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trinity new: thursday 5th may--page thre~Double Pink forDechn BuddAt a meeting of the Captains’Committee last Monday afternoon,Pinks were awarded to sevenCollege sports personalities, includinga Double Pink to DeclanBudd, a final year Historian andScholar.The list of successful nominationsfor Pinks was as follows: IanPointer (Association .Football),Colin O Brien (Fencing), DeclanBudd (Hockey and Squash),Stewart McNulty (Hockey), BillBarr (Squash), Lynda Tyrrell(Women’s Squash), Daphne Brod-.erick (Women’s Lacrosse). The,Pinks of McNulty and Barr were.awarded unanimously, no votebeing taken.Dean of Yorkin G.M.B." Our inability to conceive ofan idea of God stems not fromscience but from a failure toevolve a language going beyond~cientific details." So said theVery Rev. Alan Richardson, Deanof York and distinguished theologian,when delivering the OukonMemorial Lectures in the G.M.B.last Friday and Saturday.Dr. Richardson said that a"very critical question forChristians is the best historical interpretationof evidence given inthe Bible." Yet the New Testamentcannot, must not, be takenliterally. " One must appreciatethe poetic and symbolic elementsin Biblical language, for the writerswere trying to describe somethingwhich was beyond the power ofdescription." Discussing " Christianity,Humanism and ReligiousAtheism," Dr. Richardson definedhumanism as "advocating asecular living Christianity -- theworship of a non-existent God,"the accent thus being on thesecond Commandment. This ledhim to the term "ReligiousAtheism." The writings of PaulTillich were discussed in somewhatcold terms, and moving on toExistentialisms, Dr. Richardsonremarked on "the utterly inscruitablelanguage of Heidigger’sphilosophy."The lectures drew a largeattendance.E5 Fine for Litteron Dining HallstepsLast Saturday’s hot weatherbrought the crowds back on to theDining Hall steps and with themfood, drink ~and cigarettes fromButtery. The mess they left wasso revolting that a £5 fine is to belevied on anyone taking food ordrink on to the steps. Seeing aporter trying to remove the bottlesat 2.30 p.m., passers-by JeremyBell and Paula Street set to witha broom and cleared it all up. Thehaul--a dustbin full of rubbish.Reaction came swiftly from theJunior Dean’s office, and onMonday porters turned backundergraduates coming out of theButtery laden with food. Porterswill also be out in force nextSaturday to prevent a recurrenceof last week’s " Brighton seafront"on the steps.Winterbottomstrideshome0in recordot meSeemingly unmoved by100 miles of foot-slogging,Rob Winterbottom pauses atFront Gate just after 7.30a.m. on Sunday. Belfast toDublin had taken him 21hours and 50 minutes, and allthe way he had kept aboutfive miles between himselfand his rivals.What do walkers thinkabout? Winterbottom wasgoing so fast when the rovingTrinity News reporters cameacross him in the middle ofSaturday night that hecouldn’t be drawn on thesubject. Others, not quiteso pressed for time, said thatwomen soon left theirthoughts, while images ofbaths and the Front Gateloomed larger than life.For the girls, the nightheld unseen terrors. " Onthe stretch before Dundalk,"one told us, "things keptconfing out of the trees, andI was petrified." Others feltthat the night was mucheasier going because theyRobert Winterbottom relaxes after his effort.couldn’t see far ahead and itwas cooler.Why do they do it? " Tosee if I could." " I was betthat I couldn’t." " To showthe men that we were not soweak and feeble." Did theytrain? Winterbottom andseveral of the men had beenseen in College Park manydays before, but the womenrefused to take exercisebeforehand--" it might havePlanning For ’70’s’BoardCollege authorities are engagedon planning theTrinity of the 70’s. A subcommitteeof the Board, theCollege Development Committee,has been set up. Thiscommittee, chaired by theProvost, and comprising bothBoard and non-Board members,has been making certainassumptions about thepossible size of the studentbody, and on this basis intendsto estimate Trinity’sfuture needs in accommodationand lecture space.The Secretary of the Committee,Professor Chubb, explained:"We want to be in aTRGCADEROSilver SnackeryNow open in Andrew St.LooksAheadposition to comment effectively onGovernment proposals which willfollow the publication of theReport on Higher Education.Naturally, in the absence ofdefinite knowledge of Governmentintentions towards Higher Educatiorb our planning can only be ona relatively general level."The Committee operates withthe aid of small working parties,which exanaine particular aspectsof likely development. One of themain tasks is to estimate how thesite of the College (37 acres) canbest be used. Future buildingprojects have to be examined andthe most satisfactory method of increasingCollege lecture an daccommodation space decided, itappears even considering thepossibility of enlarging the Collegesite.I~d HandBooksellersGREENE & CO.16 Clare gtreet,tput us off from going at all,"they confided at a relaypoint.One thing is certain. TheDublin-Belfast walk is notthe easiest way of winning akeg of that well-known product,But the barrel is atleast some compensation forthose blisters.--Photo Sean WalmsleyOVERHEARD." We almost made a profit lastweek"--Peter Stocken, of T.C.D.Miscellany." There is a danger one will beleft with nothing to say."--Dr. McDowell."Irish culture owes nothing toEngland, owes nothing to France,owes nothing to the U.S.A. It is alovely lily, growing in a bog."Voice from back--" That’s thebogger of it."--At a lecture of ProfessorStanford in U.S.A." The practice of birth controlis now fully established in China,and they know more about it thanthe British."--Mrs. C. Williamson.CLASSICAL SOC.Imperialismexamined" Ireland shattered the keystoneof British Imperial existence in the20th century," declared W. D.Jacques, at a meeting of theClassical Society last Friday. Deepin No. 40, on a calm, warm night,Mr. Jacques’ paper consistedmainly of a comparison betweenthe British and the RomanE m p i r e s, crystal-gazing intoEurope as a rousing conclusion." British imperialism contrasts unfavourablywith that of Rome," heannounced, throwing in for goodmeasure, " It seems certain that themost basic elements in British imperialismare doomed in Africa."A lucid and well-argued paperwas followed by a desultory discussionduring which it was suggestedthat "Imperialism" canmean "extraordinarily little," andthat the " Irish Empire" is to-dayone of the strongest examples ofthat tenn. 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