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VOL. XLVIII—NO. 17

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1952

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1952

PRICE 20 CENTS



Bryn Mawrites
Vie At Vassar
Sport Weekend

Badminton & Basketball
Figure Over Past
Weekend

especially contributed by
Phoebe Albert, ’54

Undaunted, the Bryn Mawr con-
tingent ignored the blizzard last
weekend to go to the Vassar Play-
day. After a last minute change
of transportation plans from a

‘bus to the train, we set out on the

8:39 Paoli Local Saturday morn-
ing. Our group of twenty-seven
strong, with fencing foils, badmin-
ton racquets, and riding breeches
very much in evidence, manipulat-
ed thd change from Penn to
Grand |Central in grand style.
Miss Yeager counted heads at
every opportune moment.

We arrived at Vassar in three

.Vassar-special taxis around two

p. m. Registration was in Ken-
yon, their magnificent and awe-
inspiring gym which contains
everything. from indoor tennis
court and gigantic swimming pool
(Miss Yeager decided it would be
nice, to bring it back in her poc-
ketbook) to bowling alleys. Con-
necticut, Mount Holyoke, Vassar,
and Bryn Mawr were represented
in all or some of the six sports—
riding, badminton, fencing, swim-
ming, basketball, and bowling.
After registration we were herd-
ed into the locker-room maze. All
changed to their respective attire
and immediately were guided to
their respective fields of combat.
Badminton: Deedy McCormick
and Janet Leeds played singles;
and Marilyn Muir and Mary Jones
played doubles. It was a clean
sweep for Bryn Mawr. Out of
nine matches, we won nine.
Swimming: Judy McCulloch,
Sarane Hickox, Terry Osma, and
Ann Lebo pulled another Bryn
Mawr topper—amassing 36 points
to Vassar’s 29 and Mount Holy-
oke’s 14,
Basketball: Bee Merrick, Paul-

ine- Smith, Sally Kennedy, Elsie

Large, Jeff Jones, Adele Fox, Bob-
bie Olson, Mimi Mackall fought
Mt. Holyoke first and beat them.
The -shooting was good. Next
game against Vassar — shooting.
was still good, but not good
enough . On Sunday morning we
again played Vassar, but with dis-

astrous results.
Bowling: Betty Barker, Candy,
Bolster, Melissa Emory and Jan

Wilmerding made up the rather
impromptu, hysterical bowling
team—a team which gallantly
plunged ahead—however, not quite
ahead of the other teams. Vassar
took this field, with Connecticut
second and Bryn Mawr third.
Fencing: Carolyn Morgan, Ali-
cia Gardner, and Joyce Greer wav-
ed the flag again, winning seven
bouts to Vassar’s five. The con-
testants judged and directed each

other.

Riding: Deirdre Hanna, Hopie
Kneeland, and Phoebe Albert
mounted the Vassar steeds. A
gymkhana had been planned, but

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Miss Ely Exclaims About Archeological
Sights and Spirited Life in Near East

by Mary Alice Drinkle, ’53

“Oh!” Miss Gertrude Ely greet-
ed. “You are from the News!
1 must give you your three dol-
lars. I have been missing my
News all year!” After being as-
sured that she was not being
hounded for a subscription, but
only for an interview, Miss Ely
enthusiastically revealed some of
her impressions of her two-month
visit to Yugosiavia, Greece, Tur-
key, Israel, and Cyprus, which she
will discuss fully Thursday night
in the Common Room.

Greece was of especial. interest,
Miss Ely declared, because of its
great archeological sights. “A
most exciting thing happened to
me there. I happened by some
workmen who were just coming
from a recently excavated tomb.
I asked them what they were do-
ing and their faces glowed. They
took me to the excavation site and
showed me all the lovely vases,
jars, toys and gold that they had
uncovered, Don’t you think that
was exciting?” Besides observ-
ing the general sights in these
countries, Miss Ely attended a po-
litical ‘conference which was be
ing held in Zagreb, Yugoslavia. It
was’ very interesting, she said,
although she thought “a_ little
war” was going to break out be-
cause of the vehement discussions.

In. Israel, Miss Ely was greatly
impressed by the industry of the
people and by the reason a univer-
sity president gave her for this
industry. He said that “they have
no siternative”, that the people
have no other place to go or to
work. Miss Ely was also amazed
at the sharp line between the
Israelites and the Arabs in all
facets of life. For example, the

Election Calendar

Thursday, March 6
Juniors: Class meeting to select
final candidates for President and
Vice-president in charge of Cur
rent Events for the Alliance.
Sophomores: Class meeting to
select final candidates for Alliance
Vice-president in charge of Cur-
rent Events, Nominating Commit-
tee meeting to chose nominees for
Secretary of the League and First
Junior Member to Self-Gov.
Monday, March 10
College election:
OF SELF-GOV.
Juniors: Class meeting to nar-
row the slate for the vice-presi-
dent of Self-Gov.
Sophomores: Class meeting to se-
lect final candidates for Secretary
of Self-Gov.
Tuesday, March 11



PRESIDENT

College election: PRESIDENT
OF ERGRAD.
Juniors: Class meeting to

choose final Chapel head candi-
dates.
Nominating Committee meeting
to determine candidates for N.S.A.
Sophomores: Class meeting to
select final Chapel head candi-
dates,
_ Nominating Committee meeting
to find candidates for N.S.A.
Wednesday, March 12
College election:
OF THE LEAGUE.
Freshmen: Meeting in Good-
hart at 1:30 p.m. to meet students
running for President of the Al-
liance and Common Treasurer. All
are invited to attend the meeting.

PRESIDENT

Israelites could look~ across the
Arab line at their university but
had no access to all the wonderful
bucks and documents there.

Concerning her talk Thursday
night, Miss Ely confided that she
was a little frightened because
“the students are all so much bet-
ter educated than I am. Don’t you
feel awfully intelligent because of
those books you read?” Maybe
so... maybe so. But there is
one student, at least, who will at
tend Miss Ely’s lecture to. gain
further acquaintance with this
gracious, active and undoubtedly
well-educated lady.

F, M. Combellack
Considers Homer

In White Lecture

Dr. Frederick M. Combellack,
Associate Pirofessor of Classical,
Languages at the University of
Oregon, will give the Horace
White Memorial Lecture. He will
speak on “Homer’s Readers and
Heroes; Learned Ignorance and II-
literate Learning” at 8:00 p. m.
on Wednesday, March 12, in Good-
hart Hall.

Dr. Combellack received his B.A.
degree at Stanford and his Ph.D.
degree at the University of Cali-
fornia. He has been a professor at
the University of Oregon since
1937.

Woodwinds Invade
Deanery March 16

The Bryn Mawr Music Club will
move into the Deanery on March
16, for a five o’clock concert by a
woodwind quintette. As a special
feature, because of the added
room in the Deanery, individual
tickets may be obtained at the
door for non-members, for one
dollar.

The members of the quintette
are Donald Peck, flute; Dominick
Fera, clarinet; Alfred Genovese,
oboe; Otto Eifert, bassoon; and
Merton Johnson, horn. They have
chosen a program that ranges
from Bach to Stravinsky.

Sonatina
Variations sur un theme corse
Tomasi
Andantino,,.
Funebre,

Theme, Pastorale,
Toccata, Religioso,
Finale allegro giocoso.

Trois pieces breve .................... Ibert
Allegro, Andante, Assez lent—
allegro.

RSS RCE A orien Ravel

II

POBUOUOIG vo..ois.ssscistichias- Stravinsky

WOGEUL DANCE oie. iecicccccsess , McKay

TOUS FIGCCS oie cisiciicss Ropartz
Lent, Vif.

WN Ss esis Mivinsssichcss Haydn

Little Shepherd
Harmonica Player





Leverett Saltonstall, United
States Senator from Massachu-
setts, was unable to speak at
the Bryn Mawr Alliance assem-
bly today because he has been
campaigning in New Hamp-
shire both Tuesday and today,
where the fight between Taft
and Eisenhower is becoming in-
tense. Senator Saltonstall might
come to Bryn Mawr in May.





Haverford Plans

Junior Prom and
Five Productions.

The weekend of March 7 prom-
ises to be an exciting one on the
campus of Haverford College. First
on the agenda is Class Night, a
traditional Haverford event in
which each class produces a show,
usually a musical comedy. This
year the theme will be boy-girl
relationships between Haverford
and Bryn Mawr. The director of
the Faculty Show is John (Roche;
Sidney -Cone is directing the Sen-
iors’ Show, J. N. Smith, the Jun-
iors, Al Stearn the Sophomores,
and George Segal, the Fresh-
man presentation. The program
will begin at 8:00 on Friday night
and will ‘be held in Roberts Hall.

On Saturday there will be a for-
mal dance in the Gym which will
last from 9:30 to 1:00. For those
who might otherwise be left with
broken hearts, corsages have defin-
itely been banned again, in the us-
ual Haverford tradition. The theme
of the dance is being kept a deep
dark secret but it has been disclos-
ed that Billy Butterfield and his
Magic Coronet will. be featured.
Besides his coronet there is a mar-
velous fifteen-piece band and two
talented singers, one of whom is
Jane Nealy, a charming young vo-
calist. During the intermission
there will be a special surprise,
the Haverford Octet. And for
those who wish to have a lasting
memory of the weekend, there wiil
be a photographer upstairs at that
time. ‘

Hooray for this weekend! The
Bryn Mawr College News wishes
Haverford College good luck and
best wishes on its Class Night.

CALENDAR
Thursday, March 6
8:30 p.m. Miss Gertrude S. Ely
will speak on “Yugoslavia, the
Balkans, and Asia Minor,” in the
Common Room under the au-
spices of the I.R.C.
Friday, March 7
4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Art discus-
sion in the Common Room.
Saturday, March 8
2:00 p.m. Tri-College Fencing
Meet in the Gym.
Sunday, March 9
7:30 p.m. Rabbi Roland Gittel-
‘sohn will give the address at the
Chapel Service.
Monday, March 10
8:00 p.m. The topic of Mr.
Isaiah Berlin’s fifth Flexner Lec-
ture will be “The Organization of
Society and the Golden Age—
St. Simon and His Disciples”. The
lecture will be given in Goodhart
Auditorium.
Wednesday, March 12 —
4:00 p.m. Chapel Committee tea
in the Common Room.
8:00 p.m. Dr. Frederick .
Combellack, Associate Professor
of Classical. Languages at the
University of Oregon, will talk
in Goodhart Auditorium on
“Homer’s Readers and Heroes;
Learned Ignorance and Illiterate
Learning.”





The NEWS takes great plea-
sure in announcing the follow-
ing additions to its staff:

Mary Jane Chubbuck, °55
Barbara Fischer, °55
Kay Sherman, °54

Ann Shocket, ’54
Caroline Warram, °55







Berlin Traces
A Philosophic
Study of Past

Herder, Hegel Marked
Human Values
In History

What influence did the philoso-
phers Herder and Hegel have on
our present-day concept of his-
tory? How did our. methods of
studying history evolve from a
strictly scientific analysis of
events? These were the questions
that Isaiah Berlin sought to ans-
wer in the fourth Flexner Lecture
presented Monday evening at 8:00
in Goodhart Auditorium.

(Mr. Berlin began his lecture, en-
titled “Individua) Freedom and the
March of History” with a prezis c.
some remarks made in 1837 by the
German poet Heine, warning the
French against the coming danger
when the German lion, rearmed,
would destroy western civilization
in a conflagration against which
the French Revolution would seem
iike “a peaceful idyll”. From his
own study of history Heine under-
stood the warlike (German spirit.

It was the Italian philosopher
Vigo, an obscure Neapolitan law-
yer, who first distinguished be-
tween the study of the natural
and the humanistic sciences. His
idea was that too much import-
ance was paid to the scientific and
analytic method of studying his-
tory. Vigo thought, according to
Mr. Berlin, “that this was saying
rather less than one knew”. The
scientific method was quite ade-
quate for external knowledge
which demanded only description
and classification, but history
should be a study of why human
beings did things and this: internal
knowledge demands that the stu-
dent have insight into human
ideais and feelings. Thus a study
of history should convey an atti-
tude of life.

The ‘Encyclopedists could not ex-
plain the differences among peo-
ples because they ignored the in-
ner experience of the spirit. Tak-
ing the human spirit as a total of
everything we do, Herder said that
there was a spirit among the peo-
ple binding every nation by an im-
ponderable complicated network
of similarities. He believed’ each
culture had a unity which express-
ed itself in different ways from mu-
sic to politics to shoemaking, Then
when these unities, these group-
souls, train themselves to look
kindly on other group-souls or
ways of life, we should have a
happy humanity.

Human values are indeed ‘con-
nected, said Mr. Berlin, but Her-
der’s idea of a group-soul definite-
ly contained within the limits of
every group has been a “tremen-
dous source of human obscurity”.
When this analogy between the
human and group-soul is carried
further, we come to the fallacious
conclusion that every group and
nation likewise has its mission to
fulfil. Though these ideas of a
group-soul have something plaus-
ible in them, there is a basic fal-
lacy in Herder’s reasoning, since
there is no great underlying pat-



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