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The COLLEGE NEWS



VOL. XLV, NO. 16 ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1949

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College,1945

PRICE 15 CENTS



Politzer Reads;
16 Translations
Of Eng. Poetry

Opens With Discussion
Of Translator’s
Problems

By Hanna Holborn, ’50

For anyone who attended the
German Club presentation of “The
Gentle Art of Translation,” there
can be absolutely no doubht. that
Dr. Heinz Politzer is a poet of the
first order. We hope he will pub-
lish his beautiful and_ sensitive
German translations of sixteen
English poems ranging from the
16th to the 20th centuries; most of
them are unsurpassable.

Dr. Politzer prefaced his read-
ing with a short discussion of the
nature and methods of translation.
German literature, he said, is given
in a much higher degree to trans-
lation than any other language,
and a large number of the fore-
most German writers have trans-
‘lated foreign and classical works
and used them as sources. Among
such outside influences, the great-
est has been Shakespeare (“an
essentially German poet translated
into Englissh by an unknown man
named William Shakespeare’),
strong in every generation of Ger-
man writers up to the present. This

Continued on page 4

N.S.A. Will Send
10 Tours Abroad

The (NSA has planned a summer
program for 1949, which includes
ten study-tours to Europe and
Latin-America, five work camps in
Europe and a seminar in Italy.

At ‘Sorrento, a seminar will be
conducted in Latin literature, arch-
itecture, Roman history and arch-
aeology. Trips have been planned
to Rome and Naples, and to the
dibrary of the philosopher Bene-
detto Croce.

Other tours are planned to every
country in Western Europe: the
tri-nation tour to France, Holland,
and England; a northern tour to
England, Holland and Scandinavia:
trips to France, Italy, and Swit-
zerland. Tentative plans are being
made for tours to Eastern Europe
and Mexico. Work camps in Hol-

Continued on page 3

by Hanna Holborn ’50

The Ladies Home Journal, an er-
udite and stimulating magazine,
has sent us a questionnaire com-
posed by one Miss Weyl, who
writes that she is interested in
“collecting more material on the
fun side of college.” Feeling that
the time has come to face the facts,
we reproduce both questionnaire
and answers, in the hope that all
may benefit from this vital and all-
inclusive survey.

Q. Do the students at your school
have fun?

A. Well, y-e-e-e-s.

Q. How?

A. Hegel has said, and we agree

Do most students wait until
the last minute to study for
exams, write term papers,

Stearns Explains
Quality of Self
In Philos. Paper

Commons Room, February 24.—-

Q.



the Philosophy Club, Miss Isabel
Stearns presented an analysis of
“The Nature of the Person.” She
postulated that the self, in this
context identical with the person,
could not be defined significantly
tmerely in terms of its being or
becoming. A third concept must
oe added to these two before the
analysis can be completed: that of
the self as “that which mediates
its own change” between its actual
nature as manifested in its past
activity, and its potential nature,
as_manifested_in the process of
actualization through the self’s be-
coming activities in the present
with direct reference to the future.

“In a sense, the self is an inten-
tional continuum ... manifested in
its. conative nature, its dynamic
thrust.” The person, Miss Stearns
went on to explain, is at the same
time being, becoming, and existent;
it carries with it always the triple
reference to past, future, and pres-
ent. The quality of the self char-
acteristic of its nature as deter-
mined by the past jis that of reten-
tiveness or conservation; of the
present, reflexiveness; of the fu-
ture, transcendence.

There is the possibility, Miss
Stearns asserted, for the self to
dissociate into several discontinu-
ous selves, analogous to the selves



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Museum Trips'and}Farm Work
Fill Days of Summer in Holland

Specially contributed by
by Anne Newbold, 50

June 18—Quebec’s cobbled streets
and the garbled French voices be-
gan to give me the feeling that al-
ready I was well on the way to be-
ing international! Behind me lay
forms I had filled out for the “Ex-
periment in International Living”,
(the group with which J was going
to Holland), official State Depart-
ment. papers, a period of typhoid
injections, and advice from every-
one about everything from seasick
pills to Frenchmen, Now at last
it was June 18, the day on which
we set out on the ‘ ‘Kota Inten”,
Holland-American line boat, for
Rotterdam with some 600 Canad-
ian and American students.

continually crowded dock; earnest
groups discussing their answers to
the problems of the world: all re-
main as confused memories of a
boat trip.

June 29—Past the Hook and g0
to Rotterdam and the customs.
Had a funny feeling in my stomach
when I thought that I was soon
going to see the family I was go-
ing to be with for a large part of
the summer. This family turned
out to be a husband and wife, age
85, a 15-months-old son, and a 13-
year-old boy from Dutch Guiana
then studying in Holland. Ideally
the family with which you stay
was supposed to have someone
you own age, so that the Knyty-

Bryn Mawr Innocents Puzzled
By Home Journal Questionnaire

Reading a paper at a meeting of |

sers, although nice, were hardly

etc? Why?

A: Pneee just it...

Q. Are most students hard work-
ers or “loungers?”

A. Yes.

Q. What makes a girl popular?

A. Because...

Q. Describe your ideal man.

A. \Cro-Magnetic.

Q. Do most men (and girls) pre-
fer dates from other schools
to dates from your school?

A. Definitely. You see, the girls
at Bryn Mawr...

Q. (Why?

4. Princeton is so much nearer. .

Q. What is the dating deadline
for girls?

\. 13 bells.

Y. For boys?

‘A. Next belle.

2. How would you define ‘making
love’ as is meant at your
school?

A. The proper study of mankind
is man.

2. Do you make love on most



Seniors are reminded that the
deadline for the M. Carey Tho-
mas Prize is May .first. The
prize is not restricted to essays,
as information in the College
Calendar implies, but is award
ed for any kind of writing, cre-
ative or critical, prose or poet-
ry. Entries should be taken to
Miss Campion in the President’s
Office. The judges will be Miss
Stapleton, Miss Meigs, and Miss
Linn of the English Depart-
ment,







dates?

% Well, that...

2. What proportion of the eve-
ning ?

A. E equals me squared.

2. Do you think some/many/

most coeds have gone farther?
A. There’s a new book out by a
man named Kin...
Q. What do you talk about in bull |
sessions?
A. There’s a new book out by a
man named Kin...

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Violoncello, Piano

Will Play Sunday

The fourth in the Young Musi-
‘ians Concert Series will take place
at the home of Miss Gertrude Ely.
Erling Bengtsson will paly the
violoncello and Theodore Lettvin
the piano. The program is as. fol-
lows: Toccata and fugue in C
minor by Bach, Sonata for Cello
and Piano in A major by Beetho-
ven, Impromptu in C minor, Ob.
90. No. 1 by Schubert, Nocturne
in F minor and Ballade in G minor
by Chopin, and Sonata for ’Cello
ind Piano by Debussy. The fifth
and final concert may feature the
woodwind quintet which played in
the Deanery on February 13th.



Calendar

Thursday, March 3

7:15 p. m. Religious Discus-

_ sion, Mrs, Zarina Kukde, Com-

mon Room.
Sunday, March 6

5:00 p. m. Young Musicans
‘Concert, Miss Ely’s.

7:30 p. m, ‘Chapel,
Room.
Monday, March 7

7:15 p. m. Current Events.
Wednesday, March9

Music



oo | what I had expected, _ in-

—Sleeping in-a hold with 150 other My first din
girls; breakfast of cheese, cold
cuts, break, and lukewarm tea; a

enr was followed by coffee and co-
Continued on page 4





8:30 p. m. Sigma Xi Lecture,
Dalton.

Both Playwrights’

Collier, Jones Present
Original Plays
Friday
by Betty Lee, ’52

Skinner Workshop, Feb. 25. Two
original plays were produced Fri-
day evening, the first Playwright’s
Night. The plays were written in
Mr. Thon’s Playwrighting class
and directed, staged and acted by
the authors.

The first play “How Like An An-
gel” by Reg Collier, acted by Lois
Miller, Sam Henderson and the au-
thor, had a magazine-like theme
but was well developed and writ-
ten. The dialoguing was convinc-
ing, but some uncomfortably long
black-outs made the production
drag and lose contact.

The second one-act play, “The
White Witch of Rose Hall” by Ev-
an Jones, caused much suspense
because of the excellent acting of
Lola Mary Egan, Richard Johnson
and the author. The scene was
laid in the West Indies where a
white witch was thought to haunt
Rose Hall, an old mansion bought
by an estranged American couple,

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Delegates Meet
In Mock Session

Of UN Council

The first session of the Model
Security Council was held on Feb-
ruary 23 at Bryn Mawr. Delegates
from seventeen schools in the Phil-
adelphia area gathered at the
Deanery to discuss the admission
of Spain into the UN. Amidst
much buzzing—(‘“but Great Brit-
ain isn’t really for it;” “Well, she’s
going to be tonight”’—‘“‘We passed
Argentina on the way up—it’ll be
here any minute.”—“But what do
you do in a Deanery?’) — the
delegates took their seats around
a placard-laden conference table.
Frances Edwards, chairman of
the meeting and head of the Bryn
Mawr-Haverford delegation, repre-
senting Egypt, announced that the
provisional agenda would be fol-
1owed. Despite the dismayed whis-



PURCHASE CARDS

The results of the Purchase
60
for; 183 against; and-1 undecid-
ed. The total number of, votes
was 244,

Card Poll are as _ follows:







per of an unknown delegate, “What
the hell is a provisional agenda?”,
Argentina (Beaver) presented a
resolution to admit Spain to mem-
bership.

The U. S. (Penn) and France

(Temple) vigorously opposed this,
pointing out “the totalitarian char-
acter of the Franco regime” and
stating that “the Spanish people
themselves should peacefully re-
store self-government.”
Great Britain (Swarthmore) to
the surprise of everyone who had
not been caucusing beforehand,
supported the resolution, saying
that the non-political agencies of
the UN could help Spain to raise
her standard of living. In answer
to a question from the Ukraine
(Ursinus) about the sudden switch
in policy, Britain remarked non-
chalantly, “The policies of any na-
tion are subject to change.”









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Nights Successful;

Plays Show Contrast and Competence

Goldberg, Dyson, Lynch
Present Scripts
Saturday

~~ By Joan McBride, °52

Three original scripts were pro-
duced at the Skinner Workshop on
Saturday night, February 26, the
second Playwrights’ Night. Inherit
the Wind, by Helen Goldberg, was
a play about a girl with the wan-
derlust and her attempt to break
away from the attentions of her
family. Though the situation was
rather unconvincing, because much
of the building dialogue was with-
out significance, there were prom-
ising character developments and
quite a few amusing lines. Also
commendable was the contrast be-
tween the happiness of the family
in the beginning and the eventual
dissolution into quarrels and bit-
terness. There was good observa-
tion in the indecision of the family
as to where to hang the picture,
although the whole episode was
poorly contrived.

Kramer Animated

The cast included Margo Vorys,
Nancy Riley, David Thomas, Sue
Kramer, and Harriet Rhodes. The
best part, that of Mrs. Gorse, the
talkative visitor, was given to Sue
Kramer, and she did an expert
job with it. In her bouncing walk,
flightly gestures, and incessant
chatter, she succeeded in portray-
ing “the closest thing to an ani-
mated cartoon.” David Thomas,
as the disappointed father, was
also sympathetic and convincing,
and Harriet Rhodes, though she
started off slowly, warmed up to
her part in the end.

The second play, Intrusion in
August, was written by John Dy-
son and seemed uncomfortably
reminiscent of previous and better
dramas on the same subject. The
entire play was much too dramatic;
and the symbolism of the mother,

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E-SU to Award

Prize for Essay

The English-Speaking Union is
sponsoring an essay contest for
the purpose of “greater under-
standing between the English -
speaking peoples of the world.”
The topics for the essays are
| Methane for Dispelling Misunder-
standing Between the United
States and Great Britain” and
“Peacetime Responsibilities of Eng-
lish-Speaking Peoples.” A _ prize
of a $1000 trip to England this
summer will be awarded to the
winning essayist. All entries must
be submitted before April 1st, 1949,
to the Philadelphia Branch, Eng-
lish-Speaking Union, 937 Land
Title Bldg., Philadelphia 10, Penn-
sylvania. The winners will be an-
nounced by April 30, 1949.

The rules for the contest are as
follows: the essay should be not
more than 1000 words long; an
original and one copy, typewritten
and double spaced, should be sub-
mitted, with the author’s name and
address on the upper left hand
corner of each sheet; the author
must be an American citizen, not
over twenty-eight years of age.







DEBATE
There will be a debate in the
Rhoads showcase this Thursday
night at 8:30 p. m., on the sub-
ject of Federal Aid to Educa-
tion.