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VOL. XLVI, NO. 4
ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1949
Comvrishs, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College,1945
PRICE 1 15 5 C EN Ts"
‘Faculty Raises
Mark Requisite
For Cum Laude
_Changes Will Affect
This Year’s
Freshmen
Specially contributed by
Dorothy Nepper Marshall
For some time the faculty has
been reviewing the present system
of distinctions at Bryn Mawr Col-
lege. The question has been fully
discussed by a. spect appointed
committee, by the Curriculum
committee, and by the faculty as
.a whole. The situation was re-
viewed both as it exists at Bryn
Mawr and in comparison with that
of other colleges. The opinion of
the various groups reporting to
the faculty and of the faculty it-
self was that the number of de-
grees granted with distinction was
too high.
New Requirements
(Many more students graduate
from Bryn Mawr summa cum
laude, magna cum laude or cum
laude than from other similar col-
leges. In one year, for example,
more than one-half the graduating
class received the degree with dis-
tinction. Such a high proportion
has two results. One is that in
comparison with other colleges the
degree with distinction at Bryn
Mawr is less meaningful. The
other is that if as much as half of
a -given-class-receives the degree
with distinction, the importance of
the ordinary degree is minimized
For these reasons the faculty has
voted to change the requirements
In the past, students whose aver-
ages have been 90-100 received
‘summa cum laude, 85-89.99 receiv-
~d magna cum laude, and 80-84.99
um laude. Under the new plan
the-average for summa cum laude
‘will ‘remain the same. For the de-
gree magna cum laude there will
be a change to 86-89.99, and for
‘cum laude 82-85.99. These require
ments will go into effect for the
present freshman class.
The way in which the new plan
‘will work may best be seen by ex-
amining the following statistics:
In 1945, 41.2% of the class grad-
uated with distinction.
Continued on Page 5
Mrs. Holland Sows Sabine Oats,
Makes Tiber Plunge in ‘‘Thing’’
A, Navy surplus rubber boat,
well-known in the Atomic Age,
met the waters of the ancient
Tiber, famed in the Augustan Age,
when Dr. Louise Holland of the
Archaeology Department “and “her
husband rowed down to Rome last
summer.
As the guest at the Classics
Club’s tea last Thursday afternoon
Mrs. Holland showed. slides in the
Common Room, and described her
extraordinary excursion “Down the
Ushenko Reveals
“Truth of Law”
In Art Lecture
Library Lecture Room, October
20. — In the first Philosophy Club
lecture of the year, Dr. Andrew P.
Ushenko discussed the role of
truth in art. A great. work of art,
he claimed, is complete in itself,
Tiber in a Rubber Boat.” Her main
purpose in making the trip, she
said, was to discover how the Sa-
bines got down to the salt-marshes
in ancient times. For that reason
she’was about to christen her fifty-
three pound, vessel “The Sabine
Woman,” when she remembered
that the Sabine women were fam-
ous for little more than getting
stolen, and named it “The Wild
Oat” instead. Among those who
thought the Hollands’ scheme im-
practicable (to. say the least) it
was known affectionately as “that
thing.”
Their friends and _ colleagues
made protests in vain about the
absurdity .of travelling in “that
thing’”’ from the head of the Tiber
to the seaport of Ostia — the Hol-
lands were determined. They made
a “trial run” down one tributary
of the river whose geological his-
tory was the same as the Tiber’s,
and studied maps of the area with
‘the greatest care. They had to
autonomous. And yet, truth is eS-| locate someplace to land each eve-
sential to it, for no work of art! ning, and a village or farmhouse
can be great or endure if it does nearby where they might get a
not have truth. Just as truth is | night’s lodging. Roads, railroad
necessary to literature, so it is,
also to the other arts, to music |
and poetry, sculpture, painting, al-
though it may not be as apparent
in these.
It is an implicit, intuitive truth
that art gives us, rather than the
explicit truth, Dr. Ushenko point-
ed out. A work of art presents its
message, it does not explain it; and
its truth is not put forth in an ob-
vious fashion. Keats’ Ode to a Gre-
cian Urn is a series of images, “a
dynamic composition of various
images,” in Dr. Ushenko’s own
words, rather than one definite, ex-
plicit image. But the message of!
the poem is ever so much more
eloquent than if it was explicitly
told.
The truth with which art has to
do, said Dr. Ushenko, is the truth
of law, as compared with the truth
of fact. It is a truth that does not
refer to anything outside itself,
that has no direct reference to
facts. Unlike truths of fact, such
as scientific truths, that can be
tested by experiment, truths of
law, among which is the artistic
truth, cannot be checked accur-
ately by experiment, but only by
approximation. A work of art, Dr.
Ushenko continued, enacts what it
Continued on Page 4
1915 NEWS Editorial Concludes
Cramming Makes the Woman
On January 21, 1915, while the
campus was busy with a Campaign
for the Preservation of the Grass,
Miss Anna Pavlova was dancing at
the Metropolitan Opera House, and
Mrs. Katherine Fullerton Gerould’s
“Vain Oblations” was on. exhibit
in the ¥e rare bookroom, the Bryn
Mawr College News came forth
with this untitled editorial of per-
ennial “interest: |
“Cramming, is, of course, we
‘all grant it, frightfully immoral.
If you have investigated the sub-
ject at all thoroughly, (as we
have) however, you must admit
that moral or unmoral, or immoral,
cramming is a fine art. The girl
who sits in the library day after
day patiently acquiring a mass of
‘detail is a “grind”. Anybody can do
that. But the girl who sits down
‘the night before an examination
and masters a whole semester’s
workin twelve’ hours~is~a~-true
artist. Hers are the master’s qual-
ities of concentration, keen analy-
sis, good judgment, the faculty of
grasping things in their relation,
imperturbable coolness, undisturb-
ed by the thought of the stupen-
dous task between her and dawn.
Above all she must have unbound-
ed confidence in her ability to
overcome the impossible. And what
is that but genius! Out in the
world, they say, there are multi-
tudes of people who faithfully ful-
fill their routine duties, but the
man who is needed and who is sel-
dom found is the man who, when
necessity commands, can work at
white heat, can cross chasms im-
possible’ to other folk, can sum-)
mon all his powers on a moment,
the man who can rise to an emer-
gency—the man who can cram!”
| stations and towns, excepting Rome
itself, were all set back some dis-
tance from the river, usually on a
hill. Consequently they were lucky
to find. accommodations of any sort
Continued on sec ane it 6
Symposium cium Held.
Sat. in Deanery
Learned professors and teachers
met last Saturday in the Deanery
at a Renaissance Symposium spon-
sored by Dr. Caroline Robbins of
the History department. They
were addressed by ‘Louis K.
Wright, head of the Folger Lib-
'rary in Washington, D. C., and
Continued on Page 2
CALENDAR
Wednesday, October 26
7:15 p.m. Marriage Lecture,
Common Room.
Thursday, October 27
12:30 p.m. Dr. Hans Simons,
“Germany as part of the World
‘Problem Today’, Goodhart.
Friday, October 28
8:00 p.m. Freshman Hall
plays, Skinner Workshop.
Saturday, October 29
8:00 p.m. Freshman Hall
Plays, ‘Skinner Workshop.
Sunday, October 30
7:15 p.m. Chapel Service,
Music Room.
Monday, October 31
Current Events, ‘“Peiping
Under the Communists.” Derk
Bodde from the University of
Pennsylvania.
8:30 p.m. Science Club Lec-
ture, Dr. Conway Kirkle.
“Death of Science in Russia”,
Dalton.
Tuesday, ‘November’ 1
8:00 p.m. I. R. C. “German
Universities Today”, Common
Room
8:30 p.m. Art Lecture, Miss
Agnes Mongan, “Master
Draftsmen’’, Goodhart.
Wednesday, November 2
8:45 a. m. Morning Assem-
‘bly. Mrs. Marshall, “The Seven
College Conference”.
4:15 p.m. Movie on “Somat-
ie Consequences of Emotional
Starvation in Infants”, Music
Room.
The Bryn Mawr Hockey Team
Alliance Assembly
To Sponsor Talk
By Hans Simons
Dr. Hans Simons, a leading po-
litical figure and present Dean of
the School of Politics of the New
School for Social Research, will
speak at the first Alliance Assem-
bly of the year on Thursday, Octo-
ber 27, in Goodhart. His subject
will be “Germany as Part of the
European Problem.”
An authority on the present and
future of Germany, Europe and
the world, Dr. Simons has just re-
turned from Germany, where he
was an official of the Allied Gov-
ernment. Previously, after the first
world war, he was on the staff
of the German delegation to the
Versailles Peace Conference. He
helped organize the League of
Nations Society of Germany of
which he was vice president, and
the Institute of Political Science
of which he was director. In 1929,
Dr. Simons became governor in
Pomerania and later in Silesia, the
youngest ever appointed to this
high office.
As lecturer on political prob-
lems, Dr. Simons has spoken at
international conferences and col-
leges and universities throughout
the country.
49 Now Works,
Studies, Teaches
Most members of the class of
1949 are already embarked on in-
teresting and varied careers. They
are scattered over Europe and
America, many of them continuing
with their studies.
Jean Ellis, Nancy Martin, Karen
Knaplund, and Mary Lutley are
doing graduate work in England;
Betty Bright Page; Lucille Flory,
'and Mary Eve Israel are teaching
in France. Randy Bell is doing
graduate work at MaGill, and
Beverly Levin Robbins is at Penn.
Generally speaking ,eighteen per
cent of the class is doing graduate |:
work, and eleven per cent hold
veaching positions.
Several of the graduates are
working in laboratories, among
them Jean Broadfoot and Mary
Beetlestone (who is a research as-
sistant at Johns Hopkins). Marian
Harvey is working with the Na-
tional Bureau of Standards.
Martha Barber Montgomery is
doing social work with the Phila-
delphia County Board of Assist-
ance, and Anne Sei oman has a
psychology job in Newark. Anne
Thomas and Kathy Geib are both
taking business courses.
Gov't Announces
Competition for
Fulbright Grants
The following Press Release has
been received from the Institute of
International Education:
“Announcement has recently been
made by the Department of State
and the President’s Board of
Foreign Scholarships of the open-
ing of competitions for U.S. Gov-
ernment awards for graduate study
in the United Kingdom, Belgium,
Burma, Netherlands, Philippines,
Greece, New Zealand, France, Italy,
Iran and Norway for the academic
year 1950-51. The scholarships
offered to American graduate
students are made available as a
result of Public Law 584, 79th
Congress (the Fulbright Act).
This is the second year in which
American graduate students will
have the opportunity of compet-
ing for these awards which pro-
vide travel tuition and mainten-
ance for study abroad for one ac-
ademic year. :
The number of opportunities in
the various participating countries
are listed as follows:
UWrited F@GON! Giese. 156
(Great Britain and North-
OP ean hdincosias 145
British Colonial Depen-
GOB i oinias 5
Junior Social Workers in-
cluding Youth Leaders ......... 2
Adult HAUCation ..........0ccccees 1
Workers Education .......sscsseee 3
Belgium & Luxembourg ............ 22
PRP icssacssaicqens aves hiqnssoseessdisrnese 3
PEGEHOPPANIOM ocscsccceiicsesin 25
PRION | secsiscscscscseesscsteececciesstses 6
CONG lias Anion 12
WOW BOBIGNE oo.ciisconcesins 10
NGS OG bain mascenns 220
In the cases of Italy, Norway, and
Iran the exact number of the schol-
arships to be offered is not avail-
able at this time, but applications
are being received in these compe-
Continued on Page 2
Mongan To Give
Ist Art Lecture
Miss Agnes Mongan, Curator of
Drawings at the Fogg Museum of
Art -in Cambridge, will give the
first of the illustrated Art Series
Lectures on Tuesday, November
1, at 8:30 in Goodhart. The sub-
ject of her talk will be “Master
Draftsmen.”
Miss. Mongan, a Bryn Mawr
graduate and one of the greatest
American connoisseurs in her field,
is co-author with Paul Sachs of
a -book on the drawings of the
Fogg Museum. :
ee,
Page Two TH
E COLLEGE NEWS
Wednesday, October 26, 1949
THE COLLEGE NEWS:
FouNDED IN 1914
Published weekly during the College Year (except during Thanks-
giving, Christmas and Easter 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 in it may be reprinted either wholly or in part without per-
mission of the Editor-in-Chief.
Editorial Board
EMILY TOWNSEND, ’50, Editor-in-chief
ANNE GREET, ’50, Copy Irina NELIDow, ’50, Make-up
ELIsaBETH NELIDow, ’51 Hanna Ho.sorn, '50, Make-up
* GWYNNE WILLIAMS, ’50 Nina Cave, 750
Joan McBripg, 52
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Under Act of Congress August 24, 1912
Phi Beta Kappa
“The purpose of Phi Beta Kappa is to recognize and en-
courage scholarship, friendship, and cultural interests.” In
i
Current Events
Common Room, October 24. In
a “double feature” presentation, Poet Revolts Against
Dr. Helen Taft Manning, Profes- Fatal Outlook
sor of History, and Dr. Walter C.
Michels, Professor of Physics,
spoke about “U. S. Policy and the
A-Bomb”. Mrs. Manning reviewed
the present discussion of the value
On Future
To the Editor:
Dear God, we have seen it already,
We have lived through a lifetime
of strategic bombing now before of War.
the Congressional Committee and |s¢° our leaders, our ‘teachers, be-
commented on the moral issues in- eee
,
volved in the use of the bomb. Dr.
Michels emphasized the present
U.S. search for security and sug-
gested a possible plan for atomic
control based in general on the
Baruch Plan.
Mrs. Manning noted first the in-
ability of the multitude for whom
the decisions about the atom bomb
are made to understand the issues.
The answer to this is government
by experts. Objections to this,
Can we who are pupils ignore?
They speak of it now with com-
placence,
Even in peace they cry War.
While they tell us with smiles we
must loathe it —
Is this how they teach us “Abhor’’?
We sit in the midst of our doctors,
Who expound-us~-the--tacties: of
War.
said Mrs. Manning, are the dis- Dare they speak of this hell as
agreement of the experts and the the future,
forming of their decisions in the To those who have known it
light of their special knowledge before? :
without consideration of ‘chain- Then how shall we sit here and
reactions” and with no respect for listen,
moral issues. To these teachers whom we believe
sage?
Strategic Bombing It is we, we alone, who can check
it —
In the last two weeks there has
been a discussion before the Con
gressional Committee as to wheth-
er the type of warfare specialized
in by our air force is the best type
of warfare. It has been argued on
one side that strategic bombing
would deplete a country econom
ically and morally to such an ex-
tent. that eventually resistance
would become impossible. On the
other hand, the Navy maintains
that strategic bombing did not win
the last war. General Omar
Bradley, stating the Air Force’s
point of view, refuted the Navy’s
arguments about the inefficacy of
the B36. Bradley considers that
the moral issue of the bomb itself
is not important—it is war itseif
which should be considered as
morally wrong.
Come NOW, to defense of our age.
Elizabeth G. Foulke, ’52
Fulbright Grants Offer
Graduate Work Abroad
Continued from Page 1
titions nonetheless.
The
ments are:
basic eligibility require-
1. American citizenship
2. A college degree or its equiv-
alent by the time the candidate
takes up his award.
8. Knowledge of the language
of the country sufficient to carry
on his studies abroad.
Interested applicants who are
actual practice, what would this really mean at Bryn Mawr?
A new rivalry would exist on campus. The chance md
election to Phi Beta Kappa might not affect the average
student greatly, but tension would be increased among top
students in the class. We have honor degrees and certain
coveted prizes as it is, of course, but in general the Bryn
Mawr student has always worked for her own satisfaction.
There seems to be little need for new encouragement of
scholarship. at the present moment. Furthermore, if Phi
Beta Kappa goes through, not only will there be more spec-
ulation on averages and class standing, but perhaps ill-feel-
ing as well, since because of the inequality of classes, the Phi
Beta Kappa of one year might not be as good a scholar as the
girl who just missed it the next.
Even after college the distinction of Phi Beta Kappa
makes little difference. Employers in the professional and
business fields are tending to look less at the applicant’s
marks and scholastic standing, more at the over-all picture
of her experience and character. Though a key might help
us in applying for a job, the lack of it will not prevent us
from getting one. There is a certain social distinction at-
tached to being a member of Phi Beta Kappa, but this too is
rapidly dying out.
The establishment of a Phi Beta Kappa chapter would
introduce the only closed society at Bryn Mawr. Though it
would mean very little to eighty per cent of the students
here, the ones it did affect would reap few benefits from it.
Gaudy N ights
A jockey and a lion-hunter, a circus acrobat and a career
red-light girl, a ballet dancer and a monkey trainer, cattle
judges, camel riders, donkey drivers, gold prospectors,
Henry Aldrich’s mother, Alger Hiss’ wife, and the first doc-
tor to pick up a radio program on her scapel while operating:
greetings and long life to you, Bryn Mawr Alumnae!
What infinite vistas, what glorious visions, what subtle
persuasions, what electric stimulations such statistics give
us! Bryn Mawr opens all fields to us, it seems: with or with-
out Phi Beta Kappa, not necessarily flashing our golden keys,
we too can climb the iced and goated wastes of Amnyi
‘I admire it.”
As a Soldier
Mrs. Manning herself said, “As a
|believer in humanity I deplore the
use of the bomb, but as a soldier
She believes thar
Congress is being guided by thea
cheapness of defense. If we would
get behind the UN propositions
and work on them, she concluded,
there would be at least a “clearing
of the air.”
Many of the arguments for u
iarge Air Force, Dr. Michels went
on, come from salesmanship for a
cheap war. Our military leaders
skirt around our secretaries and
appeal to Congress directly. The
joint weapons evaluation group,
which would give an impartial
opinion rather than military prop-
aganda, is never heard from ‘dur-
ing the conferences.
presently enrolled at a college or
university should get information
and application forms from the
Fulbright. Program Committee—on
their own campus. The Secretary
of the Fulbright Program Com-
mittee on this campus is:
Lily Ross Taylor
Graduate Office
The Library.
Candidates who are not pres-
ently enrolled at a college or uni-
versity may apply directly to the
Institute of International Educa-
tion, 2 West 45th Street, New
York 19, N.Y.”
Bryn Mawr Committee
President McBride has appointed
the following Fulbright Program
Committee at Bryn Mawr College:
Dean Marshall, Professors Oppen-
heimer, Robbins, Soper, and Dean
Taylor, Secretary. Seniors who
wish to apply are requested to
see Dean Marshall about their ap-
plications: Graduate students
should see Dean Taylor. Applica-
tions must be filed in the Office of
the Dean of the Graduate School
not later than midnight, Novem-
ber 30th.
Publicity on the Fulbright
Grants is posted on the bulletin
‘board for foreign scholarships on
Atomic Solution
In conclusion, Dr. Michels sug-
gested as a solution to the problem
of atomic control a modification of
the Baruch Plan. It would include
the inspection plan and manage-
ment plan as stated by Baruch
but would add a determination of
what developments are made in
what country and how many
plants each nation had; the man-
agement of the plants would be
international, but they would be
privately owned.
; north corridor.
\ neers
Sea, saddle the shy okapi and urge the reluctant hippo down
the racetrack as we flaunt our gaudy silks of yellow and
white. We can join the Salvation Army or the Lost Women’s
Federation of Labor, we can swim the English Channel under
water or swing from tree to tree with our long prehensile
tails, we can pan our gold or gild our pans as we wish: “In
you Bryn Mawr, We’ll find the way” (and we quote from a
justly neglected work).
A note of warning: these are good, these are great, these
are noble thoughts in us, but shall we not have to make a
choice? “And we thy daughters would thy vestals be... ”
But can we not please our mistress and: mother in more ex-
citing ways? Should we not try for an even more gracious
Machen, dive down in the unknown depths of the Sargasso
inspiration? There are things no vestal virgins can ever do.
the. second floor of .the waits de
Oninion
Recent NEWS Items
*Detract from
Dignity”
23 September, 1949
The College News
Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
To the Editor:
I am writing to call your at-
tention to the increasing number
of items appearing in the NEWS,
which I and many. other others
feel have no place in a paper such
as this. The NEWS, in addition to
being circulated among the stud-
ents at the college, reaches many
parents and alumnae, who at the
present time I am sure are only
confusedby--such—items—as-I-refer
to; and they would. be greatly dis-
tressed if they were familiar with
the circumstances that have
prompted the appearance of these
items.
The items I am criticizing have
appeared recently under such head-
ings as “Incidentally”, “Errata”,
and “Personals”. In passing, I
might remark that there appear
to be clear grounds for a _ libel
action based on one of these com-
ments.
The recent editorial in Latin,.
albeit a striking literary tour-de-
force, contributes nothing that I
am aware of to the. usefulness or
influence of the NEWS. The piece
titled “ ... spicy brand of Italian”
belongs in the same category.
This sort of material definitely
has a place in the life of a college.
To meet the need for it most col-
leges publish a humorous maga-
zine, and their newspapers are
straight-forward reports and com-
mentaries. Since we lack such a
magazine, it is desirable that the
newspaper not be too cold-blooded
in its presentation of the facts,
especially when the facts warrant.
light treatment. Nevertheless
cheap innuendoes, sly vulgarities,
and journalistic stunts detract
from the dignity and influence of
the paper, and of the college as a
whole.
Cordially,
Edith R. Lauderdale:
Drama Clubs Give
Cast of “Liliom”
The Drama clubs of Bryn Mawr
and Haverford have announced the
cast for the November 12th pro-
duction of Ferenc Molnar’s “Lil-
iom.” It is as follows::-
MMGOM: oi sliagcccgans Bill Bishop
DUNE ccs Eritha von der Goltz.
Nancy Pearre
Robin Nevitt
Marie
Ficsur
Mrs: Muskat-.:.......... Mollie Aller
TOUIEE eo hiciiissctossne Joan Gale
ME is Floyd Ford
Mrs. Hollunder ..Didi Fleishhackes
Hollunder .... Howard Shoemaker
BINSMAaN © s2:.0006505-2: Roger Mowell
ES SRNR err en Tom Wood
Carpenter ............. John: Meserale
ci re abs Piotrow
Policemen. ......... «Kunkel, Haring
The play will be directed by Rich-
ard McKinley and the stage man-
ager is Betsy Swope.
L. K. Wright Addresses
‘Renaissance Scholars
Continued from Page 1
former head of the Huntington
Library. The Folger Library is
an exact reproduction of the Globe
Theatre in London where Shakes-
peare’s plays were first produced.
and several of his early Quartos
are preserved there. Last year
Amherst reproduced Julius Caesar
on the Library stage in the style
of the Elizabethans on the stage of
the Globe.
Before the Wright lecture the |
Bryn ;Mawr College Chorus sang
several Renaissance songs. The
audience liked them. so well that
the Chorus may be asked down to:
Washington to sing again.
Wednesday, October 26, 1949
We
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Page Three ,
Between the Leaves
Latest Daly Mystery
Boasts Garden,
Corpse
by Emily Townsend, ’50
Elizabeth Daly, And Dangerous
to Know, Rhinehart and Company,
Inc., New York, 1949.
Miss Daly, an alumna of the
class of 1901 at Bryn Mawr, has
produced a new Henry Gamadge
detective story, And Dangerous to
Know. Quietly and carefully writ-
ten as all of hers are, the latest
Daly mystery explores tensions
and the subterranean movements
of the mind more skillfully than
it sketches character or builds
suspense. Gamadge himself, of
course, is one of the better-drawn
modern detectives, but the other
people in-And.Dangerous to Know
are not likely to leave any lively
memory in the reader’s mind.
Quiet Mystery
“There are still a few such rows
of old brownstone houses .. .”
here is the atmosphere in which |
Miss Daly flourishes. Well-bred
gentility with at least one disturb-
ing corpse, a polite and mannered
chase, and not too much shock in
the denouement: in this book the
Daly formula is applied to the
Dunbar family. Alice Dunbar was
thirty odd, sallow, and unhappy,
as anyone would be in her place.
One afternoon, after a particular-
ly horrible dinner chez famille,
Alice walked out, bought a red
macintosh described by her inti-
mates as the kind she wouldn’t be
caught dead in, and disappeared.
Garden Corpse
Gamadge trails her to an odd
garden. “He said: ‘The earth is
sunk here a little, isn’t it?’
‘Is it? I didn’t notice.’
‘In a kind of oblong, see?’ ”
From here on in, however, the
story slows down, nosing gently
at alcoholic ladies, band leaders,
and Gamadge’s impossibly stuffy
classmates. A rather dreamy finisa
among painted valentines is mar-
red only by a face blown off with
a service. revolver.
This is not the best of Miss
Daly’s books, but it is one of the
most typical of them, and for
those who like quiet and comtem-
plative mystery, And Dangerous
to Know will make very pleasant
reading.
“Calculate how long it
takes, to get from your bed
to your lecture.”
“By the time they get to college,
understand
most girls -begin to
where babies come from.”
“You must learn to take
class notes
easily.”
quickly and
Broom Cioset Book Illustrates @
Vicissitudes of College ‘* Types’’
"52
One evening a few weeks ago a
treasure was discovered hidden be-
hind the sink in a- Rockefeller
broom closet. The treasure was en-
titled She’s Off to College or the
Girl’s Guide to College Life. In the
interest of a full appreciation of
college activities and problems,
the News reprints some of the
more helpful passages.
The first day of college is most
important. If you have the qual-
by Paula Strawhecker,
Scientists Plan
Party, Lecture
The Science Club will ;give a
Hallowe’en party this Friday
night at 8:00 in the Common
Room. Members of the Science
Club and all Science faculty are
cordially invited, as well as anyone
else who would be interested in
coming. Non-members. will be
charged a small fee. Plans in-
clude games, refreshments, and
possibly a Chamber of Horrors,
along physical, chemical, and bio-
logical lines.
On Monday the 31st of October
Dr. Conway Kirkle of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania will speak on
“Death of A Science in Russia.”
Applying his talk to genetics, Dr.
Kirkle will explain what happens
to scientific integrity under totali-
tarian government. An associate
professor in the Botany Depart-
ment, Dr. Kirkle was a National
Research Fellow at Harvard. The
lecture will be given in the biology
lecture room in Dalton, and re-
freshments will be served after-
wards.
Crime Reporter Haunts Courts
On Juvenile Delinquency Beat
by Hanna Holborn, ’50
For many summers I had been
trying to convince city editors that
I was 25 years old, had a Past, and
was fully capable of frightening
the underworld by front-page ex-
poses. The first city editor to
whom I fed this line graciously
set me to writing obituaries; the
second put me to work on a baby
column. So last summer I revers-
ed my tactics; when he growled,
“And what can you do?”, I cross-
ed my legs and said “Society”.
“Fine”, said he, “we need a juven-
ile delinquent reporter for the
summer”. Thus I entered the
world of crime. -
My friends greeted the an-
nouncement with mixed reactions
One talked gently about the prob-
lems of readjustment and made an
appointment for me with a child
psychiatrist; another was remind-
ed of the time that a lady crime
reporter on the same newspaper
was found dead and charred in the
furnace of a 5 and 10 cent store
several months after her disap-
pearance. Others muttered some-
thing to the effect that it takes a
thief to catch a thief—and off they
went to Europe.
As it turned out, juvenile de-
linquent reporting was neither
very simple, nor, in the usual
sense, very exciting. Much of it
was routine; too much of it was
merely horrifying. There were, cf
course, some “large” stories, but
the great part of the work center-
ed on petty and senseless acts
committed mostly by gangs of
teen-agers.
A newspaper ina not-too-large
city is usually regarded by its
readers as a kind of information
bureau—they call up at all hours
of the day and night, complaining
about taxes, noises in their dining
room walls, or, if not quite sober,
about fire hydrants in their kitch-
ens; they have vital information
‘about Stalin’s childhood, corrup-
‘tion in the sanitation department
and the third at Hialeah. Bui
mostly they ask questions—what’s
the weather forecast? what’s the
score in the Yankee game? did
Truman really drop dead in Inde-
pendence ?
The worst questions came from
parents who knew that a son 9¢
daughter had been running around
with a gang that had been caught
Continued on Page 4
j ities of Rhoda Palmer you will
‘definitely succeed. Rhoda’s win-
‘ning personality is cleverly de-
scribed in a conversation between
her parents. ‘‘Mr. Palmer leaned
over and patted his wife’s knee.
‘Don’t worry, Mabel. She’ll be al!
right. She’s a good little mixer
and she has a jolly smile and she
carries her end’.” Which equips
her with an invaluable asset.
“About one hundred girls ate ir
that same.dining room. The wait-
resses were in black, with white-
starched aprons, and most of them
had heart-warming Irish smiles.’
“There was a house full of girls
. all friendly, talented, beauti-
ful, and there was the faculty, her
very own professors... ”. Ina
later paragraph, however, this is
not encouraged.
“The orchestra would play on
Wednesday evenings for an infor-
mal girls’ dance, when this house
could invite the girls from anoth-
er house.” Wholesome activity is
much a part of college life.
“Some idea of the function and
Continued on Page 4
Eaton Discusses
Study in Geneva
Specially Contributed
by Sheila Eaton, ’50
a Junior Year abroad is the fact
that one is segregated more or
less from familiar environments
and influences. This becomes an
invaluable opportunity to open
your mind, and, being exposed to
a different way of thinking and
living, to have a clearer idea of
what you yourself believe.
Upon reading the article by
Nancy Martin in the College
NEWS on the lack of common
spirit on Bryn Mawr campus, or
rather the fact of increased in-
dividualism, I thought it might be
of some interest to expose the
views of a student who had studied
for a year abroad. One is inclined
to regard such a problem with a
different perspective upon return-
ing home, when still unconsciously
under the influence of the past
year.
This conflict of too much: in
dividualism versus community ob-
ligation is a problem by no means
new to our time or college. A
question dating back to our earli-
est writers, it has been analyzed
and argued by many masters. But
it continues to recur in each gen-.
eration, in a slightly different
aspect.. In keeping with tradition,
I would like to consider a small
ani probably quite subjective. facet
of this question, by writing about
a few of the impressions and re-
actions I had while studying un-
der a European system of educa-
tion. I hope in this way to illus-
trate the “rapport” which I find on
returning here to Bryn Mawr, and
my satisfaction at finding the
schism between the two is, after
all, not-too profound.
After our eighteen years of
family and school instruction, the
Continued on Page 5
One of the main advantages of |
Foreign
_ Correspondent
by Elisabeth Nelidow, °51
It was still hot in Florence at
five o’clock when we boarded the
bus that was to take us up to Fie-
sole, in the mountains, where we |
were going to visit the “Casa di
Riposo”. This “casa”, or house, is '
|
Storts
by Emmy Cadwalader, 50
The Varsity and Junior Varsity
hockey teams played the second
match of their season against Ur-
sinus on Wednesday, October 19.
Both teams played exceedingly
well, but the finaly scores were
against them. The Varsity lost by
a very small margin of 4-3, and
| the Junior Varsity lost 3-1. The
goals on the Varsity were scored
by Eaton and Blackwood, Eaton
making two and Blackwood scor-
Wadsworth
the only goal on the second team.
ing the other. made
This game was one of the best any
Bryn Mawr Varsity has ever play-
ed. It was a very fast game, and
full of quick passes’ “and” dodges:
Both. games. were marvelous to
watch because they weren’t rough,
but good clean, open hitting, which
would have pleased Miss Apple-
bee greatly if she could have seen
them.
Freshmen, Juniors Win
a rest home for Red Cross nurses} The second round of the Class
founded by a _ Florentine
Con-| Hockey Match was played on Tues-
tessa in memory of her sister who| day, October 18. The Freshmen
died in the first World War, when; beat the Seniors, 1-0, who main-
both of them were Red Cross
nurses. As the bus climbed pain-
fully’ up the mountainside, we
looked back on Florence below us.
The Arno curled off into the dis-
tance, peacefully leaving behind
it the destruction of war. Make-
shift bridges span the river,
springing from rubble-heaps on
either bank. The shop-lined Ponte
Vecchio is the only bridge still
standing, and all too often a pile
of stone is all that is left of a
once beautiful palazzo. Dominat-
ing the city is-the Duomo, or cathe-
dral, with its vast dome, and be-
side it. the Giotto bell-tower rises
high above the low, red-tiled roofs
of the surrounding houses.
As we continued up the hill-
side, we passed a Dominican mon-
astery, its pale yellow walls blend-
| ing perfectly with the silvery olive
trees and the tall, dark cypresses.
Groups of men were. sitting on
their doorsteps, waiting patiently
for dinner, while long-legged chil-
dren played around them, pausing
only long enough to stare curi-
ously at a passing stranger, or to
push a stray lock of hair out of
their eyes. At last we arrived at
Fiesole, stopping in the central
piazza, or square. We crossed the
piazza, and started up a cobble-
stoned road, which eventually turn-
ed into a gravelly path, and finally
reached the “Casa di Riposo”’. This
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tained they were only outwinded
and not outplayed. These Fresh-
men certainly have a lot of energy
when it *comes to athletics. The
Sophomores lost to the Juniors by
a score of 4-1, but that is rather
understandable as there were only
five Sophomores and ten Juniors.
The odds and evens teams will be
chosen soon, and the scores of the
class games will be tallied to see
which class will get the first leg
on the Class Athletic Cup. There
was a mistake made last week;
the cup is for the class winning
the most. in all class sports, not
just hockey. There are class games
also in Basketball and Bageball.
Pembroke West beat Merion Hal?
by the overwhelming score of 7-0,
on Sunday, October 23, in the sec-
ond round of the Hall Hockey
Matches. Both teams were greatly
strengthened by a few miscellane-
ous males ,who seemed to belong to
some of the hall members, making
the game quite hilarious. The rest
of the games will be played off on
the two following Sundays; so get
your friends and a few husky men
to come cheer and play.
The Third Varsity Hockey team
played its first game against Ur-
sinus on Monday, October 24. Bryn
Mawr fought hard, but the final
score was 2-1 in favor of Ursinus.
The only Bryn Mawr goal was
scored by Marilyn Reigle, who was
also elected captain of the team.
THE OBSERVE
by Anne Greet, ’50
Sunday is the best, when the
week’s rush still mumbles in the
distance. The halls are quiet, the
library deathly. The lucky ones
have left; the others sit in mo-
tionless concentration spurring
themselves on to the next page
with cups of instant coffee. Those
who-live-on-the third floor try to
ignore the small field mice who
between roof and ceiling are nois-
ily stocking up against a bleak
winter. Dusk closes in. The moths
creep across the screenless sill and
beat their wings upon the, lamp
shade, scattering’ bronze powder
upon the bronze-clad Achaeans.
This is too much. Off with the
light and down the stairs. Out we
go into the Sunday woods where
milk-weed pods, clustered like
small brown birds, send forth filmy
seeds. These float out upon the
wind, and come to rest on alder
branch or wild aster. Lights glow
through: the hazy air. Red and yel-
low leaves turn brown as the sun
sets. Down the road past a hedge
of scarlet berries, where a singie
tree stands isolated in the middle
of a great meadow. Beyond is a
house and a dog barking. Follow
along by the wall. Someone’s
whistling to the dog. Hide! Foot-
steps approach — but there are
trees in between. Along and along
the rusty-spiked wall, over ditches
and through hedges — and there,
where it was three years ago,
where we first found it, is the Way
In. Let no leaf rustle, watch care-
fully, for hooded figures walk
through the garden in early eve-
ning. The fountains are still si-
lent, but someone has cut the
grass. The windows are bright in
the big house. A squirrel echoes
past the colonnades. White statues
gleam through the dried blossoms
of unpruned hydrangea bushes. It’s
dark now — and past supper' time.
The brambles scratch, the garden-
er will come and find you out and
chase you through the long alleys.
Back ap the misty reaches of stair-
way and pillared porch to the
great stone fountain and, at last,
the Way Out. Softly. Take your
last look, then across the meadow
lit by Shboting stars up the up
the street and under the lamps that
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ig
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Wednesday, October 26, 1949
“C’etait La Plus Grande Partie
Que Nous Evaire Attendue--Hic’’
by Gwynne Williams, 50
We went to the French Club
Punch party at Miss Ely’s the oth-
er day because we have always ad-
mired French very much. We com-
mented upon as much to the butler
serving the punch, which was
groggy with peaches. Leaning
against his bowl we were telling
him how we love French for its
Own Sake and not for speaking
purposes when we noticed that the
punch he was giving us was all
peach and no punch. We gave him
a hurt look and drifted off into the
crowd. A gaunt gentleman with
shocks of blown hair launched us
into our first conversation. We
lent him our nervous ear for some
time, and then, with a heartfelt
“Oooh La!” we left him. It was
about this time that we happened
to glide back to our butler whom
we found squeezed behind his bowl
with several large professors—ail
holding cups aloft and trying to
get into the range of the News
camera. He _ was. still sliding
peaches into cups.
Wafting out through oper
French doors onto a gardened ter-
race, we found a party of those
undergraduates who were in Paris
this summer gathered around two
smallish, dynamic professors, The
professors were egging those un-
dergraduates who were in Paris
on. (It’s all right for those of us
who were not in Paris this sum-
mer; we are the only ones who can
love the language for its own
sake). . This party was having its
picture taken when we arrived-—-
peaches aloft ete., so we joined a
photograph or two. When it seem-
ed to have gotten dark and cold,
we all returned to. the living room.
It was then that we noticed that
‘Miss Ely’s living room has no ceil-
ing until the second floor. The
hovering haze of smoke gave us a
vast feeling of infinity . . we were
ruminating upon this feeling, gaz-
ing into the depths of our cup,
when we felt the presence of An-
other Professor. We glanced up
and knew immediately our inade-
Bard’s Eye View
by Joan McBride, °52
O Apple! What evils canst thou
propagate! r
Small thought we give thee when
thy sphere we see
Change from green to red on
burgeoning tree.
’Tis only when we dare to
“liquidate”
Thy juicy pulp, and strive to
sublimate
Thy better nature, that thou may
come to be
A source of secret sins, and set
us in a sea
Of wild imaginings. O morbid,
blissful state!
Once thou couldst keep the doctor
from our door,
And munching on thee cheered a
dismal place.
Now thou bringst ice packs into
constant use.
Thy salutary visage nevermore
Will show to us its ruddy, whole-
some face.
O potent beverage — fermented
Apple Juice!
. - Attention! Payday Bills
All Payday bills must be sub-
mitted by the Thursday noon be-
fore each Payday. Any bills sub-
mitted later than this will be re-
turned. *
Payday bills must be made out
in the following manner:
(1) List in alphabetical order
the names of the people to be bill-
ed;
(2) List individual sums as well
as total of individuals bills;
(3) List the name of the person
to whom the check should be made
out and the place where the check
should be sent. If bills are not
made out in this manner, they will
‘have to be re-submitted. .
| two girls.
quacy. Pressing the peaches ‘o
our breast we watched the lips of
this professor move mercilessly
over the cadences and innuendoes
of the language we admire, and as
mercilessly move into the final ca-
dence of a quesioning innuendo—-
at which lull, with a look of what
we trust was shocked distress, we
shouted, ‘“Helas, helas!” at her and
leapt behind a plate of passing
peanut thins. We knew it was time
to leave. On our way out we en-
countered a mathematics professor
Continued on Page 6
Sundry College “‘Types’*
Found in Broom Closet
Continued from Page 3
use of a great library reaches
them as they look at, touch, and
handle the books, the repository . .
of human knowledge. In the gym-
nasium the freshman feels more at
home.” Or will in time.
“Maria was a senior who had
made Phi Beta Kappa in her jun-
jor year and was graduating sum-
ma cum laude. I always saw her
alone. * * * She was rather stoop-
ed and she walked along very
quietly with an armful of books.”
Have you passed in your poll?
“Decide for promptness, then
ealculate how long it takes to get
from your bed to your lecture.
That much is necessary for every-
body. ‘Put in time for breakfast;
and if you like a good breakfast—
orange and a cereal with cream
and brown sugar, one or two fried
eggs with bacon, a hot roll, and a
glass of milk—why, put in time
for it, too.” But I miss so many
classes by going to Philadelphia.
“But students don’t mind hurry-
{ng and rushing. In fact, many
like to be hurried, to have to rush
rabout, to dash from one class to
the next, to prepare Latin in the
history class, to do their prepared
Spanish as a sight translation,
right under the professor’s eyes.
It makes life seem hazardous.”
Seem hazardous?
“‘Who’s that?’ ‘No, not the. one
in the red dress, the one in the
blue.’ ‘Oh, she’s editor-in-chief of
the college paper.’ The freshman
listens and looks and affects a
blase manner to hide her secret
excitement.” Wait until she comes
to the try-outs.
“Look here,’ Dorothy _ said.
‘Youre a new girl. You don’t
know the ropes yet. It’s not done.
Besides, you’ll queer yourself with
the boys. Have you got a date
for the Hallowe’en dance?’ Clar-
ibel expected that Harold would
ask her, of course, but to be truth-
ful, he hadn’t yet. ‘No.” ‘Well,
that’s what I mean. You won’t
get an escort. I’m going with
Alex.’ A silence fell between the
Claribel knew Alex, the
football captain. * * * Claribel
went out softly and walked down
the twisting stairs . .. Harold was
talking to Elsa. Elsa who war
blonde had just come in from ten-
nis and was in tennis clothes with
flushed cheeks. She stood by the
door laughing and swinging her
racket against her ankles. ‘All
right, Harold. Love to. I'll save
and dance for you. October thirty-
first.’ Claribel heard the words
very plainly; the night of the Hal-
lowe’en hop.” GAD!
“ ,.. among the foolish girls
there are two kinds, those who cut
classes and those who attend.” Oh,
I give up.
Reporter Investigates
Cow on Roller Skates
Continued from Page 3
at something; they asked us if we
had any news about them, and if
so, please not to print it. Many
parents came to see us about their
problems, asking what they could
or should have’ done to prevent
what was happening.
News Day Starts Early
The life of a crime reporter on a
modern newspaper is not very dra-
matic; in fact, it is rather highly
organized. The typical day started
in the office at a much too early
hour; from there we visited the
police station, going on to the jail,
the morgue, and the court. Every
now and then there would‘be a big
assignment—once we had to inter-
view a 16-year-old boy who had
stabbed his mother in the back be-
cause he knew she had been un-
faithful; occasionally... the. unex-
pected would happen—once in
court a prisoner suddenly went
berserk, grabbed a pistol from 4
guard, and, having. shot him
through the stomach, proceeded to
shoot aimlessly around the court-
room; the first and last time I
have ever been shot at, or over.
Once a 17-year-old boy shot his
ex-father-in-law; another time a
boy of the same age kidnapped his
ex-wife. This was, of course, the
kind of story which stimulated
newspaper sales; unfortunately, it
prompted few to action. Every-
one, it seemed, was shocked by the
problem of juvenile delinquency;
but most people seemed also to
take it very much for granted. We
had endless interviews with people
who were working on it and ar-
ticles on new ideas on how to fight
juvenile delinquency. But little of
all this seemed to be very positive.
The Lighter Side
I got to know almost every po-
liceman in the city; a dubious
pleasure, at times, but 90% of
them were Irish and answered to
the name of Mac. They fed me
coffee, kidded me about college ed-
ucation, and even gave me a fare-
well party—a gay affair punctu-
ated by the singing of a happy
drunk beyond and: the’ rather sud-
den departure of most of my hosts
in a squad car.
The business did have its light-
er sides. There was, for instance
the time when a horrified SPCA
official called me up with a “juven-
ile delinquent” story that beat
them all. A six-year-old boy and
his sister, living out on a farm,
had each been given a pair of rol-
ler skates. The boy, being of an
imaginative sort, began to ponder
—what would happen if he shouid
put the roller skates on a cow and
let her roll? After much heaving
and straining, the roller skates
went on, and sure enough, the cow
rolled. But the SPCA cried in vain, |
for Bossie was no more.
Dr. Ushenko Stresses
‘Truth of Law’? In Art
Continued from Page 1
says, and could not be represented
accurately by anything else(where-
as truths of fact, such as those
held in scientific experiments, can
be represented by formulae, etc.).
Dr. Ushenko’s conclusion is that
it is the vision of the artist which
determines the way in which a
truth shall be presented; as a poet
wrote, “Art is but a vision of
reality,” a vision that holds more
or less truth, and is more or less
great. a
Last - Nighters
Dialogue, Presentation
Mars Strong Theme
Of Montserrat
by Paula Strawhecker, °52
Montserrat professes to be a/|
tragedy; it succeeds only in that
it is a tragedy of the theatre.
Without a.knowledge of the French
play by Emmanuel Robles it is
impossible to argue its original
merit, but the idea behind the
play is so powerful in a true dra-
matic sense that one cannot con-
sider Lillian Hellman’s adaptation
anything but the labored degener-
ation of a basically superlative
play. The action laid in Venezuela
during the revolts of 1812, con-
cerns a young Spanish officer,
Montserrat, who confesses to hav-
ingaided-Bolivar™ to escape, but
refuses to reveal his hiding place.
Montserrat’s colonel, Izquiredo,
knowing the young soldier would
die rather than betray the revolu-
tionary cause, presents him with a
far worse alternative: he has six
citizens brought from the market
and tells them that unless they
can persuade Montserrat to reveal
Bolivar’s position, they will be shot
at the end of the hour. Thus Mont-
serrat is forced to weigh his ideals
against six lives.
The moral struggle of Mont-
serrat as opposed to the obdurate
colonel.offers opportunity for mag-
nificient counterpoint of characters
and it is primarily hére that Miss
Hellman has bypassed the chance
of a playwriting lifetime. The in-
tent of the casting and dialogue is
incomprehensible. If Col. Izquiredo
is meant to be the protagonist, as
Emlyn Williams’ top billing would
indicate, Miss Hellman’s charact-
er delineation through dialogue is
more than misleading in its weak-
ness. If Montserrat is meant to be
the protagonist and his reconcilia-
tion of conflicting principles the
theme of the play, as the title
would indicate and as the dialogue
and course of action hint, then
William Redfield is not the actor
to portray the sensitive, tormented
soldier.._Mr._Redfield—tries—very
earnestly, but he remains a juven-
ile of the George Abbott school,
the Billy Redfield of Snafu and
Barefoot Boy With Cheek.
The only possible juS8tification
for starring the colonel and titling
the play Montserrat would be the
intention to create a counterpoint
of characters in conflict; each a
catalyst crystallizing the mind and
soul of the other. Miss Hellman’s
dialogue has not created this im-
pression, nor has Mr. Redfield’s
interpretation or performance.
Strangely, as written and acted,
the pleadings of the six citizens
have little effect on Montserrat,
and. only serve to crystalize the
character of the colonel. Only
Emlyn Williams acts with depth
Continued on Page 5
‘Casa di Reposa’, Fiesole
Cast Spell on Visitor
Continued from Page 3
house is a lovely two-story build-
ing, with a-wide terrace between
the two wings, roofed by a vine-
covered trellis. The nurses were
sitting out on the terrace, knitting.
and talking. We were introduced
all around, and after a prelimin-
ary awkwardness,. conversation re-
sumed.
The home is open to Red Cross
nurses of all nationalities who
need a rest, and many of them
come back year after year. This
is not surprising, considering the
beauty and peace of the surround~
ings. Florence lies at your feet,.
still retaining its mediaeval love-
liness. The sun was setting when.
we arrived, and the picture was
almost indescribable. Gradually,
lights began to burn through the
purplish haze of-the-evening, and
a few pale stars appeared. You
had the impression that you were:
looking at a fairy city, which
might at any minute disappear in-
to the growing dusk.
As. night fell, it became very
cool, and everyone’s thoughts be-
gan to turn to supper. We went
in and sat at one long table, while
conversation rattled on. The ma-
jority of the nurses were Italian,
but there were also French, Swed-
ish, and English ones. Language
difficulties were slight, but not
enough to bother anyone, and
everyone talked a mile a minute to
her neighbors. As the nurse who
runs the home said, the nurses be-
come like schoolgirls as soon as
they get there. Laughing, joking,
talking shop, and teasing each
other, they relax completely after
spending exhausting months in
hospitals all over Europe.
After diriner we pushed back
the chairs, rolled up the rug, and
started to dance. One of the nurses.
did an impromptu solo while the
others sang for her, another taught
us a new Italian dance step, and
then we found ourselves doing an
exhibition of the American samba.
Time melted away, and suddenly
we discovered we would have to
run to catch the last bus. Grab-
bing our things, we said good-bye
to one and all, and fled down the
hill. The bus took us back to now-
darkened Florence. but I will never
forget the laughter of the nurses.
and the spirit of the “Casa,” for
they make it the most beautiful
memorial I know.
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ON CAMPUS
Wednesday, October 26, 1949
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Page Five
by Barbara Joelson, 752
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Somewnere near
Schuylkill,
On a campus know as Bryn Mawr,
Dwelt a maiden: Violetta.
Freshman was she, young and
trusting,
Anxious to begin her learning.
In the fall she heard of orals,
But a test would never faze her;
A she got in French in high school,
Orals? .. .She could always pass
them!
So instead our Violetta
Went to see old Yale play Har-
vard.
April came with scented blossoms,
Dreams of romance ... and the
orals.
So’ one Saturday in Taylor
Violetta tackled Francais,
Traduise’d in smoothest English,
Failéd-her-first try at the orals.
Sophomore year said Violetta,
“Espanol I’d rather habler;
Rhumbas I adore and sambas.”
But the little Violetta
flowing
Reckoned not with things like
tenses:
Spanish went the way that French
went.
Then our maiden took up German—
‘Just to read its mighty authors”,
(And, of course, to pass the oral).
But alas young Violetta
Never got to Mann or Goethe,
Never passed her German oral.
Junior year, not quite so hopeful,
Violetta thought of Russian —
“Just to be a Mata Hari,
Dine on caviar and vodka”,
(And to pass the Russian oral).
More chance had she for a spy’s
life,
More chance to get drunk with
Stalin,
Than to translate into English
Those confounding hieroglyphics ..
So she failed. Then turned to Plato,
Sappho, Aristophanes, and Homer;
But the Greek she could not con-
quer,
Orals still remained the victor.
Senior year, both tense and jaded,
Violetta tried Italian.
Sad to say she knew spaghetti
Better than she knew her gram-
mar.
Then she found that her diploma
Would not come at graduation.
Would not come (to be specific)
Till some day far in the future,
When the tests were thrown from
Taylor,
Hers, by chance, would reach the
last step.
But luck, it seemed, would never
bless her.
So with heavy heart and weeping,
Violetta left dear Bryn Mawr,
Left old Taylor, home of orals,
Where she’d suffered, Spring and
Autumn,
With the verdict: “Semper Vincta”’.
What became of Violetta?
Had her life been scarred forever?
You may judge: Each day for
breakfast
Un monsieur from France awaits
her,
Begs her, “Venez a la Casbah.”
Then at noon his place is taken
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The Saga of Violetta
By a dashing caballero,
Teaching her to do the tango.
Russian commissars don’t veto
Violettu’s coy suggestions;
German youths forsake their frau-
leins; )
Italianos take her dining,
Purchase for her sweet Chianti.
And the “Greek’s’”, whene’er she
eats there, tos
Sing with her “Pallas Athena.”
Violetta’s lengthy story
Has, in spite of all, a moral.
For though you may seem
defeated,
Though you fail ad infinitum,
Still you never know what comfort,
What advantages and, pleasures
Come, when languages you’ve
toiled through,
Suddenly are really oral —
Take the case of Violetta ! ! !
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Cum Laude Requirement
Raised for Class of ’53
Continued from Page 1
In 1946, 34.8% of the class grad-
uated with distinction.
In 1947, 36.5% of the class grad-
uated with distinction. _
In 1948, 51.7% of the class grad-
uated with distinction.
In_1949, 51.79%_.of the class-grad-
uated with distinction.
Under the new plan the percent-
ages would have been as follows:
Stimulating, Maturing
Continued from Page 3
greater part of us arrive at col-
lege having acquired during our
education a large moral, academic,
sporting, and social training. Only
a small minority arrive with a
fully matured individual character.
Once at college we hope to pur-
sue our personal aims, as well as
those for the college. I feel that
there are actually few colleges
which encourage emphatically
these tendencies toward an~indi-
vidual development, and among
these few I would place Bryn
Mawr at the top.
In studying at the University of
Ceneva, one has the occasion toa
meet a “melange” of students who
represent almost every country to
east and west. This “pot pourri”
of conflicting ideas and personali-
ties is all housed in the small, and
as the Parisians say, “provenciale”’
city of Geneva. ‘Perhaps fortun-
ately, they are not all congregated
on one campus, but are scattered
in a thousand pensions and small
hotels. | They come to the Uni-
versity for their courses, and they
go home at night, but between the
courses there are innumerable in-
terludes which are long enough to
take a small respite in a conven-
ient cafe, the Universi‘; hail,
park.
Among these diverse students
one could say there is very little
esprit de corps, but there was at
least one common aim: to learn.
And so, gathered in any small
room or reasonably quiet place,
discussion begins. It is stinrulat-
ing and interesting to find your-
self at the same table with a
Yugoslav, an Arabian, a Scandina-
vian, and a Swiss German. Rugged
individualism excels, and there is
no need for an introductory ex-
In 1945, 29.8% of the class would
hans graduated with distinction.
| In 1946, 25.0% of the class would
have graduated with distinction.
In 1947, 27.9% of the class would
have graduated with distinction.
In 1948, 35.8%. of the class would
have graduated with distinction.
In 1949, 26.7% of the class would
have graduated with. distinction.
It is interesting that no change
would have been made in the num:
ber of students receiving the de
gree summa cum laude and very
few in the magna cum laude, group.
The principal change would have
occurred in the number of students
graduating cum laude.
Incidentally
So this is how they teach French
at Bryn Mawr! The following are
exerpts from the science passage
of the most recent French Oral:
“There are two kinds of physiques;
the undulating physique and the
corpuscular physique.” .
gists prying into proteins by un-
derhand methods?” “Scientists
start to control matter, already
they have submitted to fission.”
“The science of the undulating
body.”
planation of your previous life o-
background, but you plunge di-
rectly into an impending subjec*
of conversation. As an individual
you voice your opinion, and are
obliged to defend it in your own
subjective manner. It is quite
rare when these conversations de-
generate into a mere political
debacle. And so _ during’ these
months of study at Geneva, I grew
to appreciate a person for whai
he represented as an_ individua!
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Reviewer Finds Adaptation Disappointing;
Praises Acting and Theme of ‘‘Montserrat’’
Continued from Page 4
and for lack of tragic material in
Montserrat, the tragic situation
begins to settle around Izquiredo.
Thus Emlyn Williams unwittingly
overbalances the play, but makes
‘it more literate by creating a di-
mensional character. Perhaps Miss
Hellman meant her play to “be the
tragedy of the colonel, brought |
about by his contact with the sen- |
sitive Montserrat, but this would
seem to read more into the script
than she has written; if this was
her intention, she has certainly
gone the long way round and so
obscured characters that they are
incomprehensible.
Miss Hellman’s dialogue is gen-
erally poor and especially stilted
in the irrelevant. opening scene;
her epigrammatic attempts are
often painful. Repetitious, often
dull and seldom profound, Miss
Hellman’s words do not illuminate
her characters, a most unfortun-
ate situation in a play of character
study.
In addition, Miss Hellman has
staged the play herself, thereby
eliminating a possibility of the di-
rector’s deeper insight which the
play desperately needs. The adap-
tor-director, in a final lack of dis-
cretion, has ended the play with
anticlimax, after providing herself
one of the most powerful and in-
genious curtain lines in many a
year. Montserrat refuses to betray
Bolivar, \and one by one the hos-
tages are executed. Montserrat
again refuses to yield his secret,
believing his torture to be over,
and that death alone can follow.
At this moment, Izquiredo orders
six more people brought from the
market. It would seem that this
speech alone could redeem much
« “Diolo- |
| of the preceeding dialogue,
_
but
Miss Hellman chooses to carry the
play through an exasperating and
somewhat childish revelation and
Montserrat’s subsequent execution
as a traitor.
In one sense, Montserrat. is ex-
tremely interesting to watch. The
actors prove themselves such only
through their interpretations, since
they have not the aid of intelli-
gent lines. Of the six-who must
persuade, Reinhold Schunzel and
John Abbott distinguish them-
selves. The former plays the pa-
thetic merchant with a moving
‘sincerity. Mr. Abbott has the fas-
cinating role of a repertory actor
to which he brings humor, ‘pathos
and a wonderful sad dignity. The
Continued on Page 6
Morning Assembly
Mrs. Marshall will speak at the
next Wednesday morning assem-
bly at 8:45 in Goddhart. Her topic
will be-“The Seven College Con-
ference”,
NEWS Elections
The News takes pleasure in -an-
nouncing the election to the stat
of Jady Konowitz, ’51, Pat Mur-
ray, °52, Helen Katz, °53, and
Frances Shirley, 753.
Educational Films
A series of educational films will
be presented every Wednesday
afternoon in the Music Room at
4:15. The next will be on Novem-
ber 2; its title is “Somatic Conse-
quences of Emotional: Starvation
in Infants”. The film is being of-
fered by the Psychology depart-
ment.
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
Wednesday, October 26, 1949
Sunday Reveries Stir
Final Autumn Ghosts
Continued from Page 3
Hellman Adaptation
Weakens ‘‘Montserrat’”
‘Continued from Page 5
dot the campus — home. Safety.
remainder of the six—have been! This is it — The last time. We are
given less to work with, but man-| feeling old these days — never
age in every case to create some- ‘another autumn blowing ghosts
thing from nothing. Because of | through the nun’s garden or send-
the stilted and stylized manner-|ing flurries of birds to wake the
isms of Mr. Redfield, however, one| cloisters. Cut down the laurel,
feels they are playing in a vacuum. | strip the bay. The flame of autumn
The line of persuasion taken by| passes, and winter bites hard,
each citizen, knowing his life de-| teaving only the vital skeleton and
pends on the force of his argument, | life-coloy. Seeds wander, berries
offers great possibilities to the | brighten, tawny leaves call to us
adaptor, but she has scarcely|, , . “This is it. The culmination
hinted at their dramatic power. © |... darkness (sleepy — forgetful)
Despite its weaknesses, Mont- .\. 5% We'll to the woods no more.
serrat is worth seeing, for tworf |
reasons. The first is the compefl-
ing theme of minds and values jin
mortal conflict, which may j|be
found. hiding behind some of fhe
performances once the dialogue
has been cleared away. The second
is Emlyn Williams’ performance,
which makes the confusion and
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Centinued from Page 1
They spent one night with a large
Italian family who lived th a cave!
Another night they left “The Wild
Oat” on the
and went into the city by train to
spend the night.’ Early the next
morning they got up with a cry
of “On to Rome!” and took the
train out of the city, got their boat,
river outside Rome
again.
The expedition presented a var-
iety of perils. Masonry which had
fallen out of. ancient bridges cre-
ated artificial rapids to try “The
Wild Oats” non-canoelike propor-
Mrs:--Holland’s~ discomfort
from long exposure to sun and
tions.
wind was relieved by a thought-
‘ful gift from Miss Taylor — a
Mrs. Holland Vanquishes F derce Sheep Dog,
Rows “Wild Oat’? in Ancient Roman Stream
and sailed triumphantly into Rome |
peers: and Professors
Give Club Party Punch
Continued from Page 4
large bottle of Elizabeth Arden
aS ee | who has been trying to lear:
suntan lotion!
They found it dif-| French for years by having Proust
ificult to steer clear. of the many’ read aloud to her.
stone piers supporting the bridges} Drifting down the street, we
and fend off small boys with poik-_| thought to ourselves what a fine
| thing it was that Kathy Harper
has done for, aS we remarked to
Mrs. Holland took a great many! one professor, “c’etait la plus
ssor,
pictures of the Tiber itself, which! grande partie que nous evaire at-
is really quite beautiful when one| tendue.”
is on it, though not very impres- eagrora cure:
sive from the ridges above. She
also showed slides of the bridges
and aqueducts, the river ferry men,
the family who lived in the cave,
ing fingers at the same time!
Hungry and blue ?
The thing for you
the mouths of some of the tribu- is a ‘
taries, and various other land- hamburger treat
marks. Among the pictures was
one of herself, not very recogniz- at the
able, seated..in...“The--Wild--Oat.”’
As she showed it, she sighed
and remarked, “Every time I see
that picture I think I really should
have had Helen Hokinson along!”
HAMBURG HEARTH
Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr
uncertainty of the rest of the play
considerably easier to bear. If Mr.
Williams does not return to play-
writing, embittered by Montserrat,
his acting will be a great addition
to the American stage.
It is a great pity that Miss
Hellman did not use her oppor-
tunity to better advantage, since
such an opportunity does not pre-
sent itself each season.
Verdi’s — La Traviata
Sunday Deadline
Would all those who plan to
American Opera Company Season 1949 - 50
(OPERA IN ENGLISH )
Mozart’s — Ladies Are Like That . . Feb. 9
Puccini’s — Madame Butterfly . . . Mar. 22
SPECIAL RATE TO STUDENTS — 20% DISCOUNT
ON THE PRICE OF ANY SERIES TICKET
Tickets may be ordered from the Public Relations Office,
Taylor Hall, and may be put on Pay Day.
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