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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, January 14, 1953

 

 

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EDITORIAL BOARD

Claire Robinson, ‘54, Editor-in-Chief
Barbara Drysdale, ‘55, Copy Marcia Joseph, ‘55, Makeup
Janet Warren, ‘55, Managing Editor
Eleanor Fry, ‘54 Suzan Habashy, ‘54

EDITORIAL STAFF

Jackie Braun, ‘54 Kay Sherman, ‘54
Science Reporter Barbara Fischer, ‘55
Lynn Badler, ‘56 Anne Mazick, ‘55
A.A. reporter Caroline Warram, ‘55
Ann McGregor, ‘54 Joan Havens, ‘56

STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Judy Leopold, ‘53

BUSINESS MANAGER

Julia Heimowitz, ‘55
Marjorie Richardson, ‘55, Associate Business Manager

BUSINESS STAFF
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SUBSCRIPTION MANAGER
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SUBSCRIPTION BOARD

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Achievement

What have Bryn Mawr students of past years used their
college educations to achieve? What can we who are now in
college learn from their example about our potentialities as
Bryn Mawr graduates when we assume the responsibility of
knowledge?

Recently in an independent study sponsored by the Ford
Foundation, Mademoiselle placed Bryn Mawr at the top
among the non-coeducational colleges educating young men
and women who have used their educations as stepping
stones to greater scholarly achievement. Too little has, how-
ever, been said about those who go out from Bryn Mawr and
become outstanding contributors to business and profession-

al circles.

Among these graduates are members of the entertain-
ment world—Theresa Helburn, director of the Theatre Guild,
and Katherine Hepburn. Contributing notably to magazine
publication are Mrs. Seymour Freedgood, associate editor of
Harper’s, and Content Peckham, a senior editor for Time.
Mrs. Dorothy Schiff is president and publisher of the New
York Post.

Eleanor Dulles, political economist, began her career do-
ing research on the International Bank in Geneva; in the last
war she was political advisor on Austrian affairs to the com-
manding general. Hilda Smith has been able to contribute
to the Workers’ Education Movement through her recent post
with the Labor Department in Washington.

Carrying the idea of higher education for women abroad
was Michi Kawi, who has become an outstanding educator in
Japan. In the United States, Edith Hamilton is a well-known
writer and educator. Four college presidents are included in
the ranks of Bryn Mawr graduates, not to mention countless
school principals. Elizabeth Gray Vining is famous for her
unusual position as tutor to the Japanese Crown Prince.

In the Alumnae Office are four long shelves of books
which represent “only a fraction” of the publications by
graduates. Among these are the works of Marianne Moore.
Katherine Shippen and Cornelia Meigs have written outstand-
ing children’s stories.

‘Emily Green Balch of the Class of ’89, economist, was
co-winner in 1946 of the Nobel Peace Prize.

‘Director of the WAVES during the past war was Jean
aaesuiata Thomas W. Streeter, was the original head

LETTERS

Scholars Beg Return
Of Concrete
Proof

To the Editor of the News:

Four per cent of Bryn Mawr
students go on to become “schol-
ars.” How did we get that way?
We went to the library. We have
made our dent on this college and
we would like it preserved, as the
only concrete proof of our scholar-
ship. Please return our careworn
step to the threshold of the library.

Clarissa D. Flint, jr., ’55
Dolores Hefflinger, ’56
Mimi Gralton, ’55

Anne S. Eristoff, ’54
Marianne Clark, ’56
Frances Shirley, ‘53

Mary Alice Drinkle, ’53
Phyllida Stephen, ’53
Lillian E. Smith, ’53

Jane Caster, ’53

B. Zabko Potapovich, ’53
Marion Coleman, ’53

Mary Merchant, ’53

Phyllis Tilson, ‘54
Josephine E. Case, ’54
Carey Bell Richmond, ’54
Elizabeth P. Gordon, ’55
Deborah Katz, ’55

Edith A. Schwab, ’55

Lois E. Beekey, ’55

Lynn /Weinstein, ’54

Yoline Wou, ‘54

Ilse Shapiro, ’65

Kathryn Ehlers, ’63

Jane Norris, ’53
Susan C. Leonard,
Isabelle P. Coll, 54
Polly Lothman, ’56
Edie Kaden, ’56
Judith Goggin, ‘56
Alice Kessler, ’56

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Ghiberti’s Art Reflects
Alberti’s Artistic Ideal
Continued from Page 1

ting.

The question raised then, is
whether this work of combined
ideals, which is so far superior to
and immensely more mature than
Ghiberti’s earlier door, (also done
for the Baptistery), was based on
the space conception advocated by
Brunelleschi or newly defined by
Alberti. Brunelleschi, basically an
architect, was what can now be
recognized as a precursor of the
more sustained ideas of Alberti
and Ghiberti. His architectural
approach failed when applied to
the scale of pictorial arts. But Al-
berti wrote for the painter and
sculptor, provided a _ perspective
theory based on vanishing and dis-
tance points and conceived of a
work of art as the whole made up
of its many parts.

There lies the basis of the riddle.
As Alberti conceived of art, so
Ghiberti produced it. The sequence
of chronological events, if recalled
at this point, proves that Ghiberti
had finished the ten panels two
years before Alberti put his treat-
ise in script form.

Nothing, though, prevents spec-
ulation upon the idea that artists,
stimulated by the intellectual free-
dom of the day, were airing their
views and that those of Ghiberti
reached the doors of the Baptist-
ery earlier than the similar ideas
of Alberti found expression upon
paper. Single figures in the sculp-
tural reliefs of Ghiberti do echo
the ideals of Brunelleschi. There-
fore Mr. Krautheimer suggests

 

Phip
Of Solid Philosophy

Charles Poore in his column
“Books of the Times” has describ-
ed the collection of the philoso-
phies of one hundred men and
women, made by Edward R. Mur-
row in his recent This I Believe.
This book, edited by Edward P.
Morgan and forwarded by Murrow,
gives many varied approaches to
what has been called a_ steady
philosophy. for a shaky time.

Among those quoted in the ar-
ticle were Jackie Robinson, Thomas
Mann, Elmer Davis, Herbert
Hoover, and Rebecca West. Anne
Phipps, a member of the class of
’54, now studying abroad, was also
quoted. She says, “This winter |
came to college. The questions
put to me changed. I was asked
eternal questions: What is Beau-
ty? What is Truth? What is
God? I wondered if I hadn’t been
worshipping around the _ edges.
Nature and art were the edges, an
inner faith was the center.”

Scott Explains Problem
Of Federation in Europe
Continued from Page 1

each other. “Now that Hitler is
gone,” the Russian said, “we can
go back to normal. We hate each
other, so I don’t know why those
officials are talking about peace.”

At present, there is a stronge)
movement than ever before for
European unity. Previously, there
have been many plans, but until
the end of World War II, nothing
had crystallized . Then the Soviet
Union, by force, unified part cf
Europe in their own economic in-
terests. In some ways, this has
been beneficial. For example, Po-
land was flat on its back in 1945,
and the forced unification has
helped the Polish people to get
back on their feet. “Therefore,”
said Mr. Scott, “the forced unity
has created a position of kinetic
and potential political and military
strength.”

Many Europeans are now think-
ing in terms of unity. There are
two problems to be solved, how-
ever: 1) What place would Ger-
many hold in such a unity, and 2)
the question of Neutralism. Also
the Soviet Union is facing the
problem of disillusionment and
cynicism among the Russian
people. Up to a certain point, the
Soviet Union represented a pro-
gressive force, Communism based
on Marxism, but now the people

are becoming dissatisfied.

Mr. Scott does not think that
war is inevitable. He believes
that “historic osmosis is going on,’
that many concessions will be
made, and that there will be an
emergence of historic compromise.
With such compromise and the
ironing out of problems in the path
of European unity, there will be
no necessity for war.

 

that from Brunelleschi’s day for-
ward, the trend toward idealization
of the figure, space, and setting
had progressed relentlessly in ob-
jective art and subjective ideas. [t
emerged in the artistic ideals of
both Ghiberti and Alberti who cer-
tainly seem to have talked things
over and agreed.

 

of the MARINES.

These women went on from Bryn Mawr to give outstand-

ps Finds Heart

 

ing service to the public or the nation in their fields. A Bryn
Mawr education can be whatever we choose to make it - - -
the end of school learning or the pathway to harder, more re-
warding work. At this moment of our lives, each student is
developing her potentialities for the day when she will find
her own field of endeavor.

Current Events

Lattimore Delineates
Responsibilities
Of Writers

Mr. Richmond Lattimore gave the
second in a series of expansive
Current Events topics on science,
art, and philosophy with a lecture
on the place of literature in so-
ciety. Mr. Lattimore explained he
only intended to discuss the fiction
writer.

First he established that this
type of artist is not necessarily
poetical, colorful, or the type of
person who leads a picturesque
life. Very often these attributes
require the time and energy that
a writer, a busy man, does not
have to waste on them. To get re-
sults and tap the supply of fiction
material that is in everyone, he
needs to spend time in hard work,
he needs a talent for writing, and
he needs the gift for absorbing
concentration.

In his job of creating, the writ-
er will come upon certain laws and
compulsions that to some extent
take the control out of his hands,
and he cannot always rebel against
this kind of direction. Once the
| work is finished, however, the au-
thor can step outside of his former
role and survey his work dispas-
sionately, as a critic, and so
change it if part of it is damaging,
or not suitable to print.

In a society the writer has no
special rights, but as a citizen he
is responsible for the duties re-
quired of all citizens. As a writer,
it is his job to write as well as he
can, and if he is to do this he must
not make his political or humani-
tarian views his primary aim; as
a writer he is being a bad citizen
if he puts forward an attack on his
government as his main purpose.
Politics is no criterion for art, for
if a totalitarian artist has his con-
centration as his main purpose and
succeeds, then he is good. Mr. Lat-
timore does not like any kind of
censorship, but if a forceful writer
expounds in a destructive fashion
against his government, he should
conceivably be censored.

Book Room Offers

Many Publications

On display now in the Rare Book
(Room is an exhibit of first books
by English and American men of
letters in either the original or
facsimile editions. Mr. John D.
Gordan, Curator of the Berg Col-
lection in the New York Public Li-
brary, will talk on these and other
similar editions before The Friends
of the Bryn Mawr College Library
on January 19.

First publications by Tennyson,
Thoreau, Shelley, Stevenson, Sid-
mney, and other famous men of let-
ters are included in the exhibit.
The stories behind these works
have been collected by Mr. Gordan
in First Fruits, published by the
New York Public Library in 1949.

ENGAGEMENTS

Carol E. Dershwin, ’54, to How-
ard J. Platzker.

Melissa Emery, ’55, to Addison
Lanier.

Lynn Erdman, ex-’55, to Antonio
Jacques de Almeida Santos.

Emelyn Ewer, ’54, to Faris Kirk-
land.

Carla E. Kaufmann, ’54, to Er-
nest A. Lynton.

Judith Anne Leopold, ‘53, to En-
sign Charles Robert Bardes.

Marjorie Witt Richardson, °55,
to Prentiss Hallenbeck.

Lillian E. Smith, ’53, to Bruno
Kaiser.

Zella Thomas, ’53, to John Whit-
craft, jr.

Yoline Wou, ’54, to at Chand-
ler.

Nancy Alexander, ’52, to Sydney
E. Ahlstrom.

Judith Silman, ’52, to Howard M.
Schmertz. _