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VOL. XLIX, NO. 12

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14,

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1953

1953

PRICE 20 CENTS

 

Smith Graduate
Donates Legacy
To The College

Mrs.

T. Lamont Gives
Generous Grant

To B.M.C.

Bryn Mawr has recently been one
of the five independent women’s
colleges to be left $250,000 by Mrs.
Thomas W. Lamont, widow of the
former chairman of the board of
J..P. Morgan and Company. Mrs.
Lamont died in New York on De-
cember 29 and her will bequeathed
$3,950,000 to educational and civic
organizations. The largest sum,
$1,200,000, went to Smith for be-
ing “outstanding in service to the
nation.” Here Mrs. Lamont spent
four years. $500,000 went to Bar-
nard where she received her M. A.
in- Philosophy and which she con-
sidered the leading woman’s col-
lege in New York. Aside from Bryn
Mawr the other colleges receiving
a quarter of a million dollars are
Radcliffe, Mt. Holyoke, Wellesley,
and Vassar.

-In her will Mrs. Lamont explain-
ed why she-had left these partic-
ular’. colleges money. She felt
women’s and men’s education to be

on an equal level of importance. The S abba tical De SI gns

independent four year colleges for
women. were performing “unique

educational services to the nation” |

because of the quality of their
teaching, their readiness to pio-
neer in new methods as well as
new fields, and their setting of
high intellectual and moral stand-
ards. Unfortunately, their right to
support has not been adequately
recognized in relation to the sup-
port given to men’s colleges, and
grants are usually given to co-
educational institutions or to jun-
ior colleges. She hoped the money
would be used for increased endow-
ment of faculty salaries.

The Union Theological Seminary
and Harvard Divinity School also
received $250,000 apiece in an at-
tempt “to halt the rising tide of
secularism in the world today”.
In order to “stimulate writing of
more good poetry in the United
States” Mrs. Lamont bequeathed

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President McBride |

Voices her Opinion
On Loyalty Pledges

“Schools and colleges themselves |
are the best judges of the loyalty
of their staffs,” declared Miss|
Katharine McBride, when a recent.

census. of opinion was taken|
among college presidents and
school representatives. “They (the

 

schools and colleges) should be|
given full responsibility and held
to their responsibility for this'
function. Loyalty oaths are in-:
fringements of the essential rights
of citizens, whether teachers or
not, as well stated in the concur-
vences of Justices Black and Frank-
furter.”

| The statement was occasioned by
|a recent Supreme Court case in-
volving the refusal of seven teach-
ers at Oklahoma Agricultural and
Mechanical College to sign the
state loyalty oath. Because it re-
quired of all state employees an
assertion that they were not mem-
bers of any “subversive” or “Com-
munist front” organizations, the
teachers, who claimed they were
not Communists, objected to the
principle of signing an oath. The
court held the Oklahoma oath un-
constitutional.

 

 

Professors Divulge

|

|
| Big Ben’s gong, the blue Medi-

| terranean, and clicking castanets
will lure four members of the Bryn
Mawr faculty away on sabbatical
leave next term.

The Berliners will continue their
work in physical organic chemis-
try in the Laboratories of the Uni-
versity of London, with Dr. C. K.
Ingold, who is the most outstand-

ing authority in the field.
Mr. Thon is bound for the Island

John Scott Views
‘Historic Osmosis’
Combining Europe

“When I went to Berlin in 1945,
I found a highly organized state
in a state of disorganization,” said
John Scott in his talk about the
“Press and the Cold War’, given
on Wednesday evening in the Com-
mon Room at Goodhart Hall. He
claimed that there were many
ruins, people living on “sticks of
furniture,” and “wash hanging out
over nothing.” The attitude of the
people was in some cases arro-
gant, in some apologetic, but in
most indifferent.

Because of his belief in using
journalistic symbolism —that_ is,
selecting one individual instead of
the whole group, and thereby de-
scribing the general situation—Mr.
Scott described a little German
boy, Dietrich, whom he met. “Die-
trich,” Mr. Scott said, “told me
that they used to be told in school
that the Germans were right and
that the Russians were barbaric;
and now when they had school at
all, they were told that the Rus-
sians were right and the Germans

barbaric. ‘You know,’ claimed
Dietrich, ‘I think they’re both
wrong.’”

To describe the general attitude
of the Russians, Mr. Scott told the
story of his conversation with a
Russian gentleman at a party
where German and Russian of-
ficials were congenially talking
peace. The Russian complained of
Hitler’s coming along and destroy-
ing history. He claimed that before
Hitler, there was capitalism and
communism, which were hostile to

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The COLLEGE NEWS is
happy to announce the follow-
ing elections:

Editor-in-Chief: Claire Rob-
inson, ’54.

Copy Editor: Barbara Drys-

 

of Majorca, in the Balearic Islands,
off the Mediterranean coast of
Spain.
are one-third of United States
costs makes it an ideal spot.

As Director of the Middlebury
College Graduate Group at the
University of Madrid, Mr. Alcala
will remain in Spain until the be-
ginning of the second semester
next year.

 

 

R. Krautheimer, Medieval Art Specialist,
Writes on Roman Christian Architecture

Mr. Richard Krautheimer, who
spoke Monday night in Goodhart
on the relationship of Alberti and
Ghiberti (“the relationship other
than the last syllables of their
names”) has “just about finished”
the work on his book on Ghiberti.

Mr. Krautheimer, now associated
with the Institute of Fine Arts of
New York University, is intensely
interested in the whole field of
medieval art and is especially an
authority on medieval architecture.
Early Christian architecture and
the basilicas in Rome have been
among his foremost concerns in
the past. A believer in thorough
treatment of his subjects, Mr.
Krautheimer spent much time at
the American School of Classical
Studies in pRome doing research
and observation for his most re-
cent work, Corpus of Early Christ-

ian Basilicas in Rome.

Alberti has been a special object
of Mr. Krautheimer’s study, pri-
marily because he believes that too
many people think Alberti was
nothing more than an architect.
“He was a theorist, you know,
above all, and a theorist of every-
thing - - - a counselor of human-
ism.” Mr. Krautheimer’s scholar-
ly investigation has led him to be-
lieve that Ghiberti, who was a
practical artist with very little
theory of his own, has applied
many of the principles of Alberti.

Mr. Krautheimer came to the
United States in 1935 and has
taught at the Universities of Marl-

borough and Louisville and at Vas-
sar College for the past fifteen
years. This was his first visit to
Bryn Mawr... “and, of course,
I’m enchanted to be here... at an

The fact that living costs

dale, ’55.
'| Make-up Editor: Marcia Jos-
eph, ‘55.

Managing Editor: Janet War-
ren, 55.

Editorial Board members: El-
eanor Fry, 54; Suzan Habashy,
"54.

Business Manager: Julia Hei-
mowitz, ’55.

Associate Business Manager:
Marjorie Richardson, 55.

CALENDAR

Friday, January 16:

Last day of lectures.
Monday, January 19:

Collegiate examinations begin.
Friday, January 30:

Collegiate examinations end.
Monday, February 2:

8:45 a. m. Mrs. Marshall is the
speaker at the Opening Assembly
of the second semester.

9:00 a. m. Work of the second
semester begins.

Wednesday, February 4:

8:30 p. m. Philip Jessup will

speak in the Common Room.
Friday, February 6:

8:00 p. m. Square Dance in the
Gym.

Monday, February 9:

8:30 p. m. Mme. Wadia Khouri
Makdissi from Lebanon will speak
on “The Awakening of the Middle

 

 

 

 

 

ex-sister college.”

East”, sponsored by I.R.C.

Professor Relates
Alberti Conception
With Ghiberti Art

Exactly what is the relationship
between Ghiberti and Alberti, two
of the Quattrocento’s most formid-
able figures in the world of art? |
Mr. Krautheimer, one of ‘today’s
foremost authorities on the art of
Ghiberti, purposes to show all the
possibilities of such a direct rela-
tionship and allow us to choose any
answer we like for the riddle.

In 1454, Alberti, already ac-
claimed by the Humanist circles
of the day, sought refuge in Flor-
ence from the papal tyranny in
Rome. It was there in 1436 that
he published his treatise “On
Painting”, which suggested revolu-
tionary ideas concerning a merg-
ence of artistic and intellectual
circles. To Alberti the pictorial
arts were worthy of universal con-
sideration and the artist, though
not the mere craftsman, was en.-
titled to consult the poet upon sub-
ject matter or to expect the
scholar to “study” pictorial art.
Above all, the model of antiquity
should be considered the source of
basic ideals to be observed and
absorbed.

Contemporarily, in 1456, Ghi-
berti had completed the ten panels
commissioned by the Calimala to
be used on the main doors of the
Bapistery of Florence. These
scenes were Ghiberti’s triumph and
he himself meant to stress within
them shallow relief, a perfect pro-
portion of figure to architectural
setting, an overall fluidity of line,
and, Mr. Krautheimer adds, a re-
flection of the antique that lends
them an ideal atmosphere. Within
the Isaac and Joseph panels, the
problem of decades before, that of
representing the three dimensional
upon the two dimensional surface
by means of his most extreme
method of perspective, was solved
and this unity of space set in the

window-like setting of a gilded
bronze panel were the epitome of
the ideal Renaissance conception
of fiures in an architectural set-

 

Survey Reveals

High Standards
At Bryn Mawr

Indicates College Trains
Most Female
Scholars

If you often think that your
roommate is destined to be the
Madame Curie of the second half
of the twentieth century, you may
not be far wrong. In the January
issue of Mademoiselle, an advance

report of an independent survey
financed by the Ford Foundation
Fund for the Advancement of Ed-
ucation reveals that Bryn Mawr
produces more scholars per 1000
students than any other women’s
college in the United States.

Bryn Mawr received this place
of distinction with a rating whicn
exceeds that of the second women’:
college by 14.9 points. Bryn Mawr
also rates higher than the top
men’s college, which is Haverford.

It is noteworthy that the three
colleges which are rated highest
are Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and
Swarthmore. These colleges par-
ticipate with one another in a
Three College Plan whereby pro-
fessors and library facilities may
be shared.

The survey is based on the grad-
uates of college from 1945 to 1951.
The scholars are those graduates
who are most likely to make a sig-
nificant contribution to the world
in a scholarly field.

Although the article emphasizes
the scholastic side of college life,
it makes it plain that Bryn Mawr
students are not exclusively brains.
It does not overlook the fact that
dramatic productions, parties, and
other extra-curricular activities
are as much a part of undergrad-
uate life at Bryn Mawr as classes
and lectures. The article points
out that Bryn Mawr students use
their intellects successfully on
Princeton men as well as academic

 

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subjects.

 

Provides Graduate

The extent of the graduate |
school at Bryn Mawr has caused it
to be called “Bryn Mawr’s most or-
iginal educational experiment,” ac-
cording to the President’s report
for the year 1951-1952. No other
small college in the United States
has followed the standard set in
establishing conditions possible for
both M.A. and Ph. D. degrees, as,
offered at Bryn Mawr in all major
departments.

With the demand for specializa-
tion of knowledge increasing year-
ly, the graduate school has aimed
at individual research. The par-
ticular attention given to each
graduate student is possible only,
because the departments are small,
the number of students in each
falling between two and eight or
ten. Thus, close association be-
tween student and professor is not
only potential, but actual. The
matter becomes more important as |
the student realizes the value of
such an association as opposed to
the crowded apd impersonal condi- |
| tions of a large university. |

 

 

Bryn Mawr’'s Educational Experiment

Study Opportunity

A small number in the graduate
department permits a program
planned for the individual, and the
student is assured of working at
her top level without being hin-
dered by either the slowness or
advanced articulation of others
around her. The professor is able
to immediately direct her work
toward a specific goal, and she is
not penalized by large lecture
groups; on the contrary, seminars
and individual research are begun
as soon as the graduate work is
initiated.

The objection that a small grad-
uate school provokes narrowness
is answered by the fact that the
school should be aware of its own
limitation by seeking cross-evalu-
ation and association with other
institutions and _ societies. This
type of work is also designated for
a particular type of student, and

‘those who would not find what

they are seeking should be dis-
couraged by the departments from
working at Bryn Mawr.

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