St Patricks Academy - Patrician Yearbook (Binghamton, NY)

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'I HE PATRICIAN Jlnhzmn llinlfgang Hun tlinethv tloll on w lllch hls dl1t0blOgl'1DllX lax s much stless He nel 61 w ent to school legulalll as l chlld but showed slgns of supellollty He s udled men lnd bor ks lt Flankfult untll he was slxteen and then went to L6lp71g to study law it was ln Octobel 176l that Goethe al rlved at Ielpzlg to commence hls colleglate llfe and to lax a solld founda lon f01 a futllll? D10f6SSO1Shlp Lelpzlg ln 1765 was a llttle Palls ln 1tS soclal and lltelaly ldeals Goethe qulckll caught a Splflt Vll'11Cll accolded wlth h1S Ili-111116 He studled llttle H1016 love songs lntelested hlmself C11t1C3llX 111 alt lealned mole about hte h ln about law and lost hlS health It was hls luthol s lnstlnct w hlch caused lllm to put QVSIQ GXDCIIEHCQ lnto llteldly f0lTl'l All hls wolk he slls ale confesslons of llfe Goethe was an ldeahst but he ldeallved llelthel the world nol lndlvldual characters At the age of twenty he went to Stlasbulg to contlnue hls legal studles A mole magnlflcent youth nevel pelhaps enteled the S rasbulg gates He was llkened to an Apollo P1CtU1 es and busts 0 1VG but a feeble lndlcatlon of that Wh1Ch IS most stllklnv ln hls appearance Hls features wele lalge and llberallx cut w lth the fine sweeplllf llnes of Greek alt Hls blow was lofty and masslve and from beneflth lt shone lalge lustlous brown ex es of mal velous beauty tllell puplls seenllll of almost un LX1Il'lDl6d b1Z6 The sllffhtll aqulhne nose w ls lllge and well cut The mouth was fllll wlth a sholt alched uppel hp vely sensltlve and ex 1 IGQSIVL The chln and Jaw were boldly D1C,1J01tl0I'1C.d lnd the head lested on a handsome and musculal neck In statule he was rathel above the mlddle slae but al hough not vely tall he had the aspect of a tall man and lb usuallx so descllbed Hls llame was stlong musculal let sensltlye Goethe set hlmself to passlng hls prellmlnary examlnatlons and lealn lll to dance He also studled alt muslc anateml alld Cllemlb ry At Stlasbulo ln StDt6mb61 1770 he met Herdel Heldel w IS five vears hls selllol and lad already made a name 101 hlmselt Coethe chal med wltll llllS new xlgolous lntellect attended hlm durlng ln 013913111011 and dllllng hls IQCOX ell llstenlnff to the wlsdonl VSl11Ch tell 1.10111 hls llps as a pupll hstens to a much loved mas 61 Fhele w 'ls contlast enough between the two ln age chalactel lll tellect and knowledge to have plevented any V8ly close SXIT1p2itl1X yet the dlffelence dld not sepal ate them Thev lead lltelaly masterpleces and cll lCll6d tllem Heldel s lnfluence on Coethe was manltold He taught lllm to appre L1 lte Shakespeale and the VICHF of Wakeneld lnd to 162lllZe that all poetle development IS based on natlonal chalactel It was Heldel too who bloug lt lllm Lllldel the lnfluence of Rousseau Heldel s lnfluence was IH 517111110 101 Goethe was alreadx at VSO1h on Cotz and elen on hls Faus Goethe w ent back to Flankfurt ln 1771 wlth hls llcentlates deglee lnd began to plactlce law contllbutlng C1 ltlclsms to the D1 ess and wolklng on Gotz It appealed ln 11711 much modlfied but made l let unnamed llltllfll the lltelaly leadel of lllS tlme In 1775 he was stlmmoned by Karl August to be one of hls coult lt Vlelmal Hls Ctlllllllg' to Vtelm 11 w IS a tllllllll 13011112 ln the lltkl IIN hfe of telmalll lt w IS beglnnlnv to be l lt,Sld6IlCe fol the cultuled He made 1 the Athens ot Celmanl I' l tlme he lnd the 11111108 led the 1101105 of coult hte but he plesentlx settled dow ll to SG1l0llSI16bb Thele ale tew noblel spectacles than the tllendshlp of two Oleat men lnd the Hlstoly of Lltelatule plesen s llothlng colllp 11 able to the fllelld Shlp of Goethe and Sclllllel Rlx als they V616 alld ale Both w ele con 30 1 ' 1 . .K1 1 I uc v 5 v 1 1 1 v n - 1 l , 1 1 1. - , 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 ' 1 1' 1' 111 ' I ' 2 1 1 1, . 1 e 2 Z. -S 2 -1 1 1 1. 1 1 1 A 1 l ' A 1 1 -1 . .1 . . 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 , 1, , K J K 1 1 . 1 ' , 2' 1 , 1 1 1 ' . . . 1 7 H . 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THE PATRICIAN Jlnhunn mnlfgang Hun Cgnethr One hundred years ago Johann Wolfgang von Goethe called for more lrght and dred The centenary of thrs greatest of German poets rs berng observed Ill over the crvrlrzed world A peculrar flavor rs grven to these observances br the fact that Goethe one of he great lrterary hgures of all trme has an rmportant place rn the modern world In fields other than lrterature he rs harled as a con emporary As a statesman he foresaw present polrtrcal developments As an economist he was rn ad xance of the rndustrral revolutron As a screntrst he foreshadowed Darwrn rn orgrnrc evolutron Thus a century after hr death a new note enters rnto apprarsal of Goe he fr tw entreth century mrnd that was developed rn the eighteenth Goethe was born on the 28th of August 1749 as the clock sounded the hour of noon rn the busy town of Frankfurt on the Marne The busy town was qurte heedless of what was then passing rn a corner of that low heavy beamed room where an rnfan black and almost lrfeless was watched wrth agonrzrng anxrety an anxrety drssolvrnff rnto tears of Joy as the aged grandmother exclarmed to the pale mother He lrvesl We must seek rn Goethe s own pages for a prcture of hrs brrthplace He has parnted the crty of Frankfurt as one who loved rt No cr y rn Germany was better fitted for the birthplace of thrs cosmopolrtan poet It was rrch rn speakrng memorrals of the past remnants of old German lrfe lrngerrng echoes of the vorces whrch sounded through he Mrddles Ages such as a town wrthrn a town a fortress wrthrn a fortress the walled clorsters the varrous sxmbolrcal ceremonres strll preserved from feudal trmes and the Jew s quarter so prctur esque filthy and strrkrngly srgnrficant trve of the present The travelers brought there by the Rhrne and the northern roads made rt a representatrve of Europe and an Emporium of Commerce It was a centre for Ir dustrralrsm whrch began and must com plete the destructron of Feudalrsm Thrs two fold character Frankfurt retarns to the present day the storks perched upon the ancrent gables look down upon the varred bustle of the Farrs held by modern Commerce rn the ancrent streets The feelrng for antrqurtx md especrallx for old German lrfe whrch hrs na rve crty would thus cultrx ate was rrvalled by a feelrng for Italy and its splendors whrch was cultrvated under the paternal roof Hrs fathe lrved rn Italy and had retarned an rnextrngurshable delrght rn all rts beau tres He was cold stern formal somewhat pedantrc but truthlovrng upright mrrrded man He hunger ed for knowledge and although of a laconrc urn freely rmparted all he learned In hrs domestrc crrcle hrs word was law He rs characterrzed by Krause as a formal Frankfurt crtrzen From hrm the poet rnherrted the well burlt frame the cravrng for knowledge and delrght rn communrcatrng rt Hrs mother was more lrke what we conceive as a proper parent for a poet Her srmple hearty Jovous and affectronate nature endeared her o all She was but erghteen when the poet was born so the boy and mother were young together Goethe was precocrous hrs progress rn Greek was remarkable Italian he lear ned by lrstenrng to hrs father teachrng hrs srster Cornelra He pre tended to be occupred by hrs own lesson and caught up all that was sard French too he learned and thus before he was erght we find hrm wrrtrng German French Italian La rn and Greek He had acqurred from hrs mother a knack of storx telling and from a toy puppet show whrch hrs grandmother had grven hrm a taste for the stage and strmulus to rmagrna 29 1 1 I 1 U J Y I 1 4 ' . ' 1 L , . . . . l 2 . . ' Y, i . V .S l L , c ' V l Y ! 1 . D Y . . Y Y I l L 1 ' - 1 1 ,1 s L, . ,1 1 1 , 1 v ,- , D . , , , ' , I4 ' I9 , . 1 s I 1 .L 1 . a lf 1 1 1 1 L , l , . Y . . l , . v ' , 2 . i ' I . . . . , . But if Frankfurt was representative of the past, rt was equally representa- ' . 1 ' ' , - l . I . . v ' 1 ' V ' . L ' . . , . ' n , . , 1 , , t ' , ' , , v .' l, . . 1 . . . . .D . . - . I . L . I' i 1 1 1 1 ' . 1 L - 1 . ' 1 ' 1 - ' . u , . . , . I -,, G - . . ,, v - . , ' . . . , , tv, . LY . L V ' ' r . . , bu . 1 1 1 , . . . .y i - , , N t V . , V . . . . Y 1, . . , . ,

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1 HE PATRIQIAN .Unhann mulfgang Ilnn Garth? vlneed that alt was no lllXL1lX of lQ1SlllL but l mlghty lIlflll6IlC6 Schlllel exclted Foethe to Vl01lx He tulned llllll fl0Ill the pulsult of sclence to poetlx He lllged lllnl o complete wh It xx lb llle ldy commenced and not to le lxe hls wolh all flax ments The IIIHUEIICQ ot these men on each othel w IS D9CLIlld1 It made Foethe specul ltlxe and theoletleal It made Sclllllel lelhstlc Goethe was led bx Schlllel lIlt0 endle s dlscusslons Thex phllo b0pllll6d on the llmlts of QDIC and dl lmll1C poetlx leld 1nd dlscussed Allstotle s Poetlcs dlSCllSS1OI'lS WlllCll lesulted lll Goethe s essays Hls vlslt to Italy m llked ln lmpc lt lnt epoch ln hls htel llx and mol ll development Itllx IS the land of hlstolx lltel Itlllh palntlnff 1nd muslc lts hlgh wflxs ale sacled wlth assoclatlons of the past l s by waxs ale centles of bloglaphlc and altlstlc lntelest Tet Goethe IH laptul es wlth the cllmate and the beautles of Nature IS almost sllent about Ll eratule had no sense of Muslc and no feellng f01 Hlstoly In thls land of the Past It IS the Plesent onlx whlch allules hlm All the wolk that follows IS dlffelent flom lll that ffoes befole In the noble dlama of Iphlvenle and ln he CD10 ldyll of Hermann and lJO1Otl'163. and ln many of hls blllads we find examples of alt modeln ln sentlment and classlcal ln method As lll Helm lnn and Dorothea Coethe unltes the Greek feellng wlth the Gelmln feehng so ln hls West Llsteln Dlvan he UHIICS the genlus of the Ol lent wlth thl of the Westeln wolld lnd sheds ovel both the spllltu tl lllllffllll ltlon ot wlsdom of hls latel xeals Phe eldel Goethe max be gllmpsed ln Conxelsltlons wlth Ickelmann IIIS 13611041 ot lomance lnd sentlment mlx be 'round IH The b0ll0WS of Welthel Hls wlsdom lb found ln Vtll lelm l.hlQ.1St61 s Applentlceshlp Coethe IS a lepresen atlve lnd plophet of the modeln Splllt I6COIlClllHf, the ldell lnd the leal ln the w olld wlsdom cf hls Faust The fllst palt of Ifaust was put to muslc by the tlmous FlLl1Cll composel Founod It w IS thlough tlllg Opela that people ll lve become flmlll II wlth Faust The SOldlQl s Cll0lllS VNlllCl'l lb p nt ot the opela w IS no olleln lllx Foethe s ldet but was tllxen from lllfltlltl of Counods wolks md ldded to the III lstelpleee ITIOHI 1788 tlll llls death he xxent hls w ly among men wltll pel lect sell 11088681011 He selected Napoleon as the txpe ot the nl ln ot UGIIIUS and he maln talned l.lIlS xlew lonv aftel the Iflmpelol s ox 91tll10XN Inxen though Napo leon captuled Goethe s own llttle countlx and extlacted trlbute flom lt he lemalned untll the end of hls hte the Stal to whlch Goethe looked When the wo men met at Elfult an lmmoltal lntervlew took place ln whlch the Splllt of FIHHCG and the Splllt of Gelmany convel sed hke Gods lNapoleon sald of Goethe what he had not Sdld of lllv otllel Volla un homme Thele IS a man Dullng hls decllnlnf xeals he contlnued to be ln closest touch Wlth the lntellectual movement of hls own countly and of o hels He seemed to Celmans the SUIVIVOI almost the l'lst ot ln helolc age C oethe wa left llmost the last of lllb f enelatlon On the 29nd of M llch 18 Z he lled to walk up and down hls loonl but xx as too feeble to con llllle He leseated hlmself ln hls ch ul I sllent anf lllbll the close now so sulelx apploachlng w as aw alted Hls speech xx as becomlng less and less dlstlnct The last xx olds audlble wele More l10ht The flnal Dalkness gl exx ID lce lnd he whose etelnal longlngs had been fol mole Llght gaxe a Ddltlllg CIN IS he p lssed undel the shadoxx of Death Lllllan Kumpon 01 rw I ' I v 1 r I r .1 I ' . 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