Page Two T HE COLLEGE NEWS 4 Wednesday, March 18, 1953 ~~ daa Published weekly during the College Year (except during Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter holidays, and during examination weeks) in the interest of Bryn Mawr College at the Ardmore Printing Company, Ardmore, Pa., and Bryn Mawr College. THE COLLEGE FOUNDED IN 1914 NEWS The College News is fully protected by copyright. Nothing that appears in it may be reprinted either wholly or in part without permission of the Editor-in-Chief. \ EDITORIAL BOARD Barbara Drysdale, ‘55, Copy Marcia Joseph, ‘55, Makeup Janet Warren, ‘55, Managing Editor Eleanor Fry, ‘54 Suzan Habashy, ‘54 ~..) 32 EDITORIAL STAFF Jackie Braun, ‘54 Anne Mazick, ‘55 Science Reporter Joan Havens, ‘56 Lynn Badler, ‘56 Maryellen Fullam, ‘56 A.A. reporter Anne Hobson, ‘56 Ann McGregor, ‘54 Charlotte A. Smith, ‘56 Kay Sherman, ‘54 Harriette Solow, ‘56 Barbara Fischer, ‘55 STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Judy Leopold, ‘53 BUSINESS MANAGER Julia Heimowitz, ‘55 ae Marjorie Richardson, ‘55, Associate Business Manager BUSINESS STAFF Joyce Hoffman, ‘55 Ruth Sax, ‘55 Phyllis Reimer, ‘55 Ruth Smulowitz, ‘55 Claire Weigand, ‘55 SUBSCRIPTION MANAGER Elizabeth Simpson, ‘54 SUBSCRIPTION BOARD Roberta Olsen, ‘54 Adrienne Treene, ‘54 Saren Merritt, ‘55 Mary Jones, ‘54 Diane Druding, ‘55 Diana Fackenthal, ‘55 Mimi Sapir, ‘54 Dorothy Fox, ‘55 Sally Milner, ‘54 Gail Gilbert, ‘55 Cathy Rodgers, ‘55 Subscription, $3.50 Mailing price, $4.00 Subscriptions may begin at any time Entered as second class matter at the Ardmore, Pa., Post Office BMC Elects: Price Leader Of Alliance Pembroke? Not in. Library? Nowhere to be seen. Class? Too late for classes. Hiding? Perhaps! To the utter despair of journalists on campus, Patsy Price, the new President of the Alliance simply was in the realm of the unfindable. We therefore, in the absence of the real live subject, print all available information, gathered from various and sundry sources (unrevealed). She is majoring in English, was recently named first Bryn Mawr student to receive the newly- established fund in Katharine Hep- burn’s name, and has a quiet but avid interest in the situation po- litical. Current Events, of which she has been in charge this year, has moved from the realm of the purely political—speakers have in- cluded scholars of Greek, philoso- phy, and psychology. Her future plans for the Alli- ance are unrevealed, but it is safe to predict that they will be both interesting and stimulating. But she is very hard to find—there she goes now, from Current Events probably to a rehearsal of “The Trojan Horse.” After that — the Alliance will occupy her time and ker thoughts to an even greater degree than it has this year, thus far. And that is saying something! Bryn Mawr Elects Common Treasurer Jessica Dragonette is a math major—a singularly appropriate interest for the newly-chosen Com- mon Treasurer of Bryn Mawr Col- lege. It is also notable that Jess belongs to the realm of the now- Under the Act of March 3, 1879 and American scholar to be awarded this honor. time of her retirement in 1952, Miss Taylor had been profes- Lily Ross Taylor _In recognition of her outstanding work in classical stud- ies, Lily Ross Taylor has been appointed a member of the Ro- man Pontifical Academy of Archaeology—the fourth woman Up to the sor of Latin at Bryn Mawr since 1927 and Dean of the Gradu- ate School of the College since 1942. A distinguished scholar and an authority on Roman civi- lization and literature, Miss Taylor is well-known both through her work in this country and abroad and through her publications. She received her A. B. from the Univer- sity of Wisconsin in 1906 and after further work—including some study abroad at the American. Academy in Rome— received her Ph. D. from Bryn Mawr in 1912. Since then her work in Classical Studies has brought honors and many new opportunities for service. During World War II Miss Taylor held the position of principal so- cial science analyst for the Office of Strategic Services. She accepted the post of Sather Professor of Classical Literature at the University of California for one semester in 1947, and two years ago received the honorary degree of Doctor of Lit- erature from the University of Wisconsin. Last year she re- ceived a Guggenheim Fellowship and is now acting as Profes- sor in charge of Classical Studies at the American Academy in Rome. Largely—but not exclusively—devoted to Christian ar- chaeology, the Academy is a papal archaeological society at- tached to the Vatican. It consists of forty distinguished Italian archaeologists and seventy-eight foreign correspond- Ing members—among them Dr. Rhys Carpenter of Bryn Mawr. Now at home and abroad Miss Taylor is ranked with the deans of historians. Retirement has not ceased her activi- _ fies but rather increased her interests. Today she is contin- to learn and to teach—now at the American Academy you-see-’em-now-you-don’t — the Non Reses, who c inly have made their mark on the campus. Jess succeeds Cynthia Wyeth who is also Non Res, and is president of that group for the next term of office. But that is another story -— Jessica learned of the election be- fore her Verse Composition class, and is to be excused if not too at- tentive during same. After all, monetary affairs are not entirely compatible with verse, and Jess theoretically will be one of the wealthiest women on campus. What is it like to Non-Res? “Well, not as remote as you might think — after all, we are here a good bit of the time!” She retains discreet silence in the face of the inevitable razzing about All That Money—perhaps this is the place for the poet rather than the math major. But if a happy face and pink camelias are her signs of of- fice, the college has little to worry about. Book Room Shows Auden Manuscripts Original manuscripts and first editions of W. H. Auden’s works are on display in the Rare Book Room of the Library. This exhibit includes manuscript notes for The Double Man, the poet’s notebooks, and Thornton Wilder’s commentar- ies on Auden. Mr. Auden, born in England in 1907, was educated at Oxford and is now a citizen of the United States. His works include The Double Man and The Age of Anx- iety, which won a Pulitzer Prize. Among the first editions exhib- ited are autographed copies, Eng- lish editions, and one of a limited edition privately owned by Miss Caroline Newton, Class of 1914. Miss Newton, a friend of W. H. Auden’s and a member of the Rare Book Committee, has lent the Li- Molly A. Plunkett Heads the League “I know - - - the first thing that you'll want to know is what my first reaction was!” cried Molly Plunkett, newly-elected President of the Bryn Mawr League. “What would you say if I told you that I screamed?” She did not, of course, but the reply-before-the-question was a most effective squelch. “I hope that this will be a good year for the League, and that we’ll be able to put several projects into operation—that will sound vague on paper, but we’ll just work away, and let the college see the results!” The Bryn Mawr Summer Camp has been one of Molly’s chief inter- ests, as has ‘Weekend Work Camp. She recently has begun to work at the Child Study Institute—‘I don’t know who learns more”—and may ibe found almost any day of the week engrossed in the life and work of the three-year-old. Molly is a member of Chorus, and is co-chairman of that grow- ing Bryn Mawr institution, the Li-} brary Council. League activities are somehow a part of her daily living, however—they fall almost out of the range of* extra-curricu- lar. A most appropriate scheme of things for this new president. Bobbie Olsen Wins As A.A. President “Tt must have been the sweetest- smelling laboratory period ever spent at Park,” stated Bobbie Ol- sen, recalling the setting of her discovery that. she had become the new Athletic Association Presi- dent. “I was so nervous when I saw the flowers that I hardly knew what I was experimenting with. All Emmy and I could say to each other was “Congratulations ... thank you... ” etc. “All the chemical reactions came _ out wrong.” So to lessen the danger of an explosion because of her ex- citement, Bobbie treated her lab- mates to tea. Park, and an organic chemistry class, was the appropriate place for her to learn of her election, for her great interest in the Athletic Association is surpassed only by her enthusiasm about her goal: to become a doctor. To attain this ambition she is majoring in bi- ology. Most of Bobbie’s summers have been spent at summer school or traveling. Her traveling has been extensive; actually she is away from home a good part of the time because she lives at quite a dis- tance from Bryn Mawr — the Philippines. “Dra Mu” Presents Opera and Dances “A Musical Melange” is the pre- sentation of the Dra Mu Opera Company on Wednesday, March 25, at 8:30 in Goodhart Hall. The production will feature the Dra Mu Chorus with its operatic prin- cipals and the John Hines Com- ‘pany in ethnic and modern dances. Prayer from “Cavalleria Rusti- cana,” three selections by Verdi (as sung by Eloise Owens) and Rossini”’s Largo (sung by George Dorsey) will be the featured selec- tions. The Opera Company is ‘com- posed of a group of Negro non- professional working people and a few professional singers. During the year they devote one night a week to rehearsal, presenting an opera in the fall at the Academy of Music. This year their produc- tion was an English translation of Samson and Delilah, strikingly performed and costumed. Tickets are $1.20 each and may be obtained on campus from Eliza- beth Jones, Mrs. Louise Jones and Mrs. James Ashe. Current Events Mr. J. Adams Reveals Authoritarianism, Democracy AUTHORITARIANISM AND DEMOCRACY, or “the concept of the authoritarian personality in re- lation to those aspects of a society which make possible the develop- ment of the productive self-realiz- ing potentialities of the individual as long as that expression does not fairly directly interfere with the rexpression of others”—this was the topic of the Current Events lecture on Monday evening, March 18. Dr. Joe Kennedy Adams, As- sistant Professor of Bryn Mawr’s Psychology Department, gave the address. “The concept of the authoritar- ian personality is not an isolated concept but an integral part of much of psychoanalytic theory.” It is rarely a set of concepts and hy- potheses which grew out of this theory. Historical Development Dr. Adams traced the historical development of this authoritarian theory from its origin in the de- velopment of Fascism in Germany and Italy and the failure of Com- munism in Soviet Russia to fulfill its promises such as “the withering away of the state and a develop- ment of individual freedom.” The principal exponents of the theory were Erich Fromm who stressed as the underlying causes an “unbearable aloneness” and an escape from insecurity, and Wil- helm Reich who emphasized the ir- fluence of a child’s interpretation of his parents’ discipline as that of “arbitrary giants”. Too Much Pressure ‘When too much pressure from repressions is exerted, various er- uptions of the stratified personal. ity occur. The personality struc- ture, instead of being “similar to a regular onion, becomes more like that of a freak artichoke”. Nine characteristic eruptions occur al- most simultaneously: 1) Authoritarian Submission — the uncritical submission towards idealized mora] authorities; 2) Rigid Conventionality—‘rigid adherence to conventionalized val- ues”; 4) Authoritarian Projectivity— the perception of “wild and danger- ous events” in the world corres- ponding to inexplicable thoughts in the individual’s mind; 5) Exaggerated Sexual Con- cern—Aggression and Projectivity are especially evidenced in anxiety over sexual misbehaviors; 6) Anti-Intraception—the rejec- tion of anything subjective, imag- inative, and psychological; 7) Supernaturalism—the belief in “mystical determinants of the individual’s fate’ due to lack of connection with the dominating factors in hig own life; 8) Power Complex—the super concern with stable relations and the categorizing of relations in terms of “dominant-recessive” etc.; 9) General iAggression — the agreement with cliches degrading humanity. In conclusion Dr. Adams said: “There is no economic selution alone. The real solution is in the rearing of children not by repres- sion of impulses but by assuring their understanding of principles.” The first Varsity Tennis Prac- tice will be on Saturday, March 21, from 10:00 until 12:00. Ey- eryone who is interested-is in- vited to come—freshmen pa&rtic- ularly are welcome. Odd and Evens Volley Ball game—Come one, come every- body! Thursday, March 19 at 5:00. Please wear class tunics —most vital that you do!