CAMERAS Tailoring PROJECTORS Under the supervision of AND ALL our London-trained cutter PHOTOGRAPHIC GOWNS, HOODS, ACCESSORIES TRIN ITY N EWS CASSOCKS, BLAZERS DIXON 3 CHURCH LANE HEMPENSTALL A Dublin University Undergraduate Weekly C()LLEGE GREEN 111 LR. GRAFTON ST., BRYSON DUBLIN, 2. THURSDAY, 5th DECEMBER, 1963 PRICE THREEPENCE LTD. Outside TCD " The Trinity world is bounded short years while they are in by the College walls--until it is Ireland, they are unlikely to be realised by Trinity staff and personally affected by them. This students that Trinity is an Irish does not mean to say that no University with a duty to con- interest at all is taken in Ireland. tribute to Irish life and to adapt Societies like the Hist, the Phil herself to Irish life, Trinity will and the Fabian by no means con- remain in tl~e stagnant pool of centrate exclusively on English out-dated ideas in which she is questions. Ralph Bates, Chairman co-day." of Players, said that they would This excerpt appeared in an be delighted to do more Irish article by Jarlath NcKenna which plays if only there were any suit- recently appeared in the UCD able for University drama. publication Awake. In its almost The idea that English students enwous criticisms of Trinity, this do not realise that they are in a article seems typical of many foreign country was indignantly people’s views. Trinity is to them denied by all the English people a relic of British rule in which your reporter spoke to. Half of Ireland and the Irish have little Trinity’s charm lay in the fact place. Trinity’s history is one of that it was a foreign country, and isolation from the rest of the this was often one of the main country. The students treat reasons for choosing to come Ireland as an offshoot of England, here. Michael Newcombe, Presi- hardly realising that they are in dent of the S.R.C., said that it a foreign country, and interested was quite wrong to say that only in English politics and Trinity has always been isolated problems. To them Trinity life from the stream of Irish history is typified by the Trinity Ball and when the inspiration for the the College Races, faintly remin- Nationalist movement was iscent of Eton’s Fourth of June or centred on Trinity. Men such as Ascot. Whatever it calls to mind, Wolfe Tone, Robert Emmet, Trinity seems to them to be Isaac Butt and Thomas Davis, to living about fifty years out of name but a few, were all at date and still trading on its past Trinity. reputation. The cure for Trinity’s so-called The argument that Trinity is parochialism is, so it seems, to run by and for the English has make it more exclusively Irish. little weight when it is realised First, fees for non-Irish students chat whereas 56 per cent. of were raised by 50 per cent. and Trinity students are from the now only Irish students can do Republic of Eire, 38 per cent. only general studies. On this, New- are English, and there are more combe said that he thought that graduates of Trinity and other such a move would be contrary Irish universities among t h e to the whole idea of a university. lecturing staff than there are from In his view, and this was endorsed all English universities together. by several others, a university It may be true that many English should be as broad as possible: at Trinity take little interest in it should be uncommitted to any --Photo " Irish Times" Irish politics, although this is particular belief, race or phil- hardly surprising when in the four osophy; it should embrace all points of view and tolerate all people. It is doubtful if this ideal would be achieved by making Dev cuts first sod Entertain Trinity exclusively Irish. Thus tUachtaran Eamon de The existing buildings will re- McKenna’s remark that Trinity Valera ceremonially cut the first main in use but only as functional at the should adapt herself to Irish life sod of the New Library project extensions to the New Library. It is hoped to have the new is the very reverse of true, and yesterday afternoon. He used a becaus at this moment Trinity is system in working order in 1966. relatively broad and tolerant it is spade inscribed in English and The President in his speech re- doing its" duty "in contributing Irish: "Presented co H.E., the ferred 1o the history of the to Irish life. President of Ireland, Eamon de Library and was very proud that Young Colony is a new word in The third main point that the Valera, by the architects on the he should be associated with yet fashion . it’s the gay younR occasion of the cutting of the first another stage in its life. article tried to make was that Dining . Dancing . Trinity was in a "stagnant pool sod for the New Library of Trinity The Provost has announced department at Brown Thomas College, Dublin, December 4th, that the Government has given Nightly . Table d’Hote wMch sets the fashion trend of outdated ideas." Jane Cox, a another £100,000 to the Library. second year Arts student, thought 1963." Dinner and a la Carte for 15 to 25 year olds. Smart that to a certain extent this was . No Cover Charl!e... ap-to-the-minute casuals and a valid judgment and Trinity was Euphonim " Winny dear, I am off to U.S.I., coming?" Licensed to Midnight . separates. Budget priced coats old-fashioned, but she did not Edwlna: "What’s U.S.L Phoney dahling?" Euphonia: "They are taking care of my travel arrangements to Greece." Informal Dress .... and suits. Dreamy dance dresses. think that this was necessarily a Edwina: " Travel only?" bad thing. It implied a less LUNCHEONS DAILY. ~l’he Young- Colony means younlz Eurphonia: " No, they represent all the students in Ireland in all spheres 12.30-3 p:rn. fashion . at your price. desperate attention to exam and are work;ng for the betterment of s=udent conditions, results, facts, figures, courses and They arrange Vac. work, debates and a host of other things. , ,! FII give you a loan of my U.S.I. HANDBOOK which ’tells all." set-books; a more leisured atti- METROPOLi~ tude to education, which allows more time and gives more Union of Students in Ireland. 0’Conner St., DUBLi~ importance to extra-curricular activities. "Education is more 43 D n,c ,S trcct, Dubh)l 2 QR*,FTON ST. & DUKE ST.. DUBLIN. than a sort of passive reception (Continued on Page 7) r: December 5th, ]963 2 TRINITY NEWS Dece An imperceptible darkening of his favour]te author, almost his To the atmosphere; a rustle of black own discovery, is the extra- Tony Rance cloak; Anthony John Rance comes ordinary Baron Corvo. The galli- sweeping across Front Square. A maufry that is Corvo’s style, his Editor ripple of sophisticated laughter rancour, his thwarted religious in the white-tiled cosiness of ambitions, are all very much to Sir,--I find it hard to accept Jammer’s; in smoking-jacket and his taste. He also enjoys poetry, ~4r. Newcombe’s argument that cigarette-holder, Tony Rance ex- provided the dust has settled on as long as Catholics are per- patiates on the merits of Oscar it, the rolling sonorities of the ,nitted to enter Trinity on the Wilde. One can also observe him Augustans, the elegant scurrility understanding that they do so at n red carpet-slippers, in a of Rochester. With this taste in their own risk, religiously speak- monocle or wearing a velvet stock. literature goes an interest in old ing," the Laurentian Society must His cloak is, of course, his most editions; his bookshelves are maintain unaltered its own famous creation and dear to the lined with tattered editions of :onstitutional prohibition upon urchins of Dublin, who call him Hilton, Lyden and Pope. Once. engaging, as a society, in any Dracula. It is indeed very much he was wandering across the Bay religious activity whatever. part of him; an extension of the and, happening to look in a dust- In the first place, I have seen bizarre and eccentric elements in bin, discovered a seventeenth no evidence that when the Host his character. Rance often likes century French translation of the Rev. Dr. HcQuaid grants per- things because they are unusual Annals of Tacitus. which now is mission to a Catholic to enter or outmoded; he is the sort of one of his proudest possessions. Trinity, he does so only in the man who would use a water- clock or an earth-closet if he Educated at Douai, he has hand-washing spirit indicated by strong monastic tendencies and Hr. Newcombe. could get one. A good example is the lute which is at present often disappears to the hospitality Second, I do not see, even if of the monks during times of being specially prepared for him the Catholic authorities really stress. An aura of infallibility by one of England’s two remain- did disclaim all responsibility, enfolds him; sometimes he seems sans ing lute-makers. religiously speaking, for anything T Tony Ranee is tall, gaunt, wasp- to be pronouncing a judgment ex that might happen to Catholics waisted. He combines the odour cathedra rather than making con- n a once they dared to enter Trinity, versation. His musical taste is of asceticism with a knowledge- [S O how this would in any way also religious and many a night prevent a Catholic Society like the able connoisseurship.