‘Wednesday, March-15, 1961 THE COLLEGE NEWS Page Three a) lexner Humanities! ectures Dancers Present "Heer Art Historian This Year by Brooks Robards On April 6, the 1961 series of the Mary Flexner Lectures on the Humanities will bring Mr. Doug- las Cooper, art conoisseur and spe- cialist in the field of cubism, to the Bryn Mawr campus. Mr. Cooper, a lecturer for the Courtauld Insti- tute for History of Art, will pre- sent in his talks at the college an historical analysis of cubism, Mr. Cooper has a personal acquaint- ance with many of the artists whose works he will discuss, and his own ‘art collection at his home in the south of France is extensive. Among his published works are books on Juan Gris, Toulouse-Lau- trec, Picasso, Van Gogh, Degas, Fernand Leger, and, most recent- ly, Graham Sutherland. Last spring he gave an informal lecture here on Picasso. Essence of Cubism In describing cubism, Mr. Coo- per has said: “The essence of cub- ist painting was distrust of ap- - pearance and a renewed assertion that the mind of.the artist was as important as his eye. More sig- nificant, however, was the rejec- tion ‘of the notion that a picture should be a mirror held up to Na- ture and the putting into practise of the new idea that a picture has a reality of its own and exists independently of but on equal terms with the reality ‘which our eye perceives. Such at any rate is the basis of true cubism.” Mr. Fowle related that Mr, Coo- per is particularly important as a scholar of cubism becaues of his friendship with the artists them- selves; others study cubism, but not from the viewopint of one who knows the artist as a person. Mr. Cooper’s “focus” will be “on the beginnings, and speedy growth of cubism to its fulfillment, passing on from there to consider many as- pects of its influence outside of France and up to 1 The topics for Mr. Cooper’s lec- tures are: 1). Early ‘Cubism: Whence? Whither? Why? Braque and Picasso; 2) High Cubism: Braque and Picasso; 3) The Paris School; 4) Intellect versus Intui- tion; 5) Can It Move?. 6) — “Gris, ‘anid Picasso. Flexner History. Mr. Cooper will be the most re- cent in a long line of prominent men who have come to Bryn Mawr ‘under the Mary Flexner lecture- ship in the humanities, The wom- Reports of Sport From Pool, Court by Jo Rosenthal, °63 ‘With delightful unpredictability, the Bryn Mawr basketball team | lost two games to Rosemont last ‘Thursday and split with Swarth- more on Monday. No one really understands why Bryn Mawr bow- ed so readily to Rosemont (varsity 37-62; jv 26-48); it was just one of those proverbial “off-nights.” In addition, players’ nerves, unsteady at best, were effectively shattered by shrieking Rosemont spectators. The varsity’s loss to Swarthmore came as no sunprise—in fact, in view of the giant-size forwards confronting varsity guards, it was _ a minor success to lose by only 12 points (82-44)! The jv, meanwhile, beat the Garnet by a respectable 32-17. The swim team, in a tie with Swarthmore, captured 8rd place at the Intercollegiate meet held at Penn on Saturday, March 11. Com-) ing in after West Chester and Penn, the BMC swimmers manag- ed a number of wins: the freestyle relay team, 2nd; Beverly Keith, 100 yd, freestyle, 3rd; Ellie Beid- ler, 50 yd. back crawl, 4th; Betsey _Booth, 60 yd. freestyle, 3rd; and Anne Rassiga, 50 yd. ‘butterfly, 4th. Since freshmen garnered most of. _..__ these—victonies,.. the. team. looks an in whose name the lectures are sponsored was a Bryn Mawr grad- uate. Mary Flexner of Louisville, Ky. was a history and political science major in the years when every stu- dent had her own suite of rooms and was required to have a double major. After she graduated in 1895, Mary Flexner took her Mas- ter of Ants degree at Columbia University, and for twenty-five years was connected with such projects as the Henry Street Set- tlement and the Ethical Culture School. Mary Flexner In her later years, she was a close companion for her brother Bernard who lived in New York. Impressed by the education that his sister had received at Bryn Mawr, Bernard Flixener establish- ed in 1928 in honor of his sister the now famous Mary Flexner Lectures on the Humanities. The two specifications which he made concerning the lectures were that they exclude pure science, mathe- matics, and the social sciences, | and that the lecturer “be in resi- dence for the punpose of contact with the faculty and students.” J. H, Breasted was the first lec- turer in 1928-1929, and spoke on “The New €rusade.” ‘Whitehead, the philosopher, followed him with “The History of Ideas,” which was incorporated into his book Adven- tures of Ideas, In 1982-1983, Ralph Vaughan Williams came to speak on “Nationalism in Music.” Toynbee the historian spoke on “Encounters between Civilizations;” Erich Frank on “Philosophy and Relig- ion;” Henri Peyre on “The Con- temporary Novel in France;” and in 1960 Paul ‘Henry Lang gave a series of lectures under the title “Music and Christian Worship.” Movement Ideas For First Program (Dance Club’s first concert in sev- eral years will be given Monday, March 20, at. 8:30. p.m. in Roberts Hall, Haverford. The danger of splinters on Goodhart’s stage in- fluenced the dancers’ choice of Roberts Hall. Twenty-six Bryn Mawr girls and one Haverford stu- dent will take part in the concert. Mrs, Anne Carter Mason is the director; the stage manager is Les- lie Hartley. The dancers themselves wrote all the choreography for the first. half of the program. Nicole Schupf has choreographed a piece by Bar- tok; Mina Jahan and Barbara Hein have choreographed one of Stra- vinsky’s works. The Double Octet will provide the accompaniment for both dances. Several studies based on differ- ent relations in form and dynam- ics have grown out of work in “movement conversation.” These spontaneous dances, originally im- provisations, were “captured” one night for the concert. Other numbers, ranging in va- riety from modern ballet to panto- mime, include a lyric couplet bas- ed on Thornton Wilder’s play, Our Town; a satiric dance pantomime, “The Builder,” written by Mary Johnson; and a jazz suite consist- ing of three sharply contrasting types of jazz. The last dance, “Evolution of the Soul,” is an ex- perimental rendition of symbolic ideas. Laura Neilson, president of Dance Club, arranged an exchange workshop demonstration with Swarthmoré last fall. Dance Club plans to invite dancers from sever- al nearby colleges to another ex- change workshop later in the spring. Candidates for Interfaith Interfaith contenders: top steps—Nancy Culley, Condon; lower steps—Carolyn Smith, Marjorie Hibbard. Stephanie Candidates forward to a successful season. next year. for League 1 Acts in History (1955). student Recalls Travel {nr inailand: Pictures Watery New Year Festival by Nancy Field, 62 Last year I took a leave of absence from Bryn Mawr to be with my family in Bangkok, Thailand where my father is working for our State Department,...In the spring of the year’I made a trip to Chieng- mai in northern Thailand, Anyoné visiting. Thailand should visit not only the capital of Bangkok, in the-