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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

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mine,” said Smythe - Frothingham

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occupied with vacations in Ber-
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debaucheries.

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“PRINTS FOR EASTER TIME”
says

Nancy Brown

(under Pespey Bookshop)
Bryn Mawr Avenue

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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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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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Rebel Grill
University, Mississippi
(Oxford)

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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.

be aces tay esd
State Tax trade-marks mean the same thing.

THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY

Tak Fae: Cneeeln ating, Company

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