Wellesley College - Legenda Yearbook (Wellesley, MA)

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CHANTING LES CHANSONS IIIL RITE: UI HIE VSKITTFIN WORD the written and spoken word became a challenge of its vitality as we studied roaring Rahelais and deli- cately precise Verlaine. YVe met Boccaccids lusty group and Pirandello's Characters, and the Italian master of them all, Dante, of the dolce .stil nuovo. And, in the same land, centuries before Dante, we met the Latin greats of the Roman world, Vergil and Cicero, Ovid, Lucretius. For once we parleyed with the Russians on literary, not political, grounds, awed and thrilled hy the masterworks of Tolstoi and Dostoievski, as taught by our one-man Russian department. XVe valiantly followed Don Quixote through his fight with the windmills, then turned to such moderns as our own Guillen. Aeschylus, Shakespeare, Fry taught us drama, through Homer and James Joyce we met Odysseus, and Aris- totleis Poetics aroused both the new critics and the old. . . . Gradually we learned to know the written word as a value in itself. MISS ANGFLINA LA PIANA MISS MAGDALENI-I SCIIINDELIN YIISS -XDA WI IOL 'SIR NN MI XXX ll'llRlF,lI'XN III ITALIAN GERMAN SP UNISII Rl SSI SN

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PRUSIM WH-H ARNUH, AND ,HH '+AI.I,oNs, ENifAN'rs IN Tm: Fm-txtzu colmlnolc AND COME ON, YUI' KIDS EYERYWIIERE ELSE THE WORLD 0 In the ambivalent roles of critic and creator Ill our language und literature eourses, we came to ourselves in a dark wood, as Dante would say, learning to distinguish the technician and the genius, different styles, i'01'lI1S, ideas. The world took on 21 new light us we turned from Hon1er's rosy-Hngered dziwnu to liliots 'isunset sprawling ueross the sky like ll patient etherised on 21 table. Hle ourselves tried our hand at writing to express the world around us-stories, poetry, perhaps even 21 novel or 21 play. Some of us becznne devoted to the very sound ol? 21 lzinguzige, as we stumbled through reading :ind eonverszxtion courses, in one class answering to Alarlffmoisellc, in the next class to I'i'IYlIllI?l'I1. Squinting at the script, we struggled with the exacting structure ol' the German sentence, but decided it was well worth it to be able to resid Goethe's Faust. XVC relished the resonant beauty of the French tongue, became aware MISS EDI l'II MFIIIIFR WIISS FWELXN K YSFLLS MISS MARGARET E. TAXLOR MISS HELEN H. LAW' FRENI ll FIXGI ISII LATIN GREEK

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Illl- Sll!ll1I'S Ulf ART 'dh-+-M-wiv MIL ISICIRNAIID C. IIEYI. ART THE RTS: incliriclual context we lookccl lroin gainccl the appreciation ol' art that cioincs only tlirnngli partic'ipat,ion in tlic arts .... XVQ were drowsy but saifs to the glowing ctonipusitions nl llraquc .... In music' wc found art ul,lll'CL' ll's to lincl what Illliill' il1f'lll Slll.ll'f1IT Ol-' llIS1Il'SSIUX MR. JAN LA RIF BIUCKINIL TIUC Sl'H.lE1'T MISIC XVC stucliecl tllc arts and hecaine atnafccl at the versatility ol' inankincl in pruclutting wiclcly variccl tliings ol' beauty tlirougli the centuries .... In studying art in its l1istm'iral and niiglny Gotliiti to graceful Baroque, trmn Giotto to l,lt'2lSSO . . . and, al- tlmngli our tnoclcling attempts born' littlc I'CSCII1lJl2lllt'C to Praxitclcs', wc entlinsiastir' in tllc warm, clark lccturc romn as the sliclcs spun by lacliorc ns. passing lroin thc rifli Byzantine inu- tlirongli the car, not thc cyc. XVI? loolu-cl beyond the initials ol' the