Monday, December 19/1960 On December 6th, Dirty Jordan and Old Station met Oareer Road in a cold sweat. At the 'waking of the street light a ’59 Chevy, low and blue, played nosy barber to a tan Mercury which pirouetted to the rail from a clipping on its right flank. Two jockies left for a sudden session with the AMA stitching-and-knitting circle and a third offered feebly, “It all happened so fast that...” It is a stock phrase meaning that hard drivers and hard-nosed power still use horses in this jet-age race, al though more of them are crowded under the hood; that, shielded by the steering wheel, rides the horses’ near-kin, the Distributor of horse-meat who is foot-poised to butcher any number of plays, at any old inter section, on any kind of track. In the race between the “animals” on either side of the windshield, the odds favor the outside members. The world feels for the two of you, most variable of “animals,” the hard-nosed barber and the butcher of horse-meat. For some of your photo-finishes are dead heats. The world knows that in- this dynamic age of jet-age teamsters, though the aggres sive hoof is poised, the pavement is not getting any softer. THE LAST WORD A preacher recently announced there are 726 sins. He is now being besieged by requests for the list by people who think that they are missing something." While discussing a former date who was a rather flighty and im mature young lady, a college stu dent confides to friends, “I liked her very much when I first met her, but she talked me out of it.” An African eager to learn about democracy was having difficulty with the idea of taxation as prac ticed by a government “of, by and for the people.” -Suddenly the light dawned. “I see,” he said. “It means that if I want to give my dog a nice piece of fresh meat, I just take a knife and chop off part of his tail.” Did you ever hear about the pseudo-snobby clique of Dorm Girls who drive the decent girls into tears by making beds with fish food, rolling tin' cans across the floor to encourage sleep; talking into the wee later hours when no classes are scheduled to disturb post-breakfast sleep, and creating all the childish, petty jealousies and retaliations that make life so enjoyable ? Funny thing about trouble it always starts out being fun. At a well-known campus, the “Scrooge” of its facilities, who puts an iron cage oyer the thermostat to regulate non-heat in below-zero bedrooms and locks the linen closet against normal, hygienic use of towels and sheets, is, come to find out, regarded by some as quite a THE NITTANY CUB talented and frugal conservative. One cave man to another, “Don’t tell me there’s no connection. We never used to have weather like this before they started using bows and arrows!” Then there is the tragic story of two deserving young men who, in college by the skin of their finan cial teeth, applied for jobs In the campus cafeteria and were turned down in favor of high school girls. Signs at Erie’s Glenwood Zoo in dicate “pidgeons”, “racoon's”, “par rakeets” and a “lama”. And sure enough, there stand pigeons, rac coons, parakeets and, not a llama but a white donkey. How very edu cational for the kiddies! (Don Lambert, Morning News). Last, but not least, is the Ten nessee Williams type of character whose fecal mind is active in the pursuit of scandal. She has a re sponsible job in a certain type of housing development where she comes in daily contact with many gullible and receptive young ladies. She practically begins each day by asking, “Well, are any of you preg nant yet?” She does everybody’s work but her own and lives every body’s private life to the greater edification of her own emotions. “Nature he loved, and next to na ture nudes, He strove with every woman worth the strife, Warming both cheeks before the fire of life, And fell, doing battle with a mil lion prudes. (Lawrence Durrell - Clea) Behrendßriefs The Trustees’ Building Commit tee on Friday, December 2, ap proved the preliminary plans for our new academic building and au thorized the architectural firm of Brennan & Brennan to proceed with detailed plans and solicitation of bids. It is hoped that final bids will be in by March, so that ground may be broken for the new build ing in April. Beginning in the Fall 'Semester, 1961, Behrend will offer the Asso ciate Degree program in Business Administration. Final details for the offering of this program are in the process of being concluded. The office and all buildings will be closed for the Christmas vaca tion as follows: beginning at 5 p.m. Thursday, December 22 through Tuesday, December 27. The office will also be closed on Monday, January 2. Applications are being accepted for tickets to the gymnastics com petition and exhibition by United States and Russian teams in Rec reation Building on the Main Cam pus, January 14, 1961. Mail appli cations will be accepted in the Ath letic Association office, 249 Recrea tion Building, until 5 PM., Friday, January 6. Reserved seats are §3.00 each and general admission seats are $2.00. Applications by mail should also add a 25-cent handling charge to each order. Each applicant will be limited 'to two tickets. Penn State has slipped to 12th place in full-time enrollment among the nation’s colleges and universities in spite of an increase of more than a thousand students in this category over last year. In diana University, which last year was twelfth, increased by 1,465 to 17,890, while Penn State increased to 17,767. The University of Cali fornia has the largest enrollment, followed by the State University of New York. Blinding spirals of swirling snow Batter the buildings and streets below. Moaning winds from ethereal throats Ravage a derelict’s tattered coat. Tortured, wine-soaked derelict Of skeletal frame and serpentine neck, Gaping jaw and staring eyes, Tortured visage of grim surprise, Feeling now the bleak dismay Of traveling toward his grave today. Clutching his coat, facing the wind, Chilled without and'numb within. The preacher, today, in the brass buttoned blouse Shall eulogize him at the mission house. He’ll meet his fate estranged from fear, He’s walked .with death for many a year. Dean Lane Hosts Lit. Club “Images of His Boyhood” was the subject of Dean B. A. Lane’s informal discussion of the Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas, presented to members of Behrend’s Literary Club at his home on Sunday, the 11th. Dean Lane prefaced the discus sion with a few comments on the personal life and literary merits of Dylan Thomas and continued the afternoon’s presentation -with a reading and interpretation of two Thomas poems: Poem in October and Fern Hill. The program con cluded with a recorded recitation of the author reading his poem Fern Hill and his prose recollec tion, A Child’s Christmas in Wales. Refreshments were served during the program and the warm and gracious hospitality of the Lanes was thoroughly enjoyed by all who attended. .Dylan Thomas was bom in Car marthenshire, Wales, and was one of the finest lyric poets of our time. His work is modem and ad vanced, stemming from Freud, Joyce, Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Bible. He was a bom language lover and language-juggler and he had a genius for making common place phrases glitter and shine in a magic all their own.. Perhaps the most balanced estimate of why he chose to write poetry are concealed in six short lines offiiis own poem, “In My Craft or Sullen Art”: I labour by singing light Not for ambition or bread Or the stmt and trade of charms On the ivory stages But for the common wages Of their (the lovers) most secret heart. Derelict Dirge By JOHN REEDER
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