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View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Wellesley College College flews. Vol. 6. No. 8. WELLESLEY, MASS., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1906. Price, 5 Cents. must stand exactly where he is bei a use ii the figures being u a lly bi a ul iful The Pediments of the Pathenon. lie moved one inch he would bump his In this pedimenl i hi m vs ol t he birth of of the Parthenon" 1 1 1 1 "The Pediments head. II' the artist were reproached with A 1 1 i passes in a psychic rave from thi was the subject of Dr. Powers' interesting this stiffness he would probably reply, central group, touching with ever lighter 1 lecture at College Hall Chapel, November 'Ms dear sir, what would you? Could and lighter touch the Sgun toward the Miss in pre- seventeenth. As Edwards, you suggest any other arrangement?" corners. The conception is one of tin- senting him, gracefully said, Dr. Powers And all the critic could reply would be, grandest in any work of sculpture. needed no introduction. "The best way," "Well, that's an uncomfortable was to Dr. Poss-crs then spot:,- briefly ol the Miss Edwards continued, "to study the put them." There must always be a rea- frieze of the Parthenon, closing with a Parthenon, is to see it ourselves, but since son for the attitude of people, a reason not touching account of the martyrdom of we cannot all do that, we must take ad- obviously ordered by the space in which Phideas at the hands of his fellow-citizens. vantage of the opportunity offered us to they stand. It is a fundamental law, not Charlotte Hubbard, '08. hear of it from Dr. Powers, who has made alone of sculpture but of all decorative art, t his special study." that a group must fit the space in which it TIE HARVEST PARTY. his subject, Dr. Powers, in introducing is, but must not be fitted. Phidias must agreed with Miss Edwards in wishing that have studied this pediment and probably The Pononaville Spectator was at the his audience might study the beautiful admired the beauty of the figures, but he Barn Saturday evening, and enjoyed her- ruins themselves rather than mere repre- could never have approved of their stiff- self mightily. "We have very many sentations of them. The first view ness, their crampedness, their rooted-to- harvest dances at home," she declared, showed the Acropolis from a distance, the the-spot-ness. Another example of an "but none quite like this one." She famous old hill standing out in "tre- unsuccessful pediment is found at the tem- was glad we could have it in a Barn for mendous prominence" above the rest of ple of ^Egina, in which a wounded soldier they always did in Pononaville, and the Athens. A nearer view showed the fills the space in each corner. These corn shocks and pumpkins were so decora- Propylea, the Erectheon, and the Par- soldiers are, very properly, lying down, but tive. The big boxes of red cheeked thenon restored. "All rather crudely the spearmen, coming next, are rather in- Jonathans and the cider and doughnuts done," Dr. Powers said, "not showing the congruously shown as casting their spears seemed homelike, too, and it did her good beauty of architecture at all, but giving while kneeling behind groups of bowmen. she said, to see country appetites to you an idea of the location of things." Turning to the east pediment of the Par- match them. The merry lads in overalls When the west end of the Parthenon was thenon, we see sculpture which, though and broad brimmed hats, and the brisk put upon the screen, Dr. Powers briefly shattered and broken, still retains much of looking girls with smooth braids and blue explained the different portions shown, its former marvelous beauty. The cen- checked pinafores won her heart at once; giving the architectural terms. tral portion represents the birth of she knew where they came from, she "The Greeks," he said, "tried to surpass Athene, who, according to the old myth, said. Their more fluffy sisters, who others in this, their temple, to a great god- sprang full-grown from the head of Zeus. combined pastoral calico with frills and dess, putting in various new touches, one This story, while easily told, was difficult flower-laden hats surprised her, but I of the most important being the famous to represent. Phidias, with the true in- could see that she was secretly admiring. frieze inside of the outer colonnade. Yet stinct of the artist, avoided this difficulty She thought all the little girls with curls they did not realize how immensely they by showing the scene immediately after and sashes, and the boys in Russian had triumphed in the Parthenon over other the birth, Athene standing, erect and blouse suits too small to sit up late. A works of architecture of all times." majestic, at the side of Zeus. The space pretty gypsy and a yellow prince caught One of the greatest difficulties the is filled, but not exactly filled, which is ar- her eye at once, and I saw her scraping in in Greeks had to encounter decorating a tistic. A work of sculpture should never acquaintance with a wonderful lady a building was found in the arrangement of be executed with the exactness of a prob- saucy hat and a feather boa, who was figures in a pediment, ft was extremely lem in geometry. from the Bowery, but told us that "her difficult to make them look natural. One The tips of the pediment, now that mother was a lady so she had been ele- of the earliest attempts represented Her- monsters were gone, represented the art- gant brought up." cules killing the Hydra, the tail of the ist's greatest difficulty. Phidias dis- The music pleased the Spectator im- beast filling one corner. Monsters ex- covered practically the only theme ex- mensely, and she clapped her hands over cepting the centaur, a rather legitimate actly suited for filling this space. He the little tambourine girl with such long monster, and the angel, which Christian showed in one corner, the goddess of the black curls. Everybody else did too, art adopted, were soon banished from moon disappearing beneath the waves, when she danced for us, rattling her casti- Greek art. In a later pediment, that of and in the other the Sun-god appearing. nets in time to the music. The Spectator s Greek temple at Delphi, we see another The horses, as they dash out above the learned that it was a cachucha and was attempt to fill the space properly. Zeus waters, rush forward with fiery vigor; the much impressed. The skirt dance, with- stands, appropriately tall, in the center of figures are battered, but like all true art, out any music was best of all, the Specta- the triangle, on either side of him men, their beauty is imperishable. The head tor declared. "Such cunning points and then two women naturally shorter than of the god is shown, and the arm restrain- curtesys," she cried, "but I know she the men ; a group of cramped-looking ing the horses. Nothing is squeezed, must hum a tune in her head." The horses next, on each side, and filling each nothing crammed, but all placed as it is Spectator asked her name and learned it corner the prostrate figure of a River-god. according to the dictates of the story. was Miss Mathilda Yannette Gosse. The space, in this example, is well filled, The figures of the three fates here shown "I must know all the details," she said, the chief difficulty consisting in the fact probably make up the finest group in "to tell them about it at home, for they that the arrangement is obviously dictated Greek sculpture, the softness of the never have had such a stylish party by the limiting rafters overhead. Pelops draperies and the luxurious relaxation of Pononaville." COLLEGE NEWS case we are making a great mistake. If College Wews. NOVELTIES one of our friends should tell us that she had met an adorable Freshman (to return N. A. Llr. ey 6. Co., Boston. in JEWELRY to the former illustration) the remark might convey to our minds the impression Published weekly. Subscription price, $1.00 a year to resident and non-resident. of an unusually charming and lovable girl. All business correspondence should be addressed to Miss Florence Plummer, Business Manager College and SILVER When, however, all of our friends con- News. stantly tell us not only that they have met All subscriptions Bhould be sent to Miss Elisa- beth Condit. adorable Freshmen, but that they have seen and heard a thousand and one differ- Editor-in-Chief, Alice W. Farrar, 1908 41 Summer St. Associate Editor, Elizabeth Andrews, 1908 ent adorable things, the word becomes ab- solutely flat inane. Leah Curtis. 1908 Estelle E. Littlefleld, 1908 BOSTON. and Agnes E. Rothery, 1909 One of the great beauties of a language Aliimnj; Editor, Lilla Weed. is the shades and fine turns of meaning Managing Editors, which one may express by choosing the Florence Plummer. 1907 Elisabeth Condit, 1907 scriptive adjectives heard in this conver- Emma McCarrol, 1908 Anna Brown, 1909 word that exactly fits the idea. Most of sation will be very limited and many of us try to recognize this fact in writing, but "Entered as second class matter, November 12. those which are used are misused. 1903.