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Conflict of Personalities BOMBSHELL IN THE THIS NUCLEAR ~’OR the first time in several years it looks as if there will be a con- CHEMISTRY DEPT. AGE |" tested election in D.U.C.A.C. at their annual general meeting. The The Chemistry Department has decided Professor E. T. S. Walton gave the ~minee of the Captains’ Committee, Chris. Wood, is from a minor club to introduce a terua examination for all introductory lecture of D.U.E.S.A.’s students except Senior Sophisters. The " Symposium of Atomic Energy " last {), which is unUsual--but D.U.C.A.C. and club officials strongly reason given is that students do no work deny that this is a contest of the "minor" versus the "major" clubs. during the term and this is shown in the Wednesday. His delivery could not be low standard in recent examinations. described as elegant, but he held his Opposition candidate, C. J. Lea, is from the Football Club, but Chris. The students, while agreeing that the audience interested for about 1½ hours. Wood claims strong support from some of the major bloc. principle of term exams, is good, feel He dealt with the history and elementary that the announcement should have been theory of the subject in the last 70 years. Some say C. J. Lea is doing too much made earlier. The first to hear the news already--he is active in two clubs--and were some students who had gone to The complacency at the apparent com- Professor Cocker’s house for tea on pleteness of physics by 1890 was feeling is beginning to run high. As we "Trinity News" Sunday. A notice went up in the De- shattered by a series of new disco’veries go to press there is talk of a third candi- partment on Tuesday. --the electron, X-rays, radio-activity and date, but whether he will get as far as Fund The examination is to take place on quantum and relativity theories, the Monday after the end of the lecture Much fundamental research was done the A.G.M. is doubtful. John Baxter, term, still legally in the Michaelmas present Secretary of D.U.C.A.C., said (See Editorial) at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cam- term. Many students, however, have bridge, where Prof. Walton himself "negotiations " were going on at present Those who would like to arranged to go home on the Saturday worked under Rutherford, and he spoke between the opposition camps. As he help should leave their contri- before or even earlier. Some have of the great physicists he had known-- fur- ~elicately put it: " It has not yet been butions in the box in No. 3, in arranged to take up holiday jobs with J. J. Thompson, who went round in a the Post Office. Others are in-colved in bowler hat and a mood of abstraction; was ~ttled who is going to be Secretary." an envelope marked " Congo Christmas plays and the like. The :ain; Whether or not the A.G.M. gets an Fund." Where names are Searle, who watched total eclipses as a past announcement has caused great indigna- hobby, de Broglie, Geiger and others. ’k to opportunity to elect a Secretary ’for a enclosed, t h e subscriptions tion and the Chemistry Department is T h e fundamental particles, alpha and tJaange, therefore, depends on how much will be acknowledged. being censured for its lack of con- particles, electron, proton and later the rapport the two can muster beforehand. sideration. neutron were discovered and investi- All may yet be well--the Captains’ gated. Artificial disintegration of nuclli was accomplished and the possibility of nominee may well go forward unopposed. a chain reaction suggested. This cul- But there is a new and healthy interest minated in the atomic bomb and, later, among would-be electors as to what they THE PHOENIX RISES controlled in the atomic pile for- the pro- are going to be asked to do, which up to duction of useful energy. now has been conspicuous only by its Many of the qustions then put to Prof. Opera Group Bloody But Unbowed Walton were concerned rather with the absence. nature of the particles than with their r The good Opera Company, almost by Surprising. Despite the fact ’~hat the use. He was also pressed for details of "Irish Independent" thought the Group’s the work for which he and Cockroft were definition, suffers "in the cause of art." production of two Menotti Operas "a awarded the Nobel prize. His account Catholics in It is a curious fact that, on the whole, musical event of the first importance," gave students cause for wonder at the the opera-going public, while retaining and the "Irish Times" commented tbat work which could be done with limited a strange superiority complex over those ’~he production was a "dari~ag and pro- and even dangerous apparatus. College m~rtals who prefer the fillums, is con- vocative gesture." There was no stam- tent to base its likes and dislikes on pede for tickets. ~ Next week we shall be publishhlg, :much the same structure of criteria. The Obviously the g~oup now needs money, The Hist. and Phil. are running il ruder this title, a special feature-supple- Opera g0er likes what he knows. The before attempting Artistic martyrdom a fund for Joe Mooney, their ex. tne~t on the subject of those students in D.U. Opera Group’s financial debacle in in the holy cause of the unknown and Trinity who ~re Roman Catholics--who the music festival, therefore, was not unwanted once more. The next oroduc- billiard marker. A circular lette~ they are, what they think, and what they tion, it is hoped, will be of "Trial by has already been sent out, but both are goiag to do. We hope that this Jury." There are thirty Chorus pa~’Ls, ymtture will receive support from all several solo parts, and we need stage Societies would be most grateful those who have any interest in this most management, a.nd willing hands to make for contributions, which may be important of all College affairs. Art Society costumes and scenery. We can’t afford to hire. The production, if all goes well, sent to either Treasurer. ! Miss Cheli Duran outlined the aims of will take place "in the round," in the the Art Society in its meeting on the 14th middle of next term, we hope in the Animal House for Trinity November. The Society is to include exam. hall. There will be auditions early The recently-established branch of within its wide-reaching arms all forms next week, possibly on Monday at 4.0, World University Service is to hold its Trinity is to be the first place in o’f ’visual art, except anything that might encroach on the precincts of other at .the top of No. 6. Keep your eyes first meeting on Friday at 8 p.m. in West Ireland to have facilities for endo- associations in College. Its meetings will peeled. Chapel. The opening note is an auspicious :.¢rinol.ogical research. An animal house one in that no less a man than the m going to be built at the back of the be in the form of lectures, debates and Associate Secretary ’from the head- Science departments, with the money films. quarters in Geneva, Mr. Cyril Ritchie, donated from the Wellcome Trust. The constitutional business of the will t e present to speak on " Trinity in Animals in good health will be kept evening was rather long, and one section SUBS FOR STUBBSP the Y Tor d University." of those present afterwards expressed under ideal conditions here and will be Mike Stubbs, whose drawings you may The aim of W.U.S. will be to contribute used for studies in endocrinology, the opinion that the Society was con- to the material needs of Universities in centrating overmuch on constitutional have seen in another publication, has physiology and biochemistry. achieved the considerable distinction of under-developed countries and, in Trinity When asked if this would attract questions. " Art was its business. Why itself, to help integrate foreign students did it not get on with it?" But an having a collection of his cartoons pub- into College life. more research students, members of the encounter with the sincerity and en- lished in a neat little book by Hedges PFrohysiology staff¯ said that it would thusiasm of Cheli Duran explained every- Figgis and Co. A brief glance revealed bably increase staff research activities that the drawing is better than the ideas; which would mean eventually more re- thing. " The constitution," she said, " is important. Without an approved con- there are few who can better Stubbs’s search students. thick-soled, narrow-trousered teddy boys. stitution we cannot get a grant or I rooms." But more important than this Not at all a bad idea for a Christmas Entertain was the necessity, she felt, to prevent present, especially as it cost a mere 7/6. I the Society being run by a clique, which at the has happened to more than one society of a smilar type in College. On the whole, there seems to be tre- Happy Event mendous enthusiasm and drive behind MASON’S this Society. Whether this is only the We would like to offer our heartiest ESTD. 17~0 " first flush " or not cannot be yet de- c~ngratulations to Miss Felicity L. Miller cided. Nevertheless the courage and on her recent election to the College hard work necessary to start such a Historical Society (proposed by the For Everything society should be commended. Auditor seconded by the Treasurer). Photographic Dining ..... Dancing .... Floorshow . . ¯ Nightly . . . DOMESTIC SCIENCE? GAMERAS Table d’Hote Dinner and a la EXPOSURE METERS Carte . . No Cover Charge . . Housekeeping is a serious matter, exercised the ingenuity of the physicists. The following suggestion is an enlarge- PROJEGTOR$ Licensed to Mid.night . ¯ ¯ certainly above the comprehension of women. It must be approached in a ment of a device which has been success- [nformal Dres~ ... scientific manner and the following sug- ful on a laboratory scale: ENLARGERS gestions of a scientist may be of value: Take a biscuit tin and line it with ~-in. LUNCHEONS DAILY When surveying your shelves you may asbestos sheet. Damp the asbestos and 12.30-3 p.m. come across things which smell doubtful. press it into shape. Heat thoroughly to If you expected them to be edible, e.g., dry the asbestos and then line again meat or milk, throw them away. If you with aluminium foil. Theoretically you THOMAS H. MASON ~IETIIOPOLE did not, e.g., a milk jug or saucepan, have now g’ot an equal temperature AND SONS LTD. boi! them with water before re-use. enclosure. Provide yourself with a O’CONNELL ST., Many students provided with one gas thermometer. The oven may be heated ring have wished to contrive an oven. on a gas ring to the required tempera- 5/6 Dame Street, Dublin. C.1. The problem is really one of making an ture; very little heat will be required to equal temperature enclosure and has keep it there. The thing might work. i !. i TRINITY NEWS November 17, 196’0

Profile : BRENDAN KENNELLY COLLEGE Faun and Fainne OBSERVED... There is a deadly silence in the Read- tail and the price of green garters in the Before my survey this week I must ing Room¯ A young man in a belted Senegal. The tinkers join in the con- make amends to Players for what they mack arrd a small brown suitcase sways troversy, as a voice cuts in abave the assure me was an entirely misguided TRINITY NEWS to and fro in front of the door. He others: "Whell .... you don’t know write-up in last week’s " College 0b. appears slightly inebriated. Some stop and I don’t know . ¯ . ask Brendan there served." They tell me that from the 3 Trinity College their work to look at him. He looks back, if he don’t know, nobody does." Freshman auditions quite a considerable walks slowly to the balcony stairs, stops, As a child, Brendan Kennelly had only number of new actors were selected. Chairman: and considers. He climbs the stairs, one really unique point: the way he For any inconvenience I may have caused DAVID BUTLER turns to face a sea of blank but folded his jersey after a match. His I apologise sincerely. expectant faces. Then he takes his wide-eyed attention when grown-ups Vice-Chalrman : culchi-cap off, whirling it slowly above talked in the evening concerning the Who ATe You? BERNARD ADAMS his head, lets out a long piercing ways of the world may have sufficed as 1. A 22-year-old student of Arts from Editors: " wheeeeeeeeee " and replaces the cap on a hint for the particularly observant as Buxted, Sussex. EDNA BRODERICK. RUDI HOLZAPFEL, his head. He ambles down the stairs, to the nature of his concept on life--it is 2. A dirty, rotten, low-down skunk of a FRANCIS GILES struts out into the coolness of the night. basically subjective¯ Later, he came man. There is a stunned murmur. under the influence of the eclectic in- 3. A student of philosophy, 23; resident Business Managers: The Gardai pretend they don’t notice. dividuality of the parish priest, an uncle in Berlin. HALLANI JOHNSTON, T. I-I¯ DANIELS, The husband stands there, looking a who wrote heroic poems about enemas in 4. I honestly don’t know; if I did I MARY CARSON. JOHN WATT trifle annoyed. A young man is on his hospitals, and the E.S.B. (you can’t be a wouldn’t tell you. Secretary: knees on Grafton Street, proposing to poet in the English-speaking world till 5. A Carlow farmer. NORMAN SOWERBY the Mrs. There is a huge plate-glass you have done time in the Corporation, 6. A lovely boy. the Civil Service or the Public Utilities). 7. 36-22-35. Following an older brother who set the Vol. VIII TRINITY NEWS No¯ 3 family tradition of going to Trinity What Are You Doing Here? THURSDAY, 17th NOVF/VIBER, 1960 rather than U.C.D. (a no~el choice for a 1. I must go to College to hold a good Kerry Catholic), Brendan, writing managerial position in my father’s essays in locker-rooms, poems in W.C.s poultry business. Trinity was my and French compisitions under the ’father’s choice. POPPIES and Campanile (becoming remarkably pro- 2. Scheming, low, mean, selfish, horrible, ficient at everything almost instan- vampirical things. DALUBAS taneously) soon began to established a 3. Studying philosophy. EMEMBRANCE SUNDAY has "following." Even now the "following" 4. I have no idea. is treated with an intimacy which is . Agriculture, third year. R come and gone very much as almost too shocking for the casual ¯ Many lovely things . . . observer. A stately and aloof comrade 7. I study by day, and by night I work usual. Every year it becomes in- may be hailed: " Hello you sum .... ¯ . . in a coffee bar uptown. creasingly obvious that the real how’s your mother’s jaundice ?" Wh.a.t is a Slhigawizxes? His preference for little dark-eyed point of this annual event is becom- Latin ladies is well known. These may 1. I don’t really know. ing more and more widely missed. well be accosted with sumptuously ornate 2. A filthy, typhoidal, vermin-ridden and pompously rococo odes on their toilet brush. The reason why we buy poppies is swarthy ethereality¯ 3. Nothing. not--or ought not to be--to His term-time home is near the~ 4. I don’t know what a sligawsher is, ’gee, your questions are hard . .. demonstrate our political sym- Coombe, along the 50 bus route. He sees, more .often than the rest of us 5. A genus of flower, a vegetable, patldes, or our broad-mindedness, perhaps, the life which lies behind the perhaps? No? Bother... peeling industrial whitewash of com- 6. It is a type of quetalistic marosmyia& or our superiority to the natives, or mercial Dublin. No one really knows 7. I like the sound of that, reminds me of the coffee-machine, you know, to air any Cause at all: the only window nearby. Two ’friends catch hold what goes on in that old head. The threl of this would-be Pyramus before all hell constant ear-to-ear smiles which shatter before it starts to boil up all over really important thing is that a the place. deli~ breaks loose. T h e Gardai whistle, his visage all day long, as he meets, one rabk large number of people in this relieved. after the other, his numerous acquain- What Are Yo~ur Politics? (as country have been either disabled She is an ordinary little girl, half tances, belies his natural feeling for the 1. Father is a Tory, but I have seen the actu~ embarrassed by the intent rooks she is poor, the wretched and the unwanted who light and become Liberal. circu from doing profitable work, o1" getting from one of two young men. The figure so prominently in his lyrical 2. Stinking, slimy unilateralism, that’s schr~ bereaved of theman who should be other is choosing shoes for a friend. creation~¯ what; I’m a despotic anarchist last The shopkeeper goes to get a ladder and And the future? He will be writing. with police-state tendencies. boxe doing it for them, because of what brings it over to where the shoes are. At twenty-four he has already published 3. No politics are any good. If forced a book of poems, another coming in mart happened in one of two war~ The girl begins to climb it. She nearly with the question I would say a the falls when she hears a voice growling February. He has written a play which type of theistic communism. Therefore, we give a little to help behind her: " Get up them stairs, woman; is soon to be produced. The Lope de wart Vega of Trinity, his output is 4. I don’t know . . . Oh dear, I’m afraid sho~ buy a few of the things that other- what d’ye think I married you for . . . ?" that you’ll think I’m awfully Afte In Ballylongford, the town which bred phenomenal. With Kinsella and Keane, dense . . . wise would have been naturally Lord Kitchener (he tied Fuzzi-wuzzies he will be reading poetry this week-end 5. Socialist, and depending on the extent theirs. to his cannons before an attack) there is in Cork. He is also the editor of this of state subsidy of the farmer, a pub. In this pub, to the tinkling of term’s " Icarus¯" A fluent Gaelic speaker, Nationalist also. The great majority of those who glasses and the rise and fall of the he wears the fainne to keep his trousers 6. I’m a radical Conservative. shrill Kerry accent, the same young ma~ up, happier in the French idiom when it 7. May the best man win, anyway. died or were injured, suffered, like is pulling pints behind his father’s bar, comes to the ladies. all soldiers, for a " Cause " they He is short, heavy-shouldered, with hair He will go to France to teach, perhaps, Have You a Peculiar Hobby? cut too close around the ears and a type but his return will be prompt to the 1. Strange that you should ask that ... did not understand, because the of quiff high on his forehead. He is " . . . ground where dreams abound I’ve been collecting egg boxes sergeant told them to be in a listening in iambics. An argument And names are shaped from an age’s from other lands. I’m sure that I particular place at a particular arises. It is about the size of a Panda’s wile." am the only one in the world who time, and they were too frightened does. 2. I construct excruciating and elaborate of him to run away. This is what tortures for my home-bred white makes the old clich4s fed to us last Rag mice: miniature iron-ladies, racks, Sunday so repulsive: "for liberty," One after another they pile up in cup- lack of real news. Last week’s headline Catherine-wheels, gridirons. was the startling and rather desperate: 3. I stopped stamp collecting when it be- "a better world," "civilisation." boards and drawers, on tables and came a waste of time. The World Wars have indeed saved windowsills, till we burn them all in a fit " FILES DISAPPEAR. S.R.C. Records Missing.,’ 4. I don’t know if I do; but it would be something of these, but men didn’t of end-of-term ordliness. I mean the peculiar if I did, I’m sure! College newspapers from all over the To counterbalance a rather grave lack 5.’I experiment in artificial insemination join the ranks because of that. British Isles, which Taithful Circulation of photographs and inadequate sports This is a kind of ranting no more Managers in Swansea, Leeds, Belfast, co’verage, there is some sound literary o~ dwarf breeds. Oxford and Earlsfort Terrace send us 6. What do you mean by "peculiar"? likeable than its opposite: the matter--for example, excellent articles Lots of things could be peculiar." patriot who won’t btW a poppy week after week. on James Joyce and paper-back books¯ 7. Small~ poor men with Cedipus com- Generally, we tend to dismiss them as Politics seem to be vigorously avoided, plexes. because "they fought for England high-class wastepaper because they refer which is not really surprising. A,t 4d. and England can pay for them." In to places, people and situations of which this paper is expensive--probably, like What is the Most Beautiful Thing You’ve the face of death and poverty, we have no knowledge. Most of their almost everything else in Ireland, it Ever Seen? politics are irrelevant. contents mean as little to us as " Four suffers from lack of funds. 1. An orange twilight, the winter trees, and Six " would mean to the average Down from Belfast, armed with this the sky phosphorescent azure ... But this year, Poppy Day should Sheffield University socialite. But they front page headline: " Brookborough 2. A smashing accident which put wind- be a little more poignant thwn are not without value: they prowoke in- Address," comes Queen’s "The Gown" screen wipers through juguhr usual here. Of all the countries teresting comparisons. It is fascinating breathing Ulsterdom. Some excellent lay- veins at a hundred and sixty miles which sent military detachments to to see the differing emphases, to com- Out and a fine, photograph-accompanied per hour. pare Oxford’s " Cherwell" with the best social column are the best features. An 3. A syllogism I imagined in a dream.l help keep the peace in the Congo, Red-Brick product--London’s " Pi." It is excess of society reports (look who’s had concerning colour, digestion, only Ireland sent her men out as disillusioning to glance at the Irish pro- talking!) and lack of real meaty reading and Death. if they were going to win a foot- duction after these glossy efforts, bBt are the main faults. But there are eight 4. I never have seen one, a really l~e~utl- ball match--and only Ireland has diverting comparisons can be made l~e- pages of pleasant, glossy paper for 4d. ful thing, I mean . . . tween Trinity’s, Queen’s and U.C.D~’s 5. An Aberdeen-Angus in front of a lost some fives there. In the London University’s ,’ Pi" is a beauti- journals. fully produced newspaper. There is some shiny new silo in aluminium white. Congo, the Cause was, if anything, Nearest home is U¯C.D¯’s modest effort, real, genuine " news "; I suppose this is 6. A gentleman coming out of .Garrerie more- obscure than ever; and " Awake." The exhortation of the title hardly surprising in so vast an in- Lafayette with manicured toe- Lieutenant Gleeson and his men is not totally successful: like a certain stitution situated where there is nearly nails .... certainly died with no more ,organ in this Uni,:ersity which some- always something happening in the edu- 7. Myself; but I suppose that if I saw times belies its title, it suffers from a cation world even if in no other sphere. God. He would be pretty ,good- "noble" concept in their minds (The highly important question of means looking, too. than did their compatriots in the tests for grants was last week’s main Who is Your Best Friend at Trinity? larger struggle---but all this is the general beading of the "Trinity story.) There are as well some really 1. A girl from Buxted, Sussex. insignificant now. Their families News" Fund. Contributions made authoritative film reviews. The implica- 2. A hump-backed, troll-faced, experi- tions of the Lady Chatterly trial were have suffered a worse bereavement through this newspaper, therefore, mental psychologist with para- eagerly and wittily discussed in an noidal tendencies, because it is more recent and much will be gratefully acknowledged, article which uses to devastating effect 3. In Trinity ? Myself ! more unexpected, and that is all but not published. one of the much-famed four letter words. 4. Oh, I don’t know; no one is my best that matters. This idea is entirely without The beautiful and expensive presentation friend. (surely it must be subsidised) make this 5. A hurlie player named . . . well, why We feel, therefore, that some political significance: it is simply good ’value at 3d. Perhaps its poise and do you want no names? effort should be made in Trinity to intended as a gesture of sympathy assurance have something to do with the 6. Well, in the Bay alone there’s ¯ .’ help provide these families with a towards some very unfortunate fact that it is only produced fortnightly. and . . . (hey, write this down!) few of the things that the State families, and we do most sincerely Oxford’s tabloid " Cherwell " is better 7. A girl who works with me; she comes from the West End, too. Charming. pension will never provide. The recommend it to every student in off for news than any other University "Irish Times" has set up a fund paPer. In several issues the Biltin Toker College, no matter what his back- controversy is exploited to the full; the TELEPHONE : 70.046 for this purpose, but for those ground, or his ideas on any public arts section is lively and expresses a students who would like a con- question. At the very least it is coherent viewpoint. Sports coverage is The Green Dolphin venient way of making a small con- one of the few chances we have to admirable, though who could fail with Gentlemen’s Hairdressing Saloo~ such material as an account of Oxford tribution, we have arranged to show Trinity to her country in a 6 SOUTH ANNE STREET v. Springboks rugby match? (6 doors fl~m Grafton Street) transmit such sums as are sent to rather more favourable light than Next week I hope to consider some PROMPT & FIRST-CLASS ATTENTION us to the "Irish Times" under tqsual. more Red-Brick publications in detail. 17, 1960 TRINITY NEWS Hot and Cold: Running By DONALD CARROLL ,~ursday Night: and smiling, and nodding in a debonaire fashion while graceful Archie Orr-Ewing About this time of the year, as land- ground for a tribe of Irish mountain girls ~ust Refuel wants to know what to wear ladies and the weather become increas- covered in warpaint and Canal No. 5. Lhey to Iook Beat. flits like a papillon from dowager to ing wretched by the hour, coffee houses Still worth a visit to see the latter-day: ided. Friday Night: dowager. Long-limber Hussar Chris. re-emerge as the vital hubs of student altar to Priapus (disguised as a machine Ob- The Inaugural of the Dublin Univer- Kendall waltzes in the spacious and activity. For it is in these crowded, for heating hot dog buns). the dry Canker Club is initiated by rum- palacial salon, under a glimmering smoky dens--far removed from the Copenhagen.--The waitresses here az~e able ~nnning Russell (who wants to be Louis XIV chandelier, while the twenty- aridity of the lecture halls--that the real so friendly you wonder what they have ’.ted. popular... ?) Telfer. Belfustian piece, epauleeted orchestra produces pulse of College life can be felt. There- oi1 you¯ Used ~I~¢afe and mouldy, blackmarket diges- sincere and empirical tones. O Amphora fore, as a public service, I have reprinted Tasty’s.~God’s little acre, catering to five biscuits aphrodisiacize he gathering O Tories . . . Someone spills the beans; below the expurgated edition of my care the commercial set. enough to turn its attention to the surrounded by so,on - to - be - shattered, society handbook, a truly forgettable Green L~unge. -- The local epileptic i~tellectually stimulating pastime for mirrors, Jalik Kaulback, looking like volume which has stirred an unpre- colony holds revivals here ,on Friday !rorfi which the club is so notorious. Too the Ewe from Alice in Looking-Land, cedented groundswell of public apathy. evenings. Usually attended by a hundred suff]es around belching -bloodilly. ~nxious about his new sports coat, Coffee Inn.--Besides the good coffee, or so of the best arguments for birth o~ a Angus (I don’t like it, but it g,oes down The damsels begin to get so arasstocre- control. rink that it makes the gentlemen careful the main attraction here is a brown- .~ther well here) Bainbrigge comes maned transvestite finger-painting with Trinity Coffee Bar. ~ Upon entering dent third. Recant addition to the Telferian where they put their feet. Sensing you are gazed at as if you were a lost disaster David Craig and Alec Harden his ketchup--frequently observed trying boudoir, evevwhelming Phillipa (I go to score with the servante by making Baluba warrior looking for more sport. id I down rather well everywhere) Sleath, offer lifts in their three-litre Maserati. Propped against one wall is a beat-look- tomes second. Cha~npion is David (I Smashed glass, gardai, angry neigh- garbled overtures through the dense ing little fellow in sandals (revealing bours, new mothers, and dawn follow shrubbery of his upper lip. If you can don’t like anything that can’t be made get the servante’s attention, try the only that he bites his toenails). His i~to a half-page ad.) Elyan. His conking the even hastier exits made by Clive (no trousers are usually at half-mast. Next bovver, see), Mtumford and Martin (a house speciality: fried bat’s wing on had deliberation and poise. toast. to him, and looking equally messianic, is Saturday Night: blow ’is like an instrument). Bennett. As his female counterpart supported by a all hell follows, someone groans . . . if New Amsterdam.~Surpassed only by rood A most genteel, refined and silently pair of unshorn parentheses. In the ~ccessful Ball is summoned within the only yon Hunnersdorf had been here. Dixon Hall as the place where hey meets corner squatsa bespectacled Buddha, ler’s Sunday Night: ghoul¯ Considered traditional U.C.D. my ~Baroaial premises of wealthy princeling meditating on the ghastly war that pro- Dick Harvey by nick-romancers Harriet Rafael knows what to wear to look territory, this is the main camping duced this generatidn. ible, l)oonie. Hamish Really-Smooth is happy Beat. u " Bubbles " and that Tony (" he used to Letter to the Editor insist on Anthony ") plays "invariably mixed doubles " on a Sunday afternoon. Sir,--We stood it for a whole year ROSES FOR THE PROSECUTOR with patience and hope--even last week’s The latter seems to serve ~s a re- york --THE CORINTHIAN, assurance, in view of the society of editorial augured better things ~ but which he now finds himself the head, as trigues and blackmail, Schramm has pro- there seems no end to it. In the past 4 This is a cocktail of bitter truths, to an awareness of the opposite sex. newspaper headlines of recent years vided newspapers with headlines of we have frequently been urged in your After such jolly appraisals one feels one another " Justizskandal," and Klein- columns to be "good chaps," contented I 0ncocted into a remarkable satire on the students, abstaining from the excesses.of should trot politely along to all the ]den Bundesrepublik. As nearly all good films schmidt can devote himself to the un- meetings if only to catch a glimpse of that left German studios after the war, avoidable and insignificant love affair. Trinity Week and devoting all our this genial, giant o’f a " chap." Or we it deals with the shadows of Nazism The poignant satire on the judiciary is energies to the clubs and societies to help may seriously begin to question whether haunting the new democracy, this time embedded in a comedy of manners of out those hard-pressed individuals who we have been frequenting the right with the corruption af the judiciary. West Germany. The middle-aged believer do everything in College; and this propa- circles in College that we have met so Public prosecutor Schramm has taken in the Teutonic creed "to be German and ganda to the " good chap " ideal is pur- few people with such an abundance of the hurdle of National Socialism by to have character is the same thing " sued with a rigorous insipidity in your good qualities. forging or withholding some documents clashes with his teenage son, the obedient weekly " Profile." This compelling insistence on the : Thinking back, can we ever remember (Class V "has always been against it "), housewife, who revers only her husband : " good chap" ideal is comparable perhaps but 15 years later the past begins to more than domestic peace, left helpless a specimen who was not a good mixer, to the myth o£ the "Victorian gentle- threaten him. At the time when he as an intermediator. Nor is the post- affable, humorous, never made enemies, man "; it has bedeviled your excellent deliberately holds back a warrant for a war generation with its sole concern for etc. ? They are like the advertisements journal too long. If " Profiles " we must rabid anti-Semite who escapes to Egypt business and money much more attrac- for toothpaste and deodoxants that send have, could they not be, occasionally at (as schoolmaster Zinn and Dr. Eisele had tive. Some matey and hearty lorry one searching one’s own inferiorities. Of least, of the shy, meek little rain-coated L the actually done, the latter under " strange" drivers must restore the balance, apart course, we howled inwardly with specimens who are to be seen at intervals drcumstances), former private Klein- ’from t h e endearing carelessness of politely reserved mirth to learn of between lecture and reading rooms; 3at’s sehmidt, sentenced to death by him in the Private Kleinschmidt who occasionally perhaps we would see more of us all in zhist last days of the war for buying two reminds one of Lucky Jim in a rather To-night in the Phil,, Mr. Gabriel them, and it would at least relieve the boxes of Air Force chocolate on the black more sinister surrounding. The film is Fallon, Director of the Abbey pain, sometimes verging on nausea, of ,reed market, crosses his paths agaln~ with not dubbed, the sub-titles miss a glorious these huge-hearted, thoroughly good ~y a the cherished treasure of his death pun about justice, " die wie eine frisch Theatre, will speak to a paper on " chaps."--Yours faithfully, warrant--signed by Schramm--:which he getwaschene und strahlende Wassernixe "S ~ a n O’Casey," by Bernard Peter F. Bell. ~raid shows to pub friends in "humid hours." aussieht, weil sic so oft baden geht." 3 Upper Mount St., Dublin. fully After 90 minutes of persuasion, in- Martin Miiller. Adams. 10th November, 1960. :tent mer,

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Rugby DEFEATED BUT NO DISGRACE d;~ ’il ,., i~ ’ ~" :i~i’~¸ ’ i l! U.C.C., 8; Trinity, 3 Hockey ~ 1 ;~ ~ :Jr~, !..!;~.~--~-i-~INITY .,:~!~IZ.were forced to field a weakened side against U.C.C. in the ! i~ ;: ~:]~: : ~ii~ :,It: ~i!llltlliXlatter’s Colours match last Saturday. Four players were in Toulouse Forwards Disappoint Last Saturday afternoon the Motor !i] and Powell was unable to travel, and bearing in mind the fact that the Club held a novice trial, starting from t Trinity, 2 ; Beckenham, 2 the Embankment Inn, Tallaght. There three-quarter line was of experimental composition, this performance On a rather miserable afternoon at were 15 novice entries, and the experts, ctio against keen and fit opponents was not as bad as one might at first Londonbridge R o ad a re-organised headed by Alec Malcolm and Dave Trinity side gave a good account of itself Leonard, showed the way. J. Chaufour Un~ assume. iu drawing with Beckenham. The side in a Peugeot handled his cary very well ill l The Mardyke was deceptively muddy On his return to first-class tugger after had two changes from the one that lost when he remembered how the tests ~rts after two days’ rain, but the game never a long lay-off, Dorman showed touches of should be done, and D. Southerland in real class in his handling, running and to Three Rock Rovers. Prestage, a new- ~ek developed into the dour forward battle comer, was on the right wing, and Fuller the Porsche showed how they can be that the conditions warranted, because passing, but failed to grasp the tactical was at inside-right. done with a minimum of fuss. The [t’s Trinity preferred to use their more than situation in the second half when the The defence played very well. The general standard was surprisingly high, 3ors adequate share of the ball from scrum touchline should have been exploited in order to give us some territorial reward fact that Beckenham had only three so that we have the prospect of being The and line-out to keep play open. Through- shots at goal in the whole match says able to produce two Hewison teams next out the game the Trinity backs were fed, for possession of the ball. yea~. robe As it was, the three-quarters could not much for their covering. Blackmore has but keen tackling and covering, the rarely played better for the club and all The final results were: 1, V. Poets ~nee glutinous surface and an unfortunate escape the attentions of their opposite (Austin Seven), 84.5 secs.; 2, R. Gilmore Lace( series of injuries limited their striking numbers and attacking kicks fell with the remaining backs played well up to monotonous regularity into the hands of standard. (Volks.), 95.3 secs.; 3, P. Empy (Ford}, ill ] powe~. The forwards at the moment seem 97.4 secs. The first quarter of an hour was all the very competent Kiernan. Thus not ~nch once did Trinity get in their opponents’ rather disorganised. McCarthy is not Racing topt Trinity, and three points was an in- playing well and nobody else seems sufficient reward for their endeavours. "25" in the second half and the only )siti scoring was a penalty by Kiernan when capable of scoring goals. However, it After two sweeping, passing movements was not a day for goal scoring and two A Review of the Fiat Season The that gave each wing m turn a run, one of the Trinity backs was alleged to By "Windsor Lad" have handled on the ground. should have been enough to secure a win. )flee Y~orrison’s cross kick was desperately After a scoreless first-half, in which cleared by the Cork defence. But from Trinity’s defence held on desperately The 1960 season will not be remem- ne : towards the end of the game, with Hall Trinity squandered several very good bered by many, the pove~y of the an ensuing scrum, Dorman " scopped" chances, they were the first to score when 3-year-old colts, save St. Paddy, and the rid for Siggins to collect and when he was giving a very courageous performance. He repeatedly went down on the loose McCarthy beat Hamilton from near the implementation of the Betting Bill in- mug tackled, Endall was conveniently on hand edge of the circle. Ten minutes later, troducing lice.nsed betting shops in¢0 to pick up and score half-way out. Hall ball when just after half-time he had dd t incurred a severe rib injury. Prestage ran on to a centre from Rowe England as fram January, 1961, being muffed the con’version. and pushed the ball past the goalkeeper. but two of its unsavoury aspects. , sit In conclusion, it only remains ’for your )dy’, After Trinity had threatened to score correspondent to pay tribute to the In the last few minutes, Beckenham Honours went to Sir Victor Sasson, again from two long runs by the chunky sterling work of the Trinity pack in the scored twice. Once a rather un’fortunate leading breeder; Noel Murless, leading The Endall, Cork retaliated when a defensive tight. Hill and Dowse monopolised the error by Wood allowed their right-wing trainer, and Lester Piggott, who at the heel clearance by Rees was charged down, the line-outs and the front row outplayed to score and a few minutes later their age of 25, became the heaviest jockey r th resultant try being scored in the corner. their counterparts in the tight scrums. inside-right pushed the ball past the to win ,the championship since Fr~. Kiernan’s frst-class conversion from the The pack for the Colours match must advancing ’keeper. Archer--a remarkable achievement and ev( touchline only served to emphasise almost pick itself now, though there seem Last Saturday the 2nd XI entered the a tribute to the skill and power of this nor( Trhfity’s lack of a reliable place kicker. to be signs of complacency amongst t:~:~ 2nd round of the Railway Cup by beating fine ho~’sema~, undoubtedly th~ greatest e s! Kiernan now changed his tactics, most experienced players because of the Newtimes. 2nd 8-0. S. Fuller (5) and D. classic jockey in Europe, and a genius ea realising that the only answer to our lack of competition. Williams (3) scored for Trinity. at Epsom. L~e ( possession of the ball from the tight and The reverse is the case in the backs, English horses, especially the colts, oug the dangerous potential shown by the where the constant experimentation, were a very poor lot. St. Paddy, by backs, was to use his backs defensively Llf~ ¯ while definitely making players fight for Aureole out of Edie Kelly (a short *ore and utilise his forwards’ speed in the their places, can also make for a runner) alone did the coun,try any credit ~shi] loose. Thus the Trinity backs were minimum of teamwork in the endeavour Junior League Show the Way winning the Derby and St. Legor. Of flee gradually "bottled up "--Lea was blotted to impress individually. It is a fact that the two-year-olds Sostenuto, a chestnut out by the Irish international Welsh; the same backline has yet to ~eature in U.C.D ...... 5 colt, reminiscent of Hyperion looks a Morrison was heavily tackled and two successive games and it is to be Trinity ...... 3 Derby-type, as does Test Case. Ireland severely damaged his shoulder; Endall hoped that representative matches will The Trinity team, though under- produced a fine strong colt in Chamour, now ~ound the gaps in the centre closing. not be all out to prevent the formation strength, played a good match against Irish Derby winner, and Floribunda was Nex Rees and Do,nan were each brilliant of a settled backline for at least two the more experienced U.C.D. team last probably the fastest 2-year-old since t geth in patches, but at times were ex- matches before the Colours match on Thursday. Trinity scored the opening Abernan¢. F~-ance, as usual, provided ( ~lnlO tremely shaky when the ball fell loose. December 3rd. goal, but were unable to maintain a lead, the cream of European bloodstock with l ’e-- even when two U.C.D. players wer~ out Never Too Late, Charlottesville, Angers, lad( of the water. O’Brian Kelly and Jagoe Puissant Chef and Hautain, the ~op five ems were prominent in attack, but better horses in England, France or Ireland ! liev, Squash Club PINKS understanding between forwards and with the exception, of St. Paddy. Garnet ]ach At a meeting of the Captains’ Com- backs must be achieved. Bougour¢ rode excellently in Ireland and l ,lm After three matches. Trinity’s squash In the Junior League, Trinity A de- won (probably) his first title as did Ly teams are still undefeated. The first mitte~e of the D.U.C.A.C. on Friday, llth November; the following were awarded feated Dublin by three goals to two, to Yves Sain,t-Martin, a 19-year-old appren, ; )pro, team--R. Roberts (Captain), P. Heaney tice who wrested the French jockeys title (Irish international), J. Barrington and Finks: -- Boat: P. D. J. Martin, S. S. record Trinity’s only win .of the evening. The Trinity attack, supported by H. S. from crack jockey Jean Deforge. A. Rice--is one of the strongest in the Newman, N. D. Gillett. Cricket: T. C. OL~ country and should end the season at the D. Mulraine. Fencing: B. Hamilean. O’Conrmr, tested the Dublin defence to top of the league. M. Bagley and C. Sailing: M. Hare, A. MacGovern, M. such an extent that R. Brownlee and R. Tio] Moorehead, J. Mason. : R. H. Rooley had little difficulty in scoring. THE COLONEL’S RETURN ( lum Sprawson, two Freshmen playing in the The last week of the flat racing season B and C teams, respectively, should im- R ooley. We would like to offer our Brownlee’s second goal came from a good ( dte. congratulations to all the above on their passing movement involving most of the saw Colonel May in England checking t Dlla: prove with practice and. give the leading up on the form of the " jumpers." For players sound support. well-deserved honours. College side. ~air Two ladders are now in operation and this reason he was absent from this mn [: column last week. Two runners would tug~ later in the season it is hoped to run seem to stand out next week -- Branea handicap and knock-out competitions. Harriers and Athletic Club, 1959-60 Dari~ (Sandown, Saturday), winner of Bhi t ~irte Last season the Harriers and Athletic form. In the longer distances we have the Liverpool November Hurdle, and machines Farmer’s Boy (Doncaster, Saturday). ( rOm[ tools Club celebrated their 75th anniversary, Shillington, who ran in the British ] ~h~ in perhaps what was the most successf:~l Gaines and also had the best times of ELLIS season ever. In the jubilee match ~o 1 min. 49.8 secs. and 4 mins. 06.4 secs. commemorate this, they were ordy to his credit; Quinlan and Roe. In the T ere can be 15 Upper Stephen Street narrowly defeated by the Rest of Ei’e, field events, Lunde is our oustanding a t r u I y remarkable pe~’formance, performer and maintains a consistently (Reduction for Students) emphasising the dept of talent within the high standard in no less than six events. cIub. Of last year’s team, he will be ably Another noteworthy feat was the backed up by Leeson~ O’Clery, Kennedy, ONLY ONE BEST third placing of the team in the U.A,U. Skipton, Obviagele, Osoba and Linley. O’ Donoghues Championships. Tjerund Lunde rose to New members are particularly wel- and in cream ices that means great heights, winning the individual come this season. There is organised ~.B. Nothing is spared to make of Suffolk Street title in the pole vault and the high jump, training throughout the year in the certain that all YI.B. cream ices and Colin Shillington, last year’s captain, Gym. at 8 p.m. on Thurs¢iays, and in ars supreme in quality and set a new championship record of 1 min. College Park on Tuesdays at 3.30 p.m. flavour. Look for the Distinctive 51.5 secs. in the half mile. and on Saturdays at 10.30 a.m., when I-t.B. Label--your guarantee of In all, seven College records were coaching will be under the direction el’ broken, some of them being near inter- M~’. Cyril White~ I purity. national class. Of particular note were The Harrier° (cross-country) a "e Lunde’s 6 ft. 1 in. in the high jump, training on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Francis’s 22.2 and 49:4 in the 220 and Thursdays in Phoenix Park, and on 440 yards, and Shillington’s 1 min. 5].5 Thursdays at 8 p.m in the Gym. t secs. in the 880 yards. In the Eire Championships this year, MONDAY no less than eight titles were won by The result of the closely con.ested Club athletes, and several went on te win match against Crusaders and Axondale all-h’eland titles. in Phoenix Park on Saturday was a win NO VEMBER 21 st Next year we shall have virtually the for Dublin Universi’ty Harriers. C.J.S. same team, under the captaincy of Bob Shillington ran a good race to finish 9 pm. to 2 a.m. i O/- Francis, so we can look forward to yet first, then followed several opposition another successful season. In the sprints ~nners but the Trinity team packed i.n and quarter we have a formidable well around 10th place’to secure victory. Tickets at front gate quartet in Francis, LovelL Kirkham and Trinity’s ability to field a strong second HUGHES BROS., LTD. O’Clery, and we hope to see Mason, a team "was another gratifying aspec.t of ttAZELBROOK DAIRY former Eire sprint champion, back to this oceasion~

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