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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, February 18, 1953





THE COLLEGE NEWS

FOUNDED IN 1914



Published weekly during the College Year (except during Thanksgiving,
Christmas and Easter holidays, and during examination weeks) in the interest
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EDITORIAL BOARD

Claire Robinson, ‘54, Editor-in-Chief
Barbara Drysdale, ‘55, Copy Marcia Joseph, ‘55, Makeup
Janet Warren, ‘55, Managing Editor
Eleanor Fry, ‘54 Suzan Habashy, ‘54

EDITORIAL STAFF

Jackie Braun, ‘54 Kay Sherman, ‘54
Science Reporter Barbara Fischer, ‘55
Lynn Badler, ‘56 Anne Mazick, ‘55
A.A. reporter Caroline Warram, ‘55
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. Marjorie Richardson, ‘55, Associate Business Manager

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The College News

At the top of this page you will find the words “Publish-
ed... in the interest of Bryn Mawr College.” “Interest” is
a word that must be taken literally. It is because of this ‘in-
terest that the News exists.

The College News reaches many people—faculty, alum-
nae, parents, sub-freshmen, students. But no one is more
interested in the News than its own Board and Staff. We are
concerned with your point of view, your activities, and above
all your needs. It is because of these needs that the News
is important—so important that it becomes a need in itself.

It is difficult to meet demands. There are many things
that must be printed and many more that cannot. Our job
is fo report objectively, to criticize constructively, and to
meet questions with explanations. “Why doesn’t the News
print more jokes?” We are a newspaper, not a humor mag-
azine. “Why isn’t there more creative writing in the News?”
This is the function of a literary magazine.

We try to balance the interests of all our readers—alum-
nae want to know about changes, faculty want to know about
students, and students want to know about events, past and
future. We write about speeches you have missed, shows
you want to see, people you want to meet, and things you
want todo. We write about what is happening to the college
and therefore what is happening to you. We publish hoping,
but unfortunately not sure, that you will read.

And yet, The College News is “Published in the interest
of Bryn Mawr College.”

Exchange

An increasing interest can be detected in Middle East af-
fairs and their consequent influence upon the World in Peace
or in War. Bryn Mawr College and the American University
in Cairo have just lately embarked on an exchange arrange-
ment of college newspapers. From the Campus Caravan, the
Cairo weekly publication, we hope to reprint articles of in-
terest to Bryn Mawr College News readers, while in Cairo,

some of the goings on at Bryn Mawr will be made known.

Current Events

Two Conflicting Ideals
Face America
Currently

“The field of morality is a re-
flection always of a climate of
opinion,” stated Mr. Milton C,
Nahm at Current Events on Mon-
day, February 16, in the Common
Room,

He asserted that the field of mo-
rality, by means of which abstract
ethical principles are made applic-
able to the concrete situations in
which men live and act, has been
obscured in the claims of two riv-
al aspects of American life. These
two aspects are “a belief and ded-
ication to the most abstract and
other worldly principles of ethical
idealism ever forced to run in har-
ness with the most extraordinary
pragmatic scientific know-how in
the history of the world.”

Two Absolutes

Thus, we are at the mercy of
two absolutes; we are appealed to
in terms of basic and abstract
principles on the one hand, and on
the other, we can make things with
a perfection of technique and on a
scale which makes the senses reel.
We have forgotten that we must
allow for the possibility of error cr
misjudgment of general moral
principles in their application to
reality, and too often we become
disillusioned and scrap principle
for practice without principle.
Thus, “we need to temper our fine
sense of technical principles to the
field of morality.”

But, because the moral situation
is more complex and difficult than
is nature, to which we apply our
sciences, we tend either to take
the direct method of application of
principles or to scrap principle and
be ruled by expedience. Mr. Nahm
illustrated this fact with President
Eisenhower’s statement that he
would not tolerate any deviation
from an uncompromising code of
ethics and honesty in government
service. Yet, said Mr. Nahm, his
cabinet is made up of men selected
for their experience in efficiency

“within the scope of the moral
principle.”

McCarthyism

We must guard against making
an absolute of expediency, for this
is our real danger. The issue of
McCarthyism, for example, is a
question of real and present dan-
ger, for if Communism is our main
problem, we must root it out,
whatever the dangers to principles
and ethics. But it is well to re-
member that the judge should be,
according to Aristotle, “a sort of
animate justice.”

Integrity

The United States, said Mr.
Nahm, has in the past “produced
men whose integrity is beyond
question and whose administrative
skills have grown as they met in-
creased responsibilities.” We need
such men now, who, like Washing-
ton, are just because justice is
right and because lack of it would
cost them some of their self-re-
spect.

We need today to see ourselves
and the patterns of morality clear-
ly; we suffer from inflexibility of
ethical principle, for we tend to
discard principle when in its er-
roneous application to experience
it is trained by expediency. We
identify a principle with a man,
and scrap the principle with the
man, forgetting the climate of



opinion.

Professors Receive
Noteworthy Honor

Evidence of the scholarship and
academic distinction of the mem-
bers of the Bryn Mawr | Faculty
may be seen in terms of their pub-
lications, the fellowships awarded
to them, and the grants made by
Government, industry, and foun-
dations for their individual re-
search.

The Report of the President for
the year 1951-52 includes an im-
pressive list of publications, some
of which students may have. seen
and many of which have been pub-
lished in the learned journals.

Ten members of the Faculty are
holding fellowships or special ap-
pointments this year. Mr. Sloane
has a Fulbright Fellowship and
Mr. Michels a fellowship from the
Fund for the Advancement of Ed-
ucation (the Ford Foundation).
Four Guggenheim Fellowships
were awarded last spring to mem-
bers of the Bryn Mawr Faculty—
Miss Taylor, Miss Oppenheimer,
Mr. Gilbert, and Mr. Cuttino. It is
interesting to note that 1 per cent
of the total number of Guggen-
heim Fellowships awarded for this
year was made to members of the
Faculty of this one College. Mr.
Dryden and Mr. Wells are both
holding Government appointments;
and in the second semester, Mr.
Alcala is the director of the Mid-
dlebury School of Spanish in Spain,
and the Berliners are doing special
research at the University of Lon-
don.
Members of the Faculty have re-
ceived such appointments as the

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Sports

by Lynn Badler, °56

Two very exciting basketball
games were played last Thursday
when Bryn Mawr met Drexel at
Drexel. In the first varsity game,
Bryn Mawr won 27-25, although

the team was behind at the end of
the first half 19-8. Adele Fox
made four consecutive foul shots
in the last three minutes of play.
In the second varsity game Drexel
was victorious 20-19. In this game
Bryn Mawr’s forwards were not
quite as excellent as in the first
game. The guards were more than
adequate in both.

The lineups were:

First Team Forwards:

Louise Bruer
Adele Fox
Helen Ramsdell
Ann Fosnocht

Guards:
Anne Gurewich
Mimi Mackall
Anne Eristoff
Betty Ann Cerruti

Second Team: Forwards:

Pauline Smith
Gail Gilbert
Maddie DeRopp
Sally Kennedy

Guards: i

Roberta Olsen
Virginia Dulany
Elizabeth Hall
M. G. Warren

Last Wednesday Bryn Mawr
ably defeated Rosemont at Rose-
mont, 10-0, in badminton. The first
varsity won in both singles and
doubles. In the second varsity
games the scores were a little
closer, but Bryn Mawr took all the
matches in this department, too,
although some of the girls were
playing for the first time with the
team or with their partners.

The lineups were as follow:

First Varsity: Singles
Deedy McCormick
Janet Leeds



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Letters from
Abroad

This is meant more as a P. S.
than a criticism of Anne Phipps’
article in the January 14 News on
the French people’s idea of Amer-
ica. Anne wrote the article just
after our stay in the provincial
town of Tours and I would like to
add some impressions on the same
subject -after three months in
Paris, the center of France.

It is very true that the French
acquire many of their ideas
through our films and soldiers, but
the overall. impression they have
of our country is hard to deter-
mine, For us over here, the ‘be-
haviour of the Army is particular-
ly embarrassing when they shout
around the streets and take over
a bistro, but when a country is in
a delicate position as is the U. S.
towards France, one is always con-
scious of the action of any fellow

countrymen that will cause the
slightest ill feeling. I don’t mean
to sanction all the behavior of our
troops and certainly the French
don’t always appreciate them, but
one must remember that the
French have seen armies of many
countries, both enemy and ally, and
knowing their own army, too, have
a ‘slight understanding and fore-
knowledge of what they all do in
foreign countries.

G-Men and Convertibles

They may see movies of G-Men
and convertibles and envy such a
life, which they realize has a high-
er standing than theirs—but, even
here, the word “Hollywood” has a
faint tinge of unreality. And even
a Frenchman gets a kick out of
a wold western or a Walt Disney
—they realize that there is more
than the mink-and-revolver set on
the other side of the Atlantic.

America, from what I have gath-
ered from people and newspapers,
is considered young in every sense.
Its youthful force in industrial af-
fairs is highly appreciated by the
French, who seek every opportun-
ity to learn new methods and ex-
periments current at home. Its
naivete is perhaps the most pre-
carious point in the French mind.
They realize they must be patient
with a nation unfamiliar with the
complex problems of Europe but
trying to help them, and to learn.
It is terribly important for Amer-
icans not to push their patience to
the snapping point by being the
aggressive upper-hand in matters
delicate to the European or by try-
ing to do things “the American
way” with a people used to slower
methods.

Billions of Dollars

As for the billions of dollars, I
would say that only by a small mi-
nority group of extreme left-wing-
ers and Communists were they
considered as a means for making
France another battlefield. About
two years ago there was some
anxiety in the minds of some
French about the re-armament
plans. They felt then that the
U. S. didn’t realize that a build-up.
of arms on both sides of a fron-
tier meant an eventual explosion,
but now with a profounder under-

standing of our purposes—and of /—

Russia’s—they have thrown them-
selves into first place in the idea
of unity and strength. Even the
Neutralists are all for America
building up a strength France at
this moment is.incapable of: The
U. S. may spend dollars on conver-
tibles but even the farmers realize
they spend them on tractors for
European fields as well.
Nevertheless, there is the minor-
ity party, but a Frenchman will
tell you that there are four Com-
munists for every thirty other
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