College news, March 1, 1950

VOL. XLVI, NO. 15

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1,

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Copyright, Trustees of |
Bryn Mawr College, 1950\,

1950

PRICE 15 CENTS



Abram Bergson

Analyzes Facts
In USSR Today

Living Standards Low;,
Great Expansion
In Industry

In Goodhart, February 27, Dr.
Abram Bergson of Columbia Uni-
‘versity, as the third lecturer in the
tri-college Russian series, analyz-
ed several aspects of Soviet econ-
omy.

There has been limited progress
in regard to Soviet living stand-
ards which were low on the eve
of the first five-year plan, and are
still low by western standards.
However, any conclusion must be
highly qualified because of the re-
strictive information policy of the
Russians. They have published
data on money wage changes
which have risen about 1000%
since 1928, but corresponding sta-
tistics on price changes are not
available.

The war, and Ruwussia’s conse-
quent loss of manpower and cap-
ital, is one factor in explanation
of the limited progress in living
standards in 20 years. Second, al-
though the ultimate effect of the
great collectivization drive of the
earlythirties Was to permit the
Russians to exercise a greater con-
trol over agriculture, the immedi-
ate result was large scale loss of
agricultural capital due to peasant
opposition.

Gains in Industry

The peculiar character of Soviet
economic policy, which encourages
the expansion of fixed capital and
heavy industry at the expense of
higher living standards and con-
sumers’ goods, may be taken as a
third factor.

Through a comparison with his-
torical periods in the U. S. during
which there was similar emphasis
on capital expansion, Dr. Bergson
showed that gains have been spec-
tacular in heavy industry in the
U. S. S. R—a counterpart of the
limited gains in living standards.
Russia’s expenditure on defense
may also have slowed progress in
this field.

Having acknowledged that the

- Russian experience sheds little
light on the debate over Marxian

Mrs. McIntosh Calls Imagination

by Patricia Murray, ’52
After the Panel, we scrambled
from the floor, and pushing
through the crowds
freshly dedicated to teaching,
reached Mrs. Rustin McIntosh,
Dean of Barnard College. “We’re
the News,” we said conventional-
ly; she nodded, and as she grasped
our hand, we remembered to.
straighten our shoulders and re-
turn the grasp with firm warmth.
Her attention was momentarily
distracted. “Be sure to look me
up when you come to New York.”
“Write to me if you need further
help.” In this way Mrs. McIntosh
dispatched at least a dozen eager
and happy people, then turned to

Sheble Lecture
Offers Readings
By Dylan Thomas

On March 7, at 8:30, Dylan
Thomas, young Welsh poet, will
deliver the Ann Elizabeth Sheble
Memorial Lecture in English. At
this time Mr. Thomas, who is fa-
mous for his fine voice, will read
selections from his own poetry.

Though still a young man
(about 35), Mr. Thomas has been
recognized as one of the greatest
hot today’s yourig
Sitwell calls him the greatest poet
since Auden and Spender. His
poetry is done on a huge scale,
both in theme and structure. The
general theme of his poetry, the
holiness and mystery in all forms
and aspects of life, is built up by
a wild Celtic imagery.

Educated at Swansea Grammar
School, Thomas brought out his
first book, 18 Poems, in 1934. This
was followed by 25 Poems (1926),
The Map of Love (1939) and, in
1940, his autobiography, Portrait
of the Artist as a Young Dog. The
most recent collection of his work,
Deaths and Entrances, came out
in 1946.

At present, Mr. Thomas is mak-
ing a tour of the United States,
and prior to his arrival in New
York, he played a part in Picasso’s
new play, Catch Desire by the
Tail. This, and his superb record-
ing of his poems in Lloyd Frank-
enberg’s The Pleasure Dome, have
added to his reputation as a dra-





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matic and effective public speaker.



Individuality, Contrast, Mimicry
Mark New Modern Dance Night

by Jane Augustine, °52

The uninitiated as well as the
connoisseurs of modern dance
would have found last Wednesday
evening’s Modern Dance Workshop
in Skinner interesting, entertain-
ing, and instructive. Sherry Cow-
gill, president of the Dance Club
(which presented the program) ex-
plained briefly the purpose and
possibilities of modern dance as the
program progressed. The accom-
panying demonstrations of differ-
ent types of movement were done
smoothly and gracefully by Nancy
Burdick and Ellen Landis.

Analiese Sitarz and Adelaide
Wahlert worked out an interpreta-
tion of the third movement of
Grieg’s Piano Concerto in which
every level, mood, and variation of
movement seemed to be used with

no particular story was being told,
the emotional exploration of ac-
tion itself sufficed to hold the audi-
ence’s attention every minute.
Elizabeth Gjelsness, Ellen Landis,
and Mary-Berenice Morris danced.a
contrasting background well. The
expertness and polish of Analiese
and Addy Lou showed in their
facial expressions, which never
jarred the’ mood by betraying
worry about “what to do next.”
Occasionally other dancers did not
display this skill of concentration.

The next two dances were done

dividual feeling, and not the music,
is the determining factor in modern
dance. Ellen Landis interpreted
Staccato as the excitement of a
little girl watching a parade; Liz
Gjelsness and M. B. Morris thought



the greatest effectiveness. Though

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me.

of people |

to the same music to show that in-,



An &ssential of Expert Teaching

“Let’s try that corner,” she
said, and we made for a yellow
brocaded Deanery sofa.

We asked Mrs. McIntosh whe-
ther she thought that children of
different ages needed teachers of
different types of personalities.

“Of course,” she said, “it’s a
matter of relative interest in peo-
ple and subject matter. A some-
what reserved teacher, who cares
a lot about her field, may be able
to interest older children intensely
— may even go so far ks to direct
their aims. The same teacher is
frequently a complete flop with
the younger ones. The teacher
who is successful with small chil-
dren is interested in and likes them
for themselves. She’s the one who
has pep and verve, who can make
a game of prisoner’s base seem
the most exciting thing on earth.
She’s levelheaded too; has learned
to deal with emotions without be-
coming emotional herself.”

At this point we were interrupt-

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Andrews Defines

Greek Meaning
Of Tyrant, King

“poets; arid’ “Raith | “The Greek Conception of Ty-

rant and King” was the subject of
Anthony Andrews’ lecture last
Thursday, March 23, in the Com-
mon Room. ‘Speaking by invita-
tion of the Classics Club, Mr. An-
drews began by explaining that
the conception of a “tyrant” as a
wicked ruler, and a “king” as a
good one was not always the way
it is today. The two words were
once interchangeable, as for ex-
ample in the works of Pindar and
Sophocles. However, a new term
was needed for the new monarchs
who began setting up despotic
states in the 7th century.

It was Mr. Andrews’ theory that

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CALENDAR

Wednesday, March 1

United World Federalists, Mr.
Murray Frank, “World Govern-
ment: a Necessity”, Common
Room, 7:30 p. m.

Horace White Memorial Lec-



ture, Dr. Rhys Carpenter,
“The Two Homers”, Goodhart,
8:30 p. m.

Friday, March 3

Orchestra Concert with Hav-
erford, Roberts Hall, 8:30 p. m.

Informal Dance with Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, Gym,
9:00-12:30 p. m.
Saturday, March 4

Chorus Concert with Vassar,
Smith, and Bryn Mawr, Good-
hart, 8:30 p. m.
Sunday, March 5

Second in series of Young
Musicians’ Concerts, Wyndham,
8:15 p. m.
Monday, March 6

‘Current Events, speaker to be
announced, Common Room, 7:15
p. m.
Tuesday, March 7

Ann Elizabeth Sheble Mem-
orial Lecture in English, Dylan
Thomas, Goodhart, 8:30 p. m.
Wednesday, March 8

Morning Assembly, Mrs. Mar-
shall on Scholarships, Goodhart,
8:45 a.m. |







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Mrs. Rustin McIntosh



Politzer Presents
Reading of Work

In Two Languages

Last Tuesday evening a small
audience made up mainly of Ger-
man Club members was privileged
to hear Professor Heinz Politzer
read his original poetry written in
both English and German. He
seemed to refute his own belief
that “a poet cannot change his
language like a shirt” for he cer-
tainly showed great proficiency in
his adopted language as well as
in his native tongue.

He began by reading four poems
written in English. The first one,
he explained, had been written in
English and his London publisher
had thought it a translation from
German, so he later wrote the Ger-
‘man version. One stanza of The

markable for its music:

“The sky a yoke, the storm a
halter,

The countries barren, thresholds
barred,

The pillars prone, but on the
altar seared

Still offered man’s embezzled

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Pollak Describes
State of Israel

In the Common Room, February
22, Dr. Thomas Clark Pollak, dean
of the graduate school of New
York University, in a lecture en-
titled “America’s Stake in Pales-
tine,” not only described present
conditions in Palestine, but also
gave their historical background.

He began by stating that Pales-
tine has always been the bridge
between Asia and the West. Now
Western civilization has come into
the Middle East with the influx
of the Israelis. However, Dr. Pol-
lak emphasized the fact that the
Jews are not a modern people, but
rather a“group that lives in the
past or the future. Here he sum-
marized the history of the race
from the first civilization, in which
the principles of monotheism and
social justice were founded, up to
the present Zionist movement
that is again drawing the Jews
to Palestine in an effort to escape
the progroms and ghettos that
have made life almost impossible
in many parts of the world.

Dr. Pollak then listed what he
considered the three factors re-
sponsible for the push into Pales-
tine: necessity; the ideal of social
justice; and the problem of set-
tling the European refugees. The
work of building up Israel has
progressed rapidly, as cities have
sprung up and Western methods



been introduced, and as population
has been swelled by immigration.



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Lost Son Inn was particularly re-.

of agriculture and building have,

Panel Members
Join to Counsel
Young Hopefuls

Symposium Plants
Clues on Trail

Of Job-hunt

“The BA degree is like a label
on a trunk; it doesn’t change the
contents, but it helps you get
where you are going!” Thus Miss
Alice King of the Alumnae Com-
mittee on Jobs prefaced her intro-
duction of the members of the Job
Panel held in the Deanery last
Friday evening. “How would you
‘get. somewhere’ in teaching?”
asked Miss Houghton, the Mod-
erator, and Mrs. Rustin McIntosh
rose to plead the cause of “that
least popular and glamorous pro-
fession.”

“Your conceptions of teaching,”
said she, “based on the memory of
That Woman who had you in her
grip and made you suffer, are All
Wrong.” This is first of all be-
cause within the last ten years,
the nation has begun to analyze
the sins of its education, and
teachers are in demand. ‘Children
are more stimulating than their
elders,” said Mrs. McIntosh; she
added that teaching them demands
an ever-changing use of all our
emotional and intellectual faculties
{in adjusting to their needs the ma-
terial we have at hand. This ideal
exercise of intellect and emotions
trains for _marriage: teachers
know children will eventually
emerge from the grubby stage.
Teaching is a good job to combine
with marriage: the teacher, con-
stantly in contact with life and
ideas, is a stimulating parent.

“There is not just one place to
teach, New York City; any where
is a good place to teach: go
West!” There are even human be-
ings in boarding schools, continued
Mrs. McIntosh, and exclaimed that

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Two Orchestras
Join in Concert

The combined orchestras of
Bryn Mawr and Haverford will
give a concert on Friday, March 3,
at 8:30, in Roberts Hall, Haver-
ford. Though the orchestra has
played with other groups, this
will be the first regular concert
in the history of the organization.

The orchestra gvill be conducted
by Mr. Reese, and the program
will include the Symphony in B-
flat by Johann Christian Bach, the
youngest son of J. S. Bach; Sin-
fonia by Manferdini; an instru-
mental trio played by Annette
Fischer, John Davison, and Rob-
ert Jameson; and a movement
from the Folk Song Suite of Ralph
Vaughn Williams. The major work
on the program will be the Alto
Rhapsody for alto soloist, male
thorus, and orchestra, by Brahms,
Ihe solo will be sung by Emalee
Earon of the American Opera
Company, who has sung Traviata
with that company, and is a mem-
ber of the Academy of Vocal Arts.
Miss Earon has sung the Rhapsody
several times before with differ-
ent orchestras and choruses. This
‘time the choral work will be done



by the Haverford Glee Club.








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Lights, Not Flashlights

Because of the current coal strike, Bryn Mawr’s fuel
supply is swiftly diminishing. We have only a few weeks’
supply at hand; if, at the end of two weeks, it has decreased
radically, measures used previously will have to be taken.

During the war, when the coal shortage was at its height,
all lights except those in the downstairs smokers, were
turned off at midnight. If the coal pile does not maintain
a consistent, reasonable rate of decrease within the following
two weeks, the wartime “brownout” will again be put into
practice.

This can be averted if the students make an effort to
conserve light and fuel. They are requested to close their
doors and windows and turn off all lights and steam before
leaving their yooms.

By attending carefully to these details, we may avoid|

the possibility of frostbitten fingers or study by flashlight.

Letter From The News

Now, in the season of greatest campus activity and least
academic pressure, is the time to air views, opinions and
especially, ideas. The Self-Government constitution is being
revised, undergraduate officers are being elected, speakers
are being chosen, Arts Night is being organized, the Junior
Prom and Sophomore Carnival are not far away.

The. NEWS invites, from both faculty and students,
constructive criticisms and suggestions on these and any

other pertinent topics. Letters received have been too often
only derogatory; this week’s is a construstive change. The
Opinion column is designed to indicate. the campus pulse. It
has always been the NEWS policy to publish every signed

letter. The frequent absence of the column indicates only | |

She Bitne— tat tere bas been 0 compile optnkit,

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1950



Current Events

Common Room, Monday, Febru-
ary 27, 1950; In her talk on “Eng-
land .. . The Vote of Confidence,”
Miss Robbins analyzed the results

some predictions about the prob-

able effects. She stressed the fact

that the slightness of Labor’s ma-
jority does not indicate dissatis-
faction with the Welfare State,
but is a matter of “British politics
maintaining an equilibrium.” It is
the return to normal. after a per-
iod of revolution, which includes
changes in the constitution, the
distribution of property, and the
nationalization of industry. The
differences between the two par-
ties are very slight, and the issue
does not involve the reforms which
labor has already permanently
established, but the degree of bal-
ance to be maintained between
freedom and necessity.

The Labor party’s greatest dif-
ficulty is going to be with the
Trade Unions. The economists’ so-
lution to domestic problems re-
requires lower wages and higher
prices. The fact that the workers
are already at the point of strik-
‘ing makes this a hard policy to
carry out for a Labor party not
too sure of its position. Another
problem might be the necessity
for members to be present in the
House at all times, in case the Con-
servatives should try to have a
vote of confidence. It is probable,
however, that the parties will agree
not to have a vote until the fall.

Miss Robbins was of the opin-
ion that the question of foreign
policy will not bring up a new elec-
tion. The two parties differ only
slightly, and would probably both
maintain a cautious policy, for the
“English government is in the
midst of circumstances which have
nothing to do with party in power.”

In conclusion, Miss Robbins
pointed out that the newspapers
are exaggerating the instability of
Britain’s position. On the contrary,
the slim majority has the effect of
preventing the rise of a doctrin-
aire, Democratic-Socialist party,
and necessitates a more compro-
mising and settled policy. After a
period of such upsetting change,
this is an “advance in the direction
of stability.”

Modern Dancers Move
| With Skill, Individuality
Continued from Page 1

of it in terms of a black-face min-
strel show. Ellen’s dance was es-
pecially charming. Its creation of
a whimsical, colorful mood showed
much originality and dramatic abil-
ity, and she romped through its
cleverly asymmetric pattern with
airiness and ease. The minstrel
show also was delightful, but done
with more conventional gestures.
It suffered from following a parti-
cularly outstanding dance to the
same music.

- Jane Roller and Seta Mahakian

»|with violently-hued scarves and

painted cheeks told a comic story
to the tune of the polka from Pro-
kofieff’s Age of Gold ballet. As
court jesters they mimicked lord
and lady in the minuet and in love,
when the gentleman retrieves the
lady’s handkerchief, in this case a
king-size bandana. The dance was
fortunately not too slapstick, and
it was hilarious fun to watch.

The last dance on the program,
to the Pas de Deux from Leonard
Bernstein’s Fancy Free ballet, was
seriously and carefully done by
Sherry Cowgill and Mary Kay
Continued on Page 4



of the British election, and made



Prof, Employs Facts
In Estimate of USSR

Continued from Page 1
socialist planning versus capitalist
enterprise, inasmuch as no labora-
tory conditions exist, and adverse
conditions have prevailed, Dr.
Bergson claimed that it tends to
cast doubt on both extreme condi-
tions: there has been no leap into
abundance as the Marxists prophe- |
sied, no great waste and _ break-
down as critics of socialist plan-
ning predicted.

In an analysis of the meaning of

inequality in the Soviet Union, Dr. |



‘Sweetness Does Not
Mix With Light”
Sobs Senior

Dear Editor:
I should like to request the pow--
‘ers that be to cast an eye (indul-

gent, if possible) over certain sug-
gestions which have recently oc--

‘curred to me a propos of college-

dances.
The first one is not really a sug--

Bergson stated~ that “there is a vestion; it is a fervent and heart-

good deal of inequality among
wage-earners. Differences in in-
come are probably as great as in
capitalist countries.”

Supported by statistics which
showed that in one group upper-
bracket personnel in the U. S.S.'R.
earned 28 times as much as the
average worker, Dr. Bergson de-
bated the possibility of these fig-
ures indicating that the Russians
have abandoned Marxian ideals.
Several allowances must be made.
Taken alone, the comparison of in-
come inequalities with those in
England means little, because they
may show how far to the right the
Russians have gone, or, contrarily,
how far left the British have mov-
ed. Clarity must be reached about
the Marxian principles at issue.
Marx actually said little about
socialism, but distinguished be-
tween the earlier and later phases
in the development of a proletar-
ian society post-revolution. A
combination of scarcity in goods
and services available for society,
and psychological attitudes inher-
ited from capitalism indicates that
for a time there must still be a
system of differential rewards to
maintain productivity. However,
Marx and Lenin both felt there
would be a substantial equalization
of incomes in comparison with
capitalism.

The extreme economic, political,
and cultural backwardness of Rus-
sia, and the fact that the Revolu-
tion took place in only one coun-
try must also be considered as
special circumstances which would
affect the disparity in incomes.
Lastly, the question of incentives
becomes more important as mili-
tary considerations create an ad-
ditional need for increased produc-
tivity.

Facts indicate a development of
class stratification in the Soviet
Union. Dr. Bergson cited the 1940
Tuition Law which established fees
for secondary and higher educa-
tion in the U. S. S. R., and the La-
bor Reserve Draft of 1940 which
provided for vocational training
and subsequent allocation of
youths to semi-skilled jobs in in-
dustry.

In a final reformulation, Dr.
Bergson contrasted the two oppos-
ing views. The protagonist of
Russia would argue that inequal-
ity is to be considered simply as
an example of a dialectic contra-
diction which inevitably appears
under the early phase, socialism,
and will ultimately be resolved in
a period of full communism, al-
though industrialization tempor-
arily leads away from this final
stage.

The antagonist of Russia, on the
other hand, questions whether the
dialectic works at all, and if it
does, whether it will work in Rus-
sia. ‘He considers that the ten-
dencies toward inequality and
stratification may “preclude that
stage which Marx desired”. Final-
ly he questions, as overcomplacent,
the tacit assumption of the Marx-
ian, that the contradictions will be
resolved peacefully into a com-
munist society.

IN MEMORIAM

Savage, "22; President ofthe Alum- ff



felt prayer that the intermission
be curtailed, and limited to fifteen
minutes and NO MORE. As things.
are now, there is far too much
singing. I have always been un--
der the impression that one goes.
to dances in order to dance, and
NOT to sit interminably on a dirty
floor listening to songs one has.
heard many, many times before.
If it is absolutely necessary that.
somebody sing (and why on earth
is it? is it presumed that we are
too feeble-minded to be able ta
make conversation with our
dates?), at least have them STOP:
after fifteen minutes so that the:
dance can continue.

My second suggestion is that.
the orchestra, instead of playing:
football songs, play dance music..
We certainly hear enough college:
songs without having them forced.
on us on the rare occasions when
Bryn Mawr has a dance, and when
it might be thought that a change
would be more than welcome. The
orchestra wouldn’t have to play
esoteric little numbers that no one
knew; just good old fox trots, but
NOT the sort of war cries one
yells as the team rushes out onto
the field. It may be just that I’m
not very limber, but I find it dif-
ficult to dance to “Bulldog, Bull-.
dog”, etc.

My last suggestion I make in.
great timidity but none the less.
with hope. Might it be possible:
to have less light at the dances?
Thousands of watts may be love-.
ly for a basketball game, but they
are not very conducive to the
dreamy atmosphere of sweet noth-
ings that should, it seems to me,
prevail at a dance. As a sage sen-
ior of my acquaintance recently
remarked, “Love needs help”. Let
us not be backward about giving
it.

Hopefully,

Karen Cassard, ’50.

Plato Differentiated

Between ‘Tyrant,’ ‘King”
Continued from Page 1

Plato was the center of the diver-
gence in meaning between the two.
germs. He mentioned Pindar as
the last to use the term “tyrant”
toward contemporaries in a com--
plimentary manner; afterwards
the word came to be a double en-.
tendre, both in prose and poetry.

Plato definitely used the term
‘tyrant” in a derogatory sense in
referring to the Corinthian dema--
gogues, the first of whom sprang
up in 657 B. C. Mr. Andrews lik-
ened Plato to Bernard Shaw in
that both were “sellers of para--
dox”, and liked to shock people.
He said that the fact that would
have shocked Herodotus, who was
against monarchies, was that.
Plato had conceived, not one king-
in the state, but a king in the-
Greek state at all. According to
Plato, in the Republic, the tyrant.
was 729 times more unhappy than
the king.

Mr. Andrews ‘ats that Aristotle
“watered down Plato’s version of
kings in order to save them from
the hated connotation that the.
term held for Romans”. The his-.
torical material he supplied illus-.
trated his theory clearly, though.

| ‘tot irrefutably, as he himself said.

different terminology contin--



after Plato, becoming more.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH/4, 1950

THE COLLEGE

NEWS










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Left to right: A. Iglehart, S. Savage, N. Blackwood, P. Bennett.



Iglehart, Savage, Blackwood and
Bennett Nominated for Self-Gov.

Ann Iglehart was hall represent-
ative to the Alliance last year.
This year she is the Second Junior
Member of the Executive Board of
Self-Government, President of the
Junior Class, and a _ permission
giver. She has played varsity
hockey, and badminton both last
year and this year.

Sue Savage was president of her
class her freshman year, and serv-
ed as First Sophomore Member of
Self-Government in her sopho-
more year, becoming Secretary this
year. She is a permission giver, has
belonged to Chorus all three years,
and is a member of the Octangle.
Interested in athletics, Sue has
played varsity hockey, lacrosse,
and basketball. This year she is

co-captain of the basketball squad. |

Nancy Blackwood came to Bryn
Mawr in her sophomore year,
from Wheaton College, where she
was President of her Freshman
class. She became Hall Represent-
ative to the A.A., and a member
of the Tennis, Badminton, and
Hockey Varsities. She was also
Publicity Director for Arts’ Night.
This year, Nancy is the 1st Junior
member to Self-Gov., a co-captain
of the tennis team, and a member
of the Dance Committee for Un-
dergrad. She is Hall Class Repre-
sentative, and will direct the Bryn
Mawr Summer Camp this year.

Irene (Patsy) Bennett began her
freshman year as Hall Class Rep-
resentative, a rotating member of
the A.A., Class Representative to

the Nominating Committee, Var-
sity Lacrosse player, and a Blind
School reader. As a Sophomore,
Patsy continued her (Lacrosse activ-
ities, and was elected 1st Sopho-
more member to Undergrad. This
year, she was Hall Representative
to the Nominating Committee, a
member of the Script Committee
for the Junior Show, and she has
helped teach the Bryn Mawr Life
Saving course.

Holborn Triumphs

In Deanery’s Quiz

In the recent quiz given to the
‘seniors at the Deanery, first prize



| of ten dollars went to Hanna Hol-

born, and Nina Cave and Louise

Earle tied for second prize, each

receiving six dollars and twenty-

five cents. Honorable mention

went to Nancy Greenewalt for the

best last line to the limerick:

“Said a senior, ‘I’ll dine at the
Deanery

Where you eat amid relics and
scenery.

Those jolly old grads,

With their foibles and fads,

Are weaning us all from blue-
jeanery.’”

The quiz consisted of questions
concerning the history of the col-
lege, accomplishments of famous
alumnae, and information about
other women’s colleges.









Left to right: S. Cowgill,

Sonne, M. Carlson.

-

F. Wagoner, N. Blackwood, F.



League Nominees Named: Cougill,
Wagoner, Blackwood, M. Carlson

Frieda Wagoner

Frieda Wagoner was her class
representative to the League in
her sophomore year, worked at the
summer camp in 1948 and 1949,
and was co-chairman of the com-
mitte for coffee in Taylor last
year.

This year, she is the non-res
representative for the Activities
Drive and the Self Government
Revisions Committee. She is also
a member of the' Curriculum and
Vocational Committees.

Sherry Cowgill

Sherry Cowgill is the present
secretary of the League. She heads
the Dance Club, is Hall Repre-
sentative to the U.S.F., and has
participated in many athletic ac-
tivities.

Nancy Blackwood
Nancy Blackwood was the head

‘of the Bryn Mawr Summer Camp.
‘She is on the Self Government

Board, the Tennis Team, and the



Dance Committee.
Marge Carlson

Marge Carlson is the Vice Presi-
dent and Treasurer of the Junior
Class. She is Chairman of the
Work Weekends Committee of the
League. In addition to these, she
was the business manager of the
Junior Show, ran the furniture
sale during Freshman Week, and
is a member of the vocational
committee.

F. Sonne (alternate)

F. Sonne has worked in the
Blind School, and served on the
League for the Haverford Com-
munity Center. She has also work-
ed at Coatesville, and is the present
League member of the N.S.A.

In addition to her activities, on
the League, she ran the Sopho-
more Carnival last year, was in
charge of the activities drive in
Pembroke West, and headed a dec-
oration committee for one of the
Undergrad dances last year.







LAST NIGHTERS

Eliot’s “Cocktail Party”
Displays New
Optimism

: by Paula Strawhecker, ’52

Edward Chamberlayne is host
at a cocktail party in his London
flat. His wife, Lavinia, invited
the guests, but she is not present.
He tells them she was called to
the country by a sick aunt; in
reality, she has left him.

The guests are Julia, an elderly
and inquisitive social butterfly;
Celia, Edward’s mistress; Alec
Gibbs, a friend of the family;
Peter Quilp, a young writer, and
an unidentified gentleman, un-
known to the host and apparently
to the guests. The problems of
those present become clear: Peter
loves Celia, Celia is confused, but
believes she wants to marry Ed-
ward; Edward, although he and
Lavinia are completely unsuited
and unhappy, wants his wife to
return.

When the guests leave, the
stranger remains. Edward seems
forced to unburden his mind to
him, yet the stranger knows
everything. He proposes to send
Lavinia back to Edward, after Ed-
ward, in his moment of free de-
cision, chooses that he wants La-
vinia—he cannot explain why.
Peter returns to speak to Edward
about Celia; he cannot understand
why she is not in love with him.
Edward can give him little help
and Peter decides to leave Eng-
land and take a Hollywood job.

Inexplicably, Lavinia returns
and Edward discovers she did not
invite the stranger. The Cham-
berlaynes are still completely in-
compatible, but decide to remain
together,

Later, Edward, unable to live
with or without his wife, consults
a doctor, one Sir Henry Harcourt-

Continued on Page 4

Basketball Teams

Overwhelm Drexel

by Emmy Cadwalader, °52

The biggest sports event of the
previous week was the Bryn Mawr
basketball game against Drexel,
Friday, Feb. 24. The Varsity won
over Drexel 89-21, and the J.V.
won by 38-31. This was one of
the best games, not only of this
season, but one of the best any
Bryn Mawr basketball team has
played in many a year. The team-
work was outstanding, and there
seemed to be an electric quality
which possessed the Bryn Mawr
teams. The varsity players for
this game were: Wadsworth, Kim-
ball, Mellroy, and Parker as for-
wards, and Townsend, Johns, and
Perkins as guards. DeLangley,
Tilghman, and Cadwalader were
the J.V. forwards, with Gurewich,
Atherton, and Howell guarding.
Dorie Chambers substituted as
guard for the Varsity. It is al-
most impossible to say who were
the top scorers, because each for-
ward put in about the same
amount of baskets, showing the
equal skill and teamwork of the
players. This Wednesday, March
1, both Varsity teams will play
Rosemont at 8:30 in the Rosemont
gym, so if you can get over and
want to see a good game, be sure
to. go.

On Sunday, Feb. 26, the Bryn
Mawr Faculty played and beat
the Bryn Mawr students in a very
rousing game of basketball. The
score was close, 60-51, and the
game was lots of fun both to
watch and to play. The Faculty
team consisted of Mr. Goodale, Dr.
Kwart, Dr. Lattimore, Dr. Lang,
Dr. Broughton, Miss Kilby, Dr.
Adams, Dr. Berry, and Mrs.

Sprague, and completely amazed
the students with their tactics and
inexhaustable energy. The stud-
ent team, which was made up of

Continued on Page 4

Sen a sy tin an ante at yt nc mec «





Left to right: (standing) A.

Iglehart, A. Farnsworth, P. Ben-

nett, S. Savage; (seated) A. Hinman, M. Wallace.



Ann Iglehart was hall represent-
ative to the Alliance last year.
This year she is the Second Junior
Member of the Executive Board of
Self-Government, President of the
Junior Class, and a_ permission
giver. She has played varsity
hockey and badminton both last
year and this year.

Ann Hinman, in her freshman
year, was a member of the Under-
grad and also of the script com-
mittee of the Freshman Show. Last
year she was the Sophomore Hall
Representative, and this year she
is the second junior member of
the Undergrad Executive boaru.
Ann is also a member of the dance
committee of Undergrad, and a per-
mission giver.

Irene (Patsy) Bennett began her
freshman year as Hall Class Rep-
resentative, a rotating member of
the A.A., Class Representative to
the Nominating Committee, Var-
sity Lacrosse player, and a Blind
School reader. As a Sophomore,
Patsy continued her Lacrosse activ-
ities, and was elected 1st Sopho-
more member to Undergrad. This
year, she was Hal] Representative



The French Club announces
the following elections for the
year 1950-1951: President, Pat
Donaho; Vice-President, Michele
Cahen; Secretary - Treasurer,
Beatrice Friedman.







Iglehart, Hinman, Farnsworth,
Bennett Nominated to Under-grad

\to the Nominating Committee, a
member of the Script Committee
for the Junior Show, and she has
helped teach the Bryn Mawr Life
Saving course.

This year’s secretary of the Un-
dergrad Board is Alys Farns-
worth. In her freshman year, Alys
was hall representative to Self-
Gov, and the following year she
was elected class president. She
has been a member of the chorus
for three years, and this year is in
the double octet.

Tied for Alternates are Sue Sav-
age and Marilie Wallace.

Sue was president of her fresh-
| man class, and served as first soph-
omore representative of Self-Gov-
ernment last year, becoming sec-
|retary this year. She is a permis-
‘sion giver, and she has belonged
|to Chorus all three years and is a
|member of the Octangle. Interest-
(ed in athletics, Sue has played
| varsity hockey, lacrosse, and bas-
| ketball. This year she is co-captain
‘of the basketball squad.

Marilie Wallace was business
manager of the Freshman Show
her first year at Bryn Mawvr. Last
year she was class secretary, and
| this year she is Common Treasurer
| and a member of the Revisions
Committee. She has played team
baseball and badminton, been a
member of Stage Guild and of
the NSA Committee. In addition,
for two years Marilie has been a



| permission giver.





ge

Left to right:

J. Stone, D. Goss, L. L. Warren





Stone, Goss, Warren Nominated

During her Freshman year Janie
Stone was the Rhoads Hall Rep-
resentative to the A.A. Council,

Hockey and the Varsity Lacrosse
teams. Last year, as a sophomore,
she served as the Sophomore Rep-
resentative to the A.A. Board,
N.S.A. Chairman of the Purchase
Card Committee, Assistant-Man-

of the Lacrosse team, a member
of the Student Government Clinic,
and on the Varsity Lacrosse team.
This year, Janie is the Secretary
of the A.A., Manager of the
Hockey team, Captain of Lacrosse
for this spring, and a member of
the Hockey and Lacrosse Varsi-
ties.

Diane Goss is a Spanish Major
in Mexico, but she will be back
on campus next year. In her
freshman year Di was the Class
Representative to the Self-Gov-
ernment Association, a member of



ager of the Hockey team, Captain |

Candidates for A. A. President

the Spanish Club, and a member
of the J.V. Hockey, Varsity La-

'crosse, 3rd Basketball, and J.V.
and a member of -both the J.V. | Baseball teams. Last year in her
| sophomore year, she was the Vice-
‘President of her Class, in the

Spanish Club, and a member of
the following teams: J.V. Hockey,

J.V. Basketball, and the Lacrosse
‘and Baseball Varsities.

Linnie Lee Warren was a mem-
ber of the J.V. Swimming team
her freshman year, and a mem-
ber of the Varsity both her sopho-
more and junior years. Linnie Lee
is also the Junior member of the
A.A. Board this year well as
the Captain of Swimming
team. She served this year as the
Secretary of the U.S.F. Drive on
campus.

As a sophomore, Linnie Lee was
Hall Representative from Radnor
and organized the sale of coffee



in Taylor, and she later became
the co-head of coffee sales. ;








Page Four

{

THE COLLEGE NEWS

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1950



Strength, Sisaativ, Wit
Help Clear Obscurity of

Continued from Page 3

Reilly, whom he discovers to be
the unidentified guest. In the con-
sulting room, Edward and Lavinia
meet, according to the doctor’s
plan, and their problem is aired:
Edward is incapable of loving,
Lavinia is incapable of being lov-
ed; they can find peace only with
each other.

Celia also consults the doctor:
she feels an emptiness and guilt
she cannot explain. Sir Henry de-
scribes to her the two solutions,
to stay with the world or to take
the difficult cure, only for a few,
of going to his sanatorium, from
which none return, but where she
may find what she seeks. Celia,
elated, chooses the latter, not know-
ing where she is going or how she
will find what she searches, but
with a strange faith in the doctor.
She leaves, and Julia and Alec,
friends of Sir Henry, join him
in a toast to the future of Celia—
“to those going on a journey.”

Guests Return

Two years later, Edward and
Lavinia give another party. Sir
Henry, Julia, and Peter, a success
in Hollywood, are early guests.
The Chamberlaynes are as happy
as is possible; they understand
themselves and each other — they
have found an earthly peace. Alec
brings the news that Celia had
joined a nursing order and while
administering to the natives of a
remote island, was crucified in a
rebellion. After the first shock of
Celia’s death, the early guests
leave. The Chamberlaynes await
their other guests and as the first
arrive the curtain falls.

This is the story of T. S. Eliot’s
new verse play, The Cocktail
Party. Its interpretation is diffi-
cult, if not impossible. The first
problem is its classification: it is
called a “new comedy.” Certainly
the first act contains the elements
of a drawing room’ comedy and
Mr. Eliot’s clever dialogue is com-
parable to that of Noel Coward.
Indeed, much of the play is writ-
ten in this amusing vein, yet those
who interrupt it as only a highly
polished comedy will be confused
by the toast of the second act and
shocked by Celia’s crucifixion.

Can it be a. tragedy when the
Chamberlaynes surmount their
problem and Celia finds peace de-
spite and through misery? Is it
then a morality play? If so, who
is Sir Henry? His consulting room
is that of a psychiatrist, yet his
methods are completely unconven-
tional, his bond with Alec and
Julia a kind of spiritual dedica-
tion, his power and influence al-
most supernatural. He could be a
spiritual advisor, a religious coun-
selor, a heavenly envoy. Yet what
can account for his delightful
whimsey, his occasional despair
and his almost childishly diabolic
delight in imagining the outcome
of an uncertain situation? There
can be little doubt that he is the
protagonist and that his is the
guidance that leads the troubled
participants to find themselves.
Perhaps he is merely a psychia-
trist. His identity is left to per-
sonal inclination and on this is

the interpretation of the
play. .
Fine Cast -
The English cast gives a uni-

His whimsey, sincerity, dedication
and depth are fascinating and
compelling. Each mood _repre-

sents a new emphasis rather than
an absolute change; he seems a
. man preoccupied with strange and
moving elements, who knows a
secret he cannot tell, yet wants
others to discover. He and Irene
Worth, as Celia, give their con-
Bultation scene an almost super-

and Depth of Acting
Eliot’s Enigmatic Play

It is in this scene that Mr.
Eliot’s blank verse becomes un-
ashamedly obvious and eloquently
beautiful. It is seldom, however,
that the verse is noticeable — as
spoken it is conversation, alter-
nately funny, witty, moving and
profound. Although he makes fre-
quent reference to the Wasteland,
Eliot has abandoned despair;
whether his solution is religious
or secular depends upon the in-
dividual. In either case, he be-
lieves in a possible personal peace.

The play is not constructed

without fault. It is a shock to dis-
cover the frivolous Julia is Sir
Henry’s understanding co-conspir-
ator. Perhaps she, like Alec, is a
spy in the frivolous world of the
cocktail party. Yet it may be too
easy to explain the faults’ through
“interpretation.”
Eliot deals with a limited class
and his solution may seem an
evasive and dubious salvation for
the modern world.
In any case, the play is an un-
forgettable experience — for the
superb acting, the eloquent verse,
the sharp comedy, the plastic
story, even the beauty of the sound
of the lines. However, one will
get from it only as much as he
himself takes to it. Each spec-
tator must be his own interpreter,
for, like Sir Henry, Eliot suggests,
never tells. This obscurity may
be the play’s greatest weakness,
or its strength. As Eliot has said,
The Cocktail Party “means what-
ever you take it to mean.” The
enigma is provocative.

Modern Dancers Move
With Skill, Individuality
Continued from Page 2

Lackritz, but somehow lacked
warmth and in spots, lacked grace
and ease of execution. One could
see that it was very well thought
out, that the dancers knew what
they were doing, and that all it
needed was a little more practice.

Several movies were shown after
the program. The Moor’s Pavane,
based on Othello, photographed in
color was superbly danced by Jose
Limon and three other dancers
costumed in magnificent tawny vel-
vet. It was startling to realize how
much the modern dance added to
the great Shakespearian tragedy.

The Dance Workshop was cer-
tainly worthwhile for both those
who participated and those who
watched. We hope the modern dan-
cers will be encouraged to continue
their work and will present more
programs as superior as this one.



Faculty Team Crushes
Astonished Students

Continued from Page 3

else who wanted to play, fought
like lions, but they were no match
for Mr. Goodale’s height and Dr.
Broughton’s long shots from the
middle “ofthe court. The game
was played in five quarters, two
subject to men’s rules and the
other three under women’s rules.

The Badminton Varsity and J.V.
also shared the limelight by beat-
ing the two Swarthmore teams for
the first time in many years. The
match took place on Wednesday,
Feb. 22, in the M.C.C. courts. The
Varsity won by the score of 3-2,
and the J.V. won 4-1. This was
the first time in ages that any
college team has beaten Swarth-
more. So far, both the Bryn Mawr
teams are undefeated, and we
hope they will continue.

The Bryn Mawr and Haverford
Volleyball teams combined on
Tuesday, Feb. 21, to play the co-
ed Swarthmore teams. The Varsity
B.M.-Haverford team lost to the
Swarthmore Varsity 86-19, and the
J.V. team beat the Swarthmore
J.V. by the score of 31-29.

The Varsity Swimming meet
against Beaver was called off, be-



for Beaver to get here.

“And, as usual, |:

cause the snow made it impossible |



NOTICES

Mademoiselle Contest

Mademoiselle magazine’s fiction
contest, deadline April 16, 1950,
offers two prizes of $6500 each for
winning stories (3,000 to 5,000
words in length). Women under-
graduates only are eligible in the
contest which requires that entries
submitted be typewritten, double-
spaced, on one side of the paper
only, accompanied by contestant’s
name, home address, college ad-
dress, college year.

N. J. C. Assembly Program

Dr. Geddes MacGregor, associ-
ate professor of philosophy and
religion at Bryn Mawr, will dis-
cuss “The Appreciation of God”
on March 21 in the Elizabeth Rod-
man Voorhees Chapel of New Jer-
sey College for Women, Rutgers
University.

Laboratory Research Jobs

Applications are being accepted
for Engineer, Chemist, “Physicist,
and Metallurgist positions paying
$3,100 a year, in the National Ad-
visory Committee for Aeronautics
laboratories in Virginia, Cali-
fornia, and Ohio. To qualify, ap-
plicants must have had appropri-
ate college education in the field
for which they apply and must
pass a written test. Detailed in-
formation may be obtained from
Civil Service regional offices.

Chesterfield Agent

The Campus Merchandising Bu-
reau, Inc. has appointed Betty
Anne Schoen, Rockefeller Hall,
Chesterfield representative at Bryn
Mawr. Announcements of contests
and campaigns for the promotion
of Chesterfield cigarettes on cam-
pus will appear in the News.

Krokodilo Records

There are on sale eleven songs
by the Harvard Krokodiloes on
plastic records. See C. ‘Perkins,
Rhoads North, No. 1638, for fur-
ther information and listening fa-
cilities.

Young Musicians

Play New Music

The Young Musicians’ Concert,
to be presented on Sunday, March
5, in the Wyndham Music Room,
will offer the works of four new
composers. The Mass for Cello
and Piano was written by Dante
Fioriilo, Guggenheim Fellow, and
Pulitzer Prize winner, who teaches
in New York. Constant Vauclain,
a member of. the faculty of the
Curtis Institute of Music and Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, and chief-
ly a symphonist, composed ‘the
music to the two Shakespeare
songs. Willson Osborne, who
studied under Paul Hindemith and
is now teaching at the New School
of Music, composed the Piano
Sonata No. 2, to be offered Sunday
night. George Rochberg, a mem-
ber of the faculty of the Curtis
Institute and director of the Con-
temporary Music Reading Center,
wrote the accompaniment to the
five Jatnes Joyce songs.

‘Among the soloists, Paul Olef-
sky is the first cellist of the Phila-
delphia Orchestra and conducts his
own orchestra, The City Center
Orchestra. Donald Meminger, the
piano accompanist, teaches at the
New School of Music, and the so-
prano soloist, Grace Carlino, is
now studying at the Curtis Insti-
tute. Vincent Donato, the tenor
soloist, is also at the Institute,
and Mathilde McKinney, pianist, is
on the faculty of the New ce
College for Women.



Critics Register Varied Opinions
Of English and Italian Cinemas"

Bergman Flops Badly |
On Stromboli
Slopes
by Barbara Joelson, ’52

. Seldom has any movie received
as much publicity as Stromboli. It
has been ballyhooed as Rossellini’s
great artistic masterpiece, as the
vehicle for which Bergman fans
have waited, and as a turbulent,
dramatic love story. Unfortunate-
ly, it is none of these things. True,
much of the picture has been left
on the cutting room floor, but even
this fact does not justify Strom-
boli’s lack of merit. It is only too
bad that Hollywood didn’t have the
judgment to scrap the remainder
of the picture as well.

Perhaps the main fault of
Stromboli is that it doesn’t seem
to take the audience into consider-
ation at all. There is no charac-
ter with whom it is possible to
sympathize. All of the Italians in
the picture appear to be Stoics.
They don’t laugh, they don’t cry,
they don’t register fear, surprise,
or even ignorance. They simply
stare into space, and speak a jar-
gon of Italian and pigeon-English.
Ingrid Bergman, the only one in
the movie with any pretensions of
being an actress, is sadly disap-
pointing. It is hard to tell wheth-
er this is due to the role, the di-
rection, or simply Miss Bergman’s
incapability. However, she seems
to be a puppet who performs the
required actions, but does not feel
them at all. She emotes rather
than acts.

No Appeal

In addition, there is nothing in
the picture that appeals to the eye.
Granted, the people depicted are
poor, dirty, and (on the whole)
without aim in life. Granted, Mr.
Rossellini presumably wanted to
escape from the Hollywood glam-
orizing and to present “life in the
raw.” However, in trying to do
this, he has avoided every trick of
photography, every subtlety, and
every fineness that the motion pic-
ture industry has spent years de-
vising. In fact there is only one
sequence in the picture that
achieves a certain measure of ef-
fectiveness. This is a scene in
which the landing of tuna fish is
shown with color and vividness.
As for the rest of the picture,
either a superfluity of exaggera-
tion or of understatement is used,
which nullifies any possible mer-
its.

The plot of Stromboli is almost
non-existent. It is simply the story
of a woman who marries to escape
from a DP camp. She goes with
her husband to live on Stromboli,
an wen lacking sociability, clean-
liné88, and warmth. She is very
unhappy there and cannot make
any friends. She finally tries to
leave it; and, after spending a
miserable and uncomfortable night
on the side of an erupting volcano,
she undergoes a renewed faith in
God and returns to her husband.

The use of a narrator to clarify

Continued on Page 5





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Whiskey and Whimsey
Loosen Up Tight
Little Island

by Jane Augustine, ’52

On an island off the Scottish
coast a rugged and independent
people once lived a life of simple
pleasures. One of the foremost.
of these pleasures was—whiskey.
Imagine therefore, the misery
among the old salts, the consterna-
tion among the gay young blades,
when the ship from the mainland
brought kegs of ammunition and
not one case — or even one bot-
tlel—of whiskey to last for the
next three months. This is the
situation of the Tight Little
Island, one of the most delightful
of recent cinema comedies from
England. After a successful run
in New York, it has now come to
Philadelphia’s Trans-Lux Theatre.

The plot possibilities of a com-
pletely isolated and_liquorless
community could have been bad-
ly mistreated, but happily they
are not. There is no slapstick —
something in which the British
are not liable to indulge anyhow.
The people on this island are not
drunken libertines; they just like
a drop or two once in a while, i.e.
after dinner. Like all of us, they
are part virtue and part vice and
who can help loving them for it?
Characters (and we must use the
word loosely) include a sort of
All-For-The-Cause fellow who is
wartime head of the Home Guard,
and takes his job very seriously; an
incredibly stern-mouthed old lady
whose every word is a quotation
from the Scriptures and who sees
sin everywhere; her son, the island’s
schoolteacher, who is continually
intimidated by his mother even
though he is twenty-eight years
old (in one extremely funny and
somehow believable scene she
locks him in his room without any
supper); the veteran returned
from South America and his
blonde sweetheart who make up
the love interest; the tavern-keep-
er, the storekeeper, and, of course,
old sailors with bristly chins and
briny charm in varying degrees.

Quiet Humor

It looks as if happy days have
come back fo the island when a
ship carrying a full load of scarce
wartime whiskey adventitiously
meets a rock in the harbor, and is
crippled but not sunk. The thirsty
people lick their parched lips and
prepare to “rescue” the cargo.
“But no!” shouts the head of the
Home Guard, and objects that
there will be redtape difficulties
and it would hamper the war ef-
fort to deprive England of its
grog. But heaven knows when
whiskey will come to the island
again, the people argue. To take
the whiskey or not to take the

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1950

THE

COLLEGE NEWS

Page Five



Job Symposium Members Advise Audience
To Give Good Impression, Pull Strings

Continued from Page 1

the mere experience of living in
a four-walled community of wom-
en was of great value. “Make
teach, New York City; anywhere
up your mind to start at the bot-
tom!”. said Mrs. McIntosh

Mrs. Miller, speaking for Social
Science Research, reminded wus
that our trunk would some day be
opened, and advised as its contents
common sense, ability to think
and such “gadgetry” as statistics
and civil service status (acquired
by examination and useful for
government jobs.)

The social science research field
has. recently been expanding. Cor-
porations want to know the living
conditions of their market, and its
reaction to the newest gadgets.
Life insurance companies want to
know how long people are going
to live, and labor unions want facts
on industry. The government field
includes: the research staffs of the

executive departments — Social
Security, Agriculture, State De-
partment; staffs of permanent

committees of Congress; legisla-
tive reference service of Library
of Congress. Politics offer per-
sonal staffs of House or Senate
members, or major Party research
staffs. The big papers also have
research staffs. Universities and
Foundations humanize statistics
by testing conclusions of national
surveys on small blocks of the
population. “Always remember

that somebody needs you some-|
where,” was Mrs. Miller’s assur-

ance.

The first requisite for Social
Service, according to Mrs. An-
drews, is interest in people, both
as individuals and in groups. Both
the college degree and further
training at an established school
are necessary. The field, “big as
human nature,” runs from family
case work to work in labor rela-
tions. Mrs. Andrews sketched her
own branch — family work —
emphasizing the necessity of ap-
proaching the problem from the
family’s point of view, and the
necessity of helping its members
to help themselves. She concluded
by pointing out that the profes-
sion is a good basis for marriage.

The next speaker was Miss
Hood, on Chemistry. Research is
carried on by non-profit founda-
tions, universities, and hospitals;
by industry; and by the govern-
ment. The government (Bureau
of Standards, Dept. of Agricul-
ture) carries on much analytical
and control work; industry is
much concerned with testing of
products for the market. Non-lab
fobs include those of chemical li-
brarian, patent searcher (for a
company), U. S. patent examiner;
they include also work in trans-
posing technical writing for medi-
cine or publishing. Work in non-
profit organizations is varied and
individual, but salaries are low,
and jobs not permanent. Salaries

and working conditions in indus-
try are good, but there are few
vacancies for women. In govern-
ment, pace is slower, salaries
medium, and promotion apt to go
by seniority. Basic research re-
quires graduate work. For a career
in administration it is best to en-

ter a technical library or control
lab.

“A job-hunt ‘is a treasure hunt:
you’ve got to use every influence
and follow every clue.” Miss Alice
Palache continued, “Put yourself
in the best light before an inter-
viewer; have a brief, interesting
‘outline of all you’ve done; size him
up: if he likes to talk, get him
to talk; if he is at a loss, have
something to say; enlist him on
your side if you can, so that if he
cannot help you himself, he will
at least ‘phone George.’” Miss
Palache proceeded to sketch a
narrow-eyed employer taking in
his first impression of a frighten-
ed creature with a slouch, a limp
\hand shake, and an uncertain man-
iner. “Give your interviewer the
feeling that you are somebody,”
urged Miss Palache, “and be sure
to write and thank him after-
ward.”

Youth and an inquiring mind,
!according to Miss Lane, are two
advantages in journalism. Ability
to express oneself is a requisite,
|and any special skill such as typ-
‘ing, a language, economics, is an
‘added arrow in one’s quiver. For
|magazines Miss Lane advised work
'on a small newspaper. For pub-
\lie relations, the government
| “propaganda or stewardship” is a
| good field. There is place for re-
search on magazines like Time and
Life, and for encyclopedias. Read-
ability and readership — (blurbs,
and whether they are read) and



opportunities, of a type, for writ~
ing and research. Miss Lane warn-
ed those interested in creative
writing away from newspapers
and magazines, which are likely
to blight a writer’s style. As for
the actual process of getting a job,
“Go to the top,” said Miss Lane,
“and pull wires first, and then
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Lack of Plot Prolongs

Rossellini Film Failure
Continued from Page 4

the actions and to serve as-an in-
jtermediary between

| marionettes and the _ audience,
makes Stromboli seem like a short
subject instead of a feature pres-
entation.

The one word that sums up the
general audience’ reaction § to
Stromboli is “disappointing”. The
plot is tenuous, the action drawn
out; every minute you. expect
something to happen, but nothing
ever does. Miss Bergman’s mo-
ments of emotion unhappily con-
tain more melodrama than any-
thing else. The direction is sin-
gularly unskilled and the actors
tacking in ability. In view of the
‘Art” and talent that has suppos-
edly gone into this production, the
result is incredibly bad. It is truly
unfortunate that Stromboli receiv-
ed such a super-abundance of ad-
vance publicity, as the letdown ex-

ism) “colossal.”

Rossellini’s |

| English, German Poetry

| Presented by Politzer
Continued from Page 1
HGBeE wa

Mr. Politzer told another story
‘about one of his English poems.
It was inspired by a phrase spoken
| by Kafka when, after defining men
as merely bad thoughts in the
mind of God, he was asked if,
then, there was no hope. Kafka
emiled his famous smile and said,
“Abundance of hope—except for
us.” Those words became the
poem’s title. Particular parts of
another English poem of Mr. Po-
litzer’s, called The Stranger, were
striking: “streets of thunder’ and
the line “For where he goes is
galaxy”.
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| diock Tichbourne’s. Englsh poem
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ition. Its famous final line ‘And
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|“*:Noch lebe ich und shon bin ich
| Vertan.” eReversing the procedure,
he then presented German poems
translated into English. The two
final lines of the last stanza but
one were particularly lovely.

“The bad ones stand up, banded.

The good ones disappear.”
He finished the program with four
serious poems, three clever child-
ren’s poems and the reading of a
short story which has been pub-
lished in The Centaur—all original
work in German which he has not
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THE

COLLEGE NEWS

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1950



Essential Qualities of Competent Teaching

Continued from Page 1

ed by two more people—two more
of those probably innumerable
links in Mrs. MecIntosh’s chain of
human relationships. To these she
talked and listened with her ap-
parently customary close attention
and vigor, and when they had
gone, turned back, and picked up
where we had left off.

“How would you compare public
and private school teaching?”

“While you doubtless find the
grass-roots of teaching in public
schools, the number of difficult
human situations that you can ob-
serve in certain private schools,
the progressive ones especially, is
amazing. Their clientele consists
of professional people, who have
been intelligent and worked their
way up. Often more tension ex-
ists in these families than in the
comfortable class immediately be-
iow them, who send their children
to public schools. These are fam-
ilies where both parents have
many outside concerns, where
there is a high rate of divorce,
where parents treat their children
with remarkable stupidity, consid-
ering the intelligence you would
expect of them. The human need
and suffering here is not the less
real because we do not expect to
find it. There is a trouble which
particularly needs remedy since it
is on this class that society counts
most heavily for balance, intelli-
gence, and generosity.”

We absorbed all this as rapidly
as we could, sharpened our at-
tention still further, and shot our
last charge.

“Beyond those you've talked
about already, what qualities do
you think are essential in a teach-
er?”

“Imagination,” she said immedi-
ately. “I mean the word in two
senses: imagination as human un-
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what forms of thought and by what
appeals to his emotions he can be
iguided. I also mean the faculty
that can take the material in hand
and present it in one way to one
group of children, in a different
way to another, each time meet-
ing the demands and limits of
their imaginations. Sometimes it’s
hard for a graduate teaching her
field to forget her massed in-
formation, and go back to the book
with the children.”

“For instance?”

“Mildred Dunnock, who taught
dramatics for years at the Brearley
School, before she was successful
lin the theatre, used to work with
some of the Greek tragedies. She’d
have the children learn all the
parts, become thoroughly familiar
with them; she wouldn’t cast them
until last of all. The children had
an experience they won’t forget
all their lives.

“The important thing is to ex-
tend the child’s imagination. It
doesn’t so much matter what you
begin by teaching. You can keep
a chapter ahead in the book at
first if you like, though of course
you will have to bone up by
‘yourself later. You won't be
‘much of a teacher in the long run,
'if you aren’t a scholar too.”

Here she paused, for a Commit-
tee Chairman had loomed up. She
looked at me a little dubiously.
“Think you have enough?” We
nodded emphatically and hurried
away.



' English Comedy Ripples
With Liquor and Laughs

Continued from Page 4

whiskey—?
on.

The humor of Tight Little
Island is quiet British whimsey
mixed with the dourness of the
Scot. No character seems impos-
sible, nor do any of the situations,
or the movie would have failed
in the creation of its thoroughly
refreshing mood. The schoolteach-
er tied to his mother’s apron-
strings, for example, nevertheless
manages to be likeable and appeal-
ing ,without the least tinge of

And so:the fight is

cessful comedy-character portray-
al marks each person in the movie,
and is a tribute both to good act-
ing and directing. The photog-
raphy of the sea is strange and
beautiful. In one exciting scene
comedy is forgotten as the half-
staved vessel is being relieved of
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seemed obsessed with associating
Dr. Carpenter with Homer. Instead
of The Homeristic Value of Archi-
tecture, which might prove to be
a novel idea, the book that Dr.
Carpenter wrote is The Humanis-
tic Value of Archaeology. :

In the Freshman Show review,
Penny Rand sang with “amusing
serility.” This could mean almost
anything. She really sang with
amusing “senility.”



boat.
All in all, Tight Little Island is

‘a very pleasant evening’s enter-

tainment, and makes one remem-
ber that” in spite of various erup-
tions on a hot little island off
Italy, the world is still sometimes
nutty but nice.



Pollak Lists Factors

In Palestine Problem
Continued from Page 1

The main problem, that of turn-
ing today’s victorious Jewish
stalemate into actual peace
treaties with the Arabs is also be-
ginning to work itself out. On
their own, or with the aid of Ralph
Bunche, the “almost feudal Arabs”
and the “forward-looking” ’Jews
are finding common trade _inter-
ests and making small treaties,
free from disturbing outside in-
fluences.

Dr. Pollak concluded by saying
that America’s job is to help Israel
grow peacefully, and then develop
her enormous economic potentiali-
ties and make her the spearhead
for the introduction of Western
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