College news, February 9, 1949

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VOL. XLV, NO. 13 ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1949

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College,1945

_ PRICE 15 CENTS



McBride Starts
Semester Two
With Fund News

Discloses Appointments ;
Grants Announced,

Fund Goal Near

Goodhart Auditorium, February
1.— At the opening assembly of the
second semester, (Miss McBride ad-
dressed the faculty and student
body of Bryn Mawr College. She
talked chiefly of the Bryn Mawr

Fund and the progress made by the |

Alumnae toward raising the sum
of $2,000,000. She estimated that
Mrs. F. Louis Slade, Chairman of
the Fund, would set Commence-
ment, 1949, as the final date for
meeting the quota. The amount
raised at the present time is $1,-
831,000, less than $200,000 short
of the goal. Four Alumnae dis-
tricts have already met their in-
dividual goals: the South; New

England; Michigan, Ohio, and In-

diana; and Chicago, Minnesota, and

Wisconsin... The New York, and

Philadelphia district has collected
Continued on page 6

B. M., Haverford

Good in Concert;
Mass Exceptional

By Anne Greet, ’50

On January 14th the Bryn Mawr
Chorus and the Haverford Glee
Club gave a combined concert in
Roberts Hall. The ‘first half of
the program, conducted by Mr.
Goodale, consisted of sixteenth-cen-
tury music—two Motets by Jacob
Handl, sung by the full chorus and
two \(Madrigals by Claudio Monte-
verde, sung by the Double Octet
and the Haverford Singers. The
powerfully sweet church music and
its hymn-like harmonies contrasted
with the charming dissonant com-
plaints of the madrigals. “O Ad-
mirabile Commercium” was vigor-
ous and resonant, thé soprano
voices in “Jesu Dulcis Memoria”
had a sweetness that fitted the
words they sang, but the madri-
; Continued on page 5





Superb Sessions in Snow at Stowe
Supplies Sepp Rusch, Ski Patrol

by Linda Bettman, ’52

“Yes, there was snow.”

Having answered your first ques-
tion about the skiing trip, let me
continue. The accommodations
were superb, the food delicious, the
men plentiful, the scenery beau-
tiful, and—nobody ever seems to
ask— skiing is wonderful, wonder-
ful, wonderful.

A few of the girls arrived Tues-
day, when there wasn’t much snow.
All took lessons, which were given



Nancy Anderson, ’52, and
Sally Howells, ’51, at Stowe.

fairly far up Mt. Mansfield, on a
trail called S53. That evening it
was discovered that the S stood
for suicide.

Wednesday more of us arrived
and the other old hands (one day
and you’re an expert, two days and
you’re good, three days and you
don’t know a thing) greeted the
late arrivals most enthusiastically.

H. Creech Calls

Cancer Curable

Dalton, Thursday, February 3,
8.30 P. M.—Dr. Hugh J. Creech,
head of the Department of Chemo:
therapy of the Institute of Cancer
Research, and former Bryn Mawr
teacher, lectured to Science Club
members and guests on the topic of
experimental chemotherapy in can-
cer.

“At present,” said Dr. Creech,
“the only recognized cures for can-
cer are surgery and radiation; and
these are satisfactory only in early

Continued on page 5





New Editor of NEWS Promises
Scandal, Cartoons and Early Bed

By B. Bright Page, °49

A tri-lingual NEWS may be in
the offing during the coming weeks.
Emily Townsend, ’50, new Editor-
in-chief, plans to keep the “French
touch” via Wyndham, but the Eng-
lish language might well be spiced
intermittently with classic Greek
(to be explained by Emily’s major,
which takes her often to the lib-
rary, West Wing and otherwise).

Emily carries on in the great
tradition of NEWS sportswomen,
only more actively so than her im-
mediate predecessors. Modestly,
she explains that she plays tennis
“badly,” but she makes up for her
weak racquet by guarding on the
basketball varsity, for which she
was also Manager, before the
NEWS’ points interrupted her life.

Emily’s muscles, which are cer-
tainly helpful in her new post, are
nevertheless secondary -qualifica-

tions. -Her-managerial experience,

class secretary as a Freshman and
more recently Business Manager



of the Drama Guild, augurs well
for NEWS dividends
Too, the NEWS will be well-fed,
since Emily is in charge of the
Wyndham bookshop, which she and
a_partner keep thoroughly. stocked
(although Emily NEVER eats
candy).

Emily often strikes one by her
conservative outlook, probably em-
phasized by her donut stocking
cap. The truth is, however, that
the NEWS promises to vie with
the International Tall Tale Tellers
when features come to light, since
the new editor makes most inter-
esting excursions to Philly and
tells even more interesting stories
concerning her escapades. “A
scandal sheet,” she tosses off gaily
when we inquire of her plans for
next year.

Then, more seriously,
adds, “Everyone’s going to have
lots of fun and we’re going to bed
early.” Other changes: — “more

sports, more pictures, more car-
toons.”







ext year.|

Emily |

The group split up, some going up
the mountain to ski the trails cov-
ered with new snow that night,
some going to the Sepp Rusch Ski
school, and some attempting the
new French Parallel school. That
night, slides of the Stowe area
were shown at Round Hearth by
the Ski Patrol (that is, some guys
gave a beer party).

Thursday, more lessons, and
trails, and the photographer ar-
rived. Skating on the Stowe Cen-
ter ice that night, and then a
Square Dance at the Elmwood
Lodge, where we were staying.

Friday most of our party joined
in a cross country ski trip to see
huskies (dogs I mean—you'can see
the Ski Patrol anywhere).

Saturday was spent the same
way, with the evening made very
gay by large groups of MIT, Yale
and Princeton staying at the lodge,
and a dance at Stowe Center. Sun-
day ,a few stronger ones got up

Continued on page 6

Harold E. Stassen

Will Offer Views

On U.N. Prospect

Harold E. Stassen, President of
the University of Pennsylvania,
will speak on Wednesday, Febru-
ary 16th, at the third Alliance
Assembly, in Goodhart, at 12:30.
The subject of Mr. Stassen’s ad-
dress will be Future of the United
Nations, following which there will
be a lunch given for him and Mrs.
Stassen at the Deanery by Mrs.
Marshall, Miss Taylor, and Mrs,
Paul. wT)

Mr. Stassen received his B.A.
from the University of Minnesota,
and was admitted to the Minnesota
Bar in 1929. He was elected Gov-
ernor of Minnesota for the term
1939-1941, and re-elected for the
1941-1943 and 1948-1945 terms.
During the war, he was on the
Staff of Admiral Halsey in the
South Pacific from 1943 to 1945.
In the field of foreign affairs, Mr.
Stassen was a United States dele-
gate to the San Francisco Con-
ference of' the United Nations in
1945. In 1948 he was appointed
President of the University of
Pennsylvania.



Calendar

Weditesday, February 9

7:15 p. m. Marriage Lecture,
Common Room.

8:30 p. m. Modern Dance Pro-
gram, Skinner Workshop.
Thursday, February 10

4:00 p. m. Hudson Shore La-
bor School Tea, Common Room.

7:15 p.m, Bridge Tournament,
Rhoads.

Friday, February 11

- 8:30 p. m. Pembroke -. Haver-
ford Dance, Rumpus Room.
Sunday, February 13

”~ 5:00 p. m. Woodwind Quartet,
Deanery.

7:15 p. m. Chapel, Dr. Louis
W. Pitt, Music Room.

Monday, February 14

4:30 p. m. Mr. Lattimore,
Reading, Lliad 9, Common Room.

7:15 p. m. Current Events, Mr.
Wells, Common Room .
Tuesday, February 15

8:30 p. m. Record Concert,
Common Room.

Wednesday, February 16

12:30 p. m. Mr. Stassen, Cur-
‘rent Affairs Assembly, Good-
hart.













92 Will Produce
“Out on a Limbo”
Sat., February 19

The Class of. 1952 will present
its Freshman Show, Out on a Lim-
bo, on Saturday, February 19, in
Goodhart Auditorium. The plot
centers around a novelist, Evelin
Lord, whose unfinished characters
from one of her books come back
to plague her. The unfortunates
are situated in the land of Limbo,
where all incompleted characters
are forced to stay uritil they are
finished. Since time is non - exist-
ent in Limbo, each minute being
equal to hundreds of years, the
characters are anxious to leave
Limbo and get married. Therefore,
they demand that Eve finish the
nevel and set them free. How the
Limboites take Eve back to Limbo
with them and accomplish their
aim is revealed in the progress of
the comedy.

The production is under the di-
rection of Patricia Onderdonk.
Julie Anne Johnson and Virginia
Randolph are the stage managers,
and Patricia Richardson is the
script manager. Jean Gunderson is
in charge of the songs; Francine
du Plessix, the dances; and Nancy
Alexander is the business manager.

Continued on page 6

Faculty Members

Given Promotions

Ten new faculty promotions have

full professorships. These include
Mr. Paul Shrecker, of the philoso-
phy deparment, who is on a joint
professorship with Swarthmore,
and Miss Germaine Bree in French,
Miss Mary S. Gardiner in Biology,
Miss Mildred Northrop in Econom-
ics, and Mr. A. Lindo Patterson in
Physics.

Those promoted to associate pro-
fessorships are Miss Rachel D. Cox
in Psychology and Education, Mr.
George Cuttino in History, on a
joint appointment with Swarth-
more; Miss Frederica de Laguna in
Anthropology, and Miss Bettina
Linn in English. In addition, Mr.
Hugues Le Blanc has been promot-
ed to an assistant professorship in
Philosophy.

Bryn Mawr, Yale

Present Concert

The choruses of Bryn Mawr Col-
lege and Yale University will _pre-
sent a joint concert on Friday,
February 11, at 8:30 in the Wool-
sey Auditorium in New Haven. The
program will be as follows:

Alleluia — Randall Thompson,
mixed chorus.

Two 16th Century Spanish Folk-
songs—anonymous, B. M. chorus.

Two Canzonets—Palestrina, Dou-
ble Octette.

Old Abram Brown — Benjamin
Britten, B. M. Chorus.

Young Joseph—David Diamond
(text by Thomas Mann), B. M.
Chorus.

Why so Pale and Wan? (madri-
gal)—David Stanley Smith, Dou-
ble Octette. :

A Song of Music, Hindemith.

Missa di Battaglia—arr. by Harl|
McDonald from 17th century Span-



Professor Helen M.

Re-Evaluation of Early Parliament

been announced, among them five |:

Cam Presents

Sees Modern Theory
As ‘“*Swingback’”’
To Stubbs

Speaking as the Mallory Whiting
Webster Lecturer, 1948-49, on “A
Reconsideration of Our View of
the Medieval English Parliament,”
Dr. Helen Maud Cam, Zemurray
Professor at Harvard, asked for a
re-evaluation and. .greater appre-
ciation of the thesis of Stubbs, the
great English constitutional his-
torian. She defined his two impor-
tant theories of the fundamentally
judicial character of the early Parl-
iament and of the tremendous role .
played by the commons: in welding
it into an institution as essentially
correct.

The earliest parliament, said
Miss Cam, had neither representa-
tive, financial, nor legislative func-
tions; it was, in fact, an “event”
rather than an “institution.” This
was because of the supreme im-
portance of its judicial nature —
“the king held court in council in
Parliament.” Its structure was a
composite one, including both
feudal and administrative (bureau-
cratic) elements.

This, declared Miss Cam, was
the legal aspect of early parlia-
ment; and was regarded as pre-
eminent by the professional classes
of the day. The non-professional
classes, however, stressed the polit-
ical elements in parliamentary ac-

Continued on page 2

Curriculum Polls
Present Criticism

Results of the curriculum com-
mittee polls, designed to uncover
constructive criticism for the hy-
giene, social science, and English
composition courses, yielded many
suggestions, although the number
of polls returned was comparative-
ly small.

The genera] impression gleaned
from the hygiene questionnaire, to
which seventy-five answers were re-
ceived, was that lectures were
needed. Lectures in the freshman
year, would prove more worthwhile,



The third concert in the series
of five Young Musicians’ con-
certs will be held Sunday, the
18th, at 5:00 in the Deanery. A
woodwind. quintet, composed of
students from the Curtis Insti-
tute, provides this week’s mus-
ical program. The concert is
open to all those who purchase
a series ticket.







said the comments, because correc-
tion. would be possible, the books
unavailable in the summer would
be read, and an overlapping of sub-
ject matter in the books could be
eliminated. Criticism of the ex-
amination in this subject stressed
the fact that the test was a farce,
and not challenging, since it could
have been answered merely by gen-
eral knowledge, and required no
extra reading. Many of the soph-
omores of whom the poll was taken,
suggested that one basic text, like
Scott, was essential, and that the
lectures could -be substituted for
body mechanics in the second-half
of the Freshman year, with a test
following. _ Mrs. Marshall, Dr.
Humeston, and Miss Clayton are
going to meet and discuss these
proposals.

In the social science poll, 197



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| Tea to Tell Aim







Why are You Here?

“Little Arts Night”, with a slighter program and a one -
night stand, will be given in the workshop this year, not
Goodhart. The retrenchment is sad but sensible. Most non-
academic activities are being steadily forced into a position
of compromise or nothing. It is the perennial Bryn Mawr
problem: no one wants to do anything, on campus.

A few years ago, seniors were the strength of the var-
sity teams; no more need be said. The same people are cast
again and again for plays; no one else will try out. People
drop out of Chorus after a year or two. No one wants any-
thing to do with Big May Day.

The whole center of our interests as a group seems to have
shifted off campus. For so small a college, we have amazing-
ly little in common. We are not, on the whole, less capable or
energetic than our predecessors, but our energy is expended
in different directions. When we know one another, it is be-
cause we have classes together, or live in the same halls, not
because we do things together as a college body.

In the issue of February 23rd, the NEWS will publish all
letters received, pro and con, on the question of the relation
a Bryn Mawr education has to the non-academic life of those
who receive it. If what you are doing here has any import-
ance to you, write now.

Hell Week

Freshman Show is now less than two weeks away, and
this means that Hell Week starts next Mofiday. The tradi-
tion of hazing the Freshmen varies from hall to hall, and
from year to year in its degree of nuisance value. But we

~ feel that a few standards should be maintained, so that Hell

Week will not become a yearly game of tit-for-tat.

Common courtesy is certainly not observed when the
Freshmen are required to do things which will interrupt the
professors’ lectures, and there is no reason why the activities

of Hell Week should not be confined to the freshmen and the
sophomore classes. It might also be well to remember that

the freshmen are working day and night on their show, and
to confine the hazing to times of day which would not infringe
upon their many obligations.

All this is not to say that Hell Week should be reduced to
a “Be Kind to Freshmen Week.” It can be a great deal of fun
for all concerned if the sophomores will use a little imagina-
tion in their demands upon the freshmen, and the latter in
turn will use their ingenuity in doing the things asked of
them. Complaining freshmen are just as bad as unduly de-
manding sophomores, and it should be possible to strike a



PTiviniel OT] GCiIvNne! ey



Of Labor School

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On Thursday, February 10 at

‘14:00 PIM, a tea will be given by

Miss McBride in the Common
Room for all those interested in
the Hudson Shore Labor School.
Margaret Wood, director of the
school, Haines Turner of Pendle
Hill, who has taught there, and
Pearl Edmonds, a former student,
will speak.

The purpose of the tea is to give
Bryn Mawr students a chance to
learn more about the school and
the possibilities of working with it.
Assistantships are being offered so
that the student can attend in the
combined capacity of teacher and
student, with all expenses paid. In
order that a complete picture may
be presented of each kind of work
involved in an assistant position, a
former Hudson Shore Labor School
student and a teacher are both
speaking. Information will be giv-
en about applications, and the
meeting is open to everyone.



Cam Analyzes Role
Of Early Parliament
Continued from page 1

tion. This view originated in the
existence of parliament as a “diplo-
matic parley,” concerned with dis-
cussion and treaty as to the state
of the realm, and maintaining the
functions of the Anglo-Saxon witan
and the Norman curia regis. Such
a parley is illustrated by that of
Henry III and his barons in 1258
which culminated in the Provisions
of Oxford. Here, declared Miss
Cam, can be seen the parliament
acting as a public and official body
and purporting to deal with the
common interests of the King and
state. Legislative or political, as
against legal, activity is implied
in these Provisions, as well as de-
bate, which immediately presup-
poses some bargaining power on
the part of the magnates.

Miss Cam stated that these as-
pects demonstrated the forms of
early parliamentary institutions;
the forces involved, she went on,
should not be underemphasized. In
speaking of these forces—i.e., the
commons—she came back to a dis-
cussion of Stubbs’ thesis. While
the earliest parliament consisted of
only two elements, it was not until
the third one of the commons had
been added that it became a real
institution, with the power of legis-
lation. Taxation, and its relation
to representations, was already
playing a part in the conflict of the
King and magnates. This conflict
grew from a constitutional one into
an institutional being when the
barons began to appeal to the com-
mons against the king. The people
were used first as an instrument of
baronial policy.

Representation

With the emergence of the cbm-
mons as an integral part of parlia-
ment, said Miss Cam, there came
into being the fact of a “collective
or corporate consciousness,” taking
origin from the community basis
of shire and people. This brought
with it the idea of the representa-
tion of the whole, the parliament
as the symbol and embodiment of
the realm. The common petition
through which the commons acted
survived as the earliest form of
parliamentary statute, while the
tradition of the community, with
its theory of common action for
common needs, supplied the third
important final factor in the de-
velopment of Parliament as an in-
stitution.

Miss Cam concluded by stating
the impossibility. of isolating any
one element in the consideration

and viewing it as a “purebred”
institution. eats



_ happy medium, out of which the final feeling will not be one ee
f : side. — ~_— Ee ES ee

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|Current Events

Common Room, Monday, Feb. 7.

Mr. Peter Bachrach spoke at the
first Current Events meeting of the
new semester, and delivered “An
Appraisal of the Fair Deal.”

The Fair Deal, as interpreted by



ley Act, passage of civil liberti
extension and equalization of edu-
cation, health, minimum wages,
and programs similar to TVA.
Analyzing the budget which the

President announced to Congress,
Mr. Bachrach said that of the ap-
proximate 42 billion dollars which
is to constitute this-year’s expendi-
tures, 32 billion is allotted to the
military, to payment of the nation's
war debt, and to international aid—
“In other words, 76 cents of every
dollar goes to war.” The remain-
ing 10 billion dollars is to be spent
on the Fair Deal program.

Fair Deal Cost °’

“I think the war budget and the
Fair Deal program are compatible,”
said Mr. Bachrach, and elaborated
by explaining that it costs very lit-
tle to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act,
put civil liberties through the Sen-
ate, and extend Social Security.

' The accomplishment of this pro-
gram depends a great deal upon
Mr. Truman himself.

“Mr. Truman is foremost a poli-
tician,” said the speaker. He will
support whatever he thinks the
people want. Hence the inconsist-
ency of his foreign policy. This
vacillation was most conspicuous
in the nation’s Palestine policy
(five radical changes within a year
and a half).

“The man is confused about prin-
ciples; the policy at the moment
seems to be: continue the cold war
which we are winning from the
Russians, and thereby keep up our
employment.”



Intellectuals Meet,
Debate in Poland

Miss McBride’s, February 1st.—
Mrs. Lita ‘Cromwell, of the Amer-
ican Friends Service Committee,
gave an informal report on the
activities of the Congress of In-
tellectuals which she attended this
summer. Organized by France and
Poland, the Congress was made up
of intellectuals from a variety of
nations; they met in /Woroclav, Po-
land, to discuss the overshadowing
problem of today, that of how to
obtain world peace. Leading writ-
ers, scientists, and artists, among
whom were Mme. Joliot-Curie, Pab-
io Picasso, Julian Huxley, Jo Davi-
gon, and Albert Cam, attended the
Congress. Both sides of the great
democracy-communism conflict of
our time were represented in the
speeches, Mrs. Cromwell reported.
Those who did not know the lan-
guage in which a speech was given,
she added, could keep up just as
well through the excellent trans-
lations which were made.

The Poles did not take an active
part in the discussion, Mrs. Crom-
well declared. As hosts, however,
they were most hospitable to the
delegates, and arranged informal
gatherings after the official meet-
ings were over. Polish guides took
groups of the Intellectuals on tours
of the country, Mrs. Cromwell said;
it was thus that she visited ravaged
Warsaw. From a movie which Mrs.
Cromwell brought back with her,
it could be seen how that city, com-
pletely blasted out during the Ger-
man invasion, is now slowly re-
covering.

On the whole, Mrs. Cromwell
felt that although ideally a Con-
gress of Intellectuals could ac-
complish' a great deal, the Wor-






achieve all it set out to achieve.

roclav- Congress did not quite|

Miss C. Howe Explains.
Food Distribution
In Halls

To the Editor:

In reply to, the editorial request:
in the NEWS of January 12th for-
information concerning the plan--
ning, care, and distribution of food.

the halls, we should like to sup--
ply the following facts:

The menus for all halls are plan--
ned by the College dietitian, and
are reviewed by the College doctor..
They are posted, as students know,,.
in the hall dining rooms. While the:
food is planned by the dietitian, the
quantities are ordered by the man-
agers based on their information.
concerning the numbers of students.
who will be present. The more ac-
curate information the managers.
have, the more accurately and eco--
nomically they can order.

Food Delivered Daily

Milk and bread are delivered di-
rectly to the halls. Fresh vege-.
tables, meat, and fruit are delivered.
to the central store room where
they are checked, divided into the.
desired quantities, and sent to the:
halls by the College truck. Food
is received and delivered daily ex-
cept Sunday. Large refrigerators
and deep freeze units are located
both at the central store room, and
in each hall. Little food is kept in
either the hall or store room refrig-
erators for any length of time. The-
College seldom has more than a
twenty-four hour supply of fresh
food on hand.

Everyone responsible for the
food in the halls was greatly con-
cerned over the digestive upsets.
which occurred in Rockefeller on
January 10th, and which were, we
believe, the result of something the
students ate. As the editors of the-
NEWS knew, the college doctor:
and dietitian started an investiga-
tion immediately which included a.
complete investigation of the kit-
chens- plus-a- chemical analysis of
the food. We have not yet received
a full report on the latter.

Suggestions Received

On the subject of general sug--
gestions, the dietitian will try to
reduce the starch content of meals
to meet present requests of stud--
ents. We also try to avoid the “one
color” meals—the “white,” ‘“yel--
low,” and “red” meals to which
students are sensitive, but students
will have to invent new vegetables,
the dream of all dietitians—to: pro-
duce meals with a rainbow range.
Although coffee was not mentioned.
in the NEWS editorial, we receive:
such conflicting comments —it is
too weak and too strong—in the
same hall on the same day, and
there is so much misinformation
concerning it that we should like
to correct one misapprenhension..
Contrary to popular belief, break-
fast coffee is not served at dinner,
nor dinner coffee served at break-
fast. Coffee is made fresh twice
daily in each hall. We are sorry’
to read that the NEWS states:
“Complaints are continual,” be-
cause actually very few reach the
managers and the dietitian. We
should like to urge students to ex-
press themselves directly to the
managers and the dietitian, es-
pecially if there has been any spe-
cific difficulty.

Sincerely,
ei Charlotte Howe-

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ENGAGEMENTS |
Patricia Appel, ex-’50, to
Frederick Washington Davidge,
Jr.
Sylvia Good, ’50, to Frederick |
Leighton Blake.
Deedee Gregory, ’50, to Hugh|
MacNair Kahler, II. r
|| ‘Diane Huzagh, ’49, to Joseph|,
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Big May D



Cupidmo Urges
Class of 1949
Sharpen Hooks

Common Room, February 8. As a
full moon shone in the west win-
dow of the Common Room, and Mr,
Alwyne softly rendered the Liebes-
tod as background music, Mrs. Cu-
pidino, from the O’Neill Foundation
at Gaines’ Ford, Pennsylvania,
gave an engaging lecture on mar-
riage to the 104 red-faced members
of the senior class.

It seems that our parents have
been misleading us. After hearing
for years that bull about education
being the end-all and be-all for a
young woman of today, the wide-
eyed class of ’49 was suddenly told
to do an about-face. With a wicked
gleam in her eye, Mrs. Cupidino
told the students that there was
more in life than a full and satify-
ing intellectual experience.

Appealing Concept
“T may even say,” quoth Mrs, Cu-
' pidino, “that marriage is a concept
that should appeal most of all to
the Bryn Mawr girl—look at all
the books written about it!”

‘Many women, we learned, are
psychologically inhibited from en-
tering into happily married life by
silly preconceived ideas from their
childhood—i.. e. that they should
get a graduate degree before look-
ing at a man.

Time and Place

“Love,” said Mrs. Cupidino, “has
a spiritual element. It is, however,
very greatly a matter of time and
place. You young women are per-
fectly situated, with Penn right in
the city, Princeton within a beer
bottle’s throw, and Haverford right
in your laps—if you’d give them a
chance. But the Bird of Time has
but a little way to fly—and lo, the
bird is on the wing!

““My advice to you girl is to take
your minds off the rocks in Park
lab, and try to get one on your fin-
ger!”

A discussion period followed, and
as the students filed out of the
Common Room, the remark of one
of the students attested to the
effectiveness of Mrs. Cupidino’s
little talk ... “Boy, am I ready!”

&
Warnings
Seniors
Seniors are forewarned that they
must leave College on the first
available train following their last
class on Friday, May 13, 1949.

Juniors
Change your major now. There
will be no comprehensives in Home
Economics next year.
Sophomores
Body Mechanics will be offere
as a required third hour of gym for
all Sophomores beginning tomor-
row, February 10.

Freshmen
Carpe Diem. (Ed. note. Leave
now).
Incumbents

DON’T ...>

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|] disons Au Revoir.

Your Vote Counts

Tomorrow after lunch, we will make an all-important
choice: to have Big May Day or Commencement. This choice,
to be effective in June 1949, may enable us to revive the age-
old Bryn Mawr tradition of return to Elizabethan England;
it may mean a continuation of the customary commencement

exercises.

It must be an absolute choice.

The NEWS has undertaken to print arguments for both

factions.

As is our custom, we take a stand on the issue

through this column. Certainly, there is great justice in the
cpinion that these are troubled times in which a frolic might
seem out of place and that there is an aesthetic justification

in the privilege of commencement.

On the other hand, how-

ever, a return to the old “gay abandon” would lighten the
burden of these disturbed days and would sponsor a sadly

needed return to the pure art.

Therefore, we are inclined to the compromise position,
provided of course that 104 oxen could be trained to carry di-
ploma, garlands, and students without tripping on Goodhart

steps.

We urge action on this suggestion.



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The Examiner

(specially contributed)

As we sat in the College Inn one
afternoon, sipping our tea and sa-
voring a sticky bun, we thought of
another bun stickier by far. The
one in the pink dress appeared,
glowering at us and we knew that
now was the time for all good men
to come to the aid of their country
(ed. note read college).

Sepahs morbid gniyrav demussa
sduole eht edistuo! The sun shim-
mered on the crystalline granules
of snow. A small blue object loom-
ed on the horizon and we were car-
ried away into the unknown. Would
it be tomorrow? Or was it only
yesterday? We did not know, we
were lost in the enveloping blue.

Liava on Ot

THEN It appeared. We had ar-
rived. Gray and glowering It stood
fecklessly—untouched by our
groaning anguish. ‘We prayed for
night, for calming witches brew.
Liava on ot. Night came, we sigh-
ed relief. But the stony counten-
ance was unmoved. Beating the
ground with unclenched fists, we
tried to dispel the portent of gloom.
Liava on ot.

Day came and~ night in never
swerving pattern. Still the tremen-
dous thing stood fast. Not the
warm glow of a thousand scintillat-
ing stars nor the leaping flames of
a bonfire could cheer this cold ex-
terior. A voice reached us, pro-
claiming Veritatem dilexi! We
wondered ..... (TIME)!



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Historical Sketches
By Kat Thomas, °49

One hundred and forty-seven
Freshmen arrived at Bryn Mawr
College on Thursday, September
27, 1945—some naive and scared,
others just as brash as you please,
but all with skirts to their knees
and hair to their shoulders and an
average IQ of 192.3. A pre-mature
instinct for research was shown by
one 49er who in looking for Taylor
was told to go to a building that
looked like a church, in search of
the Lib was told it looked like a
church, and on her way to a voice
test in Goodhart was told to go to
a building that resembled a church
—and she actually found them all.
(Now she can no doubt tell us the
architectual period of all three.)

The first post-war class found
itself faced with the usual post-
war problems—the housing short-
age and the manpower shortage.
The overflow was living down in
Low Buildings and walked all the
way to Pem for meals—even break-
fast. And at the Freshman dance
with Haverford, they found that
‘they outnumbered the men three
to one, had to do the cutting-in
and leading, and~from-that--time
forward adopted the attitude that
only a man in uniform was a man,
that Haverfordians were ... well,
they are on the track of trying to
find out.

Dachshund Victorious

Their first disappointment was
to have their Parade Night song
parodied by the Sophomores, but
their great achievement was keep-
ing the class animal, a barkless
dachshund, secret despite efforts of
'48 to take the door off its hinges.
However, success is momentary
and after a glorious spring of sun-
bathing on the gym roof, of picking
daffodils behind Park, and an in-

troduction to. the orgy of Prince- |

- Continued on page 4







ay or Commencement: Which in 1949?

Will 49 Commence Naturally
Or Take Bull -by the Horns?

Tomorrow the question of Big May Day versus Com-
mencement will be voted on after lunch. The issue is press-
ing, since there is not enough time for both. The NEWS has
therefore decided to present opinions on this subject.

Pro Big May Day

Graduation isa stiff, pompous
ceremony which ought to be replac-
ed by the gay abandon of frivolity
on May Day. The capitalist world
of today puts too much emphasis
upon material go-getting so that the
artistic (to say nothing of the spir-
itual) element of life has been vir-
tually squeezed out. What has be-
come of the splendor and pageantry

of life, the old love of singing and

dancing, of light-hearted frolick-
ing? Of what use is a piece of
parchment, if we have lost our abil-
ity to live and our capacity to en-
soy? Our minds are over-educated,
while :our bodied and spirits lie
dormant.

For those who have seen or par-
ticipated in this Elizabethan festi-
val, it is an unforgettable experi-
ence. For a whole day, everyone
plunges into the forgotten wonder
of the past, and once again we
breathe the fragrance of the flow’ry
medes of olde Englande. It is beau-
tiful, it is thrilling and people come
from all over the country to see
this unique Bryn Mawr tradition.
Two snow white bulls are even
walked from Ohio to participate.

Sheepskin Fallacy

It is a fallacy for any Senior to
think that she can wave a sheep-
skin with her name printed in La-
tin on it, and think that business
executives are going to clamor for
her. Today everyone has a college
education and it doesn’t amount to
a row of pins in the business world.

On May Ist

Let us learn to relax and enjoy
life the way the Elizabethans did.
Let us return to the primitive life
of feeling, rather than thinking.
Let us produce something unique,
and revive an interest in art. And
here is an argument for the more
practical, let us get out on the first
of May.



Calendar

February 1, 1949 — Four
months until Commence-
ment.

March 1, 1949 — Twenty-five
days until Spring Vacation.

March 25, 1949—Spring Vaca-
tion—Last Fling.

April 1, 1949 — Comprehen-
sives will not be called off.

April 4, 1949—Seclusion re-
quired for all Seniors.

May 1, 1949—Get rid of all
the debris in your room. All
Seniors must come out of
seclusion.

May 2, 1949—All Seniors re-
turn to Seclusion.

May 13, 1949—Two days until
comprehensives.

May 15, 1949—Last Fling for
Seniors begins.

Pro Commencement

The chief argument in favor of
Commencement is that Bryn Mawr
is primarily an institution of high-
er learning. After all women have
a role to play in the world today, a
fact which the element favoring
Big May Day seems to overlook.
“Why expend all of this energy on
a fertility cult of a country several
thousand miles removed and a fes-
tivity that was out of date 500
years ago?” The value of this
frolic on the green complete with
white oxen loses its significance in
these troubled times.

Bryn Mawr students have the
advantage of education at its best.
To receive a degree is a privilege,
not a duty; the commencement cer-
emonies are a far more aesthetic
and important tradition than May
Day.

If some insist that the pag-
eantry of May Day adds some in-
tangible quality to college life and
refuse to dispense with this non-
sense, there is still the possibility
of having both white oxen and
commencement. These oxen, if
brought to the college now, could
easily be trained to climb the steps
to the platform in Goodhart, walk
across, stopping just long enough
for the diploma to be hung on the
letf horn, and then to bear the tri-
umphant Bachelor of Arts down
the steps on the other side. There
is no real necessity for this com-
promise, but if people are stubborn,
it is certainly better than just ab-
olishing commencement.

Close those eyes! The gym de-
partment, in response to a Faculty
and Student Curriculum Commit-
tee poll on the question of morn-
ing classes, has, with the permis-
sion of Miss Lamb, head librarian,
instituted a class of setting-ups in
the Reading Room daily from 9-11.

“If this experiment proves suc-



| cessful, all eligible. undergraduates

will be required to register for two
hours a week,” said Mrs. Martial
today. All undergrads and faculty
members over 21 should attend the
first class meeting on February 10,
If there is not full cooperation on
the part of the students, the gym
department threatens the possibil-
ity of Marshall law.

Ups and Downs
Besides the registration, pointed
to relaxing and waking up neces-
sary arm muscles, the course in
setting-ups will provide invigor-
ating daily pickup of ebbing spirits.
The Undergrad Council is al-
ready painting yellow shovels em-
bossed with white owls for the







~May 31, 1949—Seniors Flung. 1



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THE COLLEGE NEWS



(Specially Contributed)
by Edie Mason Ham, ’50

We became pleased with our-
selves and East House so soon that
the Housewarming was one of our
first ventures. We opened the
doors between the two front rooms,
got a victrola and rolled up the
rugs. Sylvia was in charge of
the punch. She made it in the
glassed-in shower and, although
many of the schemes she perpe-
trated were successful, the punch
was unbelievably horrible. Many
materials had gone into the drink
but the final effect was that of
half-melted ice-cream in grape-
fruit juice. The company, however,
was receptive of our mood of buoy-
ancy and they drank all of Sylvia’s
concoction, not pretending that
they loved it, but joking and grim-
wcing over each glass,

Ami Meets Spud

Lhis was an attitude we liked and
we danced merrily for hours. It
was this night that Ami met Spud,
that we all met Ack-Ack and
Gwynne met Paul. It took Ami
well-nigh an hour to tell us about
Spud. We all sat in Priscilla’s
room after the party and listened
with mixed feelings of horror and
hilarity. Ami told a story well
if she was sure she had the floor.
She sometimes lost this by saying,
“J will tell you a story, herum,
herum, herum, cough, well—,” by
which time everyone had busiea
herself with her neighbor as ou1
minds were impatient and never
liked to wait. Tonight there was
no cough, cough. Ami went right
to the heart of things. Occasion-
ally the story would run away with
her and she would gesticulate wild-
ly, with her eyes rolling and her
words coming out spasmodically
with the heaving of her laughter.
We gathered that Spud was ter-
ribly, terribly fond of Ami and that
Agi was not too fond of Spud.

Lenci had her share of telephone
calls and dressing up and tearing
imand out. One of her friends was
Skip. He had a new, baby-blue
convertible which he handled with
abandon but never cracked up. His
friends were Sam and Pete. These
boys, I understood, lived in vari-
ous mansions around Bryn Mawr.
They wouid go to one of these
houses in the evening and run wild
until it was time to go home. Har-
riet and June were chosen by Lenci
as the people worthy of Skip’s
friends and one sunny afternoon
they all went tooting off in the
blue convertible. It was really a
pretty sight. Someone had a red
balloon. ‘Harriet was whooping





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with joy, Lenci was calm, June was
cute and the boys were very
pleased.

Thus began a long chain of
events which no one, even those
involved, understood. Boys and
girls would change. partners, one
girl would be discarded and an-
other picked up. Eventually the
boys ran through Sylvia, Lou and
Priscilla, as well as Harriet and
June. Lenci retained her perch as
Skip’s favorite throughout although
Sam almost won her away. Skip
would have none of this so he and
Sam had a long and bloody fight
over Lenci in the kitchen. Skip
won and Sam had to be content
with Harriet, June, Lou, Sylvia and
Priscilla. ‘After a few hearts had
been broken, the affair came to a
stop and the blue convertible came
no longer.

* * *

There were many others who
came to East House. There was
Willie who said, “I have only one
fault and you might call it an
asset.” There was Pig who cane,
blond and hearty, wholesome and
honest, from Oklahoma, He came
to East House the weekend of the
Carnival and of Ami’s birthday.
That was three days of balloons
and gentle incipient spring and
little old cars and pink and white.
There was Bill with his deep voice
and blond hair. He was going to
be a-minister and he was to go to
Scotland soon. But he was young
in spite of his convictions and he
could be carried away by one
thought, by the vision of a field
which had just been plowed and
the stiff meadow grass and the
farm house in the distance, or by
the fascination of watching people
far below and seeing how oblivious
they were to anything above them.

Barefoot All Day
q

In spring we had an East House
picnic on the sunken tennis court.
We wore blue jeans or flowery cot-

‘ton skirts and we called at each

other up and down the stairs. The
leaves were out and the windows
open and East House was light and
airy. We had pattered about bare-
foot all day. The sky became a
slightly deeper blue as the sun sank
jower. It was the sort of time
when in the middle of laughter and
gaiety, you put your head back
and, looking up at the sky, you are
thankful that life brings moments
like this. You know that it is worth
living if this feeling will come once
in a while.

White and Spirit-like

East House was white and spirit-
like in the spring evenings. If we
had not known we could rely on
it, we would have reached up imn-
ploring hands to bring it back from

Historical Sketches

‘ogy and the second of Biology.

‘forced to.announce in class that

| aigui—vecause of the coal short-



Continued from page 3

ton Houseparties, some were forced
to face the fact that they had
flunked their first language oral
and the science requirement.

Argyle Adventure

However, a percentage of the
class decided to have another go
at getting an education and return-
ed to retake the first term of Geol-

There having been no demand for
khaki socks and scarves, there had
been a lull in knitting, until the col-
lege suddenly burst out in a rash
of argyles and Dr. Herben was

incre Woulu be no knitting, unless
argyles size 14 to allow for
shrinkage.”

Curfews

anis was the year that a curfew
was emorced—no lights after mid-



age,. and Sprague’s Shakespeare |
quiz was universally studied in the |
johns. Social lite picked up, and
unere were less uniforms on
Luiupus, and tne guy to know was
the college man available every
weekend. The 2 million dollar fac-
ulty salary drive was on everyone’s
mind and in everyone’s pocketbook,
so that ’49 gave a Sophomore Carn-
ival complete with freaks and a
barber-shop quartet.

Junior Year

As Juniors they produced Big
As Life for the Drive, took
on the New Look and read the Kin-
sey Report. Most of the require-
ments were passed but for some
the oral. was becoming a migraine
headache.

And now all eyes look forward,
not to the past, and when the
hurdle of comprehensives has, been
jumped over, history will have been
made! (But, who we want to know,
wants to make history?)



the sky and root it to the earth.
Maybe we were spirit-like too,
maybe the house realized we were
temporary, caught for a moment
from a state of flux. So East
House was our natural home. We
trooped in and out that night and
all the spring nights and even the
people we brought with us were
aware of the special quality.





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Halls Become ‘Foster Mothers’
To War Children Living Abroad

by Jane Augustine, °52

Each hall on campus is now sup-
porting a war child whose family
is either dead or in desperate need.
These war children are picked and
assigned to “foster parents” by the
Foster Parents Plan for War Chil-
dren; $15 a month for a year sup-
ports a war child, $50 a year en-
dows a bed for a child, and $500
endows a dormitory. In a group
of fifty persons, a penny a day per
person completes the $15 monthly
payment.

Denbigh is supporting a Dutch
boy from Amsterdam named Karel
Philip. They have sent him a check
and a package and are correspond-
ing with him. His letters, written
in Dutch and translated by the
Plan, expressed gratitude for the
fat and soap in the package sent
to him. He said he thought it was
lucky for America that “Minister”
Truman was reelected. He also
said that he was going to the Pal-
ace to see the presents to the Prin-
cess, and that it would cost 25c
which would go to the cancer fund.
Both letters ended with the words,
“many greetings from my grand-
mother, my sister and myself.”

Merion formerly contributed to
the care of a Dutch girl, Catharina
Schroor, but her family conditions
improved and she was removed
from Plan care. Merion is now sup-
porting an 11-year-old French girl,
Raymonde Le Sauot. iAs yet, they
have received no Jetters from her,
but the Plan sent a snapshot of
Raymonde and a detailed descrip-
tion of her background. Her father
was killed in the invasion of
France, and she, her two older
brothers and her mother were forc-
ed to evacuate to tne country. The
Plan gives Raymonde food, cloth-
ing, medicine and schooling, and
her mother receives a small grant
to take care of Raymonde’s home
needs. Raymonde is an attractive



blonde child, who is well-behaved
and anxious to do well in school so
that her.mother will be proud of
her. The interest of her “foster
parents” will help her adjustment
as she enters adolescence.

Pembroke West is supporting a
French girl also, named Jeanne
Marie Sabin. Her letter, written
in French in a dainty legible hand-
writing, said she was happy that
people across the sea were think-
ing of her—“une petite fille de
France.” She sent her “marraines”
two pictures of herself hand paint-
ed in watercolor—one with red
flowers and one with a fawn named
“Bamby,” both captioned “Joyeux
Noel,” and thanked them for her
care.

Pembroke East is supporting a
Polish girl who is in the third
grade. Her letters describe her life
in Poland and at camp, and she
draws pictures on her letters, Pem
East sent her a Christmas box, and
just recently received the letter
thanking them for it. The Plan
provides her with the same care
it gives Raymonde—food, clothing,
medicine and schooling.

Rockefeller is supporting a seven-
year-old Dutch boy named Cornelis
J. J. Mas, or “Kees.” He was born
in the Dutch East Indies where he
and his family were interned. His
father died in the concentration
camp and he and his mother were
left in frightful physical and nerv-
ous condition. They are now repa-
triated’ in Holland, living in two
rooms without furniture. Kees is
a handsome blohd boy and is com-
pletely unselfish; he will give away
anything he owns if allowed. Wynd-
ham is helping Rock in taking care
of him.

Rhoads Hall takes care of a Pol-
ish girl named Aleksandra Beben,
called “Ala,” who is in the fifth
grade. She writes very interesting

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Page Five



Suggestions Received _|
From Curriculum Poll |
Continued from page 1

students from the entire student |
body answered, while 192 checked
the English poll. The five. trans-
fer students who did not take the
English course accounted for the
difference.

Ninety-three of the undergrad-
uate body voted yes for a social
science requirement; sixteen of
these being science majors, ten,
history majors, and 47 who had
taken courses in these two subjects.
Twenty students had taken no
courses in them. _

Of the negative viewpoint, forty-
four students had taken no courses
in either social science or history,
and from the total, 45 stated that
there were too many required sub-
jects. ° Fifteen felt this social sci-
ence requirement was good in
theory, but wanted the allowance
of a substitution of some sort.

A great proportion of those op-
posed to a social science require-
ment were Freshmen, while as a
whole the two upperclasses, 1949,
1950, were definitely in favor of it.

The majority of those polled
(106) felt that the present English
composition course was not fulfill-
ing its purpose of giving every
student in college at least the
ability to write English adequately.
Eighty-one took the favorable
viewpoint, and of this number the
majority were freshmen now tak-
ing the course.

Student criticism was strongest
on the weakness in_ teaching
the ability to analyze a current
problem or doctrine, the power of
self-expression in the interpreta-
tion of the individual’s own experi-
ence and ideas, and the ability to
analyze reading, and understand-
ing of several literary forms. The
general feeling was that there was
a need for further explanation of
the purpose of the course by the
professor. ?

An over-all view was the aim of
the committee, and the constructive
criticism gleaned meant more than
the actual number of students in
favor or opposed to each condition.
The aim of the English poll was



to have coordination between what

@ Foreign Children
Supported by Halls
Continued from page 4

letters about her school life, the
exams, her trip to the seashore
over vacation, and she puts in a
typical little girl plea for a pair
of skates. She, like most of the
other foster-children, decorates her
letters with pictures. Several
Rhoads girls have written Ala, for
she wrote back delightedly in one
letter that she had gotten five let-
ters from her “mothers.”

The Class of 1949 is now sup-

porting a Chinese boy, Shih Chia-

hwon, who is living with a group
of boys in Boystown. He is one of
the children of China who is ex-
pected to survive in spite of the
high mortality. His letters tell of
life in Boystown, of the farming
and the school work he does, and
the basketball games he has played
in. His last letter said he had no
letters from his foster-parents, and
he is very anxious to hear about
conditions in America and how we
spent Christmas here.

The Foster Parents Plan for War
Children sends out bulletins de-
scribing the activities of its repre-
sentatives abroad, and urges that
everyone try to contribute at least
some small amount to the cause of
these casualties of war.



the students and the English Com-
position committee want. On the
social science question, the curricu-
lum committee has been discussing
it and was anxious to see student
reaction. Actually no figurés are
conclusive, since so few polls were
returned.

Dr. Louis W. Pitt:
To Lead Chapel

Dr. Louis W. Pitt will conduct
the chapel service in the Music
Room on (Sunday, February 13th.
Dr. Pitt is at present rector of
Grace Church in New York, a posi-
tion which he has held since 1940.
Before that time, Dr. Pitt was
rector of Saint Mary’s Church in
Ardmore. Dr. Pitt is also a trustee
of the Cathedral of Saint John the
Divine in New York, and has been
a member of the standing commit-
tee of the Diocese of New York
since 1942,

Ballet, Modern Dance :
Presented Wed. Night

An exhibition of modern dance
techniques will be given in the
Skinner Workshop on Wednesday,
February 9, at 8:30, by the Modern
Dance Group. About twenty-five
leotard-clad students will demon-
strate their own compositions
which include a ballet, a tap dance,
and both Duncan and Modern
Dance Compositions. They will at-
tempt to reveal the basic compon-
ents of dancing from ballet to mod-
ern style, and to show how simple
technique is woven into each finish-
ed dance. Miss Kilby has directed
the modern dancers, Irina Nelidow
the Duncan Dancers.





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Dr. Hugh J. Creech

Explains Cancer Cure
Continued from page 1
stages.” When realized, chemo-
therapy will have great advantages
over both of these methods, he

said.

Chemotherapy itself is based
upon the fact that there are funda-
mental ‘differences between the
cells of tumors and those of ordin-
ary tissues. Any successful chem-
ical must damage tumor tissue
without damaging normal cells.

By means of an enormous screen-
ing program, compounds are being
tested for their effect on both
tumor and healthy tissue. Certain
chemicals have some promising
action, e. g. those which affect mito-
sis, and those with selective killing
action. A study of all possible
physiological properties is made,
and finally each compound must be
tested on transplanted or spon-
taneous tumors.

It is after this test that most
compounds as such must be aban-
doned. For while chemicals may
often produce a good clinical con-
dition in the animal (mice are
most frequently used), and may
promote tumor regression, they
frequently prove lethal to the ani-
mal. In other cases, chemothera-
peutic agents have worked satis-
factorily for animals, but not so
for humans.

Some chemicals have no high
toxicity; they produce regression
of tumors, and good clinical con-
dition of the patient. The disad-
vantage here, however, may be the
temporary effect of the compound.
Still other chemicals have long
term destructive action on bone
marrow and on white and red blood
cells.

Bryn Mawr, Haverford
| Present Joint Recital

Continued from page 1

ous.

The major event of the evening
was Haydn’s Mass No. 3 in D Minor
conducted by Mr. Reese and ac-
companied by Mr. Goodale at the
organ and by the orchestra. Mr.
Reese welded the orchestra—which
included a gusty cello, a honey-like
flute, and a precise and martial
trumpet—, the booming chorus,
and the differing qualities of the
solo voices into a breath-taking,
exquisite whole. Musicians, singers,
all seemed filled with enthusiasm
which quickly spread to the audi-
ence. The timing and dynamics
were excellent; a new and delight-
ful shiver ran through the audi-
ence with every new crashing en-
trance or tantalizing whisper of
the chorus. Haverford sang su-
perbly. The men’s voices gave the
whole depth and resonance. Of the
soloists, who all sang well, Betty
Jean Connor should be especially
commended for her beautiful per-
formance. Her voice has a remark-
able sweetness of tone—an operatic
quality that intensified the emo-
tional impact of the music.

The Haydn Mass is probably one
of the best performances that
Bryn Mawr and Haverford have
ever given. For the polished ex-
ecution of the Mass, credit must go
to Mr. Reese and Mr. Goodale, but
it was the fact that the singers
loved what they were singing that
made the whole so wonderful.





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Page Six

THE COLLEGE NEWS



NOTICES

Freshman Elections

The freshman class takes pleas-
ure in announcing the election of
Joanna Pennypacker as temporary
freshman member to the Self-Gov.
Board, Julie Burke to Undergrad,
Pauline Austin to A. A., and Beth
Harrer to the League.

Drama Guild Elections

The Drama Guild announces the
election of Ann Jane Rock as pres-
ident, Marjorie Low as vice presi-
dent, Cynthia Schwartz as business
manager, and Claireve Grandjouan
as chairman of: the Reading Com-
mittee.

Poetry Course
A new course, English 211c,
English Verse Composition, will be
given for the first time next year,
by Mr. Lattimore of the Greek De-
partment. The course will include
technical exercises as well as free
composition, and some attention
will be paid to the principles of po-
etic criticism. Further details may
be obtained from Mr. Lattimore, in

his office in the Library.

Plays for Next Year

A-list. will be posted on the Thea-
tre bulletin board in Taylor for the
collection of suggestions for plays
to be done by the Bryn Mawr-Hav-
erford groups next year. The sug-
gestions will be acted upon by the
combined reading committees of
the Drama Guild and the Cap and
Bells.

Books for Munich

Last spring several members of
the faculty sent books to the Eng-
lish Seminary of the University of
Munich. This gift was received
with the greatest enthusiasm. Any
books of English authors are in de-
mand, as the entire library of the
English Department of Munich was
destroyed. Students wishing to do-
nate books should leave them in
Mr. Mezger’s office or with Miss
Agnew,



Princeton, Yale, Snow

Make Ski Holiday Go

Continued from page 1

for the milk run (the early trip of
the chair lift up the mountain)—
and two of them missed it. After
Sunday’s skiing, we were heart-
broken to leave.

‘Our conversation was most au-
thentic Stowe: the relative merits
of the Sepp Rusch (snow plow)
method of skiing versus the French
{lean this way and smile at me)
method. Occasionally the relative
merits of Yale versus MIT or Ski
Patrol versus the natives cropped
up. But there was no controversy
over the decision that the best and
cheapest method of transportation
in Stowe was the thumb (and be-
sides, you meet such nice people).

Nor was there any argument over |

the fact that skiing is the best
sport in the world and we wish we
were back.





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| President McBride Announces B. M. Fund News,

Faculty Appointments, In Speech on Feb. Ist

Continued from page 1

over ninety per cent of its quota,
which is $1,250,000, or five-eighths
of the total. The student quota,
$15,720, has also been met, but
Miss McBride called upon the
Freshmen to work for the Fund.
She said, “For Bryn Mawr it is a
major enterprise, and you who
come in the Fund’s final and suc-
cessful year should have a part in
it.” Foreign and anonymous gifts
have also aided the drive to near its
goal. :

The Bryn Mawr Fund has opened
up new possibilities for the col-
lege. Three-quarters of it was set
aside to raise faculty salaries, and
the first salary increase was ef-
fected in September, 1947. New
chairs and professorships will be
supported by the Fund. The Rufus
M. Jones Professorship in Philos-
ophy. and Religion will be intro-
duced next yéar, aided by a gift
from the Kresge Foundation; and
the raising of further funds for the
Theresa Helburn Chair in the
Drama is also in progress.

Miss McBride spoke of the es-
ablishment of “new scholarships
which have already been aided by
che Fund and announced the in-
crease of the Bryn Mawr European
Fellowship from $750 to $1,000.
She said, however, that more effort
must still be put into the drive:



‘That $1,881,000 is close to $2,00,-
000, but so is June to January.”

Appointments to the faculty were
also disclosed. Professor Conyers
Read, of the University of Pennsyl-
vania, will meet with the seniors
until Miss Robbins returns. Dr.
Metzger will teach Dr. Herben’s
seminar in Old and Middle English
and his course in the History of
the English Language. Miss Mary
[. O’Sullivan, from Rosemont Col-
lege, will teach the Chaucer course.
Miss Stapleton and Mr. John Ash-
mead, Instructor of English at
Haverford College, will take the
Survey of English Literature. Pro-
fessor Frederick Jones, of the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania will give
the seminar in the Romantic Period.
Miss Frances Matthai, graduate
student in English, will teach Miss
Woodworth’s section of English
Composition. Mr. J. D. Reed, of
Rutgers University, will teach the
seminar in Physiological Psychol-
ogy; and Mr. Jose Miguel Gon-
zalez, of Swarthmore College, will
teach the course in Intermediate
Spanish,

Mrs. Manning and Miss Staple-
ton return from sabbatical leave
and Dr. Chew, Miss Woodworth,
and Dr. Miller go on sabbatical
leave this semester.



Freshmen to Present
Show on February 19

Continued from page 1

Evelin Lord, the novelist, will
be played by Julie Stevens. Among
her own characters, Jill McAnney
is Fargo, the hero; Claire Minton,
Constance, the southern heroine;
Molly Allen, Nora Straight, the
Elaine Marks, Percy,
Fargo’s Linda Bettman,
Horace, the prizefighter; Elizabeth
Gjelsness, Mrs. Clarissa t’rothing-
ton; Ruth McVey, Professor Noth-
ingham,

Evelin’s earthly friends are as
follows: Jim Burns, Cornelia Per-
kins; Cora Ward, Margie Cohn;
Agatha Rhinehart, Elspeth Win-
ton; Simon Howe, Paula Straw-
hecker; Edgar, Bess Foulke; Min-
nie, Patricia Richardson; Norman
Sloane, Jacqueline Appel; Mildred
Sloane, Nancy Pearre; J. Arthur
Proofeock, Helen Simpson; Laura
Norton, Barry Seymour; Jasper
Knowles, Mary Ann Rising; Mary
Grimes, Lita Hahn; Elizabeth
Bander, Delia Fleishhacker; Ger-
triage Grendel, Jane Augustine;
Charles Hack, Birdie Dawes; ele-
vator boy and two delivery boys
Tru Warren. .

In Limbo, the Tolstoi Family is
portrayed by Landis, Perkins,
Boyd, Heckman, Crowdus, Ritter,
Turnbull, and Mason, with Cherem-

governess;
ward;



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SPORTS

The first event on the intercol-
legiate sports calendar for the com-
ing semester is a badminton tour-
nament with Drexel, to be held at
the Merion Cricket Club on Feb-
ruary 8th. A swimming meet with
Drexel will be held at Bryn Mawr
on the 10th. On Saturday Febru-

Penn here, in basketball.
The inter-hall basketball games
began last Sunday with Denbigh



continue on succeeding Sunday af-
ternoons until the championship
game, March 13th, Next Sunday is
scheduled for Radnor-Rhoads.



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Monday. Application blanks are
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