Famed Pianist Kovacs Gives The Official Organ of the Students of The University of the South Concert Sunday

by WATTS MILLER the Allegro con fi.co. The ySTLxXVII, No. 8 SEWANEE TENNESSEE, execution NOVEMBER 11, 1959 N. S. No. 1,283 the Stephen Kovacs, famed Hungarian final section, Allegro, employing somewhat fugal treatment innist, presented a recital Sunday af- of the incpal subject of the first Allegro, ;rnoon. Novo. 8, at 3:30 p.m. in Gailor Author Now is admirable. A fiery coda brought I all.

The Wanderer Fantasy is unique in Shubert's Mo; Writing Book music because it is the main example of his few excursions into vir- The successful execution of Mozart's tuoso writing. Aside from interpreta- F major Sonata requires solidarity as

tive obstacles purely II At Sewanee technical require- as gentleness. In his execution of ments present a formidable challenge the Assai allegro Mr. Kovacs was a lit- Eyebrows were raised in famed and to the performer. Mr. Kovacs' interpre- tle too eager, sacrificing ease and depth matronless Barton Hall this past week tation and execution of this piece show- for labored surface effects. The Adagio at the arrival of a personage who, as ed him to his least advantage. The was an excellent display of the sensi- black baron scuttlebut first told it, was Allegro con ftioco lacked assurance tivity and liquid tone slated and of which the pian- clarity, partly because ist is capable. the na villai of excessive use The Presto was superb. o( the as Gaiety This : the i pedal well as failure to give and solidarity pervaded the en- "I have been given no duties of any adequate finality to the musical phrases. tire movement. The simplicity and ease kind." reported Arthur C. Robertson. "I Ascending scale and octave passages in with which Mr. Kovncs executed this just enjoying the hospitality am of the the left hand were somewhat marred final movement made it a certainty that SENIORS University and doing work on a re- ELECTED TO WHO'S WHO are top row, I. t he was intellectually and technically by the pedal. But occasionally ii in Jones, search project." Kane; second row, Thompson, Vaufthnn, Veal, and Wilder. Pictures were no full command of the music. movement Mr. Kovacs displayed . Established in the Barton matrons available for EMe. Forehand, Gibson, and Gregg. markablc capacity for producing Brahms cpurtment, which has lain vacant since Variations quisite tonal effects, executing lyrical the exit of Sewanee's "Ma" Chaney last Brahms was one of many composers passages with superb facility. His '.ummer, Mr. Robertson is preparing an Executive Committee Picks to be fascinated by the diabolical sug- fidence increased in the transitic American version of his recent work, gestions in the theme of the last of the Adagio, during which well-balanced Le Doctrine du General de Gaulle. 12 twenty-four Caprices by Paganini. The Seniors To Who's Who dynamic effects and more precise phi Explaining the nature of the book, he former wrote two sets of fourteen vari- ing apparent. (Continued were The second mc ations each, on page 4) by DON TIMBERLAKE member of the "S" Club. He has also based on this theme, which ment. Adagio, is based on variations arc a tour de force for any performer. served as a Student Vestryman, an ai Twelve seniors in the College were the theme of one of Schubert's earlier Mr. Kovacs performed both sots with lyte, and co-captain of the cross selected this week coi songs, Dei- Wanderer, after which for listing in the an- the solid assurance and knowledge of what German Club entire Fantasia is named, Mr. Kovacs rual honorary publication, Who's Who the music contained. The first set was in was thoroughly aware of the continuity American Colleges and Universities EHe, from Cairo, Egypt, majors dazzling. From the brittle first varia- o f the theme throughout the varia ElectsOfficers Selections were made from O. G. Exe- Political Science and French and tion to the tumultuous variation four- His intonation and phrasing was e cutive Committee nominations on the editor of the Mountain Goat, an assi teen wore numerous opportunities for The German Club has announced its lent except for a few agitato passages basis of four-year, general excellence ant editor of both Cap and Gown and the pianist to astound his audience, and -late of officers for this year. Ed Wil- in which his phrasing lost precision in scholarship, leadership, and partici- Purple, president of Sopherim, Mr. Kovacs took full advantage of liamson was elected president, transition fom the Adagio to the third Wor- pation in athletics and extracurricular president of Blue Key, and Kappa Al- them. The sparkle of variution throe Smith, vice-president, Feldcr suction, Presto scherzo, was sudden tham pha treasurer. He is a member of ODK. was electrifying; the brilliance of the Frederick, secretary and John Roth- Phi Beta muddled. The Presto itself lacked the octave passages in variation Seniors chosen were Bill Barnweil. Kappa, Pi Sigma Alpha. OG thirteen al- pletz. treasurer. New members of the Ring sensitivity, especially in the waltz, most demonioc. Lloyd Elie (alternate), Harry Forehand. and Discipline Committees, French Sot wo promised more organization will be selected at next peggiated passages were played with Jim Gibson, Bob Gregg, Bob Howland; Club, Publications Board. Elie al; pyrotcchniques, and. Mr. Kovacs met week's meeting. holds the than those in the challenge admirably. also, Fred Jones, Bob Kane, Dennis honorary Charles P. Marks Variation Attempts at bringing about several Memorial nine was beautifully Thompson (alternate), Alex Vaugh Scholarship. phrased, while va- changes in party weekends will be made Tony Veal, and riation twelve was hauntingly ethereal. Walter Wilder. Forehand, an Economics major ihis year. The German Club is going An increasingly intense fourteenth va- Tampa, Florida, is proctor of Elliott to try to move the formal dance from Barnwell, a political science ma; Juhan Hopes riation brought the set to a climactic Hall, Prime Minister (president) of the Saturday night to Friday night. They from Charleston, S. C, is proctor of finish. Wellington Club, business i.Iso hope to bring in some more big- Johnson Hall and a member of ODK, manager of the and To Get Organ Hungarian Selection! n.ime bands, in view of the favorable Blue Key, Red Ribbon Society, ATO Cap Gown, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Order Pianist played to a re- lesponse to Lester Lanin's music at fraternity, and the Highlanders. He Bishop Juhan is optimistically confv Kovacs more of Gownsmen. He has been president, Homecoming. co-captain of the track team and dent that the organ fund for All sponsive audience during the second vice-president, and rush chairman of half the His Saints' Chapel will soon reach suffici of program. performance Kappa Alpha fraternity, and is a mi ent proportions to allow the University of the music of his native Hungary, ber of Blue Key, Pan-Hellenic Cour to enter into a contract for construe which showed him at his best, was de- "S" Club, and Red Ribbon Society. servedly well-received. tion. He hopes to be able to make - The Szelenyi Short Piano Pieces /or Gibson, from Bennetssville, S. C, more definite and more hopeful state Beginners consisted group of a Biology major, proctor of Cannon ment after the Board of Regents meets of a con- trasting moods, which were performed Hall, and co-captain of the football Nov. 11. The Bishop said "Recent sub- stantial gifts to the for with simplicity and straightforwardness. team. Gibson is also a member of the Organ Fund All Saints' Here, as in the Prexto of the Mozart, Red Ribbon Society, the Order of Chapel have brought the of presentation Gownsmen, and the "S" Club. Fund up to $45,000, and I feel confident the amazing ease his that within the next few weeks, attested to his control and depth of (Continued on page 4) gift for ihis fund will be received in suffici' understanding of the music. The moods ent amounts to permit the University of the pieces were expertly handled, New Windows to enter into a contract for the finest from the haunting lyrical passages to organ procurable and adequate for All the stark, brittle, percussive ones. Add To Chapel Saints. Such an organ will pro Bartok's experiments in rhythm and cost between $75,000 and $85,000. It will tonal effects were successfully interpre- Another step in thi require at least a year to con; ted. The Allegretto was precisely All Saints' Chapel has been taken with such an or'gan." phrased and well-controlled, though the installation of six stained glass win- Although Bishop Juhan stressed the Mr. Kovacs gave it plenty of verve

fact that it was too early to make an; wherever needed. The sharp percussive window given A by Stephen French definite commitments, the twinkle in hi: Staccato passages in the Scherzo were MeCready (cq> as a memorial to Wil- eye indicated that All Saints' present superb, as were the intricate patterns .iam George MeCready, his father, wheezy chord organ was on its waj of the Allegro motto. The tonal effects Richard Lightburne MeCready, his created in the Sostenuto were sonor- cousin, and Richard French MeCready, ous and beautifully balanced. »>lit. Tlu.r-dav. and Friday. his nephew, has been installed in the Dohnanyi F Minor Cappriccio Memorial Room of Shapard Tower. Music Group The window contains the official seals The F minor Cappriccio by Dohnan- Rhys Directs Drama Selections; of the United States Army, Navy, and yi glittered with shimmering glissandi Air Force. ElectsOfficers and leggiero passages. This composer's tinsel and ornaments are often dispar- In the north aisle of the chapel is To Open New Masque Season Sewanee's Music Club recently elec- Kovacs successful the Ware window which pictures the aged, but, Mr. was ted officers for the coming year. They in putting across the Hungarian nation- The Purple Masque, Sewanee dra- the sergeants sense of kinship with seals of Oxford and Cambridge Univer- are: president, Dave Wilson; vice- alism, which is the core of the piece. matics sities. window given organization will present their his people, to get the sergeant to al- This was in mem- president, Gray Smith; and secretary- first ory of Dr. Sedley Ware, former pro- In performing Kodaly's extremely na- program of the season with a "Re- low his escape. Ireasurer, Tony Walsh. cital of Short Dramatic Pieces" directed fessor of History, by his relatives, inalistic Dances from Marossek, Mr. Strindberg's The Stronger is a by Mr. Brinley Rhys. friends, and students. It was made by The purpose of the Music Club is to ovacs enjoyed himself more than in "scene." It sketches actresses, one two of Atlanta. further its members' musical knowledge lylhing else he played. The intense , Swayback Auditorium will be the Lorenz babbling on, but exposing the life of Hungarian emotion, coupled with flaw- ecene of the three nights of theater on Four windows in the north wall of her, her husband, and the other actress. students ended in a splurge of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, Nov. the west wing were made by Don- st in good music among the ess technique, The second actress remains silent show- residents of To this end, irtuosity and an astounding climactic &1. 12, and 13. The dramatic pieces to ald Wippell and Company of Exeter, nd Sewanee. ing her emotions only by her facial ex- Vilson says that the group is planning be presented are The Rising of the England. The window in the St. Au- recitals this year Moon, by Lady Gregory; Strindberg's gustine's Guild room shows the seals o sponsor several an encore Mr. Kovacs offered featuring instruments as 'cello, The Stronger; The Bespoke Overcoat, After an intermission, Benny Mathews o of Sewanee's greatest chaplains, such transcription of Wagner's Tannc- by Wolf Markowitz: Robert Benchley's will do The Treasurer's Report by Bishop Gailor and Dr. DuBose. An- harpsichord, and concert piano. They Overture. Flawlessly executed, with the Concert Society in The Treasurer's Report; and Chekov's Robert Benchley. of the windows, formerly in a also work the piece abounded in devilish pyro- helping to choose and promote their out, On the Harmfulness of Tobacco. The last work is Wolf Mankowitz's private chapel in the Gailor house, techniques. As the pianist pointed programs throughout the year. The Rising of the Moon is an Irish The Bespoke Overcoat. Mr. Mankowitz, contains the antique coat of arms of these Lisztian orgies are rarely played. the comedy. It shows an encounter be- a contemporary British playwright, has Bishop Quintard. Below this window Particular stress will be laid on stu- Being more of a conservatory study, his brains out trying to tween an Irish sergeant and a revolu- called this "a sustained, typically over- is another which pictures the old seal dent interest in good music this year student beats practice pal- The long Jewish joke—than which there is of the University. This window was and on student support of the musical learn one, receiving only manages, by appealing to no sadder and no funnier story." formerly in St. Luke's oratory. programs that will be available. lor as reward. Letters to the editor lamp Suggests Land of Free? issues Last February an incident occurred on this Greater campus which, in subsequent weeks and montlis, produced considerable discussion, concern, and 'ihan Parties controversy. To the Editor of The Sewanee Purple: As the Tennessee State Legislature was con- You asked for faculty opinion on the weighty sidering a bill providing S5.OO0 to investigate Folk School for subversive activi- problem that has absorbed most of the editorial Highlander ties, 12 Sewanee professors petitioned the gov- attention of the Purple thus far in the academic very ernor in protest against such an investigation. year. Here is one opinion that isn't worth at the pres- The letter contained the names of some of the much, but it is the best that I have most learned and respected men on campus, men whose reputations were among the most secure

What is needed most of all is for on the Sewanee scene, and one or two who had the editorial staff of the Purple i reached the exalted state of "traditions" in their the that there are a few problems, other than own lifetimes. problem of party weekends, that may deserve On the other hand, the letter was also signed Just to mention a several professors acknowledged to constitute a little student attention. by summit con- the more liberal element of the faculty. One few: (1) Ihe problem of the coming could expect, many asserted, these men to pull ferences, (2) the problem of the implementation such a stunt; the inclusion of the former group of Supreme Court decisions OFF WITH HIS HEAD! confused us. segregation, (3) the problem of iclt-.-ir fallout, improve- As far as we know, no attempt was made to (4) expenditures for armament, (5) publically present the motives of this group, an ment of the American educational system, (6) unfortunate lack. the improvement of the academic excellence of Literaries Instead, the administration hastened to assert policies toward the Lecture?, Laziness. Sewanee, (7) our national that the views expressed were the opinions of nations of Asia and Africa, (8) the rapidly magazine new The attendance at the first duPont lecture types of humor, but a college humor the individuals concerned, not the university. wild life areas of our land, (9) malicious disappearing given by Dobzhansky was a gratifying sight. is no place for libelous, off-color and The Purple was silent. Eventually, the Alumni decisions concerning civil ." recent Supreme Court The Union Theatre was packed to the gills- articles about faculty members. . . News presented an account of how last spring's over liberties, (10) the control of the hucksters people were jammed into the balconies, folded And from the University of Kansas: 'The Uni- variety show had delightfully "spoofed" the of magazine media of communication, (11) the balancing along the aisles, and sprawled out on the floor versity of Kansas will have no humor whole issue with satirical references to the it seems to the power of giant corporations and giant unions under the stage. this year. This we hate to see for Highlanders and the Red Dean. curiosity left on the age in which we live. ... We in such a way that the public good is not lost Maybe there's some intellectual reflect No word. And we students were forced to because we that I the Mountain after all! The majority of the cannot laugh. ... We do not laugh unintelligible answers to sight of. There are dozens of others on return home and give the student body came, and most of the faculty. This are frightened that we will break through such as, "What's this I hear might have named. hometown questions have erected is a healthy sign. In fact if we may compare false facade of seriousness we about communists at Sewanee?" party weekends are concerned, So far as the the Centennial Symposia of a couple years ago, around ourselves. We cower before decaying On the basis of what we admit to be some- with the rules and proba- faced I had nothing to do up. Thanks again of conformity. . . . We cringe when attendance this year was way idols what incomplete authority, we believe we can honest about the maga- bly never shall. But let us be to Mrs. Alfred I. duPont for her very gracious with a harmless institution like a humor throw some light on the issue, light which shines to worth of paper has matter slop talking about "returning t.'iit io Sewanee, zine. For this quarter's and into areas far beyond the immediate situation. the sword that will the 4:15 curfew." A 4:15 curfew is no curfew at Another fine showing attendance-wise, was the power. Its satire wields What we shall present involves more than in- sponsored by the Lec- idols and free us from our compla- night is over at that time. It is only concert Sunday afternoon smash our all. The tegrated Highlander classes, the millstone drop- tures and Concerts Committee of the University. by a very stupid twisting of the longitude of conservative calm, or the magazine and ped into Sewanee's not 5:15. Nearly every seat was taken and the west side Furman is out to overhaul their the time belt that what we call 4:15 is Tennessee legislature':- political circus act. of the dining room filled. One estimate put the it "something of a cross-breed curfew; maybe Se- intend to make Maybe there should be no Undoubtably, the motives of the protesting crowd at better than two hundred. This is cer- between the New Yorker and H. L. Mencken's wanee gentlemen should stay with their dates ried. Wha1 tainly a turn-about from some concerts of pre- old journalistic torn cat, Smart Set—which had all night. Maybe the girls' parents would be per- was the basis, commi and underlyin; an engaging way about it of brawling with sa- such an arrangement. But, by these 12 men? fectly happy with The enthusiasm which the recent lecture, con- cred cows with one calloused hand and tenderly for this move honest about if abolish the curfew, let us be have received i; quite :ricks with the believe it to have been their ineffectual, we cert, and Cinema Guild cuddling i We what we are doing. Let us make it perfectly obviously a good sign. What is the Si but brave, part in an issue which is of growing personnel throughout clear to everyone, includng the girls' parents, Man coming to? Could it be possible that he To each his own. And there have been as concern among academic Kovacs as there that when a girl visits Sewanee she is complete- would rather listen to Dobzhansky and many different Mountain Goat Concepts the ( ntry. than study English or chemistry, or see Birth aj humour-literary magazines. The Goat the right ly under the care and supervision of Sewanee have been Do legislative bodies have a Nation, rather than First Man mto Space? swung spasmodically between the grossest institutions for holdi students and nobody else. And let us have done, has ize educational type of humour and sarcasm to the brilliance or employing personnel who hold vi once and for all, with hypocritical, nonsensical From an editorial entitled "Lazy, Intellectu- and sophistication of the Fleming-Sweeney- trary to those of the legislatures? Or talk about hostesses. Students" ally Bigoted Instructors Plague of by Saussy tradition. ticularly, is the southern academi told so; but I have a feeling following excerpts: adminis- No one has me George Sokolsky we take the It is a curious phenomenon that the losing its freedom of speech? And as a result, others responsible today, as ever, are problems to Goat, Purple, or Cap that the Dean of Men, and "Young people tration always calls the is the south losing its academic community? it might be easier for their parents, but for other reasons than form- Good One" which keeps off their for the rules, decided that and Gown "A To be blunt: can Dr. X be a Negro lover erly. Each generation makes its own confusions. or which will appeal to alums Sewanee students to get dates with the better tender sensibilities without having to go north? for party In the 1930s some became Communists and and the never-failing benefactors. type of girls if there were some rules From evidence presented to us on reputable

. . squares are others New Dealers. . Today there are But Purples. Goats, and Cap and Gowns authority Dr. X is going north, going of his own with their noses to the grindstone, who, having a good thing and we should do ourselves a fa- enough accord before his honesty and conscience place Is there anyone around here ingenious despaired of doing much to this world, seek out nor and stan- by. chased north. a.m.? him in the position that he is to get a dance started before 1:00 its physical composition. There are the long- dards of good taste. The rec> c ensorship of incident such as the Autherine Lucy epi- hair and short-hair musicians . . . Beatniks slick. a reminder to An Sewanee has a reputation for academic ex- the Washington and Lee person, sode at >ama triggers an exodus of faculty, Then there is the rather conservative all th publication staffs of what has cellence. Let us hope that, before many more it head at the University of South of whom writes to me as follows: There is such a thing A depar some student intellectual one happened hi months have passed, " after butting idealogical is accepted things Carolina is dismissed '. . . Today there no commonly as good satire and genuine humor. These effort will be expended on some subject other with state officials. set of values in this country on any subject do not come as easily as the type of literature heads than party weekends. whatsoever. "Freedom" of thought and expres- which the W & L magazine obviously came out On the undergraduate level, a South Caro- Cordially yours, anti-segrega- sion have been so absurdly over -emphasized with. Most of the time Sewanee has worked lina state capital page writes an David B. Camp that one is a square if one doesn't preface every pretty hard to produce the type and quality tion editorial in the university's newspaper and

par- . P.S. Any student who thinks that Sewanee opinion with a long line of maybes. . . The only publications it has in the past. FGJ IiikL- himself out of a job. is having a par- ties are the most important things in the world sin today, in academic circles, These are incidents gathered at random from tially closed mind. Yet disagree with a profes- to him is perfectly free to say so. I assure him spasmodic personal observation. affect his sor over some minor point of his pet theory, and Not 'Buffet'? that his opinion on this matter will not Why find this: Northern university administrations you end up with an "F". This is also confusing. chemistry grade one particle. state whereas southern born and bred professors pre- Before I get to my complaint, I want to What do you go to college for? To learn some- complaint. Mr. Oates' viously preferred to accept lower salaries al .' that this is not really a thing, or to learn how to think? . . southern institutions so they could stay in the major interest is to give us, the students, ex- "This is the complaint I hear on all sides. . . . they loved, they now readily, and in in- actly what we want as far as his budget will South real problem is not intellectual bigotry "The numbers, accept the offers of these Men Are Slaves allow him. Yet one gets the feeling that some- creasing but physical and mental laziness. The instructor, Utopian situation has gone somewhat orthen having worked out the questions and the an- how this Their Own choose i thf To suppers. if these men when it comes to Sunday night Even swers, does not want to be challenged by novel- astray cannot stifle their integrity. idea is a good one; it is nice to be able South when they ty, by the student who thinks things out for him- The inventions teach in private institu- to eat at the fraternity house or while watching even if they happen to self, who reaches another conclusion. Perhaps imprevious to the television, or to wait until a later hour even to tions which are relatively To the Editor: the instructor is not intelligent enough to cap- find I suspect that few look actions of legislatures, they fear they may Recently I attended a lecture which must have begin supper. However sandwiches of somewhat du- themselves subject to the politically generated been very good. A world -renowned expert spoke (From the Chattanooga News-Free Press, No- forward to stale society. to the trouble of bious origin. Would it be possible to have Se- criticism of southern on evolution. But why go vember 5, 1959.) sandwiches we Is not the ambiguous brand of "integrationist having a great mind come here to speak if we wanee-type smorgasbord: with who ourselves from perhaps six o'clock frequently stamped indiscriminately on those are going to shut audience and speaker up in a The college literary magazine seems to be can make tc that If Mr. Oates would supply only do not consistently bow down room with no ventilation and the heat on, so taking a beating from several quarters this year. p.m. to seven? fairly appetizing spread of separate but equal doctrine, and t everyone goes to sleep. The latter part of the A week or so ago, the magazine of Washington the bread, and a could make the kind lecture was lost to me. I just could not fix my and Lee was confiscated and destroyed by the bread fillings the students want. Most of the kitchen Considering this and the extremist at dizzy attention on what was being said. I tried Publications Board. The magazine was withheld of sandwiches they for their own Sunday night 'get those integrationalists any way my best, but could not fight the odds that were from distribution because of "obscenity and per- l.elp would be free would be free, for :ust get 'em," observe the next step. against me. sonal slander to certain members of the ad- pleasures (church?) and we appalling sight of sand- Dragging Old Glory into their circu.' is particularly noteworthy that the most part from the Let's face it; we are becoming slaves of our ;egregationsts and vote-hungry politic student- wiches thrown away because their owner just heating systems. They could be used to real the Publicati Board at W & L is would make only the of trolled. quote from an editorial in the couldn't "stomach" them. One jidv.'intage if we would only use our heads 8 To just ; the bread would about a subtle < attle i c and newspaper "It's about time that mem- the sandwiches he can eat, and little and remember what they are for. I al- W & L one begins eating bers of the student body awaken to the fact at least be a bit younger when ways marvel at the meagre flame burning ir tb of the worst "The land of the free nd the home of the faculty and in the it. I think this plan would get rid human brains when I see how men create thing; that there are men on brave." Our Southland? administration have rendered parts of the Sunday schedule as it now functions to make life easier and then become slaves t< University's who and kitchen to en- Is our Southland long service to W & L and should not be ridi- and allow the student body > and the bigoted only? DBf most joy most of its benefits. JAV J. J. Slade, m culed for it. There's a time and place for SEWANEE PURPLE, NOVEMBER 11, 1959 Professors State Views Myles Horton Highlander Founder Toward Highlander Policy Possesses Admirable Personality by DONALD Several 7 PORTER professors insis.ed that one byhv DONAin pn»TCO „.„,,, .,.._., e a great many Sew DONALD PORTER Myles Horton tcrfere Horton as a hold-ov with this and indeed lifTercnt from othei feels fessors who know a good deal about ties—that the fanaticis Myles Horton, founder and present he cannot interfere'- ibility to sit contemplating the world Highlander School. However, it is director of the he wants the its is a thing of the pa; school, is the Highland- to do is make sure that the is it rushes by. Horton is a to find any one of them who dis- er Folk School. Without man with hard iver philosophy (and that him now the equality of the change, the means > principle he believes in by school because it school so strongly likes the is founded never could have existed; with- which all men obtain their right to the same principles that every out him now the on sane school could not con- equal opportunity, is done is a fair- American believes in—equality for all way so that no man will get trampled Myles Horton merely carries these be- lh.iloi Savannah, Ten- under in the rush. He firmly believes liefs to their logical conclusion. If one nessee and went to college at Cum- that the means used in this struggle accepts America's views on democracy berland University. He studied Chris- will place a mark or a stamp necessarily follows that one will tian Ethics for a year on the il be- under Reinhold tnd result. The means for him lieve in Horton's principles. However, Kiebuhr at Union Theological Semi- deter- mine the quality of the end— Horton is not the only person who nary and did his graduate work in so- and it is this quality that he wants knows how to use necessary logical ciology at the University of Chicago. to effect. Perhaps a deduction, and several good For a year Horton sudied the Scandi- way to explain this is to Horton's idea come forth by carrying his navian economic cooperatives and folk of the develop-

1 of labor i their logical conclusion in the light of schools and then he returned to found He believes that me eventual position present social conditions—not in the Highlander Folk School in Novem- of labor in the United States cuum as he describes the proces was slated to arrive at equal power with management is the same criticism America has of On first meeting Myles Horton one at a cer- tain date. He felt communism. It works fine when is immediately struck by his relaxed when he was help- ing Hie labor unions that sidered all by itself but falls apart but alert attitude. His dress is casual nothing he of the school) of could do would hurry this when actual men are placed in the pi; complete democracy and his voice warm and interesting, time. The : only and the coming inexortiable but Mil 1 S HORTON thing he could do was in the real world. Human beings jl millennium behind this careless exterior is the prepare the has been shown to be almost concern labor unions for the time aren't ideal beings—and ideal plans a utterly of a man dedicated to a cause that when they he mot rest while it is being untenable. In the did gain power— to not going to fill their needs. Horton last analysis Horton's he deems ultimate. His house reflects instill in them a violtited 'his belief is that idea of Hegelian oil men feeling that they should fails to take into account inexorability comes much of him as a man. It is the oldest not exact re- deserve equal opportunity in every to be a venge on management economic, or political forces denial of free will—which house on the Mountain, a 147-year or stamp on old side of their life. He beli modern philosophy other minority groups now in this country. This is and science can at- log cabin, but has the style and when they had com- time in the future, in some Hegelii tack with gained their rightful that his plans haven't been very widely their left hands. His idea of fort of the most modern house. Now position. If la- type fashion, his belief will making all becomi bor unions had listened accepted. men completely equal is it is split-level ranch type with rooms to him they reality. This eventual reality, this u close to being foolish. would not be in the trouble they Before the critical remarks it is only Men are not wandering about filled with comfort- are pia, will come at a certain equal, they rate in now, and it is precisely fair to say that to a are different. The very fact able furniture and books because they man the profes- worn from speed that no that they are man can slow down did listen to him thut sors defended the right of the school different, strong in some use. In the main room, a combinati they are not in speed up. He does not attempt to respects, weak in others, more trouble. to exist as long as it broke no laws. automatically of parlor and den. there is a baby gra Several expressed an earnest opinion ore opportunities than piano, a component hi-fi set, shelf af- that Sewanee residents, as members of ter shelf of books, and a massive Howeever, one attack i.n academic institution, should actively may Horton per- fireplace. On the back wall of this Myles Horton Established defend the school's right to exist be- , and no matter what opinion ceiling picture wi in has that one does not which cause several attacks on the school have agree looks out over a stone patii Adult he fact Education At bordered on violating freedom of edu- remains that he has a small lake. Just inside this window Highlander inder our system of law to cation. Several were distressed also at have re large elephant leaf plants which by DONALD zations. PORTER The method has always been jl and spread the nature of the attacks because the his opinions to all ive the illusion that there is no While in Europe Myles Hort. educational, and the school ant to hear them. And has been i although n the window ickers would i and that house an< the in contact with a type of education t come to High- open and state what they thought was ure blend together. Horton say that Americans lander, it not like Horton's know little about goes to no one. Since 1954 wrong with the school; instead they views, we must /ould like to spend his life here read- adult education. the 'e his right to teach He says this is a con aim of the school has been to gave scrupulous attention to the trivial, them or Se- ng and listening to music, and bee: spread idea the itself may find itself mon in Europe, especially in Eng- Supreme Court decision formal regularities in an attempt to get restricted f his utter sincerity and candor concern- land, but that, this ing public schools rid of it. country still finds and segregation to it strange. It any One criticism a Sewanee faculty mem- attempts to educate elements of the population who norant adults in are ber made was that the school might a community with ba- unaware of what this means for be used sic knowledge them. This as a political football by Horton's HighlanderSustains so they can understand is not to say that the school national minority themselves has organizations I and changed which the world they live i or that it has developed have a good deal more axe to Because adult grind education tries to edi a new policy. Negroes have been wel- than Horton. Many Legislative The school should Attacks cate rather than establish claims come at the school from its beginning, ihat it might be doing some of the authority its but the Anyone who takes a stand on High- issued a padlock order on the building methods are differei major shift of emphasis came dirty work for them. Another rea lander falls into from those about one of four categories where the beer was being sold. we are used to. There ai because the labor unions became to the school was that any orgai He either knows the truth no textbooks, able about the The very latest legal attack is one on desks, or quizzes. No d to handle themselves. Some people tion which attempts to buck majority school by visiting it or studying official the plomas grounds that the school cannot are handed out, and no credits think, however, that it was the aeliefs and mores is going to find itself labor reports and likes or dislikes the truth, operate under a Tennessee law which are issued. It adapts itself to the best unions who dropped i camping ground for the bohemia 01 the Highlander or else he a lie knows and likes or dis- declares that schools shall not be in- way of reaching he lunatic -fringe section of society the pupil and presents School because they felt the school was likes the lie. We are fortunate in this tegrated. The state claims this action the material to him beneath 3eing associated with these will hurt through this me- them. The school seems to country not to have to worry about the is legal because the 1954 ts efforts Supreme dium. Its with more pedest whole aim is to give the work in three areas in promoting legal people who entertain lies. We have ex- Court integration mentions only public ::ens. It was felt individual who for also that the school amined various socological integration. It teaches the integration the school from the standpoint schools—not private ones. This can only ihould carefully examine its methods— icasons never obtained any formal of those ed- ' and its implications to people who know the schoo be a delaying action and will not da- anyone who t might be doing as much harm to na- ucation some awareness of the oppor- willing and like it, but let us now turn to those mage the school to come to the school; it ural permanently. harmonious relations in the South tunities of his environment that he is people who know the school and In an interview with the Purple ins leaders to carry on the fight in is the NAACP does. not enjoying. It hopes to get the pupil Myles Horton gave his reasons why he their own ground; and it serves as a One of our more politically orientated to have some understanding of himself The first question is, what is has been so viciously attacked. The immon meeting place where white and >rofessors suggests that Horton's de- mil his situation. whole truth about Highlander? 1 first reason, he says, is that the school egro can become used to association ense of his sale of beer is probably FBI, the House Committee on i is just very different from the stain: THE HISTORY OF THE SCHOOL ith each lot very good. Horton says he did other as equals. American Activities, the Treasury L quo. Simply because the school doe; One can easily see the school iot sell to the public, but a principle which A September 1959 Highlander bulle- partment and the Tennessee Legislat; not exhibit the characteristics if of the would develop with Myles his school is its accessibility to ev- Horton at tin describes a Itave investigated the school and successful education normal Americal school, people do not its head and adult education ryone. In fact there are a lot of pub- as its me- program which one found a charge to agai took place on the Sea Is- bring understand it and are afraid of it. They dium. ic bars which are The principles of the school are more exclusive as Highlander, lands near Charleston, South Most of the di do not know the concept of adult edu- inseparable from Carolina. who drinks there than the High- Myles Horton as they cation Local Negroes with the help and en- and do not realize that the short are, for all practical reasons, the same lander Folk School. Horton also states couragement of of Highlander set up a hat he did not thing. Thus the Highlander Folk make a profit on the colony to teach other South Carolina raining periods. The second reason the opei ne in the eer and that this is a necessary wo part Negroes how to become "first-class vot- ^hool is attacked is that education of If he is . a sale. a member of persecuted i 1 But this has nothing t to ing citizens." The schools' "practical ie needs of society must run counter nority the school wil 'ith the actual issue of whether sa a business" is literacy and its "immediate ) the majority on most issues. if him the f any alcoholic Even training to enable him to cop beverage took plac purpose is to enable tfllum but : students to pass ie majority does not think so, the with the situation. The school ven if Horton lost a quarter identi on evei the South Carolina literary test for vo- me is ripe for an educational program fies itself with eer but some money was exchanged no creed or dogma, bu ter registration." Highlander is school as there ii integration support just as the thirty's were does try to aim its total efforts to wan gadually being ght for the withdrawn so the colony growth of the labor union. hat area which it believes is the mos Another criticism this professor made triis was a can run on its own. Highlander hopes not he school champions beliefs which in- leedful of knowledge hich is crucial of its position concerns minority that the inspiration derived from this During the thirty's it roups in general. There helped labor urn has been a school will encourage others to set up by teaching the workers how t< mdency during the last twenty years the hi.'. in their own colonies throughout the e eldership but ; legally. and set )r minority groups ize up democratic organi- to be almost more South. Septima Clark (see group pic- 3ual than the majority of the people. lure) Director of Education, made this locks of group-conscious voters have o had attend- een the deciding factor in the close adult school was able to get a of state: a tion certificate and they were ecause they do not hold the balance >py about it they came back to power they have been catered to hool shouting!" uch more than their numbers deserve. Highlander Folk School is a non- ohticians have bent double leaning jrganization supported by around 'er backwards to enlist these groups ontributors. It is also supported i their side. Certainly this is tyranny e Marshall Field Foundation a minority—and more unfair, by Adlai Ste1 orton s own standards, than the ynce Hopkins Fund, the Bishop Rob- ampling of the minority by the ma- : S. Haddock rity. Fund, and the Phelps- skes Fund. SEWANEF. PURPLE, NOVEMBER 11, 1959

Executive Committee Selects ATO, SAE Cop First, Second Twelve Men For Who's Who In Intramural Football League by CHARLIE POWELL which. limited Thompson, a Political Science majoi (Continued fro The intramural football season closed of allei from Fern Creek, Kentucky, is chair- Tiger Talk Gregg, of Houston, with the final ATO win last week over field as scrappy a team as this year's is president of ODK and man of the Discipline Committee o( the It is difficult to pick out EnRlish and by STU ELLIOTT KAs. an Snakes. The rest of the league was German Club, and Laird (president) of the Order of Gownsmen and president individual bright spot in the ATO vic- fair, the Beta first-half slump putting the Highlanders. He is also editor of of the honorary social science frater- Last Saturday afternoon in Memphi. tory machine; teamwork produced by them out of contention, and the Kap- the 1960 Cap and Gown, a member of diligent practice and will to win, pa Sigs' misfortune nity, Pi Gamma Mu. Thompson is also a Sewanee team came of age. Afte seems of having their two Blue Key, and was a Student Vestry- to have been the ATOs forte, plus their easiest games cancelled. Actually, the vice-president of Sigma Alpha Epsi- being almost removed from the gann usual depth in players. Fred Devall did year's big surprise Arnold Air Society, * was the Delts' win lon, treasurer of by two back breaking gallops the Tigers iome excellent qua rterbac king on of- (over the Independents), their first in Howlnnd, president of the Order of lootball player for four years, and a clawed back and in the ense and kept his backfield alert de- four years. Gownsmen, is a Mathematics major member of Blue Key and Pi Sigma few minutes wrested the lead back for .'ensively. The best instance of this from Scottsboro, Alabama. Howland is Alpha. The ndings: was probably the SAE game, the big also president of Kappa Alpha, treas- of the Vaughan, of Columbia, S. C. is an game season, when the ATO w urer of Blue Key, proctor of Hunter There could be no mistaking the fact backfield stopped Reed's passing to ATO Hall, and a letterman in basketball English major. He was editor of the that Southwestern was keyed for this Boss, Lyman, and Williamson fairly SAE (freshman and sophomore years). He 1959 Cap and Gown, is vice-president game. It was Parent's Day and also the wel„ and then ATO offense worked PGD is a member of ODK, Red Ribbon So- of Phi Bcui Kappa, secretary of ATO, equally as well. The playoff for third PDT ciety. German Club, and the Highland- president of the Spanish Club, and a last game of the season for the Lynx, place saw the Fijis take the measure of KA ers. Howland has also been member of ODK, Blue Key, Order of They had suffered through a very dis- the Phis, thus picking up ten intra- of the Student Vestry, Gownsmen, Red Ribbon Society, Ger- appointing season and were trying to mural points, leaving the Phis fourth BTP secretary of the Gownsmen's Discpline man Club, Wellingtons, and the Eng- avenge a humiliating defeat at Sewanee with five points. The KA's loss put them KS Committee. lish Speaking Union. He is also on the into a tie for fifth with the Snakes, Theologs staff of the Purple and the Mountain last year. Jones, of Neptune Beach, Florida, ma- this year's upset team, who lost only DTD Coat and is holder of the Thomas In Robert Echols and Billy Landers three games. Certainly much credit Independents jors in English and is the editor of the O'Connor Scholarship. PutiPLE. Jones also is an officer of Al- the Tigers faced two deadly breakaway must be paid to such an organization, •by playoff. pha Tau Omega fraternity, past presi- Head Proctor Veal, of Atlantic Beach, threats. Both were standout stars at Club, corresponding Florida, is a Mathematics major, presi- dent of the Music if Memphis high school and Se- secretary of Blue Key, co-captain of dent of Blue Key, and captain of the had a difficult time containiing Robertson, de Gaulle Expert, the cross country team, letterman in swimming team. He is a member of their outside efforts. They were the track, and a member of ODK, Cap and Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, Green Southwestern running Gown staff, Order of Gownsmen, choir, Ribbon Society, Order of Gownsmen, ain cogs in the Chooses Barton For Studio and the "S" Club. Sabre Drill Team, and the Arnold Air tack which accounted for 344 yards. Society. Leaving his home town, Nashville, he Kane, also an English major, is from It would be impossible to say which graduated from McCallie Military in of Wilder, an Economics major from Rome, Georgia. He is a member lys were the stars of last week's game Chattanooga in 1922. From there he at- Blue Key, Kappa Alpha fraternity, Ar- Port St. Joe, Florida, is captain of the tended Hotchkins School, r Sewanee. Ira Frye was the leading The and next ma- Society, Elite football team, president of the Red Rib- nold Air AF-ROTC giess is necessitated by the audience jored in European history at Yale. ound gainer and came up with a very English bon Society, vice-president of the Hon- Flight. Purple Masque, Speak- to which the American version will be On a Rhodes Scholarship he studied of Gownsmen, swim- or Council, and a member of the Ath- od run for the second Tiger score. ing Union, Order aimed. "It (the present version) is di- anthropology and history in Exeter Kane is also letic Board of Control. Wilder is also ming team, and "S" Club. allace Pinkley found pores in the rected at a French market," he said. College, Oxford, under the same pro- Headwaiter, and a member of the Pub- member of Blue Key, Order ol Lynx pass defense in the second half Published in June of this year, Le fessor as Sewanee history ace David lications Board and the staffs of the wnsmen, ATO fraternity, and the "S" r.nd completed four very vital passes. Doctrine is the result of a ten year Underdown. Returning to Yale, he spent Purple. Club. Mountain Goat and the two years teaching history there. Bill Shasteen was a cool performer as study, both in the United States and France, five trans-Atlantic crossings, "I've had a kind of rolling stone ca- nverted after each score. But the and the subject of two post-graduate reer since then," he stated. that won for Sewanee was an His first enterprise after leaving Yale hi.'lnunc sense of unity and desire Of his subject, Mr. Robertson said, "I was with a novel ranching school in T^ic Flics which seized the team after Landers of have a very high opinion of him. He Wyoming at wheh he tutored in the hich had put them down by 19- has had a very bad press and has been academics. "We had six boys and 2U0 by ED MOORE head of cattle," he remembered. 7. From then on it was obvious that poorly represented." and Friday: iding suspense which the book lacked, "He started as a miltary man and In 1935 he returned to Nashville to they were not to be denied. The line take a fling in real estate, during which lex a role; evolved into the president of a repub- Guiness plays double an ilthough surrendering that large total lic," the author stated, Then, attempt- he developed some family property, the English professor traveling in France of yards got tough when it counted This is the circus film that may well ing a summary of de Gaulle's aims, he old Leland estate.

. , his double, a French count from and put a good rush on the Lynx end all circus films. The only draw- continued, "He is, throughout all his Requesting draft in 1942, Mr. Robert- terbacks in the fourth quarter. Le Mans. The count gets the profes- son was placed in military govern- backs to the flick are an incompre- works, trying to develop the military drunk, leaves him to assume the wance's passing attack which wa; strength and political unity of the west ment. Overseas, he was assigned to de hensible plot and the leading actor. Gaulle as a civil affairs liason officer. rganized life of a man whose mo- lant early in the season really came to secure the dignity, security, and lib- Miss Victor Manure. "That was my first contact with his ad- ! Saturday, and senior ends Jim erty of the common man. His obstinacy ther is a bedridden dope addict, his herents." he said. Mature's circus is bankrupt, but is Gibson and Dale Ray were in large is on behalf of that idea." wife neurotic, his teenage daughter a Robertson revealed that he be- He stayed with military government put on the road by a bank. Then be- ;ponsible. Hoot grabbed a total Mr. ous fanatic, whose sister hasn't of 5 passes and Dale snatched two, one lieved de Gaulle's ideal or strategy to in Germany until 1948, when he began gins sequence of typical circus mis- a his study of de Gaulle. spoken to him in fourteen years, and of which was a very key effort after it conform to military pattern. "Whereas fortunes (all caused by a rival circus): Academically, the study hose business is bankrupt. Guiness is appeared that Southwestern had the strategy and aims never vary, day to has taken lions break loose, fire breaks out, floods him to Colorado College, Colorado aking an attempt to bring the family delay an opening, an attempted murder added in explanation. Springs, for an M.A. and to the Uni- at of its shell and the business out of will fin- This week Sewanee seek to versity of Strasbourg, France, for a On the trapeze, and finally, on the way The biographer's family ties to Se- the red, when the count shows up. ish the year with an above .500 record wanee are close, although he himself Ph.D. to Manhattan, a train wreck. Mature is leads as they play W & L. The Virginia preparation up to a dramatic climax ii not an alumnus. His father, brother, The of Lu Doctrine's determined to get to Manhattan, so team started out the year in very strong which solves absolutely nothing. One and two uncles American edition will be "a matter of the circus plays Hannibal crossing the but has been experiencing difficulty several months," he revealed. gets the impression that Miss du Mau- Alps. Then the circus ends up where got the story so involved that no most poor shows do—on television. It's Swinehart Paces could possibly straighten it out, so bad, but if you enjoyed the circus when she ended it. However it does make Car And Grendel Harriers To Tie you were in grammar school it is worth good flick. t Southwest- LARGEST SUPERMARKET seeing. Spell Hubert's End ern the Tiger harriers had their third Sunday and Tuesday: Wonderful The entire mountain top mourns the meet of the season. The meet turned Owl Flick Friday: Seueii Year Itch. IN THIS AREA Country. death of Hubert, who was struck down out to be a tie—a very rare occurrence Tom Ewell designs covers for paper- by a car yesterday morning on the in cross country. Each team had a The wonderful country is where Mex- back books. He becomes interested in way to compulsory chapel. total of 28 points when the first five ico meets west Texas, and, bare as it a psychology book he is working on, runners for each squad were totaled. witness to the accident stated is, is much more wonderful than this An eye and especially interested in the chap- Sewanee had the meet's first place lhat the late friend of the mountain was 9 picture. It has little or no main plot ter dealing with infidelity in the sev- finisher in Chuck Swinehart. South- and about forty-eight subplots. only injured by the car, but that Gren- enth year of marriage. So after seeing But western finished second, third, and del, starting on a campaign to avenge for those who like westerns, this i: his wife and son off on a summer va- fourth and Sewanee's Tarn Carlson ostracized his sort of western they like. his being by more na- cation, he feels compelled to have ex- came in fifth. Fred Brown of Sewanee turally colored canine cohorts, prompt- tramarital relations with the girl up- finished sixth and Jim Mitchell of the Robert Mitchum is hard. He killed his ly thundered out into the street and stairs—Marilyn Monroe. Thus begins a Tigers was seventh. Southwestern was first man when only fourteen year alleviated Hubert's suffering. The green series of very involved situations will* eighth and Dan Tatum of Sewanee was to avenge his father's death. He wonder picked a fight with the dying the innocent young lady. ninth, Carl Cundiff of Sewanee was caped to Mexico, and is under the dog and killed him. vice of a dictator. tenth and the fifth Southwestern run- The humor of the picture is good— While in the United ner finished 11th. an especially notable scene shows a States on a mission for this dictator he breaks his VISIT THE plumber searching for a wrench in a leg. Since he is such ; bath tub filled with Marilyn Monroe hard guy, everybody in Texas want Good at him: the Food Miss Monroe is in true form as a brief- U. S. Army, the Texas Rang- WHERE ers, and an Army general's ly clad dumb blonde. And with chap- wife (Julii SEWANEE Cowan Cafe ter eight of Captain Video included London). It looks like Julie will win but MEN GATHER Super Market this flick is a must. Mitchum kills another man and ha to flee again to Mexico. But the Majoi ^owan, tennessee and his wife show up in Mexico to Rolling Acres Motel build a railroad. Apaches take care of the major, P. S. Brooks Co. and Mitchum takes care AAA TV Call WAbash 4-3581 Call TJie Scapegoat is adapted from Da of the Apaches. By this time, all forty- WE 2-7201 :>hne du Maurier's 1957 best-seller; the eight subplots need resolving and the Sewanee, Tennessee Winchester, Tennessee picture is as good as the book, rest of the flick is concerned with these. SEWANEE PURPLE, NOVEMBER 11, 1959 Tigers Overtake Lynx Setback To Win 21-19

by STU ELLIOTT The Lineup: Ends—Gibson, Down 19-7 at one point in the thin Ray. Brittain, Sanders quarter the Tigers roared back to tak Tackles—Gee, Turner, J,, McGowan, ;. 21-19 victory over Southwestern I Rushton. Shields spoil Parent's Day for the homestand Guards—Young, Rogers, Monroe, Knei- ing Lynx. The contest was played bo slcy, Turner, W. fore a crowd of approximately four Centers—Thompson, Chandler, Yates, thousand in Crump Stadium. Shasteen Midway through the first quarter Ro- Backs—Cheek, Frye, Pinkley, bert Echols the Lynx quarterback Wilder, Pensinger. Rice, Brown, Cooper brought the crowd to its feet with n 71- yard scoring dash. He rolled out to his Sewanee Southwestern left and with three blockers proceeded lown the sidelines. The attempted 344 placement was low and the Lynx held H 6-0 advantage. Passes Comp. 8-1G 0-4 With (our minu Punting 6-30.3 4-26.7 fust period, Jim Gibson recovered a bad Fumbles lost 2 pass from center on a punt attempt Penalties _ 60 60 -, 65; Glnd. the Southwestern 38. Sewanee scored Sewanee 7 14 ; 0—21 Sammy Gill, 28; Wait 30; Wallace Pinkley. 31; Wayne Me in 8 plays with Ira Frye 14. Third Row: thi Southwestern 6 6 7 19 Danny Wood atrick McGcma 71; Jody Gee, 77; Max Young, 72: yards to Jim Gibson on on< liields, 74; John Tu. 0; Jimmy Graves, 64; WilHn , 76; Wayne Ri hton, 73; Thomas Sadler, 23. Fourtl Tiger Statistics; and 6 yards on another. The payoff Smith, 40; Jan s Sanders. 80; Lynwood Pueschcl, 85: came on a five-yard pass to end Jin S4; Dale Ra- Robert Libbv. 68; Joe Brit Sanders. Bill Shasteon converted I Frye 58 291 18 273 4.7 give Sewanee a 7-6 lead. Wilder 85 296 92 204 2.4 Pensinger 52 181 3 178 3.4 The Lynx scored their second touch Moore, Carter Gill 32 124 30 85 2.6 down after a drive which started oi Pinkley 27 89 24 65 2.4 Ihe Sewanee 36. The six play marcl Rice 32 65 5 60 1,9 Help «v;i5 highlighted by a 14-yard dash by Gridders Kinnett 3 19 halfback Glenn Hays. Quarterback 19 6.3 Brown 6 23 11 12 2.0 Greatly responsible for the success • Frank Wcatherby sneaked in from tin Ray 1 3 -3 0.0 Sewanee football since Shirley Ma jo one for the score. This time Southwest. tried came to the Mountain are em a pass for the extra point; but it failed. coaches Horace Moore and Cla Pinkley 21 11 132 197 Later in the quarter Frye 28 11 107 Carter, Moore has been the line coach a 17-yard pas: 380 p. ay for a Southwestern score was call- Wilder 29 9 89 293 for five years and Carter h ed back and subsequently a field at- I he backs for the past three tempt was made which fell short mak- Coach Moore came to Sewanee from ing the score 12-7 at the half.

Tracy City where he had been head Billy Landers, fleet Lynx, half widi Sewanee Tackles coach at Grundy County High School ed the Southwestern lead early in third when he burst 78 yards Strong Generals His teams had a record of 30 wins 16 to the third score. Guard Mike Truscott add- losses and 4 ties. Prior to the war he Ths Saturday the Tigers will end their ed the point . . . and the Lynx led 19-7. GRIDIRON COACHES Lef \fht line co ach Hora season at Hardee played football at the University of Field against a vast- Shirley Majors, and backneld cone i Cla renc i Carte are (he men who have put the This seemed to fire the Tigers up ly improved Washington and Lee team. Tennessee playing both guard and 59 Tigers through their paces. and cen they took the ensuing kick off back 52 The Generals who have not enjoyed ter. After the war he finished hi yards in 7 plays, Ira Frye carried thi a great deal of success since they drop- schooling at TPI. Coach Moore is also ball on all but one of these plays and ped subsidized football have their best Six Seniors To Terminate the wrestling and track coach he scored from the 12 on a determined record in four seasons. Thus far this effort after shaking off three tackier year they have won two lost three and Coach Carter, in his third ye Shasteen again converted and Sewanee tied one. Wins have come over Centre wanee, graduated from the University of College Careers Saturday trailed by but 14-19. 45-8 and Dickinson College of Pennsyl- Wyoming in 1956. He coached at thi vania 42-14. The Generals have lost Saturday six Sewanee seniors will be Tiger team having at one time or an- Midway in the third period the Ti- University of Indiana in the spring o to Franklin and Marshall 28-14, Hamp- I seeing their last collegiate action. Thi other played all positions on the Tiger gers started their winning drive from 1957 before coming to Sewanee. Carte den-Sydney 12-0 and last Saturday to group has proven to be the nucleus of team. In the last few games he has been the Sewanee 27. After several running was All Skyline Conference Carnegie Tech 20-16. (he team for the last three years and doing a good job at fullback and has in both plays had gained short yardage, Wal- 1955 and 1956. The Generals all six boys have been starters since sparkled on defense. He was All Western ii lace Pinkley hit Dale Ray for a 26- use the unit form of 1955 and Honorable Mention All Ameri substitution with Jack Groner direct- iheir sophomore season. The sextet is Walt Wilder from Port St. Joe, Flori- yard play to the Southwestern 41. On ca in 1956. Coach Carter is also the ing one team and Frank Suttle the comprised of ends Jim Gibson and Dale da, stands 5'10" and weighs 165. This the next play Pinkley again connected p.ssistant basketball and track coach. other. They also use the T" in Ray, guard Max Young, center Dennis season he has been slowed by a thigh with Ray but only after the end had "Go Thompson, taken which the quarterback lines up as in and backs Steve Pensinger injury and has been shifted from tail- Also helping out with the line this the ball out of the hands of a and the regular T but the ball can be snap- Walt Wilder. back to wingback. He has been one year is Bobby Potts the Little All would-be interceptor. With the ball on Gibson, the ped to the fullback or halfback thus a 6 foot 185-pound native of of the big guns offensively for Sewanee American guard from last year. Potts Southwestern 29 Pinkley threw still giving the effect of the single wing. Eennettsville, South Carolina, is the over the last three years and stiffens up had used up his eligibility in football two more times. He passed to Hoot Gib- in the line for ; 1 for Standouts Jmg i i son gains & are the this ! !he defense considerably from the safe- but still had a semester left before grad- of 16 and 9 yards and W L son as he has been throughout his Se- ty position. the Tigers had a first down on the 230 lb. tackle Dick White and 146-lb. wanee career. Hoot is also a rugged Lynx four. Pinkley got two and then r Terry Fohs who despite his lack force on defense and has a knack for fullback Steve Pensingeer cracked two kc was voted the best tackier on yards up the middle for the touchdown, the squad last year. In the backneld Dale Ray is a 6 foot 175 pounder from een split the uprights for the third to watch are Bill Young, Bobby Tullahoma. His speed has enabled him and Sewanee had its winning Funkhouser, and Jim Hickcy, all three margin. halfbacks.

passes. On defense his end is seldom The Lynx threatened once in the fi- if ever turned. al quarter when they got to the Se- Young from Knoxville is 61" and wanee 20 but the Tigers held on to THE MOTOR v-eighs 205 pounds. He played tackle rotect ther slender lead. for three years before being shifted to MART Ira Frye led the Tiger rushers 3& Euard this season. A great two way per- with net of 123 M.ix has good speed and agility yards in 26 carries. Wal- ice Pinkley hit on four straight foi ibis s passes ood for a total of Denny Thompson is a 5'10" native of 63 yards. Fern Creek, Kentucky, Regular center for three years, Denny calls the defen- sive signals for the Tigers. In addition to this he averages 50 yards on his kick offs CLARAMONT and IW YORK LIFE SEWANEE You'll Find It At TUBBY'S IM WIN A FREE CLARA'S STEAK! Insurance Co. Mutt & Charlie's In the famous, traditional, Claramont Poetry contest Bar-B-Q Capt. W. F. Kline Submit entries extoiing the virtues of Clara's food and USN (ret.) B & G Supply Store atmosphere Steaks • Pizza Life, Accident and Entries must be in the hands of the cashier by Saturday Sickness Insurance Hardware, Sea Food for the next week's contest Paints, Appliances Phone LY-8 5318 and WINNER RECEIVES A FREE STEAK! "Cowans Most Interesting Store" MONTEAGLE TENNESSEE LY-8 5197 —

lire 1 1 Expounds On Crawlies I. S. Missing Starting this week, and appearing each week now until (he end of school, is a cartoon from Tide, Fortune by GRAY SMITH strip by Dave Wilson. The strip will be mainly deal with locally political in character. It will "There is a tide in the affairs of men, which (Note: there were two rather confusing mis- longer of importance" reveals an ignorance al- activities in whatever campus and community taken at the flood, leads on to fortune," The prints in last week's column: a. sipnbol was sub- most beyond rescue. This type of thinking would manner Mr. Wilson sees fit to portray them. As human race is nearing the ebb of that tide by stituted for school, in reference to a school of also, no doubt, conceive of a good actor, after it be funny or even with political cartoons, though may which it may remain comparatively free, harmony; b. hitrastTiteture was substituted for the first night's performance, as experiencing the seri- in its own nasty way, it will generally have exist. Day by day the flood wanes and the m/ms(ructure, a term used by French music cri- same emotional stimulus and reaction with every political cartoons, in pow- ous overtones. And as with forces which would destroy us increase tics, which refers to the internal harmonic de- subsequent performance. The emotional freedom anger if he one should feel honor rather than er. We watch the insidious mushroom growth velopments of a piece, between the treble and and improvisation of the actor is what enables insect. The finds himself being depicted as an of the enemy's war machine, and try to make the bass.) subjective import in his performance. His lines name of the strip is "The Crawlics." peace with their smirking, confident leaders. A and the plot form the necessary structure, but for The implications of last week's column, out- Because I am in my own way responsible few weeks ago we saw that war is as close as can only provide half of the elements instru- clarified could with I recog- side of the difficulties above, the naming of this strip, and because am the moon. An open war with Russia would see mental to the success of the performance. I no trouble at ail provide material for this col- nized as a leading, tbough hardly scientific, au- the almost complete devastation of our country. am not foolishly suggesting, by this comparison, better known umn for the rest of the year. Foremost in the thority of the Craiolus terriblius, That Russia would suffer equally at our hands that music can have subjective merit only if it Wilson implications of the discussion of structure, for as the Crawlie, I have been asked by Mr. is highly debatable. The only answer is for the embodies improvisation Improvisation will al- to explain to the entirely too the attentive reader, should be the question, and the editor of the Purple U. S. to destroy Russia before it is ways be an important aspect of music, but it "Where is all of this structure in jazz going? If unenlightened just what a Crawlie is and why late. This will have to be done with an unan- would be ridiculous to compare the spontaneity we say that the best thing that has happened to Mr. Wilson feels Crawlics to be a fit subject for nounced, carefully planned, massive sneak-at- of improvised music with a premeditated, care- jazz is the donning of its structural cloak, are his strip. ts:ck upon Russia and her satellites. fully executed piece of written music, even of in the fall of 1956 we not advocating a return to Bach, whose mu- When I came to Sewanee proposal would bring immediate, out- the same musician. Improvisation is important Such a car- before been exposed to the insects sic is the epitome of structure or structure I had never spoken reactions from the American people. The simply because of its spontaneity, and for no A ' ried t The : South I was a Yankee or better, a North- of the typical man with position ifi the federal gov- other necessary reason. Just as the spontaneity spent his life in a part of the most emphatic, "No." , erner, who had ernment would puff up his cheeks and label the of dramatic presentation is what enables the ac- where il is too cold for any but the The reasons for this answer are found in the country whole idea as preposterous because everyone tor to delve into his emotions, and in propor- of bugs to live. I was ignorant of the phrase "creative unity," or "collective creation." hardiest knows that the U. S. is ahead of Russia in all tion to the success of his discoveries, makes his that anything as terrifying as a crawling, The semi-spontaneous exemplification of this face aspects of military power. He would condescend- a good actor, so the spontaneity of improvsed furry centipede-like creature could actually ex- idea is the job of the jazz ensemble, and it is ingly explain that all those stories about moon music is equally as true a test of the creativity very much in contrast to the job of the inter- rockets, huge operation;]] ballistic missies, vast- a musician possesses. (Prerequisite for both One morning I got out of bed, and was stand- preter of Bach, or any other composer from the perfection.) ly improved air force, army, navy, are all just would, natura.ly, be technical ing in the middle of the room that I shared in Baroque period. There is no creativity concerned cutlandish Russian propaganda which no patri- Everything said up to this point, however, ac- Hoffman with Zell Hoole, I happened to glance with present day presentations of Bach, the cre- otic American would ever believe. Meanwhile, complishes very' little, for it merely defines what down at the floor. The sight before my eyes was the propa- ative act occurred when he wrote his music. Ad- the typical patriot would reiterate the problem is, not what the solution is. The frightening beyond the powers of expression. Di- mittedly, this creation was one of the most for- ganda routine and from his easy-chair might problem for jazz is to be the main medium for in front of me was this creature, about midable in the history of mankind, and it has rectly throw in a few other acerbic remarks resulting the continued existence of improvisation, but, two inches long, with hundreds of legs, grey- attained a degree of immortality that is unfor- from injured pride, such as: also, to surround this improvisation with struc- brown in color and covered with fur. It ran seeable, at the present time, in the potential of "Let's remember our democratic ideals of just- tural constituents that will convey an idea of directly in front of me, almost over my feet, in jazz, but interpretation of his music since his ice, fair play, non -aggression and don't forget 'collective creation.' In the solution of this pro- its desire to find a secluded spot. I gave a tre- death has had, and will continue to have, nothing the international rules of war or the United Na- blem, there are three areas of pertinence to be mendous scream and jumped on top of Hoole's to do with improvisation. Bach and Handel were tions Furthermore," he would indignantly point explored: the theme, the arrangement, and the Led, then grabbed a shoe and dashed this hor- both quite aware of the value of improvisation, out, "Russia wants peace. Their leader even solo. The relationship of these three, however, rible thing out of existence. From that moment or "spontaneous variations upon the theme" came over here to tell us personally Russia has should not sacrifice vitality and freshness for I lived in mortal terror of these animals. Since Handel exemplifies this awareness quite fre- changed. The days of mean men like Stalin, continuity. The structure should not prevent fear seems to be contagious, my fear spread to quently in his concertos that were written, how- with his sour expression and black moustache, experimentation in these areas, but should en- the rest of the dorm, and eventually over much ever, for himself as organist, accompanied by a are over. Kruschev is fat and jolly and wants courage it. There are virtually unbmited pos- of the Mountain. The boys on the third floor small orchestra. Examples of improvisation are everyone to live in harmony." sibilities, in realms that have not yet been ex- of Hoffman were especially afflicted. Wherever very scarce in the classical period, however, and shows an administration plored and in those that are being explored, we turned there seemed to be these creatures The first reaction except for a few examples such as opera, oppor- one of these areas. George and cover up for its tragic concerning each staring us in the face. This especially seemed trying to save face tunity for improvisation completely vanishes in organization which is past ten years will proba- Russell's concept of tonal to be true when we were in a state of undress, miscalculations. The modem musical composition that is devoid of the Lydian Mode (about which history as the period when the biased upon and therefore felt especally vunerable. People bly go down in more will be said at a later date), has instilled take their American government betrayed its people. In began to be afraid to take showers, or The that says "improvisatic the United States govern- shoes off while on the floor. For a few weeks the vital missile race, downgraded Russian feats, able of overestimation. The work of John Lew- the Crawlics, for that is what they were, ruled ment has started late, pinched pennies and avoided far is has been mentioned earlier. It is only neces- our lives. Finally for our own peace of mind we split authority, are being pushed out sary here to say that he is preeminent in ad- decided that it was either the Crawlies or us, reaching plans until we leading world power. vancing the problem as a whole, "bringing into and so we took steps to exterminate them. Mike of our position as a passed us in the play the necessary relationship between the in- DeMarko drew up a poster which gave the fol- Without a doubt, Russia has how- frastructure and the superstructure, and renew- lowing bounty: One cigarette for any Crawlie field of ballistic missels. Reports indicate, Russia nor the United States ing the spirit of collective creation that this idea killed on campus. Two cigarettes for any Craw- ever, that neither A stout hearted friend missiles with which an implies." As long as people like John Lewis and lie killed in Hoffman 30 (my room). One and have developed accurate with the re- fought and won. The con- The gallows are fine and so's the chair, George Russell concern themselves a half cigarette for any Crawlie killed heading all-out war could be theme, arrangement, and so- still provide the bulk But only the guillotine evokes the stare lationship between for Hoffman 30—proof needed to collect this re- ventional military forces had a yokels standing as a crowd lo, there is no doubt that jazz will solve its ward. The result was amazing. Inside of two of armed might for both countries. We pf slack-jawed edge over his shroud. problems and eventually fulfill its potential. months, there wasn't a Crawlie to be seen in head start and probably still have an Watching for the only who owns bombs. the dorm. All day long you could hear the Russia in numbers of atom and hydrogen A mammoth of steel and wood, unequaled des- majestically, smacks of shoes and books, and the yells of tri- We have a huge air force with A brute form towering hope for sur- expectantly, umph as this scourge was wiped out. Tall stories tructive potential. America's only Its hung, honed blade bomb supply and the Ready for fruitful fatal plunge. grew taller until the Crawlie had become to us vival lies in her superior a from Moon's End the day of of butcher's black, the most ferocious creature on earth. It has been striking power of her air force. But Strutting a costume short time trigger-rope held said that they move at a steady 50 MPH, and the missile is alarmingly close. In a The executioner lounges, will no- that to be bitten by one means death in less than our conventional military forces mean struggle. tear-splotched two-legged terrified five seconds. I don't know about the last of these thing in the world power A The Failure citizen can, to a door statements, because I never got close enough to The reaction of the average pushed through of the there extent, be traced to government propa- pulled across the yard one to be bitten. By the end year some Like all of you I once had great ambition looks were no Crawlies left in Hoffman, and I had no ganda which downgrades Russian feats. He lifted up the stairs And, while young, gorged it well on chunks of cigarettes nor any money to buy more, but I upon the United States as the supreme world readied in position, hate was happy, and so was everybody involved. power which can do no wrong. He is over- As an unwilling dragonfly whose of egotism. Since that time, all of us involved have made flowing with democratic ideals of fair play and Squirming head is pinned upon a block, And heady draughts a practice of telling the story to new men at Se- world peace. He looks back at the American Pays an homage due to Death. But gradually the creeping inanition of Life the the newly formed nation as a A jerked-taut rope drops heavy-bung steel. wanee, in order that they might carry on Revolution and Weakened me so that I began to flap and wrinkle started, so we could get a few "golden age." He sees the colonists united in a Down! Down! Down! Deliver Death! work we and Like a white sheet hung in a dry wind. laughs. Mr. Wilson was one of those who learn- common purpose with everyone running around How quick and fast and thin it slides and slices, And to be frank, I didn't have the courage ei- ed about them, and since that time, he has had shouting "give me liberty or give me death." the world does a quick neat somersault ther; an active interest in keeping them under con- England was predestined to lose. seen from the well of a woven basket to old trol. Since any cartoon strip needs something These people should step down good a sma.l white cloud in the blue For the souls of the great are forged in flame, the hard splattered red special to differ it from others, Mr. Wilson has mother earth for a while and look at first rose-colored from the And what we grandly call articulate genius to separate his by the use of the Crawlie facts. Only one-third of the colonists wanted after six long winks turns black chosen Is, I learned, merely the shriek of pain. as his main caricature. We hope you enjoy it. feedom. The rest either didn't want it or didn't Death is fine with pain and cry, John Stuart And, no, the bounty is no longer in effect. care. But that one-third had tremendous drive But a guillotine's the way to die. Doug Evftt (Continued on page 7) Don Porter

«YV C Compassion

Below, the flocks of town lights

B.inkinu, puz/lcu in the dark-

Damned fallen stars.

Above and about, then sisters.

Fragile amber spheres, Ring and whirl and shout, Laugbing, while we two soar,

Looking for new colors

the lights belo- —

The blue beyond the shrouded sky

(This Pasternak's mood is always optimistic. cud He was not printed because of space Ii'....„. looks forward to the "unrevealed"; he feels Mr. Camither's comments ore thus devoid of a part of it. We see this in such poems a;y as plagarism from the several reuieuis of Pas- Waves: ternak which have appeared lately. Ed.) All tilings will have their fullness here; The poet may be described as a translator, in The past endured, the truth i that he recreates, through the medium of his art, an experience in such a way that we are

able to see as he saw, and to feel as he felt. I greet the sea. The infinite. The boundless The translator of literature may be described

as a poet in that he recreates the art of another i like waffles of the foam. so that we may have a comparable experience cp along the shore in our own language to the one the translator forced by the still Deep sky, thai, drove them ___ pasture had through the art of the other. And stretched itself along the hil! Too often we tend to take for granted the po- In droves, rolled as in curving tube: sition of the translator in the world of literature; My truths and subjects run to me Along the runways of my anguish far from being a passive or mechanical role, his NEARLY EVERYBODY ON THE MOUNTAIN READS THE PURPLE The crests of my grief and agony. is a creative activity. With his edition of Poems, Gayle Cox by Boris Pasternak, Eugene i boundless, endless, charged M. Kayden joins ! ibllme, tr ' the scholarly ranks of the translator -poets. . wn, but i I hear the far-resoundin All Brain andNo Brawn If anyone is able to give a competent criticism Of contemporary of Kayden's work, surely it is Pasternak him- American poets, we are re- minded more of Pasternak in the work of self; and he has this to say to Dr. Kayden: Rob- Makes Jack a Bull ert Frost than anyone else. Both express their Lad " 'Summer of 1917,' 'Poetry,' 'Improvisation' philosophies through everyday scenes and hap- "Sensible Physical Training." This is what Hoffman is most notable in this field and is moved me and overcame my inveterate resist- penings; both give only brief glimpses Into a weight training means to me, but as I was think- greatly responsible for changing weight scene. (To Waves, compare lifting ance against myself of those times. Owing to this following poem ing about this it occurred to that me there are from a side show to the nationally recognized by Frost, Desert Places: you I felt for a many here at Sewanee who do not understand moment anew the freshness and thrill this slogan which can be seen on the cover of that past. I am happy to say it to you Snow falling of Weight lifting, besides being an aid to other and night falling fast, oh, fast and In a field I looked into going any Strength Health Magazine, one of the sports, is also a terrifically competitive quite sincerely." past, sport in And the ground almost leading publications in the covered smooth in snow, field of physical cul- its own right. City, State, Regional and Na- As both Professor Kayden and Bernard G. But a few weeds and stubble showing last, tional Meets are held every year all over the Guerney have done translations of the poetry of Weight lifting has been fighting an uphill bat- United States and hundreds compete in them. Dr. Zhivago, it is interesting to make a com- tle against all sorts of criticism from people who I am interested in hearing from anyone inter- parison. Here, as an example, is Kayden's trans- absent -spirited to count: have never seen a bar bell, a standard piece of ested in weight ' ing or from lation of Hamlet: every equipment of weight LIFTER. In the past would like to cri the sport. even doctors have criticized the sport, but to- day many doctors recognize and recommend weight lifting as a way to better health. Annihilation Much of the unfavorable criticism stems from (Continued from page 6) the fact that many of the early weight lifters They cannot scare me with their empty spaces and most important, they who came from Germany and other middle Eu- had strong leaders. Between stars—on stars void of human races. The people realized that they I nave it in me so much nearer ropean countries did most of their training had inferior forces, home in To scare myself so they broke every known rule with my own desert places. athletic clubs that were conveniently located of war, lied, stole, made countless sneak attacks near refreshment. Their alternate lifting of steins and in gen- "I am tempted to say," writes I love thy large design, and I Pasternak in a eral, carried on a most underhanded campign. and of barbells naturally produced men of tre- Would gladly act this role of v letter to Dr. Kayden contained in the book, "that This group which accomplished the impossible Bui there's mendous size who were slow and ponderous. De- another play on st art does not equal itself, does not mean itself Thui spare me now. and let m< spite the lack of evidence of a scientific nature alone, but that it means tangibly something be- tough-minded realists who would stop at nothing it was strongly felt hat weight training would yond itself. In this way we call art symbolic > translation of the s to achieve their goal. They fought from behind slow a man down and make him "muscle bound." in essence." The preceding poem is an excel- trees and bushes, and we still sing of their ex- Thanks to Dr. Peter V. Karpovich, M.D. of lent example of a poem that goes beyond itself, plo.ts. Springfield College, Like William Blake, much experimentation has The stir is over. I step forth on the boards. Pasternak tries to express As America grew in power she the now been done on the effects of weight lifting. became Leaning against an upright at the entrance, !he hyperphysical in the common idiom. We can champion of peace for the world. In i make the far-off Dr. Karpovich, who at first strongly opposed two world echo yield hear Pasternak in these famous lines of Blake, > the wars we were called upon events that may ( weight lifting, witnessed a lecture at Spring- to help our allies for instance: remain free. Now the time has field Colllege in 1940 by John Grimek (Mr. come for Ameri- cans to be concerned about freedom America 1940-41, National Heavyweight lifting for Ameri- ca. Our government has turned Champion in 1936) and John Davis (who has into a hodge- old infinity in I podge of bureaucracy. hand. won so many national Important leadership is and world weight lifting And i lity i split and fragmented; therefore decisions championships that they are too numerous to and policy are weak. Americans in their soft Pasternak's note of mention). He was so impressed by the ability com- confidence runs through placency sit back and wait for the past to keep But c of these men to do full splits, giant swings on his political philosophy. "He felt it was his duty repeating the itself. We seem to have lost the spark horizontal bar, and front and back somer- to bear witness to his times as a poet," states and toughness of mind which motivated the saults and by Grimek's ability to do stiff-legged Obviously, little comment is needed here. Kay- Kayden in "Notes and comments," not as a camp founders of this nation. We talk of peace with toe touches twelve inches below toe level, that den's translation is poetry, the other is not. follower; he refused a country whose basic philosophy is world dom- to surrender to political he decided to experiment with the effects of ination. Russia has developed a new line, put "The earth is steaming, pressure, to turn his poetry into a vehicle weight training. One of his leading experiments drenched in sweat," for up a new front. Her change in tactics has suc- "The Effect of Weight Lifting Upon the Speed goes the first line of Kayden's translation of propaganda. "Though we live today in an "ail- of ceeded in blinding the entire world (except Po- Muscular Contractions" proved that weight March. This same line is rendered by Guerney ing culture," his prognosis is one of health. Out land and Hungary) to her true and only pur- trained men have more speed in their move- as "The sun is hotter than the top ledge of a of gratitude to Kayden, Pasternak sent him the ments pose. While we continue the cold war they be- than do other athletes and non-athletes. unpublished manuscript come stronger and our government grows weak- steam bath." At first one would think that of his poem The Pass- Karpovich disproved the theory that weight ing Storm, which is an excellent example of the sillatui Guerney's was a literal translation; but this is lifters are all brawn and no brain when he ob- poet's political feelings: tained from three colleges the academic records The time has come for the American people not the case. The literal translation runs "The to change some of their concepts which of 392 students who were actively engaged jn are based sun beats down to the seventh sweat." Guerney The i ; heavy with the j sing i weight lifting and that on sentimental myths of the "good old days." found the average grade has evidently translated one unfamiliar Russian The earth lies calm and free and £ Bitter reality of these students was a little better than a B. shows us to be approaching the Through all its pores the flowering lilac bush idiomatic expression into another same type of subservient position unfamiliar Drinks deep the pure cool freshness of the plain. Weight lifting is a very young sport and which we held Russian idiomatic expression. there is a great of research being before 1776. We must demand more efficiency amount done The world's reborn, transfigured by the storm. Bow, from our government. We need strong, positive particularly in the field of blood flow be- For Pasternak, love transforms the world. In The gutters shed a flood of rain. Now fair fore, during, and after exercise. leadership. Only then can be execute a plan to And vast the blue beyond the shrouded sky, Out of Superstitution, the bleak surroundings of And bright the ranges of celestial The leaders in almost every sport now recog- annihilate Russia and succeed. air. the poet are described in brief pictures typical nize the fact that the athletes' performances can It is inevitable that Russia has the same plan of his style: be greatly improved through the use of weights. in mind for the United States. Distant centuries Although these coaches recognize this fact, they ago, a similar deadlock existed between the two When by his art emerge transformed the harsh A box of small red oranges Realities and truths of naked time. do not know how to teach weight lifting and world powers of Rome and Carthage. Those sre generally uninformed in the basic funda- desire the Carthaginian Americans who heritage For then our lifetime sorrows with the storm mentals of weight training. should encourage their government to continue Retrcu- *.—. from.»«... theu» fu.past U1of tutelage,kuk nflaimc the Jinur h^c r-nma Thanks to James Murray, Dr. Peter Karpo- its bureaucratic bumbling. The decision has to Our century proclaims the hour has To clear a passage of the future age. vich and Bob Hoffman there are several books be made now. If we fail in this task, freedom now out on weight training in athletics. Bob for the human race will be lost, perhaps forever. t upheaval swelling of itself I know your vestal air. You came With a chair today, Took down my life as from a shelf, By truth revealed and magnanimity. K\)t isctoanre purple And blew the dust away. Paul Tillich states that the artist cannot 'help FRED JONES, JR. but betray by his style his own ultimate con- Editor cern, as well as that of his group and his period." Pasternak, one of the prophets of our time, is The periods. Subscriptic Sewanee - . Purple Li rpublished_ by the a man whom we should listen to, not only to dents of the University of the South, Sew find out his message, but to find the message of lennessee, every Wednesday except during < our age, which is reflected through him, SEWANEE PURPLE, NOVEMBER 11, 1959

St. Mary's Girls Work, Play Hard; Face Same Problems As University

by JIM LYMAN s get one a month plus the very six weeks. These week- inistration and be granted more priv- Hardly a day passes at Sewanee be used for going home, vis- ithout someone mentioning St. Mary's, ing to dances at St. Andrew's, Each year two formal dances are id so. in keeping with its never end- SMA or, under certain conditions, to held. The one held each fall is spon- ig and tireless efforts to keep its University parties. Several girls at- sored by the sophomores and the ju- :aders informed, the Purple reports tended this past Homecoming party niors and the spring dance is sponsored i the female contingent of those seek- Uniforms are worn to class and 1o by the seniors. Tea dances, suppers ig education here on the Mountain. church and no makeup is allowed dur- end cookouts are also held from time St. Mary's, owned and operated by ng class hours. The third Sunday in Le Episcopal Sisterhood of St. Mary, ;very month St. Mary's comes to All Great plans are afoot this year for m be reached by turning right some Saints' and the seniors can have dates new buildings. An addition is now be-

•} two miles down the Sherwood road. hat afternoon, but the underclassmen ing added to the senior house that will

1 1 The student body consists of sixty-five ire not so privileged. Seniors are al- serve as a lounge and recreation room. states and three I girls from fourteen lowed to attend one Friday night flick There is talk of a tennis court, and a foreign countries. It began here in 1888 [ the Union a month and everyone is is to be ready by the dustrial school for mountain to go every Saturday after- girls. Night school was held for illitev- owed where they were Si.Tiiur; Saturday The school annual, the Bluff, is pub- seniors. The school news- taught to read and write with the Bi- ;ghts and Sund; lished by the paper, the Hilltop Highlights, is put out textbook. With the coming ut The catch t i that ( a month by the underclassmen. the school bus after World War I, the s are not allowed. Underclassmen once gan to attend public receive phone calls in the after- There are two honor societies, the Na- tional Honor Society and the Quill and schools and St. Mary's turned to older i and the seniors are allowed them Scoll. There is a chapter of the Ju- Moving from its original site in 1 9:30 at night. One ray of sun- religious organiza- nee around the turn of the cen- e falls into the darkness of the dat- nior Red Cross, two tions, Guild of Our Lady St. Mary's began buying the land situation in that girls they being the Episcopalians and the All • of Peace for present site and now owns some off I Church Guild for others, and a Civil :res there. In 1941, it became an oted the campus. accredited secondary school. Air Patrol Squadron on University boys interested in cycling phys. ed. department is fairly ac- Unlike most schools, St. Mary's is not The

Purple, i1 ndowed. Support comes from indi- In a poll conducted by the tive during the year and holds an an- majority of the the of the year idual donations and the student's na- was found that the nual Field Day at end girls like St. Mary's very much dur- in which all the girls participate. The tion fees. It is a relatively expensive but the idea of sitting activity is a "Powder chool to attend, but many of the stu- ing the week next planned goi the dents have scholarships. The faculty around bored all weekend is a Puff" football game between ju- popular with them. the seniors. seniors en- totals fifteen, being composed of nuns deal less than niors and The the University boys to at- instructors. All the faculty are A demerit system is set up to re couraged Episcopalians. Some of the personnel, conduct. Every six weeks each girl tend. It will be held Nov. 21. such as Miss Louise Goe, the Headmis- given 100 points and points are su Some of the University students, SMA at ;. donate their services, and with- tracted for misconduct. The receivi cadets and St. Andrew's boys date these donations, St. Mary's could of excessive demerits can result in t St. Mary's and Sister Christabel en- operate. The Sisters loss of privileges. Some of the offenses courages more boys to visit the school paid a salary. are impertinence, chewing gum or eat- and meet the girls. The seniors them- in halls to urriculum includes Latin in ad- ing in class, running the with- selves asked the Purple make every food in the room: effort to "try to encourage the Uni- dition to the usual high school subjects- out a bathrobe, hiding talking after "lights out." Smoking versity boys to grace St. Mary's campus Horsemanship is also offered. The girls and receive a liberal arts eucation, and tests can result in expulsion. The girls hope have shown that they are usually a! Girls Campused For Weekend; least one year ahead of their contem- poraries in public schools. Sister Su- perior Christabel states the primary ob- Rondo's Ego Suffers Deflation jective of St. Mary's to be a Christian

education. Academically, it is designed : melled the ion the offendi to be difficult and the girls general!; breath and promptly accused her of agree that it is hard. It might be noted ig weekend. An exciting smoking. A rapid confession was se- that there is a large waiting list. Most ie and loyalty developed cured and the offender wound up in of the girls are boarding students, but the no-smoking rule im- Sister Christabel's office. Thirty-one there are some day students. girls. One of the fair fellow students, in a show of loyalty un- all i Winchester recently and matched in years on the Mountain, im- A typical day for but the seniors there partook of tobacco in the form of mediately confessed to similar offenses. begins at 6:30, while the seniors are a cigarette. Upon returning to the Of course, all thirty-one were guilty of allowed to stay in the sack until 7:00. campus a member of the Honor Council smoking too. One of the seniors Breakfast, absence from which is frown- +planning a trip this ed upon, is at 7:30. Chapel is at 8:00 eekend but instead and classes begin at 8:30. Lunch is served at 12:30. A girl who has been ts in St. Ann's subjected to Gailor rations says that

the food at St. Mary's is comparable to Gailor and asks the University boys lo The Sophomon draw their own conclusions. Classes are over at 3:00, after which labs, athletics- or dance is t horsemanship classes, gym and the held Nov. 14 at St. Glee Club meetings are held. During 's gym. open only the week lights are turned out at 9:30 those /ith ."or underclassmen and 10:30 for the seniors, in Ann's Cot- tions as dates or stags. who reside St. the first building on the left as AH plans, decorations, nter the campus. The other stu- band, theme, etc., are are dormitory housed. closely guarded secret This the until the night of the he fun had by last year's seniors. The dance. dministration took a dim view of the girls' drinking in the fraternity houses One of the sopho- at the University on party weekends, of (heir smoking on the Mountain, and generally behaving in an "un-St. Ma- woods, contracted a ry's" fashion, Tension was increasing throughout the year but the final blow severe case of poison came when some girls were so careless as to get involved in an automobile ac- One of the real trag- cident in which the driver of the wrecked Uni- edies surrounding life car was unfortunately a versity student. Thus, the restrictions at St. Mary's in recent ;rc much tighter this year than last. times involves a horse The Administration feels that it is re- named Rondo. He is sponsible for the girls and intends to extremely unpopular see that nothing happens to any of with his fellow horses them. The catalogue says, "It is not and must be given a a school for problem girls or for the separate pasture. The girl who is restless and desires to be administration is wor constantly leaving school for entertain- ried about the advers ment away from the school grounds."

effect this situation i Underclassmen get one weekend away having upon his ego. from the campus every six weeks, but