Oberlin College - Hi-O-Hi Yearbook (Oberlin, OH)

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Library facilities extend to the seminar rooms providing informal settings for classes. Professor Polilzer and his German Modern Drama class meet in the Listening Room for their morning sessions. 9:00 l .m. reserve book rush occurs nightly for the indus- trious. different. As well as during the days that followed. He even felt she luas trying to avoid him. He concluded that she had said what she had said on the impulse of the moment and luas now regretting it. Quite some time ago she had given him a poem of hers, asking h im for his opinion of it. It was a poem about night, or rather about darkness. As a poem it was not up to much. Only the last stanza ■was worth retaining. He -wrote out his criticism on the other side of the manu- script and gave it to her. . . . Only the last stanza has some possibilities. As for the preceding lines, they call for a considerable amount of condensation. Only the portion absolutely essential for creating the atmosphere should be retained. I suppose you also feel that in these lines you said more than you reallv wanted to. As you told me. the poem was not revised a second time. It is here just as it was written on the impulse of the moment. .And impulses of the moment often make people sav more than thev really want to. Besides, you were writing about darkness. . nd darkness, I am told, often makes one say too much. But. of course, if you don ' t want it. what vou ha%e written need not be final. Vou ha e the freedom to revise it. 21

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The bomb scare in Xew York served as an al)j}rol)riiile subject for a tradilional exam week prank to help break the mounting tension. Solitude amidst 500,000 bound vohtmes. Those leho tried to study in the old student lounge were con- vinced that it was designed for the express purpose of discour- aging smoking. 20 The comfortable chairs and -well-light- ed desks of the newly-decorated lounge quickly attracted students.

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Betsy Bridginan and Dave Siveel study pages from early Shair inaniiscripis on display in the Miller Room of Carnegie Liliiuiy. rill •. ' . i ' linih (if medieval art attracted visitors to the exhibit of illuminated manuscripts and oilier relics of the middle ages front the ] rivate collection of Frederick B. .4rtz. Miss Eileen Thornton. College I.ihrarian, shows students Marcia Higuclii and Adrian Parker volumes of the Ijventy- four Ming Dynasties enclosed within the memorial cabinet. 22