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VOL. XLVI, NO. 9
ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1949
Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1949
PRICE 15 CENTS
Quine Analyzes
Characteristics
Of “Identities”
Genesis of Symbolism,
Universals Sifted
By Quine .
Specially contributed
by Hugues LeBlanc
The De Laguna lecture in Phil-
osophy was given Monday night in
the Music Room of Goodhart by
Dr. W. V. Quine.
Entitled: “Identity”, it was an
analysis of the part played by ‘=’
doth in the. genesis of universals
and the genesis of symbolism.
Quine opened his talk with a ref-
erence to Heraclitus and his al-
deged saying that one cannot bathe
_twice in the same river. He stress-
"ed the fact that. concrete entities
or particulars, like rivers, are
time-consuming processes of which
we perceive only momentary
stages. To restore continuity with-
in our experience, we postulate
that these various stages merge;
we integrate them into a single
spatio-temporal whole and then de
fine this whole by ‘ostension.
Quine then underlined the fact
that many so-called universals, like
red, can be manufacttired by the
same process. The integration,
this time, is a conceptual one; it
is the summation of all the in-
stances of a given universal; in
our example, the summation of all
red patches. Red thus explains
away as the scattered total of all
red parts, and is ostensively de-
fined by our pointing to a given
part of the sum. In our framing
both of particulars and of uni.
versals, we rely on Leibniz’ prin-
ciple of the identity of the indis-
cernibles. In framing particulars
a river, for example, we disregard
the temporal discontinuity of the
various stages of the event; in
framing universals, red, for ex-
ample, we disregard the special
discontinuity of the various in-
stances of the property.
Quine mentioned that for Frege
identity was the criterion of de-
notativity, since ‘=’ can be flanked
only by names, and names denote
Mr.
Artists Perform
Mozart, Debussy
At First Concert
by Frances Shirley, 53
The first of this year’s series of
five Young Musicians’ Concerts was
held on Sunday afternoon, Decem-
ber 4th, at the home of Miss Ely.
The concert was well-attended, and
Mr. Silverstein and Anthony di
Bonadventura, the performing art-
ists, both students at the Curtis
Institute, played a diversified pro-
gram that leaned to the classical.
Mr. Silverstein was especially to
be commended, for he substituted
for Jean Sandbank, the scheduled
violinist, on about twenty-four
hours’ notice. .
Mr. Silverstein’s appearance
necessitated some changes in the
planned program. The first of these
was the substitution of Mozart’s
lovely first Sonata in A major for
piano and violin for the Chausson
Poeme. In the playing of the son-
ata, which is divided into an Al-
legro and a Theme and Variations,
Mr. Silverstein seemed a _ bit
strained. However, his technique
and intonation were good and
though the higher register of his
playing was at times a bit strident,
the over-all effect was good. Hap-
pily, in the second movement the
artists were more at their ease,
and the lightheartedness of Mozart
came through the music. Mr. di
Bonadventura supplied the same
exemplary pianistic support here
as he did in the reading of the
Mendelssohn “Concerto.”
The Bach “Chromatic Fantasy
and Fugue” was Mr. di Bonad-
ventura’s first selection, and he
Continued on Page 6
Jose Ferrater Mora
Continued on Page 2
Schrecker Commentary Applies
To Fall Issue of Counterpoint
by Anne Greet, ’50
Counterpoint’s fall issue is stim-
ulating, diversified, and promises
well for the year. The balance of
prose to poetry is about right and
a fairly good level of writing is
maintained from beginning to end.
Dr. Paul SchrecKer’s excellent es-
‘say “What’s Wrong With College
Writing” is in fact the best crit-
icism that can be made of the issue
as a whole, for many of the poems
and stories “echo the avant-garde
of yesterday, leaving a papery
taste.” Mr. Schrecker suggests
two closely-allied standards that
editors of college magazines might
keep in mind when choosing their
material; one, that what is accept-
ed should “aspire to a validity in-
dependent of the age and condition
of the writer,” and, two, that col-
‘lege writers should take care to
preserve their own integrity when |
using what they have read as a
model or source of inspiration.
“When you read the authons you
admire, their world becomes yours.
But when you sit down to create
yourselves, the world is no longer
the same.”
If Rat and Mole had ever read
Plato the resulting conversation
might have sounded like that of
A and B in Gwynne Williams’ “Dis-
perse!” the most original contri-
bution in this issue. Her ideas on
dispersal are delightful and the
dialogue is adeptly managed. Of
the stories, Herbert Cheyette’s
“Hallowen” is the best. In spite
of a slow beginning, an unneces-
sary last sentence, and a tendency
towards arty description, his story.
of a lunatic is believeable, imagin- |
ative, and very appealing, with an
underlying meaning which is un-
obtrusively made clear.
The remaining prose contribu-
Continued on Page 5
opher with sly-humor is Mr. Jose
in, Mexico in 1941.
‘under the auspices of a Guggen-
Scholar, Professor, Philosopher
Gives NEWS 5 Star Cigarette
by Joan McBride, ’52
Scholar, professor, and_philos-
Maria Ferrater Mora, new lecturer
in the. Spanish department. When
we ventured into his office, he was
looking -over some _ publisher’s
proofs of his third edition of a
“bulky” dictionary of philosophy.
“It is much bulkier than the sec-
ond edition,” which was published
“This‘is Mr. Ferrater Mora’s first
year in an American college. He
came to the United States in 1947,
heim Fellowship, and spent most
of his time doing research in New
York, Princeton, and Baltimore. |
“I like it very much in New. York,”
he said with a smile, “where it is,
quiet, pleasing, restful, and the
tools of research are numerous.
There you seem to be without a
Schrecker Traces
Physics Principle
Of “Least Action”
Park, December 6: Speaking on
the Early History of the Principle
of Least Action at this year’s first
Sigma Xi Meeting, Dr. Paul
Schrecker. emphasized
prineiple is the only one which has
survived all theoretical revolutions
in physics since its conception. The
history of science is incomprehen-
sible without this principle, which
certainly existed _in embryonic
form long before its actual formu-
lation and can be traced back as
far as to Leukippos in the fifth
century B.C. Aristotle, stating it
teleologically, said that “God and
nature do not do anything in vain”.
The emphasis on the qualification
“in vain” remains in the scientific
proofs of the Alexandrians.
The principle, first applied by
the Greeks to the science of optics.
was adapted to geometry; it later
emerged in dynamic form and as
a principle of determination rather
than as one of teleology. Aquinas
subsequently interpreted it as a ra-
tional principle, stressing the ef-
ficacity of secondary causes when
stating that the actions of natural
Continued on Page 3
CALENDAR
Thursday, December 8
4:00 p. m., Bryn Mawr Sum-
mer Camp Tea, Common Room.
Friday, December 9
8:30 p. m., Drama Guild Pro-
duction, “Elizabeth the Queen,”
Roberts Hall, Haverford.
Saturday, December 10
8:30 p. m., “Elizabeth the
Queen.”
Sunday, December 11
8:00 p. m., Christmas Con-
cert, Goodhart.
Monday, December 12
7:15 p. m., Current Events:
Guicharnaud, Van den Heuvel
“Politics in France,’ Common
Room.
8:15 p. m., German Club Play,
“Urfaust,” Music Room.
Tuesday, December 13
8:30 p. m., French Club Play,
Wyndham.
Wednesday, December 14
8:30 p. m., Spanish Club Par-
ty, Wyndham.
Thursday, December 15
Christmas Dinner.
that. .this |.
problem, though you know there
are problems all around you.” Then
he.added, “But at Bryn Mawr, you
are not obliged to travel in a sub-
way, which ‘is the end of all re-
search, except for the social
sciences, where you can watch
how people behave in the sub-
ways.”
At that point, Mr. Ferrater Mora
offered us a Five Star cigarette,
long, flat, and mild, sold only in
Philadelphia. “It gives me my only
excuse to make a trip into Phila-
delphia,” he smiled self-indulgent-
ly.
He was born in Barcelona and
educated at the University of Bar-
celona. He taught for five years
at the University of Chile, then
lectured for two years in Cuba.
He is interested rather in the pro-
blems and history of philosophy
than in a specific field. “Philosophy
is like a nucleus, around which one
may study many. fields, such as
biology, the Bible, literature.” One
of his problems for investigation
was Death, which he treated in El
Sentido de la Muerte. He also
wrote Sobre el Espiritu, and ex-
plained that the word “espiritu”
may be interpreted in two differ-
ent ways: psychologically as mind,
and historically as spirit. This last
book is “particularly appealing be-
cause of its bright green cover.”
Continued on Page 5
White Discusses
Quaker Proposals
specially contributed by
Isabel Witt and Jean Theis
“We felt we did not deserve the
Nobel Prize for Peace, of which
we were,the partial recipients in
1948, so we began to search for
some project that would better ful-
fill our conception of the signifi-
cance of such an award.” Thus
President Gilbert White of Haver-
ford explained the genesis of the
report: The United States and the
Soviet Union, Some Quaker Pro-
posals for Peace.
President White served as chair-
man of the Working Party on
American-Soviet Relations of the
American Friends Service Commit-
tee, which prepared and drew up
this report. Summarizing its con-
Continued on Page 3
Experimenters —
(Offer Amusing
Barrie, Langner
Actresses Anonymous
Presents Students
In Two Plays
by Judith Konowitz, ’51
In its first program, two one-act
plays which were presented in the
Skinner Workshop on Friday,
Actresses Anonymous was full of
surprises. The cast was neither all
actresses nor all anonymous, and
what one might have expected to
be a serious experimental evening
turned out to be a highly enter-
taining, if dramatically unpreten-
tious performance.
The double-bill opened with J.
M. Barrie’s classic “The Twelve
Pound Look”... a subtle commen-
tary on the emancipation of wo-
men. Molly Allen handled the
tongue-in-cheek characterization of
Kate with ease and charm. Elspeth
Winton was convincing as_ the
‘dominated, passive wife of a stuffy
Sir Harry. The latter part, un-
fortunately, was over-acted by J.
N. Smith, whose heavy, almost
slap-stick interpretation was out
of place in Barrie’s delightfully
light comedy ... a lack of polish
probably due to the one-week pro-
duction limit.
The second play, “Another Way
Out” by Laurence Langner... &
comedy of “Immorals” was an
amateur actor’s delight. The hu-
morous characters and their un-
Continued on Page 6
CHRISTMAS CONCERT
The Christmas Concert will
be given at 8:00, December 11,
in Goodhart. After the Invo-
cation, delivered by the Rever-
end Andrew Mutch, the Bryn
Mawr College Chorus will sing
three Czech carols: Harken To
Me; Sleep, Baby, Sleep; Strang-
ers Say A King is Born; and
Zoltan Kodaly’s Angels and the
Shepherds. The orchestra will
play Manfredini’s Sinfonia; the
Haverford Glee Club will sing
three carols, and the mixed
chorus will sing a group of tra-
ditional carols.
West Point Conference Seeks
Solution to European Problems
by Emily Townsend, 50
“Let me urge you to remember
that this is not just an idle gath-
ering under pleasant auspices and
with gracious hosts, to pass a few
days in friendly intellectual inter-
course. On the contrary, it is an
institution, and I am referring to
this method of conference, which
lies at the very heart of our Amer-
ican democratic political process.”
The West Point conference on
U. S. foreign policy lasted from
Wednesday to Sunday ,and taught
us that planning foreign policy is
an almost hopelessly complex pro-
cedure, that even slightly favor-
able compromise agreements are
miracles to be prayed for, and that
all the delegates suffered from lack
of adequate information. The ca
dets were probably the best-train-
ed in security problems which is
all I can answer for. Hanna Hol-
born, the other Bryn Mawr dele-
‘gate, was impressed with the mod-
eration of the political groups.
After four days of really hard
work we came to realize that there
is no immediate answer to the
European situation, that every
move must be made with extraor-
dinary delicacy and balance, and
is likely to backfire dangerously.
We were disappointed at our in-
ability to come to any conclusions
which were compatible among out
three groups on politics, econom-
ics, and security, but West Point
was pleased: “If you had found an
answer, you would have been
wrong,” said Colonel Beukema,
who directed the conference.
The Army was a superb host,
and brought us a number of distin-
guished men for help. Grayson
Kirk, Provost of Columbia, part of
whose opening speech I quoted at
the start, Admiral Davis, who
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Wednesday, December 7, 1949
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Academic Honor
“The American college system is in danger,” warns the
December issue of Cosmopolitan. ‘The college cheat is no
longer someone to be scorned, but an accepted figure on
campus.” In many of our large colleges and universities,
cheating is practiced on a wide scale. Because of over-
crowding, a great influx of veterans, and widespread cheat-
ing during the war, an impersonal attitude has arisen. “The
student feels he is a very little fish in a very big ocean,” and
has no scruples against using whatever drastic method of
cheating he may devise.
On the whole, we find that these problems do not exist
at Bryn Mawr. Because cases of cheating so seldom occur,
our honor system does not need to be clearly defined. The
question of supervision during examinations is left to the
discretion of the professor, proctor, and student. We are
in close touch with the faculty and with each other, and
therefore feel greater individual responsibility to maintain
high standards of academic honesty. In addition, most of
us prefer to interpret for ourselves rather than to rely on
the information of others. Because the college treats us as
adults, we understand more fully the meaning of personal
and academic honor.
The Speech, [ Pray You
Why do we express ourselves so poorly in discussion?
When men are present, women are either shy of speaking up
at all, or ramble hopelessly. Even in the small classes we
have here at Bryn Mawr, where we should be free from
embarrassment, we have difficulty in getting to the point, or
expressing ourselves with fluency and decision.
Why? One reason, perhaps, is that men are better
trained in debate than women, and generally take greater
interest in public speaking. At Bryn Mawr, certainly, debate
is a very minor interest: the club has few members and prac-
tically no attendance. Surely we are as naturally capable
of debating and discussing as men, and have as great a need
of being able to speak concisely and forcefully in later life.
The fact remains, that though we have great opportunity
for practise here, we make nothing of it.
No training in public speaking is offered by the college.
The freshman speech requirement is designed to overcome
nasality, not shyness; it teaches clarity of diction, not of
presentation. The Debate Club itself is poorly organized,
and suffers from the lack of capable direction. Its subjects
are not challenging, and its activities are badly publicized.
We would like to see the college take the whole question
in hand, and appoint some interested person to assist in mak-
ing this important field of some significance to undergrad-
uates. We should realize that one of the most vital achieve-
ments of a good education is the ability to express our think-
ing i in an effective and meaningful manner.
Bryn Mawr Wayfarers Describe
Geneva, Basel, Florence, Paris
by Nina Cave, ’50
Last Wednesday afternoon many
of those interested were given an
account of the Junior Year Abroad.
Four members of the class of ’50
and one alumna gave glowing ac-
counts of their years abroad in
Italy, France, and Switzerland —
each claiming that the city they
had studied in was “ the real cen-
ter of Europe.”
Kathy Harrington led off with
the story of the Smith group in
Geneva. She emphasized Geneva’s
central location, both physically
and culturally. You could go almost
any place in Europe for the week-
end; overnight to Paris, in eight
hours to Milan. Politics was the
most important element of both
academic and social life; the uni-
versity had excellent courses in
international affairs, and boys
didn’t ask whether a girl was
pretty, but if she was liberal or
not.
Eva Rosenbaum was in the first
scientific group ever to spend a:
Junior Year Abroad. She spent the
year in Basel and found the method-
of teaching chemistry quite differ-
ent and consequently difficult, .but
her fellow students very helpful.
Because Eva knew much more
German than most of the group
she attended a regular university
science course, where she worked
with students studying to be pro-
fessional chemists and far ahead
of her in lab technique.
Mary Strumia, °48, said that
Florence “is the microcosm in
which you can find every facet of
Western Civilization.” She went to
Italy for a year with a Smith
group, and spent the summer see-
ing places of academic interest
such as Pompeii, Rome, and Peru-
gia. The group also spent seven
unprecedented and gecidedly un-
academic days in Capri before they
went to Florence.
They almost froze during the
cocoon-like layers of clothes to
keep warm. But according to Mary,
nothing mattered except that they
were in Florence; they saw Shake-
speare in the Boboli Gardens,
heard Francescans sing at the An-
nunziata Church and studied at
Fiesole. Formal study was at a
Quine Analyzes Identity,
Function in Symbolism
Continued from Page 1
Quine himself prefers to regard
quantification as the criterion of
denotavitity: to be, as he once said,
is to be the value of a quantified
variable. The values of individual
variables are concrete entities o1
particulars;; those of predicate
variables, are abstract entities or
universals.
Quine then turned to the gen-
eral problem of identity. He re-
marked that identity has often
been underrated, because entities
are either identical or distinct and
thus to assert their identity is
either trivial ,as in the first case
or false, as in the second. Bu’
this is, according to Quine, to en-
tirely mistaken view of the role of
‘—’, We flank ‘=’ with names
because the same entity may be
given different names and we need
a predicate to state the metalog-
teal fact that all these names are
designatively synonymous. Were
it possible to eliminate all such
synonyms ,then identity would lose
much of its significance. But such
a drastic reduction cannot be
achieved; any symbolism must
contain different variables to al-
low for the formation of polyadic
matrices like ‘x hates y’, and as
soon as at least two different let-
ters creep in a calculus, then we
need the identity sign to assert
that in some cases these two let,
ters stand for one and only one
entity. Identity is thus essentia
to any discourse; it is one of the
predicates which set symbolism on
_lits feet,
minimum, but all you had to do
was walk down the street to see
what you had just heard about in
a lecture. :
Kathy Harper and Karen Cas-
sard reported on the year at the
Sorbonne and they both empha-
sized the importance of living with
a French family and of taking
regular university courses, if pos-
sible. Karen urged everybody who
wants to go to France to “buckle
down” and really learn the lang-
uage.
Everybody seemed to agree that
adaptation and readaptation were
not unendurable and that they
loved America dearly but would
beg, borrow, or steal to return to
Europe again.
Foreign Policy Remains
Unsolved for Delegates
Continued from Page 1
bears the intriguing title of Chief
of the Joint Staff of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, Paul Hoffman,
ECA Director, Leo Pasvolsky,
Head of the. Brookings Institute,
James Reston, star diplomatic
correspondent of the New York
Times (who spoke superbly on the
difficulties of extracting proper in-
formation for the public from
high officials), Francis Wilcox.
chief advisor to the Senate For-
eign Relations Committee, and
Joseph Johnson, ex-State Depart-
ment, all: gave us some startling
insights into the impossibility of
persuading the government to do
what has got to be done, and the
immediate necessity of getting it
done anyway.
In pur conclusions we were less
influenced by the specific opinions
of these distinguished men than
might have been expected. I can-
not give a summary of the conclu-
sions of the conference, because
the final reports of the three
: ; tirely compat:
winter and ended up by wearing | S'UPS were not snurely P
In general, we felt the need
for a Europe strong enough in all
three fields to resist Russian ag-
gression, armed from its own pro
duction with certain capital im-
ports from America, the propa-
gation of democratic ideology
while recognizing the necessity for
co-operating with any government
at all in the interests of security.
the support of deflection in the
satellite countries, support to
Tito, the non-recognition of Spain
while France and Britain remain
hostile, (although there was strong
minority opinion here), direct
pressure on Europe to lower in-
ternational trade barriers, the in-
corporation of Germany in even.
tual political union, the prosecu.
tion of a containment policy with
Russia, (the violence of minority
opinion here almost drew blood),
standardization of arms and estab-
lishment of military bases. Rather
surprisingly, we proceeded almost
unanimously on the assumption
that Russia’s intentions were un-
changeably hostile.
Dean Rusk, under-Secretary of
State, did an extraordinarily able
job of summing up the conference
for us: he gave us no answers, but
some new worries. His main point
and ours: The U. S. must take
strong steps to insure a minimum
standard of conduct in internation-
al relations. He insisted that there
was no immediate solution to the
questions of rearming Germany,
how to handle Franco, what kind
of aif we should give Tito and how
much, and how probable the econ-
omic integration of Europe actu-
ally was, the point on which we
had been most optimistic.
We never quite succeeded in
reconciling all our opinions, be-
cause Field Marshal Slim, Chief of
Staff of the British Imperial Army,
entered in upon us to the sound of
a seventeen gun salute. Briskly he
answered our questions. The stra-
tegic value of Spain was very
great, he said, in direct contradic-
Continued on Page 5
B.M. Alumnae Organize:
Vocational Aid
‘For Seniors
December. 1, 1949
To the Editor of the College News,.
Bryn Mawr alumnae are work-
ing on’a plan to help recent grad-.
uates find jobs. A committee has
been formed which met with a
group of undergraduates in Octo-
ber to discuss plans. As a result,
a project is under way which is in-
tended to reach every senior when
she leaves college. An alumnae net-.
work is being organized, repre-
sentatives all over the country,.
who will see new alumnae who
come to their area and give them
leads.
Further details of this plan will
be announced as a job conference
to be held on campus the weekend
of February 24th. The conference:
will consist of a panel of seven
members of. business and profes-
sional fields who will discuss gen--
eral questions of job-getting with
the..students Friday evening. Sat-.
urday morning will be devoted te:
individual conferences for students.
‘and the panel speakers as’ well as.
with other representatives of fields
not covered by them.
The undergraduate representa-
tive on this alumnae committee is:
Margery Peterson, Pembroke
West, head of the Undergraduate
Vocational Committee. We hope
that the students will be vocal
about their ideas and wishes on
the subject of how alumnae can
help with jobs and will take these
suggestions to her.
Yours sincerely,
Alice Gore King, ’37
Chairman,
Alumnae Committee on Jobs:
HS:
Current Events
Common Room, December 5.—
In discussing “What is the Arab
League Today?”, Cecil Hourani, a
member of the Lebanese delega-
tion to the U.N., presented a com-
prehensive analysis of the original
objectives of the Arab League, its
failure to achieve them, and plans.
for the future.
The League was organized in
1945 in order to bring about unity
of the Middle Eastern countries,
and to strengthen the position of
the Arab nations in the U.N. The
major incentive was “the impend-
ing Palestine situation. The con-
stitution of the League did not
provide for limitation of sover-
eignty of the member states, but
the implicit idea was that event-
ually a unified super-state would
result,
Mr. Hourani. stressed the fact
that “the outcome of the Palestine
problem was of vital importance
to the League.” Its inability to
solve this problem satisfactorily
led to the “prevailing view among
thinking Arabs of the moment that
the League has failed.”
The underlying” causes of this
failure, Mr. \Hourani explained,
were first, the\lack of a permanent
secretariat, and second, ‘their pre-
occupation with purely political
situations, since, in’ the long run,
their political progress would be
judged on a basis of the social and
economic progress\ they made.”
At present, two major alterna-
tive solutions to the problem of
Arab unification have been offered.
A widely favored suggestion is a
federation of those countries
known as the “Fertile Crescent’
. - « Iraq, Syria,, Lebanon, Trans-
jordan, and Arab Palestine. The
other proposal, “Collective Secur-
ity”, calls for a loose alliance of
Arab. States, and abandons the
idea of eventual unity.
Wednesday, December 7, 1949
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
Page Three
Murder
In Cuneiform
Ed. Note: In case you do not
remember what happened in the
second installment, we have just
left Hildebrand Sharp with ef-
ficient fingers reposing around
his throat.
“No!” said President Flit, “def-
initely no!” In the outer office his
secretary heard him and looked up
in surprise; she had never heard
the President use such strong lan-
guage. Generally, he was a mild
man, pliant to the alumni and the
pride of the local Rotary Club. He
liked to refer to the students as
“his boys and girls,” and the most
forceful word in his vocabulary
had always been “maybe.”
“But President, you don’t un-
derstand,” begged Mr. LeRoy pite-
ously, “it’s perfect for my thesis.”
“Tanto Religio potuit suadere
mali,” said Dodson Smithies ‘mor-
dantly, from his corner.
Dr. Smithies was always mor-
dant; he was also M. A. Oxon., and
an expert in the history of legal
theory. Dapper, distinguished, and
inscrutably wealthy, what was he
doing at Hiram Hopper?
“I only felt, Dodson, that to
write one’s Ph. D. thesis on the
subject of the murder of one’s fel-
low professors might be - - er -
might be in rather bad taste,” said
the President hastily. President
Flit had the strongest respect for
Smithies, M. A. Oxon., although
there were members of the faculty
Continued on Page 4
Schrecker Shows Growth
Of Scientific Principle
Continued from Page 1
things were not in vain.
Copernicus’ heliocentric theory
was finally accepted, pointed out
Dr. Schrecker, because it followed
the Aristotelian concept that na-
ture moves in the simplest way.
Descartes accepted the principle of
least action and established a re-
lation between the principle of the
minimum and that of conservation.
Pierre Fermat went a step further
and calculated the actual deter-
mination of maxima and minima.
Malbranche in 1678 stressed the
straightness and conservation of
motion in his principle of the
economy of nature,
Dr. Schrecker ended with a dra-
matic explanation of his belief
that Leibniz rather than Mauper-
tuis first formulated the actual
Principle of Least Action. In a
letter, not yet officially authenti-~
eated, Leibniz defines action as a
. function of mass, space, and ve-
locity, emphasizing the considera-
tion of a minimum and the con-
servation of “vis viva’. Hence
Leibniz may perhaps be considered
the originator of our present ver-
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Passing Our Days in a Golden Dream
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(Ed. Note: We take pleasure in
reprinting excerpts from the let-
ters of Betty-Bright Page, Editor
of the NEWS last year and now
teaching and studying on a Ful-
bright grant in Paris.)
... We went to the theatre for
the first time two days ago — to
see Ondine. Jouvet made a perfect-
ly bete Hans, but I found Domi-
nique Blanchard somewhat disap-
pointing. She was perfect in ap-
pearance, but somehow not as
ethereal in her interpretation as
I would imagine an Ondine to be.
She seemed too old and too young
— not a transparent inbetween.
Even so I was enthralled...
... Eeek—a mouse in the closet!
It seems he’s after Alice’s suit-
case, and since she’s not here just
now I’ll let the creature munch...
Every day this room is besieged
with souris...
Yesterday afternoon M. Van den
Heuvel drove Lucy and me up
through~Montmartre. We saw the
Moulins, sidewalk artists, vine-
yard, view, Sacre Coeur .. . Then
roared through the streets around
the Are de Triomphe, Palais de
Chaillot, Museum of Modern Art,
Tour Eiffel, and les Invalides. His
little auto has personality plus,
but I was afraid we would all be
taken for invalides as the little
vehicle spitted and spurted about.
Finally it just stopped and fumed
in the middle of the Boulevard St.
Germain. Poor M. Van den H.
pushed and pulled. With that we
called it a perfect afternoon...
... It did not take long for me
to discover les jardins du Luxem-
bourg ...I had an interview with
the little man that brings in the
sailboats. When he retires I plan
to become his successor in that
field of marine operations. Too, I
sion of the law.
enjoy particularly the balloon men,
Barefoot Dancers Gyrate, Slide
At Penn; Discuss Dance As Art
specially contributed by
Sherrill Cowgill, ’51
Four barefoot members of the
Dance Club stepped out on the
newly-polished floor of the Penn
Gym last Friday afternoon for the
First Symposium of the Philadel-
phia College Dance Council. We
four ourselves among one hundred
and fifty dance enthusiasts, also
barefoot, who filled the great ex-
panse of~four “basketball courts.
Proceedings got under way when
Miss Kilby, President of the Coun-
cil, introduced Nona Schurman
from the New Dance Group in
New York City, who was to give
us a master lesson in technique.
We wondered how any one per-
son could direct so many moving
bodies at once. Before long she
had us all in motion—executing
gyrations of every sort—up move-
ments and down ones, slidings onto
the floor, and traveling motions
which carried us across the entire
room. We were thankful not to
;be underneath the gym, where the
elephantine sound of three hun-
dred feet must have been rather
distracting.
Later there was an_ informal
panel discussion on Dance in rela-
tion to the other Arts. The fields
of Music, Drama, Painting, and
Dance were represented by James
Fleetwood, Maria Ley-Piscator,
Emlen Etting and Nona Schurman
The first question posed by Mod:
erator Malvina Thais, “Is it poss-
ible to reunite the various Arts as
‘they once were in primitive soci-
ety?” could have occupied a whole
‘evening’s debate. General opinion
seemed to be that strong social]
pressure would be necessary to ac-
complish this. The question soon
resolved, however, into an attempt
to define the word “abstraction”
which, the speakers and audience
had decided, was the factor origin-
ally separating the arts.
The most interesting, but never-
Continued on page 6
B. Bright Beams, Describes Mice,
Puma, M. Van den Heuvel’s Auto
liner of the compartment.
although the red balloons act as
laughing gas now that I have seen
the red cardinals’ hats hanging in
the middle of Notre Dame.
oe Recent sorties: To Les
Halles . . . well worth the sight
of the snails, cauliflowers, truck
drivers and taste of French fries
after a night in my sac de couch-
age chez Mhe. Rossignol . . . To
the Puma Art Exhibit, a strange
obscene THING in a strange, ob-
scene little gallery down near the
Seine. We wandered astray on a
Continued on Page 4
Foreign
Correspondent
specially contributed
by Judy Nicely, ’50
“May I inquire where you are go-
ing?” Nina and I put down our
bottles of vin rouge with a bump
as the train lurched forward, lick-
ing our lips, and looked across at
the bearded man sitting in the cor-
“Elles sont entrainees pour Salz
burg,” the French fur merchant on
his way to, Vienna answered for us
jn a coarse voice. Ever since we
had awakened up at the German
border he had been offering us not
only brioche and chocolate, but also
his bitter views on the European
population. “Ils sont tous les mau-
dits Nazis, tous,” he whispered to
me now, “ne regardez pas.”
I looked up once more at the
“maudit Nazi.” He was watching
me and his eyes were frankly
laughing. It was a challenge.
“Yes,” I said, “we're going to
Salzburg.” “But why,” he said,
still smiling, “why do you and your
friend drink red wine for break-
fast?”
Nina and I looked at each other
and giggled; we felt very hollow
inside and wonderfully giddy.
There was no dining car or
sleeper on the train, we explained,
Cooks-wagons-lits was on strike,
and we had sat up all the way
from Paris. We felt very adven-
turous and took another large!
swallow from our bottles. |
“We must finish this befofe we |
get to Salzbugg,’ I explained
gaily; “we have camembert too.
Would you like some?”
“No thank you, my dear, I think
it is better for you to eat it.” The
Austrian looked at us like a fond
uncle and patted Nina’s hand.
“Your parents are meeting you
in Salzburg? You are English?”
“Oh, no!” we answered in chorus
now down to the*bottom of our bot-
tles and throwing all caution to
the winds. “Our parents are in
America, they think we are in the
Loire valley looking at chateaux;
no one knows we are here.”
Suddenly the crazy quality that
had been such a vital part of our
trip to Austria ever since its con-
ception upon learning Strauss on
the Piazza San Marco in Venice
seized us with all its force, and
Continued on page 4
Friends Present Ideas
For World-Wide Peace
Continued from Page 1
tents, he reviewed the basic con-
siderations on which it rests:
There is a desire for peace
throughout the world. The United
States and Russia, the two main
potential threats to this peace, are
not likely to change their opposing
philosophies for some time, but
great as are the differences be-
tween communism and the western
concepts of political democracy,
there are also similarities in their
goals and enough possibilities of
accomodation so that both sys-
tems can survive side by side. On
the other hand much of the policy
of both countries is determined by
their mutual fear.
The Friends Committee followed
these observations by the comment
that a heavy armament program
weakens democratic government
and. tends to strengthen authori-
tarian rule, and concluded that
“the evidence does not justify the
conclusion that either the United
States or the Soviet Union intends,
at the present time or in the fore-
seeable future, to promote its for-
eign policy by means of military
aggression.”
The report proceeds to propose
possible steps for relaxing the
present tension between the two
powers in three fields: economic
relations, the government of Ger-
many, and policy towards the
United Nations and its disarma-
ment effort.
The speaker also emphasized the
fact that these were merely sug-
gestions, and that the committee
did not consider them either defin-
itive or __ sufficient. “] don't
Between the Leaves :
Shippen Gives Realistic
_ Simplified Account
Of Moses
by Barbara Joelson, ’52
Katherine B. Shippen, Moses.
Harper & ‘Brothers, New -York,
1949. 1382 pages.
Katherine Shippen’s new book
is a retelling of the story of: Moses
for young people. She feels that
Moses’ story is a “living story”
and endeavors to make it more
easily comprehensible and to give
it the realism that the Biblical ac-
count may lack. In simplifying
such characters as Moses, Aaron,
and Joshua, Miss Shippen has in-
evitably, destroyed some of their
dignity by putting empty or point-
less words in their mouths. This
is especially true of Moses dur-
ing his early years. However, this.
is offset to a certain extent by the
clarity and restraint used in the
language throughout the.book.
Realistic Description
Moses is mainly based on Ex-
odus, with a little taken from
Numbers and Deuteronomy. At
the beginning of each chapter Miss
Shippen quotes the Bible verse
concerning the event she is re-
counting: a dignified and effective
touch. Among the best features of
the book are the author’s descrip-
tions of the countryside, the cos-
tumes, and the people that Moses
encounters. Combining a bit of
ancient history with the Bible
story, she manages to achieve the
realism and the color that consti-
agree with your proposals, but I
am very happy that they have |
been made, and by a group that |
could not be. accused of being pro--
communist,” President White quot- |
ed one State Department official as |
saying. Another remarked that he |
would be greatly relieved if he |
could feel that his decisions were |
to be based on honest moral princi- |
ples, such ag are embodied in the |
Quaker report, rather than on an)
attitude of bribery on the part of |
the United States, countered by|
the threat of blackmail from other |
countries. |
In general, Mr. White conclud-|
ed, the committee has been en-|
couraged by the reaction, to the|
report, in the press, in letters’ of |
comment, and in informal remarks |
by those who wouldn’t dare state
them formally. The Quakers,
Whose main goal was that their
ideas be considered and discussed,
can feel that it has been partially
achieved. They are continuing
their work; studying now, with ex-
perts, principles of mediation, on
which they plan to draw up a
memorandum for United Nations
personnel.
tute the main appeal of her ac-
count. These qualities are parti-
cularly well handled in the descrip-
tions of Egyptian life under Pha-
'yaoh and in the flight of the He-
brews, both(.of which are made
very real.
Unnecessary Logic
I objected a little to Miss Ship-
pen’s trying to give a logical rea-
son for the “pillar of cloud’ and
the “pillar of fire” that the Lord
set before the Hebrews; and also
to her implication that the Ten
Commandments were not told to
Moses by. the Lord, but were mere-
ly a consequence of his thinking
“about what the people must do if
they were to be acceptable to
Jehovah.” However, these instances
are greatly in the minority, and
in general the author treats the
Bible story with a genuine rever-
ance.
The combination of the Old Test-
ament narrative and Miss Ship-
pen’s colorful sketches of the back-
ground makes Moses an interest-
ing and enjoyable book, and the
Continued on Page 4
Plumes, Cauldron, Tragic Eyes
On Display In Rare Book Room
by Barbara Joelson, ’52
The exhibit that. is on display
at present in the Rare Book Room
concerns the English theatre in
the eighteenth and nineteenth cen-
turies. The trends are depicted by
three groups of engravings. The
first group was printed in 1711,
and is from the earliest illustra-
ted edition of Beaumont and Flet-
cher. It consists of illustrations for
various plays popular at the time,
and is especially interesting be-
cause it suggests the manner in
which the plays were staged. This
is particularly true in the picture
accompanying The Island Princess,
where in the foreground several
agitated persons are standing on
what closely resembles a stage, and
the flaming castle behind them
suggests a painted curtain. This
set of illustrations also includes
pictures for The Humorous Lieu-
tenant, The Knight of the Burning
Pestle, and The Scornful Lady.
Many of these show amusing situ-
ations and wonderful detail in
facial expressions.
The second group, printed in
1774, is from Bell’s edition of
Shakespeare’s plays. These engrav-
ings are very highly regarded by
collectors, and have often been torn,
out, leaving few complete copies in
existence. Notable among the illus-
trations are those accompanying
Macbeth. One of these shows the
witches’ scene, complete with flam-
ing cauldron, skulls, bats, snakes,
and a crescent moon. Facing this
is a portrait of David Garrick as
Macbeth, coming from the murder
of Duncan. In addition, this series
has a picture of Mrs. Barry as
Constance in King John, in which
she is tearing her headdress in a
“grand geste.” She has a sensi-
tive yet strong face, and is dress-
ed in an exquisite panniered gown.
Bell’s edition also portrays Charles
Macklin in ‘the role of Shylock,
Continued on page 5
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
Wednesday, December 7, 194°
LAST NIGHTERS
Strindberg’s ‘‘Father”
Judged Bitter,
Undefined
by Joan McBride, °52
To one who is familiar with the
plays of August Strindberg mere-
ly by hearsay, they may seem to
bear a close resemblance to those
written by Ibsen. Even for an ad-
mirer of Ibsen, however, they are
bitter fare, exhibiting personal
hatred rather than social con-
sciousness, and lacking Ibsen’s
clarity and understanding of uni-
versally comprehensible charac-
ters.
Such a play is The Father, pre-
sented at the Cort Theatre. Born
from the author’s innate fear, ‘and
consequent loathing, of the female
sex, it shows the culmination of a
wife’s merciless efforts to drive
her husband insane and seize full
power over their daughter. It is
the story of a sensitive, intelligent,
but far too high-strung cavalry
‘ captain, who for years has lived in
“a cage full of tigers.” This in-
cludes his wife, the nurse, his
mother-in-law, personified only by
a few malevolent shrieks, and his
adolescent daughter. The chief
tiger of them all, his wife, has
been baiting him for years; her
final means of torture, implanting
a doubt in his mind that he may
not be the father of their child, is
but the ultimate blow in a long
series of battles in their war
between the sexes.
Strindberg, too, is waging his
own war against womankind. It is
an unreasoning’ conflict, not
against the evils that befall all
humanity, but against women be-
cause they are women, whose one
goal is the destruction of men.
Strindberg’s attitude is said to
have sprung from his own un-
happy marriage; however, it is an
unfair one, and what is worse, one
which seems to fall short of its
aim to make the audience sympa-
thize with it. Perhaps this lies in
his representation of the Father
himself. The cavalry officer, as
portrayed by Raymond Massey, is
at least to the modern audience
an unsympathetic character. This
cannot be entirely the fault of Mr.
Massey’s interpretation of the
role, for in creating him, Strind-
berg seems at variance with his
own views. The audience realizes
that here is a form of injustice, an
obdurate force, which is as unreas-
oning as the demonaic mother her-
self. No father who desires to
Continued on Page 6
Fr. Club to Give
2 Christmas Plays
The French Club Christmas pre-
sentation this year consists of two
pieces. The first, “La Farce
Joyeuse du Moyen Age”, is a med-
ieval farce which has, only recent-
ly been discovered and published.
The full title is: “La Farce nou-
velle et fort joyeuse des femmes
qui font accroire a leurs maria
que vessies ce sont lanternes’”. The
new and most joyous farce of the
women. who make their husbands
believe that bladders are lanterns.
The two main characters, played
by M. Guicharnaud and M. Van
den Heuvel, have fishwives, and
» speak the worst Parisian slang.
The other three parts are played
by Catherine’ Harper, Beatrice
Freeman, and Sybil Amic.
The second piece is a nativity
play. It consists of a Christmas
Carol, “Chantons, je vous en prie,”
set to pantomime. The Virgin will
be played by Francine du Plessix,
Joseph, by Ellen Shure, and the
Angel Gabriel, by Karen Cassard.
Catherine Harper is the pro-
ducer, and Nana McBee,. the stage
manager, of the two plays. They
“will be given on Tuesday, Dec. 13,
at 8:30, in the Music Room of
Wyndham. The admission is fifteen
cents (free to members), and re-
freshments will be served.
od
The German Club
To Give “Urfaust”
The German Club play this year
will be Goethe’s Urfaust, which
has been chosen instead of the
usual nativity play in honor of the
Goethe Bicentennial. It is presented
jointly by the Bryn Mawr and
Haverford German Clubs. The cast
includes Dr. Foss and Dr. Pfund
from Haverford and Mr. Politzer
and Mr. Janschka from Bryn
Mawr, besides students from both
colleges. Susan Jungbauer, from
the Graduate Center, is director,
and Mr. Politzer, faculty advisor.
The play will be given on Monday,
Dec. 12 at 8:15 in the Skinner
Workshop. It will be followed by
the traditional German Club
Christmas party (with refresh-
ments) in Wyndham.
Murder
In Cuneiform
Continued from Page 3
who felt that Dodson would stick
at nothing.
| ee, Wee,
It was late afternoon when Hil-
debrand Sharp, dizzy and aching,
awoke to find himself in a cramp-
ed, darkened room; his head prop-
ped up against the tiled wall. He
looked feebly at his watch. 5:30.
He had cut four classes; the Dean
would not be pleased.
Slowly he arose and reached for
the doorknob. It came off in his
hand. “My God, what’s going on
here?” he cried, but the only ans-
wer came from the ventilating sys-
tem. “He, he,” it said mordantly,
“Il get you yet,” cried Hilde-
brand. And wrenching away the
grate, he crawled through the ven-
tilating system to the outer world
a free man.
* * *
“Mr, Chairman,” said Dr. Part-
ridge, Professor of Forensics and
Public Speech, “may I propose a
resolution?”
The rest of the faculty stirred in
their seats; the meeting had been
a long and futile one.
“Yes, Partridge,” said the Presi-
dent wearily, “go right ahead.”
The Professor waited for atten-
tion, cleared his throat, and as-
sumed the stance held by Daniel
Webster in a painting over his
desk.
“Be it resolved,” he read, “that
the President and faculty of the
Hiram Homer Hopper Memorial
‘College do solemnly state that the
murder of one of their number is a
policy not to be encouraged at any
time in the future and that it is
one basically opposed to the best
interests of that member’s family
friends, and employers.”
Here Partridge’s voice was
drowned out by the sound of ap-
plause. He flushed with pride. “I
think it’s definitely the best we
can do for old Shotwell,” he said.
“May we vote?”
The motion was carried almost
unanimously. Only two dissenting
voices were heard—that of Dr.
Cratchett, who felt that the reso-
lution implied an aggressive atti-
tude toward the Soviet Union, and
that of Miss Lemmon, who was not
at all satisfied that this was all
she could do,
ok * *
Two hours later, Miss Lemmon
was found dead, an expression of
horror on her face.
To be continued next week
Shippen Retells Story
Of Moses for Children
Continued from page 3
simple sincerity of her style makes
it easy to read. It would be suitable
for children from about eight or
nine to thirteen. Moses is an agree-
able way to become acquainted
with the Bible story, though it
could never be called a suitable
substitute for it. _
Katherine B. Shippen is an
_|alumna of Bryn Mawr.
| sea diver.”
Swigs of Vin Rouge, French Fur Merchant,
*“‘Men Among Sharks’? Pave Way to Salzburg
Continued from Page 3
rolling back on the shabby plush
seats of the old Orient Express we
laughed and laughed and laughed
—drunk with excitement and won-
der at the enormity of our own
boldness.
The Austrian looked first at one
and then the other. His eyes took
in our proper tweed coats from
Peck & Peck, our cotton skirts, our
neat traveling bags with the Cun-
ard label on them, and then turned
.o our laughing faces with amaze
ment.
“You are very crazy little girls,”
he concluded at last. “Fortunately
I too am going to Salzburg for a
few days before Vienna; you must
let me help you.” The Frenchman
cnorted and retreated beneath his
coat collar.
We looked at the Austrian with
renewed. interest.
Pages of manuscript were spread
out on his lap, a large book lay be-,
side him on the seat; he reached
into his pocket for a card.
“Have you read my book?” he
asked. “It is caked in English
Men Among Sharks. I am a deep
tion in the world, and calmly hand-
ed us his card.
It was too much to believe, and
Nina and I sat silently pinching
ourselves for the next few mom-,
ents, not quite daring to laugh and
trying desperately to attach some
segment of reality to all that was
happening. Sontehow our Vien-
nese deep sea diver with a black
beard, offering to take us through
Salzburg, was not what we needed
to bring us down to earth. Mean-
while, as the soot thickened over
the “nicht hinauslehnen’™ notice
on the window ledge, the terrible
dead plain of Germany had turned
into bright green fields that seem-
ed to be bursting with life; a flock
MAIDS AND PORTERS
The Maids and Porters will
come carolling from hall to hall
on Wednesday, December 14,
after 10 p .m. This year, they
are directed by Julie Stevens,
62. They will sing spirituals
and traditional Christmas car-
Shorts
by Emmy Cadwalader, ’5
Last Thursday, Nov. 31, ie
Class Swimming Meet was held.
The Senior Class won the meet,
with a score of 38-36 over the Jun-
iors, who came in second. The
Freshmen were third, and the
Sophomores finished last. The Sen-
iors were particularly active, and
showed up with a great many
swimmers.
The Volleyball Varsity Squad is
now in the process of being form-
ed. The Captain is Lois Maconi,
and Margie Partridge is.the Man-
ager.
There has been a tremendous
turnout this year at the Basket-
ball Varsity tryouts. The selection
committee doesn’t know how it will
ever pick the teams, because there
are so many good players. The
officers of Basketball are as fol-
lows: Sue Savage, Emily Town-
send — Co-Captains, and Claire
Liachowitz, the Manager. The way
it stands now, the coming season
looks very promising.
Who was he?!
He announced it as if,
it were the most ordinary occupa-
| of birds wheeled suddenly across a
next compartment came the sound
of a harmonica.
uniformed officer came in.
burg,” he said. Nina and I sprang,
up as if it had been a command.
““T will take your bags,” said our
deep sea diver as the train rattled
will find a taxi and go to the bank,
the post-office, and the tourist bu-
reau. Once you have your money,
your meal tickets, and a_ hotel
room, I can show you Salzburg.”
He certainly had everything un-
der control. Nina and I looked up
at him and said “Danke sehr” very
dutifully, and he put an arm
around each of us and winked.
The fur merchant gave us a last
.disapproving glare and said, “Au
revoir, mesdemoiselles, amusez-
, vous bien in Autriche.”
If there was any sarcasm in his
voice we drowned it with our
‘laughter. Following our Austrian
through the customs I looked at
Nina and smiled. It had been a
good trip.
Now bulbous baroque steeples
and small gnome-like figures in
green caps and grey Tyrolean
capes swam before my eyes, and
even before we came out of the
station into Salzburg itself, the
music of Mozart had mingled with
the heavy rain and charmed out all
other sounds from my ears.
into the wet rainy station; “we'
corner of the sky, and from the]
The door opened, and a green-| fifty - eight
‘the tinkle
Jester, Majesty
Vary “Elizabeth”
by Jane Roller, °51
“Silence, fool!” Cease your chat-
ter or you'll miss the queen. At
she’s a_ passionate
“Salz-| witch, and her ways are bound to
win the audience Friday and Sat-
|urday nights, when Hlizabeth the.
Queen is presented at Haverford.
Glimpses at rehearsal reveal col-
orful castle scenes punctuated by
of the jester’s bell.
Stalking on stage in authentic,.
richly brocaded costumes, the act-
ors seem to revel in the new age.
and world in which they are sud-
denly living. But grandeur and
style are quickly shaken off be-
tween scenes, when sleepy actors,
snatching catnaps, stretch out flat
on the floor. Even on stage, oc-
casionally glory takes a fall—as
when a nobleman does, over stairs
that aren’t there.
Throughout the play the radiant
focus of attention is the queéeit=—
Neither her age nor stiff Eliza-
bethan gown and ruffs are deter-
rents to her flare of temper and
passionate embraces with Lord
Essex. Handsome and twentyish,
he is tormented by his conflicting:
desires for her and the kingdom
she rules.
There are contrastingly light.
moments with the court fool. He
is the airy bubble of flippancy, that.
doesn’t burst even when soundly
trounced by her majesty. “Strum-
pets are they all,” is his reflection.
Continued from Page 3
trip to the Louvre ... so we went
in, only to be shocked out of our
wits by the pictures. I turned to
throw. some smart comment...
when my eye fell on a young,
bearded artist-looking individual
(Puma, I suppose) with an eagle
eye, (animal-bird combined). I
changed my mind about speaking.
- To the ballet de Monte
Carlo, where I was in _ seventh
heaven as sylphs flitted here and
there to the tune of Chopin, as the
black swans beat their wings to
Tschaichowsky,and as Leonide Mas-
sine of the Red Shoes fame danced
Le Beau, Danube...
. The second class I’ve ever
taught — the first one occuring
the hour previously — will be one
of ten-year-olds who’ve studied
English for a full five hours. “Il
y aura peut-etre des problemes de
discipline,” adds the elevator wo-
man ‘sweetly, “et evidemment il
faut leur parler Francais.” I near-
ly pulled the emergency switch at
that point...
Sorties of special note to Bryn
Mawr professors ... M. Van den
Heuvel gave me a lecture on the
care and feeding of portillons
automatiques before he sailed
away. I would like for him to know
that his sage counsel fell on eager
ears| Wednesday night as four of
Ex-Editor B. Bright Page Charges Portillons;
Meets Eagled-Eyed Puma, Cries ‘““Eeek—a mouse !’”
us headed to the theatre, my mo-
ment of glory arrived. The portil-.
lons were closing as we tore down
the stairs, but I rushed headlong
into them. Unfortunately, I’d for-
gotten what he said about push-
ing with all one’s strength and in
fact I didn’t have much left by
then, but I did manage to scream
to the others not to be afraid.
They took the hint and plunged
through behind me. We were luck-
ily in order of size, so that the
thinnest at the end only lost a
button off her jacket as she
squeezed past. The metro driver
was screaming French epithets,
but the passengers were in stitches.
and we were blushing furiously,
but we made the metro in a blaze
of excitement. I beamed the whole
evening ...
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Renee Veron, and Jane Wick-
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
_Page Five
Hallowe’en, Disperse, Blank Verse, Sanviete,
Make Fall Counterpoint
Continued from Page 1
tions are less successful. Francine
du Plessix’s “The Earrings” is a
well - constructed, well - told story,
but lacks a certain vividness of
emotion or atmosphere. “The Cup
of Deserving” by Richard McKin-
ley restates the well-worn theme
of 1948, Brave New World etc.
NEWS Finds Professor
Proofreading New Book
Continued from Page 1 |
Mr. Ferrater Mora’s courses at.
Bryn Mawr include Advanced
Spanish Composition and 19th andj
20th Century Thought, which is a/|
mixture of literature and philoso-
phy in the style of the essayists.
He published a book on one of
them, Unamuno, in Buenos Aires
in 1944,
He asked suddenly, “Is ‘high-|
brow’ a sophisticated term, even in
the nice sense of the word?” It is
in the nice sense of the word that
_he applies the term to Bryn Mawr.
“T like it—people here are anxious
to study. They have an academic
standard.more like Europe, more
purely academic. I do not. deny
usefulness of instrumental and
domestic studies, but this is more
learning. In a bigger university, |
one studies Latin and shorthand
‘and does not. understand the differ-
ence — I think Bryn Mawr under-
stands it well!”
Mr. Ferrater Mora then added
something that seemed to sum-
marize his whole attitude on edu-
cation: “Learned people are more
simple than others. Learning
causes some kind of simplicity, in
the good sense of the word.”
As we left, he exclaimed with
amazement, “This College News!
It’s so quick! You must have a
wonderful printer, almost as quick
as the New York Times, but of
course you do not have as many
columns as the New York Times.”
His final words were, “Thank
you for a pleasant moment.”
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Varied and Balanced
The lengthy descriptive para-
graphs with which it begins are
hard on the reader. T. John Knopf’s
“The Meeting” seems as if it were
going to say something compre-
hensible at any moment, never
does, but is nicely written. “Little
Red Flags” by Barbara Wakeman
is frequently amusing but over-
done, and “Why We Fled the Red
Terror” by Sidney M. Cone, III,
seems out of place in a magazine
devoted to creative writing.
Mr. Schrecker’s warning “habet
aliquid ex iniquo ..” (which the
Counterpoint board , inappropriate-
ly used as a title for Emily Town-
send’s poems) is _ practically
negated by. her admirable versifi-
cations on two themes by Donne,
one by Browne, and one by Logan
Pearsall Smith. Her restatements
of poetic prose in blank verse are
skillful and imaginative. Of the
purely creative poems the most
mature are the first two sonnets
in “Leaves from an Air Force
Diary” by Charles Hughes. Al-
though at times the dramatic pre-
sentation of a picture or an inci-
cent results in rhetoric and overly-
pat statements, his best lines
‘achieve a singular purity of ex-
pression. Jane Augustine’s “Au-
tumn Tree” shows nice handling
of imagery, although her allit-
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“Lines Edged in Black.’ Helen
Goldberg’s two poems, “After-
noon” and “Poem,” are smoothly
written, say little, and are inter-
esting for the way in which she
uses words in unrelated contexts.
“Troubadour at Les Baux” by Pat
Ripley is charming; “Cordon Bleu”
starts well but is overly-burdened
by metaphor. The third of Lucy
Turnbull’s “Three Storms” is brief
but memorable; the first two are
weakened by too many adjectives.
Nick Norton’s “On Seeking
Further Than We See” seems a
loose, flowing prose rather than
poetry. The repetition of conjunc-
tions, vague pronouns and adjec-
jtives gives a slight biblical flavor
but ~betomes monotonous.
Peter Gould has contributed sev-
eral effective black-and-white illus-
trations. Of the photographs, which
are all interesting, Francine du
Plessix’s “Roman Siesta” has the
best composition.
Counterpoint has given us a
readable and provocative issue.
Perhaps it is only inevitable that
most of the contributors seem to
have learned so far only to pick
up and to preserve, but not the
final “abolishment ofthe model-
pattern through a creative syn-
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carrying scales and a knife. Mack- |
lin was the first actor to play Shy-
lock as more than a mere comic
character, and give him the evil,
scheming aspect that Shakespeare
delineated.
The third group is from Ox-
berry’s English Drama, and was
published in 1820. Among these
sketches are Miss.Tree as a wing-
ed Ariel, in an Empire style gown;
Bartley as a jovial, sharp-eyed
Falstaff with plumed hat. and,
and the |
Monty Woolley beard;
scandalous, but delightful, Madame
Vestris as Apollo in Midas. There
are also two pictures of Charles
Kemble: one ASqftomeo, and the
other as the armoured Faulcon-
bridge from King John. The por-
trait of John Philip Kemble clear-
ly depicts his tragic eyes, powerful
face, and the characteristic Kem-
ble nose. Most striking of all are
the three pictures of the celebrated
actor Edmund Kean, in the roles
of Sir Giles Overreach, Coriolanus,
und Hamlet.
The display as a whole is most
enjoyable to look at, as it com-
bines detailed art work, entertain-
ing and skillful characterizations,
and a very alive impression of the
early English theatre.
Foreign Policy Remains
Unsolved for Delegates
Continued from Page 2
tion of the West Point experts who
held it to be a death trap for in-
he called the
| “carnivorous sheep” and the most
|dangerous people in the world, and
insisted that what Europe needed
most was. confidence and psycho-
logical security. “If you want to
‘comfort a man you don’t send him
a note of sympathy and a five dol-
lar bill,” he said, “you go and
stand besides:him.” “Do you mean
we should send fifty divisions to
France?” asked a cadet. “Have
you fifty divisions to send?” ask-
ed the general. West Point brass
looked discreet.
For two delegates utterly inex-
perienced in the ways of confer-
ences, this half-week at West
Point was a most stimulating and
educational period. Perhaps we
learned less about foreign policy
than the difficulties of personality
and drafting proposals; but we
throve’ on coffee every ten min-
utes, waltzed with, the British
army, conceived great admiration
for the intelligence .and training
of the cadets, and.felt:the strong-
est gratitude both for the college
that sent us and the academy that
fantry; Germans
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Strindberg Play Found
Dark, Gloomy, Unclear
Continued from Page 4
separate his child from her moth-
er, who. wants to remove her indi-
vidual soul and implant his own in
its place, can be in accord with any
humane opinion. At first, how-
ever, even in commonplace dia-
logue, Mr. Masgey seems to be de-
livering a series of Friday after-
noon elocution lessons, which con-
ceal any real warmth or credibility
that the Father may possess. As
the play moves toward its climax,
the dialogue between him and the
Mother, played by “Mady Chris-
tians, consists of long, splenetic
speeches which would be more in
place at a political rally than 4
Swedish military outpost. The
difficult final scene, however, the
cracking of the captain’s mind, is
played with pitiful beauty by Mr.
Massey and recalls his previous
excellence as an actor.
Miss. Christians is the dominat-
ing factor in the play, although
she interprets more “goodness”
into the captain’s wife than the
author intended. When she taunts
her husband with the doubt of his
paternity, he says, “I won’t appeal
to your feelings, for you have none
—therein lies your strength.” By
her vacillation between merciless-
ness and a slight show of kindness,
by the inherent nobility of her per-
formance, she seems to belie some-
what this keynote to her character.
¥or the most part, however, she is
a sneering menacing evil, Strind-
berg’s own typification. of the per-
ditious woman. Her closing line to
her daughter, after her husband
has died in a straitjacket of a
broken heart and a broken spirit,
“Now you are my own child!” is
one of the most terrible curtain
lines in all theatre.
Grace Kelly plays the daughter
with a simpering, whining insipid-
ity that makes
either parent’s interest in her, The
captain’s old nurse, his only re-
maining tie with the benevolent
world, is portrayed warmly by
Mary Morris. She exhibits excel-
lent stage presence and, in her
scene when she lulls*the Father in-
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Bryn Mawr Traverses
Penn’s Polished Floor
Continued from Page 3
theless debatable points made dur-
ing the evening were these: Dance
and Drama can never achieve the
complete abstraction of Music, be-
cause they are presented through
the medium of human expression;
the Arts sometimes influence and
sometimes are influenced by social
development; and, finally, Ballet as
an expressive art will probably be
absorbed by Modern Dance.
The final event was a demonstra-
tion of the means of expression
through dance movement. Miss
Kilby closed the meeting by ask-
ing whether the Symposium should
become an annual affair. We
thought it should.
to donning the straitjacket by an
analogy to his childhood, the only
thoroughly touching bit of acting
in the play. Two Ibsen-like char-
acters appear: the pastor and the
doctor, played by«Philip Huston
and John D. Seymour, displaying
all the pomposity and confusion of
a Mr. Manders.
The set is a fine example of how
a stage can appear stark, gloomy,
and cluttered at the same time—
which, indeed, are the characteris-
tics:of the play itself. Because the
characters and their complexes are
not clearly defined, much of the
impact of the tragedy is lost. In
fact, one is not sure whether or not
The Father is a tragedy at all.
Lowbrow and Bohemian
Spice Langner Comedy
Continued from Page 1
subtle lines required and received
a broad interpretation. Production
manager Sally Shoemaker seemed
to maintain a laissez-faire policy
in regard to indi¥idual strategic
devices for stealing the show. One
of the more successful comedians
was Libby Grey, who put every-
thing she had into her role of an
affected Bohemian, complete with
rolling eyes and fr’s and over-
bearingly seductive bodily contor- |
tions. Howard Shoemaker managed
to be consistently low-brow, and |
maintained a hilarious dead-pan
expression in his portrayal of a
dictionary salesman. Paula Straw-
hecker’s sardonically disapproving
maid was good for several laughs,
and Trish Richardson’s broad ges-
ticulations added vigor to the
general hilarity. In his treatment
of the pompous Pomeroy Pendle-
ton, Robert Reynolds overdid it to
the point of monotony.
In general, the evening was en-
tertaining, but dramatically unre-
warding. The experiment in ful-
filling a campus need for more act-
ing opportunities has potentiall-
Pa
A
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Mozart Sonata, Bach Fantasy and Fugue
Included in First Young Musicians’ Concert
Continued from Page 1
played it admirably. His technical
equipment was adequate for the
piece, and every note of the scales
of the Fantasy stood out — no-
where was there any fuzziness or
evidence of an inability to cope
with the requirements Bach placed
upon the performer. The fugue,
too, was well-woven into a result
that was stately and moving. If
one felt at times that there was
not as much contrast in dynamics
as there should have been, one also
felt that Mr. di Bonadventura was
suiting his playing to the size of
the room, and that in a larger hall
the contrast would be greater.
In place of the group of smaller
pieces formerly scheduled, Mr. Sil-
verstein played the last two move-
ments of the Mendelssohn “Con-
certo” in E minor. In the Andante,
especially, Mr. Silverstein’s tone
was good, and even the highest
notes were clear and well-rounded.
The Allegro was played with great
ties. These can be most fully real-
ized if the “Actresses,” in the fu-
ture, select plays which offer more
of an artistic challenge.
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spirit, and even if a hint of the
stridence did come back in the
faster passages, it brought that
section of the program to a stir-
ring close.
For the closing group of the af-
ternoon, Mr. di Bonadventura play-
ed Chopin, Debussy, and Prokofieff.
The F-sharp major Impromptu of
Chopin was expressive and beau-
tifully played, as was Debussy’s
“Reflets dans l’eau,” which was
gossamer-like in texture. The Pro-
kofieff “Toccata” was played with
no waste motion and showed
again the perfect control and mar-
velous technique that had charac-
terized Mr. di Bonadventura’s per-
formance throughout the after-~.
noon.
Altogether, the concert was well-
worth hearing, and one only hopes
the rest of the series will be as
good.
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