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VOL. XLIX, NO. 17

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1953

Copyright, Trustees of

Bryn Mawr College, 1953

PRICE 20 CENTS



Czech Student
Attains Grant,
Shapes Career

Yirka Hrazdilova Wins
Wilson Fellowship
For Study

by Susan Habashy, °54

Our president of the Internation-

al Relations Club, Yirka Hrazdi-
lova, came to America in 1948,
among the six Czechoslovakian
high school students bent on a
year’s experience in American high
schools—the last people to leave
Czechoslovakia legally, before_ the
descent of the Iron Curtain on their
country. Yirka’s scholarship took
her to the Wayland Academy in
Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, where her
main activity (apart from school
work) was giving speeches on her
country to ladies’ clubs, Rotary
club meetings, and other schools—
altogether some one hundred and
thirty speeches.
. Brno, which lies some two hun-
dred miles east of Prague, is Yir-
ka’s home town, and there she en-
joyed the usual Czechoslovakian
five years of elementary school fol-
lowed by five years in “Gymnas-
jum”,

Recalled to Czechoslovakia -in
1950 by her country’s government,
Yirka was faced with a momen-
tous decision. She decided to stay:
consequently returning to her
country now would involve her in
a five year prison term. “Although
you get free board-and-room,;-you
don’t get a tile bathroom and I
couldn’t stand it.” Her whole fam-
ily is there, but, she continued, “I
think it would be better if I stay-
ed: here.”

After high school in Wisconsin,
Yirka obtained a Rotary scholar-
ship to Ripon College, Wisconsin,
where she completed her freshman
and sophomore years. After that
she felt “A change of air was in
order,” so she transferred here to
Bryn Mawr College as a junior
last year.

Yirka has just been awarded the
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. A
national one, it is based solely on
scholastic standing and provides
tuition and full expenses, thus en-

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Joint Clubs Read
MacLeish Drama;
Stage Fry’s Play

The Bryn Mawr College Theatre
and The Haverford Drama Club
have announced the casts of their
forthcoming productions, Boy With
a Cart and The Trojan Horse.
These plays will be given on the

and actresses will take part in
both.

Boy With a Cart, Christopher
Fry’s charming early work, has a
large cast. The play involves
people of the English countryside
and there are only a few large
parts’ along with a number of
equally important smaller ones.
Roger Euster of Haverford is play-
ing Cuthman, the boy with the cart.
Cuthman and his crippled mother
(played by’ Mary Darling) are
homeless, and he must pull her
from place to place in his cart.
The play is the story of Cuthman’s
struggle to find a site for a church
and to build there.

early in the play as four of Cuth-
man’s neighbors. Leaving these
people hehind, Cythman and his
mother settle in the village of
Steyning where they are befriended
by an old man (played by Charles
Robinson), his daughter | (played
by Josephine Case), and his son-in-
law (played by John Pfaltz).

A farmer, Jack Piotrow, hires

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Orchestra Concert
To Present Handel

A festival orchestra composed of
students from Bryn Mawr, Haver-
ford, and Drexel colleges, under
the direction of Mr. William
Reese, will present a concert Fri-
day evening, March 13, at Roberts
Hall, Haverford.

The featured work will be Han-
del‘s Music for Royal Fireworks
with Samuel Krauss, of the Phila-
delphia Orchestra, as trumpet so-
loist. The composition is written
for three trumpets, three oboes,
bassoon, strings, and timpani.

The rest of the program will in-
clude a short overture by Gluck,
Rumanian Folk Dances by Bartok
Gretry’s Suite of Dances, and La



Vie Parisienne by Offenbach.



Susan Webb Elected President
Of The Underarad Association

by Suzan Habashy, ’54

Merion’s Suki Webb spent Tues-

day afternoon in a quiet domestic |

manner actually straightening up
newspapers when the good tidings
arrived. Quiet domesticity did not
last long, however. “Really, I was
being domestic in my room, be-
couse obviously I couldn’t study,
when Louise came in, bearing a
corsage box.”

Excitement broke loose, and the
Harvard Law Review, an assign-

ment, remains as yet unread. Suki, |



appearing in her new position, said:
“T don’t know how I shall ever live
up to the good job Louise has done



put it will be fun trying!”
She hopes that future plans will

include something in the Diplomat-
ic field, but before this, hopes for
some graduate study at Oxford.
More immediate plans? Summer
will find her at Camp, in Vermont,
and the Bryn Mawr Summer Camp
as well, if it can be managed.
Among the immediate concerns
of Undergrad is the use of the

Applebee Barn. Students’ use of]:

it is the most “pressing need on
the Agen

As separds other future seins
“I am terrified it may rain on May
Day. I won’t know whether or not
to call it off. I'll start to call the

same bill, and some of the actors.

Lois Parry, Laura Lee Stearns, |
/ Joe Stein, and John Pfaltz appear

‘Saltonstall Speaks
About the Senate

|At Next Assembly

Leverett Saltonstall, senior
United States Senator from Mass-
achusetts and former governor of
that state, will be the speaker at
the third Bryn Mawr College Al-
liance Assembly on Current Af-
fairs for 1952-1958 held in Good-
Kart on March 13 at 12:30. “A
Senator Reports from Washing-
ton” will be the subject of Sen-
ator Saltonstall’s speech.

A distinguished career lies be-
hind the senior Republican’ sena-
tor. Born in Chestnut Hill, Mass-
achusetts, of a family with genera-
-tions of.. New. England patriots be-
‘hind it, Senator Saltonstall grad-
‘uated from Harvard in 1914. After
serving in the first World War, he
was admitted ‘to the Massachu-
setts bar in 1919.

His: first political: post was that

of assistant district attorney for!

Middlesex County in 1921. Speaker
of the Massachusetts State House
of. Representatives for six out of
his twelve years as a member, he
was elected governor in 1937 and
held office until 1944, a_ longer
period of service in that position
than any man had attained in
ninety-three years.

Elected United States Senator in
1944 to fill an unexpired term,
Senator Saltonstall has brought to
national affairs the New England
common sense formerly valuable in
Massachusetts state matters.

CALENDAR

Wednesday, March 11:
Juniors. select candidates for
vice-president of Self-Gov.
Sophomores select candidates
for secretary of Self-Gov.
. College elects the president of
the League.





weather man now for long range
reports!” :

7:30 p. m. Hygiene Lecture,

Common Room.
Thursday, March 12:

_ Juniors and Sophomores select
candidates for Chapel head and
vice-president of the Alliance.

Freshmen meet candidates for
president of the Alliance and
Common Treasurer.

College elects the president of
the Athletic Association.

8:30 p. m. Classics Club pre-
sents Kenneth M. Setton, of the
University of Pennsylvania,
speaking on “Medieval Athens.”
Friday, March 13:

12:30 p. m. The Alliance pre-
sents Leverett Saltonstall, Sen-
tor from Massachusetts, who will
speak on “A Senator Reports
from Washington”. Goodhart.

8:30 p. m. Concert by the com
bined orchestras of Bryn Mawr
Haverfort, and Drexel Institute
admission $.60. Roberts Hall,
Haverford.

Sunday, March 15:

- 7:30 p. m. Chapel Service. Ad-
dress by the Reverend Arthur Lee
Kinsolving, St. James Church,
New York. Music Room.
Monday, March 16:

Juniors select candidates for

vice-president of Undergrad.
Sophomores select candidates

Horace Alwyne

There was little in Horace Al-
wyne’s pianoforte recital Tuesday
evening in Goodhart that could not
be described with superlatives. Mr.
Alwyne, Alice Carter Dickerman
Professor of Music and Director of
the Department of Music at Bryn
Mawr, displayed his sensitive touch
and versatility with a highly en-
joyable choice of program, from
Liszt to Villa-Lobos.

It would be difficult to pick the
highlights of the evening’s recital.
An intricate mixture resulted from
a Bach motive as interpreted by
Liszt in his Variations on a Mo-
tive from Bach’s Cantata “Weinen,
Klaken” and the Crucifixus of the
B minor Mass. The cathedral-like
quality of the music was especially
noticeable in the second, more sol-
emn part,

The Chopin selections, however,
were equally outstanding; Mr. Al-
wyne illustrated at least two tech-
niques beautifully. In the Ber-
ceuse, Op. 57, the exquisitely clear
quality of the notes was almost
like drops of water falling into a
pool of music. In the Ballade in A

Chorus Joins Club
At Trinity Concert

Thirty-eight members of the
Bryn Mawr College Chorus will
journey to Connecticut next Sat-
urday to present a concert with the
Trinity College Glee Club in the
college auditorium in Hartford.

The Chorus will offer as its part
of the program Litanies a la Vierge
Noire by Poulenc, Standchen by
Schubert, and Hear My Prayer O
Lord by F. Mendelssohn Barthol-
dy.

The combined vocal groups will

sing Vivaldi’s Gloria with Mary
Lee Culver and Rona Gottlieb as
soloists. A small joint group will
execute six Chansons, by Hinde-
mith.
The program is under the direc-
tion of Mr. Robert Goodale of
Bryn Mawr, and Mr. J. Lawrence
Coulter of Trinity.

The two colleges will again unite
in a concert on April 14, in Town
Hall, New ‘York, when the same
program will be preesnted.



Gives Recital,

Plays Liszt, Chopin, Medtner

by Barbara Drysdale, ’55

flat, Op. 47, the playful, easy tempo
of the composition was highlighted
by the composer’s (and the pian-
ist’s) use of silence,

Mr. Alwyne also played the fa-
miliar Nocturne in F sharp, Op.
15, and the Fantaisie in F minor,
Op. 49. The swift change of pace
in the latter was skilfully and de-
lightfully handled.

Sonatine by Ravel began the se¢-
ond part of the program. Again
the change of mood and tempo in
the three movements —the quick
Modere, the Mouvement de Menuet,
and the Anime—was dextrously
performed, especially the contrast
between the more regular and _ se-
date Menuet, slowing toward the
end, and the spirited Anime.

Reflets dans l’eau*by Debussy
was a sensitively-drawn picture of
the shapes and thoughts passing
over the water, each time destroy-
ed by the eternally running waves
in the background. Mr. Alwyne’s
versatility from the simple to the
majestic was displayed in the sec-
ond Debussy selection, L’isle joy-
euse.

Concluding the program were
two selections ky Medtner—Son-
ate-Idylle, Op. 56, and the exciting
but brief Fairy Tale, Op. 26, No. 2.
The disciplined complexities of
counterpoint were especially en-
joyable and intricate, in the Pas-
torale movement of the former.

Mr. Alwyne also performed
three encores upon audience de-

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Mr. Havelock Views
Philosophic Conflict

Eric A. Havelock, Professor of
Greek and Latin at Harvard Uni-
versity, will deliver the Horace
White Memorial lecture, to be giv-
en at 8:15 p. m. on Monday, March
16 in Goodhart auditorium.

Mr. Havelock is the author of
The Lyric Genius of Catullus and
The Crucifixion of Intellectual
Man, a study of the Prometheus
Bound of Aeschylus.

The subject of his lecture will
be “The Quarrel Between Poetry



and Philosophy.”



Nano A. Eristott

The news came while Nano was
frantically dissecting a squid—‘A
horrid little animal”—in lab Mon-
day afternoon, when a delegation
arrived and, well, her expression
was, “Overwhelmed!” Even Caru-
so, Nano’s pet canary bird, had an
“overwhelmed” expression — per-
haps from the amount of excite-
ment that went on in his mistress’
room! Excitement was certainly
present. It gave vent to its feel-
ings in unique poetry composition
(Things were legal with Reigle;
Restrictions are off with Eristoff!)
by bards whose names are untold.
Dinner was eventful likewise when



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next year’s president, crowned

The Collece Votes for Self Gov.

Chosen President

by Suzan Habashy, ’54

‘with laurel wreath and seated on

a blanket-draped throne, solemnly
received the presentation of a beer
bottle.

Explaining her feelings, Nano
emphasized how overwhelming it
would be trying to follow in the
footsteps of someone like Marilyn.
Her greatest pleasure was in be-
ing candidate with three such
splendid people. “It made it all
so pleasant because of that.”
Nano’s activities are known to
everybody. She is a history major,
but with “lots of other courses.”
Future plans include graduate
study, but so far the comment was
“don’t ask me what!”