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Richard W. Poston (now directing the same kind of program at Southern Illinois University), it has in six years lifted 22: communities (see map) out of one kind of municipal morass or another...
...Wednesdays, and Fridays at 10 and 11 and on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays at 10. If, in spite of faculty and student pressures, more of these courses could be distributed, and interdepartmental committees would be enabled to accomplish something beneficial, if not striking. Although no one expects the great morass of courses ever to develop any coherent form, improvements can be made if the faculty will only consider a more logical curriculum important enough to bestir itself...
...needed a memory as exhaustive as Joyce's [own] as we sink into the bog-so misleadingly called a stream-of Irish consciousness. Joyce is the theologian of the interior morass ... As for meaning, Joyce attempts to replace it by 'pattern,' and, in doing so, he was prophetic of modern habit: unguided by moral conviction, impelled by scientific bent, we use the notion of 'pattern' to cover our lack of sense of moral direction." In Joyce's pattern, "God becomes word, life becomes a fantastic department of rhetoric and we need not go outside...
With an annoying persistency, the subject of parictal rules each year rises from the morass of College regulations like an evil genie to bedevil Housemasters and students alike. Rules, like babies constantly need changing--or so some people think. Yet, despite the absurd quibbles about giving an hour here and taking one there, one suggestion stands out among the many as sociological rather than mathematical...
...overshadow the poetry this year, proves well worth reading. John Ratte's "Love Story" is by far the most outstanding piece. Its temper is unusual for the Advocate, whose contributors often seem bent on merely displaying to the world the sensitivity of their souls. Ratte neither sinks into a morass of hypersensitive depression, nor, though he is highly imaginative, does he lean on the grotesque. The story can perhaps best be described as a complete reversal of the typical Saturday Evening Post romance...