College news, May 17, 1950

VOL. XLIV, NO. 24

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1950



Copyright, Trustees of

Bryn Mawr College, 1950

PRICE 15 CENTS



Penn Physicist
Proposes Basis
Of Bird Flights

Science Club Sponsors
‘Henry Yeagley’s
Lecture

“Now let’s just ease into this
gradually.” Dr. Henry Yeagley,
astro-physicist and Associate Pro-
fessor of Physics at Pennsylvania
State College, is a slender, genial

man who likes to gesture broadly,
particularly when he is discussing
his avocation, A Proposed Physi-
cal Basis of Bird Navigation. His
talk, sponsored by the Science
Club was given last Thursday eve-

ning in the Biology Lecture Room.

in Dalton.

“You may think I’m going a
long way ’round”, he said, “but
you will see the relation of what
I say to bird nagivation.”

“I grew up'in York, Pennsylva-
nia. My father was a horse and
buggy doctor, and I used to take

- it, the horse, to the blacksmith’s to
be shod. I got my early educa-
tion hanging around the black-
smith shop, but’, here he paused
and regarded his audience thought-
fully for a moment, “I won’t go

“A few. yards away from th

“shop was a pigeon coop in which

child I used to wonder how those
a man. kept homing pigeons. As a
fuzzy-wuzzy things, that work
their way out of their shells with
such difficulty, can in four weeks
be on the wing, and in three
months can compete in hundred
mile races. On those evenings I
used to sit and watch the bats
wheeling around the street lamps.
Flying at high speed they would
approach some obstacle—a branch
or a telephone wire, and then sud-
Continued on Page 3



Dr. Martin Foss
To Give Address

At Bacealaureate

Dr. Martin Foss of the Haver-
ford College philosophy depart-
ment has been chosen by the class
of 1950 as speaker at the Bacca-
laureate Service on Sunday eve-
ning, June fourth. Dr. Foss grew
up and began his work in Berlin
when it was still the artistic and
scientific center of Europe, but he
left at the time of Hitler’s rise to
power. He went to Paris where he
lectured and carried on secret lia-
son work with the German capital.
Later he was persuaded by his wife
to leave France and come to New
York.

Continued on Page 4

B.M. Innovates
Contest in Skills
Of Horsemanship

The first Bryn Mawr College
Horse Show was held on Tuesday,
May 16 at Mr. Fox’s Stables in
Valley Forge: The show consisted
of three classes in straight horse-
manship, and one jumping class.
The results were as follows: Be-
ginners, Louise Dengler, Beverly
Singer, Norma Bachrach, Zita

Levine; Intermediates, Diana, Poole,}
| Sheila Atkinson, Bertie Dawes;

Advanced, Bess Foulke, Gretchen
Wemmer, Chris MacVeagh, Eula
Harmon; Jumping, Gretchen Wem-
mer, Chris MacVeagh, Eula Har-
mon, Rosemary Spicer. This first
of Bryn Mawr’s horse shows was
a great success, and one which the
Athletic Association hopes to re-
peat in years to come.



The News takes great pleas-
ure in announcing the election
of Frances Shirley as co-make-
up editor.









Bones on Roof Alert Wyndham
For Hunt of Bristling Raccoon

Specially contributed by
Karen Cassard, ’50

As ‘my roommate and I were
preparing, a couple of weeks ago,
to go out and sun ourselves on the
porch roof, which is just outside
our room, we noticed, to our hor-
ror, several very large and very
smelly bones lying about. Being
as how I am so frightfully civic
minded (my wanting to sunbathe
had nothing at all to do. with it, of
course), I volunteered to remove
them, with the invaluable aid of
The Philadelphia Inquirer. That
‘helped a bit but not much, and we
were forced to move several feet
away. Stark tragedy had reared
its ugly head.

The great mystery was how the
bones ever got on the roof in the
first place. They were much too
big to have been brought there by
a cat or a squirrel, the only ani-
mals anyone had ever seen around
here, and although we fully realize
that the percentage of eccentric
people in this locality is unusually

‘ high, we really didn’t think there
were any—even amung the profes-
sors—who were eccentric enough
to want to throw great, half-
gnawed bones onto our roof. We
were, for the first time since the
hygiene exam, stumped, so we did
what we had done then, and for-







got about it, repeating, to our-
selves the unofficial Bryn Mawr
motto: “Ignorance is bliss.”

But more and more bones kept,
appearing, and at last we decided
that we really must do something,
so my roommate and I went to the:
Business Office and told our gory’:
tale. Everyone was most sym-
pathetic,,and we were at last ad-

vised to listen carefully that night;

for any suspicious noises, and then,
if we heard any, to rush boldly
out witi a flashlight and see what
it was.

This was all very well, except
that my roommate was going out
and leaving me all alone. Never-
theless, I resolved to be brave, and
after opening the three windows
with screens in them, I sat down
and waited. But the minutes pass-
ed away and became hours, and
still no noises. I began to lose
hope, when suddenly there reach-
ed my ears the unmistakable
sounds of light quick steps on the
roof! I rushed for the flashlight,
and approached the window in
dread, fully expecting to see un-
told horrors.

If you have ever tried looking
through a screen at night with a
very feeble flashlight, you know
how much you can see: the screen.

Continued on vage 4





Resolutions,Rights
Discussed by NSA
At BM Conference

The delegates to the NSA sub-
regional conference held at Bryn
Mawr on April 29 passed several
resolutions during the course of
the afternoon’s heated discussions
on Student Rights and Responsi-
bilities. Later the regional officers
of NSA reconsidered the resolu-
tions, and decided that they had
been passed by a group not wholly
representative ef NSA, even
though these resolutions were of
a committal nature.

Recently, in a letter to the col-
lege committee, Elmer Brock, Pres-
ident of the Pennsylvania Regional
United States National Students’
Association, said that the resolu-
tions were “not to be considered
as either NSA policy or NSA pro-
nouncements.” That they had been
passed at all was in violation. of
the regional constitution, for fifty
delegates represented not NSA
exclusively, but YPA, the Academic
Freedom Union, Young Republi-
cans, and even non-existent organ-
izations.

The motions dealt with the civil
rights case of students of Lincoln
University in Oxford, Pennsyl-
vania, as well as with various cam-
pus political organizations. The
conference acted without a peti-

_,Continued_on Page 2

Bryn Mawr Wins
In Softball Game

The softball game played be-
tween Bryn Mawr and Chestnut
Hill on Tuesday, May 16 closed
with a score of 6-5 in Bryn Mawr’s
favor. The game was stretched to
nine innings, because Chestnut Hill
tied Bryn Mawr in the seventh
inning. Our players were: Catcher,
Jackson; Pitcher, Cohen; First
Base, Klin; Second Base, Jo Ras-
kin; Third Base, Tilman; Short-
stop, Hayes; Shortfield, Voorhis;
Rightfield, Cross; Centerfield, Janet
Leeds; Leftfield, Ellen Wells.



The class of 1951 takes great
pleasure in announcing the
election of Annie-Lawrie Fab-
ens as editor and Marilie Wal-
lace as business manager of
next year’s yearbook.









CALENDAR
‘Friday, May 19

Last Day of Lectures.

Class Day, Library, Taylor,
Deanery, Dalton, 1:00 p.m.
Monday, May 22-Friday, June 2

Examination Period.

Sunday, June 4

Memorial Service for Serena
Hand Savage, ’22, President of
the Alumnae Association of
Bryn Mawr College, 1948 to
February 24, 1950, Library
Cloisters, 4:00 p.m.

Baccalaureate Service, Dr.
Martin Foss, Lecturer in Philos-
ophy, Haverford College, Good-
hart, 8:30 p.m.

Monday, June 5

Senior Garden Party, admis-
sion by invitation only, Wynd-
ham Garden, 4:00 p.m.
Tuesday, June 6

Commencement Exercises, Dr.
Millicent Carey McIntosh, Dean
of Barnard College, admission
by. invitation only, Goodhart,
11:00 a.m.









Roosevelt, Sforza, Taft, Shaw
Send Advisory Letters to IRC

Specially contributed by
Eva Glassberg, ’52

Since so many students are going

abroad this summer, the Inter-|

national Relations Club thought it
would be a good idea to ask for ad-
vice on what we, American stud-
ents, can do te stimulate efforts
towards a peaceful world. There-
fore, the IRC wrote letters to fif-
teen people, asking for such advice.
Unfortunately, all the responses

Mrs. R. MeIntosh
To Give Address
To Class of 1950

Mrs. Millicent Carey McIntosh,
who received her A.B. from Bryn
Mawr College in 1920, will give the

commencement address, the subject
of which is not now known.

Mrs. McIntosh was born in Balti-
more, Maryland in 1898. After
completing her studies at Bryn
Mawr, she went to Johns Hopkins
University where she received her
Ph.D. in 1926. In 1940 she received
her LLD from Smith College.

Mrs. McIntosh is one of the few
people, who have successfully man-
aged both an academic and a
domestic career. She is married to
Dr. Rustin McIntosh, and the
mother of five children, and at the
same time has held many high
positions. From 1922 to 1923 she
taught at Rosemary Hall, and then,
from 1926 to 1929, was an instruc-
tor in English here at Bryn Mawr.
From 1929 to 1930, she was an As-
sistant in English and Acting Dean
here. Headmistress of the Brear-
ley School in New York from 1930
to 1947, she then became Dean of
Barnard College, Columbia Uni-
versity, and still holds this posi-
tion.

Mrs. McIntosh is the niece of
former President M. Carey
Thomas.



‘have not yet come through, and
| we are able to publish only four
letters. We have not yet heard from
Nehru, Pope Pius, Trygve Lie, Al-
bert Einstein, Robert Schuman,
Franco, or Marshall Tito. Both
Winston Churchill and Clement At-
lee wrote that they received too
many such requests and had made
it a policy to answer none; Senator
Vandenberg was unable to ans-
wer because of his illness; and
President. Truman sent us several
speeches pertaining to internation-
al relations, none of which, how-
ever, contained a direct answer ‘to
the question we had asked. How-
ever, we did receive the following
answers:

From Eleanor Roosevelt:

The most important thing that
American students can do is to
learn what their own democracy
means and live it in whatever cir-
cumstances they find themselves.
At the present time there is a
struggle going on in the world for
the minds of men and if democracy
is to win against communism it
must be because democracy proves
that it is a growing, living faith,
demonstrating its faith through
action. This can be done by stud-
ents in schools,-in their homes and
wherever they travel. It requires a
crusading spirit and a determina-
tion to fight for peace throughout
our daily lives as we fought to win
the war.
From Count Carlo Sforza:

The idea of a European unity,
which until recently was consider-
ed by many people as a Utopia, is
now gaining ground as the actual
reality of a not too distant future.
But just as Rome was not built in
a day, we can likewise assume that
a goal so far-reaching as this one
will not be achieved in one breath.
What is — after all — even a per
iod of ten years, when history is
being made? It was only under
Dictatorship that we have wit-
nesses -(sic.) improvised pseudo-



Continued on Page 2



Descartes’ Anniversary Marked
By Exhibit in Rare Book Room

In conjunction with the tercen-
tenary celebration of Descartes’
death, the Rare Book Room has
on exhibit many first editions and

related volumes on Rene Descartes
‘!from the collection of Professor

Paul Schrecker.

Of the portraits of the French
philosopher and mathematician,
one was engraved “dans le gout du

|erayon” by Saverien 1763, another

shows him as a young man; the
original is in the Museum of Toul-
ouse.

One picture, of which this is the
only copy recorded, shows Des-
cartes at his writing desk, quill
in hand, two globes on the floor
beside him, a skeleton on the wali,
geometric instruments scattered on
the desk, and the sun streaming
through the window.

Included in the display are cop-
ies of Les Principes de la Philoso-
phie, Paris, 1659, opened to the
illustration of the vortices, and
the catalog of the Descartes ex-
hibition arranged by the Biblio-
theque Nationale of Paris to cele-
brate the tercentenary of the Dis-
cours de la Methode, in 1987.
Pasted on the frontispiece to the
catalog is a postage stamp with
the portrait of Deseartes after
Franz Hals, issued by the French
government on the same occasion.

The stamp, however, was soon
withdrawn because. of the scandal-
ous misprint: (Discours sur in-
stead of de la Methode).

A first edition of the Lettres
de M. Descartes in three volumes
his portrait after life drawn and
engraved by his friend, the math-
ematician van Schoten, the Latin
translation of “Passiones Animae”
which appeared simultaneously
with the French original in the
year of Descartes’ death comprise
much of the rest of the display.

In the corner glass cupboard
works of Descartes’ ‘contempor-
aries and followers may be seen.
Here is the first edition of Leib-
niz’ early writings, and also the
first of his many articles on Des-
cartes. One can see a copy of
Moliere’s Les Femmes Savantes,
a satire on the snobbish Cartes-
ianism of bourgeois women pub-
lished in 1672. The works of Louis
de la Forge, and Arnold Geulincx
of Pierre Daniel Huet, Bishop of
Soissons, of Johann Clauberg, the
first German Cartesian, may also
be examined.

Last, in the same case are the
Opera Postumae of Spinoza, and
a great copy, in T. Taylor’s Eng-
lish translation of Malebranche’s
Search After Truth.



‘Cogito ergo sum?’






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Academic Pressure And A

Healther Attitude

It is generally agreed on eampus that there is ‘a definite
Bryn Mawr tradition of individualism: each one to\his own
lifeboat, and if there aren’t enough lifeboats to go around, let
the rest of those on board sink or swim. This attitude is evi-
‘dent in every phase of college life. There is no college spirit ;
attendance.at-step-singing and. similar affairs must be eked
out of the smal] group who are bored with bridge, and seek
‘another méans of diversion. There is little class spirit; the
little that, does exist is evidenced half-heartedly in Freshman
Show, ‘Maids ‘and. Porters and Sophomore Carnival, and Jun-
jor, Show. fais ae
:». ‘Phis cold and introverted state of mind is commonly
blamed upon the academic system, and the need of rigid se-
clusion for survival. Regardless of how much bearing the
academic rigidity may have upon the situation, such a state
of mind is unhealthy. This has been made obvious by the
more outstanding cases of nervous fat?gue during the year.
Two solutions, one actual and one potential, have been men-
tioned to remedy this situation.

The consulting psychiatrist is already present on cam-
pus ; a-consulting religious counselor has been proposed. The
objections to these solutions are obvious. The very name of
“psychiatrist” is an anathema to those who might need to

consult him, in addition to the fact that in order to consult
the psychiatrist, one must go through administrative chan-
nels. There could hardly be a religious counselor in a college
so rigorously non-sectarian as Bryn Mawr; a non-sectarian
religious counselor is an impossiblity.

There is a third possible solution, that of a personal
counselor. This has never been brought up officially, but has
often been discussed among the students. A personal coun-
selor is a definite necessity, but he or she, once instated, could
not do the entire job. There must be a revision of the inter-
student relationship to provide a sympathetic background
for this work. A small group of students has proposed a
simple project to be undertaken in the short time remaining
before the end of the college year. Atfter seven months, even
those who arrived at college last fall are acquainted with at
least a plurality of their fellow undergraduates. It would
not be a hard task to say “hello” to the other students one
passes on campus, and might be the opening wedge to the
needed feeling of fellowship. This could at least be put on

trial for the remaining three weeks. With the beginnings

of a spirit which makes each individual: feel a common bond
with her fellow student, and tlie solution of the vital need
for a responsible personal counselor, whose main interest
does not lie in the student’s academic work per se but in the
l orientation, a real start could be made to



‘has. been a major calamity which
has given birth to two World Wars. |
. Today, however, it is acquiring also



|

‘press the dozen custom frontiers



we like.

Wednesday, May 17, 1950



IRC Receives Letters

Concerning World Peace
Continued from Page 1

historical events. Time has shown
what ‘they were worth. Let us
therefore consider objectively the
real situation. We have two main
roads before us: one is the union
of Strasbourg — the other one is
the Atlantic Pact; they both lead
to peace and to a better organiza-
tion of European peoples. The
milestones of the new world are
already being layed (sic.) down.
Of course, the task is a difficult
one; but at this point only blind
men — whether voluntarily or not
— can indulge in: useless talks,
speaking of Utopias.

Do you know what is actually
becoming a Utopia? The myth of
the absolute sovereignty of the
National State. This sovereignty

another character, which is even
more indefensible: it is becoming
a. historical and a moral absurdity.

The common salvation can only
be found in Unity. If we would sup-

(sic.) which are now separating
us, we Europeans would soon be-
come as rich as the United States
and we would be better furnished
of raw material than Russia is.
And what would this superadded
wealth mean? It would above all
mean this: peace; and furthermore,
for those who think in human
terms, it would mean a _ higher
standard of living for all, even in
the most distant and desolate re-
gions; a human dignity and peace
of mind extended (sic.) at last to
all the suffering folk.

The Council of Europe at Stras-
bourg, the Atlantic Pact operating
in each of the allied capitals and
— in the field of economic organi-
zation — the OEEC, all these
agencies are working earnestly
(sic.) and loyally in the direction
of this supreme and common ideal:
peace in freedom. There is one
thing which must be borne in mind
by all free peoples; it is also up to
them to act and insist. The great-
er will be the initiative taken. by
public opinions, the more expedi-



ent and fruitful will be, in turn,
the action taken by Government. |!
From Senator Robert A. Taft:

If we want to meet the ideology |
of Communism we must. keep this
country strong. We cannot adopt
the deadening policy of socialism
or statism or impose tremendous
taxes which destroy the very ma-
chinery which produces the taxes
necessary to fight Communism.
We cannot win by apologizing for
a free system.

The decisive struggle today is
one of ideas and not of arms. If
we can win this struggle, we need
not have another war. We cannot,
however, defeat Communism if a
lot of our own people compromise
with its basic ideas. We need to
arouse the same religious fervor
for the American Doctrine of lib-
erty and free government as the
Communists have for Communism.
In such an effort, objective study
by vigorous college minds can
throw much light where light is
badly needed. At no other time in
history has our nation had a great-
er need for the deep patriotic in-
terest of thinking people.

From George Bernard Shaw:

In reply to President Glassberg’s
EG/deh, dated the 9th _ instant,
your students can do nothing bet-
ter than to study the history of
their own country from English
versions and of English history
from American versions, and in the
light of the knowledge thus ob-
tained form their own conclusions
from the conflict of ‘lies, slanders,
and accusations, meanwhile tak-
ing such natural contacts as may
come to them as they go their own
‘ways.

Artificial contacts and contact
parties should not be attempted.
The language being common, the
contact zealots will quarrel just
as they do at home.



_ The better we know the worse

Incidentally

It seems that Roorit D, Taylor,
was recently the scene of great
agitation, on the day that a fac-
ulty conclave was held therein. The
faculty apparently have not learn-
ed by their experience through the
years, by watching their own aug-
ust presences in the process of. be-
ing slightly undermined by the
undergraduate sense of humor.
Due to this longstanding lack of
perception, the faculty were sur-
prised to find themselves imprison-
ed within their meeting-place by a
length of rope tying the doors firm-
ly closed. It has been rumored that
one of. the ‘more agile members of
the group departed via a window,
and heroically freed his fellows.
The key. to freedom was a _pen-

knife wielded by the rescuer, who’
left a strand of rope dangling from.

the doorknob, .a tribute: to student
valor and a momento of. student
daring.

| Le “Te
Bard’s Eye View
by Barbara Joelson, ’52
Dear Mr. President, I feel I should
tell you
Of a sad mistake in your statis-
tician’s ink:
For according to everything that I
can figure

There is one less person in the
country than you think.

It’s this ‘way: You see I went
home this weekend

And the census-taker came, with
his questions, to the door.

“How many live here?” he asked
politely,

“Well, my parents and my sister
and myself make four.”

Up to that point all seemed quite
in order,

But this morning at college, imag-
ine my surprise “

When there was the census-taker
counting noses,

And he counted mine—so the cen-
sus now lies!

Tell the World Almanac, Mr.
President,

That either statistics should be ed-
ited right away.

For they counted me twice, a
tragic error,

And there’s really one less person
in the U. S. A.

NOTICES

Essay Prize
All «manuscripts for ~the ~M.
Carey Thomas Essay Prize for
Seniors must be submitted not lat-
er than Saturday, May 20. Manu-
scripts should be turned in to the
President’s Office.
Late Luncheon
Luncheon will be served late on
Friday, May 19, to provide time
for the Class’Day speeches.



The long-playing recording -of
the Haydn Mass in D Minor as
performed by the Bryn Mawr
and Haverford chorus and orch-
estra has been released for sale.
The Mass is under the direction
of William Reese. The solos
are sung by Elizabeth Jean
Conner, Nancy Ludwig, Robert
Grooters, and Thomas MeNutt
The price of the record is $6.75
for chorus members and $8.00
for others.







NSA Regional Officers

Refuse to OK Motions
Continued from Page 1
tion from the student body of
Lincoln. Mr. Brock reiterated that
such action was “completely out
of order with the principles, pol-
itics, and practices of USNSA.”
Little was heard of the contro-
versial motions on the Bryn Mawr
campus, but at several other uni-
vertsities there was definite reac-
tion. ‘As a result the NSA head-
quarters felt it necessary to ab-
solve NSA from any part in the
resolution. . - ah

Freshness of Vision
Advised in NEWS
Criticisms

To the editor of the COLLEGE
NEWS:

I found the review of the Arts
Night Dance Production disap-
pointing and misleading. Although
it seemed to have been written sin-
cerely and _ conscientiously and
each dance was analyzed thought-
fully, it failed to convey the “lift”

that one had in viewing a success-
ful performance. I feel sorry ,for
the ‘reviewer if the first dance
seemed too complicated for her to
understand, ‘but I: question -wheth-
er she has the right to give the im-
pression to the large number of

that they were, merely “the sort
of thing the dance club should be
doing.” And if her judgment is to
be harsh, I believe that she should
not allow herself to be uneven in
her judgment.

For instance, her decision that
the Death of a Marionette was
successful and Marche Slave was
not, seemed dictated largely by her
indulgent attitude in regard to the
former and her rigid intolerance
in regard to the latter. It is high-
ly debateably whether comedy en-
ables. the artist to laugh off his
mistakes as if he intended to make
them . An artist performs at all
times with purpose and authority.
Originality of choreography can
be greatly marred by indecision of
movement and inconsistency of
concept. On the other hand, lack
of originality can be considerably

and projection of mood.
‘Originality Not Essential

I believe that the audience could
feel and enjoy the technical skill
and the serious concentration of
the dancers in Marche Slave, with-
out craving originality and novel
gesture. i

As for the reviewer’s criticism
of Rhapsody on a Windy Night, I
am amazed at her preoccupation
,with the “embarrassingly poor”
‘parts. Why does she attack the
inexperienced male dancers? Their
presence in the dance represents a
step toward a more complete real-~
ization of the possibilities of dance
composition, and I felt that they
performed with vigor and sincer-
ity. It is natural for spectators to
disagree with the choreographers.
in some respects, but her critical
reaction seemed to prevent her
from feeling that the dance as. a
whole was an exciting and success-
ful affair.

If she ¢hooses- to dissect the
dance rather than take it as a.
whole, ought she not be sure of her:
facts? She is right when she says.
that| more than a small part of a
dance’s success depends upon the
feeling within the dancer herself,
but I think she should make it
| clear that although this feeling-
will inevitably show in the facial
expression, the dancer aims to
translate her feeling into the lan-
guage of movement, of which the
facial muscles are a very small
part.



Need for Comprehensive Crew

And what is the reviewer’s auth--
ority for her outline of the best.
procedure of composing a dance?
Is she reviewing the end result.
with a freshness of vision or has.
she delved into the process of com-
position and decided on her own
how a dance should be composed ?
There is no rule about the number
of choreographers. The best pro-.-
cedure for adapting the music to.
the dance has not been decided
upon, but it is generally conceded
that the dance should be given pri-.
ed as an accompaniment after the:
- Continued on Page 4 —



people who did not see the dances ~

redeemed by fluidity of movement —

ority and the music should be add--






Wednesday, May 17, 1950

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three



Penn State Astro-Physicist Considers
Possible Physical Basis of Bird Navigation

Continued from Page 1

denly dip to avoid it. I wondered
how, developing as quickly as
they did, without training and
presumably without much intelli-
gence, they could navigate so
skillfully.”

Mr. Yeagley eventually acquired
and then sold again those same
pigeons—at a price each time be-
fitting their advanced age and re-
duced number. His transactions
were continually confused by the
fact that the pigeons kept coming
back to their old home. The most
impressive of these returns was
the last.and tragic one—a flight of
ninety miles. home. from. a gun
range in, Philadelphia.. Mr, Yeag-
ley’s interest. in homing... pigeons
then waned; for a. time his,-atten-
tion was absorbed exclusively (as
he said) .by pole. vaulting and
dates.

“Years later “when I had become
a physicist”, Mr.. Yeagley ~came
across an article in the National
Geographic, which explained that
bats can fly blind because their
ears have a peculiar sensitivity to
high frequency sound waves.
“Here was the solution, within the
boundaries of physics, of one of
the puzzles that I had noticed
from the door of the blacksmith’s
shop. I began to read up on the
other puzzle, bird navigation. I
happened on the suggestion that
birds are aware of influences in
flying through the earth’s mag-
netic field. I began to look for an-
other physical factor as a guiding
influence in bird navigation.

“One evening I took down Web-
ster’s Dynamics of a Particle (I’m
not awfully good at math, but it’s
always fascinated me) and just
happened to open to an explana-
tion of coriolis effect. Coriolis ef-
fect. is caused by the rotation of
the earth, and is a function of lat-
itude. If.a bird flies.over the earth
directly parallel to the equator, it
experieces no coriolis effect. But
if it flies north of the equator, it
is being accelerated to the rignt
to a greater or less degree, de-

pending on “its distance’ from ‘the.

equator, because of the rotation of
the earth beneath it. Thus if a
bird flew’ in a perfectly straight
line, meaning to reach an object at
gome distance, it would find itself
to the left of that object. In the
course of thousand's of years, birds
have presumably learned to adjust
themselves to the coriolis effect.
Latitude lines are lines of equal
coriolis effect. Magnetic effect can
be considered as: existing on lines
radiating from a spot near the
north pole. These line cross each
other in such a way that identical
combinations of magnetic and co-
riolis conditions can exist in two
Places on the earth. It is Mr.
Yeagley’s theory. that pigeons are
guided in flight by lines of coriolis
effect and by lines of magnetic ef-
fect, and that they regard as





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either of the two places
where exists that combination of
magnetic and coriolis effect to
which they. have become accustom-
ed.

(Mr.
pieces of evidence to support his
Some he has found
pigeon journals. The pigeon jour-
nal is the periodical of pigeon
racers, who race their pigeons in
speed of home-coming. “The pig-
eon is the poor man’s racehorse” :
said Mr. Yeagley.

Mr. Yeagley has experimented
with, the effects of the earth’s
magnetic field on the flight of pig-j
eons. He attached copper discs
to the wing of one set of pigeons,
and magnetic discs to the wings
of another and then released, both
sets of birds at the same moment,
at the same distance from home.
He found that the magnets retard-
ed and confused the home flight of
the birds. With the help of others
interested, Mr. Yeagley hag train-
ed pigeons to fly home to the area
around State College; he has then
taken them to the so-called conju-
gate point in Nebraska, where the
same magnetic and coriolis lines
meet and has tested their flight
home.

Enough birds have been found
and reported on the direct route
home to State College to indicate
support for this theory. Another
man interested in Mr. Yeagley’s
theory has trained birds in Nebras-
ka and released them in the East.
Mr. Yeagiley also explained that |
the atmospheric conditions and the
landscape of the two conjugate '
points are very dissimilar; it seems
a further indication of the influ-
ence of magnetic and coriolis ef- |
facts, that in spite of this dissim.
ilarity the birds seek to fly from
one conjugate point to the other:

Mr. Yeagley concluded with an
account of some of the proud ex-
ploits of his pigeons. He is at
preesnt training wild ducks for
further experience in electro-mag-
netic effects,

“What I like about this prob-
Jem,” said Mr. Yeagley, “is that
there’s no profit in it. It’s of no
earthly use to any big industry.”
One susjects that another reason
is that he has become very fond of
his ducks and his homing pigeons.

“home”

Yeagley has found various

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Murder
In the Mosque

by Helen Katz, ’53

The Mohammedan, with the blue
eyes showing out from slits’ in his
yellow face, wrapped the cloak
tighter about him and stepped out
of the alley. He hurried into the
mosque and crept up the aisle.

He stopped behind a bowed man |

facing Mecca; slowly he withdrew
a glimmering blade from his robe.
He prayed aloud, his voice in uni-
son with that of the man in front
of him, and then, rising slowly,
plunged the -knife into his back.
* * 6

The = salugi
chief - inspector - of - the - Bag -

dad - police - and - fire - depart-
| attention to his. notices, to what

ments - combined) stood sneaker-
deep in blood. Outside Mohamme-
dans could be heard wailing at
the top of their voices.

“Ahem!” he said. “Ahem!” And
then, “We have a murder on our
hands! I notice that this man has
very short. arms. I do not think
he could have reached around and
stabbed himself. Therefore, I con-
clude that someone has stabbed
him. This is murder.” he said in
his most serious tone. His face
firm and determined. He stroked
his temples and looked severe. His
mother was British.

The wailing of the Mohamme-
dans increased.

“Sir,” said the lugi (Mohamme-
dan for assistant-chief-inspector-
of - the - Baghdad - police - and -

‘fire - departments - combined) “the

people are raising:a terrible rum-
pus, — we’d better ‘find out who
murdered their leader at once.”

“We shall,” said the salugi, “and
not

you may be sure that he will be

seriously punished for his crime.’ |
The salugi looked perplexed. “Now |

then, who are our suspects. The
only people in the mosque at the
time all say they were facing
Mecca, and didn’t see. One must
be lying. Bring them all in here
at once.”

Three ugis (Mohammedan for
under - assistants - to --the - chief-
inspector -.of - the - Baghdad -
police - and - fire - departments -
combined) brought in the suspects;
there were twelve of them. Al!
were wrapped in white cloaks and
had slitted eyes peering out from
yellow faces. The dead man’s wife
arrived at that moment on the arm
of an ugi. She was wailing also.

Still facing Mecca, the salugi
questioned her. “Did your husband
have any enemies?”

“A few, you see, he went to
Princeton.”

“T see,” said the salugi, thought-
fully. “This poses a problem.” He

Continued on Page 4





Sleeping Beauty just stirred at the kiss...
What woke her up was really this:



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(Mohammedan for '|

‘Acting Techniques of Delsarte,

specially contributed by
Frederick Thon

Continued from Last Week

Hanmer, who recently played the
psychopathic murderer in
Man, and Sanford Meisner,
merly of the Group Theatre. Han-
mer, asked how he prepared the
role of the psychopath, told how
he developed everything as if it
were completely logical to him.
Asked eae he and the director
worked® together, he answered,
“We fought. But -we knew each
other very well and could resolve
our conflicts as they arose.” ~An
actor, he declared, should pay less



the critics said, than to his own
judgment of his work. Style in
acting he believed to be “a coat
put on afterward, but the rack
should be there first.” He spoke
of the Actors Studio in New York
as one of the means whereby an
actor can further his development,
although at present the waiting
list, is unfortunately several thou-
sand long and the studio must
necessarily remain small.

Mr. Meisner defined the training
of the young actor as being prim-
arily “the breaking down of what
prevents him from responsive ac-
tion.” He sketched the develop-
ment of actor training from the
early Delsarte theory based on ex-
ternal imitation of the results of
inner experience; for instance, the
hand to the heart for “in love,”



ete. Delsarte emphasized grace of

‘bearing and beauty of voice, the

actor imitating the emotions but
actually experiencing them.
This whole facade crumbled under





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The |
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“did not



Stanislavski Discussed at Vassar

the impact of modern psychology

| and realism. Stanislavski, search-

ing for truth in acting and know-
inner aspects, the
elements of the unconscious, are
the most difficult to . develop,
formulated his theories as a means
to release the creative impulse. He
invent his system of
training any more than Freud in-
vented the unconscious.” The body
must be responsive to inner pres-
sures; actors do not need beautiful
bodies, do not need to move and
speak beautifully — but their
bodies and their voices must be
responsive, free. Only motivated
action is theatrically effective. If
the action is merely external, then
it is “merely the false eyelashes
on the cadaver.” Each action must
be “the source through which the
pipe reached into the oil,” and the
source of acting talent lies there-
fore within the unconscious.

The two concluding speakers
were Martin Manulis, of Westport,
who pointed out the threat of tele-
vision by saying Tuesday night
has repeatedly proven to have the
lowest box office because of the
Milton Berle program, and John
Wharton of the Playwrights Com-
pany who proposed the decentraliz-
ing of the theatre by encouraging
community theatres. He was cer-
tain that the theatre would sur-
vive because it serves the all-im-
portant purpose of resolving ten-
sions (catharsis).





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Murder |
In The Mosque

Continued from Page 3

rubbed his Van Dyke, and did an
around-the-world with his yoyo.
Deep in his thoughts, he started to
hear the woman ask, “Would you
like me to show you the people
my husband was playing bridge
with last night?”

“Ah-ha!” the salugi cried, “A
sore loser did it! Now we’re get-
ting someplace!” The widow point-
ed to three men in the group of
twelve. One had blue eyes, one
had brown eyes, and one had green
eyes. The salugi ordered them
searched, but none of them had any
weapons on them. “One of you
three is the murderer,” he proclaim-
ed. “Who was El Cosmo’s part-
ner?” The man with the blue eyes
nodded. “Did you win?” The man
nodded in the affirmative. “Then
you’re OK. I arrest you two as
partners in crime for the murder
of El Cosmo, the leader of the
Eastern Mohammedan world. It
is my duty to warn you that any-
thing you say will be held against
you.” One muttered Betty Grable,
one fainted. Quick as lightning,
the ugis sprang into action. They
brought in cameras, set up kleiz
lights, clamped handcuffs on the
two accused men, and revived the
unconscious one with a bucket of
water. “Talk,” snarled the salugi.
Amid great noise, hundreds of Be-
lievers had crowded into the mos-
que, all wailing and pointing at
the two men.

The man with the blue eyes
looked around him, amazed at the
attention that the two were get-
ting. Flashbulbs went off, news-
reel cameras hummed, and an-
nouncers canvassed the onlookers
to get their opinions. Finally, he
could stand it no longer, and
shrieked “I did it! I did it. Give
me'‘some attention too!” He reach-
ed out, focused the cameras on
himself, and clawed at the salugi’s
uniform.

“Yes, yes, F won last night,” he
continued, “but I hated him. I kill-
ed him. He’s been antagonizing me
for years, and last night was the
last straw. I had just bid and made
a grand slam in no trump, and he
said, ‘That’s all you Harvard men
are good for, — Bridge!’ So I kill-
ed him, and I’m glad of it!” He
turned to the camera, smiling, and
repeated, “I’m glad of it!”

* * *

The salugi stopped filing his
nails long enough to smile benign-
ly at the widow and answer her
questions. “Oh, of course, I sensed
it was the blue-eyed one all along.
Once ran into a case something
like his down in Java, a few years
ago. The only reason I arrested the
others was to get him to talk.
Knew it was he all a long. Yes
sir, knew it all the time.”

The widow looked up admiringly
at him, and murmured “How?”
The salugi whispered almost in-
audibly, “Yale, ’27.”





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Haverford Professor

Will Speak to Seniors
Continued from Page 1
Dr. Foss arrived at the Haver-

ford Co-operative Workshop, where
foreign teachers were being fam-

iliarized with the United States,
in 1940. He was discouraged due to
unsuccessful financial ventures and
found in the atmosphere of the
Quaker college the spiritual “lift”
he needed. He has been a teacher,
judge, lawyer, lecturer, and busi-
nessman but has maintained
throughout his life a deep love for
philosophy, which he is now teach-
ing to Haverford and Bryn Mawr
students. In 1948 he was elected
Haverford’s favorite professor.

Besides ‘the books he wrote in
Germany, Dr. Foss has written two
books in the philosophical vein
since he came to America — The
Idea of Perfection in the Western
World and Symbol and Metaphor
in Human Experience, which came
out last fall. Dr. and Mrs. Foss
have two sons, one of whom is
studying and painting in Paris,
and the other of whom is sched-
uled to assist Leonard Bernstein
in the instruction of orchestral
conducting at Tanglewood this
summer.

Correspondent Deplores
Fault-Finding Criticisms
Continued from Page 2

Before I prove to be doing to
the review exactly what I am
complaining that the reviewer has
done to the dance I shall close my
letter with the plea that review-
ers cease to devote their energies
to finding the flaws in productions
and allow themselves to feel the
imipact of the performance as a
whole.

Sincerely,
Alice Lattimore





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We endure tne scornful stares

With which our superior wisdom
is met

We are quite ready to share

Our table with the rabble, and to
let

The Freshmen outstay us up late:
‘but the thing

Most excerable, insolent and gall-
ing

Is when they view our room—the
humble nook

Where dreams and hidden things
and an occasional book

Have lain, our sacred room with a
possessive look.

Oh! They will put the bed right
there, their curtains are too
short,

The walls will be the perfect color
for the picture of the fort

Is the closet roomy enough?
there matting on the chair?

They will change the window cush-
ion—just as soon as we’re not
there.

I will let them pity us when the
comprehensives come

I will let them steal away all my
special private stones

I will let them find the tower

Climb the trees, invade the bower

Ring the bell and tame the birds

But if they want to escape an

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Philadelphia Inquirer, Flashlight Instrumental
In Discovering Bone Carrier of Wyndham Roof

’ Continued from Page 1

Undiscouraged however, I went to
another window; darkness and
void. But suddenly, just as I was
about to remove my nose from
the screen, there leapt up at me
out of the blackness a face! But
such a face as I have never seen
— pale and wild-and eerie! My
knees turned to water, and the
flashlight, shaken beyond endur-
ance in my trembling hand, went
out. After having yelled in panic
for (a) a friend to come and com-
fort me, and (b) another flash-
light, I felt somewhat fortified.

Somehow the flashlight got lit.
and slowly and hesitatingly I
shined it over the roof. The beam
crept down to the left and back
without exposing so much as a
bottle of suntan oil. But sudden-
ly, as the light began to spread to
the night, there surged up out of
the darkness, trembling with
righteous indignation, an enor-
mous and bristling raccoon. He
sat and looked at us vindictively,
and then, waving his tail, scooted



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headfirst down a vine.

We almost collapsed! That it
was a raccoon who had been bring-
ing those bones up onto Wynd-
ham roof had never occurred to
us. That’s when the fun began.
Since then, our roof has been in-
vaded, at all hours of the day, by
men bent on catching the raccoon.
They set a trap for it two nights
ago, but the only thing that got
caught in it was me, and that
was quite by mistake. Last night
at dinner the maid came in and
solemnly announced that at 11:00
a man would be around to watch
for the “animal,” and at about
11:15 we heard gunshots in the
garden, but what happened nobody
knows. We are still waiting, never
knowing what new developments
each day will bring forth in the
mad adventures of Wyndham and
the raccoon.

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