Scripps College - La Semeuse Yearbook (Claremont, CA)

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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

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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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Of cormorants and gulls that wheeled and screamed. The kelp beds out Hom shore in russet gleamed. And under deepening skies where mauve and rose And Eiint unutterable silver tinged the sea, We talked of lik, and beauty, and of those Poets we loved who wrote about the sea, Arnold and Swinburne. As we talked, we three Felt the incredible loveliness of things, V Of weedy rocks and ocean's murmurings. As twilight softened, and the distant roar Of surges crashing on the narrow beach Fell to a faint susurrance as the shore In evening ebb grew calm and tideless, and as each Silver-rimmed wavelet raced with fainter reach, We held an hour with hushed, tense eagerness The iridescent Flower happiness. DAPHNE FRASER Prom C 'Charles Baudelaireu ENIILY ROSE scorr B A U D E L A I R E ' s satanism is an absorbing study. We can never be positive how much of his devil worship verse came from a desire to astonish and how much was born of a perverse admiration of lvlephisfto. That he actually worshipped the devil is absurd. Baudelaire showed great deference to his own genius and probably came nearer being a votary of Beauty than any- thing else. The poet took Beauty and Baudelaire very seriously. Lauding the Arch-Demon in poetry appealed to his taste for sensationalism, to his penchant for paradoxes. In a certain sense he used Satan as a symbol for mortal frailty, for all the crimes I9