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Difficulty of

entrance standards

UNFAIR TO IRISH CANDIDATES?

A Headmaster’s cri de coeur

MR. WILLIAM TATE, headmaster of Mountjoy School,Dublin, commenting recently on the raising ofTrinity’s matriculation standards, said that he

feared the new system constituted limitation to entries of"average candidates" from Irish schools, and tended toincrease the proportion of students from outside thiscountry.

Mr. Tate, giving his headmaster’s report at Mountjoy’sannual prize day, said that schools had been notified byCollege authorities that in and after October, 1962, a candi-date would be required not only to pass in the prescribedsubjects, but would also be required to " show strength" inat least two of them, " strength" being interpreted as twodistinctions in the case of the Leaving Certificate. At themoment, candidates who submit General Certificate ofEducation qualifications are required to produce two passesat Advanced Level. The same is asked of candidates pro-ducing the Northern Ireland Senior Certificate.

Mr. Tare said that to his mindthis provision was basically thesame in principle as the require-ments of the British Eleven-plusexamination, and was dictated notso much by educational considera-tions as by the imperative need torestrict the number of entries.

In this country we lagged in thenumbers partaking of universityeducation (a full grant is £200},and in doing so, he said, we lefta large field of talent antapped.This untapped field would yieldvaluable results if universityeducation had a wider application,

the North of Ireland) studentfulfils Trinity’s academic stan-dards, he is automatically givenpreference over any student fromanother country. It can be assumedthat any raising of Trinity’s stan-dards could result in nothing but~ood to the Irish educationalsystem, and to Trinity itself. Anyraising of a university’s standardscould only result in the raising ofthe academic standards of the in-stitutions which aim to meet therequirements of that university.

--Courtesy "Irish Times"

The Changing Face of Dublin: The demolition of Carlisle Buildings. A modern block of offices willbe erected on the site.

and if entrance requirements werenot on so restrictive a basis.

Commenting on the speech. Mr.R. B. D. French, Trinity’s PublicRelations Officer, said that it isimportant to remember that if anIrish (which includes those from

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, IENUINE REPRESEN3-ATION

THE Students Representative Council is undergoing a

dramatic overhaul this year, and, in spite of manyvicissitudes, it is beginning to present a new and more

progressive face to its somewhat wearied and narrowedpublic.

A new system of representation has given the Council

a faint and shadowy appearance of democracy -- which itmost emphatically did not have before--and a few fertileminds on the Executive have come out, for the first timein many years, with some strange abstracts that might atlast be recognised as reasonably good ideas.

The " Scarf S,..heme " will soonbe in full swing -- scarves for a;ruinea a go--a new Guide Bookfor tourists and students alike isenvisaged--the Diary will soon be

out with many improvements (forexaml)le, let us hint, your medicala.dviser will be all mixed up with

your lecture timetable). Agitationon many fronts, as demanded atthe last Council meeting, is at lastbeing carried on seriously. Anembittered campaign has beenopened against the re-fmnqishingscheme (’.-s in East Ba.vt, with?,Iemoranda, letters, and interview

requests being poured in by anelectric Executive upon a be-wildered body of officials; and newdispensations from their HighMightinesses the Houses of Resi-dence Committee me receivingpiercingly critical attention. Some-thing Is Being Done About Exams.--though this rather tentativeaspect of the Council’s policy re-:~mins shrouded in mysteries toodeep even for your correspondentto penetrate.

All in all, the S.R.C. has acritical time ahead--if it goes toofast now it will come a crash thatv’U1 be heard -- with regret -- by>tudents for ?-ears to come. Alittle prudence, a little energy, and.ve may yet see great things from,n institution hitherto noticeableonly for its otiosity.

Vol. IX

TRINITY NEWSA Dublin University Weekly

THURSDAY, 16th NOVEMBER, 1961 No. 3

Chairman:

WILLIAM ODDIE

Vice-Chalrman:

JOHN WATT

Editors:

NORMAN SOWERBY, GODFREY FITZSIMONS, PATRICK McAFEE

Business Managers:

ARTHUR PARKE, PAUL BEALE, DAVID ELYAN,

NATALIE SPENCER, DAVID CHALLEN

Secretary:

MARY CARSON

In This Issue

THE TRUTH ABOUT TRINITY: A POSTSCRIPT (Dr.

Owen Sheehy Skeffington and Bishop Philbin of

Clonfert) ............ Page 2

AN EDUCATIONAL BETRAYAL ...... Page 2

PROFILE: CHRISTOPHER WOOD AND PATRICK

BRANIGAN ............ Page 3

REVIEWS ............... Page 4

" ARGUS" . .............. Page 3

BERLIN TO-DAY: THE SOVIET SECTOR (William

Oddie) ............... Page 5

AN EDUCATIONAL

BETRAYAL

The annual prize-day speech of Mr. William Tale,

headmaster of Mountjoy School, which is reported on

the front page of this issue, raised a basic question

of Educational ’ethics of vital concern to this college.

Two broad questions emerge from his remarks. The

first one is that by raising the academic standards of

Trinity’s entrance requirements, Irish candidates will

find it more difficult to gain entrance. This, surely, is

a piece of basically dishonest thinking. A University

is, by definition, Universal. Its concern is with learning,

no matter what the race, colour or creed of the person

seeking it.

The second point, arising from this, can only be

seen as a piece of self-criticism on Mr. Tate’s part,

and as a slur on the Irish Educational system. The

only inference from Mr. Tate’s remarks is that the

schools of this country are inferior to those of other

countries. If this is true (and we do not accept that

it is) then it is in Mr. Tate’s hands to effect a small

part of the remedy. Certainly, nothing will be gained

by lowering Trinity’s standards.

STUDENTS’ REPRESENTATIVE COUNCILThe President will in future be in the UPPER S.R.C. office

(on the third floor of No. 4) between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. on

ever>, Wednesday and Friday during term; and any student

who would like to ~ee him for any reason will be very

welcome at those times. Those to whom this is inconvenient

shoulG as before, leave him a note in the main office

(1st floor).

The Truth About Trinity

A POST-SCRIPT

The correspondence between Senator O. Sheehy Skeffington and Most Rev. Dr. W. Philbin of Clonfert, arising from a

reference to an alleged deliberate change in Trinity College policy towards Catholics in recent years.

To

Most Rev. Dr. William Philbin, Bishop of Clonfert,St. Brendan’s, Loughrea, Co. Roscommon.

Common goom,Trinity College, Dublin.

30th October, 1961.D~ar Dr. Philbin,

I note that in the November issue of "TheWord" (published at St. Patrick’s, Donamon, Ros-common) you are quoted by a Mr. Denis Martin,in an article entitled " The Truth About Trinity,"as stating that the aim of Trinity College now isto disintegrate Catholic loyalty " no matter whethersecularism or religious indifference or Communismshould be the gainer."

As I hesitate to accept this as a true renderingof any statement which you may have made, ]should be grateful if you would let me know whetherand how far it is inaccurate, and what precisely wasyour statement, the full text of which I should bevery glad to see.

Yours sincerely,Owen Sheehy Skeffington.

To

Mr. O. S. Skeffington,The Common Room, Trinity College, Dublin.

St. Brendan.’s, Loughrea.1st November, 1961.

Dear Sir,I have your letter of 30th October.Although this expresses what you describe as a

hesitation on your part I feel that, since it comesfrom one who has been representing Trinity Collegein the Senate until the dissolution and since it issent by registered post from the Common Roomaddress, it may have more than personalsignificance.

A policy such as your letter refers to has notbeen attributed to Trinity College in any statementof mine.

I am, Yours sincerely,William J. Philbin.

Trinity College, Dublin.2nd November, 1961.

Dear Dr. Philbin,Thank you for your letter of yesterday’s date.I am pleased to note that I was apparently right

in hesitating to accept as a true rendering of anystatement you might have made, the passage in theNovember " Word " which, whether from ignoranceor lack of scruple, purported to quote y.ou in supportof its uncharitable thesis about current TrinityCollege policy.

In making this statement about the present aimof Trinity College, and basing it upon a supposedq-aotation from you, the writer, Mr. Denis Martin,clearly desired to convince his readers that his state-ment had your authority. May I now assume, inthe light of your unequivocal denial, that you willtake or have already taken, steps publicly to correctthe false impression thus given ?

In the event of your being reluctant to make thiscorrection in public yourself, do you see any objCc-tion to my quoting y.our letter of denial to me ?

Yours sincerely,Owen Sheehy Skeffington.

St. Brendan’s, Loughrea.6th November, 1961.

Dear Sir,To the enquiry in your further letter as to the

assumption yo~ might make about what I shoulddo I feet entitled to reply that you might haveassumed I would have been able to judge what wasappropriate.

I take the occasion to add that I am glad thattl:e style of interrogation of your earlier letter inv:hich you asked, no~ merely if I had made a certainstatement but whether I had come near to makingit and how near and what exactly I did say--a styleof interrogation outside the range of my experience--has been dropped in your second letter.

As to quoting what I have written you, I hopethat if this is dm:e both my brief letters will bereproducc~d in full.

I remrdn, Yours sincerely,William J. Philbin.

Trbaity College, Dublin.8th Nove~ber, 19~31.

Dear Dr. Phi!bin,Thank you for your letter of (;th November.My purpose in writing to you in the first place

v, as to ascertain whether, as it seemed reasonable

to me to assume, you had been grarvely misquotedin " The Word’s" recent uncharitable attack onTrinity Collc’ge, before I myself took any stepspublicly to brand the statement in question as thelie it is. In other words, I wanted to know if itsattribution to you was as false as the statementitself; and I. was apparently correct in assumingthat it was.

In my second letter, consequently, I asked youamong other things whether, in the event of yourbeing reluctant publicly to right the wrong donepublicly in your name, you saw any objection to myquoting your letter of disavowal to me ? Unhappily,your second letter still leaves me in some doubt asto what your answer to this question is. Since youappear to resent my making any " assumptions "about your possible actions in the matter, and lest 1should make any false ones, may I ask you to be sogood as to clarify your answer for me ? Am I nowentitled legitimately to assume that your reply," As to quoting what I have written to you, I hopethat if this is done both my brief letters will bereproduced in full," means, in the context of thequestion it purports to answer, that you do notyourself intend to make any public disavowal of theuse to which " The Word " has seen fit to put yourname, bat that, provided that I quote your lettersin full, you do not see any objection to mypublishing them ?

Yours sincerely,Owen Sheehy Skefflngton.

St. Brendan’s, Loughrea.9th November, 1961.

Dear Sir,In reply to your letter of 8th November I would

suggest that my last letter made it clear (1) thatI had no objection to your publishing what I hadwritten you provided you reproduced my letters infull, and (2) that I would do what I thought appro-priate in regard to a ~orrection.

In connection with my not being more expliciton the latter point, you will recall that the uncer-tainty referred to in my first letter--as to whetheryou were writing in more than a personal capacity--has not been removed by you.

In these circumstances I propose to end this dis-cussion by having the matter- c.orrespondenceincluded -- brought to the notice of the CollegeAdministration. This I shall do unless you shouldwrite to object.

I remain, Yours sincerely,William J. Philbin.

Trinity College, Dublin.12th November, 1961.

Dear Dr. Philbin,Thank you for your more explicit letter of 9th

November.On the point as to whether I was writing per-

sonally, I. feel that ff you were really perturbed onthat score, you ought to have asked me a straight-forward question, in which case I should haveassured you that I was writing purely on my owninitiative. I am afraid, however, that as you didnot in fact ask any question on the matter, I tooky.our earlier oblique reference to my status andcredentials merely as a gratuitous taunt, which, asit was quite irrelevant to the point at issue, Ithought it more becoming to ignore.

You would now like to place this correspondencebefore the College Administration ? By all meansdo, if you so desire. Trinity College is not amonolithic institution based on fear and intimida-tion. It respects the individual’s right to think andact for himself, in a way which, though it may notfind favour in the eyes of all, is one of many reasoaswhy I am proud to be able to count myself as aTrinityw, an.

I may ad,d that: in the circles in which I wasbrought up, it is considered perfectly normal andhonourable, before branding a lie, however out-rageous, to ascertain whether the person to whomit, ha.~ been aseribe’d really uttered it. Nor is themor:A obligation to do so lessened in any way bythe hi ah status and public position of the perso~c!~otv(I or misquoted.

Finally, I trust that you will feel in consciencehound, when forwarding this correspondence, to se~dit in full including this present letter, and to sendalso a eopy .of " The Word" eoP~taining the sean-da!isin~; article which quoted you as one of its basicauthorities, so that the College Administration mayl~:, put b_l possession of the facts in full.

Yom’s sincer~q y.Owen Sheehy Skeffington.

4 TRINITY NEWS November 16, 1961

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" OUR LITTLE LIFE ": Olympia Theatre

ADAPTABILITY is not one of Miss Margaret Ruther-

fords great virtues. Her unique position in the

theatre is not the result of any .depth of insight, any

ability to see the implications of a particular question, a

particular human problem. She .does not mould herself to a

situation to reveal its possibilities; rather does she bend

the situation to her own set of characteristics, to her own

personality. And within strictly defined limits, it is one of

the most magnetic persor.alities our stage possesses.

But it is a fragile as well as amagnetic personality. It must benurtured carefully in a sympatheticsoil. " Our little life " is a prettyinsensitive juxtaposition of themost unlikely bedfellows. Chekhovand Strindberg rub shoulders withMusset; we have Edwardian Nee-Wilde, and we have a post-warrefugee drama with all the clichds(" I v:ant to speak to the director,"says the cold and efficient refugee-camp Secretary with the regulationheart-of - gold - under - a - rugged-exterior, "I don’t care if he isengaged. This is important." Shethen bullies the director heroically,over the telephone, into giving aneducation grant, hitherto refused,tc a juvenile delinquent, also with

neatly hidden heart of gold. (Itis simply awful). During thecourse of the evening, Miss Ruther-ford herself t)lays a dominatingAmerican woman from HenryJames, an old peasant woman in arefugee camp. and a Musset Mar-quise. It is the first two roleswhich reveal her real fragility. Inthe short Henry James piece,everything seems set for a vintageRutherford Vignette. A domineer-ink old woman, engineering apresentation at Court, and being~ude to all and sundry in the pro-cess, just Miss Rutherford’s cud oftea, one would have thought. Nota bit of it. The woman happensto be very American, and conveyink the American personality is

not on Miss Rutherford’s little list.So that one is ruled out. Therefugee camp is even less hermilieu; this sort of part demandsmore than rolling eyes and anoccasionally cracked v o i c e,especially as the play itself is sovery bad. it is only in Musset’slittle comedy, "II faut qu’une portespit ouverte ou fermde," that MissRutherford’s magic is on homeground. It has all her conditions;the brittle dialogue, the slightlydominating but sympathetic oldwoman, the gentle humour; every-thing is there. And in her environ-ment, she is magnificent. One isconstantly amazed at her control,at the way in which she uses herp e r s o n a 1 idiosyncrasies, herpeculiar, stylised facial expres-sions and gestures, to suggest themost minute and delicious in-nuendos, to wring out of a situa-tion every ounce of its possibilities.

But the evening is not a success.The whole pot-pourri has as itsonly connecting link the tenuousidea that everything in it is aboutlife. The staging is terrible, andthe whole thing is connected by asmoothie in a green smoking jacket(which is too big for him anyway)who mouths platitudes while theset is being changed. It is allrather a mess. But. if you havethe patience, " Our Little Life"has thin veins of ore worth sifting.It comes off at the end of the week.--W.M.O.

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Staggering ThroughGeorgia

" GONE WITH THE WIND": Ambassador

I FIRST experienced this holocaust about ten years agoand came away with a vague notion of American

history as a fantastic sheet of crimson flame stretching

from the waters under the earth to the firmament ofheaven, with danmed souls scurrying like scared mice in

and out the rubble and a smooth type with doeskin gloves

in a buggy clopping pleasantly in the opposite direction.

I saw it for the second time last Saturday night andcame away in similar condition, but the image that stuck

this time was of a breeze-wafted girl framed like a

Tennysonian heroine against a singularly photogenic sun-

set. And this, one supposes, is the crux of the matter--the

stark oak at Tara is clearly Ozymandian.And this is the root of the

trouble with Vivien Leigh’s per-formance as Scarlett O’Hara. How-ever unique Scarlett’s personalityin Margaret Mitchell’s book, sheappears on the screen as the con-ventional femme fatale, withHelen, Cleopatra and all majas andcourtesans in her line of descent--although she is a moderuisedversion.

Miss Leigh handles the part ina way once conventional to theVictorian melodrama and now tothe Hollywood romance. But thesins of the mothers nmst not bevisited upon the children, and ifMiss Leigh still owes much to thelive theatre in her acting (afterall, the fihn was made in 1938),her cinematic gawkiness is in per-fect harmony with the whole film.

For those who don’t know *’~estory, he foil is Melanie (playedbv a Jane Austenish Olivia deHavilland), to whom one istempted to apply the prefix "Goad-wife." When she takes down"David Copperfield " to read aloudone half expeots it to he the Bil)Je--but the dtail is not always banal.!’I am born . . . "--a welcome

,relief from Scarlett’s eye-talk andthe old trick (used here for whatnlust have been nearly the firs~time) of the officer, goin~ off tothe wars, tossin~ li’zhtly to hiqwife: "Oh. some little place called,

er--Gettysburg . . ."The irony of the relationship be-

tween Scarlett and Melanie is thatwhile they both love the drawing-room-aesthete-turned-family - manAshley Wilkes (played by LeslieHoward) and Ashley prefersMelanie, Melanie will not hear aword against Scarlett and Scariesthates Melanie’s guts (literally, atone stage, when she is activelyantagonistic to Melanie’s forthcom-ing baby). Ashley’s foil is RhettButler, a throaty " stranger " from.Charleston (the smoothie refarredto above) whose style is to affec’.good-natured contempt for Scarlettas a basis for seduction. Thesuperb part lies in the oily palmof Clark Gable and he is a pleasureto watch. One goggles in admira-tion as he saunters hedonisticallyfrom Belle’s brothel to suburbanAtlanta. from )IississiDpi steam-boat to Westminster hotel-room.

This fine team form the humancore to America’s answer to " Warand Peace." The story goes throughtwenty years of social and familyhistory. In a nutshell it tells ofhow feudal society gives way tobourgeois, with Rhett Butler as anarchetyne of modern Amer}canhig-hearted egotism and its a~r~li-cation in economic life. Tags ofthe Mitchell text punctuate thecelluloid, speaking in mandarinepic prose of an Age of Chivalry,

an Extinct Civilisation, the South\~ilting Under tiae Thunder ofSherman’s Guns and all that jazz.But despite the period panoramait is in the personal fortunes ofthe chief characters and of Rhettand Scarlett in particular that timepasses most convincingly. When5carlett grows from frivolity toneurotic frustration we do not needto be told that the Old South has<toRe the same thing--we know itby" implication. And we know toothat the new generation, like theold, must feel "the ancient hungerscradled in each breast." It is no~nere coincidence that the Butlers’lit:le girl dies like her grand-father, falling off a horse. Somethings may go with the wind, butthey are replaced in replica. SoScarlett’s last thought is for Tara.

Somehow the panorama justdoesn’t come off. The interior ofti~e hospital full of dead and dyingis as pastel and unterrible as theMediaeval engraving of PlagueHospitals in Rome. The colour (arecent innovation in 1938, admit-tedly) detracts from the horror ofbesieged Atlanta, and the scenewith Searlett, Rhett and the buggyagainst a scarlet night-sky must beone of the most remarkably daringon the screen. The market car-peted with corpses is quite un-moving, simply because there areso many corpses--if we had beenshown one really good corpseclose-up the effect would have beenvas*ly more engaging.

The film divides into two, as Irealised during the Intermission;the first half shows us the settledseciety and its ruin, the second itsarduous and more modest recon-struction ,~s a quieter and busierfactor in the community. And herea~ain Scarlett’s private life reflectsthe shifting patterns of life aroundher. Her expedient marriage toMr. Kennedy and the rise of hercommercial sense go hand in handwith the struggle of the im-poverished aristos generally tomake ends meet: and her lingeringaffection for Ashley Wilkes is anallegorical nostalgia for the ancien~-egime. Perspective is achievedwhen she realises that she has beenin love with something "that neverreally existed"--a wisp. a puff ofsmoke, a dandelion seed--anythingfine and spectral, ~one. like i*shuman context, with the wind.Book your seats, have a good mealdown a stiff whiskey, and go gazeat this Sistine Chapel Ceiling.listen spellbound to this SymphonieFantastkme--then sleep it off.

November 16, 1961 TRINITY NEWS Novernb

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B OTH the President of the Phil. and the

Auditor of the Hist. have splendid speakingvoices. Chris Wood talks quickly, but with

bite and resonance; Branigan more slowly, withan elder statesman swing and emphasis. Thecreamy gravity of his utterance has elements of:Churchill, Macmillan and Lord Boothby. Wood ismore in the style of the great generals. Theirvoices are integral to their impressiveness, indi-cate not only the velvet, but the power.

Chris Wood is a Senior Sophister EconomicsStudent. His inaugural paper dealt with the newera in the economic affairs of Ireland. He isIrish, and went to St. Columba’s College, Rath-farnham. At the R.A.F. training college in Cran-well he learnt to love aeroplanes and to Cell a goodstory briskly. The efficiency and discipline of theR.A.F. are still part of his manner. Two dress-swords, one of the Luftwaffe, .decorate his walls.He has been treasurer and secretary of theFencing Club, and a member of the first team forthree years. Once he represented the South ofIreland. Almost his greatest achievement inTrinity was the running of last year’s Ball, atriumph of detailed organisation. It meant threemonths’ hard work and the surmounting of atremendous last-minute hitch, when the DistrictCourt insisted on a restriction of numbers andextensive new safety precautions. The morningafter the Ball Wood was seen to walk under theflapping awnings with a very haggard face. Heis still not quite sure whether everyone enjoyed it.

Branigan was born in Rhodesia and educatedat Downside. He is a staunch and well informedCatholic and thinks the more the merrier atTrinity. He is a Senior Sophister Engineer andloves precision, almost too much. He is metieu-lously tidy and likes to lay the afternoon teatable cosily. His timing is nearly too perfect tobe right. He plays golf sometimes and skis when-ever possible. He plays squash with ardour, andthough not a naturally gifted games player beatsthose who are by his energy and refusal tolose.

PATRICK BRANIGANAuditor of the Hist.

~Photo by Peter Ryan

CHRISTOPHER WOODPresident of the Phil.

THE MANAGERS

Chris Wood reads FauIkner, Maurois social and political. His inauguraland, unexpectedly, Robert Graves. He addressed discussed the Common Marketis a fan of James Bond and probably --he has been an advocate of the Euro-appreciates his toughness. He drinks pean Community for several years. Hewith the boys though not entirely one is eager to meet people without beingof them. He is at ease, but not relaxed, fulsome or going out of his way. He isHe has a gift for mimicry and his wit entertaining cmnpany and easy to liveis ready and ruthless. A softer aspect with. He makes an impact on those whois his taste for Yogi Bear. Branigan meet him. Mr. Boland, ireland’s repre-goes to Westerns. His main reading is sentative to the U.N., once said of him:

~"I though he was a very sound man.He agreed with many of the things Isaid,"

Chris Wood’s father was President ofthe Phil., his grandfather and two uncleswere members. His father said to himbefore he came here that whatever hedid in Trinity he would not achieve onething--the Presidency of the Phil. Theappeal of the Phil. is wider than that of

the Hist. and different, and Wood be-lieves that as many people as possible

should speak at each meeting. He wouldlike the paper to have a less awesomeweight in the proceedings. Perhaps heunderestimates the appeal narrower andmore cultural subjects should have touniversity audience, or perhaps he isrealistic. Both he and Branigan insistthat the Major Societies have never hadit so good, anyway from the membershippoint of view. The relation of member-ship to attendance rather than to theuse of facilities is a more serious matter.Women will be speaking at a debate inthe Hist. for the first time when thefinals of the "Irish Times" trophy areheld there. But this is not even the finepoint of a wedge.

Wood loves Trinity but it maddenshim. He feels that it is becomingbureaucratic and impersonal in the wrongway. The authorities are aiming ratherineffectually at the wrong kind ofefficiency. Wood prefers to stay out ofCollege politics, though somehow he isin them, and do his job. Branigan isinterested in the whole style and opera-tion of debating, in keeping the Burkerhetorical side of Trinity tradition alive.He has an intense feeling for Dublinand Trinity in Dublin, a feeling whichnatives take more easily.

Both Wood and Branigan are am-bitious and both talk about careers andmanagement. Branigan is interested,socially as well as practically in theproblem of relations between employersand workers. Wood’s drive is sure andfierce, his determination complete. Bothhave attained positions which shouldembody something of what it means tobe in Trinity at this particular time.They do embody it to quite a large ex-tent. And it is not so easy a job toestablish the establishment. LeavingCollege they should both succeed, succeedwithin and on top of the system.

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This week there have been theusual run of parties, but these havegiven rise to a more ludicrous formof entertainment that only t(mfrequently crops up, the past-timeof grate-crashing.

The scene is usually set in theBailey Bar, spiritual home of theworst offenders; or the Wicklow, orany other often frequented barwhen someone mentions theaddress of a party. Like vulturesover the rotting corpse, the youngbloods wheel in. The words arequickly past, and the operationbegins. There is a certain amountof formulated plotting, thepositioning of cars, a discussion onwhether to take drink or not.whether to take motts or not, but;these are soon settled. Drink no,unless in the hip-flask; women,only if they happen to be along.Closing time, and with a wad ofaddresses the lads start out.

At the party, the unsuspectinghostesses or hosts are enjoyingthemselves. There is a ring at thedoor, a brief knock. The door isopened and a flotilla of inebriatedhooligans fall in. The party turnsinto chaos.

Admittedly it is fun, if dealtwith in the right way. Forget the

hooliganism, and often one does get

in. Gate-crashing should primarily

be a battle of intelligence, not of

brute force. If one can talk ones

way in, there is a certain moral

victory which is right and good;

but all the drunken brawling

merely reduces the marauders to

the state of howling animals.

Talking of howling animals have

you had a look at the car regula-tions. On a sober reading of them,

I am convinced that they arewritten for animals. Paragraph

six runs like a map for liverishdogs, " As the Lincoln Place Gateis shut at night and at week-ends,cars may be parked in The FrontSquare, either to the left or theright of the Campanile, or on the

East side of the lawns between thefollowing hours. " Notice that theleg may be only lifted to the left orthe right, a concilatory sort of

canine gesture.

The man behind all this is thebrow-beaten Registrar, the man

with the cars of the world on hisshoulders. Acid and dour, he per-forms his duties with the enjoy-ment of a man going to his own

funeral. It must be however said

for him that if a student has aproblem, or thinks that he has beenbadly dealt with, the Registrar willalways go out of his way to lendan ear, or increase the fine. Withmodern surgery what it is I sup-pose he can afford to be sogenerous.

After places and animals to aparty. A good party given byDiana Elkins somewhere out North.Dramatic conversation was to beheard hovering over the heads ofcritic Bart O’Brien, splendid inorgandy, and script-writer MikeBogdin. The wine-cup flourishedby Hebe was well received by ChrisKendall who one must admit isalways ready to receive anything.Jennifer Bulmer-Thomas and Jovan Gyseghem frightened eventhemselves by talking in Italian,something that even they did notthink they could do; while RonniePilkington and Mike Ruggins spokete each other in words of pregnantsilence. Pleasant drink, not tooweak, not too strong, delightfulcompany, and even pea-nuts; howbetter could one pass the dolefulhours from six to nine before theactual evening begins.

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Photos--National Press Service.THE WEST: Relatives of a refugee who fell to his death from a

high window bring flowers to the place of his death.

THE only place where it is still possible to cross from

West to East in Berlin is the American Army’s

"checkpoint Charlie," in Friedrich Strasse. Friedrich

Strasse has become the focal point of the whole Berlin

situation. It is quiet now; but three weeks ago, American

and Russian tanks stood there, face to face, a hundredyards away from each other.

It is at such moments that thedifferences between East and Westbecome most apparent. It is asthough everything were throwninto a stark, black and white re-lief, a sudden and frighteningcontrast¯ In the West, three weeksago, fifteen hundred people stoodat the checkpoint in an uneasy, un-stable silence. Standing in thecrowd, you could feel an atmos-phere, not only of grim hostility,but of latent power, an explosivequality which needed very little toset it off. I saw it triggered offonce by a Russian car taking Rus-sian officers for talks with theAmericans. The Russians rodethrough the ugly, jeering crowdwith icy little smiles; but they

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We (a Finn, a Swede, and I)elbowed our way through to thecheckpoint, showed our passportsto a man in plainclothes on theAmerican side, and walked, rathergingerly, into East Berlin. Weshowed our passports to a Volks-polizist, who motioned us along thepavement to another, who alsoexamined them carefully. He inhis turn led us to a passport con-trol office, where our briefcaseswere searched, and we weresc~-atinised thoroughly. Then every-one relaxed. " Nice day," volun-teered the Vopo at the desk. "Quitea little United Nations we havehere," he added, giving us backour passports. "Berlin always wasan international city," replied theSwede¯ The Vopo smiled grimly.We walked out again, into EastBerlin. Almost immediately, youare struck by the contrast betweenthe two halves of the city. Wehad come from a hard, modern,slightly soulless city, bustling anddynamic. We had come through ahuge, tense, frigh.+ened crowd. Inthe East, there were a few curiousgroups of people on the streets, butno noticeable excitement, or evenapparent interest in the situation.

In East Berlin, it is the thb~;~you notice first which, in the end,give the real truth about iL Thereare, even now, vast bomb siteareas, which haw.’ still not beencleared, let alone built on. Every-where, on public buildings, acrossempty space,% even on pub!it l-~,,-~,-tories, there ace huge red bf~u; :,.s,carryin~ slogans like " PeaceThrough Socialism"--"A PeaceTreaty This Year"--"West Berlinmust be a demilitarised free city";everywhere, there are photographs

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The second of two articles by William Oddie, who returned recently from Berlin,

where, along with student Editors from Belgium, Denmark, Holland, Sweden, Norway, Finland,

Ireland and Germany, he has been helping Berlin Radio in the compilation

of a documentary radio programme on the Berlin crisis.

THE EAST: An old couple look out into West Berlin from a high window in the Soviet sector.

The SOVIET SECTOR

of Walter Ulbricht, first secretaryof the East German Communistparty, matily shaldng hands withKruschev.

There has been no attempt tomake East Berlin into a showplacefor the Communist world, as WestBerlin is a showplace for theWestern world. The nearest EastBerlin has come to this idea is inthe Stalinallee (now renamed theKarl Marx Allee), a monumentallywide, Russian- s t y 1 e b.,ule~ard,flanked by vast, n~,onoliddc buikt-ings. At first sight, it is impres-sive. But if you look closely, younotice that the white tiles whichcover the buildings are peclb’~g off,leaving ugly, browll sears of ex-posed brickv,ork. The overwhehn-ing impression one gets from EastBerlin is one of decay. It is like adying city. There seem t,~ b.~, few.rpeople on the streets than in theWest; there are fewer c:us, andthey are all antiquated. The busesare pre-war.

Prices vary. In a smart-looking

.~h._,p l~ear the border, I saw a per-

i’ectly unpretentious necklace ofwooden heads, priced at about 25s.A small, white vase cost 35s. O1~the other hand, what seemed tome to be a very fine black eveningdress, bourgeois plunging back andall, cost about fourteen pounds.But there was no-one i~. th dc~,ssshop, and I was unable to check onhow re-.dily available ~ cs~ ch tb~,swere. Food costs about the same.But here again, you can never for-gel where you are. Foreignersmust show their passports in arestaurant, before lh,hv c:~:~ l,:~~erved. In the Berliner Haus, one~f the State-controlled eatinghouses, l ate :~ vast meal, for ’vix::see:ned to me a ver:c reasonableprice. But here, as in everyrestaurant I ate at in the East thefood was cold. Afterwards w,-drank coffee, al:d sm(d;~d, lmmo-diutely, the, waiter’s eyes lit up."You wish to sell Westernci-~arettes "" ~I gave him a packetof tv,-eh’e St:,,.sant. Tra~s},ort~ ,d

joy. In the East, it has been impos-

sible to get Western cigarettes

since the thirteenth of August.

Eastern cigarettes are expe.usive

and very bad. A few days later, Iwas approached in the street near

the border (not the safest thingin the world to do) and askedagain if I had Western cigaret!es.It is small things like this that arethe symbols of the despair whichhas gripped the East since thethirteenth of August. Before thewall was erected, the possibility ofcontact was always there. Nowthe~e is nothing to hope for. Walk-i!-g back to ti~e Friedrich Strassecheckpoi~:t that niaht, ! saw a girlof, I suppos% sixteen or seventeen,walking away from the wall. She.’.as weeping, openly and terribly,iuthe ::*reet. And no-one reallynoticed anytblng out of the or-dinary. Tiffs is the measure ofwhat has happened in Berlin.

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Rugby-coRK

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Soccer

NO COHESIONTrinity--I; College of Tech.--2

The first eleven continue to be adisappointing side; there is plentyof potential but as yet little team-work. In a game that depends somuch on teamwork, brilliant indi-vidual performances are often oflittle use if not supported by therest. On Satm’day Trinity gave ascrappy, immature display of foot-ball and can scarcely say that theydeserved to win.

The College of Technology wentinto the lead about mid-waythrough the first half when, in agoalmouth scramble, they lobbedthe ball over the head of theTrinity goalkeeper. They increasedtheir lead early in the second halfwith a well-placed shot from a freekick. Swerling, playing a clevergame on the wing, scored Trinity’sonly goal when he broke throughthe :,:idefence and flicked the ballinta the net. Although the resultwas disappointing, it can partly beput~ down to the smallness of thepitch which cramped both defenceand:,attack. Good individual per-formances were given by Horsleyand by Anderson, who played asound game in goal.

Sailing Club

The outgoing captain, M. Harereported a very successful seasonat the winter A.G.M. last Monday.The club now ranks as one of thelargest in College, and judging b:the large numbers of freshmen whoattended the meeting, the member-ship is expected to increase stillfurther. Mr. Hare gave an impres-sive list of trophies won by theclub last season, amongst them thecoveted Association of NorthernUniversities Cup. All the boatswere in constant use during thesea~pn, and the local races and :re-gattas were well supported byTrinity entrants. The new boatstore opposite the Dixon Hall isnearing completion and will ensuremore comfortable conditions forthose working .on the boats. Thefollowing officers were elected:-Captain, D. McSweeney; Hon. See.,Miss H. Roche; Hon. Treas., P.Branigan.

D.U. FencingClub

The increasing popularity offencing in College is indicated bythe number of new members whocheerfully undergo the rigours oftraining associated with the initialstages of fencing, while the olderbands endeavour to instil the rudi-ments of the art into those whohave not succumbed to combatfatigue.

A fine performance against theBritish Legion Fencing Club onMonday, 6th, augurs weil for thefuture. A new men’s team, con-sistinff of Rupert Macheson, ChrisRobinson, and John Robinson, wonits match outright by nine victoriesto nothing. The ladies’ team, con-sisting of Sue Brooks, Ann Rogersand Francis Alexander was not sosuccessful, losing narrowly by fourvictories to five against strongopposition.

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THE fifteen gave a really splendid display of Rugbyfirst

en Saturday in convincingly beating the powerful

U.C.C. ~de. Trinity were without Read, L’Estrange and

Rees but to say this greatly weakened the side would be

an injustice to the substitutes

of them. Mulraine, indeed,performers on the field.

U.C.C. attacked strongly fromthe start and should have gainedan early lead when Kiernan missedan easy penalty. During this earlypressure Mulraine constantly droveCork back with kicks from allangles and positions. Trinity weresoon into their stride however andbegan to receive much more of theball, especially from the line-outswhere Bielenberg. Caldicott andPowell had little difficulty in out-jumping their opposite nv_mbers. Itwas from a line-out that the firstscore resulted; a quick pass fromMulraine, and the ball swept alongthe line to Coker. In characteristicfashion he rounded his man andcrashed through Kiernan’s tackle toscore in the corner. Lea convertedwith a fine kick.

Only desperate covering by theCork defence stopped further triesbeing scored by the persistantTrinity threequarters. Coker wasforced into touch inches short, butfrom the resulting line-out Caldi-cot| gathered the ball and passedto Bielenberg who flung his mightyframe over the line. Again Leaconverted.

Cork stormed back after thesetwo reversals only to meet with thenmst resolute of tackling from theTrinity backs. Siggins was par-ticularly noteworthy in this re-spect and gave international Walslalittle scope. It was after one suchcrushing tackle that Scott pickedthe loose ball, passed to Siggins,and once Coker was in possessionnothing could stop him. Lea’sattempted conversion just failed.

Kiernan alone could inspire Corkand very much against the run ofplay he scored a brilliant solo try.Fielding the ball inside his owntwenty-five he sped round theTrinity defence, kicked over tea’shead and won the race for thetouch-down. He completed hiseffort by kicking the conversion.in other respects Lea was by nomeans overshadowed by his inter-national counterpart. He playedwith much greater confidence thanof late and using lengthy kicks totouch was caught in possession onfar fewer occasions.

The Trinity pack immediatelycame back with attack and put theside further into the lead with apush-over try which Lea converted.It seemed at this stage that Corkmight be swamped but instead ofpressing home their advantageTrinity slackened off. Within fiveminutes Cork had scored two tries,both unconverted. First Walshintercepted a pass and sent hiswing over and immediately afterthe kick-off a splendid passingmovement, aided by slack Trinity

tackling gave Cork another sco.~’e.

With only five minutes to go,Cork had no chance of catching up.They did their best with a high and

who did all that was expected

was one of the outstanding

dangerous kick ahead but Leacaught the ball running at fullspeeD, raced down the touch-lineand all but scored himself.

On the whole this was a mostpleasing performance by Trinity,and teamwork was certainly morein evidence than in last week’smatch. The threequarters showedmuch greater rhythm and incisionand with the return of Read andL’Estrange this will be a fomnid-able back division.

The Rugby Club now has wellover two hundred players on itsbooks and is running no fewerthan eleven sides each Saturday.This is many more teams than everbefore in the history of the Cluband presents certain difficulties ofadministration. The Secretary hasasked us to point out the follow-ins:

Because of a shortage of pitches,two rnatches frequently have to bepla~ced on the same pitch, one afteranother. In order to avoid chaos,it is essential that players arrivein ample time so that all gamescan start punctually. Times ofbuses to Santry are posted on theRugby Club notice board. Thoseplayers not ticked off by Thursdayevening will be assumed to be un-available. There is also a shortageof referees and the Club has toproduce four of its own eachSaturday. Would anyone interestedin refereeing please contact J.Wilkins, 34 T.C.D.

ColonelMay

(Trinity’s Leading Tipster

~ae Colonel got a real "flyer" tothe season with a first and asecond; he also mentioned ScottishMemories (9/2) as a danger in theMackeson and one of his halfdozen for the season made awinning debut at 11/2. FreshWinds should continue the goodwork at Uttoxeter to-day. Thefloods at Lingfield prevented the1960 Champion Hurdler--AnotherFlash---from getting some exercisebut the seven-year-old has an en-gagement at Sandown on Saturday.

On Saturday, any Irish racegoerswho have not seen him beforeshould be at Leopardstown towatch the incomparable LesterPiggott partner Prairie Penny. TheColonel is a little doubtful whethereven his superlative skill can de-feat Rupununi; perhaps an eachway bet on both would pay divi-dends.

Keen racegoers must have readsome of the many Press tributesto the young trainer, D. Thorn,currently on the crest of an abso-lute flood-wave of success. Con-sistent readers will probably havenoticed that such successes as thecolunm has had, have been basedupon absolute faith in his charges;the Colonel adds tris small tributeto a trainer of great technical skilland a man of absolute integrity.

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I feel sure that the honours for initiative and enterprise in

sport this term will go to certain members of the Climbing Club.

We know, or rather we have heard, that this recently-formed club

is very active and enjoys considerable sapport. W~’ never actually

see them "at play" except perhaps when they foregather for a

quiet drink in the hotel at Glendalough, each looking as though they

had come straight off the set of " Scott of the Antarctic."

To the uninitiated, such as myself, the occasional scramble overthe rocks in Dalkey Quarry may sound harmless enough, but whenone hears that three members of the Club will shortly be setting

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out on a full-scale expedition to the Andes, one is bound to sit upand take some notice. I believe that the plans for this trip werefirst formed several years ago, and have now been brought to fruitionunder the leadership of the ubiquitous Frank Cochrane. He hasgaily talked his way through all the complicated negotiations andarrangements even to the extent of shipping something like 700 cansof Guinness across the Atlantic. I gather that in making this giftGuinnesses are hoping as a result of the expedition to open upvast markets amongst the wandering Inca tribes.

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The party hopes to spend about ten weeks in the mountainranges of Patagonia and will be climbing in largely unexplored ....country. Such an expedition does, of course, require a great deal of ....money, and despite the generous backing of several firms, will costeach individual about two hundred pounds. This seems to me to bea truly magnificent venture, and yet the climbers are curiously un-moved and unruffled by the whole affair. I sugge’st that most of uswould be somewhat uneasy at the thought of spending ten lonelyweeks in the unknown, not to mention the idea of being suspended bya piece of rope thousands of feet in the air. This does not seem toworry them in the least--just like being in the Welsh mountains,only better, tlley say. ~ /

Frank Cochrane, Clive Burland and Francis Beloe are all ]climbers of some experience, and without for one moment suggestingthat this trip is beyond their capabilities they will certainly find ittough going. The party of six is made up by three "outsiders," oneof whom has been described by Sir John Hunt as " perhaps thefinest climber alive to-day," and is obviously an excellent man toinclude in the party. We wish the expedition the best of good fortuneand every success, for I am sure that they deserve it.

HarriersThe Harriers entered over

twenty runners in the ClonliffeHarriers’ 2 miles Road Race. Therewas a field of 81 runners andseveral Trinity men were well tothe fore. S. Whittome. who finished9th recorded an excellent time of 9mins. 37 secs. He was closely fol-lowed by F. H. Quinlan, A. R.Sparshott and A. Shillington. Theresults augers well for the Novices’Championships later on this term.

On Monday a match was heldagainst Aberdeen UniversityHarriers over 6 miles. Althoughthe Scots took the first two places,flood packing by the D.U.H. menensured our victory by 3 points.

Results -- 1, Ewing, AberdeenU.H.; 2, Gleney, A.U.H.; 3, S.Whittome, D.U.H.; 4, A. R. Spar-shott, D.U.H; 5, F. H. Quinlan,D.U.H.; 6, Aberdeen; 7, Aberdeen;8~ P. Twomey, P. Davey,, A. Shil-lington. C. Bryan, all of D.U.H.

Next Saturday the Club will runagainst Donore and ClonliffeHarriers and the following weekwill be spent on tour in Scotland.

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