MAGIC CASEMENTS

The educational value of the movies is rapidly becoming a platitude and as such should be properly left to the Times Magazine section for digestive study of a Sunday morning. The showing of a film such as the French movie "Le Million" at the Geography Building however, justiflies comment. Here amid pleasant surroundings and conveniently within reach one can supplement a University education with something decidedly easier on the eyes than the swarming pages of Robinson on Western Europe.

Movies in foreign languages have been vaunted as short cuts to a Ph.D. but actually their value as an easy means to master another tongue seem greatly exaggerated. What can be gained from foreign movies besides the language however, is a feeling for the atmosphere and the qualities of another nation. Films like "Le Million" seem to carry the air and smells of Paris into the Anglo-Saxon austerity of even Harvard's brick. While history is vividly reconstructed in a movie such as the English production of the Dreyfus Case in which literal reality was sacrificed to truthfulness of impression.

If the showing of pictures of this sort could become an institution on a non-profit making basis it would be certainly be supported by the college. Although the typical "Saturday Night" atmosphere of the boarding school must be carefully avoided there is a great deal to appeal to the college student.