College news, February 22, 1950

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VOL. XLYI, NO. 14 ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1950

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1950

PRICE 15 CENTS



Prof. Dissects
Marx’ Economy
As World Plan

Right Plan Must Include
Goodness, Power,

Knowledge

Any plan, to be successful, must
possess knowledge, power, and
goodness in the right proportion.
No planning, too much planning,
and the wrong sort of planning
are all evils, said Dr. Schrecker
in discussing “Marx Planning Dis-
sected” at a lecture sponsored by
the Haverford Philosophy Club in
the Common Room of Haverford,
February 15.

Using the analogy of the per-
fect model of planning, the act of
creation, Dr. Schrecker showed
that any deviation from these
three faculties produces a mon-
strosity, that one may exercise in-
itiative, but needs the response of
the other two.

“All -human achievements issue
from changing plans that take ad-
vantage of past experience.” How-
ever, unlike divine decrees, man’s
work is not immutable nor irre-
sistible, and to expect a plan to be
perfect is to give man divine at-
tributes. Man can only choose.

Dr. Schrecker described a hier-
archy of plans, in which the over-
all plan’ would be highest. The
higher and more general the plan,
the more implicit, and the greater
knowledge, power, and responsi-
bility necessary in the planner;
_ also the greater would be the pos-
sible cleavage between intention
and result.

In describing the two extremes
of economic planning: laissez-
faire, based on negative principles
of non-intervention, and planned
economy which determines coerc-
ively, Dr. Schrecker pointed out
that in a liberal economy one mis-
take will not ruin all else, while
in a planned economy on every
level agents are positively bound
by the pattern.

Planned economy demands un-
conditional surrender of human
autonemy, makes man’s welfare

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Freshman Show Cast and Br’er Rabbit



Professor Friend
Discusses ‘Moon
Of Constantinople’

Albert M. Friend, Jr., Marquand
Professor of Art and Archaeology
at Princeton University, spoke last
night on “The Church of the Holy
Apostles — A Reconstruction of
the Lost Mosaic Cycle.” Professor
Friend, who is also Chairman of
the Dumbarton Oakes Foundation

for Byzantine studies. in the

Continued on Page 2

Faculty Receive
Dept. Promotions »

‘The following promotions have

mittee of the Board of Directors
to take effect in 1950-51: Dr. Ar-

|thur C. Sprague, promoted from

Associate Professor to Professor
of English; Dr. Mabel L. Lang
promoted from Assistant Profes-

sor to Associate Professor of
Greek; Dr. Manuel Alcala pro-
moted from Assistant Professor to
Associate Professor of Spanish;
Mr. Heinz Politzer promoted from
Instructor to Assistant Professor
of German; Mrs. Martha M. Diez
promoted from Instructor to As-
sistant Professor of German, and
(Miss Edith Lanman promoted
from Instructor to Assistant Pro-



fessor of Chemistry.



Ex-Editor Of NEWS Unearthed

In Eerie’‘Labyrinthine Retreat

by Joan McBride, °52

Somewhere in the library there
is an obscure room, which appears
deceptively innocuous from the
outside. Within there is a deep,
uncovered. pit which descends to
nothingness. “Come in,” request-
ed our ex-editor, as she turned off
the lights, “and see the pretty pic-
tures.”

Now that she is no longer editor
of the NEWS, Emily Townsend
does not utilize all her spare time
to lure innocents into pitfalls. On
Mondays, Tuesdays, and every
other day of the week, she can
now devote more time to her “de-
partment.” She is in the process
of creating an honors paper, deal-
ing with the significance of the
serpent in the Odes of Pindar.
This paper will be replete with il-
tustrations of her snakes and oth-
er members of her menagerie.
Huddled in her carrel, scratching
strange symbols on small, very

small, white cards, which she oc-
casionally picks up from the mid-
|dle of the aisle, she sometimes
opens her window, gazes into the
moat below... and thinks.

She does not devote all her time
to scholarly pursuits, however. She
has been known to attend the cin-
ema, especially on occasions when
Laurence Olivier is standing in
front of the fireplace. Like all
NEWS editors she is a devotee of
dubble-bubble. One night, she
dashed across the Lancaster Pike
against a red light, in order to
procure a pocketful of this delici-
ous commodity. She exhibits a
fine technique with a glass of icy
water: she can either hurl it far-
ther and more accurately than the
famed discus thrower or dribble it
subtly down the back of the neck.

Emily is very talented. Her
royal curtsey is longing to be dis-
played at the queen’s court, and



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been voted by the Executive Com-|.. .



Marcuse Explains
Change Occurring
In New Satellites

Dr. Herbert Marcuse, in his dis-
cussion of Peoples’ Democracies;
Theory and Practice, regarded
them as illustrating “a new...
form of transition from capital-
ism to The lecture
was second in the series on Soviet
Russia Today, and was given Feb-
ruary 16 at Swarthmore.

When a _ Russian satellite
formed, the old ruling classes are
overthrown in the social revolu-
tion which accompanies libera-
tion by Soviet arms, and the new
regime claims to emanate from
the working population, industri-
al and agricultural. The so-called

Continued on Page 4

socialism.”

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CALENDAR
Wednesday, February 22

Science Club movie, Dalton,
7:00 p, m.

Alliance-I RC meeting, Mr.
Thomas Clark Pollak, “Israel’s
Stake in the United Nations,”
Common Room, 8:00 p. m.

(Modern Dance Workshop,
Principles and Motivations of
Choreography, Skinner Work-
shop, 8:30 p. m.

Thursday, February 23

Classics Club, Mr. Anthony
Andrews, the Greek conception
of tyrant and king, Common
Room, 4:00 p. m.

Friday, February 24

Vocational Symposium, Dean-
ery, 7:30 p. m.

Saturday, February 25

Vocational Conferences,
Goodhart, Deanery, Rhoads
Showcases, 9:30-12:30 a. m.

Maids’ and Porters’ Dance,
Gym, 8:30 p. m.

Monday, February 27

‘Current Events, Miss Caro-
line Robbins, “English Elee-
tions,’ Common Room, 7:16
p. m.

Russian Lecture, Dr. Abram
Bergson, “The Soviet Economy:
Trends and Prospects,” Good-
hart, 8:15 p. m.

Tuesday, February 28

German Club, Heinz Politzer,
readings of his own works,
Common Room, 8:30 p. m.
Wednesday, March 1

Morning Assembly, Miss Mc-
Bride, revisions in the fire laws,
Goodhart, 8:45 a. m,

Horace White Memorial Lec-
ture, Dr. Rhys Carpenter, “The
Two Homers,” Goodhart, 8:30
p. m.









Freshmen Find
In ‘Land of the

by Joan McBride, ’52

The class of. 1953 gaily trans-
ported a receptive Saturday night
audience to the Last Resort, an
establishment far off in the ice
fields of Alaska, where seals flap-
ped their fins, prospectors dug for
uranium, and chorus girls for gold,

In many places the perform-
ance of “The Last Resort” ap-
proached professional quality. Out-
standing as the master Eskimo of
them all was Barbara Pennypack-
er, who exhibited the same ex-
cellent stage presence and facility
of intenpretation as she did in the
Freshman Hall play. Her ad-lib-
bing was superb; the inclusion of
“Anassa kata” and “To the May-
pole,” side by side with Shake-
speare and Lincoln were strokes
of a master comedian’s genius. In
facile voice, stage personality,
movement, and variations on a
theme, she was unexcelled.

The Sidekick Myra Becker was
another of the best among the
show’s many comedians. Although
on occasion she tended to over-
act, she was a delightful and ex-
tremely ‘convincing young man

Rhys Carpenter
To Give Lecture _

Dr. Rhys Carpenter, professor
of Classical Archagology at Bryn
Mawr, will give the Horace White
Memorial Lecture in Goodhart on
Wednesday, March’ 1st at 8:30. The



| subject will:‘be “The Two Homers.”

. Dr. Carpenter received degrees
‘at Columbia, Oxford, Rutgers, and
the American School of Classical
Studies in Athens.
tor of this School of Classical
Studies for a time and was also in
charge of the Classical School at
the American Academy of Rome.
He has affiliations with Archae-
ologieal Institutions all over the
world. His writings include: The
Tragedy of Etarre; The Sun-Thief
and Other Poems; The Esthetic
Basis of Greek Art; The Homer-
istic Value of Architecture; Folk
Tale, Fiction, and Saga in the
Homeric Epics; and many other
books, essays, and articles.

He was direc-:



Pot of Gold
‘Last Resort’

with “prospects.” With extraor-
dinary expression and roaring
voice, she put across two of the
show’s best songs: ‘““Won’t You Be
My Little olar Bear” and “The
Strong, Silent Type.”

Kathy Lurker, as the Intellec-
tual Penelope, the geology major
to whom love never comes, aeted
with subtle comedy and a touch of
pathos, which, even if it was unin-
tentional, added great charm to
her role, especially in her song
‘The Intellectual Way.” The only
criticism of Ronnie Gottlieb is that
she did not sing enough. One
short song does not seem enough
to be allotted to someone with
such a beautiful voice. But she
performed with the dignity appro-
priate to her part.

In her rendition of “I Was A-
Broad My Junior Year,” Sally
Shoemaker’s voice was true and
her interpretation was perfect. She
sang with humor, vigor and expert
expression. San Tilghman dis-
played the proper sweetness. and
shyness for her role as Margaret,
although her prejection could have
been better; and her song in the
last act, “All Alone,” was one of
the most beautiful in the show.
Cynthia Comly and June Wasser,
as Rastus and the Eskimo Girl
were most appealing. Penny Rand,
the old flea-ridden © prospector,
sang the prospector’s song and
“It covers More Than You Think”
with convincing and amusing ser-
ality. a

The theme of “The Last Resort”
was unique and provided . infinite
opportunity for all types of com-
edy. It began in a lively fashion
with the first act, with its line of
attractive chorus girls who could
sing, and its varied assortment of
prospectors.

The young prospectors carried
their plungers in front of the
curtain between the acts and sang
what was perhaps the most riotous
number in the show. The idea in
itself was ingenious and mwas hil-
ariously executed. The three spies,
Holland, Harrison, and Wright,
with their long, black mustaches
and demoniac gestures conveyed

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Ex-Editor Observes Incumbent

With Jaundiced,

by Emily Townsend, 50

Joan (McBride has sacrificed her
most cherished scholarly ambition
to take over as ‘Editor of ‘the
NEWS: she has had: to abandon
her search for the lost Annals of
Ennius. For a year and a half
now she has been digging in un-
likely corners for these priceless
papyrus fragments. The main ex-
cavation site seems to be in the li-
brary basement, a short way down

the corridor from Mr. Politzer’s|:

office, where, crouched on all fours,
resolutely puffing on a borrowed
‘cigarette, she paws incessantly at
the unyielding terrain, an object
of mystery and academic rever-
ence to all who know her.

How unfortunate that these pur-
suits, so admirable in a young
classicist, should have had to be
interrupted for the cause of jour-
nalistic prostitution. And yet the
NEWS has surely found its com-
pensations. Last week, for the



But Candid Eye

first. time in twenty-five issues,

there were no problems. The gal-

ley fit, the cuts came, bedtime was
a record eleven-thirty, and, bitter-
est blow of all to’the ancient re-
gime, the young editor was able to
report in triumph: “Louie and Mr.
Kamerdze like me.” What accounts
for this fickleness of man, this co-
operation of the universe, these
sudden primroses on the editorial
path?

Joan has, of course, certain nat-
ural assets. She has a mobile face,
admirably suited to the mimicry
of professors, and talent has so
far exceeded caution that she is
frequently found making hideous
but recognizable faces on the ob-
ject of satire’s very doorstep. So
far she has not been caught. She
also has a remarkably sticky tal-
ent for the production of chicle
bubbles, and a wealth of undisci-
plined Irish hair which she has

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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, February 22, 1950





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Entered as second class matter at the Ardmore, Pa., Poss Office

Under Act of Congress August 24, 1912







To Avert Confusion

Last week, when. Freshman Show tickets went’ on sale,
the same situation arose, to a worse degree, as that which oc-
curred last year. The tickets went on sale at one o’clock; at
nine the line began to form. By twelve it had extended all
the way down the L-corridor. Students sat in the corridor
playing bridge; the self-government rule against smoking
anywhere’in Taylor except in the corridor by the water-cool-
er was broken repeatedly. A list was circulated, to be signed
by those purchasing tickets.

Several recommendations to eliminate these difficulties
before future college productions have been suggested. Tic-
kets could be ordered by mail, but that would perhaps result

- in ever. more confusion than when they are sold in Taylor.

If they were on sale in Goodhart the problem of the line and
the list would again arise, but it would avert the confusion
in Taylor.

,Another recommendation is that different prices be placed
on the seats, and a student could purchase. a ticket within the
price range she wants. The most practical suggestion that
has been offered is to put tickets on sale in the halls. If, for
Freshman Show, the seats for Juniors could be sold on Mon-
day, then a proportionate number of good and bad seats
gould be allotted to each hall,.according to the number of
students. This plan would not only alleviate the current con-
ditions, but would give every student at least an even chanes
to obtain a good seat.

Further recommendations to improve: the ticket-selling
situation will be metommed.

End of the Garden Path

' “Don’t hurry down that ‘corsage-bordered ‘ivy-shaded
path that is your college career—don’t hurry, you'll run into
a raincloud at the end of it. In four months—and one, two,
or three years, or just four months—dark days are pre-
dicted. Do you know exactly wha you will do when you get
out of college, taught, talented and twenty-two?

--You have specific interests, you know something about
your major subject, you want a job which you will enjoy. So

do hundreds of others just like you; how are you to get
that position?

_ or you, the individual with her own individual problem,
this coming Job Weekend is designed. Its most important
feature is the private interview you may have with any one
of seven career women, successful and prominent in different
fields of endeavor. In fifteen brief minutes you may receive
the hint which will determine whether you get the job you

- want or not. Other students’ problems are to be aired in

discussion; the picture of the world lying at the end
your sxnien pejh will eome into clearer focus.

ale eels oe Peon ap aR







Current Events

Common Room, Feb. 20: —

Miss Hertha Kraus, who will
leave shortly for a tour of Ger-
many, delivered last Monday’s
Current Events lecture on Ger-
many: Its Major Social Problems.
Of these problems, one of the most
pressing is the tremendous unem-
ployment; the housing situation is
equally desperate. Millions of
young people do not know for
what careers they should prepare
—the traditional occupations have
been discarded. Veterans now re-
turning from _ prisoner-of-war
camps were unprepared for a
smaller, impoverished and defeat-
ed Germany. They have not the
advantage of educational grants
A group of new poor, which Miss
Kraus calls the “ex-capitalists,”
has sprung up now that either the
war or the currency reform has
wiped out their investment income,
Purchasing power is very low.
Most families can buy enough to
live, but absolutely no more. There
is no starvation in Germany now.
The people are exceedingly im-
patient at the discrepancy between
the supply of things they should
have, and the low income which
prevents them from buying.

Organizations such as hospitals
and clinics, public health and wel-
fare groups are crippled by a lack
of personnel and physical facili-
ties, and the extremely heavy

Students Explore
Atomic Proposals

Last Friday evening at 7 p. m.
in the Union of Haverford Col-

international relations was spon-
sored by the College Student
Council of the Philadelphia World
Affairs Council.

With each of a number of col-
leges in this area representing one
country, a model United Nations
Atomic Energy Commission ses-
sion was held. The problems of
the country assigned were discuss-
ed ahead of time by a delegation
of three or four students from the
college, and resolutions were pre-
pared for submission to the ses-
sion by the one speaking delegate.
The parliamentary procedure for
conducting sessions followed the
rules set up by the United Na-
tions.

Approximately sixty students
attended. The nations represent-
ed, and the colleges which repre-
sented them are as follows:

Canada—Haverford College.

China—Bryn Mawr College, rep-
resented by Eva Romaine, Betty
Goldblatt, and Helen Woodward.

Continued on Page 4

Dr. Schrecker Dissects
Marx’ Planned Economy

Continued from Page 1



burden ‘they carry. They have only
a minimum of volunteers. People |
look back to the old days pxior to
1933, and want to reinstate the |
old traditions and methods. But
the old and the familiar no longer
fit; a new solution must be found.
An Integrated Approach

What then, asked Miss Kraus,
is to be done?) We must realize
that Germany is a torn country,
unable to move toward its goals.
We must visualize the scope of
the picture and deal with it real-
istically. All of these problems
interdepend, and any effort to
cope with them separately will be
ineffectual. An integrated ap-
proach in terms of millions must
be made. Family life must be re-
habilitated; homes must be built
for those. families ‘to live in, and
with that end in mind, Germany’s
tiny. remaining capital should be
invested. The labor productivity,
of women especially, should be in-
creased,

“We Americans have a contribu-
tory responsibility,” concluded
Miss Kraus. “We are partly re-
sponsible for the destruction in
Germany, and it is up to us to do

something about it. I believe the
time is now.”



Friend Reconstructs
Holy Apostles Church
Continued from Page 1

United States, was introduced by
Dr. J. C. Sloan, Head of the Hist-
ory of Art Department.

Professor Friend opened his Jec-
ture with the remark that since
the Church of the ‘Holy Apostles
was destrdyed: in 1456,. he would
have to start his reconstruction
from nothing,. which was just as
well, since if nothing came of it,
nothing would:.be lost. However,
much came of it, and with a series
pf slides of layouts, and old mamu-
scripts, he’ showed how the build-
ing was copied in later churches.

The church, destroyed to make
way for a mosque of Mohammed
II, was known as “the moon of
Constantinople’ where emperors
were buried; the “sun” was St.
Sophia’s, where they were crowned.
Then Professor Friend cited the
most important sources for his re-
construction. One was a poem in
hexameters, accurately describing
almost every part of the structure,
including the five domes, the center
one held up by twelve columns,
representing the Apostles. A cur-
tain could be drawn from column
to col » closing off the altar.

Tho/ econ source was a sort
of travelogue, written by one Pro-



depend on the theory that endan-
gers his existence.

If one assumes the hypothesis of
planning-false, (that the most im-
portant factor in man’s life is se-
curity), then one may conclude
that it is worse to have enslave-
ment to materialism. Planning
would “cure the symptoms, ignore
the malady.” Planning can be veri-
fied only if applied, and applied
only through coercion.

Two other weaknesses of the
system were also analyzed. First,
a master plan must be enforced on
the totality of men to be effica-
cious. Second, one must concede
the inability to see the effect. ‘of
free work under this master plan.
‘It can foresee only the processes
it_itself has coercively determin-
ed, whereas in the divine plan of
creation there is infinite fore-
sight.”

Eeonomic Prevision Fallible

Dr. Schrecker showed that “ex-
perience fails to bear out the in-
fallibility of economic prevision
even in planned economy.” From
the immense destruction and loss
of productive capital, one might
say the available knowledge was
insufficient. Power, alone of the
three capacities, can be actualized
to the desired extent.

In speaking of the third capaci-
ty, principles directing the will
Dr. Schrecker claimed that failure
might be due to malice. All eco-
nomics can do as a science is in-
vestigate and indicate means to
achieve a desirable effect. Plan-
ned economy claims omnipotence,
omniscience, and goodness. The
planner need not adhere to such
principles. Then “who will’ watch
the watchman?”

~ Another requisite of the master
plan is that it be kept unfathom-
able; only a few can know it. The
majority cannot know it, but. must
follow it.

‘ Dr. Schrecker concluded with,
this - statement about Marxian |
planning, that “The core of this
titanic project appears as a design
to do away with history, Philoso-
phy would: yield to economics,
thought to action. All human
aspirations would be controlled.
Satisfication would be predeter-
mined. Yet history has produced
a few things for whose continua-
the plan offers no guaran-

In the general discussion which
followed, Dr. Schrecker
that a syntehis of the two. ex-
tremes of economic planning,
‘which would come about by the
force of people wanting a mean
between insecurity and slavery,

lege, an interesting experiment in



Holyoke To Hold
UN Conference

The third annual Mount Holyoke
College Institute on the United
Nations will be held at South Had-
ley from June 25th to July 22nd.
The Institute is a marvelous op-
portunity for students concerned
with international affairs not only
to hear the speakers, but also to
meet and discuss current problems.
with them. The speakers include
UN delegation and _ Secretariat.
members, U.S. and other govern-.
ment representatives. Among last.
year’s speakers were Mrs. Roose-
velt, Mrs. Vijaya “Pandit, and Gen-
eral Carlos P. Romulo. There is a
weekly trip to Lake Success with
interviews arranged with leading
UN officials.

Tuition for one week is $25.00,.
for the full four weeks, $90. Free
room and board may be obtained
by acting as a student assistant.
The duties include waiting on.
tables, serving as ushers, meeting:
speakers and guests, typing and
office work. There are informal dis-
cussion groups for the student as-
sistants led by the visiting speak-.
ers. These provide an opportunity
to know personally many of the.
experts on international relations-
who come to the Institute. There-
are a few tuition scholarships.

This year the weekly topics will
be Building the Foundations: Tech-
nical Assistance and Point Four;
Extending the Community of
Nations: Germany and Japan; De-
veloping Regional Groupings: In-.
termediate or Final Step; and:
Prospects for a World Community:
A Five Year Appraisal of the UN.

The Institute is not limited to
students. There are many oppor-.
tunities for discussion and recrea—
tion. If interested, see Priscilla
Johnson, Rock, or Joan Piwosky,.
Pem East, for further information.



Program Planned

For Art’s Night

Art’s Night will be held ‘Aprik
28th in the Skinner Workshop.
This program is centered com-
pletely around the artistic endeav-
ors on campus, including original
plays, music, dancing, and art.
Since it is a student project, Art’s:
Night needs your support.

There will be a meeting Thurs~
day, Feb. 28, at 1:30 in Room A
Taylor for all those interested im
working on this program. At this:
time a business manager, publicity
head, and other officers will be
elected. All those who attend the
meeting can work on various com-
mittees.

Service To Offer
Tours to Europe

Group tours to Europe (cound
trip); for, students. ‘and. teachers,
$550.00 and ‘up are available



‘through Laborde Travel Service,

Inc., sponsored. by the Cooperative
Bureau for Teachers. . Prices. in~
‘clude university. sessions, accom-
revs meals, and sight-see-

- Most Laborde trips center
ia the International Summer
‘School conducted by the Universi~
ty -of. Innsbruck. and the Austrian
League of the United Nations at.
Mayrhofen in Austria. The trips.
are mainly for those interested in.
international relations. The pro~
gram at Mayrhofen also includes.
music (notably trips to the Salz—
burg festivals) and sports. An-
other trip gives a week in Paris
and four weeks at the University
of Caen in Normandy. . Emphasis:
is on the French refresher courses.

agreed|Those who wish to travel inde~

pendently after the sessions may~
do so, For more information, see-
Frieda Wagoner, Non-Res., or Eva.
Rosenbaum, Rock., or write to La
borde Travel flarsiees hat: 19%





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Wednesday, February 22, 1950

THE COLLEGE

NEWS

Page Three



Foreign

Correspondent

Specially contributed by
Eva Rosenbaum, 50

Each year, in the darkest part
of the night, when the cold Febru-
ary winds are blowing in from the
Rhine, the entire population of
Basel rise out of their warm beds
to witness the beginning of the an-
nual Fasnacht celebration. Prompt-
ly at four o’clock in the morning
all the lights in the city go out,
and from all parts and all streets
appear the Cliques with their tre-
mendous, lit up lanterns and their
hideous masks. Fifing and drum-
ming they parade through the
town, and when everyone, partic-
ipators and spectators, is thor-
oughly chilled, they adjourn for
the traditional Zwiebelwai and
Mehlsuppe, two horrifying concoc-
tions which can only be compen-
sated for by much beer.

For those of us at the Univer-
sity who were unfamiliar with the
whole procedure, it was all very
mystifying and very pleasing—
pleasing, for it meant a week’s va-
cation, and mystifying, since we
could not understand the enthus-
iasm for a religious holiday. Tra-
ditionally Fasnacht stems from the
days when Basel was still one of
the Catholic cantons of Switzer-
land, with a bishop as ruler. This
time was set aside each year to
give the people one last opportun-
ity to indulge in worldly affairs
before retiring for Lent. (Now the
only connection left with the for-
mer religious motive is the season
at which it is held. It has become
a grand opportunity for the re-
served Baselers to lose their inhi-
bitions.

Fasnacht is a festival which in-
volves the making or breaking of
marriages, the spending of savings
all year accumulated. It is a time
when a foreigner in the streets of

Basel is safe only under the pro-

tecting wing of a native. For one
week anything may be
one, and usually is. The Cliques
which parade the streets day and
night in grotesque costumes vie
for the prize for the best lantern.
Each lantern portrays and satir-
izes some event which took place
during the year. No error, regard-
less of how small, that any public
official or well-known individual
made, escapes the watchful and
cynical eyes of the Cliques. Fias-
nacht is a free-for-all with none of
the niceties of behavior observed.
It is a time of great profit for the
cafes and paper mache industry,
since only masks are considered
acceptable wearing apparel. Hus-
bands and wives make rendezvous
with strangers. Then there was
the professor who made a date
with a charming mask, who turned
out to be his laboratory assistant;
and the man whose date proved to

‘be his wife.

Continued on Page 4

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“Plunge, Ye Jolly Men of Science.”



by Barbara Joelson, 52

The scene is the gym; the time
is Saturday, the 18th; the occasion
is the Undergrad Dance following
the Freshman show. Gone are the
familiar badminton nets and other
athletic equipment. Instead cupids
hang from the baskets and aim
heart-tipped arrows at the danc-
ers crowding the: floor. On all
four walls there is a bright red
border with cut-out hearts. The
walls of the fencing room contain
more of cupid’s darts and numer-

Bard’s Eye View

by Jane Augustine, °52



Of themes and tests we always
groan.

In Merion — while drinking tea,

we always listen for the phone.

And Denbigh’s juniors now have
flown

abroad—we eye them enviously.

Of themes and tests we always
groan.

To well-dressed Rhoads the men
are blown,
(or from us unkempt creatures

flee)
We always listen for the phone.

In Pem and Rock bridge holds the
throne

until the first exam’s decree.

Of themes and tests we always
groan.

By us No-doz and cokes are
known,
In Radnor’s upstairs smokery

we always listen for the phone.

We Bryn Mawr girls two habits
own,

whatever otherwise we be.

Of themes and tests we always

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We always listen for the phone!



Victim of Nash-ness Sees Life
Complicated, Variegated Prism

by Barbara Joelson, °52

Life is like a variegated, many-
faceted prism;

And is complicated by such things
as grades, required courses,
weekends, pay day bills, and
plagiarism. .

It is as spiteful as the weather,
and just about as consistent;
And the things that come easy are
either awful hard to find, or
else they’re entirely non-ex-

istent.

Marks are unpleasant details,
though it isn’t hard to figure
out why I only have D’s...

Because when I get to exams’ all
that ever comes to my mind to
write down are the first two
lines of Joyce Kilmer’s poem,
“Trees.”

As far as romance is concerned,
I’ve definitely been through the
well-known school of hard

knocks.
And: now the years are creeping
> on me and everyone e':
either engaged or married, while
I sit writing term papers, play-
ing bridge, and trying to knit
argyle socks.

I’d adore to be dangerous, a femme

fatale, toasted and sought after
from here all the way to Siam;

But instead, everyone just says
isn’t it nice that I look at least
three years younger than I actu-
ally am!

And to top it all off ... when I
decide I’ve finally written a
masterpiece with rhyme, mean-
ing and originality,

Someone says a man named Nash
has already done it much bet-
ter and anyway how can it be
a poem when it doesn’t even
scan and at least every other
line contains some sort of
banality?







Hearts, Cupids and Lanin’s Music
Add Gaiety to Valentine Dance

ous lacy valentines. Here also
weary dancers are being served
with a pinkish punch, spiked with
sherbert and strawberries. In the
main room hundreds of corsaged
Bryn Mawrtyrs dressed in a ka-
leidoscope of colors are dancing
with their penguin-clad partners.
In one corner Lester Lanin & Co.
are distributing felt chapeaux, and
giving forth with Waltzes, Fox-
trots, Sambas, Rhumbas, Lindy
Hops, Charlestons, and Mexican
shuffles. Along with the familiar
old favorites and many newly

popular tunes, they played The

Last Resort’s hit song, “Won’t You

tbe My Little Polar Bear.”

Towards the middle of the eve-
ning, everyone stopped their danc-
ing and settled down on the gym
floor to listen to the entertain-
ment. First on the program were
the Harvard Dunces, who sang
about “Aunt Clara,” whose picture
is turned to the wall; about
“Maria” in her swing crying “Oh
Fred, tell them to stop”; and about
‘Lydia, the tattooed lady.” Then
the Bryn Mawr Octangle rendered
“Yesterdays,” “Mood Indigo,” “Do
I Worry,” and “Father’s Day.”
Last came the Princeton Tiger-
tones singing “Good-bye My Coney
Island Baby,” the story of “Anne
Boleyn, with her ’ead tuck’d un-
derneath her arm,” and many
others.

At last the strains of “Good-
night, Ladies” and “Good-night,
Sweetheart” hinted that the dance
was over; and everyone repaired
to various destinations for the en-
suing hour-and-a-half that was al-
lowed to them.

The Observer

AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY
HAS BEEN MADE

We observed while walking in
the Library that there
extraordinary pattern in the brick
floor at the bottom of the stairs
jin front of the main desk. To be
sure, we had noticed before a few
designed tiles sprinkled among
their smooth pink neighbors but
had always thought them placed
there haphazardly by a floor-layer
who was more practically than
spiritually inclined. Search for the
spiritual in everything, however,
for these tiles were laid by no un-
designing individual who found in
his hand, by chance, the castle, the
fleur de lis, the pretty checkered
square.

Start near the door that leads
down to the main desk. You will
see on your right a tile with a
fleur de lis wpon it and on your
left another. Take three steps for-
castle exactly ten tiles from the
steps. On your left is another in
much the same position. Two steps
more and there is another pair of
castles, each one near a card cata-
logue case. Two more steps, there
is a fleur de lis balanced by a
checkered square. (Here for the
curious is meat for further study.)

Continued on Page 4

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‘Boola Boola’ Immortalizes Yale
From Bulldogs To Eager Alumni

by Barbara Joelson, ’52

Many things have come out of
Yale, such as bulldogs, Whiffen-
poofs, and even one or two gradu-
ates. The latest release is of a
somewhat different nature than
those I have-mentioned. It is a
book of cartoons about Yale, writ-
ten by Julien Dedman, Yale ’48,
and published by Coward-MeCann.
The name of this literary master-
piece is Boola Boola!; subtitled,
“A Satirical Peek at Yale, Its
Foundations and Other Unmen-
tionables.”

The illustrations depict the high
spots in the life of a Yalee from
his first encounter with the regis-
trar, who informs him that “this
office does not ordinarily employ
the term ‘gut,’” to the time when
he returns for a reunion, bellow-
ing into a fellow Alumnus’ ear
trumpet “I said Boola Boola, damn
it!” The time between is filled
with variety, an indomitable spirit,
and a multiplicity of classic com-
ments. Among the latter we find:



Incidentally

Letters we finished redding be-
cause of morbid curiosity ...
“Dear Benefactor (And that you
are!): Happy Valentine’s Day!
Since it isn’t customary for boys
to send Valentines to boys...
You made the Ralph Flanagan
band an important attraction over-
night. I don’t know how to ex-
press my appreciation . . . What
can be more sentimental than
“Where Or When”... And speak-
ing of sentiment, this side holds a
special place in my heart because
it was one of my last Bluebird
hits. This week, RCA Victor
raised the band to the parent RCA
Victor label with our ‘new record
of “Rag Mop.” But I'll always
have a soft place in my heart for
Bluebird and all it did for us...
THANKS! THANKS! THANKS!
THANKS! THANKS! THANKS!
THANKS AGAIN!!!”

...QOh, it was nothing .. .?

“Dear Madam, ...I am trying
to build up material for a feature
on the American student’s view of
Britain . .. A British student vis-
iting the US told me the other day
that Minnesota was a part of
Iowa ... Have many Bryn Mawr
students visited Britain? ... Have
these travellers had the opportun-
ity to recount their adventures to
other girls in College? ... Is there
any long-range interest in more
obscure British institutions as in-
violability of jury’s right to pri-
vacy and so on? Does anyone stop
for afternoon tea at Bryn Mawr, or

'wear British tweeds and sweaters?

. . . I'd love to have something
considered along these lines .. . I
hate to write to you anonymously”
”

Perhaps it’s just as well.

“Did you prep at Andover, or did
you just happen to arrive at
Yale?”; “It was D, D, D, all along,
and then I got a big surprise
—F.”; “It was a toss-up between
Schopenhauer and Bogart, and
guess who won?”; “Why, room-
mate! You little devil! Is this a
bottle of scotch I see?”; and “I
decided to stop worrying about
finals, and put my faith in God.”

Not the male point of view alone
is presented. There are many
scenes that will ring a painfully
familiar note in the mind of every
red-blooded American girl who
has experienced the vagaries of a
college weekend. For example,
there is the college man who stag-
gers out of the Junior Prom lean-
ing against his date for support,
and remarking happily, “I hope I
haven’t shattered the magic of it
all.” Then there is the girl who
is ushered into a room of about
twenty other women in various
stages of deshabille, with the
casual comment, “Uh—there’ll be
another girl or two sharing your
room”; and the bedraggled Vas-
sarite who collapses at the feet
4f her roommate announcing,
“Well, I made it through another
Derby Day!”

Boola Boola! does for men’s col-
leges what Everything Correlates
did for women’s colleges. One of
the most delightful things about
Mr. Dedman’s drawings is the
detail. His men have masterfully
comical expressions ranging from
the supremely naive, to the suave,
to the ribald. They are dressed
in striped ties, Brooks Brothers
shirts, checked sports jackets,
belted raincoats, baggy slacks, and
other typically collegiate apparel.
Immortalized in the pages of this
satire is the man having his hair
cut and directing the barber to
“make it tweedy.” Here lives the
student eagerly reaching into his
mailbox with the cry, “Come on
Judy, Come on Geraldine, come on
Yale Co-op bill for December!”
Here also is the Yalee who uses
the cyclotron to crack walnuts, the
fastidious dean who detects a
“bald spot on Wrexham Tower,”
the senior at graduation who
faints “from the sheer ecstasy of
the moment,” and the student at
an exam who wants to trade “two
Homeric similes for a Vergilianm
stanza.”

Mr. Dedman’s sense of humcr is:
subtle and penetrating; his ob-
servations are acute and well-
chosen; his style is satirical and
delightful; he is a most efficient
master of understatement. In one
of his cartoons a contribution to
the humor magazine is criticisedi
because “‘it lacks boff.” I believe
we are more than justified in ob-
serving that if there is one thing
that Boola Boola! has in the great-



est abundance, it is very definitely
“boff.”



Rare Book Room Has Exhibit
Of Type-designer Goudy’s Work

by Judith Konowitz, ’51
In the Rare Book Room there is
on display an exhibition of the
work of Frederic W. Goudy, who

was the most distinguished de-

signer of type in the last century,
with few peers in the history of
printing. Examples are shown of
his drawings and the stages of
the process of producing the final
matrices from them, as well as
many of the 120 fonts which bear
his name, and books printed from
them,

The samples of Mr. Goudy’s
work which are displayed show the
remarkable- variety of uses to
which the designs have been put.
There are pages out of books
about printing written by the de-
signer himself, in addition to se-
lections from more genera] texts.
There are testimonials by other
printers of his genius which are

effectively printed in his own
type. One may even find a sam-
ple of an advertisement by Saks
Fifth Avenue, for which an ex-
clusive kind of print was origin-
ated

The debt which the contempor-
ary reader owes to Frederic W.
Goudy is well expressed by the
last sentences of an editorial in
the N. Y. Herald Tribune which
was written after his death al-
most three years ago, “There was
a great sum of accomplishment in
this practical artist. He was a de-
signer and a philosopher, a writer
and a craftsman, a printer who
preached of beauty in utility. In
his time he won vast acclaim and
once it was said that half of the
display lines in a national maga-
zine were set in Goudy type.
The entire reading public is in Mr.



Goudy’s debt.” ti:








publics—Chestnut Hill College.

Page Four

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, February 22, 1950



U.W.F. Chairman
To Speak Mar. 1

Murray Frank, National chair-
man of the Student Division of the
United World Federalists, will
speak twice at Bryn Mawr on
March 1.

At a tea for the faculty in the
Common Room at 4:00 Mr, Frank
will discuss “Theory and Prac-
tice of World Government,” and
at 7:30, also in the Common Room,
Mr. Frank will speak of “World
Government: A Necessity” for the
student body and the public.
Everyone is invited to this eve-
ning meeting after which refresh-
ments will be served.

Model UN-AEC Session
Uncovers Old Problems

Continued from Page 2

Cuba—St. Joseph’s College.
Ecuador—Villanova College.
Egypt—Muhlenburg College.
France—Swarthmore College.
Norway—Drexel Institute.
India—Beaver College.
Philippines—West Chester State
Teachers’ College.

Union of Soviet Socialist Re-

United Kingdom—Temple Uni-
versity and Lincoln University.

United States — Lehigh Uni-
versity.

Yugoslavia — University
Pennsylvania.

The purpose of the session was
“to explore possible proposals for
international control of atomic
energy to break the Great Power
deadlock.” Paul Smith of Haver-
ford College, as chairman, opened
the meeting. After Dean Gilbert
Hoag, of Haverford, had made a
short welcoming speech, the pres-
entation and discussion .of the
resolutions began.

Five resolutions were adopted:

1) That. all interested nations
enter on a convention to control
atomic armaments production,

2) That this convention estab-
lish a control board for the inspec-
tion of facilities for mining atomic
raw materials and producing
atomic energy.

3) That this control board carry
out its duties without hindrance
from any nation. ;

4) That this control board estab-
lish an international police force
to enforce its decisions, after the
fact of violation has been deter-
mined “by judicial process.”

') That. all atomic stockpiles be
demolished within five months of
the signing of the convention.

This model Atomic Energy Com-
mission illustrated to the students
participating that not only is it
difficult for the nations of the
world to bring their separate in-
terests together into some sort of
agreement, but also that dissen-
tion arises over mere matters of
procedure. This very. difficulty
has been encountered numerous
times in the UN-ABC sessions
themselves. The method of pro-
cedure is not entirely detached
from the actual questions under
debate. Voting procedure is of
paramount importance, for an is-
sue may be decided in two entire-
ly different ways depending on
how many votes are required to
carry a motion — a majority from
the voting members, a majority
from those members present, or
a majority from all members,
present or not present.

The model session unfortunate-
ly did not have time to adjourn
into committees where a compro-
mise might have been more easily
achieved. The Bryn Mawr dele-
gation proposed the resolution for
an international police force.

The evening was not without its

of

slavia, always a disobedient satel-

S |

by Emmy Cadwalader, ’52
During the Bryn Mawr-Chest-
nut Hill Swimming Meet two pool
records were broken. The Meet
was held on Friday, Feb. 10, in
the Bryn Mawr pool, and both
Bryn Mawr Varsity and J.V.
teams broke the pool record in the
Free Style Relay race.

On Thursday, Feb. 15, the Bryn
Mawr Varsity and J.V. swimming
teams again proved their superi-
ority by beating Drexel in the
Penn pool. The Varsity won 40-17,
and the J.V. won 44-13. The J.V.
members of the Bryn Mawr team
placed first and usually second in
every race and contest they swam
in that day. The next Swimming
Meet will be held against Beaver,
this Thursday, Feb. 238, at 4:00 in
the Bryn Mawr pool, so if you
want to see some good swimming,
don’t miss it.

Bryn Mawr won again in Bad-
minton last Wednesday, Feb. 15,
giving us two undefeated teams
so far. The Varsity and J.V. play-
ed their match against Drexel on
the Merion Cricket Club courts.
Both teams won 5-0, and all the
players played exceedingly well.

The Fencing team participated
in another match on Wednesday,
Feb. 15, against Penn in the Grad
Center gym. The playing mem-
bers of the Varsity team were
Wood, Chowning, Greenewalt, and
Hendrick. The final result of the
match was an 8-8 tie.

A Guidebook for One,
Head Bent in Thought

Continued from Page 3

You will have noticed that in
each case the right hand tile is
nearer the main desk than the left
hand. One more step in the same
direction and you will see on your

under a wooden chair, Lonely and
unbalanced little square! The faith
we had in the purpose and. plan
of your author is suddenly gone

as we witness your single state.--

Up the stairs we go with heads
a-drooping. At the top and in-
side the main door is. another floor
of little bricks. Away with them,
we’ll have no more to do with tiles.
But wait, a sudden thought! Sure-
ly this floor corresponds to the
floor below. It is on a_ higher
level but maybe in the. east-west
direction it starts where the low-
er one ends. Maybe then there is
some hope for our single checker-
ed tile.

Surely if the right hand tiles
are nearer the main desk the mate
to the lonely tile downstairs will
be at the left near the stairs on
the upper level of he floor. We
approach the spot, hardly breath-
ing and — hurray, three cheers,
there it is — a square little tile,
checkered pink and black. Then
there is a pattern, the floor has



right a checkered square hidden.

USSR’s Satellites Exist
For Soviet’s Interest

Continued from Page 1
Democracies come to exist for the
interest of the USSR and are po-
litically, economjcally, and mili-
tarily dependent on it.

Dr. Marcuse discussed the
changes as taking place in two
periods. First, Communists and
Non-Communists form a coalition
government. Heavy industry and
credit are nationalized. All large
estates are distributed among
agricultural workers. Thus is cre-
ated a large social stratum de-
pendent on the Communist gov-
ernment. In the first period is
introduced a 2-8 year plan of re-
habilitation, industrialization and
mechanization, aimed to bring
these backward countries to the
highest possible economic level.
The coalition is sueceeded by a
Communist government based on
the unification of the two work-
ers’ parties. In the next period
the second 5-6 year economic plan
carries on rapid industrial and
agricultural organization.

Russia has attained almost com-
plete nationalization of industry,
but is proceeding only gradually
with collectivization. Most Euro-
pean satellites have reached the
prewar standard of living for the
working classes. Russia’s object
in these countries, said Dr. Mar-
cuse, is to reach the capitalist eco-
nomic level in ten to twenty years.
Her chief problem is the fact that
industrialization imposes the
heaviest burden on the workers,
on whom she is most dependent
for support.

In commenting on Titoism, Dr.
Marcuse remarked that since the
satellites are run for Russia, na-
tionalist interests are bound to
conflict with her plan. Only in
Yugoslavia where there is a strong
independent Communist machine,
has the struggle come to light, The
conflict of Tito and Stalin is one
of interest, not theory.

The speaker compared Marxist
theory with the Soviet procedures.
The Marxist doctrine implies as a
condition for the transition from
capitalism to socialism a highly
organized capitalist _state--where
exists maturity of economic pro-
duction and where occurs a crisis
of bourgeois government. Thus the
change appears to bring in a more
just and free society. Actually
the transition has taken place in
economically backward countries,
and economic maturity has had to
be developed parallel with social-
ist society. The change is not
therefore a spontaneous revolu-

significance, the tile-layer had a
plan. Look for meaning every-
where: you will often find it.

But exactly what is the mean-
ing here? Maybe this pattern
will lead the way to the caves of
those who once inhabited the
Library, maybe it is the key to
knowledge. I do not care, but I
pass this clue to discovery on to
those who may care.







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Foreign Correspondent
Celebrates ‘Fasnacht’

Continued from Page 3

After the first grand opening,
everybody crawls back into bed for
a short nap, and at two in the af-
ternoon the parades begin. The
Cliques then pass out copies of
their knocks and boosts which go
with their lanterns. These parades
turn into minor skirmishes. A
horse stepped on my foot, and a
wagon rolled over me, but no one
noticed, for they were busy watch-
ing the Mayor of the town hurl
back the oranges thrown at the
windows of the Rathaus... all in
the spirit of good fun. In the eve-
nings are the grand balls, at which
only people with masks are al-
lowed. All the bars and nightspots
have open house. The little boys
who for weeks had been practicing
on their fifes to play in the very
special way required, swarm in the
streets.

Any group of people, such as
students, get together to produce
something called Gluckemusik,
which consists of making as many
discordant sounds as possible on
as many instruments as possible,
and at the same time maintain the
overall impression of a melody. As
long as he does not recognize you,
you may tell your boss anything.
We Americans were at a loss, for
since we were unable to speak the
dialect, we were forced to enjoy it
all silently. This is truly a carnival
of the people, by the people, and
for the people. For once Switzer-
land forgets its tourist trade, But
after a week of dance and fun, we
joined the rest, and with a tired
yawn, a bit of confetti in our hair,
and a drop of champagne on our
mind we returned to the classroom.



tion of the proletariat, as given in
Marxist theory, and must in
process take on the worst feature
of bourgeois government. It is
not social struggle within. capital-
ist countries, but goes on outside
them, and divides the world into
two camps. :

Job Panel Gives

Career Counsel

Whether we regard ourselves as
the career women of tomorrow, or
just a stop-gap, we must realize
that the job situation is becoming
tighter all the time. The women
who are coming to talk to us dur-
ing the Job Weekend, February
24, 25, can certainly give us valu-
able information, and perhaps a
specifically right. steer.. They are:

(Mrs. Rustin McIntosh, Dean of
Barnard College:- Trustee of Bryn
Mawr College.

(Miss Dorothy Hood, Research
Chemist at duPont Experimental
Station, Wilmington, Del.

Miss Laura Lane, Associate edi-
tor with Curtis Publishing ‘Co.
Alumna of Texas State College for
Women.

Mrs. Ruth Houghton, Director
of Placement Office at Barnard
College. Alumna of Smith.

‘Mrs. Helen Hill Miller, Political
Correspondent for the Economist,
of London.

Miss Alice Palache, Vice Presi-
dent of Fiduciary Trust Co., N. Y.

Mrs. Wolcott Andrews, Director
of Independent Schools Placement.
Bureau, New York City. Gradu-
ate of N. Y. School of Social Work.

There will be opportunity to
meet and talk with them at dinner
Friday night and after the Panel
Discussion to be held at 7:30 in
the Deanery.

Lists to sign for interviews will
be posted outside room F in Tay-
lor. These will be held in the
Rhoads showcases, the Blue Room
in the Deanery, and the Self-Gov.
and Non Res. rooms in Goodhart.

The Alumnae ‘Committee on
Jobs (Miss Alice King, Chairman)
and the Student Committee on
Jobs (Margery Peterson, Chair-
man) hope that in sponsoring the
Job Weekend instead of the usual
series of Vocational Teas, they
will improve the Vocational serv-
ice to. the school.





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Wednesday, February 22, 1950

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Five



Gym Dept. Begins
New Sports Day

by Emmy Cadwalader

On Friday and Saturday, (March
9 and 10, the Bryn Mawr Athletic
Association is sponsoring a Sports
Day. Barnard and Swarthmore
have already, accepted and are
coming. Hood and Gaucher have
been invited, but have not been
heard from. This is the first time
that Bryn Mawr has ever had a
Sports Day or anything like it.
For this rea pason we hope it will be
a success and will want to ‘be con-
tinued in other years. It will pro-
vide a wonderful opportunity to
play with and see girls of other
colleges than the ones we have
matches with usually.

The sports to be played on this

weekend are Basketball, Swim-
ming, Badminton, and _ possibly
Fencing. This weekend is not

just for varsity players of the
various sports. Some time before
the weekend lists will be posted
by the various sports captains for
everyone to sign who is interested
at all in participating in any sport
of the weekend. Then the teams
for each sport will be picked from
the best of those that have signed
up. Anyone and everyone is in-
vited to sign whether they are var-
sity or not. This is not to be a
challenge weekend where each col-
lege is trying to win, but a week-
end of a little coaching and lots
of chance to play the sports you
enjoy.

For entertainment the Gym De-
partment has gotten Ed Durlocker,
the famous square dance caller,
to come and call at a square dance
on Friday night of the weekend.
This square dance will only be for
the people participating in the
Sports Day and the Square Dance
Class, but so that everyone will
have a chance to benefit from Mr.
‘Durlocker’s excellent knowledge of
square dancing, a free class has
been arranged for Friday arfter-
noon and there will be free in-
struction and dancing for any stu-
dent who wishes to. come.

ERRATA

We apologize to Mr. Sloane for
the misplaced middle initial of his
name and now we realize that he
does not “go under the pseudonym
of Joseph P. Sloane; it’s Joseph C.
Sloane!”

And to all those who looked for
the non-existent tennis section in
the “Sports” write-up.

The Young Musicians are not
presenting New York at their re-
cital; they are presenting their
“New Work,” which is much more
practical.

ENGAGEMENTS
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Renaissance of Rumpus Room

Recalls Reign of Potted Palm

by Joanna Semel, ’52

Gone are the days when we went
to the movies to see life as grand-
mother lived it. Gone are the
attic-hours spent searching for
great-uncle’s gramophone. The
potted palm (four in fact), the
canary blithely perched in her
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Rumpus now to your heart’s
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looking moose-head since Groucho
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‘What could be more sentimental
than listening to “Rag Mop” on
the juke box, while staring, dew-
eyed, at the stiff-necked portraits
of Grandma, sleeves puffed out
just so, hair top-knotted, and
Grandpa, moustachios bristling ?

The old-fashioned parlor is
peopled once more: a wild-eyed
Beethoven peers morosely from
the top of the piano. Imagine the
plaster peeling ever-so slightly



Bard’s Kye View

by Barbara Joelson, 52
“Nice Girls” teach kindergarten,
Or act as chaperones;

They speak to little children

In cultured, adult tones.

“Nice Girls” shun strapless dresses,

And scorn the Charleston Rag.

They never laugh with gusto,

Don’t gossip, joke, or brag.

But why is it the ones who break

The hearts are always harlots?

The Loreleis, the Circes,

The Ambers and the Scarletts.

For she who winks, and slinks in
minks

May not be termed a lady,

Yet neither will she see “Paree,”

Nor lounge ‘neath palm trees
shady.

“Nice Girls” end up in parables,

They find what’s “godd” to do;

But as for me, I’d rather find

Someone who’s six-foot-two! !!





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o’er one beetled eyebrow. There,
beneath the casement window fac-
ing Rhoads, a marble cupid pre-
pares his spiced arrow.

A conservatorium has been con-
served. A pompous bass fiddle
blusters near the door, set awry
til the: next ‘1900 Sunday after-
noon social tea-concert’. In the
distance, beyond a green table, one
music stand testifies to the ghosts
of players past ... Listen: the

sweet strains echo through the

room, and out through the window
to the weeping willow.
“Nor weep for Yorick, spring,
and nineties gay.
Visit Goodhart, climb the stairs,
and stay.”
There — ’mid ping-pong tables,
colonial maple chairs, divans,
piano, stool, radio and records, put



‘Last Resort’? Achieves Professional Touch

In Songs, Dancing, Comedy, Setting, Stars

Continued from Page 1

the full sinister implications of
“Carefully on Tiptoe \Stealing.”

The second act curtain rose on
one of the most beautiful sets in
any Bryn Mawr show. Maryann
Holmes, stage manager, designed
the arctic glaciers on which the
seals cavorted and the eskimos
danced. The second act was orig-
inal and artistic throughout. Seals,
eskimos lumbering like gnomes,
and modern dancers, under the di-
rection of Betsy Trippe, were con-
sistently expert.. The modern
dance, Struggle between Man and
the Elements,. was graceful, clear;

and performed with near ‘profes.

sional skill.
‘After the excellence of the first
two acts, the third was rather an



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anti-climax. It did not hold to-
gether, mainly because of the lack
of motivation for the romance be-
tween Margaret and Oakley Ridge.
Act III was enlivened, however, by
“The Intellectual Way,” “You’re
the U in my U-235,” and the at-
tractive, proficient kick chorus.

In “The Last Resort,” the fresh-
men displayed their originality

and spirit to the full enjoyment of
Under the direction

the audience.
of Maggie Glenn, with the music
arranged and played by Nancy
Loomis, they participated with en-
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Page Six



THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, February 22, 1950





Genius Hunts Ennius
In Library Catacombs

Continued from Page 1

vowed not to cut until she plucks
: : ‘those Enniad treasures from the
- intestines of the earth; while she

continues in the editorial chair,
then, expect no concession to the
exigencies of style. Other charac-
teristics: an inability to receive a
mark below ninety, scorn in the
grand manner for any form of

turning the best of Shakespeare |
into “even better Latin,” a per-
fectly enormous appetite (four to
five is a sacred hour for Joan, de-
voted to daily pilgrimages a L’Au-
berge), and a calm competence
which is the envy of her elders.

Senior members, now passe, of
the NEWS, remember Joan’s jour-
nalistic career with mingled horror
and admiration. She is famous for
being the only one on the NEWS
who can read Miss McBride’s
handwriting, for keeping her poc-
kets stuffed with chocolate cake
and then sitting on them with su-
perb insouciance, for never allow-
ing Goodhart Hoagies to have the
usual unfortunate effects on her
temper, and for writing major ar-
ticles in seven minutes flat, includ-
ing typing. She imposes the strict
canons of the Latin Department on
reportorial style, and spends all
her spare time, aside from her
archaeological struggles, in keep-
ing her pernicious smoking prac-
tices a secret from her grandmoth-
er.

All this must at the least be ev-
idence of genius. When question-
ed on her plans for the NEWS,
Joan expresses her program terse-
ly: “Scrap it next week.” Those of
us who read last week’s issue will
surely hope that this is nothing
more than a Latinist’s professienal
pessimism, and that her future
motto may be “procedam ut in-
cepi.”





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Continued from Page 1
not even the most agile can dup-
licate it. She can do the most re-
markable things with a_ small,
| semi-deflated balloon, and many a
seminary blackboard has been dec-

expatriated Aristotle resides flag-
rantly on her bookshelf:

After consuming fabulous quan-

tities and combinations of food,
she will eat nothing for days; but
she must have been especially hun-
‘ery one night at the NEWS, when
she swallowed the “What To Do’s.”
Emily returns from almost every
basketball game with a splintered
finger or a wrenched knee. One
sprained knee, however, was not
inflicted by basketball. That was
the morning she fell out of bed.
Emily’s poise and dignity have
been shown on many an occasion.
One time was her morning assem-
bly speech, when, with quaking
knees, she delivered as cool, or-
ganized, and amusing a speech as
could be heard. As editor of the
NEIWS she could face every situa-
tion with equanimity; and she in-
stilled her staff with a feeling of
confidence that we hope will never
be dispelled.
And the NEWS is still in her
thoughts. She once offered, “If
séme Wednesday you don’t have
anyone to go to the plant with you,
may I come?” We have a sneak-
ing suspicion that Emily misses
the NEWS, and she can never
know how much the NEWS is
missing without her.



orated with her artistry. And an



Friend. Reconstructs Five Dome Mosaics
In Demolished Church of Holy Apostles

Continued from Page 2

copius, which verifies the poem of
Constantine of Rhodius.

There are many copies of the
Church of the Holy Apostles. St.
Marks Catheral, in Venice, is a
known copy, decorated with simi-
lar, but not as rich, mosaics. The

influence of the design of the’

Church of the Holy Apostles also
extended to churches in Russia and
Sicily.

Professor Friend then recon-
structed the mosaics on each of the
domes, beginning with the west
dome. He explained that the
mosaics in all four domes were in-
tended as a refutation to Eusabius
who wrote in answer to a request
of the sister of Constantine the
Great that no pictures of Jesus

‘Christ or of his acts could be ac-

curately represented. The west
dome pictures a dove on a book on
a central empty throne, the sym-
bol of the Trinity, and the Apostles
on like thrones around the sides,
with the pentacostal flames burn-
ing above their nimbae. The ap-
pearance of the throne set the con-
struction of the church before the
9th century, since previous to that
date, No thrones appeared in con-





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ceptions of the Apostles, or of the
Trinity.

From manuscript number 510,
now in the Bibliothetique Na-
tionale, come flat illustrations of
what were the mosaics on the other
domes. The east dome represents
the transfiguration, showing Christ,
Moses, and Elijah on Mount Tabor.
The south dome represents the as-
cension, and the north, the decent
into hell.

The center dome, higher than
the rest and with windows, shows a
medallion of Christ holding the
Gospels, and surrounded on the
lower sides by Mary, two arch-
angels, and the twelve Apostles.
This center was copied in the apse
of a Sicilian cathedral.

Professor Friend placed the
Seventh Icumenical Council (also
known as the first Council of
Nycea) under the central dome,
and compared the mosaic of the
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