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VOL. XLVI, NO. 11
ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1950
Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1949
PRICE 15 CENTS
Dr. Edelstein
Relates Science
And Philosophy
Dr. Frank Honored
At Memorial
Lecture
Goodhart, January 4: “Essential
to man can be that only which re-
tains its values even in the face of
death.” Dr. Ludwig Edelstein,
giving the memorial lecture for
the late Dr. Erich Frank, recalled
this as a principal of Dr. Frank’s,
and quoted it as an appropriate
close to the praise which both he
and Dr. Nahm had given to Dr.
Frank’s writing and thinking.
Dr. Edelstein chose as his sub-
ject “The Influence of Science on
Greek Philosophy,” one of the as-
pects of philosophy which had
most interested Dr. Frank during
his lifetime. Dr. Edeistein showed
that science in the classical period
was a more speculative, less rigid
subject of enquiry than it is today,
and since acceptance of the abso-
lute value of objective fact was
hot at that time a methodological
principle, scientific thinking was
frequently subjected to and limit-
ed by the dogmatic tenets of par-
ticular, philosophical, schools... The
progress of science in classical
times is more to be measured in
. terms of the development of the
concept of science per se, than in
terms of increased discovery of
scientific data.
Continued on Page 5
Drs. To Discuss
Value of Classics
The Classics Club will preseqt}
Drs. Berliner, Chew, Gilbert,
Lattimore, and Nahm in a forum
on “The Value of Classical Studies
in Modern Education,” on Wednes-
day, January 18, at 8.00 P. M. in
the Common Room of Goodhart.
After the five speeches by these
members of the faculty, there will
be general discussion and ques-~
tions from the floor.
Lou Riker, President of the
Classics Club, is chairman of the
forum, to which everyone is in-
vited.
Dr. Ludwig Edelstein
Public Lectures
Present Fainsod
On Russian Pol.
A new departure in public lec-
tures begins this evening in the
Haverford Commons when Merle
Fainsod, Professor of Government
at Harvard, delivers the first in a
series of six lectures on “Soviet
Russia Today.” The series, which
will deal with major political, eco-
nomic, social, and literary aspects
of the Soviet Union, is offered in
the Haverford-Swarthmore-Bryn
Mawr program, of..Russian studies
under a grant from the Carnegie
Corporation of New York.
NEWS TRYOUTS
NEWS tryouts for the second
semester are being held early
this year because of the unus-
ually high number of seniors
who are leaving next week.
There will be a great many
places available, and we need
Juniors especially. Come down
to the NEWS room Thursday,
tomorrow, at 4:00 p.m. and
hear all about it. See the article
on page 3 of this issue.
The lectures which will start at
8:15, and be open to the public,
provide an opportunity to hear
specialists in the field present
their views.
Two lectures will be given at
each of the three colleges, and bus
transportation provided for stu-
dents and faculty for lectures at
the other colleges.
Continued on Page 5
Young ‘Cellist, Baritone, Pianists
| by Irina Nelidow, ’50
Two students of the Curtis In-
stitute of Music and two from
the Academy of Vocal Arts were
the performers in the second con-
cert of the Bryn,Mawr Music Club
series on January 8 in Wyndham
Music Room.
Leslie Parnas, violoncellist, and
Anthony di Bonaventura, pianist,
(both from the Curtis Institute)
opened the concert with an excel-
lent performance of Porpora’s
Sonata in F Major. They played
the four movements with vitality
and feeling and displayed great
technical ability. Parnas in par-
ticular conveyed the shadings of
the music with subtlety and un-
derstanding.
The baritone Roy Wilde, accom-
panied by Cathleen Jensen, follow-
ed with a group of seven songs.
The first of these, Granville Ban-
. Maintain Professional Standard
tock’s Bright is the Ring of Words,
was dull and rather lifeless, al-
though sung ably and accurately.
However, four subsequent songs
by Brahms, sung in the original
German, were completely delight-
ful. Wilde has excellent control
and carries conviction when he
sings; his voice is strong and ac-
curate, but somewhat unsure in
the higher ranges. His last song,
Wolfe’s Prometheus, was deliver-
ed with force and vitality, and
Wilde himself showed great pres-
ence when Miss Jensen suddenly
stopped playing because of a
missing sheet of music. Matters
were soon adjusted and Wilde
picked up with excellent poise
where he had left off.
Parnas and di Bonaventura re-
turned to conclude the concert
with Saint-Saens’ Allegro appas-
Continued on page 5
rby Jane Augustine, 52
I wasn’t sure of the truth of the
rumor that a famous author of
biographical best-sellers, who has
lived in Bryn Mawr for years, was
listening to one of the graduate
seminars, until yesterday when,
coming around a corner of the li-
brary corridor, I met a woman I
vealized I had met before.—on the
cover of the September Atlantic
Monthly. In that issue appeared
the first installment of a reprint
from a Book-of-the-Month-club bi-
ography due off the press about
next August. That biography is
‘/entitled Young John Adams; the
well-known women I encountered
in the library is its authtor, Cath-
erine Drinker Bower.
She had a few minutes before
her seminar ,and we went into the
Rare Book Room where the chairs
are fairly comfortable, and sat
down. I asked her how she hap-
pened to choose John Adams as a
subject for biography.
English Fellowship
HonoringDonnelly
To Be Awarded
A new fellowship in honor of
the late Lucy Martin Donnelly,
student, teacher;/and for many
years chief of the Department of
English, has been given by Fran-
ces Fincke Hand and Edith Finch
and voted by the Board of Trus-
tees of the College. The fellowship
is designed to “foster those quali-
ties in scholarship and belles-let-
tres which she loved and which she
revealed to many generations of
students, and will be awarded for
the first time in the year 1951-52.
The recipient must be a woman of
the United States or the British
Commonwealth who has a special
interest or distinction in the field
'of English scholarship or belles-
leftres.
For the first few years the
award must be made to a woman
of recognized distinction, not mere-
ly promise of distinction, so that
there may be a precedent estab-
lished for the necessary qualities
in the fellow. She must have done
work equivalent to a Doctorate of
Philosophy if the award is made
to her for research work.
The committee for the fellowship
is made up of Elizabeth Monroe
Boggs, Edith Pettit Boris, Emily
R. Cross, Mary Hand Darrell, Vir-
ginia Kneeland Frantz, Frances
Fincke Hand, Katherine Strauss
Brownell Saunders, and Pamela
Coyne Taylor.
CALENDAR
Friday, January 13:
Playwright’s’ Night, Otis
Skinner Workshop, 8:00 p. m.
Monday, January 16:
Current Events, Mrs. Helen
Hunter, The Budget, Common
Room, 7:15 p. m. ;
Wednesday, January 18:
English Department Movie,
“James Joyce’s Dublin.” Music
Room, 4:15 p. m.
Classics Club Round Table,
Drs. Berliner, Chew, Gilbert,
Lattimore, and» Nahm. 8:00
p. m., Common Room.
Morning Assembly, “The Col-
lege NEWS—A Melodrama”;
8:45 a. m.
Author of Yankee from Olympus
Originally Hoped to\Teach Violin
“Previously,” she said, “I had
written about people who lived in
the nineteenth century, first Tchai-
kowsky and the Rubinsteins, and
then Chief Justice Holmes. As I
read nineteenth century American
history I saw that a lot of it de-
pended on eighteenth century his-
tory and the American Revolution.
So I looked for somebody who was
intellectual and connected with
politics. It turned out to be the
second President of the United
States, and a very fascinating sub-
ject indeed!”
Mrs. Bowen had originally in-
tended to teach violin. She went
four years to music school and got
a teacher’s certificate,. but was
presently sidetracked into litera-
ture. He first volume was a col-
SPECIAL! —
‘ Don’t miss the NEWS stu-
pendous special isssue next
week, on the Half-Century at
Bryn Mawr. Look for the
Woman of the Half-Century_as
our special feature; who can
she be?
Tito’s Survival
Possible Says
Marquis Childs
Alliance Speaker Finds
Yugoslavia Leader
Resourceful
Goodhart, January 10. Marquis
W. Childs, speaking at the third
Alliance Assembly on “Can Tito
Survive?” stated his belief that
Tito could and would survive, for
twelve months at least, which, as
he pointed out, is a long time in
the world today. ;
Mr. Childs based his predictions
on first-hand observations of
Yugoslavia made during a recent
visit there and on a two-hour in-
terview which he had with Mar-
shal Tito. Mr. Childs said that
Yugoslavia was probably safe
‘from an armed Russian attack,
‘since her interests are now so
‘closely tied up with the West. On
| the other hand, he warned, we
should not expect a similar break
with Moscow from the other satel-
lection of essays on chamber music lite countries of eastern Europe,
called Friends and Fiddlers.
Her first biography was the
story of the Russian composer
Tchaikowsky and Najedja von
Meck; it was called Beloved
Continued on Page 6 .
Politzer Lectures
On Shakespeare
Mr. Heinz Politzer, speaking on
“Shakespeare’s Music; its Mean-
ing and its Message,” under the
auspices of the German Club,
stressed the symbolic function of
music in Shakespeare’s . writings,
pointing out that Shakespeare was
able to utilize and to feel music
as Goethe could not.
Music in Shakespeare, said Mr.
Politzer, represents the force of
“Erslosung,” the concept of har-
mony, and the power which binds
together and runs through the
three realms of being, the “under-
world,” the earthly state, and the
purely spiritual, This hierarchial
order of ethics and modes of being,
Shakespeare took over from med-
ieval thought.
Every play of Shakespeare,
Continued on Page 5
for only in Yugoslavia did the con-
| ditions making this kind of break
| possible exist.
In clarifying this view, Mr.
Childs said that Tito had already
consolidated his power during the
war, when, largely on hs own, he
led a resistance movement within
Yugoslavia. When he came into
power, he gave the key positions
Continued on Page 6
Choruses to Sing
Mass in G Minor
The next concert of the Bryn
Mawr College Chorus will be held
with Haverford College on Friday
evening, February 24 in Goodhart
Hall. The Vaughan Williams Mass
in G Minor will be sung by the full
chorus a capella. This concert is
one of the series of plays and
concerts given by Bryn Mawr and
Haverford jointly to which season
tickets have been sold.
The Haverford Glee Club, Bryn
Mawr Chorus, and an orchestra
of students and friends of the two
colleges, will make a recording of
Continued on Page 4
Student Playwrights to Present
Three Original One-Act Dramas
Mali, Laurette Potts Pease, Louise | grr
by Barbara Joelson, 52
Playwrights’ Night, this year,
will be held on Friday, January 13
at 8 p. m. in the Skinner Work-
shop. On that evening, students
of Bryn Mawr and Haverford will
present three} original one-act
plays, written in the playwriting
course. The main purpose of this
performance is to discover how
the plays will stand up under ac-
tual production. The participants
in this program, which is student-
directed, acted, and produced, are
very anxious for audience com-
ment. A short discussion period
following each play is being con-
sidered,
The first of the three plays is
One Track, by Leila Kirpalani. It
is a psychological drama which
deals wth a fraternity initiation.
The action is set by the railroad
tracks. Brooks Cooper is the di-
rector, and the cast is as follows:
TOM: scsvsesocnseesessiacsccsasee DECK EIOLLOW
PERE ictal tlvninctniiaetenes Ben Birdsall
Oth: oj és Scanner
The second play is called When,
John, and is written by Victor
Jowers. This will be a light ro-
mantic comedy, set in a writer’s
apartment of present-day New
York; it will combine humor and
an appealing love story. Ann
Blaisdell and Robert Brown are
the co-directors and the cast in-
cludes:
Manon .......... Jacqueline McMillan
John Colman ............ Victor Jowers
Mrs. ‘Colman ..........dane Augustine
John Collier ............ Harold Vedova
Gertrude Stein .........Sue Halperin
Noel Coward ...................Gus Seder
Ernest Hemingway ...........H. Wood
hi Ge BANG sieikemeniene iLee Haring
Woman ........... .../Catherine Lurker
Continued on Page 5
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“Critics Much Criticized”
It is time for the NEWS to clarify for the college its
policy toward criticism of college productions. Recently our
reviews have been attacked as prejudiced and destructive
writing, and we feel that there has been a general confusion,
both on our part and that of our readers, of the values in-
volved. Since we have made no definite statement of our po-
sition since the spring of 1948, we make one now.
The main problem is whether the individual critics on the
NEWS should say exactly what they think of particular per-
formances, without reservations or editorial interference, or
whether the NEWS as a college organization should insist
that the critic recognize not only her duty to give an honest
opinion, but also her responsibility toward other college or-|- -
ganizations, and so restrain herself from making destructive
and derogatory comments—at least in public.
A rather thoughtless accusation has been brought
against the NEWS: that it is our policy to discourage every
organization but our own. A glance at past editorials will
scarcely support this point of view. We have consistently
encouraged the increase and expansion of general campus ac-
tivities, and have assisted their progress in every way pos-
sible.
We realize, however, our power to hurt as well as help.
The strong reacticn roused by our more controversial arti-
cles indicates that our views have a definite effect on college
thinking. Because we recognize this power, we have always
maintained a double standard of criticism: one for semi-pro-
fessional groups like the Drama Guild and the Chorus, and
one for classes and clubs whose presentations are meant as
entertainment for the audience rather than as training for
their members. Generally speaking, we review rather than
criticize the performances of these latter groups, but refer
the former to a stricter set of critical values in the belief
that the participants should benefit from objective com-
ments. It would be unfortunate to have to think that these
people cannot take adverse criticism without immediately
labelling it unjustifiable and prejudiced.
We have made many mistakes. Of these perhaps the
most glaring have been our criticisms of the dance club last
year and the Junior Show the year before. We have not al-
ways made the proper distinctions between where to lay on
and where to lay off. One reason for this is that the reporter
who is assigned to criticize a performance almost invariably
attends it with a mind more sensitive to its faults than the
majority of the audience; another is that lack of experience
in reviewing tends to make the writer hypercritical.
_ We must insist, however, regardless of the sentiments
of those who write angry letters to us, that criticism is and
_ can only be personal opinion. Our reviews have never been
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Current Events
Common Room, Monday, Janu-
ary 9, 7:15 P. M.—Nightmare is
the word to describe the present
situation in the Far Fast, a situa-
tion in which Formosa figures as
a very ‘hot potato,’ said Dr. Weiles
in discussing “Headache and Hy-
pocrisy—China and the U. 8S.”
‘ “The timetable of world events
did not permit leisurely planning
of our foreign policy in China.”
The State Department tries to
maintain the principles first enun-
ciated during the Boxer insurrec-
tion: equality of commercial op-
portunity for all nations and main-
tenance of the territorial integrity
and political and administrative
independence of China.
Formosa, an uncertain island
where nationalist troops still hold
sway, is only one of the problems
in the Far East. Since the Chinese
People’s Republic was proclaimed
on October first with Mao Tse-
tung, president, the list of
countries recognizing the new na-
tion has been growing. “It is silly
to penalize Britain because she
recognized China .. . this gives
Moscow just the action she
wants.”
Vishinsky precipitated the Chi-
nese conflict into the U.N. when he
proposed the question of whem the
Nationalist representative really
represents.
The charge of hypocrisy is lev-
elled chiefly at the State Depart-
merw’s White Paper on China is-
sued August, 1949, which reeviews
Chinese-American relations, says
the few billion dollars aid to China
in the last five years was to no
avail, that the Communists now
contrcl all but two islands.
A constructive program was
formulated only a year ago in
President Truman’s Point Four
program of aid for underdeveloped
countries. “Nothing was donc by
way of concrete impiementation,
and the year is gone.”
The National Security Council
held a meeting on December 29,
which was anticipated by a State
Department directive to play down
Formosa issued six days earlier.
In any event, the decision of the
NSC was that nothing will be done
about Formosa (“we'll sell, but
that’s aii”), with the foutnote that
“we won’t recognize the Chinese
commutist government because
they con’t treat our rep:esenta-
tives wth proper respect. This last
sentenve is for home cous .imption
- The Nationalist regime is
bankrupt in support by the
people.”
The nightmare requires imme-
diate attention. Said Dr. Welles,
“We can’t dodge it.” “Abysmal
ignorance (e. g. conspicuous ab-
sence of courses on political, econ-
omic, social institutions of China
in the Bryn Mawr curriculum) is
not an excuse.”
“The problem zannot be post-
poned until after elections.” Ques-
tions abound: “Will it be possible
Wednesday, January 11, 1950
Critic Finds Reviewer
Incompetent,
Unjust
Dear Miss Townsend,
I have just completed reading
your account of the production of
Elizabeth the Queen and I believe
that it shows very incompetent
dramatic criticism. Alright, so you
are the editor of the paper, why
don’t you stick to that and not
mess around with something that
very obviously you are incapable
of handling.
I believe that your panning of
Dick McKinley is unjustified, he
is, in the opinion of myself and
many others, the most capable
student director on either campus
and compares favorably with your
Mr. Thon. For an example of Mc-
Kinley’s work, regard his work
with Juno and the Paycock of last
year. I will admit the fact that
Margie Low overacted her part,
but even so you had no right to
run everybody else down the way
that you did, and you had no right
to pan her as badly as you did.
Jackson Piotrow turned in the fin-
est supporting performance that
I have ever seen on the amature
(sic) stage, and I have seen quite
a few amature productions of the
highest quality.
The main fault with your criti-
cism was, that you gave no foun-
dation or reasons for the state-
ments which you made. More com-
petent editorialists may make
statements of their beliefs, but
they usually see fit to back them
up with facts. What is more, your
| article was not published as an ed-
itorial, which is certainly what it
was. Ergo, give reasons for your
statements and _ publish your
“work” as an editorial statement,
not as a regular article.
| Apparently, you seem to be of
the opinion that a critic’s main
function in life is to find fault,
can’t you say anything good about
anybody? So let me advise you,
in the future, stick to editing and
leave the writing to someone who
has the mentality and talent to do
it.
Yours Faithfully,
Hugh S. Downing
Haverford College
FS;
this.
I just dare you to publish
to have relations with China not
on a governmental level? Or will
the pattern be the same as in
those countries behind the Jron
Curtain? Will China be another
Yugoslavia?”
“The history of the Chinese
people suggests that they don’t
take kindly to foreign dictation. of
any sort. The United States has
lost influence; we’re at a low point
as far as Chinese good will is con-
cerned.”
written on the spur of the moment; none of our reporters
has ever gone to a performance in order to report the major-
ity opinion of the audience, or with intent to malign the per-
formers through personal spite or prejudice. They have tried
nard—perhaps too hard—to evaluate honestly their impres-
sions of a specific performance, and to express them as ob-
jectively as possible. Since criticism always receives a by-
line, the campus is at liberty to argue points of disagreement
with the reviewer in person, and we suggest that in the fu-
ture our readers do not interpret these points as expressions
of a deliberately subversive policy held by the NEWS as an
indivisible whole.
In closing, may we make a point that has been overlook-
ed too often. “The art of judging with knowledge and pro-
priety” is a difficult and complex one, and many of us joined
the NEWS in order to become better acquainted with its
technique. The NEWS is as much of an experimental organ-
ization as any other on campus, a training school for people
who wish to write. We are still learning, and if our educa-
tion is not complete, at least we have never, and shall never,
claim judicial infallibility. In the meantime, we shall try to
make some compromise between our individual critical stan-
ards and the evident need of other college groups for more
encouragement and sympathy than we have given them up
to now.
Miss Cohn Discusses.
NEWS Criticism
Of ““Urfaust”
Open letter to Hanna Holborm
December 20, 1949
Dear Miss Holborn:
Your review of the Bryn Mawr-
Haverford Urfaust seems to me to
call for a comment. Personal taste.
and experience necessarily .influ-
ence anybody’s judgment of the in-
dividual performances, and to
argue about yours appears to me
less fruitful than to discuss your
main criticism to which you gave s6
much emphasis. Before going into
your principal’ argument, however,
I do want to tell you that the 25
Swarthmore students who saw the
performance were deeply impress-
ed by it and were all very glad ta
have made the trip.
Let me then comment on your
assumption that the Urfaust is too
ambitious a project for amateur
actors. In connection with this.
| problem I cannot free myself from
the suspicion that this point was
so firmly settled in your mind that
it dimmed your judgment of the
actual performance and may have
prevenitted your impartial recep-
tion of it. How else could you have
escaped the fine contact between
the stage and the audience and its
warm and immediate response
after every scene?
I feel that the Urfaust belongs:
in the repertoire of an amateur
theatre; it has, I believe, been fre-
quently performed by non-profes-
sionals. Everybody will admit that
a completely satisfactory realiza-.
tion of the three main parts is
a matter of unusual luck—for pro-
fessionals and amateurs alike. But
there are at least two reasons why
the attempt can and should be
made with Urfaust. Point one: the
amateur actor trying his hand at
so important a play as Urfaust
can be sure of doing something .
worth while and can count on a
wide interest in the audience. This
assurance is a source of energy
and inspiration for the actor. Point
two: the characters, situations and
even the poetic idiom of Urfaust
are not only timeless but also so
colorful, so concrete, and alto-
gether so rich that’ whatever
comes off in an amateur perform-
ance still contain a drop of the
undiluted wine which delights the
gourmet as well as the simply
thirsty fellow.
Unless amateurs confine them-
selves to mere entertainment,
they must run the risk of giving
imperfect performances. If they-
try a great play, our imaginations
can easily follow and complement
an imperfect performance, for this
reason: all truly great art, like
Urfaust, is basically simple and in
its essence invulnerable; the
wounds which an amateur per-
formance inflicts upon it are peri-.
pheral, and the human and educa-
tional blessings it confers on both
actors and audience are unique.
After all, wouldn’t you rather have-
a cheap picture postcard of a
Michelangelo statue than a perfect
reproduction of a photogenic
Hollywood smile?
Hilda D. Cohn
Swarthmore College
Department of German:
NEWS Criticism Found
Unrepresentative,
Overbearing
December 15, 1949
To the Editor:
For quite a while we have ob-
served that the News has been
taking an unnecessarily superior
and intellectually overbearing at-
titude toward the artistic and thes-
pian attempts of the students. It
should be the function of a college.
paper to represent the student:
opinions and not those of one
critic. Furthermore, criticism when
fairly given should encourage im-.
Continued on Page 4
aed ois
Wednesday, January 11, 1950
THE COLLEGE NEWS
: Page Three
Foreign
Correspondent
by Anne Greet, ’50
Down a dark alley and out into
a garden. Pebbles and trees and a
queer ghosts-and-dust smell that
Kate says is the smell of Paris.
Church bells ring and cats sing all
night. In the morning comes 4
knock at the door. “Entrez.” “C’est
huit heures vingt, mesdemoiselles.”
Kate comes to take us for our
_ first walk. The trees in the Lux-
‘ embourg stand like well-conduct-
ed sentinels, keeping watch over
endless processions of nuns. Lit-
tle girls trail after, down towards
the great bronze fountain, the
horses and the turtles. We: turn
a corner ... and there is Notre
Dame, priests on bicycles, nuns |
B. M. Seeks Aid
For DP Scholars
There are hundreds of seventeen
through twenty-six year-old Dis-
placed ‘Persons in Europe who
want to be educated; some with
one or two years of college, some
whose education ended abruptly
after high school. They have abil-
ity, strength, a good background
of arts, languages, and sciences,
and the true desire to learn. They
would like to become American
citizens, and they are willing and
eager to work. American stu-
dents are the only people who can
help them.
‘We at Bryn Mawr last year
brought one DP student to our
campus. This year we may be
able to bring another. If we do
with great white hats on, gar- | not do it-now, we will not do it,
goyles. Within..
carved heads of old men popping | ganization,
. a shady wood, | for the International Refugee Or-
the group. that
out of castle windows to look at/matches applications from Europe
the Lord.
dow ledge.
Panic ...I1I am alone and
everybody else, is foreign. Car-
penters in a land of old hotels,
gardens, and silent courts encour-
age me to knock at all the wrong
doors. “Madame Nouflard demeure
en haut, mais vous etes sures que
vous ne voulez pas voir Madame
XXXX?” (A glimpse of gold mir-
rors, grey persian families, polish-
ed floors.) Crowds drift up and
down the streets; they bargain,
buy, sell, eat croissants, cherries,
cantaloupes, peel rind with a knife
and spit seeds into the gutter. Lit-
tle boys are talking under a pink
sky.
Home to Jana who has_ been
conversing in a palace with a
Norseman. He had mislaid his
Tour de Versailles and was look-
ing for it in the grand ballroom.
At supper, an American lady tells
us that nearby is a hotel where
King Louis used to meet Madame
Maintenon. The Madame who sits
across the table from me says that
Saint Genevieve herded sheep
here. “She chased away Huns,”
explained the professor of music.
“Have you been to the opera yet?”
(The night we went there was
a terrible ballet in the fourth act
of Romeo and Juliet. The stage
shook and creaked and protested
while we ate chocolate ices. After-
wards, we had _ sausage-shaped
sandwiches and beer. A neighbor-
ing Englishman asked us if our
sandwiches came by the yard; we
laughed politely but distantly, and
took a ritzy, short-tempered taxi
home. The taximan was formid-
able. So was opening the creaky
door into our alley, stumbling
across cobblestones to the door of
the pension and up the crooked
stair and down the dark hall. Jana
was still awake, full of excite-
ment; a Chinaman , had fallen
asleep on her shoulder in the bus
coming home from _ Fontaine-
~ bleau.)
Continued on Page 4
Inthe garden, bronze |
archangels descend the gables to- |
wards a small stone monkey and)
a flower pot on a cathedral win-|
wtih requests from American col-
leges and which pays for the trip
across the Atlantic, must go’ out
of existence this spring.
To bring another DP to Bryn
Mawr, our student body must pro-
vide tuition, room, board, books,
travel during vacations and spend-
ing money, not only for the new
girl, but also for our present stu-
dent. All this will be supplied if
every undergraduate at Bryn
Mawr will add $1.00 to her
charges on the next four pay days,
the last four of the year.
This is not only an opportunity,
but a responsibility.
¢
NEWS Considers
Genius Secondary
News Tryouts will be held this
Thursday, January 12 (tomor-
row), at 4.00 in the Goodhart
News office. Anyone who is at
all interested should come at
that time or see Emily Townsend,
Wyndham, if she is unable to
make it. The Tryout articles
won’tbe-due—until_the first day
of the second semester, so you
have three weeks in which to write
them.
Previous experience and cre-
ative genius are not more impor-
tant than interest and enthusiasm.
We definitely need people who can
take lecture notes and will write
straight articles, but if you have
a leaning toward cartoons and the
humorous side of life maybe
you’re the person we’re looking
for. If you can write drama, art,
and music criticism you will be
very much in demand. Maybe
you’d rather interview people or
report ‘on sports, but whatever
you can do the News can use it.
There will be quite a few vacan-
cies on the paper after the Class
of ’50 leave, and new blood is
needed. If you are at all inter-
ested come and work. It’s a lot of
fun and good training, as any
person on the News will tell you.
On First Looking Into a Greek Cook Book
by Anne Greet, °50
The grayling
Is quailing
Deep down in the sea.
The dolphin
Is colphin
Tremulously.
The eel
Doth squeal,
And fraddic
Are haddic,
Cuttle, mussle, and mullet,
As the Greek advances
With fishnet and lances
And wide-gaping gullet.
O list to the cod!
Who doth commend
His soul to God:
“This wish
For fish
I don’t comprehend
Or like.
I never have felt
Much drawn to smelt
Or pike.
As a steady diet
They seem unquiet.
The Leek
Is infinitely more
Suitable for
The Greek.
Though the wise Hindu
Can make his skindu,
You better avoid
Things ichthyoid,
For only whales
Is blessed with no scales.
Don’t think me rude
If I conclude
Unseemly is glee
So watery,
Or at least allow
Me to avow,
Before you pull me out of the
sea,
What’s food for the Greeks
Isn’t food for me.”
Perils and Dangers
Feed Our Dreams
Mr. Adams and Coilege NEWS
Analyzed by Illustrious Authors
by Anne Greet, ’50
Eager Reporter.
But I’ll report it. Coriolanus.
Master, master! news, old news,
and such news as you never heard
of! Taming of the Shrew.
With open mouth swallowing a
tailor’s news. King John.
Letters to the Editor.
I will buy with you, sell with
you, talk wth you, walk with you,
and so following; but I will not
eat with you, drink with you, nor
pray with you.
Merchant of Venice.
How goes it now, sir? this news
which is called true is so like an
old tale, that the verity of it is in
strong suspicion.
Winter’s_ Tale-
They have ceased to publish the
“Newgate Calendar” and_ the
“Pirates Own Book” since .. (you)
. . have .. superseded them in.
freshness as well as . . horror.
Emerson.
The newspapers! Sir, they are
the most villanous, licentious,
abominable, infernal—Not that I
ever read them! No, I make it a
rule never to look into a news-
paper. The Critic.
Editor at NEWS Meeting.
It is the greatest pleasure of the
Athenians to wander through the
streets asking, What is the news?
Demosthenes.
What’s the news? Hamlet.
Any news?
A Greek proverbial saying.
To give me information is thy
Between the Leaves
“Bring Out Your Dead”
Shows Philadelphia
In Plague’s Grip
by Nina Cave, ’50
Bring Out Your Dead, by J. H.
Powell, is the story of Philadel-
phia’s great yellow fever epidem-
ic in 1793. The book gives a re-
alistic picture not only of the dis-
ease itself, but more important, of
what it did to Philadelphia’s cit-
izenry and institutions.
The central character of the
story is Dr. Benjamin Rush, the
first important physician in Amer-
ican medical history. Dr. Rush al-
most destroys himself in a deter-
mined battle to defend his method
of curing the disease against that
of a group of immigrant French-
men. He stubbornly refuses to ad-
mit that he kills more men than he
cures and¢’though today medical
science completely disagrees with
him, Dr. Powell delivers no judg-
ment on the struggle. Rush never
achieves much liveliness as a per-
sonality, but the narrative of his
experiences is interesting and
sometimes exciting.
The course of the disease is
dealt with very fully; its outbreak
in the terrible heat of a late sum-
mer in Philadelphia; the apvalling
number of deaths as it reaches its
height in mid-October; and finally,
its abatement with the first frost
Continued on page 4
office. Euripides.
News fitting to the night
Black, fearful, comfortless and
horrible. King John.
How beautiful upon the moun-
tains are the feet of him who
bringeth good tidings. Isaiah.
Ram thou thy fruitful tidings in
mine ears, that long time have
been barren.
Anthony and Cleopatra.
I cannot make news. without
straw. Walpole.
Mr. Adams.
With much communication will
he tempt thee, and smiling upon
thee will get out thy secrets.
Apocrypha.
| With his mouth full of news
(Which he will put on us, as
pigeons feed their young. |
As You Like It.!
|
Mr. Kamerdze.
Thou still hast been the father
of good news. Hamlet.
May Day Issue.
Tell it not in Gath, publish it
not in the streets of Askelon; lest
the daughters of the Philistines
rejoice, lest the daughters of the
uncircumcised triumph. Samuel. |
Press Conference.
There’s villainous news abroad.
Henry IV.
Advice to NEWS Try Outs.
Stay a little and news will find
you. George Herbert. |
The News-writer lies down at |
Night in great Tranquillity ...
La Bruyere.
Yet the first bringer of unwel-
come news
Hath but a losing office, and his
tongue
Sounds ever after a sullen bell.
Henry IV.)
Carlyle.
Great is Journalism.
The Editor Speaks.
Ah! ye knights of the pen! May
honor be your shield, and truth tip
your lances! Be gentle to all gen-
tle people. Be modest to women.
Be tender to children . .
Thackeray.
LAST NIGHTERS
New Giraudoux Comedy
Has World: Premiere
In Philadelphia
Specially contributed by
Katousha Cheremedeff ’52
In the dazzling excitement of a-
premiere on this continent, “The
Enchanted,” by Jean Giraudoux,
opened in Philadelphia on Janu-
ary second. “The Enchanted” was
adapted to the American scene by
Maurice Valency, already known
to some of us by his unforgettable
rendition of “The Madwoman of
Chaillot.”
A myriad of talents gathered
together to present to the public
this new three-act comedy. George
S. Kaufman staged the produc-
tion; Francis Poulenc wrote the
score for the background and
dance music; and Jean Erdman
was the choreographer for the lit-
tle girls’ dance.
The action takes place in a lit-
tle provincial French town at the
turn of this century. The inspec-
tor (Malcolm Keen) has just ar-
rived. A strong ghost, presum-
ably a young man who, after mur-
dering his wife and friends in the
nearby chateau, committed sui-
cide, is wandering around the
countryside. His presence is mani-
fested through unheard of prece-
dents. At the town’s latest lot-
tery, it was not the mother su-
perior of the convent who won
the motorcycle, but the poor
iyoung man who needed ‘it most;
and the “gros lot” did not go to
Monsieur Dumas, the millionaire,
but to the neediest couple in
town,
The action of the play lingers
between life and death and cen-
Isabel
has
ters around the heroine,
(Leueen MacGrath). She
been trying to bring some good
into the community; but finds her-
‘self opposed by the conservatives:
the inspector, the mayor, and the
‘gossipy inhabitants of the town.
Through the help of the doctor,
she is able to meet the ghost who,
‘she hopes, is going to solve for
her the enigma of her life: Should
she continue t» live and be wit-
ness of her invapability to reform
the world; or should she die and
in company of other ghosts bring
happiness to her native town?
A few weeks after at an inter-
view with Isabel, the ghost (John
Baragrey) confessing his love to
her, brings up the possibility that
he is not what she thinks, and
that he may be very much ALIVE.
At that word two shots are fired
by the public executioners who
had been ordered by the inspec-
tor to kill the ghost; Isabel stands
grief stricken, her back to the au-
dience, and the second act ends
with “the ghost of the so-called
ghost” walking away reminding
Continued on Page 4
The idea is you’re supposed to
improve from year to year. We
feel we’ve changed since Christ-
mas, and we don’t expect anything
from anybody. Trouble is, we’ve
been confused. We look at the
same thing from so many angles,
that when something suggests
something to us, we think it’s
something else.
We go up on roofs—have seen
summer end and spring begin
from them. And when we look
down, patterns shape themselves
on the floor of our heads and lean
their projections against. the side.
We listen to the Roommate whist- |
ling There’s a Wildness in God’s
Mercy and changing pitch every
two bars, and we wonder whether |
she is doing this on purpose or
whether she is like Betty Jean’s’
people who can’t hear the beat in|
the earth. And we sit across from.
you in your bluejeans looking a
little to the left of us hoping for
your professor. ‘
THE OBSERVER
‘your enchantments here .
You must take your time with
them... it is the first that’s ha~d,
but keep trying. We wrote
in this vein last term. We should
write in another now. What,
we ask. What. We weren’t made
that way. We consist of a few
stories, the joke about the Long-
Handled Spoon, and a long slow
‘mile. Spain, and the lady who
knew all about it. She moved from
“nglish to History of Art with no
trouble at all and opened the door”
of her class one day to let them
all out into the meadow. Oh child-
ren children . .. charms that call
down the moon from out her
sphere on this sick youth work
i ane
wilt thou leave me thus? Say Nay.
Nay. For shame to save thee from
the blame of all my grief and
grame and wilt thou leave me
thus? .. .. that and the long, slow,
smile. You bring it in with the
other, and it creates a mood. We
will write our books in the spring
and then go to Italy in the sum-
mer and find some nice gentleman.
TE
Reese sen at
Page Four
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Last Nighters
Continued from Page 3
her that he will come to see her
the next day at six o’clock. Six
o’clock comes with first, the ar-
rival of the supervisor of weights
and measures, Robert (Wesley
Addy). Robert asks Isabel to
marry him and shows her that
whatever one does, one can always
find, if he tries, beauty in life,
even in as little a thing as won-
dering about the next town to
which the civil service sends its
gmployes, between Nice and
Tours, the beach and the Loire,
Chartres and Grenoble, the plain
and the mountain. At that mo-
ment the ghost enters, bringing
_ to Isabel the answer to her un-
solved enigma, “but torn between
life and death, she is not immedi-
ately able to answer to the ghost
who then disappears, while Isabel
falls dead in the arms of Robert.
The poet doctor devises a cure
by which he is going to bring Isa-
bel back to: life. He surrounds
her with the sounds of daily life:
the schoolgirls reciting their les-
sons,.two men playing cards, two
women gossiping, the inspector
enumerating phrases _ pertaining
to his profession and Robert re-
peating endlessly: “I love you,
Isabel.”
This chorus is perfectly mas-
tered and when the climax is
reached, all the people present re-
peat their phrases together; Isa-
bel returns to life and the cur-
tain falls with her almost im-
perceptible words: “I love you,
Robert.”
A great tribute must be paid to
the little school girls who catch
the attention of the audience
when needed and withdraw into
the background with equal ease.
Malcolm Keen is a very good in-
spector, in spite of his tendency
to stress too much the burlesque
contained in his role. John Bara-
grey does a good job with his in-
terpretation, and achieves indeed
a rather handsome ghost.
Leueen MacGrath is perfect in
her technique and especially in the
long monologues that she has to
sustain during Isabel’s interviews
with the ghost. Unfortunately
she does not show us enough of
the Isabel that she was, before the
appearance of the ghost in her
life. Perhaps the costumes that
she wears are responsible for that
impression. The three dresses
that she appears in are all made
on the same pattern though vary-
ing in color, and look more like
luxurious chiffon negligees than
dresses worn by ladies at the be-
ginning of this century. All the
other costumes. are excellent;
especially noted among them must
be the ones worn by the town gos-
sips and the public executioners.
The two sets, the _clearing in
the woods. outside of the town and
Isabel’s room are not ideal for the
play. Christian Berard is dead,
and with his death it seems that
nobody can design sets appropri-
ate for a Giraudoux comedy.
The feeling of exquisite light-
ness and freshness pertaining to
the French landscape is not re-
produced at all, while the funda-
mental color seems to be pea soup
green. In “The Enchanted,” Gir-
audoux himself does not fail to
appear through his satires of the
French administration, and a
rather heavy crack at the Ger-
mans. “The Enchanted” is fresh
like a “French brise” that has
just flown from across the At-
lantic to refresh the sophisticated
Americans,
Why after all, should all com-
edies be intense and deep, nowa-
days? Let’s not try to find the
invisible bug in any French play,
only because it is French and|
therefore cannot be simple, but
has to be complicated and brain-
racking. Go and see “The En-
chanted,” but be relaxed during
it, and the play will then carry to
you the meaning intended by Gir-
Hunter to Teach
‘Soviet Economy’
A new course in “Soviet Econ-
omy” with attention to political
and social developments will be
given at Haverford College in the
second semester. This course on
Soviet Russia will be open to all
Bryn Mawr students who have
taken the first-year economics
course.
Dr. Holland Hunter, Assistant
Professor of Economics at Hav-
erford, will give the course which
will meet on Mondays, Wednes-
days, and Fridays at 12 o’clock at
Haverford, starting February 6.
Dr. Hunter has specialized in So-
viet economics during his gradu-
ate work at Harvard and in his
subsequent research.
Bryn Mawr students who are in-
terested in registering for the
course should consult Dean Mar-
shall.
H. Politzer Discusses
Shakespeare’s Music
Continued from Page 1
stated Mr. Politzer, is “an ideal
opera liberetto,” though no com-
poser has yet tried to realize these
potentialities. Taking as his theme
the passage from the Merchant of
Venice, “The man who hath no
music in himself,’ Mr. Politzer
pointed out the methods used by
Shakespeare in making characters
and ideas. significant through
music. For instance, said Mr.
Politzer, Shylock symbolizes the
lowest realm of all, “the man who
hath no music in himself,’ the
height of evil and disharmony, un-
able to feel or to grasp wisdom,
beauty, and harmony. Portia, he
said, exemplifies one of Shake-
speare’s characters who are. the
embodiments of music; Jessica
represents the middle power which
holds the balance and ‘functions
between the two extremes.
To Shakespeare, Mr. Politzer
The First and Second Bas-
ketball Varsities will play the
first match of their season at
8.00 on Friday evening, Janu-
ary 13, in the Bryn Mawr gym.
The opponents will be Beaver
College, so the game ought to
be very exciting.
believes, music represents a pro-
test against dissonance and turbu-
lence, standing in contrast to the
imperfect and troubled life of man
as he is bound to earth. He puts
music before the word, signifying
in his music what cannot be verb-
ally expressed.
Mr. Politzer spoke in German,
and during the course of his lec-
ture, read passages from Shake-
speare in excellent and original
translations.
Excellence, Enthusiasm
Displayed in Concert
Continued from Page 1
sionato, Opus 43, and Boellmann’s
Variations symphoniques. The
Saint-Saens was spirited and
forceful, and as in the first case,
beautifully played. The piano in
both these last pieces was much
more audible than it had been in
the Porpora, where at times one
could hardly hear it, due mostly
to the acoustics of the room. Un-
fortunately, the Boellmann varia-
tions, although well rendered,
were simply not very good; the
music itself was uninspired and
lacked charm.
‘Although still students, these
performers maintained a profes-
sional standard throughout the
concert, imparting a more sincere
enthusiasm to their playing and
singing than do many profession-
al artists. It was exciting to hear
them.
+
MEET AT THE GREEK’S
Tasty Sandwiches
ie
Wednesday, January 11, 1950
Sports
by Emmy Cadwalader, °52
The Swimming Varsity started
its season on Friday, January 6,
with a practice meet. against Low-
er Merion High School. It was
an excellent meet to start out
with, because Lower Merion al-
ways has good teams. Bryn Mawr
won the meet with the score of
29-28, but the most exciting part
about the meet was that one of
the pool records was broken. Ellen
Bacon broke the Bryn Mawr rec-
ord swimming the Forty Yard
Free Style. Her speed was 23.5
seconds.
The Freshman Swimming Team
will swim against Baldwin on
Thursday, January 12, at 4.00 in
the Baldwin pool. Go and give
them a little support in their first
meet.
Come watch the Bryn Mawr
Volleyball Varsity play Haverford
College on Thursday, January 12,
in the Bryn Mawr gym at 4.00.
Maybe Bryn Mawr will be able to
discredit the accepted idea that
women are the weaker sex,
Fainsod Starts Series
Of Lectures On Russia
Continued from Page 1
“Political Process in the So-
viet Union” is the subject of Pro-
fessor Fainsod’s speech this eve-
ning. On February 16, Herbert
Marcuse, chief of the Central
European Branch, Division of Re-
search for Europe, State Depart-
ment, will speak on “Peoples’ De-
mocracies — Their Theory and
Practice,” in the Meeting House
at Swarthmore.
Abram Bergson, Associate Prv-
fessor of Economics, Russian In-
stitute of Columbia, will explain
“The Soviet Economy: Trends and
Prospects” here in the Music
Room of Goodhart Hall on Febru-
ary 27.
The fourth lecture in the series,
to be given by Mark Slonim, of
Sarah Lawrence College, in the
Common Room at Haverford on
March 15, will be concerned with
“Soviet Life as Reflected in Soviet
Literature.”
On April 13, the Meeting House
at Swarthmore will be the place
to hear Alex Inkeles, Research
Associate, Russian Kesearch Cen-
ter, Harvard, lecture on “Public
Opinion in the Soviet Union.”
Mr. Isaac Deutscher, author of
the biography of Stalin recently
published by the Oxford Uni-
versity Press, has been invited to
give the final lecture, at Bryn
Mawr.
Mr, Fainsod’s work on Ameri-
can Government is well known.
Through his long interest in the
Soviet Government he is associ-
ated with the Russian Research
Center at Harvard. Mr. Marcuse
is an authority on Marxian theory
and its contemporary develop-
ments. The lecturer on Soviet
Economics, Abram Bergson, was
a member of the U. S. Delegation
to the Moscow Reparations Con-
ference, and published “The Struc-
ture of Soviet Wages” in 1944,
Soviet literature has been the
subject of a number of studies by
Mark Slonim. Sociologist Alex
Inkeles is a lecturer on social re-
lations and a_ research associate
at the Harvard Russian Research
Center.
MINERVA FEATHERWEIGHT
KNITTING WORSTED IN
PLAIN COLORS
20% REDUCTION
FROM JANUARY 12 TO 21
AT
DINAH FROST’S
Don’t Miss It !
NOTICES
Morning Assembly
At the next morning assembly,
January 18, Emily Townsend will
speak on “The College NEWS—A
Melodrama.”
Movie
The English Department will
sponsor the next in the Wednes-
day series of movies: James
Joyce’s “Dublin.”
Do You Want a Bus?
If you are planning to go to the
next lecture in the Russian series,
to be held at Swarthmore on Feb-
ruary 16, would you please be sure
to sign up on the list which will
be posted in Taylor, to be sure
you get a seat on the bus the col-
lege is providing.
Please Pay
The NEWS pleads with alumnae,
faculty, parents, and friends of the
money to us as soon as possible.
Opinion
Continued from Page 2
provement and increased activity,
and not suppress ambition and
efforts.
Specifically, in the last News,
Elizabeth the Queen was reported
in a way which we believe repre-
sented an isolated view. Fresh-
men must be given opportunity to
act, but the two leads were excel-
lently portrayed, and the entire
production was, in our opinion, ex-
tremely capably directed and man-
aged. In reference to Urfaust,
granted that it was a highly ambi-
tious attempt, it
achieved great heights, and Ruth
McVey as Gretchen showed possi-
bilities of great talent.
It is our firm hope that future
and Haverford will receive more
the critics.
Sincerely yours,
Karin Steubben, ’50
Eva Rosenbaum, ’50
nevertheless | the
dramatic and musical undertakings | Robert Grooters.
by the latent talent of Bryn Mawr 'ed in hearing the Mass are invit-
interest and encouragement from |
‘January 17, at 8.30 P. M., in the
|Lutheran Church of Holy Com-
BetweentheLeaves
Continued from page 3
of autumn. The description of the
symptoms of the disease are vivid,
to say the least. There were many
ideas about the origin and cure of
the fever. Even at this time there
was a belief that the disease was
not contagious, but was carried in
the air. For this reason guns were
shot off to clear the air and men
smoked “seegars” to ward off ill-
ness.
The most interesting parts of
the book deal with the response of
the people left in the city (more
than half the population had fled)
to the hideous situation. All the
established institutions of munici-
pal government had broken down
and it is not the stolid Quaker cit-
izens who make the first move to-
wards restoring some kind of or-
college to pay their subscription j der. Instead, a-group of Negroes,
members of the African Society
“suddenly assumed the most oner-
ous, the most disgusting burdens
of the demoralized whites”. Lat-
er, a handful of French doctors
who were fleeing from the Revolu-
tion, under the direction of a Phil-
adelphia Frenchman—Stephen Gi-
rard—brought order in the city’s
lazaretto at Bush Hill and in spite
of the opposition of Rush°and his
followers, managed to save half of
their patients.
Choruses To Record
Haydn D Minor Mass
Continued from Page 1
Joseph Haydn’s Mass in D Minor
on Wednesday, January 18, under
direction of William Reese.
The solos will be performed by
Betty Jean Conner, soprano; Jud-
ith Konowitz, alto; Thomas Me-
Nutt, tenor, and a_ guest bass,
Those interest-
ed to attend the dress rehearsal,
which will take place on Tuesday,
munion on Chestnut
21st st.
st., above
George and Harry’s
New Haven, Conn.
Plus 1¢
State Tax
In New Haven, George and
Harry’s is a favorite student
gathering spot. At George
and Harry’s—Coca-Cola is
the favorite drink. With the
college crowd at Yale, as
with every crowd — Coke
belongs.
Ask for it either way... both
trade-marks mean the same thing.
BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY
The Philadelphia Coca-Cola Bottling Company
© 1949, The Coca-Cola Company.
Wednesday, January 11, 1950
THE COLLEGE NEWS
[ Page Five
———
Dr. Edelstein Relates
Science and Philosophy
Continued from Page 1
The relation of science to phil-
osophy was a unique one at that
time; Dr. Edelstein pointed out
that although scientific thinking
inspired philosophy to a great ex-
tent, it was certainly not sufficient
to explain it. Dr. Frank had look-
ed on the function of philosophy as
that of mediating between myth
and science, leading to the synthe-
sis of subjective and objective
' through an act of faith. Since
science did not consist of a factual
body of knowledge but rather a
definition of certain fields of en-
quiry, the great systematic phil-
osophers were influenced by a va-
riety of aspects of science which
they adopted as symbolic or clari-
ficatory bases of metaphysics. So
Plato and the mathematical Pyth-
agorean approach; so _ Aristotle
and the biological, and the concept
of the microcosm as a reflection of
the macrocosm. The Stoics and
Epicureans were each determined
by their separate scientific images
of the universe. The conclusions,
not the data, were held to be true
science, taking science in the sense
of rational analysis based on epis-
teme.
The relation of science to the
neo-Platonic system, “the last
great original ancient system” as
Dr. Edelstein expressed it, is less
obviously susceptible of analysis
than in cases where systematic
metaphysics were more objective.
Plotinus’ great contribution to the
development of the concept of the
function of science lay in his rela-
tion of his own and Plato’s think-
ing to earlier philosophical sys-
tems; that is, he perceived the ex-
istence of an objective philosoph-
ical eterna, the value of indepen-
dent contributions to which was
not to be interpreted only in terms
of the schools to which the con-
tributors belonged, but by an abso-
lute standard free from the emo-
tional implications of dogmatic
rivalry.
(Plotinus, as Lucretius, saw him-
self as the heir of a long tradition
of contemplation, and reformulat-
ed his method of procedure so as
woe
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9 Ry e
Bard’s Eye View
Notes on a Rather Curious Animal
by Emily Townsend, ’50
Padding on geometric feet
The skink trots on with aspect
grim: :
Which end progresses, which re-
treats
Presents no mystery to him.
Yet when he slept in Noah’s ark
The voyage was a puzzled one;
And thus the ancient patriarch:
“This skink doth end where he be-
gun.”
Though Noah was favored of the
Lord,
He could not solve the nonpareil
Dilemma that jhad walked on
board;
God and the skink alone could tell.
Incidentally
‘We are delighted to reprint a
kind-hearted telegram received by
Dixie Greeley, ’50, President of
the Undergraduate Association,
from the editors of the Harvard
Crimson, and can only regret that
she did not get it until after the
vacation: otherwise, Harvard,
Bryn Mawr would have accepted
your invitation like a shot.
“Harvard Crimson editors rec-
ognizing New York drought invite
Bryn Mawr College students to
share Harvard’s shower facilities
during Christmas holidays would
appreciate your comment as rep-
resentative of clean healthy col-
lege girl. Reply press rate col-
lect.”
Again, thank you.
to avoid the separatism of the dog-
matic schools. In like manner, in
the field of science, Ptolemy and
Galen examined the contributions
of scientific tradition in relation to
reality and postulated the neces-
sity of choosing what was right,
not merely what was necessary for
the support of pre-established con-
clusion. They, like the philosoph-
ophers, sought to establish a sci-
entific eterna to which anyone
Continued on Page 6
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Lamb Fatigued, Cross Bottomy
Startle in New Heraldic Devices
Among ithe manuscripts in the
rare book room a curious treatise |
has turned up, spurious no doubt,
but still revealing; it deals with
the heraldic symbolism of Bryn
Mawr. We quote some significant
examples:
Wednesday Dinner: Argent, a
paschal lamb fatigued, gravied and
crumbed.
Friday Dinner: Argent, a salmon
proper startled and reproachful,
naiant or swimming, its head to-
ward the sinister side of the plate.
Body Mechanician: Argent, a
leg erased at the midst of the
thigh, gules.
Professor: An owl’s head erased
at the neck, bookly gorged or.
Librarian: Cross Fitchy.
.. One Who Diets: Cross bottommy.
Haverford: Cross potent rebated. |
Faculty Child: Cross crosslet.
College Bedroom: Gules, a_ bed
hummetty, between three cloth-
ings piled, ermine (i.e. white pow-
dered with”black tufts). .
Academic Gown: Sable rusty, a
manche or ancient sleeve with
long hangings to it, waxy en-
crusted blanche.
Bryn Mawr Type: Purpure, a
harpy (or chimerical animal hav-
ing the head and breast of a
woman but the body and legs of a
Student Playwrights
Present Three Dramas
Continued from Page 1
The last play, David Philips’
Thy Will Be Done, is an emotion-
al drama with an especially topical
plot. It is directed by Walter B.
Whitall, and the characters are:
G1 MORCSON ©. ..Osear Carlson
Dr. Morris .....Howard Shoemaker
Helen Matson
Eritha Von Der Goltz
DUPEO iciciisiinsen ce Ann Ritter
Mrs. Thomas
Kitty Carson
Gretchen Van Meter
Ruth Bronsweig is working on
the production crew for all of the
bird) essayant and _ pursuant,|plays. No admission will be charg-
pointed enhanced. ed for this performance.
Engagements
Mary Stair Dempwolf, ’52, to
Scofield Andrews.
Lynn Cox, ’61,
Scheffey, Jr.
to Lewis
to
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Anne-Starr Holmes, ’51,
Charles Bradley White.
Linda Whitney, ’50, to Robert
Guinn,
My ceganette 2?
Camels,
of, couse i?
9
are SO MILD that in @ const-to-canst test
fen and women who smoked Camels— and
ronsecvtive days, noted throat special-
xen inations, reported:
Page Six
Foreign
Correspondent
Continued from Page 3
In our garden live five cats,
two dogs, four caged doves, one
guinea pig, a Hindu with a violin,
and ten thousand birds. Tonight
... a knock at the door... an
invitation to come and listen ‘to
jazz. But the Countess upstairs
objects, so we steal across the peb-
bly paths to the Other Side. But
a fuse blows, so we drink cognac
instead. A long Gallic face fol-
lowed by: a red plaid jacket de-
scribes “feeshing in the dipsy for
doll feens.” A Swiss boy offers
us Swiss chocolate and his Swiss
alarm clock. Suddenly a thun-
derous voice interrupts the ring-
ing of the alarm: “Allez vous en,
mademoiselle!” It is Monsieur,
Madame’s son, shooing away a
friend of the two American boys
who live upstairs.
Madame knows exactly how she
wants her pension run. The first
thing she told us was that one
descends for breakfast, but I have
seen trays outside several doors.
All day she sits in her glass-
doored “bureau” waiting to pounce
on the unwary boarder who ap-
proaches too near the telephone.
“Tl faut payer, mademoiselle, il
faut payer apres chaque coup de
telephone, PAY, you understand?”
The boys play handball in the
garden. And suddenly Madame’s
head shoots out of an unsuspected
window: ‘“Assez, assez!” She
doesn’t want her pebbles disar-
ranged. And no wonder! under-
neath it’s all dust for a mile down.
The whole city is dust and the
wind is always blowing down the
tiny streets by Saint Julien Le
Pauvre.
VALENTINES .
RICHARD
STOCKTON
Bryn Mawr, Pa.
@ PRESCRIPTIONS
@ REPAIRS
at
Wm. P. Krugler
Optician
Bryn Mawr Nat’l Bank Bldg.
Hours: 9:00 to 5:30
Compliments
of the
Haverford Pharmacy
Haverford
have you met .. .
“The Peabody Sisters
of Salem?”
BY
LOUISE HALL THORP
COUNTRY
BOOKSHOP
Bryn Mawr, Pa.
&
erry Author
Once Pursued Music
Continued from Page 1
Friend. The Rubinsteins were the
subject of her next work called
Free Artist. She then turned
away from musical subjects and
chose as subject for her next bi-
ography Oliver Wendell Holmes,
one of America’s finest jurists and
wits, a man beloved by all. His
story, beautifully titled Yankee
From Olympus appeared as a
Book-of-the-Month selection in
1944,
Her method of writing biog-
raphy she calls “narrative” rather
than “‘fictional.”’ There is no fic-
tion involved. It she wishes to
“convey a truth,” as she puts it,
she will describe and dramatize a
scene in order to do so. But there
is no falsification of the truth—
only something which will keep
the reader’s interest. “People just
don’t do what you want them to,”
she says.
“My latest book,” she want on
to say, “is about the young John
Adams, and it’s all I’m going to
write. There won’t be any sequel.
Ihe story starts in 1745 when he’s
ten year old ,and ends when he is
forty, in 1775.”
I asked Mrs. Bowen if she was
not going on with his story be-
cause he changed his attitude as
he grew older.
“T don’t believe he did change
his attitude,” she said. “Some
people do. As I see it, he was al-
federation, and he always hated
revolutions even as a young man.”
ways strongly in favor of con-}.
. THE COLLEGE NEWS
Wednesday, January 11, 1950
Dr. Edelstein Relates
Science and Philosophy
Continued from Page 5
could add, but which must be “ac-
cepted by all as the true anaylsis
of brute phenomena which man
cannot change but must accept.”
The tenor of Dr, Edelstein’s ad-
dress was that philosophy and sci-
ence were interdependent and mu-
tually influential: movements to-
ward establishing the supreme and
necessary concept of the value of
objective data and absolute stan-
dards as minimum bases for in-
creased and more _ imaginative
speculation,
Young John Adams was finished
this fall, and the Atlantic has re-
printed the last five chapters of
the book’s thirty-two in its last
five issues, September through
January. Mrs. Bowen really began
her career as biographer in 1935.
She has lectured at Middlebury
College, and will teach at Stan-
ford University in California next
year,
Here’s an excuse
For that extra boost
A dress from
MISS NOIROTS
LANCASTER AVE.
BRYN MAWR
| Childs Considers Tito’s Survival Possible,
Describes Him As Shrewd, Politically Alert
Continued from Page 1
On the whole, Mr. Childs said,
around him to men who had been | he felt that the break between
With Kim in the war and who were | Russia and Yugoslavia, as it be-
tied to him by “the deepest pos-
sible bonds.” Russia could not,
therefore, put in the type of
“stooge” government ruled from
Moscow which she set up in the
satellite states. In addition, said
Mr. Childs, the Yugoslavian people,
knowing that their choice lies be-
tween a government of their own
and one controlled by Moscow, are
strongly behind Tito’s resistance
policy to the Comiform.
Mr, -Childs found Yugoslavia a
tightly ordered hierarchical state,
who, since her break with Russia
has been tryng to cultivate the
friendship of the non-Communist,
leftist West as well as that of the
other satellite countries. Tito
himself, he said, was by no means
the “Mussolini-like” figure he had
imagined, but a “shrewd and re-
sourceful” man with a firm grasp
of political techniques.
'gan in June, 1948, is “the most
important favorable break for the
United States since the war.” He
saw the maintenance of Yugo-
slavian resistance to Moscow as
amazing, in view of the size of the
country. But, he cautioned, we
should not overrate this break, for
the other satellite states neither
can nor will follow its pattern.
CHEER UP !
Let our flowers
Erase your glowers
And brighten your
hours.
JEANETTE’S
Lancaster Ave.
Bryn Mawr
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At NORTHWESTERN and Colleges
and Universities throughout
the country CHESTERFIELD is
the largest-selling cigarette. *
PATRICIA NEAL
Lovely Northwestern Alumna, says:
‘*I’ve always preferred Chesterfields
and I’m sure I always shall. They’re
much MILDER.”
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