VOL. XLIII, NO. 10 ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., Wednesday, JANUARY 15, 1958 © Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1958 PRICE 20 CENTS The Student Curriculum Committee Offers Advice on Possible Majors ‘College students are hardly aware of many things of import- ance in their college curriculum and ‘benefits which are readily available to them.’ This fact seems to be an_ underlying cause of some of the _ prob- lems under discussion by the Stu- dent Curriculum Committee. The Committee is working on ways to emphasize the importance and ben- efits of the curriculum to the stu- dents. One of the reasons for the lack of knowledge concerning the cur- riculum here at Bryn Mawr, ac- cording to Kitty Milmine, chairman of the Student Curriculum Com- mittee, is that students are not aware of the many opportunities | for guidance that they have, First of all, the faculty, always willing to advise students, have regular, posted office hours. Bryn Mawr is especially fortunate here in the fact that the class deans are teach- ing deans rather than simply pro- fessional ones. Few students, how- Schrecker to Give Lecture Feb. 10 “Historians, Empiricists, and Prophets” ‘is the subject of the Grace A. and Theodore de Laguna Lecture, to be given by Professor Paul Shrecker, Monday, February 10, in the Common Room. Dr. Shrecker is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and a Visiting Pro- fessor of Philosophy at Bryn Mawr. His private collection of philosophical 4vorks is one of the best in the world. In addition to his work in edit- ing the Leibniz papers and Male- branch, Dr. Shrecker has publish- ed Work and History. The De Laguna Lecture is given annually in honor of Professor Theodore de Laguna who was Chairman of the Philosophy De- partment until 1930, and Grace A. - de Laguna who subsequently as- sumed that post. iad F< NOTICE Polio vaccine will be given at $1.00 per dose, one afternoon only, Thursday, January 16, 1:30-3:30 p.m, Second doses for those who received their first last month and third doses for those who received their second in or before June 1957. ever, know that their wardens, ‘as representatives of the Dean’s Of- fice, are also available to advise them on academic matters. The Student Curriculum Commit- tee, too, although it does not at- tempt to deal with serious academ- ic problems, offers an excellent op- portunity for students to gain in- formation about various courses and to discuss questions about their majors or possible majors with someone in the field. The members of this committee, which is the only academic committee on cam- pus, invite students to bring any questions or problems they may have to them. The committee em- phasizes;—however, the fact that Bryn Mawr’s policy is that the student take the initiative and that she must seek the advice. In recent meetings of the com- mittee one of the important ques- tions discussed was the nature of the sophomore year and the prob- lem of introducing more courses to the prospective major. Three possible solutions to this problem are being considered by the admin- istration and “student committee: (1) The admittance of freshmen (where ability warrants it) to courses of advanced standing with a possibility of exemption from a requred freshman course; (2) fur- ther extension of the present pro- gram of listening and auditing courses, if the student feels she can carry the load, and (38) active visiting of various courses in the possible major. This third suggestion is one which is especially emphasized by the Student Curriculum Commit- tee. It will entail several visits to various advanced courses in one’s possible major field so that one may ‘discover how courses on the 200 and 300 level are different from the beginning courses.: This planning of several visits to various courses should be done by the student her- self with help from the head of the department, the deans, and the Student Curriculum Committee. The visiting itself should be done with permission of the instructor. In order to encourage greater the Student Curriculum Commit- tee, and the various departments, several teas are planned early in the second semester. There will be a ‘Student Curriculum Committee tea primarily for freshmen. De- partmental teas for sophomores and interested freshmen are under consideration. Anthropology and Sociology Archaeology Biology Chemistry Economics ’ English ~ French Geology German — Greek and Latin History History of Art Italian Mathematics Music Philosophy : Physics Political Science Psychology Russian Spanish STUDENT CURRICULUM COMMITTEE 1957-58 Caren Sue Meyer, Pem West Diane Taylor, Pem East Anne Keller, Rock : M. Lazarus, Rhoads S. L. Callahan, Pem W. Sue Levin, Rhoads S. Lynne Sykes, Rhoads N. Connie Brown, Pem W. Kitty Milmine, Radnor Sally Twiggar, Denbigh Sue Fox, Denbigh Topsy Pell, Pem W. Betsy Nelson, Pem E. Diana Dismuke, Pem E. Judy Kneen, Radnor Rosie Said, Radnor Sue O. White, Non-Res. Sue Myers, Radnor - Barbara Pinney, Denbigh Jane Rouillion, Rhoads S. _Margot Torbert, Rhoads N. Nancy Cline, Merion A -gatire digs. 99. Professor Gey] Cites Attitudes |- (Of Shakespeare Plays Are Historical Idealogically “The picture of the past present- ed in Shakespeare’s plays may not always be accurate; but it could, nevertheless, become historical in the ideological sense of the word.” Pieter Geyl, Professor. of Modern History at ‘the University of Utrecht and visiting Professor at Harvard University, “made _ this statement during the Mallory Whiting Webster Lecture, “As- pects of'Shakespeare as Historian,” on January 7, 1958 at 8:30 p.m. in the “Gertrude Ely Room in Wyndham. Mr. Geyl, discussing Shakes- peare’s attitude toward royalty, said that his attitude was conser- vative and he had great respect for royalty. “At times,” stated Mr. Geyl, “Shakespeare’s freedom of mind was hampered by his re- spect for office.” Since Shakes- peare was a conservative, he dis- liked the Puritans; according to Mr. Geyl, he regarded them as “fanatics and disturbers of the peace.” Racine and Bard Compared Comparing Shakespeare’s plays such as Racine, Mr. Gey] called Racine’s plays “chamber music to Shakespeare’s symphonies.” In a further comparison with the plays of Racine, Mr. Geyl maintained that all of Racine’s characters, despite their supposed nationality in the play, have French senti- ments; and he further asserted that all Racine’s settings were ac- tually France thinly disguised. On the other hand, Shakespeare’s set- tings, acording to Mr. Geyl, were distinctive—while Macbeth’s set- Hamlet contains “nothing specifi- cally Danish,” it is impossible to sundaes haiween the student bods” transfer a character, such as Pol- td onius, from one play to the other. “Shakespeare,” asserted Mr. Geyl, “excels in background paint- ing;” even his secondary charac- ters are well-developed, as compar- ed with Racine’s, who remain “mere confidants.” We get to see Shakespeare’s characters in many different roles, pointed out Mr. Geyl; Antony in Antony and Cleo- patra appears not only as a lover but as a warrior and statesman an, Mr. Geyl cited Shakespeare’s at- titude toward the lower classes and his “consistent lack of sym- pathy to common movements; “it is the especially illiterate at whom The scene he made reference to is the mob scene in Julius Caesar, which takes place after his assassination. One moment the mob.is ready to crown Brutus; r Antony has spoken, the crowd rushes off to find Brutus in order to kill him. Antony says, “Mis- chief thou art afoot.” In France, History and Poetry cannot exist together; Mr. Geyl believes, “it is ridiculous to main-. tain History and Poetry are an- tagonistic.” Although “one will not go to the poet for accuracy,” according to Mr. Geyl, “Shakes- peare’s historic sense is closely pelated to poetic ——— ay to those of the French classicists, | ting is “wild and barbarous” and | Review Of Exam. Rules And Honor System Is Timely In order to ensure the high stan- dards of individual integrity in academic work which Bryn Mawr has always greatly valued, a few years ago the student body, with the concurrence of faculty and established. an academic honor system. The following statements and rules made by them at that time have unfortunately once more be- deans, come crucial: 1) Student proctors are for the convenience of those taking exams —in case of emergencies, to keep noise at a minimum, to remind students of the other rules if need- ed, and to notify them when their time is up. 2) Exams will. be written in “blue books” or other paper pro- vided by the college. 8) There should be no talking in the exam room. A student may. leave the exam room at any time and talking outside is allowed if it does not disturb others taking exams, 4) Students should occupy alter- nate seats if possible. 5) Books and paper should not be brought into the exam room ‘unless the professor giving the exam specifies otherwise. 6) The instructor or hig repre- sentative will be in the exam room for about fifteen minutes at the beginning of,the exam to answer questions. At the end of the exam he will return to pick up the pa- pers. A student completing the exam before the end of the period shall leave her “blue books” on the desk. It.is particularly iaportant that students stop iting -as soon as they are noti that their time is up. Failure to do, this is an in- fringement of the honor system. Can Democracy Survive in U.S.A? April Conference To Seek Answer Off-Campus | Delegates Are Invited Mariellen Smith ’58 is the gen- eral chairman of the first Bryn Mawr Conference, to be held Sat- urday, April 12 and sponsored by the Undergrad Council. Announced before Christmas, the conference topic is “Can Democracy Survive in America?” Major speakers have been invited for the morning session, and several panels are being organized for an afternoon session. ‘The conference is unique in two ways: it is the first time an Under- grad Council, allcollege confer- ence has ever been held, and it is the first time official delegates from .outside schools are to be in- vited to such a Bryn Mawr event. Committees are planning vari- ous aspects of the conference, and Maggie Goodman and Carolyn Franco have been named chair- men of panel organization and of publicity respectively, Announce- ment of speakers and panel topics is expected after exams. Grant from duPont Given Bryn Mawr Bryn Mawr is among thirteen colleges in Pennsylvania awarded grants of $4000, by the duPont aid to education program. The pur- pose of the grant is to strengthen teaching of subjects that con- tribute to “scientific and engine- ering education.” The duPont aid program dates from 1918. Grants which totalled $1,150,000 were awarded to 135 tuniversities and colleges this year. $664,000 has been allocated in awards for the teaching of sci- entific subjects; $309,000 for aid to fundamental research, and $155,000 for post-graduate fellow- ships. Notice Robert L. Connor, assistant Professor of Biology, will give the Sigma Xi lecture Thursday, January 16, 8:30 p.m. in the Park Hall on “Protozoans and Hormones.” Dr, Albrecht Goetze, Professor of Assyriology (or “chicken feet im- prints” as his secretary remarks) at Yale, visited Bryn Mawr last Wednesday, January 8, to speak on the latest excavations at Nippur. Dr. Goetze, who taught in Ger- many at the Universities of Heidelberg and Marburg before he“ was ejected by~ Hitler in’ 1934, is Editor of the Journal of Cunie- form Studies and was for over ten years’ Director of the Ameri- can School of Oriental Research in Baghdad. One of the -first to decipher Hittite (which could be read immediately, but not under- stood), Dr. Goetze lists his most exciting experience as the dis- covery and translation of the law code of Eshnunna, which precedes Hammurabi’s by a couple. of cen- turies. Nippur, located in Iraq south of Baghdad, was an important reli- gious center of ancient Sumer; for Goetze, Professor of Assyriology At Yale, Speaks on Excavations. was located there, as well as a typical ziggurat and a temple of Inanna. Most recently the expedition’s interest has been centered on the temple of Inanna, which turned out to be four times as big as that of Enlil, much to everyone’s sur- prise, After digging down through a later Parthian temple, the exca- -vators cleared about one-foyrth - - Continued on Page 2, Col, 4 Ronald Syme Will Speak on Tacitus Professor Ronald Syme, Camden Professor of Ancient History at Oxford, will lecture at Bryn Mawr College on Friday, February 7, on some aspects of Tacitus, the Roman historian on whom Mr. Syme has written a two-volume book soon to be published. The hour and place of the lecture, pre- sented by the Department of Latin, will be announced. —— of Enlil, the chief — rr tet eee ee 4-3 THE COLLEGE NEWS Wednesday, January 15, 1958 THE COLLEGE NEWS FOUNDED IN 1914 Publisned weekly during the College Year (except during Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter holidays, and during examina- tion weeks) in the imierest of Bryn Mawr College at the Ardmore Printing Company, Ardmore, Pa., and Bryn Mawr College. The College News is fully protected by copyright. Nothing that appears in it may be reprinted wholly or in part without permission of the Editor-in-Chief. 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It is in - getting students to agree to submit articles that the News has come up against a problem to which dittle attention is paid. Generally, there is an: unwillingness on campus to ex- press an opinion in print. This is a fact most readily evident in the emptiness of the News’ “Letter tothe Editor” column, or rather, in the non-existence of the column (as in this is- sue). As editors of the News, we frequently hear remarks, good or bad, on each issue’s contents. Why do these com- ments remain purely in the conversational stage? By contrast, the “Letter to the Editor” columns of other colleges are always filled. In fact, one can often attain a clearer picture of the state of mind of other student bodies ‘from the letters than from the news articles; and this “epip- hany through epistle” is not limited to the big universities, but exists very strongly at our “sister” colleges among the “Big Seven”. It is in-asking for special contributions from students not on the News that we have discovered a cause of the. sil- ence. An October issue of the News featured a sagies of views on Bryn Mawr traditions. Subsequently, an nder- grad poll on the subject showed no drastic changes desired by students but did reveal helpful suggestions for some mod- ifications. Thus, anonymously and en masse, Bryn Mawrtyrs were free to express a point of view. ee Yet when the News approached certain individuals known to have definite views on tradition, these declined to write a somewhat critical article on the grounds that the ADMINISTRATION WOULD GIVE THEM AN UNFAVOR- ABLE RECOMMENDATION FOR GRADUATE SCHOOL or FROWN UPON THEM DURING THEIR STAY at Bryn wr! ae It has been remarked ‘by some that the lack of class- room discussion in the college is also due to fear of the effects of disagreement with the professor. This conjecture is more debatable (we suspect falling behind in the assigned reading is partially responsible for classroom calm) than the view of the administration expressed. In any case, the student view taken is a deplorable one. If the fears voiced had some basis, then perhaps the once fashionable discusions on academic freedom should include the liberty of the student as well as the professor’s. Second- ly, to our knowledge, there has not been any tangible evidence to support the incredible claims that Bryn Mawr possesses a whimful “Big Brother” type administration. If such con- ditions really exist here, pardon_us, for then it‘is we who are hopelessly naive. Events in Philadelphia MOVIES: “Pursuit of the Graf Spee’—Mastbaum, Wednesday, British drama of one of the more remarkable naval stories to come out. of World War II, with Peter Finch, Anthony Quayle, sanova”—Studio, Gabrielle Ferzetti, Corinne Calvet, Marina Viady in Italian film import on double bill with French drama, “Forbidden Desire,” with Francoise Arnoul, Daniel Gelin, Trevor Howard. : “I Was a Teenage Werewolf”—Goldman, Wednesday. Horror drama with Michael Landon, Yvonne Lime, on double bill with “Invasion of the Saucer Men,” science-fiction thriller. eee “Sunrise at Campobello”—Forrest, opened Monday for two weeks. Dore Schary’s new play dramatizing years of crisis, 1921-24, in the life of Franklin D. Roosevelt following his polio attack. Ralph Bellamy stars. » “Oh, Cantain!”—continuing—the new musical which opened at the - Shubert last Saturday, for two weeks. of Music, Thursday, 8:30. .| study the structure of the Big Six |. “Susan ‘Schapiro ’60 Kraken Replaces by Theo Stillwell The kelpy is dead and drowned. This is an age of manufacture, (“a world of made is not a world of born”) (e.e.c.) The new symbol must be manufactured and mean- ingless to all but the author. The kraken, then, must take the place of the kelpy. It has defied all at- tempts to imbue it with a general meaning, and it is, after all, only a synonym for a rather prosaic beast, the giant squid, which is made from rubber, plastic and steel and eats similar manufactured creatures like Cap’t. Nemo, The kraken has had a short, frag- mentary and largely unnoticed lit- erary history, In 1948 was written: “. » you are mad, You have taken a kraken For firm land of the past.” There is here an unsuccessful at- tempt to attach whale symbolism to the kraken, since whales com- monly slumber on the waters and strongly resemble islands. (Hence if you are claiming an island, first light a fire on it to see’ what you have actually got.) This identifi- cation, of course, ends in madness. The kraken is mentioned in Moby Dick, but obviously could never, unlike Gregory Peck, play slumbering Common Terminology Is Whale Former Kelpu; its limitations). Incidently, the kraken is a good subject for poetry, since no one knows anything much about it, and you can have it do virtually anything. Tennyson did his best to found a kraken cult, resembling the kelpy worship carried on by Scott, but he failed, and lamented the fact, bitterly (“But O for the touch of a vanished hand/And the sound of a voice that is still”) (“Tears, idle tears.”) The story of his attempt will be found in his poem, “The Kraken.” Tennyson was, in fact, only one of several Victorians to worship the sea (cf. Matthew Arn- old; “A long, long sigh, For the cold strange eyes of a .... Mer- maid,” and Swinburne; “I will go back to the great sweet mother... the sea,” and Masefield, who car- ries on the tradition; “I must down to the sea again.”) “The Kraken” has been assigned, with the rest, to a sort of collective Victorian womb complex. So, for~anyone who wants to write obscure, difficult and abstruse poetry, the kraken may provide a basis for a new mythology, since, so far, all attempts to interest people in him have failed, and it is certain that those who will understand. his nature, much less his abortive literary, history, will the title role (Melville recognized be few. Dr. Bernheimer Discusses Representation In Learned Philosophy Club Dissertation Dr. Richard Bernheimer of the History of Art Department spoke on “Principles of Representation before a meeting of the Philosophy Club last Wednesday night. Dr. Bernheimer who introduced him- self as a “summer vacation philo- sopher” gave a detailed discussion on the difference between repre- sentation and substitution. Substitution is the replacement of one entity by another, which is, or serves as its equivalent. A rep- sentatamen, besides standing for something else, has an intrinsic value of its own. Representatamen can be subdivided into three -as- cending classes which are: cate- gorical, legal and mimetic. The latter two are subdivided into an active and “arrested” stage. Substitution and representation are most closely connected at the categorical level: an example of this level is the selection of one apple to represent the whole class of apples. The second phase, legal repre- sentation, can’t exist without sub- stitution but a legal representa- tion is not only or entirely a sub- stitute for a person or people he is representing. A Congressman, for example, cannot xpress all the views of each of the persons he is representing. The rationale of this phase is the awareness of che person on the other side. This example of the Congressman is in instance of the “active phase” of local representamen as it is geared for the handling of concrete issues. Besides this there is an arrested phase which is character. ised by its non-active, symbolic aspect. An example of this is the ~~Notice The names of the members of the Reevaluation Committee set up to soca have been announced. The Commit- tee will submit its report to Under- grad sometime in April. ; : Jan Wolf ’59 is chairman of the Committee, The members, two from each class, are: Lucy Beebe ’61 Roberta Holder ’61 Marti Faust ’60 - Mimi Gisolfi ’59 Pat Cain ’59 '—Concert version of Offenbach’s| Sue Safier ’58 7 ceremony and pomp ’ associated with kingship. The final category of repre- sentamen is the mimetic phase. This is the stage which deals with all forms of artistic representation Dr. Bernheimer emphasized the importance of this phase, but spoke least about it because ade- quate explanation would involve a detailed discussion of aesthetic theory. In contrast to legal repre- sentation, sbsutitution participates least in this phase, The success of mimetic representation depends rather upon the eclipsing of the active stage by the arrested stage. In a purely aesthetic response, the objective nature of the subject matter depicted loses its import- ance and is supereceded by the artistic realization. Goetze Continued from Page 1 of it, and Dr. Goetze was able to translate the inscription on a pivot stone which named the temple as the Bond between Heaven and Earth, and stated that it had been restored by King Shulgi around 2000 B.C. Five air tight compartments found in the bases of the temple’s towers. proved to contain copper statuettes. of a man holding a basket on his head, doubtless Shulgi (who was again inscribed as the Hrestorer-on the top brick of each compartment) himself bringing earth to build the temple. Each compartment also contained a mud brick in the shape of a loaf, prob- ably reflecting an anvient ritual, the remains of a wooden statuette identical to the bronze one, and some semi-precious stones. Among the other finds in the temple were many clay tablets, giving accounts of the temple’s money, the salaries paid employ- ees, and lists of the gods worship- ped there, and some fragments of sculpture, including several heads. Below the temple of Inanna been found an earlier one, dated around 2700 BC, of which two College Educations Wasted on Women Words on the education crisis from the Mount Holyoke News, issue of November 15, 1957: “A Florida newspaperman named Robert Hunter, father of a Wesley- an sophomore, recently did the Wesleyan ARGUS the honor of presenting his “campaign” for the solution of the education crisis which has been developing in our institutions of higher learning. The basic premise of Mr. Hunt- er’s campaign is “to persuade girls to stay home so more boys, the future bread-winners, can be edu- cated in these trying times charac- terized by the dearth of room and teachers in higher education. Mr. Hunter feels that ‘someone is going to have to stay home’ and while it is ‘unpractical and not advisable to prohibit girls from going to college,’ we must have an educa- tional campaign which would im- press upon each girl contemplating college ‘should I deprive a man of higher education?’ It seems that each college girl does do just that and after all girls, as Mr. Hunter reminds us ‘the man you educate may be your own!’ These catchy little slogans emanate from the contentions of ‘how inefficient it is to give a girl four years of ad- vanced education . .-. plus at least a year of training on the job after that, only to have her work two to four years, quit and get married, which she should have done in the first place.’ This is Mr. Hunter’s ‘logic’.”’ The Mount Holyoke News argues against Mr. Hunter: “In failing to recognize the ‘great reservoir of feminine talent,’ Mr. Hunter has failed also to see that college need not only be a ‘means’ to the ‘end’ of a vocation alone, for it must above all provide an intellectual experience that will carry on during one’s entire life- time . . Finally, in reply to Mr. Hunter’s argument, we must ask him to con- sider the wisdom of the words which reminds us that ‘When you educate a. man, you educate an individual; when you educate a woman, you educate a family.’ This Mr. Hunter, may be the answer to one of society’s major areas of concern, the so-called ‘younger gen- eration.’ It is fine to educate only the father, Mr. Hunter, but after all, every child has two parents, and can you honestly say that only the ‘breadwinner’ is important enough to merit higher education.” At Radcliffe the vital issue seems to be food as reported in the No- vember 22 Radcliffe News. “Contrary to persistent rumor, there is no cottage-cheese endow- ment at Radcliffe..This disclosure, as shocking to many as the Great Santa Claus exposé of a few years ago, was made at a recent Food Committee Meeting by Miss Russ; head dietician for the college. Wild rice, on the other hand, seems destined to disappear from our kitchens unless a skillful ad- ministrative member can prevail upon some beneficent alumna to establish a ‘Wild Rice Endowment.’ Among other student petitions granted were the agreement to serve no onions Friday evening, Saturday noon or Sunday noon or Saturday night. Breakfast Satur- open season.” Chapel Chapel this Sunday, January 19, will be a Quaker Meeting. Several Quakers from the Bryn Mawr and Philadelphia area have been jn- ..|vited to sit on the facing bench. They include Miss McBride, Dr. and Mrs. Michels, Dr. Henry Joel Cadbury, and Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining. ue NOTICE ‘ Lost and Found, located in Taylor basement, is open daily, day..morning,—presumably,~is~ still ———— Monday through Friday, from veo, ( con og euaaa. eee * Wednesday, January 15, 1958 THE COLLEGE NEWS ~ Page Three Trend to Surrealism and Existentialism Is Subject of Morot-Sir French Lecture M. Edouard Morot-Sir, Cultural Counsellor of the French Embassy, who spoke on “Les Bases Philoso- phiques de la Litterature Contem- poraine,” in the Ely Room, Janu- ary 9, began his talk in French by “noting that literature ahd philo- sophy had always been closely re- lated throughout the centuries. In contemporary French litera- ture—from 1925 to the present— he explained, could be seen two basic movements, to which he lim- ited his discussion; the.-surrealist trend, and existentialism, The origins of surrealism lie in the nineteenth century poets, Rim- baud and Mallarmé, who attempted a literary revolt, their point of de- parture being a criticism of their civilization, The surrealist’s ob- ject was to attain the “Abbsolu;” that is, to establish man in a sur- realist world. A basis for this was humor, which might, to some, appear ma- cabre. M. Morot-Sir related the in- cident mentioned by André Breton in his book, Anthologie de l’Hu- mour Noir, of the murderer who was told on Monday morning that he would be executed soon. His reaction was, “Now here’s a week that is beginning well!” Humor of this kind, though it may be black, serves to combat the preju- dices of society and those that man may have about himself; a humor which surpasses’ life and death. Surrealism is an effort not only to escape the necessity of sociéty’s demands, but also to escape ne- cessity per se. As a matter of fact, man must escape anything which prevents him from being spirit- ually free, such as laws, the con- cept of fatality, and a lack of courage. The problem faced by the surrealists. was how to find that world. Here the role of the human. conscience comes into play, much as it does in the Freudian theories. For in a kind of dia- logue between the conscious and the subconscious, the effort to ex- tract the maximum significance from human experience is obvious. The dream of the surrealist is to recreate man “thanks to the spon- taneous magic of words.” (Breton). The idea is to break the logic, the bonds which society imposes upon man, and to find the “Absolu” in an irrational world. This may at first seem futile, but it actually is the first step necessary for all hu- man experience. Freedom, then, found through a “new technique of language,” is the aim of surreal- ism, One basic theme of existential- ism, again, is liberty. It is essen- tially a pessimistic conception of the universe, a paralyzing universe. 007 Peay, gO rMtng gePOPO On, 20070, OPP, 00999® ” Secretarial Coaching for College Women A short intensive program of shorthand training especially designed for girls with college background. 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Here, the reverse holds true, in that the conscious- ness of one’s own existence is true only in relation to “the Other One.” This leads Sartre to conclude his famous play, Huits Clos, with “Hell is the Others.” Indeed, the agony of the world is inflicted upon us through others. But—and ‘this is perhaps the strength of Sartre—“man is con- demned to be free.” Man has a pro- found responsibility to struggle to escape the worthless world in the search for something. better. It is therefore that we observe atheis- tic tendencies in : existentialism. The recognition of God would im- ply that certain things are beyond man’s control, thus permitting ex- cuses for him. Sartre never denies God; he simply advocates “to act as though He did not exist.” Existentialism Before concluding, M. Morot-Sir briefly discussed Christian exist- entialism, and the existentialism of Albert Camus. The former, he said, is a criticism of ancient phi- losophy ,which it found too intellec- tual, It endeavored to discover the real meaning of existence, of the relation of men to each other, and of his relation to God. The prin- cipal exponent of this branch of existentialism was Gabriel Marcel, who unfortunately was not as good at expressing himself as the more pessimistic Sartre. Albert Camus has remained faithful to the tradition of French morality. He passed through sev- eral stages, the first one being one of extreme pessimism. Here he found life to be absurd. His sec- ond stage is neatly summed up in the phrase, “Je suis revolté, donc nous sommes.” (I am _ revolted, therefore we are.) After absurdity and revolt, he comes to a mysti- cism which promotes Love and brotherhood; it embraces a positive consciousness of existence, so that man will find liberty in Love. Contemporary French thinking, M. Morot-Sir concluded, desires to give a philosophic sense to exist- ence and literary creation. This is no doubt a crisis in modern think- ing, but a fruitful one; the enmesh- ing of philosophy and creation cannot be harmful, he felt, since it makes its appeal to the human soul. “SAY IT WITH FLOWERS” BRILL FLOWERS 10 East Lancaster Ave. Ardmore, Pa. Myrtle Thompson MI 2-4650 - 4651 - Gibbs Girls Get the Top Jobs a § 8 Special Course for College Women. Residences. Write College Dean for Gipps Grrts AT WoRK. Katharine a | NEW YORK 17, 230 Park Ave. MONTCLAIR, N.J., 33 Plymouth St. GIBBS carter tan tanelieth ea eee | Quick Application Entreated for Fun, Study in Florence by Cathya Wing Mare Slonim, Director of the Sarah Lawrence College Summer Session in Florence, is now receiv- ing applications for the summer’s month in a sixteenth century villa in the Tuscan hills just outside Florence. Last July I was Bryn Mawr’s single representative at the ses- sion’s initial summer. Of the 30 girls, 20 were from Sarah Law- rence and 10 from 10 other colleg- es. Classes in Italian Language, Art, History, and Literature were conducted in English in the morn- ings in the villa by Sarah Law- rence professors. Afternoons and evenings were at our own dispos- al, and we spent most of them in Florence. Mr. Slonim, a_ writer himself, was frequently able to bring writers, cultural attaches, musicians and Italians prominent in other fields, to lecture at the villa, « The summer began with an in- auguration, at which the mayor of Florence spoke, and to which the United States Ambasador sent a letter of welcome. There was a dance later, with students at the University of Florence and sons of neighboring nobility. Highlights of the month were the weekend ex- cursions—Saturdays’ and Sundays spent in Pisa, Lucca, Siena, Peru- gia, Assisi, and other nearby towns. This summer’s program will be much the same as last, focusing on Renaissance in Italyy Classes will start on Monday, June 23, and will end on Saturday, July 26. The cost of $450 includes room and board, tuition, excursions, and daily bus into Florence, Applications are due by January 15, BUT: if those possibly interest- ed would see me (Rhoads North) immediately, and ask me any ques- tions about the session, I will beg Mr. Slonim to leave a few places for Bryn Mawr until the beginning of second semester. ‘New Yorker’ Editor To Discuss Writing Miss Rachel Mackenzie of the New Yorker will speak at Bryn Mawr on Thursday, February 6, at 4:30 P.M. Her topic will be “Opportunities in the Field of Writing.” Miss Macknzie, a gradu- ate of Wells and Radcliffe, has taught at Radcliffe, Wellesley, and the Breadloaf Writer’s Conference. She has been an editor on the Fiction staff of the New Yorker for two years and is well qualified to .discuss current opportunities for writers. @ Notice The Self-Government Association announces the new snow regula- tions. Dress Regulations will be sus- pended for classes and the ville (not the Deanery) when the follow- ing weather conditions prevail: 1) two inches of snow and still snowing. 2) six inches of snow. |...) and/or 15 degrees outside. Have a WORLD of FUN! Travel with SITA Unbelievable Low Cost SSEurope 60 deys wc. from $585 Orient Deys Wt, trem $998 Speaks on English William Beckford, one of the atgreatest book collectors of the early 19th century, was “considered eccentric because he didn’t buy early editions and English class- ics,’ Mr. Anthony Hobson, direct- or of Sotheby and Company, Lon- don (the oldest book auction house in the English speaking world) told the»Friends of the Library in the Deanery, January 8. (Beckford, author also of the novel ‘“Vathek,”’ regarded as the precursor of the antic revival, was born in 1760, heir to a large sugar fortune. At 18, he made his first purchase for the collection that was to grow with rapidity — a manuscript on demonology corrected by King James. By January, 1784, he was buying books in Paris with the King of France as his competitor. Beckford’s library was known to have more of a French than Eng- lish character. Auguste Chardin, a French pro- revolutionary who supposedly had his finger bitten off by a Swiss guard in the attack on the Tuiler- ies, soon became Beckford’s skill- ful bookseller and buyer. After the flight of the French aristocrats Engagements | Deborah Flint ’58 to David Long- maid. Roberta Pizor Waldman. Ilana Kara Diamond ’60 to Emil Harrison Hubschman. Pamela Thompson Deas Sinkler, ITI. Ann Coe ’56 to Lambert Heyn- iger. Barbara Pinney Thomas, Judith Mercuri ’58 to Jerome W. Platek. Elizabeth Simpson ’54 to Robert Bennet, Jr. Jessica Dragonnette ’55 to Theo- dore Hellwig. Nancy English *58 to Peter C. King. Mary Louise Kemp ’57 to Vladi- mir Resky de Dubnic. Peggy King ’56 to Peter And- rews Poole. Nancy Schwartz Goldberg. _ Carole Ewing. Jacqueline Esmerian to Jonathan King. Helen Niemtzow ’60 to Seymour Berger. Shelley Rich ’59 to Wallace C. ‘Miller. Barbara Gambrill ’61 to William. Murray. Sally Wood ’59 to Peter Zavitz. Debbie Pinkas ’60 to Lewis Weinstein. 2 ’61 to Arnold "60 ‘ta °'§; ’*b8- to John ’b7 to Alan Sonne to Alexander Marriages Josephine Case ’54 to Nathaniel Schnurman. Alexandra Quandt ’57 to Fred C, Aldridge. Mary Jo Griffith 58 to William Myers. Linda Lauretz_ 760 to Michael Head of London Book Auction: House Collector Beckford. and abandonment of their belong- ings, Chardin served his employer well, especially since there were few buyers. In 1797, Beckford made his most criticized purchase— the library of Edward Gibbon. Gibbon had told his executors he hoped his books would serve the world. Some said Beckford’s purchase took place to spite the historian’s wishes. By 1808, Beckford’s collection was so large that he held a sale at Sothe- by’s, and remarked that the “Ital- ian trash brought-more than the Bible.” During the War of 1812, Chardin smuggled over certain items from France to the collector, But by now sugar price fluctua- tions had made it impossible for him to compete with the richest English collectors, and Beckford organized a sale of duplicates again although he continued to buy. Finally, Beckford decided to sell most of his library and Font Hall, his famed residence. In 1823, a 37- day sale saw 4,000 printed books, 22 manuscripts and 11 albums of drawings sold — approximately more than half the collection. With in the last 20 years of his life, how- ever, Beckford ended with a library larger than the original Font Hill collection. Chardin retired in 1823; another bookseller" took care of Beckford’s French” business. I England, Beckford wrote letters to his agents instructing em which books were to b ght at any price, and which were to be run up and dropped on rival booksellers. Beckford’s library at his death in 1837 consisted of 80 manuscripts and 10,000 books. Art books, biog- raphies, memoirs, travel and his- tory books figured prominently in the collection. His 1803 catalogue shows 17 editions of Horace and only three of Shakespeare and Milton. In 1882-83, Sotheby’s sale of Beckford’s library at the request of his descendants was marked by English ra German competitive bidding Yor a Dante manuscript with 81 ‘illustrations by Botticelli. The German government’s victory caused great consternation among the English, but apparently also rendered Bismarck furious because payment had to be made from a secret service grant. Whether this caused a reduction of the chancel- lor’s spies is unknown *. Alliance In spite of the briefness of the two weeks preceding exams, Alli- ance board members still attended ‘Yeconferences at neighboring col- leges. On Sunday afternoon, a con- ference was held on parliament- ary procedure and Bryn Mawr was represented at Ursinus’ Conference on Pennsylvania Politics on Mon- day, January 13. Roberta Holder, head of Debate Team, plans a_ practice meeting with Haverford shortly after the exams, | Following their request for a joint meeting, the Pennsylvania Military Academy will join the Alliance on Fébruary 5. An in- formal panel discussion of “The Betty Peh-ti Wei to Richard Meung-ta Liu, Rich. Reason for the Decline in United Lisa Blau ’55 to Sheward Hag-/|States Prestige” is scheduled to erty. be held the Common Room. It will be open to anyone wishing to at- tend. BRYN MAWR Breakfast Luncheon Afternoon Tea Dinner Sunday Dinner —---».- Felephone. ~ LAWrence 5-0386 Ce ee ee ee SCC CCC SCE ECL Es eoeeceeeeeee CLOSED ALL DAY MONDAY SPECIAL tea AND BANQUETS ARRANGED COLLEGE INN OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 9:00-11:00 A.M. 12:00 - 2:00 P.M. 3:30 - 5:00 P.M. 5:30 - 7:30 P.M. 12:00 - 7:30 P.M. eee wwe Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania Page Four THE COLLEGE NEWS Wednesday, January 15, 1958 Regeneration Is Significant Theme Of Ulysses Says Professor Quinn “Joyce is saying in Ulysses ‘Ye must be born again’, keynoted Frank Quinn in his lecture on the Irish novelist’s opus magnum presented by the Arts Forum on Wednesday, January 8. He went on to say, “This is so familiar and obvious that we don’t take it ser- iously.” Frank Quinn, who is Assistant Professor of English at Haverford, went on to examine regeneration as the significant message of Ulysses. He rejected physical death, the death of complete self-despair, and the death of submissive return to the pious world that chants “ye must be born again.” The only death out of which new life can spring, he pointed out, is self- knowledge. Man in search of him- self is being fashioned on the an- vil of experience. To the extent he does not flinch, he fashions him- self; to the extent that he realizes the blows are right and good, he comes to a realization of himself. To demonstrate the application of this idea, Mr. Quinn dealt with the five main characters in Ulys- ses, and traced the development of two of them, _ (Reading from the first lines of the book a description of Buck Mulligan, priestly in his dressing- gown, Mr, Quinn noted that though Mulligan spoke the truth when playing at being a priest, he was ~essentially little more than a play- er of women. Along with Haines, a white-man’s-burden sort of im- perialist, Buck Mulligan played at being holy. These men, said Quinn, were in a wrong relation- ship with life. Stephen Dedalus, in love with intellectualism and the intellectual he presumed himself to be, killed his mother spiritually and sought a father confused with himself. The character roughly antithet- ical to Stephen Dedalus is Leopold Bloom, a man who centers an in- effectual life around a dead son. To introduce this character, and to present Joyce’s method of using interwoven images to get across ideas, Mr. Quinn passed out mim- eographed sheets of a passage deal- ing with Bloom’s relationship with his wife Molly. He then read a version of his own, reversing the images: The road to Bloom’s finding a son in Stephen is one fraught with nightmares of suffering and the daily suffering of easily created paradises smashed by realism. Only when Bloom and Stephen both throw themselves and their principles away do they find them- selves and find each other in a father-son relationship. Bloom, by saving Stephen from the police, becomes a man, giving up his vi- carious position as son; Stephen finds his father in Bloom, gives up the father-image of his intellec- tualism, which opens the way to his becoming a man. By first stating the simple un- derlying message of Ulysses, then by outlining its demonstration in the lives of characters, ramifying by quotation, Mr. Quinn dealt di- rectly with a book he said “offered many delightful digressions.” He noted that while one must have read, understood, and admired Ulysses to be a cultured reader, it would probably take longer to un- derstand it fully than ‘the seven years Joyce spent writing it. The Suburban Travel Agency | SUBURBAN SQUARE, ARDMORE — Agents for Airlines, Steamship, Tours, Resorts NO EXTRA CHARGE TO YOU! 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Salary for undergraduates, $260 a month; $285 to $350 for graduate students. ; Many more summer camp posi- tions have come in during the last week. New York State Professional Positions: ‘Applications for the next examination close January 17th, Blanks available at the Bureau. Open to citizens of the United States, not to New York State residents only. Notice post- ed. Doubleday and Company, New York: Training program in the publishing field. $60 a week. Typ- ing and shorthand necessary be- fore beginning work in September. Further information at The Bureau. Clergymen and Psychiatrist Convene In Panel Discussion The Common Room was the scene last night of the Interfaith Association’s Panel on marriage. Four men had been asked to speak on the subject: the Rev. Robert James, speaking from the Protestant point of view, the Rabbi Theodore Gordon, of the Main Line Reform Temple, Mr. Dennis Clarke who spoke from the point of view of the Catholic layman, and Dr. Phillip Roche, a psychiatrist. Connie Brown, vice-president of the Interfaith Association, intro- duced the speakers and also Mrs. Hugh Borton, wife of the Presi- dent of Haverford College, was there: “representing the point of view of the Bryn Mawr alumna,” said Connie. Mr. James opened the discussion with what he called not the Protestant point of view, but a Protestant point of view.” He said that to the Protestant, marriage gets its religious origin from the concept of the Creation. It sug- gests, he said: “essential cumpli- mentarity by Divine Intent.” Hence marriage. is a “being to- gether” in the three kinds of love: eros—love in the sense of love for an object of desire, philia— love in the sense of living success- fully together and with the com- munity .. . having a common in- terest, and agapé — love in the Don’t be late for exams Have your watch repaired at WALTER J. COOK Bryn Mawr About Marriage sense of care for each other be- cause of God’s care, Mr. Clarke spoke of the “indis- soluble contract” of marriage. It it, in the eyes of the. Catholic Church, a contract between the two parties involved and God. Thus it represents a “sharing of the life of God ... actually living in com- munion with the spirit of creat- ivity.” saat Rabbi Gordon spoke from the Jewish point of view. He empha- sized the fact that to the Jew, the home and the family plays a much more prominent role than in the other . faiths? Hence, the conse- crated state that is marriage is much more important and (al- though divorce is relatively easy) lasting. The most important thing is the emphasis upon the positive value of the family and the home,” Dr. Roche, the psychiatrist. said that the man in his profession was in the position of observing all three faiths ... that his primary concern was with the elements which were against happiness in marriage , . . the anxieties which confront couples. He emphasized maturity and the ability to break away from parental ties as two of the most important prere- quisites. A discussion period followed. LA 5-0570 LA 5-0326 JEANNETT'S Bryn Mawr Flower Shop, Inc Member Florists’ Telegraph Delivery Association Wm. J. Bates, Jr. 823 Lancaster Ave. Manager Bryn Mawr, Pa. Compliments of HAVERFORD PHARMACY Haverford, Pa. 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