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The College Mews

 

 

 

VOL. XLVII, NO. 6

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1950

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1950

PRICE 15 CENTS

 

Pamela Taylor
Gives Portrait

To B.M. College

Brackman’s Painting
Of K. McBride

Presented

The presentation of the portrait
of Miss McBride, which is now
hanging in the reading room of the
library, took place on Saturday
evening, November fourth, in the
Deanery. Mrs. Francis Henry Tay-
lor (Pamela Coyne, ’24), chairman
of the portrait committee made the
presentation speech following the
dinner for the alumnae and a re-
cital by the Double Octet.

The Double Octet, directed by
Mr. Goodale, set the scene with a
group of songs including works of
Palestrina, Byrd, Thomas Weelkes
John: Bennet, and Adriano Ban-
chievi. The last selection, by Pal-
estrina, with the words “Tell me
what master hand with cunning
rare this image did create so won-
drous fair” served as in introduc.
tion to the actual presentation.

Mrs. Taylor then spoke briefly,
telling the history of the portrait.
She thanked her committee, Mrs.
F. Louis Slade, Vice-president of
the Board of Directors; Dr. Elea-
nor Bliss, a Director; Mrs. Mum-
ford, President of the Alumnae
Association; and Dr. Sloane of the
Art Department. The committee,
representing the Alumnae _ Associ-
ation, began last fall to look for an
artist, she said. They finally chose
Mr. Robert Brackman, who came
to the campus in the spring in an
effort to absorb college atmosphere.
At this time he decided to paint
Miss McBride seated in a _ nine-
teenth century chair that had once
belonged to President Taylor, and
is now in Miss McBride’s office. The
chair was shipped to Connecticut
where the portrait was painted in
September.

Miss Taylor unveiled the paint-
ing and presented it to the Board
of Directors. Speaking on behalf
of the Board, Mr. Rhoads accepted
the portrait for the college.

Continued on Page 7, Col. 3

 

“Pots, Pans, and

     

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Books”

 

Academic Life, College Tolerance, Help
Liberal Education Lead to Pots and Pans

“Pots and Pans and Books’. was
the title given to the symposium
neld in the Deanery on Sunday
morning. Mrs. Marshall was mod-
erator; and Anne Iglehart, 751,
Mrs. Barbara Bigelow Balfour,
*39, and Mrs. Mary Palache Greg-
ory, ’24, told what a Bryn Mawr
education meant to them.

Alumnae Association President
Hilda Mumford, ’31, opened the
discussion. “This is the focal point
of the entire weekend... Out of
it came the entire program... ”
The symposium was intended as
an answer to the question, “Of
what earthly good is a B.A. when
one is raising a family?” The in-
tellectual curiosity of the alumna
is lost unless she turns to books,
and “out of that came the reading
list and the program of speakers.”
The moderator and two of the
speakers have children, she added,
and “the senior has produced no
children, but will tell what she
hopes to get from her liberal arts
aducation.”

Mrs. Marshall agreed that the
subject was important. She had
left at home “one large mongrel
dog, a husband, a grandmother, and
baby. Mr. Marshall was giving the
baby a bath,” she said, “and the
water must have been a little hot,
for the baby had turned pink and
was crying.” She seemed glad to

 

Chapin Far Eastern Art Collection

Includes Old Manuscripts, Bronzes

by Helen Katz, 53

Helen Burwell Chapin, class of
15, the donor of the Far Eastern
Art collection now on view in the
Rare Book Room, was known
throughout China as “the Western
woman who rode a bicycle.” The
late Miss Chapin traveled over
China, Japan, Korea, and India,
gathering the extensive library
that was presented to Bryn Maw1
College this year.

The collection includes 100 Kor-
ean volumes, some reprints, some
original Buddhist manuscripts dat-
ing from the fifteenth century, and
some royal editions with prefaces
written by Korean kings. There
are also Japanese criticisms of
Korean art and architectures of
all periods. Beside the Korean sec-
tion, the collection is made up of
other Oriental editions, bronzes,
porcelains, paintings, embroidered
altar pieces, Miss Chapin’s trans-

 

lations, and her original poetry.

Of added interest are 350 vol-
umes of Chinese and Japanese
books collected by Miss Chapin,
who spoke and _ wrote’ both
languages. First editions of ancient
scriptures, particularly one_ illus-
trated in wood-block cuts and
dated 1485, are also on view, and
are beautiful examples of the dif-
ferent types of printing. They
vary in size from eight figures to
a page, to hundreds. The collec-
tion is rich in examples of Manchu
and cursive script, and early
classics, all of which have been cata-
logued by Dr. Alexander Soper,
Professor of History of Art at
Bryn Mawr.

The three hangings in the Rare
Book Room, rubbings of floral de-
signs, and an history which Miss
Chapin translated, are also valu-
able pieces she brought out of

Continued on Page 2, Col. 5

 

have an excuse to leave home and
introduce “childless Anne _ Igle-
hart.”

Anne spoke of the use of reading
as an outlet, or source of develop-
ment, and a requirement for an
A.B. “Reading and a liberal arts
education cannot be separated,”
she said. There are three influences
that most affect the undergraduate.
First, she is living with people dif-
ferent from her, and she must
learn to give and take, and be tol-
erant. She can participate in extra-
curricular activities, too, and learn
to work out details as well as over-
all plans. The third influence, ac-
ademic life, is most important, and
most criticized, The student learns
how little she really knows, and
each course opens up a new field.
Even more important, Anne said,
is intellectual maturity, “the abil-
ity to see fundamental values be-
yond immediate goals.” This abil-
ity helps one work out a satisfying
life. The graduate “has resources

Continued on Page 5, Col. 4

CALENDAR

Wednesday, November 8.
Marriage Lecture, Dr. Hume-
ston, “Anatomy and Physiology
of Marriage,’ Common Room,
7:15 p.m.
Friday, November 10.
Bryn Mawr College Theatre,
“Cuest in the House,” Goodhart,
8:30 p.m.

Saturday, November 11.

Concert of Renaissance Music,
Bryn Mawr and Haverford Glee
Clubs, Roberts Hall, 2:30 p.m.

Bryn Mawr College Theatre,
“Guest in the House,” Goodhart,
8:30 p.m.

Undergrad Dance, Gym, 11:00-
:200 a. m.

Sunday, November 12.

Horse Show, Valley Forge,
1:30 p.m.

Sunday Evening Chapel Serv-
ice, The Rev. Palfrey Perkins,
Rector of King’s Chapel, Boston,
Music Room, 7:30 p.m.

Monday, November 13.

Current Events, Miss Hertha
Kraus, “Which Way Will Ger-
many Turn?” Common Room,
7:15 p.m.

Meeting of the Legislature,
Common Room, 8:30 p.m.
Tuesday, November 14.

United World Federalist Tea,

Continued on Page 8, Col. 5

 

 

 

Music, Speeches
Mark Reception
Honoring G. Ely

by Joan McBride, ’52

At a reception given by Miss
McBride, on Sunday night, Novem-
ber 5; the newly-decorated Wynd-
ham Music Room was formally
dedicated to Miss Gertrude Ely.
The evening began with a pro-
gram of music presented by an en-
semble of the Bryn Mawr College
Orchestra, under the direction of
Mr. William Reese. Their first se-
lection was two movements from
a Trio Sonata by Jean Baptiste
Lully, a contemporary of Handel,
which provided a proper setting
for the following numbers, a Duet
for Two Oboes by Gastoldi, a six-
teenth century composer, and a
graceful minuet by Handel. The
iboe passages were played with
dexterity and good intonation by
Bertie Dawes, ’52, and Lynn Hun-
cer, 54; and the minuet «was per-
‘ormed with delicacy and grace.

Mrs. Manning, the mistress of
se emonies at the _ presentation,
said, “Don’t wait to write it on her
cmlystone—do it now!” (She then
cited Miss Ely’s achievements dur-
ng: two world wars: she led the

Continued on Page, 2, Col. 5

Bernstein Tells

Of Theatre Art

On Monday evening, November
6, Richard Bernstein, first guest
speaker of Actresses Anonymous,
conducted a delightfully informal
lecture-discussion group. Because
of his wide experience both in sum-
mer stock, arena theatre, and
Broadway production, Mr. Bern-
stein was more than qualified to
speak about stage design and light-
ing.

He felt that small theatre
groups, such as summer stock, ex-
perimental production, and dramat-
ic groups like those at Bryn Mawr,
were more closely united in their
work, for, “The prop man may
lave a walk-on part, and the lead
in the play may be sewing cos-
tumes — everybody knows every

Continued on Page 6, Col. 4

 

 

Mr. Lattimore
Reviews U.S.’s,
Asia’s Problems

Statesmanship Needed
In Liberating
Asiatics

On Monday, November 6, at the
first Alliance Assembly of the
year, speaking in Goodhart audi-
torium (before an audience whose
size was reminiscent of that of the
Eliot Lecture of 1948, Ojwen Latti-
more gave his interpretation of
the current situation in Asia.
From the vantage point of the
year 1950, in which international
organization had proved to be “a
new kind of business” because of
the firm stand against armed ag-
gression taken by the United Na-
tions, Mr. Lattimore reviewed the
past five years of America’s policy
in Asia, and used the discussion of
this period as a basis for his prog-
nosis of the results of the present
situation. Mr. Lattimore empha-
sized that change was the most
important element considered
when policy in the East was form-
ed, but the question concerning the
extremity and administration of
such change was one that offered
great difficulty. America prefer-
red “evolution to revolution”, and
it was to the resultof such a
choice that Lattimore devoted his
discussion.

Explaining the-reason for —his
calling change the key word in
any treatment of the problems in
Asia, Mr. Lattimore pointed out
that, unlike America, the countries
of Asia suffered not only loss of
wealth and human life during the
last war, but that the “whole fab-
ric of society was damaged.” This
made it inevitable that any at-
tempt to reestablish the “status
quo ante-bellum” would be impos-
sible. American policy, recogniz-
ing the need for change and dis-
carding the policy of the rule of
peoples by other peoples, since
America’s hold on Asia could nev-
er approximate the strength of

Continued on Page 7, Col.1

 

QO. Lattimore Answers Vital Questions,
Discusses Problem of America and Asia

by Julie Ann Johnson ,’52

In talking to Owen Lattimore
after his speech at the Alliance
Assembly in Goodhart on Monday
morning, answers were readily
found to questions which were of
necessity omitted during the As-
sembly itself, due to the enormity
of presenting the immediate prob-
lem of America and Asia in such
a limited period of time.

Mr. Lattimore said that the
majority desire in Asiatic coun-
tries after World War II not to
return to the status quo ante bel-
lum was due to the desire of these
countries to escape imperialistic
control by the alien governments
which have controlled them for so
many centuries. Because of the
strength of this desire among the
Asiatic peoples, it is very probable
that the United States has alien-
ated itself from the people of Indo-
China by its support of the French

 

in that country, and from the peo-
ple of other Asiatic countries by
similar support of imperialistic
regimes. “France will stay in Indo-
China as long as we can;” no one
in France thinks that Indo-China
is important, and therefore Com-
munist doctrines concerning Far
Eastern affairs are easily accepted
by the French.

The question of Formosa seems
to Mr. Lattimore to be relatively
unimportant. Formosa is at pres-
ent considered as a potential base
for Chinese Communist _-forces
launching an air attack against the
Philippines, or against American
bases in the area. The distance be-
tween Formosa and China itself is
only a hundred miles, a negligible
distance in planning such attacks.
If this is the only reason we have
to fear the seizure of Formosa,
we can therefore  sliminate the

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More Informal Dances

Last weekend Merion Hall gave an informal dance in
conjunction with the Haverford Social Committee. Their
purpose was not to make a profit but to provide more social
life within the hall.__The hall elected_twogirls—as—“‘social
chairmen”, who then made the arrangements with the Hav-
erford Committee. Four entries of Lloyd Hall were especial-
ly invited, the dance was held in the showcase, and the music
was furnished by a phonograph. Refreshments were served,
and after the dance, there was a song-fest to the accompani-
ment of a piano in the front hall. The only charge for those
uttending the dance was for the refreshments, ginger-ale and
cookies. Because the arrangements were made in the most
economical way possible, there was no danger of going into
the red, none of the customary concern about finances that
usually accompanies a hall dance.

Recently we have all heard complaints about the lack of
planned social life on campus and an equal number of recom-
mendations as to how to remedy the situation; the establish-
ment of a “Student Union’, keeping one of the halls open
later on weekends, more frequent hall dances at which a reg-
ular orchestra is provided and which is open to the entire
college. |

These suggestions are valuable and should be kept in
serious consideration by every student, so that they may be
acted upon at the earliest possible opportunity. But in in-
augurating a new type of hall dance last weekend, Merion
has created a novel and effortless way of supplying increased
social activity at Bryn Mawr. The ease and informality with
which their dance was undertaken and the economy which
was practiced eliminated all worry concerning the success
of their endeavor and provided an enjoyable evening for all
of those who attended. Ft

If the other halls could follow Merion’s example and ar-
range informal record dances similar to theirs, the ever-pres-
ent problem of social lethargy here at the college would be
well upon its way toward solution.

Current Events

Common Room, Nov. 6 — Mr.
Peter Bachrach spoke on Election
Issues at the weekly current events
lecture. He stressed the point that
“the inherent difficulty of our elec-
tion system lies in our political
party structure.” Most of the
Democrats who woted for the
Internal Security. Act .of 1950
“supported the bill to kill the issue
at the coming election.” They put
their chances for re-election over
their principles. The United States
needs a reappraisal of the whole

party system so that the president
can have more power, and the party
can vote for what the caucus de-
cides. If this were done, the people
would get a clear-cut view of the
situation.

The Internal Security Bill of
1950, which the Democrats are try-
ing to keep quiet in the election, is
divided into two parts: Subversive
Control and Emergency Detention.
Section IV uses the exact words of
the Republican Mundt-Nixon Bill
presented to the Senate in 1948:
Any person who “substantially con-
tributes to totalitarian dictator-
ship” shall be severely punished.
All Communist front organizations
must register with the Attorney
General. A Communist front or-
ganization is defined as any or-
ganization which follows what the
Communist party has followed. By
that definition “guilt by associa-
tion and non-deviation” is made
effective. The second part of the
bill, Emergency Detention, was
sponsored by the Liberalists. In
time of war all people who would
probably commit sabotage will be
incarcerated. The government can-
not only imprison the potential
offender, but it can keep him in
jail without a trial if it is against
the country’s welfare to maké the
evidence known.

But Mr. Bachrach stated that
“obviously in America we don’t
have election issues.” He empha-
sized the fact that it is not true
that the party which captures the
greatest number of new seats wins
the_election,.and—pointed—out—that,
based on recent years, in mid-term
elections the minority party us-
ually gains about 25 seats in the
House and three or four seats in
the Senate. The increase of seats
does not mean that the country is
swinging for the minority party.
Mr. Bachrach continued by apprais-

ing four possible election results: }

1. If the Republicans win about
25 seats in the House and three or
four seats in the Senate, it will
mean that “Truman is holding his
own.” 2. If the Democrats win
about ten seats, which is not like-
ly according to the trend, “it will
obviously mean that President
Truman has gained power. He will
probably be tempted to run again
in ’52.” It will not necessarily mean
that the people are in favor of the
Fair Deal because “Senator Scott
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Nelidow Describes

Greece Expedition

At the Wednesday morning as-
sembly of November 1, Elizabeth
Nelidow, president of Pembroke
East, told of her travels through
Greece with a youth group this
past summer.

The group first decided to visit
Greece on the suggestion. of a
gentleman on board their ship who
told them how wonderful and beau-
tiful Greece is and they should not
miss seeing it. Surmounting a few
formalities, the group decided to
take advantage of his suggestion.
Upon reaching Rome, they board-
ed a plane at 4:30 P.M., that would
arrive in Athens at 9:00 that night.
It was sunset upon approaching
their destination, when Liz noticed
the islands, composing a most un-
imaginable picture of beauty, com-
ing toward her through the mist.
On the Acropolis, she was thor-
oughly impressed by the size and
architecture of the Parthenon.

From there the first stop was
Delphi, with its roads, mountains
and colorful landscape; then Olym-
pia with its beautiful shades of
lush green surrounding it. There
they became acquainted with a
hotel keeper, whom they promptly
nick-named “The Old Buzzard.” On
the fourth day of the outing, they
visited Thessaus, then Istanbul,
which they approached at sunset;
you could see minarets of the city
outlined against the sky. Istanbul
is a city of contrast with its mod-
ern section and its older section.
The old section consists of bazaars
and mosques. The mosques were
very spacious and the lighting con-
sisted of lanterns hanging from

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Actresses Anon.
Offers Contest

Actresses Anonymous is spon-
soring a set and costume design
contest. Students may select one
scene or do a set unit for either
William Shakespeare’s Midsum-
mer Night’s Dream, or Henrik
Tbsen’s A Doll House. Using the
basic plan for the Goodhart stage,
a sketch for the ground plan, and
elevation, is also to be submitted
to Patricia Richardson, Rockefel-
ler Hall, no later than 10:30 ip. m.,
Thursday, November 30.

For those interested in costume
design, ten sketches, specifying
fabric and color, are to be submit-
ted, with at least two sketches for
any one play to be included, and
the entire group to be distributed
among scenes of these same plays.

‘Prizes will be awarded for the
best designs on Friday, December
1 after the plays are presented in
Skinner Workshop, and the prize-
winning and honorable mention
sketches will be displayed in the
lobby of the Workshop on Friday
and Saturday nights, December 1
and 2.

 

Excused Cuts

You have a head cold that you'd like to stop in its tracts
by resting in bed for twenty-four hours. You must then face
the problem of whether or not to go to the infirmary. You
feel not well, but not badly enough to seclude yourself for a

week with a trained nurse.

If you are only slightly ill, your warden should be able

to give you a class excuse so you can stay in your own bed.
A few hours’ sleep might prevent serious sicknéss; you could
get up again without having lost track of your responsibil-
ities. A conscientious person hates to burden others with
her work even in an emergency.

The privilege of getting well in one’s own room would
have to be regulated by the honor system and Self-Gov, who
would punish infringements and revoke the privilege if nec-
essary. The infirmary would benefit by not being crowded
with the half-sick, and bad health complicated by exhaustion

 

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Music Room Dedication
Held Honoring Miss Ely

Continued from Page 1

“Y” girls, was the first American
woman to cross the Rhine, and ap-
peared in the Fifth Avenue Vic-
tory Parade, where she attracted
“more attention than General Per-
shing.”’
state senator on the Democratic
ticket;
predominantly Republican, how-
ever, which at this time, Mrs.
Manning affirmed, “was a _ very
good thing for Montgomeyy Coun-
ty.” During World War II, Miss
Ely opened her house to service-
men, “an heroic achievement . ..
which caused her relations with her
neighbors at the college to be
somewhat strained.” Mrs.. Man-
ning accused Miss Ely of breaking
college rules by asking Bryn Mawr
girls to take the servicemen: to the

movies, because “when she was

undergoing such a strain, she felt
the college should share some of
the burden.” The Ely family was
ve1y hospitable; in fact, Mrs. Man-
ning stated, the World War II
USO poster should have had Miss
Ely’s picture on it.

Miss McBride then accepted the
room for the college and read a

testimonial to Miss Ely. In ac-

knowledging it, Miss Ely echoed
Mrs. Manninig’s sentiments by
stating, “I’m awfully glad I didn’t
die before it happend.” Unaware
of wartime rule-breaking, she told
of five RAF fliers, who, entranced
by an equivalent number of Bryn
Mawr students, did not leave her
home for two weeks.

The program concluded with two
piano selections, Ravel’s Endime,
and a Sonata by Samuel Barber,
played by Mr. Thomas Brockman.
In his playing, Mr. Brockman ex-
hibited superb mastery of expres-
sion, complete control over the dy-
namic potentialities of the key-
board, and was the epitome of
technical wizardry. His renditions
were a fitting close to a festive
and gratifying occasion.

Book Room Exhibits Art,
Writings from Far East
Continued from Page 1

China while a traveling fellow for
Swarthmore College.

Miss Chapin, a lecturer and
writer, as well as a traveler and
authority on Oriental Art, first
went to China in 1924 as clerk in
the American Consulate-General at
Shanghai, after having spent seven
years as Assistant in the Depart-
ment of Chinese and Japanese Art
in the Boston Fine Arts Museum.
She witnessed actual excavations
of sixth century Chinese art and
writing in Peking, and is credited
with the discovery, in 1931, of
Buddhist images that had not been
taken from hiding places since the
fall of the Chinese Empire. Miss
Chapin also held positions in the
Art Library of Mills College, and
served after World War II as Ad-
visor to the Arts and Monuments
Division of the American Military
Government in Korea. The trans-
lations of Miss Chapin, who re-
ceived the degree of Dr. of Philoso-
phy in Oriental Languages and
Literature from the University of
California at Berkeley, have en-
abled historians to correct some
hitherto anachronistic dates.

The Round of the Year, a book
of translations of Japanese poetry
is also on exhibit, and with it, some
editons of the magazine Miss
Chapin started, titled Leaves From
a _———— Sam

Miss Ely also ran for

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Wednesday, November 8, 1950

THE COLLEGE NEWS

 

Page Three

 

Between the Leaves

Hubbard Advances New
Theory of Mind

In “‘Dianetics”’
by Jane Augustine, ’52

If someone walked up and told
you, “I have discovered a way to
, eure any and all mental illness”,
you would probably fix him with a
stony look and say “You’re crazy!”
This is, however, the claim made
by an’ ex-science fiction writer
named L.-Ron Hutbard, who is the
author of a new book and the
founder of a new science. Before
the book arrived in the stores, ru-
mors had been circulating in psy-
chiatric circles that a new theory
evolved by a layman was either the
hope of all mankind or a glorious
hoax.

Dianetics is the name of the
book and of the theory also. It is
undeniably provocative of deep
thought, for it must be approach-
ed with an unprejudiced scientific
attitude. Only the _ unscientific
mind will dismiss it as too simple
an idea, naive and unconvention-
ally handled—even if it does ap-
peal to common sense —to be of
any consequence to the field of
mental health.

What is disturbing about the
book is the seemingly unscientific
method employed, and the fact
that the information was not tak-
en to scientists before it was pub-
lished. The fact that the theory is
touted as a cure-all by its discov-
erer is also disturbing. But Hub-
bard’s investigations have been ex-
ecuted with the utmost scientific
care; he only experimented with
some two hundred cases, however,
a miniscule percentage of the pop.
ulation. He rejects all previously
known: means of treating the men-
tally ill.

He writes in a disconcerting jar-
gon. which could be classified as
“shirtsleeve” English, except for
legitimately invented words de-
rived from Greek and Latin demo-
cratically intermingling with the
slang. The style is never dull or
vague. No thought seems unclear-
ly defined or illogical. The very
finality of the wording makes one
want to believe in it, and yet at
the same time awakens one’s dis-
trust, for final and indisputable
statements of fact holding true for
all men jn all ages, are rather hard
to make.

_ “Dianetics” is more than a new
therapeutic method, although that
phase of it, if any, will probably
be the first accepted by the medical
profession. It is a philosophy of
civilization and a theory of mem-

Continued on Page 6, Col. 2

 

 

Dr. Arthur P. Dudden

 

Dr. Dudden Writes, Teaches History,
And Has “Quaint Loyalty” to Sports

by Dee Dee Gammie, 53

When approached for an inter-
view, Dr. Arthur P. Dudden, who
says that he has never been inter-
viewed lbefore, rather perplexed
this reporter, by saying that the
history of his life was either un-
interesting or unprintable.

After graduation from Wayne
University in Detroit, which is his
native city, Dr. Dudden served
three years and a half in the Navy.
tmpressive as his navy career
sounds, he insists that.it was sim-
ilar to the war seen by Mr. Rob-
erts and consisted of going from
monotony to ennui. Engaged in
anti-submarine work and mine
sweeping for the protection of con-
voys as a flight engineer in a
blimp crew, Dr. Dudden did see
French Morocco, Italy and France.
He arrived in Venice just about
the time that the Italian Fascists
were being cleaned out by parti-
sans.

Returning to Michigan after the
war, \Dr. Dudden did ‘graduate
work atthe University of Michi-
gan under the G. I. Bill of Rights.
He explained that the bill extend-
ed to graduate education for any-
one who was planning his M. A.
and his Ph.D., making American
history his specialty. During ore
year of graduate work Dr. Dudden
held a teaching fellowship, “a way
of taking graduate students off the
streets”, which entailed conduct-
ing discussion sections for the
large freshman lecture courses-
The following two years he held a
University Fellowship which al-
lowed him to continue to work for
his degree “without the hindrance
of holding classes.”

Of higher education Dr. Dudden

 

Goodale Speaks on
Sloane Tells About

“Food for the Spirit” was the
joint topic of two illustrated lec-
tures presented at the Deanery at
2:30 p. m. ‘Sunday, November 5, as
part of the Alumnae Weekend pro-
gram. Mr. Robert L. Goodale of
the (Music Department discussed
the last fifty years in music, and
Dr. Joseph C. Sloane, of the Art
Department outlined the last fifty
years in art.

Mr. ‘Goodale remarked that mu-
sic has scattered in all directions
during the first half of the twenti-
eth century. Trends and “isms”
have . developed throughout the
period of two world wars, and con-
tinue to appear. Among these re-
cent developments have been neo-
classicism; realism, sometimes em-
phasized “to a very fantastic de-
gree; and nationalism, in its real
form the injection of the spirit of
a country into its music, which
Vaughan Williams has accom-
‘plished with the London Symphony
Orchestra, and in its corrupted or

Trends in Music;
Contemporary Art

artificial form merely the exterior
motivation of the governing force,
which music is in Russia today.

‘(Neo-primitivism and a trend to-
ward the grotesque have appeared
also, while church music has reach.
ed a alaow ebb in regard to com-
posing; constant use s made of
compositions of the seventeenth,
eighteenth, and nineteenth centur-
ies, and the tendency toward sim-
plification of the classics in the
field of liturgical music is increas-
ing.

One of the great trends in con-
temiporary music is jazz, and Mr.
Goodale mentioned that the back-
ground of this music was worth
knowing.
spurious (original folk song used
as political or trade union propa-
ganda), and “music for use” are
additional specializaations in the
field; from these follow art music,
music written for the soul.

Recognition of music has been

 

Continued on Page 6, Col. 4

Folk music, real and |pumpk

says that it should become _in-
creasingly available to more peo-
ple. We need more doctors and
men with an advanced education
but “rising costs are making it al-
most prohibitive to either go (to
graduate school) oneself or to
send one’s children. I suppose that
might be interpreted as favoring
some sort of federal aid.”

As to teaching, Dr. Dudden is
definite in his adversion to outdoor
classes — he still remembers the
unfortunate time that all of his lec-
ture notes blew away. He also
finds it breathtaking, in spite of
the fact that the catalogue warn-
ed that it would be thus, to have
Mr. Brown from Haverford the
only man in his classes.

During the war Dr. Dudden was

Continued on Page 4, Col. 1

Merriment Marks
MerionHall-owe’en

by Christine Schavier, ’53

The night of Tuesday October
31 was Hallowe’en. On that night
in_towns,villages.and—cities—over
the country, there are Hallowe’en
parties. All duck for apples, carve
jack o’lanterns and eat all manner
of candy corn, gum drops, ice
cream and drink “pop”. It’s a tra-
ditional holiday in America.

At Merion Hall on this eventful
night, the freshmen gave their an-
nual Hallowe’en party for the
sophomores, juniors and seniors of
their dorm. It was a typical affair,
and though the “guests” wore blue
jeans and old shirts instead of
skeleton and witches’ costumes
the spirit was the same. The eve-
ning got off to a good start by a
mad ducking for apples in huge
tubs of water on the floor of the
smoker. Picture thirty or more
dignified young ladies crawling
wildly about the room with apples
clutched primlly in their teeth. Ci-
der was gushing forth into dozens
of paper cups, and candy corn,
nuts and spice cookies were mak-
jing the rounds. ;

By far the main attraction, how-
ever, was the jack o’lantern carving
contest,“ Twenty or more whole
pu ins were brought in and set
in the middle of the floor and were
immediately pounced upon and the
carving began. Before long the
floor was littered with pumpkin tops,
knives, spoons and candles, as each
pumpkin began to assume its own
personality. There were little
pumpkins and big p ins; silly
ins and sad pumpkins; some
with nut ears and some rwith hor-
rid jagged teeth. Theer were two
prizes offered, and Lois Kalins
won the prize for the funniest
jack o’lantern, while Gail Painter
took the prize for the most hor-
rible. Miss Witte, warden of

 

Merion, was the judge.

 

SPORTS

Last Wednesday the varsity and
second hockey teams played Beaver
College. Both games were exciting,
and both were fairly high-scoring
ones. In the varsity game, all of
Bryn Mawr’s points were made in
the first minutes of the game to
give B.M.C. the lead; then, with
14 minutes left in the half, Beaver
made its first goal. With the score
2 to 1, Hetzel sent a long, hard
drive into the goal from the right
for Bryn Mawr. The next goal
was Beaver’s with a hard shot
from the left, with 7 minutes left
in the half. Hetzel then again
scored for Bryn Mawr, making the
score at the close of the half 4 to
2 in favor of B.M.C. The third
goal for Beaver was made after
half of the second half had elapsed,
and Beaver’s fourth goal came im-
mediately afterwards to tie the
score. Then, with twenty seconds
remaining in the game, Beaver
again scored, to win the game. The
Beaver game was the second loss
of the season for the varsity. The
first was to Temple.

The second team game was bet-
ter news for Bryn Mawy. The final
score was 6 to 0 for B.M.C. Three
of the goals were made by Penny
Merritt, two by Liz Simpson, and
one by Ann Warren, who substi-
tuted for Reigle as right wing.

 

 

Varsity Second
Stone (Capt.) LW Muir
Blackwood LI Merritt
Thompson CF Simpson
Kimball RI Parker
Hetzel RW Reigile
Eristoff Lo Rogers
Albert CH Townsend
McCormick RH Perkins
Savage LB Merrick
Woodworth RB Howell
Mulligan G Jackson

On Friday, November 38rd, the
Bryn Mawr 4th team played Im-
maculata College 1st team and tied
them 2-2. This was the 4th team’s
first game of the season and they
played well against determined op-
position. The first half started off
badly. for Bryn. Mawr~—as-the—Im-
maculata left wing and left inner
made two successive goals. After
a few wasted minutes, however,
Bryn Mawr took the initiative and
Ellen McIlroy made our first goal.
This left the score 2-1 at the end
of the first half. During the second
half Bryn Mawr gathered force
and San Tilghman, captain, hi® a
beautiful shot into the goal. San
was playing especially well, al-
ways fighting for the ball and keep-
ing the interplay with her inners
rapid. In the defense Zella Thomas
did an excellent job of backing up

Continued on Page 4, Col. 1

LAST NIGHTERS

**Hilda Crane”? Enlarges
Eternal Triangle
Problem
by Margie Cohn ’°52

It was a relief when the curtain
came down on the third act of
Samson. Raphaelson’s “Hilda
Crane” — a_ relief because it
brought one back into the com-
paratively normal, bearable world
after being subconsciously involv-
ed in a deep, well-enacted plot.

The basic idea is simple: should
Hilda (Jessica Tandy) marry
Charlie, the Shelley-like English
professor (Frank Sundstrom) for
love, or should she seek security
and chose Henry, the lovable, if
somewhat stodgy lawnmower
manufacturer. (John Alexander).

 

Complications arise when psycho-
‘logical elements creep in and en-
hance the story. Hilda is a mis-
,fit in society, who “thas, as théy
' say, lived.” She has moved away
from Winona, Illinois, and after
losing two husbands through di-
_vorce, she moves to New York.
| This venture, too, is unsuccessful,
and Hilda returns to her mother,
confused with the idea that peo-
ple think her a tramp. With her
return, the play opens.
Moreover, Henry’s ‘possessive
mother causes considerable fric-
tion between her son and Hilda.
Typical of the nouveau-riche who
place a material value on every-
thing, she tries to bribe Hilda into
leaving her son alone, since she
has looked up Hilda’s rather shady
past and wants to get rid of her.

Underlying the plot is a theme
taken from the Bible, implying
that one should recognize his last
chance at happiness and take it,
no matter how disagreeable it
might seem at the moment. Since
Hilda has been unsuccessfully
married twice before, she heeded
this Biblical teaching under pres-
sure from her mother. But in the
end, her theme changed: “If you
don’t like a town, you draw the
curtains. If you don’t like a
world...”

A fresh idea employed by Mr.
Raphaelson was that of carrying
an analogy between the English
professor and Shelley throughout
the story. To do this, he has Pro-
fessor Jensem write a book to de-
termine whether Shelley was a
man with a beautiful soul, or
merely a cad. Thence we see Hilda
trying fo discern the same thing
about the professor.

Miss Tamdy handled her part
with dexterity, one minute being
the gay young girl, just back

Continued on Page 4, Col. 4

 

 

On Saturday, November 4, the
first feature of Alumnae Weekend
was held in the Deanery. It was
titled “Food for the Mind”, and
consisted of a discussion of his-
tory and of English literature in
the last half-century, given by
Mrs. Helen Taft Manning and Dr.
Samuel Claggett Chew, respect-
ively. Both of the professors sup-
plemented their talks with a read-
ing list of selected books . which
were of special merit in the opin-
ion of the compiler.

Mrs. Manning, feeling that the
last fifty years of history was
much too broad a subject for a lec-
ture of this sort, limited herself to
“History as it has been written in
the last fifty years.” More spec-
ifically, she dealt with the qualifi-
cations of an historian, recent
noteworthy trends in history-writ
ing, and several authors who ex-
emplified these trends. “A sense
of proportion”, Mrs. Manning con
tends, “is the foremost requisite of

 

Manning Speaks on Recent Historians;
S. Chew Criticizes Modern Literature

an historian, more important even
than freedom from intellectual
bias.” The last half-century is
notable, in ‘her estimation, for
three new ways of viewing the
past. They are: the biological ap-
proach to history, the field of ec-
onomic history, and the history of
ideas. ‘All these approaches aim
at an appreciation of the past in
its own terms, rather than in the
light of the present. The most
significant conclusion that can be
drawn from an overall view of his-
tory is the survival of “ideas and
institutions which have had vital-
ity.”

Speaking as “the last of the true
Victorians”, Mr. Chew stated that
we are too close to the writers of
the past fifty years for anything
like a final judgment, but in his
appraisal he would strive for an
objectivity. As the most conspic-
uous trends in English literature
of the last half century, he listed:

 

Continued on Page 6, Col. 1
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Page lour

THE COLLEGE NEWS

 

Wednesday, November 8, 1950

 

New History Professor

Has Written a Thesis

Rivalling Philadelphia Telephone Book in Size

Continued from Page 3

married to the former Millicent
Hancock, also of Detroit—in fact
they went to high school together.
Dr. ‘Dudden refers to his two
daughters as “crisis children,” Kath-
leen ‘being born while he was in
the Navy and Candace while he
was writing his thesis. Albout them
he makes what Mrs. Dudden has
termed a very bad joke. When his
children were plagued with colds
this fall Dr. Dudden suggested
that they switch to Kools. Both
Dr. and Mrs. Dudden do agree,
though, that suburban life is far
superior to city life, reversing the
old saying about the country boy
going to the big city.

At this point, as the intenview
lagged slightly, Dr. Dudden sug-
gested that the usual question to
enliven the interview was, he
heard, “What are your opinions
regarding the A-bomb and French
bathing suits?” Although he did
not say which was which it may
be edifying to know that he is in
favor of one and not the other.

Sports are Dr. Dudden’s hobby.
As a spectator sport, baseball
claims his interest and naturally
he was very disappointed that the
Detroit Tigers did not win. Even
though it may appear strange that
a man of scholarly interests is a
rabid sports fan, Dr. Dudden be-
lieves that most people will write
off that illogicality as “a quaint
loyalty.”

On the participation side, he was
captain of his high school golf
team, on the freshman team at
Wayne and on the swimming team
until the war interrupted. He
doesn’t know “whether it was be-
cause nobody else bothered to
learn or not” but his winning

 

BM 4th Ties Immaculata,
Mcllroy Wins 1st Goal

Continued from Page 3

as did goalie Terry Osma who
saved what seemed to be a sure
Immaculata goal during the_sec-
ond half. Altogether it was a very
satisfying, if close, game.

The line-ups for the two teams
were:

 

stroke was the back stroke.

Dr. Dudden, who has played ice
hockey, was “rather surprised by
the dearth of attendance” when
he attended the Bryn Mawr inter-
collegiate hockey: meet. He hoped
it was not due to a lack of college
spirit.

Last summer was for Dr. Dud-
den one of the few times in the
last ten years that had not. con-
sisted of one of two things: the
war or graduate work. At City
College in New York City he
taught freshman history “from the
cave man to air raid, shelters.”
Next summer Mr. Dudden’s main
objective (he may teach on the
side) will be to get his disserta-

‘tion, “Anti-Monopolism 1865-1890:

The Historical Background and
Intellectual Origins of the Anti-
Trust Movement in the United
States” put together for spublica-
tion. Dr. Dudden says that it
ranks along with the Philadelphia
City directory from the standpoint
of size and, if its name is indica-
tive, must far outclass it. And so,
as the interview drew to a close,
it had turned out that there was
much albout Dr. Dudden’s life
which, contrary to his prediction,
was both printable and interesting.

Science Decays

In Club F estivity

The Science Club Hallowe’en
party on Thursday night started
off with hide-and-seek. Instead of
finding people, however, the fac-
ulty members and students present
had to find 32 objects hidden in
plain sight. Dr. Berliner was high-
scorer for the faculty in the game
and Eritha Von der Goltz, of the
student participants, won. After
this active search, the science hal-
lowe’eners were treated to a more
passive amusement in the form of
a panel discussion by Isabel Frey,
Frieda Wagoner, and Emmy Megin-
nity. The subject of this serious
scientific symposium was-“The De-
terioration of the Scientific
Method.” The rest of the evening
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Bard’s Kye View

by Julie Ann Johnson, ’52

Bell-conscious professors
Are those I prefer,

A genus and species
With whom I concur.

A type that’s seen rarely,
For always there’s time
To analyze X’s

Rare pattern of rhyme.

The moment is perfect,
In Locke we will delve;
Time’s not to be wasted
From ten to ten-twelve.

It takes just one minute
From D up to §;

We’re late by three pages
Of patterns of stress.

This loss is forgotten,
Our notebook replete;
Eleven-eleven

Sees this class complete.

We cover ten decades

Of history between

The bell rung at twelve,
And twelve-seventeen.

Departing from Plato

And things of the mind,
There’s time for baked custard
At just one-oh-nine.

The hours drag slowly
From two until four;
You think class is over,
And then there is more.

The vision of tea

Passes slowly away,

As you yearn for your first
Cigarette of the day.

Professors are viceless,
For they never crave
The nicotine splurges
To which we are slave.

Their minds are uplifted,
But they can’t define

The limits of fifty

Long minutes of time.

 

Jessica Tandy Featured
In Psychological Drama
Continued from Page 3

from a football game, and the next
being a confused mother, wonder-
ing whether she has done right in
marrying her husband. Evelyn
Varden’s portrayal of Henry’s
mother, Mrs. Otwell, stood out
unmistakably as the truest minor
characterization of the evening.
Her changing moods, her carriage,
and her fife speaking voice added
much vivacity to the play. Also
excellent as Nell Bromley, Hilda’s
deep-voiced, pleasantly sarcastic
friend, was Eileen Heckart.
Howard. Bay’s. set of a modern
home, used in the last act, was
convincing and masterful. It was
complete even down to the mod-
ern bar emerging on provocation
from the side of the fireplace.
“Hilda Crane” represented a
good plot well done, and the mood
created was indicative of a play
that would not be lightly brushed
aside the minute the audience
walked out of the theatre.

 

Wag

 

SPORTS ADVANCE
Wed., No. 8, Bryn Mawr Ist and
| Wed., Nov. 8, Bryn Mawr list
and 2nd hockey team vs. Penn
at Bryn Mawy.

Thurs., Nov. 9, Bryn Mawr 38rd
and 4th hockey team vs.
Temple at Bryn Mawr.

 

On Sunday, November 5, two
hard-fought, enthusiastic hockey
games took place. During the first
game Pembroke East beat Rhoads,
4-0, and Pembroke West beat Rad-
nor, 4-1. These two games were
the semi-finals of the interhall
tournament that has been going
on. Mostly because of the large
number of males helping the halls
out, the playing was chaotic, to say
the least, but in spite of this, the
cold, and the early darkness, a
good time was had by all.

 

Observer

The room was stoically bare. It
should have been ideal for getting
the job done quickly. The chair
had ridges in the wrong places so
there was no chance of falling
asleep.

The ants she had gazed at for
half an hour two days ago (while
studying for a quiz out under a
tree that overlooks the hockey field)
were climlbing the tree like a con-
voy of heavy trucks laboring up a
hill. All except one were going
up; he was going down. He did
not realize after walking head on
into the first ant of the convoy
that unless he pulled over to the
right, or to the left, he would get
another hard knock from the sec-
ond in line. So he did bump into
the second, and the third and
fourth, and all the others in the
column of about twenty buddies.
It did not once occur to him to look
up and: see where he was going.
The poor ant...

The observer her
But the windows were
frosted. Only the shadows of an
iron grill showed through. She
could hear a couple of brittle
leaves scuttling around outside.
The wind moaned; and every now
and then a huge gust of it roared
through the alley between the
library and the Deanery.

looked over
shoulder.

But inside, the quiet in the shell
cf a room was accentuated \by the

iclick of the clock. It was a typical

school room clock: its insensitive
face was about a foot in diameter
The long black hand jumped once
a minute. It takes five jumps to
get from one Roman numeral te
another.

The cbserver glanced at the
floor: ten-inch squares of hard lin-
oleum, some regular tan and some
orangey tan; a border of black
ones. Ylattened cigarette butts,
ashes, and paper matches graced

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THE COLLEGE NEWS

 

Page Five

 

“Guest In The House” Causes Trouble

For Host and Hostess on BMC Stage

by Mary Stiles, ’54

Guest. in the House, the first
ef four major productions of The
Bryn Mawr College Theatre and
The Haverford Drama Club, prom-
ises to be one of the most terrify-
ing of the dramas that have ap-
peared on the Goodhart stage.

The play, which has been termed
“a heebie-jeebie show”, is the
study of a pathological female
who wreaks havoe upon an unsus-
pecting family, and is destroy-
ed by her psychopathic fear of
wirds. The rest of the cast seems
to consist of relatively normal
people. Among others, there are:
a commercial artist, a devoted
wife, an impressionable child, an
omniscient aunt, a naive minister,
and a somewhat worldly artist’s
model.

As opening night approaches,
Goodhart becomes the scene of
ever-mounting excitement and ac-
tivity. The cast rehearses an ac-
companiment of clicking knitting
needles and cries of “Take it from
the entrance!” Wayward upstage
feet are disciplined, the prop girl
tracks down a handbag which will
accommodate a diary, and the
sound effects department tests out
a thunderstorm. The stage man-
ager’s brow furrows over the
problem of a non-enclosed wall-
safe, the ingenue lugs around a
‘canary cage” which would hold a
hawk, and a_ photographer at-
tempts to give conviction to a

 

Roberts Resounds
With Renaissance

A concert of Renaissance music
will be presented by the Bryn
Mawr College Chorus and the Hav-
erford College Glee Club in Rob-
erts Hall, Haverford College, on
Saturday, November 11, at 2:30.
Robert- Goodale and William Reese
will conduct the Chorus and Glee
Club in the following program:

: ' I
Motet for double chorus of
male voices and brass choir

Jacob Handl
II
Mass in three voices
William Byrd
III
Ricercar in three parts,
for strings Adrian Willaert
IV
Folk Song Settings
. Entlaubet ist der Walde
a)Instrumental duo
Composer Unknown
b) Tenor, with instruments
Locheimer Liederbuch
c) Four Part chorus
Ludwig Senfli

to

. Ich sag ade
a) Trio of male voices
Clemens non papa
b) Four part chorus
Composer unknown
. a) Ach Elslein
Tenor with instruments
Composer unknown
b) Es taget vor dem Walde
Tenor with instruments
; Ludwig Senfl
c) The two foregoing in com-
combinaton with two in-
strumental parts
Ludwig Senfi

os

V
Madrigals
. The Nightingale
Thomas Weelkes
. All creatures now are merry-
minded John Bennet
. Madrigaletto
Adriano Banchieri
- Contrappunto Bestiale Alla
Mente Adriano Banchieri
VI
Motet for double chorus
O admirabile commercium
Jacob Handl

rquare of cardboard which is doub-
ling for a press camera. To add
to the general confusion, various
members of the crew dash about
moving baby spots and jumping
vigorously on all the flats in sight.
While other stage hands conjure
up a credible set out of concert
platforms, filing cabinets, tool
cases, old newel+posts, and more
than a modicum of imagination.

Guest in the House will be
presented Friday night, November
10, and Saturday night, November
11, at 8:30 in Goodhart Auditor-
ium. Sixty cents will purchase
your admission to an event which
promises to be one of the most
memorable of the semester. Tic-
kets.are now on gale in the Public
Relations office by the water cool-
er in Taylor.

Nelidow Describes Rare
Greek Trip at Assembly

Continued from Page 2

the ceiling about ten feet from the
ground, arranged so that the ceil-
ing impressed one as being on fire.
The group was fortunate to hear
a service being conducted, and
they heard the eerie off-key chant-
ing echoing off the walls. Then
there was Troy; it is really much
smaller than most people imagine.
In fact, it is possible to walk from
one end of the city to the other in
three minutes.

It seems that this trip held many
new experiences in store for Liz
—like visiting a museum at 7:30
in the morning, using her Greek
on other people besides those on
board the ship; she said, “when I
asked the question, I never real-
ized I couldn’t understand the
answer.” Her first donkey ride to
a monastary, where the monks
were very friendly and urged them
to spend the night, proved to be
quite exciting. They also saw the
cave where St. John was supposed
to have written the Gospel. Rhodes
climaxed their tour, there were
found excavations which consisted
of many~still standing walls, re-
storations, and frescos.

The towns of Greece are small,
dustladen and poor, but in spite of
their ‘poverty, the people were
very generous. At one place, one
of the girls received too much
change from someone, and she
wanted to return the additional
money. The man answered “No,
never mind; you shouldn’t be pay-
ing for this at all; you are our
guests today.”

Greece is barren but beautiful.

 

 

There is a saying: “If you ever
come to Greece, you must ¢ome
back again”, and Liz says she
hopes that saying is a true one.

Mr. Bachrach Discusses

Coming Election Effects
Continued from Page 2
Lucas, the key representative of
administration, stands on his own.
He consequently writes his own
ticket and doesn’t back the presi-
dent on Fair Deal issues.” Many
of the other Democrats up for elec-
tion are not Fair Dealers. 3. If the
elections follow the trend, but Taft,
Dewey, and Millikin lose, “it will
tend to strengthen the Democratic
Party from the top down. It will
mean that the people returning to
Congress wil read the election re-
turns and act accordingly. Taft is
committed on the position that his
opposition is organized labor.
Therefore, if Taft should lose, it
will enhance labor’s power in the
Democratic party. In the Repub-
lican party it will be a slap on the
back for the Liberals.” 4. If the
Republicans secure the expected
number of seats, but Lehman,
Myers, and Lucas lose, and Taft
and a few other prominent Repub-
licans win, the election will be a

victory for the Republicans.

Frederick to Play

In Gym Fairyland

by Lucy Batten, 54
Autumn magic weaves its spell;
girls in bouffant evening gowns
sway among the branches of crim-
£0n and orange; piquant animals
yeer from behind golden pumpkins
—it’s the Undergraduate Dance
with its theme of Autumn Magic.
The gym is no longer drab and
dreary, but ablaze with the colors
of the Fall. The date is Novem-
ber 11, following the Bryn Mawr
Cellege TheatresHaverford Drama
Club production of Guest in the
House. In charge of arrangements
is Minnie Cassatt, who is aided by
the Dance Committee.

The music of Bob Frederick’s
orchestra will set the mood for an
evening long to be remembered as
the Fall’s most extravagant for-
mal. Al Burgess will further en-
tertain the gala dancers with
songs accompanied by the guitar;
the Bryn Mawr Octangle will
‘nake the evening complete. The
festivities in honor of the Harvest
will rage from 11:00. until 2:00.
Then the gloom of departing au-
tumn will fail; the starry eyes will
ro longer twinkle between the corn
“hocks; the cheery candles will no
longer gleam in the dusk—Autumn
Magic will be gone and winter will
be here,

Tickets at $2.40 a couple are al-
‘eady on sale in the separate halls.
The salesmen are: Minnie Cassatt,

Pembroke West; Carol Sonne,
Pembroke East; Nancy Bolton,
Rockefeller; Karen ‘Holland,
Rhoads North; Bobby Olsen,

Rhoads South; June Wasser, Rad-
nor; Bobby Lese, Merion; and
Judy Silman, Denbigh.

Various Distractions

Tempt Tired Observer
Continued from Page 4

the floor outside the bamboo love
seat with cocoa-colored cushions.
The observer glanced back to her
pad of blue paper.

She had scribbled some possibil-
ities on it. “Lantern man coming
down the street, wet leaves shining
on the sidewalk under the street
‘amp ... Silky haired three-year-
old |walking with her father up
senior row, pink dress and patent
leather slippers, black and white
cocker scampering after leaves . .”

A fly sang in the observer’s ear,
tickled her arm. She brushed him
away. He lit on the table, rubbed
his wings together, scratched his
ear, cake-walked around, took off
sideways, and perched on the ink
bottle. ‘She picked up her pad of
blue paper to be ready for the first
chance to swat him. He hopped
down to the desk again. She raised
the pad cautiously and moved
slowly in for the kill so that no
draught of air would alert him.
SLAM! The untouched fly flew
away and a startled ash tray clat-
tered on the floor, having dumped
its ashes into her lap.

The observed jpicked up her pad
of ‘blue paper and her pencils. She

en chair, and walked out of the
room,

 

On Sunday, November 5, the
Alumnae Committee on Jobs
met to discuss plans for a Job
Weekend to be held on Friday,
February 23. It will be model-
ed on last year’s Job Weekend,
when the Alumnae Committee
combined with the undergradu-
ate Vocational Committee to
bring most interesting advisory
speakers to the college. This
year a panel of five, who have
not yet been chosen, will em-
phasize jobs open to women,
and jobs in new fields of in

 

 

 

terest.

 

rose stiffly from the folding wood-|

B.A. From Bryn Mawr

Beautifully Beneficial

To Present and Future, Housefraus Proclaim

Continued from Page 1

and knows how to apply her knowl-
edge.” She added that “to bluff is
easy, (but) to bluff intelligently
requires judgment.”

Anne disagreed with those who
say a liberal arts education should
include vocational training. “One
doesn’t expect to get a job with an
A.B., but (one) knows what kind
of life one wishes to lead. It broad-
ens the student and gives her a
better knowledge of the world.”
The vocational training, she felt,
can be had less expensively away
from college. “The benefits of the
(liberal arts) education are _in-

children that is “worth the frazzle.
ment,” and too often people lose
sight of that fact. “Don’t be spoil-
ed,” she said, “but be thankful for
the American standard of living,
and try to give the children a se-
cure life in these uncertain times.”

“T will go home and smile hap-
pily, no matter what,” said Mrs.
Marshall. Then she introduced the
final speaker, Mrs. Gregory, who
is an architect with two children
of college age.

Of all her education, reading
had proved most useful, and the
reading of “cookbooks and blue-
prints most valuable,” Mrs. Greg-

 

tangible.”

Mrs. Balfour worked on a news-
paper, married at thirty, and now
has two children under two years
old.

Mental Stagnation

What seems most needed, said
Mrs. Balfour, is a “bucking up of
all hands.” In a survey of Smith
graduates, fatigue, mental stagna-

tion, and a lack of a feeling of self- |

esteem were the
complaints. She agreed with her
husband that college graduates at-
tract college graduates, though,
and the A.B. partially determines
the kind of kitchen one will work
in. Furthermore, the home
operates on the mental level. The

A.B. may be ot no help with the:

Bendix, but all one’s courses add
to the general atmosphere of the
home. Mrs. Balfour said that she
had never helped at home, and had
married at thirty. Cheap help was
non-existent, and she knew. only
how to rinse out stockings and
make peanut brittle. However, it
would have been “fantastic” to
learn homemaking skills for the
cost of a liberal arts education. The
mothers will have to provide the
training.

She feels that it is only a few
that comiplain, and that “there isa
great substratum of happily ad-
justed people who are raising chil-
dren without a clatter. It is up to
the person to buckle down and stop
stagnating. I never felt stagnant,”
she said. “If people feel they are
getting nowhere, they should do
something,” she added. One friend
“taught herself Greek, and is now
writing odes. That is not my cup
of tea, but—.”’ Another woman is
raising and training dogs miles
from nowhere in New York state.
After all “Madame Curie was
housebound when she was stirring
pitchblende.”

“College only has you for thirty-
two months of your first twenty-
one years. You must accept the
blame.” It is “not the dark place
that hinders, but the dim eye.”
Housekeeping is hard without help,
and people make too many de-
mands on themselves. “Do what
you can and let the rest go,’ she
advised. At first we were a rough-
diied family”. There is a joy of

Buschbeck Speaks
On European Art

Dr. Ernst Buschbeck, Director of
the Vienna Museum of Art and
currently on a lecture tour in the
United States, will be the first
speaker in the Bryn Mawr College
Art Series for 1950-1951. He is
the author of The Portico della
Gloria in Santiago, Spain; Aus-
trian Primitives; and Early Med-
iaeval Art in Spain. In addition to
being a fine scholar, Dr. Buschbeck
is a distinguished Austrian patri-
ot and at one time participated in

 

‘the work of the League of Nations.

The lecture will jbe entitled “The
Making of an Old Gallery” and it:
will be concerned wth art history
intenpreted through the growth of
the great Vienna collection and

 

the taste which determined it.

most frequent!

also |

ory said. She read as a hobby,
“amid the clatter and scorching of
pots and pans.” Naturally bookish
| before she came to Bryn Mawr,
| she had her interests stimulated by
Miss King of the art department,
‘who posted scrawled reading lists
‘pages long, including books in all
| languages, to be read by the end
of the month. The library, too,
offered rare possibilities for brows-
| ing, as did the Rare Book Room.
Mrs. Gregory’s only complaint was
that “the books in Denbigh show-
case are the same as they were
in my time.”

Since her graduation, Mrs. Greg-
ory has explored fields of reading
| that she never tried in college. At
one time she found a book about
Shakespeare by J. Dover Wilson,
and things progressed until, she
said, “I was up to my neck in Ham-
let.” She mentioned other subjects
that had caught her interest at one
time or another, and said that if
these seemed dry to us, we should
try Thunber. In fact, try anything,
so long as it is good writing,
More recently Mrs. Gregory has
been reading poetry, and enjoying
it much more than she did in
school, where the reading was
forced and hurried.

New methods of learning may
be devised, she concluded, but add-
ed “I wonder if any new method
of learning will give the fun I
have had for such a long time.”

Afteward there was a discussion
period, with questions and answers
from the audience. It was decided
that the college doesn’t really play
down home-life, though Mrs. Mar-
shall agreed with Mrs. Balfour that
the A.B., at least from Smith,
doesn’t help with the Bendix. This
summer, she said, in an emergency
she rushed to Miss McBride’s house
with some curtains. “Miss McBride
met me with a gilt-edged booklet”
proclaiming her the owner of a
Bendix, “and in the other hand, a
sheet of directions.”” Mrs. Marshall
followed the instructions as they
were dictated to her, and the ma-
chine went through its cycle, all
the while refusing to use any
water. Mr. Marshall had to come
to the rescue.

Hilda W. (Jane) Smith, a mem-
ber of the class of 1910 and former
dean of the college, closed the dis-
cussion by summing up the ways
Bryn Mawr fitted one for a role
as a useful citizen. Bryn Mawr had
always had a liberal attitude. “I
have never heard of a girl’s being
excluded because of her beliefs,”
she said. Students with a tolerant
attitude fit into a democracy, as
do those who have had training in
selfagovernment. These, she felt,
were Bryn Mawr’s unique contribu-
tion toward fitting its graduates
for a rewarding life.

 

 

Members of the Legislature:
Do not forget the meeting next
Monday night, November 13, at
8:30 in the Common Room where

percentages for the United
Service Fund Drive will be voted
upon.

This meeting may be attend-
ed by anyone on campus: opin-
ions will be welcomed and will
be considered by the voting
members.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

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THE COLLEGE NEWS

ee et re AN AE ERIE NS AH EN

Wednesday, November 8, 1950,

 

Manning Cites Historians’ Sense of Proportion;
Chew Criticizes Viewpoint of Modern Novelists

Continued from Page 3

the alarming decline in standards
of judgment, and especially the
use of extreme hyperbole in rela-
tion to modern writers; the “phen-
omenon of discovering authors
which have never been lost”, and
the swift rise and fall of vogues;
the tendency of new criticism,
which looks at literature to find a
symbolism no matter how obscure;
the “obsession with problems of
form”, and along with this we find
the intense self-consciousness on
the part of the author; and the
“Cult of distortion and obscurity”,
with a general incoherence and a
deliberate ugliness. However, Mr.
Chew has noticed in many of the
maturer poets, and especially in
those that are “unfashionable”
encouraging signs of “such old
world virtues” in poetry as a
greater communicability, regard
for rhyme and metre, and grace-
fulness.

(Mrs. Manning elaborated on her
theory of “history as it has been
written”, saying that the writing
of history is based on a process of
selection. There is repetition and
variety in the pattern of human
life, and it is so that he can sift
the wheat from the chaff that the
historian must have a clear sense
of proportion. There is also a need

- for a “powerful creative imagina-

tion” to put the sifted-out mater-
ial into a form. Being prejudiced
toward one side or another does
not alter greatly the merit of an
historian, if his sense of propor-
tion is basically sound. Among the
trends of the last fifty years of
history-writing is the Biological
Approach. Miss Taylor’s Party
Politics in the Age of Caesar is an
unusually successful example of
this approach. Likewise, in the
field of American history, Mrs,
Manning mentions Schlesinger’s
Age of Jackson, and John Powell’s
Bring Out Your Dead. The field of
economic history shows that there
is an economic base to human life
but the History of Ideas is the
most original contribution of our
lifetime to historical writing. Car-
oline Robbins and Professor Love-
joy are two historians that have
used the method with great suc-
cess.

Recent history has discarded the
doctrine of progress, whereby all
history was thought to tend to-
ward some higher plane. Although
this abolishes optimism, to some
extent, it also abolishes smugness
and does “a great deal for the ad-
vancement of truth.” However, by
far the most important steps we
have made, as seen from recent
histories, are a growth in the free-
dom of the individual, the dignity
of the human being, and the pres-
ervation of vital “ideas and insti-
tutions.”

Mr. ‘Chew, in his discussion of
recent English literature, stressed
the great trend towards the verse
of Gerard Manley Hopkins, which
goes against all tradition and is
nearly impossible to decode, as 2
phase of the alarming “decline in
standard.” ‘Also characteristic of
this is the statement by a leading
New York Times critic that “Er-
nest Hemingway is the most im-
portant author since the sixteenth
century.” This type of thing Mr.
Chew terms “the fallacy of con:
temporaneousness.” He mentions,
too, the swift discovery and out-
moding of vogues, and the obses-
sion with symbolism, especially
that of a Freudian nature.

Mr. Chew also takes note of the
recent problems of form, the em-
phasis in criticism of modern nov-
els on the “single point of view”
i. e., that whether or not the au-
thor uses the stream of conscious-

- ness method, he should tell the

story from the point of view of

 

one’s character. This trend, he
said, will eventually be seen to be
analogous to the old unities of
time, place, and action.
tion, there is a desire on the part
of the author that the reader pay
attention to how a story is being
said, not what is said. Mr. Chew’s
last criticism pertained to the de-
liberate attempt at “chaotic inco-
herence”, ambiguity and ugliness
that is found in much modern
poetry. However, there are, he
feels, encouraging “concessions to
intelligibility” in the works of
Auden and Spender, and also sig-
nificant is Mr. Eliot’s
and discarding of some of his earl-
ier poetry.

At the close of his lecture, Mr.
Chew read two modern ‘poems
which he “admires especially”, and
concluded by saying that, “A lan-
guage that can still produce such
poetry certainly has great hope
for the future.”

Hubbard, In “Dianetics”’
Presents New Science
Continued from Page 3

tal evolution. Its basic belief is
that Man, born innately good, has
as his most important aim in this
world survival (for how else can
he exist in order to do and be good
in any rata way?), and that
anything ich is done to him, not
by him, which seems, but not nec-
essarily is, contra-survival makes
him defend himself fy irrational
behavior which can _ constitute
sickness of the mind. So much is
not particularly new: we now |be-
lieve that man fights back with his
subconscious mind in ways of
which he is unaware. Hubbard re-
jects the terminology of ‘“con-
scious” and “subconscious” mind
in favor of the roughly comparable
terms, “analytical” and “reactive”
mind. What astounds one in this
book is the proof given for a hu-
man being’s ability to bring out of
his subconscious mind (we -would
say) things which happened to him
in is earliest infancy, even before
birth as far back as minutes after
conception. The whole theory de-
pends upon the assumption that
one solitary living cell can record
in its protoplasm impressions
which are recorded by all the
senses of the fully-developed or-
ganism. There is no proof that
cells do not have this ability..What
is harder to believe is that these
impressions received by cells
without sense organs can be trans-
lated and resalled in sensual terms.

The method for “recalling”’—
Hubbard’s own expression—is call-
ed “dianetic reverie” which, it is
emphasized, is not remembering
and is not hypnosis. It seems to
be a hitherto unexplored level of
consciousness, but just exactly
what it is can only be stated in
Hubbard’s words which describe
the process. Through dianetic
reverie, a person is supposed to be
able to recall things done to him
by his parents or others which
were contra-survival without their
intending it as such, and thereby
can release the shock of the exper-
ience. Trying to find these exper-
iences in the mind sometimes takes
hundreds of hours, but says Hub-
bard, it never fails. (Within the
realm of his observation it is true
that dianetic therapy has never
failed to effect an astonishing res-
toration of happiness and vitality,
and a marked rise in the level of
intelligence and capacity for ocn-
structive and creative work.

The test of dianetics is time;
psychiatrists are now experiment-
ing with it themselves, and until
they agree on certain conclusions,

Continued on Page 8, Col. 2

In addi-,

 

 

Lattimore, In Interview,
Feels Asian Role Risky

Continued from Page 1

question*entirely.

Mr. Lattimore believes that the
Communist regime which developed
out of the Chinese revolution, 2
revolution which was internal in
origin, although exploited by the
Russians, was not the only al-
ternative to the Nationalist gov-
ernment. A coalition government
could have worked; Indonesia func-
tioned with a similar government,
composed of Nationalists and Com-

recanting| munists, for three years’ during the

uprisings against Dutch rule. As
soon as Indonesia gained inde-
pendence with the withdrawal of
the Netherlands‘ government, the
Communists were forced out, but
the coalition government function-
ed, and would have continued to
function, as long as it was neces-
sary.

The Asiatics are reluctant to ad-
here to an idea imposed upon them
by a foreign. power. For this rea-
son the Indonesians felt that they
could not eject the Communists
from their government while they
were still under Dutch control, as
the Dutch had tried to enforce such
ejection; they carried out this idea
immediately after attaining inde-
pendence, however, because it was
then their own decision. In the
same way, the peoples of Asia

are extremely suspicious of a man
believed to be the protege or agent
of a foreign nation.

Mr. Lattimore declined to com-
mit himself to a statement on the
situation in Tibet, or on what will
be the next step with regard to
North Korea, but he feels that the
question of China in the UN will
depend more on events in Indo-
China than on happenings in either
of the former countries. The ex-
tent to which makers of propa-
ganda come to believe their own
propaganda enters into the ques-
tion of why the Chinese Commun-
ists entered Tibet; the answer to
this question can not be determin-
ed at present.

Why the Chinese Communists
intervened in Korea, and why they
chose the time which they did is
a question which is nearly as dif-
ficult to answer. While the UN
forces in Korea were still penned
within the perimeter of their
diminished beach-head, correspond-
ents reported from the battle area
that with “an ounce or two more
push” the Red forces could have
forced out of Korea altogether.
The fact that they did not was ac-
cepted as evidence that the Chinese
Communists would not intervene.
Mr. Lattimore remarked that as a
non-Communist American it is dif-
ficult for him or for any American
to understand the reasoning of the
Chinese Communists. Perhaps their
actions were planned to keep the
UN forces in Korea until winter.
when they could supply North
Korean guerrillas with the means
of fighting an underground war.
Perhaps they wished to delay the
end of the Korean conflict, and
therefore the shipment to Indo-
China of arms used in Korea,
which the United States recently

promised to send.

MacArthur’s communique of No-
vember 6 is a bid for wholeheart-
ed pursuit of the Chinese Commun-
ists; if we agree to this, we face
the “calculated risk” of whether
we are then likely to have a major-
ity of Asiatics on our side or
whether they will believe that the
United States is the country that
is trying to promote war. Mr. Lat-
timore emphasized that our role in
Asia now is a complicated series
of “calculated risks.”

 

 

Goodale Notes Excellence in Modern Music;
Sloane Parallels Modern Art, Modern World

Continued from Page 3

notoriously slow through the ages,
and continues to be so; however,
there are mastenpieces in the field
of contemporary music, and Mr.
Goodale emphasized this excellence
with a discussion of four modern
composers, who illustrate four
different trends. ‘Arnold Schoen-
berg entered the field of music as
a romanticist and devoted follower
of Wagner, but his interest shift-
ed to experimental music, and he
became .the leader of this school.
During a period of transition, he
wanted to eliminate conventional
tonality, and the balances of con-
cord and discord, and. consonance
and dissonance; in his attempt to
accomplish this end, the composer
formed an entirely new concept of
tonality.

Charles Ives was an “ivory tow-
er” composer, and probably never
expected his music to be played.
His one great piece is the “Con-
cord Piano Sonata”; each move-
ment bears the name of a great
New England leader of culture:
Emerson, the Alcotts, Thoreau,
and Hawthorne. This sonata has
no set key or rhythm, and the
theme of Beethoven’s Fifth Sym-
phony appears throughout the mu-
sic.

Paul Hindemith is the greatest
of contemporary composers; not
only is he a craftsman, but he is
an artistic genius as well. He un-
derstands the instruments so well
that he can write for them first-
hand, and as everything in his mu-
sic follows the “chord of nature”

 

Bernstein Says Training

Found at BMC Valuable
Continued from Page 1

phase of theatrical work.” This
situation, he said, was completely
different from the Broadway thea-
tre, in which, “... all the producer
knows is big business, and the
financial_running of a_play.”

Mr. Bernstein also stressed sin-
cerity of purpose. It is often writ-
ten and stated that an audience is
not ready for a particular kind of
play, but the speaker firmly said,

“Any audience will be ready for
anything if you have unified pro-
duction, and one with heart. Never
feel that you must limit ideals or
ideas, no matter how meager funds
may be. Each person, from the
prima donna to the script girl.
must be completely willing to do
everything that will contribute to
the success. There can’t be any
half-way measures.”

Mr. Bernstein also spoke about
the television field, saying that it
was attracting many, “young hope-
fuls” from the legitimate theatre,
because a_ television production
could absorb so many more in-
dividuals. Statistically speaking, he
added that a half-hour television
show involved fifty to seventy-five
people, and cost ten to fifteen
thousand dollars to produce. “Don’t
feel, incidentally, that a college
education isn’t as good as actual
technical experience,’ concluded
Mr. Bernstein. “These days, large
TV networks have little time to
train people from the ground up—
a liberal education, and theatrical
training here are of invaluable
help for the future.”

 

The Freshman class is pleased
to announce the election of its
fourth temporary President and
Song Mistress. These officers,
the last temporary one before

the election next week of perm-
anent officers, are: President,
Bee Merrick, and Song Mistress,
Gloria Von Hebel.

 

Hindemith
has an unique style, which is evi-

it always sounds well.

dent in such compositions as his
famous “Mobilissima Visione”$ he
uses the orchestra as a means of
self-expression.

Igor Stravinsky, however, uses

the orchestra “as a means of

showing off”. Mr. Goodale com-
mented on his “Persephone”, which
was presented in Carnegie Hall
last year by the Bryn Mawr Col-
lege Chorus and the Princeton
Glee Club. ‘Although this is one
of the greatest musical composi-
tions of the twentieth century, it
has never been recorded commer-
cially. As a final example of the
works of these four composers,

Mr. Goodale played a_ selection

from the “Persephone”, which was
recorded during the Carnegie Hall
concert.

iMr. Sloane stated that what we
think of contemporary art shows
what we think of our own times,
in the orthodoxy of opinion on
modern art. The results of the ef-

fects which social conditions have
had upon art are the determinants
of art. Modern or contemporary
art stems from a revolt against
the past, and has been termed “the
revolt against revolt”.

In the field of architecture, ec-
tecticism appeared early in the
twentieth century, in such build-
ings as the Boston Library; but
soon degenerated into gaudiness,
with the inclusion of turrets and
minarets. Frank Lloyd Wright
seems undoubtedly the greatest
living architect.

‘Distrust of modern art has con-
tinued.long after the battle of its
sunvival was won, and the modern,
movement must be viewed in the
light of continuous and superan-.
nuated antagonism. Science en-
tered into art with discoveries in
the engineering field, and as a re-
sult, art became the external re-
flection of the influence of science
upon our time. Sigmund Freud
also had great influence upon con-
temporary art; ODali’s melting
watches reflected this trend.

There has also been a strong re-
action in the opposite direction
from science, a trend toward the
portrayal of spontaneous human
experience. Matisse is undoubted-
ly the best example of this ten-
dency; his paintings appeal direct-
ly to the viewer’s feeling for color,
rhythm, and pattern. Develop-
ments in communication have also
been felt in art, bringing with
them awailability of information,
and access to art of the past; pho-
tography has in lange part made
the latter possible.

Modern art is an embodiment of
the struggle of individualism
against the social stereotype, a
struggle waged by people who
want to be forcefully themselves.
The French are strong in individ-
ualism, and France is the seat of
the modern movement. Near-ac-
tivity, however, is not in itself a
sign of excellence, and modern art
must now stand on its own bases.
Its basic tenets are diverse but
close; one is the desire for free
dom, the other is the desire for
originality. Architecture has been
stripped of its false pretenses, but

 

important of our time, is unques-
tionably the greatest painter of the
twentieth century; the emphasis
seems to be shifting, however, and
the present tendency is toward a
greater fidelity to the physical

world,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

Wednesday, November 8, 1950

THE COLLEGE NEWS

 

Page Seven

 

Lattimore’s Sveech Covers Marshall in China,
Philippine Indevendence,.Communism in Asia

Continued from Page 1

Europe or Japan’s rule, chose the
gradual, orderly way of forming a
new governmental structure. This
policy was in direct contrast to the
Russian attitude of as much and
as rapid change as possible, and
also opposed to the desire of the
non - Communist, non - European
Asiatic Nationalist, who pushed
for as speedy a nate of change as
possible. Lattimore observed that
change, whether slow or otherwise
could not occur either easily or
painlessly, but that mistakes made
by the ipeople of Asia in regard to
their own government would be
far less disastrous than errors
made by outsiders trying to gov-
ern Asia.

In dealing with the countries of
Asia, America had two great prec-
edents to which it could: refer, Lat-
timore noted. One was set by
Great Britain’s policy toward In-
dia and Pakistan, where “states-
manship” of the highest degree
was used. When Britain found
that she could no longer hold
these two countries, she complete-
ly relinquished her rule, and “ne-
gotiated with the countries as
equals.” Another precedent was
set by America itself in her rela-
tionship to the Philippines. Here
the principle of a “fixed date,
agreed upon in advance, for inde-
pendence” was established, with
the healthy results that the Fili-
pinos, instead of building up re-
sentment towards America, their
ruler, concentrated their efforts in
preparing for self - government.
These precedents offered valuable
help in determining policy toward
Asia. It should be realized, Mr.
Lattimore added, that only those
countries that were completely
free from foreign intervention
were the ones who were able to re-
Sist Russia effectively.

Moving to a more specific dis-

 

 

cussion of Asiatic politics, Mr.
Lattimore spoke of |Marshall’s ef-
forts in China in 1946. Marshall
recognized that the problem in
China |was one of “salvage and not
salvation”, and, accordingly, tried
to hasten the slow process of
change in that country. Marshall
failed, but this failure occurred
not lbecause of the wrong ap-
proach, but because the policy was
too far ahead of the methods used
in other (Asiatic countries. In
China attempts were made _ to
shift the government from one
native element to the other, where-
as, in the rest of Asia, America
wanted to transfer Government
from alien to local hands. Thus,
although American policy was fa-
vorable to China’s well-being, it
was distrusted by the Chinese be-
cause they doubted America’s sin-
cerity.

Marshall’s failure in China
brought on unprecedented bitter
partisanship in America’s domes-
tic politics, Lattimore observed
with the result that the loyalty of
citizens was questioned because of
their disloyalty to a foreign
(Chiang) government. Statements
that China was “sold down the
river” during the war, especially
by the Yalta Conference, were
also Lattimore ex-
ploded this theory by showing that
the trouble in China was a culmin-
ation of long turmoil marked by
civil war, and pointed out that as
early as 1938, those familiar with

pronounced.

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Taylor Unveils Painting
Of Katherine E. McBride

Continued from Page 1

Miss McBride then told what
fun it had been to sit for the paint-
ing. She thanked the alumnae for
giving her the chance to find out
how nice it was to have a portrait
painted.

ENGAGEMENT
Jane Wickham, ’50, to Arnold
Ross.

Wishful Thinking

I’ve never seen A—perfect quiz;

I doubt I’ll ever see one.

I think not what my grade is, viz.,
I’d rather B than C one!

 

Bard’s Eye View

(OR REMEMBRANCES OF
OF THINGS PAST)

by Margie Cohn, 52
Whan that Novembre with his

leaves alle

Is come upon us, and we thynk tis
Falle,

And home we senden for our gounes
of furre

Forsooth to keep us warme when
we are burre—

Then of a sudden we looke up and
see

The sun, alack, with beams as hotte
as tea

We canna sleepen, tis too sultrye

warme;

We onlye thinken on the summer

storme

 

Which made us cold whan we did
want to swimme,

And now, alas, whar is that blow-
yng lymbe?

We canna studye with the sun so
neare— 2

Forsooth, we wishen we were far
from here.

So we will goon on a pilgrimage

Perhaps to fynd a cooler place to
lodge,

And whan we fynd it, verily, we’ll
staye

And use the clooth we boughten
with our paye.

For if this stubborn weather will
goon

Forsooth, how can we pilgrims
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Page Eight THE COLLEG-E-NEWS Wednesday, November 8, 1950

 

Week’s Calendar Lists

Future Campus Events

Hubbard, In “‘Dianetics”’
Presents New Science

Minehart, ‘Guest’ Director, Relates
Experiences in Guild and Television

Lattimore Tells Aspects
Of Asian Reconstruction

Continued from Page 7 Continued from Page 1

Continued from Page 6
dramatic talent at the moment —
one of its scripts has won the Max-
wel] Anderson Award for the best
one-act play in verse. Some of the
original plays have also. been

adapted for television.
“My advice,’ said she, drinking

by Jane Augustine, ’52

The Soda Fountain at 10:30 p.m.
was filled with the cast from Guest
in the House when its director,
Miss Katherine Minehart, came in
for coffee. She is small, dark and
energetic, and is manager-director-
actress with the Germantown Thea-| the last of her coffee, “to a young
tre Guild, founded by her mother| and ambitious actress is to get any
seventeen years ago. She also|kind of a job with a small but
works in television, having to her good semi-professional theatre like
credit the direction of the first| Hedgerow or Germantown.” With
television show done in a theatre|these words, she glanced at her
_the Germantown Theatre Guild’s| watch, saw that rehearsal time
production of Taming of the Shrew.| Was awasting, and departed in the

Common Room, 4:15 p.m.

Bryn Mawr Chapter of Sig-
ma Xi Lecture, Dr. Clifford
Frondel, Professor of Minerology
Harvard, Chemistry Lecture
Room, Park, 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday, November 15.

Wednesday Morning Assembly,
Mrs. Marshall, the second in her
series, Goodhart, 8:45 a.m.

Marriage Lecture, Dr. Mudd,
“Practical Information on En-
gagement and Marriage,’ Com-
mon Room, 7:15 p.m.

the situation in China could pre-|the American Medical Association
dict only foreign domination of |has forbidden its use except in the
China, or her capitulation to a new jexperiments. If, in five years, there
form of government, which very |are still no failures resulting from
probably could be Communism. dianetic therapy, it may he tanta-
In prophesying the future of|mount to salvation.
Mr.
saw no need of assuming a pessi-|unusual ana lengthy ‘but not too

Otherwise, it

Asiatic countries, Lattimore|}is a new twist put forth in rather

 

mistic view. Again citing India|uninteresting reading for the
and Pakistan as examples of coun-| Science fiction enthusiasts.

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