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magnificent from the air.

Saturday, October 1, 1949

 

 

 

Foreign Observer

50

An hour and a half is a very
short time in which to prepare
oneself for the necessary emotion-
al ‘transition between the Paris
and the London of today. We left
Paris on a bright sunny day at
the beginning of September. The
city was bursting with life
streets crowded with people of all
nationalities (Americans strongly
predominating), shop windows fill-
ed with goods, sidewalk cafes do-
ing a booming business, and all
of Paris pervaded with the bust-
ling atmosphere of reviving pros-
perity.

The plane took off at noon, and
in ten minutes Paris was out of
sight, lost in the smoke of the
factories on her outskirts. A few
minutes and we were above the
scattered clouds, getting inter-
mittent glimpses of the flat French
countryside. Northern France is a
warm-looking region... The fields,
laid out with geometric precision,
ranged in color from pale yellow-
ish green to orangy beige. The
towns all looked much alike from
the air — tight clusters of red-
roofed houses with here and there
a church spire reflecting the sun
upward. The trees were tidily
grouped in forests or along roads
— no straggly bushes to disrupt
the neatness.

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by Irina Nelidow,

 

 

 

 

Before one o’clock we had: reach-
ed the Channel, and in five more
minutes were over England. The
@hannel seemed motionless, like
coarse-grained cardboard, green-
ish near the coast, otherwise gray-
blue, blotched with the purple of
the cloud shadows.

Southern England seemed lush
in comparison with the warm dry
region we had just left. Rolling
igreen fields, bordered by darker
green hedges and scattered with
low, widebranched trees conveyed
a deceptively peaceful and serene
feeling. The towns sprawled out--
no sharp demarcation lines as in
France.

We circled London, banking and
losing altitude rapidly. London is
The
‘Houses of Parliament, the Abbey,
the tiny dot which was the Eros
in Piccadilly Circus, loomed up and
grew bigger at an almcet alarm-
ing rate. The great bombed gaps
in the city (particularly around
St. Paul’s and the Temple) caused
by the utter destruction of whole
rows of blocks also grew bigger,
and somehow gave an impression
of strength —the strength of an
old city which had withstood dis-
aster in the past and was still un-
defeated.

But after we had landed and
driven into the heart of London,
we- found ourselves in a lifeless
city. The weather was still bright

_and_ sunny, but-no-one-particularly..|—

enjoyed it. The atmosphere was
one of disheartened hopelessness.
True, it was Saturday and people
were away, the shops were closed;
but it had been Saturday in Paris
too. In London there was no gaiety,
i a despairing calm.

THE COLLEGE NEWS

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needles, directions, and all other
knitting paraphernalia.

Along, the more practical line,
there is an Invisible Mending
Store in Ardmore, while the Main
Line Hand Laundry (in Rose-
mont) and the Wilson Laundry in
Bryn Mawr can take care of that
kind of problem. Should you sud-
denly and disastrously break your
Mglasses, Limeburner’s in the Vil |
lage will fix you up.

Last, but very far from least,
there are several places which can
take the edge off an appetite that
just can’t wait for the next meal.
Hamburger Hearth and the Greek’s
(the Bryn Mawr Confectionery is
its official name) are the old
stand-bys, as well as the Commun-
ity Kitchen, which gives you a4
tremendous and marvellous tea, as

cakes and cookies, -

For ‘dining and dancing, the
weekdays, and an orchestra Satur
day nights, and the’: “Conestoga
Mill, the General Wayne, and: the

 

 

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King of Prussia are also favorites
and are all fairly close to Bryn
Mawr. In Philadelphia, try the
Bellevue - Stratford for dinner
dancing, and the Ben Franklin and
the Barclay also have good. dance
bands. Bookbinder’s is famous
for its wonderful seafood, while at
the Russian Inn on Locust Street
you can have your fortune told
over tea. .These are only a few
suggestions for a starter, and ex-
ploring is always fun, but this
guide may be useful in case of
emergency.

 

 

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English, which, by the way, is ex-
When applying for a

with glory in International Quizzes | scholarship, Ilga’ sent her record

against Londoners and Scotsmen.

| to the committee in

New York

The height of fame. was reached | Which forwarded it to Bryn Mawr,

when a Bryn Mawr Senior appear-
ed as Queen of Comus at the Mar-
digras.

Of those who lectured to us, the
summer has erased from our mem-
ory the faces of some, the names
of more. But Mr. T. S. Eliot came
and read us some excerpts from
his poetry. Joseph C. Harsch spoke
on “Our Foreign Policy,’’ Harold
E. Stassen discussed the “Future
of the United Nations” and Max
Lerner proposed the question
“What Can a Liberal Do?” Dr.
Erwin Panovsky read us a paper
entitled “Et in Arcadia Ego: Pous-
sin and the Elegiac Tradition,”
Miss Helen M. Cam re-evaluated
the “Mediaeval” English ~ Parlia-
ment,” and Marian Edwards Park,
President Emeritus of Bryn Mawr
returned to the college to speak to
graduates and undergraduates on

‘|“Graduate Work in Administra-

and the next thing she knew was
that she got a letter from Miss
McBride telling her that she was
accepted. “It was very exciting,”
the said. “The girls have all been
80 nice, and I’m very happy to be
here,” she added. She doesn’t
know yet what she will major in,
but there is still time for that.
Welcome to Bryn Mawr, Ilga—
we’re glad to have you, and hope
you'll be very happy!

 

 

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