College news, May 11, 1949

The COLLEGE NEWS



VOL. XLV, NO. 24

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., MONDAY, MAY 11, 1949

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College,1945

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B. M., Princeton

Combine Voices,
Sing Excellently

Connor Solo Praised

In Stravinsky
Mass

By Gywnne Williams, °50

The Bryn Mawr Chorus did some
of its best and most impressive
Singing with the Princeton Chapel
Choir, under the direction of Carl
Weinrich, in the ‘Milbank Festival
‘Concert, Sunday, May 1, at Prince-
ton, , The choruses, singing in the
nave" of the University ‘Chapel,
were“accompanied by organ, wood-
‘wind, and brass instruments in a
program of mixed and double
choruses, which jumped effectively
from 16th-17th century: Gabrielli
and Schutz, to 20th century: Stra-
winsky and Martinu. Betty Jean
Connor’s soprano solos were an
outstanding part of this concert.
He voice was clear and beautifully
pitched, particularly in the Stra-
vinsky Mass.

The 16th century half of the
program included the Gabrielli In

Ecclesiis for Double Chorus, solo-|:

ists, organ, and brass. Unfortun-
ately the brass occasionally drown-
ed out the voices, especially the
alto part of the alto-tenor duet,
but the choruses, full of spirit and
energy, were exciting. The Schutz
“Ist Nicht Ephriam Mein Theurer
Sohn”, also for double chorus, solo-
ists, organ, and brass, lacked bal-
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Young Musicians
Give Final Concert

By Irina Nelidow, ’50

The Deanery, May 1—The Wood-
wind Quintet from the Curtis In-
stitute of Music, having been spe-
cially invited to return after its
‘brilliant performance here in Feb-
ruary, was welcomed back to Bryn
Mawr Sunday before last when it
played at the fifth and final Young
Musicians Concert.

Of particular excellence were
two works in the last half of the
program. A charming Aubade en
quintette by Pessard was played
with great delicacy and a sense
of exultant gaiety. The quintet

expressed the joyfulness of the)

Aubade with amazing lightness,
and conveyed by their playing an
impression of carefree delight.
Beethoven’s Quintet, Opus 71, the
subsequent work, was notable for
the beauty of the individual per-
formances. of Larry Thorstenberg,

_.oboist, and HaroldWright,—clari-.

netist, in the Adagio-Allegro and
Adagio, plus that of Eugene Rid-
dick (playing the horn) in the
Rondo Allegro.

Bach’s lovely Aria from Pre-
lude No. 10, beautifully sustained
throughout, and his Meine Seele
erhebt den Herren, this latter play-
ed_with_great_feeling, opened—the
program. The second work of-
fered, Taffanel’s Allegro from
quintet for woodwinds, was excel-
lent in the slower and softer pas-
sages, but the quintet occasionally
lacked precision and sharpness of
attack when the music was light
and lively.

The nostalgic Variations sur un
theme Corse, by Tomasi, had great
charm, and the five instruments
blended beautifully in this number.

Continued on Page 2

Academic Spring





by Irina Nelidow, ’50

The summer issue of Counter-
point has achieved a balance and
unity which it has not attained un-
til now. Two faculty contributions,
a forum on the function of a col-
lege education, three excellent
photographs, plus one stark and
several amusing sketches, were a
valuable addition to the collection
of prose and poetry.

The imagery in Miss Stapleton’s
Poem is vivid, but the poem itself
lacks force. John Lester’s essay
on Technique and Meaning in Fic-
tion is excellent: clearly, provoca-
tively and thoughtfully expressed.

Polls, Elections



{Discussed at Conf.

At the Seven College Conference
the weekend of April 30, Nancy
Corkran, Ann Seideman, and Karen
Knaplund represented Bryn Mawr.
Radcliffe was hostess college for
Bryn Mawr, Smith, Vassar, Bar-
nard, Mt. ‘Holyoke and Wellesley;
Skidmore was the guest college at
the conference. The subjects dis-
cussed were the “Role of Self-
Government,” “Organizations on
Campus,” and “Miscellaneous Prob-
lems.”

Placed on the agenda at Bryn
Mawr’s request were questions of
polling procedure, finance and bud-
get, and electoral systems. Well-
esley’s polling committee which
sets up and controls polls was high-
lighted. In regard to finance and
budget it was brought out that
-some—colleges—vote_on—_the_ amount.
of dues while others have dues
taken out of tuition charges.
Speeches made to the entire college
by candidates for offices at Smith
and Vassar were stressed as an ef-
fective way for the student body
to become acquainted with the can-
didates and to see which girls-have
poise and are best fitted to carry
out the position in question.

‘Last on the agenda came a dis-
cussion of the value of the Seven
College Conference, An invitation
to the Inter-Arts Conference on the
“Place of the Artist im Society”
was extended to the colleges at the
Seven._College . Conference... The
Inter-Arts Conference is to take
place May 13 and 14 at Radcliffe.
Lectures and workshops with in-
formal discussions will be held with
noted artists, including Maxwell
Anderson, W. H. Auden, and Ste-
phen Spender.

Nancy Corkran felt that the week-
end conference among the eight
colleges was “particularly success-
ful,” the “discussions good,” and
that there were many “helpful
suggestions.”







Summer Counterpoint Achieves
Balanced Variety of Material

The forum on college education
revealed the general desire for a
curriculum which would inspire
individual thinking as opposed to
blind memorizing, Gerald Freund
urged that profesors “stimulate
intellectual excitement” and help
students achieve an understanding
of their own goals. Victor Hugo
condemned the acceptance of in-
formation as an end in itself and
emphasized that information is
only valuable as a source on which
a well educated person may draw
to help him be “a living, function-
ing human.” Eight Bryn Mawr
girls planned a curriculum which
stresed general courses and pre-
vented over-specialization.

Of the short stories, Mimi Lu-
kens’ Jenner and John Brownlee’s
Refugee stand out as having both
characterization and suStained in-
terest. Refugee is convincingly
written, and Jenner has vivid ap-
peal without falling into the so
easy over-emotionalism. Helen
Goldberg’s Idyll is original, but
somewhat too precious, while Roy-
al Francis Shephard’s A Very
Gripping Adventure is neither par-
ticularly interesting nor particu-
larly amusing. Sperry Lea’s Bold
Print has a surprise ending and is
fairly well constructed.

Edie Mason Ham’s Desert is im-

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Case Tells Basis

Of Gerould Prize

That Helen Goldberg was the
winner of the Katherine Fullerton
Gerould Memorial Prize for creat-
ive writing was announced by Miss
McBride May Day morning in
Goodhart, but the work for which
the award was given was not
known at the time. Since then,
Miss McBride has received a letter
from_one_of the judges,.Mrs.Jos-
ephine Young Case, telling of the
work and its content and merits.

“The stories seemed to me to be
the work of real talent. The writ-
er handles words and situations
easily and with great perception.
The pieces are brief, actually not
more than sketches, and show in-
evitably the influence of contem-
porary writing in the “New York-
er” and elsewhere. But they are
original in the sense that they are
truly felt, and tellingly expressed
in the writer’s own language. I find
they stay in my memory the clear-
est of all of the twenty entries, and
I am sorry I do not have copies to
keep and reread. I am sure this
girl will continue td write good
things and I shall be interested to
know what she does and who she
is,??

Dieckmann Tells
Story of Diderot
Manuscript Hunt

Common Room, May 4—At an
informal lecture to the French Club
on “Adventures of a Diderot Manu-
script Hunter” Profes Herbert
Dieckmann of Washington Univer-
sity told the story of the \Diderot
manuscript collection and df his
‘own recent discovery of the original
manuscripts, which will afford
material for a new critical edition
of Diderot’s work.

The original papers unpublished
during Diderot’s lifetime were kept
privately. Until last year, when
they were revealed to Mr. Dieck-
mann by the present owner, only
two scholars had had access to
them since the death of their
author. These original manuscripts
remained in France, completely un-
known, during the entire nine-
teenth century, while copies of
some of them, which Diderot him-
self had sold to Catherine the
Great, were recopied at intervals
in the Imperial Library at St.
Petersburg and _ published in
France. Certain of these manu-
scripts had long and complicated
histories and were recopied, trans-
lated, edited, and sent back and
forth between Russia, Germany and
France,

Mr. Dieckmann explained that
the collection of original manv-
scripts, which he brought from the
chateau in Normandy where they
were being kept’ to Paris and from
there to this country, will be of
great value to scholars, who will
be able to trace in them the forma-
tion of Diderot’s style and the de-
velopment-of-his_thought.

‘Juno’ Displays
Skilled Handling
Of Implications

Bishop, Low, Thomas
Give Feathers
To Paycock

By Francine du Plessix, ’52

There are three main themes in
Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Pay-
cock, none of which is the obviously
predominant one of the play: the
love interest; the nationalistic
theme of Ireland in 1922; and the
theme implied in the title, the uni-
versal one of conflict between man
and wife. It is to the credit of the
director that this last theme’ was
the one most stressed in last week-
end’s production, giving the play
a more timeless and closer appeal.
Bryn Mawr and Haverford’s Juno
and the Paycock was a very fine
production of a play which could
have degenerated under less skill-
ful acting and directing into a pain-
ful melodrama.

Good Characterization

In the triangle which personified
the main theme of the play, Mar-
jorie Low, Bill Bishop, and David
Thomas gave outstanding perform-
ances, Showing unexpected versa-
tility, Marjorie ‘as Juno had the
full warmth and tenderness that
her part required. Her _ bent-
shoulders, hands-on-hips posture
was strongly accentuated, but not
overly so. It was consistent all
through the performance and made
her look amazingly convincing as
the careworn housewife whose cure
for anybody’s troubles is “a cup of
tay.” Hers was a very personal in-
terpretation of Juno, more fretful
and high-strung than the script re-
quires, but excellent in its individ-
uality and intensity. It was Bill
Bishop of “Captain” Jack Boyle,
Juno’s husband, who carried the
play. He is a gifted actor, with a
dynamic stage presence and a lus-
ty, beautiful voice. The excellence
of his acting’ proved itself by mak-
ing his sausage-hiding scene in the
first act, alone on the stage, one o
the high spots of the play. His
heavy, skillfully-managed move-
ments, helped towards making his
the outstanding and superbly con-
vincing performance of the eve-
ning. These two powerful charac-
terizations gave warmth and mean-



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By Irina Nelidow, ’50
..._Two_large rifles neatly.propped
up against the wall constitute the
newest adornment to Miss de La-
guna’s office in the library. How-
ever, their function is not so
ominots as they themselves ap-
pear, Miss de Laguna is going to
Alaska this summer to study }
Seulture of the Tlingit indi 50
Mr. Powell in Dalton has Been
carefully overhauling the rifles as
protection agains possible attacks
by the Kodiak grizzly bears!

Miss de Laguna, stressing the
fact that almost no archaeological
research has been carried out in
the Tlingit region, hopes. to deter-
mine “whether and how a long-
range program of coordinated re-
searches could be planned to study
the evolution of the Tlingit civili-
ation” and she plans to investigate



the “influences and factors which



De Laguna To’ Explore Alaska,
Summer With Declined Tlingits

led to the development and decline
of this rich Indian. culture.” |

On this, her sixth trip to Alaska,
Miss De Laguna will fly first of
all to Yakutat Bay, after a brief
stopover at Juneau. Yakutat Bay
has -two advantages for anthrop
logigdl study: 1) it is the onl

ood harbor between the southern
fiord area and the Prince William
Sound, so on its shore might be
found traces of the earliest cultural
exchanges between the Eskimos
from the north and the Indians
from further south. 2) one Indian
village at Yakutat still preserves
the old ways of life and conse-
quently is very valuable as an ex-
ample of the old culture.

Miss de Laguna will next do re-
search in Klukwan, one of the most
famous old villages in soytheast-
ern Alaska. Klukwan, populated

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Religion in the Curriculum

According to a two-year survey made by the Academic

Committee, the Alumnae feel that there is a definite lack of

4 courses on religion at Bryn Mawr and that it might be advis-
able to have a resident chaplain on campus. The question of
religious counsel for the students is a debatable one, but it is
undeniable that the Bryn Mawr curriculum offers only two
courses on religion, The Rise of Judaism and The- Literary
History of the Bible.

However, the situation may soon be changed. When the
Rufus Jones Chair is established, Philosophy of Religion will
again be offered. We hope that this chair will make other
courses possible, such as Mediaeval Philosophy and Compar-
ative Religion. We meet the influences and contributions of
religion so often in Art, Literature, History and Philosophy

courses that a correlation and new emphasis on religion in
the curriculum will be very welcome.

Closed Stacks

The closed-stack system, for reserve books if not for the
whole library, is an alarming idea, antagonistic to the funda-
mental principles of Bryn Mawr, but may very possibly go

into effect next year. Constant complaints from professors
that they have had to lend their personal copies of vital books

to the reserve shelves, and the common experience among)

students of finding themselves unable to do necessary parts
of the semester’s reading, or to prepare adequately for exam-
inations, point to an academically intolerable situation. The
pressure of finals complicates the whole problem.
g Honesty and a sense of scholastic responsibility are ex-
: ; pected of Bryn Mawr undergraduates, and have, in the past,
been taken for granted by the administration and faculty. Ob-
viously their opinion of us is not entirely justified. Only a
combination of extraordinary selfishness and downright dis-
honesty can account for the reserve room situation.

A closed reserve room has been tentatively suggested by
the administration as a solution to the problem. It is the
easy, and the disappointing, way out—an open confession of
the intellectual and moral inadequacy of undergraduate

_ thinking. The more mature solution, involving generosity







and self-discipline, is obvious. °





Current Events

Goodhart—In the last Current
Events lecture of this year, Mr.
Bachrach discussed “Problems of
US Foreign Policy in 1949” with
pecial reference to the State De-
partment conference at Paris next
week, He feels that little can be
accomplished there, because, should
Russia yield to US demands, we
could not accept them without an
abrupt change in foreign policy and

loss of face. We must also realize

that Russia’s motive would be a

selfish one. Our first problem is

to, change our policy which is now
aimed at maintaining a cold war to

a policy of peace. We must alse

Jead the Chinese Communists away
from Russia, by aiding them now
when Russia cannot. For years we

have thought that eventually Rus-
sia would collapse; our third prob-
lem is realizing,that she will not
weaken. Churchill at MIT said he
believed in “Live and let live” as
concerns the Soviet’s legitimate in-
terests. Our big problem is decid-
ing which interests are legitimate.

Dr. Berry Avsigts
In Rat Experiment

Two weeks ago today the first
results of a study on animals to
investigate ‘the biological causa-
tion of alcoholism, in Which Dr.
Berry has been assisting during his
year at the University of Texas,
was announced to the National
Academy of Sciences. The experi-
ment, indicating that alcd@holism
may be attributed to an inherited
block preventing proper utilization
of essential diet factors, has been
directed by Professor Roger Wil-
liams of the University of Texas.

Rats and mice of different genetic
backgrounds were placed in cages
containing both water and alcohol,
in bottles, which were switched
daily. The amount of drinking each
mouse or rat did depended on his
heredity and individual taste; those
that showed a particular craving
had inherited genetic blocks which
prevented them from utilizing diet
factors which were present in their
food.

When these factors are supplied,
the rat goes back to an alcoholic
normal, and many have had their
appetities for alcohol removed in
this way. Not all rats yield to the
treatment, however; they go on
drinking as they require or desire.

DeLaguna to Observe
Tlingit Indian Culture

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by the Chilkat Indians, formerly
occupied a strategic position for in-
land trade, and a comparison of its
culture with that of the interior
should prove extremely interesting.
.Catherine McClellan, Bryn Mawr
’42, is now working in the Yukon
on the culture of the Indians fur-
ther inland, so a correlation of her
investigations with those of Miss
de Laguna will be possible.

After. Miss de Laguna leaves
Kilukwan, she will study the civili-
zation on Angoon, an island located
in the center of the Tlingit region
and populated by descendants of
many different Tlingit tribes.

Miss de Laguna has been award-
ed a grant from the Arctic Insti-
tute of North America for this
work, and since the Arctic Institute
is backed by the Office of Naval Re-
search, she is hoping for naval air
transportation as far as Seattle.
She will be accompanied by two
student assistants, William Irving
from the University of Alaska
(near Fairbanks), and Edward Ma-
lin from the University of Colo-



rado.

Newbold Reports
Athletic Meeting

Specially Contributed ~-
By Ann Newbold, ’50

Representing Bryn Mawr at the
National Conference of the Ath-
letic Federation of College Women
at the University of Madison last
week, I was but-one of 476 dele-
gates from 144 colleges in 37
states. This Conference of Women’s
Athletic Association has been held
every two years since 1917 for the
purpose of exchanging ideas and
plans about college Athletic Asso-
ciations,

The stress at the last convention
was on co-operation with all social,
racial, and religious groups from
the local to the international area.
It was felt that sports could: be
very valuable in helping to bridge
the gap ‘between the theory and
the practice of democracy.

As was the case with many of
the problems brought up at this
conference, the question of non-
discrimination in athletics applied
more to bigger universities than to
a college such as Bryn Mawr. How-
ever, there were some suggestions
as to how all college Athletic As-
sociations could help. the. commun-
ity and the world in general. For
example, the Gym could be open
to neighboring high schools if the
facilities of the latter were inade-
quate. Above all, gym equipment
and clothes, badly needed by schools
in Europe, could be sent there
through the Unitarian Warehouse.

The rest of the Conference was
devoted to Athletic Associations’
problems on campus., It was par-
ticularly interesting to notice the

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IMPORTANT NOTICE
The cloisters are a part of the
library, and as such are to be
used for study and not relaxa-
tion. Radios are not permitted,
and accidental noise is to be kept
at a minimum. Expect strict

enforcement of these rules.

Film Tells History
Of Atomic Theory

Goodhart, May 3—To a large
audience composed of members of
the Main Line communities, work-
ers at the Franklin Institute and
the Budd Laboratories, students of
nearby colleges and Bryn Mawr, J,
Arthur Rank’s film, “Atomic Phy-
sies,” was shown.

The movie follows the history of
the atomic theory, and explains
each discovery and its meaning
by means of diagrams, pictures,







‘and speech. The first section is on

the formulation of the atomic
theory, by use of the mass spectro-
graph as J. J. Thompson used it.
Then Becquerel’s discovery of



radioactivity was shown and ex-
plained in the second unit of the
film entitled “Rays From Atoms.”

“The Nuclear Structure of the
Atom,” the third section of the
film, dealt with Rutherford’s dis-
covery and use of the alpha par-
ticle emission of the atom’s nucleus.
The invention, Construction, “and
use of the cyclotron was pictured
in the fourth section, “Smashing
the Atom and the Discovery of
the Neutron.” The part that Ein-
stein’s theory of mass-energy re-
lationship has played in atomic and
nuclear physics was explained in
this section.

The last bit, “Uranium Fission
and Atomic Energy Release,” ex-
plained the separation of uranium
and the building of atomic piles for
this purpose. The atomic bomb’s
construction, the so-called “atomic
secret,” was explained, and pictures
of the effects of the bomb were
shown. The film ended on the sol-
emn note that humanity must util-
ize the tremendous sources of en-
ergy to be found in atoms for
peace, and gave some suggestions





on how this might be done.



‘Juno’? Found Example
Of Excellent Direction

Continued from Page 1

ing to the theme—the man, a Pay-
cock, struts through his life and
drowns his troubles; the woman,
Juno the home-preserver, is the
true hero. As the Captain’s friend
hounded by Juno, Dave Thomas
was excellent and sympathetic. His
elusive gestures, his delivery of
“what is the moon...?” were won-
derful, Delightfully fey in his role,
Dave Thomas brought a whimsical
and refreshing mood to the play.
The Irish theme of frustration
and national sorrow was well per-
sonified by Robert Lasday, who
showed much intensity as the neu-

rotic and hysterical son Johnny. A
weeping mother who son has died
for the national cause, Mrs. Tan-
cred, was adequately, innervatingly
overacted by Mary 'Ausman. The
lighter side of the Irish spirit was
characterized by Trish Richardson.
As the expansive Mrs. Madigan,
Trish showed immense stage pres
ence and a professional sense of
comedy. Hilarious in parts, hers



was by far the best performance
outside of the three major roles.

It is a shame that the love ele-
ment, the third important theme in
Juno and the Paycock, was made
meaningless by insignificant acting.
The role of Mary Boyle could bring
much pathos and intensity to the
play. In that role Ruth La Place
had a sorry lask of stage presence,
although her acting was competent,
and she did not carry across that.
intensity potential in Mary’s char-



acter. As~her lover, Jerry Devine

,| Was no more than adequate; Robert.

Kunkel was sufficiently self-consci~
ous as the pedantic villain.

Praises to McKinley

This was a beautifully finished
production. The sets were slightly
over-cluttered but good. The make-
up was professional. The lighting:
was superb in the last, candle-lit:
scene, But it is to the director, R..
S. MeKinley, that the highest prais-
es must go. His flair for blocking
gave suspense and intensity to the
mood of the play. The Irish brogue-
was deftly handled and never irri-
tating. Sudden transitions fron»
comedy to tragedy, usually painful
in an amateur production, achieved
strong melodramatic effect. The
cast was equally competent in
tragic and comic passages. All
this shows the director’s great sen-
vitivity and professional knowledge:
of the stage. There was no attempt.
at artiness or sophistication in
Juno and the Paycock. Thanks to
McKinley it was a human, full-
blooded, often touching perform-
ance. And it proves that if other
talent anywhere equal to McKin-
ley’s is to be found on the Bryn
Mawr-Haverford campus, _ there
should be more attempts at student
direction.

Young Musicians Give
Last Deanery Concert
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The changing moods of the differ~
ent variations were well inter-
preted, while the continuity of the
main theme was maintained.

The two disappointments of the -
program were Debussy’s Little
Shepherd and Persichetti’s Pas-. -
toral. The Debussy was dull and
uninspired, although well played,
especially by the oboist, Larry
Thorstenberg, who showed both.
restraint and vigorous power. The-
Pastoral was lively, but superficial.
and lacking in appeal.

A delightful German dance by
Mozart, played with great spirit,.
if not always with clarity, ended a
program which showed once more:
how high a standard is maintained:
by these musicians from the Curtis:



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Shorts

The Baseball Varsity played two
.-matches last week. On Tuesday,
May 8, Bryn Mawr beat Chestnut
Hill in a very exciting game with a

score of 19-6. It seemed as if ev-

eryone on the Bryn Mawr. team
was hitting everything. On Thurs-
day, May 6, the tides were changed
a bit. The Bryn Mawr Varsity lost
to Ursinus by a very decisive score
of 15-2, and on top of being defeat-
ed it seems that the team was sub-

jected to a rather frustrating ride
home all in one car.. Let’s hope the
team has better luck all around
next Thursday, May 12, when they
play their last match against Penn
at Penn.

Lacrosse Team Loses

The Lacrosse Varsity played
their second match last (Wednesday,
May 4, against Penn. Bryn Mawr
played very well, but found it q lit-
tle too difficult to keep down Penn's
star team which has three All-
American players on it. It was a
good, fast game, and the skill and
technique was very fine to watch.
We certainly held them better than
we did last year; at least we had
them worried at times. The J. V.
didn’t get a chance to play, due to
the fact that Penn brought only
one team. Both the Varsity and
the J. V. play their last games on
Wednesday, May 11, against
Swarthmore.

Varsity-Geology Game

The great climax comes 01
Thursday, May 12, when the Bryn
Mawr Lacrosse Varsity will play
the Geology department. They
have been practicing for weeks,
‘and the game should be uproarious.
Don’t miss this exciting finale to
the ‘Lacrosse season.

Tennis Results

The Tennis Varsity lost for the
first time last Monday, May 2, in:
its match against Swarthmore, but
the J. V. redeemed them by severe-
ly trouncing the Swarthmore J. V.
on Thursday, (May 5, with the score
of 5-0. The Varsity has two more
games to play, one on Tuesday,
May 10, against Penn, and another
on Thursday, May 12 against Rose-
mont. The J. V. plays its last match
on Tuesday, May 10 against Penn.
So far they are undefeated. Here’s
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ICG Demonstrates
Gov't Machinery

The Intercollegiate Conference
on Government, held in Harrisburg,
April 28 to May 1, was proclaimed
a success by the eleven Bryn Mawr
delegates who attended. Taking the
form of a model state legislature,

the conference lived up to its
motto: “We do not aim to preach
or even teach, but merely to afford
an opportunity to learn how gov-
ernment works.”

This opportunity was given in
meetings of the committees com-
posed of one delegate from each
school; on the floor of the “Legis-
lature,” where the committee reports
were considered; and in ubiquitous
private caucuses and deal-making
sessions. Bryn Mawr did remark-
ably well in all phases of the legis-
lative procedure; several of its bills
were reported out of committee and
accepted by the assembly. Another
Bryn Mawr achievement was the
unanimous. election of Trudy
Donath as temporary clerk of the
assembly. ieee.

While in: Harrisburg,, the dele-
gates heard an address by Gover-
nor Duff and visited the State Sen-
ate and Assembly. They met
various representatives and sen-
ators, all of whom seemed enthusi-
astic about the conference. As one
Democrat put it, “I wish my honor-
able opponents had as much on the



that way.

ball as you kids!”



Guitar, Picks, Orals Accompany
Eager Geologists to Coal Mines

By Ann Anthony, ’51

Our conception of Nature has
been metamorphosed; science has
warped our lives. And gone for-
ever are those days of charming
naivete when we gazed on the
beauties of the passing landscape
with innocent pleasure, unaware of
the contortions frock beds be-
neath the surface of the earth. We
have’ pried into the innermost se-

~erets-of--Mother--Earth’s. anatomy;.

we saw what makes the Poconos
poke. Hills are no longer hills for
us, but anticlines and synclines.
The ghost of the trilobite haunts
us, whose empire ruled the world
500 million years ago through a
greater length of time than man
has yet existed.

The annual expedition of the first
year Geology class has brought us
face-to-face with the hard facts of
life. On Friday, April 29, while
the rest of the college munched 2
leisurely breakfast, a group of
sleepy but earnest young geologists
packed themselves, picks, lunches,
and a great deal of miscellaneous
paraphernalia into the bus. The
Haverford geologists rode in ex-
clusive comfort in the _ station
wagon, equipped with a guitar to
while away the hours. Our route
west lay through the Delaware



Water Gap. For three days we
were to unleash our destructive im-
pulses hacking away on the Penn-
sylvania landscape. Our efforts
were rewarded by the unearthing
of a quantity of fossils. We also
managed to acquire magnificent
tans while listening to Messieurs
Watson and Dryden deliver road-
ride lectures.

We encamped the first night at
the Penn-Stroud Hotel in Strouds-
burg. Our attention was diverted
during dinner by a parade—in our
honor, we felt sure—which passed
by the hotel. Saturday morning a
few unfortunates were left. behind
to undergo orals. 4

What we could find out about,

the Hotel Majestic in Tamaqua (in
the heart of the anthracite region)
was far from reassuring, and we
were ready for the worst. A movie
house occupies a corner of the hotel
building; the sound track was quite
audible in some of the rooms.

Sunday morning adverse cli-
matic conditions limited our visits
to the coal mine. May Day ac-
tivities were a fitting epilogue to
our healthy, out-of-doors weekend:
Tamaqua nightlife may have been
a rather poor second to the Hav-
erford Senior Prom, but it had
been “rocky.”





Parisian, From His ‘Petit Coin,’

Describes B. M.’s “Tle Heureuse’’

A number of Bryn Mawr stu-
dents will be going this summer
to attend the Bryn Mawr-sponsor-
ed summer session in Paris; next
fall, no doubt, we shall all be
hearing the Bryn Mawr view of
Paris. In light of this, it might
be interesting to get the Paris
view of Bryn Mawr, as stated in
a French magazine of 1931 by a
M. Paul Hazard, who taught here
for one year.

“Aujourd‘hui tout est a laig-
reur; quel pays en aime vraiment
un autre? En rentrant a Paris,
je m/’apercois que pour etre a la
mode, il faut dire du mal de
l’Amerique; pour etre a la mode,
il fallait ’exalter sans mesure, il
y a trois ou quatre ans. Le vent
a tourne; si cela continue, il n’y
aura plus de tripier de village,
egorgeant son cochon dans sa cour,
qui ne parle avec mepris des abat-
toirs de (Chicago.

“Pour ma part, je raconterai
ce que j’ai vu, dans mon petit coin.

-“VYous arrivez a Philadelphie;
vous prenez un train local, et vous
descendez a Bryn Mawr, qui, des
temps anciens de la colonie, a
garde son nom gallois.

“Bryn Mawr a ses garages, son
cinema, son golf miniature et son
bazar a. cing sous. Mais ce qui
fait sa gloire, c’est son college de
jeunes filles. . . Imaginez, en pleine
nature, toute une cite dediee aux
etudes et au bonheur. . . Libres,
installees dans leur republique, que
les aines ont le devoir d’entretenir,
mais qu’ils n’ont pas le droit d’op-
primer, les adolescents vivent par
eux-memes et pour eux-memes, . .
Les notres sont plus savants, ceux-
la sont plus heureux.”

(President-Emeritus Park): “La
reine de la ruche. . .”

(Campus styles); “le campus est
anime comme une place publique,
jentends resonner des rires clairs.
berets basques, bonnets de laine, ou
Rien qui ressemble a un uniforme,
cela va sans dire; blouses ou chan-
dails, jupes longues ou courtes,
cheveux au vent.”

(Lantern Night): “Ces~-evolu-|~

tions, ces demi-choeurs, ce geste, ce
rite, et jusqu’au texte meme du
chant lentement rythme, rappel-
lent’ les ceremonies paiennes. La
Grece revit, et transmet a la plus
neuve des civilisations cette fleur
de Poeesie antique. Mais ce cloitre,
cette nuit ou nous sommes plonges,
ces vetements noirs dont les pos-
tulantes sont revetues, cette
psalmodie, rappellent, en meme
temps le christianisme; on evoque
les religieuses se rendant a la cha-
pelle, ou bien ces Vierges sages
de )’Ecriture qui avaient soin de
tenir toujours leurs lampes al-
lumees. Les deux traditions se fon-
dent ici dans une intime beaute.”

(Courses and colleagues): ‘Au
commencement, je suis embar-
rasse, .. Je pense, pour m’encour-
ager, que j’ai ici meme plusieurs

collegues masculins; il y en a un
qui porte des favoris, et l’autre qui
porte toute sa barbe, puissant ren-
fort”

(Seminars): “Dans une salle toute
tapissee de livres, autour d’une
vaste table, une douzaine de candi-
dates au doctorat sont installees.
Je n’ai pas la pretention d’ajouter
beaucoup a ce que leur excellente
professeur, Miss Schenck, leur a
appris.”

“J’ai vue une ile heureuse,.on tous
les soins vont a une jeunesse qui,
precisement parce que lag France
offre une civilisation tout impreg-
ne de pensee et d’art,/aime la
France. Je ne puis raconter que

ce que j’y ai vu.”

The Observer

At this-time-we-should-observe
in terms more cosmopolitan than
usual, for the weekend took many
of us to points north, and it is not
only our own high hill and towers
with which we are now impressed.
We expect change of atmosphere
om our weekends away and, al-
though we did find change of com-
panionship, Spring is so universal
that the same atmosphere prevails
over all these institutes.

Sun and Dogs

At Princeton ‘they are wearing
shorts and boast sun tans superior
even to ours. Why this should be,
we do not know—fewer classes ?—
higher roofs? There also the green

is almost overpowering and friend-
ly dogs come nuzzling up too ac-
customed to attention from all sides
to show real favor to any one per-
son

Poison Ivy

At~-¥ale-also-we-find..the_uni-
versality of Spring and Spring be-
havior. We wear our old clothes
out to Derby; we take our shoes off
and dare the water to come above
our ankles. And there, ivy, as it
has done at Bryn Mawr, has tdst
the old connotation of pretty green
leaves growing on tower walls. It
has become poison ivy and we ar?
y more able to avoid it there than
here,

Home Again

‘Now we have come home to our
own dogs, our own ivy. We have
cigarette holes in our pretty cot-
ton dresses and we are applying
more calamine than ever. But

there are more than enough com-
pensations for this, and we are
happy to know that there is a



spring like ours in other places. _

Between the Leaves

Elinor Parker, Cooking for One.
New York. Thomas Y. Crowell
Company. 1949.

By Anne Greet, 750

If you live alone, or pian to live
alone, and also like to cook, then
Klinor Parker, Bryn Mawr ’27, has
written her “primer of single cook-
ery” for you. The main objective
of! Cooking for One is to conserve
the time, money and energy of
single householders in their battle
with: the eternal problem of food.
Its ‘minor objective is to entertain
all lovers of good eating. The in-
terested cook will receive. benefi-
cial advice and the dilettante a
thoughtful pleasure from Miss
Parker’s recipes for risotto with
mushrooms, golden yellow kedge-
ree, or peas bonne femme. Her
hot weather menus rouse in the
vulnerable reader an intense long-
ing for summer, as, for instance,

“cold puree Mongole, soft-shell
crabs, sliced cucumbers’ with
French dressing, berries and
cream,” or ‘“Madrilene, curried

shrimps and rice, fruit compote.”
Those who prefer something more
unubstantial may feast their eyes
upon “baked gnoechi — asparagus
salad” or “bean and bacon soup—
seedless grapes with fresh mint.”

The would-be cook will find out
how to halve an egg and to cook
cheese without toughening it; she
will learn how to cook pieces cut
off a large fish (“tie them in
cheese cloth or parchment”), and
what the best kind of cooking
cheese is (“stale rat trap”). Noth-
ing essential to culinary perfection
or efficiency is omitted. In prepar-
ing lobster, “remove the _ small
sack near the head, but leave in
the green fat and red coral. . .”
Fresh fish must be really fresh
and meat bones should be saved
for soup.

Miss Parker’s frankness about
laying down certain indisputable
laws (“Soup is an excellent way to
begin any meal”... “The best pos-
sible salad... is a bowl of mixed
greens with French dressing”) will
make a deep impression upon the
inexperienced; her tolerance for
the “purist about greens” and for
those who “wear out” their “taste
for eggs by using them for a
breakfast food” will appeal even
to the anti-cook. Her approach is
objective. She is not a fanatic cook.
“Breakfast,” she says, “is your own
affair and is not touched upon in
this book.”



Dorothy Burr Thompson, Swans
and Amber, University of To-
ronto Press, 1948.

by Emily Townsend, ’50

Mrs. Thompson, who was _ the
class of 1923 at Bryn Mawr, be-
gins the preface to this book of
translations of early Greek lyric
poetry, with a statement of motive:
“When I first read these poems
in the original. Greek at Bryn
Mawr, I experienced a shock of
delight. I-felt an irresistible im-
pulse to learn them by heart, and
to render them into English. Like
most translators, I worked for my
own satisfaction.” The melody and
precision of imagery which
prompted Mrs. Thompson to her
translation shines through her
metrical versions of them quite
often, but on the whole her work
is not very satisfying poetry per
se.

It is only fair to say that this
review has been made without any
reference to the original Greek
texts. Only the general comment
can be made, that Mrs. Thompson’s
writing has about it an atmos-
phere of innocence and technical
naivete which is scarcely conso- *
nant with the strength and author-
itative delicacy of the Greek lan-
guage. Lines like:

“A glory ’tis to fight
For home and child and wife;”
or (to a deer):



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Page Four



i

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, May 11, 1949



Dance Groups Give
Adequate Recital

By Elisabeth Nelidow, °51

Goodhart, May 4.—The Spring
Dance Concert, presented by the
Philadelphia College Dance Council
and including performances by
seven colleges in the area, can be
summed up best by the word “ade-
quate.” The recital started with
three dances by Harcum. Their
numbers gave the dancers little
chance to show what they could
do, as the choreography was repe-
titious and unimaginative.

The Cheney Training School for
Teachers next presented Excerpts
From Negro History. This had
good rhythm which was well sus-
tained by the movements of the
dancers and was also well planned
und executed. Penn’s last of three
dances, Joshua Fit the Battle of
Jericho, was one of the best of the
evening, mainly because of the solo
dancer, Malvena Taiz, who is also
the dance director. Miss Taiz has
obviously had a great deal of train-
ing, for her technique and control
were excellent.

Country Dances, by the Stella
Elkins Tyler School of Fine Arts
of Temple University ” - followed
after the intermission. This was
gay and light, and showed imagina-
tion, although the dancers needed
more rehearsal. “Cutting Collec-
tion” was next performed by
Swarthmore dancers. This dance
was too long, and not sufficiently
varied to sustain the interest of
the audience,

Temple University presented two
dances—Song of Our Faiths and
Frontier Days, There was too little
variety in the first dance to war-
rant its length. Frontier Days was
executed with spirit and a sense
of fun.

The last performance was by
Bryn Mawr, which presented the
Same program as at Arts Night.
The Dance for Three Colors was
more accurately executed than at
its first presentation, but the
dancers still seemed unsure of
themselves. Touche was as funny
as ever—short and to the point.
The Fallen Angels showed much
work, but the dancers and the
piano seemed to have trouble keep-
ing together, although good co-
ordination between the dancers was
evident. Lastly, there was a finale





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Bryn Mawr, will fly from her home
in Honolulu for her sixtieth re-
union of the class of 1889. She will

dinner on May 28, and will be a

guest of the board of, commence-
ment exercises on May 81.

Mrs. Cox was also the first stud-
ent to register here in 1885, and
her father was a close friend of
Dr. Joseph Taylor, founder and
first president of the college.
Since Mrs. Cox’s graduation
from Bryn Mawr in 1889, her ac-
complishments in the field of
Hawaiian affairs have been many,
though her modesty regarding
them is great. At first she was a
teacher in public and_ private
schools; thens«she worked for the
establishment of kindergartens in
Hawaii. She supported the Kilo-
hana Art League, which was the
forerunner of the Honolulu Art
Society, and was the first director
of the Honolulu Academy of Arts.
Mrs. Cox has served as a trus-
tee of the Library of Hawaii since
1936, and since 1944 she has been
secretary of the board. Her other
activities include the secretaryship
of the College Club, membership
on the board of directors of the
YWCA and promotion work’ for
the International Institute, the
Pan-Pacific Union, and the chair-
manship of relief of the American
Friends’ Service Committee, Hon-
olulu branch.”In 1946, she was a
delegate to the International As-
sembly of Women in New York.
At present, Mrs. Cox teaches
women English and American
History to enable them to become
American citizens, and is taking
a course in modern philosophy at
the University of Hawaii.



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ferent colleges grouped on stage

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Slides Illustrate
Biology Reports

Dalton, Wednesday, May 4, 8:00
P. M.—The Biology Department
conducted a program of reports
and demonstrations at the meeting
of the Bryn Mawr Chapter of the
honorary scientific society, Sigma
Xi, on Wednesday.

After the opening of the meeting
by Dr. Michels, Miss Gardiner re-
ported on her recent research in
conjunction with Dr. Berry, and
her current research with Dr. Nor-
ris on the growth and differentia-
tion of onion roots.

Illustrating her
drawings, Miss Gardiner described
the structures and functions of the
normal. cells of the various divis-

ions of the root, and then proceeded
to discuss the effects of a low cur-
rent shot through the root. The
cells enlarge, and there is am ap-
parent thinning of their walls, with
the result that there is then freer
diffusion of water.

Her research in experimental em-
bryology was the subject of Miss
Oppenheimer’s lecture. With large
slides showing se¢tions and whole
mounts of fish embryos, Miss Op-
penheimer discussed her experi-
ments in transplanting blastoderm,
or organizer cells, and thus induc-
ing other cells to differentiate into
a secondary embryo.

After some explanation of her
work with the nervous system of
the fish, Miss Oppenheimer said
that she would study simple be-
havior patterns (more complex
than feeding and swimming) of fish
with deranged brains.

Dr. Norris discussed his work on
the process of respiration and dif-
fusion in onion root cells. He ex-
plained that through the use of
chemical indicators, it was possible
to determine which zone of. the
root produced most CO2, and thus
had the highest degree of respira-

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Conference Contrasts
Colleges’ AA Problems

Continued from Page 2

differences between Bryn Mawr’s
A. A. and those of other colleges
and universities. The first of these
differences is the fact that Bryn
Mawr has no physical education
Second, the Philadelphia
area is almost unique because of

major,
the ‘presence of _ intercollegiate
sports. (There are so many col-
leges in a small area around here
that intercollegiate sports are pos-

sible without great expense on the
part of the colleges participating.)
Third, most smaller colleges such
as ours did not have as representa-

tive a Board and Council, for the

members of our Board are elected

either by the college or the classes, |

and the captains and managers,
who form the Council; are elected
by their respective teams. The
Council in most other colleges, how-
ever, is appointed by the Board.

The main point stressed at the
Conference which our A. A. has
also been trying to carry out was
the emphasis on the participation
in sports based on interest rather
than skill alone. (For example,
class and hall games.) All felt
very strongly that awards should
not ‘be the aim of people participat-
ing in sports, but merely a recog-
nition, first of interest, second of
skill. This also is a policy that
A.A. Boards in the past few years
have been trying to follow.

In general, this conference il-
lustrated both the similarities and
the differences hetween Bryn Mawr
and other colleges. (Much was
gained that could be applied spe-
cifically to Bryn Mawr, such as the
possibility of having canoeing and
mountain-climbing trips as well as
the skiing week-end. Above all,
the conference helped the Board
to see the problems and plans of
Athletic Associations all over the
country, and how these ideas could
be applied to Bryn Mawr, in par-
ticular,





Betweenthe Leaves

Continued: from Page 3

“O come, my dear, I long to play
with you,
You have, I vow, a charming
way with you.”
are not really very good.

To abstract lines from their con-
text does not do Mrs. Thompson
full justice, of course. She handles
the difficult dimeter form in which
Anacreon turns up quite nicely, and

some of her versions of Sappho
are very freshly good. She has
the ability to be successful in a
range of moods, always difficult
for the translator; compare:
“When you lie dead,
No memory will hold
A living thought of you
When you are cold.”
with:
“What country girl in country
dress

Now sets your silly heart alight?
She doesn’t kiiow enough to draw

Her skirts about her ankle tight.”

Mrs. Thompson is particularly
felicitous-in avoiding fruity adjec-
tives and over-ripe imagery; her
translation style is always simple
and unpadded.

“So. long as water flows and trees

Grow tall and green, I shall be
nigh,”

is mercifully unlike the nineteenth

century Murrayanism which must

have blighted Greek for so many

people.

Mrs. Thompson has not, how-
ever, made any very significant
contribution to the translation of
Greek poetry. Her prosody is, at
its best, merely adequate, and her
expression is too often anemic.
She has overémphasized the emo-
tionalism implicit in her material,
and transformed it into coyness or
soppiness. Occasional lines are very
nice indeed, the style is pure and
dieted, but the total effect is
dangerously close to being wishy-
washy, which would be anathema
to any, sensible poet, especially a
Greek,





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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Five



Bernheimer Gives

German Art Talk

Library 1, May 2—Speaking to
the German Club on “German Art”,

Dr. Richard Bernheimer pointed
out the “extraordinary and _ in-
creasing discontinuity” which

marks the art of Germany in con-
trast to that of other European
-countries and which can be seen
there at the end of every artistic
style up to the present.

Though Germany lacked the nec-
essary coherence of purpose and
feeling to create a definite style,
as France did the Gothic and Italy
the Renaissance, German artists
have excelled during the late de-
velopment of each of the great
styles, and have also made orig-
inal contributions in the develop-
ment of the graphic arts and of
individualism in religious art. With
the exception of the art of the
Ottonian ‘Renaissance, which did
not imitate any other national art,
German art, from Romanesque to
twentieth century Expressionism,
show the adaptation and develop-
ment of styles originated else-
where. Dr. Bernheimer showed ex-
amples of the masterpieces which
have been produced in this pro-
cess and which are often marked
by the intensity and violent emo-
tion characteristic of much German
art.

‘Germany allowed some of its
greatest artists, such as Grune-
wald, to be forgotten and, except-
ing the work of Durer and Holbein,
German art has been little known
or appreciated from the interna-
tional point of view, Dr. Bern-
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by Hanna Holborn, ’50

The versatility, strength, and in-
telligence of M. Carey Thomas,



Chorus Ends Season
At Millbank Festival ©

Continued from Page 1

ance between voices and brass, but
Betty Jean’s soprano solo was
superb, as was the Chorus’ out-
purst of “‘Darum, Bricht Mir Nein
Herz!”

The Bryn Mawr and Princeton
presentation of the Stravinsky Mass
was almost perfect. Except for
some lack of balance between winds
and voices and an occasional off
pitch in the alto solo and bass sec-
tion, the Mass, which is very hard
to sing, went beautifully.

The brasses, who opened the con-
eert--with. two Gabrielli..pieces,..ef-
fected a brief interlude called
“Angels” by Carl Ruggels. This
music, which sounded unpleasantly
modern, was apparently Pure
Counterpoint and the way Bach
would be writing music if he were
living today. The Princeton Choir
concluded the program with Bohu-
slav Martinu’s “Military Mass”, an
impressive piece with much use of
percussion, hushéd passages, and
‘outbursts.

Mrs Manning Creates Portrait
Of Miss Thomas At Bryn Mawr

mythologized by later undergrad-
uates- in the form of anecdotes
which have become traditional on
campus, contituted the theme of
Mrs. Manning’s talk in the third
weekly Assembly. From her sym-
pathetic and impressive character-
ization emerged the picture of a
real and inspiring woman. L’Affair
Yarrow, feminist baths in Low
Buildings and showers in the Gym,
a lack of financially established
dead alumnae—these anecdotes cre-
ate a vivid portrait of Bryn Mawr
as it once was, and this, Mrs. Man-
ning implied, could be said to be M.
Carey Thomas herself.

But, as Mrs. Manning pointed
out, M. Carey Thomas was more
than a quaint legend; she was a
woman of extraordinary efficiency,
courage, and devotion to principle
whose energy surmounted all ob-
stacles. If she and her mother
wept for 24 hours, it was for a
cause; the result was to acquire a
Ph. D. degree at Zurich summa cum
laude. If she scorned history as a
study which failed to emphasize the
place of wemen, she did more t?
indicate the potentialities of wom-
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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, May 11, 1949



Movies Illustrate

German Gothic Art

Two films on the work of Hans
Memling (1480-1494) and the Stone
Wonders of Naumberg were shown
in the Common Room on May 2.

The first, on the etchings and
paintings of Memling, traced the
places in which the paintings are
hung’ and the places where the

artist worked, a hospital-monastery

and a. museum in Bruges.

Highlighted by camera closeups
of the paintings of scenes from the
life of ‘Christ, the film also showed
those painting telling the story of
Salome and St. John the Baptist.

In the concentration on faces,
and with the aid of the sound
commentary, one could see how
Memling represented himself in the
faces of the humble peasants, in
the heads pressed to the window
panes watching great events.

The “Stone Wonders of Naum-
berg,” a Museum of Modern Art
film, took the spectator on a visual
tour of the great Gothic cathedral,
including the crypt and the statu-
ary in niches on the columns, Music
of Johann Sebastian, Bach brought
meaning to the film, which had
subtitles in German.

Starting with a survey of the
statues of the king and queen in
the main part of the church, the
camera viewed them from all sides
enabling the spectator to receive
varied interpretations.

In the stone figures were the
scenes of the Betrayal, with the
figure of Judas standing out in
gesture and position, and the
Crucifixion.

After a tour through the church,
the camera took the spectator out-
side to the cloisters to see the



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elaborate stone work of the cap-
itals, finally to go further and
further away, until Naumberg was
seen from the sky, and the all over
pattern of a great example of:
Gothic architecture could be view-
ed as a whole,

Red Flag)

Letters we never finished read-,



Counterpoint Achieves
Balance of Material

Continued from Page 1

aginative and striking, extremely
vivid and well written.

Of the poetry, David Rosenthal’s
Savoir Faire and Etiquette is clev-
erly and observantly done. The
anonymous Transcendental Limer-
ick is inconsequential but witty.
The Strangers, by Gerry Warburg,
has lovely rhythm and some excep-
tionally beautiufl lines, Clarissa
Platt’s Clarity has just that, plus
a calm. beauty, and is greatly en-
hanced’ by Peter Stettenheim’s
photograph, St. Ives, on the oppo-
site page. The last lines of Annie
Laurie Fabens’ Eseape are appeal-
ing, but the poem itself is ‘unin-
spiring. Patricia Ripley’s poem
ends much better than it began;
the first section is somewhat too
overloaded with imagery, but the
last section is more restrained and
forceful. The Witchmaster’s Child
by Melanie Hewitt conveys an
eerie atmosphere, and its rhythm
is very well adapted to its con-
tent. The choice of symbols "
especially effective. m

Edward Shakespeare’s sketches
of the Haverford faculty are hilar-
ious, and Paul Moses’ Crucifixion
is ‘extremely good, although not
quite forceful enough. The photo-
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NOTICES

Gym Tunics Needed
Seniors are urged to turn in
their gym tunics, which will be col-
lected some time during the com-
ing week and sent immediately to
European students.

Semester Marks

The grades of all students other
than members of the graduating
class will be mailed to their home
addresses as given in the Finding
List. Students wishing their grades
sent to some other address should
leave the information with the
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