“The College

 

 

VOL. XLII, NO. 18

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1957

© Trustees of Bryn Mawr Géllege, 1957

PRICE 20 CENTS

 

Cookies, Biscuits of the World, Unite!
The Brothers” Kapitalists Have Struck

by Tulsa Kaiser ’58 and
Anne Keller *58

Having recently been made cog-
nizant of our position in society
as members of that stolid, stable
and suburban middle class, and
thus feeling impelled to adapt our-
selves or at least accustom our-
selves, once again to life in the
world of gross-materialism, capital-
ism and FR ENTERPRISE, we
planned and participated in an ex-
cursion and escaped from these
womb-like ivory walls. That is to
say that we answered the feeble
knock of opportunity.

Opportunity came in the form
of a form letter, an invitation
from the Chairman of the Board
of that helper of housewives —
Pillsbury Mills Incorporated—an
invitation to visit any one of “the
many Pillsbury plants and offices
throughout the nation.” A~ quick
giance’at the map was enough to
assure us that the Pillsbury Re-
frigerated Foods plant in Downing-
town—past Paoli — was in public
transportation distance of Bryn
Mawr and the voyage was planned.
The date of our tour of inspection
was tentatively set for Saturday,
March 16. First, however, one of
the Brothers K checked with the
powers that be in the Public Rela-
tions Office of Pillsbury in Phila-
delphia.

Everything was OK and Public
Relations lined up Mr. Sweigart to
conduct a guided tour.

“. The Brothers Advance

Thus Saturday morning break-
fast found the Brothers K not only
present, but dressed in people-type
clothes—Kapitalistic Attire, chic,
elegant, but business-like. Carrying

small notebooks, the Brothers K|

set forth briskly to catch the 9:09
Paoli Local—to Paoli! Making good
use of their Bryn Mawr training,
they took advantage of the time
on the train to study the list of
questions which they had culled
from various of their friends who
had vast and theoretical knowledge
concerning businesses and corpora-
tions, in order that they could ask
intelligent informed Kapitalistic
questions of Mr. Sweigart, that
young, gray flannel-suited Madison
Avenue executive who was at that
moment cursing our pending tour
of inspection as having ruined his
chance for taking the day off and
playing golf—and it was beautiful
golf weather.

We were met in Downingtown
by the President of the Chamber of
Commerce—just then driving the
local taxi.- He gave us a rundown
. on the economic stability and
growth of the community and de-

Theatre Presents
Lattimore’s Work

Currently New York audiences
are witnessing a production of
Richmond Lattimore’s (Paul Shorey |

‘Professor of Greek) translation? of
Euripedes’ The Trojan Women at
the off-Broadway theatre, the Mar-
quee. Beginning March 26 and
continuing for a week, the same
theatre will present Mr.
more’s translation of Aeschylus’
Agamemnon,

According to Walter Kerr in his
March 10 New York Herald Trib-
une review of The Trojan Women:
“Richmond Lattimore’s translation
seems entirely workable: it is clear,
direct and uncluttered with verbal

 

Latti-.

 

posited us at the Pillsbury Plant.

We entered and asked for Mr.
Sweigart. He appeared, attired in
a white baker’s suit and a small
white hat which said Green Cross

for Safety. The Brothers K,. being}

adaptable, forgot about golf and
profit centers and motivation re-
search, and thought about ques-
tions concerning flour, eggs and
milk.

Mr. Sweigart—his uniform said
Bill—enthusiastically showed the
brothers around the plant. This
particular plant had only been in
existence for three years and our
host had been there all that time.
Biscuit production was in full
swing, and the Brothers K were al-
lowed to see the only automatic
biscuit packihg machine in the na-
tion — other less fortunate cor-
porations like General Mills, have
to package their refrigerated bis-
cuits’ by hand—thus, this machine
was carefully guarded; and men
were never taken through the plant
for fear that they would attempt
to copy this valuable machine.

Mr. Sweigart was most distress-
ed that the Brothers K had chosen
a Saturday to come, for the most
interesting production was Caramel
Nut Rolls, and they were not run-
ning that section on Saturday. Bis-
cuits and cookies managed, how-
ever, to give Mr. Sweigart sufficient
material about which to exude en-
thuasiasm and information for one
and one-half hours. Mr. Sweigart
exuded no free samples, however,
and the Brothers K—Kapitalistic-
ally attired as they were—could not
ask, though komment was made
that the cookies certainly smelled
good ,and that this must be due to
the fine ingredients, particularly
Pillsbury’s Best Enriched Flour
which was being used. Finally, Mr.
Sweigart found that biscuits and
cookies supplied no further ma-
terial and information, so he sadly
called the tour to an end, bemoan-
ing once again the fact there was
no roll production on Saturdays.

Then he had a thought, perhaps
his guests would like to take some
of Pillsbury’s Products home so
that their friends and neighbors

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Chamber Orchestra

 

Plans Performance)

The Bryn Mawr - Haverford
Chamber Orchestra, William Reese,
conductor, will give a chamber
music concert on April 14 at 4:00

p.m. in the Goodhart Music Room.

Ellie Childs, soprano, will sing a
piece by Faure. Betsy Johnson,
flute, Dorothy Reichenberger, cello
and Ann Lackritz, flute, will per-
form a Haydn-London Trio.

Evelyn White will play Debussy
and Liszt on the piano. The Bran-
denburg Concerto No. 5 will be
performed by Evelyn White, piafio,
Barbara Booth, violin and depaiiet
MacShane, flute.

Chorus Elections

The Bryn Mawr Chorus is
pleased to announce the following
elections: .

President—Ellie Clymer ’58~

Vice-President — Louise ‘apa!

68

Secretary—Lucy Wales 159

Librarian—Ellie Easton ’59

Assistant Librarians— —__

__E.. McKeon ’60

a

Ruth Corn Holds
1957 Scholarship
To Cambridge U.

Ruth E. Corn ’57 has won a 1957
Marshall Scholarship, entitling her
to two years’ study at a United
Kingdom _ university. _She—-will
“read” English at Cambridge Uni-
versity, taking up her studies at
New Hall College in the fall.

The Marshall Scholarships were
established in 1954 ag a British
gesture of appreciation for Mar-
shall Aid. They provide for two
years of post-graduate study at
British universities for 12 Amer-
ican students, selected annually on
a basis of scholarship and charac+
ter, The grant covers tuition,
transportation and living allow-
ance.

Of the 12 Americans selected,
Ruth is one of the three girls chos-
en, An English major, Ruth last
year received the Maria Eastman

Brooke Hall Memoria]. Scholarship.

given to the junior with the high-
est general average. She was also
awarded the Charles S, Hinchman
Memorial Scholarship for’ work of
special excellence in the major sub-
ject. and the Sheelah Kilroy Mem-
orial Scholarship, awarded for ex-
cellence of work in advanced Eng-
lish courses.

Ruth lives -:in Franklin, Tennes-
see,

 

WHO WOULD LIKE $50?

Most of us, is the answer.
Only one can win the Katharine
Fullerton Gerould Prize Contest,
for which entries will be ac-
cepted up to 4:30 p.m, April
10, in’ the Alumnae _ Office,
second floor front of the Dean-
ery. The more the Committee
has to read, the happier it is
since the purpose of offering
the award is to encourage
undergraduate originality and
skill in writing.

 

 

 

Calendar

Wednesday, March 27

7:30 p.m.—Philosophy Club meet-
ing. Common Room.

8:30 p.m. — Psychology Club,
Psych Lab.
March 30-April 8

Spring vacation.
Monday, April 8

7:15 p.m.—Chess Club. Dalton.
Tuesday, April 9
8:30 p.m.—Pianoforte Recital by
Horace Alwyne, Alice Carter Dic-
kerman Professor of Music and
Chairman of the Music Dept.
Goodhart,*
Wednesday, April 10

12:00 pm. Graduate Fellowship
Assembly. Address by Dr. James
Creese, President of Drexel Insti;
tute of Technology. Goodhart.
Thursday, April 11

8:30 pm. — a : at
Common Room.
Friday, April 12

8:30 p.m.— Arts Night. Skinner,
Saturday, April 13

10:00 a.m.—Phoebe Anna ‘Thorne
School Music Workshop, conducted
by Hugh MclIlhenny, Director of

Music, New Lincoln School and
Professor of Music, St. Col-
lege of Education. Common Room.

Sunday, April 14

4:00 p.m.— Bryn /Mawr-Haver-
ford Chamber Concert. Music
Room. . 3

8:30 p.m—Science Club — “tin:
Dalton.

 

 

“yaisins...”

Nancy Farwell 60 :

 

 
 

Johnson’s “The great pest of speech

: 7
Dr. Alwyne Granted
Retirement Award

Horace Alwyne, Chairman of the
Bryn Mawr Department of Music,
will spend next year at Grinnell
College in Iowa as a New York
Foundation Visiting Professor, This
award for retiring professors, spon-
sored by the John Hay Whitney
Foundation, is a fitting climax to
Mr. Alwyne’s distinguished career.

At Grinnell Mr. Alwyne will
give a special course in English
music of the nineteenth and twen-
tieth centuries, as well as courses
in opera and music of the Classical
Period.

Holding an dHonorary Fellow
from the Royal Manchester Col-
lege of Music and an Alice Carter
Dickerman Professorship, Mr. Al-
wyne has travelled extensively both
in the States and abroad to appear
not only as a pianist, but also as a
conductor and.composer. He has
given 96 concerts for the benefit of
Bryn. Mawr College; and" his piano-
forte recitals at Bryn Mawr are an
annual event. This year’s recital
will be given at 8:30 p.m. on Tues-
day, April 9, in Goodhart. The
program will include Bach, Liszt,
Balakireff, Rachmaninoff, Brahms,
York Bowen, Strauss and Debussy.

Chauncey Selected :
Graduation Speaker

Henry Chauncey, President of the
Educational Testing Service of
Princeton, New Jersey, will be the
speaker at the Bryn Mawr College
Commencement on June 4. |

Mr. Chauncey heads the organ-
ization that develops testing pro-
grams for use in government and
in schools, colleges and professional
institutions. He was formerly
Assistant Dean of Harvard College
and is now a Visiting Lecturer at
Princeton University.

‘The Bryn Mawr exercises will
mark the close of the College’s
72nd academic year.

Education Expert

Will Be Featured
Parent’s Weekend

McElroy To- Discuss
Advances In
Learning
Neil H. McElroy, President of
Procter and Gamble and Chairman
of the White House Conference on
Education, will address the college
in a 3:30 p.m. assembly on May 11
as part of the program for Par-
ent’s Weekend. Mr. McElroy’s topic
will be “The Decade Ahead For

Higher Education.”

Mr. McElroy has devoted much
time to public service projects, es-
pecially in fe field of education.
In view of his ‘Sfficient business rec-
ord-wnd the fact that he “has con-
ducted his business and social in-
terests in a way to make outstand-
ingly effective.the modern philo-
sophy of business that private en-
terprise should be and can be wise-

ly combined with public service”,
Mr. McElroy was chosen by The
aturday Review as “Businessman
che Year.”

He served asa trustee of the
National Fund for Medical Educa-
tion and is presently a trustee of
the National Citizens Commission
for the Public Schools, He hag been
a sponsor of the Negro Colleges
Capital Fund Campaign. In his
home city of Cincinnati, Mr. Me-
Elroy is chairman of the advisory
committee of the University of
Cincinnati’s College of Medicine.

 

The News is pleased to an-
nounce the election of Debby
Ham ’59 as Copy Editor and
Rita Rubinstein ’59 as Manag-

 

ing Editor.

 

 

 

 

Willard R. Trask delivered the
Class of 1902 Lecture last Wednes-
day night in the Common Room
using “The Problems of Transla-
tion” as his topic. “I hesitate to
use the word ‘problem’ as oppos-
ed to ‘problems’,” he began, “for
that implies a solution.”

After briefly sketching the his-
tory of translation, Mr. Trask talk-
ed/of the opposition that the trans-
lator comes up against as mani-
fested in two remarks: Samuel

is frequently in translation,” and
an Italian’s “The translator is a
traitor.” These he referred to
as “right and left jabs to the jaw.”
The chief problems of a translat-
or are three-fold: sounds, words
and syntax. As an example of
the problem of sound, Mr. Trask
used-a-possible translation of Poe’s
poem “The Bells.” The “bells,
bells” refrain in French becomes a
‘cloches, cloches” refrain which
loses the sound of the liquid ‘con-
sonants and takes on a “wooden leg
sound.” Also, the sounds that Poe
used so successfully to show dif-
ferent tones of different bells are
lost in translation.
-To show the problem of words,
Mr. Trask suggested the different
meaning that a word such as for-
est may have in different lan-

 

man would suggest a thick growth

 

Sounds, Words and Syntax Are Chief
Problems of Translator, Says W. Trask

of tall pines, whereas the same
word to a Frenchman might sug-
gest oaks growing in a sandy soil.

As an example of the problem
of syntax, Mr. Trask used Ortega’s
El Hombre y La Gente. Both words
may be used singularly and collect-
ively, and la gente is a play on
words to mean pressure of society.
It is as difficult to convey this
word-play into English as it is to
find “an imp person, a per-
son who is not a person” to be able
to. translate the Spanish se dice
correctly,

As a “consumer” of translation,

Mr. Trask described himself as a

‘searcher for. minute truths.”
Translation often implies a change
in meaning or-tone, a loss of some-
thing original. We even. |

“minute truths”. of:

he feels, since Christ’s Senile nity, ll

been translated.
To those who would eattlihes

translation, Mr. Trask replies that —

it has been of great ‘service, in the
translation of the Bible for in-

stance, and that he is “a “betta

man for translation.” — -
If translation is to be improved,
we must rid ourselves of the idea

that change is insolence and decad- .

ence and also the idea of the “gac-
ro-sanctity” of the English lan-

guage. We o—_ ones the on mee

aree men! VU.

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