pressure. 8. In one you come dressed as in the other you are eager Old Rare and Out-of-Print Books to wear uniform ~· For one you prepare as you lie on a bed or in an ,.,.,......,,..,,.,,.,._. l\11::i"""1"'.,,,r1 Ave. for the other you prepare Aru1ao1olis. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Catania, Annemarie (Editor-in-Chief) Berney, Jesse (Editor-in-Chief) Title A name given to the resource The Gadfly, Vol XVII Issue 2 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1995-09-19 Description An account of the resource Volume XVII, Issue 2 of The Gadfly. Published September 19, 1995. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. 17 #2 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this publication. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Gadfly Student publication https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/bde8ea1b79e347ff2cbd97a9bfc86e54.pdf f5ae82c5f899b0fee8f710c68d93fab1 PDF Text Text �Be be funny, be wild, the envelope of weird, but cut out the naked-woman-on-the-porsche imagery on OUR posters. Letters Letters words or less have a better chance of being published than those longer: Letters will not be edited for .,,,.,., ...,.,.., and will Woe to whoever ignores the grammar of their own mother tongue. Woe is too to be taken seriously, to whoever mangles it, especially senon the like those sperm balloons. tentiously. I mean these sentences not other the whole only as third person imperatives, but tended to be cartoonish, also (if possible, without mangling) as congrats go out to the on~aruz4~rs Dear first person singular indicative. I You mentioned in your editorial that However, I agree with you that they would like to quote a great authority S&C, "as a creative project, accom- should have let up on the male adoleson questions of English usage: "[W]hoever is a relative [pronoun] plished its theme a little too well." And cent fantasies; maybe some things are that resembles what in its no wonder, it was a little too eager to. better left subliminal. antecedent in itself; as what= that For all the vaunted "decadence" that the posters around campus tried to Rana Choi which, so whoever= any person the that & the which of what may or may promote, they were as laughable as not be in the same case, & the those Ritz Cracker ads that have "sex" any person & the who of whoever are of- written somewhere on them. In some ten in different cases; but the case of ways, I must say that I am glad that at corwhoever is that of the not that of that was St. John's best ruption. I personally don't have much the any person, that is, it is decided by the peep show-pomogthe relative clause, not by the main sentence: He asked whom-ever he met, but He asked whoever came near him." -H. W. a of Modern English Usage. s Abraham ::;cJ1oe~ne:r, Assistant Dean Dear ..... '""'"L,._,, ... .,, I am to protest the posters advertising Saturday night parties for the past two weeks. The posters for last week's party (Seducers and ers) were obviously tasteless, crude and targeted towards the male student; this week's were fine except one which exhorted the reader to "thrust in your sickle ... for her grapes ripe." This sexist signage is becoming a bad habit. As a female member of this community, I just won't tolerate it. I am not asking that signs be or that pornographic images include male as well as female body parts. I do ask that we not model our fun after that of the !ler1er1c fraternity at the of 2 The Last Tuesday evening, hours after the 19 came off the presses, two students came to me in the office. had confessions to a Women's sign, the other the torturer of rels. Both were vn:se11t at each incident. The student who tore down claimed that he had no fear of a Women's and had not even directed his at those particular He told me he had tom down several signs: the Seducers and po~;ters, the anti- Seducers and Lorrumt1~rs and even a "Refrigerator for Sale" After he tore them he 1995 H he knew he was "they to the board so I them back." he was not the cul- o\HT•C>'iT<'.>1" confessing, was not the true coward about whom Ms. Coonce wrote. As for the one who was accused of torturing the squirrels, he said he was just playing with them. He claimed he was only tossing caps at the kind that pop when hit the ground. I suppose it's open to as to whether that noise constitutes torture for a he was violating their squirrel. to sleep and in peace. a Swindler, '99 Coonce, '97 Last Friday evening, St.John's alumnus Grant Wiggins' lecture "There is no teaching, only learning" (an extension of Socrates' "there is no learning, recollection") provided the grassroots, common-sense of talk that the Friday night audience seldom hears. Wiggins' initial was awkward: he mired his content under speech structure. Past this, the lecture was a well-devel- oped call for reform to what participants take from seminar. The first half of the lecture defined his theoretical view of education: no teaching, only learning. However, some of the audience was distracted by his unfocused and cumbersome leaps from one resource or to anfrom Plato's Meno to Heidegger to the Hermeneutical circle. from the the allusions did in the end make a cogent argument) proposed that instructors should "let learn", and that feedback, and trial and error make the definitive teacher. Secondly, Wiggins submitted that 1earrnmg is not possible without selfassessment and Because everyone is egocentric, he this assessment takes a detailed account of intent versus effect and instant feedback, beyond praise and blame to ensure improvement. Wiggins described ideal feedback as user-friendly, consistent and specific." In his last segment, Wiggins sugreform in the way seminars are continued on page 6 is where to aim the hunter's and kill weapon of choice. another One school of ,.._,,_, .... "'·. . "'related who wishes to be known as "Unreliable Source," says that the hunter is hunting with an arrow and needs to scare the monkey out of the tree and kill it. The monkey has to For freshpersons and sophfolks who may not know: be so how do you it to fall? If it knows this is a reference to a lab experiment on Galileo's what'sgoodforititwillstayinthetree. You have to scare theories concerning gravitational falls and and the beejabbers out of it so that it loses its In this case, ramp set up on a the hunter ends up to all that. In the lab there is a pomt:ed so that the ball which runs down the ramp is "Roogie, roogie," "Whoosh", and the monkey falls. headed for a little "monkey." the monkey really isn't So, where does the hunter aim his arrow when he senses it looks something like a miniature spaghetti that the is so frightened these horrific ''1-"",.,."''"' strainer. The strainer is held up in the noises that he is about to to fall? Above the n::1 1'lcnno- staring into the eye of the ball which is head maybe? Directly at its heart? Let's see what the next at it. So, when the ball reaches the end of the ramp is. uu.vu.<:..l.L a piece of tin foil which breaks the circuit Carla, a said that the hunter is to shoot the gun the force active. The strainer above the head so that the will hear because of foil is broken. The is: will the the noise of the gun before the bullet reaches you ball hit the falling strainer because began their verti- see, and be from his position in the tree. The cal fall at the same even one has been movin this case will from the tree at the exact .;:u. 71 tt1u along the horizontal and one has been stationmoment that the bullet begins its vertical descent and it will hit the monkey square in the forehead. ary? That's the gist. .............. .._._ ... ,c. ...... , I did some asking around on your behalf. [Let's keep in mind that this is a scenario and For the most part the answers I got were consistent. It not something that any of us have witnessed. In addilooks like most everybody already knows the answer to tion, the killing of monkeys and all other animals is neithis one. ther endorsed by the nor the The only response that was something in itself There were quite a few other students who had similar the one Genevieve Goodrow who tidbits of from I do that we watch the experiment with a sort of monkey-like To sum up, Mrs. Seeger, tutor, said, "You've got a probcuriosity. We stand in a group and stare, wondering what's lem: you want to hit that monkey. What do you do?" going on and what will happen. She "It turns us into Aim above the head. dumb animals." Not bad. If these scenes from the jungle do not satisfy you, please there's an answer to this, but each person I asked write back and request more information. had a slightly different rendition. The consistent part was AK that everyone said that there is a in the tree and *Next week look forward to learning what is really you, the wish to hit it with something, a projectile, meant by the term "non-being". Address your curiosities to AK clo the Gadfly The September 26, 1995 3 �and an extra point, in the Druids of the Hustlers last week in football. The score was so sided I lost track of it. The crazy-legged Mr. Crapuchettes is the offensive of the Druids. He is just plain hard to tackle. But the Five hardy souls participated in the Druid frosh were the real heros of the solos competition in the first ever day. Mr. Briggs, in his intramural deMountain Bike Race on back campus. but, intercepted three errant Hustler The race consisted of seven laps around passes, Mr. Austin picked off one and Mssrs. Boucher, a half-mile course-one lap for each of recovered a the liberal arts. Placing first by a wide Buccellati and Bush also played well. margin was John Michaels. In a hotly If the Druids can continue to get their gotta be the facontested race for second, Mr. Verhoff, whole team out, displaying the most strategic skill, vorite to repeat for the title in football. edged out Mr. Rispin by a nose with a The Druids don't look too bad in burst of speed at the finish. Mr. Freitas and Mr. Brennan finished fourth and association football, either. They disfifth respectively. The ever plucky Mr. played a lovely and controlled passing Bloom participated in the team relays, game in their defeat of the 6-3. Mr. Austin is a ...,,_.._~,,__,_~, . ......_, ......... ~-•··-;;~~ his shoulder in a fall while fearlessy attempting the downhill sec- talented mid-fielder, and the freshman tion of the course. The judges gave Mr. Mr. Bakallbashi, if his debut is any inBloom a 9.8 on his artful into ...... ....~ ......... v •. •, is one of the most the sod, and also Athlete of the Week. soccer players we've seen in years. Unfortunately, the crafty and skillful in the game; it (It be LlOted that Mssrs. Mr. Wood was Michaels and Rispin had already appears that he will only be out of acrowed 12 miles earlier that day in the tion for a couple of weeks. Once he to be Island rowed in a returns, the Druids are four with l\11ssrs. Stevens and Carter. tough. The coxswam was Mr. Nyberg.) the Hustlers deOn the other But more on the Mr. Bloom. In a kind of version of the "hidden man" play, Mr. Bloom scored a Mondays Thursdays Seminar 95¢ Draft Imported Beers $1.75 Thursdays $1.00 Shooters Athlete of the Week honors for the women go to Miss one of the college's oarswomen. She teamed with Mr. Snead in the double scull to victory in this week's Friday tie races. SCI elections. 9. Aaron Lewis is requesting $1,200from the DC for Political Club dinners, phone calls and printing. 10. Pete and the Woodworking Club have to present to the DC for approval. Remember.. .it is your money that the DC allocates to school dubs. Talk to your 11AM 'TIL MIDNIGHT Closed Sunday 61-63 Ave Block From State House 4 blast off the foot of the redo-ubi:able Zack Smoll from 35 out-in their 2-1 last week. In 2:eJne1:at the Hustler is and physicat and not all that pretty to watch. However, Mssrs. and Shaifer do show moments of pure brillike their combination to score the Hustler first goal: Mr. genarced a pass over a defender's shoulder onto the toe of the cutting Mr. Shaifer, who put the ball into the back of the net. I I wzttcJ1mJ2: 15ag1~10 and Maldini in 1995 delegates and come to our meetings if you have any questions or concerns. sleep now,. Becca Michael Senate lican-led welfare would abolish the an anonymous member of the coimnrrunitv vvu'"~~ an notice on the boards outside of the coffee some oeoo .Le Want nesses to close at The flier uses a of statistics to prove how detrimental it would be to economy and out drawbacks to the scene of poster also advises to call a number and ha.LHi'-'Li•.iF,• restaurants and open two a.m. Someone has bethese ,.,..,,..,...,~~ The 995 5 �we went to the Mall to see life and crimes of the modern African-American. We entered the theater with some dation since, quite frankly, we hadn't seen a really hopping Spike Lee since Do the more than six years ago. be Malcolm X, which certainly was but seemed more of a technical achievement than anything else.) We knew that Spike's new based on Richard Price's 1992 gritty novel about crack, the projects and how the two don't mix, was going to be different, because it was co-produced by none other than Martin Scorcese, known well for his own films about the mean streets. We couldn't help but wonder what the result of such a talented combination would be. We didn't have to wait very long for first clues, for even before the opening credits finished we were sobered by the gruesome this movie portrays. While a mello'w Stevie Wonder tune chilled us out we were .,,.,.-.,+ .. .-.n1rorl by a series of real-life crimescene photos punctuated by images of the familiar yellow "do not cross" police all young, all all very dead. Not for the weak, these The rest of the movie takes this montage as the for its tional the world where drugs, terror and death are a One starts to wonder how a person lives in a like that. This movie shows that all too well. have guessed You page 3 conducted. He whether any student had experienced a truly good and whether anyone could articulate a purpose for seminar that could be ,,...,,,..,,.,,..,.c"'1 agreed upon. Good he suggested, could be cated if the school as a whole could come up with some guidelines for students on what is appropriate seminar behavior. To give an example Wiggins outlined a draft of a rubric which would guide students in seminar regarding their "performance." The rubric consisted of five different in semicategories which describe a student's nar: listening, reading, conduct and reasonWiggins claimed that if students evaluated themselves within these seminars would He also suggested a and 6 The 995 r or even a cool movie but it is a very good movie. It does have all the virtuoso visual that we have come to expect from Spike Lee, but here it seems relevent to the story told. That story, to keep it revolves around a drug murder and its central characters. Mekhi Phifer is a 19 year-old "clocker" sells drugs in his projects around the clock) who may or may not have shot his fellow clocker, the n1:[ht-n1a11a1z:e1 of Ahab's Whale-On-A-Bun, in Complications arise, as they always do, ._,_._JLLlJ!'~-'-'-'"' on a of a supporting cast, not unlike a grim version of the ensemble from Do the Thing, every one of whom we come to see as a full and complex character. Of note is Keitel' s homocide detective Rocco who for some reason decides to treat this case as more than another killing. There is much to think about in the and this is a good Above all we are relieved to find in it what is lacking from most movies we see these days: a visual style with some substance behind it. But more than we found that this film takes a serious look at the devastation without resorting to sencaused it even offers sationalism or se11tl1nentc:i.llt and Welcome back, Spike. don't that the film will have an extended commercial life due to so you want to see it soon, so you won't have to wait for the video.) after all, a1~;sennng voices as an opfor a discussion. And because we write which we know all too well are rarely a source of uniform we should expect that many of you would find what we say in error, if not cussion for each seminar to discuss the previous night's seminar and how to it. The which lasted was dominated OLLH.'-'--'-"'-'· who generally did not agree with Wiggins' approach. Some objected to Wiggins' terminology, saying that sounded too different than what we are supposed to be doing at St. John's. Wiggins agreed that "performance" probably wasn't the right word. Others disagreed with the idea of a rubric, saying that there is something about seminar which cannot be measured, or that seminar might be judged good by one student and bad by another. At the end, one student suggested that Mr. Wiggins was a gadfly coming to St. to stir us up, and that was why no one would accept his ideas. Wiggins replied, "Yeah, but I don't like the way that story ended." Address (for parents of dependent students on\y) Social Security You are currently: an ~mdergradciate student a graduate student of graduation~----------~ Code 269 �Dear Students: Soon students and tutors will begin to visit the campus. On a busy day it may be a bit of an sition, but it would be a great service to these strangers and to your ..1.c.i:~..._ if you were especially welcoming and responsive to them. Do take time to answer their questions by the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth-a practice which will usually turn out to redound to the glory of your school. Many thanks. Sincerely, Eva T. H. Brann Dean discuss: alcohol-free any pus issues. Richard Chase-Stone Schmidt Lv..1.. All first time loan borrowers: Please remember the loan entrance meeting: Wednesday, September 11 :40 Conversation Room BRING A PEN Financial Aid Office Tttf lllUZZ has for its ,.,,.u,,, ........,, . . . '""' ... weE~Ker1a (9 /29,30). A few museums in town are considering giving free admission to students over parent's weekendinterested? I will pursue as much or as little of this offer as you think best. The first Student Life Committee meeting is Wednesday (9 /27) from at my -:.-.....-:. . . +..-in,,...-.-1(Harrison Health A). Pizza will be served. All elected and interested folk are invited. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. 17 #3 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this publication. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Gadfly Student publication https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/ef0720bfaf5c039807763bac5595d365.pdf 0e46a371e27a78ae9efdbccbdd7d16af PDF Text Text �' ,_,.__~..._ 1,~.-~ by Jesse Berney In the Admissions Office, one can find all kinds of literature written by people outside the college about what goes on inside the college. These synopses of the form and purpose often begin with some phrase exhorting the merits of the students, such as, It is a school that caters exclusively to serious students whose single is to read, write, and philosophize every waking hour of the day" (Edward Fiske, The New York Times Selective Guide to Colleges). They go on to praise our dedication to the principles of a liberal arts education, our commitment to our studies and our devotion to bettering ourselves. with similar material printed the College these articles give prospective students the 1mnrP~­ sion that our community is made up of those students who are serious enough to be able to put the education available at St. John's to good use. These students are also told that if they are not serious enough, St. John's will not allow them to waste four years and a hundred thousand dollars on their education. They will face rigorous oral exams and humbling don rags and will be through the horror of sophomore enabling. No St. John's ~A,..,-A~~A'~' assured, is issued unearned. Year after year, those ""·tontcome the actual students of St. have turned into us. And we find that the literature we read wasn't quite right. It isn't hard at St. John's to slack off. It isn't hard to with a little effort and it isn't hard back if you've been kicked out. The truth it isn't hard to a St. John's diploma. And please, don't misunderstand. The work we here is not easy. The problem is not with the What is easy is getting through St. John's very little work. The education available here is the best in the world. The problem is, every time someone receives a without truly working for it lessens the value of those that are well-earned. Dean Brann pointed out how hard it is to someone's capabilities. She feels the Fr•Hrr::.rn universally accessible, and the amount of to complete the program is "infinitesimal." problem is not one of but There are people who come to St. and for the whole four years without being suited to is the of 11 the and administration to make sure this doesn't This is sometimes the case, but not For a student was asked to leave at the end of her freshman year. She should have been: she showed little interest and forth little effort in her studies. After leaving St. she transferred to another college, and kept up a 4.0 average. She didn't leave because she she left because the wasn't for her. In this case her tutors and the administration did the asking her to leave. There are far too many cases where unsuitable for St. are not asked to go. Some discover on their own are not suited to the and leave. discover this and don't. It's "v'-... '"''"""--'-•-"' you think is so worfor you. This is must lie with the reasons, beof a more in the wrong A~C,, ·~A~<~ 1 2 The Ga October 3, 995 '-'-'-•"~~-~c is how well these standards are There are who all of these asked to leave. Too many people come unLoreoan~a. too many people come to class and nnHT<HTOr . . . ""'"''"'at St. John's is not the imooss1lble to tell whether somestudent from the information those in Admissions have to deal with. Their job is to find those students who show interest in and unof the One can discover whether a person is suited to St. once he has been here for some time. The solution to this problem lies within the enabling pronow, the standards for sophomore enabling are The and administration need to recan do for all the students is to make more leave the College. who are of study waste an immense amount continued on page 6 Council mE'f't1ng Before one Pink Triangle Society came under fire for its should be made very there is ,_._._ _,,..,.._,,_..._"... _._ Besides club expenses and of- social outlet for gays and lesbians here in In fact fice supplies), The Pink Triangle St. gay, les- a national gay and lesbian tour named Little Cambian and bisexual group, requested for the 1995-96 pus as the local gay and lesbian rn<=><=>nna school year so that we to campus, who has ever been to Little ~~.,~,~· ~~ sponsor an all school subscribe to one national magazine and a gay and lesbian newspaper for both Washington D.C. and Baltimore, and perhaps contribute to a gay and lesbian book collection begun the society this year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ doesn't When I, the archon of Pink have the number and visibilTriangle, submitted our ofa I had no idea what to expect. never come before the D.C. in the past, I really wasn't have a with. I believed my be both reasonable and However, from the questions at the meeting and the response three from certain with the budget Where will The Pink books? should the D.C. gay and lesbian co:mrnunu1es to be informed of national and local gay and lesbian curbooks and magazine suibsc:ni)tu)ns ...._ ..... ,, .... ..,,v_._.._.., and St. small group receive any money? While we over where the books would be kept more than any other issue, I've found it the easiest to resolve. The Delegate Council's is that pur- Baltimore and chased with D.C. funds may be off campus. Since the lies. Since St. Pink meets off campus, I had every intention of keeping our small collection of gay and materials. lesbian books and at our m1::et1ng D.C. members did not submit on this We are asking for books and uu~1--o·~~,~·~v,..,, •..,.,-..-.,..,.,,.".'''"'"'C" run about each. This would leave us another location for these materials. Our new activities dia book or two. "-L>nt:>1u1enHg rector, Valerie Pawlowicz has books for us . fairs here at St. for continued on page 10 .,.,.,,,,,,,.,,t- that remarks ut- "News travels fast when there's just two and God." '98 On the Garden of Eden "I think that there is just so1metn1ng intrinsically evil about being naked!" Dawn '98 "If you go somewhere and you arrive you're not there, that's bad." Alex '97 on motion "Baudelaire recalls to mind Ashbury in the 60's, I mean, all that weirdo sh1ff." Ms. Maschler tered in class be in the Overheards column? This could have an _.,_.,_ .... ..,... u ....... effect on conversation. obsessive-compul- The October 3, 1995 3 �Keep the Doors Closed To the Student Body: I feel odd submitting this letter, for it publicly admits a leak in the security of our campus, but the existence of the leak is another issue. I hope this letter will save the college some small amount of money. Here goes ... if you do not have your keycard and are trying to enter Pinkney, please use the western (dining hall end) entrance of the building. This way, at least one keycard sensor on campus will not burn out and have to be replaced (the sensors burn out when they are left to blink from red to yellow to green). The western end is almost NEVER Locked. If you wish to get into the computer lab, please enter from the western end and go through the hallway. Isn't it worth the small amount of effort to save ourselves the cost of replacing, needlessly, TWO keycard sensors for Pinkney, when replacing one is so much cheaper? Thank you to all who make the effort and leave the eastern end locked. (Better yet, slip that little piece 'o plastic in your back pocket.) Sincerely, Hannah Gillelan '96 Are posters only offensive to women? Editors: In her September 26 letter, Ms. Pawlewicz states that as a female member of this community, I just won't tolerate" the recent posters on campus advertising Saturday night parties. Does she mean to say that as a man she would find these posters more tolerable? Should a woman feel more indignant towards sexual imagery than any other type of person? It seems to me that as a member of a community of intelligent people I might find these signs distasteful in their suggestion that great fun is to be had by getting drunk for the purpose of more easily finding someone with whom to mate. As a (hopefully) mature human being /1 4 I might be disturbed by the signs' reduction of all that is beautiful, complex, and intriguing about human passions to bare mechanics. Statements such as "thrust in your sharp sickle ... for her grapes are ripe" reduce men to their sexual apparatus as easily as women, and I see no reason that as a woman, one would necessarily be more put off by such objectification than anyone else. Erin Bonning '97 Sign-Maker Offended Dear Valerie, If my memory is correct than I am the creator of the sign that you found offense enough to comment upon in your recent Gadfly letter to the editors. While I am sorry that you were offended by the sign, I see no reason to apologize for the offense. I believe that in this case you were made a victim by your own dirty mind. In the construction of the said poster none of the sexist" sexual imagery that you "will not tolerate" even crossed my mind. I saw the powerful metaphor of the poster as two-fold. First, the notion of the harvest of full grapes suggests to me only the state of drunkenness that so many of our polity members see fit to live their lives within. The second suggestion is that of Death's reaping of the masses wine=blood harvest=slaughter and the whole spiel), and, as the party's theme was "Hell", I thought the ole "eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die" appropriate for poster material. Only after reading your letter did the other suggestions appear to me. Frankly, I was offended. In the future, I suggest that you remove any of the Reality signs that offend you. I have made most of the signs this year and do not mind their removal if you deem the content questionable. However, I suggest that you not condemn fellow members of the community (realizing that you did not specify any certain group) as sexist when you might as easily give them the benefit of the doubt. I was offended by my own sign The Gadfly! October 3, 1995 /1 only after you presented a reason to be offended. If you would have chosen to admit the possibility that my sign was in no way "rape imagery", neither of us would have been offended. Always look on the bright side of life, and try to keep your mind out of the gutter unless someone else forces it there. Sincerely, Joshua Murbarger '97 Reality Publicity Cobalt Closes an Opened Question Dear Editors and AK, In response to your "Opening Question" column with regards to the naming of the monkey gun, you did not miss the point of the name but you certainly missed the monkey. Hopefully with your aim you will hit the "Monkey's Paw" because if one aims as you suggest you are going to want to wish for another shot. You state near the end of your article that one should, "Aim above the head " which is advice that would certainly make Galileo tum in his grave (or make his grave turn around him if you're still hung up on that Ptolemy point of view). The gun must be fired at the monkey because the projectile and the monkey will fall to earth at the same rate regardless of the horizontal component of the velocity of the projectile. If one . neglects air resistance, (which we can because the fall is short and neither object has any special aerodynamic qualities) both the monkey and the projectile would hit the ground at the same time if they were simply dropped. This happens because the acceleration due to gravity is the same for all bodies. The horizontal component of the projectile's motion acts independently of the gravitational force to bring the projectile closer to the monkey. So while the monkey is by a combination of its downward acceleration and its horizontal motion. Now since the horizontal motion does not affect the rate at which the projectile is dropping we can simply disregard nar "goal." Can anyone articulate what this common "goal" of seminar would be? I should hope not. It is of utmost importance that the value of a seminar remain in its potency to affect different people in different ways. The seminar must be pliable, for we are not all the same. It is impossible that all students could embrace a common goal. Mr. Wiggins I think believed that in one sense the final goal of seminar was "to understand the text" as a seminar. Now I ask you, and the entire St. John's Community, as this is a public letter: Do you think "that understanding the text" is the only goal of the seminar? Please, think about the idea of seminar having this set, common" goal" for all of us, Consider the implications of giving us all a common "goal. " All of us would appreciate smoother seminars, but ultimately there is only so much that can be done to improve them before with individuality is lost and we become a sort of blind mob obsessed with "politeness," Lecture Review missed running at some predetermined "goal," the importance of which we do the point not even understand. Our admissions office can seek To Mr.Johan Swindler and Ms.Jen- kind, mature students and a general nifer Coonce, courtesy can be encouraged in the About your review of last Friday's seminars. We can not do remedial lecture by Grant Wiggins, I have training in polite behavior. And, as I . some comments. I would hesitate to think most us of know, courtesy can describe Mr. Wiggins' shockingly un- be forced upon us, but it can be also derdeveloped lecture as providing be manipulated once it is learned, and "grassroots, common sense type of can be made to achieve the opposite talk." Besides your misapplication of of what its end originally was. Real the words "grass roots," his lecture's courtesy is not the result of training or argument was not founded on "com- grading, or rubrics. mon sense" so much as wrongly apAnotf"ler problem never addressed plied principles. An education ad- by Mr. Wiggins was how the continuministrator for the K-12 school sys- ally self adjusting method in his "feedtem, he came to St. John's College, back' system would be reconciled with which resembles most elementary the rigidity of the St. John's Program, and high schools about as much as it which attempts to review a huge resembles the Naval Academy, and amount of material in a relatively short he "hammered a square peg into a amount of time. round hole," as it were. He assumed, As regards the question period, if it without much qualification, that a was "dominat by students" as you standard articulable "goal" could be say, it was only because there were alfound for St. John's seminar, and he most no tutors there. Many left immethen argued that with this in hand, a diately after the lecture, and more thorough system of self-evaluation than one tutor said they had been could be created by the administra- disappointed with Mr. Wiggins aption to guide us towards this semi- proach. it and compare the projectile and the monkey as two falling bodies. If I "aim above" it is the same as if I drop the projectile from a greater height in which case the monkey hits the ground first and either scampers into the forest or breaks both its legs (depending on the height of the fall and the sadistic nature of the mind creating the thought experiment). Whereas if the hunter "aims low" the bullet will act as though it was dropped from a lower height and strike the earth before the monkey gets there. So in order for the hunter to hit the monkey he or she must aim at the monkey and the projectile must have enough horizontal velocity to carry it to the monkey before it and the monkey reach the ground. Scientifically Yours, Cobalt Blue Resident Cool Guy, Devil's Advocate for Hire, Jerk of all Trades and Last of the Great, White, Santa Fe Monkey Hunters I myself had to be forcibly persuaded to attend the question period, but once I was there I regretted having almost left. I had almost missed the truly telling testimony to Mr. Wiggins' shallowness. Mr. Wiggins was at first very lightly questioned on his very strange arguments! Even more appalling, once he was subjected to more challenging questions he slipped out from every argument that was made against his position by carelessly mislabeling his detractor's point and then wordlessly rejecting it, as he did to Mr. Sothem at one point when he mistakenly labeled Mr. Sothern' s position as "America, love it or leave it." As for the assertion that some of us were questioning Wiggins' terminology, it is false. We took point with the very idea of seminar having any sort of "performance" in it. We were not asking him to change the word, and, in any case, even if we were, he did not" agree that performance probably wasn't the right word," as you say in your review. He defended the word "performance". I thought his defense was ridiculous, as I could care less what the words were, when it was clear his plans were senseless. I would ramble on about Mr. Wiggins' shamless use of rhetoric, as when he claimed, "I'm just trying to make the greatest college in the country even greater," and also his butchery of the Meno but I am taking up too much space as it is. Please consider, though, the implications of introducing his ideas into St. John's College. I think you will see how inapplicable his suggestions were. John Sifton, '96 Did he get it? In the last issue of the Gadfly the plural of E°Lbos; was given as "ELOot". Such an important word at this college ought to be declined correctly: E "Looi;, like yEvoi; and a few other such are not type I masculine nouns, but neuter type 3, and hence their plurals end in 'fl· If you can't remember that the plural of E "Looi; is dori, then you had better call for help in French. David Stephenson, Tutor The Gadfly! October 3, 1995 ~ 5 �a.d. notes .:_;;J;:-;,..;r ~ :~'~t ~r t/il" /,. ,-_·,.. . .. . "Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain." - -St. Paul "~;;Jr by Nelson Hernandez '99 Time-Warner cuts Simpson trial reaching an end off 'gangsta rap' On September 28, Time-Warner, Inc. announced that it will give up its half-ownership of Interscope Records, a company that is wellknown for its production of 'gangsta rap' songs which glorify murder and feature obscene language. Interscope is also known for producing artists as Dr. Dre, Snoop Doggy Dogg and Tupac Shakur. The departure came on the release of a new album from Interscope that Time-Warner unsuccessfully attempted to review prior to its release. Conservative activists have claimed a victory, saying that. the pressure that they have put on Time-Warner had caused the change. However, Time-Warner denied any such relation, claiming that the breakup was a result of their inability to examine Interscope's releases. The Simpson trial is finally winding to a close. In the past week, the prosecution and the defense have presented their final arguments. Prosecuting attorney Marcia Clark made Simpson's whereabouts during the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman the focus of her case against Mr. Simpson. Defense attorney Johnnie Cochran's more theatrical presentation attempted to pick apart Mrs. Clark's evidence. He brought up the fact that the "bloody glove" did not fit Mr. Simpson, and at one point donned a woolen cap to supposedly demonstrate that such a disguise would have no value for Mr. Simpson. All that remains is a decision by the jury to decide Mr. Simpson's guilt or innocence. New Money Old 6 . '. '. I A new design for the 100 dollar bill will go into effect on January 1 of next year. This was in an effort to combat the advanced counterfeiting technology that has developed over the years. This change, the first since 1927, features a larger portrait of Benjamin Franklin and color-shifting ink among other safeguards. Currently the redesign is only of the 100 dollar bill, but a gradual shift of all the bills to the new, more European style is expected. The Gadfly/ October 3, 1995 American soldiers to leave Japan In response to the rape of a Japanese schoolgirl by three American servicemen, Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Defense Secretary William Perry signed an agreement with Japanese Prime Minister Yohei Kono to withdraw all 47,000 American soldiers stationed in Japan within five years. There will be an increase in the price the Japanese pay to maintain these soldiers, however; the cost will be raised from $4.8 billion to $5 billion. The Japanese pay part of the cost of maintaining the soldiers because the soldiers would act to help the tiny Japanese Self-Defense Force in the event of a threat to Japan from abroad. The rape, which occurred on September 4, has caused a major outcry among Japanese citizens, and a popular movement demanding the withdrawal of American servicemen.· The soldiers accused of the rape will be charged under Japanese laws. ~ Standards Continued from page 2 of time and money by staying here. And not only their own. We all know The St. John's College women's soccer team, the She Dogs from Hell, went on the road to Frederick to face Hood College last weekend. In what was arguably one of the most exciting games in the team's storied history, they battled Hood to a 5-5 tie at the end of regulation. Hood went on to win with a single goal in overtime. The most awesome Freight Train Lange scored four goals (yeah, count em, four!), and the frosh phenom Miss Magee scored as well. Her Hugeness, Miss Monberg, played suberbly at midfield. The most beautiful play of the day was when she craftily lofted an indirect kick over the Hood defensive line to Miss Lange who broke for the goal and put the ball in the back of the net. Also showing a lot of guts and good play were Misses Thadhani, Glassman, Fitzpatrick, Murray, Kunta Kinte Festival Celebrated at St. John's by Anna-Clare Milazzo On September 23 and 24, the Kunta Kinte Festival celebrated AfricanAmerican, African and Caribbean cultures on back campus. Tents with demonstrations, food, merchants, and music educated and entertained the festival-goers. The name of the festival comes from the book, Roots by Alex Haley. The pro- Papavasiliou, Thom, anq Lyons. Miss Goodrow made her debut as goalie, and the freshman Miss Sudduth made her debut at mid-field. Miss Gehring took on the goal keeping chores for the final 75 minutes of play, and made several saves and managed her defensive line well. For her fine play Miss Gehring is named Athlete of the Week. ~- Many thanks to the following KUNAIHeads, groupies, and bleacher bums for traveling to Frederick to support the team: Pharris, Ganson, Freitas, Stromberg, Berney, Carter, Snead, Fedyashin, and Bojaxhi. eye on. He scored on an 80 yard dash. His windfeet are yet another addition to a speedy Blue crew of Smoll; Leslie, Carter, Haber, and Milliken. The undefeated Spartans rolled over the Waves in intramural football action last week, in spite of the return to the gridiron of the Waves' Mr. Andrews, one of the best run and shoot quarterbacks at the school. The Spartans are showing a diversified look to their offense. They started Mr. Bilik at Q, and he quickly put several T.D.s on the board, one of which was a most beautiful bomb to the split end Mr. Zagame. The fleet freshman Mr. Hendrix is also a ballplayer to keep an tagonist, Kunta Kinte, preserved a link with his African culture despite many obstacles. The organizers hoped to emphasize the importance of knowing and discovering one's heritage by naming the festival after someone who was able to maintain his culture through incredible hardship and adversity. The Children's Juffere, a tent sponsored by the Chesapeake Children's Museum, made the excitement of discovery easily apparent. There was face painting, mask making, dress up, students in class. The class moves : if;A ___ CHINAHOUSE ---~i more slowly, tutors and students become frustrated, and less is accom- 1 the effects of unprepared, uninterested plished. The Dean says she would rather err on the side of leniency than harshness. This is something with which no one can disagree. However, right now the margin of error is a little too big. ~fffl Chinese Restaurant ~ : : 1 Eat in and Take Out 228 Main Street I Free Delivery to St. John's College I 263-0002 or 263-0003 I Bring this coupon and recieve 15% off any eat in L order!! ------------------------ : 1 1 1 1 _J Speaking of fast, has the freshman Mr. Potvin got some wheels or what? Combine his natural speed with his never say die attitude, and this Greenwave generates a lot of excitement. Mr. Potvin is also a gritty oarsman, and in last Friday morning's tie races, he overcame woefully underpitched oarlock and helped pull his shell to victory. For his efforts by land and by water, Mr. Potvin is named Athlete of the Week. a storytelling and arts and crafts. Many parents let their children stay in the tent for a few hours, enough time for a number of kids to learn to walk around with baskets on their heads as if they had been born to it. I worked for four hours helping children make beads out of rolled up pieces of magazine paper, so they could string them along with washers to make necklaces. Most children made a necklace or a bracelet and then moved on to making a noisemaker out of cardboard tubes and gravel. One five-year-old from Baltimore, Torian Davis, frequented my table all day. He didn't view the festival as a way to find out about his heritage as much as a way to discover new things and ways of playing. Torian's father, though, thought that this festival was very important for his son. He explained to me that he usually goes to another African heritage festival in Baltimore sponsored by AFRAM on the continued on page 11 The Gadfly! October 3, 1995 ---....p 7 �Words to live by and to yell at niiddies Alexander Battles, '94 and former Editor-In-Chief As we all know, on the morning of each of their Saturday home football games, the mids from the U.S.N.A. march up College Avenue to their stadium to watch their team play. As they march, they always sing light-hearted tunes about such topics as General Custer's drunkenness and the notorious killer ship, the Bismark. Except, of course, when they pass the campus of St. John's College. At this point, the lyrics make a tum for the better, and the middies neglect their animosity toward Germans and the U.S. Army for the greener pastures of poking fun at the liberals on the right. A sample of the manna which drops from the tongues of our naval neighbors proceeds thusly: "I wanna study Aristotle. I'm a left wing kind of guy. I wear socks with my sandals. All my shirts are tie-dyed." "I don't carry pens to class. Don' t wanna take no written tests . I don't want a real degree . So I came to S-J-C." Freshman year, I wrote a response to the mids; to satisfy popular demand it is printed here: "I wanna study weapons systems. I wanna wear a nifty hat. I wanna march in unison, 'Cause I don't know where it's at."' "I can't go out w ith m y classm ates, I wanna dress like an ice-cream man. I couldn't get into West Point, So I row a boat for Uncle Sam." " 'Oh say can you see?' Written by Francis Scott Key. He went to S-J-C. Navy sucks. Q.E.D." All rights reserved. Unauthorized duplication is unnecessary, since you can just sing them to the mids on Saturday mornings. Keep the faith. (This article originally appeared in the November 10, 1992, issue of the Gadfly, and w as reprinted in the September 21, 1994 issue.) 8 The Gadfly/ October 3, 1995 m. QC. ;flltnutes Tuesday, September 26, 1995 at 6:30PM in the .Conversation Room Attendance: Pia Thadhani (President), Rebecca Michael (Secretary), Steve Urich (Treasurer), Seth Milliken (Polity Attorney), Shaunequa Jordan (off-campus), Lynette Dowty (Randall), Juan Villasenor (Pinkney), Joe Manheim (offcampus), Leigh Fitzpatrick (Paca), Lori Freeman (off-campus), Richard Schmidt (Chase Stone), Andrew McCarthy (off-campus), Jenn Coonce (Pinkney), Aaron Silverman (Campbell), Marjorie Truman (Humphries) -Waltz Committee, Swim Club, Reality, Aikido and Woodworking Club representatives presented their charters and met little resistance. The general opinion, however, was that the Reality charter needs grammatical revisions. These charters will be voted on on October 3. -King William Players, Outdoor Club, Pink Triangle Society and Political Forum representatives presented their budget requests. After much questioning, the D.C. decided that the requests would be voted on on October 3, after some D.C. members hesitated to give Kevin Gardner and the Pink Triangle Society money to start a library for their club off campus. Live Poets' Society was not represented. -Congratulations to the following people who won the elections for the SCI and various other committees: -Billy Sothem, Cindy Lutz, Aline Gram, Malinda Campbell, Carter Snead and John Silton for the Student Committee on Instruction -Nelson Hernandez, Marjorie Truman, Shaunequa Jordan, Jenn Coonce, Luke Trares, Andrew McCarthy and Richard Schmidt for the Student Life Committee -Steve Urich for the Library Corrunittee -Richard Schmidt and Shaunequa Jordan for the Financial Aid Committee -Aaron Silverman and Joe Manheim for the Campus Planning Committee -Leigh Fitzpatrick for the Board of Visitors and Governors *Only 8 Polity members ran for these elections. Make sure you read the bulletin boards and dorm doors for D.C. information and announcements! -We only have $8, 450 for the semester. The cumulative estimate for budget requests from chartered clubs for this semester is approximately $20,000. This means that we will ask plenty of questions about budget requests this semester. However, it is our job to make sure this money lasts for those clubs who deserve it. Agenda for October 3... (Check the posted agendas. Tiris agenda is likely to .change.) - All the above charters and budget requests plus a charter presentation from the Biology Club. 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Box 22948 Rochester, NY 14692-2948 OR CALL 1-800-692-8200 and ask for Operator 274. --- D an und ergra duate st udent D a grad uate st udent Year of grad uation _ _ _ _ __ If you are a graduate stud ent, please indi cate your fi eld of study: D Busin ess (MBA) D Eng ineerin g D D Other (please speci fy) VISIT OUR WEB SITE at http://www.l oci.com /HO/vill age/Citiban k/CS LC.html - M edicine (allopathic and osteopathic st ud ies) D Nursing I I I CIT/BAN~~ I The Gadfly/ October 3, 1995 - ~ - 9 1111111.1 �by Valerie Pawlewicz, Student Ac.tivities OPENING Q!JESTIONS AK, I've got this problem. I'm not an interesting person, but my parents want to come visit me on parents' weekend. I know they love me for who I am and all that, but I respect them as people, so I don't want to fit them into a parent box and leave them there, away from the rest of the social peoples of the world. I wouldn't expect anyone else to come visit me. Not many students or tutors think I'm very agreeable, and I've suspected for quite some time that my parents don't either. As if this doesn't make me feel bad enough, my brother is interesting and everybody thinks so. The worst part of my problem is that they are going to go visit him at his parents' weekend two weeks before they come here (if I let them, that is). They are going to be pumped from seeing Teddy, my brother, and will come here and talk about how cool he is and about all the cool friends he has, and his neat hangouts, and so on. I'm so depressed. What can I do? If they come here what will I do with them? I don't have any money or a car, so it's not like I know of all sorts of neat places not in walking distance to take them. I'm so frustrated. Help. I Suck You Suck, You're going to have to search yourself for the answer to this question. Parents' weekend is 3-5 November. You've got a little while yet to deal with this internally, but you're going to have to let your parents know if they can come so that they can get hotel reservations. [If you let them visit, tell them to call 1-800-715-1000, Annapolis Accomodations, not the hotels directly.] Let's be rational about this. Most likely your parents just think you're different from Teddy. That's okay. I doubt that they are bored in your presence. They love you for who you are, like you said, and this means that they appreciate any peculiarities of yours. You do sound peculiar. You don't have to be interesting in the same way that Teddy is. My sister's ten times funnier than I am, but that doesn't get me down. Sure, my parents aren't entertained by me as much as they are by her, but you know, we sit and reminisce about funny things she has said, and we get around the empty spaces of her not being there with us, when we chance to be alone, so there isn't time for them to get bored with me. I'm sure you can do the same. Don't worry about not being able to keep them busy. There are plenty of events planned here on campus. Perhaps they will be intrigued by what goes on at St. John's, if they aren't already, and start to think that you are interesting for being here. There are luncheons and dinners to take them to, as well as entertaining events such as an Antigone reading, a parent tutorial on Euclid's Elements , a production of something called Awkward Stage II by the King William Players and a waltz. They will receive information through the mail about this. Please remember, your parents are coming here to this really cool school to see Teddy. Oops. I mean you. They are coming to see you. AK Address your curiosities to AK c/o the Gadfly Pink Triangle Continue from page 3 request as unreasonable. We simply want to be informed of national and current events and find things to do in other larger cities. St. John's is missing a vital element of some students' lives. Being openly homosexual myself, living in Annapolis forces me to close down a part of myself, a part of myself which took me twenty years to figure out and which I would rather keep open and alive. The Pink Triangle Society attempts to let students be homosexual, be around other homosexuals, and be able to boast a vocal and active homosexual group. Without any funding we will fail in many of our undertakings. Why should such a small group receive funding? Homosexuals are a minority. St. John's is a very small college. Many homosexuals do not come out until after their college years. 10 The Gadfly/ October 3, 1995 Hence, The Pink Triangle Society, a gay and lesbian group for a tiny college, is going to have very few numbers. We have eleven interested members. It is important that we provide an outlet for any number of students. The club will fulfill a vital need which these students have. Last Tuesday the Delegate Council put off the vote for Pink Triangle's budget request because of policy procedure and a lack of information. The night that this Gadfly will be delivered to you will be the night the D.C. votes for or against funding Pink Triangle. St. John's needs a gay and lesbian group. Without funding the Pink Triangle Society will fail. If you have any comments or suggestions regarding this editorial, feel free to contact me via my e-mail account, kgardner@sjca.edu. Tttf Director Last weekend's "Make Mine Museums" went well: Ten people visited the Paca House for free, and Twelve visited the Hammond-Harwood House. During SJC parent's weekend, the H-H House expressed interest in letting students enter for free again if accompanied by a parent. Any takers? A warm welcome to all elected and selected to be on the Student Life Commitee! These elite individuals include: Nelson Hernandez, Jennifer Coonce, Richard Schmidt, Andrew McCarthy, Marjorie Truman, Shaunequa Jordan, Luke Trares, Abe Schoener, Leo Pickens, Sus3an Borden, Kevin Topper, Pia Thadani, Rebecca Michael, Seth Milliken, Steve Urich, and me. If you too are interested in participating, please contact me (x. 254). We are making decisions about how to spend our $2,000 in activity funds (reggae party? comedian? murder mystery dinner? student/tutor gatherings? Pre-seminar coffee hours?). We are also discussing current issues on campus (e.g., vandalism). Congratulations to Rebecca Jongewaard for being the first among three other contributors to submit a title of a poem by Adrienne Rich. Rebecca wins a free ticket to attend Ms. Rich's poetry reading at the Folger Library in Washington on October 10th. You too can hear Ms. Rich read from her works. Check out the posters and contact me if you want to purchase a ticket. And, if you act fast, the SJC bookstore has one last copy of her book The Dream of a Common Language. Note: Two brand new items left behind in the polity van: one body shop product and a compass. To collect, call me and identify it/them. rxJZZ Kunta Kinte Continued from page 7 same weekend, but he decided that the Kunta Kinte festival was worth the trip. Most of the other parents that I talked to agreed that spending time in the Children's Juffere with their children was the best way to teach their children about their ancestors' culture. Ironically, when I worked as a face painter, most children asked me to draw hearts on their faces or recreate corporation logos and slogans such as the Nike swoosh and "Just do it." These children know American culture all too well. Other parts of the festival included the Family Juffere, a tent that African cooking, fashion and workshops on health issues. The Arts and Crafts Juffere had many vendors selling Afro-centric items. Many stands also sold ethnic and American cuisine. A large stage featured entertainment in the forms of African dance, Jazz, Gospel, Caribbean Steel Bands, and others who performed during both days. ALL DOMESTIC 263-2068 58 Maryland Ave. Annapolla, 110 CIGARETIES $1.90 + TAX Announcements From the Nurse ... There is some confusion about health insurance and the health center. All students must have health insurance. All currently enrolled students are eligible to use the health center services while the College is in regular session. Students do not have to have the "school insurance" to use the health center services. There is no charge for most services at the health center, however if you see other physicians, or get an x-ray or lab work then your insurance would be needed for payment. If you have "school insurance" you must be seen at the health center first before seeing other caregivers. There are exceptions. If there is an emergency, or if the health center is closed, or over vacation breaks, and in other special circumstances, see your insurance brochure. This "school insurance" policy terminates at 12:01 a.m. on August 28, 1996. If you have other insurance questions I might be able to help you. If you have questions about the school insurance you can call them at 1-800-2225780. Marilyn B. Mylander From the Film Club ... The Film Club will be showing The Muppet Movie next week on Saturday, October 7, and Sunday, October 8 at 8:15 p.m. Admission is $3. From Us ... The Gadfly can be reached by e-mail at gadfly@sjca..t«iu. If you wish to make a submission via e-mail feel free, however, stick to small things like overheards and announcements. Longer articles and letters should be submitted to the Gadfly on disk in a Macintosh based format. Also, feel free to check out the new Gadfly World Wide Web Homepage. It is located at http:/ /www.sjca.edu/ ph/ gadfly. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. 17 #4 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this publication. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Gadfly Student publication https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/0c8a208e6c7aa4712280fb9675a49dd2.pdf 4f417125c8bdabdab8513a026a006ddc PDF Text Text Sick of women accusing men for their social distress? Sick of women saying that men only want women for sex? Sick of women blaming men for their insecure neurosis? Well then, Let us revel in our dominance! Why? Because, obviouslyj we are all sexist pigs. Join the: Men's ~,roup ;,.,. ~ . Topics for discussion: Are Blondes better than Redheads? and The Pros and Cons of Breast Implants. �Please llmmem l'ecrsl Im llem•s ll10ao1 si1ms to ridicule and undermine the good intentions of the women's group. It is a sad when there are at St. who to at sophomoric posters than to that serve as forums for llLlc.1..1.1.~co, conversation. When I to understand what the 0u.1uu1Ji Dear Gadfly, How predictable. In mockery of the recently-established, women's group, someone has responded by posting signs for a men's group. The signs read: "Sick of women accusing men for their social distress? Sick of women saying that men only want women for sex? Sick of women blaming men for their insecure neurosis? Well then, let us revel in our dominance! Why? Because, obviously, we are all sexist pigs. Join the: Men's Group. Topics for discussion: Are blondes better than redheads? and, The pros and cons of breast implants." these signs are .1.cn.......1u1<. in taste but, more 1rnr1n,T't'.:!1n+ilu are misof the guided. The basic women's is to dJs,cu!:>S are important to women and to provide an environment in which these issues can be discussed have held two meetings so far. At the first meeting we talked about feminism and tried to reach an on the definition of feminism. At the second we looked at the question of image. In neither did we think or speak a deal about men. Mostly we talked about ourselves and Dear When I enrolled at St. lege as a freshman, I had the eyed idea that it would be a where and conversation the ideal, but the norm. I have since been disabused of this idealistic but never more so than when I saw the signs for the "Men's are an intenof the Women's .,...,"" ..."'1-11u it encourages men to revel in their dominance. I suppose that this ::ith=>m1nt at self........ ~·~"'"'' but that it is an1nare1'.l1 ~·--~~·~ 1 .. who its authors' are interested in OE~gr·aaL1ng for discussion for this fictitious group are "Are Blondes better than Redheads and the Pros and Cons of here title: Women's Group. are obviWhy did starting a women's group The authors of this not interested in real discussion on campus this excessive reabout the and osvc.1:101 og1Lca1 action? People have plained that the group is unne1cessa1:v standard which pressures women into insulting, and politically correct. fact remains, however, that our butc.tler:in2 their own faces and bodprocedures. women's group is not a radical or de- ies in structive organization; it is silly that the The authors are far more initeriested ....,..,,.., . . . , .. these issues of their imporgroup has become the subject of con~~•-•-•~•~·~ them. But do troversy. The women's at St. satirist knows John's was created for the the authors son that there are those who """'.. ,.,"nT,., the need for such a group on ............. ..., '""""· have ever been to one of our Women's m<:~et1ngs, and have little unIf there are men at St John's who Their the desire to a men's group then satire is thus ""'"',..,~,...,n they should do so. But the purpose of these "Men's was ent. their convictions to n..-,c.c.t»nt and to our face. In show themselves to be than ,.,.,...,, . . . ,,.-...,., ........ ,.............. .., ...u.~, and thi~reto1re understand how offensive their jokes are. But I think far more that older versions of the able to validate their own existence by angry and vc:.uL<.1..1..1.1c:i::. that anger . enthralls and amuses them more than and I suppose in I am into their hands. So here it is, ever you are. I am angry. Are you Does it titillate amuse Would it excite even more to know that this is a fraction of the anger show if you had the courage to reveal your name? Is it so th1rea.te11mlg you notice: re1oe11ted damage and secuconcerns, the doors outside from Paca Caroll common room may no longer be used. Do not unlock them and do not use them. Thank you, Assistant Deans Memorandum to the I believe that I owe the editors of the Gadfly an apology and a cornpJ.im1ent. Last week, I submitted a response to the publication of Mr. Sageng's facetious query of the socalled but took the to be semantic rather and hence the m].spellin~rn to be editorial rather than I have to confess I overlooked the that the edi~a1C?;erLg's re1nark, be1cat1se several times past my own submissions to the had been and corrected" to the detriment of my intention. The staff is obviously much more conscientious and careful than some of its predecessors. Perserverance in such editorial acumen earn the paper ,.,,,,..,.,..,,.,..,..,."" submissions. And.,...... ':n'r-"" 2 The October 1995 dance on the Santa Fe campus is the largest school year, This Letter to the in the October 1994 issue of the NOOMOON (Santa Fe's National Coming 1·nttl for the entire 1ttn1n ... 1 Please be aware that messages left on the answering machine won' t be the next ~"'"'.. L' 1.,...,.,. If you need a response switchboard and the oo•erator the nurse, ambulance or whatever is needed. We will be Flu shots later this month. The cost will be $5-00.Notices will be placed in the coffee shop and Be nice to a gay or lesbian! National Coming Out Wednesday, October 11th. out" is the process homosexuals go ... ... '"'""''"" . . ' when they decide to reveal themselves to the world. Somewhere along the line, a day was set aside as National Coming Out Day. I don't know of anyone who actually decided to come out on October 11th, and I cercompelled to come out on this date. Regardless, National ComOut gives gays and lesbians a chance to simply think about who they are, whom wish to and when wish to come out. It is also one of the two gay holidays celebrated each year. Gay Pride week is the other. National out something for everyone, even a heterosexual St. student. Understand that out is an anxiety stricken !JU.Jcu.u..u. process. Homosexu- Despite popular its not my to give rides to students. In one at SJC has The I am responsible for is the transportation of students to and from sponsored events, and to the airport/Metro at Winter, Spring, and Summer breaks. So although I won't get you to the mall to the live mouse to feed your $69.95 snake, I willingly give good travel advice and even a of phone num- To the St. The fourth annual National --~...... "~ ... Out Day dance will be held on Thursday after seminar. Everyone is welcome to this community event. In the past there has been some appn=nensiLon about what this dance is. I am writing to explain what it means to me. Every year a group of students organizes this celebration for the community. This provides us with an opportunity to celebrate who we are. This dance has been referred to as a "gay event", but that does not mean that it is entirely exclusive. comfortable with ourselves and one another is central to this event. To me, coming out means being com- The als need and this time of their life. On this National Coming Out be nice to a lesbian. If you have homosexual mierrlbE~rs. contact and them Ken Boucher '99 said, 'Tm going to contact my two lesbians sisters by and wish them a happy National Coming Out If you have a gay or lesbian him or her on the back and your support. Make it known that you .... ...,..., .............. u.L"' your homosexual friend regardless of his or her ~c:,-..uc:u..u Lynch '97 said, "I'm to send my who came out ~~,,~~,~ 1 " a 'good for card." If you are a gay or lesbian yourself, come out, think about out, or if you are out do somevisible to express your sexuality. You can count on me out on national out with my freedom PD:>elarnll.1I1t2: who you are, be it or gay. In this sense, comout is for everyone who can and be with themselves. This are. it is still in some sense a gay event. This is an for the gay on campus to make a safe and comfortable environment for our friends the ~~-·-~ out process. members of our are callattention to themselves as gay in order to create this environment. These that St. are whole will re~;oond process in to nc1m.osE~xt1a1it which may need some further explanation. This process can be a long and difficult "getting to know " It is learning to accept who you are regardless of what your family and community find This experience is different for everyone, for some, there is full others continued on page 6 October 1995 3 �. .ll!illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ._..i~.~A·-, as defined in Webster's Dictionary, is a speech or action inis destructive tended to cause contemptuous I think ridicule at someter; to deride; to make fun of. The en- one else's expense is harmful to goes on to talk about good-natured everyone involved. The effects are and malicious ridicule. when The latter is described as do not feel able to having the intention of and ~~~AA·~i humiliating. I want to the ridiculer talk about this sort of forces his views upon ridicule in relation to others. It is .i-u... ,...,,.,..,....,,.,.., our .__...,,,i~·'"~..~In any .__..., .... .,,....~ .. "" - - - - - - - - - - - in some cases ,.,,..."""' 'r1 and ra?·1-:::i n but especially a college which claims to allow students to think give anyone their minds. for themselves, have the To be I am not to explore any ideas want to. Ridiabout ridicule on a theoretical level. I cule is detrimental to this freedom beabout ridicule on this camcause it directly opposes the kind of am and the abundance of that St. students free year. I'll seek. There are three ways in which it onoo:ses this ridicule is some students n1"•=><;:,:>nt<=•r1 an inadequate means of presenting to the Seducers and '-"' ...... ..,......~ . . .., of the year, the reone's views. Second, it does not allow at the for response but instead keeps opposing views from expressed. And it promotes super1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 1 1 Ridicule is not a sufficient way to disagree because it does not express a ..__A~,,_,~.~ or of and therefore lacks any value in persuasive or taken the That's not to say that "'""' ..."t-h,..-H,. should be serious. response, however, be it constructive or signifies some care or serious ,_,_,,.",,-..... .-on the part of aggressor. malicious does not allow for response. This is bad because un1exarrun.ea beliefs are often su1pe1'.tlcial ones. Ridicule does not invite reflection or and in intimidates people from expressing alternate viewpoints. No one wants to be humiliated or laughed at, and to avoid being those who have differing viewpoints often silent. Perhaps people who ridicule are it precisely to avoid being qulest1oned for their views or to account for their Fostering su1pe1·nc1a1 4 The October 1 as a ti on of a campus women's group, a aooe;:i.rect which ridiculed it. is sense of humor. When you agree with or with the sentiments of someone who it is easy to see When you it as the harm of this derision is much more evident. As an alternative to ridicule as a means of with someone on this campus, I'd like to discussion. is a breath of fresh air when someone comes me talk about my views or the women's group. It is even better when someone writes a letter in the And guess have even made me reexamine my own opm1ons. someone disA continued on page 6 either? one. I l l ~~~- ~~~~~~ II. R~~~~~ ~~~m ~~~~~~ 1995 The October 1 1995 5 �Irish The Swedish Academy awarded Seamus Heany, Irish poet and farmer, the Nobel Prize in Literature on October 5. He was praised "for works of and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the past." Mr. was also recognized for addressing the persistent violence in Ireland without using the language of this issue. His poems are for the most part rooted in the soil of Ireland, probably because of his past as a farmer. Mr. is the third Irishman to win the Nobel Prize, after William Butler Yeats in 1923 and Samuel Beckett in 1969. ~ The annals say: when the monks of Clonmacnoise Were all at prayers inside the oratory Aship appeared above them in the air. The anchor dragged along behind so deep It hooked itself into the altar rails And as the big hull rocked to a standstill, Acrewman shinned and grappled down a rope And struggled to release it. But in vain. "This man can't bear our life here and will drown," The abbot said, "Unless we help him." So did, the freed ship sailed and the man climbed back of the marvelous as he had known it. Continued from page 4 agrees is also a good way of expressing disagreement. Perhaps when a person's views are not developed in his mind he can not put them into the words it takes to discuss. Maybe the disagreement comes from within, and cannot be expressed. I am not saying that this is something to ignore, or even that it is unnatural to want to respond. I am just saying that it is destructive to force undeveloped ideas on others. I don't think that undeveloped views should not be expressed, but they should only be treated as what they are and nothing more. Through constructive responses, perhaps these ideas would become something worth declaring to the community. .......... u ..............." .... 6 The Hurricane Opal hit Florida with 125mile per hour force on October 4. The storm, which reached a top speed of 155 miles per hour before it struck the Panhandle region of caused at least 12 deaths and an estimated $1.8 billion in damage in Florida alone, and another $1 billion in the neighboring states of Alabama and Georgia. The storm moved forward at about 29 miles per hour and was downgraded to a tropical depression by the time it had passed Georgia. It was not nearly as devestating as Hurricane Andrew, though, which caused over $15.5 billion in damage. © 1995 women's Under the battled their crossrival to a 11 tie in their game last weekend. This was the first match of a three game series between the two clubs. This game marked the return to action after a absence of the supersophs Misses Finefrock A new cease-fire has been set in Bosnia, scheduled to take effect on October 9. All have the agreement and it looks like the possibility of a more extended peace exists. An international peace conference regarding the Balkan situation is scheduled for October 25 or a few days after. The cease fire has one that that full gas and electric power must be restored in Sarajevo Tues~ "These days I read the Gadfly cover to cover." --Dean Brann "I like the thought of ingesting and excreting." --Mr. Comenetz in ~OP.11LOrltlOJre About the problems with Overheards: Could you print them without attributing them? John White She's so steady and reliable in her that she gets taken for granted. She's down at the boathouse every morning without fail to take on whatever task is assigned her-and with a smile, which is nice to see a 6AM!! This season she's done a great job with the novices, and this past she Miss Lutz. about Athlete of the Week. and Page, and the senior Miss Cate. It's to have them back with all their enthusiasm. Misses Bauman and control the midfield and and Miss Choi well up on the front line. Miss Griffin a fine at half-back in her debut game with the ditto for the frosh Miss and Miss Coleman. Miss Coleman the game out of the fire with her Texas Leaguer type goal that she booted in from the line. hope to see a great turnout on ThursLawrence Black, '96 name of the mysterious Kvwv in the team photo goes to the bookstore on me. g e through some viscious swells and wakes to grasp the victory in the Friday tie s Continued from page 3 find in everyone but themselves, still others who find no acceptance at all. The process for some involves dealing with personal religious beliefs and traditions that either don't allow for or condemn who you are. Reexamining these sacred beliefs can be a painful process. One who is -~.~~·~~.,.... out find his church and friends unable to accept leaving him all alone. I want our community to come together October 6th and be available with open arms for our friends who may be alone. Our having this event shows the progress of a working comm11TI1'n' and I would like to thank St. for this celebration. I The St. dub soccer team, The She Dogs From Trivia of the Week: the first one to me with the In men's football action this past week, it almost looked like the Waves were on their way to their first win. Mssrs. Whipple, Andrews, and Press, and the ever Miss Leake, were up two touchdowns going into the last But then the Assistant Mr. Schoener showed up, and the Hustler's offense took on new life with a short- addition to In men's intramural soccer the Druids handled manned ter going down to defeat to the Alumni the before in the annual Homecoming game Alum bolstered class of '75 fullback cum uuuueu.:Ler, Tutor Mr. ians. The most sp1n1:ea end full of soccer was n1 ...:n1:~vtF•n go-get-'em freshmen Hernandez. he going to be like once he some real soccer boots on his I wonder? Tennis shoes and Mr. Hernandez gets Athlete of the Week honors. se Eat and Take 228 Main Street Free Delivery to St. John's ~~.AA~,..~~ 263-0002 or 263-0003 The 1995 7 �( TOYOTA What You Do For Me MSRP BASED ON TAX, TAGS, TITLE, FREIGHT, OPTIONAL & REGIONALLY REQUIRED EQUIPMENT. DEALER SETS FINAL PRICE. distributed free ArmatPC>Hs campus as well as tutors emeriti, members Board of Visitors and Governors, and the offices at the St John's Santa Fe All opinions expressed within are the sole of the author. The Gadfly reserves the to submissions in prc)te~;sicmaJ, informative, onl·orl·:>n'1T'\O' nri·,.u,,1<1n0' np·ws·oai:>er which circumstances at St sut>sc1np1t1011s are available for $35.00. conam:>re<:1atee1.. 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Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Gadfly Student publication https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/1cdae459c35f86da033173adadd96fd2.pdf 0c26fb7df777f8f627a15398c33d33a4 PDF Text Text - �Reslmnseslmlle llllenlel To the offended feministsI must say girls, I think it very well if you wish to gather and discuss women's concerns and I am pleased if it makes you Should you actually anything for the state of woman in society I would applaud you. As it is, you make me ashamed of my own sex. Your reactions to those "dreadful nasty men" reminded me of so much as a gaggle of geese in senseless creating an image which, if anyundermines two centuries of dedication to the liberation of women. Picturing the situation in reverse, I cannot but at a man who would his foot like a child given to tantrums. Remember, the most is intellectual And I am certainly to believe that it does so within the context of its meetings. I have no desire to attend, but there are many similar groups I accord genuine respect, though I have never participated in them. Unfortuthe respect I would like to grant the women s group as a matter of course is not being reciprocated. In fact, I have found myself to at least two unwanted aggressions: the first was a wave of conspicuous and loaded signs; the second was three full articles in the Gadfly telling me how awful it was that these offensive and intrusive signs were mocked. These two insults are egregious enough; more however, was the pretense held one writer that this women s group occupied an innassailable moral ground, due to its theoretical commitment to discussion. For these signspacked with women's liberation slogans, one sided thought questions' which raised no thought except anger against male society, and some extreme images of women in pop culture-constitute a one way discussion; att:err1pt not to interest vc~te1:1.t1.aJ n1ernbE~rs. but to lecture nonmembers, and to subconsciously remind them of their own These signs attacked me every time I saw annoying me with useless cliches 1rn.o.o __ ,a,·v- moral as 1 the women's group has .,,..,.,..,..,,""''rl so deft at this that it has sq-ue.lcllLed any discussion of women's issues that have taken in the student body at large, and has reduced it to a few subversive snickers and at the mention of the issue. As such, the women's group has thwarted its own stated and has alienated itself from the very of campus it should be to reach. Alex Bilik '97 ............. c.•::u, Dear Editor: 1 1 react as you did to fun which was most not even aimed at you, but out for general amusement. Whether or not it was succesful is 1..-.-·.01''""""1you cannot hide behind a sense of it should have been taken in -'-'-''-<-"''-''-'-'- at with the I was by my maleness to venerate this group's ri 11-tr10-ri teous aim. of other study groups exist with signs no more than the subject matter for and the time and place of its meeting. is the women's group different? But the best description of the club's actions was made Jenn Coonce when she defined ridicule in her article last week, when she says, "Ridicule does not invite reflection or u..1.c•'-'-'"""-'VH, and in it intimidates from expressing alternate view. This is what the women's group has and this alone is the reason that the authors of the men's group remain anonyLA<'-''"'"'·'"' tions: Before I attack the recent public slatements of Women's group, let me say that the idea behind the group is completely St. John's encourages all media if they foster discussion; and I, for one, consider discussion good, !.c.;;u... u.uc.oo of topical concerns. In the .... ..,,JU<-'-'-"· existence of a Women's group must be praised, and I it insofar as it obeys the St. John's ideal. 2 The October 6, 1995 it anythe ladies of the soccer of their name (as to do in any case), and were then to order new all those old shirts would be transformed i.-1-." ... "''"'" into valuable collector's items. Letters or SDt~llilH! as submitted. words or Two students sit on the quad read the most recent and about the "Women's ~,.r-,.h 1.,.,,.,.,,... that has been on the minds of the student Ian: What's up with Ms. Biller-ahBittle ... er.? Will: Wait if you call her that women will think an "ignorant child." Bite me. It turned me on. Will: You see she's angry and exa mature, and i-spoKen answer to her~,..~,....·~Ian: So do I, Will! I do not think that her childish in the can be considered mature. In I think she have some resentment towards someto have lost her cool like that. came to St. to be with a united I group, not a campus of dissenters and loners. I cannot stand seeing this campus in such distress. some words .__",_,i,4~·-~ behind your response. But said your women and you '-'-'-'".L'c.1.u 1 "' 11 r-r~",....,..,. out loud at the Men's too, but Of course, that's different. Ian: "The one to another was that one was parody, and the other was the real thing. "The secret source of humor itself is not but sorrow." Exclusion? But I they want us to go to their meetings, even though talk about women. Ian: All we do is talk about women. [Big This campus is made up of and about half of them are The fact is that we all have to be able to and I cannot see an ex1cluls1cmc:1rv the Women's but hinder this. If everyone who is different starts a club to understand who he is and how he is different discussing it, we would have three or four hundred one or two person groups that could not see eye to Your take on this is all well and but I think full of shit. Exclusion's to do with it. The women seem to feel offended lack of respect immature veoote and so on. If you don't have to cry. Ian: That is what Ms. Bittle cry. I do not think that she understood She came to this school as or at her. I am more than to have an open and re~>Decttconversation almost anyone, but when it is not I must leave. noticed is that assume, seems, much tion into other po:ss1IJl11t1es, is an exof our "malicious mockery. I don't think a sense of humor about the world is malicious. do some fail to understand this? ! I , I ,I the other how can we live in How can we avoid outbreaks of unsolicited '-'H'--H''"'-JLl.''J'. selves. From time to time friends and associates of mine remark about my actions either or with humor. If I am smart, I shall heed and ~--~._..... ,,~~ u.;:;.u.u"'n the observant person. But what we must always remember is that one must have res:pe,ct for others, or one will not get the same in return. I think the Women's should mull over that for a while. Will: I laughed at the sign because was because it made the Women's look also because it was somewhat itself. Even more, that it was silliness piled upon silliness, and The some nD.,-,,-nlci selves so up in the fact that are different and opwill not hear any humorous or ~+•~~~"''" as an attack. .,,.., ...,..,,n 1oTn stems from the inflated belief of one's worth. For ccA•u.ucvicc, ever talked someone idea about what Plato was say, the and when you said that he was wrong the person up in your face? I believe the same is true here: the women are so '-"''·'-"-'n their that fail to see the other side with The anger when one's worth is im-:><T1nc1r1 lieved. but how can Will: You may be you someone you don't know? But then Miss continued on page 6 .l.Lc-i U-1Ll.l.l:t: 1 October 6, 1995 3 �ex100~3es and denunciations of cons0Lra,c1es, evil freemasonic rites and the minister Chen of an IIDlDres~;;10n until men shoulder to shoulder from the Lincoln Memorial to the steps of the tol building. Black men, save for bus shoe shine boys, door men and the rare black congressman, are scarce on the Mall. One would norha ve to go to southeast D.C. to find such an accumulation of black men. But on October 1995 the traditional and famous alabaster of the memorials and build- said. "And we re- reunion at Cornell UniverThe visit was not ~AAi-..i u .... per oeinet1c11:i.rv mium would move to an estimated every was with buses, cars and trains whose cargo was black men. Louis Ben ep1en<le11ce on October 24 in but the recent Chinese action indicate that intends to take a hard line. small island off 4 October 6, 995 tives to the official one. want to commune with my fellow black one of the million Another "To demonstrate white America that we matter, is I came." And one whimsical bloke de"I wanted to get away from and have a time." No one seemed espethose who concession stands or hawked Million Man March commemorative Both the mood and tone of the event were felicitous. for venomous litanies of the members of the Nation of who were a small but vocal and visible of the crowd. The women of the Nation of Islam didn't stand out as much in their dark Arabian From some of the Black L~•HHH'-' you could a bean or a copy of the Nation of Islam's organ The Final in which m~~rn:10.ne1a., was a its contribution to the tenor of the march one. the entire "march" wasn't any room for a march due to the vast number of men c . . ,.__i,~4,.,h, was run a cabal of ex-cons. As far the marchers were as I could terested in atonement. And so were the had to engineers of the be. Most at one time or another have been indicted for and even convicted of crimes. The headline "'...., ..._ . . . , -. .... , read like a rogues' about any one found it hard to take any advice from Chavis V"--'U~~v• His two and a half hour 01./'-'-"-"" he should never be trusted It is curious that black achievers of march was confirm a sense of comin the black men attended. the movement. There were a had salubrious messages for the audience. But more ,,..,..,,.. ,r.r+ •..-.+ than there were a few with dean character. At the lectern acter was at times a scarce .__...,,,ia ... "'·~n when the crowded with the likes of Al 0 character seems beside the when one reflects that Louis Farrakhan was the note speaker. "So I have six kids but my testicles are crushed. Where does this leave me?" Kevin Davis on Vt~uterc)n«Jm~u 'Tm gonna a second." Lili '98 God here for The Farrakhans' announcement that he had God messiahs. "This book would not have been "I almost talked three times." Nicole Gomez nar. October 6, 995 5 �too. I don't know any of these women well to that. because won't talk to me. But that's besides the point. The is that many people on this campus found a reason to laugh along with the men's group and that pissed off the Women's Group. Then the Women's Group wrote to the Gadfly, and I feel their anger, condescention, and misunderstanding is and even a little out of line. Not to mention too self-centered. If they want discussion they must relax, keep their case in mind, but be accept the fact that all of us have our own points of even if they don't like it. The way to successfully incorporate oneself into any community is to live with its members. Understand where the laughter is really coming from before condemning it. Ian: I think you are right. The way for one to know the problem is to understand why it is a problem. What I would like to know is whether the women knew what they were getting into. It seems to me they did this without thinking of the thoughts of the The same is true for the men who up their sign: meant to but insulted instead, and caused more dissention. The only way to get another out from his low idea of self and separation from the world is to make him feel welcome, and not unwanted. Will: Are you trying to say let's all be friends? Ian: No, I just don't want us to be adversaries. Will: it would seem by their actions that they do. Their letters bother me much more than the sophomoric, yet still funny, Men's Group sign, because they are loaded with anger and misunderstanding. It is misplaced anger which invites ridicule, not the issues from which that bile springs forth. So, we might be laughing at Ms. Bittle's silliness, but not the issues she represents. In fact, reacting so the Women's undermines it's very goal. Ian: I can see your sort of. The question still alive in my mind is what their goal is. I see them as an exclusionary organization, and although I may be wrong, their goal still escapes me. discuss issues are tant to women and to provide an environment in which these issues can be discussed frankly." Ms. Bittle refers to a "real discussion about and pcychological damage done by a societal beauty standard which pressures women into butchering their own faces and bodies in pointless surgical procedures." Ms. Coonce's editorial doesn't mention what her goal is. She also misunderstands the origin of the joke by mistakenly taking it as and as "ridicule"; judgements I don't think she's in any position to make. Ian: It seems, in the quotes of the first two, that men are excluded from the possibility of frank discussion because the Women's Group is only discussing matters that are important to women, not women and men. Will: But the other quote mentions a "societal standard/' which I know includes men, too. Ian: Men are included as the of the but are excluded form participating in the conversation itself. 6 The October 6, 1995 Will: But on recent posters the Women's men to their The seems to be that the "frank"-ness would be violated. Ian: Yes, how could the women talk frankly to men about how are to blame for their pains? The Ms. Bittle speaks of male but leaves out the blame of women as well. Women are as much to blame for the standards as the men that are blamed for One cannot accuse someone of oppn~ss10n in the choice are asked to make. Will: The oppressed, would claim there was no choice involved, but that were forced to succumb. In which case men, and not become the bad guys. So us to their the enemy to be reformed. Ian: "Adam and Eve now knew what evil was, and how do it. They knew how to do various kinds of wrong and among them one principal one-the one God had his mind on principally. That one was the art and mystery of sexual intercourse. " What they would like to reform is the so1on:tsn.ca·tea ""·" ·•nr.r• of males and females. Before was recorded men and women were attracted to each and in the modem world it is no different. The inclination to attract onself to another for the sake of sexual intercourse lives on in the bodies of and it manifests itself in different ways today. It is not, though, the fault the fault must be on our soul, God, or chance, but not men alone. Will: Gee, Ian, another digression into your theories on life, the and everything. Not that it's bad to have a theory, but we must remember that others may disas fact. Let's agree, and as a result we can't state our just say that these women are asking us to reform based on their and that I with their conclusions. If that makes them angry can live with it, because I can. Ian: If that is where we are at, then where can we go? What can we do? Have we learned -~"'"'~'~'T Will: I have learned something. You learned learned too. But still see no reason for anger and accusation the way. The best conversation can deal with the most volatile of iCS while a civil and r<'.'c:nPrl"n Ian: So be it. But let us be going, now that it has become less oppressively hot. Will: we not first offer a prayer to the divinities here? Ian: To be sure. Will: Dear grant that I may become fair and that such outward things as I have may not war against the spirit within me. May I count him rich who is and as for gold, may I possess so much of it as only a temperate man might bear and carry with him. Is there more we can ask for, Ian? The prayer contents me. Ian: Make it a prayer for me too, since friends hold all things in common. Will: Let us be going. 11 lunch If you a check in campus mail '96 an-~~~··---- Sus3an Borden But beware, these October 30 to for ALL students. '96 has an e-mail aa1:::1.rE~ss, Please write you have else that you think has Damon Classes: This is a reminder that Don take on the rags are scheduled before the Nov.18 lhanJks~~1vmg Tutorials and Laboratories cancelled on those tutors may schedule classes this continue to meet. Please note that SemiDecember 13. "~'m""·ind1s,cu:SSl€Jn, lous activities attend. Kevin Gardner Alex Bilik and Aidan Kelleher did not receive the for Film Club because it was the consensus of the that the did not benefit from the Film's Club ~~~,~~.~ tion. Film Club did receive the of the theater. The Club's charter was -::innrr>U<::>rl Minutes of the D.C. held on 1nP"'n;1v October 1995 at 6:30 pm in the Conversation Room Attendance: Pia Thadhani Rebecca Michael Steve Urich Seth Milliken fund a Student Activities ~~~ ~..-." Center and a for the ballet classes. This will be voted on October 24. The Union received their The billiards club received ter was c>n1nrrnTD•rl their The DC now has..,..,, ........ ,_,. ... __. n.i::;,cuua for October 24 so Heather Miller and the ~" ... """, reCJUE~Stln2 ...,...,,_,v.,,v for lab 24 Becca Michael The October 6, 995 go, 7 �Curious George, What you're asking about is the allegation that two tutors, Mssrs. Walter Sterling and John White, when were students here, drove through the front window of FSK. Many students have heard this rumor and many seem to believe that it's true. One story, as told by Erin M. Smyth '97 is this: For Senior Prank the two students thought that it would be a surprised if the two did do such a was familiar could say with the rumor. Abraham assistant dean, said that he's heard the rumors and refuses to believe any variation. Mr. White said, "I didn't drive the window at FSK with Mr. Sterling. I don't know the of the The only thing that comes to mind is a senior in 1967or1968, several years after Mr. Sterling and I had graduated. The seniors some cars into the and decorated it as a car dealer's showroom. this story begins to as an 'urban Ms. Eva Brann said that she had never heard hoot to put Mr. Sterling's in the middle of FSK. (I'm not sure what is meant by middle.) In order to get the Jeep in the building had to go through the window. Another version by Andrew B. Hill '98 runs: Sterling and White in similar states of drove a VW bus down the sidewalk leading to FSK and through the doors, down the stairs, come Monday the task needed to be undone but the two saw that they would not be able to drive the bus up the stairs that were so easy to drive down. So, went the window out of necessity. Hill said, "Both tutors deny the story." Rebecca (Becca) Michael '97, said that she didn't know what to add to the story collection, but she wouldn't be this rumor or any allusions to it. She wished to be saying, "If would not have would not be tutors." I suppose that's their kicked out of here wouldn't have on to seek education elsewhere in of back as tutors. a rumor, to sound as if this rumor is grounded by no facts at all. this rumor has an among students which says that Mr. Sterling tells his tutorials stories about all the fun he's is ineluded in his repertoire. AK Did a tutor Curious Address your curiosities to AK c/o the distributed free Editor-in-Chief: Jesse Berney Assistant Editor: Jennifer Coonce Our nomination for Spring Princess: Anne Kniggendorf Assistant: Nelson Hernandez ...._u ......u,..... ._,u Manager: Kristin Woodfin Technical Advisor: Matt Braithwaite Production Staff: Sarah Knutson Editorial Backrub Boy: Imam Sawez Cover Artist: Randy Reddig Cartoonist: Dimitry Fedotov Printing by the St. John's College Print Shop St. John's College P. 0. Box 2800 Annapolis, MD, 21404 advertisment prices and information, call 263-2371, Deadline: Friday at 5:30 pm. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Berney, Jesse (Editor-in-Chief) Title A name given to the resource The Gadfly, Vol XVII Issue 6 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1995-10-24 Description An account of the resource Volume XVII, Issue 6 of The Gadfly. Published October 24, 1995. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. 17 #6 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this publication. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Gadfly Student publication https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/6af4472636949cff8766cf5afa869471.pdf a16979a0e2bdccb9a39f495c6ee27da4 PDF Text Text �..-- wrong without saved for future "'~··,.-~ one's errors their reticence on this seems to be more out of due to you and the others than ~~·~ ..... When the team's name was first ~'-"'·'''-'~'I doubt that anyone au''l-'"'"-"':u. gr;:UT1Lmanca1 error; I imagine a hit. But now that it has been out to be substandard, I think the need for a ~~·~r~·~••r and final decision on whether to keep it or correct it has become apropos. Though I am not to any one I I tender my feelseems as to attractive, so that if we do decide to it would not be m.o•ro::>lu bieccms:e stuck is no way to salute YT 3. The seminar is a place for Dear Editor1 A question has recently arisen concerning the recording of seminar conversations. At this college, by tradition and by policy, the electronic capturing of live conversations is not permissible. Even if every member of the seminar it would be contrary to the spirit of this college to tape class conversation. I will explain below. Meanwhile it should go without saying that taping without permission is simply wrong. Tapes thus illegitimately obtained can obviously be used to embarrass people, and the same persons willing to record surreptitiously will have no conscience about misusing their recordings either. Moreover, there are those among us who have lived under tyrannies and can never cease to be aware of the potential political danger - though, thank God, remote in this country - that records of conversations may be abused. There is, a set of related reasons against the recording conversations that is, as I said, specific to the of this Let me list them: 1. ...... u.......... o, exercising such control over themselves as will make their utterances more more dear, and more concise. The presence of a instrument may tum free conversation into self-conscious performance. 2. It is an essential aspect of the seminar that what is said there be evanescent and ephemeral. The seminar should be a place of unembarrassed trial and error, in which one may be occasionally foolish without one's folly documented, and often 2 The humans to converse with mans. It is not a for electronic ears, the kind that receive but do not respond. The proper recording device for a seminar is the human memory, while external memory aids tend to degrade recollection. (See Phaedrus 275a; dearly there is an argument to be made against individual notp-t;::i 1on10which is therefore discouraged of course not forbidden.) ,.,,,.,... .,,.,.,..'"to ,.., ,,,..," ...' ,......, however, is a Eva T. H. Brann Dean *Like all reasonable rules it may have exceptions, for example, when a seminar group decides to preserve a particular conversation for an unavoidabsent member or agrees to a seminar for a film. Mr. ~a:ge1ru:i;: You have been a voice in the wilderness on this sutJie<:t long time now to mention the Dean and the anonymous person behind those Greek and I agree with you that the issue is a nent one to incur this much attention. How are we to name ouraddress Her Hor- one argue that since found out to be it has taken on an air of aggressive Call it anarchic mt:egnt Blame MTV which case, I wish to dissociate this an~rne11tJ. "Kuvm" have been a fluke-but even if it was, it have turned out to be an one. If we forget the fluke and embrace the u-.r,.,,..,,,,, 1·u find that the pn:~se11t Dear the Great Chthonic Bitch? There is no doubt that you are to out the error in the present team name, i.e. the fact that there is no distinct feminine noun form for '-='u ""'' ,,...,LI,,,.,. KUOJV. But the inteam to this situation makes me think that there is a general reluctance to the name, and October 1995 erent, ,,.,.,,f'n.-rn1·anf-1,-,..n.,. we,mon. Even if the excellent third of noun is not I think that we as a soccer team would like to be known as such. What if we want to hit it home that we are quint:es~;erttlatll female? The neutral "KUVE<;/' even with would not be obnoxious tnunl<lnl! oe11ma this may pretty much be in the way we use feminine "".......... u,r.0 in our own language; tradiwhen we attach a feminine suffix to it's because the feminineness of the doer of the action is so distinctive as to be noteworthy, her Whether this assails the of the ancient Greek language, the answer is: I think not. Does it assail our Do we therefore seem .1."<o:.1.1v•_,.u::: conscious decision to keep it is for poetic reasons slang is the man's -- - _..__ T_' not make us illiterate. from another school says as Dean Brann once .. ",.,.,..,.,,,r-1 would taint the of our we'll say that we've taken it to a And if say that that's tastelE~ss, them to chill out, and such ouns.ts. Even the ancient Greeks have had slang. On the all this be the "make sure your mom doesn't like it" kind of Do we want to sound at this "'"-.!.''-'...,... , to do that with ancient Greek would seem mere adolescent uut::.u.__-c, WOUld be rlOWTlrH!ht So what if the adds to the of our im?l0"f"-·1t does not make us sound like and conquer. So what's in a name? It's all but the is of us. think the team should deliver a solid verdict in the sometime soon, and everyone forever their yours, Rana Choi '97 limal •1ul mm lie 1 llm&HH'1 S 8111111 ' ' ~ To anyone still listening: I remember, back in school these many years ago - how cool it was to go against PC. It was it was fresh. It was clever a sixteen year old could do to pass the time between Davidson and the Marlboro Man and going out in a fruitless to find idea words "PC", , and erment". Can you name someone who doesn't? PC fad. It this is, of course, sue. The smaller issue is much sirl11pJler. read of the Women's looked on both sides of the paper; searched for the talk of Le-IJas.nu1g, for invited to we don't think it's ,.,.,..,,...,.,,.,..+~•ntwe've all are crosses to bear... vv£•1aon Michael Goree '98 To whom it may concern, Last week there were some others. out there who felt the need to What men did Mr. Lewis down Pink signs. with? I ask this because was there!!!! agree that these signs are wonder- I as well with some of those fantastic and de!31I<:!.ble, traveled to however, this is no excuse to snatch them down for These up for the entire comu u..uu.•' r to If you would like to talk to me, tge~m1en1ts can be made. We have of extras to go around. If you would like to the you signs so feel free to discover I must also comment that Mr. Lewis' ""'1',...."''°'t-at the next Pink Sodshots such as, "cars and trains whose cargo was black men," Kevin Gardner '97 continued on page 8 Pink Arch on The 995 3 �first instinct was to pen a response in the "Thank you. Thank you, Letters section of the to Mr. Lewis' reflections on the us." As we worked way from the front towards the middle Million Man March. Instead, I have elected to Gadhands reached out us over a low wall as readers with my own perspective of the march since I of the did for others No no was actually there. An uninvited guest, yes, but unwilling friendliness and purpose. It seems every sufto allow this historic occasion to pass unnoticed. What I tree held three or more men in its . . . ~ .. ~...... ~ saw was one people on one march for one purpose - the accessible alabaster and strengthening of statue was transformed into a our communities. tier of bodies in every kind of On our way I saw repose as it was covered from with my own eyes a steady to bottom. stream of men of all ages coniron verging into the Metro station at New Carrollton. The staattention then turned to tion was amass with men who one of the screens set up at inall had a single focus; every tervals on the Mall. A old eye was towards woman took center D.C. On the train every seat cry went up amidst in every car was occupied au-oialuse. "Rosa! Rosa! Rosa!" Black men. When we rode the It was a moment of heartfelt escalator up into the bright 12:r<1h1tucie and honor sunshine of a clear, crisp authe woman tumn I was overfor the rise of the Civil movement led whelmed with awe at the sight that met my eyes. What the sixties: Rosa Parks. Various celebrities was a stream at New Carrollton had become a river ~~ 1 ·4"·,~•~·~~ had the before we arrived such with of men, all facing in one direction, all serious as Stevie Wonder and Baltimore mayor Kurt Schmoke. an'ticipatio1n, and all headed towards what was to see who recited a to be the largest of Washington, were ,_,.._,_, .... !'-... "tears to every eye. We heard a twelvewe were not amostmemoD.C. continued page 8 rable day, several of our princes turned to us and more were in hiding on October 27 after their newspapers pnnt€~d a front-page picture to show Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou' s wife in an intimate nude beach scene with another woman. All four were with an "unprovoked insult" to Mrs. Dmitra LianiPapandreou, 40, after the Onoma and Avriani dailies the graph. The Avriani wanted her to withdraw from public life as a result of the and the Onoma wished to prove that the -nh,"-1-'"'"''~"' ...'"' Mrs. versy about Mrs. I .1,rin1-l-';::ir);::ir1rl1ri:>ru1 and her relationship with her husband. Mr. Papandreou is 76 and h.,.,,,, ..... ,.,,. and many suspect that Mrs. Liani-Papandreou is the XPERTS who re-examined photos and video footage of the Million Man March lowered their estimates and said that they believe people attended the occasion on October 16. tific aoor1a1sal 20 perCE:nt AA·~·~,._,~. of error. The Nation of Islam threatened to sue Park ,oru11r~ that racism motivated count of J pe~opJLe The National Park Boston University's Remote :::iensJIIlg Center used digital enhancement and analysis to 4 The October COFFEE SHOP COUPON IMozzarella Stix and a 85 1 + ;vn... u1u.1u 11130195 The October 31, 1995 5 �' More on the au~-1..Ju~,:.o:. From Under the Dirt: ries with \J\/:::\Ch, 1lf'cc;:.,1.VH '-'-'H·'-·"-~ Their final game for the SmithMacdowell is this at 2 p.m. here. Miss Brann will award the trophy to the team at game's end. KUN AI tee-shirts will be on sale last ones the '-'-L-'-'-1".'-Vl. .u_.... ..,,_v,.,,.__,_ Alex Pickands, '96 with a The other day I was down on Main Street friend, when our hostess asked me," are you in the service?" Those are your brothers, fathers, and sons. In world of moral conflicts abroad based upon "Yes," I replied. Sigh. grounds, the UL'-'''·'"'''"-'-'L.l. are the aware -- and the alive. "Army, right?" Well, I would have figured I that the people in Annapolis won't be Shakespeare in the thick of could spot military in a heart- nor will I be Op- beat, but the service branch? I mean, isn't everyone here ei- Greek But isn't the ther Navy or Johnnie? After I action. erations Orders in ancient education the pnnc1lplE~s blinked a couple of of our not the data? Our edu- startled at her perceptiveness, cation is one she explained, "I think I've broaden our intellectual expe- seen you around downtown. able to Not too much Army around It here." to Head Race. season. ,_, 1-'"''u"._.... :;; of exposes us to new ideas and out to be an Army reservist at new a unit here in Annapolis, so new -- they are the basis of our hey, I guess we've got to stick cultural heinta.12:e. together. Occasionally, I'll have similar conversations with which are not net, sweetfooted Miss Cate. Miss Cate hustled back em shore to she scored for Independent, coherent and people around town when I go to the mall or out to eat -- will carry away from St. especially in bars and restaurants. If uu;uu~~. I go to St. prove a curriculum which That's for sure. She turned enough, Now where has Colin Thurman been for the three He fimade his intramural debut soccer for the seems to me from his good he's been his soccer lantern under a bushel. Ditto for Mr. Keenan who some for the Guardians. ask what I'm doing here. College. It is of course. about in An- napolis, the million-dollar question always comes next; nor less than the time I spend in my room with my feet on If I had a penny for every time someone asked that ... never mind. I my desk, coffee in one hand and The it to you, my fellow recent addition of the sweet armed Curtis Wilkerson the Druids and scored sec:orta.s into the game, and before the dust cleared and the Blue had scored six more. The and Druids. H·"-"'''"""h more "Why waste close to a hundred thousand-dollar education on the military?" how bout the of Mr. Bloom in the mouth for the Druids last week. This guy loves to his face in the earth. Mr. Bloom looked like the Druid who had come to that The ""-n'::>rt-o>nc in the other. to this realization. More to satisfy a . . . l"'.._.,,v, doctrine gives power to the small units gun blazing carnage-fest appetite; the movie theater is right and their officers on the scene, rather than a bureaucrat in down the road. I'm not doing it as a last resort because I an office miles away. Morality and conduct classes are given don't think I can find a career on the outside. And I'm defi- The Dance Club received their a Student Activities to the a ballet CD for the ballet classes. across the street at the Naval Academy, as well as their re- call it a waste? I'm not in the 11 nitely not hiding from the real world," nor am I a thoughtless walking automaton "just Bang! Army officers orders." have to think! In they think and how they think has a direct life or death impact on their fellows. Your average begrrm1ng ..... +,.,,""'i'....T' lieutenant is directly responsible for hundreds of thousands of dollars of equipment and the lives of about 6 The October or philosophy curriculum. The country needs the educated citizen. It needs the educated officer. what Come forever hold your peace. Again, the million-dollar question. Or, should I say the hundred thousand-dollar So, waste my education in the military?" Because if you want so1neth1ng done to I have told that the Women's Club have a charthe German have a charter and a hn1r1 o-i=>t quest and the Swim Club will have a bW12'E~t w,,...,,,.,.,.,+ for Check the agendas on the boards. As sut,ie(:t to revision. do it yourself. 995 7 �5 year old school freshman Black men to mentor young pe1opJ_e. The high point of the for me was speech. Here was a man whom I have my own reasons and I was ready to sneer at .,.,,.i-hi-n to speak, a hush fell over the He told us for five grams of a the jail sentence is an automatic five years, dred grams of powdered the white man's which powdered cocaine is the sentence is ably probation. He said that in the next labor would bring in $9 billion and he listed some major investors such as American Express and General Electric. "What must one million do," he asked. "We can save our minds. We can become abolitionists. The pimp and the prostitute must _..._," . .u,_, their character. We must honor God with all our hearts, pay up alimony and use the vote to bring change, take our children to school, meet our children's teachers, tum off the TV for three hours a night." These words and the sentiment in which they were brought pro- ~h"P''~'~'"' are the cause of our himself is he is un- Dean Brann's recent Statement of Educational focused on the Language and on the various purposes and benefits that the 1~r•o-1·1~"'"' at St. John's 0 " ·0 son a new respect in my eyes. Even Louis Farrakhan said many with. Despite his and any ._.,_,.",__.,_,,_ I say might,_._,..,._,,_,.._,,__ such as Mr. Lewis clean characters," but their message is soiled and stained with the bile of an all too common disease. The Million Man March which took on October 1995 from all the negative criticism it has received and will continue to get. What ha1orn~nE~d that day cannot be neeither those who are sick in white society or those who wish to remain in good graces with that of ~ ~'" ~•-n " .. r,~~... .i-~... ~" For my I am of those men who had the courage and the to admit their to all the world. It was a h<>-:>li-hu a new It took courage for them to stand beside their friends and sons ad say out am sorry. From this women and raise my children." A may say, but a nevertheless and one reluctant to take. These courageous ex.:1m·p1e for the rest of the world to emu- One point I Letters page3 (CARGO!!??!!?? were definitely in poor taste, and very unnecessary to the point of the article (something I am continually vu~,., ...~ with since I did not see a at Maybe I am being idealistic and a that one little nai:Ve in are going to live in a verteict maybe this is my flaw. it forces me to consider but disappointing. What is the frick-frack of all the efforts and accomplishments that have been made in order to smooth the racial hump, if are to continue to think in this manner? I still ask this question, "What is the Sh;1un,emJ.a D ................. '98 Mad as hell! discussion among demthe on:stn:i.te1d. the tutors for two different results of very different in a tutorial. The former demands much more memory work than the the drill that will inhabit and automatize the conventional side of a and ex- ito And sometimes these two desires conflict. We want to learn the grammar, voand of Greek to discern some of the beauties of cadence and and some of the nuances of mE~an:m2: ofa to some extent in its own terms. talk in hinder or alters about the necessary and sufficient conditions for proper communication among human whatever kind of their and native time have accustomed them to. How is translation from one to another if at all? Is there some possible~ the latter needs the nominal to ,,.,..,.,.,.,,,+..... structures when they occur, English conci-..,,,..,-1-iu in mind as a familiar model a~c:UJ.L,:H Which these Other lailQ:\la~!eS '-'-'·•Hl-,....__._._u_. The one aims at iaruz:i:iage; the other at These are goals, not exclusive categ:on.es; so in the a l"Ain-">T'•"'""""'"'''"" po:ssltJle. No one wants to every class in the rehearsal of para....__._,~u·"'· I once took a Greek class in which the instructor had also written the admitted to havselected sentences for translation were as as pc1ss1tbl1e. so as not to distract anyone. He believed that he could fulfill his as a teacher best by forcing us to concen- The an of the kind I have in mind. when confronted famous slogan of the Order of the Garter-"Honi soit mal y pense" someone in class were to ask about the difference it would make to .............!" ... _._motion distinction of "who" and "whom" in continued on page 12 two directions for and study to decide whether a language or language itself should be the center of our attention. suggest The 8 trate on grammar and alone. And he was in the sense that we were enabled to assimilate amounts of Greek However, I can't anyone at St. so committed to teaching the conventional of a as to refuse to a amount of class time on its content as as its form. At the other extreme we find a few who would like to the students to learn the 1--'U.Jla'-u-;:;..Lu;:> on their own, and reserve every class for discussion. The result of such in ~ .. ,.,,.,,.,,.,~ as we all is that the discussion itself soon becomes hollow and unfocused. How much better move from some well understood detail of a Greek or French text-some g:rcun:ma,tl cal or the unusual of a passage, or an idiom that translates into _._,J.,,"l:;.LJL''-'-' wider circles of October 1995 9 �I've been a student here for three years. At lunch one with my someone said that she had to run over to Woodward Hall before 'nar. I stared blankly wondering what she was but I was too embarrassed to ask what or where it is HELP! Sincerely, Needs a Needs a This place you are wondering about is the library-it's on campus. AK This week we have a special supplementary guest article written one AR: AR, I have been trouble trying to decide what to dress up as for Halloween. I am hoping that you will be able to offer some advice. I have narrowed it down to two alternatives-either to go as Ptolemy's eccentric or epicyclic hy- pothesis. Please Confused I would like to first commend you on your dedication to the Program. After giving this some ,H,_,.,,.F, ....... you I have sur-i:nised that the the way to go. Imagine your torso as the your hand into a tight fist (for this is the and ing you arm rigid, rotate your shoulder. As this is to be tiring (and perhaps tiresome), I would suggest preparing by doing a few curls down at the gym. I urge you to attempt to recreate the eccentric for I an endless series of cartwheels would have to be pertorm.ea with ah occasional pause and reversal to account for appearances. The resultant nausea would not be worth even for Ptolemy. So, good luck. I look forward to seeing you about campus. AR P.S. Perhaps you would feel more in harmLODLY if you considered the Address your curiosities to AK c/o the Gadfly November events: Martha Graham Dance will pe1rto:rm on Saturday, November 4th. rhu1~1ac in with ,._..,, . . . "'."""' Dance has of the tickets pay for the tickets to pr~~-t>ertor·m•an~:e discussion with the company's current director and dancers. The discussion is at 5:30 p.m.; the is at 7:30 p.m. Dinner .K.enn,eav Center lpcon1m1g Please be very careful to and from the Campus and on back campus. One physical assault and two cases of suspicious and fearful folhave been reported to me in the last week, all occurred within a five minute from the Coffee The assault took place near vvc1sn1ni;;to1n Streets, which is a more than chancy place to walk. Avoid if that is not possible, pass in groups. The recent followings, and a few additional incidents of car-borne harassment, all took place in the p1e~as11nt residential area between College Ave. and Do not let the houses attractive to tourists and the colonial brick into a false sense of safety! Do not walk or jog there alone in the dark. Move groups do not offer single targets to more easanybody the vicious. who bothers you to us and to :,e1cu1nt\1: we must especially not let will harass or us wander around campus. Above be careful. The Assistant Deans We meet each at 4 p.m. in the Reception Room of the CarrollBannister house: This semester we' re c.-,,,...,u,...... ,,,. the book of which is a letter that was written to churches in in the first Come join us! We extend our invitation to you. The St. The students in the Studio will be holding a sale of donated pottery to raise money to new ment. The sale be held on the Quad November 3 from 11 a.m. to 1 p .m. and see some nice at great Rick M<Hn1gr·en of your informed,,..,,.,.,,.,"'"+" rooms 101 and H_, ......... ~,,"" New Ideas: n+f-o.-,lro,-,c<' and '--A•-.ULH<F,'with others. You could or little as you HT0•.,,.,t·ar1 for taking. over I would donate to ~~~~ .. I'm for late November. Coffee house-In December I would to up students who are u.._._.._Uj""'· singers, comedians or performers of any other nature for a Fri;:,a1nunav coffeehouse. ing? coffee as a runa-r211sE"rf you ~i'-L«L<;;. 4 ---. 0 10 The " 0 ''"''"''"' The 1995 �9 Now suppose further that one wanted to dream up some senthis distinctence which such as the variation of the famous line from Donne's "Devotions:" Ask not for whom the bell ask for who tolls the bell. Substitute "ask not..." for Donne's original "never send to know... " because (aside from the fact that this is the form in which it often is '"'"'°"'°"'' . . '".i..,..,.,.,, this allows one to distinguish the way in which the subordinate clause determines the case of the relative pronoun. But although this sentence seems to illustrate the well enough at the more one contemplates it the more one notices a strange that reaches aeeoer. When one examines ~~·-~'"·· · .... the two mc1e1Je11rn~nt "for" does not same kind of clause in each, and the first line is an of the second is not. indirect What is most curious is that we are not fooled by this kind of syntactic it abounds in j;;,."- as well as others. We .,..a,-,,,-,.n-r., ..,,,... the dif..........."....,.'"'"' 1 And our see:m1ngJly to grasp such hidlends possess an innate and preconscious linpower. This is the kind of discuss ion I most look forward 0 when a passage in Greek or French forces the class to reflect on 1-'""...,. there is another kind of discussion that seems '''"''"'"'"''"' it is harder to'"'"'"'""'':'"' requ1n~sthekindof . . ~ .......u.~ ... u .......... J:',, .,.... is easier to achieve in an easier lan- Assistant Editor: Jennifer Coonce Production Manager: Anne Kniggendorf Assistant: Nelson Hernandez 320. Print Shop St. John's College P.O. Box 2800 Annapolis, MD, 21404 guage like French than in Greek. Some students will this delicate sengllmt)Se it when directed by their more advanced peers. Isn't that good enough? Or we to spend more class time in those exercises that immerse every student in the practice of one foreign language? I think that the tutorials strive for a good balance between the extreme !-''-'"'·"·"'-''""'· But there is always pressure either to learn more or less to our acquaintance with the language at the expense of more general discussions form and or to neglect the rehearsal of details for the tive and we all love . The main I suppose, is to choose the course that all students can benefit have � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <em>The Gadfly</em> Description An account of the resource Founded in 1980, <em>The </em><em>Gadfly</em> is a weekly student publication distributed to over 600 students, faculty, and staff of the Annapolis campus.<br /><br />Click on <strong><a title="The Gadfly" href="https://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=16&amp;sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CDate&amp;sort_dir=d">Items in the <em>The Gadfly</em> Collection</a></strong> to view and sort all items in the collection. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context thegadfly Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Page numeration Number of pages in the original item. 12 pages Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data paper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Berney, Jesse (Editor-in-Chief) Title A name given to the resource The Gadfly, Vol XVII Issue 7 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1995-10-31 Description An account of the resource Volume XVII, Issue 7 of The Gadfly. Published October 31, 1995. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. 17 #7 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this publication. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Gadfly Student publication