College news, November 2, 1949

VOL. XLIV, NO.5 ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1949

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College,1945

PRICE 15 CENTS





Wellesley’s Miss Clapp



A. Mongan Traces

Line of Continuity

In Graphic Arts

Goodhart, November 1.—“It is
the duty of those who believe in
western civilization to preserve
and continue it,” said Miss Agnes
Mongan, Curator of Drawings at
the Fogg Museum, in her lecture
on Master Draughtsmen as Copy-
ists—Dendencence and Originality
in the Western Graphic Tradition.
Artists have always been promin-
ent among the men of genius who
created the design of the tradition
but the line of tradition in the
pictorial arts has not been made as
clear as those in the fields of lit-
erature, music, sculpture, and
architecture.

‘Miss Mongan then proceeded to
reveal, with the help of slides, the
continuous current in the develop-
ment of the graphic arts since the
Greek civilization. Beginning with
Giotto’s mosaic of the Navicella in
St. Peter’s, she showed his influ-
ence on such later creative artists
as Spinelli and Michelangelo
(whose first drawing was a copy
of a Giotto fresco). Michelangelo’s
copy is more monumental and at
the same time more sensitive than
the original ,explained Miss Mor-
gan, emphasizing that copies 0o*
great masters by subsequent art-
ists illustrate all the creativity and
individuality of the latter.

Tintoretto too was a brilliant
copyist, as were Rubens and Rem,

_brandt._in.the following century..
Rubens copied much of Michel.

-angelo’s work, and both he ana
Rembrandt were passionately it-
terested in reviving the force andi
greatness of widely diversifieo
periods in art. ie

The French School, starting with
Watteau in the eighteenth century,
and continuing with Fragonard,
David, Ingres, Delacroix, Degas,
-and Seurat recreated the works of
past masters always adding their
own individual touches of genius.
An example of this traditional in-
‘fluence was a Seurat drawing of
an Ingres copy of a Greek statue.

‘Miss Mongan ended her lecture
‘by reading the advice of Ingres,
the great classicist, to his pupils
‘urging them to absorb the eternal
‘vitality of their great predecessors,
-and to create with their help new
-and living works of art.



Deanery Tea Provides Respite
For Seven College Presidents

by Hanne Holborn, 750
and Emily: Townsend, ’50

Seven Presidents, seven Deans,
seven faculty representatives, all
the ,heads of the Bryn..Mawr_ de-
partments, two embarrassed re-
porters, one exclusive photograph-
er, and a great deal of ambrosia!
food: here was one of the most
promising moments of the Seven
College Conference.

We were introduced to Mrs. Mc-
Intosh of Barnard, Miss Blanding
of Vassar, Mr. Jordan of Radcliffe,
and Mr. Ham of Mount Holyoke,
but Miss Clapp and Mr. Wright
were our main objectives. Life
had covered one, Time the other;
the News would try for both.

Miss Clapp was charming and
serious, and very easy to talk to.
We asked her about the Wellesley
paper, and she told us that, unlike



the News, it was subsidized by the
college. When we asked her if
this set-up restricted editorial pol-
icy, she answered that a newspa.-
per always has a master: if not the
college, then the advertisers. She
felt and hoped that college backing
would not prevent the editor from
feeling free to express student
opinion, whether or not it conflict-

ed with administration policy.

Miss Clapp tested us with 9
question on whiskey and under-
wear advertising. “If it was 3
choice .between taking that kind of
advertising or asking the college
to pay your debts,” she said,
“which would you do?” We didn’t
know. “I’m only pushing this to
the farthest extreme because I
want you to realize that no paper
is ever really independent.”

Mr. Benjamin Wright put down





Simons Explains
German Position

Dr. Hans Simons, speaking at
the first Bryn Mawr Assemb#y last
Thursday, stated that though the
United States and the German
people think of Germany as the
key state in Europe at this time,
she is in reality much too weak to
act as bridge between the East
and West. Speaking on Germany
as Part of the European Problem,
he then turned to the history of
the attempts since the last war to
settle Europe’s dilemma.

Dr. Simons went on to prove
that the disuniting forces in Ger-
many are much stronger than the
uniting elements at this time. “The
East and West sectors of Ger-
many are political extensions of

Eastern and Western Powers”, he |

declared. The U.S. no longer fears
Germany, but Russia. We even look
to Germany as a potential ally.
Our zone is: the mainstay of U.S.
influence in Europe. France might
have been the Western stronghold,
but she can not always be relied
on and she is more concerned main-
ly with the balance of power in
Europe alone.. The United States
is interested-in maintaining equi-
librium on-a world-wide scale, has
made her first fortress a weaken-
ed Germany. over part of which
she -has. sovereign powers. These
two blocks of force “act as mag-
nets.” “a

“The strongest force in Germany
is. that these powers don’t agree;
‘this. is. both the hope and the des-
pair of the country”, Dr. Simons
continued. The way that the two

Continued on Page 2

Mount Holyoke’s Mr. Ham, and Friends.





his cup in relief when he saw us
“Let’s get far from the
madding crowd,” We
said we didn’t want to bother him,
but... “What do you think I’m in
this business for?” The interview
was entertaining but not particu-

larly fruitful. We started off on.

Smith. “Don’t know much about

it,’ said Mr. Wright; “only been
Continued on Page 2

coming.
he cried.



CALENDAR

Friday, November 4
Vocational Tea, 4:30 p. m.,
Common Room.
Saturday, November 5
Opening Session, Alumnae
‘Weekend, 1:30 p. m. Goodhart.
Sunday, November 6
Senior Dinner with Alumnae,
Rhoads, 1:00 p. m. Rev. Sid-
ney Lovett, Chapel Service,
Music Room, -7:30-p;-m.-
Monday, November 7
Current, Events, Mr. Bach-
rach, “The Decadence of the
American Liberal’, Common
Room, 7:15 p. m.
_ NSA Tea, Common Room,
4:00 p. m. i
Mallory Whiting Webster
Memorial Lecture, Mr. Garret
Mattingly, “Princes and Am-
bassadors in the Renaissance”.
Goodhart, 8:30 p. m.
Wednesday, November 9
Morning Assembly, Mr. Wells,
“American. . Military Govern-
ment and Cultural Exchange”,
Goodhart, 8:45 p. m.
Political Science Movies,
Common Room, 4:15 p. m.
‘French Club Conference, in
Wyndham, M. Guicharnaud on
the French Movie, 5:00 p. m.











Pennypacker, Fry Set
Acting Criterion
Fri. Night
by Joan McBride, ’52

Skinner Workshop, October 28.—
The class of ’538 began its com-
petition for the plaque with the
first four of the eight Freshman
Hall Plays. The one-act dramas
were directed .by a freshman, with
the assistance of an upperclass-
man, and were judged solely on the
basis of acting ability. This year,
the judges were Mrs. Manning, Dr.
Lattimore, Dr. Sprague, and Mr.
Thon.

The Rhoads play, Waiting for
Lefty, by Clifford Odets, was the
superior production of the eve-
ning. Directed by Lee Sedgewick,
538, and Margie Low, ’50, Lefty
showed force, conviction, and co-
ordination, the three qualities most
demanded by a play of this kind.
| Judy Blair, the disillusioned: Joe,
displayed the proper pathos under-
lying the rough exterior of the
cab-driver who must strike or lose
his wife and children. Linda Cal-
lendar, who portrayed Edna, his
wife, added to the _ necessary
womanliness the bitterness brought
about by years of frustrating pov-
erty. Olutatanding as the brisk,
cold - blooded executive (s) who
drove promising employees into
the hack trade was Maggie Glenn.
By her matter-of-factness and the

Continued on Page 6

Ay

Zirkle Discusses
Russian Science

Dalton, October 31.—‘‘Science as
we know it is being destroyed in
a great part of the world,” stated
Dr. Conrad Zirkle, Professor of
Botany at the University of Penn-
sylvania, in his lecture to the Sci-
ence Club on “Death of a Science
in Russia.” While doing research
Dr. Zirkle heard that Pravda was
publishing some “hot stuff” on
Genetics. Further investigation
revealed that in this field Com-
munist Party principles now com-
pletely dominate science.

After the publication of “The
Origin of the Species,” Karl Marx
endorsed Dadwin’s natural (as op-
posed to supernatural) theory of
evolution, but rejected natural se-
lection. Thus here was already a
division in scientific though, al-
though it was not explained at the
time. ae ; aN

The present situation began to
develop after the famine of 1920,
when Lenin decided to help im-
prove agriculture through the
study of genetics. In 1928, Lysen-
ko, who had never done any work
in genetics, published a paper on
“vernalization as applied to -wheat
seed.” Although it had been wide-
ly publicized, Lysenko’s process
turned out to be impractical and
unnecessary. In order to protect
himself, Lysenko claimed that once
his seeds had been vernalized they
carried on the trait in subsequent
generations.

Although genetics as a science
throve-in Russia until 1936 under
Vavilov, Lysenko’s beliefs were be-
ing gradually adopted by good
Party members. In 1939. Lysenk»
replaced Vavilov as head of the

Continued on Page 6



Non-Reses’ “Love Letter” Wins;
Rhoads’ Play Strong, Eloquent

Byron, Tricolor, Brogue,
Chiton, Season
Hall Plays
by Joanna Semel, ’52

A unanimous decision of the
four judges voted the Non-Res
students’ “Lord Byron’s Love Let-
ter” the best of the eight freshman
hall plays given last weekend in
the Skinner workshop. The four
plays given Saturday night were
consistently good, presented varied
themes, provided contrast, and
complemented each other. ,,

Sue Neubauer’s adaptation of
the Tennessee Williams’ play,
complete with harlequin and clever
introduction, made “The Love Let-
ter” a genuinely moving produc-
tion. The fantasy and realism of
the two worlds—that of Byron and
that of the remembrance, the con-
trast of the colored unreal Mardi
Gras and the dreary life in the
New Orleans flat, the picture of
two women living in a memory-—
all were brought across with pa-
thos and understanding. Ruth
Bromsweig was professional as
the grandmother (behind the cur-
tain), and the freshman director
Eleanor Wright couldn’t have
been more graceful as the harle-
quin.

Mary Hendrickson probably had
the most difficult role to cope with,
and gave it naturalness and sub-
tlety. Mrs. Tutwiler should have
matched her variegated raiment
with a wider range of expression;
Mr. Tutwiler in his drunken stupor
truly acted the “ham”, Aided by
the lighting, the set, and the gen-
erally effective background, the
Non-Residents put on a fine show.

An attic room somewhere in
Boulogne in 1793 set the scene for
Rockefeller’s “Beauty and the
Jacobin”, directed by Sally Shoe-
maker and Trish Richardson. Sally

Continued on Page 5



Guy Fawkes, bonfires, hot
buttered rum, songs by the un-
known NEWS Chorus, faculty
in costumes, dances to the flute
and recorder, burning effigies,
remarks risque and spicy our
public will not allow us to print,
plus any entertainment request-
ed: Here is the NEWS party,
to be given next Wednesday
night ,from 8:30 p.m. till mid-
night. Everyone is welcome to
come and drink in costume at
Miss Ely’s: watch for hall an-
nouncements and put ‘your fifty
cents on Pay Day.







Mattingly £6 Give
Webster Lecture

On Monday evening, November
1, Dr. Garrett Mattingly, Profes-
sor of History at Columbia Uni-
versity, will give the annual Mal-
lory Whiting Webster Memorial
Lecture in History. Dr. Matting-
ly has chosen for his topic the
“Princes and Ambassadors in the
Renaissance”, a subject on whicn
he is a recognized authority.

Dr. Mattingly was born in
Washington, D. C., in 1900. He
received his A. B. from Harvard in
1922, his M. A. in 1926, and his
Ph. D.-:in 1985. He received the
Sheldon Fellowship from Harvard "



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Four Thousand Books

For.many years Bryn Mawr students have been able to
use one of the finest libraries among the Eastern women’s
colleges. During these past few months, through the gifts

of generous alumnae and friends of:the College, the Library’s :
collection has been increased by almost four thousand vol-|
umes.

Mr. Howard L. Goodhart has given us many valuable
incunabula. The late Dy. Erich Frank has left to the Library
a great part of his collection of German and philosophical
works. From the Deanery we have received more than a
thousand books, owned by M. Carey Thomas and by Miss
Garrett; Mr. Richard W. Lloyd, in honor of his wife, has do-
nated more than a thousand volumes on art, literature, and
the theatre.

Miss Anne Vauclain and Katherine Lamberton, ’07.

In addition, contributions have been made by

These collections touch on so many fields that almost
everyone will have the chance to appreciate the generosity
of those who gave them.

“Golden Opinions From
All Sorts of People...”

This week’s issue of the News contains an unusually
.Jarge number of Letters to the Editor, reflecting campus
opinions on various topics. Such letters often represent the
only means by which the News, and through the News the

whole campus, can be aware of current attitudes on_contro-



-versial matters. We therefore welcome the Pows-and we

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nae, and parents, as well as among the undergraduates, and
we wish at all times to represent the campus as a whole. For
this reason we feel very strongly that the more views are
aired the better. The News belongs to all of us, and it is only
. right that everyone who so desires should take advantage of
the opportunity to express her opinion via the letters column.





}sincere desire to preserve human.

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| Simons Discusses
Germany’s Problems

Continued from Page 1

zones have developed is indicative
of this fact. The Russians favor
a one party system with the state
and party identical, whereas the
western bloc leans towards sep-
aration of powers and coalition
governments. In treatment of war
criminals there: was also a wide
divergence. The Russians treated
the Fascists as members of the
ruling party. We, on the other
hand, took great care of the minor
offenders but took late action on
the real criminals.

The German people generally
identify themselves with occupiers
but there are some independent at-
titudes. They have a natural and

rights. There is also a growing
feeling of nationalism and as a
people they are still fond of uni-
formity and willing to: submit to
it. Dr. Simons declared that: “it
would be very dangerous indeed”,
if the revival of the militaristic
spirit that we see in the East ever
seeped into the Western Zone, and
with the first let-down by the West-
ern Powers this might happen.

‘Considering Germany’s future,
Dr. Simons said. that ‘“deoccupa-
tion” would probably get us into
the war we have tried so hard to
avoid. He was also very skeptical
about a possible plebescite over
the Bonn and Berlin Constitutions.
He stated that the establishment
of a superstructure over the two
German states (supposing that
troops did move out) would be our
biggest mistake. By doing this we
would admit that the Eastern sec-
tion was equal to the Western part,
while in reality, the former is
really Germany “Irredenta”. In

NEWS Found “Risque”
Rather Than
Vulgar

To the Editor:

&

I would like to express my opin-
ion, and that of several other
students, on the subject discussed
in one of the letters to the editor
in last week’s News. I agree with
the writer that a certain type of
item printed jn the first two issues
of the college newspaper should be
eliminated in the future. How-
ever, the basis for this opinion is
different from the one presented
in the aforementioned letter.

First of all,_the items such as
“Incidentally” “Errata” and “Per-
sonals” (except when they:-becam=
too personal!) did not shock or
scandalize me. In fact, they rath-
er amused me. I did not find them
vulgar in the least. I did-find them
occasionally “spicy”. This is pre-
cisely my objection. Actually, the
News has not gone too far with this
kind of humor, but it has gone far
enough to bring back memories of
last year and the strong trend on
campus toward spicy humor, I
think it is a shame we are no long-
er satisfied with the brand of hu-
mor found in Vassar: A Second
Glance and Everything Correlates
for example.
laughs in college life, and I think
it unnecessary to emphasize any
risque aspect.

I don’t think that the News has
been vulgar (save one rather
crude comment) . However, any
tendency toward the acceptance
of the risque should be cut short
pefore it is allowed to go to the ex-
tremes reached in last year’



summing up these proposals for

Simons said, “I am convinced that
there is no answer to German
unity and no answer to European
unity on the local level.”

He concluded that the answer



to Germany’s problems must be
found on a global scale. A united
'Germany will bring us no nearer
;to peace with Russia, whereas
, Soviet- U.S. cooperation will prob-
| ably mean a united Germany. For
now, however, “The maintenance
of the status quo, dangerous though
it may be, is the only answer.”

Wright Abandons Tea;
Blanding Offers Steak

Continued from Page 1

President three days.” How about
general education at Smith, we
pursued. He explained that Smith
still ran on the old system of con-
centration and distribution. Ques-
tionless silence followed, Mr.
Wright expectant, we at a loss;
Miss McBride saved us all by
escorting Mr. Wright back to his
abandoned cup of tea.

We turned to Miss Blanding
next; she greeted us with a story
about her face. “I'll give a steak
dinner,” she cried, ‘“‘to any. photog-
rapher who can keep me looking
like an imbecile.” We signalled
the News photographer, but the
|picture didn’t come out. Miss
Blanding..proceeded—to. tell us that
at her inauguration the Miami
Herald printed two pictures ,side
by side. One was a glamorous
hussy in a decollete gown, with
beni beautiful lips, The cap-
tion: ‘Vassar’s First Woman Pres-
ident. Next to it was the usual’
picture of Miss Blanding: “Linda
Darnell Blondines Her Hair for
Role in Forever Amber.”

The rest of the conference, Miss
McBride reported later, was mark-
ed by some extremely interesting
and exploratory discussions, and
even at the tea, which was sup-
posed to be a purely social inter-
lude, it was easy to see that the
seven presidents and seven deans
are men and women of great good
judgment, energy, and creative iu-

|

the future of the country, Dr.!

freshman’s show and Class Day
speeches. The News need not be
a propounder of Puritan morality,
but it should consider the_ possi-
bility of others’ picking up their



perhaps innocent attitude and
pushing it too far.
Sincerely,
Ellen Shure, ’50
ENGAGEMENTS

Kathryn B. Clemmer to Edwin
E. Wallace.



Current Events

Common Room, October 31. In
presenting a picture of Peiping
under the Communists, Dr. Derk
Bodde, Professor of Oriental Stud-
ies Department of University of
Pennsylvania Graduate School,
outlined the economic situation
and ideology.

Dr. Bodde, as an eye-witness to
Communist practices in Peiping
during his recent year’s stay there,
commented that China is a “mixed
picture” and not as black as
strikes most foreigners. On the
economic ‘side, Peiping can not be
labeled Communisti¢, but is in fact
described as a “new democracy.”
Implicit is a program of gradual-
ism, as a transitional stage before
the evolution of a “full-fledged so-
cialist state.” Emphasis is placed
on cooperatives, labor unions, and
peasant—-associations —as-~a—means
toward land redistribution.

Ideologically, Mr. Bodde judged
Peiping as “100 per cent Marxist.”
The general
Marxist state is the only solution
to China’s problems has all the
“fervor and spirit of self-sacrifice
of a religious movement.” The new
doctrine, favored by the majority.
has most outspoken support
among the intellectuals, who have
lost confidence in the U. S., with
its policy of upholding what they
considered a decaying society un-
der Kuomintang rule.

Concerning Russia’s role, Dr.
Bodde noted that Peiping is not a
puppet -whose strings are pulled by
Moscow. Undoubtedly, however.
Russia’s example has served as an

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telligence.

inspiration . ad

There are a lot of

conviction that a,

Students Notice Non
Victorian News
With Joy
To the Editor of the College News,.

With joy we notice that New
England puritanism still exists on
the Bryn Mawr campus. Of eourse
if we were living in the Victorian
era we to might be shocked to find
a Verginita (maidenhead to you)
sitting on il cantero (the close-
stool pan).

However, we read the News with
a 1949 outlook and so far have
failed to find anything that jarred
our sensitivities; maybe we are
tough-skinned .. . or is it that ou
minds run on another track?

As a matter of fact we have
found the News to be rather a
right-wing sheet. For example, it
supports long - standing Bryn
‘Mawr traditions, such as the mu-
tual understanding of faculty and
students, and upholds the oral sys-
tem by providing the unfortunate
ones with a list of common Italian
idoms,

For the first time in four years.
‘we find ourselves reading the
News from cover to cover. We sin-
cerely believe it to be both well-
balanced and in tune with campus
life. The humorous element, rath-
er than outweighing the serious:
tone of the editorials, reviews, and
straight reporting, places it in
sharper relief. We hope the News
will not be discouraged from its
present policy by the criticisms of
prudish minds.

Most cordially,
Kathy Harper, .’50
Judy Nicely, ’50

Mrs. Manning Corrects
Misconceptions
In Article

To the Editor of the College News,

I wish to correct two mistakes.
which appear in the report of my
remarks in Current Events om
October 24th.

In the first place, General Omar
Bradley was not representing “the
air force point of view”. He is, of
course, the Chief of Staff of the
Army, having been second in com-
mand to General Eisenhower ir
the second. world war. It was the
fact that he is the representative
of the Army on the organizatior:
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff which
made his support of the air force
against the Navy so decisive.

In the second place, it was obvi-
ously General Bradley and not.
“Mrs. Manning” who said, “As 2
believer in humanity I deplore the
use of the atomic bomb, but as 2
soldier I respect it as a weapon.”

Finally, lest others in the audi-
ence may have shared the feelings
of the poet whose work appears in
the next column to the report on
Current Events, I wish to state
emphatically that Professor Mich-
els and I believe that the preser-
vation of world peace, and the
strengthening of the United Na-
tions is the most important object
for which-any -human~-being -cair
work today. It was our purpose to
draw attention to the very dan.
gerous situation which has been
created by the failure of the na-
tions to agree on a-system for the
control of atomic energy. My owr
view is that failing such agree-
ment it would be better for the
United States to pledge itself, as
the nation possessing the largest
supply of atomic bombs,/not to
use them unless they are first used
by an enemy power. I believe that
such a pledge might do something
to check the armaments race in
which Russia» and the United
States are at present engaged, and
which, if continued, must almost
inevitably. lead to a third world
war.



Helen Taft Manning








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Wednesday, November 2, 1945

THE COLLEGE*NEWS

Page Three



Troubled By Piatonic Love, Boils?

Consult the Broom Closet Book

by Paula Strawhecker, °52

In response to overwhelming re-
quests from no one, the NEWS is
continuing last week’s article on

college activities and problems;

from the immortal pages of the
Broom Closet Book:

“One can pause and wonder about

oneself. What do people come to
me for? What am I constantly
asked to do? To be on commit-
tees? Then you, like Dolly, are
linked with ideas of success and
energy and initiative. To pour at
teas or receive in the college re-
ceiving line? Then you are asso-
ciated with sociability and gaiety
and-poise.-Do. girls come to. you in
the dead of night to tell you of
the troubles they have? Then they
think of you with sympathy. If
they never come to you at all but
always go slinking off and you are
left alone, you have inadvertently
associated yourself with some of
the disagreeable forces — with
disapproval, with censure, with
self-righteousness, with bad tem-
per.” Please, let us try to control
ourselves.



“ . « « the faculty, her

very own professors .. .”

“In. her senior year Fred Boyn-
ton used to wait for her every af-
ternoon after their late qualitative
chemistry class, to go walking.
When the last week came, and
there was that terrible flutter of
leaving and of getting ready to
leave, Fred asked Miranda to marry
him. Miranda had by that time
known he was going to. She was
used to him, so fond of talking
with him, and their minds “clicked”
so well, that she said yes without
thinking twice. It seemed to make
no difference at all that she was
Phi Beta Kappa and the head of
her class. She knew that Fred re-
spected her intelligence. She had
known it for almost two years
now.” It must be love.

“Abandon any objectional traits
you may have developed in child-
hood.” But Charles Addams likes
me the way I am. :

“If you have a little money and
are free with it, have a little time
and are free with it, you'll soon



have a reputation -as a jolly good
fellow.” Bully!

“Bertha was sobbing and using
up a whole box of Kleenex. ‘It’s
no use. I can’t make a friend. No-
body likes me. I hate college. I’m
going to leave. I don’t like any of
my classes. The professors are be-
yond me. I’m not college material.
I’m going to leave.’’? Oh, come
now.

“On this diet, a girl will have
a clear, unblemished skin, flawless
white teeth, regular intestinal ac-
tion, and a high resistance to all
kinds of infection, such as colds,
sinus, tonsilitis, boils.” How nice.

OBSERVER

~ L°}
Specially Contributed
by Jerry Fabens, ’51
~The ‘last yellow leaves flutter
from the trees. The red berries
dry and fall from the bookcase.
The tennis balls knock hollowly on
the winter courts, and one blows
on one’s fingers and watches the
cloud of steam rise until it is ab-
sorbed into the coldness. The piled
leaves no longer invite the head-
long plunge of faded bluejeans
and rusty corduroy. The mornings
are gray. The bright blue sky and
golden haze of trees on the skyline
will appear only a few times more.
The leaf-colored tweeds, the bril-
liant neckerchiefs are drawn
stealthily out of the store windows
by the white fingers of fashion.
The lights go on in the windows
at five o’elock; outside, the corners
of the earth are dark, only the
long gray roads are still light. The
red-sweatered children have left
their rubber balls and their bi-
cycles. They are inside with soft
lead pencils and sheets of white
paper. The arithmetic problems

‘are harder now and in the arched

halls the printed word smudges on
the carbon of the mind. There is a
faint quiver of red in the dusk as
a plaid scarf brushes the ivy and
disappears through a door into the
warmth and voices beyond. These
are_the last days of Octobe.'. The
veginning has almost endea. The
reality of another winter is sud-
denly upon us. But before the
turkeys in November, the snow
and glistening evergreen of De-
cember, there is a sudden rat tat
tat on the window; footsteps sound
on the porch as the door bell rings
violently and then hurry away
again. There is giggling in the
bushes and a grinning yellow
pumpkin bobs like a will 0’ the
wisp up and down the lawn while
the sheeted spirits wave their
white helpless arms. The eerie
moans echo through the streets;
there are showers of black and
orange jelly beans, pennies, and
frosted cakes. It is not safe to
Continued on Page 6



Editor Describes

Devilish Doings

Of Printers Playing With Paper

by Emily Townsend, 750

The Plant? “. . ganism capable of living entirely
on inorganic substances...” “. .
machinery of intellectual work...”
‘a planned swindle or burglary...”
“ . . subject to insects that in-
fest. . .” The people who wrote
the Oxford Dictionang:,”* Mously
know the Ardmore Printing Com-
pany very well.

The presiding deity of the plant
is Mr. Kamerdze. Mr. Kamerdze
puts editors in one end of his
grinding’ \machine, and brings the
NEWS out the other.
heart of gold, and a firm hand on
our cheque book. He dislikes the
NEWS, and expects anyone who
works for him to dislike it too;
it’s a part of their contract.

Mr. Kamerdze says he suffers,
and perhaps he does. He comes to
Wyndham at six in the morning
to pick up the copy, and is greet-
ed with pajamas and vulgar

He has a}

Parisian slang. He comes to
Goodhart at seven in the eveninz
to leave the galley, and finds the

.| NEWS chorus in its refrain of

“Three-Old Ladies Locked in the
Lavat’ry.” When his sufferings
get too much for him, he growls,
“Grade school stuff, grade school
stuff. Look at Haverford—there’s
a real paper for you.” Mr. Ka-
merdze is not the only one who
suffers,

There are other refrains, too:
“Don’t give me no more of that
Italian stuff down there, see?
‘What do you think we are? Lin-
guists? Tschah!” And when the
birth-pangs are over each week
“What are you throwing away
this week, Louie? Use it again.
use it again, they’ll never know
the difference.” “But we used it
the week before, too, Boss,” says
Louie, “maybe those poor dopes up
at Bryn Mawr need a change.”

Continued on Page 4



‘background is made~vital--and-in-



Between the Leaves,

Meigs’ The Two Arrows
Shows: English Boys
In New World

Specially Contributed
by Edie Mason Ham, ’50

Cornelia Meigs, The Two Arrows,
The Macmillan Co., New York,
1949. .

We have been reading Miss
Meigs” new children’s book, The
Two Arrows and have found there,
as well as a pleasant: relief from
our usual, more weighty diet, a
real enjoyment in the story and in
Miss Meigs’ clear, easy style. The
book is written in a straightfor-
ward fashion so that the main
issues can be clearly understood
by the child reader: the historical

teresting, the characters are drawn
simply but with strong strokes so
that they are entirely distinguish-
able and their relationships are
well-defined.

The plot which is completely tied
up with the historical issues offers
enough of complication and inter-
est to give the reader (whether
he be of the specified age or not)
something to sink his teeth into.
Two boys who live in the England
of 1745 are sent as indentured
servants to the colony of Mary-
land. Without sentiment Miss
Meigs’ shows the controversy in
England between King George, II,
and Bonny Prince Charlie. Like-
wise, she shows the difficult life
of the colonist and, in particular,
the ways and customs of the colony
of Maryland.

Boys See Action:

The boys, in the difficult position
of indentured servants, must keep
their wits about them in the rougli-
and-tumble life of the new world.
They are unwitting or unwilling
members of several escapades be-
fore the book is over. However,
the plot holds together very well
and the ending is entirely satis-
factory. :

Although The Two Arrows is,
in a sense, an adventure story,
and although good does conquer
evil, the book never falls into the
usual adventure-story formula

Continued on Page 5







YS _ a
9 e
Bard’s Eye View

The newsroom’s crammed with
people,

They’d love to write a head,

Or read some galley-proofs ...

But the printer just phoned and the
galley isn’t ready so it’ll come
if you don’t mind at two-oh-five
approximately on Tuesday morn-
ing instead.

* * *

The newsroom’s been deserted,

The Board has gone too soon.

The editor’s alone...

And the printer just came, bring-
ing twenty some-odd sheets of
galley-proofs for a _ ten-page

‘issue, promptly at something

like five-forty-two on Monday
afternoon.





-| 1501, and were selected by Dr. Gil-





Wi se | @
ine and Studies
e s
Spice Basel Life
- Specially Contributed
by Eva Rosenbaum, ’50
Dr. Miller’s Junior year group,
Basel bound, met as a body for

the first time on board H.M.S. |

Queen Mary. For five days we took
over the first class, sharing the
swimming pool with McKenzie
King, laughing our way to Paris.
Three hectic, sight-seeing sleep-
less days in dvercrowded’ Paris
followed, where the U.N. had to
make room for us in their beds,
and then at last one morning at
eight o’clock we were at the Gare
de l’Est, boarding the Paris-Basel
express, ~
Arrival at Basel

Speculations ensued on Basei’s
altitude.-I-described-a-mountain to
a colleague from Kansas. We ate,
smoked, gazed at the peasants in
the field and were gazed upon, and
suddenly we were there. The
Ebelkes, who were to direct our
life social and our life academic,
were there to greet us after the
routine customs question: “Any-
body got more than five cartons
cigarettes?”’ We were quickly
pushed into cabs and sent off to
all parts of the city to start our
adventures with our future house-
mothers, for each student had been
placed with a Swiss family.

“Ich bin Fraulein Rosenbaum.”
—“Ach, Sie sind ja ein Madchen!
Gruetzi Fraulein.” So I was wel-
comed and* got my first taste of
Schwiezer-Deutsch, a language all
its own having little relation to
German, until after you had heard
it for three months, and at that
the inhabitants of no two cities
spoke alike. But since few mem-
bers of our group could speak Ger-
man anyway, this last item hardly
detracted from our enthusiasm.
We had a month’s time before uni-
versity classes started, to get
acquainted with Basel and _ its
language. Probably three days
after our artival everyone knew
we were there, for the bright colors
and boisterous laughter of the
“Yankees” was hard to miss in the
somewhat sombre background. A
week after arrival we had Basel
under control — we knew its en-
virons, we had discovered the
cheapest restaurants, and we were |
very busy learning the fundament- |



als of German language, history,
and literature. One Sunday we met
the Zurich group and- tramped,
through Wilhelm’s Tell’s haunts)
on Lake Lucerne. Another time we ,
hiked to the German border and)
gazed at the Schwarzwald, all the
boys with black schemes in their |
heads of crossing the border il-
legally; and then we drank the
new wine and waltzed and yodeled
to Swiss music.
At the end of October classes
Continued on Page 4 |

Foreign

Correspondent

by Anne Greet, ’50

Houses and people cluster about
the cathedral at Chartres. On Wed-
nesday nights a band plays a few
blocks away — Chopin polonaises
on saxaphone, trumpet, and cym-
bals. On Saturdays, the road that
winds down to the lower village is
lined with booths — dresses, bi-
cycles, kerchiefs, sunglasses, can-
dy, cloth, A-lady in black dress,
hat, and stockings draws a wagon
past the flowers and smells, past
whiskered old men who sit cane in
hand on roadside benches, past the
roses in the garden of la prefec-
ture militaire.

The bishop’s garden, between
cathedral and cliff, is a gathering
place for the town. People sit on
the wall looking across the val-
ley to the plateau beyond. There
are the same colors over the land
as in the oldest windows of the
cathedral—blue air and the green
of distant fields. Directly below,
are pointed roofs, gables, rusty-
pink walls, and footbridges span-
ning a crooked green river. Pop!
an arm emerges from behind a
curtain and shakes a bit of blanket
or dusting cloth. Smoke rises from
enormous chimneys, and travels
with the wind down the valley. A
voice, a horn, a footstep echo up
the hill between the faint noises of
wind, rooks, and an occasional bell.

Under the trees is a sandbox
of the same dusty dirt as the gar-
den. A sand fight begins between
a group of children and some
soldiers.

“Attention!”

“Viens, mon bijou!”

“O, le buffon!”

“Martine, veux-tu que je te
batte?”

On Sunday morning, while little
girls in blue coats and hats and
white knee socks are marching two
by two to church, a group of blue-

‘bloused girls: sing in the garden,

led by a friar in hood, sandals, and
a brown robe tied by a cord around
his waist. “Je vous servirai de plus
en plus,” they sing, and raise their
right hands in a salute.

In the light of early evening, the
cathedral sways, breezes blow,
priests flash by on bicycles. The
wind raises one fancy black rédbe
embroidered with green and gold,
and reveals a fuschia lining. Two
ladies in tall hats who knit lace
all day in the square begin to pack
up for the night. The Cooks tours,
Swedish sightseers, priests with
one million little boys, ladies with
one million little girls, have de-

parted in buses. Only the artists—

hairy around their bald spots and
on their chins—remain, and a few

‘' wild-looking’ creatures who rush

out from behind pillars as one
Continued on Page 5



Goodhart Presents Bryn Mawr

With Rare Maps

by Joan McBride, ’52
“This right worthy art was in-
vented first of all in Germany, at
Mainz. . . . This happened in the |

‘year of our Lord 1440, and from

that time until 1450 the art and
all that pertains to it was investi- |
gated, and in 1450, which was a
Golden Year, men began to print. |
and the first kjk that was print-
ed was the Bible in Latin. . .” This,
is a paraphrase: of a page in sna
of the incunabula from the collec-
tion. donated to Bryn Mawr by
Howard L. Goodhart and is the
first printed reference to the in
vention of printing.

Twenty of the approximately
one hundred twenty volumes of in-
cunabula given by Mr. Goodhart are
on display in the Rare Book Room
of the library. They are indica-
tive of the skill achieved in the
art of printing before the year



bert on the basis of the technical



problems involved and their ap-





and Incunabula

|peal to the Renaissance scholar.

Of special interest among the
German incunabula is a long, fold-
ing map of Jerusalem, printed in
1486 and used as a travel guide
for pilgrimages to Palestine. It is.
illustrated with graphic repre-
sentations of the temples, roads,
trees, even people and animals, ac-
curately drawn according to their
natural appearance. The map is
a rare and difficult feat in the art
of printing. The German print-
ers were able to reproduce pages
similar to an illuminated manu-
script; an example of this is a leaf
from-a—volume published in 1499,
in which the centering of the-
print on the page, the illuminated
capital letter, and colored drawing
closely approximate the handwork
wrought by the monks of the Mid-
dle Ages. Another volume which
resembles the medieval manu-
scripts is the Chronicle of Cologne, .
printed by the famous Ratdolt

Continued on Page 6


Page Four

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, November 2, 1949



The Varsity and Junior Varsity
™ Hockey teams each played a suc-
cessful game against Rosemont on
Wednesday. The Bryn Mawr Var-
sity won by a score of 5-1. Eaton
and Stone made two goals, and
Shaw scored the other. The Junior
Varsity won with an overwhelm-
ing score of 10-0. Cadwalader made
made five goals, Kimball three,
and Turner two. Both teams play-
ed energetically and well.

The Third Varsity,played their
second match against Penn on Fri-
day — a 4-2 victory. McIlroy scor-
ed two goals, A. Chambers and
Gottlieb one each. It was one of
the best games the third team has
ever played.

Next ‘Saturday the Varsity and
Substitutes will participate in the
Inter-Collegiate Hockey Tourna-
ment at Swarthmore. It is hoped
that some of the team will make

“one of the two Inter-Collegiate,

teams. Because the college is only
_ an Allied Member of. the Philadel-
phia Field Hockey Association, the
players will only hold honorary
positions on whatever Inter-Col-
legiate Team they make. The A.A.
Council and college authorities con-
ferred at length this year and de-
cided to remain Allied Members.
They felt that any player wish-
ing to play more advanced hockey
could join and play on a club team.
If Bryn Mawr is an active member,
the two top varsity teams would
be ineligible to play Club Hockey;
only those making the Inter-Col-
legiate teams would be able to
stay in competition. By being an
Allied Member, Bryn Mawr is able
to give her hockey players the op-
portunity to play as much hockey,
as they want. We wish the team
good luck on their tryouts.

Printers’ Personalities
Stamp Pages of NEWS
' Continued from Page 3

Louie is definitely the man ot
the week at the Plant, and does
our makeup for only a carton of
cigarettes and a case of beer ¢
time. The NEWS chorus has a
dedication song in his honor,
which runs, “Leave it to Louie,
He'll fix it, Let’s us have ice cream
cones instead.” ‘Louie puts the
NEWS together by a method ail
his own. He: blindfolds himself
with a copy of the Ardmore
Chronicle, grabs his pants to keep
them from falling, and throws the
hot type over his left shoulder
into the form.

Louie is one of nature’s misfits,
since he was born to be a fireman
and not a typesetter. Sometimes
they let him wear gold braid on
his pants to cheer him up. When
the call of fire is particularly
strong in him he takes it out on
our headlines, at which he claims
to be an expert. For last year’s
archaeological symposium he soar-
ed to lyrical heights in thirty point
bodoni condensed:

Pre-Periclean
Greek Professors:
Honor Swindle

and quite recently:

Paris Students

Learn French

From Men in Bed,
which didn’t count properly any-
way. '

Joe and Chester run the two
linotype machines. Joe reads Greek
and has forgotten more grammar
than the NEWS ever had; Chester
follows the conservative plant
tradition -of loathing the NEWS
--and he only tolerates its members
if he thinks they come from Ala-
bama. Between Joe and Chester
lies a large fiery pit, into which
they drop proof-readers who dare
find mistakes.

Dick has the biggest grudge
against the NEWS. It keeps him
from his wife and children until
after seven Wednesday nights. As
the man who actually prints the

~ Continued on Page 5

'many, Italy, and France.

S. Eaton Finds
Chalets Friendly

Specially Contributed
by Sheila Eaton, ’50
Continued from last week

During vacations I spent quit:
a bit of time staying in student
chalets, one in Haute Savoie, Com-
bloux, and another in the Black
Forest of Bavaria, Muggenbrun. In
these chalets, both situated and
isolated in mountainous country,
there exists a common feeling of
friendship; they both are princi-
pally for students suffering from
nervous fatigue, and one of them
had previously been a rest home
for French veterans. At Com-
bloux there were aS many ag a
hundred students at a'time, main-
ly French, but also from Italy and
Spain, and quite a few refugees
from the eastern countries: Dur:
ing the day there are always long
walks to the forests and Alp coun-
try, and in the evening, there is
usually a conference or small dis-
cussion group. At Muggenbrun
there was an odd mixture of
French and German students, but
the principal aim here is to try to.
develop in one small place a basic
understanding between the two.
If there are ever two individuals
wholly opposed in their traits and
characteristics, they are a French-
man and a German, but there iu
this chalet, while discussing dif-
ferent educational activities, small
bickering was cast aside.

It was easy to make friends, and
each one seemed sincerely eager
co help the next one out, as wel!
as to co-ordinate in common proj-
ects. The chalet idea has been sc
successful that the respective gov-
ernments are planning to start
similar ones in other zones in Ger-
Looking
back on the friends.I made while
studying over there, I’d say they



Americans Study, Play
At University of Basel
Continued from Page 3 f

started, and with them came the
arrival of the students from all
over Switzerland. From then on
every AMSTUG (American Stud-
ent Group) party was twice as
large, for each of us brought along
our newly found Swiss friends.
The University is an international
meeting- place for students from
Europe and Agia, and it, therefore,
gave us ample opportunity to study
the European system of education.
There are no examinations.
The student writes his thesis
and simply presents himself for
his doctorate examination when he
feels that he is prepared. This sys-
tem of complete academic freedom
stems frorh the attitude that a
student is there to learn and need
not be forced to do so. As a result
they take their work far more ser-
iously than do our college students.
Of course, when beginning Univer-
sity, a Swiss student has the rigors



were among the most interesting
I have ever met. I’m inclined to
think one of the reasons for this
is because they had followed their
personal inclinations from an early
age, but, as I saw in the chalet,
they were willing to band together
if necessary.

Upon returning to Bryn Mawr I
was greatly interested and encour.
aged by the new development of
various group and club activities.
I also think there exists right on
our campus a group of the most
diverse and varied individuals that
one could wish. I think it would
be a shame ever to deprecate or
discourage this growing tendency,
for it seems to me that Bryn Mawr
has attained an inestimable blend
of superior individualism and a
necessary esprit de corps.

Incidentally

Goethe’s bicentennial found some
echoes in the Spanish Orals.
Thanks to the efforts of some
Freshmen and _ Sophomores,
astounding discoveries were made.
We have been ignorant so far of
Goethe’s pedigree. Who knew -be-
fore that the Humboldt brothers
have form Goethe’s eyes?
Though we also. assert, ac-

cording to the researches under-

taken by a Sophomore, that Goethe

‘is glad that the Humboldt bro-

ther have been farmed by -his
eyes. It is interesting to know of
Goethe’s trip to America “incog-
nito”, since we can affirm that
Goethe travelled through Europe
and America disguised as Hum-
boldt. Or maybe that is only a
momentous explosion of the un-
grateful sex ... Anyhow it would
be wise to protect ourselves from
the licentiousness of anachronism.
The correct translation into Eng-
lish of Sir Walter Raleigh is Sir
Walter Scott, who, incidentally,
fled from the terror of London.
There is a new book by Darwin
entitled Origin of Affairs. It has
nothing to do, by the way, with
the descent of American and Euro-
pean mountains or with the slow



accumulation of little humours.

of the Matura — an examination
covering all fields thoroughly be-
hind him, and at the age of our
Juniors. He is thus a more mature
individual and is expected to be so
for the university is simply a place
for intellectual broadening. There
are sports and musical groups of
course, and a student council, but
there is no social or moral super-
vision of the students as we find
at the American colleges. The re-
lation with the professor is also
a different one, although I would
consider this a fault of the Euro-
pean system. Frequently there is
no personal contact at all between
student and professor. Anyone may
register for and attend any courses
he wishes. Therefore the professor
becomes a lecturer, one: who is re-
garded with very distant and great
respect.

We Americans were at first re-
garded with great suspicion by our

our attitude too flippant and
couldn’t take our desire to learn
seriously. Americans are still
fondly regarded by Europeans as
children and it was only after a
few months intent struggle that
‘our fellow students and our pro-
fessors realized that we too could
consider life as something other
than a joke. When inter-city sports
began, the Americans were able
to demonstrate their athletic prow-
ess. The University of Zurich met
the University of Basel basketball
team, and five Americans met five
Americans upon the court. We
showed. the Swiss some’ baseball
and some volleyball, raced’ with
Continued on Page 5





JEANETT’S
says:

Ivy plants
will brighten

up your room !





European colleagues. They thought |

by Jacqueline Esmerian, ’51

“Clang - clang - clang - clang -
clang -” went Frederica (“Inter-
mittent ringing when indoor fire
drill, continuous ringing when out-
door drill” — what about when
it’s a real fire?). One is struck,
one in dazed, one is terribly an-
noyed, even, though this had to
come, and the hall fire captain has
been hinting at such a ‘surprise’
fire drill for days. But still, any
other time would have been better
than tonight ...

In my corner ‘of the world, a
gentle oath is heard, followed by
a thundering splash of water, as I

_ NOTICES

Morning Assembly
At the next morning Assembly,
November 9, Mr. Roger Wells will
speak on American Military Gov-
ernment and Cultural Exchange.

College Board
Miss McBride has been elected
Chairman of the College Board;
she is the first woman chairman
since Miss Park.



Sunday Swimming
The swimming pool will be open
Sundays from now on, 3:30 to 4:30
p.m. It is open for Bryn Mawr
students only; if this rule is in-
fringed, the pool may have
to be closed.

Undergrad: Dance, .

The Fall Undergraduate Dance
will be held after Liliom on No-
vember 12 from 11 p. m. to 2 a. m.
The dance will be formal, and Don
McCarger’s orchestra will play.
The admission is $2.40 per couple
and $1.50 stag.

Educational Films
Continuing the series of educa
tional films being presented every
Wednesday at 4:15 in the Music
Room, two movies will be showa
on November 9, entitled “Pennsyl-
vania Local Government in Action”
and “TVA”.

The Climax of Autumn
Is Golden Hallowe’en

Continued from Page 3

walk abroad for this last’ day of
October is in possession of the
little red-sweatered tribes who play
havoe with our piled leaves, who
tear apart our Sunday peace and
quiet with their games, and look
impishly into our faces. We have
left their ranks long ago, their
faces tell us. Theirs are the red
sticky apples, the sign of all Octo-
bers. Into their hands have flowed
the golden days that once were
ours. We are left to follow them,
the little bright-clad giants, into
the year ahead.

Frederica’s Clang--clang--clang
Rouses Ablutioner From Bath

emerge from my bath. O fire cap-
tain, my captain, why did you do.
this to me! Shivering ‘stoically, I
amble back to my room, there to
snatch my coat off its hanger in
the closet and exchange soft,,
woolly slippers for ragged old moc-
cassins. For one must do just as.
though Pembroke were blazing
away. :

Along the corridors, coated fig-
ures shuffle about in dismay, dazed-
ly (after all, it is two o’clock in
the morning, and people were more
or less on their way to bed). The
requested towel (fire regulation)
seems to be hanging limply over
everybody’s arm (O dear, did I

cial emissaries of the fire captain)
poke their heads in each room, to
make sure its occupant is out.
Frederica’s strident tones strike an
imperative note over the melee. By
now, definitely, it can no longer
be mistaken for one’s wayward
alarm clock.

Having descended from the
heights of the third floor, I finally~
reach the first floor, where the
commoner herd of mortals dwells.
At the present, they all are gath-
ered in a weird, amorphous mass
in the showcase. The fire captain,
looking alert and efficient, is read-
ing out the roll at top speed. One
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it is called out; although occasion-
ally, some sleepy, bewildered crea-
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pale blue bathrobe, with curlers.
dangling down, for one) loses track
of things and answers with a neg-
ligent ‘here’ instead. When that.
happens, infallibly, a suppressed
nipple of laughter rises in the
Showcase. The climax of the roll-
calling, however, cames at the end,
with the calling of the Warden’s
name, <“Miss Lit”, to which comes
the prompt reply, “Lit”. This:
seems to sum up very concisely the
point of our little nocturnal gath-
ering, and proves to be irresistibly
funny to all present (after all it’s
two o’clock in the morning).

Then, when it is all over, and

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everybody all over, one trudgeés
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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Five



Non-Reses Win Plaque
For Best Freshman Play
Continued from Page 1

Shoemaker’s acting, her cynical,
sneering, surprising Valsin, was
the best feature of Tarkington's
mediocre drama. A more roman-
tic figure than the hunted aristo-
crat Louis Nora Valabregue pre
sented would be hard to find. But
all the actors became slightly
strained after, a few endless dia-
logues which necessitated nervous
prompting. Nevertheless lines
were clearly delivered: “‘you poor
aristocrats, you don’t even know
how to swear”, “Ecstacise, Dosson- |
ville, ecstacise!” And Dossonville |
himself gaped the part of the mo-
ronic lieutenant with his stiff red
collar and servile obedience to the |
commands, “Exit. obesity, --flit
whale—Heaven knows, you’re not
the moon!” Maxine Swirsky’s ag
itation should” have ~ been more
than. continuous _ hand-wringing,
and Maryanne Holmes was. disap-
pointingly insincere with Louis
because in contrast her coquettish
scenes were masterful.

Merion, per usual, showed ingen-
uity in its choice of play, including
every one of its twenty freshmen
in the cast, although at times “The
Girl With Her Hair Cut Short”
might have been cut more. Ann
Gurevich, a Prataecus of dig-
nity, wisdom, and musical voice,
and those two irrepressible order-
lies Sosias and Davus in their ac-
tion comedy, were three of the
best parts. Beate Freeman with
her rolling eyes and garbage-pan
shield, deserved the ovation she re-
ceived. *

A Glycera as faithful as Sue
Halperin, even with short hair, and
a brother as endearing in his cow-
ardice as Nancy Goldring, offset
the disadvantage of an_ over-
lengthy and often overdone play.
We sympathize with Myrrhine
and Habronis in their problems
but cannot say the same for Pol-
eno, whose “Ho there kill that.
sow!” received the same treatment
as his love speeches. But the Mer-
ion play was well directed and
produced (Fidie Ludington, Jane
Augustine, Didi Fleishhacker) and
the only comedy of the evening.

Any play which comes last on
Saturday night, and hints of Irish
dialect, a shawl, a candle on a
table is in an awkward position,
but Pembroke West’s short “Will
O’ the Wisp” was perfect in its
way, and climaxed the series.

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NEWS, Dick is the key man of
the whole operation. He is very
helpful: When he lifts the NEWS
from the bed where Louie has been
rubbing it down with beer and
throwing articles away because the
paragraphs were too long, Dick
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etcher, too, and livens up our cuts
with many clever little digs of
his pen-knife.

They. -are. beer .drinkers. and..bu!!
throwers, Yankee fans and the
News’ sternest critics; why is it
then, that» when the-probing~ques-
tion, the Monday Horror, is week-
ly_asked, ““Who would like to go to
the plant this week?’, the News
staff for once makes no noise.

G. Mattingly To Give

Speech On Renaissance
Continued from Page 1

and spent 1922 and 1923 in Stras-
bourg, Paris, and Florence. He
then returned to his alma mater a3
an Assistant in History. In 1926
he went to Northwestern as an in-
structor, and in 19380 he was made
Assistant Professor of English
and History: at Long Island. Dr.
Mattingly was a Guggenheim
Memorial Fellow in 1987-38, and
in 1941 Long. Island made him an
Associate Professor, a post which
he held until his appointment at
Columbia.

In addition to his teaching, Dr.
Mattingly has lectured, contrib-
uted to the Saturday Review of
Literature, and written several
books on European diplomatic re-
lations. His most recent work, the
Biography of Catherine of Aragon,
tells of the first wife of Henry
VIII and her influence on the his-
tory of Europe.



mimed her way throughout. Ap-
pealing as the will o’ the wisp we
all follow at some point, she coax:
ed and captured the Poet’s wife
with amazing grace. Louise Kim
ball, the old lady of Land’s End
surmounted the worst obstacle;
she made us listen to what she was
saying and not how she said it.
Faith Robbins held to the rare
level of performance giving force-
ful expresssion to her fears,, sus-
picions, and harangues. Freshman
director Minnie Cassatt, Pat On.
derdonk, A. J. Rock and inspired
lighting worked together to end
the evening on a high note.



‘“Kantonopizei” who didn’t appre-



Americans Study, Play
At University of Basel

Continued from Page -4

them at swimming, skied at the
university ski hut, making more
bathtubs than anyone else on the
hills, and in between went on pri-
vate jaunts all over the country
and to all ends of Europe. The*
cathedrals of Strasbourg and of
Basel were explained to us in all
their intricacies by the professor
of art. Instead of discussing things
we were on the spot to see them.
Then there were the outings made
by the Chemistry students to a
chocolate factory and a beer brew-
ery where instruction flowed
amply.

Of course, there were minor
troubles. We-had to cope with the

ciate it when we went the wrong
way on a one way street on our
Swiss bikes, and who kept sending
us income tax return blanks. We
had to’ make concessions in our
attitudes and in our behavior for
the Swiss; but they, too, went out
of their way, and each person with
whom we came into contact con-
tributed to making the year won-
derful. At Fasnacht, five days in
March when Basel turns heads
over heels and just goes mad,
Americans; and Swiss found they
had the same spirit and strove to
out-dance and out-joke each other.
Exams and term papers were
finished, the consul’s fourth of
July party had been attended, the
last letter home had been written,
and with many tears and promises
of reunion we returned to the
U.S. Who knows now, as letters
wing their way between Basel and
the States, that perhaps some day
soon, older and wiser, we might not
all meet again on Petersplatz in
front of the university and sing
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strolls down the nave.
People wheel their bikes into the
cathedral—silently, for a mass is
beginning. The little boys in sear-
let sashes ring bells to prompt the
old priest in his white and gold
own. When he kneels down to
pray, a boy runs up to arrange
his cape over the back of the chair
and to place a black velvet cap on
his head. Three old men with white
collars over their black robes start
to sing harshly. Bent old men and
women—now, only a few, in the
shadows —creep in and out the
great doors .or sit at the doors of
the choir.
The sun sets behind the tree of
Jesse and the rose. of France; the
old tower leans slightly towards
the new, and ten thousand birds
wheel about;~seeking -the stoniest
perch for the night. The guardian
of the cathedral vanishes through
a tiny door in the choir to his bed-
room. Saints and_ confessors,
knights and nuns, workers in wine,
leather, and stone, parade the walls
and columns and windows: Saint
Theodore in the clothes of a cru-
sader, an angel holding a sun dial,
Abram with his lap full of three
of the blessed—and others wait-
ing. Especially between the two
towers they stand, looking out
over Chartres and France. Clouds
and moon look down on the suffer-
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church porch below, a broken wine
bottle. An old lady with white
hair hurries across the square.

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Between the Leaves
Continued from Page 3

which consists only of hero, villain,

trials, tribulations, and a final vic-
tory for the hero. Miss Meigs’
careful and sensitive treatment of
the subject has avoided this. She
nowhere labels it as such, but she
has given a feeling of the colon-
ists’ slowly-rising but strong de-
votion to the new world that they
are making. She shows the peace
that was to be found here, even in
a wild land, and the gifts, not
material, that this new country
could give to the old.

Ronald, the older of the two
brothers, is also treated sympathet-
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ready to give up. This means that
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Janis not-the-rather-character-
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books, the medium for the trans-
missign of the story so often be-
comes. His homesickness for Eng-
land, his sympathy for his brother,
his gradual but final resolve to
give his life.to Maryland, are con-
vincing touches.

The fact that the story is told
through Jan’s eyes does away with
certain problems and _ intricacies
which would have to be dealt with
if the story were to shift from
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*‘Waiting For Lefty’ Shows Force, Conviction;
Barking Lady Stars in Denbigh’s Weatherwise

Continued from Page 1

vocal monotony she employed, she
gave motivation to the other char-
acters and unity to the play. Eas-
ily the best performance of the
evening, however, was given by
Barbara Pennypacker; the strength
of her voice, the significance of her
gestures and facial expressions,
and the eloquence inherent in both
speech and muscle, held this re-
viewer spellbound.

A welcome relief after the in-
tensity of Lefty was the comedy
presented by Denbigh. It was
Weatherwise, by Noel Coward, and
not Chaste, as was printed last
week, owing to this sleepy re-
porter and a practical joker in
Denbigh. Weatherwise was. sty):
ized in the opposite extreme from
the Rhoads play. The play was
saved from anti-climactic weakness
by the hilarity of the situation and
the delightful performance-" of
Isabel Fry as the mother. Abetted
by an excellent make-up job, she
soon proved to be a riotious yelper,
pillow-shaker, and shoelace-chewer.
Her skillful comedy was a great
compliment to her“own ingenuity
and the direction of Lurker and
Grey. sino B hal

The almost inevitable multipli-
city of Irish accents appeared in
Pembroke East’s Spreading the
News, by Lady Gregory. A south-
ern drawl seeped into one pseudo-
.brogue, anotiher was decidedly
Welsh, still another Cockney. This
particular play is the typical Irish
farce that could allow for tlever
delineation of character, but rare-
ly does. The old lady seemed
both unconvincing and _ inconsist-
ent, with the time-honored hand on
aching hip. The production, how-
ever, captured the spirit of the
day, and presented it in a light-
hearted, colorful manner. The cos-
tumes were excellent; the block-
ing was good; but I cannot help
thinking that the choice of play
was not fortunate, at all, at all.

The characters in Death Comes
To My Friends, by Karl] Dollman,
offered by Radnor, were far t0o
“stock”, without benefit of styliza-
tion or picturesqueness. There is
not much that could have been
done with the string of cliches



that composed the dialogue; a trite
situation was set in motion by mel-
odrama. Naomi deLangley was ex-
cellent, however, as the unhappy
prince. She lent her character a
tragic air and energetic intensity
that was carried across by a
beautiful, almost poetic, speaking
voice.

Skillful scene changes, lighting
effects, and conviction of present-
ation with. a minimum of props
brought out two striking charac-
teristics of the first night plays:
the enthusiasm with which they
were presented and the smooth-
ness with which they were pro-
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of mythology. An achievement
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The Greek alphabet was extreme-
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Death of a Science Under Bolshevik Russia

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Agricultural Institute; Vavilov
subsequently died in 1942 in Si-
beria, two years after his arrest.
Genetics were taught in the uni
Versities till 1948, but disappeared
completely from the agricultural
experiment stations. Once sincere



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printers are Sphaera Mundi, Ven-
ice, 1478; a book on the theory
of music; and the only French
volume on_ exhibit, Geometria
Speculativa, Paris, 1495. As dif
ficult to reproduce as the
Greek alphabet, were the
geometric, astronomical, and
musical symbols employed in the
composition of these volumes, and
the clarity and precision witha
which they were printed are com-
pliments to the ability of these
artists, for such they were.

geneticists are now forced to re-
cant their ideological bourgeois be-
liefs and to further the propaga.
tion of materialism as reflected in
Michurin’s (an earlier anti-Mendel
Bolshevik scientist)) genetics. In
every case the scientists must ad-
mit their great error by writing
personal letters to Stalin promis-
ing to place their Party belief:
over their scientific principles,
Those unwilling to do so are liqui-
dated at once. Thus in one genera-
tion a flourishing and important
field of scientific research has been
utterly wiped out behind the Iron
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