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The College Mews



VOL. XLVII, NO. 23

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA.,

WEDNESDAY, MAY 16. 1951

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1951

PRICE 15 CENTS



Jean Collignon

Discusses Fr.
Catholic Novel

Orthodoxy, Style Fail
- To Combine

In. Novel

specially contributed by
~ Marge Mullikin, ’51

Whether or not: there exists,’ in
truth, a contemporary French work
which can be called a good Cath-
olic novel was the primary ques-
tion raised by M. Jean Collignon
of Yale University in his lecture
at the French Club meeting on
Thursday evening, May 10. He
pointed out that Catholic novelists
do not form a school in France and
do not set up for themselves a
common literary method or theory.
Since the majority of the French
reading public is Catholic, they do
not find it necessary to unite in or

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der to justify their basic point of
view, as they would in writing for
a predominantly (Protestant public. |
Speaking of Francois Mauriac and,
Georges Bernanos in particular, M.
Collignon showed some of the dif-
ficulties encountered by novelists’
of the Catholic faith.
Both of the writers concerned
profess a firm Catholic belief, yet,
in the works which they produce
the influence of this faith is often
plainly lacking, or weakened by
the general tone of the novel.
Mauriac’s novels develop around
characters who bear little resem-
blance to good Christians. They at
tempt to use their religion to pro-
mote their own selfish ends, or
they live in a kind of moral lassi-
tude and mental sterility, analyz-
ing their situation, but finding
ways to explain and excuse their
shortcomings. The most interesting
characters, and those treated with
the greatest sympathy by the au-
thor, are often the ones who could
most justly be condemned as un-
orthodox. These characters, most
of whom need love “in large dos-
es”, as M. Collignon put it, have
been repeatedly disappointed in
their lives, and are shown on the
verge of conversion, or turning
finally to the love of God, as a kind
of last resort. The fact that “good

Burchenal Gives

Leukemia Facts
To Science Club

Dr. Joseph C. Burchenal of the
Sloan-Kettering Institute for Can-
cer Research addressed the Science
Club on May 10, 1951 in Dalton at
8:30. Dr. Burchenal discussed. re-
search on leukemia.

Slides assisted his explanation
and compared cancer cells in the
body to weeds in grass. Localized
cancer can be cured by the surgeon
or the radiologist for they can burn
or pull out the weeds. There are
three methods of attack against
The soil can
be altered (steroid treatment), the
weeds can be poisoned, or the
weeds can be blotted out.

There are several approaches to

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Michels Outlines
‘TV & Education’,

Stresses Action

Dr. Walter C. Michels of the

and Education” at this morning’s
assembly. He emphasized that
television transmission frequen-
cies impose a strict limitation upon
the number of TV stations which
can operate in any one section of
the country, in contrast to radio,
where transmission requires much
less power, making the possible
number of stations almost limit-
less. :

The ultra-frequency bands which
are being developed for television
transmission will raise the poten-
tial number of stations in any sec-
tion to only twenty-five, and these
will be in great demand. If edu-
cational institutions desire the use
of this medium, such facilities must
therefore be secured now.

The initial $300,000 cost of ob-
taining a TV station, plus $150,-
000 for maintenance annually, how-
ever, are far too great for any col-
lege to consider. Commercial sta-
tions are wary of sponsoring edu-
cational programs; the classroom
provides a’“captive audience,” but
the television audience can simply
turn the dial. Mr. Michels believes
the solution is inter-college co-
operation, plus prompt action to



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secure facilities.



Bedrich Vaska’s Super
Highlights Excellent Orchestra Concert:

by Lucy Batten, ’54

The high point of the May 11th
concert of the combined Bryn
Mawr, Haverford, and Drexel or-
chestras was the appearance of
one of the era’s finest celloists, Bed-
rich Vaska, as soloist. The mellow-
ness and rich vibrato of his rare
Stradivarius cello in the evening’s
major work, the Saint-Saens Con-
certo for Violincello and Orchestra
were indescribable; it was a mas-
terpiece. Vaska once performed
the Concerto for Saint-Saens him-
self, in Marseilles. His three solo
selections, ‘accompanied at the
piano by Conductor William Reese,
were musical- poetry. --

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Vaska is world famous. For five

b Performance

years he toured Europe as soloist
and first cello with the Warsaw
Philharmonic Orchestra. Later he
was a member of the Sevcik Quar-
tet. He was both a student and a
friend of Dvorak, often playing
the composer’s music from manu-
script prior to publication. In 1911
the native Czechoslovakian came
to the United States; here he is a
member of the New York String
Quartet, the New York Philhar-
monic Orchestra, and a professor
at both the Boston Conservatory
and Eastman School of Music. |
The orchestra portion of the pro-

gram opened melodically with two}

seventeenth century Dutch tunes

following which a woodwind ensem- |

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arsed

Physics. Department discussed “TV }

Dignity, Fun Prove

by Jane Augustine, °52

Came last Thursday, June 10, and
Fifi ‘Sonne received her birthday
present—in a forest-green package
with. a golden owl on it—some 250
of it: i. e., the 1951 Yearbook. Ed-
ited by Fi, with the assistance of
Allie Farnsworth and Bet Schoen
as Art Editor and Photography
Editor, respectively, this Case His-
tory of the class of ’51 has as its
outstanding symptom (worthy of
critical diagnosis) an excellent
quality of writing. Styles are de-
lightful and varied—from Den-
bigh’s hallucinations and solutions
to the careers of the happily mar-
ried non-reses. ‘A physician’s state.
ment on Merion has its high point
of traumatic experience “ I love
him, but he’s too much like my
father.” The verse (werse?) tale
of Life in Pembroke East, the
mechanization of Pem West, a so-
ber narrative on Radnor, Rhoads-
by-the-rules, thirteen (lucky num-
ber?) rampant Rockettes account-
ed for, chorus “If my parents call,
I’m in the Library”... all this is
our dear seniors’ parting shot,
stated with dignity and finesse.

Admirable is the shattering of
the Ivory Tower; plentiful the ref-
erences to pubs, puns, and public-
ity that would curl Pub. Rel.’s al-



Dr. Lily Ross Taylor, Dean of
the Graduate School, has just
been awarded the great honor of
membership in the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.







ready curly locks. The revelation
of four years’ carefully guarded
secrets is a. joy to behold—aha, we
knew ‘Self-Gov always had a list,
and we never knew them to miss
a missing miss. The UG (no “H”
on that word) Ass’n.’s’ octopus, Al-
liance’s collapsible soap-box, Lea-
gue’s sun, Settlement House, and
Soda Fountain—and as ultra-Lit-
eratur-Geschichte AA’s limericks
and the Virgilian Scriptomania of
—well, we don’t mention the name
of that organization—of Mac,
soph-junior NEWS editor of the
year 1950-1951.

‘Pictures? Millions! Back again

CALENDAR

Friday, May 18, 1951.

LAST DAY OF LECTURES.
Monday, May 21, 1951 to
Friday, June 1, 1951.

Final Examination Period.
Sunday, June 3, 1951.

4:00 p. m. Memorial Service for
Caroline McCormick Slade, ’96,
(Member of the Board of Direct-
ors of the College since 1920 and
Vice-President of the Board since
1935. Goodhart Hall.

8:00 p. m. Baccalaureate Ser
vice, address by the Reverend
Arthur Lee Kinsolving, D. D.
Rector of St. James Church,
‘New York City.
Monday, June 4, 1951. .
_ 4:00 p. m. Senior Garden Par-
ty. Admission by invitation only
Wyndham Garden.
Tuesday, June 5, 1951.
_ 11:00 a. m. Commencement Ex-
ercises, and the close of the 66th
Academic Year.

Luncheon on Dalton Green.





Admission by _invitation only.

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01 Yearbook Exposes Senior’s Case;

No ‘Cure’ Needed

four (thousand) years with The Big
Leap; back to Bennett’s Willy,
carnival, dance, summers and
smoke, Exotic Europe and foreign
parts, strictly home stuff—and the
best pictures? up between Radha Before and Af-
ter, A. M. and B. M. reducing So-
cial Tension, and Fabens avec bou-
teille—with Allen on a chair and
the meditating Gunderson, a close
second. But to be serious, the full-
page photographs of the campus,
and the informal poses of faculty
members are particularly fine.

With a proper mixture of low-
and high-mindedness, the latter
exemplified in the quiet beauty of
the Epilogue, the ’51 Yearbook is
wonderful reading for many years
to come.

McBride Relates
Basic Freedoms,

College, Individual

Miss McBride spoke this morn-
ing at the last Wednesday Assem-
bly of the yéar, “In Relation to
Certain Basic Freedoms,” noting
the relation of the college and the
individual to these freedoms.

The college of liberal arts and
sciences “exists only in freedom
of thought and speech.” It tries
to insure presentation of different
views, and its value judgments
must concern what is most impor-
tant to present. “The ground
should be fertile for new ideas”;
faculty and students should be
free to call for expression of other
views by outside speakers, al-
though these views must not be
misunderstood as those of the col-

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Rain Fails to Steal
‘Cavaleade’ Roar

The rain came and the sound
track had to do battle with the
thunder storm that hung on Good-
hart spire. The audience, too, was
wet, and the lightning flashes fre-
quent. But the United Worl
Federalists rose above, or at least
ignored, the elements, and pre-
sented Noel Coward’s ‘Cavalcade’
and a March of Time on the eve-
ning of Friday the eleventh.

The March of Time, of events
circa 1935, seemed _ strangely
familiar, with pictures of Hitler,
the threat to world security, and
some of John Lomax recording
“Good Night, Irene.’ ‘Cavalcade’
was more history—a fast-moving
way of presenting some of the
major occurrences from the Boer|
War till 1933 through the eyes of
an English mother. It was fas-
cinating, too, to see Clive Brook
as Mr. Marryot and Bonita Gran-
ville in the role of Fanny, the child
who later became a dancer.

Afterwards, there were cookies
and punch in the foyer, and only
one of the cookies seemed to have
collapsed from the moisture, The
rest saved one from making a
damp trip to the ville for refresh-
ments, and proved that the UWF
could choose the best evening for



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Dr. Schrecker

Seeks Flexible
Freedom Ideals

Some Freedoms More
Important Than
Others

specially contributed by
Rosamund Kent Sprague

On Saturday evening, May 12,
Professor Paul Schrecker of the
University of Pennsylvania and
Bryn Mawr College presented a
paper on “Freedom and Freedoms
in Civilization” as the culmination
of a series of lectures before the
annual May meeting of the Fuller-
ton Club.. Although primarily con-
cerned with the problem of attain-
ing a definition of freedom suffic-
iently flexible to meet the require
ments of highly divergent civiliza:
tions, yet not so broad as to be
without content, Dr. Schrecker was
at the same time, making a telling
attack on recent tendencies in logic
and semantics. “It is time,” he:
said, “to stop talking about talk-
ing, and ‘begin talking about
things.” To regard propositions
concerning, say, the worth of the
individual, as expressions of emo-
tional attitudes or as mere value
judgments incapable of verifica-
tion, amounts to a betrayal of phil-
osophy. —

All freedoms are, of course,

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Tho’ Spanish Nil,
Quixote Fills Bill

Que? No poke me so hard! Yo
no understand it either . Es bueno
that there are captions en ingles.
Yo wish the Spanish Club would
present something like this more
often. Maybe I’d learn some
Spanish. The sound track is bad?
That might explain some of this
trouble I’m having because I’m
positive that I ought to know more
Spanish than this. After all, I
have been taking it for two years
now. Now watch Don Quixote hav-
ing a duel with those windmiils, I
guess he really was a little crazy.
He is going home now; those shep-
herds certainly gave him a beat-
‘ng, but he really should have
known better than to charge a
heard of sheep. I’m sure that I
could tell the difference between
sheep and an army even if it did
have to be in Spanish. Oh now
those people have gotten him to
ride the wooden horse and blind-
folded him and he really thinks
he’s riding a flying horse. Who is
the man all dressed up in the fancy
tin? He’s challenged Quixote and
beaten him in battle. Si, now the
Don will have to retire as fulfill-
ment of his contract, but he looks
worn out. I do hope that he will
be all right. Look, he is sick; he’s
regained his sanity and realizes
what has been happening is all un-
true and that he was never really
a knight. Poor Quixote, his life ‘is
finshed. Cervantes certainly was
a great writer wasn’t he?. Pues; -
buenas noches. Yo want to go
home read the book again.