Scripps College - La Semeuse Yearbook (Claremont, CA)

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LITERATURE oU1s XIV and Scripps have both been patrons of the arts. Louis loved his poets, and so does Scripps. Qur Alma Mater loves to see the charcoal smudges upon the noses of her children which bespeak their tender attempts at draw- ing. Most dearly she loves the ink-stained Fingers which tell of the budding author. If all of our aspirants become novelists, essayists, poets and writers of plays, the country will E111 prey to a cultural Renaissance more fierce and breath-taking than that of which the Italians boasted. Scripps offers classes in composition for under-classmen, and a select group of Iuniors and Seniors are members of Miss George's Art of Writiiig. All literature and language classes stress the development of original style and thought in che writing of term papers and examinations. Even the science de- partment is fl.lSSy about sentence structure. The Literary Club which was founded this year is another source of creative writ- ing, and the masterpieces run rampant. c Those among us who are critically inclined have had an oppor- tunity to develop our powers in the'Thursday night book talks in the Balch Browsing Room. Like the swimming instructor who spent his holiday at the beach, we are partial to lectures during our leisure hours, and the book talks represent the lec- ture in its most popular form. Our ever obliging professors fife- quently shine upon these occasionsg and those students who have presided have twinkled beautifiilly. i i Scripps College belongs to the group of CaliR3rnia colleges which publishes the anthology of student verse, First the Blade, and we took our turn publishing the book' in the spring of 1930. Our students contribute poems to the anthology each year. Mrs. Crombie Allen of Ontario has helped to stimulate inter- est in this Held by the group of prizes which she has given for I7

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ROOM CLARK HALL LIVING

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work in creative writing each year. The thought of the prize for the best Sophomore Comprehensive essay must have cheered many a weary Sophomore through the most nervous period of her college career. The Crombie Allen Awards for 1931 Poetry ........ . Elizabeth Ellen Long Marioim Eells Critical and Editorial Prose . . Caroline Bennet Imaginative Prose ........ Helen Norton Best Record in English Department Major ..... , ..... lean Symington Best Paper in Sophomore Comprehensives ....... lean Marie Consigny Best work in Literature Department of Freshman I-lumanities .... I-lelen Mears Land's-End T H E Y lie who say we know not happiness Until its radiance has dripped away Quicksilver-like, between the light caress Of hands in whose unknown palms it lay A glancing moment, careless if it stay, Until it ebbed and left an emptiness And sick remembrance of our heedlessness. We sat on that high cliff above the sea Where the coasts pulsing land-How halts to rest, And California stops. To the east dimly- The desert beach curves southward. To the west The ocean, mist-enwreathed. Below the nest A 18 Q