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College news, November 12, 1952
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
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1952-11-12
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Vol. 39, No. 07
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Page Two THE
COLLEGE NEWS
Wednesday, November 12, 1952
THE COLLEGE NEWS
FOUNDED "IN 1914
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re, Pa., and Bryn Mawr College.
The College News is fully protected by copyright. Nothing that
® pears in it may be reprinted either wholly or in part without permission
the Editor-in-Chief.
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EDITORIAL BOARD
Sheila Atkinson, ‘53, Editor-in-Chief
Claire Robinson, ‘54, Copy Frances Shirley, ‘53, Makeup
Margaret McCabe, ‘54, Managing Editor
Berbara Drysdale, ‘55 Elizabeth Davis, ‘54
Judy Thompson, ‘54 Mary Alice Drinkle, ‘53
EDITORIAL STAFFS
Jackie Braun, ‘54 Sue Habashy, ‘54
Science Reporter Barbara Fischer, ‘55
Mary Jane Chubbuck, ‘55 Marcia Joseph, ‘55
A.A. reporter Anne Mazick, ‘55
Joyce Annan, ‘53 Pat Preston, ‘55
Eller Bell, ‘53 Carciine Warram. 55
Ann McGregor, ‘54 Jan Warren, ‘55
Kay Sherman, ‘54 Lynn Badler, ‘56
Ellie Fry, ‘54 Joan Havens, ‘56
STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Judy Leopold, ‘53
BUSINESS MANAGER
M. G. Warren, ‘54
Julia Heimowitz, ‘55, Associate Business Manager
BUSINESS STAFF
Joyce Hoffman, ‘55 Ruth Sax, ‘55
Phyllis Reimer, ‘55 Ruth Smulowitz, ‘55
Margie Richardson, ‘55 Claire Weigand, ‘55
SUBSCRIPTION MANAGER
Elizabeth Simpson, ‘54
SUBSCRIPTION BOARD
Barbara Olsen, ‘54 Adrienne Treene, ‘54
Saren Merritt, ‘55 Mary Jones, ‘54
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Mimi Sapir, ‘54 Dorothy Fox, ‘55
Sally Milner, ‘54 Gail Gilbert, ‘55
Cathy Rodgers, ‘55
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Courtesy .
Since a big college weekend is approaching on December
sixth, we would like to point out the responsibilities of any-
‘ohe ‘who uses accommodations in the nearby area for guests.
In addition to the Deanery and the College Inn the college
relies on the hospitality of private individuals and hotels in
the vicinity. Since this courtesy is extended for the benefit
of anyone in the college who may wish to use it, it is only
petite for the students to reciprocate.
Let your hostess know what time the guest is arriving
ahd try to give her some idea of when he or she will be com-
ing and going from the house. Be as exact as possible and
if the reservation has to be cancelled, do it promptly. All
guests should be made to feel that at that particular time
they represent the college and should conduct themselves ac-
cordingly.
International Understanding
October 27, 1952
Dear Miss Gottlieb,
I thank you very much for your letter of October 20th.
My wife, the members of my Mission, and I enjoyed very:
much our trip to Bryn Mawr College. It was not only a
pleasure and a privilege to have been afforded an opportunity
‘to visit your college, but we learned quite a great deal by
coming in contact with the students and seeing at first-hand
how sucha well-known academic institution is run and man-
aged. I definitely think that it is a very happy augury for
‘the future of this world when academic institutions encour-
age and sponsor programs with a view to promoting inter-
‘national goodwill and understanding. It was, therefore, par-
#icularly gratifying to find the students evincing such keen
interest in my country which is situated 12,000 miles away
‘from the United States.
In the present international sicatnie, when it is no long-
er possible for any nation or country to live in isolation, it
_ 4s of extreme importance that we all should try to learn as
a8 possible about the difficulties and the problems of
ions, so that we may develop better understanding
ous nations of the world. For this purpose,
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Letter
Reader Finds Sentence
In NEWS “Mighty
Interesting”’
Dear Kiddies,
I quite agree with the headline:
“Important: to Constantly
Grow, Says ‘Von Laue”
but I think the News may have
overdone this just a bit. I call your
attention to the .two sentences in
the last paragraph of your feature
on Mr. Von Laue:
“They have two children: a boy
of six, and a two-year-old daugh-
ter; both are on the college fac-
ulty. The happy medium has been
reached.” eae
Mighty interesting!
Yours truly,
Helen Katz, ’53
P. S. I understand this had been
proof-read fifteen times!
Eliot & Workshop Mark
Larger Child-study Plan
Continued from Page 1
ten pamphlets.
The afternoon session of the
conference is open to those who
have reservations, and will con-
vene at 3 o’clock, when Mr. Philip
U. Koopman; superintendent of the
Lower Merion Township Public
Schools will speak on this joint
effort of community and college.
Groups of delegates will then at-
tend workshop sessions on various
phases of childhood and adolesence,
and the afternoon will end with a
tea at West House, given by Low-
er Merion Township teachers. Re-
|| ports on the workshops are sched-
uled for the dinner session at the
Deanery, when there will be time
for discussions among the confer-
ence members.
Rare Book Exhibit
Includes Congreve
books which Chicago’s Mortimer
Adler has gathered together is not
unique. Thomas Jefferson also
compiled a list of the great books
one hundred and seventy-five years
ago.
In 1777 a Virginian, Robert
Skipwith, asked for recommenda-
tions, for he was a busy man and
wanted to read for a maximum of
culture with a minimum of time.
Jefferson suggested 148 books
which he considered “improving as
well as amusing” yet not too dif-
ficult for the average mind.
This month’s Rare Book Room
shows some of these books, all
from the Bryn Mawr collection and
many in editions published during
Jefferson’s life. The selections are
diverse, many still considered
among the greatest writings. Par-
adise Lost, The Faerie Queene,
works of Shakespeare, Moliere,
Congreve, Otway, and Fielding are
included. Dryden’s poetry is there
and so is a criticism of the Levia-
than. Locke, Sidney, a history of
Virginia, and a book of gardening
are among the other books which
Would make a man well-read.
On the open table in the Rare
Book Room is the most recent
collection, Great Books of the
Western World, published by the
University of Chicago. This group
of fifty-four titles is the gift to
the M. Carey Thomas Library
from Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Loeb
(Louise Steinhart, ’37).
Don’t Forget to Read the A.A.
News Letter. Full of facts and
interesting figures. (There’s
Been a Change in the Point
System.)
Dr. Joseph Hughes
“Relationships Between Con-
sciousness and Electrical Activity
of the Brain” was the subject of
Dr. Joseph Hughes’ lecture in
Dalton Hall on Tuesday evening,
November 11. Dr. Hughes dis-
cussed what can be learned from a
graph of the electrical activity in
the brain about the condition of
that brain. He also showed slides
of recorded electrical activity of
the brain in some specific cases of
sick children, accompanying the
graphs with case histories on the
patients.
‘Before speaking about the rela-
tion of electrical activity in the
brain to consciousness, Dr. Hughes
defined consciousness as used in
his lecture. In terms of function,
consciousness is that faculty of the
{brain and central nervous system
which allows us awareness of en-
vironment and ability to react and
adapt to environment.
of composition it is made up of
perceptive, ideational and affective
yprocesses accompanied by aware-
ness. Consciousness means ability
to perceive sensation and respond
to external stimuli.
Two electrodes may be placed on
the scalp of an unconscious patient
in a position that makes possible
recording of the left and right
brain impulses. A graph of these
impulses will determine the con-
dition of the brain; from the pat-
tern of the graph a doctor can de-
cide if the patient is merely sleep-
ing or is unconscious because of
some brain injury.
In terms
Delivers Lecture
On Electro-Active Responses in Brain
The wave frequencies from the
brain of the normal sleeping
person is about five impulses
per second and the amplitude,
which is the measure of the volt-
age, is small. Heavy damping of
the waves on one side of the brain
is an indication of hematoma, a
blood hemorrhage in the brain and
necessitates immediate operation.
Impulses coming more slowly than
in the normal brain show the
presence of a brain tumor or of
encephalitis, an infection of the
nerve cells, and thus necessitates
further case study. An irregular
pattern with high frequencies
means that the patient suffers
from petit mal, momentary loss of
consciousness.
In order to study the brain im-
pulses of sick people, it is first
necessary to set up a pattern of
normality. For an adult, that is
a person over twelve, eight to
twelve beats per second is normal.
The pulse of an infant’s brain is
extremely slow and irregular, but
tends toward increased regularity
with growth. The brain of a sen-
ile person may revert to the pat-
tern of a child’s brain.
Notice
Mrs. Laura Erdman Peters,
monds ’51, are enrolled in the Col-
lege Course which opened at the
|Katharine Gibbs School last July.
The five foot one inch shelf of].
Bryn Mawr ’52, and Anne G. Si-.
mote in all countries of the world programs of the type which
you sponsored recently. My congratulations, therefore, to
the Alliance for Political Affairs of Bryn Mawr College for
the splendid work done in the interest of peace and prosper-
ity of mankind.
With best wishes,
Yours sincerely,
Mohammed Ali
Current Events
Linn’s Analysis Relates
Campaign Meaning
To Returns
“There is a difference between
the meaning of an election and the
meaning of a campaign,” began
Miss Linn at the current events
meeting to analyze the election re-
turns. In the 1952 presidential
contest there was no great differ-
ence, however. The one striking
departure was that although Ste-
venson’s campaign showed great
political nerve, the election returns
had a different meaning. A great
public hero scored an enormous
victory over the man with strength
of his convictions. Although Eis-
enhower won only fifty-five per .
cent of the popular vote, he gain-
ed thirty-nine states in electoral
votes. :
Considering the General’s large
vote beyond the party vote, the
election was certainly a tremen-
dous personal victory. Eisenhow-
er ran ahead of the party ticket
in all but three states, with the
Republican party achieving only a
slight majority in both houses of
Congress. Although his campaign
unified various factors of the
party, making it a strong Repub-
lican drive, the victory belonged
to the candidate rather than to the —
party. His stand was a series of
attacks upon Communism, infla-
tion, corruption, and the origin
and continuation of the Korean
War and promises to lighten or
remove these difficulties.
Wasted Opportunity
“No man was in a position to
dare more,” said Miss Linn, “and
the fact is that he dared nothing.”
McCarthy stood in the foreground
because the party stressed Com-
munism in ‘Washington as a key
issue from the outset of the cam-
paign. ‘With Eisenhower’s high
ideals, it seems he could have
spoken against Communism in
Washington without embracing
the Wisconsin Senator and his lim-
itation of free thought. The next
chairman of the House Un-Ameri-
can Activities Committee has al-
ready approached the head- ofthe
Library of Congress on the sub-
ject of banning books, a limitation
not of Communism, but of intel-
lectual freedom.
Prosperity
Prosperity, the main issue of
the Democratic campaign, is a dif-
ficult one to beat, but the returns
clearly illustrated a change from
the traditional association of Re-
publicans with the depression. A
great change was evident in the
breaking of the solid South. In
the future, it will be interesting to
watch developments in that region.
The alliance of North and South
has been an uneasy one, particu-
larly on civil rights, but it has
been strong on foreign policy.
Farm Revolt
The farm vote departed almost
entirely from the Democratic
party, where it gave strong sup-
port in Roosevelt’s election. Or-
ganized labor, on the other hand,
spoke more articulately and solid-
ly than ever before in showing a
Democratic preference. The A.F.L.
broke a precedent and joined with
the C.I.0. to support Stevenson.
John L. Lewis, as head of the
United Mine Workers, spoke of-
ficially for a Democratic candidate
for the first time since 1936.
The independent vote this year
might have consisted partly of the
new vote and the indifferent vote
but was mainly the voice of those
who were willing, to change their
party support. Truman’s part in
the campaign probably had little
to do with Stevenson’s defeat, and
the same can be said of the ama-
teur Democratic management. Eis-
Menhower’s victory at the same
| time, cannot be accredited to the
strong, well-financed advertising
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