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VOL. XLVI, NO. 13 ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1950
Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1950
PRICE 15 CENTS
‘McBride Calls
Harvard Report
Of Basic Use
Inert Ideas Useless;
Must Become
Active
On Wednesday, February 8, the
second morning of the spring
semester, Miss McBride spoke to
the 8:45 assembly in Goodhart.
She outlined briefly the pro-
gram for general education pre-
sented in the Harvard Report and
which the Harvard faculty voted
compulsory last spring. General
education is needed to do away
with the “inert ideas” which
‘Whitehead describes in his essay
Aims of Education. “Inert ideas,”
he says, are ideas which are not
“utilized, or tested or thrown into
fresh combinations.” Education
must be more than just an accu-
mulation of “inert ideas”—useless
scraps of information.
This sort of useless idea is liable
to occur in the mind of a person
‘who is not going into a profession
and yet is subjected to a special-
ized profession-preparatory educa-
tion. That person needs to be ed-
ucated in a different way—in the
‘way described by Harvard’s new
program as “General Education,”
General education is directed to-
ward the student’s “life as a re-
sponsible human being and a
citizen.” It requires each student
to take three elementary courses
—one in the humanities, one in the
‘social sciences, one in the natural
sciences — and three advanced
courses, From the eighteen ad-
vaneed courses one may choose
such subjects as “Classics of the
Christian Tradition,” “Art in
Man’s Environment,” or “The Im-
pact of Science on (Modern Life.”
These courses in general educa-
tion are continued all through the
Continued on Page 2
Harvard Dunces Are B M’s
‘‘Last Resort’’ Entertainment
“The Last Resort,” the annual
Freshman Show, will be presented
at 8:30, Saturday evening, Febru-
ary 18, at Goodhart Hall, The tic-
kets are on sale at the Public Re-
lations Office. The complete cast
is as follows: Sidekick, Myra Bec-
ker; Rastus, Cinnie Comley; Hero,
Ronnie Gottlieb; Intellectual,
Kathy Lurker; Joe, Penny Rand;
Proprietor, Cookie Sciotto; Sexy
Gal, Sally Shoemaker; Margaret,
San Tilghman; Bess, Cory Voor-
his; Eskimo Girl, June Wasser.
The Kick Chorus: \Castor, Ches-
ton, [H. (Cooper, Kramer, Kunze
Ludington, Maude, McCulloch, Ra-
ven, Neuses, Simmons, Stehli.
Prospectors: Brittain, Brown,
Burelbach, |Cheston, ‘Cross, Greer,
Kimball, Leeds, A. Martin.
Old Prospectors: Drinkle, Rei-
gal, Stephen.
Continued on Page 2
Committee Meets
To Plan Revisions
Of Self-Gov Rules
Newly elected members of the,
committee which meets every four
years to decide on revisions of the
self-government constitution are:
Marge Carlson—Denbigh.
Sue Kramer—Merion.
Frieda Wagoner—Non-Res.
Marilie Wallace—Pem West.
Elizabeth Nelidow—Pem East.
Anne Bobis—Radnor.
Ellie Gunderson—Rhoads.
Betty Goldblatt—Rockefeller.
Ellen Shure—Wyndham.
Plans for the committee include,
first, a trip back to the halls this
week to conduct meetings in order
to gather public opinion about re-
visions. After these meetings the
representatives will meet and com-
pile all suggestions.
The Revisions Committee func-
tions independently of the Execu-
Continued on Page 2
Three Playwrights’ Nite'‘Dramas
Show Promise, Still Experimental
by Paula Strawhecker, °52.-
This year’s Playwrights’ Night,
held January 18th in the Skinner
Workshop, demonstrated more
technical knowledge of the struc-
ture of the one-act play, more
thoughtful production, and a more
interesting if conventional choice
of plots than did the two evenings
of last year. The three original,
all-student productions had a pro-
fessional quality, especially evi-
dent in production, that has been
lacking in many previous non-
varsity plays.
Leila Kirpalani’s One Track, a
moody, impressionistic psycholog-
ical study dealing with a frater-
nity initiation, was easily the most
ambitious and interesting of the
three plays. The author is well
acquainted with the limits as well
as the advantages of the one-act
play and obviously planned to in-
tegrate plot and study into the
most exciting kind of play. The
story contains excellent possibil-
ities for both: Tom, a college fra-
ternity member must put a pledge
under the same test he himself
endured, that of being tied to a
railroad track while a train ap-
‘proaches and then follows a paral-
Jel track. In a desolate place near
the tracks, three members wait for
the boy’s ordeal to be over. Tom’s
life, it seems, was completely
changed by his experience and he
believes the pledge would be bet-
ter dead. He is also interested in
the pledge’s girl. As the train
passes, the brothers learn that Tom
has intentionally tied him in the
train’s path. The pledge is found
alive, however, for the passing
train was a special on the other
track.
The mood was excellently con-
veyed inthe set and Brooks Coop-
er’s direction was intelligent and
gffective. The emotional tension
was heightened expertly until the
last few minutes when the plot be-
gan to run away with the play and
the character study of Tom seemed
to have been abandoned.
The author’s choice of plot
shows that she has originality and
perception; her dialogue for an all
male cast was appropriate and
masculine. The change of em-
phasis and the loss of Tom as a
personality were the only major
faults in a fine and promising
play. :
Victor Jowers’ comedy, When
John, was a rampant delight. Com-
Continued on Page 5
Winged cupids and the music of
‘Lester Lanin’s orchestra will com-
bine to bring you a mammoth be-
lated Valentine after the Fresh-
man (Show. On the night of Feb-
ruary eighteenth, hearts ‘will drive
basketballs out of the gym from
eleven till two in the morning, and
Bryn Mawrters will find one more
resort even after The Last Resort
of the class of 53.
‘At intermission when the fam-
ous orchestra of Lester Lanin stops
making beautiful music, the
Dunces of Harvard, fifteen strong,
will take over to sing.
‘Ann Hinman is in general
charge of the dance. Publicity is
being handled by Julie Freytag
and ‘Mary Starkweather is re-
sponsible for decorations. The
dance committee is made up of
Emmy (Cadwalader and Maddie
Blount in Rhoads, Nancy Bolton in
Rock, Nancy Blackwood and Claire
Minton in the Pems, Mary (Cluett
in Wyndham, Betsey Repenning in
Denbigh, El Lyman in Merion, and
Pat ‘Donoho in Radnor.
The Undergrad dance is as usual
formal, and permission givers can
be prevailed upon to grant 3:30
permissions—which should please
those struck by the arrows of Eros
while he presides at the dance!
BMC, HC Decide
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You Can Take It
On March 17 and 18 in Goodhart
Hall, the Drama Guild and the
Cap and Bells Club of Haverford
College will present Kaufman and
Hart’s always-popular comedy,
You Can’t Take It With You.
The show is being directed by
Marjorie Low, who has starred
with great success in many of the
last three years’ local theatrical
productions. She was upperclass-
man director of this year’s Rhoads
Freshman Hall Play, Waiting for
Lefty, and is vice president of the
Drama Guild. This is her first of-
ficial directing job for the Bryn
Mawr-Haverford drama clubs.
The cast of You Can’t Take It
With You is as follows:
Penelope Sycamore
Patricia Richardson
HSS1O— siseees diseediuss Lola Mary Egan
IRNG@DE ciseak aise Suzanne Kramer
Paul Sycamore ........ Floyd F. Ford
Continued on Page 5
CALENDAR
Thursday, February 16
Russian Lecture, Dr. Herbert
Marcuse; Swarthmore, 8:15 p.m.
Saturday, February 19
Freshman Show, “The Last
Resort”; Goodhart, 8:30 p.m.
Monday, February 20
Current Events, Miss Hertha
Kraus: “Germany: Major Social
Problems”; Common Room, 7:15
p.m.
Tuesday, February 21
Art Series Lecture, Albert M.
Friend, Jr., “The Church of the
Holy Apostles, Constantinople—
a Reconstruction of the Lost
Mosaic Cycle”;: Goodhart, 8:30
p.m.
Wednesday, February 22
Morning Assembly, Mrs.
Helen Taft Manning, “The
Deanery”; 8:45 a.m.
Modern Dance Workshop,
Principles and Motivations of
Choreography; Skinner Work-
shop, 8:30 p.m.
Freshmen Exhibit Frozen Assets
Fieser Discusses
Cortisone as Aid
For Arthrities
Dalton, Thursday, February 9,
8:30—Former Bryn Mawr profes-
sor Dr. Louis F. Fieser, now Pro-
iffegsor of Organic Chemistry at
Harvard, delivered a Science Club
lecture on the Status of the Corti-
sone Problem.
After diagramming the organic
structure of cortisone, a hormone
produced in the adrenal gland, Dr.
Fieser reviewed the discovery of
cortisone as an alleviative treat-
ment for arthritis.
(He surveyed the problem with
emphasis on the role played by
American Journalism, and stressed
the harm that sensationalist news-
paper articles caused by ground-
lessly-.stirring public feelings that |
cortisone is “a boon to sufferers
of rheumatoid arthritis.”
He told of the isolation of cor-
tisone, and of another hormone,
a protein, ACTH, from a group
of _26adrenal_secretions. With
slides, Dr. Fieser illustrated the
similarities of construction of
these two hormones that in some
degree relieve arthritis, and re-
marked that there is “considerable
specificity of construction. in re-
gard to action among the com-
pounds isolated.”
‘Contrasted to the fact that hor-
mones, as vitamins, are usually ef-
Continued on Page 2
Study of Classics
Supplies Relation
To Moral Destiny
Common Room, January 18. The
Classics Club presented a round
table discussion of “The Value of
the Classics in Modern Education.”
The speakers were Drs. Nahm,
Gilbert, Lattimore, Berliner, and
Chew.
Dr. Nahm claimed that the edu-
cational system at Bryn Mawr
was based on classical training
and compared it to the female
nurseries in Lilliput. There was
no difference in the education for
male and female except in scope:
“the women were taught simply
and solely because they could not
remain young.” He asserted that
we must apply what we are taught
to nature and to our fellow men:
‘In some degree the study of the
classics is a technical study as well
as science and philosophy.” It is
a study of what happens in civil-
ization. Dr. Nahm spoke of the
“intrinsic value in classics,” which
contain a beauty that we must
recognize.
By studying the classics we free
ourselves from our natural values,
we become an individual against
the common heritage of culture.
By learning to apply the means to
the end, we learn to relive that
heritage.
Our education is founded on
Continued on Page 4
Flock to the Wilds of Alaska;
Drown Your Sorrows in Snow
by Barbara Joelson, ’52
Have you found stones (reput-
edly uranium): in your mailbox
lately? Have you seen Eskimos
rubbing noses in Taylor, and igloos
in the library? Don’t be too con-
fused ... it will all become clear
on February 18th when the Fresh-
men present their show “The Last
Resort.” Set in the wilds of
Alaska, it harks back to goldrush
days, but this time the goal of the
search is uranium, Those taking
part in this prospecting project
range from the Intellectual Girl
who realizes that “Love doesn’t
come to Geology Majors,” to the
old-timer mourning that “Where
there was golddust, there’s just
mud today.”
There are icebergs and snowy
mountains looming in: the back-
zround; a red-and-white-clad kick
chorus with Rockette precision;
’coonskin caps, disillusioned “ex-
fans of Bergman,” and a strong,
silent Princetonian, There is a
Bryn Mawrtyr who sings about
the “tale old Taylor tower could
tell,” a debutante telling how she
was “Abroad” her junior year, a
would-be lover entreating “Won't
you be my little polar bear?”, an
Eskimo with “Those lonely igloo
blues” who longs for someone to
rub noses with, and a chorus girl
who thinks that polaroids are baby
Polar bears.
“The Last Resort” is a run-down
hotel, definitely on its last legs,
It is inhabited by the manager,
his wife and daughter, and several
prospectors left-over from the
days of the gold rush. When uran-
ium deposits are discovered, mod-
ern society descends bringing ro-
mance to the daughter, youth and
femininity to the prospectors,
money to the manager, and gen-
eral excitement and chaos to
everyone concerned. The “char-
acters,” songs, puns, and mugging
allow for never a dull moment.
“The foremost component of true
romance,” we are informed, “is the
tremendous and gratifying impact
of two intellects.” We are given
the story of what happens when
“damsels go a-wooing,” and are
pointed out the difference existing
between “old prospectors and eld-
erly prospects.” All this plus seals,
spies, and much spirit congregates
at the “Last Resort,” where you
can “drown all your sorrows in
snow,” and escape from anything
faintly resembling reality for at
least the space of one evening,
Page Two
THE COLLEGE NE
ws
Wednesday, February 15, 1950
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Current Events
‘Common Room, Feb. 13.—Miss
McBride limited her discussion,
Federal: Aid To Education, to the
“youngest trees’: the greatest
problem is laid to schools. Old un-
solved problems, the special im-
portance of education today, and
the large number of war babies
have contributed to form a s0-
called “educational depression.”
Differences in educational oppor-
tunity among states are striking.
Furthermore, ten of the states
with the largest percentage of
school-age children are those
which have the lowest income per
child. State salaries vary greatly:
six of the states with the lowest
income per child have salaries un-
der $2000 (contrasting with the
national average, $2700). States
with low educational income have
a larger expenditure for schjol
operation than states with high
income.
(Miss McBride emphasized that
despite the lack of balance among
state educational opportunities
most plans provide aid to wealthy
states.
' In Congress are two bills pro-
posing to equalise educational op-
portunities. The Bi-partisan Bill
provides a budget of $3800,000,000.
Each state would allocate its share
according to its laws, except that
exclusively negro schools would
receive a minimum of five dollars
Entered as second class matter at the Ardmore, Pa., Post Office
Under Act of Congress August 24, 1912
- Election Revisions
When new cfficers are elected each year, the major
problems are to select candidates capable of fulfilling their
offices and to acquaint the freshmen with both the functions
of the offices and the candidates nominated. This year a
step is being taken to help relieve these difficulties.
The nominating committees will send members to in-
terview possible candidates, their hall presidents, and the
students with whom they have worked. This will enable the
committees to receive a broader picture of the candidates
and ascertain the quality of their achievements, upon which
they will be judged. The final candidates will not only be
introduced in Freshman class meetings, but will be discussed
in hall meetings, where freer discussion by upperclassmen
may acquaint the Freshmen more fully with the candidates,
their achievements, and future responsibilities.
These two innovations in the election procedure are
purely experimental. Every candidate and voter is urged to
realize that a campus office is not only a job but an oppor-
tunity. It is more than an extra-curricular activity; it is
an opening into future responsibility.
The Dark Flower
You and I live happily and safely in heated halls, well
read, well fed, well adjusted. We have every advantage that
the best of environments and the best of educators can give
us. Are we therefore, all of us, young women of the highest
integrity ?
We are not.
Some one among us has carefully jimmied the Soda
Fountain lock at least weekly since before Thanksgiving.
She has indulged her love of bacon, crackers, and ice cream
to such an extent that four children born into the poverty of
a Philadelphia slum will not be able to go to the Bryn Mawr
summer camp. A few weeks ago a completed set of law
briefs disappeared during dinner from a senior’s reserved
desk in the library. Halls with open bookshops are again
losing large sums of money. An advanced philosophy paper
on which may depend a senior’s graduate scholarship van-
ished mysteriously from Pembroke last week.
One person is not responsible for all of these thefts. One
attitude, however, which seems to be increasing on campus,
is responsible. We grow selfish and complacent in our ivory
tower. There are those who reject the necessity for ethical
conduct and scorn old-fashioned morals. Honor is a word
some laugh at. We don’t seem to care any more whether
or not we are good citizens. \
This is not a glowing picture of Bryn Mawr College
women. Yet as long as these crimes occur we are all under
suspicion as criminals. We must get at the root of the
problem, get rid of the attitude that “anything goes, as long
‘as I get what I want.” Our basic selfishness has contributed
_ to the campus-wide growth of the dark flower of dishonesty.
per child; the poor states would
, get funds up to fifty dollars per
jehild provided they made a suf-
ficient “effort.” The Barden Bill
(same budget) would deny aid to
non-public schools.
The controversies in federal aid
to education are: whether federal
aid involves federal control, and
the question of church and state.
Miss McBride added that the ques-
‘tion of the distribution of money
to the states has not been general-
ly discussed. A compromise bill
Sees have to be developed in Con-|
gress.
(Miss McBride concluded by men-
tioning that federal aid to uni-
versities has already been begun
in the form of research grants.
College Clarifies
Auto Regulations
The College rule concerning driv-
ing is that students may not have
cars at college and that they may
drive only under special circum-
stances. Because of recent con-
fusion and misunderstanding, the
rules need to be clarified at this
time, —
The ru eans that students
who drive cars while in residence
must do so when\a parent, guard-
ian, or close relative-who assumes
family responsibility is in the car.
It is not expected that students
will sign out for an afternoon or
an evening to the nearby address
of a friend in order to drive. No
college after an absence in a car
to be driven by herself and left at
a nearby residence or garage.
In case of emergency, any stud-
ent may consult the Dean about
exceptions to the rule.
Miss McBride Explains
Needs in Education
Continued from Page 1
upper years of college; that is an
essential point in the program. An
interdepartmental committee sees
to it that the courses are conduct-
ed with the aims of general educa-
tion in mind.
Miss McBride praised the pro-
gram, saying it was undoubtedly
serving to minimize the accumula-
tion of inert ideas at Harvard, but
she went on to point out the weak-
ness of the plan. Would it not
be possible for the program to do
little more than supply new and
different sorts of inert ideas? This
would be no service to the student
at all.
Faced with this fact, we should
not take an attitude of “What’s
the use?” ‘but should recognize
that the basic service of the pro-
gram is not to present new cours-
es, but to improve teaching. These
courses cannot carry themselves;
they need good teachers. MHar-
vard’s most interested and able
professors are now making this
program work. Good teaching,
however, is more than a good pro-
fessor.
forces”—the professor and the
student. The student can make an
idea either inert or active.
“But iff,” concluded Miss Mc-
Bride, speaking of the student,
“she has studied with an able pro-
fessor, and if she has made her
own attack on his field, then what-
ever the program, inert ideas will
be eliminated and education in the
very large sense of understanding
the stream of events which pours
through life realized in some for-
tunate degree.”
Revisions Committee
Plans 1950 Agenda
Continued from Page 1
student should plan to return to|.
tive Board of Self-Gov in gather-
‘ing information and combines with
| the Board only to make up the fin-
|al ballot.
‘Once the program has been for-
mulated, it will be taken by Presi-
dent Nancy Corkran and Vice-
President Betty Mutch back again
to the individual halls for final dis-
cussion and approval.
Last, there will be balloting in
the simplest ‘yes-no’ form. The
ballots will be distributed five
days before they must be returned,
and a quorum, that is three-fifths
of the student body, must vote on
the measures.
Prospectors, Eskimos
Romp in Frozen North
Continued from Page 1
Chorus Girls: Blair, Culver,
Dole, ‘Fansler, Goldring, Gurevich,
Halperin, J. Martin, Picard.
Eskimos: Singer, Pennypacker;
Dancers: B. Freeman, Jones, Tou-
mey, Stehli, Van Meter, Wasser,
Wright.
Modern Dancers: Blaisdell, Ca-
zale, Culver, Ehlers, deLangley
Trippe.
Seals: Callendar, J ackson, Sim-
mons.
‘Spies:
land,
Push Cart’, Eskimo: Abreu;
Spanish Dancer, Callendar; Blues
} Harrison, : Wright, Hol-
Singer, Maude.
Self-government in Practice
Self-government at Bryn Mawr is the interest of the
students. Too often we tend to forget this, or take it for
granted. But every four years a problem arises which most
clearly affords an opportunity to show student government |?
in action: revisions of the self-government constitution.
1950 revisions are to be handled by a committee of elect-
It is the “resultant of two
ed representatives from every hall on campus, in order to
spread responsibility and authority further into student
hands. Here, in revising our own previously made rules, we
can put the theory of self-government into practice.
The revisions committee is gathering suggestions now;
this is the time to air complaints, and propose new measures.
Constitutional revisions are not the concern of the adminis-
tration, nor the realm of the self-gov executive board, bat
must come from the student body. Hall meetings this week
will bring self-gov to us. The value of the changes made will
be directly proportional to our interest.
Arnold Presents
Emotion Theory
Specially Contributed by
Irina Nelidow, 50
“An Excitatory Theory of Emo-
tion,” presented by Mrs. Magda
Arnold, Associate Professor of
Psychology, w: he subject of
this year’s secormt \Sigma Xi lec-
ture on January 11 in Park.
Mrs. Arnold designed her theory
to illustrate the steps jn the time
sequence of an emotion, and to
show that these steps imply causal
relationships. Her theory, in oppo-
sition to the James-Lange Theory
(which empirical evidence has.
proved wrong), and to the Cannon.
Thalamic Theory, states that emo-
tion is an excitatory phenomenon.
which can be analyzed into at.
least three divisions: fear, anger,
and excitement, which are trans-
mitted by different cortico-thal-.
amic pathways. Cannon had as-
sumed that the cortex acted as an
inhibiting agent on the thalamus,
and had the power to release a
thalamic pattern from cortical
inhibition.
During the process of an emo-
tion, explained Mrs. Arnold, a pri-
mary judgment takes place in the
brain cortex. The cortex then
sends impulses through the thala-
mus to the periphery, which in
turn sends signals back through
the thalamus to the cortex for
a secondary judgment. This sec-
ondary judgment results from the
physical symptoms manifested by
the emotion.
Some emotions, such as feat and
anger, stressed Mrs. Arnold, are
both mentally and physically de-
structive. The suppression of an
emotion causes induced physical
symptoms, and its repression
superimposes the emotion of fear
on the present emotion. However,
a deliberate and reasoned re-evalu-
ation of the primary judgment can
cause the disappearance of the
physical symptoms which were
manifested in the beginning, and
will lead to a healthier state of
mind.
Fieser Tells Effects
Of Cortisone Hormone
Continued from Page 1
y
fective in minute doses, Dr, Fieser
explained, the alleviative effects of
cortisone, require 100 milligrams.
of the substance per day per pa-
tient, “for life as far as anyone
knows.” “Compare with this,” said.
Dr. Fieser, “the five micrograms
per entire treatment of vitamin
B-12, the anti-pernicious anemia.
agent.” Because of the amazingly
large dosage required, Dr. Fieser
suspects that cortisone is possibly
metabolized into something else in
the body, and is itself not the ac-
tive agent.
“The greatest problem of all,”
continued the speaker, “is the
availability of cortisone.” If, as.
newspapers and magazines imply,
America’s seven million arthritis.
sufferers will soon have all the
cortisone they need, it is the chem-
ists’ job to produce somehow 500
pounds of the hormone every day..
With present methods, produc-
tion of this amount is impossible.
For example, 1000 pounds of beef
adrenal gland yield from 300-500'
milligrams, enough for one patient.
for 3-5 days.
‘\As another example, partial
synthesis of desoxycholic acid, 2
minor constituent of the bile, leads
to the formation of cortisone, but
with only a 8% yield. “The
trouble is,” said Dr. Fieser, “there
just isn’t enough bile in the
world!”
Dr. Fieser then spoke of newly
developed methods of synthesis
and mentioned several untested
hypotheses, among them one based’
on the possibility that arachidonic
acid, found in the adrenal gland, is
a possible precursor of the corti-.
sone hormone,
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Wednesday, February 15, 1950
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Page Three
Between the Leaves
Book on Great Drawings
Proves Readable,
Useful
Specially Contributed by
Joseph P. Sloane
One Hundred Master Drawings,
Edited by Agnes Mongan, Cam-
bridge, (Harvard University
Press), 1949, $7.50.
The pleasure to be found in
drawings is of a rather special va-
riety. Persons familiar with the
masters only by way of their
major works are often unprepared
for the more relaxed and informal
quality which they display in pre-
paratory sketches, or the studies
which, though unpretentious, are
eomplete and independent in them-
selves. The delight seems to come
from the quality of line itself,
either alone or reinforced by
simple areas of wash tint, as if
the restrictions put upon the artist
by the narrowness of his medium
were actually advantages which
concentrated his attention and
ours upon the grace and facility of
which line is capable. Within these
confines there is such a wide va-
riety of effect that after looking
at nothing but drawings for a
while, one is tempted to wonder
why anyone should bother with
any other form.
No better introduction to this
engaging type of expression could
be found than Miss Mongan’s col-
lection of plates, but her achieve-
ment does not stop at the produc-
tion of a book of value to begin-
ners, since there is much in it for
the advanced student and the ex-
pert. A good number of the draw-
ings appear here for the first time
in print, and all of them are ac-
companied by brief but authori-
tative descriptions dealing with
style, iconography, and proven-
ance. Analyses of the particular
medium used in each case, listings
of the collections to which the pic-
tures formerly belonged, and
ample bibliographical references
round out the account of each
drawing. The great majority of
the plates are excellent and give
a very fair idea of the richness o
tone possible in various media.
Rare Prints
Many of the descriptions are
written by Miss Mongan herself,
but she has also called to her as-
sistance some of the leading
Américan authorities in this field
among whom might be mentioned
her sister, Elizabeth Mongan,
Jakob Rosenberg, John Newberry,
Felice Stampfle, and John Rewald.
A number of these short notices
are models of their kind: brief,
concise and informative.
The book is an outgrowth of an
exhibition held at the Fogg Mu-
seum in honor of Dr. Paul J.
Sachs, one of the greatest Amer-
ican connoisseurs in this field, but
the original group has been ampli-
fied by items from the Winthrop
Bequest which has made the Fogg
collection outstanding. In a brief
Both Badminton
Teams Victorious
by Emmy Cadwalader, ’52
The first basketball game was
played on Friday, January 13,
against Beaver College. Bryn
Mawr played well, and fought
fiercely, but the final results were
in favor of Beaver. The Varsity
lost by a score of 34-1, and the
Junior Varsity lost 30-24. The
starting line-up was as follows:
VARSITY
Forwards Guards
Parker, ’51 Johns, ’52
Wadsworth, ’52 Perkins, ’52
Tilghman, 53 Gurewich, *53
De Langley, 53 Howell, ’53
JUNIOR VARSITY
Wright, ’53 Atherton, ’52
Kimball, ’53 Lindau, ’53
Cadwalader, ’52 Vorhis, 53
Merritt, ’53 E. Maude, ’52
Parker and Kimball were the
top-scorers in the two games, and
Perkins and Howell did a beauti-
ful job of guarding.
The Badminton Varsity also
played their first match last week.
The Varsity doubles team played
the Merion Cricket Club team on
Wednesday, January 11. The Bryn
Mawr Varsity first and fifth
doubles won their matches, but
lost the second, third, and fourth.
Therefore Merion won in the end
by the small margin of 3-2,
The team was made up of the fol
lowing five sets of doubles:
1. Leeds—MeCulloch
2. Crist—Dawes |
3. Iglehart—Shaw
4, Blackwood—Wallace
5. Rowan—B. Townsend
The Bryn Mawr Fencing team
had their first match of the sea-
son on Saturday, Feb. 11. The
team fenced with the Jersey City
State Teachers College at Jersey
City. The outcome of the match
Continued on Page 6
Young Musicians
Offer New York
On Sunday, March 5, at 8:15 in
the Wyndham Music Room, the
‘Young Musicians will present a
series of compositions by new
composers: Dante Fiorillo’s Mass
for Cello and Piano, performed by
Paul Clefsky, cellist, and Donald
Meminger, pianist; Constant Vau-
clain’s music setting of “Blow,
Blow Thou Winter Wind” and
“Come Away, Death,” sung by
Grace Carlino, soprano, with Don-
ald Meminger as accompanist;
George Rochberg’s Piano Sonata
No. 2, played by Mathilde McKin-
ney; and Five Songs by Willson
Osborne: “Strings in Earth and
Air,” “O Cool Is the Valley,”
“Gentle Lady,” “Rain Has Fallen
Al lthe Day,” and “Sleep Now,”
sung by Vinvent Donato, tenor,
with Donald Meminger as accom-
panist. The composers themselves
will be present, to interpret their
own works.
Further concerts will be held on
Continued on Page 6
March 12 and April 16.
THE OBSERVER |
Specially Contributed by
Anne Greet, °50
First faint muds of spring call
in the door. “Come out,” they
say. “We can’t,” we say.
We saw three bluejays in a
bush, and we went out, The mud
crawled slowly. up between last
autumn’s roots and grasses, and
sank again.
Who on the road, who on the
road, who beside the chestnut
tree? Down the bend someone is
waiting, thinking quietly of some-
thing else. (The dog knows. He
stops and sniffs and watches the
invisible).
This is our road. Silence, riddl-
ing stranger, golden magician of
an alien season, the beginning is
not yet come. This is our road:
Far from the horns, the bells and
Beyond is the forest that has no
ending. Delight of far mountains.
Laurel and pine remember, but
autumn’s leavings lie rusty in the
meadows.
The bottom of the garden is
green with onion grass. Bright-
ness spills over stone walls, down
tree trunks, and. drips along
branches. All the garden will
dance when the revellers come out
in springtime.
And who on the road, in the field
where we watched the elm-tree
flowers, and Sindbad chased dead
leaves across a swamp? He rouses
‘the wanderers with drum and flute
and blazing wand. Lions watch
from the trees. Eagles and fawns
hinder the dance. Outlanders have
invaded our fountained paths, the
peacock’s hill, the forest, weaving
a branch of may, hunting serpents
towers, the closing doors.
across a thundering sky.
by Jane Augustine, ’52
From the first experimenters:
“Are our eyes our own... ?”
Much Ado About Nothing
From any professor over 45:
“A eye-sore to our solemn fes-
ioe tap Barer The Tempest
From the oculist:
“Let me see thine eyes: wink
now: now open them;
In my opinion yet thou seest
not well...”
II Henry VI
From girls in classes at Haverford:
“Men’s eyes were made to look,
and let them gaze!”
Romeo and Juliet
From a poetic Harvardian:
“ |. . miserable, mad, mistaking
eyes” Titus Andronicus
From a disillusioned Yalie:
“Foul imaginary eyes .
King John
From an insouciant Princetonian:
Her eyes are fierce... ”
King Lear
From an intimidated Haverfordian:
“Your eyes do menace me .. .”
Richard III
From wearing 1950 eyes for half
a day:
“Mine yes do itch; doth that
”
.
Horton Defends
Liberal Education
Common Room, Feb. 10, 8:30.
In her informal discussion of the
subject, “How to be Useful though
Educated”, Mildred McAfee Hor-
ton, past president of Wellesley
College, pointed out the difficulties
of post-graduate adjustment, and
the ways in which to solve them.
The Liberal Arts student, in her
opinion, does take from college
rest of the world needs ... an un-
derstanding of the importance of
respect for others which is not in
terms of race, color or creed.
In extending-these ideas to wid-
er areas of society, the college
graduate may be discouraged and
swayed by the opposition which
she will inevitably meet. On the
other hand, she may do more harm
than good by antagonizing those
around her. The best way to fur-
ther the ideas which she has, and
which society needs, is “to take
time, have imagination, and culti-
vate the patience to do so through
the established social institutions
... the human family, the church,
the government, and the school.”
Commenting on the “cynical
note,” in the title of her talk, Mrs.
Horton emphasized the fact that
though “education can _ increase
utility, it does not necessarily al-
ways do so.” This is especially
true if the Liberal Arts program
leads the student to consider unim-
portant those techniques in which
she is not trained. This attitude
is especially prevalent among
housewives. Mrs. Horton suggest-
Continued on Page 4
some ideas and attitudes that ect
ed that household drudgery could
Classical Authorities Agree
With NEWS: The Eyes Have It
bode weeping ... ?”
Othello
| From a precocious little brother:
“Why of eyes’ falsehood hast
thou forged hooks?”
Sonnet 138
From a smoker conversation:
“With two pitchballs stuck in her
face for eyes...”
Love’s Labours Lost
From a crying bout:
“And round her tear-distained eye
Blue circles streamed, like rain-
bows in the sky.”
¥ Rape of Lucrece
From any tidy mathematician:
“Bear thine eyes straight .. .”
Sonnet 140
From any man aware of the 2 a.m.
wash-up:
“Her cloudy looks will calm ere
night...” .. .. Passionate Pilgrim
From the mascara ads:
“So shall inferior eyes,
That borrow their behaviors
from the great,
Grow great by your example...”
King John
“Tt tutors nature: artificial strife
Lives in these touches; livelier
than life...”
Timon of Athens
From Liz Arden:
“black brows, they say
Become some women best, so
that there be not
Too much hair there, but in a
semi-circle
Or a half-moon made with a
pen.” Winter’s Tale
From the blue eye-shadow ads:
“Green eyes are doomed to hell,
And black in purgatory dwell.”
Old French Rhyme
From the student of the ancient
lore of Babyaonian dancing-girls:
“ |. . quaint enamelled eyes”
Milton
‘From a man with experience:
“The cat with eyes of burning
coal.”
|
nye ..' From a boy of inexperience:
intellectual activity, and genuine y
“ .. is thine eye evil .. .?”
From the girl who’s wearing ’em:
“Yes! I have a pair of eyes!”
Dickens
LAST NIGHTERS
Hepburn and Co. Make
“As You Like it’’
Enjoyable
by Barbara Joelson, ’52
As You Like It is one of the
most satisfying dramatic experi-
ences of the season, from an artis-
tic standpoint as well as for pure
enjoyment. So often the ability
of one or two actors, the excel-
lence of the play, or the skilled
production, sets a standard which
is not maintained by the other fac-
tors. But in As You Like It, the
merits of one element do not point
out the flaws of the others, but
rather all parts are mutually ben-
eficial.
(Katharine Hepburn is a most
delightful Rosalind. Although she
is good in the courtroom scene in
the beginning, there is a little too
much “Hepburn” in her character-
ization to make it entirely satisfy-
ing to the audience. However, as
the play progresses and she as-
sumes the guise of the youth,
Ganymede, shé completely loses
herself in the part and proves how
very competent she is. Her inter-
pretation of the lines is spell-bind-
ing and refreshing. She achieves
a wonderful mixture of myster-
iousness and emotion, with just
the right amount of sense of hu-
mor. Especially masterful are her
scenes ‘with Phebe and with Or-
lando, when the conflict between
*Rosalind” and “Ganymede” is
skillfully and delightfully appar-
ent. Sitting on a knoll in the for-
est of Arden and proclaiming her
ability to “do strange things” and
her love for “no woman”, her ef-
fect on the audience is very close
to hypnosis.
William Prince’s Orlando is both
vigorous and romantic: an excel-
lent execution of the _ portrait
Shakespeare drew. Bill Owen, as
Touchstone the Jester, gives an
outstanding performance, with
many gesticulations and much ef-
fective eye-rolling. Also note-
worthy 4s Ernest Thesiger, as
Jacques, attendant on the banished
duke, He is alternately droll and
serious; his reading of the speech
on the seven ages of man is one of
the high spots of the play. Cloris
Leachman (Celia), Jay Robinson
(Le -Beau), and Aubrey Mather
(the Duke) all help to maintaim
this high degree of acting.
The production is beautifully ex--
ecuted. Instead of a curtain be-
tween scenes, a scrim is used. This
helps to preserve the misty, evan-
escent quality that the scenery
creates. This is especially true of
the setting for the forest of Ar-
den, which has an amazing depth
and artistic subtlety: an excellent
background for Katharine Hep-
burn’s spirit and magic.
One of the best things about As
You Like It is that it seems to get
progressively better, and each
scene brings new competence in
acting and production. The result
Continued on Page 4
Bryn Maur Alliance Announces
Schlesinger, Pollak Lectures
witness three speeches in Phila-
Jr., Professor of .History at Har-
vard and author of The Vital Con-
test. The speeches are sponsored
by Americans for Democratic Ac-
tion, and Bryn Mawr attendance
is invited at all of them. The
time and place of these meetings
are as follows: luncheon meeting,
Hotel Adelphia, 12:15-1:55 p. m.
Mr. Schlesinger will debate with
Frederick Chait, formerly General
Counsel of OPA and UNRRA, and
now General Counsel for the Phil-
adelphia Inquirer, on the subject,
“Two Liberal Views of U. S. For-
eign Policy.” The afternoon meet-
ing will be held at 4 p. m. in Hous-
ton Hall, and the subject will be
“Freedom and Security.” ‘Mr.
delphia by Arthur M. Schlesinger, |
This Friday, February 17, will Schlesinger will also speak at 8
p. m. at the meeting of the Amer-
ican Federation of Teachers on
“Liberals at Mid-Century.”
The Alliance has_ tentatively
scheduled for Wednesday evening,
February 22, at 8 p. m. in the
Common Room, a meeting spon-
sored by the Alliance and the IRC.
Thomas Clark Pollak, Dean of the
Graduate School of Washington
Square College of New York Uni-
versity, will speak on “Israel and
the U. N.” Mr. Pollak was form-
erly Professor of University of
Punjab in India and has just re-
turned from a stay in Israel. He
is sent to Bryn Mawr by the
American Christian __ Palestine
Committee. Everyone is invited to
the speech and the informal dis-
cussion which will follow.
Page Four
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Wednesday, February 15, 1950
BM Votes to Aid
Two DP Scholars
Last year the Bryn Mawr Un-
dergraduate Association voted to
support a D.P. scholar, and this
year Undergrad decided not only
to continue aid to the first scholar,
but also to bring over another
student from some D.P. camp in
Europe. To this end a goal of two
thousand, nine hundred dollars has
been set to make possible the pay-
ment of room, board, and tuition
for the-two girls. In addition to
the four dollars asked of every
student, money will be gotten from
the freshman show and junior
prom, and from faculty and alum-
nae. If by chance the goal is ex-
ceeded, the money will be placed
in a fund for next year’s drive.
The D.P.’s themselves, of which
Tiga Brauere is the first, are
brought over by the combined ef-
forts of various relief organiza-
tions which are coordinated under
the IRO (International Refugee
Organization). These groups check
the applicant’s scholastic records,
examine their backgrounds, and
pay passage across the Atlantic.
From there the college takes over,
transporting the girls to Bryn
Mawr, and giving them not only
tuition and board, but also spend-
ing money. To supplement their
allowances, however, the D.P.’s are
asked to take jobs’ on campus, and
they must support themselves, dur-
ing the summer, though the college
makes arrangements for any holi-
days during the school year.
Theoretically, ‘the responsibility
of Undergrad is over after the first
year. However, the students have
agreed to help st 8 the future,
for with the dissolution of IRO
this spring, there will be no fur-
“ther opportunity to get new D.P.
scholars.
Activities Drive
Falls Below Quota
The Activities Drive this year
collected a total of $3,117.35. This
sum fell below the quota by
$182.65, the quota being $3,300.
The average contribution ‘was
$5.70, and contributions by halls
were as follows:
Pem West ......... ene 390.50
Pem East «cuss 467.00
Denbigh ......000....0. 874.00
Merion ...cscceceee seoveee 189.75
Radnor ........... ious 381.50
BRIOIIG icisscosessssianes 596.60
Wyndham ............... . 120.00
(Non-Res .....scsccsoee . 69.00
A chart showing the percentage
of their quota that each hall gave
will be posted on the League bul-
letin board in Taylor in a few
days. The money collected will be
used by the League for financing
its various activities.
Spirited Staging Aids
Shakespearean Acting
Continued from Page 3
is that the audience is gradually
transported to another land, and
never experiences a letdown or an-
ticlimax. One leaves the theatre
with the fullest impact of the
magic of Hepburn, Shakespeare
and As You Like It.
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‘NOTICES
Morning Assembly
The next speaker at the college
assembly on Wednesday, February
22, will be Mrs. Helen Taft Man-
ning, who will discuss the Dean-
ery.
Movies
The next in the Educational
Film Series will be sponsored by
the History of Art Department,
“Leger in America” and “Maillol.”
It will be presented in the Music
Room on Wednesday, February 22,
at 4:15 p.m.
On Saturday, February 19,
“Laura” will be shown in the Com-
mon Room at 2:30 p.m.
Dance Workshop
The Modern Dance Workshop
will present the Themes and Motiv-
ations of Choreography in the
Skinner Workshop on Wednesday,
February 22, at 8:30. It will be a
program of original pieces, fol-
lowed by an informal discussion.
Deanery Party
' On February 22, the Committees
of the Deanery’ will give a party
to the Senior Class, to introduce
to it the Deanery and its facili-
ties. iAn added feature will be a
humarous quiz ‘on college tradition
—and cash prizes for the best an-
swers. Bring pencils.
Rare Book Room
Dr. Herben has collected and ar-
ranged an exhibit on Frederic W.
Goudy, outstanding American type
designer. It will be in the Rare
Book Room until February 28.
Writing Awards
The Katherine Fullerton Gerould
Memorial Prize, of forty to fifty
dollars, awarded on May Day each
year, is open to any student show-
ing evidence of creative ability in
the fields of informal essay, short
story, longer narrative, verse, or
playwriting. The deadline for en-
tries is 4 p.m., Wednesday, April
5th.
The M. Carey ‘Thomas Essay
Prize is awarded annually to a
member of the senior class for dis-
tinction either in critical or crea-
tive writing. Students competing
for the prize must submit manu-
scripts by May Ist.
Open to all poets in the United
States is the Albert Ralph Korn
$100 Lyric Award. Manuscripts
typed in triplicate should be sent
anonymously (with author’s name
in an accompanying sealed en-
velope bearing only the title of the
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Job Conference
When,- on Monday after the
Show, you receive a program an-
nouncing the Week-end Job Con-
ference, don’t toss it in the basket,
tack it on the bulletin board; for
this is going to be a big week-end
too.
On Friday evening, February 24,
at 7:30, there is going to be an
open meeting in the Deanery; a
panel of eight: Mrs. Ruth Hough-
ton— Director of Placement at
Barnard—Moderator; Mrs. MaclIn-
tosh—Dean of Barnard—Subject
Teaching; Mrs. Helen Hill Miller
—Social Science Research; Mrs.
Woolcott Andrews — (Director of
Independent School Placement Bu-
reau—Social Work; Mrs. Dorothy
Hood—Chemist at du Pont—Sci-
ence; Miss Laura Lane—Curtis
Publishing Company — Writing;
Miss Alice Palache—Vice Pres-
ident of a large New York bank—
Business and Banking, will speak,
for about ten minutes. Questions
from students will then be infor-
mally discussed. On Saturday
morning there will be opportunity
for students to have interviews
with the panel memibers—singly
or in groups, as the students de-
sire: (Students will also have a
chance to talk with the speakers
on Friday at dinner. The whole
occasion is expected to be informal
and lively: our “silly questions”
may bring valuable answers. This
opportunity to discuss the prob-
lem of “what next” so freely with
such well-informed women is dis-
tinctly unusual.
The Job Weekend is being or-
ganized by the Alumnae Commit-
tee on Jobs—Alice King, Chair-
man, and the Student Committee
on Jobs — Margery Peterson,
Chairman.
poem) to Margaret Widdemer, 1
W. 67th Street, New York 23.
Poems should not exceed fifty-six
lines.
Five Professors Discuss Classical Traditions,
See Their Study Root of Present Culture
Continued from Page 1
classical learning, but it is a blind,
unenriched heritage unless we
know the language and the litera-
ture of ancient times, for, as Dr.
Nahm concluded, “the past is the
source of our heritage.”
Dr. (Gilbert explained that he
spoke as an historian defending
classical study. “Although I com-
plained about it quite a lot, even
at the same time I enjoyed it and
could not get along without it.”
The classics help us to gain an
“expressionistic, emotional con-
ception of art.” Ag an historian,
Dr. Gilbert admitted that he was
a “humble servant of Clio” and
emphasized the importance of ‘the
ancient world for historical study.
He asked, “What is history, if not
the history of old?” The events
of history are all dependent on
past counterparts, and its aim is
the realization of the process of
civilization, The problems of the
men who were “walking around in
a toga” are still alive today, in a
microcosmic form of the macro-
cosm of present civilization. He
admitted, however, that the world
today is composed of cultures
which have had nothing to do with
Society Finds Room
For Educated Women
Continued from Page 3
be more constructively viewed as
the necessary’ means to the end
of maintaining a family, an excel-
lent channel for values learned
through education.
In concluding, Mrs. Horton gave
three hints for a happier post-
graduate life ...1) Don’t be Frus-
trated, for you have a contribution
to make; 2) Don’t be Frivolous,
for you would waste a valuable
education; 3) Don’t be Frantic, for
you cannot hope to do overnight
what othe?S™have been attempting
for years. If you are any of these,
you will be Futile... “and we
don’t want 4F women.”
SOUTHER D ose
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CALIFOR DIA
Vol XL
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e4 |) ounter does not
classical civilizations: Russia, Ja-
pan, and China. He emphasized
the great danger of chaos and dis-
integration and need of a unifying
bond—the bond of reason develop-
ed by study of the classics.
“The value of the classics ex-
ists for me for mercenary and
other reasons,” claimed Dr. Latti-
more, but their chief value lies in
their intrinsic excellence. “The
literature of the classics is good—
worth studying and_ studying
hard.” The classical tradition is
with ug everywhere; if Greek and
Latin are not read in the original,
they can nevertheless be appre-
ciated in translation; therefore, it
is “necessary for people to ‘deal
with them in a more thorough-
going, technical manner:” not
Plato as Jowett, but as “solid work
to support the rest of the frame-
work.”
Irrespective of his profession,
Dr. Berliner believed in the clas-
sics as the root of present cul-
ture as a whole, not of individual
periods or arts. The classics ‘will
not help to solve specific prob-
lems; the relation between them.
and science is beyond technical
terms. It lies in the development.
of the human mind. The ancients.
explained natural phenomena in
rational terms, for many thoughts
and concepts were first formulated.
|in ancient Greece. For example,.
Democritus did not give us the
atom itself, but the concept of the
atom. (We cannot study a subject.
out of its context, but must also.
consider modern artists, philos-
Continued on Page 6
Was he talking
about
You?
» After spending most of my girlhood im
vitz2rland, | came to your country to study
edicine. 1 was amazed to see how many other-
ise beautiful young girls had poor complexions.
“Why?” I asked a leading skin doctor. For
rarly all the young girls in Switzerland have
rautiful complexions. Only a few ever had
emishes and most of these unfortunate girls
ere in ill-health.
“Why do so many. yourig women in America
ave such poor complexions?”, I repeated.
“The real trouble”, the dermatologist replied,
s largely due to foreign matter that is not re-
oved by ordinary cleansing methods. Ameri-
sn girls use all sorts of cosmetics, but unlike
wiss girls, they often only superficially cleanse
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THE
COLLEGE NEWS
Page Five
Playwrights’ Night Provides Entertainment,
Diversity, and Food for Future Discussion
Continued from Page 1
bining a hyper-literary cocktail
party, a telephone marriage bu-
reau and a collegiate Don Juan
(well played by the author) this
was the most enjoyable and com-
fortable of the three plays. The
plot was important only as it pro-
vided situations for comedy. The
dialogue was fast, witty and oc-
casionally very funny. The acting
was an abandoned as the plot, and
in perfect harmony with the dia-
logue.
Unfortunately the author took a
strangle hold on some of the fun-
niest situations, and, repeating an
incident or line, often spoiled a
good moment. The party scene
was the best of the play; after it,
both dialogue and situation degen-
erated from satire to comedy to
weak farce. The marriage bureau
episode seemed to belong to a sep-
arate play—the telephone ritual
was laboriously contrived and the
ending came as a complete shock.
Mr. Jowers apparently forgot his
comddy and presented the saccharin
ending of a B movie.
‘Although the play was a great
success, it is doubtful it would
have had the same reception from
any but a college audience. Mr.
Jowers has a tendency to let his
knowledge of the comic situation
wander to the slapstick and to let
his ease with dialogue become fa-
cility. By curbing these inclina-
tions he could perfect an already
obvious talent for satire and
comedy.
Jackie McMillan was attractive
and at ease as the girl in the story
and Ann Blaisdell and Robert
Brown overlooked nothing in their
direction.
Thy Will Be Done, David Phil-
lips’ story of a mercy killing, pre-
sented a topical and dramatic
problem in platitudes. Whether or
not the choice of situation was in-
fluenced by current headlines, the
author was far more intrigued
with the idea of the plot than with
the plot itself. Character deline-
ation was weak and development
so obvious that the play became
uncomfortable. For an unknown
reason, the cast refused to use
even the most natural contrac-
tions, a stilted mannerism that
contributed to the composite effect
of stoic resignation to the lines.
They must have been difficult to de-
liver, but the actors gave the
author no assistance and spoke
each sentence as a platitude.
The story is basically sound and
moving; with more thoughtful dia-
logue and less obvious plot clues,
the play could be vastly improved.
Mr. Phillips red a common dif-
ficulty: achievemént of the proper
combination of lucidity and subtle-
ty.
All three playwrights show
promise; they have overcome the
mechanics of playwriting. In vary-
ing degrees they should study
character delineation, story line,
and familiarize themselves with
dialogue. Audience reaction is the
best and perhaps the only way to
determine the success of their ef-
fort. Fortunately Playwrights’
Night is becoming as rewarding
for the audience as it has for the|
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Incidentally
From the Italian department
comes this boner:
“Dante puts contemporaries in
here (Hell) to give it a realistic
touch and also an impersonal view
as it is hard to place your friends
in Hell.”
A recent male visitor to this
campus, obviously unaccustomed to
the vagaries of American institu-
tions of higher learning, remarked
that we were a group of “painted
trollops, romping around in the
Gothic interior!”
Flattery will get you nowhere!
The next speaker to be present-
ed by the Classics Club is Mr.
Anthony Andrews of the Institute
for Advanced Studies at Prince-
ton. “Changes in the Greek con-
ception of tyrant and king” will
be the subject of the lecture which
will be given in the Common Room
at 4 o’clock, February 23.
Low Completes Cast _—
For Family Comedy
Continued from Page 1
Mr. De Pinna ..........John Kittredge
RUlds sesiatidabiagesiiswinccsissiice Ted Jamison
Donald ...1...........Hugh Downing
Martin Vanderhof ....Robin Nevitt
OD Hadi tiniieictivwsinn sc: Nancy ‘Pearre
Henderson .............Robert Reynolds
OR BIE cisscasssscensessece John Acton
Boris Kolenkhov
F. Jackson Piotrow
Gay Wellington ...........June Moyer
Mr. Kirby ..........Brooks B. Cooper
Mrs. Kirby ........Maxine Skwirsky
IR scitisrssconsed Claireve Grandjouan
Three MeN ...esce....cssseees G. Macbeth
H. Shoemaker, P. Wallerstein
The stage manager is Ellen Ba-
con, and Margaret Turner is the
Props are being done
by (Mary Connelly, and lights by
Elizabeth Nelidow.
prompter.
Marcuse to Talk
In Russian Series
The second in this year’s series
of six Russian lectures will be
given at the Meeting House,
Swarthmore College, on Thursday
evening, February 16, at eight-
fifteen o’clock. The speaker of
the evening will be Herbert Mar-
cuse, Chief of the Central Eu-
ropean Branch of the Division of
Research for Europe, of the State
Department. Mr. Marcuse has
chosen as his topic “Peoples’ De-
mocracies — Thejr Theory and
Practice.”
This lecture, a part of the series
entitled “Soviet Russia Today,”
is a part of the joint program of
Russian studies made possible by
a Carnegie Corporation grant to
Haverford, Swarthmore, and Bryn
Mawr. Transportation to Swarth-
more will be provided for this lec-
ture.
Vith smokers who
els for
ildness
Yes, Camels are SO MILD that in a coast-
to-coast test of hundreds of men and women
who smoked Camels—and only Camels—for
30 consecutive days, noted throat specialists,
making weekly examinations, reported
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—
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Wednesday, February 15, 1950
“100 Master Drawings”
Proves Valuable Study
Continued from Page 3
review it is. not possible to men-
tion even a fair number of the
treasures contained in this small
volume for only a cursory inspec-
tion reveals one favorite after
another: a finely impressionistic
landscape by Van Dyck (who
never painted anything of the kind
in oil), an unpublished portrait
of a baby by J. F. Millet, Wolf-
gang Huber’s Annunciation to
Joachim, the study for the Libyan
Sibyl by Michelangelo which is un-
doubtedly one of the great draw-
ings of the world and many more.
Each reader will have to make his
own selection, All the drawings
are from American coliections
whose richness in this direction is
amply evidenced, but from this
fact derives the only defect which
the book seems to contain: some
of the drawings are not the best
possible examples of the master’s
work in the medium. This applies,
for instance, to the Horse and
Rider by Leonardo and the rather
worn Portrait of a Child by Van
Dyck. It is, however, but a minor
flaw.
No account of the book can omit
mention of the concise and en-
lightening essay on “Drawing and
the Man of Letters” by Jean
Seznec with which it opens. In a
field often overburdened with
rather pedantic scholarship, it is
a pleasure to read something at
once so deft and so solid. This
short discussion exactly sets the
tone for Miss Mongan’s book, and
an excellent tone it is.
Seniors: Don’t forget the
(party at the Deanery, on Feb-
ruary 22. See Notices Column,
Tennis, Swim Teams
Show Promising Skill
Continued from Page 3
was 5-4 in favor of the J.C.T.C.
Varsity and 5-4 in favor of the
B.M. Junior Varsity. The three
varsity players were B, Wood, N.
Greenwalt, A. Chowning, and the
J.V. players were Hendrick, Zim-
melman, and Freedman. The next
match will be held on Wednesday
night, Feb. 15 at 8:00 in the Bryn
Mawr Grad. Center Gym, so any-
one who would like to se@ this
match against Penn will be very
welcome...
The three Varsity Basketball
teams played their second game
this season against Penn on Sat-
urday, Feb. 11. The first team
lost to Penn by the score of 38-7,
the second team lost to Penn 34-
24, while the Third team tied their
score 20-20. The squad is look-
ing much better this year: than
those of previous years.
The Badminton Varsity and J.V.
both won smashing victories over
Chestnut Hill on Wednesday, Feb.
8. Each team wan by a score of
5-0, which predicts even greater
victories in the future.
The Varsity and J.V. Swimming
teams also won by a large margin
over Chestnut Hill on Feb. 10. The
Bryn Mawr team showed exceed-
ing the match.
The freshman class is happy to
announce that Kathy Lurker is
their class member of the League.
ingly excellent style and skill dur-| 7
College Glee Clubs
To Join in Chorus
a
The Bryn Mawr Chorus will be
joined by the Vassar ‘College Choir
and the Smith College Glee (Club
to present a varied choral program
in Goodhart on Friday evening,
March 4,
The choruses will combine to
sing “Psalm 150” by Franck, and
Handl’s “Repleti Sunt.” The Bryn
Mawr group’s program includes
“Madrigaletto” by Bouchieri,
“Madrigal aux Muses” by Rous-
sel, part of the “Mass in Three
Voices” by Byrd, and a selection
from Stravinsky’s ‘‘Persephone”
which they performed in Carnegie
Five Professors Discuss Classical Traditions,
See Their Study Root of Present Culture
Continued from Page 4
phers, and scientists: “A person
who has not heard of Hiroshima
cannot understand the present
time.” A given period may not be
appreciated without knowledge of
the aspects of that time. The
creative mind will have to “syn-
thesize” the present with the past.
Dr. Chew admitted that in one
respect he was like Shakespeare,
‘with small Latin and less 'Greek”;
Hall earlier this season. The solo
soprano in this work will be E. J.
Conner. C. Cheremeteff will take
the part of the recitante.
he could “hear the bells tolling
far off and wished they were
nearer.”’ Translations, however
skillful they may be, are never as
appreciable as the original. He
cited as an example the French
translations of Shakespeare: “Ro-
meo, Romeo, ou es tu, Romeo?”
and “Etre ou ne pas etre; voila la
question.”
Dr: Chew’s concluding observa-
tion summarized the dominant
opinion of all the participants in
the panel: by studying the classics,
we have a “sense of companion-
ship with the moral destination of
the modern world.”
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