College news, December 10, 1947

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— THE COLLEGE NEWS



VOL. XLTH, NO. 10

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1947



Writers Raise
Valid Questions
In Autumn Title

Work of Art Demands
More Than Portrayal
Of State of Mind

Specially Contributed
By Dorothy Alden Koch

“The position of original work
‘as an important part of college life
is not granted; it is relegated to
the status of a mild form of rec-
reation, on the same level as tea-
drinking or a visit to the z00.”
Thus, in their opening editorial,
the editors of the fall 1947 Title,
published this week, candidly sum
up the state of the arts upon the
Bryn Mawr campus. Yet editors
Sylvia Stallings, ’48; Joan Brest,
48, and their staff have produced
an issue which suggests that to
their contributors, at least, writing
may be somewhat more important
than menagerie-visiting or tea.
Nearly all these writers raise val-
id qestions concerning human val-
ues and try to frame those ques-
tions in an esthetically satisfying
form.

The best of the stories is “That
Lonesome Road,” Sylvia Stallings’
tale of a boy who, trying to write
a novel, cannot get beyond the
stage of looking despairingly at
the mountains or at the people he
meets, wondering how Thomas
Wolfe would have described them.
Although the narrative lacks sig-
nificant action, it offers a thought-
ful analysis of that heightened
youthful self-consciousness which
is easily mistaken for a capacity
to write.

Most Ambitious Fiction

The most ambitious piece of fic-
tion in the issue, “The Little Dog.
. Story,” by Elizabeth McClure, ’48,
will charm some readers by the air
of ingenuousness with which it re-
cords the heroine’s discoveries
about love. Inevitably it will dis-
‘turb others by the pat device
‘ through which the heroine makes
' those discoveries and by the pre-
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Watt Advocates
Summer Abroad

Would you like to travel in Eu-|

rope next summer as a friend, not
a tourist? At a meeting in Wynd-
ham, December 4th, Mr. Watt, di-
rector of the Experiment in Inter-
national Living, told how this or-
ganization enables students to go

abroad, discussed plans for the

coming summer and explained the
Experiment’s theory that interna-
tional understanding is essential
for world peace.

To achieve its goal the experi-
ment sends students to a work
camp, as in Germany, or to a chil-
dren’s camp in France, or to some
other current project, for most of
the summer. Two or three weeks
are set: aside for vacationing in
Europe.

Experimenters are’ chosen from
applications on the basis of schol-
astic record and references of per-
sonality and ability. There is a
requirement of two years’ study of
the language for work in countries
such’ as Germany, France and
Spain. Mr. Watt indicated that for

_ girls the cost would be about the
same as last summer, or $630. This
includes all expenses except ‘pock-
et money.’ ;

Players Capture

By Katrina Thomas °49

Some may agree with Lamb that
King Lear is “impossible to be
presented on stage” and we feel
that the Bryn Mawy Varsity Play-
ers, Haverford Cap and Bells, and
Mr. Thon have bitten off more than
they can chew in their production
of this Shakespearean tragedy,
Friday and Saturday nights. Oth-
ers may feel that with an added
week of rehearsal the actors could
present a great performance. But,
no matter what, the audience will
come away realizing that they have
seen two really magnificent act-
ors—Ted Shakespeare as Lear and
Ellen Harriman as Goneril who are
certainly worth in themselves much
more than the price of admission.

After three more _ rehearsals,
many of the splitting seams will

Campus “Gripes”
Exposed; Herald

Inn Controversy

by Katrina Thomas °49

It seems inconceivable that the
College Inn which charges more
than thé Greeks, the Blue Comet,
or the Chatterbox for approxim-
ately the same food should have
to borrow a couple of thousand dol-
lars on interest from the college
so as to make up last year’s deficit.

The irate students who can be
fed an ample dinner at the Comet
for from 70c¢ to $1.30, or Tbe for a
vegetable platter at the Greeks do
not understand why they must pay
$1.00 for a vegetable platter at the
fnn. They complain. about slow
service and cold food at the Inn,
the absence of essentials like tea
or coke or hot dogs on certain
days, the inability_to supplement
coffee for tea Oe heed on a
“special.” Get them started on
the subject and they will tell you
how they waited half an hour for a
salami and cheese sandwich at an
exorbitant price and when it came
it was barely toasted, cold and
minus the cheese!

Three Attend Meeting

Yesterday the student represen-
tatives, Miraed Peake and Ellen
Sexton held a mass meeting in the
Merion showcase for all to air
their gripes about the Inn, but
'since only three people turned up
(and they from the adjoining
Smoker), it seems that the stud-
;ents have either ceased patroniz-
jing the Inn or else they continue
|to go and continue to complain to
their friends who can do nothing
to solve the problem.

It is those who have ceased pat-







Inn cannot count on a_ steady
stream of business. .Their rush
hour is tea-time and yet they make
the least money then. Also the
mid-morning breakfasts of coffee
and sticky buns are not lucrative,
and so they have to bank on din-
ners on week-nights and Sundays
for their income.

All the eating places in the
neighborhood are facing rising
food costs and high taxes: school
tax, county tax, and township tax.
The proprietor of the Comet who
still sells coffee at .05 per cup,
claims that they are only “exist-
ing” although this diner has the
advantage of being opened 24
hours on the Pike with a stream
of hungry people who eat and run
all day long. The Inn has a choice
of four dinners often for only a

Continued on Page 3



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Shakespeare

In_Rigid Midnight Rehearsals

‘have been sewn up, and the pains-

taking efforts of synchronizing en-
trance-with spotlights, drum rolls,
and trumpet flourishes will be evi-
dent. The twenty-five “extras”
will have become knights, messen-
gers and soldiers instead of lost
Haverford youths taking time off
from their Chemistry ‘books to
brandish a sword.

If the scene in which Cornwall

plucks out the Duke of Glouces-:

ter’s eyes can be played over and
over in regular. clothes without
sufficient props and still horrify
this fascinated reviewer, I have no
doubts that such moments of in-
spired action will compensate for
an occasional Southern or Brook-
lyn accent on the part of a cour-
tier. If Nancy Kunhardt’s really
lovely voice, as Cordelia, can still
remain clear and impassioned at
three in the morning, if Bill Bishop
can still stoop and groan as the
pathetic Gloucester after six con-
secutive hours of rehearsing, and
if the whole cast can play gruelling
scenes with their initial energy
despite frayed nerves and unsup-
pressible yawns as they did Mon-
day night, I have no doubts that
Lear will have been well worth the
bite.

Dr. Beck Defines

Kantian Freedom

Speaking to the Philosophy Club
on The Freedom and Purpose of
the Person in Kant, Professor
Lewis W. Beck defined freedom in
its various ramifications as the cen-
tral problem in Kant’s work.

Professor Beck distinguished |
three levels of analysis in Kant’s
treatment of this problem: the .em-
pirical or negative concept (free-
dom of -the empirical person); the
transcendental or positive concept
(freedom of the moral person);
and the regulative idea of freedom
(freedom of the ideal person in a
realm of ends).

The first of these levels, accord-
ing to Professor Beck, results in
a limited concept of the problem
which demands a justification’ and
a proof of the real relevance. The
second level fulfills these needs,
while the third justifies the judg-
ment of freedom in an empirical
context and reconciles nature with
the ends of freedom by asserting
that man is the end of nature.



Calendar
Friday, December 12
4:00—Arts’ Night Meeting,

Common Room.

8:00—Cap and Bells and
Varsity -Players_present.King-
Lear, Roberts Hall, Haverford.

8:45—Square Dance, Gym-
nasium.
Saturday, December 13
8:00—-—King Lear, Roberts

Hall, Haverford.
Sunday, December 14
8:00—Christmas Carol Serv-
ice, Goodhart.
Monday, December 15
7:15—Current Events, Com-
mon Room.
8:30—Spanish Club Christ-
mas Fiesta, Spanish House.
Tuesday, December 16
8:30—French Christmas Pa-
geant, Wyndham.
8:30—German Nativity Play,
Music Room. j
Wednesday, December 17
8:00—Bryn Mawr Summer
Camp Christmas Party.
Evening—Maids and Porters
Caroling.









Danyeanl. Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College,1945

PRICE 10 CENTS —



Library Displays
Pope Ist Editions

Tn Rare Exhibit

By: Nina Cave ’50

Alexander Pope is the subject
of the current Rare Book Room ex-
hibit, which will last only through
December. The extremely valu-
able collection of first editions, let-
ters, and pictures features a Pope
self-portrait. The greater part of
the collection has been loaned by
the Morgan Library in New York;
other contributors include Haver-
ford, The Free Library of Penn-
sylvania, the University of Penn-
sylvania, and several members of
our faculty.

The Morgan Library has con-
tributed several valuable first edi-
tions, which include The Essay on
Criticism, published in 1711, and
The Rape of the Lock, dated three
years later. A 1729 edition of The
Dunciad, with an owl frontispiece,
is matched by Miss Woodworth's
edition with an Ass frontispiece.

Self-Portrait

“One day ... I walked into the
bookshop of Messrs. Robinson in
Pall Mall’... and observed hang-
ing on the wall a fine, highly col-
ored full-length portrait of a man
with a fine head and a curiously
deformed body, seated in what
seemed to be & ruin.

‘What is that?’ I exclaimed.

‘Oh! That is a self-portrait of
Pope.’

‘A self-portrait of Pope! Obvi-
ously it is a portrait of Pope, but
I did not know that Pope ever
painted portraits.’’? (From Pope,
Poetry and Portraits by A. Edward
Newton).

The portrait itself shows a very
decrepit Pope sitting in the fore-
‘ground of his frontispiece. His
poor physique is obvious. His
clothes are worn through at the
elbows and the knees, and one but-
ton hangs by a single thread.

Mr. Newton bought this portrait,
whieh has been loaned to Bryn
Mawr by Miss Caroline Newton
and now hangs in the Rare Book
Room. The Morgan Library loan

Continued on Page 3

Haverford, BM

To Jom Sunday
In Carol Service

Program Will Include
‘A Ceremony of Carols’
By Britten

This year the Bryn Mawr Chor-
us will feature Benjamin Britten’s
“A Ceremony of Carols” in the
joint Haverford-Bryn Mawr Christ-
mas carol service to be held on
Sunday, December 14, at 8:00 in
Goodhart. As in the past, the
Reverend Andrew Mutch, Minister
Emeritus of the Bryn Mawr Pres-
byterian Church, will read the
Christmas story.

“A Ceremony of Carols” is a
collection of diverse Christmas
pea many of them Old English,
‘arranged for women’s. voices and
harp by Britten, the young Eng-
lish composer whose opera “Peter
Grimes” is to be performed at the
Metropolitan in New Yerk this
season. The harp accompaniment
will be played by Edna Phillips, a
former member of the Philadelphia
Orchestra, who worked with Brit-
ten on the harp arrangement and
played at the first American per-
formance of “A Ceremony of Car-
ols”. Soloists will be Ellen Smith
’49, and Nancy Dreher ’50.

An instrumental piece by Handel
for flute and violin with continuo
will follow the “Ceremony of Car-
ols”. William H. Reese, director
of the Bryn Mawr-Haverford or-
chestra, will play the continuo on
the Handel organ.

Next, the Haverford chorus will
sing three carols. The two cho-
ruses will combine to © sing
the last two pieces, the first of
these being Pergolese’s “Glory to
God in the Highest”, with Henny
Burch ’48 and Barbara Nugent ’48
from Bryn Mawr and Thomas Zim- ©
merman and William Hough from ©
Haverford as soloists. “L’adieu des
Bergers a la Sainte Famille,” part
of Berlioz’ oratorio “L’enfance du
Christ” will also be sung.





Bull Fight, Nativity Plays Planned

In Language Clu

By Pat Nichol, ’50

It was the week before Christmas
and all through Bryn Mawr,

People were busy with irons in the
fire.

French plays to be given and fun
to be had,

Bull fights and refreshments, a
Matador mad!

Yes! The Language clubs at
Bryn Mawr are overflowing with
plans for Christmas parties. On
Monday, December 15th, the Span-
ish Club is staging a Fiesta. A
Fiesta with a very authentic “Bull
Fight” with special imported Bulls
taking part in the entertainment
and fun. The Matador, called Ne-
perrito, is a member of the Pena
Taurina do Manolo Nevano in Ma-
drid and will show his memberhsip
card to anyone desiring to see it.
who, by the way,
is the matador, declares that her.
costume is quite unauthentic (ow-
ing to the circumstances) and that
her bull is quite uninspired. How-
ever, this is only one Matador’s
opinion, so don’t let this keep you
from attending this wild Fiesta, in
the Spanish House gt 8:30.

In addition to Mexican and
Spanish folk dances and carols,

6 Xmas Parties

there will be excellent food (which
the Spanish Club claims to be the
best on campus) and perhaps a
Pinata. :

The next night, Tuesday, Decem-
ber 16th, the French Club will give
their traditional French pageant,
“Le Mystere de la Nativite,” in
the Music Room of Wyndham.
There will be games, singing and
genuine French pastries at the in-
formal party following, to which.
all members of the French Club
are invited.

A traditional “Weihnachtsspiel,’’
or German Nativity play, will be
presented this same evening by the
German clubs of Bryn Mawr and
Haverford in the Bryn Mawr Mu-
sic Room. The play will be sup-)*
plemented by 16th and 17th .cen-
tury music by a chorus and a quar-
tet front Haverford, comprising
flute, violin, ’cello and piano.

The audience and players will
then forsake the Music Room for
the more informal atmosphere of
German‘ House, where they will re-
ceive substantial refreshment to
aid them in singing German
Christmas songs. The play will be
repeated the following evening at
the Lutheran’ Church in Philadel-
phia.






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Under Act of Congress August 24, 1912







a The College Inn

The College Inn has its back up against the wall, faced
by high food costs and wages, while higher prices due to less
patronage and even less patronage due to high prices circle
viciously around. The problem, which frighteningly resem-
bles inflation, will have to be solved if the Inn is going to get
in the black again and pay back the college loan at interest.

Teas and breakfasts could be dispensed with, but since
the Inn is run for the benefit of the students who patronize
it most of these times, it is reluctant to do so. Dressy food
(i. e. the blob of orange ice in cranberry juice, or the pickle
served with the sandwich, or expensive brands of coffee) will

-have to be eliminated. The staff can be reduced to a mini-
mum for all times, and supplemented by students who are
looking for jobs and who would work for the Deanery or
Library wage of 50 cents an hour (plus tips at full-course
meals). Business could be increased on Friday nights with

the serving of a hamburger and French fries for those who
shy away from the fish dinner in the balls. The Inn has al-

“ready taken a step in the right direction by offering a full-

course Friday night special.

But solving the financial problem of the Inn is not going
to necessarily increase the patronage. The root of the prob-
lem lies deeper than that, for students continue to walk tg
the Vill for a higher-priced hamburger at the Hearth. We
feel that the service is slow and negligent, sometimes forcing
us into a retaliating rudeness, which is in part uncalled for
and in part only natural when we are irked by examples of

mismanagement.

The Inn used to make money and still can, if it is run

efficiently.

It has the advantage of being on the campus

within easy walking-distance of every hall so that it is a
gathering place for the students and faculty. It has a social

besides an eating value.





CURTAIN TIME NO ASSEMBLY THURSDAY

The Alliance regrets to an-
nounce that Mr. ‘Ralph J.
Bunche, scheduled to speak in
a College Assembly tomorrow,
is unable to fulfill his engage-
ment, owing to his appointment
to the U.N. Palestine Commis-
sion. :

Curtain time for King Lear
_is positively 8:00, since the per-
formance takes four. hours. The
play will be presented Friday
and Saturday in Roberts Hall,
Haverford College.









a







BMT in Fiction

by Katrina Thomas °49
Babbit

Babbit’s daughter, Verona, a
creation of Sinclair Lewis, is a
“dumpy brown-haired. girl of
twenty-two, just out of Bryn
Mawr, given to solicitudes about
duty and sex and God and the un-

| conquerable bagginess of the gray

sports-suit she is now wearing.”

Babbit is proud of his daughter
who is a filing-clerk at the Gruens-
berg Leather Co. offices. This work
he defines as “getting some good
out of your expensive college ed-
ucation till you’re ready to marry
and settle down.” But, Verona is
more civic-minded and feels she
should be doing “something worth-
while” like working with the bab-
ies down at the Associated Chari-
ties, or “contributing” by working
in a settlement house.

Ideals Irk Ted

Bryn Mawr has instilled her
with some ideals which only irk
her brother, Ted, a junior at the
East Side High School. He is left
cold by his sister’s higher educa-
tion. “Ain’t we select since we
went to that hen college!” When
she asks him not to interrupt her
serious conversations, he bellows:
“Aw punk. Ever since somebody
slipped up and let you out of col-
lege, Ammonia, you been pulling
these nut conversations about
what-nots and so-and-and-so-
forths”, and accuses her of leay-
ing the car “in front of some
skirt’s -house all evening” while
they sit and gas about literature
and the “highbrows” they’ll marry.

Kenneth Escott, a reporter on the
Advocate Times, who is a little shy
and lonely and says “Gee whilli-
kens”, likes Verona. They “talk
about ideas”, and discover they are
both Radicals, agree that commun-
ists are criminals, and predict that
one day there will be a Third
Party to give trouble to the Repub-
licans and Democrats. Babbit be-
comes hopeful about Escott’s “hes-
itant-ardors”, but in answer to his
coy question: “Has our Kenny been
here tonight?”, he is rebuffed with,
“Why Ken and I are just good
friends, and we only talk about
Ideas. I won’t have all this senti-
mental nonsense, that would spoil
everything.” And so, Babbit wor-
ries about his daughter who lives
in the “neat, little airless room of
her.mind” just as he worries about
his son who lives in the “new aura
of Immortality’—“goings-on” at
young parties. “Gosh,” he wails
to Mrs. Babbit, “it gets me how
Rone and that fellow can be so
pokey. They sit there night after
night . . . they don’t know there’s
any fun in the world. All talk and
discussion . . . Lord! . . . Gosh!”
However, “eventually” and “‘hesi-
tatingly” Verona and Kenneth are
married, to spend the rest of their
lives “worrying, in a cultured col-
legiate manner, about the minimum
wages and the Drama League.”



Title Writers Offer
Variety of Moods

: Continued on Page 4
ciousness of the dialogue.

Simpler than the other stories,
“Second Anniversary,” by Virginia
Brooke, ’49, is effective in its con-
trast between the grimness of the
Japanese prison camp experiences
of a boy the narrator meets on a
train and the cheerfully matter-of-
fact way in which he describes
them.

In the only essay in this issue,
“The Tragic Sailor: Ahab,” Anne
Greet, ’50, has formulated intelli-
gent questions about “Ahab as a
tragic hero, and Moby Dick as a
tragedy.” She has answered them,
too, in a highly readable paper,
one which might well silence the
inevitable freshman query: “If our
long papers have to be based upon
our sources, how will we have a
chance to say anything original



ourselves ?” y
Continued on Page 3

Current Events

December 8.—‘“We are now

‘threatened with a new Petain and

a new Vichy government,” declar-
ed M. Louis Pamplume, speaking
on “Politics in France Today.” This
threat comes in the form of the
De Gaullist party, which is backed
by the traditional reactionaries of
France. M. Pamplume asserted
that De Gaulle, the symbol to all



'of French resistance, is in fact
opposed to the true spirit of re-
sistance. He declared further, “I
‘believe that the De Gaulle threat

re France is a direct result of the

|

Truman Doctrine.”
In describing the troubled and



complex situation in France, M.
fact
‘that an immediate socialist reform

Pamplume emphasized the



| government is the only possible so-
| lution. There is a widespread feel-
‘ing that Hitler won the war and
it is-sometimes added that he won
it the day Roosevelt died.. The
people fear the attachment. of po-
litical strings to the Marshall Plan
since in their minds capitalism be-
came with Facism
when French big business co-oper-
ated whole-heartedly with the
Nazis.

synonomous

M. Pamplume criticized the
Schuman government’s solution of
strikes by force. Civil_war—has
been postponed rather than pre-

vented, he added.



QUOTA TOPPED

The Undergraduates have
reached their Drive quota, an-

nounces Nancy Martin, Chair-
man of the Undergraduate
Committee.









Opinion

Committees Formed
For Improvement

Of Arts’ Night
To the Editor:

Arts’ Night was begun as an op-
portunity to present to the campus
the original creative work accom-
plished throughout the year by the
various artistic groups at Bryn
Mawr. The first production was
successful and was considered a
definite indication of undergradu-
ate talent and co-ordination. Un-
fortunately the main responsibility
for the production devolved upon
Mr. Thon, to whom great credit
must be given for the successfub
execution of a very good idea.
However, the inferior production
of last year showed that not only °
was, the support of a great many
students necessary, but also their
active participation.

The discussion about Big May
Day revealed what had been hith-
erto a latent dynamism in the stu-
dent body. This is not to say that
Arts’ Night would be a substitu-
tion for Big May Day, but it seem-
ed to suggest the possibility of ac-
tive campus support in realizing a
similar project.

For this purpose a Committee
has met, consisting of Faculty and
students who partially represent
the groups involved. A student.
committee made up of representa- _
tives from these groups will meet.
in the Common Room on Friday,
at 4:00. Whoever is interested
and has any constructive ideas will
be very welcome. These two com-
mittees will merge early next week
to formulate in some measure a&
general plan.

The Provisional Committee
for Arts’ Night.



By Louise Ervin 49

The one enduring and unvarying
institution at Bryn Mawr is the
“Freshman Comp” class. In spite
of: The New Look, the students re-
main much the same, and two hours
of each week are still devoted to
solving within fifty minutes, prob-
lems to which the UN Assembly is
obliged to devote long hours of
discussion.

To savor the true spirit of
Freshman Comp, one must arrive
promptly at eleven oclock. For
while upperclassmen dash _ into
class at 9 3/4 past the hour, the
freshmen have already reached the
third floor of Taylor. Props and
impedimenta vary from hockey
tunic and bathing cap to chocolate
bars (“breakfast”), wrapped in a
peculiarly noisy type of paper.

(The following account presents
Freshman Comp as it appears to
a casual visitor. If these impres-



sions are misleading, they are re-
corded with proper apologies to
professors and students).

Initial_ Skirmish

First on the program is the giv-
ing .of a reading assignment.
Far-removed Seniors who believe
that taking down a reading assign-
ment is a relatively simple opera-
tion, are referred to the first 20
minutes of any English 1 class. On
one morning, the professor reads
out a list of books guaranteed to
provoke thought and start one
along the fact-finding path. The
more alert members of the class
write down all of the professor’s
introductory comments on the book
assigned, perhaps in the hope that
such a digest will serve just as
wellas two hours in the reading
room. The less practical of the
group voice so many varied inter-
pretations of the assignment
(which is inscribed on the black-
board in bold letters filly three



inches high) that it seems prob-

e

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Startling Opin ions, Bright Argyles
Liven Confusion of English Comp.

lematical whether any two will
read the same book or the same
passage.

In ten minutes of this class, 2
barrage of questions is fired, not
to be equalled by an entire semes-
ter of more civilized courses. The
general opinion seems to be that
if you can hold the floor for ten
minutes each class, you may even
get a High Credit. Faintly aud-
ible above the continuous rustling
and whispering is the plaintive
voice of the professor: “It is the
tendency of this class never to get
beyond the first point raised, be-
cause everyone thinks of some-
thing not entirely relevant to that
point.”

Beast vs. Professor

The argument over James’ style
borders on heckling. It is difficult,.
nay almost impossible, for the pro-
fessor to make a point when con-
fronted. bya sea of hands waving
like so much eel grass. More-
over, the Freshman Comp class is
unsurpassed in manoeuvering the
subject to their own line of
thought.-The CHIEF OBSTRUCT-
OR, who knows ALL, fixes a stony
stare upon others whose queries do
not attain her degree of eloquence. “?}
During a lapse in this battle, the
professor reads a passage in il-
lustration. A murmur of approv-
al rises from “the intellects”. Oth-
ers return to concentration on ar-
gyles, with a frantic clicking of
bobbins.

By this time even the professor:
steals frequent glances at the
clock. It is now 11:55. Coats and
Sweaters are pulled on surrepti-
tiously; books and pens are assem-
bled with an attempt at quiet. At
the first sound of Taylor bell, the
innocent visitor is swept aside by
a torrent of self-confident fresh-
men pouring out the door. Se

All of which explains why
Freshman Comp meets only twice.
ea _












THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three



Title Writers Offer
Variety of Moods

Continued from Page 2
The high point. of the Title’s
poetry occurs in Ellen Harriman’s
crisp translations from French

In two original poems Pa-
tricia Hochschild, ’48, shows abil-

lyrics.

ity to convey complicated moods
through sounds, odours and frag-
In “Three Grey
Geese,” Mimi Lukens, ’50, has pre-

mentary images.

sented a single scene memorably
through understatement.

The editors show clearly in their
opening remarks their awareness
that their magazine, like the other
creative activities upon the cam-
pus, has not yet reached its full
stature. Exactly what is needed is

hard to say. Representation of

the many promising writers whose

work never reaches the Title’s of-
fice might help. So, too, might
less tendency on the part of con-
tributors to think that simply re-
producing a state of mind consti-
But these

suggestions are not panaceas. Ex-

tutes a work of art.

actly what a student literary mag-
azine ought to be has never been
decided: As the hero of Sylvia
Stallings’ story says in another
context, “You know when you’ve
got it—but, until then, you can’t
tell why you don’t have it.”



|Prayer and Dr.



Bouquets
to

King Lear

from

Jeannett’s



Pope’s Self-Protrait
Exhibited in Library

Continued from Page 1

of a 1760 edition of An Essay on
Man has a frontispiece with a print
of Pope’s that is absolutely iden-
tical with the background of the
Newton portrait. Pope has simply
taken his own self-portrait and
eliminated the central figure. Dr.
Washburn explains the print in
his introduction to the book:

“The reader will excuse my add-
ing a word concerning the frontis-
piece which, as it was designed and
drawn by Mr. Pope himself would
be a kind of curiosity,.had not the
excellence of thought recommended
it otherwise. We see it represents
the Vanity of Human Glory, in the
false pursuits after happiness. . ”

Haverford College has present-
ed facsimiles of prints and broad-
sides, as well as an original letter,
which is not addressed to anyone

but simply inquires about a
friend’s health:
“...I1 beg to know how you go

on....” It is signed simply “Yours
entirely, A. Pope”.
First editions of The Universal

been contributed by the University
of Pennsylvania and Dr. Chew, re-
spectively. Miss Donnelly has lent
a copy of Homer’s Odysses.





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Freshman Show

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Stage: Misa Smith
Business: Mousie Wallace





Students Criticize
Inn Prices, Service

Continued from Page 1
handful of, eaters and the patients
in the Infirmary.

The core of the problem lies in
the financial situation of the Col-
lege Inn, which is a college-owned,
non-profit concern operated pure-
ly for the faculty and students.

Not to be forgotten is the wage

problem. The Inn pays: eight
helpers in the kitchen (a-chef, as-
sistant chef, pot washer, salad

girl, helper, dish washer, dessert
girl and relief man) and five or six
waitresses. It is run by a manager,
an assistant manger, a cashier and
formerly a hostess. This seems to
be a large personnel, even for the
tea rush-hour. Unfortunately, the
students are only too willing to
help out at tea at the regular)
wage, but they cannot be counted
on at lunches and dinners over
weekends.





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Harris (Mgr.) Lutz
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Brown, L. Repenning
Crist, E. Riggs
Davis Rogers
Dempwolf, H. Runton
Harvey Schmidt
Howells Shaw
Johnson, P. Wurlitzer

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Anthony Owens
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Diving
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Open to Students

Foreign students ac Bryn Mawr



‘are offered an unusual opportunity

in the form of two international
¥ ;

conferences organized by the Girl

Scouts. Undergraduate or gradu-
ate students over 21 with any ex-
perience or interest in Girl Scout-
ing or Girl Guiding are eligible and
to
these conferences, which will be

should apply for invitations
held next. summer in New York
State.

The individual conference is de-
scribed by Dr. Hertha Kraus, pro-



fessor of sociology, as “a very chal-
lenging and stimulating event fer
all participants.” “Those interest-
ed should get in touch with Dr.
Kraus for application blanks and
further information. (All expenses
except transportation to and from
the camp are paid by the Girl
Scout organization.)





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“Louis Zwyciezyl:

ded

Drowns Out

Polite ‘‘Biraz Panc Istermisin?’’

By Marian Edwards °50 |

a Polish | |
|

“Joe Louis zwyciezyl,”

student exclaimed. Tango, danc-
ing, and even fruit
punckK took a back seat to the;

World Championship boxing match, |

eard_sharking,

when Haverford, Villanova and
Bryn Mawr American and foreign |
prize-fight fans pooled their sus-
pense around Wyndham’s radio at;
the foreign students’ party Friday |
night. Thanks to the pleasantly |
abundant male enthusiasts for dis-
covering the common ground of
Madison Square Garden. Result:
after the first few rounds the en-
ormous, and«typical dead-weight
stag line dissolved into mixed
groups and couples, relieving an
overly-crowded dance floor.

Meanwhile discussions in smoke-
filled corners ranging from the
French elections and the Philip-
pine Tagalog lingo to college
courses and American jitterbug-
ging, gave little doubt that the
party accomplished its purpose of
giving foreign students a chance
to meet Americans. |’

In fact, we were quite flattered
to be asked in Turkish “Biraz panc
istermisin?” (Would you care for
some punch?) or “Maari ba akong
makasayao sa iyo?” (May I have
this dance?) in Tagalog.

Villanova, moreover, seemed to
be everywhere. We asked an eager
Villanova lad, standing before a
window decorated with green and
purple crepe paper bows, to ac-

count for the delegation of almost
fifty that arrived. After comment-

ing that it was “some party”, he

|remarked that it was “about time
Bryn Mawr asked us fellas to
something. After all, we do have
a song with the line “to Bryn Mawr
for your pretty girls”, and we
don’t have much chance to find out
if it’s true”. We probed no fur-
ther for explanation.

In view of the success of this
party, we hope the Alliance will
duplicate it in future similar get-
togethers under the sponsorship
of the United Nations Student
Council, the IRC, the language
clubs and the proven able assist-
ance of Haverford and Villanova!



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Friday, Decem-

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If so, the League can use you.
Poster-painters are urgently need-
ed to help publicize their activities.
Contact Roz Kane in Denbigh if
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mer Camp as well. For- one dol-
lar, in cash or check, you may buy
a card with one dollar and one
cent’s worth of punches in denom-
inations of one, two and five cents.
These cards may be kept on file at
the soda fountain. Hall represen=
tatives selling these cards are:
Denbigh, East House,
Staderman; Merion, Coleman; Pem
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afternoon tea service in the club
rooms in the 14th floor pent house
of the Hotel Barclay, 111 East 48th
Street, New York City. All mem-
bers of the college are invited to
use these facilities.

Undergraduates who wish to
make tea dates during the Christ-
mas holidays ‘should make reser-
vations through Miss Dorothy Ew-
ing at the Club (PLaza 5-2460).
Tea is served Monday through Fri-
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