- ~ THe COLLEGE NEWS ‘VOL. XLIII, NO. 16 ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA.. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1947 Copyright Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, PRICE 10 CENTS 1945 _ Toynbee: Shows Social Radiation! And Reception A Healthy Society Aims Toward Organic Harmony Specially contributed by Nancy Morehouse °47 Goodhart Hall, March 3. A heal- thy society, declared Professor Ar- nold J. Toynbee, is one in which there is an organic harmony of its economic, political and cultural as- pects; the sign of disintegration is the separation of each of these activities into.a distinct entity. Entitled “Social Radiation-and-Re- ception,” this was the fourth lec- ture in Professor Toynbee’s series of lectures on “Encounters between Civilizations.” “Every human society, like every person, is giving out influence all the time and giving it out in both time and space dimensions,” Professor Toynbee said. The in- fluence of a healthy civilization be- cause it is integrated is often far less effective than that of a de- caying civilization which can send out isolated rays of influence, ec- onomic, political or cultural, qa segment of any of these. Although the state of develop- ment of western civilization is not clear, there are analogies in west- ern civilization, Professor Toynbee pointed out, to that of the Roman civilization in the later years of the Empire. A healthy society, he de- clared, will either reject outside in- fluences or receive, selected ele- ments on its own terms and assim- ilate them. The example of the Hapsburg empire illustrates the inability of a-segment of Western civilization to maintain a conscious- ly controlled assimilation of Slav elements by German society, fe- sulting eventually in the destruc- tion of the Austro-Hungarian Em- pire. There is no historical instance, Continued on Page 5 Faculty Changes Are Announced President McBride has announc- ed seven promotions of members of the faculty for the 1947-1948 academic year. One new appoint- ment to the faculty has also been made.” The promotions are as follows: A. Lincoln Dryden—from Associ- ate Professor to Full Professor of Geology. Margaret Gilman—from Associ- ate Professor to Full Professor of French. Ernst Berliner—from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Chemistry. Marshall D. Gates—from As- sistant Professor to Associate Pro- fessor of Chemistry. Jane Oppenheimer—from As- * sistant Professor to Associate Pro- fessor of Biology. Felix Gilbert—from Lecturer to Associate Professor of History. Concha de Zulueta—from In- structor to Assistant Professor of . Spanish. _ Kernahi*Whitworth, Jr., has been ‘appointed Instructor in French for 1947-1948. Graduated. from, Qjer re |) lin College, Mr. Whitwor v- ed his M. A. from Princeton Uni- versity, where he was part time instructor on French 1945-1946. Elman’s Program Poorly Arranged, Excellently Played Specially Contributed by Ellen Harriman, ’48 Mischa Elman and his accom- panist, Wolfgang Rose, gave us an exceptionally fine concert Friday night. The customary chronolog- ical arrangement made this pro- gram topheavy before the inter- mission and disconnected after- wards, but it was all good music and well suited to Mr. Elman’s con- cise, understated technique. The first selection was Sammar- tini’s Passacaglia, a subtle piece of pure music with almost no emo- tional content, sustained by a se- ries of tonal climaxes and some double-bowing, which Mr. Elman rendered so smoothly that it was no tour de force, but seemed nat- ural, effortless and melodic. Next Mr. Elman and Mr. Rose shared the honors of Mozart’s So- nata-in B flat Major, where the violin and the piano alternate in intricately mingled themes. The delicacy of this sonata demands discipline, strength and lightness; it would be hard to find these qual- ities more nearly perfected than in Mischa Elman’s style. The An- dante movement was particularly striking. The audience remained completely silent, so impressed that no one even coughed; and no one clapped at the close of the movement, though they had after the previous one. When the So- Continued on Page 5 Infirmary Policy Approved In Poll The replies to the recent infirm- ary polls distributed by the Under- graduate Council indicate that students are, in general, satisfied with the treatment which they re- ceive at the infirmary but that more than half of the 255 people replying have avoided the infirm- ary when sick. The chief reason cited for this is fear of getting be- hind in academic work. Concrete suggestions- made on the polls include more fruit juice for cold patients, and better light- ing in the infirmary rooms. People also ask that students should nct have to return to the hall for their clothing themselves, once they have been admitted as patients. A ma- jority of the complaints made did not apply to this year.’ A large number of people said that they would attend a meeting to discuss the infirmary. Moreover, the Undergraduate Council feels that there are many unfounded stories about. the infirmary—in-cir- culation. A meeting will be held in April when the new Council takes office. 255 pos were filled out by the Undergraduate body. Of these, most were from the Class of 1947 and fewest from the Freshmen. The statistics for each question were as follows: ¢ 169 students had been in the in- firmary. 111 had been in this year. 132 students had avoided the in- firmary at one time or another when they had been sick. 132 said they felt they had re ceived Propér: treatment at the in- firmary, whilé 43 specifically said: they had not. ~ 129 students said they would go to a meeting to discuss the infirm- y Sates Dancing and: Music Composed By Students for Arts Night — Group Dance to Study Arts Night to Feature Technical Motion; Two to Solo On Saturday, March 8th, among various other arts in the Arts’ Night performance, a group of students will present a program of dancing. The dancing will be of an experimental nature, both in form and presentation. It is thor- oughly modernistic in theme and motion, and two of the dances will be accompanied only by drums, with the idea of showing technical and dramatic motion in dance without music. The actual program will consist of four individual dances, the first two to be done by groups of about eight girls, and the other to be solos. The theme of the first dance is the technique of motion and is entitled “A Study in Technique.” Its purpose is to illustrate the techniques of modern dance, and to set these to motion in integrat- ed form. It is this dance which will illustrate the technical mo- tion. The second of the group dances is called “The Oppressed.” A conflict is the theme. It is a conflict between the oppressor and the oppressed, in which the op- pressed attempts to rebel. The conflict, as presented here, is psy- chological as well as physical, and the theory which the dance is de- signed to illustrate is that dra- matic motion can be produced in a dance without the aid of music. The two solos will be performed by Marjorie Low and Thalia Ar- gyropoulo. Marjorie Low will pre- sent another dance based on a con- flict, “The Silver Cage,” in which she struggles to free herself and, after she achieves freedom, volun- Continued on Page 6 Hourani to Talk Of Islam Religion Mr. Cecil Hourani, from the Arabian Office in Washington, will speak on the Islamic religion on Tuesday, March 11, at 8:30, in the Common Room. His lecture will be the second in a series of talks on Oriental religions, of which Miss Shrivedi’s on Hinduism was the first. This lecture will be of special interest to the members of the politics, history and philosophy de- partments, as well as students tak- ing courses in religion and the his- tory of the Near East. Mr. Hou- rani will hold a discussion period, following his talk. CALENDAR Thursday, March 6 8:30, Dalton. Science Club Lec- ture, Dr. Jean Brachet, New Trends in Embryology. Saturday, March 8 8:00, Goodhart. Arts Night. 10:00-1:00, Rockefeller. Hall Dance. Sunday, March 9 7:30, Music Room. Chapel, the Rev. Philemon F. Sturges, rec- tor of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Chestnut Hill. Monday, March 10 4:30, Deanery. vet Cén- ference. 8:00, Goodhartiagibk:- - Lee= ture, Arnold J. Tooukas. “So- Sku chological Effects.“ Tuesday, March 11 8:00, Common Room. Cecil -afforded to those who listened to .|and Suscepit Israel. Original Work In Music Student composition as well as student production will be stress- ed in the music for Arts Night, Saturday, March 8. Spirituals have been ararnged by Henne Burch ’48, Ann Eberstadt ’49, Nancy Knet- tle ’47, and Betty Smith ’48. Helen Anderston ’49 has composed and orchestrated a scherzo, scored for wind and string ensemble. Haverford will be represented by its octet, which will sing with Bryn Mawr; Richard Schuman ’49 has composed a Prelude for violin and piano. The Bryn’ Mawr Double Octet and the Haverford Octet will sing together the following numbers: “Witness”, scored for six parts by Nancy Knettle, from a Hall John- son solo arrangement; a medley of “Charcoal Man” and “When a Woman Blue”, arranged by Ann Continued on Page 6 ve B. M. Radio Debut | Proves Success; Chorus Praised By Helen Anderton °49 A very pleasant half hour was the Bryn Mawr Chorus’s broadcast last Wednesday over Station WIBG. It was a half hour which grew in- creasingly better as the—Chorus warmed up to its task. Some per- formers cannot do their best be- fore a microphone because the stimulus of audience reaction is totally lacking, but the Chorus seemed to be enjoying itself thor- oughly once its preliminary ner- vousness was conquered. The first two selectidns were by Bach: Jesu Joy of Man’s Des‘ring, These com- prised the low point of the entire program—like a very bad prologue to a very good play. Although the diction was excellent, as is custom- ary with this chorus, the intona- tion was sadly missed, and the parts sounded way out of propor- tion. The latter may have been due to poor control in the studio itself, for it is a difficult problem to achieve just the right balance be- tween the voices. Two songs by the contemporary composer Zoltan Kodaly came next. » Continued on Page 5 Plan Arts Night For March 8th Evening Will Feature Music and Drama, Art Exhibit On Saturday, March 8, in Good- hart, at 8:00, Bryn Mawr and Hav- erford will collaborate on a pro- duction written, planned and di- rected by the students under the supervision of Mr. Frederick Thon, of the Bryn Mawr English depart- ment. Arts Night, which was ini- tiated last year by Mr. Thon, is intended to provide an opportunity to present creative work by the students in the fields of dramatics, art and music. The entire pro- ceeds from this year’s perform- ance will be given to the Bryn Mawr College Fund 1946—. Two original plays chosen by the Playwriting class from those writ- ten by students in the course are included on the program. The cast of You'll Get Over It, written by Nancy Ann Knettle, ’47, and directed by William Bishop, ’49, features Cathy, played by Nancy Ann Knettle, ’47; Skeet, Jean Swit- endick, ’48; Joan, Barbara Bennett, 47, and Phil, Ted Wright, ’49. Faithfully Yours, written and di- rected by James F. Adams, Jr., ’47, will star Marcia Dembow, ’47, as Christine Drake, and David Blackwell, 50, as Carl Drake. They will be supported by Sheila Tat- nall, ’49, Lorelei; Herbert Chey- ette, ’50, Mr. Basserman; Henry Levinson, ’48, Bruno Staunchion, and Ellen Harriman, ’48, Hattie Arlington. The Bryn Mawr Double Octet and the Haverford Octet will sing several student arrangements of Negro spirituals under the direc- tion of Mrs. Lorna Cooke de Var- on. Original musical selections will be played and sung by the individual students and the com- bined Bryn Mawr and Haverford orchestra will also play. Interpretive dance compositions originated by the Bryn Mawr Mod- ern Dance group and by individual members of the group will be per- formed. Mrs. Francisca Boas has worked with the students in this group. Before and after the perform- ance an Art Exhibit consisting of original drawings, paintings and Continued on Page 5 «By Judy Da Silva ’49 and Helen Martiri ’49 A student of the nature and foi- bles of the human animal would really be in his element down at Goodhart these evenings. A wide- eyed maid who continually reads al ries”, a doting wife who drinks celery juice (“it’s terribly health- ful!”), a husband who is doing a little practical research on the sub- ject of infidelity, and several other odd and assorted characters, can be found wandering about the stage. It’s all a part of the rehearsals of “Faithfully Yours} _prieinal . play by James Adams of Haverford Wilbybe ‘piesented for Arts\* Nig i; Much of the action of “Faith- Hourani, “Islam Religion.” fully Yours” take place against the background of a rather lumpy Colorful Sets, Varied Characters Add Verve to Arts Night Plays couch, fashionably upholstered in shocking pink and tangerine. The rehearsal gets under way with the breaking of a drinking glass by the maid. One makes the acquaintance of a rather harassed Hollywood pro- magazine called “Tragic Love Sto-| ducer who is feeling a trifle an- noyed because his fifth wife has just left him, and then to his equal- ly harassed wife, who, at this par- ticular rehearsal, was attired in a very un-Hollywood costume con- sisting of blue jeans, an army jac- ket, and high black boots. The. whole affair ends quite happily with the..wife continuingygte: 7%: her celery juice, the husband aban--- a learning that. the. characters in “Tragic Love Stories” finally solve all their problems by shooting each Continued on Page 6 BM, Haverford h, and the mat”) ~ ~ «