# Wednesday, March 13, 1957

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three

 

Bryn Mawr Wins
At Varsity Meets

The Bryn Mawr badminton var-
sity defeated Swarthmore 5-0 and
the J.V. lost 3-2. All of the matches
were tight, and tension built up as
play progressed. Di Russell had
a -particularly exciting singles
bout that went three games, the
last-two of which were “set” (tied
at the very end and played off),
against her opponent of last year,
The matches were an especial chal-
lenge in the cases where Bryn
Mawrters replayed opponents of
previous matches or played in a
new position. Barbara Janney and
Joyce Sargent played . varsity
doubles for the first time, while
Laura Pearson and Sharon Hart-
ridge switched to singles.

Swimming

Bryn Mawr’s swimming team
beat Drexel, 87 to 17, last Thurs-
day, March 7.

When only three members of
Drexel’s team were present at the
beginning of the meet, Bryn Mawr
began to wonder if history were
being repeated. (Only half of
Bryn Mawr’s team arrived in time
for the meet last year, but they
won anyway.)

The meet was fast. Sandy Colt
won the freestyle in 29.4 seconds,
the best time this year, with Lucy
Wales -second. The back crawl was
woh by Betsy Johnson, followed by
Pat Blackmore. Bruce Connell won
the butterfly, and, but- for some
disqualifying irregularity. of kick,
‘would have been followed by Ruth
Simpson. Bryn Mawr was also dis-
qualified in the medley relay for

Revue ‘Reviewed

Continued from Page 1

with two people’s essential inabil-
ity to communicate. This story and
Miss Andromeda’s Social Inn are
the most mature in their insights
into human behavior.

Miss .Andromeda’s Social Inn is
the best written of the stories. It
also deals with the inability of
people to express themselves. The
four characters are all exiles in a
sense, cut off from their homes in
the United States by being located
on a small island, apparently in
the Caribbean. They exile them-
selves still further by going on a
picnic to a deserted plantation on
an even smaller island, and both
these places are imaginatively and
convincingly depicted. The details
of the action are deliberately given
from Kay’s point of view, and the
reader forms the same false im-
pression of Frank and Jean ‘that
she does. When the reversal comes,
however, there is the satisfying
realization that Kay’s moment of
intuition has been adroitly prepared
for. The characters of Kay and
Tom are simply suggested, since
they are foils for the others, but
the essential humanity of | Frank
and Jean, despite Kay’s revulsion
for their crudeness, is admirably
conveyed.

Standing stylistically between
the prose and the poetry is the

 

stroke, but won the freestyle relay,
and the diving. Sally Davis won
the latter with 152 “points, Jan
Henderson was second with 78
points and Drexel third, with 60
points.

 

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semi-dramatic fragment, An Oblig-
ing Love. The characters speak a
smooth and rhythmic prose, and
in the prayer, a smooth and rhyth-
mic verse. The themes of loneli-
nes ‘and inability to communicate
are touched upon, but unlike most
of the works in the Révue, some
cognizance is taken of forces out-
side man working on him, his gov-
ernment and his gods. Of this ma-
terial is created an ironic little
myth in which love is equated with
selfishness and ease, and life is
meaningless without death.

The shorter poems show, in gen-
eral, more discipline and restraint
than the longer ones, but they
usually deal with simpler subjects,
such as evocations of places or
things, like Night Meadow, Ane-
mones and Walking Under Elms,
or of moods or attitudes, like
Concentric Circles and Unicorn.
Technically these are all quite
skillful — the rhyme schemes of
Concentric Circles and Night Mea-
dow are especially interesting. All
the poems show an exuberant de-
light in language.

More ambitious, which is not
necessarily to say more successful,
are the three longer poems. Opus,
after a quietly witty picture of
Armageddon, raises some relevant
questions about the nature of man.
On Reading Gorgias settles down
after an extremely twisted trio of
opening lines to a thoughtful and
perceptive consideration of the na-
‘ture of reality, and those first
three lines can be justified by ‘the
essential elusiveness of the sub-

‘ ject, the-difficulty’ of deciding just

how to approach it. The Quilting
Party plays around with some no-
tions of man as being created in
time, with a sense of the past
which conditions his response to
the present. It displays a few feli-
citous phrases as in the “wander-
ing time” passage, and _ several
vital images like the “fish of hope,”
“the tongues of nature” and “the
yellow beaded sleeping voice of
love,” but it is marred by an ex-
treme eccentricity with regard to
syntax, capitalization and punctu-
ation. This may be accounted for
by the title, and the poem may be
consciously making a crazy quilt,
suggesting that existence is with-
out any real design.

The general impression created
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Students To Talk
On Summer Jobs

The Vocational Committee in-
vites all students to a»meeting on
summer job opportunities to be
held in the Deanery on Thursday,
March 14 at 4:30.

Mrs. Phyllis Sullivan, a former
member of the Bureau of Recom-
mendations, will discuss summer
jobs in general: what jobs are
available and where and how to
find them. A panel of students rep-
resenting social work, labafatories,
department stores, and waitress-
ing will discuss their individual
summer jobs and answer questions
concerning them.

The Bureau of Recommendations
reminds students that now is ‘the
time to make plans for the summer
as most firms have a general idea
of their needs and will want to
interview students over spring
vacation.

Sea Scroll Books
Given To College

Two. new books about the Dead
Sea scrolls and their significance
have just been given to the Read-
ing Room of the Inter-Faith Asso-
ciation by Mrs. Walter Michels.
They are: The Dead Sea Scrip-
tures, in English Translation, by
Theodor Gaster and The Meaning
of the Dead Sea Scrolls, by A.
Powell Davies.

Mr. Gaster’s book does not at-
tempt a full-fledged theory about
the significance of these contro-
versial documents, but makes the
texts-available for study from any
viewpoint. Dr. Davies discusses the
importance of the texts from his-
torical and religious aspects, in-
cluding evaluations of Jesus in the
light of these texts as well as the
very relevant view of Albert
Schweitzer about Jesus.

These books are available to all
interested students, and may be
signed out from the Reading Room,
which is the last room on the right
on approaching the Common Room
in Goodhart. The Reading Room
also contains many other books and
periodicals about religious “topics,
including some written by Paul
Tillich, Dietrich Bonnhoeffer and
other distinguished authors, Every-
one is’ welcome to come and
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talented people passionately con-
cerned with writing and intensely
interested in finding their own
idioms. They all seem to have a
lot. to say and to be finding ways
to say it. The one flaw in the pro-
duction is the deplorable failure to
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Berthoff Defines
College's Goals

Bryn Mawr IS a finishing school,
as is any school, in that it at-
tempts to give its students a

enable them ‘to appraise and per-
form the jobs ahead of them. This
was the interpretation which Mr.
Berthoff of the English department
gave of his Current Events
topic Monday evening in the Com-
mon Room.

Both liberal arts and technical
schools should attempt to offer
not only knowledge rules and pro-
cedures, but also a concept of how
things are done. At Bryn Mawr
students seem to develop. because
of their necessity to adapt to a
“student culture” (dark mystery
to professors) with a self-contain-
ed set of behavior patterns which
balances academic demand.

“Tradition” Approved

On the other hand there is the
fabled tradition of the college
which Mr. Berthoff defined as “an
unembarrassed confidence in tradi-
tional liberal education founded on
humanism and .modified by the
scholarship of the late 19th cent-
ury when the school was founded.”
We bélieve, therefore, that the
“direct application of intellectual
energy and knowledge has some-
thing real and positive to do with
some future’ profession.”

or general. climate of opinion is
| away. from--this”’ tradition our
| specific type of education has come
to oppose so-called “value courses”
on the grounds that with the gain-
ing of knowledge the values will
come of themselves. For a human-
ist scholar there must be confi-

systematic scholarship. Today this
is difficult; encyclopedias and com-
pendiums no longer appear; even
standard editions of standard
works are hard to put out.

The Individual Remains

Under contemporary influence
many colleges have relaxed their
standards to conform to a pattern
of society. Bryn Mawr itself is an
interlude between the pattern of
growing up and that of adult life,

create out of our restlessness and
boredom with the first pattern an
interest in and fitness for the sec-
ond. More intellectual daring might
help us here, but the ultimate and
absolutely necessity is perhaps to
know things as they are and not
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