Oregon Student Pictures
Routine Paris Morning
(Ed. Nolo: Ilils article ivbh es
pecially written for the Oregon
Bally Emerald by Diane David,
University Htudenl who In Hpend
lug her Junior year in Darin as a
memlier of the Sweet Briar Col
lege Junior Year group.)
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l*y DIANE DAVID
Sweet Briar Student
Every person who has ever
live*] In Darin hnM formed his own
personal Impressions about this
city of muny faces. There are
eighty-one students In the Sweet
Briar Group and there's no doubt
that we have eighty-one different
opinions of Daris. All the books in
the world can't tell you about this
city. To really know her, you have
to live here.
Even so, there's so much to tell
that the best way to begin is to
sketch a typical day in my life
here.
It's Friday morning. I have to
get up fairly early la-cause I have
a repetition of an art history
course at the Louvre at 10.
(Classes are usually held in the
afternoon the professors here
don't like eight o'clocks either.)
Classes are given only once or
twice a week in France. It's very
important to attend this repeti
tion. which is a review of the pro
feasor's lecture given by an ad
vanced student.
At f( a.m. the maid brings a
"hardy" French breakfast—two
cups of cafe au lait, two pieces of
bread and butter After breakfast,
I hurriedly put on “the Sweet
Briar Day Costume.” It's a heter
ogeneous combination of dark blue
knee socks, battered oxfords, an
old tweed skirt, a grayish turtle
neck sweater (about the only
thing we wear that looks French)
and an ancient raincoat.
This strapless garb labels us as
students, for though we'd like to
dress like the rest of the popula
tion, French clothes are much too
expensive. Besides, as long as
you’re covered, anything goes In
Paris. The number of slacks worn
every day by chic Parisians makes
the old campus ruling barring the
use of this warm and practical
clothing look rather aiUy. Oh yes,
we top off our outfit with a huge
should bag our American trade
mark in Paris.
By 6 I'm at the Louvre school.
As I’ve said, the repetition is at
10, but as this class is large. It Is
necessary to arrive early in order
to get a seat. (No chance for sly
remark* at latecomer* here, Dr.
Dench.)
These students are extremely
enthusiastic about work and the
only thing which holds them up Is
the professor who nomoUmes ar
rives half an hour late. When class
Is over I have time to talk to
classmates in this case nearly all
women, half of whom are much
older than I. All of them are very
helpful in explaining things one
doesn't understand about the
course.
If you’ve dreampt about meet
ing a charming young Frenchman
in this class, forget it. Fortun
nately, things are better else
where, as in the school of political
science or the business school, but
the man shortage in France is al
ways appallingly obvious to me on
Friday mornings.
After class, some of us follow
the professor into the museum sec
tion of the Douvre for a “walking”
lecture. At 12 o'clock, I wearily
Uiag myself to the Paris Metro
and go home. Trains pass every
three minutes in this Ingenious
underground, but every Parisian
fceema to feel that the fifst train
is the last.
The trains only stop for about
a minute at each station, and I
almost miss my stop, “Etoile,”
as I am tightly wedged in by a
workman, evidently fond of garlic,
someone made with a bag full of
scratchy vegetables, and three
nuns. I do manage to work myself
free (didn’t take Fundamentals I
for nothing) and soon walk out on
to the large, circular place known
as the "Etoile” (or star). The
beautiful Arch of Triumph stands
in the center of the circle, and
twelve large avenues stretch out
like spokes from the hub of an
enormous wheel.
One of these is the famous
Champs-EIysses. Another is our
street, tree-lined Avenue Foch. I
have to cross six of the twelve
avenues to get home, and I always
fell lucky to reach that destina
tion. With no speed limits and few
traffic lights, crossing the street
is a matter of running and dodg
ing between cars which hardly
ever slow' down for you. A French
man will charge unaw'ed into the
traffic, and the motorists will try
to dodge the obstinate pedestrian
without reducing speed. Watching
this dangerous playfulness has
convinced me that the adventure
loving spirit of the “Three Mus
keteers" is far from dead in
France.
At Avenue Foch, the traffic
I menace is behind me, but the risks
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are not over. Before I arrive at
the apartment on the fifth floor
of the old, but swanky building,
I must take a perilous ride in our
authentic "French elevator" (vint- j
age 1890). "Herman” (our pet
name for him) is a typical exam- J
pie of what you’ll find used as ele- j
vators almost everywhere in Paris.
You can only use him going up, j
because the weight descending ■
might break his delicate mech
anism.
Our scheduled lunch time is1
12:30 sharp, and we finally sit
down to eat at 1:30 p.m. As usual,
Madame and the maid, who had
been out shopping for groceries, 1
faithful to old French custom,
were late getting home. Every
thing is bought fresh just before
meal time. Canned and frozen
foods are not at all popular here.
We always have an enormous
lunch, for that is the important
meal of the day. At noon every
one locks up shop and goes home
to spend a good two or three hours j
with his family for the noon-day
meal. As a result, the stores stay
open sometimes until 8 p.m.
The meal itself usually consists
of five courses, hors-d'oeuvres,
meat, vegetables, cheese and fruit,
accompanied, of course, by wine.
Tea and coffee are reserved for
after meals or "Teas,” and only
babes in arms drink milk. The
mere mentoin of our law banning
liquor to persons under 21 causes
puzzled smiles in France.
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OCPA Group
To Meet Here
Five officers of the Oregon Col
legiate Press association will
meet witji members of the Ore- i
gana and Emerald staffs Saturday
afternoon in the Student Union.
Gordon A. Sabine, dean of the
school of Journalism, will speak to
the group.
The association has made ten
tative- plans to hold their confer
ence here next fall term.
Oregon is not a member of OC
PA. A.t the first convention of the
organization, held at Unfield col
lege during the first part of April,
the Oregon delegation voted
against ratification of the group s
constitution and cTecltned a bid for
membership in the organization.
OCPA is the out-growth of the
Oregon Federation of Collegiate
Leaders conference held at Reed
college last fall. Linfield, Lewis
and Clark college, University of
Portland, Oregon College of Edu
cation and Southern Oregon Col
lege of Education ratified the con-'
stitution to become charter mem
bers of the association.
Officers of OCPA who will be
here Saturday include Harry
Pease, OCE, president; Verne
Duncan, Linfield, vice-president;
Esther Snook, SOCE, secretary
treasurer; John Chrisman, Port
land, social secretary, and Evelyn
Neal, OCE, information director.
SU Sunday Movie
Is 'Sitting Pretty'
Clifton Webb takes the lead in
“Sitting Pretty," this Sunday's
Student Union movie in Common
wealth 138.
The picture is a comedy about
the story of a baby sitter who
takes over a household. Robert
Young and Maureen O'Hara co
star with Webb.
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