VOL. XLVII, NO. 16

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1951

Copyright, Trustees of”
Bryn Mawr College, 1950

 

E. Bishop Wins
Ist L. Donnelly
Award at BMC

Fellowship Recognizes
Distinction Of
U. S. Poet

Om March 10, an American poet,
Miss Blizabeth Bishop, of Yaddo,
Saratoga Springs, New York, was
hamed the winner of the first
Lacy Martin Donnelly Fellowship
for creative writing at Bryn Mawr
College. A grant of $2500 will be
-given for the 1951-52 college year.

‘Miss Katharine EL. McBride
President of the College and
chairman of the award committee
said that among the candidates for
the fellowship were women writers
from the United States, Great
Britain, and Canada, and that Miss
Bishop was chosen “for her dis

- tinetion as an American poet.” Un

til recently, Miss Bishop was con-
‘sultant in poetry to the Library of
Congress in Washington, D. C.
The fellowship was established
last fall in memory of Miss Don-

‘nelly, who died in 1948 after serv-

ing for many years as a member

~-of the Bryn Mawr faculty, and who
was credited with creating at Bryn |:

Mawr a hospitable atmosphere for
young writers.

Miss Bishop is the author of
North and South, a book of
poems published in 1946 which won
the Houghton Mifflin Poetry
Award and which led to her being
regarded by some critics as one
of the outstanding American poets
of her generation. A new volume
of her poems, some of which have
appeared in the New Yorker, the
Partisan Review, and the Na-
tion will be published next fall.
Miss Bishop is a native of Wor-
cester, Massachusetts, and was
graduated from Vassar College in
1934. She held a Guggenheim Fel-
lowship in poetry in 1947.

 

$1800 was made net profit
from the sale of tickets to Fac-
ulty Show. Approximately $200
came in from the auction of
posters and assorted objects
dart, making a total of $2000
to help pay for the Scull prop-
erty. The NEWS will print a
complete financial report as
soon as possible.

 

 

 

Petition Self-Gov |
To Allow Blanket

3:30 Permissions

There will be a meeting of the
Legislature Thursday night, March
15, at 8:30 in the Common Room.
to discuss the following petition.
A vote will be taken as to whether
or not a change in this rule is
necessary. The attention of all
students is called to Article VI,

ment Constitution:

“Meetings and discussion of
the Legislature shall be open
to all members of the Asso-
ciation, but members of the
Legislature only may vote”.
The petition is as follows:

“We, the undersign hereby
petition that whenever
lege grants extra time after 4
dance on campus, this additional
time should be granted to every-
one, regardless of attendance at
the dance. Although the rule, al-
lowing 8:80 permission only for
those attending the dance, was
originated to give those people
some extra time after 2:00, we
suggest that it be amended since
as it stands now the rule is often
either broken or evaded. When a
rule is constantly broken by a
large group of people it would
seem to indicate some flaw in the
rule rather than general irrespon-

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H. Manning Heads

Discussion Panel

Tuesday, a town meeting on
United States Foreign Policy,
sponsored by the (World: Affairs
Council of Philadelphia, was held
at the Ardmore Junior High School
to discuss “Russian Aims and the
Chances for Peace.” (Dr. Holland
Hunter, Assistant Professor of Ec-
onomics at Haverford and Dr.
Donald Horter, Assistant Profes-
sor of Political Science at the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, spoke
briefly on the subject. Mrs. Helen
Taft Manning moderated the dis-
cussion.

Dr. Hunter said that the basic
aim of Russia is to free the world
from capitalism, by spreading
Communism. The only way to do
this is by war, but Russia must
wait for the best opportunity. This
gives the United States a chance
to create favorable situations.

 

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High Points of *T om Thumb’ Indicate
Hilarious Well-Directed Performance

by Helen Katz, °53

The last Bryn Mawr College
production of this season, Henry
Fielding’s Tom Thunib, will reach
the Goodhart boards this Friday
and Saturday. The “Tragedy of
Tragedies”, starring Suzie Kramer
as the durgen hero, and Katchie
Torrence as Huncamunca, the

ae

quote Mrs. Marshall, is to “hit
the high spots and hope for the
best”. One thing the actors have
in their favor is their delivery,—
almost every line is distinct, and
straight faces in the humorous
lines are, for the most part, main-
tained. (“Verisimilitude gives way
to reality rapidly” said Lee Har-
ing, when Trish Richardson, as

r|Queen Dollalolla, substituted gig-

gles for weeping.)
The lone reviewer seated in the
audience sees many odd things

p} that, totalled, point to an interest-
-}ing, fanny, and well-direeted per-

'formanee., Standing in the right

 

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section VII, of the Self-Govern-

he Col. |.

 

 

Credit to Wilbur Boone
Pas de Deux Anthropologique

 

Dr. Noble Doubts
Reasonable Basis

In Religious Faith

On Wednesday, March 6, in the
Gertrude Ely room at Wyndham,
Dr. Grant Noble, Chaplain of Wil-
liams College, spoke informally on
the topic, “Can a Religious Belief
Be Intellectually Honest?” Dr.
Noble prefaced his remarks with a
change of title. He felt that what
he was really to speak about was
‘How can Religious Experience be
Put on a Reasonable Basis?”

Dr. Noble began by saying that
one cannot prove experience such
as love or beauty, or friendship in
the cause and effect way of the
scientifically-minded, and neither
can God be proved scientifically.
After we finish Sunday School ed-
ucation at the age of thirteen or
fourteen, we may still have imma-

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CALENDAR
Thursday, March 15, 1951.
4:30-6:30 p. m. Fashion Show,
in Wyndham.
8:30 p. m. Legislature meets,
Common Room.
Friday, March 16, 1951
4:00 p. m. Debate in the Com-

mon Room with NYU.
8:30 p. m. The Life and Death of

 

The NEWS congratulates the
following hall presidents on
their election yesterday: Den-
bigh, Judy Silman; Merion, Rat
Ritter; Pem East, Trish Mulli-
gan; Pem West, Lois Bishop;
Radnor, Tama Schenk; Rhoads,
Bar Townsend; Rock, Bess
Foulke. The president of Wynd- .
ham will be elected after resi-
dents of Wyndham have been
selected. Watch for interviews
of hall presidents in next
week’s NEWS.

 

 

 

Tom Thumb the Great, in Goodhart
Hall. :
Saturday, March 17, 1951.

8:30 p. m. Tom Thumb,

 

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Horton Declares

Belief Needs No
Intellectual Test

“Can a religious belief be intel-
lectually valid”, was the question
posed as the topic of discussion in
Common Room last Thursday
night at 8:30. Dr. Douglas Hor-
ton, who led the discussion, ans-
wered shortly, “No, it can’t”, and
explained his answer. “God”, he

said, “does not respond to the
senses or the brain”. The sense
that there is a “self - conscious

will”, a “person behind the uni-
verse”, comes to a man, and re-
ligion, by which a man finds a tie
to God, cannot be defended on
logical grounds. Speaking of the
difficulty of describing God, Dr.
Horton how one could describe the
sun to a blind man, and pointed
out that man expects too much of
religious experience—an experi-
ence which is fundamental, not ex-
ternally emotional.

Dismissing the question of the
existence of God, Dr. Horton went
on to explain the need for belief
in God. “A helper in time of
need”, he said, is not the. only
function of God, unless you mean
need in a “fine, large, human way”
—the “need to create and make a

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Faculty’s Skill, Wit, Work Win Highest: Praise
From Those Cheering Ibid, Addams, Comp. Lit.

Kind Hearts Expose
Hidden Talent |
In Show |

Specially contributed
by Joan McBride, ’52
The martinets of Bryn Mawr
College and many kind hearts ap+
peared on Goodhart stage last Sat-
urday night to present the Faculty
Show to one of the largest and
most enthusiastic audiences that
has ever attended a production
here.
Kind Hearts and Martinets con-
sisted of a series of skits, present-
ed with extraordinary wit and skill

‘}and beautifully organized by the

show committee: Miss Lang, Mrs.
Nahm, Mrs. Dryden, Mr. Adama,
Mr. Dudden, Mr. Janschka, Mr.
Parker, and Mr. Thon. The total
impression was one of enthusi-
asm and delight, acting ability
heretofore undiscovered in our col-
lege generation of four years, and
superb senses of humor on the part
of all the participants.
The opening scene, a faculty ta
ble at the Deanery, attended by a
chorus line of waitresses and com-
plete with a “floor show” of kick
chorines, set the lively pace for the
rest of the show, which, although
almost three hours long, never
dragged, even during the scene
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Tillyard Will Tell
Shakespeare Value

Eustace M. W. Tillyard, Master
of Jesus College, Cambridge, will
deliver the 1951 Ann _ Elizabeth
Sheble Memorial Lecture in Good-
hart Auditorium at 8:30 p. m. on
Monday, March 19. The topic of
the lecture, which will be followed
by a discussion in the Common
Room, is “What Do We Really Get
Out of Shakespeare?”

Mr. Tillyard, who has been Mas-
ter of Jesus College since 1945, has
been a lecturer in English since
1926. He was educated at College
Cantonal, Lusanne, and Perse Col-
lege, Cambridge, and was a schol-
ar at Jesus College. In addition to
his scholarly work, he served in
France in ;World War I, and was
later in the intelligence corps.

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Abstract Emotion Patterns in Music

Found by Philos. Club Speaker Pratt

Specially Contributed

Music has been called the lan-
guage of emotion. Carroll C. Pratt,
head of Princeton’s psychology
department, who spoke last night
in the Common Room, sponsored
by the Philosophy Club, disagreed
with the theories usually presented
to account for the emotional impli-
cations of a work of art, though
he agreed that a relation between
art and emotion exists. His dis-
cussion was limited to music, but
he held that his arguments would
apply to the various fields of art.

A work of art cannot be said to
“embody” emotion; emotions can

 

exist only within individual or-

 

ganisms. It is sometimes accurate
to say that a work of art arouses
emotions, but such a statement is
not universally true. Moreover, if
the arousing of emotion is to he
the criterion of a work of art, then
that work will exist on a level be-
low many ordinary events. The
theory of empathy—that the indi-
vidual erroneously ascribes to a
work of art qualities which he
himself originates—is also inade-
quate . For instance, perception of
motion does not depend on the
motion of the eye. On the theory
of empathy the quality of the work
of art can rise no higher than the
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