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~ THe COLLEGE NEWS



‘VOL. XLIII, NO. 16

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

Copyright Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College,

PRICE 10 CENTS

1945



_ Toynbee: Shows
Social Radiation!

And Reception

A Healthy Society Aims
Toward Organic
Harmony

Specially contributed by
Nancy Morehouse °47

Goodhart Hall, March 3. A heal-

thy society, declared Professor Ar-
nold J. Toynbee, is one in which
there is an organic harmony of its
economic, political and cultural as-
pects; the sign of disintegration
is the separation of each of these
activities into.a distinct entity.
Entitled “Social Radiation-and-Re-
ception,” this was the fourth lec-
ture in Professor Toynbee’s series
of lectures on “Encounters between
Civilizations.”
“Every human society, like every
person, is giving out influence all
the time and giving it out in
both time and space dimensions,”
Professor Toynbee said. The in-
fluence of a healthy civilization be-
cause it is integrated is often far
less effective than that of a de-
caying civilization which can send
out isolated rays of influence, ec-
onomic, political or cultural, qa
segment of any of these.

Although the state of develop-
ment of western civilization is not
clear, there are analogies in west-
ern civilization, Professor Toynbee
pointed out, to that of the Roman
civilization in the later years of the
Empire. A healthy society, he de-
clared, will either reject outside in-
fluences or receive, selected ele-
ments on its own terms and assim-
ilate them. The example of the
Hapsburg empire illustrates the
inability of a-segment of Western
civilization to maintain a conscious-
ly controlled assimilation of Slav
elements by German society, fe-
sulting eventually in the destruc-
tion of the Austro-Hungarian Em-
pire.

There is no historical instance,

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Faculty Changes
Are Announced

President McBride has announc-
ed seven promotions of members
of the faculty for the 1947-1948
academic year. One new appoint-
ment to the faculty has also been
made.”

The promotions are as follows:

A. Lincoln Dryden—from Associ-
ate Professor to Full Professor of
Geology.

Margaret Gilman—from Associ-
ate Professor to Full Professor of
French.

Ernst Berliner—from Assistant
Professor to Associate Professor
of Chemistry.

Marshall D. Gates—from As-
sistant Professor to Associate Pro-
fessor of Chemistry.

Jane Oppenheimer—from As-

* sistant Professor to Associate Pro-

fessor of Biology.
Felix Gilbert—from Lecturer to
Associate Professor of History.
Concha de Zulueta—from In-
structor to Assistant Professor of

. Spanish.

_ Kernahi*Whitworth, Jr., has been
‘appointed Instructor in French for

1947-1948. Graduated. from, Qjer re |)

lin College, Mr. Whitwor v-
ed his M. A. from Princeton Uni-
versity, where he was part time
instructor on French 1945-1946.

Elman’s Program
Poorly Arranged,
Excellently Played

Specially Contributed by
Ellen Harriman, ’48

Mischa Elman and his accom-
panist, Wolfgang Rose, gave us an
exceptionally fine concert Friday
night. The customary chronolog-
ical arrangement made this pro-
gram topheavy before the inter-
mission and disconnected after-
wards, but it was all good music
and well suited to Mr. Elman’s con-
cise, understated technique.

The first selection was Sammar-
tini’s Passacaglia, a subtle piece
of pure music with almost no emo-
tional content, sustained by a se-
ries of tonal climaxes and some
double-bowing, which Mr. Elman
rendered so smoothly that it was
no tour de force, but seemed nat-
ural, effortless and melodic.

Next Mr. Elman and Mr. Rose
shared the honors of Mozart’s So-
nata-in B flat Major, where the
violin and the piano alternate in
intricately mingled themes. The
delicacy of this sonata demands
discipline, strength and lightness;
it would be hard to find these qual-
ities more nearly perfected than
in Mischa Elman’s style. The An-
dante movement was particularly
striking. The audience remained
completely silent, so impressed
that no one even coughed; and no
one clapped at the close of the
movement, though they had after

the previous one. When the So-
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Infirmary Policy
Approved In Poll

The replies to the recent infirm-
ary polls distributed by the Under-
graduate Council indicate that
students are, in general, satisfied
with the treatment which they re-
ceive at the infirmary but that
more than half of the 255 people
replying have avoided the infirm-
ary when sick. The chief reason
cited for this is fear of getting be-
hind in academic work.

Concrete suggestions- made on
the polls include more fruit juice
for cold patients, and better light-
ing in the infirmary rooms. People
also ask that students should nct
have to return to the hall for their
clothing themselves, once they have
been admitted as patients. A ma-
jority of the complaints made did
not apply to this year.’

A large number of people said
that they would attend a meeting
to discuss the infirmary. Moreover,
the Undergraduate Council feels
that there are many unfounded
stories about. the infirmary—in-cir-
culation. A meeting will be held
in April when the new Council
takes office.

255 pos were filled out by the
Undergraduate body. Of these,
most were from the Class of 1947
and fewest from the Freshmen.

The statistics for each question

were as follows: ¢
169 students had been in the in-
firmary.

111 had been in this year.

132 students had avoided the in-
firmary at one time or another
when they had been sick.

132 said they felt they had re
ceived Propér: treatment at the in-
firmary, whilé 43 specifically said:
they had not. ~

129 students said they would go
to a meeting to discuss the infirm-





y Sates

Dancing and: Music Composed
By Students for Arts Night —
Group Dance to Study Arts Night to Feature

Technical Motion;
Two to Solo

On Saturday, March 8th, among
various other arts in the Arts’
Night performance, a group of
students will present a program of
dancing. The dancing will be of
an experimental nature, both in
form and presentation. It is thor-
oughly modernistic in theme and
motion, and two of the dances will
be accompanied only by drums,
with the idea of showing technical
and dramatic motion in dance
without music.

The actual program will consist
of four individual dances, the first
two to be done by groups of about
eight girls, and the other to be
solos. The theme of the first dance
is the technique of motion and is
entitled “A Study in Technique.”
Its purpose is to illustrate the
techniques of modern dance, and
to set these to motion in integrat-
ed form. It is this dance which
will illustrate the technical mo-
tion. The second of the group
dances is called “The Oppressed.”
A conflict is the theme. It is a
conflict between the oppressor and
the oppressed, in which the op-
pressed attempts to rebel. The
conflict, as presented here, is psy-
chological as well as physical, and
the theory which the dance is de-
signed to illustrate is that dra-
matic motion can be produced in a
dance without the aid of music.

The two solos will be performed
by Marjorie Low and Thalia Ar-
gyropoulo. Marjorie Low will pre-
sent another dance based on a con-
flict, “The Silver Cage,” in which
she struggles to free herself and,

after she achieves freedom, volun-
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Hourani to Talk
Of Islam Religion

Mr. Cecil Hourani, from the
Arabian Office in Washington, will
speak on the Islamic religion on
Tuesday, March 11, at 8:30, in the
Common Room. His lecture will
be the second in a series of talks
on Oriental religions, of which
Miss Shrivedi’s on Hinduism was
the first.

This lecture will be of special
interest to the members of the
politics, history and philosophy de-
partments, as well as students tak-
ing courses in religion and the his-
tory of the Near East. Mr. Hou-
rani will hold a discussion period,
following his talk.



CALENDAR

Thursday, March 6
8:30, Dalton. Science Club Lec-
ture, Dr. Jean Brachet, New
Trends in Embryology.

Saturday, March 8
8:00, Goodhart. Arts Night.
10:00-1:00, Rockefeller. Hall
Dance.
Sunday, March 9
7:30, Music Room. Chapel, the
Rev. Philemon F. Sturges, rec-
tor of St. Martin-in-the-Fields,
Chestnut Hill.
Monday, March 10
4:30, Deanery. vet Cén-
ference.
8:00, Goodhartiagibk:- - Lee=
ture, Arnold J. Tooukas. “So-
Sku chological Effects.“
Tuesday, March 11
8:00, Common Room. Cecil



-afforded to those who listened to

.|and Suscepit Israel.



Original Work

In Music

Student composition as well as
student production will be stress-
ed in the music for Arts Night,
Saturday, March 8. Spirituals have
been ararnged by Henne Burch ’48,
Ann Eberstadt ’49, Nancy Knet-
tle ’47, and Betty Smith ’48. Helen
Anderston ’49 has composed and
orchestrated a scherzo, scored for
wind and string ensemble.

Haverford will be represented
by its octet, which will sing with
Bryn Mawr; Richard Schuman ’49
has composed a Prelude for violin
and piano.

The Bryn’ Mawr Double Octet
and the Haverford Octet will sing
together the following numbers:
“Witness”, scored for six parts by
Nancy Knettle, from a Hall John-
son solo arrangement; a medley of
“Charcoal Man” and “When a

Woman Blue”, arranged by Ann
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B. M. Radio Debut |
Proves Success;

Chorus Praised

By Helen Anderton °49

A very pleasant half hour was

the Bryn Mawr Chorus’s broadcast
last Wednesday over Station WIBG.
It was a half hour which grew in-
creasingly better as the—Chorus
warmed up to its task. Some per-
formers cannot do their best be-
fore a microphone because the
stimulus of audience reaction is
totally lacking, but the Chorus
seemed to be enjoying itself thor-
oughly once its preliminary ner-
vousness was conquered.

The first two selectidns were by
Bach: Jesu Joy of Man’s Des‘ring,
These com-
prised the low point of the entire
program—like a very bad prologue
to a very good play. Although the
diction was excellent, as is custom-
ary with this chorus, the intona-
tion was sadly missed, and the
parts sounded way out of propor-
tion. The latter may have been
due to poor control in the studio
itself, for it is a difficult problem
to achieve just the right balance be-
tween the voices.

Two songs by the contemporary

composer Zoltan Kodaly came next.
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Plan Arts Night
For March 8th

Evening Will Feature
Music and Drama,
Art Exhibit

On Saturday, March 8, in Good-
hart, at 8:00, Bryn Mawr and Hav-
erford will collaborate on a pro-
duction written, planned and di-
rected by the students under the
supervision of Mr. Frederick Thon,

of the Bryn Mawr English depart-
ment. Arts Night, which was ini-
tiated last year by Mr. Thon, is
intended to provide an opportunity
to present creative work by the
students in the fields of dramatics,
art and music. The entire pro-
ceeds from this year’s perform-
ance will be given to the Bryn
Mawr College Fund 1946—.

Two original plays chosen by the
Playwriting class from those writ-
ten by students in the course are
included on the program. The
cast of You'll Get Over It, written
by Nancy Ann Knettle, ’47, and
directed by William Bishop, ’49,
features Cathy, played by Nancy
Ann Knettle, ’47; Skeet, Jean Swit-
endick, ’48; Joan, Barbara Bennett,
47, and Phil, Ted Wright, ’49.
Faithfully Yours, written and di-
rected by James F. Adams, Jr.,
’47, will star Marcia Dembow, ’47,
as Christine Drake, and David
Blackwell, 50, as Carl Drake. They
will be supported by Sheila Tat-
nall, ’49, Lorelei; Herbert Chey-
ette, ’50, Mr. Basserman; Henry
Levinson, ’48, Bruno Staunchion,
and Ellen Harriman, ’48, Hattie
Arlington.

The Bryn Mawr Double Octet
and the Haverford Octet will sing
several student arrangements of
Negro spirituals under the direc-
tion of Mrs. Lorna Cooke de Var-
on. Original musical selections
will be played and sung by the
individual students and the com-
bined Bryn Mawr and Haverford
orchestra will also play.
Interpretive dance compositions
originated by the Bryn Mawr Mod-
ern Dance group and by individual
members of the group will be per-
formed. Mrs. Francisca Boas has
worked with the students in this
group.

Before and after the perform-
ance an Art Exhibit consisting of
original drawings, paintings and

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«By Judy Da Silva ’49

and Helen Martiri ’49
A student of the nature and foi-
bles of the human animal would
really be in his element down at
Goodhart these evenings. A wide-
eyed maid who continually reads al

ries”, a doting wife who drinks
celery juice (“it’s terribly health-
ful!”), a husband who is doing a
little practical research on the sub-
ject of infidelity, and several other
odd and assorted characters, can be
found wandering about the stage.
It’s all a part of the rehearsals of
“Faithfully Yours} _prieinal .
play by James Adams of Haverford

Wilbybe ‘piesented for Arts\*
Nig i;

Much of the action of “Faith-







Hourani, “Islam Religion.”



fully Yours” take place against the



background of a rather lumpy

Colorful Sets, Varied Characters
Add Verve to Arts Night Plays

couch, fashionably upholstered in
shocking pink and tangerine. The
rehearsal gets under way with the
breaking of a drinking glass by the
maid.

One makes the acquaintance of
a rather harassed Hollywood pro-

magazine called “Tragic Love Sto-| ducer who is feeling a trifle an-

noyed because his fifth wife has

just left him, and then to his equal-

ly harassed wife, who, at this par-

ticular rehearsal, was attired in a

very un-Hollywood costume con-

sisting of blue jeans, an army jac-

ket, and high black boots. The.
whole affair ends quite happily

with the..wife continuingygte: 7%:

her celery juice, the husband aban---
a

learning that. the. characters in
“Tragic Love Stories” finally solve

all their problems by shooting each
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