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THE COLLEGE NEWS

_ Wednesday, March 14, 1951





THE COLLEGE NEWS

FOUNDED IN 1914



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Jane Augustine, ‘52, Editor-in-chief
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Lucy Batten, ‘54

Anna Natoli, ‘54

Mary Stiles, ‘54

Mary Alice Drinkle, ‘53
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Anne Phipps, ‘54 Cynthia Sorrick, ‘54

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Faculty Show

The applause and laughter are over. Professors have
bowed for the last time; they are no longer Roman statuary
or rambunctious Indians. Faculty Show itself has bowed out
for a time, but the good feeling, the recognition “This is our

-faculty—they are human!” will last for a long while.

: There is no question that students feel nothing but re-
spect and admiration for professors cavorting and having
much sophisticated fun on Goodhart stage. It was good to
see them last Saturday, for their obvious enjoyment and en-
‘thusiasm flowed warmly over the footlights, contributing a
contagious personal touch to a show that was beautifully
subtle, spontaneous, and screamingly funny.

It was wonderful to see professorial ability blossom into

-Jiveliness and wit, to find dexterity of word and action behind
academic dignity, to come upon twinkling eyes and light steps
where perhaps impressive intellect alone had been seen prev-

. iously.

Faculty Show brought a new kind of respect—the kind

‘ that. comes from the reminder that teachers are more aware

_of the students than is generally recognized. It is respect

that springs from the genuine pleasure and heightened es-
teem that a faculty-presented, student-appreciated effort can
produce. -

-And so the students of Bryn Mawr say sincerely to their
faculty, “Thank you.”

Students, Arise! ;

Look at the mournful unwashed countenances propped
up at the breakfast table; nobody speaks, nothing registers.
After all, it’s forty minutes before that nine o’clock class. Do
you wonder that only a few objectionably aggressive individ-
uals can dress and attend the Wednesday morning assem-
blies at a quarter before the lethal hour?

The Bryn Mawr movie, however, shown several Wednes-|
_ days ago, drew a record crowd. Visual education is a fine
' thing, and so is a brief lucid talk on an unusual topic. Most

; Wan eee

To acquire it, fifteen minutes .is squandered
paused i> sani boo clenrtiin. Time and ef-



Current Events

professor of'.Political Science from |

lege Russian program, gave the
Current Events speech on Monday
evening on the subject, “Can We
Negotiate With Russia?” He di-
vided this controversial topic into
two alternatives, short term or
long term arrangements. He felt
that any short range plans for
peace, involving necessary conces-
sions on each side, would be use-
less except as a breather since
Russia would then apply pressure
in other parts of the world and the
negotiations and concessions would
have to start again. But he thought
that permanent peace is a possi-
bility if the United States can have
enough potential power behind her
to keep the Russians scared of
starting aggression.

If the United States went to the
conference willing to make con-
cessions to Russia regarding Korea
or Formosa or the Chinese Com-
munists in the U.N., they would
have to realize that the Russians
would only approve our demands,
such as easing the pressure in
Western Germany, making an Aus-
trian peace treaty, or settling the
Trieste question, if they thought
these represented another step to-
wards the goal of world revolution
to communism. Dr. Michaels
stressed especially the firm faith
they have in their system, not only
as the only right, just way of life
for themselves, but also as the
basis of furthering mankind in the
world. Therefore they are creat-
ing areas of tension to prepare for
revolution by building up their
military power, maintaining active
propaganda machines, and man-
ipulating world affairs so as to
weaken the economic strength of
the United States. On these terms
a short range peace plan is impos-
sible.

The only’ alternative, Dr.
Michaels thinks, would be for the
U.S. to be backed strongly enough
by military and economic power to
support an “enforced peace” where
each country stayed within its own
boundaries. Otherwise he feels
there is no chance of ending the
cold war.

Gottlieb Explains
N.S.A. and Origin

Ronnie Gottlieb discussed NSA
at this morning’s Assembly, first
outlining the Association’s origin:
student representatives from Am-
erican colleges attended the World
Student Congress in Prague in
1946. They discovered that the
United States was the only country
without a national union of stu-
dents, and that students from oth-
er countries felt we -were being
aloof. After realization of the
potential benefits to be gained
from a national association of stu-
dents, NSA was established in
1947,

Ronnie emphasized the recogni-
tion of national and NSA officers
as spokesmen for American college
students, and of NSA as the only
representative student opposition
to communist student groups
abroad. The Association is bene-
ficial, and its potentialities have
not yet been completely tapped.

The question of Bryn Mawr’s
maintaining NSA membership,
which has been unanimously sup-
ported by the NSA committee and
Undergrad Council, will be intro-
duced at the April meeting of the
Legislature. This body will also
vote at the some time on the ques-
tion of reorganizing the Associa-
tion on campus and integrating
NSA with Undergrad and Alliance.
Until these questions are settled,



no head of NSA will be elected.

Swarthmore, ‘under the three col-|'





Gaze Crew Grateful .
For Work With
Faculty

Open Letter to the Faculty

A couple of weeks ago you ask-
ed us to work on your show. Of
course we jumped at the chance.
And we never regretted it. We
loved working with you and none
of us have ever enjoyed a show so
much. We painted Miss Lang’s
name on the wall in Goodhart; we
wish we could have put all your
names there.

You sent us flowers the night of
the show. And you all thanked us
for our help. Now that it’s all over
we want to thank you—each one
of you—for letting us work on
Kind Hearts and Martinets.

Special thanks go to Miss Lang
who spent so much time working
with us, and making things easy
for us; also to the Nahms, who in-
vited us to their cast party and
didn’t raise an eyebrow when we
scrubbed off all the accumulated
dirt of Goodhart in their sink.

‘But mostly we want to thank all
of you. /We’ve loved every minute
of it. And we think our faculty is
tops! Ann Blaisdell

Helen Dobbs
Peasy Laidlaw
Janet Leeds
Jill McAnney

The NEWS wishes Dr.
Herben a very happy birthday.

Moral Code Extant,

Assures Grant Noble
Continued from Page 1
ture ideas of God. Moses found
ten fundamental laws of life, but
he did not find them by scientific
method. “I can’t prove the beauty
of a sunset,” Dr. Noble said, “but
[ know it’s beautiful—and not be.
cause what I see is a diffusion of
dust particles through light rays,
either.”

Dr. Noble explained that he felt
we had two types of reasoning: in-
tellectual and intuitional. Certain
truths we can see, yet can scarcely
prove—the quality of people in
love, or of people who live with
God as an integral part of their
lives. There is, too, the case of peo-
ple who have renounced Christian
belief intellectually, but still live by
it. Dr. Noble told of “an agnostic
who told me he went to church be-
cause, although he didn’t believe—





The NEWS is happy to an-
nounce the following additions
to its staff:

Mary Lou Bianchi, ’52
Mary Alice Drinkle, 53
Louise Kennedy, ’54
Muggy McCabe, ’54
Anne Phipps, °54
Cynthia Sorrick, °54







or at least doubted God—he liked
to hear the minister express his
belief”,

In answer to the question, “Why
can’t. one have a moral code with-
out religious belief?” Dr. Noble
replied that the moral code in the
first place had come from a “He-
brew-Christian background. Moses
wanted a moral code to help him
live; Jesus used love as the basis
for his living”.

And if all is bad, all evil in our
universe, why should we bother to
keep moral standards at all? Yet
we do keep moral standards, the
great majority of us. If we think
why deeply enough, we may indeed
find the religion that has been ours
always. But, Dr. ‘Noble concluded,
far too many ; people wait passively
for religion, expecting it to come
to them, and without the realiza-
tion that religion is a two-way re-
lationship.





( Opinion m

Dr. ‘John Michaels, ‘an assistant be

Mrs. Manning States
Teaching Needs
Cooperation

To the Editors of the College
NEWS:

Your editorial on the shortcom-
ings of the Bryn Mawr faculty as
lecturers raises a general question
which has agitated the breasts of
educational reformers for the last
forty years, caused President Mei-
klejohn to start the experimental
college at the University of /Wis-
consin, and Bennington College to
open its doors: namely, how can
American colleges more effectively
fulfill their function of spreading
some awareness of our intellectual
heritage to incoming generations
of students. I hope the editors of
the College NEWS will forgive me
for saying that I think they have
begun at the wrong end of the lad-
der by identifying good teaching
with effective lectures. To do so
is, in my mind, to lose the battle
before it has even been joined.
After sitting for twenty-five years
on committees searching for out-
side lecturers on academic subjects
whose performance could be 100%
guaranteed, I have become con-
vinced that they are as rare as
first rate actors or first rate prima
donnas. Most of us can now and
again become eloquent or witty on
a favorite topic, but to expect that
we shall all be able to repeat the
performance six or eight times a
week until we retire is a council
of perfection scarcely to be real-
ized on this planet.

Perhaps the basic fallacy in your
argument is in assuming that good
teaching is ever a one-sided affair.
The best classroom performance
will prove sterile unless the stu-
dents have some idea what they are
looking for in a college course and
are vocal in demanding it in and
out of class. The crux of the ques-
tion, as I see it, was raised two
years ago in a meeting of the
social science departments when
one of the younger members of
the faculty said, “Why are fresh-
men at Bryn Mawr so eager to ask
questions and explore avenues
which have been opened; why does
that zest disappear when they re-
turn to the campus as_ soph-
omores ?”

The answer to that question is

Continued on Page 6, Col. 2

Man Bound by Dictates

Of Society, Horton Says
Continued. from Page 1
contribution to human life.” God
who “set eternity in the heart of

man” would not let him be content

to be a bit of mechanism, but set

in him a creative force which

makes thim strive for truth, good-
ness, and’ beauty. God, “the mov-
er towards personalization”; put a
“moral imperative upon man to be
the highest type of person his
mind can conceive.”

The obstacles to attaining this
goal, Dr. Horton continued, come
under the heading, the “principle
of restraint.” Because of this en-
emy, man becomes an easy victim
to the spirit of his times, and is
made to conform in a society jeal-
ous of all dissenters. The predic-
ament af a businessman trying to
be “generous in an ungenerous
world” was cited as an example of
man’s losing his meaning as an in-
dividual in society. ‘When this hap-
pens, the need for God in order to

find: the answer to the process of |

life becomes stronger than ever.
dn conclusion, Dr. Horton said
that the church is a place where
man’s convictions are sustained,
and where a “fragment of God’s
eternal purpose is held out to
man.” The church gives man hope,
and shows him that “life is worth’
living, even if it is very difficult.”



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