] “jng and \% VOL. XLII, NO,15 ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1957 © Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1957 PRICE 20-CENTS Arts Council to Sponsor Talented Ambitious Arts Night In Skinner by Gretchen Jessup Arts Night is something about which I personally can never help but become most enthusiastic. But it is. an event which in the past has never been as good as it could be. However, Arts Night is, as an idea, something quite special. This year with the sponsorship of the Arts’ Council and with simply a greater spontaneous student inter- est, it should be a performance, in terms of improved quality and content, quite different from pre- vious years. Arts Night provides a chance for those who are interested to see what is going on around Bryn Mawr in the... way..of..crigina}, drama, dance, and music; and a chance for those who. want to] perform, who. want to display their respective talents—singing, acting, painting stage sets, composing— before an audience to do so. For both of these groups, Arts Night is a very good chance to meet on the common ground of perform- ance, entertainment, and critical appreciation. From a strictly production point of view, too, Arts Night is for everyone. It steps outside the sometimes rigid boundaries of habit, class and club for its partic- ipants and asks that anyone who is interested in music or pub- licity, stage crew or comic parody, verse drama or descriptive dancé, to come work and contribute to it. The requirement this year is only that the performance be as good as students can make it. And this is a very good thing to work for, we feel, and a satisfying one; by the way of corollary: the more people who help with Arts Night, Continued on Page 6, Column 5 Bryn Mawr, Hood Here In 4-College Girls Take Honors ‘Sports Play Day’ Exciting moment during Play Day! On Saturday, March 2, Bryn Mawr played host to Hood, Gouch- er and Barnard Colleges at a Sports Play Day. Hood carried off the honors in the swimming and basketball matches while Bryn Mawr won the fencing and bad- minton events. Basketball by Kitty Stoddert The resplendent white, blue, green, and gold tunics of the var- ious basketball teams filled the ‘gym throughout t of the morn- afternoon, grudgingly giving place only to the embattled badminton players. At the end of = day, Hood emerged as the un- ‘peat-| ic en Bryn Mawr, 16 ro 14;. Goucher, 17 to 8, and Barnard, 21 to 3. The Hood team combined. -accurate shooting with quick passing and fast moving, and early in every game established a lead over the less exuberant opposing players. The efficient and unperturbed Goucher placed second in the com- petition, topping Brwn Mawr, 10 to 8, and Barnard 13 to 8. Bryn Mawr’s: performance how- ever, disappointed most of her fans. The first game against Hood. was rather badly played and it was felt that the Goucher game could have been wen with just a little more effort. But Bryn Mawr, al- ways slow to get started, played best in the last. and easiest game, that with Barnard, and won 16 to 8 The Barnard team, handicapped by extreme inaccuracy in shooting, | | tried to make up for this deficiency by playing with great determina- tion. Unfortunately, as the Bryn Mawr varsity has also learned by bitter experience, spirit will not replace points lost through unsatis- factory “skills” and Barnard suffer- ed defeat in every game. Miss Schmidt Also Stars The real heroine of the day was Miss Schmidt, who refereed all the basketball games. A bad cold’ not- withstanding, she valiantly raced jup_and down the gym, —as—long-— looping passes whizzed from one end of the court to the other. Her endurance was a shining example to the less hardy players who lay gasping at the end of every short quarter. More important than the actual scores of these games was the gen- eral feeling of the . participants that this basketball tournament was fun. Enjoyment, rather than competition, was the keynote of the Play Day, and its great suc- cess can in part be traced to the fact that the girls from ‘all four colleges were friends instead of opponents by the ve. of the after-| noon. Continued on Page £ , Column 4 Alliance Speakers Will Discuss The Mid-East Problem On Wednesday and Thursday, March 18 and 14, the Alliance Con- ference on Middle Eastern Affairs will be held. from both the Arab World and the|! West, the program is designed as an educational service to present the various viewpoints. Dr. Fayez Sayegh, Acting Di- rector of the Arab States Delega- | tion Office in New York, will deliv- er the first lecture, “The Changing Situation in the Middle East” at 12:80 on March 18. That evening at 8:30, His Excellency, Moussa Shabandar, Ambassador from Iraq to the United States, will discuss “Traqin the Center of the. Middle. East.” The following day at 12:30, the topic, “The U.S. and the Arab East’ will be treated by J. C. Hur- ewitz, Associate Professor of Gov- ernment at the Near and Middle East Institute at Columbia. The Alliance strongly urges all students to attend an informal dis- cussion to be held in the Common Room at 2:15 on March 14, The speakers have complied with a re- quest to remain a second day ex- pressly for this purpose. Mrs. E. S. Lower New School Head Announcement was made on March 2 by Miss Katharine E. Mc- Bride, President of the College, of i|the appointment of Mrs. Edward S. Lower as Professor of Social Economy and Director of the Grad- uate Department of Social Eco- nomy and Social Research at the College. Mrs. Lower succeeds the late Dr. Marion Hathway. Mrs. Lower, a resident of West Chester, Pennsylvania, has been a member of the faculty since 1946. She holds a doctor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin. Dur- the National War Labor Board in the Disputes Division and the Wage Stabilization Section in the Philadelphia region. Her husband id a Philadelphia lawyer. The Department, one of the four charter members of the American Association of Schools of Social Work, was founded at Bryn Mawr in 1915 to offer graduate degrees in social work and social research. Calendar Wednesday, March 6 8:30 p.m.—Friends of Music Concert, with Claude Jean Chias- son, Paul Gavert, Carleton Sprague Smith. Goodhart. Thursday, March 7 » 8:30 p.m. — Richmond Latti- more, _ will give. a poetry .read~. ing at a meeting of the Classics Club. Common Room, Goodhart. Sunday, March 10 7:30 p.m.—Quaker Meeting at Chapel. Music Room, Goodhart. Wednesday, March 13 12:30 p.m. — Alliance confer- ence on Middle Eastern affairs begins. Mr. Fayez Sayegh will speak. Goodhart Hall. 8:30 pm. — Ambassador Moussa Shabandar from Iraq will speak. Thursday, March 14 12:30 p.m.—Mr. J. C. Hurewitz _-will be the last of the Alliance . speakers. «Goodhart. esenes Featuring speakers | Bryn Sbetintare will soon find ‘themselves carefully observed for a period of four days. Starting ‘Sunday, March 10, a group of dis- tinguished educators will be visit- ing the campus as members of the ‘Middle States Evaluation Team, a ‘survey committee engaged in ac- ‘ereding colleges in this ara. After visiting classes and the dormitor- 181 BMC Students Hold Scholarships Bryn Mawr awarded $139,385.00 in scholarship aid to its undergrad- uates this year. Mrs. Dorothy Nep- reported last week that 181 stu- dents were receiving grants to pay for tuition-and other expenses. ' The scholarships are. shared by 42 freshmen, which is approxi- mately one-quarter of the class. Among the holders are winners of the National Merit Awards, the Procter and Gamble Scholarship, and the Lillia Babbitt Hyde Foun- dation Scholarship in Science. Two upperclassmen hold awards under the General Motors Scholarship Plan. Over 68% of the group are re- ceiving scholarships in the amount of $500.00 or over, with an average grant of $770.50 per student. The tuition fee for the College is $850.00 The College provided about 40% of the assistance to the students, Mrs. Marshall said, with alumnae business and industry, professional group and individual donors mak- ing up the balance. Mrs. Marshall also reported that in a survey made of all under- graduates last year, about 50% reported holding paid jobs during the academic term, with total earn- ings of $24,000.00. |__ Other forms of—assistamee given to students at Bryn Mawr to meet college expenses are supplied by two loan funds, ene established by the alumnae and the other by a gift from the late Mrs. Gerard Swope of New York, an alumna. of the College. This year student loans amounted to $8,195.00. Lattimore Will Read Poems, Translations Professor Richmond Lattimore will read some of his translations from the Greek and original poetry tomorrow night in the Common Room, (Goodhart, at 8:30. Recently returned from last sem- ester’s sabbatical leave, which he spent working on lectures delivered at Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Lattimore is distinguished as a) modern poet as well as an eminent translator. The Classics Club, which is sponsoring the reading, will serve coffee afterwards. “Joseph and His Brothers”, an address delivered by Mark} Van Doren at Bryn Mawr, has been printed and is now avail- able. Students who wish to own | copies may procure them at the circulation desk in the Library. The address was part of the program in commemoration of Thomas Mann held in Goodhart Hall on Oct. 5, 1956. per Marshall, Dean of the College. Many Aspects Of The College - Will Be Observed, Evaluated ies, talking to the students and studying all aspects of the college, the members will submit a prelim- inary report on Wednesday, March 13. The final report on Bryn Mawr College will be’ a written one. The members of the Middle States Evaluation Team are: Chairman: Mother E. M. O’Byrne, President, Manhattan- ville College of the Sacred Heart, Purchase, New York. Organization and administration: Preisdent Otto F. Kraushaar, Goucher College, Towson, Balti- more, Maryland. Finance and plant: John H. Gil- iece, Assistant Treasurer and Con- troler, The Johns Hopkins. Univer. sity, Baltimore, Maryland. Program: President Paul 8. Havens, Wilson College, Chambers- burg, Pa. Virgil C. Boekelheide, Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York. Dean Wayne Vasey, School of Social Work, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Mrs. Virginia Bellsmith, Profes- sor of Social Work, New York School of Social Work, 2 East 91st St., New York, N. Y. Graduate Program: Dr. Putnam Jones, Dean 6f Graduate School, University of Pittsburgh, Pitts- burgh, Pa.- Library: Joseph UH. Brewer, Associate Librarian, Queens Col- lege, Flushing, New York. ‘* State Education Department: Charles H. Boehm, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Harrisburg, Pa. BMC Will Receive Yearly Poetry Prize Bryn Mawr College has been chosen by the Board of Directors of the Academy of American Poets as one of ten universities and col- leges to which a $100 poetry prize to be known as the Academy of American Poets Poetry Pfize will be awarded ape ig Ten institutions a year will each receive the Prize. Bryn Mawr was chosen for “representing one of the outstanding institutions in the country which does much to en- courage interest in poetry.” The plan of the Academy is to have the English Department of the college administer the con- test itself, or with a committee of judges, to select the poet who has written the best poem or group of poems submitted during the year. It has not yet been decided whether Hthe-eontest~at Bryn M open only to undergraduates, or — whether it will include full time graduate students as well. It is hoped that the contest will start at once so that the first win- ner this year would be selected by Commencement time. A major activity of the Academy His to recognize and reward poets of proven merit with Fellowship awards or prizes of $5,000. A group of 12 Chancellors selects the poets to be honored. Recipients of the $5,000 Fellowships in past years, have been Edwin Markham, Edgar Lee Masters, E. E. Cummings, Robert Frost, and William Carlos ‘Williams in 1956. The Academy was organized in 1934. ae _ when - ferent in each department. ' man’, nor—in a case not applicable to Bryn Mawr—to train _ sees the need for a : reading assigned for preparation and the methods of con- ‘good. The former Chancellor of the University of Chicago’s in che introduction “into a life of learning” and as a way of being - shown “how to-learn”? How many Bryn Mawrters view col- Cd meni Page Two THE COLLEGE NEWS Wednesday, March 6, 1957 THE COLLEGE NEWS FOUNDED IN 1914 : Published weekly during the College Year (except during Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter holidays, and during examina- tion weeks) in the interest 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 a phenomenon familiar only to the seniors, who, rhen questioned about. it, murmur only. to th® seniors, who tion for comprehensive exams before rushing off to the lib- rary to confer for.a.couple of hours pehind closed doors. The number: of hours spent in comp conferences, the amount of ducting the sessions vary from department to department so that the person desirous of information gets conflicting reports. Generally speaking, the comp conference is designed to prepare the student for the three final comprehensive exam- inations in her major subject, exam requirements being dif- Preparation usually takes the. form of assigned reading or other work designed to supple- ment knowledge already gained from regular courses in the major field. Methods of conducting the conferences differ— sometimes one professor is in charge of the conferences for a semester while in other departments, professors may alter- nate sessions. Because policy differs with each department, students are confused about the function and form of comp conferences. - We feel that steps should be taken to clarify the part which the comp conferences play in the student’s senior year. This clarification is especially urgent for the benefit of the juniors, but it is also necessary to let students in all classes know wh: t to expect in their senior year. We are not advo- cating a policy of unity among the departments in their comp conference set-up, but rather a policy of clarification of the aims and methods of each department. We feel that each department should hold a meeting for the benefit of junior and prospective majors in which its particular comp con- ference method is explained, as has been done by some de- partments in the past. This would enable students to see the college curriculum in its entirety and eliminate doubts about what happens in senior comp conferences. The Age Of Cant A penetrating analysis of today’s education was pre- sented by Dr. Robert Hutchins, of the Fund for the Republic, at an intercollegiate conference on “The Character of the Present Generation” at Sarah Lawrence March 2. To Dr. Hutchins, this is an “age of cant”, an “age of pub- lic relations” in which the problem is to look good, not be remarks about “cant” in reference to education are partic- ularly significant io all students who should be aware that the true purpose of education is at present under a cloud. The aim of education is not, as Dr. Hutchins pointed out, to prepare the student to win quiz shows, nor to accommodate young people until they-go to work, nor to produce the “‘whole the businessman or football player. The best practical edu- cation, noted Dr. Hutchins, may be the most theoretical one, that although the facts of life may change, the theories aos CBR ELS L= | Goldilocks at the door knocks ... ln I. Concerning the threefold nature of reality. Upon a time once three (1.) bears in a great forest (2.) Yelept were they Meopold, Lolly and Lilly ... peculiar how con- substantial were Lolly and Lilly to the masculine eye ; . . lived in a small house (3). II. Tramp, tramp, tramp the bears are marching.' Jingle, tap tap tap WITHIN .. . three chairs, three bowls of porridge (oaten, uneat- en) three beds (4) No bears with- in... tramp, tramp... far far their footsteps,, but “who is. the third that walks along besides you?” (5) III. Snnnnoooorrrrrkkkk. ZZZzzzzz22. Now into deep slumber the fair Goldlilocks has fallen, but. rudely her dreams are broken by: Tap-ta-tap, father bear’s walking stick. (6.) He enters bearing on the stick his ovwngenen hat (lighted) : the hat speaks (7.): “Who has been sleeping in my bed.” (8.) “Quis in meo toro dormuit?” Good night sweet ladies, good night, good night. - - Textual Quotations Medias Res By Ellie Winsor ficant number to the ancients. 2. Forest—may or may not be a symbol according to weight’ given to influence of D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterly’s Lover. 3. The Freudian feminine sym- bolism of house explains the dis- comfort of Goldlilocks (also’ fem- inine) as an intruder there in. 4, The repetition of the three acts as a Wagnerian leit-motif with certain historical reference to act- ual fiction. c.f. Merchant of Venice from Freud’s viewpoint. 5. This must be a quotation. c. f. I. S. Eliot Wasteland also Joyce Ulysses the invisible sensible pres- ence is very surrealistic. c.f. Mus- eum of Modern Art.. c.f. New York. 6. Very definitely a SYMBOL. As are Maypoles, swords, etc. etc. 7. This section has been ac- cused of “shifty p.v.” that is no central intelligence, — 8. No symbolism here... In studying the text it is impor- |tant that no one element be over- rated or given undue attention. Still it will be obvious to scholars that this has exercised a definite influence on later works where re- ality is also treated as real. In Red Riding Hood note the recur- rent theme of the bed,. which is hardly a symbol, but rather a sym- 1. Note: three was a very signi- bol for a symbol. From The Balcony Le Misanthrope by Helene Valabregue Moliere’s Le Misanthrope has ben the subject of violent disputes for nearly three hundred years: does Moliere identify himself with Alceste, Philinte, both, or neither? Is Alceste more tragic than he is comic? Is the play not too phi- losophical and devoid of action to be considered real theatre? ‘The play’s greatness lies in this very quality of being “all things to all men” and in the endless variety of nuances of interpretation which it allows. We were very fortunate to have the opportunity, Monday night, of seeing the company of Madeleine Renaud. and Jean-Louis Barrault produce Le Misanthrope in Roberts Hall at Haverford. This was the company’s last performance in this country and Monsieur Barrault prefaced the performance with a charming and gracious speech ded- icating it to the “spirit of child- hood” incarnated by Moliere, a spirit in which youth is the test- ing period,and to the friendship of the United States and France. Technical and Artistic Aspects The troup’s adaptation to the limited space of the Haverford stage was a feat in itself. The ayers must have had to do a con- siderable amount of reblocking, as the stage was certainly smaller '. . “The present task of educators is to figure out the pur- pose of education and interpret it to the public”, aid Dr. Hut- chins. The aim of a university or college should be that of veaching its students to lead lives of significance and to fos- ter independence of thought. Perhaps all this does not sound new to Bryn Mawr which seems to believe as strongly as Dr. Hutchins in the value of pure liberal arts. education... Yet how many of its stu- dents really view their liberal education, received here, as an lege as the beginning, rather than the end, of their intellec- tual careers? How many succumb to the “spirit of cant”, and lament that a major in philosophy will not be useful in 4n advertising agency? How many are trying to be inde- pendent in their thoughts, instead of falling back upon con- formity, more out of laziness than out of fear? Dr. Hutchins change of attitude towards education on than what they are used to. ~~ Tie) stage effects were not complicated, but gave an air of authenticity to the setting. Despite the limited facilities of the Haverford stage, the perform- ance was technically as well as artistically superb. The comic as- pect of the play was brought out to an extent I had not. imagined possible from my readings of it. The two “petit aiarquis”, in their almost too - ridiculous costumes, played the part of extravagant dandies to perfection, complete. with affected gestures and lavish flourishes of their beplumed hats. One of them, Acaste, also succeed- ed admirably in conveying a real : of the general public. Perhaps it is time for the ecific student to do the same. tk 3 “person, silly perhaps, but under- neath»the affectation, naive and very human. Excellence of Minor Roles The excellence of the minor roles in general was an outstanding feature of the performance. Pierre Bertin’s rendering of Oronte— “homme au sonnet”, the pompous, pretentious “literary man”, full of self-importance and vain insincer- ity, was delightfully comic, and true to character. Philinte, the “raisonneur”, portrayed by Jean Desailly, provided a striking con- trast to Alceste’s outbursts of bile with his placid good-naturednass, although those. who consider him Moliere’s mouthpiece must have ben disappointed by his lack of vigour and comparative ineffectu- ality next to Barrault’s eloquent rendering of Alceste’s demands for sincerity. ‘Natalie Nerval, stiff and haughty as Arsinoe, the prude, caught the spirit of this frustrated, petty old maid. Her make-up was particu- larly good, and the scene between her and Celimene in its superb contrast of the rancorous old maid and the flippant, witty young co- quette, was one of the most artis- tically refined and elegant scenes I have ever seen on stage, The only disappointing minor character was Eliante, who, despite her charming delivery of the speech on lovers’ pblindnesses to their adored one’s faults, was on the whole insipid and colorless to a greater degree than the role re- Letter To The Editor Open Letter to Bryn Mawr College In the world today there are few remaining frontiers to female equality. One of the last is the mental sport of CHESS—the old- est game extant in its original form, the most ingenious and com- plex game invented by the human mind, The Pennsylvania State Chess Federation is interested in the formation of a Chess Club at Bryn Mawr. (To the best of my knowl- edge. this will be the first at a women’s college.)- The PSCF will support you in the organization of a club and its program and furnish aid in the acquirement of chess sets and books. Also, the men in the Haverford College Chess Club have volunteered to teach begin- ners this fascinating game. The, Philadelphia Metropolitan Intercollegiate Chess League this year includes teams from Haver- ford and St. Joseph’s Colleges and from the Universities of Pennsyl- vania, Temple and Ogontz Center of Penn State. The winner ‘in’ this feague will receive the Girard K. Rosenblum Trophy and will com- pete with other regional winners for the Pennsylvania Intercolleg- iate Chess Championship. The de- fending champion is the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania. Looking forward to the entry of a Bryn Mawr College Chess Team, I remain, or Yours in the interest of chess, Morde Treblow, V. Pres., PSCF College Program Those interested in creating a Bryn Mawr Chess club, please sign up on lists posted on the hall bulletin boards. Schubert’s Mass Sung March 3rd Franz Schubert’s “Mass in E Flat” was sung in Goodhart audi- torium on Sunday evening, March 3, by the Bryn Mawr College Chorus and the Lehigh University Glee Club, conducted by Robert L. Goodale, director of the Bryn Mawr Chorus, and accompanied on the ‘piano by Lehigh’s director, Robert Cutler. The Reverend Lowell Lentz of the Student Christian Movement gave the Invocation, Prayer, and Benediction of the service, which took the place of the regular Sun- day evening Chapel service. Next Sunday, March 10, the Bryn Mawr College Chorus will travel to Lehigh University at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, to repeat the performance, this time with an orchestra. = One just can’t resist a chuckle at some of the ads in the old copies of The College News. Like these, for instance, from the March 7, 1917 issue: “For the Athletic Girl . . . some- thing Spalding, Correct . Gym- nasium and Outdoor Sports Ap- Madeleine Renaud } ‘Madeleine Renaud was an en- chanting Celimene. Her manner, voice and gestures conveyed com- pletely the wily charm of a bril- liant, witty, utterly feminine young woman, capable of turning every situation to her advantage by a look, a seemingly innocent ex- planation, a gay laugh, and even of retiring gracefully after her hypocrisy and false flattery are exposed. __. Jean-Louis. Barrault’s.. portrayal of Alceste brought out all the rid- icule of the “bilious lover” and tHe tempestuous emotional nature of the idealist who cannot bear to _ Continued on Page 6, Col. 3 athletic pastime.” Or this one: “Sport Hats... Colorings and design of such originality that they are..irresis- tible.. (Then a picture with . . .) Pauvre petit pantin! Quel malheur vous ne pouvez pas porter wun.. chapeau de chez Ferlé Heller.” The Bum Blouse Shop, no, par- don, it’s the Blum Blouse Shop, “is assortment of Georgette Crepe Blouses.” Here’s a neat idea. . . if pos- sible: (but it’s kind of hard to imagine). “Send your films by mail and pictures will be returned with- Pauvre pantin! Ne in 24 hours.” Maybe pony express ? “ % parel and Implements, for“every y) now replete with a-most- inclusive ——__ * Wednesday, March 6, 1957 THE COLLEGE NEWS Page Three. Students Describe Their Varied Summer Job Experiences Dalmer Tells of Scientific Summer: lllustrating Hom Own Experiences by Barbara Ann Palmer ’5 Summer jobs in the field of sci- ence are not always easy to find. Many industrial _ companies. are hesistant to hire students who have not completed their ‘junior’ year in college; they do not want to spend their time training individ- uals only to have them leave after three months and never return. During the summer after one’s junior year, however, jobs are quite abundant; industry is now willing to train a student with the hope that after graduation she will return as a permanent employee. Last summer I worked in the Or- ganic Chemistry’ Research Depart- ment of Ciba Pharmaceutical Labs in Summit, New Jersey as a lab- oratory assistant. I found this pos- ition very rewarding for many rea- sons. The pay granted by the ma- _jority of large industrial labs is “quite good, ranging from a mini- mum of $60.00 per week to as high as $90.00. More important though was the fact that the work was interesting and not at all routine (i.e., one girl on campus will con- fess working in a lab for more money, but her job was shaving one guinea pig after another!). I was trained in many new lab- oratory techniques and, although with the limited knowledge in chemistry of an undergraduate I could not do any individual —re- search, I felt much pleasure as I increased my knowledge of the methods of pharmaceutical re- search to the point of being of value to the laboratory in which I worked with a minimum of super- vision. Ciba Pharmaceutical Labs have the policy of hiring for the summer a number of girls from various,col- leges (usually one from each).Till last year no one from Bryn Mawr had applied for a summer position in- this fairly recently formed com- pany. Thus, when I was interview- ed by the field representatives through the Chemistry Depart- ment, I had a distinct advantage because they wanted a representa- tive from Bryn Mawr and also because I lived close enough to the laboratories so that transporta- tion would be no problem. The policy of hiring'a number of col- lege students led to the oppor- tunity of supplementing interest- ing work with interesting associa- tions. The only disadvantage of this position was the fact that an em- ployee without a degree had to join the Union, ipso facto—pay Un- ion dues and punch a time clock at 8:15 every morning. But even\this disadvantage was overshadowed by the experience gained working in one’s own field with people sharing a mutual interest. This job also gave the opportunity of discover- ing chemistry was my major con- cern—perhaps if I had not worked at. Ciba this summer I would not intend to enter graduate school in the field of Organic Chemistry next, September. Lab, Office Yield Financial Rewards Office jobs have been the most numerous for some time. This year (1956) these 110 students worked in banks, general business offices, industrial, medical, political, etc.; they were tellers, bookkeep- ers, typists, clerks, receptionists, and girl Fridays. In most cases, they worked for the entire summer or about three and a half months. Camp and recreation positions are readily available to interested students. Camp directors have had difficulty for some years in filling counselor vacancies. The short season and comparatively low: pay have discouraged many“who might otherwise enjoy an outdoor sum- mer, Playground leaders and swimming pool lifeguards usually work a longer season and at better pay. Being a waitress in a hotel or restaurant is usually considered the most lucrative summer job, but, this past year, a slow season at most resorts, resulted in poor tips and low pay. The average for 1956 waitresses—$357—-was below even Continued on Page 4, Col. 1 Bureau Of Recommendations Compiles Summer Employment Facts and Figures REPORT OF SUMMER JOBS, 1956 The following 1956 job report has been compiled by the Bureau of Recommendations. The Vocational Committee did an efficient job this year in getting fellow students to fill out the questionnaires asking about summer activities, the result producing a better return than ever ore. The percentage of undergraduates reporting paid summer jobs, h ever, remains about the same and the probabilities are that most aay of the others do not. those ‘who work for pay always do return their questionnaires while _The kinds of positions and work available remain much the same ich year. The average amount earned in 1956 ($401), however, show- a substantial increase over the 1955 figure of $335. Bryn Mawr also es not find itself too far behind at least one man’s college which ht be supposed to run a good deal higher. only about $50 more a student than Bryn Mawr’s. Bryn Mawr’s 1956 figures are as follows: In, 1955, Yale’s figure Realizing that. this is the time for students to start thinking about summer jobs, the NEWS has asked five Bryn Mawr students to write ac- counts. of their summer jobs in 1956. We are also publish- ing a report on 1956 summer experiences of Bryn Mawrters compiled by the Bureau of Recommendations and _ the National Park Employees Work Hard Also Play Hard In Montana Rockies by Adrian Tinsley ’58 “I spent last summer in Montana as a clerk in the gift shop of the Many Glacier Hotel, Glacier Na- tional Park. I can’t think of a nicer Vocational Committee. way to spend a summer. Counseling In Harlem Day Camp Was Useful Social Work Practice by Mimi Machado ’57 This summer I worked for eight weeks in a day camp run by a community center in Harlem. The job was fairly typical: I had a group of 17 eight and nine year old girls who came to the center every day. We did the usual arts and crafts and activities and went on trips around New York City. One _tunusual_.aspect..of the joh, however, was that we were responsible for planning the daily programs for our respective groups. There were no set activities and it was left to us to entertain the children. It was a rugged summer, but fun and rewarding, and there were other advantages as' well. I got my job through The Summer Experi- ence in Social Work, which I heard about from our Bureau of Recom- mendations. This group places its members in the positions they de- Joh As Traveling Counselor Is Fun by Lucy Wales ’59 « When the train left Boston for the West with only four of the ex- pected five campers on board, I had a feeling that my summer job would be unusual. It was. “My official position was that of camp counselor, but the camp dif- fered in many ways from most. The 90 campers, of whom 19 were girls between the ages of 12 and 18, were divided into four auton- omous groups. Three of these fol- lowed a rotating plan, camping in various places around the Zuni mountains in New Mexico, travel- ling around in Colorado or Utah, and using the base camp near Gal- lup, N. M. for the last third of the summer. Life for the first two-thirds of the summer was based on making and breaking camp until the basic routines were learned, at which time many other activities became predominant. These included every- thing from hunting potsherds to capturing a baby rattlesnake (later pickled by one of the boys’ groups to the consternation of all) and participating in a rodeo and two brandings, as well as visiting such National Monuments as Mesa Verde and the Great Sand Dunes. I was introduced to the possibil- sire and then tries to provide them with the most comprehen- sive idea of the profession of social work possible in a short space of time. There were 50 of us in the group and we had four day-long meet- ings, during which we learned about many of the different forms =A O£-—-gocial- ‘WOrks Case Workers; group workers, researchers and gso- ciologists talked to us. We visited the Fordham, NYU and Columbia Schools of Social Work. Among other things, we were taken through and told about a branch}. of the Sesnvtnent of Welfare, that part of the United Nations concerned with international social welfare and a “typical” settlement house. In short,.we were given a pretty complete idea of the many kinds of social work that exist, and I feel that for anyone who is even ‘remotely considering the possibil- ities of a career in social work, an opportunity of this kind is invalu- able, and a necessity. Waitressing, Tiring But Lucrative Work by Debby Ham ’59 Among summer jobs for college students waitressing is probably the commonest, most arduous and most variable from place to place. Hotels and resorts are willing to hire flocks of undergraduates every summer because extra help is need- ed at this season and because wait- ressing needs ‘no special training. For unskilled work, waitressing is probably one of the most lucra- tive and easily available summer jobs. Salaries are generally low but tips make up one-half to two- thirds of a summer’s earnings. Al- though reports vary widely, it is possible to make as much as $800 or $900 a season and usual to make at least $450. A very popu- lous resort, where there is a fre- quent turnover will ultimately pay more than one where visitors re- main for two or three weeks. Privileged Society | Jobs in national parks are not available through the Department of the Interior, but are controlled by private companies. In Glacier, the Great Northern Railroad owns and operates all the hotels “and chalets. One must apply through their offices and applications should be in by the middle of so r=> kinds of jobs available for colleg girls in Glacier are typical of those in all national parks. They need a few people for front-office jobs. (switchboard operators, cash- iers, room clerks, gift shop clerks, etc.), waitresses, chambermaids, kitchen girls; laundry girls and so on. The jobs run eight hours a day, six days a week and they all require hard work. Waitresses are the most highly paid. With tips, they average around $590 for the summer. But, paid, possible to get during the first summer. All other jobs pay around $75-80 per month. Chambermaids make about $30 per month extra in tips. course, included. At the end of the summer, transportation home from the park is provided by Great Northern, Hard work and low anaclan sound rather discouraging. At the same time, I wouldn’t trade last summer for any summer in the world. Many Glacier Hotel is right at the shore of Swiftcurrent Lake. Across the water “runs a ridge of the Continental Divide. Rocky Mountain peaks rise on all sides. In the early morning, the snow on the peaks is orange and purple with the alpine glow; in the even- ing, if you climb 300 feet up Mount Alton, you can _ see the sunset reflected in five glacier- fed lakes. As a hotel employee, all the facilities of the park are avail- able to you. Day-Off Occupations The usual day-off occupations at Glacier are hiking and hitchhiking. Hikes range anywhere from five to 25 miles. Most of the. trails run along the Continental Divide, and you can see all of the park spread out around you. Hiking there is an amazing experience. Whether you try to cover ground, or simply sit and count the alpine flowers and make friends with the mountain goats, you won’t forget it. Glacier ‘is only 20 miles from the Canadian border, so you spend many days off in Canada, buying sweaters and skirts from Scotland and the inevitable wool to knit the inevitable ski sweater. People avoiding - the Canadian — tourist towns at the border can hitchhike to Lethbridge, or even as far as Calgary where the famous Rodeo is held. Later in the summer, you'll probably go to Browning, Montana, the capital of the Indian Reserva- being highly altress jobs are almost im-: Room and board is, of © Nurhber of Undergraduates Reporting ......ssssssesssrssssssssesseeessssseeseeeees 504 lities of this job when my brother, Hon. When sou #0 ts He! ‘ a i (81% of the student body at Bryn Mawr) | “la camper in one of the boys’ In most resorts the waitresses| boy movie nee you nie oh ail ‘With Paid Jobs (56% of those reporting) ....... eckscaieite S euaecvevesty 282 groups, returned~from—a—reunion,| > et—to—use—the—same—revreational, PSE SEAR SPL te PY ee With Volunteer Jobs ..... 25}announcing that the “Turquoise| privileges asthe guests. Tennis| he Indians. Valet Meaenaant Caine sssinesosesessssosencevagsascsseines.snesieditiosvotsossosnvesons 62 |Trail” for girls would operate the| courts, swimming pools and the|~ The management at Glacier is Traveling .....cecssssssscsssrssssnssnsvenrssesseerserncensnnnsnenenssnsssonerasssonnsssnaanens, csneeeese 82 | following summer and might need ocean, with some restrictions, are| very nice to work for, as I suspect No. Summer BSD Reported .. 53 |etaff. It did. After application, usually open to all the staff of ais the case in most national ‘parks. |I found myself with a job about | resort. And the kids are a grand bunch Total Earnings ae covted SES $112,735 . which I knew almost nothing, in Waitressing is not glamorous.| (although they’ll tease you all Average Earnings 1,401 spite of my brother’s tales of his|]¢ is hard work, occasionally| summer about being an Easterner). adventures in the previous sum-|chaotic and rather tiresome by | There are all sorts of parties etern- , Number Approximate | mer. Labor Day. The hours, however, ally going on. An orchestra plays Kinds of Paid Summer Work of Students Ave. Earnings} The composite picture of thelgre fairly regular and most places|in the grill and there is dancing Clerks and Typists~.......... oe | $465 summer is a collection of hilarious | are supposed to give a day off each| every night. I didn’t come home Camp Counselors and Riscrention Leaders 49 $220 adventures, shared by camper and|week, +" with much money from my summer Waitresses . 24 $857 counselor alike, in a comparatively} As for the advantages of “meet-| (I suspect that if I hadn’t succum-. j ‘Selling x8 iad = $391 _|rugged life. One of the most im-|ing people,” I would say that was|bed to Canadian wools, I could e Scientific and Téshnies! o 18 $803 - |portant results of this summer was|just so much philanthropical| have cleared about $150). But if Hospital Assistants 16 $305 the acquisition of a deep respect|baloney. You do, of course, meet] you can manage it, working in a Mothers’ Helpers ~~. 1. $223 |for water, strange animals and/|many different sorts, but on their} national park is the nicest way I Other .. ee 31 $887 |the unexpected. _ terms, not yours. know to see the country. et Z PENS : = oe 4 cae Lge ne / OER. Bale. +» en 9s whl’ Se A shop. The other 15 were in Col- dents to.spend. part of the summer listed in the table include six on “$587, the second highest reported; “which is also the general average; Page Four THE COLLEGE NEWS Wednesday, March 6, 1957" Haverford Finds Expansion Of Student Body Over “Optimum 450” Inadvisable by Rita Rubinstein - Several months ago we reprinted from the Haverford News an editorial, “Thoughts on Admis- sions,” that called for consideration of a different method of selecting students—“a method which would give greater weight to the person with scholarly interests and which would preserve the ‘raison d’etre’ of the small liberal arts college “We are disturbed by recent re- ports in Time Magazine that all colleges and universities. are, in tightening their admissions stand- ards, combing high schoolurbia for ‘whole men.’ “The basic point is that the type of entering class one expects to attract is almost complementary to the size of the institution. That is, we may be faced with the choice which elected to remain small and/of keeping our current admissions buck the pressures’ to expand and educate a growing crop of ‘whole men’.” Now Haverford begins a series of reflections on the future of the college—in this instance its size. It should be noted that last year with the approval of a 10% increase in our own enrollment, the college hoped to maintain its “in- tegrity” while answering this “national pressure to expand.” The essence of the recent Haverford editorial is printed below. “We are not number worshipers. We attach no magical power to the figure 450. Yet we submit that a figure ‘somewhere around’ this one should continue to be regarded as the optimum size of the student body. ’STpis is not mete uegimaws -Be- sertion on our part; it comes only after our consideration of all factors which enter into the deter- mination of a College’s enrollment size—factors as diverse as endow- ment;physical plant, goals of the ‘invisible College,’ faculty wishes, population increases, our ‘duty’ to educate the coming generations, and our ‘duty’ to the academic community at large. standards and increasing the en- rollment so that we may continue to attract the same type of student or in deciding to keep the college enrollment at the same level, evolv- ing a ‘new set of admissions criteria. “And a larger student body brings one to consider the problem of student-faculty ratio. Will the number of faculty increase as the student body expands? Or will a greater student load per faculty member help to relieve.the finan- cial pressure on the College and obviate any need for tuition and board increases? “And the question also arises: If Haverford chooses to remain small, can it. attract the capable ton-flicht. facultv it is now en- joying or will outstanding men be lured by offers from larger insti- tutions and industry? “As we enter -this discussion, we are fully aware that we do not have all the answers. Indeed others may be able to point out many fallacies, errors, and examples of hazy thinking. We welcome such correction; the future of the Col- lege is at stake.” a J0B REPORTS Continued from Page 3 the total average. Seven of the 22 students work- ing in stores last summer sold in stores of all kinds, from a board- walk drug store to a resort gift lege Shops which are increasingly popular at large stores. Many of them select the students for looks and personality so that they may model the clothes they sell. The average for all selling—$391—was quite a bit higher than in 1955. Laboratory and technical posi- tions are more and more available to science and mathematics majors. Recruiters coming to the college to interview seniors for perman- ent jobs will often talk to a few juniors or even sophomores about possible opportunities for the sum- mer. The Federal Government of- fers student trainee programs open to all classes and majors in all sciences, for work in various agencies and departments; and hospitals and medical research in- stitutions often hire undergradu- ates as laboratory technicians. The earnings—$803—were far above|.. those for any other kind of sum- mer job. \ Hospitals have an increasingly large number of paid positions available as well as the volunteer. Some offer a short Nurses’ Aide training course followed by a paid job. Office work and recreation programs for the patients are al-|_ ways possible. Each spring calls flood the Bu- reau from mothers wishing stu- that summer work is all volunteer. The other ten miscellaneous po- sitions were one of a kind and ran the gamut from a guest editor. on Mademoiselle to a candy counter girl in a movie theatre. One work- ed in a photographic studio; one ushered at a summer concert ser- ies; one managed the checkroom at a community swimming pool; one modeled; one acted as postmis- tress in a medical school; one work- ed in a factory; one made jewelry; and the tenth sorted in an Army laundry. Some of these students showed ingenuity in finding a job and unusual willingness to take whatever presented itself. MOVIES BRYN MAWR March 6-9—Westward Ho, the Wagons and Disneyland, U.S.A. March 10-L1—A King and Four Queens, March 12-18—Rififi. — ARDMORE March 6-9—Written on the Wind. March. 10-12"The Wrong Man and The Man from Del Rio. ; SUBURBAN March 6-12—The Ship That Died of Shame. March 18—Oklahomal—__ GREEN HILL March 6-18—The Baby and the Battleship. helping with their children. Last year; there were 45 such calls of which we were able to fillonly|( seven, three with ors of the Shipley afd Soren schools, The other eight B Mawr stu- dents holding family jobs found them for themselves. The 31 miscellaneous positions newspapers — average earnings, $401, five in libraries—average “¢hree"in museums—$320; three as} Unbelievable Low Cost ey Europe 60 Deys it, trom $525 me Travel with SITA | Faculty, Alumnae Works Published Several Bryn Mawr faculty mem- bers and alumnae recently made contributions to the new publica- tion list. Geddes MacGregor, Pro- fessor of philosophy and religion, has written The Vatican Revolu- tion, while José Ferrater Mora, Professor of Spanish and philoso- phy has’ contributed Ortega y Gas- set. Germaine Brée, a former facul- ty member, wrote An Age of Fic- tion, The French Novel from Gide to Camus together with Margaret Otis Guiton, Bryn Mawr class of 39. MacGregor’s Vatican Revolution gives the background of the doc- trine of papal infallability, “the death knell of the democratic ele- ment in the Roman Catholic tradi- tion.” Ferrater Mora presents an analysis and criticism of the phi- lospohy of Ortega y Gasset. The Brée-Guiton book is concerned with the development of the modern French literary movement, tracing it through the work of 20 novelists. Bureau Of -Recomm mendations Monday, March 11: Mr. Johns from duPont will see biologists and chemists for lab- oratory and library positions at an open meeting in Room A, Taylor, to which students of all-classes are invited. There will also be indi- vidual appointments for juniors for summer and seniors and graduate students for permanent positions. Sign for these at the Bureau. Tuesday, March 12: _ Miss Wingfield from the Shell Development near San Francisco. will interview chemists for the library and technical files. This is not a summer job. Sign for ap- pointments at the Bureau. Wednesday, March 13: Mr. Evans from Strawbridge and Clothier, the department store in Philadelphia, Ardmore, Jenkintown and Wilmington will see students of all classes at an open meeting in Room A, Taylor. There will be individual. appointments in the afternoon for seniors and graduate students interested. in the paid Executive Training Program. Sign for these at the Bureau. Thursday, March 14: There will be a summer job meeting’ in the Deanery at 4:30 to which all classes are cordially in- vited. THEATRES day, March 9, r ‘Events in Philadelphia Forrest; Maiden Voyage with Melvyn Douglas, Mildred pa Wal- ter Matthau; until Saturday, March 9. Shubert: Damn Yankees with Bobby Clark, Sherry O’Neil; until Satur- Walnut: Orpheus Dcscending—Tennessee Williams’ drama with Mau- March 23. VOVIES Ford, Machiko Kyo. Boyd: Seven Wonders of the World. Fox: Oh, Men! Oh, Women! with Dan Dailey, Ginger Rogers, David reen Stapleton, Robert Loggia, Lois Smith; until Saturday, Arcadia: The Teahouse of the August Moon with Marlon Brando,’Glenn yo Niven, Barbara Rush, Tony Randall. Goldman: Battle Hymn with Rock Hudson, Martha Hyer, Dan Duryea. Midtown: Around the World in 80 Days with David Niven. Randolph: The Ten Commandments with everybody. Stanley: The Wings of Eagles with John Wayne, Dan Dailey, Maureen O’Hata. frans-Lux: Anastasia with Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes. Viking: Three. Violent People with Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter, Tom Tryon. World: Frisky with Gina Lollobrigida, Vittorio De Sica. ACADEMY OF MUSIC Thursday evening, March 7: Jussi Bjoerling in recital. Friday after- noon and Saturday evening, March 8 and 9: Eugene Ormandy con- ducting the Philadelphia Orchestra with Isaac Stern, violinist. Swimming and Badminton Teams Win And Lose As the On Thursday, Feb. 28 the Bryn teams were beaten by Chestnut Hill, 37 to 20 and 33 to 23 respect- ively. Sally Davis, who -has won every diving event this year, Janet Henderson and Judy Robertson were successful in the diving con- tests. In spite of the final score, Ruth Simpson easily won the JV butter- fly and Bunny Dexter was victor- ious in the JV backstroke. Mimi Machado and Betsy Johnson both turned in excellent performances in the varsity backcrawl race. The next meet is with Drexel on Thursday, March 7. In the three latest-badminton matches, the Bryn Mawr _ bad- minton team has won one. On Feb. 18, they matched up six doubles teams for a fun match with the Merion Cricket Club, bowing 5-1. Mawr varsity and JV swimming) Season Progresses Most of the games-were battles of wits, and Bryn Mawr must admit they were “out-psyched.” On Feb. 21, another unorthodox team, one single and four doubles, traveled“ ~ to Drexel. Bryn Mawr‘ triumphed 4-1, winning all of the doubles. On Feb. 27, back again to teams of three singles and two doubles, Bryn Mawr met Ursinus here. The Ursinus varsity triumphed, 4-1 and their J.V., 3-2. GUADALAJARA SUMMER SCHOOL The accredited bilingual school sponsored by the Universidad Auto- noma de Guaralajara and members of Stanford University faculty will offer-in Guadalajara, Mexico, July 1- Aug. 10, courses in art, folklore geography, history, language and literature. $225 covers tuition, board and room. Write Prof. Juan B. Rael, Box K, Stanford Univer- sity, Calif. “Collegiate Hospitality’ YOUR 1957 SUMMER TOUR OF EOROPE Have fun in England, Holland, Germany, Austria, Italy, France, $973, co’ Sail on Switzerland, Belgium. 59-day co-ed tour for colle le onl mplete cost. Escorted by Mr. and Mrs. lean Ml Lablon nt ship “Groote Beer” June 19. Ask now for full details! CULTURAL TRAVEL DIVISION THE HOUSE OF TRAVEL New Y K | . 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He also em- phasized the position of the Unit- ed States in this matter: as a mem- ber of the United Nations Ameri- cans are pledged to the support of the Republic of Israel and, in ad- dition, the United States was di- rectly concerned in the creation of the state. Outlining the difficulties between the Arab and Jewish worlds, Mr. Dudden traced the meaning of “Zionism” and gave particular ref- erence to the First and Second World Wars and their aftermaths. ++ fhe “propiem whieh tne Unived States must deal with now is the post-Second World War tide of nationalism which has united Arabs as well as other nationali- ties and faces. [With the intrusion of an artificially-created state into lands held primarily by Arabs, these Arabs turned for support to the United States and finally to other powers. Thus began the unique struggle in the Middle East, each nation and each race contend- ing for its own lasting and super- ior establishment. Many serious and necessary ques- tions came about as a result of Mr. Dudden’s careful analysis. of past events and their relation to the recent mid-Eastern crisis. Dual allegiance (to country and to her- itage), financial ties and shades of feeling among Jews were each discussed in turn. American sympathy. toward the Republic of Israel was examined, with regard to Jewish influence and support. Numerous personal opinions and experiences were of- fered by members of Mr. Dudden’s audience in relation to this partic- ular point. Further response was given as the discussion shifted to the United States foreign policy. and its actions within the last four months (since Egypt was invad- ed). Mr. Dudden drew the con- clusion that the Administration has been harder recently on the Republic of Israel than it has been on the Arabs. To back his point, he mentioned President Eisenhow- er’s speech concerning the mid- Eastern situation. 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According to Barbara Pinney and Donna Cochrane, co-chairmen of ICG on campus and ‘heads of the Bryn Mawr delegation, the committee meetings were very con- structive, giving the participants a feeling for legislative proced- ures: The afternoon session was de- voted to debate on the bills sub- mitted by the various committees. But the fun really began at about 4:30 when Bryn Mawr and Haver- ford delegates, hastily recruited for the occasion, had a secret meet- ing under the leadership of John Harkins, head of the Haverford delegation,.who revealed the ma- chinations of practical politics to the uninitiated. The plan was this: Harkins would make a motion to suspend the rules of the day so that new business could be sub- mitted. This new business consisted of introducing a motion stating that all politicking done on a state level was null and void and should be handled by a committee set up by Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore; that any “econsidera- tion jof th tion, once voted upon, would have to be unanimous. Once the motion to suspend the rules of the day and to consider new business was passed, there would be no difficulty in getting the new business through because the three-college delegation form- ed a majority of those left at the meeting, several of the delegations having left for home! Upon returning to Roberts Hall the motion to suspend the rules was made. This was viewed by the other delegations with suspicion and so many Points of Order, In- formation and Personal Privilege were made that by the time voting began it was dinner-time! A roll- call vote of the Haverford, Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore delegations was demanded which led to chal- lenges of the delegates’ identities. While these were being checked it was discovered that there wasn’t a quorum and the meeting was ad- |journed, amidst general confusion! Engagements Saraellen Merritt ’55 to Hugh Toulnin. Mary Jane Oatfield ’55 to Peter Lymbery. Suzanne Raiss to Harold Gold- smith. Beverly La Croix Shy ’46 to Howard Frank Freeman, 3rd. Harriet Howard Williams ’53 to H. Gilbert Nicol. Mix and Match—Black and Kahki Chino Separates from JOYCE LEWIS Bryn Mawr - Students, Faculty et al Join Scramble In Response To Lament Of E. Ambler At last! The winners of the Name The Girl Contest have been chairman of the judging committee consisting of Martha Thomas, Caroline Reinero and Sally Wise! First) Prize goes-:'to' Agnes Kuhlke ’59 for the name, “Audrey”; Second Prize to Martha Thomas 67 for “Erin”; Third Prize to Gwen Garland ’57 for “Elena.” The three winners were among 148 people who responded to the cry for help posted on the college bulletin. boards which read as fol- lows: “Help Wanted!” “YES, HELP WANTED” to find a new first name for a deserving young woman, in this exciting new Name The Girl Contest, for gen- uinely valuable prizes. Nothing to buy, nothing to sell, nothing to eat. Just write your entry, togeth- er with your own name and ad- dress, on any old piece of paper and send to Effie Ambler, Denbigh, via campus mail. You don’t. even have to waste a three cent stamp in this wonderful brand new con- test idea. And YOU may be the winner of one of the three mar- velous PRIZES. “Simple, easy to follow contest 1 aylacs : P ' testant may submit up to ten en- tries; each entry must be on a sep- arate sheet of paper. “2) Names may bé either single ‘(examples: Mary, Jean) or double (Sarah Jane, Cindy Lou) or they may consist of a first and. middle name to.be spoken separately but which would together comprise a single full name (Gwendolyn Cass- announced by Effie Ambler ’58, andra Jones). All entries will be carefully considered, but for extra careful consideration include pos- sible attractive nicknames with your entry. “3), Entries ‘Should strive to gain an effect of both dignity and vivaciousness, and should go well with the last name “Ambler.” Names may be old line, contem- porary, avant garde, any national- ity/language, or newly and com- pletely the product of a fevered imagination .. > ~"*> Effie’s reasons for conducting the contest? “Ever since I was born, or at least since I’ve been old enough to talk, people have asked me what, ‘Effie’ is short for,” she explained in an exasperated tone. “It’s not short for anything!” She has always disliked her name, and when she became 21 two Sundays ago she decided to do something about it legally. “I didn’t realize it would be so hard to think up a new name,” she con- fessed. “Although people have been helpful, I’m still not satisfied with the winning names and would ap- munagiaha. So Effie is looking for a name that is a little out of the ordinary but not as unusual as the one she has. “You don’t met many people with the name ‘Effie’,” she said wist- fully. “One entry was ‘Forever Ambler’ but, although it’s the most original and cleverest, I thought it lacked the proper dig- nity. And besides, I don’t want to be an Ambler forever!” Continued from. Page 1 Fencing by Marisa Gori Saturday morning the Bryn Mawr varsity fencing team secured a victory over Goucher with a close score of 5 to 4. The action was fast and neat on both sides, pro- viding a good show for the specta- tors. The Goucher fencers were Ari Ward (captain), Diane Kressler and Melanie Huggins. Gail Disney (captain), Donna Cochrane and Marisa Gori dueled for Bryn Mawr. Swimming by Lucy Wales The fact that Hood hasn’t had}. a swimming team before this year, doesn’t seem to deter them from winning.. In fact, Hood won all of the events except the orthodox breaststroke race, won by Bar- nard, and the freestyle, which end- ed in a tie between Hood and Bryn Mawr. The final score was thus easy to determine, from the re- sults of a majority of the races: Hood 44, Bryn Mawr 37, Barnard 82: The diving was beset with diffi- culties incurred by Bryn Mawr’s low, and stiff board. In spite of || these problems, several good dives were executed, and the event was won by Sally Davis for Bryn Mawr. In the afternoon, competition was open to all comers, and consist-. PLAY DAY ed of a series of relays, umbrella, pajama and candle races, for the amusement of the spectators and the participants. Badminton Bryn Mawr won all of its bad- minton matches against Goucher, Hood and Barnard, tying one game with Hood. Because one team arrived late and another brought only two players, with the result that the schedule was thrown off, the. final results cannot be con- sidered conclusive. Elizabeth Thomas and June Costin played singles for Bryn Mawr while Topsy Pell and Gracie van Hulsteyn formed the doubles team. Each college played two sets of singles and one set of doubles. SOPHOMORES YOUR JUNIOR YEAR IN NEW YORK?’ wr a See your dean or write ; for brochure to: r § Dean F.H, McCloskey ® junior Year Program g Washington Square a College © New York University New York 3, N.Y. Only 11 More Shopping Days... . Buy Your Cards for _ St. Patrick’s Day . at DINAH FROST LIAAAAAAIIIIIII IIIA Fe AIK bi bb Rb pbb bbb RPP HE | ila pote: Breakfast OOO, ee Afternoon Tea Dinner Sunday Dinner Telephone LAwrence 5-0386 / BRYN MAWR COLLEGE INN © OPEN TO THE PUBLIC _ CLOSED ALL DAY MONDAY SPECIAL PARTIES AND BANQUETS ARRANGED 9:00-11:00 A.M. 12:00- 2:00 P.M. 3:30- 5:00 P.M. 5:30- 7:30 P.M. Lombaert St. and Morris Ave. Bryn Mawr,*Pennsylvania ; - —, proviate—fumthon_oscemoctiane? “1) Anyone may enter. Each con-|. THE COLLEGE NEWS Wednesday, March 6, 1957 Wolfson Attracts Enormous Audience For The Grace A. de Laguna Lecture Common Room, March 4—Harry A. Wolfson, Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy, from Harvard University, gave the Theodore: and Grace A. de Laguna Lecture in Philosophy. His subject was, “Descendents of Platonic Ideas.” Dr. Wolfson limited his discus- sion to two descendents, “the son and grandson of Platonic ideals— Philo and Plotinus” and to two texts, the Timaeus and St. John. According to Mr. Wolfson, Philo asserts that when God decided to create the world, he created the ideal model which contains all ideas first. This is the logos and is the instrument used to create the world itself. This view has much in common, as well as some differences, with Plato’s Timaeus, which declares that the creator had an ideal model upon which he created. the world. . Some of the differences are on such points as Plato’s reference to the world as “intelligible animal,” which supposes a world soul in creation. Philo does not agree with this and. instead uses the term “in- telligible world” to describe crea- tion. To Plato there were, separately, God, matter, and ideas. Other philosophers had believed in the ‘aea TG Goa. “Tnese wu vicwe sop rep resent the extradeical and the aL intradeical interpretation of the idéa. Philo synthesized this to the idea existing by the side of God but possbily outside man, so that there is God and matter; an idea really of Mosaic derivation. Philo relates his logos to ‘the Word,:-as found in St. John, as the instrument of creation. To Plotinus, the logos was God, as contrasted to the secondary position it is given in Philo’s philosophy. It represents the differ- ence between God the begetter (the earlier mythologic tradition) and the creator, which is Plotinus’s and, ultimately, the Christian view. However,;' the two traditions are connected by the idea of the mir- aculous birth. The harmonization of the extra and intradeical views was concern of the Church Fathers, and was effected by the idea of the Triune God. Altogether, there is at last no great difference between the Chris- tian and Platonic ideals, in these areas and, as Dr. Wolfson said in properly scriptural style, “Plato lived 40 years and his ideas begat the Philonic logos, which lived for 350 years; it begat the Jeromine logos which .lived for 600 years and begat the Moslem and Koranic —xrhioh. hagrat the evil med- ens a the Review of Barrault. Continued from Page 2 see men fail to live up to his con- ception of humanity. Barrault’s facial mobility, gant carriage, and perfect diction contributed to an impressive por- trayal of the misanthrope, I think he .interprets Alceste as sympa- thetic as well as ridiculous, tragic as well as comic, but his outbursts were a little too passionate, his calls for laughs too frequent and obvious, his gestures exaggerated. He rang most true when making fun of others,-and fell short in evoking the tender sympathy which should accompany the laugh- ter at Alceste’s ridiculousness. At moments, however, he was entire- ly convincing, and was certainly perfectly polished throughout. The role of Alceste is one of the most difficult in the theatre, one in which it is impossible to satisfy everyone, and Mr. Barrault’s inter- pretation was valid, consistent and forceful. The whole production indeed, was remarkably true to the conception of Moliere as one of the foremost lovers of mankind with the inimitable capacity to make men laugh at themselves. ele- ern philosophers, who know not their father.” Harmonization, or ieval attributes; which begat mod- | syntkesis, always comés. Temple to Sponsor Discussion on UN “The United States and the United Nations,” currently a topic of citizen, concern, will be the sub- ject when the Tenth Annual For- eign Policy Institute and Leader- ship Conference convenes on Tues- day, March 12, at Temple Univer- sity under the co-sponsorship of Temple University and the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia. The conference which will be at- tended by delegates of over 40 colleges throughout, the Greater Philadelphia area, as well as lead- ers of civic, religious, labor, and business groups, opens at 400 p.m., March 12 in the auditorium of Mit- ten Hall at Broad and Berks Sts. Ernest Gross, Counsel tothe UN Secretary-General and former U.S. Ambassador to the UN, will be the keynote speaker at the opening plenary session which will be chair- ed by William L. Batt, Council president. John Anthony Brown, Jr., Assistant to the President of Temple University, will welcome the delegates. All sessions of the Institute are open to the public. Registration begins at 3:30 p.m. Admission is free to members of the World Affairs Council, Adult Education Council, college students and fac- ulty members. Tickets for non- members can be obtained at the door. Special arrangements have been made for dinner in ‘the Uni- ‘| versity Careteria. [ive Pick the Pack that Suits You Best! Smoke modem I*M and always get full exciting flavor — ‘i ucoert & MYERS TOBAC 4 mALT Oe? ca ‘On some occasions the Crush-proof box Is a natural. You are free to choose... only when you smoke modern LaM.- ie J ony L'M PACK rHe MIRACLE F eicTERs ecoce. 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Two %~ short plays written by Bryn Mawr students will be given—one a ser- ious play for which original in- cidental music has been written, and one a comedy or perhaps a farce. An instrumental ensemble, consisting of Betsy Johnson, Bar- bara Booth, Bob Benjamin, Mrs. Cunningham and Dorothy Reichen- berger, will play a composition by Bach, and a madrigal group and several soloists, among them Terry Elsom and Ellie Childs, will pre- sent the musical side of the pro- gram. Other contributions will in- clude those of the Dance Club, sev- eral mimes and a scene from St. Joan, acted by Pat Moran and Ken Geist, as well as several other pos- ~ sihilities. Maya plane | a dramatic intro- duction for the evening (plans at present kept secret for this), from which a theme will be drawn to link the rest of the evening’s en- tertainment, in a manner in itself entertaining and part of the whole. At this point, casting and arranging of the program is going on; however, Maya and all those working on Arts Night have seen enough to be able separately to issue common statements of excite- ment and good expectations for it. The newly-formed German Club announces the election of Jinty Myles, president and Sally Twiggar, treasurer. The club adviser is Mr. Seyppel. All students wishing polio vaccine please sign. in the dis- pensary before March 14. Vac- cine will be given March 21 and April 24 from 8:30 to 10:00 a.m. and from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. See the bulletin board in the halls for detailed announce- ments. These are the only times that vaccine will be given this semester. JEANNETT’S BRYN MAWR FLOWER SHOP, INC. Wm. J. Bates, Jr. Manager 823 Lancaster Ave Bryn Mawr LAwrence 5-0570 * “THE HEARTH” NOW OPEN FOR YOUR ENJOYMENT Daily 11 A.M. to 8:30 P.M. Sunday Noon to 8:30 P.M. 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