College news, November 5, 1947

Tue COLLERE NEWS







VOL. ‘XLH;NO. 6

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1947

Copyright,

Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College,1945

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Newcomer Says|
Help for Europe
Imperative Now

Goodhart, November 4. At the
second Bryn Mawr assembly on
Current Affairs, Miss Mabel New-
comer evaluated the Marshall
Plan, emphasizing that the United
States must not again run the risk
of supplying ‘too little, too late.’
If Congress in its special session
November 17 follows the Repub-
lican wish to discuss tax reduction
before the Marshall plan, the re-
sults might be disastrous, accord-
ing to Miss Newcomer.

Miss Newcomer explained that |

there are certain basic questions
to be considered in regard to the
Marshall Plan. People want to
know whether it will fill Europe’s
needs, whether it can be effective-
ly carried out by Europe and
whether we can afford this aid.
““All we know is that the need in
Europe is great; that efforts have
- already been made towards the
reestablishment of industry and
towards financial stability in west-
est Europe; and-that—certainco-
operative measures have already
ben instituted by these countries,”
stated Miss Newcomer. The fact
that western Germany seems to be
the great exception in European
recovery can be traced to the
United States policy there and to
the fact that they have suffered a
loss of initiative intensified by the
lack of food and heat.

The need for a flexible program
under the direction of a continu-
ing control commission was advo-
‘cated by Miss Newcomer.
must be used with discretion, how-
ever,” Miss Newcomer asserted,
“and not to make Europeans do
things our way. Our task is to
make them be free. It is a diffi-
cult one.” Miss Newcomer . also
demonstrated that failure to give
Europe the proper aid would even-
tually lead to economic disorder
in the United States.

Treasury Dues

Payable in Dec.

Common Treasury dues of $5.00
will be placed on the second Pay
Day (December 12). The budgets
of the organizations handled by the
Common Treasurer are posted on
the ‘appropriate bulletin boards in
Taylor. See them for exact de-
tails. The sum will ,be allocated
as follows:

$1.00 to the Alliance.

-25 to the Self-Government, As-
sociation.

.60 to the Varsity Players and
Stage Guild. (This.entitles all un-
dergraduates to a free ticket, dis-
counting entertainment tax, to both
Varsity Players’ productions giv-
en at Bryn Mawr. The Time of
Your Life, by William Saroyan,
will be presented this Saturday).

$3.00 to the Undergraduate As-
sociation.

15 to the Undergraduate Asso-
ciation to cover deficit. (The Un-
dergrad Board voted unanimously
to complete the $5.00 in ‘this way,
in order to cover a deficit incurred
over the last few years. This will
enable Undergrad to start with a
clean slate).

Rigid economy is being observed
' in all organizational finances, states
Susan Kelley, the Common Treas-
urer. Financial statements are
posted monthly in Taylor.

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“This |

Nick’s P. Street Restaurant
onli ote Time of Your Life’

by Katrina Thomas "49

The place to have “the time of
your life” is at Nick’s Pacific
Street Restaurant, “the lousiest
dive in ’Frisco” where the proprie-
tor maintains “a guy comes in and
makes me sto@k up on champagne,
the girls come in and holler at me
that they’re ladies, talent comes in
and begs for a chance to show it-
self, even society folks come in
once in a while.” It is here that
a Greek newsboy with a “great

lyric tenor”, a comedian who can|

be funny but can’t make people
laugh, long-shoremen, a_love-sick

Schlesinger Says



Changes Possible
Within Democracy

Goodhart, October 30.—In an
analysis of “Patterns of Democratic
Change,” Professor Arthur C.
Schlesinger pointed out that revo-
lutionary changes could be effected
without a revolution. “Change is
a life and death problem for socie-
ty,” said Prof. Schlesinger; and-ad=
justment to this constant changing
is a major issue which presents it-
self under a political guise.

The Ruling Class

“The ruling class benefits from
the continued existence of the
present order,” explained. Prof.
Schlesinger, and at the same time
it becomes less interested in the
objectives by which it came to
power than in the power acquired.
The rest of society, on the other
hand, becomes increasingly dissat-
isfied. A new approach to solving
this problem was evolved during
the 18th and 19th centuries with
the development of democracy.
“The ruling class in a democracy
is abortive,”’ asserted Prof. Schles-.
inger; “it has no legal or statutory
position.” In addition to a more
mature conception of legal change
political techniques are used to
regularize change.

“The business community, which
constitutes the ruling class in our
democracy,” Prof. Schlesinger con-
tinued, “has been politically, ideo-
logically and socially vulnerable.”
Two periods of acute tension when
popular dissatisfaction was at its
strongest and the business commu-
nity remained most implacable
may be seen during the presiden-
cies of Jackson and Roosevelt.

Illustrating his parallel between
the terms of office of these two
men, Prof. Schlesinger drew atten-
tion to the similarity between the

Continued on Page 3

A. W. Whittemore
Will Lead Chapel

The Reverend Alan Whittemore,
Father-Superior, Order of the
Holy Cross will conduct the Sun-
day evening services in the Music
Room on November 9. The Order
of the Holy Cross is a monastic
order belonging to the Episcopal
Church. It was founded in 1884
in New York’s East Side among
the poor, by the Rev. James O. S.
Huntington.

The order consists of about
twenty-five men, most of whom
are under life vows. They: limit
themselves to God by three solemn



pledges of Poverty, Chastity and
Obedience.

——

fellow who threatens to jump in-

the Bay, a» humorous trapper, a
starving Negro pianist, a burlesque
queen with a talent for dreaming,
and street-walkers. all gather to
drink, to philosophize about the
reasonable” and the unreasonable,
“the what and the what-not”.

The production of Time of Your
Life by the Bryn Mawr Varsity
Players and Haverford’s Cap and
Bells on Friday and Saturday
nights will reveal how William
Saroyan finds life wonderful, or
worth living anyway.

The play promises to be not only
entertainment but thought-provok-
‘ing, under the expert direction of
‘Mr. Thon who does not lack energy
and overlooks no discrepancies of
production. Music and dialogue are
carefully synchronized, action and
gesture meticulously coached. Nev-
ertheless, Saroyan’s so - called
comedy will probably not make
many people laugh.



Streeter, Taylor,
Dean, Will Speak
About Edueation

Dr. Vera Micheles Dean, Dr. Lily
Ross Taylor and Ruth Cheney
Streeter, 1918, will be the speakers
at the Saturday morning session
of the Alumnae Week-end pro-
gram, Liberal Edueation and Life
in the Community. Undergradu-
ates are invited to the meeting
which will be held in the Theatre
Workshop at the Baldwin School,
at 11:00.

Dr. Dean, a well-known speaker,
is Research Director and Editor of
The Foreign Policy Association.
She will speak on “Education for
International Affairs.”

Dr. Taylor, familiar to all Bryn
Mawr students as Dean of the
Graduate School and Professor of
Latin, is to speak on “The Humani-
ties and Public Service.”

Mrs. Streeter was the director
and a Colonel in the Marine Corps
Women’s Reserve, receiving the
Legion of Merit award for her out-
standing service. ‘Education for
Participation in Community Af-
fairs” will be the subject of her
talk.



Calendar

Thursday, November 6
1:30—Voting for May Day.
4:00—Hockey, Bryn Mawr

vs. Penn, here.

Friday, November 7
8:30—Bryn Mawr Varsity

Players and the Haverford

Cap and Bells, The Time of

Your Life by William Saroy-

an, Goodhart.

Saturday, November 8
8:30—The Time of Your
Life, Goodhart.

Sunday, November 9
2:30 — Denbigh
West hockey game.
7:30—Chapel, conducted by
The Reverend Alan Whitte-
more, Father-Superior, Order’
of the Holy Cross, Music
Room.
Monday, November 10
7:15—Current Events, Mrs.
Neal: “The American Polit-
itical Trends and the Recent
Elections”.
8:15—Record Concert, Mu-
sic Room.
Tuesday, November 11
8:30—Philosophy Club Lec-
ture, Professor Monroe Beard-
sley of Swarthmore, Common
Room.

vs. Pem









|Saroyan’s “Hello Out There!”
Wins Play Plaque For Rhoads

°31 Plays Include Haverford Adaptation,
Saroyan, Dreiser, Yeats;

All Well-Acted

by Katrina Thomas ’49

The Freshman plays which were
presented Friday night revealed
the usual fine spirit in which they
are given, which compensates’ for
the usual difficulty of casting girls
in male parts and the roughness of
production which cannot be helped
when amateurs are allowed only
two weeks with four stage rehears-
als before the actual production.

It would seem that an aid to
overcoming the difficulty of girls
trying to take male parts is that
of having a male director, because
Betty Lou Morgan was actually
Charles in speech, manner and ac-
tion in the Non-Res production of
Frank Tompkins’ Sham. Eugene
Galanter directed this sophisticated
comedy, about the goings-on of an
evening at 2819 Sargent Road. The
cast included Lynn Cox as a very
winning thief but who was not quite
so-much_at-home_in_the_part_as_ the
thief was in the house; Debby Put-
nam as an extremely comic Clara
with fluttery hands and a piercing
screech when she became excited;

and Claire Hershfield in a bit part
Continued on Page 3

Westerners Gain
Time for Travel

The Dean’s office has announced
that the Faculty has passed the
motion of returning to the pre-
war rule that students living west
of the Mississippi will be allowed
travel time during Christmas va-
cation. Such students may leav
college in advance time in ae
to reach home before midnight of
December 23. This applies only
to the student who is going home.
She must register at the office of
the Dean immediately after her
last lecture and must bring rail-
road timetables to the office.

In_ returning, students west of
the Mississippi do not need to leave
before the first available train on
January 2, as shown by timetables
submitted to the Dean. They are
required to register in the office of
the Dean immediately preceding
their first class. Christmas vaca-
tion begins this year on December
19 at 12:45 p. m. and ends Janu-
ary 5at 9 a. mi,



by Gwynne Williams ’50

The impulse to praise the acting
in the winning Freshman play,
Saroyen’s Hello, Out There! pre-
sented by Rhoads under the direc-
tion of Pam Stillman, is somewhat
restrained by my adverse opinion
of the play itself. Hello, Out
There! condemns a world already
far more ingeniously and_ subtly
sentenced to complete deteriora-
tion by Aldous Huxley or T. S.
Eliot. Its hero, a young man who
has been unfairly jailed for a put-
up rape, was played by Cynthia
Schwartz. Saroyan’s character is a
little too bitter, a little too un-
natural to be appealing, but Cyn-
thia interpreted this bitterness
with near professional skill.

High Caliber Acting

The young girl who falls in
love with him was played _sincere-
ly and successfully by Anita Ditt-
mar. The husband of the so-called
outraged partner in the crime
again seemed to have no real ap-
peal, the blame for which can be
equally divided between Saroyan
and Harriet Morse, who was a lit-
tle too abrupt to be convincing, so
that the ultimate shooting of the
hero borders on being an act of
comedy. Molly. Frothingham as
the deceitful wife, Coly Nauman
and Katherine Torrence as_ his
friends get the most out of their
small parts.

Although not _a__ soul - stirring
drama, Rhoads’ interpretation of
Hello, Out There! is to be most
heartily praised for having acting
of a much higher caliber than is
usually seen in Freshmen plays.

eats’ Land of Heart’s Desire,
presented by Rockefeller under
Emily Townsend’s direction, though
without the polished, expert ap-
proach of the winning play was
of a very human and appealing
quality. Iran Ala as the father had
a natural and wise understanding
of her part, but Deidre Delaney as
the mother could have been more
expressive of her bitter jealousy
for her daughter. Jeanne Hoenig
assumed the unimaginativeness of
voice and action to give an excel-
lent portrayal of the devout priest.
Joyce Medwed and Patsy Bennett
played the parts of young lovers

Continued on Page 3



Pasquale Falconi Notes Changes
After Forty-two Years at B.M.C.

By Anne Greet, ’50

Last summer, at the end of June,
Pasquale Falconi retired after 42
years of service to Bryn Mawr.
Since 1905 he has worked as cam-
pus mailman or groundsman. It
was he who planted the ivy around
Rockefeller, and during Miss
Thomas’ reign he had special care
of the Deanery and the Deanery
gardens. ~~

‘Miss Thomas ‘and he were great
friends. The Deanery garden with
its stone fountain no, longer is the
colorful sweet-smelling place it
was when he took care of it for
her. Nearly every’ day she insist-
ed he take her up and down in the
freight elevator—a perilous jour-
ney as it continually threatened to
collapse. At Christmas time Miss



Thomas would send Pasquale’s



children presents — strange things
she had collected abroad—and_-they.
implicitly believed she was Santa
Claus.

In over 40 years Pasquale saw
many changes on’ campus. The
Deanery grew. The gym sprang
up, and a new tile swimming pool
took the place of the old cement-
bottomed one. Before there was a
gym Pasquale used to set up the
posts and baskets for outdoor bas-
ketball in the spring, but no soon-
er were they ready than every one
migrat to the tennis courts.
Goodhar} was not yet built and
chapel was in Taylor on the second
floor as the high Gothic. windows
bear witness.

But the essentials of Bryn Mawr
have not changed. The barnyard

seems to have always been down
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The News On Criticism

The News has come in for its armual criticism on its
criticism this week, and we feel we should again state our
method of reviewing.

The News does not send out its reviewers with a pre-
‘conceived “policy” or attitude toward a specific play. Many
people seem to feel that our reviewers automatically “pan”
any campus offering, considering and criticizing it in the
same way and by the same standards as a Broadway produc-
tion. This is not true.

The News has a staff of reviewers, who are chosen sole-
ly for their proven taste and ability, not only to distinguish
good from bad, but to write a good criticism. This presup-
poses—and desires—a personal style. It is possible that cer-
tain styles may be offensive; it is also possible that the re-
viewer.can be wrong. No one is ever infallible, and certainly
no one twenty years old who is working on a college news-
paper pretends to be or thinks she is. We send out our re-

viewer, telling her to write what she thinks about the pro-
duction, and we publish her article under her name. It should

be obvious that the whole News staff cannot be and is not al-
ways in accord—just as any group of people will meharee on
the same subject.

Nor does the News consider or review a campus produc-
tion as it does a professional one. We are aware of the dif-
ference in talent, and_ more especially the vast difference in
time. It seems unnecessary to state that one could hardly
approach “Medea” and the Junior Show by the same route.
We don’t.

Last year’s Arts’ Night, to jump into the fray, was a
disappointing performance, with the exception of one very
good play and the singing of the double octet. The News was
first to encourage more creative activity, and we still are. But
we do feel that bad art is worse than no art, and we were
more than embarrassed by an almost one-woman show which
purported to be the best artistic work that Bryn Mawr could
produce.

On the other hand, the Varsity Players productions were,
without exception, excellent. The News said so. The Fresh-
man Show was capably handled and most’ entertaining. The
News said so. The chorus had several brilliant recitals. The
News said so. Perhaps the readers who glibly refer toour
“panning policy” had better look again.

We believe, as must everyone in this day, in the import-
ance of art. We also believe that good art is absolutely nec-
essary. The standard is high at Bryn Mawr, and we have
always hoped that our criticism would only serve to make it
higher. We have tried, also, to recognize the very real dif-
ference between entertainment, where the A for effort be-
longs, and art, where it has no place at any time. We have
tried to indicate this differentiation in our reviewing; per-
haps we have at times failed in making clear such a distinc-
tion.

If we have been too harsh, we are sorry. We welcome
criticism on our criticism, since we aré’far from perfect. We
have tried, however, to maintain complete integrity in our

critical work, hoping to foster an ever-higher artistic con-
sciousness and standard of production for Bryn Mawr. And

we shall continue to do so.



Current Events

Common Room, November 3:
“The purpose of the Un-American
Activities Committee is to intim-
idate all local liberal organizations
to silence”, said Mr. Bachrach in
presenting the problem of Civil
Liberties and the Communist in-
vestigations.

He pointed out that this com-
mittee has refused to define what
is actually meant by “subversive
activities’, although it atitacks

“alienism”, “foreignism” and “com-
munism.”

The issue is serious, Mr. Bach-
rach insists, because it supposes
that national security is incompat-
ible with freedom of thought. It
assumes that the government must
protect the people from themselves,
and in so doing must label the Com.
munist. He believes that Ameri-
cans should judge the individual
for what he says, rather than
branding him and then letting him
speak.

The Loyalty Test, the Truman
Executive Order and the Dies Com-
mittee are all a result of America’s
Red hysteria, Mr. Bachrach con-
tinued. The cause for this hys-
teria is the insecruity of the rul-
ing class, which fears the inability
of the present economic system to
stand the test. This insecurity is
evidenced by the fact that busi-
ness, championing the challenged
right of free enterprise, refuses to
expand because it fears a depres-
sion.

We must eradicate our fear by
solution in a preventative economic
program, stressed Mr. Bachrach,
rather than through escape by
calling ‘names. This program
would include price control, full
employment and an integrated do-
mestic and foreign policy.

Vocational Comm.

To Alter System

The needs of undergraduates

‘who are looking for jobs, or who

are interested in knowing the re-
quirements of a particular kind of
‘work were discussed at a tea spon-
sored by The Vocational Commit-
tee in co-operation with The Bu-
reau of Recommendations on Oc-
tober 29th.

During the past few years the
Vocational Committee has present-
ed a series of speakers to explain
the work of their fields. These
meetings have been attended prin-
cipally by students majoring in
those fields. The small number of
people who attend these discus-
sions is an indication that a new
system is needed.

Nancy Martin, ’49, chairman of
the Vocational Committee, express-
ed its desire to revamp the pro-
gram to meet student demands. A
particular aim of the committee is
to interest freshmen and sopho-
mores who might find vocational
discussions a valuable aid in select-

‘ing major subjects.

The plan which is being used at
Swarthmore was suggested. This
plan consists of devoting one day
to vocations, with speakers repre-
senting a variety of fields giving
talks throughout the day.

Another suggestion was made
that the various departments
should sponsor teas at which a
panel of faculty and grad students
from the departments should dis-
cuss jobs in their fields. This pro-
posal received strong support from
the group at the meeting.

A poll is to be taken of the en-
tire student body to decide which
system would best answer their
needs. Included in this poli will
be a list of fields from which the
student may select those in which
she is most interested so _ that
speakers may be selected.

ties.

News Policy Criticized:
Adverse Reviews

Denounced
To the Editor:

Every time anyone on this cam-
pus tries to create life or spirit,
the News steps in to kill the spark.
Since the News panned the Broad-
way play “Medea” praised _ by
Brooks Atkinson of The Times, I
should have known that such soph-
omoric criticism would have been
applied to the Junior Show. With
more astuteness Miss Townsend
perhaps would have realized that
the fundamental purpose of the
play was to be “corny.”

My gripe is not with the pseudo-
sophisticated criticism of the Jun-
ior Show alone, but with the criti-
cism of every creative endeavor on
campus. What is the good of de-
structive criticism when the pro-
duction will never be given again?
Isn’t it more to the benefit of nil
to criticize in such a way as to
further enthusiasm for such activi-
The News could have such a
}real part in initiating enthusiasm
rand spirit on campus. It could be
the source of much stimulating
thought and activity instead of the
killjoy it is now.

Last year when this same point
came up in regard to Arts Night,
the News said it, too, was an artis-
tic expression and criticism its
art. Despite the fact that I feel
that the News falls far short of
this goal, I question whether the
purpose of the News is artistic ex-
pression. Since it is the only news-
paper on campus I feel it is its
duty to be a vital accelerator not
a dragging brake.

What difference does it make if
flaws in certain, efforts are left un-
covered? Isn’t the effort behind a
product the most important thing?
We all realize when we start out
on a project it may not reach per-
fection or even completion, but
what we have gained by working
together is so much more impor-
tant than any failure in the final
product.

Another point brought out last
year was that we should be “old”
enough to accept such criticism.
Mature criticism is worth while
but it must be remembered that
age does not bring immunity to
discouragement.

I wish the Editors would ponder
their policy, seek other opinions on
campus and see whether The News
can’t prove to be the necessary or-
gan it might be.

Sincerely yours,
Margo Vorys, ’49.

To the Editor:

We think the “panning” of cam-
pus productions in the College
News should be a closed chapter.
Such a write-up as that of the Jun-
ior Show is pointless and needle
ly harsh; it only serves to hurt the
feelings of the people who are
“panned” and should not be the
proving ground for critical talent.
This applies to Art’s Night, the

freshman hall plays, and _ the
Freshman Show as well.
These are amateur theatrical

productions —to be distinguished
from professional shows of Broad-
way and from the varsity club
plays which obviously aim at a
perfection unattainable without
professional direction and greater
time for rehearsal. The Junior
Show was whipped up very rapidly
but with a great deal of effort and
sacrificed time on the part of
many. The juniors had fun giving
it and the audience seemed to ‘en-
joy it despite its obvidus flaws
which merely added to the fun and
informality of the occasion; this
one would never know from the
review. Every statement of some-
what qualified praise is followed
by a de-bunking phrase, for exam-
ple “The crowd scenes were color-
ful but apt to get flabby,” the kick-
chorus was shapely, from the knee



down, the tunes were good but not



Logic, Not Propaganda,
Is Weapon Against ~

Communism
To the Editor:

My commendations to the author
of the Editorial this week entitled
“Americanism: Theory .and Prac-
tice.” It seems unbelievable that
Communism has become $0 terrible
a bogey that more and more people
are unable to think clearly about
it and have become convinced that
protection from it lies in persecu-
tion. Creeds and concepts are nev-
er effectively fought by nervous
propaganda such as the Hollywood
hearings. They can only be fought
once they have been fully under-
stood, and then, by the same logic
out of which they have been con-
structed.

We cannot afford to fight Com-
munism with its own political
weapons—repression and totalitar-
ianism. But we can and should
fight it with its own intellectual
weapons—logic and an economic
ideal. Arbitrary trials and. general
accusations do not come under this
heading.

Pat Hochschild, 48.

Students Believe Sane
Probe of Communism
Is Important

To the Editor:

We feel that the editorial
“Americanism: Theory and Prac-
tice,” presents both sides of the
picture only superficially; it is not

well thought: out. The fundamen-
tal issue seems to us to be not so

4much that investigations are being

conducted as the question of how
they are being conducted.

If one opposes investigation of
Communism, then one necessarily
tolerates in this country its prac-
tices and principles. If one sup-
ports the investigations, one ex-
presses a belief that democratic in-
stitutions need a certain amount of
protection. What sort of protec-
tion is the most efficient? The
editorial finds the Hollywood con-
gressional investigation unsatis-
factory. So do we all. It seems
to us that the FBI or Military In-
telligence are the appropriate in-
vestigators. It is a question of
weighing the “civil liberties” of
the Communist group against its
advocation of a form of govern-
ment under which civil liberties as
we know them are practically nil.
We can’t call political investiga-
tion ipso facto persecution.

While we do not condone general
accusations and _ congressional
courts, we consider impartial, sane
investigation for the determination
of who Communists are and what
they are doing important and ne-
cessary.

Betty Ann Wortham, ’48.
Theo Holland, ’48.



out of the ordinary and so forth.
Obviously, the reviewer missed
the point of much of the humor.
The jokes were exactly as intend-
ed, corny. And the large number
of parts, especially small ones was.
also as intended—a show aims to
include.everyone-in the fun, not.
to pick professional dramatic tal-
ent. Then, too, the audience seem-
ed to think the plot machine one

:0f the show’s more amusing high-

lights — pointing up a weakness
perhaps, but at least they were the
first to laugh at themselves.

One major item our reviewer
seems to have overlooked is that
this feeble effort which “lacked fi-
nesse” netted approximately $500
for the Alumnae Dirve, a feat for
which we feel the directors and all
the juniors who contributed their
time, talents and good spirits to
the production of the show, are
very greatly to be praised.

Patricia Edwards, ’48.
Catesby Spear, ’48.
Betty Blau, ’48.
Susan Engel, ’51.
Skip Winter, ’50.








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THE COLLEGE NEWS.

Page Three ©



Three From Bryn Mawr-Squad

Make All-College Hockey Teams

On Saturday, November 1, the
varsity hockey teams from colleges
in this region met on the Bryn
Mawr field, in the annual Middle
States
Tournament.

Intercollegiate Hockey
Among the partici-
pating colleges were Swarthmore,
Drexel, Beaver, Wilson, Ursinus,
West Chester, Temple, Chestnut
Hill, Penn and Bryn Mawr.
Goergia Johnson, ’51, and Sheila
Baton, 50, of Bryn Mawr, were
chosen to play goal and center for-
ward, respectively, on the Intercol-
legiate First Team. The first team
ineludes three from Ursinus; four
from Penn, one from Beaver and
Betts McClure,

’48, Bryn Mawr, was chosen to

one from Temple.



New Deal Compared
To Jacksonian Gov't

Continued from Page 1

regimes they followed, both of!

spread discontent. The personal re-
samblances between Jackson and
Roosevelt were also mentioned.

In the institution of reforms
there is also a parallel between |
these two presidents. Both ex-
perimented with personnel and in-
creased the power of the executive,
thus coming into conflict, Jackson
with Congress and Roosevelt with
the Supreme Court. The founda-
tion of the “kitchen cabinet” or
“brain trust” to supplement the
usual cabinet is another feature
common to both.

* The response to the presidential
appeal for support over the Con-
gress or the Court has come, ac-
cording to Prof. Schlesinger, from
“all sorts of people united by dis-
like of rule in the community.” In
both cases the business community
suffered the same kind of nervous



break-down and the impulse for re-
form exhausted itself inthe it
way.

Finally, Prof. Schlesinger seen
that the fundamental impulse of)
democratic change lay in other sec-

play left wing on the second team.

Bryn Mawr’s varsity team play-
ed three games Saturday morning,
losing, 1-2, to Temple, tying Wil-
son, 0-0, and beating Swarthmore,
3-1. Three of the seven games
played Saturday were tied and no
team scored more than three goals
in any game.

On Sunday afternoon the Inter-
collegiate first team played the
second team. The final score was
6-3, for the first team, but at the
end of the first half the second
team was leading, 2-1. The play-
The

team work was perfected to an

ing throughout was beautiful.

amazing degree, especially since
several girls were playing against
opponents with whom they were
accustomed to be playing on the
samte team. Special credit for in-
dividual playing goes to Sheila
Eaton, who made several of the
goals for the first team and in
general played a fine game.



On Wednesday, October 29th,
the Bryn Mawr hockey team was
defeated by Beaver, 6-3. Libby
Bagley made the first goal and
Sheila Eaton the other two. The
second team triumphed over Beav-
er, however, 7-2, in a fast and well-
played game.



tions trying to restrain the power
of the business commmunity which
will charge every opposing move-
ment. with being unconstitutionai
whether it is or not. ‘History can
help in inculcating a vivid sense of
democratic tradition,” concluded
Prof. Schlesinger, “for if we know
where the past has been strong, we
can face the future without fear.”





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Hall Plays Display Talent and Spirit
Despite Unfortunate Script Selection

Continued from Page 1

as the reporter.

Saki’s Open Window adapted by
a Haverford student and given by
Pem West was excellently directed
by Sandol Stoddard. One difficulty
though was the necessity of having
Nan Ewing, as the engaging child,
talk downstage so that her con-
versation was. directed not to-Mr.
Nuttle but to a spot on the wall in-
stead. Eleanor Michelson’s gestures
in the part of nervous Mr. Nuttle
were particularly good, and Jean
Richmond played a_ convincing
aunt, Mrs. Appleton.

Pem East gave Theodore Dreis-
er’s Old Ragpicker in which Misa
Smith played the lead of the rag-
picker with such conviction that
the audience was convinced of his
pathetic misery and cold. The
cruelty of bored cops was success-
fully put over by Elma Ralphs and
by Alice Hendrick (the latter’s
Irish brogue was excellent), but
their gesture was poor and there
seemed to be much aimless wan-
dering on and off stage. Louise Es-
terline as the woman who wanted
to “do something”, Harriet Smith
as the heartless grocery boy, and
the cast of inquisitive, mean child-
ren all aided Randy Bell in produc-
ing this slow-moving play with the
utmost pathos.

J. M. Barrie’s enigma Shall We
Join the Ladies? was well-produc-
ed by Barbara Coffey, considering
that it is a piece with little osten-
sible action other than the butler
walking around the table, so that
most of the action lay in the dia-
logue. At times the dinner con-

Continued from Page 1

| with naturalness and_ simplicity.
| May Warren as the fairy was eth-
ereal o qeenits and voice. In
fact, the ha nious and sincere
quality of the voices was the most
pleasing aspect of the play.
Merion Hall’s_ presentation of
A Woman of Character, by Esther
Aubrey Brown, directed by Sheila
Tatnall, was surprisingly succéss-
ful for a play offering so little
opportunity for real acting. The
play’s superficiality was clearly ac-
accented through the very adept
treatment of the characters’ very
superficial dialogue. ‘Words and
action moved swiftly, and each ac-
tress played her part to the utmost

so as to put this useless play over
well.



versation was not audible to the
back rows, but collectively the cast
conveyed the proper atmosphere
of the unsolved mystery. Ann In-
man as Mr. Preen, an irascible but

good, as were Joy Hoslyn as Sam
Smith, the host, and Eritha Van-
dergoltz as Dolphine, the poker-
faced butler. The “ladies” were
particularly attractive under sus-
picion, except for Molly Kries as
the cold Miss Is It who conveyed
the feeling that she was the most
questionable suspect.

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Undergrad Dance

‘Set for Nov. 8

The Undergraduate Association
will give a formal college dance
on November 8, immediately fol-
lowing the Varsity Players’ and
Cap and Bells’ production of The
Time of Your Life by William Sa-
royan.~ The dance, lasting from
11 ’til 2, will be held in the Gym.

The decoration of the gym is
| being done by Jane Wickam ’50
and her committee—they mention
‘arbors covered with



clusters. of

purple leaves (balloons) and silver

The refreshments, how-
ever, are being kept an unknown
quantity and quality ... come to
the dance to see! :

Music will be provided by John
Rich’s “Pennmen.” The proceeds
for the dance will go to the Bryn
Mawr Fund; the price of admis-
sion is $2.50 per couple, $1.50 per
stag, and tickets may be obtained
from the Hall Representatives.

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ELECTIONS

The News takes pleasure in
announcing the following new
members of its Editorial Staff:

Nina Cave ’50
Blakie Forsyth
Hannah Holborn

"51

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Catherine Merritt ’51
Elizabeth Nelidow ’51



Pasquale Describes
Days at Bryn Mawr
Continued from Page 1

by the hockey field and the cow,
too—though not always the same
cow. Pasquale said that the clois-
ter pool annually yields much prof-
it in pennies when it is cleaned
out, but that dimes and quarters
- were scarcer in 1905 than in 1947.
And Mrs. Manning was on campus
in 1908—though she was a student,
not faculty, at the time.

Every one knew Pasquale, every
one, perhaps, but the students. He
is remembered and missed by fac-
ulty and employees, who remem-

ber him as one who spent most of
his life working to make the cam-
pus enjoyable for them—and for
those students who never knew he
was there.





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Alliance Angles
contributed by the Alliance Board
CIVIL LIBERTIES,

Since newspaper and_ radio

public
‘aware of the importance of “Civil

‘have recently made the

| Liberties”, the Alliance, in promot-
ing the recognition of this Ameri-
can heritage, calls your attention
to the organizations on campus
which have been and are fostering
the rights of man.

The Industrial Group, for exam-
ple, is now working to secure fair
employment practices within Am-
erican business and manufacture.
Students for Democratic Action,
through poll-watching in the Phil-
adelphia area, seek to preserve for
the public the liberty—‘‘Freedom
from Fear’. This freedom is the
basis of our heretofore practiced
Freedoms of Speech and Thought.
Working to promote worldwide
civil liberties, the Student Federal-
ists appeal for the immediate need
of world government to save hu-
manity from universal fear.



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folders and a copy of Duncan
Hine’s “Lodging for a Night” on
| the Bureau of Recommendations
table in the Library Reserve Room
to the right of the stairs. The
camp folders describe the camps,
the duties and the pay. The Dun-
can Hines book simply gives ‘an
idea of -the type and locality of

some of the better hotels and inns.
In_ looking*.at the camp folders,
bear in mind that you get not only

a salary but also room and board.

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Civil Service is trying to improve
its co-operation with college offices.
If you, have questions or sugges-
tions of how it may give. better
service, please bring them to the
Bureau.



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Rock Siiseuiabe s
‘To Rhoads Drive

the intercollegiate
hockey game on Sunday afternoon
Rhoads Hall conquered Rockefel-
ler, 4-2, in another in the series
The spectators
waited expectantly for tne left and
right “drawbacks” on Rhoads’
team, who appeared to start hit-
ting balls into the Rhoads goal
Amazement was general when beth
of them showed at least a thorough
knowledge of who their teammates
were.

Rock was aided by the incorpor-

Following

of Hall games.



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