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John Carroll University Carroll Collected The aC rroll Quarterly Student Spring 1966 The aC rroll Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 3 and no. 4 John Carroll University Follow this and additional works at: http://collected.jcu.edu/carrollquarterly Recommended Citation John Carroll University, "The aC rroll Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 3 and no. 4" (1966). The Carroll Quarterly. 55. http://collected.jcu.edu/carrollquarterly/55 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Student at Carroll Collected. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aC rroll Quarterly by an authorized administrator of Carroll Collected. For more information, please contact [email protected]. I I' ... 1 .. •, '• , ., I > •' - I ~ ..·- \_,, L •t· ·• .. ~ I . t I " -. ,, / / t.-' \ 'I ..... r -, ' + ,, .\ r ~ ~• .!"' • -: .,. ,.. I' . "~ ,. I ~ .,, I .... Carroll Quarterly, a literary magazine produced by an undergraduate staff and written by the students, alumni, and fac­ ulty of John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio. Volume 19 Spring, 1966 Numbers 3 and 4 Editor-in-Chief TONY KUHN Assistant Editors RICHARD TOMC TIM BURNS LARRY RYAN RODERICK PORTER WILLIAM DeLONG TOM O'CONNOR Managing Editor RODERICK PORTER Editorial Assistant WILLIAM DeLONG Copy Editors LARRY RYAN JOHN SANTORO Faculty Advisor LOUIS G. PECEK Contents A Moment in the Awakening of China Edmund S. Wehrle . 6 Alone, the House on No Hill Gerald FitzGerald . 12 Once a Lover (for G.T.) Gerald FitzGerald . 13 Come Die with Me This Monday Morning Gerald FitzGerald . 14 Rebecca's Drowning in a Country Stream Gerald FitzGerald . 15 See You in the Morning Gerald FitzGerald . 16 A Miniature Portrait Philip Parkhurst . • . 17 Marionettes Robert A. Bruening ....................................... 19 In Cold Blood: A Review Roderick Porter . 20 Gone J. R. W a/pole . 22 Collection of Poems Jam es Valentine . 23 On College & Grades William DeLong . • . • . 26 Thank You Jeffery L. Hawk ...................... ...•.•............. 27 Doctor Zhivago: Film Review Tony Kuhn . • . • . • . 28 The Lampost Robert V . Kocab .........................•.....•.. ....... 31 Kitchens Pauline A. N ovak .....•..•..•.••....•..•...•...•.......... 31 Epistle Martin Croes . • . • . • . • • . • • • . • . 32 Holding Hearts at Raincreek Glen Bob Sweeney . • . • . 34 In Tombed Joe Cronin .....•... ........................•............ 35 To a Collegiate With Love R. A . Kutina . • • . • 36 Camp Camp. Hoofer, Kentner, and Tune .............•............. 38 Wicker Rockers Mark Yungbluth . 45 Star Dreamers Mark Yungbluth ............... ..... .. .................... 46 Petal Dust Mark Y ungbluth . • . • . • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • . 47 Everything That Rises Must Converge: A Review Thomas L. Vince ......................................... 48 There Is a Thing Becoming Catherine Herbison .. .. ...... .. ........ .. ................. 51 Let It Snow R. Allen Kutina . 52 Fools William Pietragallo ........ .. ............ ..............• .. 59 I'll Try to Explain Anyway Rita Louise Coyne . 60 Writer Philip Lawton . • . 61 "Strange, But the Man Who Made the Song Was Blind" Joseph Geiger . ......... ............................ ...... 62 Ode to an Ant Named Grace: From an Admirer S.M ........... .. ........................................ 65 An Excerpt from "The Dance of Death" Salvatore Tagliarino . 66 The Proud T ower: A Review Roderick Porter . • . • . 67 The Tempter R. A . Kutina ........ .. .......•.........•....•..••.••••••• 69 We Two George Hunter ........... ... ..................•.•....•.••. 70 Fuji Joe Williams .................•.••.•...•.•.•.•.••..•..•..• 77 Progress Is Our Most Important J. R. !Val pole . • . • • • . • • • . • • . • • • • • . • • • • 78 Man, Understanding Cause Catherine Herbison . • • . • • . • . • • . • • • . • . • • • • • • • . • . 79 The Face of a Hero Georf!.e Blatt ........• . .•..•.•..••.•...••.•.•••••••••••••.• 80 To our readers : We would first of all like to explain why we chose to make this last issue a combination publication of the third and fourth Quarterlies of this year. There is really only one rea­ son. Last year distribution difficulties cropped up in regard to the last Quarterly. We have tried to keep a schedule similar to last year's, but with exams beginning a week earlier than they did last May, we foresaw the possibility of even more problems than we had a right to expect. Therefore, you have in your hands now the third and fourth numbers of the 1966 Carroll Quarterly. We reasoned that the joint publication of the last two issues would enable us to do a better job on each issue as well as facilitate distribution of the magazine. Next we wish to congratulate Mark Yungbluth and Ger­ ald FitzGerald, each of whom will receive a fifty dollar award for the excellence of their work published in the 1966 Quar­ terlies. We wish to thank all those who submitted their work to us during this past year. All manuscripts in our power to re­ turn can be picked up in the Quarterly box at the front of the English department. Each is carefully marked as to the au­ thor, and the material is arranged in alphabetical order. We hope you, the readers and authors of The Carroll Quarterly, have enjoyed the magazine as we have directed it, and that you will continue to support it next year with your contributions. Sincerely, The Editor and Staff The Carroll Quarterly A Moment in the A wakening of China EDMUND S. WEHRLE In 1958, Mao Tse-tung, president of the Peoples Republic of China, greeted a delegation of nationalists from French Al­ geria with the following observation: "The bond that unites us is that we have both been humiliated." The bond is one of historical remembrance and the memory is one of colonial or semi - colonial subjugation. Like all histrical memories its shadow plays upon the present, directing great events from behind the scenes. It cannot be easily exercized, but its demon­ like quality can be mitigated by a frank appraisal of the past. This would be to admit to human folly and guilt on all sides. Perhaps it is for the West to begin the process by a recon­ sideration of its conduct in China through the past century. Here one does not have to look far afield for folly or guilt. There is no better place to start than in 1900 with the Boxer Rising. In a sense this marks the beginning of modern Chinese history since this movement is now regarded an em­ bodying the first real outburst of nationalism in China. It was a grassroots rising of the Chinese peasants directed against the incapacity of the Manchu dynasty. The regime had been able neither to cope with the drought and famine which spread havoc through the northeastern provinces, nor was it able to repulse the foreigner who had laid claim to strategic enclaves along the coast of China. Under secret society inspiration the original objective of the Boxers was antidynastic, but as the movement spread like wildfire among the peasants the antiforeign spirit became the decisive one. At least for the moment anti-Manchu feeling was ob­ scured or put aside. The Chinese masses had apparently de­ cided that they had had enough of the Western consuls with their gunboats, the merchants with their hard-driving methods and the missionaries with their overbearing arrogance. Professor Wehrle of the History Department at John Carroll University has prepared the following essay based on material contained in his re­ cently published book, Britain, China and the Antimissionary Rjots, 1891- 1900 (University of Minnesota Press, 1966). The book consists of a study of European diplomacy in China on the eve of and during the Boxer Rising. It reveals the influence of both European power politics and of the missionary movement in China in preparing the way for the famous siege of the legations in Peking. 6 What incited the Boxers to their xenophobic acts of de­ struction? That the European nations had increased their demands for territorial leases and concessions was clear and constituted a growing fear and embarrassment to China. That European commerce had made significant inroads into China was also indisputable; it resulted in a deep economic and social displacement for countless Chinese. But when one looks for the issue which supplied the slogans and rallyin~ crys, it was the resentment caused by the presence and actwns of Christian missionaries and their Chinese converts. The middle years of the nineteenth century witnessed a virtual renewal of the Christian missionary movement in China. It was the ships and guns of the commercially aggres­ sive European Powers which opened the way for missionary penetration. The French exercised a sudden new concern for the Catholic missionaries, for their safety had become an as­ pect of national prestige. But it was the British who led the way in seeking commercial privileges, and with the British came the first Protestant missionary groups in China. There were two ways in which the Protestant and Catho­ lic missionaries gained influence in China and both involved clinging to the coattails of a militant Britain and France. Initially they shared in the benefits of the political and com­ mercial concessions forced from China by way of a series of treaties imposed upon China by armed action and thus aptly described as the "unequal treaties." But they also received di­ rect support in some of these treaties. Most significant of these were the Treaties of Tientsin (1858) by which the toleration of Christianity was confirmed, missionaries were permitted to preach and practice Christianity throughout the Empire, and the Chinese

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