Haverford College - Record Yearbook (Haverford, PA)

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To follow the course of Collec- tion speakers, dates, the Glee Club, or even to trace the phenomena of the Saturday Night Movie, is to say, with real pictures, that the extra-curricular activities remain about the same from year to year, and that there are a number of ways in which the retreat from academia is rationalized, justified, rendered more or less exciting. What we do when we don ' t (study, attend classes, study, read, take notes, attend classes . . .1 turns out to be what we will read about here, and occasionally al- most as i nteresting.

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IMPRESSIONS Page 22

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In this pastoral setting a young man was enabled to loaf comfort- ably and delightfully through four luxurious and indolent years. They loafed and invited their souls or, with great energy and enthusiasm, promoted the affairs of glee-clubs. athletic teams, class politics, frater- nities, debating societies, and dra- matic clubs. And they talked — al- ways talked, under the trees, un- der the ivied walls, assembled in their rooms . . . they talked with a large easy fluency about God, the Devil, and philosophy, the girls, politics, athletics, fraternities and the girls — My God! how they talked ! Thomas Wolfe. Look Homeward, Angel tedium, tedium, tedium. The frenzied Ceremonial drumming of the humdrum! Where in this small-talking world can I find A longitude with no platitude? . . . If only I had been born a flame, a flame Poised, sav. on the flighty head of a candle, 1 could have stood in this draught and gone out. Whip, through the door of my exasperation. But I remain, like the possibility Of water in a desert. Christopher Fry. The Lady ' s ot For Burning Page 24