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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, March 24, 1954

 

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Alumnae Sponsor Contest

_ Contributed by Cornelia L. Meigs

Among the honors announced on
MafDay will be that of the win-
ner of the Katharine Fullerton
Gerould Prize, for the best piece
of. creative writing submitted to
the Alumnae Office before 4:30
P. M, on April 6. Essays, fiction,
drama and poetry are all in order,
for, although such variety makes
the task of the judves rather more
difficult, it is the earnest desire of
the Committee in charge of the
award to make it open to anyone.
No freshman need hesitate, nor
anyone of a higher class, for abil-
ity can lie anywhere and show it-
self on just such an occasion as
this.

Katharine Fullerton, as a young

~instructor,-set~-on~-foot’-the~ first

class in the writing of fiction, be-
ginning Bryn Mawr’s attention to
what, for want of a better word, is
called creative writing. The course
was very probably of her own sug-
gestion, for it was an unheard of

. departure in its own day. She her-

self had so far published nothing,
but she was on the brink of a
really notable career in the writing
of fiction and of critical essays.
Certainly her ability and her tal-
ent for constructive criticism were
very evident to all who worked un-
der her and received her wise en-
couragement and her unforgettable
advice. Her marriage took — her
away from Bryn Mawr, but what
she had ‘instituted was to continue.

Appropriate Memorial .

After her death, those who. ad-
mired her so much and felt such
gratitude to her, wished to set up
what would be the most appropri-

_ate memorial. She was not only in-
terested in writing, but in Bryn
Mawr writers, so that a prize of
this kind, open to all of those in
whom she Would have felt such in-
terest, seemed the most suitable
offering to make to the College.
~~Tt has “Many times been said, with
true

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ard excellent writing does not
come by means of teaching. The |
feeling for writing is innate and |
dwells, sometimes unsuspected, in
many. And in many it is lost, from
sheer pressure of crowded life,
since the very qualities which
make a person in great demand
for other purposes. It may be lost
also from lack of self-confidence,
often purely from lack of time.
And perhaps most often it fails of
true accomplishment from lack of
self-discipline or the writer’s lack
of judgment concerning her own
work,

Unusual ‘Opportunity
Guidance among these pitfalls a

college course can and does give,
encouragement, advice, the  in-

structor’s capacity: for finding out

the weak points and showing, in a
measure how they can be remedied,
the class discussion which shows a
writer how her effort appears in
others’ eyes. And a prize like this
gives one more thing, something
of the experience of sending off a
manuscript to a publisher’s editor,
the incentive to think of it from
the point of view of that -editor
who will read it, a final knowledge
of where;-on a scale of the commit-
{tee’s judgment, such @ manuscript
will stand. All this in addition to
giving rightfully earned recogni-
tion to real merit. Those who are
on the committee are all alumnae
or members of the faculty of Bryn
Mawr, they have the most earnest
interest in what the students do,

they welcome with open and. un-
derstanding mind whatever the. ‘stu-
dents may send them and urge on.
‘the Bryn Mawr writers an oppor-
‘tunity that does not come often or

 

easily in life hig co college.

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Letter To The Editor

The Chorus Emphasizes
Mr. Goodale’s
Fine: Work

To the Editors_of.the NEWS: ~

Your write-up of the, spring
chorus concert was all that. the
chorus could have asked in nearly
every respect: it was perceptive
and appreciative of both our prob-
lems and our triumphs. For all this
we thank you; it’s rarely that the
review of a musical performance
is so honest and so kindly!

You. have, jhowever, overlooked

2
Observér
‘especially contributed
by Anne Phipps, ’54

 

One of the reasons that spring
in Paris is famous is that winter
in Paris is infamous. When the
seasons change, you almost start
believing in the supernatural.

Somehow, the earth tilts towards
the sun, and the movement tears
away clouds of rain and soot, leav-
ing the city brilliantly clean and
shining. Greyness is replaced by
contrasts of light and shadow.

The big public buildings and the
bridges, which have been as fuzzy
looking as pieces of felt, come into
sharp focus. White pillars, golden.
domes and spires, gleam and spar-
kle. The horse chestnuts flower:
each tree looks as if it were thick-
ly decorated with wax candles.

Winding streets
wa only the croaking of. car
horns, hear voices. Some of the
shops move. outdoors. Fruits and
vegetables lie in wooden counters
on the sidewalk, protected only by
awnings. “At .the entrance to the
Jardins du Luxembourg a gay, gos-
sipy flowerlady, her hair dyed plat-
inum blond, establishes her‘cart of
tulips, carnations and lillies. tavevenene

And in a once cold and murky
house, we no longer have to put
a log on the fire every twenty

minutes. Windows which leaked
draughts all winter have become
tall glass doors opening out to
warmth. The grand salon, with
sprays of sunlight streaming
through lace curtains, and a mir-
ror reflecting the leaves and lilac
blossoms in the garden, is an en-
chanted room. Madame’s daughter

‘| plays the harp there every morn-

ing, anda tame~sparrow, who. lost
his tail to the cat, hops in under
the curtains to listen.

Miss Lehr To Speak
At Goucher College

Miss Marguerite Lehr and Jackie
Braun, ’54, will attend the confer-
ence on “Perspectives in Science”
at Goucher College, April 2 and 3,
as Bryn Mawr’s faculty and stu-
dent delegates. The conference is
being held in honor of the dedica-
tion of the Hoffberger Science
Building which has been completed
on the new Goucher Campus at
Towson.

Activities will include the dedi-
cation ceremonies, lectures, two
symposia and citations to alumnae.
Miss Lehr will speak at the Sym-
posium. in the Physical Sciences
and Mathematics on Saturday:
morning. Her topic, “Designs for
Decision” will cover applications of
probability theory to judge experi-
mental evidence and to design ex-
periments.

Miss Lehr will ia to the Sci-
ence Club on April 13. Her talk,
entitled “Of Dice and Men and
Gambling Games,” concerns certain
sides of the theory of probability.

<‘*tiently. and’ accurately; to make

which have}|

blast class, or deliberately cut her

other, and leads to ‘the correlation,

 

one person who ‘contributed great-
ly to the success of the concert
cand whose work is so often under-
estimated or ignored. To choose
the music; to train the chorus pa-

them capable of singing, with a
minimum of rehearsals, under an
unfamiliar director; to create in
the singers an interest in and an
affection for music whose pattern
and medium are unusual and diffi-
cult; to help in the execution of
‘eountless details, from_stamp-lick-
ing to ticket-selling; these are not
easy tasks, and it takes a rather
superior director to accomplish
them all with-so little time at—his
disposal. Mr. Goodale has done all
of this; he does it for every one of
our concerts, and few people out-
side the chorus are aware of his

huge job and his success in doing
it,

This is partly to inform the col-
lege of Mr. ‘Goodale’s fine work
and partly to offer him the thanks
of thé chorus for everything that
he did in. preparing for this con-
cert. }

The Chorus

Super-Vacationists
Disrupt Schedules

“The slip,” the slip, a dazed stu-
dent gasps after her last class and
immediately envisions life-long cut
pro or a deferred exam. Fellow
students. sympathize and mutter
about the inscrutable ways of the
Dean’s Office. And the Dean ex-
plains the situation as follows:

Bryn Mawr has one of the short-
est college years. We begin later
and end earlier, have no. eight
o’clock or Saturday classes. This
means that every class must count.

The calendar is planned so that
the number of Monday, Wednes-
day, Friday classes skipped during
holidays equals the number of
Tuesday, Thursday classes missed.

If students extended their vaca-
tions by cutting classes which in-
terfered the whole carefully plan-
ned system would be spoiled. A
professor who’d continug.,bo cover
the usual amount—of-njaterial -in-
his lectures would meet many puz-
zled faces.and unnecessary ques-
tions when the “super-vacationers”
returned.

The sign-out and -in slips are
designed to prevent this situation.
Cut-pro and deferred exams are
answers to enforcement. which
must be both logical and effective.
Punishment for accidentally tgnor-
ing the rule is an integral part of
the system. ’

However, penalties are assigned
onan individual ‘basis. Someone
who went to her last class but for-
got to sign, accidentally cut her

last class would probably get. 'two-
weeks of cut pro, four. weeks of it,
or a deferred exam, respectively.

Warden Receives

Acad, Fellowship

Miss Katherine Geffcken, .War-
den ‘of Radnor, has recently been
announced to be the recipient of a
Rome prize Fellowship in Classical
Studies granted by the American
Academy at Rome. The fellowship
is awarded annually for complete,
independent study on a special
project in the Student’s field of in-
terest.

Miss‘ Geffcken cient her BA|

from Agnes Scott College, her MA
from Bryn Mawr and is at present
completing . her residency for her
PhD. In Miss Geffcken’s opinion,
the challenge offered by classical
study has more’ meaning than any

as well as the- understanding, of

criticism,

 

culture and knowledge.

Current Events

heel ‘
Current French Politics

Topic Of Talk
By Girard

on f Room, March 22—“One
thing A would not do,” said Mr. Gi-
rard, Current Events speaker, “is
to talk about France from an
American point of view.” Mr. Gi-
rard, in accordance with the Alli-
ance’s new policy of talks about
broader-subjects, spoke on Modern
Thought in France.

Beginning his talk by dissuaYing
his audience from thinking of
France. as the “sick man of Eu-
rope,” he stressed that one should
not think of a country as mediocre
because of its lack of national
power.

Comm

Self-Critical

France, Mr. Girard went on to
say, is inclined to the art of self-"-
which leads others to
think of the errors which the peo-
ple themselves discuss, as being
typically French.

As-an example of this we have

the recent presidential elections
which took ten days, causing the
country to laugh, and the rest of
the world to believe that France
was falling apart. Mr. Girard stat-
ed that we must not’ “confuse
awareness of crisis with crisis. it-
self. ” ‘
The speaker went on to show
that France was not as demoral-
ized as we believe it to be. Quot-
ing from a report by an American
in the March 5th issue of “Busi-
ness Week,” Girard demonstrated
that France was far ahead of other
European nations in recovery from
the devastation of the war.

In the money spent on food and
clothing, France is not far behind
America, and far ahead of Ger-
many, and although in the money
she spends on education, France is
far behind America, she still gives
much more to it than Germany
does._It_is hard for Americans to
see the great progress made in Eu-
rope because of our own increase
in wealth since the end of the Sec-
ond World War.

U. S. Attitude

We ourselves arouse antagonism
by our attitude of “enlightened

self-interest” towards our Euro-

pean aid, and the crudeness of our
psychological warfare. Our empha-
sis upon our abundance of material
goods over.those of Russia has led
to a feeling of resentment, al-
though the “Go Home America”
sentiment is not as.strong in.
France as we suppose it to be.

We in America seem td believe
that the French. could have cleared
up their industrial problems by this
time, not realizing that their gov-
ernment has not been able, because
of its even balance, to formulate a
definite program.

Mr. Girard continued on to the
next problem of France today, that
ef EDC. Many of the French today
favor the establishment of this or-
ganization. The only ‘ones -who
seem to block the plan are'the in-
tellectuals. :

Ctrrent Problems

Their complaints against the
plan stem from a fear of a mili-

‘taristic revival in Germany, and

the antagonism to Russia which
could .possibly start off another
world War, which would destroy
civilization. \

Today, concluded Mr:-Girard, the
Catholic left is combining: with the
Protestant left to form a new pop-
tlar front, which may aid in the
union of France. x

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