College news, March 22, 1950

-M. Slonim Sees

accept an appointment of Profes-

. History. He comes from the Uni-







WOL. XLVI, NO. 18



Optimism, Faith
In Soviet Work

USSR Literature Today
Describes Pioneer

As Hero

In the fourth in the series of tri-
college lecture series on Russia at
Haverford, March 15, Mare Slo-
nim, professor at Sarah Lawrence
College, surveyed Soviet life as re-
flected in its literature.

Concentrating on the positive
side of the situation, Mr. Slonim
felt the main currents in the liter-
ature of the U. S. S. R. today are
realistic and optimistic. Although
this optimism appears by imposi-
tion as well as by nature, “You
feel that here are people who have
decided to say yes to life, a people
with great faith in themselves
and in the future.”

Literature is taken seriously.
‘The author takes part in the life
of the community and through his
own medium tries to shape life.
Responsibility for every published
word is keenly felt, which may ex- |
plain the fact that there is no so-
called entertainment literature in
Russias as there is in the West.
‘Comic strips, ‘hammock’ novels are
non-existent. Authors are among
the candidates for membership in
the Supreme Soviet. The Central
‘Committee of the Communist Par-
ty decides on literary policy, and
the goverment attaches great im-
portance to what is being printed,
for there is an avid reading public.
The U.S. S. R. leads the world in
book production and most books
are read all over Russia.



Since it is part of the Commun-
ist doctrine to change the tradi-
tional human attitude toward
work from that of pain to pleas-
ure, Soviet writing today empha-
sizes the sanctification of human
-~work—human effort in the face of

Continued on Page 2

Leighton, Dudden
Named To Posts

Professor John Chester Miller
thas resigned his appointment as
Associate Professor of History to

ssor of American History at Stan-
ford University.

Mr. Arthur P. Dudden has been
appointed Assistant Professor of

versity of Michigan where he will
receive the Ph.D. this June. Mr.
Dudden took his A.B. at Wayne
University in 1942 and his M.A.
‘from the University of Michigan
‘in 1947. From 1942 to 1945 he
served as Flight Officer in the
United States Navy. From 1945-
46 he was. Veterans Counsellor in
the Ford Motor Company and then
he returned to the University to
complete his work in American
History.

‘In Political Science, ‘Miss Ger-
“trude C. K. Leighton, A.B., Bryn
‘Mawr 1938, has been appointed
Assistant Professor. She will car-
‘ry part of the first-year work and
the course in International Law.
After taking her LL.B. at Yale
University,. she practiced law in
‘New York and. then returned to
Yale where she has been special-

‘rights~-unless~-you--are~-willing to



‘izing in international law.

LeBlane Defines
Logical Theories
As Ethical Code

Common Room, March 15.—Dr.
Hugues Leblanc read a paper on
“Rigorous Ethics’ to the Phil-
osophy Club. It dealt with the
validity of moral, or logical rules;
and set up a code of conduct with
the theme: “Regard thyself in all
thy actions as shaping man’s doom
or man’s hope, as shaping man’s
destiny.” I am bound to do some-
thing only if someone has a right
to it. Acquired rights are based
on a contract. Natural rights are
not guaranteed by agreement.

Disearding absolute natural
rights as unprovable subjunctive
principles, Dr. Leblane considered
natural rights as relative. This
proposes: let us grant to z any-
thing claimed by someone like x.
It follows from this that we should
concede to humanity that which
an individual claims. The in-
equality among men insists that
we alter this to read: x has a
relative right to y if some other
being morally like x has a right
to claim y. We then postulate three
rules of morality.

Under the rule of social justice,
you cannot interfere with anyone’s |

renounce your own. If you kill
a man, you are disclaiming your
own right to existence. Society
agrees.. to. protect your natural
Continued on Page 6

Seibert Discusses

Tubercle Bacillus

Dr. Florence B. Seibert, Associ-
ate Professor of Biochemistry at
the Henry Phipps Institute of the
University of Pennsylvania, dis-
cussed Taking Apart the Tubercle
Bacillus in last Tuesday’s’ Science
Club lecture in Dalton.

Dr. Seibert ‘prefaced her talk by
explaining that the tubercle bacil-
lus, within three weeks after it has
entered the body, causes a reac-
tion to a part of the bacillus ap-
plied to the skin. Later, the ba-
cillus produces wherever it lodges
aggregations of abnormal cells,
called tubercles. :All tubercle ba-
cilli, whether or not pathogenic,
can be identified by a certain sim-
ple test, and are therefore said to
be acid-fast.

The National Tuberculosis As-
sociation divided the ‘study of the
bacillus into two parts: a study of
the bacillus itself and a study of
tuberculin, the filtrate on which it
is grown. A pure strain of the
bacillus was grown on a synthetic
medium of known components,
which could therefore be separat-
ed from the substance which the
germ produces. The bacillus was
studied to find out which parts
produce the different symptoms of
tuberculosis. By an _ extremely
complex process, fractions have
been isolated from the bacillus.
One, phthiolic acid, will produce
tubercules in rabbits. ‘Another,
mucolic acid, has been found to be
responsible for acid fastness.

Skin testing with tuberculin it-
self is inaccurate, because tuber-
culin is hard to obtain in standard
concentration. Study of tubercu-
lin has aimed to produce a stand-
ard product for diagnosis. The ac-
tive material in tuberculin, a pro-
tein called ppd, has been isolated;
it is injected into the skin, and will



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“Vee College Mews



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Continued on Page 2



Sycamores and Entourage





Maritain Asserts
Natural Law Basis
For Man’s Rights

Specially Contributed
by Betty Goldblatt, °51

Dr. Jacques Maritain, eminent
vhilosopher and at present Pro-
fessor of Philosophy at Princeton
University, spoke at Villanova
Sollege on Monday, March 20 on
the subject “The Rights of Man
and Natural Law.” Dr. Maritain
asserted that the rational founda-
tion of the rights of man is na-
tural law.

Nawural law is not written; it is
ontological, and dwells as the ideal
law in the being of every existing
thing. In discussing the concept
of natural law, Dr. Maritain said
itis taken for granted that “there
is human nature, which is the
same in all men; and that man is
a being gifted with intelligence
and with the power to determine
for himself the ends which he pur-
sues.” Man knows natural law, not
through rational knowledge or
through deduction, but through
“natural inclination.” Hence, na-
tural law is known in different de-
grees, and subject to error and
corruptions of judgment. But Dr.
Maritain denied Pascal’s conten-
tion that if there were such a
thing as universal natural law, it
would be universally observed, by
saying that “violations of moral
law prove nothing more about er-
ror in natural law than errors in
arithmetic prove the error of
mathematics.” The existence of
the law and the observance of the
law are two different matters.

According to Dr. Maritain, na-

Continued on Page 2

CALENDAR

Tuesday, April 4

European Fellowship Assem-
bly, Dr. Hajo Holborn, Ran-
dolph W. Townsend, Jr., Pro-
fessor of History, Yale Univer-
sity, “The Challenge of Re-
search”, Goodhart, 12:00 noon.
Wednesday, April 5

“Morning Assembly, Mrs.
Broughton, Goodhart, ‘8:45 a.m.
Monday, April 10

Current Events, speaker to
be announced, Common Room,



7:15 p.m.
Tuesday, April 11

Sigma Xi Lecture, Dalton,
8:00 p.m.

Wednesday, April 12
French Club Lecture, Jacques
Maritain, Wyndham, 4:30 p.m.
German Club Lecture, Dr.
Arno Shirokauer, Common
Room, 8:00 p.m.







11926 to 1931 he was Assistant Pro-



Dr. Hajo Holborn
To Give Graduate
Assembly Speech

Hajo Holborn, Professor of His-
tory at Yale University, will be the
guest speaker at the Graduate As-
sembly, April 4, at twelve o’clock
in Goodhart Hall.

Mr. Holborn, born in Berlin,
Germany, came to the United
States in 1984, and was made a na-
turalizedcitizen_ in 1940. He _ re-
ceived his Ph. D. at the University
of Berlin in 1924, and an honorary
M. A. from Yale in 1940. From

fessor of History at the University
of Heidelberg, and from 1931 to
1934 was the Carnegie Professor
of History and International Rela-
tions at the School of Politics in
Berlin.

Coming to the United States as
Visiting Professor of History at
Yale University in 1934, he retain-
ed this position until 1938, and
then, from. 1938 to 1940, was an
associate professor there, until in
1940 he was made a full Professor
of History.

In 1948, Dr. Holborn took a
two year leave of absence for
service with the Office of Strategic
Services in Washington, D. C. Af-
ter returning to his academic ca-

Continued on Page 2



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Fine Direction
And Production

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by Jane Augustine, ’52



Last weekend Bryn Mawr and
Haverford collaborated dramatical-
ly to produce Kaufman and Hart’s
You Can’t Take It With You. Mar-
jie Low, in her first Drama Guild
directorship, combined a_ highly-
developed knowledge of theater
with long experience as an actress
and skillfully overcame some of
the play”s great difficulties. She
was at times so skillful that the
audience — rather unfortunately —
did not realize she was handling
a problem at all. The weaknesses
of this production were at least
not the usual weaknesses, nor al-
ways the ones inherent in the play.
They were well outside the prov-
ince of the director and the stage
manager; they must be ascribed to
certain individual performances.
Sadly enough, these are the weak-
nesses most damaging to a play.
A good actor can make a character
live in spite of bad directing and
producing, but highly intelligent
direction and production can at
best cover up bad acting only tem-
porarily. It can’t make an actor
out of somebody who isn’t.

It was fairly obvious that some
of the cast weren’t. The cast was,
however, about the best Marjie
could assemble under the circum-
stances. Trish Richardson was
outstanding. Although she pre-
sented many facets of Penny Syca-
more’s' personality, she never
stretched them beyond the limits
of probability nor varied them out
of character. As mother of the
menage Sycamore she was absurd-
ly illogical, over-eager, yet a senti-
mental, kindhearted soul with a
love for everything and everybody.
The feelings one has about Penny

Continued on Page 6



Bryn Mawr, Haverford Choruses
Give Joint Concert in New York

by Judith Konowitz, ’51

The Bryn Mawr College Chorus
and the Haverford College Glee
Club gave a joint concert in the
Hunter College Playhouse on Sat-
urday night, March 18th.

The main work on the program
was Vaughan Williams’ “Mass in
G Minor” for both choruses and
soloists under the direction of
Robert Goodale. Pamela Field, so-
prano, Nancy Ludwig, alto, Tom
MeNutt, tenor, and Joseph Dibble,
bass, sang the solo parts. The
work was executed effectively
but fell short of the high stan-
dard displayed by the choruses in
their individual performances.

The Bryn Mawr group next per-
formed “Two Chorals” harmon-
ized by Max Reger, and Vittoria’s
“Ave Maria.” The Double Octet
sang a Banchieri ‘Madrigaletto,”
and Roussel’s “Madrigal aux
Muses” with excellent tone and
blending. The whole chorus then
joined the small group in singing
Kodaly’s “Angels and the Shep-
herds,” ending the performance on
a note of spirit and finesse.

The Haverford Glee Club, di-



rected by William H. Reese, gave
a delightful and skillful perform-
ance, beginning with two rounds.
“Gently Johnny,” an English Folk
Song by Seth Bingham, was ex-
ecuted with subtle shading, excel-
lent blending, and perfect enuncia-
tion. “Lovely is May” by Schain
and “Farewell My Love” by Clem-
ens non papa were similar in style.
The concluding “Maid in the
Forest” by Dworak offered a wel-
come change of mood. The emo-
tional grandeur of the singing was
enhanced by an accompaniment for
four hands, played by John Dav
ison and John Guttmacher.

The Small Mixed Chorus next
performed two Russian works,
Rachmaninoff’s “Ave Maria,” and
Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Thy Lovely
Dwelling Place” under Mr. Reese’s
direction.

The two full choruses joined
once again for a stirring finale,
Parry’s “Jerusalem,” an ‘inspiring
song set to Blake’s poem. After
the intricate part-music of the
evening, the rendition in unison
was an exciting surprise and a fit-
ting culmination.




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New Nominating System

This year a new system of nominating college officers
has been put into effect. Though purely experimental, it has
been considered more successful than the previous system;
and the criticisms that have been made can be answered by
suggested improvements. Among the amendments recom-
mended by the student body, including members of the nom-
inating committees, are: to organize the committees by the
first week of exams; reports should be compiled by the whole
committee with a view toward uniformity in presentation;
and all the reports should be read to the class by one mem-
ber of the committee. A designated number of people should
be interviewed about each candidate; specific questions
should be asked, with reference to the activities in which
they have participated.

The aims of the new nominating system have been to
acquaint the freshmen more thoroughly with the candidates
and to stimulate interest in the elections among the whole
student body. It has been observed that the freshman and
sophomore candidates could also be introduced to the juniors
and seniors, and distinct, recognizable photographs be posted
regularly on the bulletin board in Taylor.

This year, the student body has exhibited a wider con-
cern for the elections than ever before; and if the sugges-
tions for improvement could be re a calmer level of
interest may be maintained.

LeBlanc Discusses “Rigorous Ethics’? As Code

Of Moral Conduct, Shaper of Man’s Destiny

Continued from Page 1 This naturally becomes an eth-
rights if you respect theirs. ical problem. Dr. Leblanc qualifies
The second rule is that of indi-|his system saying that only some-
vidual justice. According to this}one who agrees to enter the game
theory, if two children find ene|°f moral consistency can be ex-
orange, and one takes it, he denies| pected to obey its rules.
the other’s right to it, thereby dis- —_
claiming it for himself.

This second rule can be replaced
hoy: the tole ef inostal ahaxtiy, Heel Address Graduates
you promote the rights of human- Continued from Page 1
ity at the expense of your own/reer, he was made the Randolph
rights. The distinction between|W. Townsend Professor of History
these last two rules is the distinc-|in 1946, and now holds this posi-
tion between being just and feigies tion,
charitable. To be just is as-| At present Dr. Holborn is a



sume your moral respo Sen o.oo gine a Histor-

humanity; to be charitable is tojical Association, the American So-

relieve humanity of its moral re-|ciety of Church History, and Aca-|'

pponsibility to yourself. No one|demy of Arts and Sciences.

can deny or take away a right of} A contributor to both American

enforceable: the rule of charity| books: Germany and Turkey 1878-
ot be validated or enforced as| 1890, Hutten and the German Fef-
ls on man tm violate logic. Continued





Current Events

Common Room, March 20. Dr.
Felix Gilbert delivered this week’s
Current ‘Events Lecture on Leo-
pold and Belgium. Since the war,
the small state of Belgium has
been faced with a considerable
problem of its government. There
is friction between the pro-Cath-
olic, .reactionary Waldroons and
the liberal Flemings. The condi-
tion of the government has been
deteriorating rapidly. The Flem-
ings have asked for Leopold’s re-
turn from \Switzerland to take the
place of the present ruler, Prince
Leopold. Dr. Gilbert said that
there were two possible solutions
to this problem: abdication of the
present king, or a general plebe-
scite. He predicts that Leopold will
probably come into power because
the Liberal Fleming party backing
him has more authority. He thinks
that if Leopold does assume con-
trol, he will probably not remain
long, because no government will
possibly be able to cope with the
problems in Belgium today.

The history of Leopold’s rule
has been extremely long and com-
plicated. Before the war, his wife
Astrid enjoyed great popularity
with the people. When she died,
he assured the country that he

his spare time to his children.
When the war came, however, he

was a collaborator. This act alien-
ated the Waldroon faction. More-
over, in the point of view of many,
the wedding was neither legal nor
traditional, and it was not ap-
proved by the government. Finally
he left the country under pressure
for Switzerland with \his family
and has been waiting there for a
popular recall.

A suitable answer to this ques-

tion must be found within the
next few months.



| This week, the NEWS re-
ceived a letter, signed “Two Ad-
mirers.” It is our policy to
print all signed letters, and if
the writers will identify them-
selves, we will be happy to pub-
lish their letter in the next
issue.

Talent Sought
For Arts Night

As plans stand now, Arts Night
will be presented Friday evening,
April 28th, thus making it a part
of the big weekend of the Haver-
ford Senior Prom. It is hoped that
it will be presented in Goodhart
Hall, which would give the oppor-
tunity for a production on a larger
scale than last year’s.

So far the program includes
two original one act plays writ-
ten by Carter Bledsoe and Bob
Brown, members of the playwrit-
ing class, a number of original
musical compositions by John Dav-
ison for small ensembles composed
of members of the Bryn Mawr-
Haverford orchestra, original
dances by the ‘Bryn Mawr dance
club, as well as songs by the B.M.
“Octangle.” There will also be
an art and photography exhibit in
the foyer of Goodhart.

Although the program is neces-
sarily limited by time, the com-
mittee is still eager to discover
any latent talent around campus
or receive any new ideas. If you
know anyone with talents or have
any ideas, please contact any







member of the Arts Committee
listed below:

Director—Anneliese Sitarz
Business Manager—Jill McAnney

Publicity Manager—Chris Mac-
Veagh







would rule peacefully and dedicate ,
‘ himself.”

married a Fleming, whose father,

Maritain Says Natural
Law Basis for Rights

Continued from Page 1

tural law is moral law and man
obeys it freely rather than by
force; he arrives at it by “intel-
lectual perception.” For example,
the prohibition of murder is re-
quired by the very nature of man,
because, insofar as he is man, he
has the right to live.

Natural law is as eternal as
man; “the movement of mankind
and the history of human action is
the becoming aware of the in-
clination of natural law.” In fact,
“Antigone is the eternal heroine
of natural law.” The great achieve-
ment of the 18th Century was the
emergence of the idea that natural
rights are derived from natural
law. In this way, the rights of the
human person were set free, but at
the same time the emphasis shift-
ed from man’s obligations to man’s
rights. The 18th Century “made
man a God and all the rights of
man those of a God; God was only
a guaranteer of these rights, for
natural law was thought to exist
without God, in man and in nature.
The rights of man were considered
subject to no law but those of his
own will and his own freedom.
Typical is the statement of Rous-
seau that “man must obey only
Such a philosophy, con-
tended Dr. Maritain, leaves no
foundations for the rights
of the human person
“yights in themselves divine, the
absolute rights of the independ-
ence of the human subject.” For
every being has its own natural
law as well as its own essence,
“the normality of its own func-

Continued on Page 6

Youth’s Role Important
In USSR Lit Says Slonim

Continued from Page 1
hardships, to reconstruct from the
devastation caused by the war, to
overcome obstacles, to build indus-
try. Stress is laid on community
effort. There is faith and a belief
that life must fit into the pattern
of the collective good, the common
goal. It is only through realiza-
tion of this common goal that the
individual can expand.

“In our own lack of understand-
ing of the USSR we often under-
estimate the tremendous idealistic
drive which does exist, no matter
how clumsily.”

A new type of literary hero has
been evolved, endowed with the
same frontier spirit as that of the
American pioneer. He is rational,
righteous, hard-working, honest—
a noble individual, the product of
a new society. He is the pioneer
in Siberia, the colonizer, the pro-
gressive introducing new methods
of farming into small rural com-
munities in the vast country.

Mr. Slonim maintained that to
read Soviet novels is to be aware
that Russia is still dominantly an
agricultural country. Today the
collective farm is the true hub of
Russian life.

War novels, with their over-
emotional appeal (soldiers’ heroic
deeds, civilian suffering) are now
on the decline in popularity. More
and more the main theme is re-
construction.

In this rebuilding, women play
an important role in political and
technical activity. They are plac-
ed on an equal footing with men,
and are held equally accountable.

Moreover, the field and future of
Soviet literature lies with the
youth. The older generation is
tired. Doctrinary pressure is evi-
dent in the rigidity with which
party members are represented as
magnificent, in the anti-western
propaganda (chiefly limited to the
stage,) in the tendencies toward
nationalism, even chauvinism. But
the dominant mood in Soviet writ-
ing today is pride and strength.
The nationalism is “the feeling of
a@ great nation which has the
awareness of its physiological





Opinion
Senior Considers NEWS.

Review of ‘Lear’
Unethical

March 16, 1950:
To the Editor
The College News

I wish to join the swelling ranks.
of those who protest against the-
policy of The College News with.
regard to reviews of.dramatic pro-
ductions. It has been explained
that the review represents nothing-
more nor less than the individual
opinion of the interviewer, but I
fee] that this explanation disre-
gards the effect that the News has
as Bryn Mawr’s efforts at self-ex-
pression in the eyes of other col-
leges.

I think that the review in last
week’s edition of the production of
King Lear by Princeton’s Theatre-
Intime represents a new low in
criticism. To the best of my un-
derstanding, the play was well re-
ceived at Princeton, but aside from
the question of the merits of the
play, I feel that Bryn Mawr has.
definitely overstepped itself in
panning the production of another
college. We are not, and have.
never been, in any way affiliated.
with any Princeton dramatic or-
ganization and I do not feel that
we have the right to criticize their
efforts. In any such performance,
it would, be well to bear in mind
some of the courtesies which have
been extended to Bryn Mawr by
the various Princeton publications.
in the past few years. In view of
their special edition put out last.
just before our Freshman Show
giving it a good advance billing
and generally speaking well of
Bryn Mawr, it seems more than
underhanded to reciprocate in this.
manner.

I personally feel that until the.
College News learns to handle the
reporting of affairs on the Bryn
Mawr campus in a slightly more
adult and less pseudo-New Yorker
manner, it should refrain from:
panning the efforts of another col-
lege in such a purposeless manner.

Sincerely yours,
Cynthia Lovejoy

Editor’s Note: As indicated in
last week’s issue, the above-criti-
cized review was specially contrib-.
uted as an unsolicited favor to the
News. We feel that it was intelli-
gent, constructive, and that it in-
dicated an interest in comparative
college productions.

Gerould Contest
Closes April 5th

The 1950 Katharine Fullerton
Gerould Prize Contest, which:
has already been announced in
the NEWS, is open until April
5th. On that date all entries
must be in the Alumnae Office
in the Deanery. The members
of the Committee this year are:
Elinor M. Parker, 1927, Assist—
ant Manager of Scribner’s Book
Store in New York and author
of “Cooking for One”; Laurence
Stapleton, Professor of English
and Political Theory at Brym
Mawr and author of “The De-
sign for Democracy”; and Jos-
ephine Young Case, 1928, auth-
or of “Midnight on the 31st of
March”, Chairman.

Dr. Seibert Discusses
TB-detecting Protein
Continued from Page 1

detect almost all clinically signifi-
cant cases of tuberculosis.






Wednesday, March 22, 1950

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three



Mrs. Manning Discloses Facts
Concerning Roosevelt Archives.

by Frances Shirley, ’53

' Gazing for the last time at Mrs.
Manning’s carefully dictated in-
structions, I perched rather shak-
ily on a borrowed bicycle and zig-
zagged down Morris Avenue to
Pennstone Road, bent on finding
out just what had happened at
Hyde Park last Friday afternoon.

There, before a select audience
_of “fifty or sixty,” the Archivist
of the United States, Wayne C.
Grover, had made public the papers
_ of Franklin D. Roosevelt. There
were speeches by Mrs. Roosevelt;
by Jess Larson, Administrator of
General Services, who “really only
read a message from President
Truman”; and by Waldo Gifford
Leland, Director Emeritus of the
American Council of Learned So-
cieties.

“The papers themselves,” said
Mrs. Manning, “included many
things not written by Mr. Roose-
' velt. In fact, there are many let-
ters to him; even a congratula-
tory message from the Pope when
he won an election.” She expressed
the opinion that “there ought to
. be an act of Congress making
presidential correspondence part of
‘ the National Archives. Most of it
‘ds now public, like the Lincoln
Papers, but the things collected at
' the White House used to be treat-
ed like private correspondence.
- When Mr. Roosevelt made ar-
_,rangements to keep his papers in
‘ong, building, administered by the
' National Archives, he set a pre-
cedent for other presidents.” She
also said that the Taft family and
the Library of Congress still had
' President Taft’s papers, but that
' they planned to turn them over

to the Archives in the future.
‘ Mrs. Manning seemed to be an-
.ticipating my questions, so I
_ pocketed a list of queries and sip-
_ ped tea while she related the. his-
‘tory of Mr. Roosevelt’s plan. As
recently as twenty years ago there
was no Archives building, and dif-
ferent departments kept their own
papers. However, since then all
the papers have been housed under
one roof. Mr. Roosevelt presented
his plan at a party attended by a
large number of historians, among
whom were Charles Beard and Mr



Dodd, then president of the Ameri-
can Association. “I was one of
two women present,” said Mrs.
Manning. “The other was the presi-
dent of the League of Women
Voters! I was the only Republican
on the committee, and was invited
as a representative of the Taft
family. (The President could also
say he had a Republican on his
committee!) I sat between the
President and Senator Frank Gra-
ham of North Carolina. Judge Ros-
enman and Basil O’Connor were
there, too,” she added as an after-
thought, remarking that of all the
original group, only the Judge, Mr.
O’Connor, and she were at Hyde
Park last week. “Professor Morri-
son of Harvard would have been
there, but he was in the South
Pacific on his honeymoon or some-
thing at the time.”

“Mr. Roosevelt explained his
plan to us, and asked for comment
or criticism. There was some feel-
ing that the papers should be kept

Continued on Page 4

The Observer

Funny, how we felt the other
night. We walked to the library in
the dark, under the dark trees—
and the lions that crouch in the
heavy branches stirred as we pass-
ed under.

The cold reached its fingers up
the sleeves of our fall and winter
coat and we stood on the black
plain between Taylor and the li-
brary. We saw the moon in the
library windows and waited for
Carey Thomas to brush past us in
the moonlight.

Cream cheese — no, it’s a bal-
loon: and Carey Thomas holds the
string. She bought the moon —
spirited it away from the seller of
dreams — so it would hover over
the library cold, clear nights. She
knew.

The lions are restless on these
nights. We would be easy prey,
transfixed on the open plain. But
the lions are enchanted too and
we are only prey to dreams. If this
is winter, spring may forget.

‘Child of the moon, lions at my
gide, dream-bound. Library night ..



Handsome Humphrey Hunts Halls
Searching For Love, Adventure

Specially Contributed

by Hanna Holborn, ’50
Out of the night—came Hum-
. phrey. Or rather, he loped. We
were eating cashews at the time,
dreamily, for it was a dark, foggy,
romantic evening. ‘When we look-
ed around, the cashews were gone.
In their place was-a very large,
very blaek creature. “Humphrey!”
we cried, and ran...

Since then,.we have seen him
often. Entranced, ‘we heard him
| deliver a lecture on Shelley, his
paws placed soulfully on the
podium in Room E. Slowly, but
surely, his talents began to unfold.
He could: epen doors—and has thus
more than once -invaded the sanc-
tity of private’ béudoirs.,.- He
kibitzes at bridge, he can eat any-
thing from chocolate cake to wool
stockings. Besides all this,—he
is very strong—or very playful,
‘ according to the way you look at
it. Student after student has heard

the rush of soulful paws and a

moment later, has found herself
flat. on the ground.
Last Sunday, Humphrey was

bored. He was tired of games and.

yearned for intellectual stimula-'
_ tion, At length he came to the
Library. In no time at all, the
corridors were littered with bodies
and Humphrey headed for the
stacks. Here we found him look-
ing hungrily at the circulation
desk. .

“Humphrey,” ‘we said and laugh-
ed. “All right,” said a bitter voice.
“If you think it’s so funny, why



don’t you take him home?”

Filled with desperate courage,
we agreed. Humphrey lives on Old
Gulph Road, past the cemetery,
past the lights—past civilization.
Neither of us was anxious to leave
the comfortable security of the
dear eld M. Carey Thomas Me-
morial, our friend least of all. But
somehow, the lessons of Body Me-
chanics drifeted into our thoughts
and we fell out the door after an
angry Humphrey.

The burdens of humanity were
heavy on our ‘shoulders as we
plodded on through cold and tomb-
stones. At last we saw a house.
“This it, Humphrey?” we asked
hopefully. There was no reply. We
rang the bell, the front door open-
ed, and Humphrey surged into the
house., _ Bric-a-brac¢, lay shattered
on the floor as {Humphrey lept
dramatically: ‘into. living” ‘room, “just clearing the
grand. piano; ‘and. chewed. happily
ona very new red rug. ©

-Asmall Milquetéast-like: individ-
ual emerged from the. wreckage.
“Does Humphrey belong to you?”
we said merrily. “Good God, no!”
jhe said, ‘cowering against: the wall.

‘We tugged and. tagged, ‘but
Humphrey refused to ‘budge. Mum-
bling apologies, we begged for
help. “No thanks,” said the man.

“Wouldn’t go near the beast.”
Hours later, we were out in the
cold again, a chastened and dis-
consolate Humphrey at our bruis-
ed side. This time, we hit the right |
Continued on Page 5

ThirdHandHigh

by Judith Waldrop, '53

Huddled in her ancient Sears-
Roebuck shawl, a remnant of bet-
ter days, old Ellie Culbertson sat
by an oil stove, staring at the
ecards before her and writing furi-
ously: “South bids one spade.
North is in need of information,
and the spade response will not
prevent him from making any
cheaper rescue he may have plan-
ned for himself. North may pre-
fer a spade contract...” So en-
grossed was she in finishing her
copy for “The Daily Bridge Hand”
that she did not hear a masked
intruder furtively steal up behind
her. And when she was finally
aware of his presence, the knowl-
edge was hardly of any practical
use to her, for the stranger was
busily bludgeoning her with an
unidentified blunt instrument. With
a dying hiccup, she fell forward
on her table, clutching the ace of
spades with one hand, and with the
other, scrawling “Declarer enters
his hand with the spade ace.”

What strange hunch had prompt-
ed her to write those words? This
was the problem that confronted
Lieutenant Smythe-Frothingham of
homicide. “This smacks of vio-
lence,” he thought as he surveyed
the scene. Suddenly his fish-like
eye fell upon an ominous note: on
the table before the dead woman
was a common garden-variety
garden spade. He had not scrutin-
ized this object for more than an
hour and a half when he perceived
dried blood and grey hairs upon
the instrument. His brain, renown-
ed for its agility throughout seven
and a half continents, grasped the
implication.

“Sezglic,” he said, turning to his

assistant, “regard: the murder
weapon. The case is virtually
solved.”

“Ya doan_ say,” answered

Sezglic. “By the way, boss, I’ll bet
you a free subscription to the
Horror Book Club that her last
words will show us to the murder-
er. I’ll look through old Miss Cul-
bertson’s recent columns to. see
where she advised that the de-
clarer enter his hand with the
spade ace. Then I’ll check around
the local bridge clubs to find out
what player recently used that
tactic. If he lost the trick, I think
we’ve got our man.”

“Exactly as I suspected,” said
Smythe-Frothingham, “but enough
of these details—to work, man.”

Revenge Motive

The investigation was easier
done than said. Within a very few
hours, Smythe -Frothingham and
the chief of police were quizzing
their culprit. (Sezglic had slipped
out for a sardine sandwich.)

“Enough of this dallying,” rasp-
ed Smythe-Frothingham. “Con-
fess.”

The guilty man was hysterical.
“T did it! I did it! I’d been follow-
ing her advice for years, always
with success. And then, in- the big
tournament with the Lower Suds-
burg Bridge and Salami Club, she
failed me! I lost the trick. Revenge!
Revenge!” he snarled, and fell
over, insensible. :

“Good work,” said the chief of
police.. With ‘the copyright fees
from Gang Busters and This is
Your F.B.1., not to mention Holly-
wood, we should clean up twenty.
grand.on this case.”

“My sentiments exactly, old
chief of ' ‘police,” ‘said Smythe-
Frothingham, “but your use of the
pronoun ‘we’ is ill-advised. I solved
this case.” And so saying, he drew
out an unidentifiable revolver,
wrapped it fastidiously in a mono-
grammed handkerchief, and shot
the chief of police so full of holes
that the poor man looked more like
a Swiss cheese than an officer of
the law. Then Smyythe-Frothing-
ham tossed the smoking gun to
Sezglic, who happened to be enter-
ing the room.



“Tough Toek, old ‘{ellow, Remem-
- Continued on ‘Page s

Specially Contributed

by Gwynne Williams, ’50
We went to New York again
with Mr. Goodale—this time in
buses with box lunches. ‘We sat
in the back and opened windows
and were reminiscent. We felt
this was the last time we would
be going to New York with Mr.
Goodale, perhaps the last time we
would be going anywhere with Mr.
Goodale. We liked to have him
hovering as we gulped our coffee
at Arty’s while the buses tuned
up impatiently outside; as ‘we
fumbled amongst the chopped
meat and dill pickle surprises of
our box lunches we liked to think
Mr. Goodale was doing this too,
and as our bus passed his or his
passed ours we liked to see hia

face brooding at the window.

Our concert was at Hunter Col-
lege; we got there at two and piled
up against a door which was lock-
ed. We huddled in the ‘freezing
wind waiting for Mr. Goodale to



Teams Triumph;
Odds Win Honors

by Emmy Cadwalader, ’52

The Badminton Varsity and J.V.
finished their season victoriously
on Wednesday, March 15, when
they ‘beat Rosemont 5-0, 5-0. This
gives both teams an undefeated
season of which Bryn Mawr should
be very proud. The team was
captained by Anne Iglehart, and
Betty Crist acted as manager.
Both did a fine job in making the
team what it is. :

The Bryn Mawr Varsity Swim-
ming Team lost their first match
of the season on Thursday, March
16, in their meet with Swarthmore.
Both Varsity and J.V. scores were
very close all through the meet,
and it was by far the most excit-
ing match the team has had all
year. The Varsity lost 32-26, and
the J.V. 34-82, but even though the
final score was against Bryn
Mawr, we placed first in two of
the races and gave Swarthmore a
hard battle.

The Varsity and J.V. Volleyball

Continued on Page 4



Concert-Bound Traveler Chants
Her Tale of the Lonesome Time

do something. On impulse some of
us went around and entered the
other side of the building where
we found him wandering down cor-
ridors looking for the inside of the
door to let his chorus in. In the
Playhouse a part of Haverford
was playing the piano and prowl-
ing around the stage peering up
at flats. The rest hadn’t come yet;
they weren’t sure when it was
coming. Mr. Goodale joined the
prowling on the stage. Overcome
with restlessness, we started to
prowl too down a hushed corridor
past blinking elevators—at the
end a rather dingy one marked
Faculty Elevator. Around a cor-
ner we found the Collegiate Cho-
rale singing Christmas Carols. We
returned to an apologetic Haver-
ford announcing how fine . they
thought it was for us to wait; we
thought they were working up to
a large party invitation, but. no
they. just wanted us to know how
much they appreciated our wait-
ing. So after. rehearsal we went
down to create a party at our
sister’s, but this time there was
no answer to. our ring—-no turkey,
no sister, no party. We went and
drowned our sorrows in flounders
and . brandy at the Empire State
Building.: ’

After leaving and retrieving our
suitcase ‘with the remains of box
lunch and other valuables stuffed
in it in a taxi, we got back to
Hunter and a nervous and irate
Betty Jean hovering at the top of
some steps because we were a
little late and had her skirt in our
suitcase with’ the chopped meat
and dill pickle. Our concert open-
ed with the Vaughn Williams
Mass. “Vaughn not Gwynne,” said
Mr. Goodale and leered~ at us
around a flat. We sang some songs,
Haverford sang some, a Small
Mixed’ Russian Group sang some,
and we all sang Jerusalem.’

We started back a little after
ten. The driver turned out the
lights, and we lit our.first cigar-
ettes since lunch and watched the
city disappearing behind us. Down
under the Hudson River and across
New Jersey flats we sped. The
midnight stop at Arty’s roused us
to coffee and a drowsy glimpse of

Continued on Page 6



Return to Poetic

Specially contributed
by Gwynne Williams, ’50

We went to hear Mr. Peter Vie-
reck the other night on “The Re-
volt of Poetry,” the first in a series
of lectures at the University of
Pennsylvania on “The Revolt of
the Arts.” ‘Mr. Viereck hastened

to interpret this title as a revolt
against revolt, i.e. a “Return” to

the conservative tradition of
poetry: to clarity and communica-
bility.

The Return will ‘a effected by
means of a synthesis; he described
the synthesis by analogy to art.
17th century Baroque art in Italy
synthesized the classicism of thé
High Rennaissance and the disor-
ganized “passion” of the period
that followed it. The new Baroque
will similarly synthesize 18th cen-
tury neo-classicism and nineteenth
century Romanticism. The Greeks
who lived on the island of Sios
in the sixth century B. C. drank
clear water when young and heady
wine when older, but in old age
they indulged in “poison sipping.”
The new Baroque will mix the
water and the wine, but must not
indulge in the “poison sipping”
revealed in some contemporary
poetry (cf. Eliot’s “My nerves are
bad tonight .. .”)

Mr. Viereck ‘calls the new syn-
thesis a “Manhattan Classicism:
classic in form, Manhattan in tem-



perament; poetry which should



Conservative Viereck Advocates

Clarity of Old

achieve a ‘difficult simplicity.’ ”
He here distinguishes between
“legitimate difficulty” and ob--

scurity, in that the poem of the
profound or original thinker may
have a “legitimate difficulty” (cf.
Yeats’ last poems), whereas the
poem of the charlatan or wilful
eccentric may be “obscure.” (But.
there are few of these, and we
would maintain that it is still dif-
ficult to decide where cleverness
has outwitted sincerity.) He gives
as an example of the difficultly
simple. poem Robert Frost’s Sand
Dunes, and hastens to say that Mr.
Frost is as often liked as disliked
for the wrong reasons (i.e. there
are those who might.:like Frost
for being simple like Joyce Kil-

mer’s Trees and those who might

dislike him for the same wrong
reason.) But because Frost is a
“pastoral” poet, he does not indi-
cate “urban” Manhattan classi-
cism.

Mr. Viereck’s profound common
sense, so well expressed, con-
vinced us that he is the critic, not
the poet of the future. He has the
clear-viewed intelligence and the
temperament of the critic, and we
cannot help feeling he would, as it.
were, “fit the emotion to suit the
form.” But he will probably be
better able than we to judge the.
poet who, always true to his poetic:
instinct, discovers (or re-discovers):
that form which most perfectly
expresses his genuine feelings and
controls his passions.








Page Four

THE COLLEGE NEWS



Manning Sees Roosevelt
Says His Letters Should

Continued from Page 3

in Washington, but he explained
that photostats or microfilm copies
would be kept in the Archives. I
supported the Hyde Park idea,” she
said, explaining that “there is more
interest in having the collection in
a place associated with Roosevelt’s
name. After all, historians can
catch trains! Anyway, the Presi-
dent had made up his mind before
the luncheon, and it would have
taken opposition and a lot of arg-
ument to dissuade him. We all felt
rather like the burgesses summon-
ed to the Parliament of Edward
the First; we were told what to
do!”

Mr. Roosevelt had intended to
make Mr. Dodd chairman of the
committee, but he declined because
of ill health, and Waldo Leland
took over the job. He has also
made arrangements for Mrs.
Roosevelt’s papers in connection
with the U.N. to be exhibited there.
“TI liked Mr. Leland’s speech best
because it went into the history of
the plan,” Mrs. Manning added,
“and Mrs. Roosevelt graciously ex-
pressed the hope that the commit-
tee would continue its help and in-
terest and advice.”

B. M. Scholars Win
Rome Fellowships

Dr. Berthe Marti, Associate Pro-
fessor of Latin at Bryn Mawr, and
Helen E. Russell, graduate stud-
ent in Greek and Latin were
awarded two fellowships in class-
ical studies to the American Aca-
demy in Rome for one year be-
ginning October 1, 1950.

Each fellowship is valued at ap-
proximately $38,000, including sti-
pend, “travel ‘allowance and free
residence at the Academy which is
located on the Janiculum Hill in
Rome.

Ten fellowships were awarded
this year by the American Aca-
demy, founded in 1894 to further
fine arts and classical studies in
the United States, principally
through granting fellowships to
outstanding American artists and
scholars for independent work.





Vice+Pres. of Self-Gov,
Eleanor Gunderson; Vice-Pres.
of Undergrad, Alys_ Farns-
worth; Common Treasurer
Nancy Alexander; Secretary of
Self-Gov, Bess Foulke; Secre-
tary of Undergrad, Alice Mit-
chell; Secretary of League,
Julie Freytag; Chapel Head,
Bertie Dawes; First Sophomore
Member to Self-Gov, Penny
Merritt; First Sophomore Mem-
ber to Undergrad, Eleanor Tou-
mey; First Junior Member to
Undergrad, Catherine Chere-
meteff; Second Junior Member
to Undergrad, Sally Ankeny.

Sports Season Marked

By United Team Effort
Continued from ‘Page 3
“teams also played Swarthmore
“last week, but unfortunately were
not able to beat them.. Both teams
played well, but the final scores
were 83-26 for Swarthmore Var-

sity and 38-19 for their J.V.

The Basketball Varsity and J.V.
played their last matches of the
season on Friday, (March 17,
against Ursinus. Both Bryn Mawr
teams played spectacularly, scor-
ing the first points, cutting, and
showing excellent teamwork, but
‘they were finally outplayed by Ur-
sinus in two very close, exciting
games. The J.V. lost by only one
basket, ‘with the score of 23-21 for
- Ursinus.

The Odds proved they were Odds,
and better than the blues when
they won the OddsEven Basket-
an ball _game, 44-82, and Volleyball







Papers Made Public;
Enter Nat. Archives

Here she paused to pour some
more tea, and I wondered aloud
what the library was like. In reply,
Mrs. Manning gave a detailed de-
scription of the building. “It’s sup-
posed to be in the style of a Dutch
farmhouse, and has two wings and
a long porch. It’s about the size of
a farmhouse.” Inside is a museum,
with gifts displayed in cases, a
case to a country. Downstairs the
papers are housed, and one must
have some kind of credential to
use them. Mr. Leland had com-
plained that there were too many
showcases, but “if people pay their
twenty-five cents, they want some-
thing for their money. Even the
ship models are displayed.” The
library was near the road, she said,
and was financed by a nation-wide
collection of small sums. “The plans
were drawn up in 1938, and since
then the building has been com-
pleted and dedicated. I was invited
to luncheon at Mrs. Roosevelt’s
and didn’t have a chance to see the
main house, which is also open to
the public. She lives back in the
woods in a cottage, and we took a
cab up a very muddy road!”

She Saw Fala

Mrs. Manning asked her hus-
band if he wanted tea, and the dog
rose from his position under the
tea table and came over to my
chair. Mrs. Manning was reminded
that she had seen Fala while at
Hyde Park, and emphasized the
fact that “he is alive and kicking,
and he has a grandson, Demon
Fala, to keep him company.”

Mr. Manning added a story about
robots sorting out the good, bad,
and indifferent papers in the col-
lection, saying how long it would
take if there were a thirty-hour
work-week.

Thinking of the time and: the
mile uphill to the college, I forti-
fied myself with another muffin,
gathered my notes, and moved
toward the door, escorted by the
dog and Mrs. Manning, whose part-
ing remark was: “I’m going back
someday and look into the possibil-
ities for the girls here to do re-
search at Hyde Park.” Happy
barked, the door shut quietly, and
the bicycle started uncertainly up
the road.



JUNIOR PROM

Mark your calendar with red,

April fifteenth — plan ahead,

The Junior Prom will be the
thing

On the big weekend
spring.

It’s more than worth your while,
I hear

So look for more plans
appear.

But get your gown and get

your guy —

Don’t let springtime pass you
by.

Call a Spade a Spade

In Murderous Bridge
Continued from Page 3

ber, it will be your word against

mine,” said Smythe - Frothingham

of the

to







the fire escape, his mind already
occupied with vacations in Ber-
muda and all sorts of shocking
debaucheries.

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Let’s Meet and Eat at
MERCER’S SUBURBAN SQ.
TEA ROOM - RESTAURANT

28 East Montgomery Ave.
Ardmore











meeeemnaietiane ——— el
“PRINTS FOR EASTER TIME”
says

Nancy Brown

(under Pespey Bookshop)
Bryn Mawr Avenue

MEET AT THE GREEK’S
Sa Renders







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as he sauntered effortlessly down |'



Wednesday, March 22, 1950



Value of Leisure

Stressed by Park

“Education is a ceaseless collect-
ing of everything with reach, to
push forward growth.” In this
way (Miss Marian Edwards Park
expressed her “concern to testify”
for education in last Wednesday’s
Morning Assembly. Though we
shall still be learning at the age
of eighty, Miss Park continued, we
have in college a “highly concen-
trated form of packaged help”. We
have leisure—(“at least, you will
never again see so much time”!)—
books, techniques, and languages
at our disposal. Necessity, she
added, has probably forced upon
us a tough thinking process. It is
for us to plan our lives: and we
must include in our plans the ac-
quisition of a working-day imagin-
ation which is composed of percep-
tiveness and inventiveness.

(Miss Park defined perceptive-
ness as the ability to uncover what
is. purposely or accidentally hidden.
Perceptiveness controls the human
instinct to dodge the complex, and
sees not merely one aspect of a
situation, but the over-all view; it
includes sympathy, since it is nec-
essary to know, not only what peo-
ple think, but what they feel. Miss
Park regarded inventiveness as
perceptiveness put into action.

We receive our first training in
thoughtful imagination in college.
A college is a small state: it offers
a free field for discussion in hall,
classroom, and common room. In
this state the course of a proposi-
tion runs quickly, and we can see
the end of an issue while the be-
ginning is still red-hot. In the
course of our training we need
never fear that our colleagues will
not tell us where we have been
wrong.

Only in becoming imaginative
thinkers here and now can we hope
some day to exchange the world’s
“solution by violence” for “new
plans, and perhaps, new and less
frail philosophies.”

Cast Announced
For French Play

The cast for the French Club
play, M. de Pourceaugnac, to be
given Thursday, April 20th, at the
Skinner Workshop, is as follows:
Julie

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PING icv siiustncace «Cathy Harper
Luncette .......... Chantal de Kerillis
Une Paysanne ............ Pat Herman
M. de Pourceaugnac .... Mr. Morris
Sbrizani .............. Mr. Guicharnaud
RID sss iccsisvccinecahanacsins Mr. ‘Alcala
Eraste ...ccccccscsooce Miriam Bernheim
Premier Medecin ...... Elaine Marks
Second Medecin .......... Ellen Shure

L’Apothicaire....Beatrice Friedman
Premier Suisse....Beatrice Freeman
Deuxieme Suisse..Nora Valabreque
Un Exempt Michele Cahen
Un Paysan Betsy Taliaferro

So You'ne Going
“To Europe:

June 21— 58 - - day .co - ed economy
tour — $1,295
S.S. WASHINGTON—visit

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Northern Italy — French
Riviera and Paris

July 8—5l-day first class air
tour for virls — $1.795
KLM Constellation to Scot-

land — London and





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Nevine Halim | !

by Jane Augustine, 52

The houselights dimmed, the
spotlight went on and into it stag-
gered the perennial joe-college
souse; with the freshman show,
Haverford College’s annual Class
Night commenced before a mam-
moth audience in miniscule Rob-
erts Hall.

The class of 1958 showed little
imagination in their attempt to
perpetuate the usual massive and
inaccurate generalities about
Princeton men, Yale men, and
Harvard — well, anyhow, we’re
tired of bewinged Harvardians.
The pblue-lit love song was pleas-
antly sung, but it was painful to
hear an occasional snicker from
the groundlings when the frosh
were attempting, awkwardly in
spots, it is true, to play it straight.
The last song, however, was ex-
cellent.

Seraps of the finale, “Come Tap
the Beerkeg With (Me,’’ were hum-
med all over Haverford campus
all weekend.

(Movies provided the evening’s
most original opening in the soph-
omore show. A newsreel pictured
among other things that famous
red station wagon, and described
the proposed merger of Bryn
Mawr and Haverford into one co-

‘educational institution. ‘Then the

stage show conjectured colorfully
upon what would happen if and
when Bryn (Mawrtyrs move into
Barclay Hall a little more than
they already have. The second
scene takeoff on the modern
dance in this year’s BMC Fresh-
man Show, done by a leering char-
acter in a leotard and a bosomless
version of Bryn Mawr’s_ red
tafifeta-clad~ chorine, was the
hilarious high spot of ’52’s lively,
if now and then unpolished pro-
duction.

The junior class, or rather one
member of the junior class (“The
stage crew was Howard Shoemak-

’Fordians Burlesque Coeducation;
Juniors Win Class Night Honors

er”) cracked forth with a superb
Saroyanesque set of an alley be-
hind Brinx bank for the setting
of their show. The plot: three
Very Important Haverford Ad-
ministrators, curiously resembling
the three famous monkeys, See-
no-evil, Hear-no-evil, and Speak-
no-evil, need desperately to “get
a million dollars today” and save
their college. To their aid comes
a hotdog vender, S. Obie (yak)
and a strangely sinister blond ma-
gician who causes to descend from
Heaven first a note from “J.C.”
and then a well-rouged if hefty
harlot. Tom McNutt, the cop-on-
the-beat, turned his clear tenor to
a serious and sentimental love
song without making it mawkish,
and stole the show. Good song fol-
lowed good somg throughout, most.
of them to the credit of Al Clay-
ton, who is obviously a talented
guy.

The seven Schulz B rs in
green ‘bowlers sang an in! uc-
tion to the senior show, Pickmg
Violets in the Springtime, and as
the number ended, one of them
tipped his hat and promptly suc-
cumbed. There was a shout of
“Schulz is dead!” (unfortunately,
we had to ask why it was funny)
and the show was on. J. Edgar
Fosdick of Ardmore Yard was
called upon to solve the murder
mystery; he sharpened his brain
by standing on it for a while, and
after tooting a few notes on his
saxophone, he pinned the crime
on “Blue Edward,” who discovered
that his victim was handing out
too much ice cream per scoop in
the Coop. From ‘Schulz’ dying
words “Ring out the song for
Haverford” Fosdick deduced that

the murder weapon was—a yo-yo.
At the end of the “Five-oh” finale,
the entire cast whipped red yo-
yos out of their pockets. The show

could have been improved by tak-
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The Rebel Grill is one of the favor-
ite on-the-campus haunts of students,
at the University of Mississippi.
That’s because the Rebel Grill is a
friendly place, always full of the
busy atmosphere of college life.
There is always plenty of ice-cold
Coca-Cola, too. For here, as in col-
lege gathering spots everywhere—
Coke belongs.

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State Tax trade-marks mean the same thing.

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Wednesday, March 22, 1950

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Pive



Howard L. Gray

Art Collection

Decorates Corridor of Goodhart

by Helen Katz, ’53

Hiding under the bright flus-es-
cent lights of the Goodhart base-
ment corridor hangs an impressive
group of prints.

The most outstanding is the
Kaethe Kollwitz etching Mother
and Child. The heavy-lined, pene-
trating sketch is typical of her
work, where each line of a great
many lines has use and mean-
ing. The plate belongs to the
Howard L. Gray collection lent by
the former Professor of History at
Bryn Mawr.

The Girl with Deer etching and
dry point of Karl Hofer is ex-
quisitely simple, and vaguely rem-
iniscent of Gaugin.

The effect of Whistler’s Sey-
mour, a finely-drawn piece, is
created mainly by several grada-
tions in the pressure of the pen,
effectively conveying space. Along
the same line is The Cavaliers, Ed-
ouard ‘Manet’s etching after Velas-
quez.

The collection ranges from Al-
brecht Durer to Picasso. Of the
former’s works, there hangs The
Bath House, a large woodcut on
now ancient parchment and a page
from a copy of the Prayer Book of
Maxmilian, that he illustrated in
1515. The page, reproduced by
Alois Senefelder, is one of the
earliest known lithographs. The
Bath House is probably the most
valuable piece in the collection;
the faces convey personality with
unbelievable accuracy. The Picasso
etching of a nude is a clean, one-
line drawing, dated 19388.

The collection of Sir Joshua





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Reynolds is represented in the
Gray collection now by a sienna
drawing after a Raphael work in
the Vatican, and a German wood-
engraved costume plate. The copy
is a warm, deep work, but the
other is flat and uninteresting.

Other pictures, an etching of a
wood cutter by Alphonse Legros
and several early 17th century en-
gravings have that same flat char-
acteristic that renders technically
intricate pen work impotent.
Claude Mellan’s engraving of the!
Holy Family, and Agostine Car-
racci’s engraving of St. Jerome are
possible exceptions.

Two other works in the collec-
tion are worth mention: the two
color Ugo da Carpi print entitled
Vanitas, a small 1%tn century work
that could pass for a superb mod-
ern watercolor wash; and an un-
signed 17th century drawing, a
penetrating piece of pencil work,
that may be a portrait of Michel-
angelo.

The Angelica Livingston collec-
tion is represented in the showing
with two gold-framed etchings,—
an attractive landscape of no im-
portance by Haden and a magnifi-
cent, almost photographic view
over the Ponte Vecchio by Amer-
ican contemporary Earnest Roth,
unfortunately hung over a fire ex-
tinguisher.

One drawing represents the
Lucy Martin Donnelly collection:
it is the pencil sketch of two fish

by Pre4Raphaelite Edward Burne-
Jones.





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NOTICES

During Spring Vacation, the Li-
brary will pen daily except Sat-
urday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
It will be open from 9:00 am. to
1:00 p.m. on Saturday. (On Sunday,
March 26, it will open from 2:00
p.m. to 5:00p.m., and from 2:00
p.m. to 10:00 p.m. on Sunday,
April 2. The Library will be closed
every evening, starting March 24,

Chesterfield Contest

For a period of three weeks, be-
ginning Arpril 3, there will be a
Goldfish Bowl filled with Chester-
fields on display in the Soda Foun-
tain. The rules of the contest are
as follows: write your estimate of
the number of cigarettes in the
bowl with your name and college
address on the back of an empty
pack of Chestenfields and drop the
package in the box. The award
wil be a carton of Chesterfields.

Art Exhibit
An exhibit of prints belonging tv
Dr. Howard Gray, former profes-
sor of History at Bryn Mawr, is



Enormous Black Beast

Frolics Around Campus
Continued from Page 3

house. A young man opened the
door. “Humphrey, old boy,” he
gasped. ‘‘We brought him home,”

we said pointedly. “Gee,” said the
man, “Believe it or not, we’ve had
a lot of compaints about this fel-
low.” “Really,” we said disbe-
lievingly. “Yeah,” he said, and
closed the door.

The way back was quiet and
lonely. Humphrey had grown so
dear to us, so much a part of our
very selves. We trudged back in-
to the Library. “Hello,” said some-
one. “Say, have you seen a large
black dog around... ?”



being displayed in the basement
of Goodhart from March 13 to
May. 1.
College Bookshop

The Bryn Mawr College book-
hop will be open from Monday
hrough Friday from 10:00 a.m.
to 1:00 p.m. during Spring vaca-
tion.

Bard’s Kye View

Writer’s Cramp

Everything I write or say

Sounds too much like an old cliche,

The words that from-my pen I pour

Have all been poured too oft be-
fore.

The well-thought phrases that I
think

Were first seen in another’s ink.

Oh! To end this vain frustration—

‘End this quasi-plagiarization!

All terms are hackneyed, all the
same, —
Except two words — my own —
my name.
Judith Waldrop, ’53





The Hall Presidents for the
Year 1950-1951, are as follows:
Denbigh, Margaret Carlson;
Merion, Ellen Wells; Pembroke
East, Elizabeth Nelidow; Pem-

broke West, Anne Hinman;
Radnor, Linnie Lee Warren;
Rhoads, Katchie Torrence;

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Page Six

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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, March 22, 1950



“You Can’t Take It With Yow’ Exhibits Fine Acting, | Maritain Tells ‘Rights of Man and Natural Law’ ;

Competent Direction and Excellent Stage Work

Continued from Page 1
are the feelings one has about the
whole family; Trish set the mood,
and supported the play.

Robin Nevitt, however, as
Grandpa, the man who inaugurat-
ed the Sycamores’ unique way of
life, was not far behind Trish in
his performance. His situation was
slightly different; he had occasion-
al long speeches in which he was
dominant, while she had short in-
terspersed speeches all the time.
He had moments of omnipotence—
she was omnipresent. Robin made
Grandpa look youthfully aged, and
made him behave in a cheerful and
carefree way, without losing his
tranquil character or the feeling
of his basically serious and well
thought-out philosophy of life.

Isabelle Frey made Essie child-
ish, gauche, definitely out of this
world but not quite into the next;
it was an original approach and a
quite successful one. Ed Jamison
presented Ed, Essie’s husband, as
a simple guy, young idealist-with-
out-ideals. Ed and Essie both
came across as well rounded char-
acterizations; they were believable
people, and two distinctive and
differing aspects of this interest-
ing household.

Suzie Kramer turned in a poised
performance as Rheba; she in her-
self is enough to make a character
unusual. Hugh Downing as Don-
ald seemed less sure of himself,
but he took his direction well. Mr.
DePinna had all the right things
done to him by John Kittredge,
who managed, by not hamming, to
put a credible and appealing per-
son into that Roman toga under
the ivied brow.

Paul Sycamore, interpreted by
Floyd Ford, was as described in
the script: “mid-fifties, but with
a kindof youthful air. His quiet
charm and mild manner are dis-
tinetly engaging.” He is least
natural at the beginning of the
third act, comforting Penny. In
the middle of the second act, how-
ever, he is most charming as he
leans. over the stairway rail,
spruced up in a business suit, ex-
plaining about his mechanical
building set: “ ...I just play
with it.” Jack Piotrow made a
good temperamental Kolenkhov.
The loudness. of his voice never
went on the wane, if once in a
while his accent did. Robert Rey-
nolds as the tax collector wasn’t
much good, but did not appear on
stage long enough for it to mat-



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eT Continaad from Pare 3
Mr. Goodale in slightly rumpled
tuxedo. We got back a little after
‘two, and as we dropped some chop-
ped meat and dill pickle into our
wastebasket we thought — we’ve
been away a little over sixteen
hours, and they probably didn’t
notice we were gone.





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Varied Concepts Have Social, Moral Inferences

| Continued from Page 2

pianos.”

The concept of natural law has
social as well as moral implica-
tions. “Advocates of an individ-
ualistic type of society see the
|mark of human dignity in individ-
Ad-
vocates of a communistic type of
society: see the mark of human
dignity in subordination to the col-
lective group. Advocates of the



talk in the midst of them, they
should have been good, if only by
contrast. When the two talked,
it was worse, but due credit must
be given to the authors for a
series of rotten lines. Nancy tried
to make things easier for John
Acton, but John merely grinned
his way through the play, evident-
ly oblivious. He too improved
however in the third act, when he
set his genial countenance in hard-
er lines and made a good go at
defying his father. |

|

Brooks Cooper as Mr. Kirby
gave an excellent performance ue
usual, but it is hard to imagine |
him as Acton’s father. Maxine
Skwirsky showed fine perception of
Mrs. Kirby’s character, but her
hair should have been greyer. She
simply did not look old enough to
be Tony’s mother. June Moyer did
Gay Wellington up to perfection
with that sandpapery singing.
Claireve Grandjouan’s faint
French accent slid easily into a
Russian accent, and she rendered
a completely endearing Grand
Duchess Olga Katharina.

The success of the play in gen-
eral depended a great deal on mere
mechanics. The staging—set de-
ran and property arrangement—
|Was in this reviewer’s opinion, the
best that has been done on Good-
hart in the last two years. Dick
McKinley designed the set. He
and Ellen Bacon, the stage man-
pager, worked out the problems of
an enormous number of props very
cleverly. The xylophone and the
printing press were neatly taken
care of in an alcove out of the
actors’ way, and small details add-
ed significantly to the atmosphere
of the play—the potted plant on
the stainway, the wallpaper de-
sign, the beautiful brass chande-
lier.

You Can’t Take It With You
was notable for its technical per-
fections and for its demonstration
of the abilities of Marjie Low as a
director. If it can be considered a
criterion, then things will go well
for Saroyan’s The Beautiful
People, the last effort of the Bryn
Mawr Theater this year.

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old rights.



personalistic type of society see
the mark of human dignity in
rights intrinsic and inherent in the
It is to this last
position that Dr. Maritain adheres.
that natural
rights are not static; new rights
come into being by a struggle with
An example of this is
the comparatively recent accept- |

human person.”

He emphasized





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|ance of the right to work and to

In a comedy of this sort, the| tioning. Man has ends which are! certain minimums of social justice.
comical characters are easier to part of his constitution, and these| On the
play than “straight” roles. As it| are common to all men; just as the|“rights natural to every man,
happened, the “straight” charac-|same tones are common to all rights which no civil society can
ters, the lovers, Alice and Tony,
failed pathetically in their scenes
Nancy Pearre was well
;cast as Alice; she looked nice and
normal, but still a member of this
She was much better in
family scenes than with Tony. The | ual appropriations of value.
second scene of the first act was
watch.
Even the kisses were awkward, and
since neither person could move or

other hand, there are

bese us to relinquish.” In the last
analysis, “every right possessed
by man is possessed by virtue of
God,” but the knowledge of na-
tural law progresses and is refined
by “the inclination of the moral
conscience; and this process will
continue as long as human nature
exists.”

Hajo Holburn of Yale
To Address Graduates

Continued from Page 2

ormation, and American Military
Government. Dr. Holborn is also
co-editor of the Journal of the
History of Ideas and the Journal
of Modern. History.



Joanna Semel, ’52, has been
elected editor of Counterpoint.

The new officers of the ‘Al-
liance are as follows: President,
Betty Goldblatt; co-chairmen of
publicity, Eve Romaine and
Ronnie Gottlieb; secretaries,
Helen Woodward and Eleanor
Toumey; Current Events, Betsy
Repenning; IRC, Chickie Glass-



|| berg, president; Doris Ham-
burger, secretary; Industrial
Group, Lois Kalins; clothing

drive, Candy Bolster.







Haverford Class Night
Burlesques Coeducation
~ Continued from Page 3

ing out a couple of unfunny inci-
dents and putting in ‘more music,
but on the whole the polish of a
few individual actors carried it
over the rough spots.

The titles to the three erudite
scenes presented by the faculty
were as clever as the actual pro-
ducticn. The first scene was a la
Shakespeare, The Troublous Reign
of Gilbert I; the second a la Hem-
ingway, The (Lady-) Killers; and
the third in the manner of Mr.
Chekhov, The Ginko Orchard, with
a finish-off parody on Loos’ “Dia-
monds are a Girl’s Best Friend.”
The whole thing was a pretty
piece of Fund Drive propaganda
in literary disguise, which was
fairly successful dramatically.

Class Night is a long affair,
and it was nigh onto twelve o’clock
when the announcement of the
judges” opinions was made. Tom
McNutt’s singing was pronounced
the evening’s best. individual per-
formance, and the decision ag to
which class had put on the best
show was rendered—and we think
rightly—in favor of the class of
1951.



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