College news, June 3, 1952

The College News



VOL. XLVIII—-NO. 25

ARDMORE ‘aftd BRYN MAWR, PA., TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1952

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1952

PRICE 20 CENTS





Fosdick Avers
Seniors’ Need
Of Vital Faith

Baccalaureate Speaker
Flails ““Escapism”
In Study

‘“‘We’re in for an wproarious era,”
but the fruits are “one world. in
the making.” The Reverend Harry
Emerson Fosdick, D.D., LL.D.,
expressed his views on the era in
which we live and evaluated the
position of the graduate who must
enter it, as he delivered the Bac-
calaureate\sermon to the Class of
1952 on Sunday evening.

In each individual person there
must be the strength to develop an
ethical character and .a moral in-
telligence which the entire gamut
of today’s problems demands. To
rise above this hectic world which
George Bernard Shaw called “the
insane asylum for other planets”.
man must solve his problems. sin-

gly with the realization that every |:

turning point in the past has

evolved from the faith amd inner |;

strength of the individual. The

attitudes and qualities most need- |:
ed to meet and combat such an age
as uvurs, in which every focus is|

stupendous, Dr. ‘Fosdick condensed
into three inclusive categories.

Each of us must, with liberal]
retrospection, learn not to despise | |

this our troubled era, but to real-
ize instead that there is in our. age
a momentous wealth of progress
being made.
unstable ones, as_ Dr,
turles. Out of the 18th century
Continued on Page 5, Col. 3

The great ages are]:
Fosdick | .
proved by reviewing the past cen-| '

L. S. Biddle Wins
M. Thomas Prize
For Joyce Essay

The M. Carey Thomas Essay
Prize, awarded annually to a mem-
ber of the Senior class for the
best paper written in the course of
her studies, goes this year to
Lydia S. Biddle.

The paper was done on James
Joyce, and was a unit of the Hon-
‘ors work done in English by Lydia
for Miss Woodworth. At the time
‘this distinguished prize was made
known, it was done so for news
purposes, but was a carefully
guarded secret, so that Liddie her-

Continued on Page 6, Col. 3

Diplomas Indicate
Work for Honors
In Varied Majors

The following Seniors received
their degrees with Honors in spe-
cial: subjects:

Biology
Claire H. Liachowitz
Ann Lawrason Perkins
Marianne Francoise Schwob
Chemistry
Yun-Wen Chu
Sherry Patricia Dobrow
Constance Elizabeth Schulz
Ching Yuan
Classical Archaeology
ij Ann Harnwell Ashmead
: Martha Calef Heath
Miriam Ervin Reese
Economics
' Georgianna Alice Mitchell
Lois Kalins Sudarsky
English
Lydia Spencer Biddle
Helen-Louise Knickerbacker

Simpson Seggerman

Joanna Semel



| Continued on Page 2, Col. 3



One Hundred-Forty Nine Senior
Graduate in Record Class of ’52

The following Seniors received
their Bachelor of Arts degrees at
the close of the sixty-seventh aca-
demic year in Goodhart Hall on
June 3, 1952:

Biology

Alice Landgraf Cary of Pennsylvania
Claire H. Liachowitz of Pennsylvania

Helen Krzywiec-Ostoia of New York De

(in absentia)
Ann Lawrason Perkins of Maryland
Marianne Francoise Schwob of Vene-
zuela
Chemistry
Yun-Wen Chu of China
Sherry Patricia Dobrow of Ohio
eg Wahlert Mauck of Pennsyl-
vania
Marcia Harriet Polak of New York
Constance Elizabeth Schulz of Penn-
sylvania
Aldine Rosemary Spicer of Florida
Ching Yuan of China
Classical Archaeology ‘
Nancy Ethel Alexander of New York
Ann Farnwel Ashmead of -Pennsyl-
vania
Mary Louise Buckingham of Tennes-

see ‘ >
Martha Calef Heath of Massachusetts
Alida ‘Bad McClenahan of Pennsyl-
vania



| Elizabeth Kung-Ji Liu of China

Miriam Ervin Reese of Pennsylvania
Lucy Curtis Turnbull of Ohio

Economics
Allison Philippa Dean of Illinois
Elizabeth Hazlett Kevin of Virginia
Georgianna Alice Mitchell of Indiana
Mary Natelson of New York
Judy Ellen Rivkin of New York
Lois Kalins Sudarsky of Connecticut

* English ee
Johanna Alderfer of Pennsylvania
te. Feinstein Berman of Pennsyl-

vania

Mary Louw Bianchi of New Jersey
Lydia .Spencer Bishop of Connecticut
Marjory Cohn Blum of Pennsylvania
Mary Will Boone of New York
Anne Elizabeth Chambers of Mary-

land

Mary. Eugenia Chase of the District
of Columbia

Barbara Joelson Fife of New York

gg Anne Hennessey of Massachu-
setts

Elizabeth Jane Lorenz of New Jersey
Cynthia Mason of Illinois
Jill Joan McAnney of New York
Ellen LaFleur McIlroy of Ohio
Jane Augustine Morley. of the Dis-
‘trict of Columbia (in absentia)
ichiko Namekata of Japan
eth Harrer Ott of Massachusetts

+ Continued on Page 5, Col. 4





Bryn Mawr Winner
Of “Prix de Paris”
Urges Participation

“The most important thing that
{ wish to do is to urge all juniors
who are at all interested to try
out for the ‘Prix’,” stated Ka-
tushka Cheremetteff, ’52, recent
winner of the Vogue “Prix de Pa-
ris” contest. “It is really worth
the experience and you might even
have this same unexpected, won-
derful thing happen to you.”

As winner of the “Prix”, Ka-
tushka will have the presumptu-
ous title of junior editor of Vogue
for a year. During this year,
which begins in August, she will
work in the Vogue office in New
York for six months and then. will
wwavel to Paris for the remaining
six months. “I’m almost embar-
rassed to answer the inevitable
senior question of ‘What are you

Continued on Page 2, Col. 3

Wells and Price
Head New Alums

The senior class is very happy
to announce the election of its
permanent class officers. Ellen
Wells, as president, will be chief
organizer and leader of ’52 corre-
spondence and reunions. The sec-
retary and class editor, Caroline
Price, will collect class news and
condense it for the five hundred
lines allotted to the class in the
Alumnae Bulletin. Alice Mitchell
has been elected to publish a sup-
plementary bulletin next year for

the first reunion. Nancy Alex-
ander will hold the class purse
strings as treasurer and collector.
Addie Lou Maucke will be busy
next year arranging and _ sched-
uling as the first reunion manager.
Looks like ’62 will continue to be
in good hands!

Ching Yuan Merits
Prize in Chemistry

The Chemistry Department has
nominated Ching Yuan as_ the
Bryn Mawr College winner of the
award given by the Philadelphia
section of the American Chemistry
Society. Only students from col-
leges in this sector accredited by
the society, (there are about ten)
are eligible for the award. At-
tainment of the prize is non-com-
petitive, and is given to the senior
in each college with the highest
maiks. The award was first given
last year and Ching will have her
name added to the plaque beside
that of last year’s winner and will
also receive a certificate.

Ching has been offered many
scholarships for next fall but is
accepting a Chinese scholership to
Harvard. These are very rare, as
only about five are given from all
cver the country.



Reba Benedict and Joanna Semel Share Fellowship;

M. Carey Thomas Essay Prize Falls to Lydia Biddle



Semel & Benedict
Divide Fellowship

For Coming Year

The Bryn Mawr European Fel-
lowship has this year been split,
and awarded to two members of
the graduating class. Reba Ben-
edicv and Joanna Semel are the
recipients of the Fellowship.

This award was founded in 1889,
and is granted annually, to be ap-
plied toward the expenses of one
year’s study at some foreign uni-
versity. ‘Both Reba and Joanna
have done work of highest excel-
lence, the former a Geology major,

Continued on Page 6, Col. 3

Graduate Scholars
Brighten Academic
Hoods in Ceremony

The following were candidates for
the Master of Arts degree for the
year 1951-52:

Biology

Ryda Dwarys Rose of Philadei-
phia, Pennsylvania; A.B. Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania 1950.

Chemistry
.. Lai-Cheng Lam of Ipoh, Malaya;
B.Se. University of Malaya 1950
and M.Sc. 1951.

Irina Nelidow of New York City;
A. B. Bryn Mawr College 1950.

English

Ella Trew Simpers Anderson of
Darby, Pennsylvania; A.B. Wel-
lesley College 1924; B.S. Drexel
Institute of Technology 1949.

Joan Morrison of Montreal, Que-
bec, Canada; B.A. McGill Univer-
sity 1949.

Myra Vandersall of Cairo,
Egypt; A.B. College of Wooster
1947,



Continued on Page 2, Col. 4

Taylor Defends
Linguistic Uses
In Present Day

‘New Internationalism’
Sharpens Need
Of Study

“You who today have received a
Bryn Mawr degree are in a posi-
tion to go on reading, and also
speaking, foreign languages,”
stated Miss Lily Ross Taylor ad-

dressing the Class of 1952 at the
commenccment exercises on June

3.

“You have proved that you have
a reading knowledge of two lan-
guages. You ought to read French
and German and Italian, and try
to speak them. If you like lan-
guages you ought to use the lin-
guistic experience you have gain-
ed to learn more languages. They
may not be your profession, but
they are a delightful hobby. And
if in your study of languages and
literature you succeed in putting
yourself in the place of other
peoples, in seeing what their cul-
tures and their ideals mean, you
will have done something to re-
move a barrier which still keeps
us as a people in isolation.

“Forty years ago we were all
of us more or less isolationist and
confident of our ability to keep
free of the conflicts and tensions
of the rest of this planet,” Miss
Taylor explained. “Two world
wars and the developments of
communications by radio and air-
plane have produced a revolution.
Now few of us is really isolation-
ist. We have most of us become,
if not internationalists, at least

Continued on Page 2, Col. 5





Benedict, Semel,

McVey, Yuan,

All Summa, Capture Distinction

The following Seniors received
their degrees with distinction:

Summa Cum Laude

Reba Ward Benedict
Ruth Thomas McVey
Joanna Semel
‘Ching Yuan

Magna Cum Laude

Sallyacheffer Ankeny
Ann Harnwell Ashmead
Denise Bystryn
Yun-Wen Chu

Sherry Patricia Dobrow
Leyla Fettah

Martha Calef Heath

Sara Elizabeth Herminghaus
Ellen McGehee Landis
Elaine Marks

Joan Constance McBride
Georgianna Alice Mitchell
Patricia Starnes Murray



Mary Natelson

Nancy Colbert Pearre
Joanna Pennypacker
Dorothy Alma Rainsford
Eleanor Virginia Rees
Marianna Francoise, Schwob
Helen-Louise Knickerbacker
Simpson Seggerman

Judith Helene Silman
Caroline Anna Smith

Eva Wiener

Cum Laude

Johanna Alderfer

Nancy Ethel Alexander
Mary Whitney Allen
Alexine Lewin Atherton
Pauline Harryette Austin
Dee Feinstein Berman
Mary Lou Bianchi

Lydia Spencer Biddle
Nancy Bird :

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Tuesday, June 3, 1952





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Fools Mountain

Fools Mountain is the great hill which we all must climb.
Its ways are confusing, its slope steep. Every obstacle here
is a crisis, and every peak a place of short-lived delight. Fools
Mountain is the climb from youth to maturity.

Education is one of the forces pushing us up the path,
for education is a means to enrich personality. Education
cannot be selfish learning, however, for then its benefits are
wasted. It is easy for a student who is alone with himself
much of the time to look increasingly inward, and necessarily
rest a while on the road to maturity.

But learning is not introspective at its best. An individ-
ual must understand himself to evaluate others’ emotions
and opinions, but self-evaluation is only an intermediate step
in the process of education. The final goal is understanding
how to understand—seeking what people think, and ex-
changing ideas with them. Trying to comprehend life and
ideals and actualities.

The results of formal education are wasted if its seekers] .

become absorbed with technicalities. They fail to realize
that its importance lies in its potential power to teach a per-
son how to think more clearly and how to ascend the rocky
slope the least difficult way.

The community expects the college graduate to have
climbed the barrier of Fools Mountain. It expects education
fo produce mature persons who realize the importance of un-

derstanding other people. The community looks to learning
to produce perspective for its leaders. It is this perspective
which we must never lose, for only with it will our formal ed-
ucation benefit anyone, most of all ourselves.



The Midsummer Playhouse,
‘produced and directed by Lolah
Mary Egan and Claireve Grand-
jouan, will present William
Shakespeare’s leap-year comedy
“Al’s Well That Ends Well”
on June 20, 21, 22; and Tennes-
see Williams’ “The Glass Men
agerie” on June 28, 29, 30, both
plays at 8:45 P. M. These runs

and Peasy Laidlaw will be as-
sociated with the group. Also
Ellen Harriman Olivier, last
seen here as Goneril in “King
Lear,” 1948. Admission free.

31 Hendrick Ave., Glen Cove,
Long Island, Glen Cove—4-1720.
Twenty miles by the Parkway
from NYC, exits 28, 29, or 30
to Glen Cove Road.



Science Students

Get Scholarships

Tnree young women have won
$1000 science scholarships offered
by Bryn Mawr College in a na-
tionwide competition.

The awards, known as the Lillia
Babeitt Hyde Honor Scholarships
in Science for Freshmen, were won
by Miss Elizabeth Dugdale of
Ashland, Va., Miss Elizabeth A.
Hall of Pasadena, Calif., and Miss
Lois Marshall of New York City.
The winners, all age 17, were se-
lected from a group of 14 final
coniestants. The competition,
which was open to senior high
school girls, required an essay on
a subject selected from topics in
the fields of Biology, Chemistry,
and ‘Physics.

The three winning students are
now enrolled for the freshman
year at Bryn Mawr beginning
next September, Miss Katharine
E. McBride, President of the Col-
lege, has ‘announced.

“We are gratified’, said Miss
McBride, “by the wide response tv
the competition and by the inter-
est of so many young women in
the further study of science as
part of a liberal education”.

The funds given to the Colleye
by the Lillia Babbitt Hyde Foun-
dation, Miss McBride stated, have
also made it possible for the Col-
lege to aid upperclassmen and
graduate students wno can be ex-
pected to enter fields in which
there is an acute need for trained
scientists.

Iwo honorary awards of $100
each were given to Miss Anne Ip-
sen of Cambridge, Mass., and to
Miss Margaret Putney of Dela-
ware, Ohio. Honorable mention
was ‘received by Miss Toby Price
of University City, Mo., Miss Bar-
bara Troxell of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
and Miss Elizabeth Warren of
Norfolk, Va.



‘Prix de Paris’ Katushka
Can Hardly Believe It!

Continued from Page 1

doing next year?’”, added Ka-
tushka with a twinkle. “All I do is
answer, ‘Oh, I am working for
Vogue and going to Paris for the
spring showing!’ Doesn’t that
sound wonderful? I’m really thrill-
ed and I can still hardly believe
at.??

Katushka’s plans after next

year are indefinite but she is in- :

terested in the publishing busi-
ness and will probably go on with
it.



College Lists Students
Graduating With Honors

Continued from Page 1

Caroline Anna Smith
French
Elaine Marks
Patricia Starnes Murray
Geology
Reba Ward Benedict
Nancy Colbert Pearre
German
Alexine Lewin Atherton
Leyla Fettah
Eleanor Virginia Rees
History
Elizabeth Hascall Davies
Latin
Joan Constance McBride
Joanna Pennypacker
Philosophy
Josephine Hausman
Eilen McGehee Landis
Physics
Eva Wiener
Political Science
Sally Scheffer Ankeny
Eve Leah Glassberg
Psychology
Pauline Harryette Austin
Denise Bystryn









may be extended. Elsie Kemp

“

Janice Angstadt Fraser

Master of Arts Degrees
Go to Graduate Students

Continued from Page 1

Englisheand History of Art
Marjorie Anne Low of the Dis-
trict of Columbia (in absentia);

A.B. Bryn Mawr College 1950.

Geology

George James ‘Jansen of /Bala-
Cynwyd, Pennsylvania; B.S. Uni-
versity of Notre Dame 1951.

Irene Rosalie Waraksa of New
York City; A.B. Hunter College
1950.

Greek and Latin

Emily Marie Spence of Edmond-
ton, Alberta, Canada; B.A. Uni-
versity of Alberta 1950.

History

Elsa Victorie Ebeling of Brook-
lyn, New York; A.B. Swarthmore
College 1950.

Lois Green Schwoerer of Drexel
Hill, Pennsylvania; A.B. Smith
College 1949.

Isabel H. Witte of Belmont
Massachusetts; A.B. Swarthmore
College 1947,

History of Art

Ellen Mary Jones of Philadel-
phia, Pennsylvania; A.B. Bryn
Mawr College 1950.

Marianne Winer Martin of Hav-
erford, Pennsylvania; A.B. Hunter
College 1945, M.A. University of
Chicago 1947,

Latin

Katherine Allston Geffcken of
Dunwoody, Georgia; A.B. Agnes
Scott College 1949.

Mathematics

Eloise Diflo of Brooklyn, New
York; A.B. St. Joseph’s College
for Women 1951.

Joan Barbara Steen of Laurel-
ton, Long Island, New York; A.B.
Barnard College 1951.

Mathematics and Physics

Richard Cordray of Media, Penn-
sylvania, in absentia; A.B. Swarth-
more College 1948.

Physics

Georgiana W. Scovil of Bing-
hamton, New York; B.S. William
Smith College 1950.

Anne Patricia Stoicheff of To-
ronto, Ontario, Canada; B. A. Uni-
versity of Toronto 1951,

Psychology

Norma Adnee Bassett of King
of Prussia, Pennsylvania; A.B.
Temple University 1945.



MASTER OF SOCIAL SERVICE

Those who received the Master
of Social Service degree at com-
mencement are as follows:

Betty R. Amstutz of Fort
Wayne, Indiana; B.S. Wittenberg
College 1949.

* Martha W. Brobst of Telford,
Pennsylvania; A.B. Capital Uni-
versity 1950.

Anneliese H. Caldwell of Phila-
delphia, Pennsylvania; A.B. Whea-
ton College 1940.

Charlotte Ann Eby of Cynwyd,
Pennsylvania; A.B. University of
Pennsylvania 1947.

Tlona Maria Foldy of Bryn
Mawr, Pennsylvania; University of
Budapest 1925-29 and 1934-36.

Norma Patricia Jacob of Wall-
ingford, Pennsylvania; B.A. Ox-
ford University 1931 and M.A.
1935.

Barbara Ziegler Kennedy of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; A.B.
Bryn Mawr College 1948.

Henry Harrison Marter, III of
Erlton, New Jersey, in absentia;
A.B. Wesleyan University 1940,



On Mrs. Marshall’s recom-
mendation, the Pennsylvania di-
vision of the American Associa-
tion of University Women has
awarded Claire Liachowitz a
gift membership. It is the
same award that was won by
Nancy Blackwood last year.







Tama Joy Schenk
Russian
Ruth Thomas McVey

Spanish
Mary Berenice Morris



Renee Lorraine Veron



A New Internationalism
Affects College Courses
Continued from Page 1

deeply conscious of international
developments and movements.

“The new internationalism,” she
continued, “has had a great effect
on American education. Our cur.
riculum in school and college now
emphasizes world history and poli.
tics, the interchange of ideas and
trade among peoples, world move-
ments in art and world literature.
We are trying in our teaching to
promote an understanding of other
peoples, their cultures, their atti-
tvdes, their values.

But at the same time we are ne-
glecting the most important mevens
of acquiring such an understand-.
ing—the study of the languages
and literatures which reveal the
real character of other peoples.
Other barriers have disappeared,
but the barrier of language at
least’ on our side is higher than it
used to be. For the study of for-
eign languages has not increased;
instead it has diminished. In this
respect our curriculum in high
school and college has become
isolationist in a time of interna-
tionalism. :

“There is as yet no movement to
support the teaching of the great

languages of western Europe, the

languages which unite us with the
NATO community and with Latin
America—the nations with which
we must learn to live and work
if we and our culture and theirs
are to survive. These languages
are Latin, Greek, French, Span-
ish, and German. Some people
may object to my inclusion of
Greek and Latin in this group,”
Miss Taylor added, “and I may ad-
mit that I am a biased judge,” but
“Greek and Latin are great inter-
national languages which embody
the common traditions of thoughts
and letters of all western Europe
and the English-speaking world.

“This is a time when our rela-
tions with Europe present a press-
ing problem, and there is reason
for speedy action. There isa na-
tional emergency.”



M. A. Temple University 1948.

Sara Carolyn McDermott of
Alexandria, Virginia; A.B. Duke
University 1950.

Florence D. Rose of Bala-Cyn-
wyd, Pennsylvania; B.S. Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania 1930.

Sally Ellen Rothrock of New
Bloomfield, Pennsylvania; A.B.
Pennsylvaina State College 1948.

Laryssa Tymoszenko of Phila-
delphia, Pennsylvania; University
of Innsbruck 1945-49.

Shirley 0. Weiman of Philadel-
phia, Pennsylvania; A.B. Univer.
sity of Pennsylvania 1950.

Sally Levit Wessel of Philadel-
phia, Pennsylvania; A.B. Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania 1950.

Doctor of Philosophy

The degree of Doctor of Phil-
osophy was conferred upon the
following persons at the com-
mencement exercises on June 3:

Organic Chemistry and
Physical Chemistry

Margaret Quinn Malter of
Wayne, Pennsylvania; A.B. Bryn
Mawr College 1947 and M.A. 1948;
dissertation: The Hydrolysis of
Various Substituted Benzhydryl
Chlorides. Presented by Profes-
sor Ernst Berliner.

Classical Archaeology
_ Frances Follin Jones of Prince-
ton, New Jersey; A.B. Bryn Mawr
College 1984 and M.A. 1936; dis-
sertation: The Hellenistic and
Roman Pattery from the Excava- .
tions at Gozlu Kule, Tarsus. Pre-
sented by Professor Rhys Carpen-
ter.
Modern French Literature and Old
French Philology and Literature
Marlou Hyatt Switten of Hamp-
ton, Virginia; A.B. Barnard Col-
lege 1948; M.A. Bryn Mawr Col-
lege 1949; dissertation: Diderot’s
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Tuesday, June 3, 1952

THE COLLEGE NEW

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Page Three



Dagan Mediaeval

Fantasy Offers

Subject for Richard Bernheimer

especially contributed by
Helen J. Dow, M. A.

Professor Richard Bernheimer’s
Wild Men of the Middle Ages, a
study in art, sentiment, and de-
monology, just published by the
Harvard University Press, enter-
tains the reader, while at the same
time it presents a scholarly view
of the theme. The book deals with
the history of wild-man folklore,
emphasizing its place during the
Middle Ages, but tracing its con-
nexion with Ancient mythology
and the later changes it underwent
during the Renaissance. As the
author states in the preface, it is
often necessary to fill historical
gaps by resorting to more recent
observations, a method which, in
the case of the wild man, demon-
strates ‘how persistently older
ideas maintain themselves against
modification from contact with
higher cultural developments. Fre-
quelit references to works of art
and literature—poetry, romance,
manuscript illumination, tapes-
tries, decorated chests, woodcuts,
sculpture, and the like—are used
as a basis for mythological ideas,
as well as proof of their popular-
ity in the everyday life of the
Middle Ages. The subject is treat-
ed according to motives, centering
around the natural history of the
wild man, his mythological char-
acter, theatrical embodiment, ero-
tic connotations, learned aspect,
and his position in heraldry.

Not Quite Human

Figures related to the Mediaeval
wild man recur in history since
Babylonian times, culminating most
recently in the modern version,
Tarzan. A creature a little less
than human, and yet above sheer
beasts, the wild man exhibits a life
devoid of inhibitions, and guided
by instincts rather than volition.
He was the product of individual
and social factors, the idealization
of man’s repressed desire for un-
hampered self-assertion, able to
call up forces which civilized men
repress. His history reflects the
way in which he was regarded by
Mediaeval times, gradually chang-
ing from a fearful hairy creature
of violence and lust to one gro-
tesque and pathetic, a figure for
mockery and laughter, as man be-
gan to feel his own superiority. At
first the wild man was a terrify-
ing ogre, but as his qualities were
localized, he became a demon of
the storm and the elements, ad-
justing himself to a life in the
woods akin to the animals which
he regarded as his charges, and
over whom he had great mastery.
Widespread in Mediaeval Europe,
this notion of the wild man in our
day has survived most vigorously
in the Alps. His most famous ap-
pearance as lord of the beasts oc-
curs in the Arthurian legends of
Celtic territory, but whether or
not this, or a common pagan back-
ground is the root of the idea is
difficult to determine. Prof. Bern-
heimer suggests three centers of
possible influence, the Alpine area
of “Dietrichs Drachenkaempfe”’
Celtic Brittany, and the Welsh and
Cornish scene of Arthurian his-
tory.

Silvanus and Maia

The wild man Silvanus also has
affinity with Orcus, the Italic god
of death and the underworld, while
his feminine counterpart, the wild
‘woman or earth goddess Maia cor-
responds to Lamia, the child-de-
vouring fiend. Thus the wild peo-
pie acquired a dual nature, being
both demons of the fertile earth
and ghosts of the wunderworid.
thereby connecting the ideas of
life and death, since on the one

hand they cared for animals and
advised humans on the planting of
crops, yet on-the other they were
characterized by horrible ugliness,
cannibalism, bad temper, and a
wilderness - habitation, combining
botii sides of their ‘personalities
by their overpowering strength.
The cult of the Mediaeval wild-
man, the test of the importance of
the mythology, produced perforn-
ances. which can be grouped into
several categories: those of mere-
ly mythological significance; those
known as the wild-man hunts, in
which his whole existence is at
stake; and those where he is thc
icader of the Wild Horde; as well
as ceremonies commemorating his
marriage with an earth demon;
and mumerous wild-men dances.
Charivaris are also related to
these practices. The types of
rituals referred to in historical
sources are unfortunately not al-
ways clearly determined, but va-
rious ecclesiastical judgments give
evidence of their popularity. The
ritual figure of the wild man as
we find him in the later Middle

Ages would seem to be a thir-
teenth-or-fourteenth-century con-
vergence of the forest-dwelling
woodwose and the human imper-
Continued on Page 4, Col. 3

Bohemian Beetles,
Freudian Flamingo
Anamalate Library

A Mr. Bryn-anda Mr. Mawr, on
the steps( of M. Caray, and what
are they discussing?/ It seems to
conzern animals and look, there’s
a jester cartwheeling through the
2rowd. Oh - - - this must be Bryn
Mawr, and the managers of the
show are discussing’ whether to
‘hire all the animals in the Absurd
Circus again next year.

They’ve just about decided - -
Flash! the Cheremetteff wolf-
hound has just won the Prix de
Paris! - - - they’ve just about de-
cided to keep the Calculatin’ Kan-
garoo, the Dogmatic Dog, the Po-
litical Panda, the Bohemian Bee-
tle, the ‘Literary Lemon - -- but
wait! (What is this strange crea-
ture-—of course, the Freudian Fla-
mingo, a colorful invention, gilt
of the .pre-Freudian class. And
yet another absurdity—the Ethic«l
Ape—well, they both can stay be-
cause on Old MacDonald’s Farm
everybody’s a functionary or a re-
actionary.

News! Chew just discovered By-
ron wrote Shelley; Alwyne’s play-
ing on his pianamals again and
Nalin just realized that he Kant;
Hexben’s pilgrims are on the ram-
page again, amid sleepy Lagunas;
Carpenter’s looking for bunions on



statues while old’ Robbin’ was
chirpin’ - - - conclusions? Life's
Absurd.



‘Traditionalist’ Recalls Disrobing Rash

Unravels Mystery of Our College Cults

A traditionalist arose from the
gowned senior class and tried re-
peatedly, if futilely, to light the
lamp of learning. The Bettman
mortarboard impeded Linda’s work
on the stepladder and had to be
carried carefully down to the Gym
steps. But there was a slip of pa-
per in it that had to be retrieved
on another trip. On the third at-
bempt the light was reached, but
refused to burn.

Only slightly daunted, the “true
traditionalist” returned to the
steps and lashed (verbally) the
“vulgah” speechmaker who would
sell gimmicks to help one through
college. Worse yet, she added, the
speeches of the past three years
had been on the same vulgah, vul-
gah plane

‘here had even been a rash of
disrobing. “The year I came Miss
Manton got out of a trunk and took
off her clothes. Someone came out
of a building and took off her
clothes. I,’? she added, “am a tra-
ditionalist!”

Stripped down to working
clothes (flannel and striped), Lin-
da approached the problem of
mysteries on campus. The mystery
for juniors is comps, but this is
really not much of a problem, for
the word is merely an abbreviation
for non compis mentis. For the
sophomores there is the major, “a
thing that makes you exist instead
of live, according to arbitrary
rules”, For the seniors, whose
name really means seen-and-done-
yers, there were a few definitions:
1.) “Graduated—what engagement
ring sizes are”, 2.) “Job—what
you have the patience of to get
one”, and 3.) “Scull Property—that
peculiar property of the college to
beut you over the skull for fun”.
There was one recent addition to
the list, “Fractured French”,
which went nicely with orals and
M. Gonnaud.

The mystery of body mechanics
required more than a verbal de-
scription, and necessitated the re-
moval of a layer of clothes. In
tunic ‘Linda stated that the fresh-
men need to regain their poise,
anu until they do, body mechanics
gives them a topic of conversation
for use on blind dates.



More of a mystery was the May
Day dress, white, fitting, and re-
laxed, and exploited recently by
certain nationally known maga-
zines. But fertility cults have ex-
isted for years, and the while
dress remains a mystery.

The final problem was the sen-
ior costume of shorts and some-
thing {bluish-purple and limboish,
which 'was deemed appropriate for
the singing of the concluding aes-
thetic song written in a blue book,
“Diplomas Are a _ Girl’s Best
Friend”’,

by Patricia A. Troxell,
Instructor in English

Literary editors of magazines
are certainly the most eccentric
people in our fast disintegrating
world. They do look, in their es-
sential reality, exactly like the de-
lightful cartoon on the first page
of the Spring Counterpoint. They
are perhaps more like the defiani-
ly crooched lowest one, with its
underwater viewpoint, than like
the other three. A New Yorker
cartoon on something contempor-
ary can be almost too well-pointed
for laughter, and so can this one if
I do not keep a strong rein on my
emotions.

For my experience with college
students has usually been that
they live and operate with far
more good sense and good taste
than people ever do once they are
out in the world. I had therefore
expected the editors of an under-
graduate literary magazine to be
less eccentric than their counter-
parts in the world at large. A col-
lege literary magazine, it seems
to me, ought to publish the best
student prose and poetry—and I
like the phrase “new writing” and
all that that means—in order to
bring as many good student writ-
ings as possible to completion (in
that marvelous print no typewrit-
er can supply, before a wider au-
dience than one’s own corridor).
Sometimes a product by someone
not a student demands to be prini-
ed, by the unassailable law of art,
and then, of course, it must be. i
would rather, otherwise, see a col-
lege magazine filled with student
efforts, especially, since its circu-
lation is largely, if not wholly,
intra-mural to begin with.

Editing Varied

But the editors of Counterpoint
are as eccentric as any other edit-





“Hi-all”, drawled Rat Ritter,
arriving on Dalton green leading
and sometimes led by a segmented
horse. Pointing to her trusty steed.
she introduced him as ‘Cleodobbs’,
a somewhat precarious combina-
tion of Cleo ‘Wells and Helen
Dobbs, and sauntering back ard
forth with the horse, proceeded to
sing a cowboy song to Bryn Mawr
to the tune of “On Top of Old
Smokey”. In publishing this song
Cowboy Ritter would like to pay
special tribute and give thanks to
her horse.



Inside Pennsylvania

In a small college

Arc six hundred students
All seeking knowledge.

They come from all places
All over the world

They have different faces
Some clean and some soiled.

They say they love classes
From English to Chem.
But don’t let them fool you,
They usually cut ’em.

[here are different departments
In every subject

You look the field over

And’ end up a wreck.

First we have Bio
With the smelly dogfish
When you’ve finished dissecting



Cow Poke Ritter Caroons Daltonized

“Old Smokey” while Cleodobb Careens

Then there’s Uncle Arthur
An actor is he

He tells us of injuns

in US History.

If you’re a chemist

Park is your home

You go there in Autumn
Ang never come home,

At eleven an exam

English Literature

Who was Grendel’s dam
Continued on Page 5, Col. 5

Eccentric Counterpoint Editors’
Work Good, Questionable, Crazy

ors. Their selection and their ed-
iting have been sometimes good,
and sometimes doubtfully good,
and sometimes crazy.

The poetry, most of “Mother-of-
Pearl,” the implications of “Young
Orion,” and the idea that caused
“A Day,” are good. I liked the
imagery of “Hudson,” unbelabor-
the

river wind, for example, that “lov-

ed unobtrusive, and fresh:
ed green forests well.” The image
in the last verse is extended in the
of jaggedly
manner that is exciting poetic ex-

sort associational
perience.. Hudson’s “failure,” here
dignified into ‘myth, made me
think, interestingly, of Willy Lo-
man.

“A Stone” is a little ballad on
the ultimate death of the fire that
goes too far. In an overreaching
arc the star goes out, as intensest
wisdom and beauty do, and speak-
er and reader confront a “spark-
less stone.” An endearing poem,
though too much in the manner of
Robert Frost to have in it more
than one reading’s worth, I think.
The sestina has an unnecessarily
self-effacting title. Echoes in it
of Villon, Donne, and Eliot enrich
echoes
The poem is remarkably

tne texture, as _ literary

should.
skillful and effective. The young
speaker, feeling in his twenty-first
year at once old and renewed! (al-
though more age-wearied than re-
genc rated, our era being what it
is), could not have expressed this
involved and involving sensation
in any other poetic form: revolv-
ing imagery and “rhyme” scheme
enforce the experience.

“Mother-of-Pearl”

“Mother-of-Pearl” begins in a
most promising way—in the tra-
dition of The Soul of a Child, only,
at first, better. But the story
grows less original as it develops,
and the ending won’t do. The lit-
tle chattering child is good as the
Greek chorus kind of figure who
never will realize what has hap-
pencd, but the lady must not be
mad or suicidal—she simply for-
got her parasol, I hope, and such
prociivities of hers were what her
husband could not stand. He is
stiff, and stifiy drawn — well
drawn. But their relationship
would have been more meaningfui
and more absorbing had it been
delicately complex, not _ stark.
Continued on Page 4, Col. 1





With Vim and...‘Ka

The little black skull cap pulled
precariously upon her head, the
girl, pulled precariously out the
window because of her awesome
task, called the assembled throng
to worship. “O, Katharine Be
Praised’, intoned six Faithful Ones,
in tones less of worship than a
kind of all-enfolding supplication,
or Comprehensive agony. And then
- from the door of the Sanctwa
Sanctorium came Untouchable
Jamison, magnificent in attitre,
and super-colossal in wares.

“I have here a few little study
aides - - - for example, the Diez
automatic Oral passer... or this
pleasant device, which, attached to
the ear in the Library, pours in
sweet music to hear while study-
ing.” The sweetest music, with-
out doubt, this side of “O, Kath-



You’re in a hellish condish.



Untouchable Auctions Academic Aides

tharine be Praised!

senior skulls hit the pavement in
supplication.

“he best slide-rule imaginable”,
re-commenced the Magnificent
One with her call to alms. “The
slide rule designed to calculate
best times for seeing professors.
Take the number of your last quiz,
divide by the course number, sub-
tract the times you’ve found him
not in... if the result happens to
be the office hours he’s scheduled,
throw away the results and start
over”.

“O, Katharine Be Praised”. And
with a final fling, and a splendifer-
ous splurge of sales talk for “Spot
lights for some Prowlers, engrav-
ed invitations for others... ”,
Chief Potentate Trish Jamison re-
tired once again, carried if not on
the winds of the East, at least on



arire Be Praised”. And again six



gales of audience laughter.










et

Page Four

THE

COLLEGE NEWS



Tuesday, June 3, 1952



Reviewer Questions Material in “Counterpoint’’ ;

Tempers Criticism with Admission of Admiration

Continued from Page 3

ete me ee
“Young Orion,” on the other hand,
reveals its promise in the middle
section. I don’t: even like Hem-
mingway on horses, so I skimmed
on until the rabbit appeared.

I would like to see the writer
(her pseudonym is silly, but “Y.
di Lexi” is worse) treat the same
theme again, for it is worth the
search that art can give it: the
theme of man’s irrational, intoxi-
cating passion for the hunt, espec-
ially when the hunt is persecution
and the odds are in his favor. But
the ending of this story, though a
fitting one, is not well written.
Wricing is a hard task. “A Day”
could have tolled a warning to us
all, except that its style is too
slick. (“Sculpte, lime, cisele,”
said Verlaine). The tedious courze
of a day of weakness enduring and

enduring under pressure gives to
college life a symbolism I had
never seen in it, but I shuddered
as 1auch at the inadequate crafts-
manship as I did at the alarm
clocks lacing up the hall.

There are some selections of
doubtful virtue in the ideal maga-
zine I insist on keeping before me.
"The -Raincoat” is sweet, and
evokes a terrible moment in the
life of any woman, but it does not
achieve the quality of what I have
termed “new writing.” The same



could be said for “The First Stage”

(and editors, dear editors, why two
stories of such familiarity?), ex-
cept that the moment of the kiss
is strikingly
last three paragraphs succeed ‘so,
the final sentence is totally unnec-

good. Because the

essary. Half of writing—I am

full of advice—is in the knowing
what not to say.

Crazy choices of the editors’
were crazy but not downright rep-
rehensible, so I shall assume the
interrogative mood. Why did some-
thing as easy to write as “Morn-
ing Song of Sen-Sen” earn ten
pages, and thus a disproportion-
ate position in the magazine? Otzie
of the primary duties—and I have
heretofore thought it the primary
urge—of editors is to cut. I im-
mensely enjoyed the first para-
graph of Part III, but dozed after
that. {Why was, not the obvious-
ness of “Conversation,” otherwise
a wise if overly glib little piece,
pointed out sternly to its author?
Why was not “The Actor” turned
pack for revision and reshaping?
Its reversal of the top-of-the-hill
theme might have been done
somewhat better. And why print
a story, readable as wondrous
Miss Farr’s was, that has, after
all, been published once?

I seem to have had it in for ed-
itors. QI really think that they
have heroic stuff in them, and ad-
mit to a grudging admiration for
them, though I do not wholly ad-
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sonations of the Wild Horde, the
latt.r probably of Classical origin,
since its widespread distribution
conforms to the geographical lim-
its of the Roman Empire.

The wildness of the wild man in-
cluded everything beyond a Christ-
ian norm, and grouped him with
savage creatures both at home and
abroad. The diligent encyclopedic
scholarship of the Middle Ages
continued the traditions of Class-
1cal antiquity which regarded as
wild men all creatures whose mode
of life was inconipatible with
civilization, labelling them demons
if they lived close by, members of
fabulous races if they dwelt in far
off lands, and prehistoric if they
were believed to have died out in
the long ago. Yet, besides the
tales of strange races in foreign
lands, and the traditions of myth-
ological wild folk—centaurs, sa-
tyrs, and fauns—the Greeks and
Romans passed on Hesiod’s Gold-
en Age, inhabited by a vegetarian
type of wild man whose natural
goodness leads him to a°life with-
out possessions, burden, or toil.
This was a dream-image, however,
which the Middle Ages, for moral
reasons, preferred to transfer to
distant lands like India or Ethio-
pia. It was not until the sixteenth-
century wild man of the Renais-
sance that the noble savage of an-
liquity clearly appeared in Christ-
ian civilization. From his first de-
piction as a veritable devil, he now
had become a gentle and enlight-
ened paragon of virtue, able to be
good without effort, since he was
oeyond original sin.

His attitude towards women was'
as ambiguous as the rest of his
personality. As a wild man, he
was capable of every approach ex-
cept that of knightly admiration.
The antagonist of the knight, with
whom he fought for the possession
of the lady, he was always the los-
cr, as long as the knightly ideal
was upheld. But there was a ma-
jor turning point in European civ-
ilization when, after the middle of
the fourteenth century, the wild
man was sometimes the winner of
the battle. This is also the period
when an uninhibited wild man was



Character of Wild Man Proves Ever-Changing;
Harsh Role Modifies to One Evoking Sympathy

depicted as tamed and fettered vy
the charms of his lady.

The analogy is that of the lov-
er’s wildness abandoned under the
force of his lady’s fascination. The
conventions of courtly poetry were
gradually fused with the mythol-
ogy of the wild man until the
fourteenth century. The cause of
this reversion to primitivism lay
in the escapist desires of the con-
vention-bound aristocracy, aided
by the rise of the Bourgeoisie.
Identification with the wild man
became the embodiment of human
sensual desire, a new role which
brought him closer to his final ab-
sorption in the mythological satyr,
during the Renaissance. Similar-
iy, the concept of the wild woman
changed at this time, and these
transformations were slowly ac-
companied by a new attitude to-
wards marriage as well.

As an heraldic figure, the wild
man was again an invention of the
fourteenth century. Im this cate-
gory he was made to assume the
subordinate role of shield-support-
er in an artistic design, though
his application to this function
doubtless arose from such things
as his talismanic potentialities.
Yet it was in this capacity of
shield-bearer that Albrecht Durer
presented the most powerful ver-
sion of the wild-man theme. His
‘Coat of Arms of Death” of 1503,
made in connexion with a wedding
feast, is an allusion to the ever-
present power of Death in the
very figure of the man whose
presence at the wedding scene is
needed to assure later progeny. In

this print, ‘Durer was the only art- ||

ist who realized the paradoxical
potentialities of the wild man, in
whom he contrasts so intensely the
powers of creation and of de-
struction.

This short review is able to con-
vey only a sketch of the ideas

which Prof. Bernheimer develops a

and expands through many illus-
trations in art and literature. The
subject, a product of pagan Medi-

aeval fantasy, is presented with a|§

liveiy enthusiasm and a keen per-
ception that makes the book not

only enlightening but a real er-

joyment for the reader.



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THE

COLLEGE

NEWS

Page Five



-_

Theses Merit Doctorates in Various Subjects;
Fields Range from French Lit. to Mathematics -
}

Continued from Page 2

Theory and Criticism of Litera-!

ture. Presented by Professor,
Margaret Gillman.

Mediaeval History and

Mediaeval Art
Ester Rowland Clifford of Rad-
nor, Pennsylvania; A.B. Vassar

College 1928; dissertation: Othon
de Grandson, 1238-1328. Presented,
by Professor George P. Cuttino.

Latin and Ancient History

Louise Price Hoy of Ashland,
Kentucky; A.B. Duke University’
1943; M.A. Bryn Mawr College:
1945; dissertation: Political Influ-

ence in Roman Prosecutions from‘
78 to 60 B.C. Presented by Pro-
fessor Lily Ross Taylor.



?
a

Latin and Greek

Myra L. Uhlfelder of Cincin-
nati, Ohio; A.B. University , of
Cincinnati 1945 and M:A. 1946;

| dissertation: “De Proprietate Ser-
~i| monum vel Rerum”, a A Study and

Critical Edition of an Early Med-
iaeval Set of Verbal Distinctions.
Presented by Professor Berte M.
Marti.

Mathematics
Elizabeth Robinson

Joan of

: Monkton, Maryland; A.B. Goucher

College 1946; M.A. Johns Hopkins

University 1947; dissertation;
Continuity of Transformation
Groups in Topological Spaces.

Presented ‘by Professor John Corn-
ing Oxtoby.



Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick Shows Necessity
For Great Individual Faith in Troubled Times

Continued from Page 1

came the spirit of free man exem-
plified in the French Revolution,
yet Rousseau referred to that very
“the rottenness

among which we live.” Because
tations are no longer isolated but
are now striving for a oneness of
the world, we must have the faita
of our forebears, and posterity
will see our age as a great one.
Dr. Fosdick concluded this point
by recalling a pertinent hymn
which phrases the paradox in
which we live: “we are living in a
grand and awful time’, but it also
concludes that in it “living is sub-
lime.”

The application of moral intelli-
gence, not prostituted knowledge,
to our every problem, is the sec-

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necessary to every person. From
Francis Bacon to the present, man
has become gradually more depen-
dent on science for his salvation.
Emerson Fosdick believes that
inexhaustible scientific power has
been placed in the hands of a hu-
man race “whose ethical characier
is no match for its mental inven-
tious.” “The road to Hell is pav-
ed by good inventions.” Science
and Religion, as seen by Dr. Fos-.
dick, have progressed through
four steps, in the Western World.
1) Science was originally in bond-
age to man’s Religion; 2) Science:
then broke free and won the right
to seek and apply Truth; 3) Sci-
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uneasy compromise. Religious
scientists and scientifically minded
men of religion rivaled each other
in trying to meet the human need;
4) And now that science has given
us unparalleled powers to use and
misuse, it is no longer an enemy
or competitor of religion, but is in
dire need of religion.

Dr. (Fosdick believes that science
would say to us “in God’s name
take me seriously and get control
of what I’m giving you.” From
these points, Dr. Fosdick’s conclu-
sions were the 1) Our salvation is
not in Science; 2) we must have a
moral revival; 3) no moral revival
is possible without a living reli-
gion.

This need of a vital religion
which must save us from cynicism
and defeat was Dr. Fosdick’s last
and most required quality neces-
sary to every individual. Religion
cannot be true and be the retreu
or hide-away it is for so many
“modern” men. Although society
voday is blamed for retreating into
any intangible abstraction such as
music or art, in addition to reli-
gion, Dr. Fosdick named cynicism
as the present most common re-
treat. He gave as an example es-
pecially familiar to us the colleg-
ian who will give the world one
more chance, and if nothing hap-
pens, will go listen to good music.

Vital religion is mecessary to
batile cynicism. Dr. Fosdick em-
Phasized that this religion within
@ spiritual world from which we
would tbe able to attain both pow-
er and peace. (Whether we con-
sider it the spirit within, as Paul
did, or the secret communication
with God within a closed closet
that Christ practiced, it must pro-
duce the difference im each of us
as an individual that will equip us
with tools to produce the drastical-
ly needed difference in the world.
It must make our spiritual soul
and mind the difference betweea
the drying cistern and the inex-
haustable sources of an artesian
well,

Candidates Get Diplomas
At Graduation Exercises
Continued from Page 1

Helen-Louise Knickerbacker Simpson
Seggerman of New York

Joanna Semel of New York

Caroline Anna Smith of Pennsylvania

Abby Ann King Turner Van Pelt of
Pennsylvania

Ellen Armistead Wadsworth of Con-
necticut

Se Crenshaw Warner of Mary-
an

Marcelle Wegier of New York

Ellery Yale Wood of Illinois

French

Mary Whitney Allen of Maryland

Kathleen Casey Craig of Pennsyl-
vania

Laura Thorne Erdman of California

Anne Green Mackall of Virginia

Elaine Marks of New York

Joan McGeoch of New Jersey :

Emma Walthour Morel of Georgia

Patricia Starnes Murray of Pennsyl-

vania

Patricia Anne Onderdonk of New

Je

Goodrich Strawhecker of
Michigan

Geology

Reba Ward Benedict of Ohio
Dorothy Ethel! McKenney of the Dis-
trict of Columbia
Nancy Colbert Pearre of Maryland
Billen Powell of New Jersey



Continued on Page 6, Col. 1

Fosdick thinks |°



Pednah Ritter Huntin’

les Amid the Dogfish
Continued from Page 3

Of that you’re not sure.

At twelve you are free
You were up late last night
So you go to your room
And drop out of sight.

Next to be heard of

At a quarter past five

“My God, a song practice’
They’ll skin you alive.

But you finally make it

And sitig to the sun

But the sun that you sing to
ts not the right one.

Our (p¥eat tradition

(s the first of May

Witl. Haverford’s bathtubs
It's made quite gay.

We skip round the maypole
In our best white dress

It’s usually raining

But we’re not distressed.

And then there is class day
And here’s the result

{ wouldn’t be surprised

If I got expult.

The end of my story

{s coming quite soon
Tust a couple of verses
Which I’ll quickly croon.

I've told you of cutting

And the smelly dogfish

Now I’d like you to know of
My honest posish.

I’ve been educated

I’m hearty and hale
So dear Lord above
Please give me a male!

Ardent A.B. Candidates
Reach Cum Laude Status

Continued from Page 1

Mary Will Boone

Juliet Ritchie Boyd

Susan Bramann

Ilga Brauers

Ann Elizabeth Chambers
Mary Eugenia Chase
Gladys Beck Cooper
Elizabeth Hascall Davies
Ann Chamberlaine Dickenson
Barbara Joelson Fife
Annette Sybille B. Fischer
Janice Angstadt Fraser
Anne-Rosewell Johns Gaines
Eve Leah Glassberg

Lita Claire Hahn

Eula Wulfjen Harmon
Josephine Hausman

Elmira Avery Hingle
Leatrice Mae Hoard
Virginia Ann Hol%eck
Elizabeth Hazlett Kevin
Claire H.. Liackowitz
Elizabeth Kung-Ji Liu
Anne Green Mackall
Marion Helen Michel

Jane Augustine Morley
Mary Berenice Morris
Michiko Namekata

Beth Harrer Ott

Ann Lawrason Perkins
Ellen Powell

Miriam Ervin Reese

Judy Ellen Rivkin

Tama Joy Schenk
Constance Elizabeth Schultz
Harriet Sloss

Aldine Rosemary Spicer
Pauline Goodrich Strawhecker
Lois Kalins Sudarsky

Lucy Curtis Turnbull
Carmen Velasco

Renee Lorraine Veron
Virginia Crenshaw Warner
Marcelle Wegier

Ellen Ruth Wells

Nancy Jane Wullschleger
Betty-Jeanne Yorshis






Page Six

T

HE COLLEGE NEWS

Tuesday, June 3, 1952





Sunny Commencement Morning Sees Conferring

Of Degrees Upon Record Number of Candidates

Continued from Page 5

Dorothy Alma Rainsford of New York
(in abscntia)
Cynthia Herrman Schwab of Okla-
homa :
Nancy Jane Wullschleger of New
York
German

Alexine Lewin Atherton of West

Virgina
Ilga Brauers of Pennsylvania
Leyla Fettah of Turkey
Annette Sybille B. Fischer of Connec-
ticut
Helen Loening of . Germany :
Jacqueline O’Brien Schulman of New
York (in absentia)
Eleanor Virginia Rees of Massachu-
setts ;
Betty-Jeanne Yorshis of Massachu-
setts
History
Anne Gertrude Albersheim of New
Jersey : a
Catherine Cheremeteff of New York
Elizabeth Hascall Davies of Ohio
Bertie Burr Dawes of Georgia
Elizabeth George Foulke of Pennsyl-
vania ‘ A
Anne-Rosewell Johns Gaines of
Virginia
Muriei Gurdon Howells of New York
Mary L. Klein of New York
Joanne Phillips of Missouri (in ab-
sentia)
Mary Hampton Stewart of West
Virginia
Elizabeth Gertrude Warren of Okla-
homa
History of Art
Ann Chamberlaine Dickenson of New
Jersey
Julia Dolores Freytag of Ohio
Rita Goldstein of North Carolina
Lita Claire Hahn of Pennsylvania
Harriet Sloss of California
Betsey Taliaferro of Maryland
Carmen Velasco of Cuba
Elspetth-Anne Winton of Pennsyl-
vania
Latin
Laura Anne Bettina Laidlaw of
Massachusetts
oan Constance McBride of Michigan
Joanna Pennypacker of Connecticut



Philosophy
Miriam Baicker of Pennsylvania
Linda Bettman of Ohio
Josephine Hausman of Pennsylvania
Sara Elizabeth Herminghaus of
Nebraska
Elmira Avery Hingle of Oklahoma (in
absentia)
Leatrice Mae Hoard of Massachusetts
Ellen McGehee Landis of Massachu-
setts
-atricia Richardson Jamison of Ohio
Mildred Barbara Lese of New York
Marion Helen Michel of Pennsylvania
Margaret Dorothea Partridge of New
Jersey
Anne Scott of New York
Ellen Ruth Wells of Pennsylvania

Physics
Eva Wiener of Mexico
Political Science
Sybil Amic of France
Salley Scheffer Ankeny of Minnescta
Jacqueline Appel of the District of
Columbia
Juliet Ritchie Boyd of New York
Janet Noel Callender of New Jersey
Gladys Beck Cooper of New York
Marylou Dillian of Connecticut
Beatrice Friedman of New York
Eve Leah Glassberg of New York
Jean Elizabeth Lee of New York
Judith Rabinowitz of Pennsylvania
Anne Slocum Ritter of Rhode Island
Eva Jane ‘Romaine of Ohio
Frances Rowan of Maryland
Anna Maria Lloyd Warren of
Pakistan
Sally Louise Watts of Illinois
Helen McKenrick Woodward of
Maryland
Psychology
Pauline Harryette Austin of Missouri
Nancy Bird of Massachusetts s
Denise Bystryn of New York
Marna Jane Cohen of New York
Susan Deane Crowdus of Missouri
Janice Angstadt Fraser of Pennsyl-
vania
Jane Tucker Marks of Michigan
Tama Joy Schenk of New Jersey
Russian
Clarissa Silence MacVeagh of Missouri
Ruth Thomas McVey of Pennsyl-
vania
Sociology and Anthropology
Susan Bramann of New York
Eula Wulfjen Harmon of New York

Benedict & Semel Split |
European Fellow Award
Continued from Page 1

and winner of a Fulbright Schol-
the latter majoring
English, and the recipient in her

arship, in
Junior year of the Maria L. East-
man Brooke Hall Memorial Schol-
arship, and of the Katherine Ful-
lerton Gerould Prize for creative
writing of special merit.

The Fellowship was this year
divided because both students ex-
hibited such a high standard of
work.

Lydia Biddle’s' Writing
Achieves Thomas Prize
Continued from Page 1



self did not-yet know that she had
been given the award. Unfor-
tunately for the Editors of the
News, (but fine for suspense!)
even the title of the Essay was not
divulged. Nevertheless, Miss Linn
described it as “Terrific”? — and
that is enough said!



Virginia Ann Holbeck of Michigan
Spanish

Elizabeth Carolyn Gjelsness of
Michigan

Mary Berenice Morris of New York

Mary Janet Rule of Maryland

Judith Helene Silman of New York

Barbara Townsend of Pennsylvania

Reene Lorraine Veron of New York





Partito Popolare
Collapses in Oral

The Italian oral has come and
gone. Some of us lucky ones have
passed, and other poor souls will
struggle through conjugations and
vocabulary again next year in
preparation for the fateful day.
But every year there are boners,
and this year there were a few
choice ones that are worth men-
tioning. :

For instance, for “it was then
that he asked Michelangelo to do
a painting for him” (e fu allora
che chiese un quadio di sua mano)
one poor student substituted “it
was then that he chose a fourth of
his hand.”

Ariosto who “was the most fam-





“THREE For BRIDGE?"

LETTER

Miss Lily Ross Taylor
Expresses Deep

Gratitude

To the Editor of the College News:

Your editorial of May 7th touch-
ed me deeply. Teaching is a co-
operative enterprise and I have
been very fortunate in my part-

ners. I want to express my deep
appreciation of the undergraduate
and graduate students of Bryn
Mawr.

Lily Ross Taylor



ous poet at the court of the Este”
became “the most famous poet of
a short existence.” (il poeta piu
famoso della corte Estense.)

The Italian “popular party”
(partito popolare) collapsed into
“the divided people.” But division
is the opposite of -multiplication,
and luckily for our sakes this
year’s boners did not multiply to
a large number. Vive |’ oral.





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