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™ VOL. XLVI, NO. 8
ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1949
Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1949
PRICE 15 CENTS
McBride Talks
On School Duty
To Community
Educational Demands
Include Training
In Democracy
The subject of Miss McBride’s
address to the Middle States Asso-
ciation of Schools and Colleges, de-
divered at Atlantic City on Novem-
ber 25, was Education for Volun-
tary Citizenship. She approached
the subject with “special reference
to that word ‘voluntary’.” Prais-
ing the use of the word by Friends’
schools, she defined it as follows:
‘The pupil or graduate is ready to}
act of his own accord, from his
own understanding and concern,
His readiness to act, however, is
’ considered to be dependent in part
on the experiences and training
the school was able to offer.” She
went on to say that “his participa+}
tion at this point, that is in the
school program itself, might nos
be quite so voluntary, and to press
the point to an absurdity one
would perhaps soon begin to hear
abou the required courses for vol-
untary citizenship.”
Miss McBride defined citizenship
as “active participation. in the af-
fairs of the community, the state,
and the nation.” She outlined the
incentives to active, voluntary
Continued on page 6
Quine To Present
‘Identity’ Lecture
Dr. Willard V. Quine will speak
on the subject of “Identity” on
Monday, December 5th at 8:15 in
the Music Room. Dr. Quine, one
of the foremost contemporary
logicians, is at the present time a
professor of philosophy at Har-
vard. He is a graduate of Oberlin
College and of Harvard, and his
works include A System of Logis-
tic, Elementary Logic, and Math-
ematical Logic.
This is the sixth in a series of
honorary lectures given for Pro-
fessor Theodore DeLaguna, who
died in 1930, and his wife, Grace
DeLaguna.
Guicharnaud Finds U.S. Hurried;
Likes Bebop, N. Y.,
M. Jacques Guicharnaud
USF Drive Falls —
Below Its Quota,
Raises $4,272.35
The United Service Fund has
announced the results of its an-
nual drive. The total of all con-
tributions received is $4,272.35,
which represents 72% of the quota.
This year, however, the quota was
raised from $7.50 to $10.00 per
person, with the result that the
total is $947.75 more than last
year.
The contributions are:as follows:
Hall Donation % of Hall
Quota
Denbigh $617.00 83%
Merion 335.00 53%
Non-Res 72.50 21%
Pem East 610.00 80%
Pem West 481.50 74%
Radnor 444.50 86%
Rhoads North 568.85 94%
Rhoads South 356.50 62%
Rockefeller 628.50 13%
Wyndham 158.00 93%
The various orfanizations to
which the Fund contributes will
receive the following amounts:
Organization % of Total Amt.
World Student
Service Fund 24.0%
CARE (for foreign
$1025.36
univ. libraries) 14.0% 598.13
CARE
(for children) 9.5% 405.88
Continued on page 2
Bryn‘Mawur’s Missing Link Visits
Alumnae, Schools, Students, West
specially contributed
___ by Doris Emerson.
In September, 1948, I became
Bryn Mawr’s traveling representa-
tive, an awkward title which has
not yet been replaced. The duties
of the job were to help usher in
the class of 1952, learn the routine
of the admissions office, and travel
to schools throughout the country
to talk to deans and students who
were interested in Bryn Mawr.
Schedules (were arranged by the
alumnae in the cities I planned to
visit and without the alumnae my
various trips would never have
succeeded.
After five weeks devoted to dis-
covering the college from an ad-
missions office point of view and
writing to schools and alumnae of
my impending visit, I set off for
two months in the West. Feeling
spiritually akin to Emily Kim-
rough, I boarded the “General”
for Chicago with a. hazy idea of
aims, and geography, and although
I traveled sans minks and dogs,
my responsibilities were heavy: I
carried the movie. Made in 1947,
it was to be the piece de resistance
of each school visit, and I came to
know it intimately: each break in
Miss Skinner’s voice, each rip in
the sound track, each leaf of the
trees.
My advance billing to the alum-
nae was as the “missing link”, and
both they and I were leery of our
meetings. Once I explained, how-
ever, that it was meant to describe
my relationship between them and
the college, the implication was
clear. I found that Bryn Mawr
alumnae are women of action, and
they organized a round of school
visits, alumnae meetings, newspa-
per and radio interviews which left
us all breathless, but I never leapt
Continued on page 5 a
Campus Life
> by Anne Greet, ’50
We knocked in our best Pariséan
manner.
“Entrez!”
een.”
“Monsieur Guicharnaud? We
are the News and we’ve come to
interview you.”
Two months ago, on October 1,
Monsieur Guicharnaud landed in
Quebec. This year he is teaching
girls for the first time and is sur-
prised that they work so hard. He
told us he had never been inter-
viewed before.
“But I’ve made some interviews
and, most important, you must
contribute to the conversation, too,
in case your man is in a hurry—
No, no, I’m in no hurry,” he said,
and looked about the office for a
map that would show us France
being no bigger than Pennsylvania.
Monsieur Guicharnaud is Paris-
ian, he went to the Sorbonne, and
is an old friend of Monsieur van
den Heuvel’s. It was through
Monsieur van den Heuvel that he
came to Bryn Mawr to take Mad-
emoiselle Bree’s place while she is
on sabbatical. He has been teach-
ing since 1945 when he was still a
student, and has taught GIs, for-
eign students, and, last year, small
boys in a school at Troyes. He lik-
he. said. “Do.come
ed everything about Troyes—j|: °
school. boys, old churches, and
cathedral—except the cold and fog-
gy weather.
Continued on page 6
Young Musicians
To Play Sunday
The first in the Young Musicians
Series of Sunday afternoon con-
certs will be held on December 4
at Miss Ely’s. Two students from
the Curtis Institute, Jean Sand-
bank, violinist, and Antony di Bon-
aventure, pianist, will perform.
The program begins with the Chro-
matic fantasy and fugue of Bach
and Poeme by Chausson. Antony
di Bonaventure will play the Im-
promptu in F Sharp Major, by
Chopin, Debussy’s Reflets dans
eau and Toccata, by Prokofieff.
Miss Sandbank will complete the
program with Scherzo - tarantelle
by Wieniawski, Roumanian folk
dances by Bartok and Contempla-
tion, by Brahms-Heifetz. All Un-
dergraduates are cordially invited
to attend this series at the cost
of five dollars for five concerts.
CALENDAR
Thursday, December 1
8:00 p. m. LR.C., Common
Room. bet
Friday, December 2
Actresses Anonymous, “The
Twelve Pound Look” and “An-
other Way Out”, Skinner Work-
shop, 8:30 p.m.
Square Dance,
Gym; 8:30 p. m.
Sunday, December 4
Young Musicians
Miss Ely’s, 5:00 p. m.
| Monday, December 5
7:15 p. m. Current Events
‘What Is the Arab League To-
day”, Cecil Hourani.
8:30 p. m. Mr. Quine, DeLa-
guna Lecture, Music,Room. _
Tuesday, December 6
8:00 p. m. Sigma Xi Lecture,
Dr. Schrecker, Park.
8:30 p. m. German Club, Mr.
Politzer, Common Room.
Haverford
Concert
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Dr. Leo Strauss
Attacks Modern
6 e eh. 9 e
Historicist’ Views
Art, Lecture Room, November 17.
Speaking under the auspices of
the philosophy department on “Na--
tural Right and History,” Dr. Leo
Strauss, Professor of Political
Philosophy at the University of
Chicago explained the disparity
between the older natural right
theory of history and the now gen-
erally prevalent theory of “histor-
icism”; challenging the validity of
the latter on metaphysical grounds.
“The social sciences, as they exist
today, do not even pretend to teach
us anything of values,” he stated,
going on to demonstrate that in
denying the existence of any ob-
jective or “trans-historic” stand-
ards of truth, the social scientists
have cut away the ground of phil-
osophy itself. .
Dr. Strauss defined historicism
as that theory which teaches the
existence of a variety of subjective
human thoughts, each ‘relative to
some particular historical situa-
tion or condition without setting
any standard of value for judging
between them. “History tells us
that one idea was exchanged for
another but does not tell us
whether this was a rational change
. whether it deserved tg be
changed.” In tracing the develop-
ment of this idea from that of
natural right, which was general-
ly accepted until the end of the
nineteenth century, Dr. Strauss
said that its foundation lay in the
comparison of actuality with the
ideal of universal principles, which
resulted in a dissatisfaction with
the world and ultimately in the
denial of the significance of ideal
principles.
“Historicism,” said Dr. Strauss,
“wanted to make men absolutely
at home in this world, and since
universal principles make men es-
Continued on page 5
NSA Meeting.
Held At Beaver
The N.S.A. Eastern Sub-region-
al Meeting was held Saturday,
November 19th, at Beaver College,
Jenkintown. There were eighty-
eight people, representing fifteen
schools. The two Bryn Mawr rep-
resentatives, Bertie Dawes, Chair-
man of the Bryn Mawr Committee,
and Lita Hahn, Secretary, were
secretaries for the two Roundtable
Workshops on International affairs,
Lita for that dealing with the DP
program and the WSSF, and Ber-
tie, for the Workshop that deals
with Work, Study, and Travel
tality, Service to Foreign Students,
and Foreign Correspondence.
At apfthimjns ~~ ~-eeting of the
Plenary Session, there were open-
ing speeches by Roger Feldman,
Chairman of the Eastern Pennsyl-
vania Sub-region, by Natalie
Brooks, President of Student Gov-
ernment at Beaver College, and by
Dr. Raymond Kistler, President of
Beaver College. The Plenary Ses-
sion was followed by panel meet-
ings of the Roundtable Workshops
on: International Affairs, Educa-
tional Problems, Student Life, Or-
ganization. It was brought up at the
‘Workshop on International Affairs,
among other things, that colleges
planning to have DP students next
year must send their credentials
Abroad, Student Exchange Hospi-|
Dr. R. Cushman
Deplores Gov't
Loyalty Probe
Federal Investigations
Threaten Civil
Liberties
“The American people are ser-
iously worried about: our national
security,” stated Dr. Robert E.
Cushman, Goldwin Smith Profes-
sor of Government at Cornell Uni-
versity and Director of the Cornell
Research in Civil Liberties. In his
lecture on “Civil Liberty and the
Loyalty Program” at the second
Alliance Assembly of the year,
.Dr. Cushman explained how our
worries about the Communist
threat to this country have been
intensified by our knowledge that
Russia now possesses the atomic
bomb. The threat is very real, said
Dr. Cushman. It is undoubtedly
true that.secret.Communist agents
are engaged in attempting to weak-
en the structure of our democracy,
and that the Communist state rep-
resents the antithesis of democ-
racy as we know it, but, stressed
Dr. Cushman, in our fear we are
destroying our own ideals of de-
mocracy by attempting to suppress
all radical minority groups.
Fear and Distrust
Two current government pro-
grams are emphasizing to the
‘American people the fact that
there is deep-rooted fear and dis-
trust in official circles. The first
of these is organized by the House
Committee on Un-American Ac-
tivities; the second, less well
known, concerns the loyalty and
security tests.
Tracing the history of these
tests, Dr. Cushman explained that
before 1939 there had been no in-
vestigation of Federal employees,
but that since that time various
acts have been passed, each one
requiring deeper probing into the
characters of government workers.
A very important step was taken
in 1946 when President Truman
drafted the Loyalty Order. The
first five sections of this order in-
volved the investigation of Feder-
al and Civil Service employees, and
implied sedition or espionage in
the definition of disloyalty. The
sixth section, however, stated that
membership or association with
any group designated by the At-
torney General as Communist, Fas-
cist, totalitarian, etc., or as plan-
Continued on page 2
Schrecker To Give
Sigma Xi Speech
Dr. Paul Schrecker, Professor,
of Philosophy, and Leibnitz ‘schol- ©
ar, will present the Sigma Xi |
Lecture at 8:15, Tuesday, Decem-
ber 6. His topic will be “The His-
ory of the Principle of Least
Action.”
The lecture deals with a prin-
ciple which assumes great signifi-
cance due to its survival through
all revolutions of Physics. Also
named the Principle of the Econ-
omy of Nature, it has always ap-
plied to the understanding of na-
ture, from the time of Aristotle to
the present. Dr. Schrecker will em-
phasize the development of the
principle before it received its
Continued on page 2
definite mathematical formula.
Page Two THE COLLEGE NEWS - Wednesday, November 30, 1949
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FOUNDED IN 1914
Published weekly during the College Year (except during Thanks-
giving, Christmas and Easter holidays, and during examination weeks)
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appears in it may be reprinted either wholly or in part without per-
mission of the Editor-in-Chief.
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Under Act of Congress August 24, 1912
Susan Myra Kingsbury
The death of Susan Myra Kingsbury, Professor Emer-
itus of Social Economy at Bryn Mawr, on Monday, November
28th, seemed to many of those who had known her like the
passing of an era.
M. Carey Thomas brought. Miss Kingsbury to Bryn
Mawr in 1915, as the first professor of social economy and
the Director of the Carola Woerishoffer Graduate Depart-
ment in that subject. Miss Thomas and Miss Kingsbury,
along with Susan B. Anthony and the other great names
linked to the suffrage movement, were probably the most
vigorous and determined exponents of women’s rights this
- country has ever known.
Miss Kingsbury gained an international reputation not
only from her work, for the woman’s vote, but also as the
first chairman of the Women’s Minimum Wage Board: she
did unceasing battle against great odds for shorter working
hours and more pay for women in industry. She was also
a strong figure in women’s education, and defended the value
of feminine intelligence with tremendous energy.
Few undergraduates knew Miss Kingsbury even by sight,
but we all recognize what she stood for. It was one of her
greatest disappointments that though the campaign for
women’s equality in the community was so severely fought
and won with such difficulty, women made unconstructive
use of their new freedom. Perhaps reflection on the ideas
and achievements of women so passionately interested in our
having equal opportunity with men for thought and action
- May induce us in our turn to prove we can make use of our
endowments.
Week-End Club
- .2.6—what doesstfis:“_-
average Bryn Mawr student per year. To provide activities
for those who account for this startling low average by
staying at college, the Weekend Club has been established.
Present plans include trips to the International House in
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Current Events
Current Events, Monday, Nov. 28.
Miss Robbins, in her discussion
entitled Socialized Medicine, clar-
ified her position immediately.
“Provision of adequate medical
care for the whole population”,
she said is no more likely to lead
to Communism than public educa-
tion. The word “statism” can be
used of a government measure
only when it dictates our thought
or otherwise restricts us in mat-
ters where liberty is essential to
our well-being.
In the United States, where
forty percent of the population
has no public health service, better
The
health provisions now before the
Senate have small resemblance to
that improvement of, the health
system which, in her opinion, must
someday be established in the
United States. Miss Robbins dis-
cussed the primary objections to
the British plan of socialized medi-
ade answers to them.
The deterioration of the service
caused by a shortage of doctors is
not a permanent objection to the
system. It is merely a reason for
its not~being too suddenly intro-
duced. -
- The great cost to the nation of
the service is expected to decrease,
as national production increases,
with the improvement of national
health.
Doctors are not restricted by the
government, since they need not
enter the service unless they wish
The incentive to specialize is not
destroyed, since there are health
centers in which specialists are
concentrated. Doctors cannot al-
ways practice where they wish, but
they are assured of a certain sal-
ary wherever they go, and the ar-
rangement makes for an equal dis-
tribution of doctors.
Few British medical journals
have complained that doctors were
too much tied up in red,tape by
the system. Patients do not pre-
tend sickness more than they ever
did, Miss Robbins finished.
Miss Robbins concluded with a
summary of the organization of
the British plan. She seems to be
in favor of “pinning patients to
panels’”’.
Students Describe
Summers Abroad
Common Room, Nov. 28. Four
enthusiastic veterans of the “Ex--
periment in International Living”
presented the basic ideal, personal
experiences, and some _ practical]
information about the Putney
Vermont plan, on Monday evening
Their talks were supplemented by
a brief movie, which followed a
hypothetical experimenter from
application to reluctant return.
“The experiment way,” as ex-
pressed in one of the pamphlets
distributed at the meeting, “means
a carefully planned summer’s ex-
perience, through which an inter-
nationally-minded person may be
come an effective world citizen.”
More specifically, the plan provide:
for selected groups of ten boys and
girls and their leaders, to spend
eight weeks.in one country. Part
of this time is spent in living with
a local family. Later there is a
camping trip or a bicycle tour of
the countryside.
Realistic Approach
In terms of personal experience
according to Patricia Herman, the
plan may mean living with the
Perkins Chosen
As All-American
Last weekend, November 25th
through 27th, at the National
Hockey tryouts for the All-Amer-
ican teams, some of the Bryn
Mawr players went down to play.
Laurie Perkins, Marjorie Shaw,
and Janie Stone went down on the
Keystone teams, and Sylvia Hayes
on the Third All
Great excitement occurred when
the tryouts. were over. Laurie
Perkins was named a member of
the All-American Hockey Squad,
as a substitute for the second
team. She was one of the few col-
lege girls to make the teams this
year, and the only Bryn Mawr
student to make it for a long time.
It is a great honor, and Bryn
Mawr should be very proud of
Laurie, as she put on a great per-
formance,
NSA Representatives
Attend Beaver Meeting
Continued from page 1
by April; also, colleges were urged
to organize drives for books to
send to European universities,
which need them badly. At the sec-
ond Plenary Session, in the after-
noon, the reports of the various
workshops were read and discuss-
ed. It was decided then that there
would be a meeting of the Penn-
sylvania Regional the weekend of
December 16th, at Albright Col-
lege.
A copy of the NSA News, “the '
only intercollegiate newspaper,”
will be. placed in the smoker in
all halls, every week.
Dr.Cushman Denounces
Futile Loyalty Probe
Continued from page 1
ning in any unconstitutional way
to overthrow the government was
to be interpreted as disloyalty.
This last section of the Order
constitutes the real threat to our
civil liberties. The Attorney Gen-
eral has blacklisted 168 organiza-
tions without giving any reasons
for so doing. In implying “guilt by
association,” the government con-
siders as evidence of disloyalty
a man’s sympathetic affiliation
with any group on the list. The
government furthermore: places on
the accused the burden of disprov-
ing the charge against him, al-
though the accused often! is not al-
lowed to examine the evidence nor
to confront the witnesses. The ac-
cusations are often vague and gen-
eral, frequently simply the result
of malicious gossip. A point em-
phasized by Dr. Cushman was that
although the accused may be ac-
quitted, he is never really cleared.
A cloud of suspicion \surrounds
him, even though he may never
know what he did that was con-
sidered disloyal.
Stupid Questions
Dr. Cushman _§ stressed very
strongly that of the many hun-
dreds of thousands of government
employees that have been investi-
gated, a very small number has
been_convicted. The investigators
are sincerely trying to do their
best, but many of them are so con-
fused by the whole procedure that
they ask incredibly stupid ques-
tions of those whose records they
are probing.
_ Dr. Cushman concluded by stat-
ing his belief that the loyalty tests
over the last eighteen months have
not produced the slightest evidence
that the government’s fears are
at all justified. As he further
pointed out, no real Communist
Herben Recalls NEWS
Under Equestrian
~~ Sallie Jones
26 November 49
To the Editor:
Although I don’t suppose that it.
was intended to, the NEWS of 16.
November has been to me the
source of innocent merriment. I
refer, of course, to the pitcure and.
comment on page 5.
“And if anyone, anyone at all
knows who he is...” Well! So.
“Adonis” “intrigues us!”
I can only wonder what the files
of the NEWS are good for when
it comes to identifying alumnae,
especially previous editors of the
NEWS.
I can only hope that you make
as good a record in your courses,
turn out as good a NEWS and be-
come a fraction as good a horse-
woman as Sallie.
It is, of course, Sallie Jones.
Her name and address now
Mrs. Jones Sexton
Bryn Du Farm
Granville, Ohio
Thanks for a laugh. I hope
Sallie doesn’t mind having lost her
name and gender. “Adonis!” “Who
is this man!’
Yours,
S. J. Herben
Surrey Finds Her Hair
Is Suddenly
There
ANSWER. TO SURREY
Surrey’s got her coat
So now I quote
A gown of black
Is on her back
It isn’t pink
But black as ink
She’s now in clover!
She now says GRRRRR
To anyone
Who ever came over
Upon the Ark
And makes a remark:
“My! Isn’t she bald!
She must be cold!”
She’s a casket of gold
A great stronghold
Of rubies, emeralds, diamond rings
And other things
She isn’t balder
She isn’t calder ,
A treasure of pearls
To all the girls
For this is SURREY
Not brambly and burry
But fuzzy and furry
A great new strife
Entered her life
When all her hair
Went where, oh where
But now she’s the glory
Of this little story
Hair doesn’t mold
Not in our household
She now has a gown
With bits of brown
Upon her tummy
Over her eyes
You’ll get a surprise
When you view
That dog of woo ~
Her coat I may list
Is honor and bliss
You'll say now
I’m sure we congratulate
The now glorious then late
Dog of the year
So hear ye hear
I now proclaim
With every aim
I now decree
With ability
As you can see
‘ladelphi tive theatre. th ovi ik ieni nd | Mexican Indians and helping them F SURREY !
pita oR Pr oa ig , the movies, hikes, picnics, a to munke jewelry: Anne Nawbold sched ceed to be caught ona} Steven Lattimore
milar entertainm . ; ..,-._|found herself on Dutch farm 5 Reserve Fu % 430.43
Perhaps it would be better, however, if the activities sep td ie vat te a
planned by the Club could be centered more on campus. Mov-
ies could be shown here, especially since the college has ac-
quired a new projector. The various language and other clubs
could sponsor more teas and informal get-togethers.
where nobody knew any English,
and Mary Marshall, with the help
of her German “sister” took care
of two hundred nursery school
children, all in a day’s work. As
USF Announces Amount
Donated to Charities
Continued from page 1
United Negro
Had we reached the quota, the
$800.00 pledged for the Commun-
ity Chest would have amounted to
18.7% of the total, but since the
quota was not fulfilled, it was
: is Anne remarked, “This is one of the} College Fund 10.0% 427.24 essary 69 from
_ Come to the meeting on Thursday, at 1:30. Contribute| few groups which combines id@al-| Red Cros: 18.7% 585.31 vanes Soot to ean highend
new ideas for bigger and better weekends at Bryn Mawr. —_|ism. with a realistic approach.” |Com’ty Chest 18.7% lahee. ab ess
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- best-selling novel of the Twenties.
‘of the most gleeful tongue-in-cheek
Wednesday, ‘November 30, 1949.
THE COLLEG
E NEWS
Page Three
hs
LAST NIGHTERS
Lawyers,Hepburn, Tracy
Find Bryn Mawr
Humorous
by Gwynne Williams, 50
We went to “Adams’ Rib” the
other night and came away with
increased respect for our most en-
chanting alumna—Miss Katherine
Hepburn. “Adam’s Rib” is a pro-
paganda picture from beginning to
end; Miss Hepburn propagates it
with charm. In one of her more
intimate....scenes with Spencer
Tracy he murmurs: “Don’t give
me any of that Bryn Maw-w-we
accent...” and Miss ‘Hepburn
mly smiles significantly. A dis-
tinguished and finished female
having announced in court that
she’s A.B. Bryn Mawr, asks if she
need go on with her European ti-
tles. Miss Hepburn acts her best
but it’s anticltmactical. And in the
midst- of a cross-examination Miss
Hepburn mutters Bryn Mawr
much as she might mutter Hot
Dog Dog or Right Ho, so much so
that we don’t think the audience
noticed it, but we did. In fact, we
reacted with joy and a clapping of
hands to each mention of the dear
name. So viva Katherine Hep-
burn, and viva Adam’s Bryn Mawr
rib.
New Broadway Musical
Barely Misses
Hit Ranking
_by Paula Strawhecker, ’52
Rollicking, low and bright, Gen-
tlemen Prefer Blondes has a
chance of becoming a_ hilarious
musical comedy. Anita Loos used
considerable style in adapting her
The saga of Lorelei Lee,’ Beautiful
Follies Blonde, fits the musical
stage to perfection. Lorelei’s ro-
mance with the button king who
finances her trip to Paris via the
Ile de France, the complications of
her romance with the zipper king
and her final decision to “Button
Up with Esmond” provide just
enough incentive for jokes, songs
and showgirls without developing
into a laborious. plot. However, de-
spite a talented cast, several clev-
er songs and fabulous costuming
the play is not yet all it should be.
The opening scene is an adven-
ture in the fast and funny music-
al. Yvonne Adair, as Lorelei’s acid
friend, Dorothy, sings the first
number with such _ infectious
rhythm and, personality that one
finds it difficult to believe any mu-
sical can live up to such a begin-
ning. ‘The unbelievable excellence
is maintained in the following
scene when Lorelei and her Mr.
Esmond sing “Bye, Bye, Baby” as
the Hit Parade will never present
it.
Quick Degeneration
Unfortunaiely Joseph Fields and
Miss Loos who collaborated on the
book, Jules Styne who wrote the
music, and John C. Wilson, the di-
rector, are unable to sustain either
the pace or the buoyant spirit of
the first scenes. While the play
remains a satire it is a pure de-
light; sincerity is its‘undoing.
The actors cannot be blamed for
any of these faults: they are one
companies ever assembled. Carol
Channing’s Lorelei is a master-
piece. Her. baby voice, mincing
walk, and wide-eyed expressions
make Lorelei irresistable; it is
easy to see why she is the blonde
“gentlemen” prefer. Miss Chan-
ning is a fine comedienne and her
ability with a song can be equalled
by few musical comedy actresses.
Her voice has scarcely the quality
of even Ethel Merman’s, but no
matter, for she sings with her per-
sonality. “Little Girl from Little
Rock” and “Diamonds Are a Girl’s
Best Friend” are perfectly suited |
to her style and completely captiv-
Common Treasury
Dues Set At $6.00
Common Treasury dues for the
year, 1949-50,. have been fixed at
$6.00 per person. The dues will
be put on the December 7 Pay Day
of every undergraduate and will be
allotted as follows:
$3.00 Undergrad
1.50 Alliance
.40 Self-Govt.
pO: N, 8,4,
oO Ae A.
30 Drama Guild
$6.00
The Common Treasury is an
amalgamation of the treasuries of
Self-Govt, Undergrad, Alliance,
League and most of the clubs. The
League is financed by the Activi-
ties Drive, and the clubs, with the
exception of N.S. A. and A. A,,
are supported by separately col-
lected dues. The remaining organ-
izations, however, are financed al-
most entirely by Common Treas-
ury dues. Since every student is
“ipso facto” a member of Self-
Govt, Undergrad, Alliance, League
and A. A. and has a right to par-
ticipate in any of their activities
or in the activities of any other
student organization, it is felt that
the method of charging each stud-
ent a fixed amount is the most
equitable.
In order to clarify the present
apportionment of money among
the organizations, an approxima-
tion of their main expenses is giv-
en below:
Undergrad
$600 Undergrad salaries (Pay Day
Mistresses and Hall An-
Continued on page 4
ERRATUM
As the whole world realized the
day the NEWS came out, we pull-
ed ten inches worth of boner last
week. “Who is this man, this
Adonis?” we wondered, peering
nearsightedly at the old cut in our
files. Relentlessly, even cheerfully,
the answer came and kept coming:
our man was Sallie Jones, class of
1934, excellent horsewoman, and
consequently often found in
breeches with her hair swept back.
Biggest surprise of all: Miss Jones
was editor of the NEWS. “Adonis,”
said Mr. Chew with well-bred sur-
prise: “Hu, hu.”
Excuses would be anticlimactic
in the face of all this: We could
say, with some justice, that no-
body ever knows what a cut’s of
unless they know what it’s of
first. But most of all we wish to
thank the many readers who
brought our error to our attention,
ogies to Miss Jones for our near-
sightedness.
M. M. Chalufour
To Address Club
Mademoiselle Marguerite-Marie
Chalufour will speak to the French
Club at 5 p. m. December 7 in
Wyndham, on “France Today, 2
Comparison of Social and Econom-
ic Life in France between the
years 1940 to 1949. There will be
and tender our most sincere apol- —
a tea at 4:30 just before the lec-
ture.
In 1940 Mademoiselle Chalufour
established a lending library |
Paris for French and English
books: It became a Resletaawe|
center during the occupation of |
France. Mademoiselle Chalufour
worked for several ‘reseaux” from |
1941 until the liberation of Paris |
and has been awarded the “Medaille
de la Resistance.” In 1945 she was |
asked by the French and British |
Ministries of Information to lec-
ture in England and Scotland; she
has been asked to return twice a
year ever since and went last in
March 1949. Mademoiselle Chalu-
four is the organizer of the Cul-
tural Programmes in France and
the Benelux countries for “World
Studytours” of Columbia Univer-
ating in the grand and boisterous
Continued on Page 4
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Chorus Sings All the Way Up;
Persephone ‘‘Fine’’, Says Bert
by Gwynne Williams, ’50
The Chorus sang Stravinsky’s
“Persephone” with Princeton at
Carnegie Hall Monday night.
There has been difficulty finding
out about this trip: one member
described it as queer, another says
it was the best two days she’s ever
had in New York, most maintain
a rigid silence. We offer one re-
luctant account:
We sang at Carnegie Hall Mon-
day night—left on Sunday, got
back Tuesday—and people asked
us how come we were allowed to
do such a thing. We don’t know;
you never can tell about The Col-
lege. We had a special Paolj Lo-
cal car and one to New York—we
who were on the Group Ticket, the
humble ‘“one-dollar-less” group,
the essence of Chorus. When we
saw the crowd at the station with
Mr. Goodale towering in the mid.
dle, we were proud. We sang all
the ways up: songs reminiscent of
days .at Yale, at Harvard, at
Princeton . . . and we were de-
Foreign
Correspondent
by Francine du Plessix, ’52
“Gondola, signora, gondola?” At
the sound of a footstep he has rais-
ed a sleepy questioning head, the
frail urchin curled up in one corner
of the vast empty fishing dock.
The night has been bad for hin, |
few tourists have answered the
call of his black-lacquered proud-
sterned boat, that dips so gently
against the moss-grown landing.
So fine a boat, gliding smoothly |
down to the narrowest canal, so ro-
mantic from it the view of regal!
starlit Venice. And yet the night
was bad, and the purse rattles
thinly. In hope of a day’s free
sustenance from the morning catch
the gondolier has crept into a
heap of fishnets, and at the chill
of the night’s end his thin frame
shivers, his bare feet clutch into
the net for warmth. But soon his
eyes, sensitive as_ those of a self-
providing animal must be, his eyes
are opened by the first lighting of
the sky.
He jumps up, ever quick to wake,
to see the canal almost devoid of
stars, and in the distance, there
where the Grand Canal merges with
the lagoon, the outline of the first
vessel. With-the first awakening
of Venice her ships come in, in
ships that crowned ther queen and
courtesan; with the first morning
vessel the city blushes as an awak-
ening girl. The ship glides up the
canal, sure even in the near dark-
ness of its direction, and the back-
water smell is wakened too, chang-
ed to the salt and iodine of sea and
still-moist fish. The ship hits the
landing with a dull thud of wood
on moss, its pilot leaps out, like‘a
monkey from tree to tree he leaps
from mast to dock to landing, and
layed a half hour by girder fixings.
When we got to New York Mr.
Goodale gave us a dollar and let us
loose. Our first rehearsal was at
a high school; we thought that
humiliating, and ask@d the taxi
man where was Carnegie Hall
from’ there.
with orchestra; we didn’t fit in
very well because the orchestra
was doing something independent,
and we couldn’t see the conductor.
Big Weekend
We were to spend the night with
a sister and some friends of ours.
We hadn’t told her, so were a lit-
tle nervous as to her not being
there when we rang the buzzer
But response to our buzz was im
mediate and upstairs was a turkey
which they had been about to go
out and get some people off the
street to eat. In between courses
and a little stuffed Stravinsky we
talked to them about Bryn Mawr;
how it’s changed and they wouldn’t
know it. Then we took a bus up-
town. We’d read in the New York-
er about Fallen Idol, Saints and
Sinners, and Passport to Pimlico.
We went to Falien Idol _ first.
Above the heads of a row of people
we saw a little boy with blonde
hair leaning on his chin. We
couldn’t hear_him, and a man on
our left told us he’d been waiting
an hour, so we got our money re-
funded and went to look for Saints
and Sinners. We walked downtown
looking in at false hair pieces. We
went to a drug store, ordered or-
ange crushes and asked the man
where Saints and ‘Sinners was
playing. He said they’re playing
everywhere, which are you? We
said we didn’t know. He said that
was impossible, so we went to
Passport to Pimlico.
Burlesque and Plush Seats
Monday morning our rehearsal
was in Times Hall. Our taxi man
said he thought it was a burlesque.
So we said loudly to each other
did Mr. Goodale say three or four
this afternoon at Carnegie and
where was Carnegie Hall from
there. It turned out not to be a
burlesque at all though it did have
plush seats and we didn’t fit in
very well, so Mr. Goodale took us
all downstairs and we sounded
beautiful. After rehearsal we ate
spumoni with beer and wine on
tap, bought six Florentine spoons
with symbols on the ends, and
went to visit friends of ours on the
20th fleor of the Gotham—we
found them eating ice cream out of
silver dishes. We rode on top of 9
Fifth Avenue bus and left our
Stravinsky up there. When we got
to Carnegie Hall we knew it was
too big, so we went home to eas
and drink lightly.
We took our sister and friends
back with us at eight and put them
in the balcony which was above thé
dress circle above a row of boxes
above a row of other boxes. Mr.
Goodale ran through it once more
with us—we weren’t until last on
the program so we filled up some
of the emptiness on the left end
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This rehearsal was
Be tween the Leaves
Richter Book Appeals
To Archaeologist,
Layman
Specially contributed by
Claireve Grandjouan, ’50
Gisele, M. A. Richter, Archaic
Greek Art. New York, Oxford
University Press, 1949. 196p., 337
plates.
Miss Richter’s new book on Ar-~
chaic Greek Art constitutes the
1941 Flexner Lectures. Its publi-
cation was delayed by the war, and
impatiently awaited in Classical
Archaeological circles both in
America and elsewhere.
Because of recent excavations,
and because: those excavations
have aroused interest in the ar-
chaic period of Greece, a compre-
hensive book, integrating and il-
lustrating the work of the past fif-
teen years or so in ‘Greece and on
Greece was badly needed. For the
student of Classical Archaeology
the Archaic period was only’ to pe
studied in lengthy excavation re-
ports, or in books that were spec-
falized, such as the volume on “An-
cient Painting” published by Miss
Richter’s friend of long date, Miss
Swindler, in 1929. -
One of the great merits of Miss
Richter’s book is that it brings to-
gether different forms of art (such
as stone sculpture, terra-cottas,
vase - paintings) for different
chronological periods, and for dif-
ferent. sites. These forms of art
are excellently illustrated in one
hundred and sevefi particulariy
good plates. It has rarely been the
student’s privilege to have at his
disposal such a wealth of good il-
lustrations that go happily out of
the beaten .path to present mater-
tal that. had only been obscurely
published before, or published in
awkward photographs or draw-
ing'’s.
Miss Richter’s lively and highiy
readable style, and the simple,
logical system in which her book
is arranged make it a pleasure to
read, for the layman and archaeol-
ogist-alike.The trend of the book,
which I would like to see furthered
as much as possible, is to make a
serious book of archaeology both
a reference for the archaeologist.
and enjoyable reading for the pub-
lic in general.
Archaic Greek Art is not a
popularization. It is scientific, up-
to-date, detailed and erudite. Al-
though some of the students of
Classical Archaeology might have
welcomed an extension of the ar-
chaic period back to 700 B. C., the
Continued on Page 4
BM, Haverford
Cast “Elizabeth” -
The drama clubs of Bryn Mawr
and Haverford will present Max-
well Anderson’s Elizabeth the
Queen at. Roberts Hall, Haverford,
on Friday and Saturday, December
9 and 10. The production will be
directed by Ry S. McKinley, and
the cast includes:
Elizabeth _ es
Lord Essex Brooks Cooper
Sir Walter Raleigh Roger Morrell
Penelope Gray Katchie Torrence
Lord Burghley William Bishop
The Fool « Suzanne Kramer
Francis Bacon F. Jackson Piotrow
Sir Robert Cecil John Kittredge
Robert Reynolds, E. Perry Waller-
stain, Thomas A. Wood, John Mes
erole, Lee Haring, and Robin Ne-
vitt. 2
The prompter is Margaret Glenn,
Minnie Cassatt and Sue Neubauer
have charge of costumes, and sets
and lighting are under the. direc-
tion of Betsy Swope and Garrett
Roberts, Jr. /
Marjorie Low .
Mary Ruth La Place ra
Tressa Robin Rau
Ellen Marcia Polak
Marvel Robert S. McKinley
Captain Armin James B. Ranck
Jane Roller, Elizabeth Grey
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—songs and banality.
Page Four
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Wednesday, November 30, 1949
Carol Channing and Yvonne Adair Delight
Audience in Loos’ Gay,
Continued from Page 3
tradition of true musical comedy.
After Yvonne Adair’s opening
song, one has the idea that she
may give even Miss Channing
some competition, but, unfortun-
ately, it is Miss Adair who is bur-
dened with the “love interest” and
her delightful vivacity and satiric
talents are soon smothered by love
(It .is com:
pletely incomprehensible why writ
ers, or producers, or whoever is re,
sponsible, believe that every mus-
ical must contain the _ sincere
young lovers. In Gentlemen Prefer
Blondes these scenes are intrusions
and their sincerity is merely dull),
Rex Evans is perfect as Sir Fran-
“Actresses” Casts
December Plays —
Actresses Anonymous will pre-
sent two plays in the Skinner
Workshop on December second at
eight-thirty. These plays have been
chosen to give the participants
practice in the producing and act-
ing of plays with only a week’s
rehearsal. The following casts have
been announced:
The Twelve Pound Book by J. M.
Marrie.
Sir Harry Sims
_J. N, Smith
Lady Sims Elspeth Winton
Tombes Howard Shoemaker
Kate Molly Allen
Another Way Out by Lawrence
Langer. ee
Mrs. Abbey Paula Strawhecker
Margaret Trish Richardson
Pomeroy Pendelton
Hugh Downing
Charles V. K. Fenton
Howard Shoemaker
The production manager for
both plays will be Sally Shoemak-
er, and Maryann Holmes will be
stage manager.
Murder
In Cuneiform
Ed. Note: In case you have for-
gotten what happened in the first
installment, Professor Shotwell.
a harmless specialist on Assyrian
and Babylonian exotica, was found
murdered in his Library office. The
faculty is a gape, the President
aghast, the Coroner agape as the
cause of death is pronounced to be
—drowning.
In a small, smoke-filled room
within the confines of stately old
Hiram Home Hopper Memorial
College there existed an organism
known as the Hopperette News. To
get on this paper was the ideal of
every ambitious undergraduate;
for Hildebrand Sharp was current-
ly in the throes of his sixth try-
out, and on this particular morning
he suddenly had a brilliant idea
Trembling, he gazed steadfastly
into his miniature mirror. “You
can do it; boy,” he said, “you can
do it.” Exuberantly, he picked up
his notebook, pencil, and Boy
Scout fingerprint set, and stalked
off in the direction of the morgue.
. 2.8
_ Hildebrand had never been in a
morgue before. It was very dark,
.very quiet, and very empty; he had
to lift—and hastily drop—several
sheets before he finally found the
corpse for which he was searching.
As he reached gingerly for its
sheet, a sharp rustling sounded
somewhere near; he _ stood still,
frozen with fear. Looking around,
he could see nothing; only the
stark bareness of the gray stone
and motionless masses of white,
arranged with geometrical preci-
sion down the long room.
Hildébrand, for a moment, al-
most forgot his Ideal; but then he
drew a deep breath and braced
him to look. He had never seen
a cofpse before, either, and its rig-
id pallor horrified him. He bent
Continued on page 6
Exuberant Musical
cis Beekman, the blonde fancier
and Jerry Cooper adds the right
touch as Lorelei’s Daddy, Mr. Es-
mond. Alice Pearce is a delight as
the Rittenhouse Square dowager
whom Lorelei and Dorothy trans:
form into quite a flapper.
When these actors are not pres-
ent—or are provided with material
not equal to their own perfection
—the production sags badly. Only
Miss Channing is consistently giv-
en songs and lines worthy of her
and when she is offstage the play
is vapid. The songs degenerate al!
too quickly and the last scenes at-
tempt at the original effervescence
is only frantic. The“singing chorus
is rather jarring but with time it
will probably pull its harmony to-
gether.
The big dancing scenes are un;
inspired, repetitious and long to
the point of being frankly dull—
and are usuallysintroduced without
the slightest provocation. Like the
love songs, they are intruders, and
one can only wish for the swift en-
trance of Miss Channing and com-
edy.
Several of the soloists are ex-
cellent, especially Muriel Bentley
and Kazimir Kokic as a Follies
adagio dancer and an apache, but
even their dances are in need of
cutting. The ballet chorus that
opens the second act is the newest
dancing idea present and has its
clever moments, but the later at-
tempt at serious ballet again
seems incongruous and rather an-
noying. With adagio, tap, ballet,
and innumerable variations on the
Charleston, Agnes deMille may
demonstrate her versatility, but
unless one has an insatiable pas-
sion for her musical comedy chor
eography, the melange is definitely
trying.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is ob-
viously meant to be a better musi-
cal than it is. ‘With judicious cut-
ting, and tighter direction it could
maintain its initial pace and aban-
doned gaiety and have the success
it deserves.
Bert Tells Mr. Goodale
Chorus Sounded “‘Fine”’
Continued from page 3
and watched the people come in,
Most of them were alumnae, but
there were some others—we guess-
ed they were critics. One sat down
beside us, chewing chiclets and
chuckling. The program opened
with some Stravinsky which sound-
ed very old Italian. Then Mr. Au-
den read some poetry—we felt he
was reading to us, coming from
Bryn Mawr; we were impressed.
Princeton sang its Cantata, and
our critic chuckled and drew some-
thing on the corner of his pro-
gram. He was still chuckling wher
we left him. From the stage we
saw about a thousand people. We
estimated two hundred alumnae.
That left eight hundred critics, and
we could hear ours chuckling as
we launched into song. We do not
venture to say how it sounded. We
know we looked well: our tenor on
our left in tuxedo, orchestra and
conductor in center, Vera Zorina
on our right in white. We have
some reliable sources of praise:
our friends in the fourth balcony
said we sounded fine. So did the
bartender in the Carnegie Bar. His
name was Bert, and he made us all
Sloe Gin Fizzes to celebrate. After
playing “Sur La Glace” and sing-
ing a few arias to Carnegie Hall
to tell our grandchildren about, we
waltzed across the street to anoth-
er bar with Bert where we found
Mr. Goodale.
ale we sounded fine. We ate Swiss
cheese on rye and sang German
ballads because Bert comes from
Germany.
‘We had to take a seven-thirty
train back. They sang Christmas
carols; we thought about the con-
cert and Bert. We cannot say how
we sounded; the Times said we were
too ambitious, but Bert says we
sounded fine.
Bert told Mr. (Good- |
OBSERVER
Oh yes, it all looks peaceful,
very peaceful. Go through Pem-
broke Arch, for instance, and you
think you are walking into a pic-
ture. Through the dark frame and
you will be in there on the straight
broad path with the still trees, the
still towers, the still walls, all about
you. Or suddenly open your eyes
on a spring day and you see the
pale fuzzy branches and foreign,
pink boughs that almost speak of
a far-off Eastern peace. And there
are ice-storms when all is frozen
into an encased, brittle peace. Or
see it from the air, if you wish. All
sixty-odd acres look as quiet as a
Cloister. But from the air one per-
son can be seen trotting across
Denbigh ‘Green. What
thing, what culmination of years
of event and entanglement has
caused her at this very moment,
when the rest of the campus is so
smooth and still, to be trotting
across Denbigh Green?
It makes one suspect, oh, a mil-
lion things,—but mainly that all is
not as it seems. One remembers
the hazards, the known perils of
everyday.
The little room under the stairs
is peaceful, the doors are shut, a
low murmur of voices—only sim-
ple entertainment it would seem.
But a ghastly shriek, “Diamond me
no diamonds, for God’s love a lit-
tle air,” and our peace is tattered.
It is not Launcelot dying in his ar-
mor, it is a friend in danger. Of
course some of us would wish for
a little less air, but the danger per
sists, Beware!
Or, walking down a corridor, us-
ually a. Library corridor, some-
body is seen at the far end wildly
flailing her- arms, pressing urgent
finger against her lips, then flail
ing again. Do not laugh, this is no
comic scarecrow. This is a warn-
ing. Flatten yourself against the
wall, become invisible, be silent.
And then thinking on our peril-
ous . lives, we remember little
scenes, little sentences, ignored at
the moment, that should have stop-
ped us short in our tracks.
Someone in the dining room at
breakfast, rises, huddles her bath-
robe about her, shuffles over and
leaning over an innocent’s should-
er, speaks, “Don’t worry, I’ll do the
wiring. You can sit and smoke.”
We should have taken heed and
defended ourselves with a caution
and with wisdom. 'Who knows when
the thing may come snow-balling
up to us.
And there are the perils of
which we have no warning. We are
fortunate and possibly to be spar-
ed certain inflictions if we keep
our brains active, our minds open,
or warning may come through .in-
tellectual discovery, or it may be
through sudden intuition.
Gargoyles do not look innocent
but we expect no active evil there-
from. However, watch out for gar-
goyles. Buildings are made of
stone and wood and lead. A fire
and the lead will melt and someday
a gargoyle.-may spout molten-lead
at you—or, at the least, chill the
haily water after thundershowers.
Do these perils, actualities, hints
and unknowns, disturb us? Ah
no, we are attuned to them, but
they are always here. And so, look
out, remain aware, keep your eyes
open and remember, Beware!
immense
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‘*Archaic Greek Art’’
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Continued from Page 3
author’s selection of 650 B. C. as
her starting date, taking the be-
ginning of monumental stone
sculpture as her first milestone is
entirely acceptable.
Placed against its proper back-
ground geographically and histori-
cally, and adequately illustrated,
the tremendously intense, vital and
forceful art of a young and gifted
land finds its proper expression in
Miss Richter’s book, which is both
an invaluable textbook for the
student, and a fascinating story of
human adventure.
‘‘Spokesmen For God”
Traces Prophets’
Achievements
by Emily Townsend, 50
Edith Hamilton, Spokesmen. for
God, W. W. Norton and Company,
New York, 259 pp.
Spokesmen for God, Miss Ham-
ilton’s sixth book, is not her best,
but parts of it are as good as any-
thing she has done. Here she in-
corporates and expands her earlier
Prophets of Israel, published in
1936, so that Spokesmen for God is
not only portraiture of the Old
Testament Prophets, but analysis
of non-prophetical books like Job,
Ecclesiastes, and the books of the
Pentateuch, as well as discussion
of Hebrew mentality, history, and
religious development.
Probably because Spokesmen for
God represents an ‘earlier work
with late additions and digres-
sions, its structure is not compact
nor its design clear. It is hard to
decide what Miss Hamilton’s theme
is, or if indeed she has one. The
jacket’s statement, that she is
tracing the development from the
human God of Genesis to the lofty
concept of Psalms and Prophets,
is inadequate and inaccurate. Per-
haps Miss Hamilton is trying both
to sketch the prophets and trace
the growth of the concept of God,
and merely has not made the rela-
tionship of her two themes explicit
enough to prevent confusion. At
all events, the book is best taken
as separate essays on related sub-
jects, progressing chronologically
and consequently developmentally,
from Moses to the end of the Bab-
ylonian Captivity.
Spokesmen for God, apart from
organization, is good: it has some
fascinating things to say, and
some very strong writing. Miss
Hamilton’s style is simple to an
extreme: she almost seems to be
writing for children, but the con-
tent of her criticism is certainly
not childish. Miss Hamilton makes
some penetrating comments on the
Hebrew mentality,
it from the Greek with great as-
surance and_ persuasion. He2
sketches of the prophets are neat
and colorful, perhaps more color-
Continued on page 5
distinguishing |’
9 e
Bard’s Eye View
by Barbara Joelson, °52
Someone coughs, and thirty coughs:
Answer back from wall to wall,
Rustling pages punctuate
The footsteps’ echoes in the hall.
And art is tackled or polemic,
In strife to become academic.
Squeaking chairs are tipped far
back,
in the corners whispers lurk
Marking moments of relief
From concentrated, pondered work ~
And life hangs in a mute suspen~
sion,
With self-forced toil the intention.
From the region of the stacks
Comes the musty, dusty smell
Of the rows and rows of books,
Weavers of the binding spell.
And those disorganized and frantic
Make contrasts with the more ped-
antic.
Eyes peruse the printed page _
Underneath each spot of light,
Towering window panes keep out
Laughter, noises, cold and night.
M. Carey Thomas still looks down
Upon the scene, sans smile .. sans
frown,
‘‘Ipso Facto”” Members
Get Billed on Dec. 7
Continued from Page 3
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300 Freshman Handbook.
150 Fireman’s Band and other
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300 Miscellaneous (conferences,
parties, mimeographing, pic-
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Alliance
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‘150 Expenses connected with as-
semblies.
200 Conferences (including IRC,
“I0G, and UMF).
50 Miscellaneous (mimeograph-
ing, pictures, etc.).
Self-Govt.
$230 Signing-out and constitution
books.
70 Conferences.
10 Miscellaneous.
N.S. A.
$225 Conferences.
30 National dues.
18 Regional dues.
15 Miscellaneous
AWA:
$ 90 Awards.
90 Confererices.
20 Miscellaneous.
Drama Guild
$175 to enable students to obtain
tickets more cheaply for the
Drama Guild productions.
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
1 egy
Page Five
Doris Emerson Travels to Schools in West,
Tangles with Projectors,
Continued from page 1
hastily on a train without wish-
. ing I could stay longer. Thanks to
them, I saw the main attractions
of each city and the surrounding
country, with the exception of Mt.
Rainier which the Seattle alum-
nae swore was there in answer to
my skepticism.
To the schools I remained “the
. girl who travels with the movie,”
and some must remember bitterly
my tangles with their projectors.
With beginner’s enthusiasm I. an-
nounced that I could run any pro-
jector, until I confronted an ani-
matoscope, which nvust have ante
dated Eastman’s first Kodak. From
then on I pleaded ignorance, .tem-
pers were smoother and meetings
once again progressed on schedule.
The movie, however, left an indel-
ible impression on my mind, and
my conversation abounds with
phrases from its dialogue, uttered
unconsciously with Miss Skinner’s
inflections. Such remarks as “all
these books are hers” and that
“night of frenzied writing” took
great explaining, especially to 2
generation reared on Life’s idea of
the college girl’s schedule.
One year later, thousands of
miles and hundreds of schools
wiser, I find the peripatetic life
hectic but great fun. I am firm
with schools which had planned as-
semblies for “our whole family”:
the third grade up. I plan my own
itineraries, and am no longer at
the mercy of the leaflet which or-
dered me from train to train with
no mention of the time changes
which were my despair and have
left me with a profound distrust
of the clocks in several major cit-
ies. I am relentless in questioning
my fellow travelers on bus, train
Dr. Strauss Criticizes
Validity of Historicism
Continued from page 1
sentially homeless in this world,
historical principles were substi
tuted’@— principles relative to(a
particular age or nation which were)
concrete and real rather than uni-
versal. The logical result of such
a belief, Dr. Strauss continued, is
to make the standard of any choice
among a series of conflicting values
or ideals one of chance or fate
rather than rationality, and there-
fore to deprive philosophy of its
essential nature by a denial of
true metaphysical meaning.
In criticizing this theory of his-
toricism, Dr. Strauss pointed out
its fundamentally paradoxical foun-
dation. Although claiming that all
human thought is subjective, rela-
tive, historical, and temporary, he
explained, historicism itself, which
should logically be regarded as
only one more such idea, claims
to have discovered an absolute or
trans-historice truth. Moreover, ac-
cording to the historicist view,
philosophy itself becomes absurd.
Continued on page 6
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about the length of Bryn Mawr’s
swimming pool and whether we
play two or three-court basketball;
I can now answer both. I was her-
alded in Pittsburgh papers as a
“Bryn Mawr Educator”, and mis-
taken for an Odd Fellow’s wife -in
Omaha. I have met Bryn ‘Mawr
alumnae of assorted ages, inter-
ests and accomplishments, and
have found them women of stat-
ure; perhaps, as was said of one,
“stern, but not without humor.”
And I am still trying to meet the
California alumna who put at my
disposal for a week her house, sta-
tion wagon, and part of her fam-
ily, while she came to Alumnae
Weekend.
Venetian Dawn Offers
Fishnets at Gorddes
Continued from Page 3
the ship is moored with a sweep of
his brawny arm. His shipmate
hands him a securely-tied net, and
the first catch is laid on the bare
expanse of flagstones, a quivering
mass of brown-meshed silver. Ne+
after net is unloaded by arms mov-
ing in a steady rhythm, giving, re-
ceiving, laying down. The legs
quite poised, the weather-beaten
torso moving in a slow attentive
curve, like a ritual to the goddess
of sea-towns.
More ships have come, crowd-
ing the canal with their masts,
black masts against houses now
pink and yellow with the promise
of light.. Thud of wood and slap
of water and shrill cries have shat-
‘tered the night stillness. Not yet
finished is the fisherman’s work.
He sorts his catch into yet small-
er mounds of silver and with a
pocket knife scrapes them to jewel
brightness. He bends over his
earnings, the lines in his face
~| deepened by the night’s watching.
|His stomach is empty, he scrapes
faster, to return home sooner, 1o
bread and wine and sleep. The gon-
dolier, pleased with a free gift of
fish, paddles away his black shin-
ing boat, a lone frail figure on the
prowhead. He blinks at the shim-
mering water, his eyes not used to
light so strong.
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NOTICES
German Club Lecture
The first event on the German |
Club Calendar this year will be a| ful than the evidence warrants
ie
“Shakespeare’s. Music| she seems to have drawn on her
lecture on
and.Its Meaning”, to be delivere1|
by Mr. Politzer on Tuesday, oe. | source references.
cember 6. Mr. Politzer will tise
some of his original theories on
| Miss Hamilton Sketches
Portraits of Prophets
Continued from Page 4
» 10Y
imagination as _ steadily as on
This criticism,
if it is one, is not restricted to the
prophets: all through the book, in
Shakespeare. The lecture is at| fact, Miss Hamilton may be sus-
8:30 p. m. in the Common Room. |
: | inative distortion.
Morning Assembly |
os
Mrs. Manning will speak at the
next morning assembly, December
7, on some subject of history: it
has not yet been decided whether
this means college or world his-
tory, but the speech will be fring-
ed with anecdotes in either case.
Benefit Performance |
|
The New York Alumnae : are
managing a benefit performance of
the’ Lunt-Fontaine” play; “I” Know
My Love”, om ‘December 5. The'|
proceeds of the benefit will go tc
the New York Scholarship Fund.
Child Psychology Movie
The next movie to be shown in
the Wednesday afternoon visual
education series will be “Experi-
mental Studies in the Social Clim-
ates of Groups”, Music Room, De-
cember 7, 4:15 p. m.
History Journal Club
Dr. Roger Butterfield, Regius
Professor of Modern History at
Cambridge University, will speak
on “The Perils of Contemporary
History” on Monday at 4:00 p. m.
in the Deanery under the auspices
of the History Journal Club.
Bermuda Movie
A movie on Bermuda will be
shown tomorrow, Thursday, in the
Common Room at 5:80 p. m.
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pected of romanticizing, of imag-
most when she is writing her best,
which makes the writing very good
indeed, and the book a great plea- |
sure and excitement to read, but
robs it of much of its objective
reference value.
Miss Hamilton claims in her
preface that she is not writing as
'a scholar, though she proceeds to
do what seems to a layman like
some very scholarly analysis. She
investigates Ecclesiastes, “that
genial essay_in criticism,” and the
differentwriters:-of “the “book of
Job; she points out the inconsist-
ent concepts of God in the Penta-
teuch; she gives a really good ac-
count of the development of ritual,
and dwells at length on the beliefs
and achievements of the prophets:
Amos and ritual vs. righteousness,
Hosea and fear vs. love, the para-
dox of the first Isaiah’s character
the -pacifism of Jeremiah (on
whom, by the way, Miss Hamilton
is excellent), Ezekiel and organiz-
ed religion, and the exultation of
the second Isaiah.
Spokesmen for God is an inter-
esting book, and deals maturely
with both concept and character.
Once or twice it is even moving,
and at many points the writing is
excellent.
book verges too much toward the
over-simplified, the over-senti-
mental, but for those who know no
This happens!
Perhaps the tone of the,
Clean-up Meeting
Lacks Audience
}
| Miss McBride, Miss Howe, the
Undergrad, and the
NEWS were present at a meeting
| Thursday, November 29, to discuss
the room situation. The students
for whom the meeting was intend-
led, those who do not keep. their
rooms in order or who might offer
{complaints or suggestions, did not
| attend.
‘President of
| Two years ago, when the plan of
increasing slightly the amount of
‘work done by the individual stu-
|dent and thereby reducing the resi-
;dence fees was first introduced,
the students were eager to do far
more work than they do now. The
change had begun during the war,
when the students had to make
their own beds. Later, when the
plan went into effect, they were
expected to clean-their-rooms--six
days out of seven, in accordance
with the lowered residence fees.
Miss McBride stated that she
| Will speak personally to any stu-
‘dent who consistently refuses to
abide by this agreement, and if the
‘girl persists, she may not continue
|to live on campus.
| In the future, a notice explaining
the present system will be included
in the application blanks sent to
incoming Freshmen. Said Miss
McBride, “We didn’t keep the un-
,derstanding alive—now we must
‘make it clear to the student before
she arrives, so that we don’t have
to enforce it so strictly later.”
Old Testament history or charac-
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{ant and instructive way of finding
it out.
Miss Hamilton is the class of
1894 at Bryn Mawr.
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‘Wednesday, November 30, 1949
McBride Emphasizes “‘V oluntary Citizenship”
- And Its Role In School and College Education
Continued from page 1 |
citizenship provided within the |
school: “respect for the opinion |
and the contribution each individ- |
ual makes”; “community govern-
ment... which gives each individ-
ual a share in making policy and
setting up its structure.” She then
cited causes of the great discrep-
ancies between the objectives of
the educator and his accomplish-
ments in preparing the graduate
to become a better citizen of a
democratic country: “the tremen-
dous size of many of our schools
and colleges”, which causes inco-
herence of democratic action; “the
lack of courage.” This courage is
needed to establish the democracy
which “undermines prejudices we
may not be quite ready to give up
in some sections, for example racial
prejudices, in others religious
prejudices. It involves “a willing:
ness to sacrifice personal prefer-
ences to act with conviction on the
will of the majority.”
' Miss McBride contrasted the
varying backgrounds of the stu-
dent in the academic society, which
may either hasten or retard his
acquisition of the democratic out-
look. The fortunate ones “are
blessed by the respect as well as
the love of their parents, and long
‘
before they are fully conscious of
their gain they know the essence
of democracy.” Group activities
constitute further stimuli; they
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gives.” Experience within the eol-
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democracy: poll-watching, hospital
work, “even simple co-existence of
such activity and academic work.” |
Academically, the study of sociai
sciences seem to provide the best
basis for voluntary citizenship, but
“the real doubt comes on the ques-
tion of how modern man can keep
up with developments in the social!
sciences, perhaps only through far
better programs of adult education
than now exist.” Miss McBride
stressed the importance of the
humanities, such as literature and
philosophy. Other parts of the
program include “general educa-
tion, interdepartmental courses” —
work which “stimulates both in-
structor and student.” “The edu-
cator can at least say to himself
that what he wants and expects
is ... the satisfaction of working
with the most exciting of all pos-
sibilities, the student who may or
may not learn to develop his full
power.”
By educating the student in the
democratic ‘outlook, “we want to
achieve a state of far greater con-
cern about citizenship and far
greater individual responsibility
for it,”
Murder
In Cuneiform
Continued from Page 4
over to examine it, to find perhaps
some mark of struggle, some indi-
cation of how Professor Shotwell
had come to this mysterious end.
And then, suddenly, behind him,
a vaguely familiar voice said,
“Paying your last respects to the
dead, eh, Sharp?”—and strong fin-
|gers' closed swiftly, efficiently,
jaround his throat.
| Continued next week
aoe
Dr. Strauss Criticizes
Validity of Historicism
~~ Conutinued from page 5
Philosophy’s..true function is to
get rid of dogma so as to arrive
at truth, and yet historicism rests
on a dogmatic assumption, for,
said Dr. Strauss, in its assertion
that the human mind is finite and
can never grasp the ultimate fund-
amentals, it at once presupposes a
knowledge of what these funda-
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Vary Guicharnaud’s Impressions of America
Continued from page 1
“Paris is such a comfortable
city,” he said. “The life isn’t so
hard—you know? In France we
may have civil war at any mom-
ent and there’s sure to bea fight
after every political rally, but in
America there’s no chance of that
and everybody rushes about in a
hurry and the weather is so cold.”
On occasional weekends in Néw
York he listens to Be-bop, and
revels in Times Square and Green-
wich Village. One night, as Mae
West was vacating a theatre, he
rushed up to welcome her, but she
cruelly drove away with an attrac:
tive young man.
“But I like America very much
especially New York and Pennsyl-
vania-Dutch barns. Everybody is
so kind here, whereas in France,
they either like you very much or
they don’t like you at all.” He
drew us a diagram of extreme feel-
ings in France and gentle calm in
America.
“Also I like your campus. The
Sorbonne in Paris is a little like
Columbia in New York. Everybody
goes to acafe. A campus is better
for the intellectual life.”
‘Monsieur Guicharnaud has writ-
ten one book of short stories,
Entre Chiens et Loups (Gallimard
N.R.F.) about the younger genera-
tion in France during the war, and
he has written several scenarios,
two of which will shortly be shown
in France.
There will be a ‘Square Dance
with Haverford this Friday
night at 8:30 P. M. in the Bryn
Mawr Gym. Rick Conant and
orchestra will provide music
and callers. Admission is only
48¢c which includes cokes and
doughnuts so come and try!
For a meal or snack
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