College news, April 25, 1951

The College News



VOL. XLVII, NO. 20

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1951

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1951

PRICE 15 CENTS



Dr. Carpenter
Shows Present
Value of Greek

Greek May Be Utilized;
Should Not Be
Rejected

The Bryn Mawr faculty must
have a conviction “that Greek is
still worth studying,” Dr. Rhys
Carpenter reasoned, as he ad-
dressed the graduate assembly
last Wednesday. Otherwise, why,
when Greek is being pushed from
curricula everywhere, should a
student be assisted in devoting her
energies to a study of the lan-
guage? Has it been lassitude
that has kept the faculty from ex-
pelling Greek from Bryn Mawr?

By revising the origin of and
reason for Greek’s coming into
the. modern world, one can “com-
prehend whither it has gone, and
why it has left it so suddenly and
finally.”

In the mid-Renaissance, Greek’
began to be the mark of an edu-
cated upper society. A member
of the British ruling class was
tested in his knowledge of Greek
when he applied for a job with
the Indian Civil Service. In
America, the language, though
never used as a government sieve,
is a sign of intellectual distinction.
Does _the study of Greek benefit
scientific-minded American soci-
ety, though? The usual defenses
_are inadequate, for they advocate
Greek for a purpose not its own—
mental development of added fa-
cility with English. “If Greek has
a place in modern American civili-
zation, it must be because Greek
for its own sake has a claim to
exist.”

The belief that Greek makes a
superior man “would be complete-
ly rejected or openly ridiculed” in
today’s America, resentful as_ it
is of the “older oligarchy of cul-
ture.” “We all judge our world
and our fellow human beings by
our prejudices,” Mr. Carpenter
said, citing the “exploiting the un-
derdogs of society” outlook in

Although displayed in the “rare”
book room, the books in the pres-
ent exhibit are only “rare” in the
sense of their bindings and their
fine poetic content, but certainly
not in the popularity sense. The ex-
hibit currently in the Rare Book
Room is one of the most interest-
ing collections that the Library
has gathered in a long time. The
writings of two of Bryn Mawr’s
most well-known alumnae, Mari-
anne Moore, and H. D. (Hilda
Doolittle Aldington) are on view.
Through the graciousness of sev-
eral people and _ organizations,
manuscripts and first editions have
been lent, along with photographs
and additional articles, to make
up an exhibition of enormous
scope and student interest. The
guest book near the door is rapid-
ly being filled up, as viewers come
to see the three glass cases of
opened volumes. |

One of the earliest pieces of
writing in the collection is The
Discouraged Poet, a story written |
by Miss Moore for the 1909 Typin'
O’Bob; itis in the same case with |
a yearbook photograph of Miss



i |
Moore, and one of her classmates,

Miss Mary Herr, who is a donor. |



Perkins Reports
On AA Congress

Specially contributed by Laurie
Perkins, 52, President of A.A.

On April tenth, about six hun-
dred girls representing one hun-
dred and thirty colleges from
forty states, registered at Lloyd
Hall, the University of Michigan,
for the Athletic Federation of
College Women’s Conference. At
first glance we wondered if any-
thing unified could be gotten from
such a heterogeneous group. We
did not wonder long. At our first
mass meeting that night, we were
welded into a unified group work-
ing for a common goal: the better-
ment of our organizafions through
the ideas and advice obtained by
free exchange.

The Conference had two parts.
The first, of secondary interest to



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Seven College Government Conference
Provides Medium for Ideas & Opinions

Specially contributed by Alice
Mitchell, °52, Pres. of U. G.

Most people like to talk, and
since heads of college government.
are particularly offensive in this
respect, they get together once a
year for the specific purpose of
talking continuously for three
days in some place where they
won’t be likely to disturb anyone
else. This year they chose Bar- |
nard . The Bryn Mawr contingent,
consisting of aged and decrepit
Savage and Iglehart, as well as
green and adolescent Liachowitz
and myself, timed its arrival in
New York on Friday to follow
MacArthur’s. However, there was

no parade—just the five o’clock
rush.

The Seven College Conference of
old and new heads of student gov-
ernment has as its purpose the ex-
change of ideas on student prob-



lems, to see how other people han-
dle them, and incidentally to help
orient the new officers.

The agenda, made up from ques-
tions sent in beforehand, was com-
prehensive but not very rigorous-
ly followed. We _ started with
NSA, which everyone thought
should be supported in spite of
present weaknesses. On most cam-
puses it is a part of student gov-
ernment, and has been found more
useful in sounding out student
opinion on national issues than in

'earrying out specific projects. But

we are agreed that the important
thing is what colleges of the Seven
College type can contribute to
NSA, not what they can get out
of membership.

‘We discussed elections and dis-
covered that systems varied from
Smith’s complicated screening of

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There are later photographs of
'“producing poetry that is hard

Manuscripts and Writings of H. D..
Marianne Moore Seen In Book Room

Miss Moore, aiong with copies of
Nevertheless, What Are Years,
Observations, and other books,
and a small hand-written diary
that Miss Moore has lent the Col-
lege. Written from 1930 to 1943
in a 1923 diary, it sits with loose
pages, faded lines, and multitudin-
ous sketches of plants and animals
in a ease directly under reproduc-
tions of some of the diary’s pages
printed in The Tiger’s Eye. Her
sketches are lovely, fragile things
—fine line drawings of turtles and
leaves, and fragments of unreal
animals, delicately drawn.

Miss Moore’s contemporary,
H. D., who was in the same class
at Bryn Mawr, is represented in
the collection with nineteen vol-
umes of poetry and two manu-
scripts, which were lent by Nor-
man Holmes Pearson of Yale Uni-
versity. The
Rod, written in pencil in a note-
book, and the typed copy of Frag-
ment 41, with ink corrections are
to be seen as well as three photo-
graphs also lent by Mr. Pearson.
Two of them, in color, were taken

'yecently in Italy. Written by “the

only true Imagist,” Mrs. Aldington’s
poems have a perceptive quality
that stand by the Imagist credo of

and clear, never blurred nor in-
definite,” even when read through
the glass of the case. By Avon
River, Sea Garden, and Tribute to
the Angels are among the books
on view.

The collection will be in the
Rare Book Room for _ sevezal
weeks—from Miss Moore’s short
poem To Be Liked By You Would
Be A Catastrophe, to Mrs. Alding-
ton’s play Hippolytus Temporizes
—all part of a collection worth see-
ing and reading.

CALENDAR
Wednesday, April 25, 1951.

8:15 p. m. Award night in the
Common Room. Athletic awards
will be presented.

Thursday, April 26, 1951.

8:30 p.m. Theatre in The Round,
Commons Room of Haverford
‘College. Tickets are $1.00 at the
door; or telephone Ardmore
9094-W. Plays to be given are
Hope Is A Thing With Feath-
ers, Waiting For Lefty, and Fum-
ed Oak.

Friday, April 27, 1951.

8:30 p. m. IRC-NSA Interna-
tional Folk Festival in the gym-
nasium.

8:30 p. m. Theatre In The Round.

Saturday, April 28, 1951.

9:00 a. m. Italian and Spanish
Orals, Taylor Hall.

7:30 p. m. Theatre In The Round.

8:30 p. m. Arts Night, featur-
ing modern dance, a Victorian
drama, an operetta and an exhib-
it of paintings. The Skinner
Workshop. Admission sixty cents.
» Senior Prom at Haverford Col-
lege.

Sunday, April 29, 1951.

7:15 p. m. The Rev. G. J. Wull-
schleger will speak. Music Room.

Monday, April 30, 1951.

7:15 p. m. Current Events, Com-
mon Room. *

8:00 p. m. Dr. Richmond Latti-
more will read his poems in the
Art Lecture Room of the Library.

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Flowering of the)

Self-Gov Revokes
Fine; Substitutes
Time Deductions

A significant change in the pro-
cedure of the Self-Government
Board was enacted last week. The
system of fining was unanimously
revoked, as the minutes of last
Wednesday’s meeting, posted in
the halls, now indicate. It is felt
that payment of a fine does not
bring the offender’s attention to
the importance of remedying the
conditions which lead up to a via-
lation. Fifteen minutes’ accumu-
lated lateness means nothing in
terms of a twenty-five-cent fine
but under the system just inau-
gurated, it will mean a deduction
in time, determined in accordance
with the seriousness of the offense.

Self-Gov rules have always been
set up on rational basis. Fining
is not a reasonable nor an effec-
tive punishment. Punishment is
not the purpose of the Self-Gov
Board; correction of the students’
problems, in order to make com-
munity living happier and less
harried, is its aim. The new sys-

monetary should make a more
tangible contribution toward elim-
inating minor infractions.

Dr. Samuel Chew
Elected Member
Philosophical Soe.

Dr. Samuel Claggett Chew, Pro-
fessor of English, was elected to
membership in the American Phil-
osophical Society at its last annu-
al meeting. His outstanding
scholarship in the field of English
literature has earned him this
great honor.

Mr. Chew’s best known criticims
include several volumes on Lord
Byron—a subject to which he has
devoted special attention — The
Dramas of Lord Byron and Byron
in England: His Fame and After-
fame. He edited Byron’s poems
under the heading Childe Harold’s
Pilgrimage and Other Romantic
Poems. Of the Victorian authors,
Mr. Chew has written on Algernon
Swinburne and Thomas Hardy.

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tem of time penalties rather than



Fulbright Aids
B. L. Hughes’
Greek Studies

E. Emerson Awarded
F. B. Workman
Fellowship

While Barbara Hughes attended
the assembly last Wednesday at
which she was awarded the Fanny
Bullock Workman Fellowship, a
letter telling of her winning a
Fulbright Scholarship came to the
graduate center. She will accept
it, but will retain the honorary
title of Workman Fellow.

Elizabeth Emerson, fellow in
English, is the alternate for the
Workman Fellowship. She took
her A. B. at Mount Holyoke in
1935, and her M. A. at the Univer-
sity of Tennessee in 1938. Her
home is in Mount Vernon, New
York. She will use the fellowship
for several months in England, .
searching newspaper files in con-
nection with her thesis, the sub-
ject of which is “Theories of Act--
ing in the Late 19th Century (Re-
flected in the Dramatic Criticism
of Shaw, Archer, Henry James,
and Clement Scott.)” The rest of
the year will be spent at various
libraries in the United States.

Chorus Concert
Rises to Climax

by Lucy Batten, ’54

On Saturday, April 21, the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania Women’s
Chorus and the Haverford Glee
Club combined in Modern Music to
issue the audience an invitation to
enjoy the concert. Handel’s Mu-
sic, Spread Thy Voice Around, its
delicate blending of countermelo-
dies enhanced by a small wind-
string ensemble, suffered from
the performers’ uncertainty in the
opening duet. In Brahms’ Vineta
the two groups began to function
more confidently.

In These Delightful Pleasant
Groves, Schubert’s Nacht Und
Traume, and Brahms’ Der Schmied, .

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by Anne Phipps, °54

Small, passionate groups are
meeting in remote and secluded
spots around the campus. They
are not, insofar as we know, con-
nected with the mole races for
which we are currently notorious.
They are, however, seriously con-
nected with Arts Night, which
will present a play, two dances,
and an operetta next Saturday
night.

James Bazrie had a _ balloon-
lady float up into the sky one
day; Joanna Semel, in her verse
play Ad Astra Per Aspera, has a
balloon-poet float down onto the
stage. He arrives in a pink and
mauve basket, to harmonize with
the name of the heroine, Laven
der. Caroline Morgan, who was



in charge of Freshman Show scen-



Balloon, Soprano-ty pe Dinnah Dress,
Fire, To Invade Skinner Stage Sat.

ery, is working on the contraption;
he> trademark, sparkle, will shine
once more. When last seen,
the actors were working in the
May Day Room, under the super
vision of the bleary-eyed moose;
from his position on the wall, he
gazed down with a calmness that
contrasted nicely with the chaos
of rehearsal. Nancy Pearre, last
week a Grecian lady of easy vir-
tue, was working at being a sweet
and simple schoolgizl. Elspeth
Winton wandered around in shorts,
playing a_ sensitive Victorian
mother. Elsie Kemp, the elder

|sister, when she went on stage

(i.e., into the middle of the room)
straightened herself up and by
some strange metamorphosis seem-
ed to be wearing a rigid, ancient
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Entered as second class matter at the Ardmore, Pa., Pust Office
Under the Act of March 3, 1879

Scull—duygery

We know Pay Day was stiff, and we know you're tired of
being hounded for money. But don’t completely empty your
pockets. There is a problem on hand that is important to
every student on the Bryn Mawr College Campus. The Col-
lege has finally realized its long standing dream to buy the
Scull property that has, to use Miss Lang’s words, “rounded
out the college block” or “squared the college circle.” But we
do not yet have the funds on hand to complete the transac-
tion in cash. The faculty answer to this challenge was “Kind
Hearts and Martinets,” a very successful response to say the
least. The alumnae plan to wage a campaign during the sum-
mer to raise funds. Now what can we, approximately six
hundred students, do to show that we too are interested? You
can show your approval and enthusiasm by a contribution, as
large as possible in spite of rapidly thinning pocketbooks, to
the Scull property fund. And more than this, you can write
to your families and ask them to consider the college in cal-
culating their charity contributions for the year. It is hoped
that you too will make some small contribution.

Curriculum Conscious?? |

Do you want to alter, add, subtract, or reschedule a
course? If you do, you sit in the smoker and outline your
grievances to your friends. This solution is excellent for re-
lieving inner tension, but it does nothing toward eliminating
the problem. Have you ever thought of mentioning it to the
Curriculum Committee? The members of this Committee
can do a great deal to achieve a constructive solution to un-
dergraduate problems; students often do not realize the pow-
er and importance which the Committee has.

' Last year’s Committee completed a project which has
been the goal of Curriculum Committees since the early
1940’s; Course Description Supplements. These Supplements
were intended primarily for freshmen; they outlined the ma-
terial covered by each course and how much work each en-
tailed.
The taille Committee tea for freshmen, designed









Current Events
Common Room, April 23, Miss

| Bree outlined French internal pol-

itics. She emphasized that the
French situation is: involyed with
the international scene in respect
to relations with Russia and the
Korean War. Although the 1951
elections come soon—the Chamber
of Deputies disagree as to when
and how they will occur—internal
politics seem unimportant; the
people are confused about the
parties’ policies.

Miss Bree remarked that the
situation has greatly changed
since France’s liberation in 1946
when the Communist Party polled
about five million votes, mainly be-
cause of demands for reform, and
because the Communists had been
active in the resistance movement
during the war. At present, the
movement is away from the Com-
munists, as is shown especially by
the decreased circulation of Com-
munist propaganda. The Catholic-
Socialist party, also, is losing sup-
port both to the Right and to the
Left because it cannot impose its
policies in the government. The
Radical Socialist party is gaining
in strength mainly because it is
now largely represented in the
government. In general, the So-
cialist parties are unwilling to
assume responsibility of the inter-
national situation.

The problem is the people’s vote.
Will their vote be influenced in
view of present conditions? In
France today, although the recon-
struction and reorganization pro-
gram has been promoted as far as
possible, since 1946 France has had
to drop social reform plans and
devote 740 billion francs for rapid
rearmament, leaving only 31 bil-
iion for reconstruction. Where will
this money be found? The average
iaborer earns only about $428. The
standard of living is lowered be-
cause of low wages and rising in-
flation. The working class is al-
ready overburdened by taxes, and
there is a large amount of appar-
ently uncontrollable tax evasion.
Last year witnessed powerful but
orderly strikes- with which much
of the population sympathized. Al-
though many people realized Com-
munist responsibility, Miss Bree
stated that these strikes exempli-
fied a labor revolt against the
government.

‘Doubt and confusion reign in
France as to the significance of the
sacrifice of reconstruction for re-
armament. ‘Where will this pro-|.
gram lead Europe, and how is the
financial question to be solved?
Until the international problems
are solved, French internal politics
will also remain unsettled.



Continued from Page 1

Dr. Samuel Chew will introduce
him.

10:00 p. m. The AA Council
will meet in the Common Room.
The meeting is open to all stu-
dents.

Tuesday, May 1, 1951.

MAYDAY!

Goodhart. The scholarships and
awards will be announced by
Miss McBride for the year 1951-
1952.

Wednesday, May 2, 1951.

8:45 a. m. Morning Assembly.

Alice Mitchell will speak on the

Opinion

Past Arts Nights Aid

Haring to Amend
Editorial

To the Editor ‘of the NEWS:

It seems advisable to correct an
error in last week’s NEWS, which
said that ‘Arts Night had been a
custom since 1949. Even within
the memory of an undergraduate
it is possible to probe more deeply
than that. The first Arts Night
was, of course, in 1947, but that
does not fall within my memory.
In 1948 the second Arts Night had
as its theme “Encounter,” around
which all the varying media cen-
tered their expression. The mem-
orable feature of that program
was the extraordinary “Each Man
is an Island,” a dance with music
composed by Sperry Lea and chor-
eographed by (Marjorie Low. I
still remember it as the most suc-
cessful undergraduate composition
to come from Bryn Mawr in my
years here.

At the time of writing I have nu
memory of Arts Night (1949, nor
any access to records of it. ‘At
that time, however, the idea of a
central theme for Arts Night was
beginning to break down and en-
thusiasm was being lost. Last year
an importation from Princeton, su-
verbly executed, put everything lo-
cal to shame, despite the efforts of
Sperry ‘Lea and the Dance Club in
“Rhapsody on a Windy Night.”
This year enthusiasm is at its low-
est, and Arts Night has been
shunted off to the Skinner Work-
shop. Perhaps in the future we
may look for more contributions
and greater time spent in the
preparation of this fine annual
custom.

Sincerely yours,
Lee Haring

Prof. Chew Elected Am.
Philas. Society Member
Continued from Page 1

Perhaps the most familiar to]:

Bryn Mawr students of all Mr.
Chew’s wirtings is his contribution
to Baugh’s Literary History of
England which is called The Nine-
teenth Century and After: 1789-
1939.

ENGAGEMENTS

iLenci Abell, ’50 to Thacher Lor-
ing.

Eleonore Otto, ex-’51, to Paul
Veasey.

Betsy Trippe, 53 to William
Hincks (Duke.

MARRIAGE

Joan Jackson, ex-’53 to Frank
Newlin.



See samples of your new
Spring and Summer clothes at
a student-modeled style show
in the Maids’ Bureau on Tues-
day, May 1 at 4:15 p. m. Tea
and cookies will be served, and
admission is free—believe it or
not.









DP Scholarships.

8:30 p. m. The French Club
Play, Qrphee, by Jean Cocteau,
will be given in the Skinner
Workshop. Tickets $1.20 on sale



at the door.





these activities are representative of what the Curriculum
perc ar can do outside of dealing with the usual depart-







Science Club ‘Speaker
Corrects News
Write-up

The Wilhelm Reich Foundation
Orgone Institute Research
"Laboratories, Inc.
April 19, 195%
The Editor, :

The College NEWS,
Bryn Mawr College,
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

Dear Sir:

I have just received a copy of
The College ‘(NEWS for Wednes-
day, March 7, 1951, in which there
is a review of my talk before the
Science Club of Bryn Mawr in
Dalton Hall on Tuesday evening,
March 6th, 1951. There are sev-
eral errors in this report, which I
im calling to your attention with
the request that the corrections to
these be published in the next is-
sue of the College NEWS.

The subject of my lecture was.
“Dr. Wilhelm Reich’s Experiments
in Biogenesis.” In the first sen-
tence of the first paragraph Dr.
Reich’s first name is incorrectly
given as “‘William”.

The second sentence refers to
Dr. Reich’s theory as based on an
“idea”. His theory is based on
what he actually observed,—em-
pirical evidence that the bion is
the unit of structure of living
things.

In the second paragraph, on
Page 5, Column 5, the orgone is
referred to as the life-giving “sub-
stance’. It should read “energy”.

Further on in this same para-
graph there is a confusion of the
ljemonstration of bion formation
from inorganic substances such as
cdal,::iron, and sand,. which are
first heated to incandescence and
then plunged into broth plus KC1,
—with Experiment XX. Since Ex-
periment XX is the crucial and
demonstrable experiment for bio-
genesis, it is essential that this
process be understood correctly.
Directions for making Experiment
XX are given on page 54 of The
Cancer Biopathy, by Dr. Wilhelm
Reich, Orgone Institute Press,
New York, 1948. One part of earth
(garden soil) is boiled for an hour
in three parts of water, or auto-
claved for half an hour at 15 Ibs.
pressure . The fluid is then filter-
ed from the boiled or autoclaved
soil. This fluid is called bion wa-
ter. The bion water is then placed
in sterile containers and _ reauto-
claved. After two days it is put
into the freezing compartment of
the refrigerator. After several
days of freezing, it will be ob-
served that the yellow color of the
bion water has become concentrat-
ed in the center of the ice in a
dense, brownish yellow core. This
core contains the primary plas-
matic flakes, which can be seen
macroscopically, and microscopi-
cally, immediately upon thaw-
ing. If, instead of freezing, the
bion water is allowed to evaporate,
the residue, termed “orgontin”, or
dried flakes, are formed, which can
be kept for years. When placed in
water they swell, and show the
manifestations of growth, multi-
plication and orgonomia forma-
tion. These two experimental pro-
cesses, the freezing, and the dry-
ing, must be kept separate.

In the last paragraph the “Wil-
liam Reich Laboratory in Maine”
should read “The Orgone Institute
Research Laboratories of the Wil-
helm Reich Foundation,” at Orgo-
non, Rangeley, Maine. *

Very truly yours,
Helen E. MacDonald, Ph.D.

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE



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Wednesday, April 25, 1951

THE

COLLEGE

NEWS

Page Three



Carpenter Reminds Modern America That Independence Does Not Mean
Rejection and Contempt of the Past; Man Must Look Back for Guidance

Continued from Page 1

Gordon Childe’s What Happened
in History. The prejudice extends
to the study of ancient Greek as
a mark of the ruling classes, and
that study therefore carries a
social stigma, as part of a pass-
ing, never-to-be-recalled cultural
phase.

More important, Greek, because
it belongs so completely to the
past, seems to have no part in a
technological present that has
built upon the past, then declared
it inferior and turned from it.
Science is the idol of the modern
world because it promises material
benefit to the common man.

The rejection of the inferior
past is possibly correct only for
the technological aspect of civil-
ization. However, modern man
applies this to everything as a
formula of success, and wonders
why he cannot improve in a like
way on his predecessozs’ art,





iI profess to be no wif

But, when there’s the
spot to hit.

' Simply, no bones
about it.

' Everyone goes to







+ We’re not foolin’

{ He’ll be droolin’—

i Because...

You’re pure
fascination

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MARTIE’S
BRYN MAWR











DINAH FROST’S

Where the Main Line
Buys It’s Yarn
Now is the time to plan for
your summer knitting. We
have a full color line of Shet-
lands and other types of yarn
for your sweaters and dresses.











though “there is really not the
slightest warrant for assuming
that mankind is otherwise moving
forward, just because he is mak-
ing great strides in his techno-
logical controls.” Nevertheless,
the patronizing contempt “is
bound to reach the ancient Greeks
and engulf them in its smiling
pity,” even as it dismisses the rest
of man’s past as interesting but
unimportant. A good example is
modern’ architecture, breaking
with the Greek order, but not, by
this mere discarding, developing
a truly American form. Func-
tional building and sound engin-
eering are not necessarily good
azchitecture or a style in them-
selves. In short, man cannot
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What man fails to realize is that
nothing in the inanimate world
corresponds to the abrupt begin-
ning and end of his own conscious

experience. The present cannot
be just a point in an endlessly
moving stream, for as a point it
would have no content. It is
rather “an aspect of the entire
past moving into the entire fu-
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to apprehend the past, can stretch
back the present, and past influ-
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“Ancient Greece was one of the
phases of extreme: urgency,” and
this is the final reason why this
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ERRATA

The NEWS extends its sincerest
apologies to Barhara Joelgon, ’52,
for the misprint of her name in
last week’s issue. She hasn’t
changed it—yet.

Kathy Geib, whose engagement
was announced last week, was a
member of the class of 1949, not
1950.

In Mr. Morris’ review of Coun-
terpoint, there were two errors. In
the second to the last line in col-
umn 3, page 3, the calligraphy of
the mamifesta (not manifesta) is
under discussion. In the third line
from the top of the third column
on the fourth page, “in a sense”
should read “in another sense” in
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Page Four

THE

COLLEGE

NEWS



Wednesday, April 25, 1951



Last Nighters

‘Brooklyn’ Spirit Mixes
Melody, Tears,
and Laughs

by Margie Cohn, °52

“The action takes place in
Brooklyn around the turn of the
century’—and Betty Smith’s lov-
able characters begin to take
shape in A Tree Grows in Brook-
lyn. You can’t call it a musical
comedy; you can’t call it an opez-
etta oz a tragedy. Its qualities of
drama are so intermingled that the
tears are hardly dry when you find
yourself laughing. You are taken
through almost every stage of life,
from the pretended birth of a baby,
to a little girl’s graduation, to the
death of a lovable drunkard. It’s
almost too much for the human
chemistry to take at one sitting.

The music by Arthur Schwartz
and Dorothy Fields is fresh, good,
and seemingly lasting. Such
chorus tunes as “Mine ’Til Mon-
day” and “I’m Like a New Broom”
provoked loud applause. The love
song which will probably outlast
the rest is “Make the Man Love
Me,” but the real show stopper
was Shirley Booth’s comic rendi-
tion of “He Had Refinement.”

In fact, Miss Booth herself just-
ly deserves the ovation she gets,
from her first appearance on the
stage to her final curtain bow. Her
acting ability is unquestionably
fine; she lives the part of the
sister, Cissy, with her many hus-
bands named Harry. Also receiv-
ing top billing is Johnny Johnston,
as. the singing waiter, Johnny
Nolan, whose weakness for “hooch”
leads him to his death. For sup-
porting characters, praise must go
to Katie (Marcia Van Dyke), with
her steadfast love for Johnny, and
her pleasant singing voice, to Har-
ry (Nathaniel Frey), Cissy’s
stupid. but appealing husband, and
to Francie (Naomi Mitty), the
little girl who lives in a world of
make-believe.

The sets are outstanding. You
are placed in a realistic Brooklyn
alley, and then transported to a
humble kitchen, with a clever cut-
out ceiling with silhouetted lamps.
The most impressive scene brings
you a danse macabre on Hallo-
we’en, with eerie lighting and
masked figures,

This show does not present an
overall mood of tragedy.or vf
comedy. Certainly the book is
not a comedy. Yet, in the play,
there are innumerable funny
scenes, lines, and songs. The first
act seems better than the second,
since there your emotions are not
strained from one extreme to the
other. But you leave the theatze
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most readers and perhaps second-
ary importance for the future,
dealt specifically with the A.A.
organizations, their problems and
functions. The second was much
more general. Here ideas and
ideals applicable to every organ-
ization on and off campus were
set forth and discussed, as well
as some means for realizing them.

The motto of the A.F.C.W., “To
unite, to share, to learn,” set the
keynote for the Convention. Uni-
versities with enrollments of thir-
ty thousand worked hand in han
with women’s colleges whose stu
dent body numbered as little as
two hundred.

Several points were stressed at
the conference. We were remind-
ed that leadership and ability to
work with people are two entirely
different qualities, and that there
are few people who have neither,
just as there*are few people who
have both. A leader must recog-
nize her own capabilities and try
to improve them. Her most im-
portant function, however, is to
help those that have potential
leadership ability.

In order to help those that need
help, an organization must be a
cohesive group working toward a
goal. Besides its activities of the
moment, it should, as an over-ail
policy, promote activities that
foster self-confidence. If an or-
ganization encourages many
people,’ the organization is on
its way to being a good one.

A free exchange of ideas is es-
sential for the well-being and im-
provement of any organization.
Yet the organization must not en-
tirely lose itself in the enthusiasm
of the moment; it must know at
all times just where it stands in
relation to its ultimate goal.

An organization must have faith
in itself. But it is important to
remember that too much faith
breeds arrogance and almost al-
ways antagonizes, whereas too
little faith brings a lack of self-
confidence and contempt.

The Conference also tried to
show us where we should stand in
the future. College girls, particu-
larly college leaders, are among
a highly privileged group. In the
college community any abilities
we have can be developed with a
minimum of effort. However,
when we leave the place they are
so tenderly fostered we must
maintain and develop them on our
own. Only by maintaining these
abilities are we able to help the





sromesesma

Orchestra & Choruses
Present Mixed Program
Continued from Page 1

by the Women’s Chorus, lacked
balance and proper blending of in-
dividual voices. But in Moon Mar-
keting the girls snapped into life
and appeared actually to enjoy
singing. If more than piano ac-
companiment had been used the
group might have seemed less
monotonous.

Schicksalslied, the third Brahms
composition of the evening, was
beautifully balanced, well execut-
ed, and artfully directed. The au-
dience was spellbound.- The violin
passages of Schicksalslied were
technically difficult but strikingly
executed. The contrasts, too, were

perfect; the group slipped easily

from the flowing adagio to ‘the in-
tense, fiery, allegretto, to a crisp
stacatto and intona well co-ordin-
ated solo section where each in-
strument assumed the theme. The
choruses were more than inspired;
they wer a part of the music.

Gently Johnny, Haverford’s first
selection, perfectly contrasted a
bright beginning with a slow, mel-
odic finish. The dynamics of this
and the two succeeding numbers
were exceptional; the control, per-
fect. The piano accompaniment,
especially that of John Davison
was brilliant.

Two rich folk selections by the
combined choruses compared’ fav-
orably with the Bryn Mawr-Har-
vard concert of the preceding
week. The final offering, Turn
Back, O Man, began with a simple
cello passage moving towards a
resounding climax ag the orches-
tra and choruses joined in.



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round us. We may not be able
to better their conditions mate-
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live better under the conditions
that exist. ‘

We must not lose the ability to
improve when we leave college
but must maintain and enlarge it.

On the 13th, six hundred gizls
went back to their homes with a
very important goal in mind:
They had “united, shared, and
learned.” Now they must try to
communicate these ideals to their
colleges, and find ways to imbuc
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Arts Night To Feature
Dancing, Play, Operetta
Continued from Page 1

corset. As the poet ,Lee (““Moody’’)
Haring was alternately depressed
and exhalted; this will no doubt
result in an inspired performance.
Danny Luzzatto directed _ skill-
fully; as usual, she was gentle
with her charges.

Gentleness does not seem to be
the theme of the dance club’s pro-
jected performance. Siembaba, a
lullaby of the African veldt, has a
good deal to do with Lewis Car-
roll’s “beat him when he sneezes.”
The words are, in part:

Twist his neck

And hit him on the head.

Throw him in the ditch 4

And he’ll be dead.

Danced, it’s a‘ little less grim. In
the gym Monday night, there was
some talk of slow-fast-slow, of
pulling in and out, of counting and
splitting. There was a lot of what
might be called creative work.
Bodies (the Bohemian running
wild in their veins?) writhed upon
the floor, then rose to skip, slap,
kick, and circle. The other dance
is to be based on Dance of the
Winds, sung by the woman who
is both bass and coloratura, Yma
Sumac. Its details will have to
remain a mystery until the final
performance,

So, to some extent, will those ot
Il Janitero, an operetta by John
Davison of Haverford. All that
is definitely known is that a fire
rages throughout the action.
Death or a rescue squad must re-
solve the situation soon after the
curtain falls. Gwen Davis gave
a brief run-through in Rock show-
case, since the rest of the cast was
not scheduled to rehearse until
after press-time. She sang several
songs, undaunted by a_ white
mouse who was leaping about the
room. ‘The music, she explained,
is a versatile satire involving
French, Spanish, and Italian com-
posers; Wagner not being par-
odied, the leading lady must ap-
pear “likee a Wagnerian soprano,
in a dinnah dress.”

It doesn’t look as if Skinner
workshop should be lonely on Sat-
urday night.



Officers Tried and New
Find Trip Rewarding

Continued from Page 1

over two hundred candidates to
Barnard’s simple procedure of
uominating from the floor in a
mass meeting. I mentioned our
preferential ballot and everyone
gasped in horror. They all list
candidates in alphabetical «order
and think that our system is un-
democratic.

Disappearing reserve room books
are a universal problem. Bryn
Mawr is one of the few colleges
whose yearbook and newspaper:
are both self-supporting. '

Other colleges have put consid-
erable effort into better student-
faculty relationships. One has a
group of faculty members “affili-
ated” with each hall who come
regularly to dinner. Wellesley has
student-faculty dinners every
Wednesday night. Smith, among
others, uses course-evaluation ques-
tionnaires and finds the results
useful to both faculty and stud-
ents.

In. general, the old officers talk-
ed and the new officers listened,
jotting down ideas that sounded
useful, and attempted the’ almost
impossible task of learning from
someone else’s experience. The
meetings ended on an_ inspired
note. After a buffet supper on Sat-
urday Mrs. MacIntosh, the Dean
of Barnard, talked to us informal-
ly about the role of women in the
national crisis. We all left feel-
ing that much was expected of us,

‘a sstudents and as women, and

that we had little excuse for not

‘making ourselves useful citizens

in some capacity.



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