Listeners Awed by Tennyson Poetry
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By Lani Mortenson
The room was hushed and a romantic Middle Ages air filled every corner.
As he finished no questions were asked and each face mirrored the excitement and sadness of the stories which had been heard.
W. D. Paden, professor of English, was reading the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson to the students gathered for the second poetry hour yesterday.
"It just wasn't important what the poem meant," one student said as he walked out of the Music and Browsing Room of the Kansas Union. "A technical explanation would have ruined the whole mood of the reading."
Prof. Paden wrote his doctorate thesis on Tennyson, and has also written a book on this 19th century author. He started the readings without an explanation of the works and only paused between poems to turn pages.
His voice built up in a gradual crescendo in some parts of the reading and dropped to an almost inaudible whisper in other parts. The tales of the Middle Ages held the listeners locked in the romance and color of the era.
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Forign Students: You have been invited to spend a weekend in St. Joseph, Missouri on Nov. 4-6, 1960. Our foreign students are required for a meeting and then stay with families over Saturday and until afternoon on Sunday. Students will have to provide their own transportation either by pooling automobile rentals or by contacting the secretary in the office of the Dean of Students, 228 Strong Hall, by noon tomorrow.
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Friday evening and Saturday. The annual State B.S.U. Convention will be held in the Haskell Baptist Student Center. Anyone desiring transportation or additional information call Bill Jennings at VU-3-7415.
Jewish Religious Services. 7 p.m. Danforth Chapel.
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, 7-30 p.m. 829 Mississippi Bible study nurse Refreshments following study. Call VI 2-0252 for information or a ride.
TODAY
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International Club, 7:30 p.m. Kansas Union. Commemoration of the Hungarian Revolution with speakers who were involved in the revolution. Those students who still wish to take out membership may do so at the door.
KU-Y and Kansas Folkcore Society; 8:20
pm. Folk singing, Kansas Union.
"Prof. Paden made each phrase a picture and every emotion described a real thing," another student said. "I have never before felt that I understood poetry like this."
The tall, gray haired reader seemed to live every poem as he read it and each listener could almost see the action taking place.
When the hour ended the hushed atmosphere seemed to have conquered everybody. There was not a move until Dr. Paden had left the room.
Episcopal Evening Prayer. 9:30 p.m.
Danforth Chapel.
When the crowd began to stir every one spoke in whispers.
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Fall Jazz Workshop Concert Plays Nov. 6
The Topeka Jazz Workshop will hold its Fall Concert Sunday. November 6, at 2 p.m. in Mac Vicar Chapel on the Washburn University campus.
band, which drew a "standing room only" crowd at their first performance in March of this year.
This will be the second appearance of the workshop's eighteen piece
Vocalists June Richmond and Thomas "Eyes" Haggins will be performing with the band.
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