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Wednesday, October 21, 1953

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Five



Old, New, Eternal
Give Cairo Charm
by Suzan Habashy, ’54

There are so many different
parts of Cairo to describe. For
some the modern city’s skyscrap-
ers, buses, movie theatres, hotels,
clubs and sports, theatres. and
nightclubs, afford the main attrac-
tion, :

Others go back a little in history
and time for the things which for

them make Cairo unique. The Opera
house built by the Khedive to com-
memorate the opening of the Suez
Canal, to welcome the Empress
Eugenie and the first audience
ever to listen to Verdi’s “Aida”.
The Palaces of a kingship now
seemingly belonging to a past era,
the Citadel, the «Mosques, the
artists’ quarters in old Cairo, the
University of Al Azhar, the seat
of all Islamic culture and learn-
ing, the old Coptic churches, these
things fascinate them.

Archeologists find amidst the
ruins of Cairo, at the Pyramids,
a wealth of interest, a key to a
past civilization. Visitors to Cairo
are struck by a new atmosphere,
a strange fascination which
touches all the East.

The shopkeeper selling his
wares, the occasional rumble of
carts on their way to work, the
sound of a hammer forging copper
trays, the hum of the spinning
wheel in the old city Bazaar, the
cordial handshakes and_saluta-
tions, all of this makes up my
Cairo, a city that is modern, his-
torical, rich in relics of the past,
and full of fascination.

MARRIAGES

Edwina L. Munson, ex-’55, to
Edwin, Ladley, Jr.

Starr Oliver, 53, to Richard Hurd
Lawrence.

Ruth W. Robinson to Thomas
Ross.



Nine BMC Faculty Members Return From Sabbaticals,
Recount Research, Studies, Sojourns And Observations

This fall the ranks of Bryn
Mawr’s faculty are charged with
the faces of new professors; Bryn
Mawr also welcomes the return of
those old friends missed during a
year’s leave of absence. Sabbati-
cals have carried in person the
fame and prestige of this College’s
faculty to various parts of the
world; in return, eight professors
have received invaluable experi-
ence and numerous anecdotes with
which to enrich life on campus.

The Berliners travelled to Lon.
don where they continued the same
research in which they had been
engaged here, namely the physical-
organic aspects of aromatic chem-
istry. Particularly concerned with
the relation between structure and
reactivity of organic compounds,
they used the chemistry laborator-
ies at the University College, Lon-
don—headquarters of Professor In-
gold, authority in the field—as
point of departure for expeditions
through English and Swiss labora-
tories and for a series of lectures
given by Mr. Berliner in Glasgow,
Manchester and London. Their six
months abroad—from February
through August—filled them with
respect for the extensive European
building of laboratories to replace
those bombed during the war.

Travel South

Mr. and Mrs. Dryden remained
in the Southeastern section of this
country. As the winter progress-
ed, they travelled farther south
“but never far enough south to get
warm”, They drove over 30,000
miles from Maryland to Florida in
search of Ilmenite for the United
States Geological Survey.

Ilmenite is a black mineral found
in sands; when roasted it turns
white and is useful as pigments
for DuPont white paints and in the
steel industry. Only small amounts
of this mineral are found in dark
sand layers of modern beaches;
since a million tons of ilmenite are



needed and since 95% of the dark
sand is waste material, only exten-
sive beds make a working profit-
able.

The Drydens sought for large
amounts of Ilmenite along ancient
shorelines which ‘stretch 40 to 50
miles inland from the modern
coast. It was a seven-day-a-week
job, including New Year’s Day.
The French-fried coleslaw menu for
ail meals but breakfast wag mon-
otonous; the Drydens are a walk-
ing catalogue on Southern motels
The purpose of the Drydens’ trip
was frequently misinterpreted by
the natives; while running along
the road-sides with soil augers
they were accused of drainifg vital
irrigation ditches. Once, ‘a half-
blind old man asked them what
they were selling and, being told
‘“We’re’ working for the govern-
ment,” replied “I don’t want to buy
any of that!”

Unheated Archives

Last winter found Mr. Gilbert
wrapped in coat and gloves in un-
heated rooms of the Florentine Ar-
chives where he sought, amidst
“overwhelming masses of docu-
ments, for material on Machiavelli
and Guicciardini—their relation to
their contemporaries, and their or-
iginality in the realm of political
science and economics. After this
he eagerly greeted the “lovely peo-
ple and landscapes” of Spain and
Greece, prior to spending three
months in England. There he stay-
ed at Oxford with Isaiah Berlin,
who delivered the Flexner Lectures
of 1952.

Bryn Mawr has not truly missed
Mr. Michels—mainly because he
has not been far from campus. He
devoted his year of peace and quiet
to research in Photonoptics, the
study of psycho-physics and phys
ical chemistry. During the spring
he spent a month in Texas where
he worked with Professor Harry
Helson, formerly of this faculty,

‘days after the strike began.

on psychophysical research.

Johns Hopkins University claim-
ed Miss Oppenheimer for its de-
partment of Biology from Septem-
ber through November of last year
before she travelled to Naples.
There she was located in the Zoo-
logical Station, an International
Laboratory, until she returned to
the Department of Zoology at Yale.
Her field of specialization was ex-
perimental study of the develop-
ment of the brain in fish embryos.

Mr. Sloan with his wife and two
daughters was attached to Paris
and Lyon through a Fulbright re-
search appointment. After May 1
they were in Italy for a month,
drove through Southern and Cen-
tral France for two weeks, spent a
month on the coast of Brittany,
went to England for two weeks
and finally returned to Paris two
Not
only were they somewhat trapped
by the strike but on the way home
they were enveloped by the hurri-
cane.

The object of all this travel is a
book, at present in embryonic
stage, on Paul Chenarard, who
“has been forgotten by all but one
man in Paris and me”. Chenarard,
a nineteenth century artist, spent
many years working on a cycle of
historic scenes for the walls and
floor of the Pantheon; when the
Pantheon was returned to the
Church in 1851, it was renamed Ste.
Genevieve; Chenarard’s paintings
were termed heretical and now re-
pose, rolled up, in the Museum at
Lyon.

These cyclical works divide 8400
years of history into 100 year per-

Continued on Page 6, Col. 1







Brighten Your Room for

JUNIOR WEEKEND
with
PLANTS — FLOWERS

from

Jeannett’s









Play, Man, Superman
States Views of English
Continued from Page 4

the
Man and Superman—“Englishmen

English very graphically in

never? will be slaves, except to gov-
ernment and public opinion,” and
“the Englishman thinks he is be-
ing moral when he is only un-
comfortable.”

The Hedgerow Playtrs will re-
peat their delightful performance
on’ Saturday, October 31,
Thursday, November 12.

Peck

and





VENI, VIDI, Vict! From Italy —
another conquest for the college
crowd. Our Bambino bonnet in
yellow or white cotton string,
4.95. Scarf, 5.95. Wool-lined
gloves—small, med., large, 3.50

—23 PARKING PLAZA, ARD— ....














IVE SMOKED /
CAMELS 15-20 YEARS.
SINCE 1 DISCOVERED
CAMELS SWELL
FLAVOR AND.
WONDERFUL MILDNESS.








Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey say:
“Our Dad led the brass band
in our home town. He started us
on our way tooting in the band
when we were eight years old.
We watched and studied
successful musicians as much
as we could, worked real
hard, and little by little
began to get there.”

THAN ANY




Banton

1 SMOKING CAMELS
LONG AGO. | WATCHED, AND
THE GUYS WHO ENJOYED
SMOKING MOST WERE
GUYS WHO SMOKED

CAMELS. THERES NOTHING
LIKE CAMELS’ FLAVOR!
































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