College news, April 18, 1951

VOL. XLVII, NO. 19

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1951

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1951

PRICE 15 CENTS



Legislature Vote
No College-Wide

3:30 Permissions

The fifty-seven voting members
of the College Legislature met for
the first time this year on Thurs- |
day evening, April 12, A change |
was voted in the distribution of
the United Service Fund, in order
to send 15% of the money to books
for India and only.10% to the aid
of children, reversing previous
policy. The Legislature then open- '
ed discussion concerning the main
business of the evening, the peti-
tion signed by sixty-five students,
advocating a change in the pres-,
ent Self-Gov rule which gives |
those who attend a college dance:
an hour and a half permission '
after the dance ends at 2:00. The
petitioners wanted this privilege



to be extended to those who do not |,

go to the dance as well. They felt
that the rule was so universally
broken, or avoided by couples
merely attending the dance for five
minutes, that the only critezion for
late permission was a financial one,
that of buying a ticket.

In presenting the petition, Claire
Liachowitz explained that the 3:39
permission is in the liberal spirit

of ‘thé college, and that its. pri-
mary purpose is to give to those
who go to a college dance the
same amount of free time after-
ward as those who go: sa the
“movies.

Three of the four sponsors of
‘the petition, Molly Allen, Polly
Dickinson, and Jackie Appel, led
the discussion in defending their
‘stand against questioners. The
‘sponsors admitted from the start
that the main purpose of an over-
all 3:30 permission was to escape
the restrictions of the Pennsyl-
vania Blue Laws. They argued
that they were requesting the per-
mission for only the big college
-weekends, which include a show
before the dance, and said that
.this permission would make the

| City.

Hughes Wins Workman Prize;

Swindler Earns

Group Honors Former
BMC Archaeology
Professor

The American Association of

| University Women awarded Dr.

Mary Hamilton Swindler its $2,500
Achievement Award on April 12 at
the fellowship dinner of the bien-
nial convention held in Atlantic
Miss Swindler is Visiting
Professor of Fine Arts at the Uni-
versity of Michigan and former
professor at Bryn Mawr College.
She was honored for her contrib-
utions in the field of archaeology
and announced that she will use
‘the award money for a visit to
Greece and Turkey, where she will
study important new discoveries in
the field of early Greek art.

Miss Swindler joined the Bryn
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Legislature Adds
New Amendments
To Constitutions

At the meéting of the college
legislature, Self-Government, Un-

Association presented proposals
for constitutional changes to be
approved.

The main change advocated by
Undergrad was altering the struc-
ture of the National Students As-
sociation committee on campus. As
it stands now, the committée con-
sists of hall representatives and
representatives from student or-
ganizations. An alternative pro-
posal was offered, consisting of
one Senior member to Undergrad

Junior member to Alliance, college
elected; one rotating non-voting
Sophomore member to Undergrad,



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‘
Of Muchlies and Deadpans, Old & New

by Ann Phipps, ’64

Like The TIllustrated London
News, known for its ability to dig
‘up old civilizations, the Classics
Club, after’a silence of ten years,
has ‘eptutig to the fore with a glor-
ious ery of “Tally ho, Apollo!”
and brought antiquity back to
‘Bryn Mawr. The version of Plau-
tus’ Menaechmi which was pre-
sented April 14 in Skinner was, in
every respect, free-style. Grecian
columns were combined with that
familiar Renaissance angel to
form: the set; the language was a
pot-pourri of high-flown academic |
idiom and straight slang; the plot
(on which Shakespeare’s Comedy
of Errors was based) concerned
mistaken identities, as a long-lost
twin tangled with his. brother’s
mistress (a pleasant experience)
‘and wife (an unpleasant experi-
ence); the acting belonged to two
‘main classes, muchly-muchly and
deadpan.

Of the muchlies, Harriet Wil-
liams (Menaechmus I) was su-
preme: radiant happiness, agony,

and coyness flickered ‘eh siatinatiy
across her face. Laura Maioglio
(Menaechmus I’s wife), danger-
ously ‘beautiful, showed the same
versatility. As the loose lady Er-
otium, Nancy Pearre, in fetching
yellow and gold with long shining
hair tumbling over one eye, .was
pure Tallulah; the audience was

The Sponge) gave the. best per-
formance of the evening in the
least sympathetic part. As a hand-
some, clever slave-on-the-make|

|(Messinio), Peggy Auch displayed

a well-turned leg and a good sing-
ing voice. Other music was sup-
plied by Bertie Dawes, who (with

the recorder), did the singing while
the chief characters mouthed the
words; it was the good old. tech-
nique of miming Jolson while the
Phonograph plays backstage, car-
‘ried a step further. The songs

Turnbull... Lastly, the most rauc-
ous of the muchlies were four

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dergrad, Alliance, and the Athletic ©

for N.S.A., college elected; one}

elected by the Sophomore class;|-

appreciative. Jo Case (Perniculus,

Nancy Bird accompanying her on

themselves were the work of Lucy |.

AAUW Award

Wisconsin Graduate, °49
Plans to Study
In Athens

The Fanny Bullock Workman
Fellowship, granted for the pur-
poses of study abroad, has been
awarded to Barbara Hughes of
Kenosha, Wisconsin, it was an-
nounced this morning. She is at
present a Scholar in Greek at
Bryn Mawr; she formerly attended
the University of Wisconsin, where
she majored in Classical Human-
ities. She obtained her B.A. in
1949 with honors. She will use
the Workman Fellowship at the
American School of Classical
Studies at Athens in the year
1951-1952.

Barbara is the daughter of Mrs.
Leroy Densmore, 910—74th Street,
Kenosha, Wisconsin. She grad-
uated from the Mary D. Bradford
High School there.

Members of the Bryn Mawr
Graduate School who have received
outside awards for the year 1951-
52-are as follows:

‘ Elizabeth Ann Farrelly of Prov-
idence, Rhode Island. B.S.- Pem-

Dr. Robb Lectures
On Trends of Art

For Manuscripts

Dr. David M. Robb spoke last
Monday evening on The Art of the
Illuminated Manuscript, in a lec-
ture amply provided with color

slides. He began with early ex-
amples of the illustrated manu-
script, dated 4th century A. D.: the
Vatican Virgil, done in classic style,
and written first with room left
for ‘drawings, and the Egyptian
Books of the Dead, the earliest ex-
tant manuscript. Although the art
of the illuminated manuscript was
one of the “most admired of the
Middle Ages, and is one of those
most admired today,” the reasons
for its decline trace back to prob-
lems of design as well as the in-
vention of printing.

The illustrations for the Codex
Romanus, showing a decline of na-
turalism, suggest a later date and
pre-suppose a well-established tra-
dition of the relationship between



text and illustration. They mark
a stronger trend toward the unity
of the two. Likewise the frieze

|of the debatably-dated Joshua il-

lustrations (probably 10th cen-
tury) continue the idea of a se-

broke College in Brown University, quence of sketches differing in that
1949; M.A. candidate, Bryn Mawr! they were designed to be unrolled,

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Bryn Mauwr-Harvard Songsters Defy

by Ann Phipps, ’54

Flaunting superstition, the Bryn
Mawr Chorus and the Harvard
Glee Club gave a joint concert on

Friday; the 18th of April.

Far be it from Bryn ‘Mawr to
admit thé superority of the male:
wasn’t '‘M. Carey Thomas’ first pre-
cept “equality for the sexes?” But
let it be said, discreetly, that as
the sun is beautiful so is the
moon.

Bryn Mawr, rather unfortunate-
iy, began the program with Andre
Caplet’s Messe a Trois Voix; the
opening Kyrie, falling on an un-

thawed audience, sounded rather |.

pale . (With the Gloria, prospects

‘brightened and the concert pro-| .

gressed more quickly.

Then Harvard came on with ‘al,

brilliant, incongruous group of
songs. The well-known Jesu ‘Dul-
cis Memoria was followed by a re-
strained, almost unbearably lovely
15th Century Laude, O Maria Del-

Wednesday, April18_ st.
7:30-9:00 p. m. Taylor. Fresh-
man Hygiene Exam.
8:30 p. m. I. R. C. Common
Room.
Saturday, April 21
French Oral.
8:30 p. m. Haverford Concert.
Sunday, April 22
_ 8:00 p. m. Chorus, Valley Forge
Chapel. :
Monday, April 23
7:15 p. m. Current Events.
Tuesday, April’ 24
8:30 p. m. Philosophy Club.
Wednesday, April: 25
8:30 p. m. Award Night, Com-



-| Sartre..
‘Thiele for contemporary: philosophy.

F riday 13 With Fi ine Choral Program

la Stella. An Italian girl was over-
‘heard saying that for once her
language was being sung correct-
ly; this held true, presumably, for
the last songs of the group, two
choruses from I] Matrimonia Seg-
reto, which left the audience smil-
ing delightedly at a chatter of gai-
ety. (Between these two, there was
a lyric folk-song by Dvorak Mag-
dlein in Walde, and two not often
heard spirituals, My Lord, What a
Morning, and You May Bury Me in
the East; there was the aggress-

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Pres. Discusses
Mental Testing
Pro's and Cons

Broad Testing Results
Offer Potent Aid,
‘““New Menace”’

Large Scale Mental Testing was
President McBride’s subject when
she lectured to the Sigma Xi fra-
ternity in the Chemistry lecture
room in Park at 8:30 on April 11.

President McBride began by
mentioning three types of mental
tests for large groups of people,
thus indicating how much testing
is going on at present. One is the
‘qualifying’ test recently proposed
for draft deferment. It has been
under consideration by Congress,
and realizing this would happen,
its founders labored to establish
a high face of validity. The pro-
fessional aptitude tests, such as
law and medicine, in addition to
vocational tests in general, make
up a sweeping portion of today’s
tests. The third type is the mass
field of educational testing, which
is handled by the Educational
Testing Service. As college stu-
dents are well aware, an over-
whelming amount of testing is be-
ing carried on!

(‘Miss McBride felt that the
words of Spearman, a monarch in
the field of mental testing, are per-
tinent to the situation. Spearman
says “The situation of the mental
tests is promising but not free
from doubt. They are a potent aid
which should be handled with care.
They are a New Menace.” Miss
McBride said that although that
was his personal opinion, it is true
that. you can’t bring’ too much
knowledge, but it is possible to at-
tach too great an importance to
measureable aspects of human be-
‘ings. The recent draft deferment

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“Les Mouches’” Black And White Set
Fails to Support Its Actors’ Passions

specially contributted by
Winifred Sexton, 51.

The Haverford College French
Club and its Bryn Mawr associ-
ates grappled on April 13 and 14
with a long, humorless play of
ideas: Les Mouches, by- Jean Paul
It is a mythological ve-

..The Friday evening perform-
anice, which was the one seen by the
reviewer, presented very clearly
.|the. contrast between Sartre’s phil-
osophy of human liberty won
‘Ithrough the choice of responsibil-
ity, and human bondage imposed
by the insidious care of the gods.
Simone Pelloux portrayed the elec-
tric emotions of the adolescent
princess as if she herself were the
maltreated daughter of Agamem-
non. She danced and walked, car-
ried herself and gestured with in-
genuous grace.-She absentminded-
ly traced ares. with her foot on the
dusty Roberts Hall stage as if she
were standing alone with Fred Ex-



mon Room.



of Aron + Bxton’s: ‘exasperated
gestures of despairing search for
he knew not what were only fore-
runners of the young’ ihtelléctual’s
successful resistance to Zeus‘.
The contrived. violence of the set,
fathomless black stretching behind
enormous white, pillars at a top-
pling slant and a glaring white
right wing, seemed té'be in delib-

ferate contrast with the’ passionate -

guilt and shame of Argos.

But the icy black and white of
the powerful geometrical set did
not support the warmth of ‘the
young Electra and Orestes. This
was symptomatic of the lack of
unity and the weakness in vio-
lence of the production.

It would be unfair not to point
out here that Les Mouches would
be an onerous problem in theatre
for the most experienced director.
The day of frenzied pagan ritual
and Electra’s attempt to revolt
against the gods are so long drawn
out that some kind of relief is nec-



ton, Orestes, in a hot sandy. street

Og ey ae

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Funds and the News

i The College NEWS is confronted with a serious prob-
lem; the valid criticism of this week’s letter to the Editor is
‘merely suggestive of the situation. Last week’s four-page
‘issue was indeed “pared to the bone,” but the criticism it has
received is no more valid than the reason which necessitated
its brevity.

The NEWS is one of the two self-supporting newspapers

issued in private women’s colleges in the United States. It
‘receives no subsidies from the College administration or stu-
‘dent body, and is paid for solely by subscriptions and adver-
tising. And Bryn Mawr is the only one of the “Big Seven”
colleges where en to the student paper is not man-
datory.
At the beginning of the second eemester, the NEWS pro-
vided journalistic bills of fare which were overly rich in
write-ups of events off-campus, feature articles, and cuts.
This was done in the interest of publishing a paper which
would have a wider scope, and balance news reports with cre-
ative writing, but without sufficient attention to financial
limitations. NEWS funds might now be compared to the al-
lowance which is spent by the fifteenth of the month, or,
more appropriately, to the national budget. The NEWS is
now running on a program of deficit spending.
There is only one possible solution to this problem: the
‘NEWS must restrict iteelf to four-page issues for the re-
‘mainder of the semester, which will necessitate considerable
curtailment of subject matter and coverage. Comprehension
of earlier errors cannot rectify them, but they can be amend-
. ed. Because it is the newspaper of the College, the NEWS
believes that it is only just to explain to the College the rea-
sons which have made this austerity program necessary.

Arts Night

In 1949 student artistic enthusiasm produced an inno-









vation in the college schedule—Arts Night. It was felt that|.

there was not sufficient outlet for combined creation and pro-
duction. Arts Night provides the occasion for art, music,
a ee eee § Sone «oe



Current Events

Monday, April 16. The Current
Events lecture featured Arthur P.
‘Dudden, who spoke on “MacArthur
—McClellan: A Parallel.” Mr.
Dudden immediately pointed out
that he was comparing MacArthur
to McClellan, not Truman to Lin-
coln, and proceeded to compare the
two generals on three points: ca-

sonal qualities; and feuds with

their superiors.

The careers, of the two generals
are surprisingly parallel. Both
were outstanding in their classes
at West Point, both rose to the top
in their profession, both received
great honors while still young,
and both became involved in poli-
tical feuds and dissensions.
Clellan was made General of the
Army of the Potomac, at the age
of thirty-four. MacArthur was the
youngest man to become Chief-of-
Staff, he was the youngest four-
star general, and he was the
youngest Commander-in-Chief ito
be appointed in the United States
Army. McClellan was held in dis-
trust-by the Republican adminis-
tration of his time for his procras-
tination and arguments over or-
ders, and for his oppositional po-
litical activities. In the Presiden-
tial election of 1864 he ran in
open opposition to the Republican
aims. (MacArthur’s. political life
has been in opposition to the ad-
ministration and the New Deal. In
the 1944 elections he was entered
by Senator Vandenburg in the II.
linois state primary, where Mac-
Arthur was given a favorable
showing. Colonel McCormick and
the Hearst papers gave him sup-
port and hurt his political chances
greatly. With the 1948 campaign
came the statement that he would
not seek office, but would accept
the honor if he were nominated.
MacArthur’s entry in the nation-
al primary was late and his sup-
port, weak at best, rapidly declin-
ed.

The parallel continues in the
personalities of the two generals.
McClellan was a vain, elegant man
given to “bombastic utterances”
and a knack of inspiring great
personal popularity with his sol-
diers. MacArthur is a man of
great ego, great moral and physic-
al courage, devotion to his mis-
sion, and great force of charac-
ter. “He is so vain that he is not
vain.” On one point he differed
from McClellan: he was bitterly
opposed by his soldiers in the form
of Veterans Against MacArthur
--hbecmsaia when he entered poli-

cs.

Both McClellan and MacArthur
became. involved in serious feuds
with their superiors. McClellan
tried to influence his superiors in
political policies. MacArthur has
differed with his superiors on
many occasions, and has attempted
to dictate policy.
eg Dudden’s prediction about

affair now concerning General
MacArthur and the Truman ad-
ministration was, “I think that it
will die down. I hope that it will.”

reers, political and military; per-|

Me-.





Legislature Changes
College Constitutions

Continued from Page 1

and one rotating, non-voting
Freshman member to Alliance,

elected by the Freshman class.

The Senior member would handle
N.S.A. affairs on the national level,
while the Junior member could
handle regional affairs. This pro
posal was passed by the Legisla-
ture, along with the decision that
Bryn Mawr would continue mem-
bership in N.S.A.

Other Undergrad recommenda-
tions passed by the Legislature
were one permanent Freshman
member to Undergrad, in addition
to the present rotating Freshman
member. The permanent member
could be elected by the Freshman
class in November.

Common Treasury dues will now
be voted on by the Legislature,
each student organization present-
ing a detailed report of their bud-
get of expenditures.

A recommendation to increase
the membership of the Legislature
to include all the officers of the
League, Alliance, and the Athletic
Association, the head of Chapel
and the Editorial Board of the
College News was presented and
passed. The quorum of the Legis-
lature necessary to transact busi-
ness was decreased from four
fifths to two thiczds.

The Alliance presented the fol-
lowing proposal, passed by the
Legislature: that the vice-presi-
dent’s duties be increased to include

the head of Current Events; the In-

dustrial Organization group rep-
resentative be discontinued since
the organization no longer existed;
the Advisory Board be allowed to
vote on new members to Alliance.

In regard to elections, the Al-
liance proposed that the slate for
the vice-president be drawn up by
the Alliance board and be present-
ed to the nominating committee of
the Junior Class for eliminations
and additions. The slate would be
reduced to eight by the nominat-
ing committee, the Junior class
then chosing four for a college
election.

The candidates for the first sec-
retary to Alliance would be pre-
sented to the Sophomore class in
the same manner. Both of these
proposals were approved by the
Legislature.

An Alliance proposal that two
thirds of the board be necessary
for amendments to the constitu-
tion was not carried; the present
requirement of four fifths was
held.

The Athletic Association pro-
posal that the president be elected
through the Junior Class Nomin-
ating Committee, with A.A. sub-
mitting a slate to be approved,
was carried.

Four Freshman rotating mem-
bers to A.A., two to be elected in
the fall, two in the spring,
passed by the Legislature.

The vice-president’s duties were
increased to include taking over
the treasury of A.A.

Changes in the requirements for
the athletic blazer were made}
now the award qualifications must
include membership on two first
varsities, and two second varsities
of two different teams.



Reader Notes Faults:
Four Pages Lack

Information
lo the Editor of the NEWS:

The April 11th issue of the
NEJWS was notable for its extra-
ordinary lack of information. An
account of a speech, a review, or
a write-up of an activity should be
presented in as specific and com-
plete a manner as possible, so that
the reader who does not attend the
event will be able to get an ade-
quate impression of it. It was ob-
vious that almost every article in
last week’s issue was pared to the
bone. ‘A Counterpoint review is
inconclusive, and its effect almost
nullified, if the introduction and
general commentary alone is giv-
en and the more specific criticism
postponed to a later date. The
force of both sections must neces-
sarily be diminished, if they can-
not be read conclusively. No one



ing group participation. The event also embodies completion

artistic entertainment. This type affair also offers the indi.
vidual a chance to perform, to be recognized, and incited to
further cultivation of his particular talent.

Most students feel that a college education is apt to
stress intellectual knowledge to the extent that creative tail-
ents must remain dormant . Education is not only learning
how to think and to absorb facts; it is also the development
of the innate potentialities of the student. Potentiality in-



ution, but not actual ereation|t



Pies wn Lagad yo fy phantom

since all phases of art unite in fulfilling the various needs of]

who had not seen the Sophomore
Carnival could have any sort of
idea of what it was like in the
bare four inches of space allotted
to it. The editorial had to be
printed in extra small type, rath-
er than the usual larger, editorial
type. The lecture by Conyers Read
was stripped to its absolute essen-
tials, with the result that only the
historical facts concerning Mary,
Queen of Scots were presented,
and all individuality of Mr. Read’s
approach ignored. The review of
the Maids’ and Porters’ Show lack-
ed the amplification that one would
have wished; the Reich article was
painfully condensed; and the write-
up of Wolff’s talk was not only in-
credibly short, but also succeeded
in omitting every point the speak-
er made.

The fact that this issue had only
four pages is clearly responsible
for much of this inadequacy. It is
fully realized that a certain num-
ber of four page issues must be
printed during the year in order
to maintain the paper’s budget.
However, it would seem that, with
a little forethought, the editorial
board might have recognized the
fact that the first issue after
spring ‘vacation must cover two
weeks’ events, and four pages is
hardly sufficient space in which to
do this. Instead of economizing
on this edition, it might have been
wiser to do so earlier in the sem-
ester. If one curtailed one’s liber-

waSial printing of cuts and of eight-

page issues, filled with an over-
abundance of “forced” feature ar-
ticles, diffuse and rambling acws |
items and editorials, and other
such “fillers,” one would be better
prepared to meet one’s obligation
in achieving a complete and accur-
ate presentation of campus. news.

Sincerely,

Barbara Jackson, 62

Mary Hamilton Swindler
Given AAUW Award










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Wednesday, April 18, 1951

THE COLLEGE

NEWS

Page Three



Last Nighters

Pearl Primus Dances
“Dark Rhythm”
Of Africa

by Anne Phipps, ’54

Pearl Primus and her company
presented last Tuesday night at
‘Town Hall in Philadelphia a dance
program, Dark Rhythm. It was ex-
traordinary in its juxtaposition of
the very good and the very medi-
ocre.

The dances which Miss Primus
brought back with her from a year
and a half of study in Africa had a
powerful simplicity. A priestess
‘blessed the land; a man and wom-

| an moved in perfect synchroniza-
tion, metal necklaces flashing, a
young girl moved elegantly and
precisely in the aristocratic court
dance of Nigeria. The War Dance,

fierce, muscular, full of leaps and
shivering turns, was perhaps the
best part of the whole program.
Any one of its movements, caught
in a still photograph, would look
angular, but in motion all fitted
easily together into a vivid pat-
tern. Country Dance, on the other
hand, was utterly disorganized, the
only African selection of which
this can be said; it was redeemed
to a certain extent by the unbeliev-
able leaps of one of the three male
dancers.

The Melanesian Myth, in which
a statue is brought to life by
the dancing in front of it, had a
porcelain delicacy in restrained,
tentative gestures. Santos, repre-
senting the conflict between the
old and the new, featured a sob-
bing movement of the body, head-
circling, and a final shriek: it gave
the impression of having more
frenzy than form.

Two short dances, Afro-Haitian
and Caribbean, for which Miss
Primus wore a rather pretty red-
dish skirt, a white blouse, and a
pink flower in her hair, were noth-
ing but poster art. Any travel bu-
reau could show you. the same.

Two others, Study in Nothing
and Mischievous Interlude showed
a little girl’s daydreams come true,
and were amusing, if trivial.

A group of spirituals ended the
recital. One, Gonna Tell God All
My Troubles, was performed en-
tirely from sitting positions, on a
semi-dark stage; it had a certain
dignity. The others, notably Free-
dom Train, ventured on the jitter-
bug. They did not fulfill the prom-
ise of the early part of the pro-
gram.

. The drumming, when it was not].

spoiled by incongruous piano ac-
‘companiment, was an_ effective
part of the dancing. It was some-
times slow, with a deep, heavy
beat, other times fast as castanets,
always intensely rhythmic,
‘both dancers and audience seemed
to respond to it more than to the
western music. All in all, Africa
took the honors. °

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Related By Dean

Wednesday, - April 11. Mrs.
Marshall chose this chapel assem-
bly for another talk in her current
series, “The A. B. and You”. This
time the specific topic was “The
A. B. and Matrimony”,

There are three fashionable ap-
proaches to the relationship of the

A. B. and married life. First, At-
titude A: the “education was de-
signed in the past for the Occi-

dental male aristocrat” point of|* °

view, which assumes that women
are educated only so that they can
meet crises, that their lot is an un-
happy one, and that they must
study in an atmosphere where re-
spect for women is taken for
granted. If women study a few

so they may provide for them-
selves in time of dire need.

Attitude B is that, since wom-
en’s) colleges were founded in a
now defunct militant spirit, there
should be a re-evaluation, and a
shift of emphasis. Because the
woman’s home responsibilities are
most important, the entire system
should emphasize human values
and include more philosophic train-
ing.

Attitude C—the last, and best,
view—is that college is fine as it
is, and that the A. B. has a value
in matrimony. Why should one
spend a part of one’s expensive
thirty-two months in college learn-
ing domestic skills? These, Mrs.
Marshall felt, as she quoted Mrs.
Balfour, were learned when a per-
son felt the need. The aims of
college are tremendous and not
purely vocational or space-filling,
as some people think. There can
be no specific use for specific
knowledge when one gets an A. B.
in any field.

Arts Nig ight T Theme
Filicuanne & Fun

Arts Night, a campus outlet for
creative talent, is scheduled this
year for Saturday, April 28th. The
theme of Arts Night is informality
and fun; since it is experimental
and a completely student activity,
it includes everyone on the campus
who wants to work on it. This
year Arts Night will present in
Skinner Workshop an_ original
farce operetta, a fantasy in a Vic-
torian garden, and modern danc-
ing.

The committee for Arts Night
by no means a closed enterprise,
is as follows:

Sherry Cowgill, ’51, Rock —
Chairman.

Jill McAnney, ’52, Rock—Pro-
duction Manager.

Phoebe Harvey, ’54, Radnor —
Publicity. ©

Jo Case, ’54, Pem East—Stage
Manager.

Janet Leéds,
Lights.

Sherry will be happy to answer
any questions. If you want to
work on anything, she will be
equally happy to twist your arm.
Come on, Bryn Mawr! Effort!!

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Repetition, Derivation, Anemia, Spoil
Counter point; Genuine Writing Praised

Continued from last week

Some wise critic has said-that of
all the resources of human thought,
statistics, in literary criticism, is
the least valuable,but he would have
agreed that in a paragraph of four-
teen lines it is at least unusual to
find nineteen instances of the con-
struction: adjective, noun (or sub-
stantive a& adjective, noun; or
participle, noun;) three examples
of: noun, present participle, noun
(so that, as in “their golden horns
. stirring the sleeping birds,”
the noun is doubly modified).
Further, examination of the four-
teen (grammatically) unmodified
nouns (two are instances of the
same word, “horses,” and seven
are used in the same genitive-
phrase construction) reveals al-
most all are in some wise describ-
ed or descriptive: “silence,” for
instance, which is only the sub-
stantive-form of an adjective; “the
dawn” with its “chill pallor,” both
shade and temperature; Winches-
ter and Beaulieu, adorned, in that
order, by “shining towers” and
“mud streets;” “New Forest,” a
place-name which, though unmod-
ified, contains an adjective; the
presumably silent cavalcade with
which “silence rode;” “the horns”
(line 13) which we already know
for “golden” (line 1); and so on,
until we discover the one single
object given simply, for its own
sake, pure: “villeins.”

What a deception, then for the
ear to capt in it a resonance of
villanus or vilain, a cadence, final-
ly, adjectival. A few lines later,
Henry, brother of the King
(mounted, inevitably, on a “restive
sorrel”) judges: “How beautiful it
all is.” Small miracle. Rhythmic-
ally tragic: no noun, ballasted by
so many modifiers, can project for-
ward, and even the verbs (most of
them in a sense descriptive) are
singularly static; the dreary in-
eluctability of the epithets, too,
filters the whole scene (the whole
story, in fact) as through a bor-
rowed fin-de-siecle style, darkly.
This prose, whose it is, a—delicate
question: I feel obscurely that
there is Irish in it; whether or not
it be the decadence of Yeats’s rich-
ness, it seems certain that Joyce
would have treasured it (see cer-
tain radiant pages of the “bronze
by gold” chapter of Ulysses, or the
description of the calligraphy of
the manifesta on p. 119 of Finne-
gans Wake. Again, adherence to a



TV Will Feature
Tri-College Talks

April 20: “The Development of
Democratic Institutions,” John
Roche (Haverford), Murray Sted-

man (Swarthmore) .

.» April 27: “Geology: the Rocks
that Support Us,” Lincoln Dryden
(Bryn Mawr).

May 4: “The Functions and Va-
rieties of Fiction,” Harold March
(Geeetenare) William Wishmey-

! ’ (Haverford), Arnold Post
Glaventeads, :
“May 11: “Evolutionary Paitaca

: in’ the Architecture and Devélop-

ment of the Vertebrate Egg,” Jae
Iaittrell. (Swarthmore),

»May 18: “Our Musical Ties with
Other Cultures,” % Robert Goodale
(Bryn ‘(Mawr),... Alfred Swan
(Swarthitiore and ‘Haverford).



ay! 25: “The Birth of ° the
Bomb,” Walter _ Michels Rhy
: Mawr). : re >
June 1: “Cooperation im ‘Educa-
tion,” Katharine.
McBride yn~Mawr), ‘Gilbert >
White (Havgstond)s; Joi We, Nic} fet
‘{son ( eS eT Coy seg



pattern (in this case, of bad aati
but original bad taste in itself of-
ten clears the air) submerges what
is real in the story: there is qual-
ity in the movement of the hunt
which is transmuted into a man-
hunt, in the juxtaposition of a stag
and Actaeonking; but too many
‘strong brown hands” (p. 5) have
long since buried it. Clarissa Mac-
Veagh, though with more vigor,
contains her Stake Night in a mod-
el evén less tasteful: the €ollier’s
specialty (here, riding) story, com-
plete with lighting of cigarettes
(why?) terse remarks called (al-
ways) over the shoulder, homilies
(“owners in the horse show busi-
ness are odd people,” p. 12) and
mild switcheroo at’ the windup.
Poetry, alike: Lucy Turnbull has
built “Geocentric” on a classic im-
age of the Metaphysics plus a
certain Empsonian irony. In the
tone, great virtues, simplicity, no
pretention: but the language! cold,
unmusical, lacking movement,
mystery, or violence: a poor, ane-
mic poem. Joan Corbin’s “Sonnet”
commences with a Donne-music
but by the eighth verse sounds like
“Stout-Hearted Men,” then turns
rapidly to the tone of “Deep Pur-
ple” or something: “The million
little flaws I found and loved” (!);
the same process: a (likely) real
de-freshed by (here,
convention half-under-

experience
mawkish)
stood, an absence of free creation
in words (a medium, like sound or

encaustic). “Miz Parker’s Boy”

(Helen Katz): fun (at last!) but

“the floor’s gray shroud” is forced
Continued on Page 4, Col. 2

3 Films Indicate
Habits of Nature

On Tuesday, April 10, in Dal-
ton, Undergrad and the Science
Club presented three films under
the topic, Conservation. The films
were procured by Anne Phipps
from the Conservation Society.
The first, The Forest Produces,
portrayed in color the forest’s
three gifts to mankind. The sec-
ond, also in color, was called Stars
In Stripes, the story of “Three Lit-
tle Tigers and*How They Grew,”
and, although it had nothing to do
with conservation, it was included
because it was so amusing. The
third film was concerned with the
phenomenon of bird migration.
The first and third movies were es-
pecially impressive and artistical-
ly photographed.

The first film emphasized the im-
portance of the forest as a source
of timber, water, and natural
beauty. It pointed out that con-
tinued destruction of forests would
result in the loss of these three
vital needs with consequent dis-
astrous effects on man. F

‘The second film was a most am-
using interlude. It showed the
struggles of a lion housekeeper’s
wife in her task of raising three
tiny Bengal ‘tigers who demanded
continuous supervision until they
reach their 600 pound adulthood.

The final film demonstrated the}.
amazing performances ‘ of birds! }
which sometimes fly 2400 miles in}
48 hours, for. unknown : ‘reasons
Much research is “being done to de
termine the *reasqns behind sucl

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Between the Leaves

Miss Bree’s New Book
Presents View

Of Proust

Specially Contributed by
Esther Buchen Pese, ’39

Germaine Bree’s Du Temps Per-
du Aux Temps Retrouve, is an
“introduction to the work of Mar-
cel Proust” in a number of differ-
ent ways and on a number of dif-
ferent levels, from the most ele-
mentary to the least. There are
those potential readers who may
have a vague notion of Proust as
a strange little man in a cork-
lined room, brooding asthmatically
over the past and spinning out a
long morbid tale of corrupted no-
bilities and perverted loves. For
these, the most superficial glance
at Mlle. Bree’s study will be a
revelation of a great and luminous
work of art, no more morbid than
King Lear, no less ambitious than
Faust. For those who have just
begun their acquaintance with
Proust’s work, and are perhaps
feeling rather dismayed by the
vastness of its conception and the
tortuosities of its style, this study
d’ensemble, a vision of the work
will be an introduction to a vue
as a coherent totality. For those
who have read Proust over a long
period of time and consider their
conclusions reached, it may be an
introduction to a revaluation and
mise au point. For specialists, it
may possibly be an introduction to
another method: the view of
Proust’s novel as a text to be ex-
plained and illuminated from with-
in itself and from other writings
by its author.
see that of the 224 notes at the
end of the volume, 221 are refer-
ences to Proust’s own writings.

For any and all readers, Mlle.
Bree’s book can be a stimulating
introduction to ideas about the
nature of art in general. She
continually passes from Proust’s
text to the general ideas which can
be drawn from it and which can
offer a point of departure for re-
flections about other works and
about all art. For example, after
quoting and analyzing a number of
passages in which questions of art
are incorporated into the subject of
the novel, she concludes:

from the narrator of the novel]
est done consciemment construite
et concertee, et la matiere qu’elle
nous presente est ainsi doublement
redessinee”, analogue au monde
interieur deja luimeme redessine.
Elle ne peut en aucune facon etre
lue comme un document simple,
exprimant dizectement l’experience
de son auteur, pas plus qu’elle
n’est une simple histoire. Elle est
analogie, et dans ce sens, fiction.”
(p. 66)

She then uses this conclusion to
illuminate further the total con-

a similar way uses general con-
siderations drawn: from particular
texts to establish. the place ‘of
Proust both in French literary tra-
dition and in a broader European
tradition. When in her last chap-
‘ter she says that through his
notion of ‘what art involves
‘Proust’s work is linked to that of
Gide, Valery, and Joyce, the read-
er has in:mind a number of ex-
haustive ahd penetrating or
of pipes $ from Proust, so t

Hthe rema /a@ genuine
poston of .asimple o
Mébrical allusion,



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It is interesting to |

“L’oeuvre que nous presente |
Vecrivain, Proust, [whom _ she
always carefully distinguishes

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Various Colleges Give .
Graduate Scholarships

Continued from Page 1

‘College, 1951; Demonstrator in
Physics, Bryn Mawr College, 1949.
50 and Fellow in Physics 1950-51,
has received a Fellowship of the
American Association of Univer-
sity Women for 1951-52.

Martha Wilson Hoffman of
Berkeley, California. A.B. Uni-

versity of California 1943; M.A.|_

Bryn Mawr College 1949 and
Ph.D. candidate 1951. Resident
Scholar in Latin, Bryn Mawr Col-
lege, 1948-49; Fellow in Latin,
1949-50 and 1950-51, has received
an American Academy in Rome
Fellowship in Classical Studies for
1951-52.

Anne Howell Hartin of Charles-
ton, West Virginia. A.B. Kalama-
zoo College 1948; M.A. Wellesley
College 1949. Reader of Philos-
ophy, Bryn Mawr College, 1949-
50; Senior Resident of the Grad-
uate Center and graduate student,
1950-51, has received the Horton
Hallowell Fellowship of Wellesley
College for 1951-52.

Mary Barbara Morrison of Bel-
mont, Massachusetts. A.B. Wel-
lesley College 1946; M.A. Rad-
cliffe College 1949. Fellow in Ger-
man, Bryn Mawr College, 1950-51,
has received the Fanny Bullock
‘Workman Fellowship of Wellesley
College for 1951-52.

Lois Green Schwoerer of Drexel
Hill, Pennsylvania. A.B. Smith
College 1949; graduate student,
Bryn Mawr College, 1950-51, has
received a Fellowship from Smith
College for 1951-52.

Doris Silk of Jamaica, New
York. A.B. Queens College 1948;
M.A. Smith College, 1949. Resident
Scholar in History Bryn Mawr
College, 1949-50 and Fellow in
History 1950-51, has received a
Fellowship of the American As-
sociation of University Women fo:
1951-52.

“Les Mouches’ Displays

Superb Cast, Artistry
Continued from Page 1
essary. It is difficult to realize in
the emotional and wordy frame of
the play. J. N. Smith and his cast
seemed, in general, to have sought
it in violence: the Erinnyes, for
example. Their scene of physical
horror was too long, and it was
overdone in its repulsiveness. That
‘was the wrong kind of relief for
the beginning of the third act of
such an ordeal as Les Mouches.
However, Electra’s dance of ab-
andon during the festival helped;
and the silent, effortless entrances
of Zeus, played by Paul Moses,
bringing innete dignity of stature



from human tension and philoso-

solved on Friday evening.
Electra is the link between the in-
tellectual Orestes and the passion-
ate Argos, she must exhibit some
kind of development so that the
play will develop as a whole. In
contrast to the completed spiritual
step from human bondage to hu-
‘man liberty of Sartre’s Orestes,

ther.
lize the role of
centrifugal force of the play. How-
‘ever, it seems that th
‘great difference in the two
formances, and that on Saturday’
evening Electra’s little-girl charm
-of the early scenes evolved to pa-
thetic depths that were genuinely



‘McBridé Emphasizes
Validity Measurements
Continued from Page 1

may well do this with its lack of
criterion.

Since the choice of types .of
testing is so broad, Miss McBride
chose the “present stage of test-
ing in education” for her primary
examples. Three aspects of these
tests are considered, the first be-
ing ‘definition’, This is the defin-
ing of the dimension constituting
the correlation of the scores. De.
termination of a test’s strength
and effect is thus attempted, and
Miss McBride pointed out that the
definition is hard to make in broad
test areas because of personality
differences and the problem of the
choice of tests. These tests do
reach beyond the intuition of “ra-
tional analysis” of experts to the
extensive work of items analysis.

The second and more elaborate

tests given. Measured in validity,
reliability, efficiency, and item an-

lecture.

tested has several validity points.

The intrinsic validity of a test
is the first type. A member of the
Council of Measurement advised
following this plan to check the
validity. (1) Each one of several
experts makes up a test. (2) A
factor study of the performances
is made to check each test specifi-
cally. (3) This checks experts’
opinions of the questions. A def-
inite criterion for learning is set
before tests are given. The differ-
ent ways in which the grades
range may also be considered to ex-
pose the fallacies in the various
methods of correlation.

The ‘validity’ of the criterion is
the third aspect. A check of the
criterion often shows that there is
a false emphasis on a specific test.
The experts may be testing for the
wrong ability, such as “verbal
tests in gunnery school”. In this
instance you get correlation of
grades which tells you nothing of
the individual’s ability for that
field.

The reports of validity are made
in relation to marks that the per-
sons tested are expected to make,
made previously, and actually do

ranks fit the expected bracket,
this is one true validity eheck.
The last aspect of
tests given is their interpretation.
Miss McBride etiphasized that the

teason, test scores aren’t infallible,
but are a “potent aid to be used





moving.
The play was excellently cast,

i

point that Miss McBride brought |
out was the ‘measurement’ of the |:

analysis, the validity measurements | §
were most highly stressed in the/|*
The relevance of the test |
to the material covered or being | ‘

make, If the correlation of all the}

seriousness of this evolves from,
and godlike aloofness onto the|t
stage, provided longed-for relief |.

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Continued from Page 1

cavemen (barbarians?) in flour
sacks, who staged a fine bloody
fight.

Now for the aeadpans. Candy
Bolster as Menaechmus II (or Sos-
icles, just for the sake of confu-
sion), was good from start to fin-
ish, best when, with hair dishevel-
led and a drunkard’s super-poise
she emerged from Erotium’s house
after a pleasant party. Prue Ol-
iver (‘Sylindrus, the cook), loose-
limbed and deftly sarcastic, had
only eleven lines, but she made the
best of them; in fact, it is being
noised around that. an Employment
Agency has telegraphed her that
they have a job waiting for her.
Menaechmus I’s father-in-law was

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Classics.Club Production of ‘Menaechmi’ Gr ced
By Original Translation, Deadpan and Muchiies

L, |
delightfully underplayed by Vir-
ginia Rees, quavering out her lines
over a three-foot long white beard.

Lucy Turnbull, with a slight air
of the Inner Sanctum about her,
played the Doctor; she glided
about in black robes and spoke in
a soft bedside-manner voice that
chilled to the bone. Completely
deadpan also were a group of por-
ters, who wore, strange to say, red
caps.

It looks suspiciously as if the
Classics Club were here to stay. If
so, it will be thanks to Esther
Smith, director of the play, and
to Joanna Pennypacker and Candy
Bolster, co-presidents of the Clas-
sics Club. The old and the new
have proven compatible.



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Kathy Geib, ’50 to Robert
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Wednesday, April 18, 1951



Multitude of Slides Provide Colorful Addition
To Detailed History of Illuminated Manuscripts

Continued from Page 1

rather than planned for pages.
They retain the standard forms of
illusionary tradition with an added
“eonstructive fruitful attempt to-
ward colorful decoration of text

and manuscript.”

There are three 6th century
manuscripts of major importance;
all are two-dimensional design,
self-sufficient by the page, done on
purple vellum for royal houses.
The Vienna Genesis, with its “self-
conscious unity”, the Synopy Gos-
pel, and the Rosanow Gospel re-
flect the prevailing concept of col-
or in Byzantine illustration. Rich
in gold and silver, striking color,
and. intricate draftsmanship, they
show the connection to contempor-
ary sculpture.

If.*the Byzantine manuscripts
yaise the problem of “the form
written ard the letters painted”,
so do the manuscripts of the late
10th and iith centuries. In the
non-Mediterranean work of the
time, as the Books of Kells, with
its' dynamic irrationality”, and
the line drawings of the French il-
lustrators, was a new representa-
tion of the painters’ feelings con-
cerning the validity of Christian
faith. Byzantine form was still

strong in the 12th century al-
though it tended to be absorbed
into Western terms: color pattern
was translated into line pattern,
and among Celtic illustrators, the
line became a series of interlaced
lines.

Manuscripts were now directly
inspiring sculpture, for example,
the north and south portals of the
Chartres Cathedral, and architec-
tural patterns directed the pictor-
ial design.
close the text, and unconnected
themes appeared in the foliage. A
parallel of the “marginal droller-
ies”, which began in England, is
also found in sculpture, with odd
animals thrown into both types of
work, to fill up space. One of the
most amusing that Dr. Robb show-
ed was a man dragging an omit-
ted line to its proper place, with a
sketch of a devil (inspirer of the
mistake) in the margin.

More liberties were taken, and
the margins took on a life of their
own, unity disappearing. But not
for another century did satire
come into literature, while the
manuscript scribes had expressed
their views in manuscript margins.
Naturalistic tendencies continued;
while plasticity of form increased,
so did the importance of the foli-





Foliage began to en-|



Speeches Well-Interspersed with Spirituals;
Italian Songs Abound at Harvard-BMC Concert

Continued from Page 1

ively cacophonic Emblems, written
by Elliot Carter, Harvard ’30. The
conductor, G. Wallace Woodworth
told us that it was hard to listen
to but worth the trouble. Perhaps,
but it seems extremely unlikely
that» the work would have been
sung at all if it had been written
by a graduate of Yale, ’30.

Mr. Woodworth gave another
speech explaining the background
of Stravinsky’s Scenes from Oedi-
pus Rex. In this case, his enthusi-
asm proved to the point. Harvard
sang portions of what was original-

ly an opera performed by three :
‘at last. (\As in the world at large,

\the men :;were outnumbered). Han-

15-foot high white puppets, against



age, sometimes enveloping the en-
tire page, with scant room left for
the text. Adding to the breakup of
unity, familiar background was
put into Bible illustrations, the ar-
tist turned to nature, using graph-
ic rather than pictorial idioms, and
wood cuts. The art of illuminat-
ed manuscripts died when men
turned to the world around them
rather than to the inner emotions
that they felt.







a black background, with the sing-
ers seated down in front of the
stage. What we heard was drama-
tic, powerful, and most impressive.
The audience sat breathless, purg-
ed of its emotion by the tragedy.

Bryn Mawr’s' Double Octet
brought out pure filigree: madri-
gals by John Bennet and Thomas
Weelkes and two Summer Idylls
by Hans Gal. Liquid-clear, deli-
cate as. silk, the singing was still
unfailingly precise. Mr. Goodale
(speeches were getting to be fash-
ionable), made a few
about the last selection, Banchieri’s
Contrappunto Bestiale: “unfortun- |
ately”, he would have to sing bass.’
{t was not unfortunate at all.

The two colleges joined forces

del’s Music, Spread Thy Voice
Around was gay, and, with all
those voices, very rich sounding;
his Draw the Tear from Hopeless
Love was a bit labored. The last
selection, the chorus from Bach’s
Cantata 16, for New Year’s Day
was a triumph; if Bach can ba
rowdy, this was.

But it was proven conclusively
that everyone can stop worrying
about black cats, ladders and Fri-
days the 138ths.



remarks |



CURRICULUM COMM.

The New Curriculum Committee
Members are as follows:
Anthropology and Sociology

D. Hamburger

Archaeology. ..............00.. L. Turnbull
ini cevicerers css M, Sehwob
NNN vscsikerissescnrsstgaaes P. Austin
MBO HOMO 3 iiississisyeecscieal M. Natelson
PN ec irecsesrcrananen E. McIlroy
POON 5 2scciis ssscrssceveeseouasan E. Marks
Geology .................N. Wullschleger
Greek and Latin .......... J. McBride
PUBCON Ges ii ciiccavias C. Cheremeteff
PistOry Of ATC :.)....5).00a8 L. Hahn
MBLNGMAUICS. oi iscnciccccipsees E. Weiner
RIG oceanic E. Gjelsness
NS oo vsssisasairnnsens E, Landis
PAVONOIOIT «..iossssapisveisereens T. Schenk
OPN VGIOS ici aescceetiessssess sued. Wiener
Political Science .......... E. Romaine
RURsIES kc, C. MacVeagh
Sa high x. cersereestcre E. Gjelness

THOR WITH ANGELS
Cast

Comes. ii ean William Morrison
OlODCHINICN: .o.cik Helen Dobbs
INBPHING okie ae Pamela Field
QE i sisver nace Thomas Wood
CWAIONG) aaiciahda James Coote
PRE foi cccoihnitnen John Corry
Padtrivd ssi: John Kittredge
COMB naa Victor Jowers
BAUR 2..NGkikee) Phoebe Albert
MOORE G2. piicvoroud Thomas Forsythe
MEME ih icici otidecesssrecdnnal Lee Haring
Messenger. ..........0000 James Ranck

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