The College News

 

VOL. XLVII, NO. 20

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1951

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1951

PRICE 15 CENTS

 

Dr. Carpenter
Shows Present
Value of Greek

Greek May Be Utilized;
Should Not Be
Rejected

The Bryn Mawr faculty must
have a conviction “that Greek is
still worth studying,” Dr. Rhys
Carpenter reasoned, as he ad-
dressed the graduate assembly
last Wednesday. Otherwise, why,
when Greek is being pushed from
curricula everywhere, should a
student be assisted in devoting her
energies to a study of the lan-
guage? Has it been lassitude
that has kept the faculty from ex-
pelling Greek from Bryn Mawr?

By revising the origin of and
reason for Greek’s coming into
the. modern world, one can “com-
prehend whither it has gone, and
why it has left it so suddenly and
finally.”

In the mid-Renaissance, Greek’
began to be the mark of an edu-
cated upper society. A member
of the British ruling class was
tested in his knowledge of Greek
when he applied for a job with
the Indian Civil Service. In
America, the language, though
never used as a government sieve,
is a sign of intellectual distinction.
Does _the study of Greek benefit
scientific-minded American  soci-
ety, though? The usual defenses
_are inadequate, for they advocate
Greek for a purpose not its own—
mental development of added fa-
cility with English. “If Greek has
a place in modern American civili-
zation, it must be because Greek
for its own sake has a claim to
exist.”

The belief that Greek makes a
superior man “would be complete-
ly rejected or openly ridiculed” in
today’s America, resentful as_ it
is of the “older oligarchy of cul-
ture.” “We all judge our world
and our fellow human beings by
our prejudices,” Mr. Carpenter
said, citing the “exploiting the un-
derdogs of society” outlook in

Although displayed in the “rare”
book room, the books in the pres-
ent exhibit are only “rare” in the
sense of their bindings and their
fine poetic content, but certainly
not in the popularity sense. The ex-
hibit currently in the Rare Book
Room is one of the most interest-
ing collections that the Library
has gathered in a long time. The
writings of two of Bryn Mawr’s
most well-known alumnae, Mari-
anne Moore, and H. D. (Hilda
Doolittle Aldington) are on view.
Through the graciousness of sev-
eral people and _ organizations,
manuscripts and first editions have
been lent, along with photographs
and additional articles, to make
up an exhibition of enormous
scope and student interest. The
guest book near the door is rapid-
ly being filled up, as viewers come
to see the three glass cases of
opened volumes. |

One of the earliest pieces of
writing in the collection is The
Discouraged Poet, a story written |
by Miss Moore for the 1909 Typin'
O’Bob; itis in the same case with |
a yearbook photograph of Miss

 

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Moore, and one of her classmates,

Miss Mary Herr, who is a donor. |

 

Perkins Reports
On AA Congress

Specially contributed by Laurie
Perkins, 52, President of A.A.

On April tenth, about six hun-
dred girls representing one hun-
dred and thirty colleges from
forty states, registered at Lloyd
Hall, the University of Michigan,
for the Athletic Federation of
College Women’s Conference. At
first glance we wondered if any-
thing unified could be gotten from
such a heterogeneous group. We
did not wonder long. At our first
mass meeting that night, we were
welded into a unified group work-
ing for a common goal: the better-
ment of our organizafions through
the ideas and advice obtained by
free exchange.

The Conference had two parts.
The first, of secondary interest to

 

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Seven College Government Conference
Provides Medium for Ideas & Opinions

Specially contributed by Alice
Mitchell, °52, Pres. of U. G.

Most people like to talk, and
since heads of college government.
are particularly offensive in this
respect, they get together once a
year for the specific purpose of
talking continuously for three
days in some place where they
won’t be likely to disturb anyone
else. This year they chose Bar- |
nard . The Bryn Mawr contingent,
consisting of aged and decrepit
Savage and Iglehart, as well as
green and adolescent Liachowitz
and myself, timed its arrival in
New York on Friday to follow
MacArthur’s. However, there was

no parade—just the five o’clock
rush.

The Seven College Conference of
old and new heads of student gov-
ernment has as its purpose the ex-
change of ideas on student prob-

 

lems, to see how other people han-
dle them, and incidentally to help
orient the new officers.

The agenda, made up from ques-
tions sent in beforehand, was com-
prehensive but not very rigorous-
ly followed. We _ started with
NSA, which everyone thought
should be supported in spite of
present weaknesses. On most cam-
puses it is a part of student gov-
ernment, and has been found more
useful in sounding out student
opinion on national issues than in

'earrying out specific projects. But

we are agreed that the important
thing is what colleges of the Seven
College type can contribute to
NSA, not what they can get out
of membership.

‘We discussed elections and dis-
covered that systems varied from
Smith’s complicated screening of

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There are later photographs of
'“producing poetry that is hard

Manuscripts and Writings of H. D..
Marianne Moore Seen In Book Room

Miss Moore, aiong with copies of
Nevertheless, What Are Years,
Observations, and other books,
and a small hand-written diary
that Miss Moore has lent the Col-
lege. Written from 1930 to 1943
in a 1923 diary, it sits with loose
pages, faded lines, and multitudin-
ous sketches of plants and animals
in a ease directly under reproduc-
tions of some of the diary’s pages
printed in The Tiger’s Eye. Her
sketches are lovely, fragile things
—fine line drawings of turtles and
leaves, and fragments of unreal
animals, delicately drawn.

Miss Moore’s contemporary,
H. D., who was in the same class
at Bryn Mawr, is represented in
the collection with nineteen vol-
umes of poetry and two manu-
scripts, which were lent by Nor-
man Holmes Pearson of Yale Uni-
versity. The
Rod, written in pencil in a note-
book, and the typed copy of Frag-
ment 41, with ink corrections are
to be seen as well as three photo-
graphs also lent by Mr. Pearson.
Two of them, in color, were taken

'yecently in Italy. Written by “the

only true Imagist,” Mrs. Aldington’s
poems have a perceptive quality
that stand by the Imagist credo of

and clear, never blurred nor in-
definite,” even when read through
the glass of the case. By Avon
River, Sea Garden, and Tribute to
the Angels are among the books
on view.

The collection will be in the
Rare Book Room for _ sevezal
weeks—from Miss Moore’s short
poem To Be Liked By You Would
Be A Catastrophe, to Mrs. Alding-
ton’s play Hippolytus Temporizes
—all part of a collection worth see-
ing and reading.

CALENDAR
Wednesday, April 25, 1951.

8:15 p. m. Award night in the
Common Room. Athletic awards
will be presented.

Thursday, April 26, 1951.

8:30 p.m. Theatre in The Round,
Commons Room of Haverford
‘College. Tickets are $1.00 at the
door; or telephone Ardmore
9094-W. Plays to be given are
Hope Is A Thing With Feath-
ers, Waiting For Lefty, and Fum-
ed Oak.

Friday, April 27, 1951.

8:30 p. m. IRC-NSA Interna-
tional Folk Festival in the gym-
nasium.

8:30 p. m. Theatre In The Round.

Saturday, April 28, 1951.

9:00 a. m. Italian and Spanish
Orals, Taylor Hall.

7:30 p. m. Theatre In The Round.

8:30 p. m. Arts Night, featur-
ing modern dance, a Victorian
drama, an operetta and an exhib-
it of paintings. The Skinner
Workshop. Admission sixty cents.
» Senior Prom at Haverford Col-
lege.

Sunday, April 29, 1951.

7:15 p. m. The Rev. G. J. Wull-
schleger will speak. Music Room.

Monday, April 30, 1951.

7:15 p. m. Current Events, Com-
mon Room. *

8:00 p. m. Dr. Richmond Latti-
more will read his poems in the
Art Lecture Room of the Library.

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Flowering of the)

Self-Gov Revokes
Fine; Substitutes
Time Deductions

A significant change in the pro-
cedure of the Self-Government
Board was enacted last week. The
system of fining was unanimously
revoked, as the minutes of last
Wednesday’s meeting, posted in
the halls, now indicate. It is felt
that payment of a fine does not
bring the offender’s attention to
the importance of remedying the
conditions which lead up to a via-
lation. Fifteen minutes’ accumu-
lated lateness means nothing in
terms of a twenty-five-cent fine
but under the system just inau-
gurated, it will mean a deduction
in time, determined in accordance
with the seriousness of the offense.

Self-Gov rules have always been
set up on rational basis. Fining
is not a reasonable nor an effec-
tive punishment. Punishment is
not the purpose of the Self-Gov
Board; correction of the students’
problems, in order to make com-
munity living happier and less
harried, is its aim. The new sys-

monetary should make a more
tangible contribution toward elim-
inating minor infractions.

Dr. Samuel Chew
Elected Member
Philosophical Soe.

Dr. Samuel Claggett Chew, Pro-
fessor of English, was elected to
membership in the American Phil-
osophical Society at its last annu-
al meeting. His outstanding
scholarship in the field of English
literature has earned him this
great honor.

Mr. Chew’s best known criticims
include several volumes on Lord
Byron—a subject to which he has
devoted special attention — The
Dramas of Lord Byron and Byron
in England: His Fame and After-
fame. He edited Byron’s poems
under the heading Childe Harold’s
Pilgrimage and Other Romantic
Poems. Of the Victorian authors,
Mr. Chew has written on Algernon
Swinburne and Thomas Hardy.

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tem of time penalties rather than

 

Fulbright Aids
B. L. Hughes’
Greek Studies

E. Emerson Awarded
F. B. Workman
Fellowship

While Barbara Hughes attended
the assembly last Wednesday at
which she was awarded the Fanny
Bullock Workman Fellowship, a
letter telling of her winning a
Fulbright Scholarship came to the
graduate center. She will accept
it, but will retain the honorary
title of Workman Fellow.

Elizabeth Emerson, fellow in
English, is the alternate for the
Workman Fellowship. She took
her A. B. at Mount Holyoke in
1935, and her M. A. at the Univer-
sity of Tennessee in 1938. Her
home is in Mount Vernon, New
York. She will use the fellowship
for several months in England, .
searching newspaper files in con-
nection with her thesis, the sub-
ject of which is “Theories of Act--
ing in the Late 19th Century (Re-
flected in the Dramatic Criticism
of Shaw, Archer, Henry James,
and Clement Scott.)” The rest of
the year will be spent at various
libraries in the United States.

Chorus Concert
Rises to Climax

by Lucy Batten, ’54

On Saturday, April 21, the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania Women’s
Chorus and the Haverford Glee
Club combined in Modern Music to
issue the audience an invitation to
enjoy the concert. Handel’s Mu-
sic, Spread Thy Voice Around, its
delicate blending of countermelo-
dies enhanced by a small wind-
string ensemble, suffered from
the performers’ uncertainty in the
opening duet. In Brahms’ Vineta
the two groups began to function
more confidently.

In These Delightful Pleasant
Groves, Schubert’s Nacht Und
Traume, and Brahms’ Der Schmied, .

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by Anne Phipps, °54

Small, passionate groups are
meeting in remote and secluded
spots around the campus. They
are not, insofar as we know, con-
nected with the mole races for
which we are currently notorious.
They are, however, seriously con-
nected with Arts Night, which
will present a play, two dances,
and an operetta next Saturday
night.

James Bazrie had a _ balloon-
lady float up into the sky one
day; Joanna Semel, in her verse
play Ad Astra Per Aspera, has a
balloon-poet float down onto the
stage. He arrives in a pink and
mauve basket, to harmonize with
the name of the heroine, Laven
der. Caroline Morgan, who was

 

in charge of Freshman Show scen-

 

Balloon, Soprano-ty pe Dinnah Dress,
Fire, To Invade Skinner Stage Sat.

ery, is working on the contraption;
he> trademark, sparkle, will shine
once more. When last seen,
the actors were working in the
May Day Room, under the super
vision of the bleary-eyed moose;
from his position on the wall, he
gazed down with a calmness that
contrasted nicely with the chaos
of rehearsal. Nancy Pearre, last
week a Grecian lady of easy vir-
tue, was working at being a sweet
and simple schoolgizl. Elspeth
Winton wandered around in shorts,
playing a_ sensitive Victorian
mother. Elsie Kemp, the elder

|sister, when she went on stage

(i.e., into the middle of the room)
straightened herself up and by
some strange metamorphosis seem-
ed to be wearing a rigid, ancient
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