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VOL. XLVI, NO. 2
ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1949
Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College,1945
PRICE 15 CENTS
B. M. Theatre,
Informal, Gay,
Offered 5 Hits
Hammerstein, Webster
Spoke on Aspects
Of Production
‘specially contributed by
Doris Emerson
Bryn Mawr sweltered this sum--
mer.in blazing heat and humidity
so high it could have been con-
fused with dew, but the Summer
‘Theatre flourished. The pleasant-
Ty informal domestic arrange-
‘ments, which housed men, women
and three married couples in the
Pembrokes, daily croquet games
in front of Pem East, and the par-
ade of bathers in the pool at five
‘:p. m. lent a distinctly “straw-cir-
cuit” atmosphere. Not only were
five plays produced in seven weeks,
but even such minor disturbances
tas crashing thunderstorms occur-
ring a half-hour before curtain
time;-and blackouts occasioned by
‘the individual lighting system of
the college could discourage the
audiences, which totalled over six
thousand by the end of the season.
A company of thirty men and
-women, who showed considerable
range in age, talent and experi-
ence, produced Blithe Spirit, An-
gel Street, The Glass Menagerie,
Amphitryon 38, and an original
script, Mary Lou and the Beasts,
py Harold Lynch, a recent Haver-
ford graduate.
was The Glass Menagerie, seen by
over fifteen hundred people. The
enthusiasm of the students was
such that they ended the season
with a program of three one-act
plays, by Bernard Shaw, Tennes-
see Williams, and Arthur Schnitz-
ler, chosen and produced by them-
selves, and given in the Skinner
Workshop one Saturday after-
noon.
Daily classes were held in set de-
sign, make-up, television, direct-
ang, and other aspects of stage-
sraft, and were augmented by four
dectures given by professionals in
the theatre who came down from
New York for the purpose. Oscar
Hammerstein II, lectured on the
production of musicals; Margaret
Webster spoke on producing
Shakespeare in New York and the
problems involved in taking a rep-
ertory company on the road;
George Freedley talked on the ef-
Continued on Page 2
The box office’ hit |
Philosophy Professor Finds BMC
Stimulating, Somewhat Strange
by Francine du Plessix, °52
Dr. Geddes MacGregor paid his
first visit to these shores last
spring, when he came to Bryn
Mawr to be interviewed about his
forthcoming professorship. It was
a short visit; he left his home
town of Edinburgh on Monday and
was back Thursday in time for
tea. Dr. MacGregor’s stay will be
considerably longer this time.
It is with great pleasure that we
-welcome him--as~the--holder-of.the
new Chair of Philosophy and Re-
ligion established at Bryn Mawr
last year, in honor of the late
Rufus M. Jones, founder of the
American Service Committee, for
fifty years a member of the Board
of Trustees of Bryn Mawr, and
for many years president of the
Board.
Dr. MacGregor is a minister of
the Church of Scotland and held
the Trinity pastorate in Pollack-
Geddes -MacGregor
shields, Glasgow. Prior to that he
was assistant at St. Giles Cathe-
His courses at
‘Philosophy
‘Comparative
dral, Edinburgh.
Bryn Mawr _ include
and Religion’ and
Religion.’
In describing his first impres-
sion of his landing in New York
he said that the famous Manhat-
the
tan skyline was “just like
At last! Sponsored by Miss
McBride,, the Undergraduate
Association, and the Alumnae
Association, a contest is now
being opened for a new college
hymn. A prize will be offered
for the best new words or music
or both. Watch the NEWS for
the panel of judges and the
rules of the contest, which is
open to everyone.
films” and that he was delighted
to find the manner of life and the
people and the character of east-
ern Pennsylvania very similar to
those of England.
“However,” he continued, “you
speak of Bryn Mawr as having a
small campus. Why, you have
sixty acres! At the English Uni-
versities the colleges are much
smaller and every inch of ground
is precious. But here, of course,
you have a whole continent!”
* Views on Education ~~*
Faced with the question, “When
did you first show a leaning to-
wards philosophy?”, Dr. Mac-
Gregor answered, “I was fairly
young interested in speculative
thought , . . I suppose it’s innate in
the beast.” This interest led him
to study at Oxford, where he re-
ceived his D. Phil. He then re-
turned to teach Philosophy at Ed-
inburgh. Dr. MacGregor has also
studied at the Sorbonne, and ad-
mits to being a staunch Gallophile
He is acquainted with several sys-
tems of education and finds the
European system too didactic and
the American laying too much
stress on extra-curricular activ
ities. Dr. MacGregor considers 3
compromise between the two
would result in the ideal system.
U. S. Youth Idealistic
Relating his impressions of
Post-War Europe, Dr. MacGregor
described European youth as being
overly cynical and blase. This at-
titude spread in France after
World War I, and is gaining io
England, which is undergoing the
same intellectual phase that
France experienced in the years
after 1919. The relative idealism
of the American youth is striking
to a European visitor. Dr. Mac.
Gregor’s first impression of the
United States upon landing at La
Guardia airfield, was that of ar-
riving in a country untouched by
war. “In the United States,” he
said, “one seems to be living in a
much fresher age.”
The Scottish visitor is here with
his wife and two children who
have their individual impressions
of*their new surroundings. Mrs.
MacGregor is impressed with the
abundance of food, the ease of
shopping in this part of the world,
and the beauty of American floors.
The advertising on the radio, how-
ever, seems to distress her a little
The youngest MacGregor, aged
2%, has not yet expressed his
Post Says Station Wagon Sets
Tri-College Activities Rolling
_ by Anne Greet ’50_
“For years one of the favorite
studies of Bryn Mawr College
girls has been Haverford males.
The beautiful Bryn Mawr campus
in the Philadelphia suburb of the
same name...” So begins “Sta-
tion Wagon College” by Robert M.
Yoder in this week’s Saturday
Evening Post. The theme of Mr.
Yoder’s article is the co-operation
between Bryn Mawr, Haverford,
and Swarthmore: “... one highly
esteemed college for women, one
mellow college for men... and
Swarthmore ... the college fam-
ous for turning bright students
loose to graze as they will.”
It is reassuring to read that
“all three schools go in for hand-
picked students” and that “men
are not halted at the Bryn Mawr
gates and blind-folded.” We are
‘flealess and hospitable; gone are
tthe days when “tender blossoms,
cloistered in.a college for women,
‘tended to lose their charm.”
During the war, when “the
armed forces and a dozen research
agencies were stripping faculties
everywhere,” Haverford and Bryn
Mawr decided to engage in com-
mon a director for their college
orchestras. Soon they were lend-
ing and borrowing each other’s
professors and arranging joint
classes, and Swarthmore was
drawn into the scheme. Bryn
Mawr is the “station wagon col-
lege” because two station wagons
are at the service of Bryn Mawr
students attending classes at Hav-
erford and Swarthmore. The tri-
college co-operation was greatly
encouraged by last year’s Car-
negie Grant for Russian studies.
“It may be smart to learn a good}
deal about our Russian chums,”
say Mr. Yoder; he finds such a
Continued on Page 4
opinion of the United States, bus
his 4% year-old sister, Marie, is
delighted with her new-found free-
dom and already shows a marked
change in her pronunciation of
English words.
Dr. MacGregor is still trying to
Continued on Page 9
CALENDAR
Wednesday, October 12
7:15 p.m. Marriage Lecture
Common Room,
Saturday, October 15
8:30 p.m. Junior Show, “Wil
ly-Nilly”, Goodhart.
Sunday, October 16
7:30 p.m. Chapel,
Room.
Monday, October 17
7:15 p.m. Current Events,
Dean Taylor on Italy, Common
Room.
Tuesday, October 18
4:00 p.m., Mr. Dilworth and
ADA Rally, Common Room.
Wednesday, October 19
8:45 a.m., Morning Assembly,
Miss Taylor, “Italian Univer-
sity Life.”
Music
Parade Night
1953 Kept Its Secret Well
McBride Reports
New Appointments
To B.M. Faculty
portend — Mrs. Louise W.
Adams Holland—Lecturer, Semes-
ter I. Former lecturer at Bryn
Mawr.
Biology—Dr. Mary Cregar Ber-
wick — Part-time Lecturer. A.B.
Wilsen_College; M.A. Bryn Mawr;
Ph.D. University of Penna. At
present, Research Fellow, Dept. of
Pathology,. University of Penna.
Medical School.
History—Dr. John H. Powell —
Part-time Lecturer. A.B. Swarth-
more; Ph.D. University of Iowa;
Assistant Professor University of
Iowa; Associate Professor Uni-
versity of Delaware; Assistant Li-
brarian in charge of Research
Free Library of Philadelphia; Au-.
thor of “Richard Rush, Repub-
lican Diplomat.”
Mrs. Grace H. Larsen — Part:
time Instructor. A.B. and M.A
University of California; Gradu-
ate student at Columbia; Instruc-
tor in History at Swarthmore.
Miss Janet Groff—Part-time In.
structor. A.B. Bryn Mawr 1942;
M.A. Bryn Mawr 1945; Graduate
work at Radcliffe 1947-48.
Political Science — John Board.
man Whitton, J.D.,LL.D. — Part
time Lecturer. Associate Professor
Continued on Page 3
Dawes Describes
NSA Conference
As Conservative
specially contributed
by Bertie Burr Dawes, ’52
How would you feel going off
to a meeting knowing that your
family was sure that you would
be an avowed Communist when
you returned? I went to the Na-
tional Student Association Con-
gress this summer expecting to be
the conservative of the group. \
looked forward unhappily to dis-
agreeing, arguing, struggling to
get the other members of the Con-
gress—all radical, of course —to
consider a calm intelligent solu-
tion to our various problems.
Never could I have been more
mistaken. I was not an old-
fashioned objector, apart from the
group, but one small member of a
thinking, planning whole. From
August 24 to September 3, I was
one of about 800 American stu-
dents at the University of Illinois
who were spending all day and
most of the night trying to de-
cide what they thought and how
they should say so. Joan Piwosky
and I, after only a few days at the
Congress, were able to feel the de-
sire for co-operative decision that
pervaded every meeting. Excep-
tions — certainly, meetings are
made up of individuals.
Continued on Page 2
=
Whalebone Will Swims Goodhart,
Rehearses Eleven-Day Wonder
by Jane.Augustine, °52
Five rocking chairs creak back
and forth, ten feet clump heavily
in rhythm, five faces, glum and
silent, stare into the footlights.
“THAT’S a helluva note!”
“D’ya wanna do your underwater
dance now?”.
“Hey Shirley, ya got the music
for the cabaret scene?”
“Yeah, but I left it in my room!”
“Anybody playing a bit part?” ©
“Well, I am, but it isn’t writ-
(eh WE es ™
“OK, next scene!”
Whalebone Will, in training to
swim the Pacific Ocean, is swept
off his feet by three dancing girls.
A Bryn Mawr Welcoming Commit-
tee of six meet him at the station
... How'd THEY get in here?
“You’re just in time for the
Scavenger Hunt!”
“But ma’am, there’s been an aw-
ful mixup—you see, five old ladies
|think I can read ancient manu-
eripts...”
“Whoops, sorry, we rearranged
that yesterday.”
“But what have I got to sit on
then?”
“Curtain, hey! Curtain!”
_There isn’t any curtain I can
gee, except the very strange back-
drop—half gaudy. blue ocean, half
Japanese flowering tree. The cafe
scene is next, but there isn’t a prop
in sight. As nearly as I can figure,
the girl in cut-off khakis—Ellen
Bacon—is directing. She’s the one
who says, “Enunciate!” Down in
front, Eritha von der Goltz talks
over the music with Shirley Sil-
veus, the pianist, while Sherry
Cowgill and Betsy Repenning
argue about the dancers. The stage
teems with stage crew, all mem-
bers of the class of 1951. But still,
I’ve never seen such a heterogen-
eous mess, everyone running all
over the place pell-mell.
Continued on Page 5
Page Two
THE COLLEGE NEWS.
Wednesday, October 12, 1949
THE COLLEGE NEWS
FOUNDED IN 1914
Published weekly during the College Year (except during Thanks-
giving, Christmas and Haster holidays, and during examination weeks)
in the interest of Bryn Mawr College at the Ardmore Printing Company,
Ardmore, Pa., and Bryn Mawr College.
The College News is fully protected by copyright. Nothing that
appears jn it may be reprinted either wholly or in part without per-
mission of the Editor-in-Chief.
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wey
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GWYNNE WILLIAMs, ’50 Nina Cave, ’50
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Under Act of Congress August 24, 1912
Here Too?
We wish to express publicly the strong admiration we
felt for President McBride’s speech at the opening assém-
bly of college. Though it;was afterwards tailored somewhat
for publication, it read almost as well as it sounded. Miss
McBride’s formulation of the principles of university exist-
ence and her attack on the stupidity induced by fear which
has led to the crippling of academic freedom, was masterful.
It was a shock to all of us to hear that Professor Barker
Fairley has been refused permission to enter this country,
by order of the. Department of Justice. Mr. Fairley’s lec-
tures on Goethe would probably have been extremely val-
uable to all of us as students, and to feel that we have been
deprived of them for a false and narrow-minded principle,
must make us angry as well as grieved.
While the United States at large is still so emotionally
and intellectually immature, let us hope at least that at
Bryn Mawr the free expréssion of ideas which is the life of
scholarship will never be stopped.
“Alack, Can This Be I?”
It has by now been-conclusively.proved that the Bryn
Mawr female is either extremely versatile or else completely
enigmatic. During the course of ‘the ‘week, two: national
magazines which pride: themselyes | on their ability to ‘feel
the country’s pulse and to emerge with the true facts about
‘Trends, Forces, and People, have turned their medical at-
tention to Bryn Mawr. And their diagnoses have differed
to put it mildly,
From the Saturday Evening Post we learn that Bryn
Mawr is a co-ed institution which is really a man’s college,
that the girls spend their daytime staring gaily out of the
windows into coed-filled jalopies or lying on the grass be-
hind Rhoads; their evenings with weekday lovers, studying
their “unofficial major,.each other”. Against this, Time
'~pictures a “highbrow Bryn Mawr, geared to the scholar’s
mind” and presided over by a “stately Katharine McBride.”
Last year, however, Mr. Luce took a different view; in Life
_ he envisaged a kind of academic nuthouse in which girls died
gladly, not for men, not for books, but for peacocks. And
Princeton, exploding the Bryn Mawr Myth, saw a vision of
a Varga girl, barefoot in the ivied heather.
What are we—one or all of these? Our weekday lovers
—Haverford or peacocks? Are we stately or rustic, scholars
or gypsies?
Frankly, like Thurber’s woman, we have rere wanted
; pas be Inscrutable.
Current Events
Common Room, Oct. 10. In the
first Current Events lecture of the
year Mrs." Marshall discussed th»
situation in Franco Spain which
has been an international problem
for the last ten years.
Franco, an astute dictator, still
has full control of the country due
to his powerful party, the Falange,
his huge army and political police.
Change, Mrs. Marshall pointed
out, is regarded with apathy by
the people who face three alterna-
tives—restoration .of ‘the monar-
chy, overthrow of the government
by opposition forces, or- return of
the government-in-exile—all very
doubtful and dangerous.
Opposition Disorganized
Restoration of the monarchy
would probably be a figurehead or
blind for the present governmefft,
said Mrs. Marshall. The oppost-
tion parties, the Communists, the
Trade Unions and the Liberals are
too diversified to attempt a coup
at this~time; The government-in-
exile has lost touch with the peo-
ple, and its failure to enlist the
support of foreign governments
makes it an unpopular cause.
The economic pictyre, brighten-
ed by surface prosperity in the
cities, is riddled by inflation, a
dollar shortage and poor agricul-
ture. The exports of luxury goods
designed to pay for food and much
needed heavy machinery, find
overcrowded markets abroad. All
in all, Mrs. Marshall concluded the
hope of Spain’s economic and po-
litical recovery seems impossible
without outside help.
0, ee eh ae
Science Club Proposes
Parties, Lab Visits
For Members
To the Editor:
The Science Club is. about to
have a membership drive, and
would like to give the college an
idea of its activities. This year
a special attempt is being made to
interest not only those taking sci-
ence, but those with a general sci-
entific interest.
The Science Club in accordance
with its aim of furthering interest
in all branches of science is plan-
ning a varied and interesting pro-
gram this year. A MHallowe’en
party for members and _ science
faculty is scheduled. Several pro-
grams of movies of general inter-
est will be presented, and a panel
discussion on the philosophy of
science with open discussion fol-
lowing” itis planned, as well as
lectures by some very fine speak-
ers and researchers. Visits to such
places as the zoo and its labs, the)
Academy of Natural Sciences, and
industrial labs are also expected
If there are any suggestion:
about activities or speakers/ fo
the club, please write them gn the
suggestion «sheet posted gn the
club bulleti ard in Taylor. Re-
member the Science Clyb’s activi.
ties are aimed not only at those
majoring in Bio, Chem, Physics
Geol, Psych, and th, but also
at the whole college.
Sincerely yo
Doris Chambers, ' President.
Jane Walker, retary-Treasurer
=
inside, and negotiations to borro
fallen through.
qually be kind enough to dopate
within the next two weeks,
the fine concert grand whi
Miss Clayton has consent
IN NOMINE
The Deanery Concerts which were so successful on campus last
year may have to be discontinued forever.
them last year will be dismayed at this/ news.
ple: no piano. Without a piano, a concert series would be obvious-
ly limited to string and woodwind quartets, and, Miss Robbins can-
not see her way to scheduling it. The pianos used last year had dis-
astrous results in the way of squ
There are two solutions: ejther to pray that someone will even-
in some manner to obtain the use of
is at the moment locked in the gym.
to give it up when the gym department
is provided with a usable upright,
seem to be much hope. In the meantime, no Deanery Concerts.
Everyone who attended
The trouble is sim-
ky pedals and rattling quarters
a better one have unfortunately
a concert grand to the Deanery
but at the moment there doesn’t
-League and Alliance
Representatives from _ the
League and the Alliance will be
at a desk in the main hall in
Taylor on Thursday, October
18th. from 9:00 a. m, till 2:00
p. m. to sign freshmen up for
activities. Remember to stop by
then if you are interested.
! “Glass Menagerie’”’ Hit
Of Summer Repertory
Continued from Page 1
fect of criticism on the, theatre,
and Walter Kerr spoke on play-
writing and the aesthetics of the
theatre. The summer theatre was
under the aurection of Frederic
Thon, of Bryn Mawr’s English de-
partment, who was assisted by
Miriam Goldina, of Mae West’s
“Diamond Lil” company, and
George Dowell, of the Smith Col-
lege Drama department.
NSA Congress Debaies
Relationship With IUS
Continued from Page 1
Besides the social interests,
there were activities almost every
morning, afternoon, and night. Of
the several excellent speakers, the
most outstanding was Dr. Harold
Taylor, president’ of Sarah Law-
rence College. In his keynote ad-
dress, Dr. Taylor brought it to
our attention that in the present
world organizations, not lone in-
dividuals, can: make their voices
heard, and that we as an organ-
ization must speak for as many
individual students as one voice
can. We must show that we have
veen taught not what to think, but
to think,
In a round table discussion, for-
eign students spoke of the prob-
lems of their national organiza-
tions,..especially regarding the In-.
ternational Union of Students. In
a-panel the relation of college
newspapers to the student govern-
ments was discussed, and Harvard
told of its difficulties with a news-
;
IN MEMORIAM
ERICH FRANK
June 27, 1949
PRISCILLA HUNT, ’50
September 15, 1949
Coatesville Needs Girls
To Aid Veterans
Spike Spirits
To the Editor:
The war ended four years Ago,
but there are still evidences/of it
only twenity miles from’ Bryn
Mawr, at the Coatesville Neterans.
Mental Hospital. Many students
have not heard about the Coates-
ville Group, although/it has been.
in full swing for a year.
The purpose of /the group is to
help the patients’ Little Theatre
Group put on short plays and mu-
sicals for the other patients. The
girls not only supply female “tal-
ent” to these shows, but also do a
good bit Ato encourage and help:
the mordle of the patients with
whom they are working, most of
whom/are near recovery and need
to__Alevelop _self-confidence._and
poise with other people before
they are discharged from the hos-
pital.
Talent is not a necessary quali-
fication for belonging to the
group; broadmindedness and an
honest desire to help others, how-
ever, are very necessary. All of
the girls have found it very easy
to talk with the patients and many
feel that Coatesville has done more
for them than they have done for
the patients.
Since many of the girls do not
have time to do more than two or
ville Group is always glad to have
few members who are ready to
give as much time as they can-
Any student interested in learning
in more detail the activities of the
group may contact us in Merion.
Sincerely,
Muff Marshall
Rat Ritter
Dilworth to Campaign
For_Clean Government
Richardson Dilworth, Democrat-
ic candidate for City Treasurer of
Philadelphia in the coming elec-
tions, will hold a political rally on
Tuesday, October 18, at 4:00 in the
Common Room. Mr. Dilworth ad--
vocates clean city government and
is backed by the ADA. He hopes
that workers from Bryn Mawr
will help him in his campaign.
After Mr. Dilworth’s speech
there will be an open discussion,
and everyone is invited to come.
and argue.
paper whose editor seems quite
independent from the administra-
tion and the student government..
During this panel, it was a pleas-
ant feeling to think of our NEWS
and its willingness to co-operate
;| with every campus organization.
The congress time was divided
into two principal parts — policy
decisions, followed by program de-.
cisions whereby ‘the officers and’
member schools of NSA could car-
ry out their policies.
Every student problem, every:
educational phase with which stu-
‘dents. are concerned, was discuss-
ed in round tables during the first
two days of the congress. Each:
round table was composed of 7 to
15. The groups were made up of
all students from a small school,
or all from..a—large~one,;~s0that
the problems and possible solu-.
tions would be~ similar for al!
members of the group.- From the
round tables, ideas went to com.’
mittees, where ‘resolutions were
formed. From: committees, the
resolutions went to meetings of
the four commissions into which
th
congress was divided: Admin-
NSA, Educational
International Affairs
commission, the most controversi-
al resolutions with their major and
minor amendments were brought:
before the Plenary session.
three shows in a year, the Coates-
/
One of the most important sub-
jects for debate was the student
attitude toward academic freedom.
Continued on Page 3
Wednesday, October 12, 1949
THE COLLEGE NEWS af
4
Page Three
Sports
This year athletics are being
‘' met with greater enthusiasm than
ever. before. There are many stu-
dents interested in the various
sports, and it is hoped that both
beginners and veteran players will
go out for the sports they enjoy,
because there is a place for every- |:
one who wants to play.
The Tennis Tournament during
Freshman Week was a great suc-
cess, with almost a third of the
Freshman Class participating. The
“Slugger Jim” Berry
Faculty Baseball Star
winner was Louise Kimball, who
won against Maggie Stehli in the
finals with the score of 8-6, 6-1.
On Sunday, October 2nd, the
Faculty, consisting of Dr. Berry,
Mr. Goodale, Dr. Soper, Dr. Wat-
son, Dr. Berliner, and Miss Yea-
ger, showed the Freshmen that
they could play a wicked game of
baseball, as well as teach, by de-
feating the Freshmen 24-1. Al-
though there were several Fresh-
man teams and only one Faculty
team, the Faculty was undaunted.
The heavy hitters were mainly Dr
Berry, Mr. Goodale, and Dr. So
per. One of the shining members
of the Faculty team was little Jim
Berry, Dr. Berry’s son, who was
a strong second baseman. Mrs
Sprague also played for a while
as catcher, and put out many ¢
Freshman.
Freshmen Swim Well
Thursday, October 6th, was the
date of the Freshman-Upper Class
man swimming meet. A_ great
many eager swimmers turned up,
and the result was a very good
meet. The winner was the Upper
Classman team, but the Freshmen
put on a very fine exibition of
swimming.
The Hockey season opens this
Wednesday, October 12th, when
the Varsity and the Junior Varsity
Engagements
Martha Lu Blankarn, ’51,
Alexander Halsey.
Julie Burk, ’52, to Richard Dent,
Pamela Davis, °50, to Colgate
Prentice.
to
Francine du Plessix, 7°52, to
Peter Burgard.
Virginia Graham, ’50, to Dr.
Hughes Leblanc.
Cornelia Perkins, 52, to Thom-
as Zinsser.
M. Joan Piwosky, ’51, to Nelson
H. Wollman.
Charlotte Tupper, ~’50;-to~Max-
imilian Soto.
Marriages
Mirrthe Helson, 50, to Robert
Warren.
Nancy Kenly,
Drake.
Dorothy Patricia’ Nichol,
Edward E. Bothfield.
Edith Rotch, ’50, to Dr. Vance
Lauderdale, Jr.
Ethel Stoldenberg, ’50, to Irwin
Tessman.
50, to Daniel
50, Lo
Wanted
One concert grand piano in
proper condition. See; Miss Rob-
“bins or Mrs. Nahm.
|#ourth Varsity team
play their first games against
wvrexel. The very |tentative line-
up for the first game is as fol-
1OWS:
Varsity Junior Varsity
PIG VOR icsissssisrsssess lw ... Wadsworth
Black WO0d.......04 bt ios Cadwalader
BACON. ccossseressersees OC asus Chambers
BGA Bivissssssspsisasciss WL iskiaacegs Merritt
RAW... .00066 Necssbasiaes PW isa Kimball
UPIGNODE. jersciarsrere LU ssuaps Meginnity
Newcold.......... pO hank Townsend
PPGTIINS csssesesssevese PD sini Atherton
BOVOL Cssccsscicaseass 1 £-scsssseveerene Howell
W oodworth........ rf ... Greenewalt
MUI PAN i cesssescsss Baa Wagoner
Lhere is also a large list of sub-
stitutes.
‘his year’s Hockey season looks
very bright. There have been a
great many dente gu fo prac-
tice, and the overall picture looks
quite promising. A Third and a
have, been
established, and will start func.
tioning very soon. We hope as
many people as can will come
watch the games,
Bryn Mawr field this year. The
game schedule is printed below;
so you can plan your time and
come cheer for Bryn Mawr.
Hockey Schedule—1949
‘Wed., .Oct. 12 — Drexel—4:30—
First and Second Teams.
Wed., Oct. 19—Ursinus—4:15—
First and Second Teams.
Fri., Oct. 21— -Ursinus—4:30—
Third Team.
Wed., Oct. 26 — Rosemont—4:30
—First. and Second Teams.
Fri., Oct. 28—U. of Penn—4:30
—Third and Fourth Teams.
Wed., Nov. 2—U. of Penn—4:30
—First and Second Teams.
Fri., Nov. 4—Penn State—4:30
—Third and Fourth Teams.
Wed., Nov. 9 — Beaver—4.15 —
First and Second Teams.
Fri., Nov. 11— Beaver — 4:15—
Third Team. '
(Wed., Nov. 16 — Swarthmore —
4:30—First and Second Teams.
NSA Congress Debates
Relationship With IUS
Continued from Page 2
For any discussion of such a prin- |
ciple as academic freedom, there:
must be a group understanding’
of the meaning of the term. The.
following definition was produced
by the congress:
Academic Freedom is a qual-
ity of the University, the free-
dom of the scholar in institu-
tions of higher learning to
seatch for truth and to discuss
the problems of his science or
art and to offer his conclusions
whether through publication or in
the instruction of students.
For reasons well stated by Miss
McBride at the Opening Assembly
of Bryn Mawr this year, and for
others that come quickly to the
mind of every thinking student,
against the requirement of loyalty
oaths.
top priority among congressional
discussion was the International
Union of Students. The IUS, once
composed of nearly every nation-
al student organization, is now
dominated by students from coun-
tries in which they are taught the
Communist doctrines and live the
Communist way of life. The NSA,
which has never been a member
of IUS, has kept in touch with its
activities and has tried to co-oper-
ate with it on student rehabilita-
tion and other important and non-
political plans. There were sev-
eral alternatives before the con-
gress this summer. We could:
(1) try to affilate, but nobody
wanted to, (2) try to reform the
IUS, but that seemed impossible,
(3) break all relations and oppose
or ignore them, but in such a situ-
ation there would be no chance for
progress toward understanding, or
(4) continue in our present course
of co-operation in non-political
Continued on Page 5
Luckily all the|*
games are being played on the
by Hanna Holborn, ’50
Bryn Mawr’s part in the Goethe
bicentenary, represented by the
current Goethe exhibit in the Rare
Book Room, is of a_ necessity
limited, but nevertheless interest-
ing order. Arranged in a more
or less chronological fashion, the
exhibit attempts to cover the wide
and versatile range of the poet’s
talents as well as giving some in-
dication of the intellectual at-
mosphere in which he lived.
Goethe’s first printed work, the
Leipziger Liederbuch of 1771 is
opened to the charming music and
word of:
“EKinst gieng ich meinem Mad.
chen nach’
Tief in den Wald hinein,
N. Martin Claims
TrueIndividualism
Reigns on Campus
(Ed.. note: The following article
is reprinted by the courtesy of the
Alumnae Bulletin. It represents a
speech given by the president of
last year’s senior class at an Alum-
nae meeting, in answer to an edi-
torial in the NEWS. We think this
article should be of great interest
to freshmen as well as to those who
remember the controversy.)
by Nancy Martin, °49
‘he following is a quotation
trom an editorial in the College
NEWS:
‘Little Arts Night,’ with a
slighter program and a one-night
stand, will be given in the work-
shop this year, not Goodhart. The
retrenchment is sad but sensible.
Most non-academic activities are
being skeadily forced into a posi-
tion of compromise or nothing. It
is the perennial Bryn Mawr prob-
lem; no one wants to do anything
on the campus.
. The whole center of our in-
terests as a group seems tohave
shifted off campus. For so small
a college we have amazingly little
in common. We are not, on the
‘whole, less capable or less ener-
getic than our predecessors, but
our energy is expended in differ-
ent directions. . .
Write Now
In. the -(next)... issue......--.-the
NEWS will publish all letters re-
ceived, pro and con, on the ques-
tion of the relation a Bryn Mawr
education has to the non-academic
life of those who receive it. If
what you are doing here has any
importance to you, write now.’
There were no letters in the
next issue of the NEWS nor in the
The other subject to receive’
next which, I suppose, might be
| taken to confirm the bitter con-
the NSA took a solid position in!
favor of academic freedom and’
he WS Ss
clusion that nothing we are doing
at Bryn Mawr has any importance
The NEWS asks why].
are you here—and paints a gloomy
picture of the vacuum which ‘s
college non-academic life. It indi-
cates issues of which all are con-
scious... . Though I do not agree
that this is a problem which is
either perennial or peculiar to
any such challenge should go'‘un-
answered. The premise of this
editorial is in fact the reverse of
my explanation of why we are at
Bryn Mawr. a
Swamp of Inertia? °
“Since I’ve been at Bryn Mawr
there has been sporadic agitation
for some means of unity—some big
outlet for common interest and en
deavor. It was sought in Big May
Day, in Arts Night, in the-idea of
a college show on the order of the
Triangle or the Hasty Pudding.
. At the same time there has
been the defeatist cry, “No one
why even try?” The pessimists
think of the undergraduate body
as a swamp of inertia from which
le few individuals rise and shine,
Bryn Mawr, I do. not think. that.
wants to do anything on campus;
eralists, Actresses Anonymous, the
Book Room Coilection Displays
Representative Goethe Works
Und fiel ihr um den Hals, und
ach! #
Droht sie, ich werde shreyn.”
-A facsimile of Goethe’s address
Zum Shackspears Tag, delivered in
the same year, is a beautiful ex-
ample of his handwriting, mature,
expressive, and artistic. A differ-
ent and relatively neglected aspect
of Goethe’s work is illustrated by
the topic “Goethe as editor” and
a very lovely edition of “Winckel-
mann und sein Jahrhundert” which
falls under this category. Two
brown and white reproductions of
sketches. by Goethe are also
shown; the. one, ‘“Nachtlicher
Dorfbrand” conveys all the at-
mosphere of a small village awak-
ened by fire; the other, which
shows Goethe’s gardenhouse, pic-
tures it in the quiet and beauty
of late afternoon.
-Some ~ valuable editions of
Goethe’s well-known works are on
display —Gotz von Berlichtingen
in the second printing of the first
edition; a first edition of Iphigenie
auf Tauris; an autographed copy
of the Festgedichte. Two editions
of ‘the incomplete Faust are also
shown—a facsimile of the original
Faust, En Fragment and a copy
of Helena, klassisch-romantische
Phantasmagorie, the only portion
of the second Faust to be publish-
ed during the author’s lifetime.
Another space is devoted to the
topic “Goethe and Science,” which
has examples of some of his books
on science as well as some clear
explanations of what they are all
about. Finally, in the section on
Goethe’s contemporaries, many
beautiful editions of such writers
as Moses, Mendelssohn, Lessing,
Schiller, Herder, Winckelmann, and
Klopstock have been been placed
on display.
Miss McBride Reports
Appointments to Faculty
Continued from Page 1
of Politics at Princeton.
Mrs. Josephine Yaeger King—
Part-time Instructor. A.B. Univ
of Pa. 1942; M.A. Bryn Mawr 1943;
Graduate student at Bryn Mawr
1948-49.
Philosophy and Religiori—Geddes
MacGregor, B.D., D.Phil.—Associ-
ate Professor. B.D.,LL.B. Univ. of
Edinburgh; D.Phil. Oxford; Minis-
ter, Trinity Church, Glasgow; As-
sistant ,Dept. of Logic and Meta,
physics, Univ. of Edinburgh.
Psychology—Miss Dorothy Yates
—Instructor. A.B. Bates College;
Assistant Harvard Psychological
Acoustic Laboratory 1944-46;
Graduate student at Columbia; As-
sistant in Psychology at Columbia
1947-49.
Russian—Miss Olga Lamkert—
Instructor. Teacher at Shipley
1949; Formerly teacher and head-
mistress of schools in Russia and
in Finland.
Sosislone-anthony F. C. Wal
lace—Partt-time Lecturer. A.B.,
M.A. Univ. of Penna.; Tnateostor
in Anthro. Univ. of Pa. 1948-49;
Harrison Fellow at the University
of Penna.
iWardens—Miss Janet Elizabeth
Gioff. A.B. Bryn” Mawr ~1942;|
M.A, Bryn Mawr 1945; Graduate
work at Radcliffe 1947-48,
- Miss Isabel Witte. A.B. Swarth-
more 1947; International Work
Camp at College Cevenel, Le
Chambon-sur-Lignon, Haute Loire,
1947; Supervisor girls’ Dormitory,
College Ceverel, 1947-48; Unitari.
an Service Committee in Paris,
1948-49,
each doing the work of ten and
being cut down in their prime by
exhaustion and_ disillusionment.
‘But all the time there are new
units springing up — World Fed-
Octangle, The Russian and Flying
‘Clubs, the Art Club, the-Classics
Continued on Page 4
|
q
-paign this year.
Between the Leaves
Translation of Faust
Termed “‘Limpid”
By Politzer
by Heinz Politzer
Goethe’s Faust. German text
with prose translation by Max
Diez. Bryn Mawr, Pa. 1949, 151
237 double pages.
Translation is in itself an act
vf resignation. The translator has
either to sacrifice some of the
meaning in order to live up to the
tormal and structural demands of
the original, or he has to renounce
some of the aesthetic values in
order to convey the full message
vt wnat he translates. Only by a
stroke ot genius — by out-Goethe-
ing Goethe, e.g. — can a pertect
Puransiation be achieved. kor the
rest there is only the sound loop-
nuie ot bilingual editions with the
Origimal coniIronting the. transla:
tion, which encourages the reader
to come to grips with the—essen-
tially untransiatable — authentic
text,
max Diez’ new translation of
Goethe’s Faust (parts I and II)
is, unlike its predecessors, a
prose translation. Quite clearly, no
emulation of Goethe’s poem was
contemplated but an attempt “to
reproduce, more accurately than
the metrical translation can, what
the German lines say and imply.”
However, the power of vision and
the euphonic vigour of the orig-
inal shine through this rendering
too, an achievement that seems
partly due to the bicentenarian’s
genius, partly to the musical sensi-
tivity of Dr. Diez’ ears of which
one is German, I presume, and the
other American.
Good translations are also by
‘|necessity interpretations and com-
mentaries. And if ever a_ text
needed elucidation, it is certainly
the id gals of the Faust trag-
edy, which’ is :packed full with wil-
fully cryptic allusions and almost
insoluble enigmas. Dr. Diez’ trans.
lation cuts through many a Gor-
dian knot by giving his opinions
of Faust scholarship which are al-
ways straightforward and in most
cases utterly convincing. High.
lights are his rendering of Mephis-
to’s riddle (ii, 4743-4750) and the
lead he gives the reader through
Continued on Page 5
Faculty to Give
To Red Feather
The Community Chest of Phila-
delphia and vicinity will conduct
{ts annual campaign for the many
social services of this area begin-
ning October 19th. The campaign
will end November 22nd.
Bryn Mawr undergraduates
have already indicated that they
will meet their last year’s figure,
and Professor Ernest Berliner,
chairman of the Faculty Commit-
tee, has named workers to solicit
Faculty and Staff reer sit of the
college as well as methbers of the
Graduate School.
_Last_ year under the chairman-
sistant to the President, almost
$3,000.00 was raised. Mrs, Paul
will. head the University and Col-
leges Division of the whole cam-
‘Other members
of the Bryn Mawr College Com-
mittee are Dr. Isabel S, Stearns
and Dr. Lindley J. Burton.
In order that the Bryn Mawr
showing may be more complete,
the Committee asks that family
and personal contributions of fac-
ulty and staff be made through
the College rather than from
neighborhood groups. This, Dr.
Berliner stated, is in accordance
with the Community Chest policy
of asking for contributions from
business offices rather than from
neighborhoods.
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the University of Pennsylvania,
Page Four
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Wednesday, October 12, 1949
Sed ‘Ww
ews
odernized Deanery Produces
Dishwasher, Dining Room, Door
by Irina Nelidow, 50
The mechanical age has finally
reached the Deanery! To the oui-
er world its effects are not yet
visible, -but to the kitchen staff
and the waitresses, the Deanery
kitchen and pantry represent the
beginning of a new era.
Gone are the days of laborious
dishwashing —a magnificent new
dishwasher produces sparkling re-
sults ‘and’ has an_ impressive
majesty.- Shining new equipment
of.every kind makes the kitchen
leok like something out of the
Home of Tomorrow.
Another innovation consists of
thé removal of the closet in the
main dining room. In its place is
the’ In door (into the pantry, that
one original door, which is now
Federalist Group
Plans Activities
Specially Contributed by
Priscilla Johnson, ’50
UWF chapter will hold a member-
ship drive at the beginning of the
week of October 17. It will hold
a mass meeting on Wednesday
evening, October 19. Hopes to
have Harris Wofford Jr., founder
of the Student Federalists, and
just returned from — India, as
speaker. Failing that, Priscilla
Johnson and Gerald Freund (Hav-
erford), who have just returned
from a summer of work in Europe
with World Student Federalists,
will speak.
UWF chapter will work in Phil-
adelphia, and on political action in
the state of Pennsylvania, this
year. Four delegates from the
college will attend the third UWF
General Assembly in Cleveland,
October 27-30. They will prob-
ably be: Eve Romaine, ’52, chair-
man of the Bryn Mawr chapter,
Anne Rosewell Johns, °52, Beth
Harrer, ’52, and Priscilla Johnson,
"50.
* * *
Monday, October 24 will be
United Nations Day in Philadel-
phia and on the Main Line. This
is being sponsored by the World
Affairs Council in Philadelphia.
German Club. Members
Discuss Future Plans
Discussion, Singen und Tanzen.
and refreshments were the main
concerhs of the mixed genders at
last night’s meeting of the Ger-
man Club fh the Common Room.
The meeting, heralded by an-
nouncements that no knowledge of
German Was necessary, was well
attended by students from Haver-
fard and Bryn Mawr.
The evenings’ program, directed
by- the Club’s committee, Anneliese
Sitarz, Mildred Kries and Maud
Hodgman, included discussion of
the Out door. The Out door still
pushes both ways, but the In door
pushes only In, thus: insuring a
rotating, assembly-line technique
for the waitresses. Woe to the un-
fortunate who tries to enter the]...
pantry by the Out door—she still
can, but she positively may not.
No longer do the waitresses eat
in the small room behind the
kitchen. Their new dining room
is located in what was the Alum-
nae Drive Office. Its airy spacious-
ness ‘stilt overwhelms this wait-
ress.
If only you were on the staff of
Good Housekeeping, Mr. Yoder!
Roberts to Speak
At Goethe Fete
Owen J. Roberts, Dean of’ the
Law School of the University of |,
Pennsylvania and former associ-
ate jusctice of the Supreme Court
of the United States, will be prin-
cipal speaker at exercises to be
held in Philadelphia in comemora-
tion of the 200th. anniversary of
the birth of Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe.
The Goethe Association of Phil-
adelphia will sponsor the celebra-
‘tion in the Academy of Music on
the night of October 26.
The program will. be opened by
Dr. George McClelland, Chairman}, , ,
of the University of Pennsylvania,
President Katherine McBride, of
Bryn Mawr College, will preside
and introduce Justice Roberts,
whose topic will be “Goethe and
America.”
Works of Mendelssohn, Schu-
bert, Brahms and other composers
inspired by Goethe’s poetry, will
be sung by choral groups in the
Philadelphia area, including the
Bryn Mawr College Chorus, and
by well-known German-American
singing societies.
Tickets of admission range from
50 cents to $3.00 and are obtain-
able at Haly’s and at Professor
Diez’s office in the Library. The
proceeds of the evening will go to-
ward:a fund for the reconstruction
of Goethe’s birthplace in Frank-
furt.
The Classics Club, headed by
Lou. Riker, ’50, is welcoming
all newcomers to the fold. You
don’t have to be a classics ma-
jor to join or to enjoy the pro-
grams. Plans for the coming
year .are being completed, and
all suggestions and guests are
most cordially welcomed. We
offer you the Classic sugges-
tion—come up and see us some
time.
The score so far on the class
games: The Seniors won! A
score of 2-1 against the Jun-
iors, both goals by Raskind at
left inner. The Sophomores and
Freshmen tied. Playoff next
week, .
the future activities of the organi-
zation,. Various lecturers for the
year were considered, including
Me; Heinz Politzer who-will speak; |
in. ‘German, on Shakespeare’s
songs.
s1The club members hope to es-
tablish a. coordinated program
with. Haverford, Swarthmore and
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N. Martin Answer NEWS
At Alumnae Conference
Continued from Page 3
Club, the Psychology Club, the
international Students Club, and
four instead of two annual dra-
matie productions with Haverford.
New traditions have been put
on the map and others revived —
the Junior Show, the Sophomore
varnival, Square b OLK
Wigut, Playwrights Night, dances
with wenn ana Villanova as Weil
INIgDL,
vances,
as siavertord, Arts anu
siliany Une big Week-knu....
duverest lb wie exvia-cUrrlcuia:
fas uot ueclumeu, Dut tne nuuwei
Ox auculvilles has greatiy increased,
oU liaKing ImMpoOssioie a Very Wiue
parucipation In each, . « « OUitle
sepewcion does occur, put it 1s ri-
uicuuus lo LOINK Uhal Lue plitals
uf vue wauio Ulub are at the same
ume teading the Stage Guild, the
hockey team, and renet for Kurope
. . there are some i’m gure w..-
would like to see something like
a football team to tally around, At
the risk of salting wounds, I’ll say
this was the most forceful argu-
ment in favor of Big May Day.
As I’ve said, Artsf Night is such
an attempt, but it is still experi-
mental and cannot command total
effort. The reason ,.. why we
cannot find or exercise a single
means to prove our homogeneity
is that no such homogeneity ex-
ists. This is neither new nor sad.
With the exception of the
Self-Government Association -I
think there is no non-academic in-
terest on campus which should be
made “ought.” I don’t mean that
compulsion is imminent, but even
the shadow of obligation over any
endeavor will sap the vitality of
its voluntary nature. This is why
I would oppose efforts to manu-
facture a non-existent community
interest in any college activity.
It is argued that the reason we
don’t do things as a college body
is because there is no school spirit
and that there is no school spirit
because we don’t do things as a
college body. My own conserva-
tive opinion is again that if school
spirit has to be manufactured it
isn’t worth it. Like most things
school spirit has its cycle — its
highs and lows are dependent on
various things, from the combina-
tion of classes and the enthusiasm
of their members to the degree
of security in the world outside
the college. School spirit is as
much a give and take as any other
social institution. ....
I believe that particularly at
Bryn Mawr there is a fellowship
which exists independent of any
cultivation. ... The value of this
fellowship consists of devotion to
a principle, not just devotion to}.
|
devotion. That principle is a re-
spect for the individual and a re-
gard for her independent interests
and opinion.
That is after all the strongest
bond in any community and there
is no reason why it should not be
practiced in college as well. I
think it is a very great deal to
have in common, and the very best
reason to be at Bryn Mawr.
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untry Bookstore)
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Morning Assemblies
Dean Lily Ross Taylor will
speak on italian University Life
on Wednesday, October 19. The
following week Miss deLaguna
will discuss her work in Alaska
this summer,
Rock Dance
Rockefeller will preserve its an-
cient tradition by giving a dance
after the Junior Show on Satur-
day, October 15. The theme, cor-
related with the show, will be oce-
anic. John Whitaker’s orchestra
will play, and refreshments will be
served, ;
The Deanery
The Deanery is anxious to re-.
mind undergraduates that they
are welcome for lunch, dinner, or
tea when they are accompanied by
relatives, dates, or guests. Seniors
will be welcome unaccompanied
during the semester
Rooms for overnight are available
at all times, but should be reserv-
ed in advance. Warning: the
morning coflee hour is at all times
reserved for the faculty, staff, and
guests of the Deanery.
second
NOTICES
Senior Officers
The Senor class takes pleasure
in announcing the election of Jess
Vorys as President, Polly Porter
as Vice - President, Manon Lu
Christ as Secretary, and Ann Jane
Rock as Song-Mistress.
Junior Election
The Junior Class has elected
Ann Iglehart as President, Madge
Carlson as Vice-President, Nan
Aldefer as Secretary, and Elinor
Gunderson as Song Mistress.
Sophomores Class Officers
President: Ellen Wells, Vice-
President: Patricia , Richardson,
Secretary: Nancy Alexander; no
song mistress yet.
Freshmen Song Mistresses
The first Song Mistress elected
by the class of 19538 was Ann
Tuckér Howell, and the second,
now holding the baton, is Rannie
Gottlieb.
NEW News
The NEWS takes pleasure in an-
nouncing the election of Nina
Cave, ’50, to the Board, and Jac-
queline Esmerian as liason officer
on the NSA Board.
People are talking about...
1950’s two-year bride... 1952's |
class baby, sired by Haverford...
campus politicians sending young
girls to stand on street corners
(campaigning for clean govern-
ment!) ... the nurse who writes
for Dime Detective ...
People are wondering about...
Station Wagon Links
Bryn Mawr, Neighbors
Continued from Page 1
grant “good news” in general,!
coming as it does from the “mel- |
ancholy front” of small colleges
who for so long have gloomily re |
ported that “costs were rising as,
receipts from endowments slowed :
to a trickle and wealthy benefac-
tors disappeared like the passen-
ger pigeon.”
that Mr. Yoder is a reliable
prophet, and that “many a Haver-
ford graduate” will “puzzle his
children by telling them what a
hot-shot student he was at good
old Bryn Mawr.
‘“But that’s a girls’ college,”
the tlkes will say obediently.
‘“Sure it is, but-. .. as I once:
remarked to a Swarthmore pro-
fessor who taught me at Haver-
i Gane ait
We hate to think)’ °
Smoker Sweepings
The Pagoda Incident... the new
salon for chic (Library, first floor
to the right) ... Dr. Sprague’s
sudden interest in avoirdupois and
why woman’s work is never done
... the librarian who Suffers .
Virginia Graham’s logic compre-
hensive...
People are looking at ... the
little blue package in the Public
Relations Office . . . Miss Robbins
—is it a bang or a whimper? .. -
red hair in their wild Quaker Oats
.. Miss Taylor’s bustle...
People are looking for ... the
straits . . . rumored mange on a
certain dog-about-campus ... the
signs of ptomaine poisoning in the
Sloane family ... the girl who
signed out to Nedick’s ... Poetic
inspiration (“We don’t know what
it-is either”) . .. Kleenex because
. a concert piano...
People are quoting ... Once
there was a young rat named Ar-
thur” ... “Any lumps in there?”
... “aeneadum genetrix, hominum
divomque voluptas” ... “Mabei,
look at me!” ...
People are enjoying ... deadly
nightshade in the cloisters ... the
library water-cooler ... the cake
‘and songs in the Soda Fountain. .
Mrs. Marshall’s doodles .
ire OC,
Dot, Dot!
that won the fella!
'Twasn’t the charm of Cinderella
but her You. blouse
My BOND pins ee grones EVERY Hy,
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Wednesday, October 12, 1949
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Page Five
..pily, liked to
Foreign
Correspondent
by Emily Townsend, ’50
The ‘swans in the Worcester gar-
den are very fierce. All swans are
supposed to be fierce in England,
we were told: the tourist trade
would decline at once if little Brit-
ish boys were not attacked by
them during every nesting season.
In June the London papers tut-
tutted over a boy who had had his
breeches embarrassingly torn open
when it wasn’t even the mating
season. The British public felt
thar. God and the natural order of
things had slipped up somehow
over ‘that one.
To return to Worcester College:
two-swans-and-six enormous cyg-
nets owned the water gardens, and
rented them out to the rest of us
for tribute moneys of bread to be
breught by hand each day. They
were avaricious landlords and
stood for no nonsense from the
Oxford dons. Some dons, unhap-
eat their own bread
table and walk tax-
free in the garden afterwards.
They should have known they
couldn’t have it both ways ,even
in a cloister.
The swans didn’t put up with
rebellion for long. One night we
sallied out after dinner, armed
with rolls stolen from friends who
were trying to diet. ‘The entrance
to the garden is through a short
brick tunnel leading off the main
quad, a tunnel just wide enough
for one. At least, if that one has
been stuffed on the boiled pota-
toes reinforced by Yorkshire pud-
ding for months on end. On the
near side of the tunnel half-a-
dozen nervous dons were cluster-
ed, smoking with attempted non-
chalance and trying to smile. On
the far side, the most immense
swan in the world was standing on
at the dinner
' tiptoe, swaying and hissing, and
obviously starved. The impasse
was horrible: poor scholars, you
should never be called upon to
struggle with the bestialities of
nature; poor swans, why should
the right of royal beasts be denied
by greedy men? ‘
Gallantly we stepped ‘forward
and offered our services. Though
we were Americans and women—
two categories cordially detested
by the high table—they accepted
our. overtures with a relief they
could not wholly disguise as con-
descension. So in we went, hold-
ing out our rolls attractively, run-
ning interference for the giant in-
tellects of Oxford. Trailed by dons,
we were highly: successful—while
the bread lasted. Then—oh hor-
ror!—the great brute turned on @&
don emerging from the tunnel, all
was beating wings and refined
squeaks for an electric instant—
, and then, as we blushed and re-
treated, the swan emerged vic-
torious. As we said, the swans
at Worcester are fierce.. Now, as
well, one of them owns six donnis™Rp|
trousers buttons.
a a
Noakes _
MAY I PLEASE HAVE MY
RING BACK... .
Bill
No gloom
in your room
with
flowers
from
JEANETTE’S
Bryn Mawr
and
| NSA Congress Debates
Relationship With IUS
Continued from Page 3
mattera with no plan of affilia-
tion. We chose the last possibili-
ty, after much controversy be-
tween it and the third. The fol-
lowing day there was read in the
plenary session a telegram from
the IUS stating its pleasure upon
hearing of our decision to join
them in their efforts for true de-
mocracy,
Decisions that may affect us
directly here at Bryn Mawr were
those concerning American stu-
dent activity in American colleges.
A course of training for student
leaders was encouraged. A cur-|
riculum committee was strongly |
recommended, and one similar to
Bryn Mawr’s present committee |
was. suggested. Information
the honor system was requested’
those schools trying to start or
improve their systems. The Stu-
dent Art Exhibit, which may be
expected at Bryn Mawr some time
this year, was displayed. The first
copy of a national college literary
magazine was distributed, and
plans were made for more issues
to follow.
Throughout the congress, the
nightly meetings of the Pennsyl-
vania Region were periods for dis-
cussion of all problems, new ideas
on every subject, and an oppor-
tunity to work in a small close
group of individuals—always in-
dividuals.
Concerning the election of na-
tional officers, the Pennsylvania
Region is happy to announce that
Ted Perry of Temple is the Vice-
President of Student Life.
The NSA Congress was an ex-
perience for which I am _ very
thankful. I only wish that more
of us from Bryn Mawr could have
been a part of it, and trust that
with a small knowledge of its ac-
tivities we will be better able to
realize its importance,
Willy Nilly Splashes
Across Goodhart Stage
Continued from Page 1
“Look,” I say, to the girl next
to me, “ I don’t know what you’re
trying to do but how can you do
it when everybody dashes hither
and yon, willy-nilly .. .”
“Exactly.”
“Huh? 99
“This is Willy Nilly!”
“tT KNOW it’s willy-nilly, but
how can it possibly help the
show?”
“If that isn’t just like a sopho-
more! This, dope, IS WILLY
NILLY. This is the Eleven Day
Wonder. THIS IS THE JUNIOR
SHOW! Now beat it, and be SURE
to come back Saturday night at
8:30.”
@ PRESCRIPTIONS
on:
is now being gathered for!
Politzer Sees Clarity —
In Faust Translation
Continued from Page 3
the whole thorny maze of the
Klassische Wal purgisnacht. He
spares the student much thumbing
through the bulky commentaries,
and if his version by necessity
lacks the passion and intensity of
poetry, it is definitely much more
limpid than the original in many
a crucial passage. Faust without
tears, as it were.
The literature of Faust transla-
tions is great, and comprises a
rich. plethora of misunderstand-
ings, among which we cheris:
most the classical French one:
Comme elle est courtement at-
tachee (i,. 2617) for Wie sie kurz
angebunden war (Diez: and the
curt way she had). As far as this
reviewer is concerned, he could not
discover one single aberration, de-
lightful though it would have been
to disagrée ‘len with one’s
chairman.
This edition ‘“ been meant to
supplement the Flexner lectures
of this fall with an easily acces-
sible Faust text, comprising both
the poem and its translation. Bryn
Mawr’s loss of Professor Fairley
seems to be the gain of Faust
students .all over America who at
long last are offered an authori-
tative English version of the Ger-
man classic.
MacGregor Impressed
By New York Skyline
Continued from Page 1
get used to the abundance of blue
jeans on campus. Yet on the
whole he finds the students here
“very much smarter than those at
home”. It is still too early in the
year to receive his definite im
pression of Bryn Mawr; perhaps
we shall disturb his peace about
that in a few months.
Already Dr. MacGregor has ex-
pressed his admiration for our
campus buildings, which he con
siders “singularly pleasing ex
amples of 19th century Gothic”;
for the talent of American stu-
dents as social conductors; and
for the keenness of their thirst for
knowledge, greater, he finds, than
is found in European students. “I
don’t know,” said Dr. MacGregor
with a hopeful smile, “whether I
shall be saying this in a year or
not.”
Dr. MacGregor is a Fellow of
the Royal Society of Literature.
One of his most recent works is
Aesthetic Experience in Religion.
A new book entitled Christian
Doubt: The Place of the Agnostic
In Christian Faith will be publish-
ed this spring by Longmans Green.
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Psalms of the Depraved
Dr. Crenshaw is my professor;
I shall not pass.
He maketh me go down to the
chem lab.
He leadeth me beside distilled wat-
ers
He restoreth my unknown.
He leadeth me in the paths of
Chemistry
For my mind’s sake.
Yea though I walk through the
valley of the Odor of H2s
I will fear no evil
For Veronica is with me:
Her tubes and her flasks they com-
fort me.
Thou preparest a quiz before me
In the presence of mine ignorance,
I annoint now my filter with
AgNO3
My test tube runneth over.
Surely Miss Lanman and Dr.
Crenshaw
Shall follow me all the days of my
life
And I will dwell in the Freshman
chem. lab
Forever! ! !
Three Freshman Chemists
(reprinted from the Lantern, 1943)
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Daily
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Minneapolis, Minn.
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trade-marks mean the same thing.
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State Tax
With the student body at the University of
Minnesota in Minneapolis— it’s the Coffman
Memorial Union. Coca-Cola is a favorite here, as
in student gathering places everywhere. For a
between-classes pause, or after an evening bull-
session—Coke belongs.
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© 1949, The Coca-Cola Company __
Page Four
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Wednesday, October 12, 1949
rd
The United States Civil Service
announces examinations for Junior
Professional Assistants and Junior
Management Assistants at $2974
a@ year, open to seniors and grad-
uate students (American citizens)
with majors or specified courses in
the following subjects: Bacteri-
ology, Biology, Economics, Geog-
raphy, Mathematics, Physiology,
Psychology, Economics, Political
Science, Sociology, History, Statis-
tics, Social or Cultural Anthro-
pology. Applications must be
made by November 8th. Full par-
ticulars in the third floor office of
the Bureau of Recommendations,
Taylor Hall. Positions open in
Washington and other parts of the
country depending on the subjects
offered.
Off Campus Jobs Now Open—See
Mrs. Vietor, Room H for details.
Many more models are needed
for art classes at Harcum Junior
College—portrait heads or’ ~-cos-
tume figures—60c an hour.
Regular babysitting job near
Bryn Mawr taking care of two-
year-old girl, two or three after-
noons a week from 2:00 to 6:00 at
60c an hour.
Ice skating supervisor of Ard-
more Skating rink to skate with
and be responsible for children’s
afteroons. $400 for twenty week
season starting the Friday after
Thanksgiving.
On Campus Jobs Now Open—See
Mrs. Vietor, Room H, for details.
Campus sales agent for Bart-
lett Tours wil be given a free
round trip to Bermuda if she can
get ten other people to go with her
during Spring vacation.
Campus sales agent for leather
goods; wallets, change purses and
other good ideas for Christmas
presents. All English leather sell-
ing at less than store prices with
a 50% to 100% commission to the
campus agent.
Compliments
of the
Haverford Pharmacy
Haverford
Have you discovered
the hamburger?
it’s at
the
HAMBURG HEARTH
| “THE BEST WAY WEST”
| A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
‘COMIC STRIP
Launcelot Hogben
Country Book Shop
Gifts
for all occasions!
Richard
Stockton’s
851 Lancaster
Bryn Mawr
“FROM CAVE PAINTING TO
‘What To Do
Campus sales agent for Christ-
mas cards. Free sample boxes ar-
riving. Good commission.
Chorus member to be campus
sales agent for albums of College
Glee Club records such as the
Club, ete. Also commission on any
Princeton Nassoons, Yale Glee
recording done by Bryn Mawr
agent.
Chorus, arranged through the
Campus agent for hand-finished
Wembly sweaters, socks and chil-
dren’s sweaters. Copies of Brooks
sweaters. 20% commission.
Regular baby-sitting job every
Saturday evening and occasional
Wednesday evenings. See Mrs.
Vietor immediately if interested.
Contests:
A representative from the maga-
zine, Mademoiselle, will be at col-
lege for tea on Wednesday, Oc-
tober 26th at about 4:00. If in-
terested in attending the—tea or
learning more about the Made-
moiselle College Board ‘Contest.
see Mrs. Vietor in Room H, Taylor
Hall.
All students entering this con-
test are asked to read the sheet of
instructions made out by the Pub-
lic Relations Office and posted on
the bulletin board outside Room
H. Mrs. Vietor will give you an
individual copy to keep for refer-
ence when writing for the contest.
Attention Foreign Students.
Alumnae Abroad
Many Bryn Mawr alumnae are
now furthering their studies
abroad at schools in England and
France. Mary Eve Israel, ’49, is
attending the University of Paris,
under a fellowship granted by the
French Government. Two assist-
antships in the instruction of Eng-
lish at French schools were ward-
ed to Bryn Mawr students: Betty-
Bright Page, ’49, College Moderne
Octave Greard; and Lucille Flory,
’49, College Moderne Grenoble.
These awards also provide oppor-
tunity for study at French univer-
sities.
Jean Ellis, ’49, the recipient of
the Catherwood Fellowship, is at
St. Hilda’s, Oxford; and two mem-
bers of the class of 1949 are at
Girton College, Cambridge: Nancy
Martin, who was awarded the
Burch Fellowship; and Karen
Knaplund. Also at Girton are
Elizabeth McClure and Harriet
Walden Ward, who are studying
under the auspices of the Full-
bright Act. They were the Burch
and European Fellows, respective-
ly ,in 1948.
McBride Broadcast
Miss McBride’s broadcast
which she gave today over sta-
tion WCAU will be rebroadcast
on Saturday morning at 9:00
am. She acted as moderator
for a question and answer pro-
gram titled “Careers for
Women.”
Incidentally
On her weekly visits to the { among the ancestors of . .
printing plant in Ardmore, our
editor continually finds sweet-
scented talcum powder on the
press of the College .NEWS,
sprinkled there by the editor of
the Haverford News. What in the
world can this. mean?
We don’t know how many
Seniors still have to take an oral
—or two, but our attention has
been drawn to the case of a cer-
tain Sophomore who still hasn’t
passed her swimming test. Rea-
son?—a well known fungus on the
toes of her left foot.
Found in the March 9, 1921 is-
sue of THE COLLEGE NEWS the
following: “Kings, generals, pi-
rates, regicides and famous di-
vines, many of whom figure prom-
inently in history and_ other
courses studied at Bryn Mawr, are
. stu-
dents, as shown by a recént in-
quiry.” The list that followed
included such celebrities as Lady
Godiva, Daniel Boone, Charle-
magne, “the man who woke Wash-
ington up to cross the Delaware”
and the man who hid Charles I in
a pear tree.
than ten descendents of John and
Priscilla Alden.
Not to be outdone, THE NEWS
held a “recent inquiry” among its
own members and came out with
this collection, famous in both fact
and fiction: Peter Stuyvesant, the
ursurper in Boris Goudonov, Ca-
mille, Richelieu, Admiral Blake,
James Otis (father of the Amer-
ican Revolution), Ethan Allen,
Abraham Lincoln, Emily Dickin-
son, and Frederick the Great.
There were no less
Don’t Fall Asleep in the Library
Wake Up
with a cup of coffee
from
The Bryn Mawr Soda Fountain
"CHESTERFIELD SURE IS
Copyright 1949, Liccerr & Myers Tosacco Co.
MY CIGARETTE...I HAVE
BEEN A CHESTERFIELD
FAN FOR YEARS!!'
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