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XLII, NO. 2.

ARDMORE AND BRYN MAWR, PA. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1957

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© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1957

PRICE 20 CENTS

 

College President
Reviews Problems

In First Assmbly

“We are faced with imbalances,”
said President McBride in a speech
on October first, officially opening
the ’57-58 academic year. Among
these imbalances are lack of resi-

dence space and of facilities of the

new science building. Bryn Mawr is
short about thirty rooms due to in-
creased student enrollment, three
per cent in the
school and ten per cent in the

undergraduate

graduate school. The new science

building will not be completed until
next summer, and “it is difficult to
maintain a state of patience for a
year.”

Statistics .

There are now 647 undergradu-
ates and 201 graduate students
with seven per cent of the total
enrollment consisting of students
from foreign countries. Miss Mc-
Bride commented on the size of the
class of ’61 with their enrollment of
201 and of their aptitude in mathe-
matics and interest in classical and
archeological studies.

Present Crises

Three questions of importance to
Bryn Mawr students arose during
the summer: equal rights, use of
atomic power and appropriations
to underdeveloped countries. We
will need more knowledge to help
us to solve these questions, es-
pecially the crisis in human rela-
tions, but along with the develop-
ment of knowledge, there must be
a “cultivation of conscience.” “With
the development of unity of knowl-
edge and ‘cultivation of conscience
said Miss McBride, “we can better
solve the penne confronting us
in this age.”

Oxford Professor
To Discuss Bard

. F. P. Wilson, Merton Pro-
fessor of English Literature,
Oxford University, will give the
Ann . Elizabeth Sheble Memorial
Lecture on October 14 at 8:30 in
Goodhart Hall on “Shakespeare and
the Comedy of His Time.”

Mr. Wilson attended the Univer-
sity of Birmingham, Lincoln Col-
lege and Oxford. He was professor
of English at Leeds and at London
University and he has lectured at
many places. including Trinity and
Johns Hopkins.

New Appointments
To Faculty Reported

"The following is a list of new
appointments to the faculty for
the year 1957-1958:

Manuel Asensio—Visiting Lec-
turer in Spanish.

Morton Baratz—Associate Pro-
fessor in Economics.

Morton Bitterman — Aswoolete ¢

Professov..in..Psychology.......

Alexander Cambitoglou—Associ-
ate Profesor in Classical Archae-
ology.

Marilyn Denton—Instructor in
English.

Teresa Domanski—Lecturer in
Social Work.

Helen Jeannette Dow—Lecturer
in History of Art.

Michel Guggenheim — Assistant
Professor in French.

Claudio Guillen—Visiting Lec-
turer in Spanish.

Louise Harned—Instructor in Po-
litical Science.

Edward B. Harper—Lecturer in
Sociology-Anthropology.

Howard C. Horsford — Visiting
Lecturer in English.

Agi Jambor—Lecturer in Music.

Michael Jameson—Visiting Lec-
turer in ‘Greek.

 

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Freshmen Hall Plays Will Feature

Pantomime And

Although faced with such prob-
lems as Skinner’s limited facilities,
conflicting chorus rehearsals, and
the ten hour rehearsal time, the
freshmen are optimistically plan-
ning to present eight one-act
masterpieces on Friday and Satur-
day nights, October 11 and 12.

An hilarious musical comedy

(with one song), featuring an on- hy

stage make-up crew (composed of
one person) will be presented by
Radnor as its bid for the bronze
plaque. Mind Over Matter (doubt-
less the audience’s feat on viewing
this spectacle) will be directed by
Cathy Blanc and Bonnie Goldberg,
managed by Ethel Sussman, and
advised by Sue Schapiro.

With Sue Kenny as director,
Sarah Bosworth as stage manager,
and Lucy Wales as advisor, Rhoads’
freshmen will produce The Re-
hearsal, a take-off on a rehearsal
of Macbeth with W. Shakespeare

starring in person. Denbigh’s con-

tingent wil appear in Free Speech,
a farce on parliamentary procedure
and the democratic way of life. In-
volving seven men in Russia, the
play will be directed by Judy Oolie
and advised by Terry Farr.

The High School, taken from The
World of Sholom Aleichem, is Mer-
ion’s choice of drama. A comedy
with a serious note, it describes
the attempt of a Jewish family to

 

 

Musical Comedy

enter a son in high school; will be
directed by Liz Lynes, managed
by Tony Killip, and advised by
Sue Gold.

A school for naturalization and,
in particular, The Educttion of
HYMAN KAPLAN (adapted from
the book) will be the subject of
Rock’s play, in which the hero in
is enthusiasm MURDERS his
ideal . . . the English language.
Director is Jane Franzblau, and the
stage manager is Justine Peterson.

Introducing one member of their
band as the cat, East House will
stage the traditional story of Dick
Whittington, Lord Mayor of London
with a choral background. Pro-
duced partially in silhouette, it will
be directed by Lynn Sagle, man-
aged by Ginny O’Roak, and advised
by Cynthia Holley. Kate. Evans,
Corny Wadsworth, and _ Ronnie
Wolffe are director, manager, and
advisor respectively for Pem West’s
hope to retain the plaque, The

Odyssey of Runyon Jones, the talé

of a small boy hunting for his
lost dog in Curgatory.

Thurber’s The Thirteen Clocks
has been adapted for narrative with
pantomine by Pem East’s fresh-
men. This modern fairy-tale with
primeval monsters will be directed
by Jan Douglass, managed by|
Audrey Wollenberg, and advised |
by Jan Rodman.

 

Nei: ‘nai Jambor

 

 

talks .with..a.-visiter

Mme. dambor Presents Concert

by Ann Farlow

On Saturday evening the College
welcomed Mme. Agi Jambor,
Hungarian pianist and scholar, to
its Music faculty at a recital by
Mme. Jambor in Goodhart. The
program included a Prelude and
Fugue in A minor by. J. S. Bach,
Carnival by Schumann, and Cho-
pin’s Sonata in B flat minor, Opus
35. All three were technically de-
manding pieces ¢executed with a
facility and command that allowed
ample freedom for interesting and
highly personal interpretations.

’ Perhaps the most interesting of
Mme. Jambor’s views given through
the medium of this performance
was evident in the Bach. An aca-
demician would deny the use of the
piano for such music on the prin-
ciple that the piano as we know it
hadn’t been invented at the time
the music was written. However,
it is also true that Bach often
didn’t specify definite instrument-
ation, and that most of his themes
appear in more than one setting
throughout the vast scope of his
music, These two factors produce
an absolute music that allows the
performer an educated choice of
instrumentation. Mme. Jambor
chooses the piano. The baroque
harpsichord (with few exceptions)
can produce only levels or plat-
forms of dynamics which are con-
sequently a basic characteristic of
the music. The piano, like the voice,
can produce all gradients, leaving
the performer the choice of dynam-
ic interpretation as well as instru-
mental. Mme. Jambor made use of
this pianistic capacity, but also
played with as essentially unvarying
tempo and evenness that was
definitely Baroque in character, an
interesting combination that suited
both the instrument and the music.
Whether* or ‘not one-agreed with
the rapidity of tempos, the inter-
pretation was vigorous and brilli-
a

The second piece, Schumann’s
Carnival, has some rather intrig-
uing extra-musical aspects. The
unifying element is the four notes
A, E flat, C, B natural, or, in the
German notation ASCH. These are

 

— the letters in Schumann’s

Of Bach; Schumann At B.M.C

staff, and the name of the home
of his then current love. The piece
is subdivided into twenty-one short,
linked sections, many of which bear
the names of figures in Schumann’s
life. This is a well-known, rather

puzzling piece of music, the differ-
ent threads and fragments of which
Mme. Jambor brought out in a
clear, fresh treatment.

The larger works of Chopin, of
which the B flat minor Sonata is
one, are frequently criticised for
lack of unity and continuity. How-
ever, under Mme, Jambor’s hand,
this flaw was minimized, even in
the often-disjointed third move-
ment. Schumann wrote about this
piece, “‘. . . the fact that he call-
ed the work ‘Sonata’ might rather
be thought a bit of caprice, if not
impertinence . . .’ But he added,

. who can know whether some
day a... descendant... may not
dust off and play the Sonata and
think to himself: ‘Yet that fellow
wasn’t so entirely wrong after
all’!”’ Bryn Mawr is more than
happy to welcome Mme. Jambor,
who seems to qualify as the per-
ceptive descendant of whom Schu-
mann spoke.

Calendar

Friday and Saturday, October 11
and 12—8:30 p.m. Freshman Hall
‘plays. Mrs. Otis Skinner Work-
shop, Baldwin campus.

Sunday, October 13—7:30 p.m.—
‘Chapel service. Address by the
Reverend Dr. James_T. Cleland.
Music Room, Goodhart Hall.

Monday, October 14—7:15. p.m.—
Alliance presents Current Events.
Common Room, Goodhart Hall.

-Professor of English Literature,
Oxford University, will give the
Ann Elizabeth Sheble lecture for
1957-58 on “Shakespeare and the
Comedy: of. his Time.’’ Goodhart
Hall.

5:00 p.m.—Interfaith Association
meeting.

Thursday, October 17—8:30 p.m.—
League speaker, Common Room,
Goodhart.

 

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College Boosts Residence And Tuition Fees;
Operating Costs Not Met By Present Income

Sept. 1958 To Bring
$300 Incréased
Expenses

Bryn Mawr-tuition and residence
fees will be increased next year.
Miss McBride has written a letter
to Bryn Mawr parents explaining
the necessity of the action. The
letter reads as follows:

To Parents of Bryn Mawr Under-
graduates: :

In another year, September 1958,
Bryn Mawr will increase tuition
The Directors
of the. College have taken action
at this time in order to give fam-
ilies ample notice of the change
and to permit members of the -Col-
lege and of the Scholarship Com-
mittees to make plans to help stu-
dent“who-will need” further schol-
arship aid.

and residence fees.

The tuition fee for undergradu-
ate students will be increased from
$850 to $1100. The residence fee
will be increased by $50.

The chief reasons that have led
to an increase of $300 for resident
students and $250 for non-residents
are two. Higher operating costs
in 1956-1957 have not been met
by all sources of income, including
endowment income and_ student
fees, and they cannot be met in
1957-1958. We are doing every-
thing we can to keep ‘these costs
down and we shall continue to do
so, but we must ask students to
take a share of the higher costs
Then there is
one major section of the budget

we cannot avoid.

which we must strive to increase.
We must introduce a higher bud-
get for faculty salaries, asking
students through tuition fees, and
alumnae and other friends~ of the
College through gifts, to support
a salary scale more nearly ade-
quate for the faculty.

Gifts and bequests to the Col-
lege in recent years have added —
to the endowment, which now con-
tributes an average of $780 a year
toward the expenditures for each
student. Gifts which are sought
annually add to this amount. To
maintain the high quality of work
in the’ College ‘we hope to increase
both the endowment income and
the annual gifts. The higher fees
in 1958-1959 will mean that stu-
dents are taking a share but only
a proportionate share of the nec-
essary increase in expenditures.

Sincerely,
Katharine McBride
President

 

8:30 p.m.—F. P. Wilson, Merton |,

 

ELECTIONS

announce the election of Blair
Disette, President; Jan Aschen-
brennér,” Vice-President, and
Nancy Renner, Songmistress.
Temporary Songmistress for
Class of ’61 is Cathy Lucas.

58 Elections
Betty Vermey ....Vice-President
Ginny Stewart ........ Secretary