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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, March 10, 1960

 

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Horror, Benignity
Seen in Themes
At Print Display

by Susan Szekely _

 

 

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A Lesson Sans Texts

We learned a lot in Bryn Mawr between Thursday and
last Sunday afternoon, and not all of it in Taylor Hall, or the
library. We learned about legal rights, constitutional pro-

visions, political processes and parliamentary pressures in a|

lesson a good deal more graphic than any in a pol-theory
text book. Whether it be right or wrong to write-in and, if
right,, whether it is better to be right than stable was the
question; the method of first resolving it and then attaining
the preferred solution proved more important than the still
controversial answer.

A lot of good thinking went into the three Executive
Board meetings preceding Legislature. The immediacy of
the situation at the Saturday session demanded clear syn-
_ theses of the principles. and platitudes expressed earlier, and
these were given with an astonishing degree of ease and
clarity, while the marked partisanship of the participants
evoked not heated ravings but a delightfully keen vigilance
to_ legal technicalities and logical deduction.- The situation
called forth heretofore dormant talents in some and provid-
ed others with a real sense of political participation ; that the
qualities it evoked were not carried over in toto into Legis-
lature and that the student body itself got only the last
Mes od ripples of the excitement is alone somewhat unfor-
unate.

So much is said about the necessity for imparting polit-

A new exhibition entitled The
World of Prints: 1960 opened at
the~ Philadelphia ~Museunr “of Art}
last Wednesday, One hundred
and twenty-one American and for-
eign prints were selected to “‘il-
lustrate the various art trends of
today.” The exhibition emphasiz-
es the art of this country in that
| two-thirds of the artists-represent-|
ed are American.

The museum has ranged the
prints according to the more or
less indeterminate categories of
Abstractionism, Symbolism, Ex-
pressionism, and Realism. Beyond
these groupings, the arrangement
helpfully points up a distinction
between prints of formal and emo-
tional emphasis. Understanding
and appreciation is simplified by
the knowlédge that some works
are meant to be specifically of for-
mal interest. The viewer is spar-
ed the frustration of looking for
hidden meanings. The prints of
emotional emphasis are success-
ful in communicating the feelings
intended.

Two contrasting alcoves of
prints. described in the museum
circular as representing the “New
Image of Man” form part of the
exhibition. ‘One of these is devot-
ed to the “Terror of the Situation”
and the other to “Benign Images.”

The images of terror are prin-
cipally concerned with protray-
ing the distortion of the human be-
ing and the cold, inhuman aspects
of the modern world. A_ black
and white lithograph on a man-
ila background by Graham Suther-
land entitled “Predatory Form II”
is one of the most interesting of
these. (It represents an abstract
form composed of elements such
as tusks and bones which the hu-

tic.

by Alison Baker
The question of expansion is
on the collective mind of the Hav-

Haverford Spreads Humor;
Comet Cruises To Victory

fruitful one.
What the sophomores attempted
proved bigger than they could

 

 

eriord’ student body and at

Night, which traditionally thrives
on the topical, it provided the
theme- for: the seniors’ winning
show, as well as a dash of humor
and one of bitterness in the jun-
iors’. On the whole, this |year’s
Class Night managed satire with-
out uncomfortable malice, a trend
whigh I ope will continue in fu-

enunciate and bigger than I could
understand, Their show had a
message, painfully apparent as to
its existence and rather obscure
as to its definition. The action
took place in the all too familiar
company of Haverford and Bryn
Mawr students. Perhaps a sub-
ject as unwieldy and positive as
the search for truth should be

 

The éreshmen got the han off
to an excellent start with Men of
Destiny, a cut at campaign tac-
tics and aims. Their show lack-
ed characterization, except in the
campaign candidates, where it
was purposely unsubtle. The dia-
logue was often too far removed
from realism to lend ‘itself to
speaking. The script was a clev-
er one, packed with obtrusive but
well-taken and well- expressed ref-
erences, and the acting enthusias-
In this case a writing com-
mittee didn’t seem the deterrent
it usually is to imagination, al-
though perhaps it did have some-
thing to do with the occasionally
rather transparent ‘manner in
which jokes and slogans were
strung together to make up the
script.

Critical Audience

The freshmen had a disadvan-
tage in their yet cool audience,
which was often slow in picking
up the more intricate allusions of
the dialogue and critical in ac-
cepting those less so. (Were it not
for a slight lack of polish and
some hesitancy in acting, owing,
I think, to the fact that most of
the characters -weren’t clearly
enough defined in their lines, the
freshmen show could nell be rank-
ed with the best of Class Night.
In any case, the move away from
immediate campus concerns and

 

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personalities was a welcome and

approached through
rather than realism. The acting
was excellent, the characters well-
‘drawn if overly mormal, and the
dialogue convincingly colloquial.
Nevertheless, the play as a whole
was too loosely drawn together
and too closely restricted to abso-
lute imitative realism to hold an
audience.
Sentimental Sincerity

The moral lesson didn’t ‘move,
had no real development through
the play, and although I was kept
listening and looking in an. ultim-
ately vain hope of catching the
message, the action itself hung
uncomfortably between humor
and vulnerable sincerity. This sin- |
cerity is too dangerously senti-
mental, I think, for any but an
extraordinarily skillful writer to
be able to cope with it.

With a little cutting and polish-
ing, the class of 1961 might have
produced a diamond bright enough
to warrant the bite of bitterness.
At it was, however, their shonw
moved along with great uneven-
ness. ‘At its best it was extreme-
ly funny, at its worst clumsy. A
very effective groping cello theme
and an equally effective groping
Quaker started the show off. . The
idea which provided a structure /
for the series of glimpses into the =f
history of the college was a very
apt and imaginative one, that / ‘of -
Dean Lockwood showing slides

 

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symbolism atone aoe

ical awareness and a sense of community responsibility to
college students that it might be valuable to see what made
this sortie into the ordinarily unprovocative realm of campus
politics a valuable learning experience.

The answer seems fairly simple.

The qualities evoked

were: the result of a genuine interest in the outcome of the
issue. The interest was a consequence of the belief that the
issue was in some way important, and the issue was impor-
tant only because it arose naturally and would have a per-
ceivable effect. Interest was real because the issue was real,
and from the interest stemmed the value of the experience.
Had Undergrad decided (as organizations are prone to do)
that the campus needed stirring and contrived the issue to fit
they would probably have met with little success.

This weekend we learned

a lot of things. Perhaps one

of them is that interest and excitement. for their own sake

are an illusion and a campus

not seething with Organiza-

tional interest is not to be disparaged. The student body
does not necesasrily need “shaking up.” When there’s some-
thing to be excited about it manages to rise gloriously to

the occasion.

 

Dormitory Ideas Gathered

Most people on campus _ are
q@ware that plans are in order for
building a new dormitory on cam-
pus, but many do not know what
definite steps are beimg taken. To
find out exactly what students here
want and what students in other

colleges have found satisfactory,
two measures have been taken: a
poll of student wishes has been
taken by Undergrad, and an ad-
ministrative committee has visit-
ed other colleges.

The tally of the poll = not yet
been completed, but the college
tours have proved successful, The
first, taken during the examina-
tion period by Mrs. Marshall, Miss
Howe, and Mrs. Delanoy of the
Board of Trustees, was to the
South to Hollins, Sweet Briar, and
Goucher.

The second trip, taken on the
week before last by the same ocm-
mittee plus Anne Marie Cusmano
representing the students, was to
New England where Jackson,
Wheaton, Brandeis, and Pembroke
were visited, Many points were
considered in. looking gg these
‘built-in furniture, and so on. It

 

 

was found that the highest ratio
of -singles to doubles.-was- 50-50.
At Bryn Mawr it is 80-20. Built-
in furniture ranged from having
everything built in to having no
permanent furniture. Miss Howe
feels that to much permanent fur-
niture gives inflexibility, but the
dressers and book shelves might

be fixed.

The committee also looked to
see how many suggestions made
by Bryn Mawr students were
working out. ‘Connecting singles
which can be turned into suites
are satisfactory when used as
suites, but as singles the noise
heard through the door is ‘trouble-
some. Where colleges have smok-
ers on every floor, students tend
to remain with the people on their
own corridors,

Another trip is being planned

Swarthmore, and the Moore In-
stitute of Art. Some of: these
have not yet started their new
buildings, but Miss’ Howe hopes
to be able to see the plans and
evaluate these buildings in rela-

 

to colleges in the area: Penn, |:

tion to ours and others they have

Letters to the Editor

Opposition Expounds

 

-To the Editor:

On the eve of a college-wide election, the Legis-
lature, by due process of democratic action, chang-
ed the constitution of the Bryn Mawr College Un-
dergraduate Association.

Earlier this. weekend, there had been the real-
ization that nowhere in the constitution was there
provision for the counting of write-in ballots, We
will not go into the reason for Executive Board’s
discussion of the matter, be it rumor, discontent
at the grass roots level, or a tempest in a teapot
(how Bryn Mawr). It attempted to avoid the com-
plications inherent in a change of procedure at
this time by declaring write-in votes invalid. They
were acting in good faith. There was nothing on
the books concerning this matter (as a matter of
fact, there were no books), and they wanted to
avoid a situation for which there was no constitu-
tional provision.._._This was the case, despite the
fact that a committee had been appointed express-
ly far the punpose of revising the constitution of
the Undergraduate Association. Next step:a poor-
ly worded, narrow petition was circulated to demand
a meeting of Legislature. Next: The Executive
Board met: again, punched holes in ‘the wording
and tenor of the petition, and unanimously called
a meeting on its own.

It is to many facets of this meeting that we
object: 1) to the inattention /of. the participants.
The necessity of a four-time repetition of the vot-

ing procedure by the representative’ of N.S.A. is |-

but one example of this. 2) to the ignorance of the
basic procedural framework. General Robert must
be turning in his eat. the misinterpreta-
tions of such.calls
were used not to garner information; but rather: to
inform the body ef one person’s opinion: Robert’s

 
  
  

object was ord It was absent. 8) Ignorance of
the under] issue and its implications. The
issue at s that afternoon was not only the right

votes, this decision has opened the way for
ing legislatures to cite it as precedent. That
the ‘situation needed remedying is not to be denied.
It/eould have been handled as efficiently. by a pro-
sional measure which would have achieved. the

“piint of information” which.

 

Senior Congratulates

An Open Letter to the Old and New Presidents of
Self-Gov and Undergrad:

Dear Sue, Marcy, Carolyn, and Betsy,

To you, Sue and Marcy, I want to express my
deepest appreciation for the leadership, ability and
time you have devoted to us, the students, since this
time last year. You have maintained the strength
of your convictions. You have been forward-look-
ing in your ideas and, as a result, have given much
to the college. It has been a real privilege and a
high honor for me to have been a member of the
student’ body under your administration and to
have worked with you both.

_ ‘Carolyn and Betsy, to you my warmest “Con-
gratulations!” Your election gives me great pleas-
ure. Your year in office will be a vitalizing and
rewarding one for Bryn Mawr, I feel sure. The
challenge of and the possibilities for the coming
year-are-.great;--continue to display the qualities
you have shown thus far and yours and the stu-
dents’ hopes will be more than fulfilled. I am
looking forward to serving under and with you for .

the remainder of this year.

To all four of you go my praises, respect, and
thanks.
Sincerely,
Nancy Porter
President of the Senior Class

Letter Urges Liaison

To the Editor:

(Much has been said lately in regard to the conser-
vation of educational resources, and this’ especially
seems to be a probelm of small private colleges
such as Bryn Mawr and Haverford. Rising costs
of education followed closely by high tuition rates

| demand the maximum utilization of the resources

which we already have at our disposal. LY

‘Bryn Mawr and Haverford, having close geo-
graphical proximity, also share common interests.
However, as it now stands, our two colleges have
no program of coordinating cultural, scientific and
political activities and events. This unfortunate
lack of communication results in duplication, inef-
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