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THE COLLEGE

NEWS

Wednesday, April 25, 1951





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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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