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VOL. XLIX—NO. 5

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1952

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1952

PRICE 20 CENTS



English Writer
Probes Causes
Beneath Revolt

Continental Differences
Fatal to Charles’ |
Sovereignity

Miss C. V. ‘Wedgwood opened
her lecture tour in the United
States on October 22 in the Dean-
ery at 8:30 p. m. Her topic was
“British Society on the Eve of the
Inter-Regnum Civil ‘War.” Al-
though Miss Wedgwood believes
that the internal causes of the
English Civil War, traditionally
listed, are the most important, she
brought out certain aspects of the
European situation which effected
Charles I’s unpopularity, thereby
contributing to the growing dis-
content of the people.

Charles, lacking funds, was
forced to tolerate the Long Par-
liament. This body had its own
way for eighteen months, when
“the King at last dug his heels in”
over control of the army militia
bill. In 1641 rebellion broke out
in Ireland. Parliament wanted
control over the army because
‘they did not trust Charles to fight
for the Puritan interests, since va-
rious incidents had indicated his
possible alignment with the Cath-
olic powers. So the spring of 1642
found Parliament and the King
trying to raise separate armies.

At the same time the Continent-
al Religious ‘Wars were lingering
on between the Catholic Haps-
burgs of Spain and Austria and
the Protestants. France, Miss
Wedgwood continued, though Cath-
olic internally, often allied herself
with the Protestant States against
Spain. When Charles announced
a French-English Alliance, the
English people saw only that he
was uniting with a country which
persecuted the Protestants, not the
fact that the two countries were
allies fighting a common enemy.

Mr. Bachrach:
Mr. Schneider:

“Fear, greed, and hatred of rea-
son have all but engulfed Ameri-
can life in the past few years. The
fear of the subversion of our gov-
ernment by a handful of com-
munists and the evidence of wide-
spread corruption are symptoms
of this socio-political decay. To
reverse this trend it is necessary
to elect a man who still has the
courage to fight FOR freedom
rather than being goaded into ac-
ceptance of McCarthyism. What
is needed is a positive program of
economic and social reform which
will capture the imagination of
the people. It is clear that Stey-
enson hag the will and ability to
rally behind him the democratic
forces of the nation toward a real-
ization of such a program.”

Mr. Broughton:

I was undecided but I am now
going to vote for Stevenson. Of
the two main problems on each
side, corruption in Washington and
McCarthyism, the Democratic can-
didate seems more able to clear up
his side.

Mr. Carpenter:

“] find it amusing (but baffling)
to contemplate the Bryn Mawr
faculty perched high in _ their
shaky economic tree, busily sawing
off the limbs on which they are
seated.”

Miss Clayton:

Both are fine men, but Ike can
certainly doa better job of clean-
ing up Washington than any other
candidate.

Mr. Dudden:

“TI am not yet convinced that
Eisenhower has done what he had
to do in order to lead a five-times
defeated minority party back to
power. As matters now stand, I
venture that Stevenson will be
elected President by a comfortable
electoral majority, but I think his
popular margin may well be ex-
tremely slim or even non-existent.”



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Mr. Goodale:



Sophias and Dallas Fill Cloisters
In Annual Lantern Night Service

by Margaret

My house guest was a little
puzzled. She stumbled down two
more steps only to be faced by a
high beam flashlight behind which
a voice said, “Watch your step on
the window sill, please.” Across
her face marched various and sun-
dry expressions; a bewildered
squint in the dark and frank curi-
osity. She had heard of Lantern
Night.

As the first red lanterns rose in
the air to announce the coming of
the sophomores, she went up on
her toes and craned her neck to
follow the syncronized swing of
the lanterns. Before she could
quite swallow the fact that the
words she had been hearing were
Greek, the solemnity was broken
by a stampede on a small scale.

The large black spot across the
cloisters had dispersed into min-
ute fragments, shifted its position,
and solidified in the opposite cor-

McCabe, °54

ner. There was no time now to
explain the situation. The fresh-
men were leaving the cloisters and,
at that point, my guest was in an ex-
tremely precarious position, hang-
ing half way over the wall of the
Library roof counting the lines of
the retreating freshmen.

When the strains of the music
became blurred, a faint melody
was obvious in the immediate vi-
cinity; she was humming a tune
which was a cross between Sophias
and Pallas. It was distinctly out
of tune, but, rather than verbally
admit she was impressed, she gaily
struggled through two more
phrases. Her expression had be-
come one of satisfied interest, but
she would allow no smile to betray
her. But betray herself she did.
Outside the Library she drew on
her gloves and said, “You must
enjoy remembering this”. That



was sufficient. She understood.



I am for Eisenhower. Some real-
ly strong leadership is needed to
get the world out of the mess it is
in today. Even a little military
leadership wouldn’t be a bad idea.
Did you know that everyone up at
Princeton is for Ike?

Mr. Herben:

Since my two choices, Groucho
Marx and William McKinley, were
not nominated, it is hard to say

Election Eve Rally
Features Faculty’s

Soapbox Eloquence

The results of the presidential
election on the Bryn Mawr Cam-
pus, held Monday, November 3,
will be counted that night at a
mass rally in the gym. While
four faculty members speak about
their election choices, the Under-
graduate Council will count votes
and post the returns after every
fifty ballots are tallied.

Mrs. Helen Taft Manning, Miss
Janet Yeager, Mr. Donald Brown,
and one other professor will speak
on the subject, “How I am voting
and why.” Two favor Stevenson,
and the other two are voting for
Eisenhower. Following the speeches
and adding to the excitement of
the occasion will be a song fest.

Throughout the day, Monday,
everyone in the college will have
an opportunity to register his
preference of candidate. Under-
graduates and graduate students,
the faculty, administration, main-
tenance staff, and maids and por-
ters will be included, totaling al-
most a thousand votes.





The LEditorial Board takes
pleasure in announcing the ad-
dition of six new members to
the staff of the College News:

‘Lynn Badler, ’56
Jackie Braun, ’54
Ellie Fry, ’54
Joan Havens, ’56
Sue Habashy, ’54
Jan ‘Warren, ’55

CALENDAR

Thursday, October 30

4:30 p. m. International Club
tea in the Common Room.
Friday, October 31

8:00 p. m. Freshman Hall plays
in the Mrs. Otis Skinner work-
shop. Pem East, Non-Res, Rock,
Radnor.
Saturday, November 1

8:00 p. m. Freshman Hall plays
in the Mrs. Otis Skinner work-
shop. Rhoads, Denbigh, Merion,
Pem West.
Sunday, November 2

7:30 p.m. Mr. Geddes D. Mac
Gregor, Associate Professor of
Philosophy and Religion, will give
the address at the evening chapel
service,
Monday, November 3

7:30 p. m._ Alliance election
rally in the gym.
Tuesday, November 4

Election day. .
Wednesday, November 5

7:15 p. m. Marriage lecture in
the Common Room.

9:00 p. m. Legislature meeting
in the Rumpus Room.







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Faculty Members Assert Varied Political Opinions
Most of Professors Dolled Favor Adlai Stevenson

whom to vote for. I don’t liké’what
that little man from Missouri is
doing running around the country
making a fool of himself ... If you
want some more Harry Truman,
that’s the guy to vote for (Steven-
son).
Mr. Hubbard:

“A plague on both your houses!”
Miss Lang:

“Stevenson ...
mendoys integrity.”
Mr. Lattimore:

“Stevenson, through a combina-
tion of wisdom with personal and
intellectual honesty, is to my mind
the best presidential candidate who
has come up for election in my
time. He is shrewder than Wilkie
and more forthright than FDR. I
like Ike personally, but not as a
presidential candidate. I don’t want
Nixon.”
Miss Leighton:

“Stevenson’s election is import-

a man of tre-

understanding of the complex
forces leading to political action is
superior to Eisenhower’s. In times
like the present when decisions of
magnitude are inevitable, the
President must be in command of
these forces. What makes Steven-
son remarkable is that he com-
bines this talent with vision.”
Mrs. Manning:

I am going to vote for Eisenhow-
er because I do think that it is
“time for a change” and because
the record of the Truman adminis-
tration makes a change impera-
tive.

Mr. MacGregor:

As an alien, I can not vote, but
I am taking note of this election
with great interest. The election
is much more colorful than a sim-
ilarly important one would be in
Britain. I gather that both Ike and
Stevenson are excellent exponents
of their parties.

Mr. Nahm:

An election should not be run

on an ethical basis, but on a poli-
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ant, it seems to me, because his,

Miller Explains

Democracy and

Role of Genius

Emerson’s Study Poses
Still Existent
Problem

“Emerson was a genius, this
was his burden,” stated Mr. Perry
Miller in his lecture on “Trans-
cendental Genius and American
Democracy.” Mr. Miller, Profes-
sor of American Literature at Har-
vard and noted scholar of Ameri-
can Puritanism, gave the Ann
Elizabeth Sheble Memorial Lec.
ture in Goodhart auditorium on
October 27 at 8:30 :p. m.

“Emerson was a product of his
culture; he was a child of Boston”
and of Harvard. For reasons deep
in New England society, after
1812 the concept of Democracy be-
came almost stagnant. A few men,
however, found “new _ flavor”
through transcendentalism, and
Emerson was one of these men.

Bored with Democracy, Emerson
fled back to Nature; his Bostonian
heritage was corrupted by his
genius. He wished the path of
trancendentalism had never open-
ed itself to him, but “new ideas
pressed upon him, and another part
of his nature was forced to re-
spend.” That is why he was a
genius, and why his genius was his
burden.

The genius Emerson, then, enter-
ed into literature as the “castigat-
or of Boston.” He castigated not
the masses, but the complacent, in-
dolent scholar which the society
that he knew had produced. At the
beginning of the nineteenth cen-
tury the best literature evidenced
a “revolt against convention.”
Most Harvard men preferred the
sobriety of colonial New England,
but the few who accepted his “‘chal-
lenge of revolution” over night
became lesser geniuses.

This problem of genius constant-



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Thespians of °56

The Mrs. Otis Skinner Workshop
will be host once again this Fri-
day and Saturday nights at 8:00
p. m. when the ’56 Freshmen pre-
sent their one-act plays—the prod-
ucts of their first combined efforts.

Denbigh freshmen, directed by
Doris Kaiser, are giving Rosalind
by J. M. Barrie on Saturday night.
This is a whimsical story with just
a touch of the fey about the life
of -a famous actress. The Long
Christmas Dinner will be Merion’s
presentation, also on Saturday
night. Directed by Jane Keator,
it paints a searching portrait of
a family over a period of years.

Star Struck is the hilarious rep-
resentation of life in the home of
a famous movie star — complete
with lion acts and starlet suicides.
Pembroke East is giving it Fri-
day night under the direction of
Marianne Clark.

Pembroke West’s offering on
Saturday night has an interesting





story behind its authorship, as it is

to Tread Boards

Repetoire from Thurber to Pooh

an adaptation by Helen Goldberg,
a Bryn Mawr graduate, of a story
by Katherine Mansfield. Titled
The Daughters of the Late Col-

,onel, it is being directed by Lynn

Dallett.

Another adaptation, this time
taken from James Thurber, is A
Ghost in the House by Richard S.
McKinley. This mysterious presen-
tation on Friday night is Radnor’s,
directed by Connie Alderson. Sus-
pense and revenge in India is the
story of Command Performance
which will be presented Saturday
by Rhoads. Amy Heinel is di-
rector.

A third adaptation is Rock’s
Winnie the Pooh, taken from two
chapters of the A. A. Milne story
by Sallyann Burgess of the Class
of ’56. Nonnie Powers is direct-
ing. the show to be given on Fri-
day night. Also on Friday night
is the Non-res comic production
Juliet and Romeo, directed by Kit
Masella.