Page Two ¥ THE COLLEGE NEWS _ Wednesday, March 14, 1951 THE COLLEGE NEWS FOUNDED IN 1914 Published weekly during the College: Year (except during Thanks- giving, Christmas an Easter holidays,. 6 Tear (ex examination weeks). in the interest of Bryn Mawr College at the Ardmore Printing Company, Ardmore, Pa., and Bryn Mawr College. ..- -The. Colle News is fully protected by copyright. Nothing that pears in it m may be reprinted either wholly or in part without permission ’ oF the Editor-in-Chief. EDITORIAL BOARD Jane Augustine, ‘52, Editor-in-chief Julie Ann Johnson, ‘52, Copy ‘Frances Shirley, ‘53, Make-up Helen Katz, ‘53 Margie Cohn, ‘52, Make-up Sheila Atkinson, ‘53 Claire Robinson, ‘54° EDITORIAL STAFF ee Betty-Jeanne Yorshis, ‘52 Lucy Batten, ‘54 Anna Natoli, ‘54 Mary Stiles, ‘54 Mary Alice Drinkle, ‘53 Louise Kennedy, ‘54 Margaret McCabe, ‘54 Anne Phipps, ‘54 Cynthia Sorrick, ‘54 STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS *~ Sue Bramann, ‘52 Judy Leopold, ‘53 BUSINESS MANAGERS Tama Schenk, ‘52 — Sue Press, ‘53 BUSINESS BOARD Barbara Goldman, ‘53 Evelyn Fuller, ‘53 Margi Partridge, ‘52 Vicki Kraver, ‘54 SUBSCRIPTION BOARD Lita Hahn, ‘52, Chairman Ellie Lew Atherton, ‘52 Carolyn Limbaugh, ‘53 } Alice Cary, ‘52 Trish Mulligan, ‘52 Susan Crowdus, ‘52 True Warren, ‘52 Lois Kalins, ‘52 Gretchen Wemmer, ‘53 Nena McBee, ‘53 Diena: Gammie, ‘53 Beth Davis, ‘54 Ann McGregor, ‘54 Christine Schavier, ‘54 .Mary Lou Bianchi, ‘52 Subscription, $3.00 Mailing price, $3.50 Subscriptions may begin at any time | Entered as second class matter at the Ardmore, Pa., Post Office Under the Act of March 3, 1879 Faculty Show The applause and laughter are over. Professors have bowed for the last time; they are no longer Roman statuary or rambunctious Indians. Faculty Show itself has bowed out for a time, but the good feeling, the recognition “This is our -faculty—they are human!” will last for a long while. : There is no question that students feel nothing but re- spect and admiration for professors cavorting and having much sophisticated fun on Goodhart stage. It was good to see them last Saturday, for their obvious enjoyment and en- ‘thusiasm flowed warmly over the footlights, contributing a contagious personal touch to a show that was beautifully subtle, spontaneous, and screamingly funny. It was wonderful to see professorial ability blossom into -Jiveliness and wit, to find dexterity of word and action behind academic dignity, to come upon twinkling eyes and light steps where perhaps impressive intellect alone had been seen prev- . iously. Faculty Show brought a new kind of respect—the kind ‘ that. comes from the reminder that teachers are more aware _of the students than is generally recognized. It is respect that springs from the genuine pleasure and heightened es- teem that a faculty-presented, student-appreciated effort can produce. - -And so the students of Bryn Mawr say sincerely to their faculty, “Thank you.” Students, Arise! ; Look at the mournful unwashed countenances propped up at the breakfast table; nobody speaks, nothing registers. After all, it’s forty minutes before that nine o’clock class. Do you wonder that only a few objectionably aggressive individ- uals can dress and attend the Wednesday morning assem- blies at a quarter before the lethal hour? The Bryn Mawr movie, however, shown several Wednes-| _ days ago, drew a record crowd. Visual education is a fine ' thing, and so is a brief lucid talk on an unusual topic. Most ; Wan eee To acquire it, fifteen minutes .is squandered paused i> sani boo clenrtiin. Time and ef- Current Events professor of'.Political Science from | lege Russian program, gave the Current Events speech on Monday evening on the subject, “Can We Negotiate With Russia?” He di- vided this controversial topic into two alternatives, short term or long term arrangements. He felt that any short range plans for peace, involving necessary conces- sions on each side, would be use- less except as a breather since Russia would then apply pressure in other parts of the world and the negotiations and concessions would have to start again. But he thought that permanent peace is a possi- bility if the United States can have enough potential power behind her to keep the Russians scared of starting aggression. If the United States went to the conference willing to make con- cessions to Russia regarding Korea or Formosa or the Chinese Com- munists in the U.N., they would have to realize that the Russians would only approve our demands, such as easing the pressure in Western Germany, making an Aus- trian peace treaty, or settling the Trieste question, if they thought these represented another step to- wards the goal of world revolution to communism. Dr. Michaels stressed especially the firm faith they have in their system, not only as the only right, just way of life for themselves, but also as the basis of furthering mankind in the world. Therefore they are creat- ing areas of tension to prepare for revolution by building up their military power, maintaining active propaganda machines, and man- ipulating world affairs so as to weaken the economic strength of the United States. On these terms a short range peace plan is impos- sible. The only’ alternative, Dr. Michaels thinks, would be for the U.S. to be backed strongly enough by military and economic power to support an “enforced peace” where each country stayed within its own boundaries. Otherwise he feels there is no chance of ending the cold war. Gottlieb Explains N.S.A. and Origin Ronnie Gottlieb discussed NSA at this morning’s Assembly, first outlining the Association’s origin: student representatives from Am- erican colleges attended the World Student Congress in Prague in 1946. They discovered that the United States was the only country without a national union of stu- dents, and that students from oth- er countries felt we -were being aloof. After realization of the potential benefits to be gained from a national association of stu- dents, NSA was established in 1947, Ronnie emphasized the recogni- tion of national and NSA officers as spokesmen for American college students, and of NSA as the only representative student opposition to communist student groups abroad. The Association is bene- ficial, and its potentialities have not yet been completely tapped. The question of Bryn Mawr’s maintaining NSA membership, which has been unanimously sup- ported by the NSA committee and Undergrad Council, will be intro- duced at the April meeting of the Legislature. This body will also vote at the some time on the ques- tion of reorganizing the Associa- tion on campus and integrating NSA with Undergrad and Alliance. Until these questions are settled, no head of NSA will be elected. Swarthmore, ‘under the three col-|' Gaze Crew Grateful . For Work With Faculty Open Letter to the Faculty A couple of weeks ago you ask- ed us to work on your show. Of course we jumped at the chance. And we never regretted it. We loved working with you and none of us have ever enjoyed a show so much. We painted Miss Lang’s name on the wall in Goodhart; we wish we could have put all your names there. You sent us flowers the night of the show. And you all thanked us for our help. Now that it’s all over we want to thank you—each one of you—for letting us work on Kind Hearts and Martinets. Special thanks go to Miss Lang who spent so much time working with us, and making things easy for us; also to the Nahms, who in- vited us to their cast party and didn’t raise an eyebrow when we scrubbed off all the accumulated dirt of Goodhart in their sink. ‘But mostly we want to thank all of you. /We’ve loved every minute of it. And we think our faculty is tops! Ann Blaisdell Helen Dobbs Peasy Laidlaw Janet Leeds Jill McAnney The NEWS wishes Dr. Herben a very happy birthday. Moral Code Extant, Assures Grant Noble Continued from Page 1 ture ideas of God. Moses found ten fundamental laws of life, but he did not find them by scientific method. “I can’t prove the beauty of a sunset,” Dr. Noble said, “but [ know it’s beautiful—and not be. cause what I see is a diffusion of dust particles through light rays, either.” Dr. Noble explained that he felt we had two types of reasoning: in- tellectual and intuitional. Certain truths we can see, yet can scarcely prove—the quality of people in love, or of people who live with God as an integral part of their lives. There is, too, the case of peo- ple who have renounced Christian belief intellectually, but still live by it. Dr. Noble told of “an agnostic who told me he went to church be- cause, although he didn’t believe— The NEWS is happy to an- nounce the following additions to its staff: Mary Lou Bianchi, ’52 Mary Alice Drinkle, 53 Louise Kennedy, ’54 Muggy McCabe, ’54 Anne Phipps, °54 Cynthia Sorrick, °54 or at least doubted God—he liked to hear the minister express his belief”, In answer to the question, “Why can’t. one have a moral code with- out religious belief?” Dr. Noble replied that the moral code in the first place had come from a “He- brew-Christian background. Moses wanted a moral code to help him live; Jesus used love as the basis for his living”. And if all is bad, all evil in our universe, why should we bother to keep moral standards at all? Yet we do keep moral standards, the great majority of us. If we think why deeply enough, we may indeed find the religion that has been ours always. But, Dr. ‘Noble concluded, far too many ; people wait passively for religion, expecting it to come to them, and without the realiza- tion that religion is a two-way re- lationship. ( Opinion m Dr. ‘John Michaels, ‘an assistant be Mrs. Manning States Teaching Needs Cooperation To the Editors of the College NEWS: Your editorial on the shortcom- ings of the Bryn Mawr faculty as lecturers raises a general question which has agitated the breasts of educational reformers for the last forty years, caused President Mei- klejohn to start the experimental college at the University of /Wis- consin, and Bennington College to open its doors: namely, how can American colleges more effectively fulfill their function of spreading some awareness of our intellectual heritage to incoming generations of students. I hope the editors of the College NEWS will forgive me for saying that I think they have begun at the wrong end of the lad- der by identifying good teaching with effective lectures. To do so is, in my mind, to lose the battle before it has even been joined. After sitting for twenty-five years on committees searching for out- side lecturers on academic subjects whose performance could be 100% guaranteed, I have become con- vinced that they are as rare as first rate actors or first rate prima donnas. Most of us can now and again become eloquent or witty on a favorite topic, but to expect that we shall all be able to repeat the performance six or eight times a week until we retire is a council of perfection scarcely to be real- ized on this planet. Perhaps the basic fallacy in your argument is in assuming that good teaching is ever a one-sided affair. The best classroom performance will prove sterile unless the stu- dents have some idea what they are looking for in a college course and are vocal in demanding it in and out of class. The crux of the ques- tion, as I see it, was raised two years ago in a meeting of the social science departments when one of the younger members of the faculty said, “Why are fresh- men at Bryn Mawr so eager to ask questions and explore avenues which have been opened; why does that zest disappear when they re- turn to the campus as_ soph- omores ?” The answer to that question is Continued on Page 6, Col. 2 Man Bound by Dictates Of Society, Horton Says Continued. from Page 1 contribution to human life.” God who “set eternity in the heart of man” would not let him be content to be a bit of mechanism, but set in him a creative force which makes thim strive for truth, good- ness, and’ beauty. God, “the mov- er towards personalization”; put a “moral imperative upon man to be the highest type of person his mind can conceive.” The obstacles to attaining this goal, Dr. Horton continued, come under the heading, the “principle of restraint.” Because of this en- emy, man becomes an easy victim to the spirit of his times, and is made to conform in a society jeal- ous of all dissenters. The predic- ament af a businessman trying to be “generous in an ungenerous world” was cited as an example of man’s losing his meaning as an in- dividual in society. ‘When this hap- pens, the need for God in order to find: the answer to the process of | life becomes stronger than ever. dn conclusion, Dr. Horton said that the church is a place where man’s convictions are sustained, and where a “fragment of God’s eternal purpose is held out to man.” The church gives man hope, and shows him that “life is worth’ living, even if it is very difficult.” ii erect