ee OR eee ee ee ge re ae & Page Two THE C OLLEGE NEWS Wednesday, February 14, 1951 Saas! hte at Ss i Te Ls Rice Oe en ee ye ee THE COLLEGE NEWS FOUNDED IN 1914 The College News is fully protected by copyright. Nothing that appears in it may be reprinted either wholly or in part without permission of the Editor-in-Chief. EDITORIAL BOARD Jane Augustine, ‘52, Editor-in-chief Julie Ann Johnson, ‘52, Copy Frances Shirley, ‘53, Make-up Helen Katz, ‘53 Margie Cohn, ‘52, Make-up Sheila Atkinson, ‘53 Claire Robinson, ‘54 EDITORIAL STAFF Betty-Jeanne Yorshis, ‘52 Lucy Batten, ‘54 Phoebe Harvey, ‘54 Ann McGregor, ‘54 Anna Natoli, ‘54 Christine Schavier, ‘54 Mary Stiles, ‘54 STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS Sue Bramann, ‘52 Phoebe Harvey, ‘54 Judy Leopold, ‘53 Ann McGregor, ‘54 Lucy Batten, ‘54 Christine Schavier, ‘54 BUSINESS MANAGERS . Tama Schenk, ‘52 — Sue Press, ‘53 BUSINESS BOARD Barbara Goldman, ‘53 Evelyn Fuller, ‘53 Margi Partridge, ‘52 . Vicki Kraver, ‘54 SUBSCRIPTION BOARD Lita Hahn, ‘52, Chairman Ellie Lew Atherton, ‘52 Carolyn Limbaugh, ‘53 Alice Cary, ‘52 Trish Mulligan, ‘52 Susan Crowdus, ‘52 True Warren, ‘52 Lois Kalins, ‘52 Gretchen Wemmer, ‘53 Nena McBee, ‘53 Judy Waldrop, ‘53 Diana Gammie, ‘53 Beth Davis, ‘54 Subscription, $3.00 Mailing price, $3.50 Subscriptions may begin at any time Entered as second class matter at the Ardmore, Pa., Post Office Under the Act of March 3, 1879 Help for Subfreshmen You have now started a new semester of your struggles to graduate from Bryn Mawr. Presumably you have chosen this goal because you feel that this college has as high an academic standing as any in the country. But you also want a well-rounded reputation for Bryn Mawr. Down with the myth of myopia and library pallor—we want intelligent and attractive graduates to show the world the “Bryn Mawr type”. If you want assurance that future classes will meet the superlative standards of past ones, you must help to per- petuate a student body of high calibre. How? you say, and the answer is, be a campus guide. This reply may surprise you, but campus guides are one of the strongest links between present students and prospect- ive ones. Each guide is sole personal representative of the college to a sub-freshman’s family. In that moment you alone embody all Bryn Mawr. Our rooms are not always neat, exam-exhausted students are not always considerate; you must prevent visitors from receiving superficial impressions only. You must reveal to them the deep friendship which pervades the dormitories, the sincerity of intellectual effort which gives meaning to lab and library—that is the true Bryn Mawr. : You may protest that campus activities fill your spare ‘time. But you particularly show that Bryn Mawr presents a ‘balance between the academic and extra-curricular aspects of college life. We now need, therefore, many students to donate very little time for this important and honorable ser- Current Events Common Room, February 12, 7:15 p. m. Miss Mildred Northrop trollable. Both economic and pol- itical issues are involved. In the last analysis the monetary issue is a simple one. When there are scarce goods and services and a great deal of money in circulation, the money must play on the goods and the prices must go up. The reason for the present crisis is that because we are preparing for defense we are drawing from the normal supply of goods. If we are to pay for defense as we go, through taxation, it would mean a tax increase of sixteen Volunteers Give Onin (OW Work Camps Aid | _ | Published weekly during the College Year (except during Thanks- || spoke on “The Present Declared : Pur ose giving, Christmas and Easter holidays, and during examination weeks) Emergency in Domestic Affairs.” At the weekly assembly this Pp of BMC Stage, in the interest of Bryn Mawr College at the Ardmore Printing Company, ‘ ? : , morning Doris Hamburger spoke Duty of Critic Ardmore, Pa., and Bryn Mawr College. The present inflation, she said, is W k d Work C S — || immediate and desperate, but con- psi dhe ease o ee Analyzed sored by the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, the two camps run in downtown Philadelphia consist of about fifteen students each. They are held in an old mansion, and a church basement, and both high| ‘There has been much discussion school and college students par-| about Bryn Mawr College’s theat- ticipate. After getting acquainted | re critics. For the benefit of future with each other and the neighbor-| reviewers, those whose judgments hood, they start out on Saturday | are published in the News and to paint and repair the local North | those whose opinions are reserved Market Street area. Co-operating 'for their friends, it would be well with the families they aid, the stu-/| to point out several factors which dents split into groups of two or) should be kept in mind when con- _ three, work all day, and then meet sidering student productions, and Letter To The Editor To the editor of the Bryn"Mawr College News: in the evening for singing, relax- billion dollars in the next three ation, and discussion. The work is months, making the total taxation’ gone in a spirit of working with the for the fiscal year seventy-one bill- people, not with any feeling of ion dollars. At present the govern- | “charity.” ment has only been able to find | means of raising fifty-five billion, from 1) individual taxes; 2) cor-!| poration taxes; and 8) trade and commerce. The treasury now sustains one- third of the national debt; it wants. to keep the interest rate low so it can pay off the debt. If the general market interest rates go up; the treasury will have to ask Congress to raise taxes so it can continue to pay the national debt. The Fed- eral Reserve Board suggests rais- ing the interest rate to stop infla- tion. This would raise the general market interest rate and affect the Treasury adversely. The FRB is therefore seeking Congressional sanction for this measure, although they have the power to take it without sanction. Congress is trying to avoid decid- in the issue. If inflation continues it will get out of hand and render us incapable of fulfilling our inter- national commitments and of meeting the state of emergency on its broader basis. The administration is not now taking a firm stand on wages and price control. The Wage and Price Stabilization Board consists of labor and industry. members. _In- dustry members say that wages should not increase more than eight percent over the general increase since June 1950, before they start increasing in proportion to living costs. Labor members say wages should increase sixteen percent. The public opinion, favouring a ten percent increase, will probably pre- vail. The main effort to control prices is now directed at control at the raw material stage. The problem remains of how the end-product cost can be regulated when effect- ive control exists only over raw materials. The WPSB may oper- ate upon agricultural prices only when they are over the parity price. The legislature, which an- nually fixes parity, has kept prices under parity. Opponents of - this agricultural price raise policy argue that it will lead to uncon- trolable inflation. Counterpoint takes great The Katherine Fullerton Ger- ould Prize Committee of the Alumnae Association will award a prize of $50.00 to an under- graduate for her entry of one or more articles in the follow- ing categories: narrative; in- formal essay (excluding critical papers and formal essays); verse; or drama. Any student may submit one or more entries, unsigned, to the Alumnae Office, second floor of the Deanery, not later than 4 p. m April 4. En- tries should consist of work completed since Commencement, 1950, although class assign- ments are not excluded, and previous appearance in a stud- ent publication is not a barrier. to clarify several important points _in the review of Le Miracle de The- ophile (The College News: Decem- ber 20, 1950). There is much less rehearsal time for college productions than for professional ones. What time there is, is not worth as much as in the professional theatre because ; the energies of all the members of ‘the production are divided between | college work and the play at hand. The actors and the workers be- hind the scenes are amateurs. They are interested in the theatre and may know a lot nl but they are not professionals. Yheir work represents an attempt to produce art. In many cases they have diffi- culty in expressing their feelings and their understanding. But they are willing, and they have the cour- age, to share their attempt with the college and its friends. For these reasons it is unreason- able to review college productions as Howard Barnes reviews Broad- way plays. e Be The Class Hit, Pa ae Take A Baby Sit! Was your course card ornament- ed by a string of summa cum laude grades? For the few who were not so fortunate, here is a unique solution. How can you make sure your politics professor thinks well of you? Pour propaganda in his children’s ears by .. . swell idea, you interrupt, but when will I get a chance to tell the kids a “slant- ed” fairytale? — d’ya think I’m James Thurber or somebody, may- be? We’re coming to that in just a minute. For a Greek professor’s obviously erudite youngster, you can recite an original Greek ode in the form of Pindar’s tenth Py- thian. (For a French professor’s child, you can render with drama: tic inflection Le Chanson de Ro- land... o.k., 0. k., you mutter, I should put my hair in pigtails and creep down to Low Buildings on| my hands and knees—but I still don’t get it. Please, you’ll understand in a minute. For the Dean’s baby, it’s a cinch; just rattle some course| cards and coo “cut-pro, cut-pro,| cut-pro” at him, and... Nicholas | The goal, the effort, and the re- sults produced are essential ques- tions in an amateur undertaking. Therefore in all fairness and gen- uine interest, the NEWS reviewer should go to a half-way point re- hearsal. If she sees only one pre- sentation of the play, she cannot know the progress made during rehearsals; nor can she fairly judge the final realization of. the end in the minds of the group. The review of Le Miracle de Theophile illustrates some of the shortcomings of student reviewers. When she wrote the article the re- viewer was unaware of the tre- mendous effort, of the many extra hours of work given by Marianne Schwob to her role. Attendance at one of the rehearsals would have indicated this effort. Nor did the reviewer make suffi- ciently clear its superior results. Marianne Schwob made striking use of movement in portraying the role of Theophile, the thirteenth century cleric with a tortured soul. Her expression would have been impressive in a professional theat- re. Inadequate praise can be a harmful mistake in the criticism of professional artists. Their self-confidence is easily shattered. One of the problems in student productions, where a professor di- rects, is to break down the student- professor barrier. The members of and I aren’t on speaking Resse a theatrical production must work you shriek. Keep cool: here’s what together as one. The Theophile re- we're driving at. How can there viewer did not crystalize her dis- be a Faculty Show if nobody takes cyssion of this aspect of the French pleasure in announcing the fol- lowing elections: Editor-in-chief, Marcelle We- 4 vice. A college cannot be much better than its students, ; present and to come. The inevitable, but enjoyable Freshman Week is here - again. Much hard work is being put into the show, and re- hearsals have been sapping Freshman energy. An appalling) number of the cast is in the infirmary, and many of this group are almost indispensable to the play. Still, the show goes on. The general attitude has been one of complete co- _ operation with the director, and the other members of the| parel cast. A 0 i ti that will hold the class together, | no n Sip free is desperately needed off and on until the tenth of March. Please, do your part just so the faculty can do theirs Leave your name with Mrs. Sullivan in Room H, in Taylor, now! ) Members of the Board, Diana Forbes, ’54; Anne Phipps, ’54. Associates, Naomi Ellenbog- en, ’64, Helen Katz, 63, Bobby- ann Roesen, ’54, : ea gier, 52. care of the faculty children during Cjybh production, where the barrier 4 er Hell for Fr eshmen | Business manager, Virginia ||Tehearsal? Anybody and every-| was non-existant. There was co- Holbeck, ’52. body who is willing to baby-sit for operation on all sides. Peter Park- hurst and Mr. Janschka who worked on lighting and scenery are neither students nor professors. Much of the originality of the interpretation came from Mr. Morris; but the choreography of Nancy Burdick and Sherry Cowgill and the rich contributions of Marianne Schwob and Elaine Marx in their acting gave full representation to the stu- dent element in the unquestionable