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Show S)l7o CI3ltoc StorS1 Thursday Lecture: Worth of Bad "' Vr' ill of writing and use illustrations from her own poems. She will discuss the materials which have gone into her poetry, considerations considera-tions which have- affected their form, and personal critical tenets ten-ets which she has tried to adhere ad-here to. She will also discuss benefits she thinks are valuable for those who seriously try to write poetry. "As a student of literature," said Dr. Short, "I have acquired sufficient critical judgment to recognize the limited merit of my own poetry, but I feel that there is value in the attempt to write verse." Chief among the benefits," Dr. Clarice E. Short, professor profes-sor of English and final speaker of the Thursday lecture series, contradicts the proverb, "If you can't do it well don't do it at all," when she says "Long ago I ran across the statement that anything worth doing was worth doing badly if it could not be done well." Dr. Short will give the final lecture of the Thursday series at noon in OSH auditorium. Her topic is "The Value of Effort, or Worth Doing Badly." Students and the public are invited to attend at-tend the lecture Thursday. Benefits of Doing Badly Dr. Short will defend the value says Dr. Short, "are the training of the senses to perceive and the training of the mind to try to clarify the experience by giving it verbal expression." ' Poetry Published Dr. Short's poetry has been published in "Poet Lore," American Am-erican Association of University Professor's Bulletin," "Western Humanities Review," "Carolina Quarterly," and "College English." Eng-lish." Dr. Short has been a member of the University faculty since 1946. She received A.B. and M.A. degrees from the University of Kansas, and a Ph.D. from Cornell Cor-nell University. Dr. Clarice Short . . . Thursday lecturer |
