College news, May 13, 1953

VOL. XLIX, NO. 24

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1953

Copyright, Trustees of.
Bryn Mawr College, 1953

PRICE 20 CENTS



Joint Colleges
Display Talent

In Final Show

‘The Duchess of Malfi*
Proves Collegiate
Capabilities
by Barbara Drysdale, ’55

The Duchess of Malfi, produced
by the Bryn\Mawr College Theatre
and the Haverford College Drama
Club, ‘was a very ambitious choice
of play. Webster’s melodrama,. a
story of unbelievable mental and
physical horror, is rendered diffi-
cult both by the author’s complex

plot of court intrigue and suffer-
ing and by the subsequent prob-
lems of production and staging.
The two colleges did, however,
prove the choice to be not overly
ambitious; as a whole the play
was enjoyable and well-done.

As what might be called a dis-
tant forerunner of the modern psy-
chololgical studies of horror and
the suffering produced by cruelty,
the Duchess displayed the out-
standing talents of several actors
and the good capacity for Eliza-
bethan roles of many others.

Servant

Fred Jameson as Bosola, the
melancholy and cynical servant of
the Duchess and ther brothers, gave
an outstanding portrayal of the
man through whom the Cardinal
and Ferdinand contrived to work
their evil against their virtuous
sister. No action of his was wast-
ed; the slow limp, the tense and
tortured fingers, even the voice,
all combined to produce a charac-
ter both feared and pitied, as an
Elizabethan Judas.

Doris Kaiser, the much-abused
but ever valiant Duchess, display-
ed in her portrayal the brilliance,
virtue, and courage necessary for
a personage so loved and so hated.
Her delivery was clear, although
perhaps suited better for a hall

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Helburn Sketches

Theatre Careers,

‘Bryn Mawr Days

“A shocking indictment” was
what Theresa Helburn called the
scarcity of capable Shakespearian
actors in the United States. Today
it is necessary to import English-
men to play these roles well. Miss
Helburn’s plans for a Shakespear-
ian theater in New England
(similar to that in Stratford) in-
clude ideas for an attached school
of the theater. Perhaps the needed
actors will in time come from
there.

The white-haired, shrewd direc-
tor of the Theater Guild, at lunch-
eon with Miss McBride and mem-
bers of the College Theater, was
visiting the home of her under-
graduate days, and, incidentally,
listening to the plans and hopes
of the theater as it appears on the
Bryn Mawr campus.

‘ Determination

“I was determined to be a play-
wright when I was young,” she
said. She would spend the sum-
mer writing plays. “My talents
were much better as a manager,
however,” she remembered. When
called upon to choose a script for
the college production, she always
decided some other play was bet-
ter—“something by Rostand, per-
haps.” ey

It was her interest in the the-
ater from every aspect that made
her take over the management of
one struggling group. The job
was to last for two weeks; instead
“J stayed for thirty-five years.”
That struggling group has since
become famous as the Theater
Guild, whose productions have won
both the Critics Prize and the Pul-
itzer Prize.

Miss Helburn looks to the com-
munity theaters to produce the
new theatrical generation. Whether
you are an actor, a playwright, or
a director, it is in the small local
groups that you can get a fine
beginning. This is especially true
of those around New York City.

Summer stock, on the other hand,



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Seven Girls’ Colleges Trade Ideas
On Self-Government at Conference

especially contributed by
Anne Eristoff and Suki Webb, ’54

The annual Seven-College Con-
ference was held this year at Vas-
sar on April 24th and 25th. Bryn
Mawr’s representatives were Mari-
lyn Reigle, Louise Kimball, and the
two of us. En route to Pough-
keepsie, (and since we had a His-
tory of Art major along) we found
time between trains to visit the
New York Museum of Modern Art,
and after a delightful hour-and-a-
half proceeded up the Hudson
River to Vassar. All of us found
the three sessions, as well as the
lively discussions in between, to
be most stimulating. We felt that
despite the general similarity be-
tween ourselves and our six
“sister” colleges and the guest
college, Skidmore, the problems

dealt with were quite varied, due
to the differences in size and lo-

cation. Often we found that Bryn
Mawr’s small numbers made for
better coordination, and eased
many problems.

A discussion on the Honor sys-
tem brought out the fact that the
majority of the colleges represent-
ed had an effective academic Hon-
or system in addition to the social
one. Some colleges dealt with
infractions of the Honor system
through a “College Government”
—ie. a joint faculty-student-ad-
ministration group, rather than a
purely student Board. In most
instances the Student Governments

handled cases dealing with the |.

breaking of library rules also.
After hearing how many colleges
had student groups working to im-
prove library conditions we felt
that our Library Council had a
great opportunity to assume even



more responsibility than it does.
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Guest lecturer of the Bryn Mawr
chapcer of Sigma Xi and the Com-
mittee on Coordination of Sciences,
Sir Aiexander Fleming spoke
about ‘I'he Search for Antibiotics”
in Goodhart Hall on May 6. Rather
than talk of the present state of
antibiotics, he preferred the sub-
ject of the background before anti-
biotics appeared, and in particular
the history of Sir Alexander’s own
discovery, penicillin.

An antibiotic is a substance
made by a living organism and
which is harmful\to other living
organisms. PeniciNin is made by
the mould penicillizm; it is much
more. diffusiblé“in the. body than

Miss Marti Talks
For Classics Club

“Student Life--in the Middle
Ages” was the subject of Miss
Marti’s address to the Classics
Club at their last tea Thursday.
From research in a rare manu-
script containing the statutes of
the University. of Bologna, the
Classics scholar reconstructed the
medieval university and its stu-
dent.

The statutes, dated 1877, are the
by-laws of the institution estab-
lished by an archbishop, whose
main interest, next to his salva-
tion, was education. The univer-
sity was established from his will,
which left a legacy for the in-
struction of thirty noble, but poor
students. aa

The statutes are incredibly de-
tailed as far as regulating the life
of the university is concerned.
Everything is provided for, from
the number of students in each
department to the exact amount of
meat each received at meals.

The students were selected geo-
graphically, by a committee in
each district, which had to include
two members of the archbishop’s
family. There were to be eight
theology, eighteen law, and four
medical students. Each seholar
was required to pass an entrance
examination, as evidence of a suf-
ficient knowledge of grammar, be-
fore he was admitted to the eight
year course.

The regulations governing ex-
tracurricular activities were ex-
tremely stringent. No student was
allowed: to eat off campus, except
by invitation of a member of the
faculty. The main gate was closed
early each evening, and students

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CALENDAR

Friday, May 15

Class Day.

8:30 p. m. The M. Carey Thom-
as Award will be presented to
Marianne Craig Moore, poet, in
Goodhart Hall.

Mon., May 18 to Thurs., May 28
Exams.

Sunday, May 31

8:00 p. m. Baccalaureate serv-
ice. The Reverend Samuel M.
Shoemaker, Rector of Calvary
Church, Pittsburgh, will deliver
the sermon. Goodhart Hall.
Tuesday, June 2

11:00 a. m. Commencement.
Conferring of degrees and close
of 68th academic year. The ad-
dress will be given by Arnold
| Toynbee. Goodhart Hall.





Fleming Describes Penicillin’s History,
Preliminary Tests Of New Antibiotics

chemical antiseptics like iodine
and mercuric chloride. When a
study was made of the effect of
carbolic acid on leucocytes and on
bacteria in the blood, the acid wus
found to kill the cells instead of
the bacteria. Penicillin was the
first substance found to be more
lethal to microbes than to cells.

Penicillin was discovered in 192%
when Sir Alexander Fleming, en-

| gaged in bacteriological research,

found that a penicillium mould
had fallen into one of his culture
plates, and he saw the extraor-
dinary effect of the mould on the
bacteria. He investigated the qual-
ities of this mould and. realized
that the penicillium might have
great therapeutic value. A lack of
chemical knowledge, however, de-
layed the purification of penicillin
into a stable compound that could
be used medically for about ten
years. Since then chemists have
been working on developing new
and better forms of penicillin. A
laboratory in Peoria found a peni-
cillin mould in a mouldy cante-
loupe, which makes the most peni-
cillin of anything yet discovered.

Before Availability

Before a drug is generally avail-
able it is worked on by numerous
people, among whom the bacteri-
ologists are only the first in line.
After them come the chemists,
pharmacologists, physicians and
finally. the manufacturers. The
recognition of the tremendous life-
saving value of penicillin during the
war encouraged cooperation in the
most rapid possible development of
the drug.

Other antibiotics affect microbes
different from those affected by
penicillin. The human body can
develop sensitivity to all known
antibiotics. Also some bacilli, like
streptococcus, becomes resistant to
penicillin, and thus it is import-
ant to avoid overuse of antibiotics.



Students who have had tran-
scripts of their academic rec-
ords sent out, and who wish
their Semester II grades sent to
the same address to complete
the transcript, should send the
request in writing to the Re-
corder’s Office. No final records
are released without the stu-
dent’s specific request. (There
is no fee for completing a

transcript previously issued.)









Poetess Moore
Attains Honors
For Distinction

Carey Thomas Award
Goes To Poet
Moore

Marianne Craig Moore will become
the first poet to receive the M.
Carey Thomas prize on Friday,
May 165, at 8:30, in Goodhart Hall.
The prize amounts to $5,000 and
is the largest award to be received
this year by Miss Moore.

In 1922 the Alumnae Association
of Bryn Mawr College raised the
sum of twenty-five thousand dol-
lars as a tribute to M. Carey
Thomas upon her retirement as
President of Bryn Mawr. This
money was to establish a Founda-
tion whereby prizes might be
awarded at intervals to American
women in recognition of eminent
achievement in some field of en-
deavor.

The committee in charge ot the
award is headed by President Mc-
Bride and includes three alumnae
of the College and three non-alum-
nae — all women outstanding in
different fields. At present these
aie Leonie Adams, a poet, Marga-
ret Clapp, President of Wellesley
College, Justina H. Hill, a_ bac-
veriloiogist, Helen Hill Miller, a
tormer editor of NewSweek, Elinor
M. Parker, head of the Scribner
Company’s Book Store, and Jane
Yeatman Savage, head of the
Alumnae Association.

Awarded Five Times

Awarded five times before, to
M. Carey Thomas (1922), Jane
Addams (1931), Florence Rena
Sabin (1935), Marion Edwards
Park (1942), and Eleanor Roose-
velt and Anna Lord Strauss (1948)
the prize has formerly been given
largely to women in the fields of
education and politics.

Miss Moore, a graduate of the
Class of 1909 at Bryn Mawr, has
been called ‘‘the most accomplish-
ed poetess in the English-speaking
world today.” She was born in
Missouri in 1888 and in 1925 re-
ceived her first prize, the Dial
Award, given by the literary mag-
azine of which she was the acting
director. Since then she has won

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Lager Students Swarm Like Locusts,
Get Parallel To Nature On Field Trip

by Maryellen Fullam, ’56,
and Ellie Fry, ’54

Eight forty-five — oh wretched
hour that many had dreaded for
months! Pembroke Arch was the
scene of the gathering clans as
sixty girls who had not slept for
a week — the geology papers had
been due the day previously —
lugged suitcases, raincoats and
pick-axes to two Greyhound buses.
The logy Spring Field Trip
caravan trundled off. It was not
without some trepidation that we
set out, having read the notice on

the Geology Bulletin Board about
a Princeton freshman who had



been killed on a field trip by a
falling rock.
_ Immediately ‘the bright and
eager class began plying the De-
partment with such intelligent
questions as “When do we eat
lunch?” But lunch was far away.
Not until we had passed Lafay-
ette College and watched food be-
ing devoured in the fraternity
houses — unfortunately we were
not allowed to join — could we de-
posit ourselves on the grass in
front of a group of moldy cabins
and ravenously consume our sand-
wiches. —

The highlight of the day (ex-

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Wednesday, May 13, 1953},



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Economy

In addition to our regular room, board and tuition fees,
each student holds a six hundred dollar “scholarship”. provid-
ed by the college. From the economical point of view, we
often tend to take our very presence at college for granted.
And even when we do consider economy, we may feel that
anything we might do to help save money for the college
would be of slight significance.

This is definitely not the case. Turning off our lights
when we leave our rooms in the evening can make a differ-
ence when expenses are added up. Electricity is one of the
big college expenditures.

Signing up for meals which we plan to miss saves money
too. The “dinner-in” lists are posted for that purpose. A
few people remember to do this, but unless it is general prac-
tice, this system is without value. If we utilize these lists,
and consciously think of economizing in other ways, we will
be saving money, and thus keeping fees as low as they are
now. \ |

saat

Quiet

In these last few harrowing weeks, an oft-repeated plea
is again made. During the exam period, we study under all
conditions—on the roof, on the grass, in our rooms, in the
smokers. But there is one condition essential to both con-
centration and piece of mind—quiet. Each hall has estab-
lished quiet hours, and these hours have been made to be ob-
served. Some halls have quiet monitors, others fines, others
merely assume that we will comply with the rules we our-
selves have made.

In any case, the greatest problem seems to be those who
are not studying, interfering with those who are. In spite of
exhilaration at the completion ofan exam, there are others
who are yet to be exhilarated. Shutting a door, walking with
calm, subduing a voice, are a great deal less difficult than
trying to study in noisy surroundings. There is no need for
angry glares, slammed doors, and ill feelings. For a pleasant-
er atmosphere, for a more relaxed two ~~ for merely

— our ee helps. —

T. Robert S. Broughton Publishes

_ by Barbara Drysdale, °55

“The most important piece of
work in the field in this genera-
tion”, said another member of the
Latin department referring to Pro-
fessor Broughton’s latest work,
The Magistrates of the Roman Re-
public, published by the American
iPhilological Association.

Giving the year, office held, and
accomplishments of each magis-
trate of the Republic, the work
has two main functions to per-
form in aiding the classical schol-
ar; first, to list the officers by an-



Sixty Girls Participate
In Geology Spring Trip
Continued from Page 1
cuse us, Geology Department, if
you do not agree) was the tour of

a slate quarry. As usual Dr. Wat-
son gave a precarious lecture while

} standing on the edge of a five hun-

dred foot cliff. The lecture was
momentarily -interrupted by -a
small avalanche of slate which
thundered down the quarry wall
into an algae-blue lake below.
There. was method to the Depart-
ment’s madness; Marie now has
enough slate for a new roof. We
are glad to report that Nonnie
Powers has completed her appren-
ticeship as a slate-cutter, and is
looking forward to a promising
career with the Welshmen.

Weary and confused, the schol-
ars arrived at the Penn-Stroud
(“We park your horse or car free
while you eat”) Hotel. There were
minor inconveniences, such as
showers which overran their lim-
its, maliciously shooting jets of
scalding water all over the bath-
rooms, booming clocks which
struck on the hour, and Mack
trucks which roared by on the half
hour. Other than that, a peaceful
night was had by all.

7:30 Gloom

In the Saturday morning 7:30
gloom, while Dr. Wyckoff grinned
with appreciation, four unfortun-
ates groaned under the strain of
the German oral in the private
din m as their compatriots,
with the energy which comes from
a good night’s rest, scrambled over
Marcellus black shale to ferret
out fossils,

Saturday was a day of eleva-
tions. Picture if you can sixty
people seated on a stone wall some
fifteen hundred feet above a steep
gorge, at the bottom of which
flowed the Lehigh River, and

where a 1 r train chugged
slowly aldng. . Watson’s pre-

\} carious lecture was again inter-

rupted. We had to be careful of
our breathing —if the people on
either side of some hapless indi-
vidual happened to inhale at once
the pressure would have ejected
the unfortunate into the gorge.

We then proceeded to the Po-
eono Plateau. “Take something
warm”, cautioned the Department;
“It is always cold up there.” Sixty
people silently swore vengeance as
they sat in the blazing hot sun,
too encumbered by maps, ham-
mers, notebooks to remove the of-
fending furnaces.

Tamaqua welcomed us with open
arms and empty ice cube trays.
The whole male population had
turned out for the occasion. We
soon found that pick-axes had
more than the customary use —
for protection as well as for open-
ing orange juice cans. The Ma-
jestic Hotel was more than ma-
jestic. Above the theater — sev-



eral girls were awakened by gun



Reference Volumes For Classicists

nual lists, and, second, to present
in proper order the careers of each.
Unique

Perhaps the importance of this
publication may best be realized
by recognition of the fact that up
to this time, there has been a ref-
ence opus only on the magistrates
of the later, imperial period. Their

role is particularly important in|

the history of the Roman Republic,
since the leadership during this
period lay with a lmiited group of
families. The history of the po-
litical life of the time depends
greatly on the record of the fam-
ilies and their achievements.

It has taken Professor Brough-
ton’s time for research over a per-
iod of twelve years to bring to-
gether the scattered and often
practigally unavailable studies and

‘inscriptions dealing with his sub-

ject. As the scholar often finds
out to be the case, his work has
been similar to that of a detective
who must seek out, gather, and
analyze the evidence. Unlike the
former, however, the scholar’s
work does not end; in The Magis-
trates of the Roman Republic there
are several pages of additional
material which was discovered too
late to be included in the work
(proper.
doubtedly continue arriving as long
as discoveries are being made.

In these two volumes Professor
Broughton has produced an inval-
uable aid for the classicist, a work
which( in the words of one of his
colleagues) will become a byword
among classical scholars.



shots and horses galloping through
their rooms; it was only the Bow-
ery Boys and Roy Rogers — and
across from the Moose Lodge, our
evening was hardly dull. Marie
Morisawa — our angel of mercy
— went shopping for us. The
rooms could all be thrown together
for small hotel gatherings, which
fact rather startled those rooming
next to the bus drivers. We slept
in a giant syncline, in our own
individual synclines — if your
beds were the same as ours,

An early Mother’s Day Sunday
saw a blanket of coal smoke hov-
ering over Tamaqua as we headed
for Taylor’s Diner; a veritable

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This material will un-.



Current Events

Hertha Krauss Speaks,
Social Welfare
Is Topic

Current Events this week was
presented by Miss Hertha Krauss
who spoke on Social Welfare in the
United States today. What she
and other participants in this na-
tional movement are trying to do
is LO Lransiate the basic tenets or

uemocracy ana Our most tunda-

mental spiritual values into the

“practical” sige or our society.

Neignboriiness aione is not enough
any more, Miss Krauss said, and
our back yard policy, as it might
be called, does not reach many
people and otten when it does, is
in a form unpleasant to the recipi-

ents. We must bring our condi-
tions in line with our faith in the
equality ox every individual, she
sald, aading that the task is never
enaed, and though it may seem
that our society 1s more sensitive
to these problems than it was
twenty years ago, we must con-
tinue to express these new values
more and more effectively in our
everyday life.

Higher Standard of Living

What is needed most in the ef-
fort for a generally higher stan-
dard of living, she said, is not a
dew specialists, experienced in a
Iew sections of this area, but a
large group of intelligent and in-
terested citizens who will take an
active part in social welfare
whether it is government spon-
sored or voluntary. A general teel-
ing of inditference or active dis-
trust must be changed to “under-
standing for understanding’s sake”’,
Miss Krauss said.

Among the many controversies
connected with this subject is the
question of whether the govern-
ment or the states should be the
producing or organizing power.
Last week in a conference with the
President the governors of the
states brought up their complaints
again against the federal govern-
ment which allots money for social
weltare projects. Whichever wins
out, Miss Krauss feels that it
should support these projects, not
groups of “Lady Bountifuls” whose
services can necessarily have only
limited and sometimes detrimental
effects. Volunteer work, however,
when actively participated in by
those organizing it is to be en-
couraged for its activating effect
on public interest as well as the
work it accomplishes.

The youth of the country, Miss
Krauss concluded, is the hope of
social welfare work. It is up
_Us to see that everyone has equal

| opportunity to use privileges and
' resources.



School of Journalism Conducts Tours
For Students To European Countries

Professor Ralph O. Nafziger, Di-
rector of the School of Journalism,
University of Wisconsin, is con-
ducting FOREIGN ASSIGNMENT,
a 75-day teur, which will visit sev-
en countries in Western Europe
and Scandinavia. The participants
in this practical experience as-
signment will study current polit-
ical, economic and social problems
in Western Europe.

The program includes seminars
and study visits to the Internation-
al Court of Justice at The Hague,
‘UNESCO, and the Mutual Security
Agency in Paris, Supreme Head-
quarters Allied Powers Europe
(SHAPE), ‘United Nations Head-
quarters in Geneva and the Inter-
national Press Institute in Zurich.

The members of the tour will

have direct contact with those who
are making history as well as
those who are reporting history—
writers, editors, leaders in Govern-



ment, mangement and labor. At
the same time they will attend
some of the outstanding theatre,
music, opera, ballet performances
and festivals of folk dancing and
singing.

This tour is organized by TRA-
VEL & STUDY INC. which is also
sponsoring a special tour for stu-
dents of art and architecture at the
University of Rome; an East and
West tour for-teachers and stu-
dents of history, archaeology and
religious philosophy visiting 10
countries in Western Europe and
the Near East; a Music Festival
tour; and an Industrial tour, for
students of Business Administra-
tion and Management Engineering
visiting 9 countries.

Detailed information and a free
illustrated booklet may be obtain-
ed by writing directly to Travel &
Study, Inc., 110 E. 57th St., New

York 22, N. Y.






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Dr. Sprague’s New Book Investigates
Great Shakespearean Actors Of Past

especially contributed by
Bobbyann Roesen, ’54

No other form of art is so»per-
ishable and impermanent as that
of tHe great actor. Garrick and
Kemble, Betterton and Kean have
become for us little more than
names on a fading play-bill, their
individuality, the three dimen-
sionality of their actual appear-
ance upon a stage lost almost com-
pletely. There could be only one
way of recapturing the art of these
long-dead theatrical giants, of
bringing to life the great Shake-
spearian performances of the past.
We would have to build again the
old Drury Lane Theatre, fill it
once more with that same audi-
ence which assembled there on

‘\gome memorable night —June 8,

\ 1776, shall we say, when David
Garrick gave his farewell per-
formance as King Lear—and re-
creating all the hushed expecta-
tion of that single summer eve-
ning, the mood which the specta-
tors in the boxes and the pit car-
ried with them from the London
streets into the theatre, bring the
actor himself upon the stage again
to reproduce that specific per-
formance. An impossible task, as
it would seem, and yet essentially
it is the one accomplished by Mr.
Sprague in his recently published
book, Shakespearian Players and
Performances.

Vivid Picture

Gathering his matexial from
diaries, reviews, essays and re-
corded conversations, Mr. Sprague
has combined the accurate and
painstaking scholarship evident in
all of his earlier books with an
imagination which is capable of
creating from the most seemingly
insignificant details an extraordi-
narily vivid picture of a great ac-
tor and his individual art. “It is
the evening of September 20,
1709,” he writes at the beginning
of his chapter on Betterton as
Hamlet, and suddenly, through the
magic of this quiet, almost con-
versational prose; it actually is
1709, and Richard Steele is rush-
ing away from the theatre to set
down his impressions of that amaz-
ing appearance by the seventy
year old actor. Or it is Garrick’s
last performance as Lear, the
tension, and the crush of carriages
at the theatre door, Kemble as
Hamlet, Macready’s Macbeth, or
that first appearance of Mrs. Sid-
dons as Lady Macbeth, with

Observer

It is a hot summer day. The mud
huts of the little village lie baking
in the sun. The white minarettes
of the mosque stand dut defiantly.
It is only May but already the sun
beats down mercflessly.

Mechanically the “shadoof” rises
and falls. The blindfolded oxen
plod their weary way round and
round the “water-wheel” bringing
water to parched crops.

At the edge of the canal a
“Fellaha’’ washes some clothes, her
own are moist to keep her cool.
Her husband works in the field
nearby, his axe rising and falling
methodically, the sweat streaming
from his brow. A_ small child
watches the oxen, his eyes on the
wide green fields neatly separated
by carefully built canals.

What does life hold for him?
He does not question.

God made the fields, God gave
Egypt the Nile to water the crop;
if it is God’s Will one day he too
will plough and till, sow and reap,
in winter, in spring, or in burning
heat.

He does not question, he is con-
tent.



* * *

This was the Egyptian Fellah
of yesterday.





Joshua Reynolds seated in the or-
chestra, and a deft hint given us
by Mr. Sprague of the conversa-
tion in that crowded and splendid
house before the curtain rose upon
the initial creation by England’s
greatest actress of the role which
would be linked forever with her
name.

Aided by an extremely hand-
some set of illustrations (one only
wishes that more could have been
included; a picture of Kean as
Othello, for instance, to accom-
pany one of the most brilliant and
moving accounts in the book) Mr.
Sprague assembles and re-creates
in each chapter a separate per-
formance, a performance which in
each case manages to convey the
very essence of the actor and his
art. Each chapter possesses its
own tone, its own atmosphere, each
representing an individual night at
the theatre, yet towards the close
of the volume, after the descrip-
tion of Edwin Booth as Iago, as
the chapter on the actor-producer
William Poel begins, it becomes
evident that from this two cen-
turies of playgoing we have
emerged, through the skillful guid-
ance of Mr. Sprague, with more
than a series of brilliant but dis-
connected glimpses of actors\ and
theatrical eras. Contained in\the
book as well is a history of e-
speare’s plays on the stage, an
account of the development of the
theatre itself during the crucial
period from Betterton to that mo-
ment late in the last century when
with William Poel there began a
slow swing away from that em-
phasis on the single, starring per-
former, the incredible lavishness of
productions like those of Irving
on a proscenium stage, the hacked
and adulterated texts of the plays
used in performance, which as we
have seen came to dominate Shake-
spearian productions between the
Restoration and the late nine-
teenth century.

Final Chapter

In the final chapter, dealing with
Mr. Sprague’s own “Shakespearian
Playgoing”, the writer presents
fairly and yet powerfully the case
for the Elizabethan stage. It is
an unusually charming last chap-
ter, filled with the small, happy
details, moments of inspiration too
easily overlooked, which have been
gleaned from a series of modern
productions by an acute and the-
atrically sensitive observer. In this
chapter it becomes clear how, for
our own times, the wheel has
come full circle, returning us grad-

ually as yet, but inevitably, to the,

theatre Burbage knew, and to old-
er and once scorned methods of
acting and staging which, com-
bined always with fresh and cre-
ative interpretations by an actor
keeping himself subordinated to
the play as a whole, serve most
perfectly now as in the years
around 1600 the man Shakespeare
and his art.

Government Seeks
Several Librarians

The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced a new
examination for Librarian for fill-
ing positions in various Federal
agencies in Washington, D. C.,
and vicinity. The salary is $3,410
a year.

A written test will be given and

appropriate education or experi-
ence is required. .
Full information and applica-
tion forms may be secured at most
first- and second-class post offices,
or from the United States Civil
Service Commission, Washington
25, D. C. Applications will be ac-
cepted in the Commission’s office
in Washington until further notice.

Bolster Gets Job |

For August Issue
Of ‘Mademoiselle’

“You mean the News is inter-
ested in me at last?” asked Candy
Bolster, whom Mademoiselle mag-
azine has selected as one of the
Guest Editors for the August is-
sue. Since she was informed of

the award, “telegrams, telephone}

messages, and airmail letters have
been coming in such stacks you'd
think I was practically running
Mademoiselle’’.

‘Candy will spend the month of
June in New York, working on the
magazine. Although at the mo-
ment Candy is a little uncertain
as to just what the job entails,
she will be allowed to interview
anyone of her choice, within rea-
son. Her first choice is Dylan
Thomas, her “favorite of all fav-
orites.” In‘case he is out of this
country, however, her next choices
are Wallace Stevens and Adrienne
Rich (a recent Radcliffe graduate
whose pieces have appeared in the
New Yorker).

“Five Life Histories”

In applying for the job, Candy
filled out “five life histories — all
different.” “I know they must
think I’m a schizophrenic!” Her
contributions to the magazine
Board were some selections of
poetry and an essay on “Why I
would like to interview Dylan
Thomas”. She recently won hon-
orable mention in the Creative
Writing Award, given at Bryn
Mawr, for five poems, one of which
is currently appearing in Counter-
point.

Her magazine job is over on
June 26 and on July 2 Candy
leaves for a summer in Europe.
Next fall she hopes to teach school
in the United States.

Sohl Sees Present
As a Key To Past

Mr. Norman Sohl, instructor in
geology at Bryn Mawr, spoke
about “Present Animal Geography
as an Aid in Interpreting the Past”
in Dalton Hall on Monday evening,
May 11.

Geology works on the premise
that the present is the key to the
past. Studying present animal
geography, one sees the map of
the world divided into zones ac-
cording to characteristic fauna,
since certain animals are able to
live under certain conditions only,
and their migrations need favor-
able circumstances. Limiting fac-
tors in the dispersal of marine
animals are land barriers, temper-
ature changes in the water, deep
water, strong currents and salin-
ity; in the dispersal of land ani-
mals the limitations are the seas,

deserts, high mountain ranges,
wides rivers and temperature
changes.

A feature of interest is the ap-
pearance of certain identical spe-
cies of animals found both in the
Arctic and Antarctic waters, but
not in the intervening seas. These
so-called bipolar species lead to
the belief that in the past the cli-
mate of the world was uniform or
perhaps that the poles of the world
were differently orientated. Since
some have been found in the
depths of tropical waters, there is
a possibility that they are derived
from the same warm water an-
cestor and developed similarly
since the conditions of their hab-
itat were similar.

Similarities in fauna among cer-
tain areas of the world indicate
possible differences in the world
of the past. For example, gem-
inate species (i.e. species derived
from a common ancestor) do oc-
cur on opposite sides of Panama,
showing the late origin of the bar-



Continued on Page 5, Col. 1

Jr. Press Conference Raises Question
On What a Congress Freshman Learns

“What does a Freshman in Con:
gress Learn?” was the theme of
the questions asked of Congress-
man from Delaware, Mr. Warbur-
ton. The panel members were R.
Murphy of the University of North
Carolina, M. Minnick of the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, F. Swain
of the University of Delaware, and
the regular panelist, E. Brock
representing NSA news.

The hardest job in Congress, one
soon discovers, said Mr. Warbur
ton, (and most Bryn Mawr stu-
dents have discovered this too) is
to find enough time and create a
regulated schedule, in order to fit

Renowned Scientist
Speaks on Penicillin

Sir Alexander Fleming, British
scientist who discovered penicillin,
posed for a picture with Miss Elea-
nor Bliss, Dean of the Graduate
School, and a large pink-eared
white rabbit in a laboratory on the
third floor of Dalton. Sir Alex-
ander is here on his honeymoon,
taking a vacation from his work
at the Wright-Fleming Institute in
St. Mary’s Hospital in Padding-
ton where he studied to become a
doctor, and where he has remained
ever since.

After posing for the photograph-
er, Sir Alexander sat down to an-
swer a barrage of questions rang-
ing from antibiotics to socialized
medicine. He cannot foresee the
day when man shall control all in-
fectious diseases. He has not heard
of any new diseases developing
from antibiotics. He refused to
commit himself on the subject of
the British Health Service, it has
its wasteful aspects, but has been
extremely beneficial for smaller
hospitals, making them better-
equipped and better staffed. Sir
Alexander saw the present British
health system as inevitable because
medical care had come to cost too
much and he feels that the people
will never go back to private
medicine.



Japan Conference

Invites U.S.N.S.A.

. The U. S. National Student As-
sociation has announced that appli-
cations are being accepted for po-
sitions in the Japan-America Stu-
dent Conference. Avrea Ingram,
International Commission vice-
president, said,

“NSA has accepted the invita-|

tion of the International Student
Association of Japan to send a del-
egation of American students to
participate in the Japan-America
Student Conference to be held in
Japan from July 10 to August 15,
1958. With the exception of the
war period, these conferences have
been held successively since 1934.

“The Conference will provide a
unique opportunity to exchange
ideas, opinions, and attitudes on
national and international prob-
lems, and on issues of special sig-
nificance for students.

“The work of the Conference will
‘be summarized in a series of reso-
lutions to be sent to American and
Japanese student organizations and
also to the proper government au-
thorities and to the press. Since
the conference will be ‘held in dif-
ferent regions—Tokyo, Hokkaido,
Yokahama, and Kansai—the Amer-
ican student will profit from an
over-all perspective of Japan.”

Room, board, and travel expens-
es of the American delegation dur-
ing the. Conference period will be
met by the Japanese International
Student Association. Through spe-
cial arrangement with American
‘President Lines, NSA has arrang-
ed for round-trip transportation



for approximately $780.00.

in all the jobs that the member
has.

When queried about whether his
voting follows the wish of the
people or his own conscience, he
replied that he voted the way he
honestly believed would benefit
most people. Although he wes
to abide by the Republican issues
as much as possible, Mr. Warbur-
ton said, he does not vote straight
party line if he does not agree with
the stand his party is taking.

Although he rather tactfully
avoided any definite questions, the
only Congressman from Delaware
did say that he doubted that the
budget could yet be balanced, al-
though it is progressing favorably.

As far as sending American
troops to any other country, he
admittec that if a crisis in French
Indo-China meant that extra
troops were needed, hé would vote
to send United States forces there.
Firstly, he strongly stated, the
natives would be taught better
fighting methods.

Lastly Mr. Warburton was asked
if ha believed that students should
go into politics, taking into con-
sideration the present corrupt con-
dition of politics generally. He
eagerly replied in the affirmative,
amplifying his statement by say-
ing that anyone who does not take
an interest in politics is not ex-
ercising the full duties of a
citizen.

Students are reminded that
only the members of the gradu-
-ating class will receive their
wsiragier yon by campus
mail. All er grades will be
sent to home addresses, about
the middle of June. Students
wishing their grades sent to]
some address other than that in
the Finding List should send
the request in writing to the
Recorder’s Office. No grades
will be given out at the office,
or over the telephone, under

any circumstances whatever.

SPORTS

by Lynn Badler, ’56

On Thursday, April 29 the golf
team, (golf is a new varsity sport)
made a proud showing against
Swarthmore in a set of matches
at Valley Forge. The victory was
a shut-out, 5-0. Mary McGrath,
Irene Ryan, Edith Nalle, Helena
Lipshutz, and Gail Gilbert were the
participants. Mary McGrath scor-
ed an excellent 49 for 9 holes.

Another new varsity had a grand
time and gave everyone lots of
laughs, for the softball team play-
ed a team of faculty members. For
the first inning it seemed as
though this year’s team would set
a precedent and defeat the faculty,
as they started with a 2-1 lead.
But from then on runs started
flowing over — most of them fac-
ulty runs. At last count the score
was 29-12 in favor of the profes-
sors; no one dared keep score later
than that.

On May 6th, the Bryn Mawr la-
crosse varsity played Swarthmore,
and Swarthmore won 8-2. The op-
position had wonderful checking,
excellent stickwork, and really ex-
hibited pep and perseverance. The
lineup was as follows:

1st Home: Saren Merritt

2nd Home: Ann Wagoner

3rd Home: Jan Wilmerding

Right Attack Wing; Gail Gilbert

Left Attack Wing: Wendy Ewer

Cover:: Mary Jones

Right Defense Wing:

Deirdre Hanna

Left Defense Wing: Anne Coe

8rd Man; Terry Osma

Cover Point: Sally Kennedy

Point: Mary Jane Chubbuck

Guard: Barbara Bornemann

Substitutes: Meredith Treene,











Gay Ramsdell, Helen Rhinelander.






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‘THE. COLLEGE NEWS



Wednesday, May .13, 1953+



Competent Acting, Clever Staging And Costuming
Contribute To Success Of Drama Club Selection

Continyed from Page 1

larger than that of Roberts. The
contrast between her statuesque
bearing throughout trouble and’
her delightfully playful nature as’
displayed with Cariola and An-;
tonio in the bedroom scene pro-'
duced a much more real and be-
lievable heroine than what threat-'
ened to be only a paragon of the
virtues.

The Duke Ferdinand, played by:
Arnold McKay, was so stern-faced
and thin-lipped that he was un-
able to break down and speak his
lines slowly enough to be heard.
This was not a consistent failure
on his part, however, and in the
mad’ scenes, especially when the
frenzied man attacked his shadow,
the acting was frighteningly real.
His change of heart in regard to
his sister was quite natural within
the unnatural and bloody atmo-
sphere of the play.

J. N. Smith, doubling as the di-
rector and the Cardinal, seemingly
found time to do both excellently.
His cardinal was a masterpiece of
characterization, displaying the
gross, lustful, and evil churchman
wearing the badge of his cross
throughout his cruel machinations.

Julia, as played by Charlotte
Busse, added a skillfully humorous
touch to the action. Yet her place
in the play beyond this was dif-
ficult to determine, due perhaps to
the cutting of the script.

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secret husband of the Duchess,
he,

played a harmless “goodie”;
brought to his part, however,
nothing beyond the excellent char-
acterization provided by Webster.
Delio his companion (Gerald Good-
man) was weak and almost inef-
fective; his importance in the play
was illustrated entirely by the
words and the trust placed in him

own characterization.

Dina Bickerman was a haunting
old lady who appeared whenever
one of the family died. The Doc-
tor provided a (by this time) badly
needed humorous episode in the
play, in contrast to the appear-
ance of his horribly mad patient
the Duke, and George Segal prov-
ed himself quite capable of pro-
ducing this comic touch. Unfor-
tunately, he carried his ability for
comedy too far when doubling as
a servant by entirely diverting the
audience’s attention in a following
scene by his humorous pose with
the body of Antonio, thus losing
the continuity of the act (difficult
enough to keep serious with the
aumber of dead bodies accumulat-
ing on stage).

The production as a whole was
well-integrated. The set (by Fritz
Janschka) and the costuming (by
the director and Mr. Janschka)
created an atmosphere of subtle
symbolism, never intruding (as it

by other characters — not by his’

Continued from Page 1

is no small outlet for talent; “you
don’t know how many trips: we
make from show to show during
the summer.” There are several
excellent schools*of the theater, as
well,

Miss Helburn emphasized the
hard work connected with theater
work. But “Plunge right in!” she
said to anyone who is interested
‘enough in theater to make it a
career and a business.

Remembering her college days,



easily might have done) upon the
action of the play. The prison
bars in the Duchess’ death scene
were a stroke of genius.

Changes of scene, accomplished
without curtained anonymity by
palace servitors in the half-light,
were at first novel and skillful. As
the play progressed, however, they
intruded more and more upon the
continuity, especially when ac-
complished laboriously and slow-
ly (at one point a dangerously
leaning candelabra threatened to
steal a scene). On the whole, how-
ever, the scene-changing was suc-
cessful as an experiment. ‘

As a whole, the production of
The Duchess of Malfi has done
much to raise the prestige of the
joint drama groups; it has proved
what college dramaties can ac-
complish with an unusual and sel-



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Miss Helburn Recalls Comic Roles at College,
Urges Student To ‘Plunge In’ To Theatre Work

Miss Helburn recalled May Day—
it was under faculty jurisdiction
then. Especially enjoyable were
the Elizabethan plays produced
for the occasion. :
Thisbe in the play-within-the-
play from A Midsummer Night’s
Dream was one of her parts. She
was always given the comic roles.
“IT would have niade a fairly good
comic character actress,” she said

—easy to believe, hearing her sly-

touches of humor.

Today the touring company pre-
senting “An Evening with Shake-
speare” and starring six famous
actors (recently in Philadelphia) is
publicizing and raising money for
the New England Shakespearian
theater. The dream is not too
very far from completion.

Around the end of May andthe

beginning of June the Theater)

Guild is sponsoring an exhibit of
“Thirty-five Years of the The-
ater” at its building (23 West 58rd
Street, New York). Miss Helburn
hoped some students would be able
to see it. At the Theater Guild
they will be able to see how far
American theater has come, and
where it is going.







Poetess Marianne Moore
(Gets Carey Thomas Prize
Continued from Page 1

the Helen Haire Levinson prize,
1933, the Shelley memorial award,
1940; a Guggenheim fellowship,
1945; the Bollingen Prize and the
National Book Award in 1951; and
the Pulitzer Prize in 1952. She
has won virtually all the prizes
for poetry available in the United
States. She is a member of the
National Institute of Arts and
Letters and last month won its
gold medal-for poetry.

“Miss Moore’s poems form a
part of the small body of durable
poetry written in our time,” wrote
T. S. Eliot in his introduction to
her Selected Poems. Although
eight volumes of her work have
been published in this country and
in A¢ngland, her poems have only

cently begun to be known out-
side literary circles.

In January of this year Miss
Moore returned to Bryn Mawr
College to teach a course in verse
composition and is expected to give
a reading of her poems at the
celebration in her honor. She was
selected unanimously from a large
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Wednesday, May 13, 1953

T

HE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Five



Paleontologist Surveys
Theories & Distribution

Continued from Page 3

rier. Geosynclines, which form
paths of migration, usually cul-
minate in building of mountains.
An poi ibs geosyncline across
the Mediterranean to the Pacific
culminated in the Alps and Hima-
layas.

In the investigation of past life
special problems arise since many
forms used in modern geography
do not have hard parts capable of
fossilization, and also some of the
fossil groups of the past are now
extinct. In understanding distri-
bution it is important to study the
position of continents and oceans.
There are three schools of thought
on this subject: 1) Continents and
oceans: have remained in their
present places; 2) Land bridges
existed; 3) All the continents were
once joined as a single continent.
In all three theories animal distri-
bution is used tg prove the theory.

The land bridge school finds
land bridges whenever an explana-
tion must be postulated as to how
certain land animals migrated
across oceans. Some _ theorists
have erected large continents to
account for distribution, but most
land bridges seem to be miscon-
ceptions based on inaccurate data,
often erected by non-paleontolog-
ists. The continental drift theory
in which all continents were once
one and later broke off, raises the
problems of what caused the break





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apprehended entering through a:
window were put on a diet of
bread and water. / No women were,
tolerated, with the exception of
mothers and sisters on rare oc-
casions. To cut a class was to.
be deprived of a meal. Students’

were urged to remain on campus

to study most of the time, and to!
avoid the outside world as much |
as possible. All booké~ were on|
reserve—none were allowed out of |
the library.

Students were expected to be
virtuous; the desired virtues are
enumerated in the statutes. They
were also expected to contribute
to the university when they be-
came affluent in later life.



and the movement, and once the
movement started how and why
it stopped. In the arrangement the
continents are shifted greatly in
position and the poles are reori-
ented as is the equator, but many
biological facts as well as geo-
logical ones do not fit in with this
explanation.

There is nothing in the theory
of continental drift or land bridges
that explains distribution that can-
not be explained by the simpler
theory of stable continents and
ocean basins. Mr. Sohl believes
that present means of dispersal
among animals is the key to past
distribution.









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Weekend Activities, Freshman Week, Discussed
As Conference Representatives Exchange Ideas

Continued from Page 1

We,found that Bryn Mawr’s social
Honor system works extremely
well, due in part to the liberality
of the rules and to our limited
number of students.

Many valuable and _ workable
suggestions in the field of enter-
tainment and activities were made.
Wellesley presents showings of
good, “classic” movies on Friday
nights, and student concerts on
Sunday afternoons. Most colleges,
Bryn Mawr included, felt the need
for some place on campus in
which students could _ entertain
their guests until time to return
to the dorms.
Barn can serve in this capacity in
the future. It was interesting to
note that planned weekend activ-
ities were much in demand.

At the risk of seeming compla-
cent, we must admit that our
Freshman Week seems to work
comparatively well. It was im-





Compliments of

the

HAVERFORD
PHARMACY

Haverford, Pa.





Perhaps Applebee



| pressed upon us, though, (Fresh-

man Week Committee take note!)
that our temporary student ad-
visors should actively continue in
their jobs until the freshmen
choose their permanent advisors
later in the fall.

The types of hazing varied
greatly, and we feel it is neces-
sary that we re-evaluate our own
form of it.

We found that the Seven-College
Conference, while it did not* offer
solutions to all our problems,
nevertheless served as a valuable
channel forthe exchange of ideas,
and helped us gain a better per-
spective on our own Student Gov-
ernment.



The Classics Club wishes to
announce the election of the
following officers:

Co-presidents: Alyke Ooiman
and Lidia Wachsler.







Take a break from
your studies,

Come along with
your buddies,

To the HEARTH for
a snack,

And then hurry
right back.









Exams got you
down,

Cheer up, don’t
frown,

Brighten your room
with flowers

As you study
and look at the flowers.

JEANNETT’S













seek?



Warm weather makes you weary
and weak?

Is it energy and life you

Then to the INN,
Iced coffee, tea, or lemonade!

before you fade,













~

‘But only

time will tell.



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SUMMER, LITTLE
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THE COLLEGE NEWS



Wednesday, May 13, 1.953



Future Geologists Travel From Bryn Mawr To The Penn Stroud Hotel;
Admire Lehigh River, Pocono Plateau, Relax in Tamaqua’s Majestic Inn

Continued from Page 2

miners’ breakfast supplied even
the sleepiest with courage to face
the Coal Measure.

It was hot; we all felt dehy-
drated. “Water! Cool, clear
water!” was the cry of the day.
We went through coal mines; all
panicked as two of the motley
crew were trapped by rocks. We
gazed at anticlines as_ traffic
streamed by; “Look out! Stay
back! All right, charge!” direct-
ed Dr. Wyckoff. \We sat on a rail-
road track and looked at grabens;
we wondered who would start a
land-slide into the Lehigh and
what would happen if a train
should come along. Dick Wagner
was stationed ahead; if he yelled
we knew he was a goner. “Get
parallel with nature!” Papa Wat-
son directed his sixty acquired en-
fants . We were to take our stand,
in two feet of brackish water, flat



Home Run
BY TRAIN!

IT’S A HIT! The fun
train trip home with friends . 33
enjoying roomy comfort and
swell dining-car meals.

a |

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IT’S A STEAL! You and
two or more friends can each
save 25% of regular round-trip
coach fares by traveling home
and back together on Group
Plan tickets. These tickets are
good generally between points
more than 100 miles apart. Or
4 group of 25 or more can each
save 28% by heading home in
the same direction at the same
time .. . then returning either
together or separately.



SAFE AT HOME! You'll
get home promptly as planned
... with all-weather certainty
no other travel can match.

CONSULT YOL? LOCAL RAILROAD TICKET
AGENT WELL IN ADVANCE OF DEPARTURE
DATE FOR DETAILED INFORMATION







against the side of a cliff. Sev-
eral girls, with the true geologic
spirit, went wading in said stream.
They began to worry on the way

home; it was fed by a sewer.

To the local gentry, the Bryn
Mawr contingent must have seem-
ed lik, swarm of locusts, which
suddenly descended, and disappear-
ed as quickly as we had come. We
left in our wake several dazed pro-
prietors of souvenir shops and re-
freshment stands, weak from the
strain of opening pop bottles and
dishing out ice cream at an alarm-
ing rate.

The ride home was a welcome
respite; one bus load sang, the



other slept. One ‘bus nearly lost
its engine, which was stuck back
in with a bobby pin. Pembroke

Arch welcomed a group of highly

metamorphosed individuals. Ex-
hausted, bruised, scratched and
grimy — all were enthusiastic.

Spontaneous cheers and original
songs bid our chaperones farewell
and thanks. Still lugging suit-
cases, raincoats, pick-axes and
now, mementos collected during
the trip, we headed home in an-
ticipation of a good, hot meal; we
were greeted by the same sand-
wich supplies that had been our
mainstay for three days.
Comment: “Oh, micaceous!”



What To Do

Continued from_Page 5
pus.
SUMMER JOBS:

Please see Mirs. Sullivan.
Norristown State Hospital.
Ward attendants. July and Au-

gust. Room, board, and salary.

Students will be from Bryn Mawr,

Swarthmore, and Cheyney State

Teachers College.

The Adirondack Trail Improve-
ment Society, Essex County, New

York.

Trail counselor for July and Au-
gust. Provide a program of moun-
tain climbing and camping for
young people, six to sixteen. Qual-
ified single woman or couple. $200
each plus room, board, and trans-
portation.



(Continued )

Robin Hill Day Camp, Yonkers,
New York.

July and August. Six-day week.

Germantown’ Settlement\ Day
Camp, Philadelphia.

June 24th to August 18th. $100
to $175.

Lakeside School Summer Camp,
Spring Valley, New York.

Waterfront director. $400 for
ten weeks.

Philadelphia YM and YWCA.

Part-time swimming instructor.
July and August. Twenty hours a
week—to be arranged.

Martin’s (store), Brooklyn.
College shop. August Ist to

September 15th. May begin in an-

other part of the store at any time.



cigarette buy.

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A Report Never Before
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two months. He reports...
no adverse effects to nose,
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I. THE QUALITY CONTRAST between Chesterfield and other leading cigarettes is

a revealing story. Recent chemical analyses give an index of good quality for the





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The index of good quality table—a ratio of high sugar to low nicotine—

- +. 15% higher than its nearest competitor and Chesterfield quality 31% higher than
the average of the five other leading brands.






















Copyright 1953, LiccrTT & Myers Topacco Co.