VOL. XLVI, NO. 12 ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1950 Copyright, Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1950 a PRICE 15 CENTS ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS WE PRINT ’ PECIAL ISSUE ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS WE PRINT Dean Marshall: W NEWS History Full of Faux-Pas, Campus Issues, Fierce Headlines “The College NEWS was start- ed without any idea of its being a_paying proposition.” How ex- cellently that editorial policy suc- ceeded; it was, perhaps, the only one not to change through those enterprising years which bring us to the gay but bankrupt days of 1950. Isabel Foster, who started the NEWS in 1914, promised other things, too: “Interesting and au- thentic college news every week!” and “Besides prompt news, news that is out of the ordinary, sur- prising, hard to get...” as well as ‘““‘We wish to assure the editors of the Typyn O’Bob that we will never publish literary matter.” In those first weeks the col- umns were filled with letters: “Dear Editors: Often I find it difficult to an- swer correctly questions about Bryn Mawr College. Will it be possible to obtain accurate in- formation through the medium of your paper? If so, will you kind- Manning Makes Drama History “Then there was Tilburina, played by Helen Taft, who, ‘stark mad in white satin,’ roused mirth and applause from all.” Drama still more drama seems to have been the theme of early Bryn Mawr theatrical history, and even in those days it was remarkable, as this notice in the College NEWS of 1915 makes clear. Before 1917 all shows were class shows, and ranged from informal skits through musical comedy and that delightful annual Gilbert & Sullivan to pure deep drama. Un- dergraduates were versatile: a little later the NEWS remarks “Aida was effectively rendered in the stentorian tones of Helen Taft,” and that great stage career Continued on Page 5 ly tell me what year President Wilson was professor at Bryn Mawr, and where he lived? En- closed please find a check.” And from indignant undergrad- uates: “Why do people insist on sitting in the outside seat at Chapel so that all the people coming in later have to climb over them?” NEWS business was more care- free too: “Competition for the Editor of the College NEWS is now open. Will anyone interest- ed please hand her name in to the Board?” Debate was a big issue: “There isn’t any reason why — if we all Continued on Page 4 President, Poets Clutter Campus The Bryn Mawr scene over the past half-century was replete with personalities — students, faculty, distinguished guests alike. Strong- est of them all, of course, was Miss Thomas, who lectured per- iodically on her peripatetic exis- tence: “JT was a born globe trotter. If women’s education had not been in such a sad state when I was your age I think I should have been an explorer. ...I drove my car myself a great part of these forty-five hundred miles. We did not have a single puncture all that distance...” Miss Helen Taft became Dean of the College, and Jater the fol- lowing account of her marriage was printed in the NEWS: “She was greeted with cheers when she arrived in a carriage covered with homespun couverture in honor of the occasion. . . . Later the bride and bridegroom drove to the wharf in a native caleche dec- orated with peonies and ribbons and with an old tennis shoe tied Continued on Page 5 h| Wagner’s life. ‘|much more sensitive to genius we oman of the Half - Century Great Figures, Famous Words Illuminate Age (Miss Thomas on Mohammedan Women) “Never taking exercise, they develop the mountains of fat so much admired in the East.” (On Wagner) nothing more “One can read delightful than It shows us how will be when women wield more influence. Women are very sus- ceptible to Wagners’ genius. Dur- ing his lifetime they could not turn a deaf ear to his music. They gave him their money, their time, and their husbands’ homes... .” (On Mr. Carpenter) “Mr. Car- penter’s pages contain almost as many swallows as Swinburne’s.” (On Cecil Chesteron) ‘Cecil Chesterton says that ‘All war is wicked irrespective of what war is about.’ This is like saying that all hammering is wrong irrespec- tive of whether you hammer the head of a nail or the head of your aunt.” Continued on Page 6 NEWS ELECTIONS The NEWS takes the great- est pleasure in announcing the election of: Joan McBride, 752, as Editor - in - Chief, Paula Strawhecker, ’52, as Copy Ed- itor, and Jane Augustine, Bar- bara Joelson, and Joanna Semel as Board Members. NEWS Examines Social Patterns (Looking over the social scene we find that many of the changes at Bryn Mawr have been signalled by changes in the rules laid down for our guidance. We are impressed with the days before the first war when there was no smoking allow- ed, no men whatsoever except the unmarried faculty, with whom communication was forbidden, and no comprehensives. But, for living dangerously, you could have wine in your room if you also had a roommate. Besides these large issues, there were many smaller conditions of life at Bryn Mawr; for example, around 1914, no commerce (back- ing and filling) was allowed be- tween Pem East and Pem West after the lower doors were locked. And though the dining room doors had to be left open because of fire, passage was not easy because Miss Patterson, the current hall manager, stood guard. Miss Gar- diner tells of crawling across the dining room on hands and knees, only to meet rotund Miss Patter- son face to face—also on hands and knees. “Both parties,” says Miss Gardiner, “retired backwards into their respective strongholds, to try again.” Continued on Page 2 Line of Great Danes Produces Gardener of The Bluetooth and Diana. The small kingdom of Denmark lies north of Germany, south of Norway, east of England, this side of Russia. Hers is a proud tradition, from pre-historic times on; once con- queror of England, her kings— Gorm the Old, Harald Bluetooth, Sweyn Forkbeard, Canute the Great—have imbued her with their spirit of fierce independence and determination. This idyllic land recently came into the news when America sent its first woman ambassador, Mrs. Eugenie Anderson, to Copenhagen. Yet few people probably know that in this act President Truman de- liberately symbolized what it is Vogue’s Eyeview Of Half-Century Early 1900’s — Academic gowns are in the note. They are worn constantly, especially in Merion, which boasts no closets. Two hooks on the wall.provide for each under- graduate’s needs: one hook for her gown, one for her dress. Hats are to be worn off campus on Sundays, lest any local resident suspect that every Bryn Mawr girl does not go to church regularly. 1916 — This year’s well-dressed hockey player will wear bloomers, a middy blouse, long stockings, and a corduroy skirt. For spring track practice she may shed her skirt, provided she does so in a shelter by the field and never walks across campus in her bloomers. No actress may wear contempor- ary male attire‘on the stage. This year’s undergraduate will wear formal dress to all college per- formances, regardless of the re- quired absence of all men (includ- ing, of course, professors!). Early 1920’s — Vogue quotes ap- propriate ads from the College NEWS: Continued on Page 2 Half-Century that the U. S. owes to Denmark— a woman, the Woman of the Half- Century, Dean Dorothy Nepper Marshall of Bryn Mawr (in pri- vate life, Mrs. J. Nathaniel Mar- shall). Blonde, lively, keen-eyed, effi- cient Dorothy Marshall comes from a long line of great Danes. Grandfather Nepper was a sea- captain who took his family along on the “Diana” every summer around the world (he once lost glasses- wearing, medium sized Mrs. Marshall’s father overboard in the North Sea, luckily found him again). Little Dorothy Nep- per’s early life was spent mostly on a farm in New England, occa- sionally in Denmark, of which she has pleasant memories. Her fav- orite games involved a horse and a Model-T Ford. The next step was Marshfield High School, from which Dean Marshall emerged ninth in a class of ten (she also received an award Continued on Page 3 Century Breeds Heroic Athletes As the upperclassmen sym- pathize with the freshmen who are wending their weary ways to Body Mechanics, it is evident that they do not know how lucky they really are. Up until 1928, four years of gym were required of everyone, with no cuts allowed. This small fact is only one piece of evidence among’ thousands which show how much larger a place Sports (with a very def- inite capital S) took in the life of a Bryn Mawr undergraduate. Class teams were organized to the Nth degree, says Miss Grant, who came to Bryn Mawr in 1980, two years after Miss Applebee left. Under the latter, one girl was even heard to say that she hadn’t done. Continued on Page 3 Page Two THE COLLEGE NEWS THE COLLEGE NEWS FOUNDED IN 1914 mission of the Editor-in-Chief. The College News is fully protected by copyright. appears in it may be reprinted either wholly or in part without per- Nothing that GWYNNE WILLIAMS, ’50 Betty DEMPWOLF, ’50 Emity TOWNSEND, 50, Editor-in-Chief ANNE GREET, ’50, Copy Editor Hanna Hovporn, ’50, Make-Up IntNa NE.IDow, 50, Make-Up Nina Cave, ’50 MELANIE Hewitt, ’50 ELISABETH NELIDow, ’51 Photography FRANCINE DU PLEssIx, ’52 Like Lady Godiva - - - The Editors are dead; long live the Editors. Poor hope- ful scriveners, we have sacrificed our sleep for a nation’s entertainment, and bent our backs to the burdens of the world. Let us pay our tribute at once to those who do not die with us, and then say a quick farewell. to be done. There is work First and most emphatically, thanks we can never ex- press strongly enough to Miss McBride, whose clear judg- ment and rare understanding have made our year in the editorial chair a constant pleasure and a stimulating educa- tional experience. Heartfelt thanks, gratitude, and our very best wishes to the NEWS staff: the staff of the half-century. Thanks to Mr. Adams for his horse story, his dog story, his stamps, his news items, and his snake dance. Thanks to Mrs. Paul, who has pulled us out of the most horrifying situations with a sense. smile and immense common Thanks to Mr. Kamerdze for waiting so patiently while we finished up our editorials at four in the morning, for driv- ing us periodically toward the engravers and away from trouble, and for not charging us extra for our bad behavior in his Plant. Thanks, many thanks to Louie for being a fireman, a beer-drinker, a thorough bon ous with his cigarettes. vivant, and extremely gener- Thanks to John for his courtesy, and for pretending not to know that we should have been out of Goodhart half an hour ago. Thanks to Wyndham for not minding our low-bred English in their Parisian quarters, and to our warden for smiling bravely at the outrageous telephone bill. Thanks to the college for continuing to read us—we wish them better reading in the future, and hope they may sometimes think of kindly of the past. { And now, to plagiarize Dr. Herben, we leap to our clothes. Vogue’s Eye View of Half-Century Reveals Unnatural Delight in Dirt, Torn Stockings Continued from Page 1 : “A corset is so personal — so much a part of one’s very self... “Three dozen T-shirts have been sold by the firm in Pembroke East For Garden Party: “Dainty sum- mer frocks of silk and filmy fab- rics.” Prom the NEWS itself: “A crowd of students attired in a long full corduroy skirt .. .” Three-way stretch? 1926-1928 — The middy blouse epoch is drawing to a close, and with it the outworn fashion of tight headbands, worn low on the fore- head. Academic gowns are now worn purely for practical reasons, and are an excellent substitute for raincoats. A few. of the faculty, Miss Swindler, Miss Schenck, Miss Wright, still wear gowns to lec- tures to lend the proper atmo- sphere. Late 1920’s — The zenith of the Messy, Unwashed Age. Runs in stockings are a must; they are carefully started in new stockings before the first wearing. From a later Screenland write- up of Katherine Hepburn (’28): “They had known that Kate Hep- burn was a grand girl — awfully careless as to clothes, of course— but very clever ... She wore bat- tered sneakers about the campus. Big, heavy sports shoes and socks _also, sometimes . . . She frequent- ly made her appearance at break- fast in a suit or a dress hastily pulled over her pajamas, with the sleep still in her eyes... A green corduroy skirt with raveled hem and a shirt which needed press- ” Ne os 1934 — The Messy, Unwashed Age still prevails, and is reflected in the Make-It-Last-Forever Look. Chic is the senior who wears the clothes she wore freshman year. This of course involves an exten- sive use of safety pins. Editorial from the 1934 NEWS: “Visitors to the campus are con- fronted on all sides by intellectuals with fingernails suffering from in- timate contact with good earth, hair resembling that of an East Indian native after a hard day in the rice fields, and clothes that would have brought shame on a Belgian refugee ... ” “There is a rule against wearing men’s clothing on campus or in public parts of the halls, unless completely covered.” Beach pajamas are in vogue. The girl with the widest girth wears the flashiest pajamas. 1934 marks the Controversy of the Beards: Herben’s vs. Weiss’.: Herben’s is more impressive, Weiss’ more charming. The contest ends in a draw. 1941-1945—The war years. Suit- able attire for air-raid drills con- sists of a coat, shoes, and a wet towel. The rules for these drills differ slightly from those for fire drills, causing much confusion. 1948 — The New Look results in voluminous ankle-length skirts which create new hazards in bi- cycle riding. Hair is worn in a pony tail at an angle approaching 90 degrees to the vertical. Vogue predicts for 1950: Here Vogue closes its Eye. the sewing contest.” Wednesday, January 18, 1950 Opinion Appreciative Wyndham Fondly Says Farewell Open Resolution to the College NEWS: Whereas, Your home has been “chez nous” these past two years; and - Whereas, Mr. Kamerdze ‘is the only man living that we would al- low to see us in kimona, pjs, with turbanned and dripping head; and Whereas, The May Day issue started a new working day at 11 P. M., and increased our overnight register by approximately the number of members of the NEWS Board, and enveloped our dining room in the greatest mystery; and Whereas, The discussions of the Board leave in their wake crumbs, risque jokes, and the latest gossip about certain professors; and Whereas, Our education has been furthered by our contact with several members of the Staff and Board, whose love of music and poetry has inspired in us the love of such classics as the modern version of “Oh Dear, What Can the Matter Be”; and Whereas, B-Bright would keep us company almost any night we decided to type our long papers, because she once worked on the NEWS too; and Whereas, We are especially grateful for your giving us our champion Charleston dancer; and Whereas, We have been en- chanted by the “imaginative” stories told us by your inimitable Editor-in-Chief; and Whereas, We love the Tuesday- night sight of two “rump-tious” egitors on the smoker rug, breath- ing smoke, getting drunk on water, being innoculated against drooping eyelids by Nescafe, while pounding out features, edi- torials . . . and sometimes criti- cisms (!); therefore, be it RESOLVED, That we shall miss you. Love, Wyndham New Social Patterns Change Self-Gov. Rules Continued from Page 1 Also in the files for the pre-war period we find that two repri- mands were given for motoring out of town after dark unchap- eroned, and for dining at the Ritz- Carlton with a man. An even brighter note from this era: “The Tea Room is giving a The ‘Dansant on Friday afternoon .. . admission will be five cents and cakes and lemonade will be sold. The music will probably be supplied by the Freshman Orchestra. No men will be allowed...” But grimly: “In respect to the Student Council,” said Miss Thomas, “it has never been con- sulted about faculty regulations. Many of the faculty do not know of its existence.” , During the twenties there were several innovations. “At symphony concerts and the Opera students may sit apart from their chap- erones,” and, says an old NEWS, “such words as darrrling (roll the r) and virile (ditto) are firmly established in the language of the Bryn (Mawr student. “And a homey detail: “H. Mill won first prize for the best-dressed doll in Apparently, too, the wardens said good-night to each student personally, and breakfast in bed cost fifteen cents. In 1927, a revolutionary year, smoking and men were first recog- nized and permitted on campus.. However, the attitude toward pub- licity remained conservative, and the students were not permitted to mention Bryn Mawr in announc- ing their engagements, thus en- couraging the widespread belief that Bryn Mawr girls never marry. : In the early thirties, an edict ‘mately three feet from the ground, Funerals, Man,tStark Reality Mark Trend in College Writing” “I never was a happy girl. My baptismal name is Heliodora; my family name . , . ” Bryn Mawr’s creative efforts in the dawn of the half-century were coated with a sombre gloom. Funerals dot the pages of the Fortnightly Philis- tine: “When the funeral was over, Veronica Churchill found herself standing in the drawing-room with Cecil Markham.” “There was a deep hush throughout the house of the deceased Jane Willis, as, two days after the funeral, the heirs filed into the drawing room of their late mother.” “In the bed facing the western window. my mother lay dying ... The angel was long in coming and I was weary waiting.” vn ee Where are the elders of our family? Where is Emily? Down in Goodhart watch them weeping They’ll be back no more. Hanna? Where is Where is Gwynneth? Where is Nina? Where is Anne and where’s Irina? Up in the Library see them sleep- ing They’ll be back no more. Monday, Tuesday now are their Nights Out; At 10:30 they put their lights out. Hear the chant of the elderly editors “We'll come back no more. “Goodbye Louie, goodbye headlines Hello world and hello breadlines; We may write you lengthy leditors But we’ll come back no more.” from the Dean’s Office announced ‘there is to be no sun-bathing less than twenty-five feet from the ground.” But the rules were sag- ging nevertheless ... Miss Tate-Smith informs us that in this period the College Inn was open till ten at night. “Many used to spend the day.” “And Merion,” she said, “was a cess-pool of vice. Students used to go over the Freshman Handbook to find rules: they hadn’t broken, and break them. Things were better and wickeder then. Everybody was a strumpet or a wench.” During pro- hibition Miss Taylor served “a very strong tea”... In 1934 Sallie Jones’ suave sex questionnaire asked “what do you think about being a virgin and everything?” And later the Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood announced that its members “shall have an official salute which shall be the raising of the left foot approxi- in imitation of the attitude of the wicked brother in Lorenzo and Isabella by Holman Hunt.” Soon afterwards the comprehensive system ‘was introduced. The war years at Bryn Mawr were grim and full of privation. But there were practice air-raids and the handsomest”professors on campus—Carpenter, Watson, Cam- eron, Broughton, and Sloane — were chosen as wardens. They used to pass through the halls at If death did not begin a story, it was gure to end it. “Then die,’ she cried, vanishing. ‘Die in thine obstinacy!’ And the dungeon walls, reechoed, Die.” The Lantern con-. tributor’s imaginings were filled with wracking, mordant horror. “Tt is terrible,’ she said, ‘when a thing like this comes into the life of a woman like me.”’” “John William Smith was not a college Man... ; si “Dear girl, be strong .-” “*No matter,’ he said, ‘Kis- met.’” (By Gwynne Williams’ Aunt Grace). Our first forerunners were earn~ est, profound, and grave (“Feel for the first time that you are eat- ing the sweat of your honest brow”) but at infrequent intervals a happier note was sounded. “The owlets are gurgling low in the trees.” “The Junior Professor of Greek was walking up the avenue in a brown study...” “Alice was different from the other women he had known... ” A weakness for family deaths lingered on in to the next decade. “T have had sad news. My mother has died—of severe hereditary gout—and I must leave at once.” But, in general the teens was an aimiable age. “I love all post- men. I love them not for the let- ters they bring me but for them- selves.” “My own, close to me, closer creep.” But their affection was not always returned. “Wheep,” she said coyly . . . look- ing up at him. He... only shift- ed away from her.” “No women— he was not that sort.” “My un- requited love simply exhausts me.” ‘Alas! I never knew that she had a bloom until it was rubbed off.” Occasionally daily life was re- flected in the art of the times: “a bust of Virgil, whose parted lips showed teeth...” “The man who lives next door is a musician... “The other girls were talking. She really did not have to. She was not facing his way, but... She knew...” “‘Clarence,’ said Effie, ‘what are they fighting for?’” The intemperance of the twen-. ties is blatant on the pages of Tipyn O’Bob “...I mixed him a good stiff whiskey, and hot. water, such as is a Godsend to a man with a chill.” “A wmiddle-. aged man sat drinking benedictine beneath the striped awning of a Parisian cafe.” “My treasured pomegranate wine and _ delicate Brazilian pears were not wasted on my guests.” “She prayed that her brimming cup might flow.” “The guests were standing list-. lessly sipping cocktails.” Man was coming to the fore in the creative minds of the campus. ‘... a brave dear lad and the leader among the younger Repub- licans.” “He was not the mag- nificent young god of wheat and corn that her imagination had painted.” “He wasn’t very strong, either, college had been too strenu- ous.” And with man, came tragedy. “Her world divided before her, and she walked into the rift.’ “Even when you are dead the earth will still be lovely sometimes.” “To follow up unthinking youth with matronhood, is this my lot?” The thirties is the stage of a mighty conflict between extreme cynicism and stark realism, “ ‘Shut up’, I snapped, still being brutal.’ “The boy struggled to hold _ the tiller. ‘God,’ he said unemotional- ly.” “Of the two I liked Miss Jane Tate better than Miss Sarah, chiefly because Miss Sarah had once kissed me. But I hated them both.” “He understood her kind. Continued on Page 3 night with carefully elevated gaze, while the girls lined the corridors in their flimsiest pajamas. The poet Auden, who was on the campus in those days, when he. was not losing his trousers in the . Continued on Page 6 le i Wednesday, January 18, 1950 THE COLLEGE NEWS Page Three The Half-Century Athene and Busts Leave Taylor As Civilization Overtakes Campus How many of us_ know that Mrs. Michel’s foot print is immor- talized in what-was-once-wet plas- ter somewhere on Goodhart’s bal- cony? that Professor Herben be- gan to grow his beard in the early 720s? that before Athene came to live with Mrs. Michels and Mon- sieur Guicharnaud she kept watch outside the Faculty Cloakroom? Many and wonderful are the changes that have taken place on campus in the last half-century, and Taylor perhaps is the center of them all. Even in 1915 some doubts were raised as to its archi- tectural harmony. “Shall we have a decapitated Taylor?” asked the NEWS. ‘Shall we be glad or sor- ry if the Building Committee agrees with the Dean of Montana in thinking that the top of the tower shouid be removed just where the copper begins? Will it look as though Taylor were kick- ing one leg in the air, in rivalry with the four the Elephant Li- brary kicks? ... could Taylor ever look Early Jacobean?” Chapel was held on the second floor and the hall was lined with copies of classical busts. An alphabet poem in an ancient Fortnightly Philis- tine says: B B is a bust, That Nelson must dust, Be it goddess or sage Of the classical age. b Interesting bust! One big college project in those days was the raising of funds to build the lower hockey field. The field was originally designed with banked sides so that it could be flooded in the winter for ice skat- ing. It was not until it was built, however, that someone realized that the steam pipes to Yarrow went directly under the area and so, of course, it would never freeze. The same careful planning for the future was evident in other campus’ enterprises. “Indeed,” said Miss Thomas in 1918, “in a sense the tower of Rockefeller Hall was planned so that the Col- lege students could follow the cus- tom of Magdalen College, Oxford, and sing to the sun on the first of May. It is carved on both sides with our coat of arms. It is diapered with Bryn Mawr daisies; the Bryn Mawr owls of Athene perch over it and make it the gate by which all her daughters enter and depart. I think you have heard me say that the first archi- tect of the College, Walter Cope, drew and redrew this tower six times before he and I were satis- fied that it was exactly right... .” In the twenties, civilization be- gan to encroach, and the NEWS complained in 1928, “Four years ago when we were freshmen, Bryn Mawr seemed really rural. Gulph road was only fit for cows and rubber boots, the sewer was a woodland stream and we thought it pure. The hill across from Yar- row was a wild slope where we lay out under the stars and won- dered immaturely about life and death. Now it is a real estate development flowering with bungalows. . . . The violet by the mossy bank gives place to the rub- ber plant by the Bryn Mawr Trust Co.... The class of 1950 will have to taketo their aeroplanes to reach their picnic places .. .” And Dr. Chew delighted all by his side whiskers and pastel shirts. The thirties marked a decline in innovations. Of course, there was Katherine Lc “One of Hep- burn’s favorite spots on the campus was the greensward en- closed by the library cloisters, where she loved to disport herself and roll in the damp grass.” There was also Rhoads and the departure of the busts. “Back from her sab- batical leave, Mrs. Manning is de- lighted at the growth of the campus and is far from regretting the busts in Taylor. ‘The living quarters in Rhoads are elegant be- yond compare,’ she says... .” And in 1946, our freshman year, came a novel, if temporary, addi- tion to the campus. Man. But he he left quite soon. The only land- mark that has remained unchang- ed through the years is Low Buildings. _ L L is Low Buildings, Away down the hill; It is low in location, In build, and in bill. 1 Extremely low buildings. | as best athlete). Her ambition was to go into training as a gym teach- er or to attend agricultural college and become a dairy farmer, but her family said no. So Dorothy Marshall went to Smith. Spain and Westerns She loved Smith, but in the beginning had a few difficulties. At the end of her freshman year she was told by the Dean (“who had only my good at heart,” says twinkling, well-dressed Mrs. Mar- shall) that she might be happier elsewhere. But Dorothy Marshall stuck it out, made the XYZ Hockey League (an organ- ization incorporating ambitious athletes who had failed to make the first, second, third, fourth varsity teams, as well as the class teams) and in her junior year was accepted to go abroad. She went to Spain, loved it, discovered the glamor of the international world, and then returned to Northamp- ton. After graduation, she went back to Spain on a fellowship and took her M.A. The U. S. was just recovering from the effects of a great de- pression when Dorothy Nepper stepped out into the world. Hired to teach English and Spanish at a southern private school, she taught the girls to write westerns, once received a story which began: “Swat me for a mule if ’t’ain’t two-gun Baker.” Having taken full advantage of the cultural opportunities of the Long Line of Great Danes Half-Century Produces Long Line of Athletes Continued from Page 1 too well that year, as she had only been goalie on the seventh far more enthusiastic, posssibly because Miss Applebee was on the NEWS as faculty advisor. “Meyer put up a good defense against Mr. Lattimore’s fast, ag- gressive game, but it was not enough... .” “Crenshaw displayed good tech- nique in the masterly strokes with which he sent the ball flying from the goal he defended. . . .” Faculty-student games were rampant, and the following story emerges from one such titanic combat: “In a faculty-student hockey game he flashed up and down the field waving his stick and making goals with elegant form. ... Proud and panting as he came off the field he was ad- dressed by Joe Graham, the old night watchman in the following immortal words: ‘For a man of your age and weight, Dr. Nahm, you run like the wind.’ ” Water-polo was the great game to play, if you could swim at all, and the bathing suits worn were even more charming then than they are now. A solid grey color, they were longer, even less shape- ly, and as high in front as they were in back. “Really like sacks,” said Miss Grant. The tennis court in back of Mer- ion was originally the faculty court, where no one else was al- class team! Sports write-ups were | Great Dane of the Half-Century Describes The Life and Times of the Bryn Mawr Dean Continued from Page 1 ; South (she learned to play golf) earnest, hardworking Dorothy Marshall came to Bryn Mawr, in 1939-40, to ‘do graduate work in Spanish. She lived in ivied, now undergraduate - populated (Radnor Hall, remembers a fellow student who used to play the cello, shoeless and wearing a red hair ribbon (she also ate grass). After re- ceiving her Ph.D., fearless, good- natured former Deanepper was hired as part-time instructor in Spanish, part-time assistant to Miss Schenk, then Dean of the Graduate School. After a series of rapid promotions, she became Dean of the Ufdergraduate School in 1946, Beards and Biologists Now, in her fourth year as Dean, Mrs. Marshall finds herself stok- ing the furnace of a well-heated administrative machine. Surround- ed by the “Dean’s Trust” (Good Friend and Fellow Horticulturist Sidney Donaldson, pert Margaret Irwin, soft-spoken Adelaide Rofi) she works her way through the assorted bales of business that makes up the life of a Dean, still finds time for home, hubby, hob- bies. Bustling, fun-loving Dorothy Marshall’s day begins each morn- ing when she drives her husband (she married physicist Jonathan Nathaniel in 1948) to the 7:11 Paoli Local. The hour being early, Mrs. Marshall sometimes has diffi- culties, once raced down ‘Roberts Road in a bathrobe when the car ran out of gas. Then, promptly at 8:45, the Dean arrives at Bryn Mawr in a pale silvery blue Stu- debaker convertible wtih a large hole in the front seat and grease spots (left by bones left by large dog left by mother) in the back. At 9:00, she teaches a class in Baby ‘Spanish, then gets down to work in her office. “I have open house for all who wish to come,” she says, “parents, students, fac- ulty — often the Philosophy De- partment.” Dr. Nahm declares that the Dean’s Office has finally come into the power of the Phi- losophy Department with the ap- Continued on Page 4 Death, Man Influence Half-Century Writers Continued from Page 2 He knew what she liked, and he gave it to her.” Dreadful calamities leap up from every page to overwhelm the read- er in hopeless despair. “ ... it was quite impossible to say what day the nurse had arrived. And for that matter, what exact year the mother had become mad.” “The tale of her restless unhappiness, of her growing hatred for the little house, of the Other Man who had come so disastrously into her life and finally of her death by her own hand, was one that...” Carleton (desperately uncomfort- able) “Oh.” ” Nick (making sudden movement with gun, in same snarling tone) “No,”’ ' Most striking was a vivid vo- cabulary and metaphorical vision. “| ,. like a young goat looking for new flowers and swooping at gay butterflies with his:cap.” “...a tense, mischievous mouth, often clamped still by two gleaming teeth.’ “A man passed her in a dark serape, with only his eyes showing.” “ ... he could stroke the scar. It was now pale in color, shining like a snail’s track, and wrinkled.” “Her stiffened body trembled, and liquid streams of fire forced their way through her CHENG (7 And the last ten years have seen the final stripping of romance from off the horrid realities about us. The writer cultivates scien- tific interest and practical skills. This sort of thing leads to a nar- rowing of poetic experience. Of course, there are those who feel that science can never be the an- swer but they are usually young and naive and upset by life. In Counterpoint, magazine of the half-century, we see a new, cryptic, cylindric art. Gone are the days of drama, death, and despon- dency—of calamity, cynicism, and savoir-faire. And yet, not entirely zone, for recently a primeval cry of supplication and despair was found crumpled in the NEWS waste basket. Lord, here a little child we pray Make us wiser day by day And when we labor on NEWS Deliver us from Interviews. the The Beard and the Athlete lowed to play, but the advantages of this privilege were dubious, for the students would constantly or- ganize tea-parties whose chief at- | the possibility of traction was watching the professors at play through the nearest window. The harassed faculty were at last al- lowed to use any courts they wanted, but it is doubtful whether their privacy was increased by this change. The horrors of losing all the games in one hockey season were forcefully borne in upon the stu- dents, as the following 1916 edi- torial shows: “Varsity failed to win again last Saturday. Does everyone realize that we have not won a single game this season? The All- Philadelphia game will be a mock- ery; each team can beat us sep- arately. ... In 1910 we won 17-0 against Germantown. . . . What has happened? Is it in any way the fault of the general support of the college? If it is, shame upon us. Let us, every one, ap- pear on the sidelines this Satur- day and cheer so loud that Varsity will be forced to win. Anything less than this will be below the honour of Bryn Mawr. We can- not bear being beaten in every game of the season.” The following poem expresses beautifully the dogged determina- tion that characterized the Bryn Mawr Athlete: “A hockey player must not speak When told she is a waddling freak; The tie and stocking must be right, The teeth should all be screwed in tight.” Page Four THE CO LLEGE NEWS Wednesday, January 18, 1950 Burning Issues of the Day Provided NEWS With Material for Faux-Pas, Scoops, Libel Continued from Page 1 work hard—Bryn Mawr shouldn’t challenge Vassar and Mount Hol- yoke, and even beat them.” In later years headlines ran: Tuesday’s Debate Decides On Emotions vs. Intellect and a week later: The Emotions Win! Back in the early days the NEWS was always being attacked for its “abominable carelessness wit hthe proof”; there was the English graduate student who was listed as getting a second in the girl’s defense “only for the pleas- ure of telling M. Carey Thomas she is an admirable liar.” There was the Finnish question, the Col- lege Inn, and the Great Unwash- ed. The NEWS did justice to them all. Headlines were startling, even outdistancing our own that we caught just in time last week: Dr. Edelstein Plans To Give Frank Lecture Horror-struck in the ’30, the “And we Wicirated the Plant. owe Monotonous Food Perpetual Blight There is something monotonous about food. Through one half cen- tury it has done nothing but get worse and worse. Gone are the days when the maids would come around every night whispering “beef or lamb?” in one’s ear. That was before the first world war when the NEWS was advocating “The June Bride, newest of. the Fairy Tale Sundaes at Whitman’s Soda Counter,” and urging every- one to “Come to the Book Shop on Friday ... . and buy some candy .. . The proceeds go to the new Hockey Field. Make a pound or two and buy a lot. Don’t be afraid of getting sick ... pure candy is good food.” Soon came the grim “meatless” and “wheatless” days of Wor'd War I. The college was given a 20-acre farm to raise its own nour- ishment on, and it canned things in the summer. “Don’t pickle your peas and parsnips,” advised.,,.Mrs. N. C. Snyder and ih’1918° Miss Thomas warned “The price of board next year will have to be raised from $225 to $300 to meet the rising cost of food...” “Mathematical Tripes” at Cam- bridge, and the professor who was announced as receiving his new status “through a series of rabid promotions.” There was praise for the NEWS too: Mr. Robert MacAlarney said: “What I like about the College NEWS is the degree of horse-sense radiated.” As the years went on, the format gradually grew more modern and decorative —the pages were long- er, the headlines bolder, the edi- torials spread out into two col- umns. Piloted by daring and in- ventive editors like Miss Linn and Sallie Jones, the NEWS fought its battles bravely. An alumna wrote, “We hope we can stimulate the board to greater efforts by our expressions of disapproval,” and the editors said gently, “Com- plaints for not ‘publishing radical editorials on subjects of present interest have reached our ears during the last week ... we do not wish to arouse antagon- ism. ...” Backing the paper loyal- ly, the 1927 Yearbook said: Heard at the Printers Secretary: “Is the manager coming in with the dummy on Friday?” Member of ’27: “No, indeed, she’s coming in with the Editor.” Campus issues roared on. There was the time Miss Thomas pulled a fast one and only reserved rooms for the freshmen if they would agree to take only four week- ends a semester; there was the limited cut rule: Miss Thomas de- clared in Chapel “that when she first came to Bryn Mawr she be- lieved in absolute freedom, but she had been forced from her position and now stood with her back to the wall.” There was the famous kleptomaniac case, where a promi- nent lawyer took the expelled NEWS cried: Grads To Do Murder For Relaxation and more cheerfully Russia Has Overcome Mental Indifference There was Miss Park Considers Autos Distracting and Are You Adequate or Do You Shrink From Life and most disturbing of all: Emily Green Balch Predicts Women Will Be Drug on Market Once, in the hey-day of criti- cism, when Miss Tate-Smith and Miss Nelson graced the editorial board, Miss Nelson wrote a review to fill up space, on a play that had never existed, which aroused unparalleled enthusiasm on campus and flooded the paper with letters from people who ask- ed where it was playing. There was the bad moment when the NEWS was threatened with a fac- ulty advisor — the first since the days when Miss Applebee guided the helm — because of the ques- tionnaire on sex circulated by Sallie Jones. “Do you like being a virgin?” she asked. The NEWS is not dead yet. In our days we have known] it sad and delightful, exhausting fand re- warding, battle-scarred have decorated the plant with toilet paper (see cut), we have entertained Mr, Kamerdze in our Compliments will never stop If your hair is done at the Vanity Shoppe Telephone: Bryn Mawr 1208 FLOWERS ! !! The best Valentine For the one and only Jeanett’s BRYN MAWR DRESSES - SUITS - BLOUSES at Nancy Brown 28 Bryn Mawr Ave. (under the Country Bookstore) MEET AT THE GREEK’S Tasty Sandwiches Refreshments LUNCHES — DINNER After the war was over you might suppose that people ate again. but along came the depression in- stead. ‘When, dear reader you peer hopefully between the covers of a League Sandwich,” cried the NEWS .| pitifully in 1930, “what do you be- hold? A childish hint of peanut butter, perhaps, or a scandalous old lettuce leaf, or possibly a faint smear of jam clinging ashamed to the nakedness of unbuttered bread...” Frail and Famished And after the depression, when lettuce might be expected to take on a decent aspect once more, an- other war made the average Bryn Mawr student frailer and more famished than ever. Depressed by the presence of lard and horsemeat on the tables, she took to smoking a pipe. ‘Oh, the privations!” was a campus commonplace, and_ the NEWS for once expressed aca- demic opinion: “We know there is a war on and these are tiring times, but must it affect the let- tuce? The leaves look like retreat on the Tunisian desert.” And so it goes. The lettuce, most emphatically, has not im- proved. But, on the whole, we pajamas, we have lost the copy in unmentionable places and run into fantastic debt, we have been taken for rides in the Ardmore fire truck by Louie, with all the sirens screaming and _ faculty staring aghast from the roadside, and we have dealt firmly but sympathetically with professors who drank too much of our pri- vate champagne at our memorable NEWS party. We have been in love with the NEWS for four years and now we shall miss it more than we care to say. Aim straight for a heart ) with a valentine from Dinah Frost Lancaster Ave. Bryn Mawr, Pa. Come to the BRYN MAWR Leave the library, forget exams That’s our demand. Inn!!! COLLEGE INN pointment of her new assistant. “T told him that I would publicize his hideous attitude,” says Dean Marshall briskly. At the same time, she reads her way through several bushels of mail, often receives letters saying “We are two young men in the senior class at University and don’t know any girls to take to the Junior Prom. We are 5’9” not interested in the classics, and we do not like graduate students. Can you help us?”; once, address- ed as “influential educator in close contact with youth.of tomorrow,” was asked to sell ladies’ under- wear for a commission (she didn’t). Shortly before 11:00, Miss Don- aldson opens the door of doodling, paper-clip-breaking Dorothy Mar- shall’s office, says “now.” At the signal, she races from Taylor to Deanery, has coffee (she takes it straight) with other faculty mem- bers. Dean Marshall finds coffee “a very useful institution,” listens to conversation, finds out astound- ing news (such as a history pro- fessor decorating each wall of his new home in a different color), sometimes hands out some news herself (as when she announced that she expects a baby in May). The 15-minute coffee hour also saves time for everybody, as she is available for complaints then and there. Coffee over, understanding, I'll stand-for-no-nonsense-here-young- lady Dorothy Marshall returns to her office where she investigates something called “student prob- lems.” Every now and then even she is stumped, however; once a student, asking to take two courses which met at the same hour, explained that she didn’t have to attend the lectures of the one course, anyhow, since they have only one regret—that the Greeks did not continue its 1934 habit of serving beer. Great Dane of the Half-Century Describes The Life and Times of the Bryn Mawr Dean Continued from Page 3 were so dull; another time, Mrs. Marshall, perturbed by the utter silence displayed by a shy foreign girl, finally in desperation asked her to tell her the list of assign- ments in English Lit., was answer- ed “The beard, it wiggles, but the words I do not understand.” Dean Marshall also serves on endless committees, is especially fond of the Petitions Committee, which deals with students failing to sign in for the last class before or first class after vacation and receives many “affectionate and cheerful” notes from train conductors, air- line officials. Lunch for busy Dorothy Mar. shall usually consists of an eco- nomical soup and salad or an eco- nomical soup and sandwich. The social consciousness of the faculty is high; anyone ordering a 385c dessert is immediately booed out of the Deanery and suspected of sinister and secret sources of in- come. ‘At lunch, she discusses pol- itics (‘the discussions used to be better,” she says, “when the Re- publicans came to lunch”) in which she is a Democrat by con- viction and also for sake of argu- ment, argues also about the proper way to address German royalty, the dates of the English kings, on Mondays about the Times cross- word puzzles, and listens to “re- pulsive remarks” concerning the Deanery food from the biologists jand \|Mr. Lattimore. (“(He’s supposed to have the soul of a poet .. .” says the Dean.) The Dean’s afternoons are oc- cupied with more committee meet- ings, letter-writing, reports, den- tists, shopping for clothes and groceries, and occasionally, trans- porting her mother’s large mong- rel dog to be deloused. At 6 P.*M., dynamic, humorous Dorothy Mar- shall goes home and eats some more. Supper at the Marshalls’ Continued on Page 6 is Che Calgate Maroon Vel LXXXD Colgate University, Mamiltes, N. ¥.. Ve sw ans, Yer 15 bit Ne. 28 ‘Human Relations Speaker Will Address ' CLG, Bunche,UNPalestineMediator, Inspection Set iNew Hospital Is Planned Tomorrow for AROTC Unit: | “Seat, Valera Ate RO Arva and University to, jreview and’ formal , For Community, Colgate Government to Pay Third of Total Cost: rt Campus Store, Hamilton, N. Y. Ask for it either way... both trade-marks mean the same thing. ¢ Pius 14 State Tax In Hamilton, New York, the favorite gathering spot of students at Colgate University is the Campus Store because it is a cheerful place— full of friendly collegiate atmosphere. And when the gang gathers around, ice-cold Coca-Cola gets the call. For here, as in college haunts everywhere—Coke belongs. BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY The Philadelphia Coca-Cola Bottling Company © 1949, The Coca-Cola Company Wednesday, January 18, 1950 THE COLLEGE NEWS Page Five 1933 Faculty Show Features ‘‘Buxom Belles”’ ; Stage Realism Reaches Climax in ‘‘Cymbeline’’ Continued from Page 1 was off to a start, a career to which perhaps the highest compli- ment was paid in 1945. ‘Mrs. Manning’s singing is indescrib- able.” Undergraduates were energetic, too: Juniors gave an annual Ban- ner Show after which they pre- sented the freshmen with their class banner, and a Supper Show, after which, logically enough, they gave a farewell banquet to the seniors, Sophomores and seniors gave formal plays, usually cos- tume dramas or period pieces, since roles requiring contemporary male dress were “discouraged” and rid- ing breeches were the only trous- ers allowed at rehearsals. Fresh- man show was much the same, but no male spectators were allowed. ‘Casts, of course, were all female even after class shows were aban- doned in favor of varsity drama in 1925. It was not until 1985 that we read of Haverford men in Bryn Mawr plays. This innovation, made first in the “Swan,” was greeted with acclaim even though the lead- ing lady was “never at home in her part ... and was the ‘swan who should glide gracefully over the waters’ but never touch the shore.” Before Goodhart was built in 1928, plays were always given in the Gym on a rickety stage has- tily erected for the occasion. The spectators sat in folding chairs or dangled their feet from the run- ning track, while an armchair in the center of the front row was reserved for Miss Thomas. ‘Miss Thomas was self-appointed critic to every play. On “If I Were King” her comment ran: “The scenery was charming... the cos- tumes also were exactly right. I only hope they were not very ex- pensive ... You were fifty very healthy strapping good - looking girls.” Illustrious alumnae often made drama headlines. Mrs. Manning, of course. And then Miss Lucy Martin Donnelly, head of the Eng- lish Department, says of Cornelia Otis _Skinner: “As Sir _Jasper Thorndyke . . . Her nonageniarian decreptitude was remarkable... The death scene was particularly fine...” Emily Kimbrough, too, is recorded as having given “quite an astonishing performance, from a dramatic as well as a terpsi- chorean point of view, in her in- terpretation of Silenus... ” Faculty shows have a somewhat shorter though no less spectacular history. In 1983 the show featured “buxom belles and creatures .. . whom I can scarcely call gentle- men . -’ and an embarrassed NEWS wréte: “Dr. Watson and Mrs. Nahm shared the honors as a. persecuted couple. Their postur- ings were strikingly effective and nothing if not explicit.” Production has always been full of adventures: there was the time Miss McBride was stage manager for a show in which a sack of gold had to be dragged across the stage; inadvertently someone had filled it with leaves beforehand. “I had hoped it would chink,” says the President ruefully, but apparently the audience thought it was a sack of dollar bills. Realism rose to its heights in Cymbeline done in 1934. The decapitated head was brought on decorated with strings of red! darning wool to simulate dripping gore. The effect must have been unusual, since Miss Donnelly had a fit of hysterics and fell out into the aisle. Present day drama at Bryn Mawr approaches the professional in a manner undreamed of in the old days. Energetic stage crews make elaborate sets — actresses strive for polish and finish — we even write our own plays. But as Theresa Helburn, ’08, said many years ago to a Bryn Mawr audi- ence: “There is nothing like play- writing ...a glorious game... a delightful avocation ...I would never advise anyone to go into it unless she has ... some other job.” Compliments of the Haverford Pharmacy Haverford COMPLETE CLEARANCE Dresses formerly 15 — 49.95 now 5 — 20 (all sales final) FRANNY HOWE 652 LANCASTER AVENUE - BRYN MAWR, PA. Just beyond the Blue Comet bade Pompadour, “| want a DY pony Bi "Just one thing more,” OLD SS are § soRES EVERYy, at perte® ° _ See them in Phila. at LIT BROS. - WANAMAKER’S : Free booklet: “WARDROBE TRICKS”. Write Judy Bond. Inc., Dept. P, 1375 Broadway, New York 18 &p ™ en] Continued frobm Page 1 on behind.” Another NEWS item: “When Dr. Watson rose to speak, we were half disappointed, half pleasantly surprised. For he looked so human, so very natural and like everyone else... .” President Taft often. Bryn Mawr was visited also by Belgian royalty, by Mrs. Roose- velt and Anna Lord Strauss, by Frances Perkins. In 1934, Ger- trude Stein, explaining her con- tention that a rose is a rose is a rose, pointed out to an enraptured audience that if you just keep on repeating it, you finally get at the ES i as Amy Lowell, coming to read her poetry, lived completely .up to legend: “If you don’t like it,’ she came Amy Lowell Keeps Loaded Pistol on Desk; R. Tagore Arrives In A Brown Bengal Robe; Millay Smiles From Olympian Heights sat “hiss; if you do, applaud; but for God’s sake, do something.” Re- ported the NEWS: “Miss Lowell’s working hours are at night, because the tele- phones bother her in the daytime. She keeps a loaded pistol on her desk in case of burglars, and goes to bed at 5:00 A. M.... We were unable to discover her particular brand of cigar... Mrs. Bertrand Russell was once a warden in Pem. Alfred North Whitehead, Arnold Toynbee came to lecture. Rabindranth Tagore arrived, “clad in his brown Bengal robe, with a dark brown turban.” |The first Flexner lecturer was the |historian James Breasted, in 1930. Ian Hay, William Butler Yeats, Marianne Moore, Vaughan Wil- liams, Stephen Spender, Robert Frost, spoke here. Mr. Auden, asked why he came to his classes in blue jeans, replied, “I always wear work clothes to work.” Edna St. Vincent Millay also caused something of a stir: “First of all she wove a magic charm with her long scarf; spell- bound the audience watched her unwind it from her neck and drape it carefully over a chair.... One moment she was intimate and the next she was smiling critical smiles from Olympian heights. Some resented this. .. .” T. S. Eliot read his poetry to a full house, and remarked of such a poem as Sweeney Among the Nightingales: “I don’t suppose anyone would call that obscure,” yet admitted that it “might almost be said to have no meaning at all.” And then, of course, there was the omnipresent NEWS which lis- tened to them all and sometimes had the honor to misquote them. My cigarette? Camels, 9 of course! LS Yes, Camels are SO MILD that in a coast-to-coast test of hundreds of men and women who smoked Camels— and only Camels—for 30 consecutive days, noted throat specialists, making weekly examinations, reported NOT ONE SINGLE CASE OF THROAT IRRITATION DUE TO SMOKING CAMELS! co nee << 5 PO En SSD SPO ie esulhs, ki iatahws Page Six Little Deanepper Led Memorable Childhood Continued from Page 4 sometimes an elaborate (featuring 100 clams drunk from mixing bowls - sitting on the floor), more often a simple affair. They spend their evenings in a variety of ways, either in “peaceful domestic bliss” or in three different kinds of soci activity known as “my peopfe and your people and volun- tary enterprise.” “Free enter- prise” includes movies, concerts, shopping, glamorous food, and once, night-clubbing at the Cov- ered Wagon, where a man, only somewhat drunk, came over to their table and praised their splen- did dancing. The (Marshalls read in their spare time—Mrs. Marshall is at present engaged in historical re- search, browsing in a survey of English history (she finds it im- possible to understand strip culti- vation in Medieval England, but is encouraged to find that the his- tory department doesn’t, either), her husband is reading the Bible (‘He'll never finish, though,” she says, “there are so many people in Genesis”). Both of them are great musicians, own a piano (“One of us plays it rather well”) and come from a magnificent musical back- ground. Mr. Marshall at the age of 12 was second substitute clar- inet in his school orchestra (Fel- low Musician Benjamin Britten was the conductor); Mrs. Marshall learned to play “Flow Gently, Sweet Afton” and “Work, for the Night is Coming” on the violin in Duxbury, Mass., gave it up for piano after the organist had got- ten several verses ahead of her in a church recital. They own a fine record collection, with a jazz col- lection of historical interest, are There was at Bryn Mar A Bryn Mawrtyr Who to send Valentines Thought she oughter So to STOCKTON’S she fared A habit she shared With many a Bryn Mawityr’ daughter. RICHARD STOCKTON’S LANCASTER AVENUE an Ne Down at the ears? RUSH TO Hamburg Hearth Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr, Pa. Secretarial Training Typing, shorthand and office procedures are your entry permits into the business world. Know them thoroughly and you’re employable any- where, with a wide choice of interesting jobs open to you. Peirce School is a tra- dition with college women preparing for a business career. Call, write, or J “telephone PEnnypacker §-2100 for information on Peirce Secretarial Courses. PEIRCE SCHOOL OF ADMINISTRATION 1420 Pine Street Philadelphia 2, Pa. TH E COLLEGE NEWS Wednesday, January 18, 1950 Remarks Gay, Immortal Enter Scholarly Portal Continued from Page. 1 “Vice, disease, intemperance, and crowded prisons will pass away. This glorious future calls for every Bryn Mawr girl to use her opportunities. .. .” (From the College NEWS) “On Friday, taking Shakespeare for the author of the week, Miss Thomas criticized the one omis- sion from his plays—the modern woman; but added that it was not Shakespeare’s; fault that in his day he could not imagine a. mod- ern Ophelia to match his Hamlet. Next week the discussion will be on Shelley.” “The years of intellectual enjoy- ment are limited only by the tomb,” In the NEWS: “Dear Editors: I have a suggestion to make to all intelligent, industrious, and rea- sonably healthy Seniors who have not yet made their plans for the coming summer. The summer after graduation is very apt to be a great bore, and I propose, as a sure means of enlivening it, a course in the summer session of the Columbia Law School... .” (The NEWS—1910) “Crackling flames greeted two students on entering the studio tohave their fond of Brahms, Mozart. ‘Hearty, horn - rimmed, well- groomed Dorothy Marshall, when asked her impression of the Half- Century, replies “Well, uhh... ” We have decided to publicize her hideous attitude. Senior pictures taken. Drawing near they perceived tongues of fire shooting up a velvet back- drop. With calm precision they summoned the photographer from the dark room and told him his place was on fire. He rang the alarm. ‘We shall return,’ they said, ‘when it is put out.’.. .” (And in 1916) “A new experi- ment is now being tried, in allow- ing students to run the College Tea Room. Because the manage- ment has never been satisfac- CO cy” Grazia Avitabile (Winner of the Fanny Bullock Workman Fellow- ship, summing up her private life): “I eat, I sleep, I take show- ers occasionally.” Miss Applebee to Mrs. Nahm at hockey practice: “Amram, you cabbage!” Mr. Auden: “Man is the most in- telligent of all animals because he is the most affectionate.” The Class of 1927 (nominating Dr. Chew to the Hall of Fame): “Because of his whiskey tenor, because, so far as we know, he has been to the movies only once, because he is a neo-Victorian and always thoroughly chaperoned, be- cause he is a generous and dis- cerning critic of literature, and finally because he has won the ad- miration of ’27.” (On beginning her talk on Nor- man Thomas in Monday morning Chapel) Millicent McIntosh: “I feel like a priest calling us all to an eleventh hour repentance. Dr. Chew (in a review for the NEWS): “Miss Bird and Miss Greenough as the worldly-wise Candles ... got off a good many aphorisms of no very high candle- power. For example, the remark that ‘Poetry makes the hair grow thinner’ is quite pointless and Bryn Mawr, isn’t it?” Mrs. Manning to Marie Queen of the Belgians: “Bryn Mawr must seem to Your Majesty very young for an institution of learning: in fact almost a mushroom growth.” Miss de Laguna: “The culture of the Eskimos of Prince William Sound are particularly interesting ... + the windows of their smoke houses flap on a still day simply from the people chewing fish in- side.” Lt. J. C. Sloane (from the Pa- cific). “As I stood on the flying bridge in the midst of it (sea) with! the sheets of spray coming flying through the dark: and the ship’s shuddering and twisting her way through the waves, I would have given a good deal for a chance to sit quietly behind my desk in the Library and grade a few long pa- pers . 7! And Dr. Herben (having finish- ed outlining the material to be covered in his English Lit. Class): “And so, like Lady Godiva near- ing the end of her ride, we are approaching our clothes.” COME, ONE AND ALL! SEE OUR PRICES FALL! Semi-Annual Clearance poyce lewis Lancaster Avenue | New Social Patterns Change Self-Gov. Rules Continued from Page 2 Common Room sat on the top step of Taylor with Miss Lang, and made crude remarks about ‘the Bryn Mawr ankle. However, he admired Miss Lang’s ankles, she says, almost to the point of excess. During this’ period the now de- funct Lantern led a crusade to abolish all rules. “They were the literati, the avant-garde very ec- centric.”,; Self-Gov won, but con- ceded smoking anywhere on camp- us. The ’Lantern had exhausted it- self in the struggle and soon died. “That was the day the stone urns first appeared on campus. We smoked pipes.” The half-century year offers a chance for a definitive and _ his- torically memorable change in rules. We suggest: cars for all, smoking in the Library, more un- married professors, breakfast in bed, a chaser for every Nescafe, and it would be nice to see those air-raid wardens back again. Smart New Hair Cut $1.50 at RENE MARCEL 850 Lancaster Ave. Bryn Mawr 2060 / At MARQUETTE and Colleges PAT O’BRIEN Famous Marquette Alumnus, says: “Chesterfields are Milder. At the end of a long day at the studios, no matter how many I’ve smoked, Chesterfields leave a clean, fresh taste in my mouth. It’s the only cigarette I’ve found that does that.” REL and Universities throughout the country CHESTERFIELD is the largest-selling cigarette.* Yy f Cr STARRING IN hi - , JOHNNY ONE EYE A BENEDICT BOGEAUS PRODUCT EASED THRU UNITED ARTIST —— Theyte MULDERL Theyre TOPS/ [WM AMERICAS COLLEGES = WITH THE TOP MEN [IN SPORTS WITH THE HOLLYWOOD STARS