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VOL. XLVIII—NO. 19

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1952

Copyright, Trustees o
Bryn Mawr College, 195

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Berlin Reviews
Maistre Ending
Flexner Series

Ignorant Generalities
Falsely Leveled
By Accusers

Mr. Isaiah Berlin delivered thé
last of his lectures on the political
ideas of the(‘Romantic Age iw
Goodhart, Monday evening, March:
17. In this clgse to the Flexner
series, he discussed Maistre, a
philosopher of the late eighteenth
early nineteenth centuries. Mais
tre, because of his opposition to
the theories behind the French
Revolution, is often brushed aside
with harsh epithets: a supporter
of the “unholy trinity of dictator,
pope, and executioner”, a fanatic
Catholic, a demented, eloquent re-
acitonary. Mr. Berlin pointed out
Maistre’s beliefs, in an attempt to
dispel ignorant name-calling and
to show his influence on the
nineteenth and
twentieth centuries, particularly
on what Mr. Berlin called the “Ro-
mantic Fascism” of our time.

Maistre, writing after the
bloody, tragic days of the French
(Revolution, felt that the revolu-
tion had failed because its sup-
porters labored under “a grave il-
lusion about-human nature in gen-
They based their struggle
on a belief in the intrinsic good-
‘ness of man, a trust in reason as
a guide to wise political adminis-
tration, and an assurance that
men could best profit under a
clearly-defined, free, progressive
government.

Maistre, on the other hand,
claimed that men were intrinsical-
ly “vicious, weak, and undefend-
ed”, that reason was useless in

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Gottlieb Executes

“Political Affairs”

March 17th. Special to the Bryn
Mawr College News — Ronnie
Gottlieb is wearing the pink cor-
sage of the Alliance presidency.
This is the first press release since
the election returns came in, and
here are some vital statistics on
the new president:

Name: Ronnie Gottlieb, ’53

Hall: Pem West.

Activities: Many.

Her story of how she heard the
glad tidings: “Chickie called me
into her room with a kind of
glum voice, and said she wanted
to see me. Then she handed me
the corsage box and said, “Well,
here it is.”

First remark: “Chickie, what hap-
“pened?!”

How she feels about it now that
she has had time to think: “All
an Alliance president could ask
is to have the campus really in-
terested in politics. I feel that

I have been blessed with a tre-
mendous opportunity in being
able to work with the Alliance
during the year of a presidential
election. And by gum, if I don’t
capitalize on it...”
Good luck.

You will, Ronnie.



Mock Convention
Backs Stevenson

In Late Balloting

Governor Adlai E. Stevenson,
Illinois Democrat, would ibe the
next president of the United States
if the majority of the delegates to
the Southeastern Regional Inter-
collegiate Conference on Govern-
ment had their way. That was the
verdict of the balloting at the mod-
el political nominating convention
held in Goodhart on Saturday,
March 15. Voting on the first bal-
lot showed Eisenhower in the lead,
with 61 out of a total of 128 votes.
Stassen was running second, with
29 votes, followed by Stevenson
with 20. (William O. Douglas poll-
ed 10 votes, Duff, 10, Taft, 2, and
Truman, 1. Governor Warren of
California was nominated, but fail-
ed to receive any votes. The sec-
ond ballot showed Eisenhower los-
ing strength, with Stassen and Ste-
venson tying for second place. On
the third ballot, Stevenson clearly
took the lead, with 63 to Hisen-
hower’s 43 votes, Stassen trailing
with 25. Finally Stevenson re-
ceived a clear majority of 72 votes
to 51 for Eisenhower, Stassen poll-
ing no votes on the fourth ballot.

The election of Stevenson was
heralded as a surprise, since sev-
eral of the delegations, including
the Bryn Mawr contingent, were
pledged to Eisenhower. On the
second ballot, however, the Gener-
al began to lose «strength, since
many of the delegations were
bound to vote according to the re-

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‘Andromaque’ Sets
Modern Movement

A surrealistic set, similar to that
of the tradition of the Chinese
theatre, will be used in the French
Club play, Jean Racine’s “Andro-

*| maque,” to be presented on Tues-

day, March 25 at 8:30 in Skinner
Workshop. The tragedy’ in five
acts, under the direction of Mr.
Edward Morris, will include a vo-
cabulary of movement contrary to
the official form of the Comedie
Francaise, which stresses the
meter of the verse without very
much movement. Mr. Morris and
his cast are trying to use a more
modern style and staging to there-
by overcome the problem of an
American theatre audience.

The story, taking place after
the Trojan War, centers around
Andromaque, the widow of Hector,
played by Paula Donnelly, who
with her son is being held eaptive

Continued on Page 5, Col. 1

Election Calendar

Thursday, March 20

College elections: Undergrad

Vice-President, Self-Gov Secre-
tary.

Monday, March 24

College elections: Undergrad
Secretary, Alliance Vice-Presi-
dent.

Sophomores: class meeting to
narrow the slate for Alliance sec-
retary.

Freshmen: Meeting in Good-
hart to meet the candidates for
League secretary, Alliance secre-

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CombinedChoruses
Complete Weekend
Of Music, Gaieties

by Muggy McCabe, ’54

The Bryn Mawr and Princeton
combined choruses were the out-
standing portion of the concert
given Saturday night in Goodhart
and Sunday in McCarter Theatre
in Princeton. Balance and pre-

“| cision enhanced their presentation

of Vaughn Williams’ Mass in G
Minor and Jacob Handl’s O Ad-
mirable Commercium. Both Mr
Goodale and Mr. Forbes had .ex-
cellent dynamic control consider-
ing that the chorus was composed
of nearly one hundred and fifty
voices. The difficult quartet that
lay within the Mass in G Minor
was admirably handled by Ronnie
Gottlieb, soprano; Mary Lee Cul-
ver, contralto; Harry Powers, ten-
or; and George Newlin, bass; they
affected the necessary unity of
such a closely integrated quartet
and chorus.

Parallel to the effectiveness of
the Mass in G Minor was Bryn
Mawr’s presentation of Holst’s
Hecuba’s Lament with Mary Lee
Culver singing the part of Hecu-
ba. Mary Lee evidenced an under-
standing of the emotion demanded
by the work and displayed a full
and controlled voice range in the
rendering of that emotion. She
was backed forcefully by: Ronnie
Gottlieb, soprano soloist, Ellen
Powell whose accompanying was
recital material in itself, and a
powerful dramatic chorus. Mr.
Goodale joined these elements into
a presentation of a work in which
every possibility had been well
exploited.

Bryn Mawr opened the garlier
portion of the program with Bux-
tehude’s very dynamic Zion hort
die Wachter Singen which arrest-
ed the attention of the audience,
attention which was held through-
out the program. Tcherepnin’s
Praise ye the name of the Lord
followed lending a contrast in
mood and content. Lastly, above
the lilting choral background of
Mozart’s Laudate Dominum, Ron-
nie Gottlieb carried the beautiful
soprano solo clearly and effec-
tively.

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Cadwalader Wants

More Participation

Emmy Cadwalader’s reply to the
question of what she said when
she first was told that she had
been elected president of the Ath-
letic Association was, “Gee I don’t
remember exactly what I said;
about all I remember is Laurie
Perkins standing outside the Art
‘Library door, with a box of flow-
ers saying, ‘If someone doesn’t
take these, I’m going to sell them!’
I guess I just said, ‘Oh, golly gee,
I’m elected!’ ”

Emmy also added that she hoped
to see the sports life of the cam-
pus pick up. “Not just shouting,
but participation too!” Her en-
ergy and enthusiasm as she head-
ed for the Soda Fountain were in-
feétious and her generally inter-
ested attitude marked her as a
well-chosen person for the office.
Her parting remark was, “Well,
now T’ve got to go and write up
this week’s sports for the News.”

Cassidy Reviews
The Middle East
Ideological Strife

“We cannot solve the problem of
the Middle East by a blanket pol-
icy; there are deep complications,
and we must recognize the situa-
tion”, declared Morley Cassidy,
feature editor of the Philadelphia
Bulletin, at the third Alliance As-
sembly, Thursday, March 13, at
12:30 p. m. in Goodhart auditor-
ium.

Mr. Cassidy, who has just re-
turned from a visit to the Middle
East, discussed the conflicting
ideologies of the area. There is
an unusual compound of national-
ism, religious fervor, and new po-
litical and social concepts. He in-
dicated that whereas the Western
influences have generally been
good, we have not learned easily
about Eastern culture, and have
made the mistake of leading East-
ern peoples into democracy with-
out the tools to implement it. In
other terms, “we have oversold
the word, but not the explana-
tion.”

The problem faced is two-fold:
the immediate situation is to re-
main friendly with the East for
military defense and protection.
This is essential for our own se-
curity. The second, and perhaps
more important, is to create a base
for democracy of a real nature,
and thus have a stronghold in the
East for support—of the world’s
democratic nations.

Mr. Cassidy explained the great

Continued on Page 8, Col. 1



P. Hofer Explains
Goya Graphic Art

On Monday, March 24, Bryn
Mawr will have Mr. Philip Hofer,
of Harvard University, as the
speaker for the first “Class of
1901 Art Lecture” series. Mr.
Hofer’s subject, one that will in-
terest all lovers of art, whether

they have ever studied art or art
history or not, is to be the “Gra-
phic Arts Of Francesca Goya”,
and it will be illustrated by slides.
The lecture will be held in Good-
hart Auditorium at 8:00 sharp.

Mr. Hofer was the Assistant-
director of the Morgan Library in
New York and at the present
time is head of the Department of
Printing and Graphic Arts, of
which he was also the originator,
at Harvard University. Recently
Mr. Hofer published a work titled
Book Illustration of the Baroque
Period.

Calendar

radiated

Dr. Combellack

Contrasts Two
Epic |Audiences

Listeners’ Intelligence
Opposes Readers’
Ignorance

Elizabeth White, when she en-
dowed the Horace White Memorial
Lectureships in memory of her
father, stipulated that they be in
the classics and be given by a
scholar of Greek. The conditions
were fulfilled on Wednesday, when
Frederick M. Combellack, Associ-
ate Professor of Classical Lan-
guages at the University of Ore-
gon, spoke on “Homer’s Readers
and Hearers; Learned Ignorance
and Illiterate Learning”.

The lecture was divided ifito twc
parts, each showing an audience
that had fallen under the spell of
Homer’s poetry, the first part
marking the deficiencies of the
present audience, the ignorant
readers; the second speculating on
the qualities of the original audi-
ence, the learned listeners.

The modern critic feels secure
in his knowledge of the ancient
world, rediscovered by Schliemann
and others, but he is also aware of
the lack of knowledge about
Homer himself, his contempo-
raries, and the cultural milieu
surrounding his work. As in the
case of many ancient writers, this
lack has been minimized, but none-
theless hampers scholarly work.

Was Homer referring to an
eleventh century, B.C., culture, or
did he, in 700 B.C., describe a
northern civilization? No one is
certain, and the scholar is harried
by a feeling that his understand-
ing of the poems may not be of
the fullest.

Another problem was _intro-
duced in 1795, when Friedrich
Wolf began the trend toward an-
alytical criticism that admitted no

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League President
Expresses Delight

“Yes, I was in (Genetics Lab
when Julie found me, but I wasn’t
getting much done”, Ruth admit-
ted happily, when cornered by the

News.

Curled up on the couch in Pem
West’s smoker, Ruth Bronsweig,
the new president of the League,
friendliness and quiet
charm “Julie came in looking sort
of glum,—and then I saw the cor-

sage box.”

“I guess I just live in the right



Thursday, March 20

4:30 p. m. Faculty tea in Rock

Showcase.
Friday, March 21

4:30 p. m. DaDaDramatic Sym-
posium on Jean Racine in Wynd-
ham. Faculty and students wei-

come.

8:45 p. m. The Bryn Mawr Col-
lege Theatre presents “The Shoe-
maker’s Prodigious Wife’ by
Federico Garcia Lorca. The play
will be directed by Warner Ber-
thoff. General admission $1.00;

Continued on Page 8, Col. 2

room ...a few years ago the girl
who lived there was president of
the League!” Ruth commented
laughingly. She added more seri-
ously that she was eager to begin
her work for the League. “It cov-
ers so many activities, not only
on, but also off campus.”

Several times while we were
chatting, several girls rushed up
to congratulate her. “With you
and Louise, Pem West is doing

of you!” The News seconds that
motion vigorously. Congratula-
tions, Ruth!.



pretty well. We’re really proud”










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THE

COLLEGE NEWS



Wednesday, March 19, 1952



Princeton Theatre Gaily Rejuvenates
Helen’s Trojan War With Excellence

by Ellen Bell, 53

“The Trojan War Will Not Take
' Place”, produced by the Princeton
Theatre Intime, and performed
from March 4 to March 15, is a
difficult play. Though it is well
known in Europe, this is the first
time it has been produced on the
Eastern seaboard, and it is its
second performance in the United
States. The play is a difficult one
because its tenor ranges from the
long soliloquys of Hector on the
evils of war to the equally long
speeches of the nearsenile ad-
mirers of Helen of Troy. Girau-
doux, the author, emphasizes
words rather than action since he
was a novelist before he was a
playwright, and this stress could
have made the play extremely
slow going. But John Capsis, the
director, was able to transform
words into a lively production,
capitalizing on the vitality of the
script, so that the crowded, inac-
tive stage became a backdrop for
these words, and did not stifle
them.

The success of the staging was
its simplicity. In the first act,
the severe abstract marble forms,
gave the impression of strength
but did not crowd or overweigh
the stage. The rose and beige
tones in the slabs were cut against
a wet blue patch of sky, and the
costumes, too, radiated — this
warmth in bright white, earthy
browns and reds, and by an occa-
sional electric violet or yellow.
By planning the settings‘in this
way, Hugh Hardy was able to
make them a strong and lively
complement to the script.

The plot is a simple one, involv-
ing the conflict of warriors, espe-
cially Hector, who are tired of
battle and see its meaninglessness,
with the older generation, who,
through boredom, desire a war
based on the kidnapping of the
glamorous Helen. Giraudoux em-
phasizes the two factions and easi-
ly shows his own opinions on war
by making the warriors noble and
serious and the elders comic, to
the extent of clownishness. These
older people, however, make the
production enjoyable in a way that
Hector or Andromache, with their’
heavy
could never achieve,

contemporary meaning, and Girau-
doux, “went back to the ancients,
only,” he said, “because his own
fellow-citizens would not sit still
long enough to be photographed.”

The actors themselves were ap-

propriately chosen for their parts

and portrayed the characters with

originality and understanding. The

leads were much more successful
than some of the minor characters,

burdens of axe-grinding,
The theme.
of peace versus war obviously has.



or rather the masses, who some-
umes shouted meaningless com-
ments into an _ embarrassing
silence, which although in itself
is a relatively small tault, shows
chat their own feeling was not one
of being part of the drama they
played in.

Hector, played by Dan. Seltzer,
though frail in physical appear-
ance, excellently portrayed the
imposing figure of a brave and
skilled warrior, tempered with the
gentle characteristics also present
in his wife Andromache. These
two realized the. smallness of
wars, the smallness of the causes
on which they‘are based, and the
tremendous suffering which re-
sults from them: “Nations, like
men, die for almost imperceptible
indiscretions.” But Hector is still
a warrior in temperament and his
thoughts conflict with it, “The
more I hate war the more I desire
to kill.” In a later scene when he
allows Ajax to slap his cheek and
Ajax says, “Man, where are your
military reflexes?”, we see that
Hector has matured, even in the
course of the play. His maturity,
however, is unable to counteract
the war-mongers, for in the end
they do go to war shouting, “With
the panther in the bushes, Hector
hunts the rabbit.”

‘The two causes of dissention,
the blase, handsome, immature
Paris and his willing captive
Helen are glossy in their good
looks and selfish behavior. Mau-
rine Matthews interprets her char-
acter as the dumb blonde type
who stands in glaring contrast to
the other females, Her character
is also a satire on British Empiri-
cism, for “In the future I see col-
ored scenes and gray ones, and it
is only the colored ones that take
place.” Hector, in an exasperat-
ing attempt to get her to return
to Greece, comments, “With your
colored picture book you thumb
your nose at the world.” John de
Britto as Paris, does an excellent
job producing a male counterpart
of Helen, whom he admires be-
cause she is more remote than
other women who “make up them-
selves as if they wanted to print
themselves on you and that’s what
usually happens.” Goading these
two on, creating friction, and
counteracting Hector are the num-
erous old men. Their clown-like
characters gave the actors a
chance to perform with original-
ity, which most of them did. Most
outstanding was the geometrician,
played by Robert Goldman, who
comments that, “A fat thigh can
make us suffer, really suffer,” who
claims that “Helen has given the
landscape reason and _ strength”

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“Wonder Boy” Displays Swift Action,
Mature Prodigy, And Excellent Music

by Nancy Fuhrer, ’55

From start to finish, “Wonder
Boy” is a wonderful picture. The
plot is fairly common, but not
trite. It concerns a little boy with
an unsympathetic guardian who is
kidnapped by understanding gang-
sters. The novelty of this story
is that the wonder boy, Sebastian
Giro, played by Bobby Henery, is a
child prodigy. Fantastic action is

built upon this basic structure of}

the boy who would like to be less
of a wonder.

The movie commences with the
finale of a typical Giro concert.
Sebastian masterfully plays the
last few bars and the audience
rises in near-hysterical ululations.
In the scenes which follow, one
gets a picture of Sebastian’s feel-
ing toward his life and his guard-
ian, Mr. Gorrick. While Mr. Gor-

rick (also Sebastian’s



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the boy resembles Paderewski,
Sebastian is yawning and asking
to go to bed. On the train trav-
eling to the next concert hall, Se-
bastian tries to entertain his Eng-
lish governess, Miss Frisbie, with
avery mangled rendition of a
Dick Tracy comic. Mr. Gorrick
overhears and puts a stop to it.
Not long after, when Miss Fris-
bie finds out that Mr. Gorrick is
going to legally adopt Sebastian,
she decides to do something about
it. She arranges for a taxi driver
and his “associates” to take care
of him a little while in a chateau
in the Tyrol. Sebastian is spirited
away during an intermission into
the company of some small-time
international renegades. One of
these is Rocks, a William Holden-
ish American who teaches Sebas-
tian how to play baseball and
drive a car. For once in his life,
the boy is completely happy. He
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SPORTS

by Emmy Cadwalader, 53

Last week was a very busy, and
also successful one for the. fenc-
ing varsity. On Thursday, the top
four varsity fencers, Caroline Mor-
gan, Joyce Greer, Lillian Smith,
and Alicia Gardner, easily won
their meet with the University of
Pennsylvania.

(Morgan and Greer each won
three bouts, and Smith and Gard-
ner each two, thus making Bryn
Mawr the victor by a score of 10-
6. On Saturday, Morgan; Greer,
and Gardner represented Bryn
Mawr in a varsity meet with New
Jersey State Teachers College.
After traveling all the way te
Jersey City for the meet, the Bryn
Mawr fencers were rewarded with
a 6-3 victory, and returned home
tired, but happy, having exhibited
excellent skill and technique in
the sport. _

The varsity badminton continued
their undefeated season last Tues-
day, when they severely trounced
Swarthmore by winning five out
of five matches. All the players
showed good “court sense” and
strokes. Unfortunately the J. V.
did not have as easy a time of it,
and in the end were defeated by
the Swarthmore J. V. 3-2, though
the matches were all extremely
close.

The varsity basketball team also
played Swarthmore last Wednes-
day on their court. Though Bryn
Mawr put up a strong fight, the
final score was against them 39-27,
Bryn Mawr’s great weakness was
in shooting as seems to always be
the case.
lent, but the forwards lacked
something and were not able to

Contnued on Page 6, Col. 1

Woodwind Quintet

Plays In Deanery

by Frances A. Shirley, ’53

PROGRAM

BOMSUNER 6 Bach

Variations sur un theme corse, Tomasi
Ibert

Trois pieces Breve
Habanera
Fastorale ...:....:..:;
Joyful Dance

Duex Pieces
Presto
Little Shepherd
Harmonica Player

The Curtis Institute Woodwind
Quintet presented the fourth of
this year’s Bryn Mawr Music Club
concerts in the Deanery on March
16. Dominick Fera, clarinet, Al-
fred ‘Genovese, oboe, Otto Eifert,
bassoon, and Merton Johnson, horn,
were regular members of the
group. The flutist and, one would
presume, regular leader, however,
had been called to Seattle to the
orchestra there, and Harriet Ed-
wards had taken over, almost at
the last minute. Miss Edwards
had had a week to work on the
program, but this was the first
time that the five had played to-
gether.

The lack of a previous rehearsal
would help to explain the unin-
spired playing of the Bach, which
was done well but not brilliantly.
The “Variations” showed more se-
cure feeling. The slower move-
ments were good, and at times the
tone of the instruments was blend-
ed beautifully, though here, as in
the other works, one was aware
of poor, breathy tone in the flute.
The notes were usually clear, the
rhythms were firm, whether slow
or spritely, as in the last varia-
tion. There was a feeling of fun
in the first of the Ibert pieces, and
the others were adequately played.
The quintet mastered the difficult
rhythms of the Ravel, and played
well, while the oboe passages
stood out particularly for tone and
clarity.

The second part of the program
was as varied as the first, and
again the timing was noteworthy,
The instruments gave each other
excellent support in the Stravin-
sky, where each player was at
some time in the fore. There was

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“Father Unknown”

Increases Goodwill;

Play Enjoyed by Actors and Audiences

by Barbara Drysdale, ’55

What may be the highest aim of
any theatre presentation, if not
the furtherance of understanding
and good-will on the international
level? The Little Theatre Club
of Swarthmore College has at-
tempted what may be termed an
overwhelming undertaking in its
production of “Father Unknown”
by Vassily Shvarkin as a contrbu-
tion to our understanding of the
Russian people during Interna-
tional Theatre Month. The man-
ner of presentation and the char-
acterization, however, not only
gave the audience a delightful
evening’s entertainment and a new
appreciation of the latent possi-
bilities in farce, but also granted
both spectators and participants
an insight into the humor of the
Russian people.

The theme is the struggle be-
tween the old “bourgeois” way of
life and morals and the new or-
der. According to the program
notes, the farce was presented at
a time when “the new-won free:
dom was honored more in word
than in deed” and family relations
were discussed as freely then as
they are today, and thus some of

NOTICE

Bryn Mawr students have a
chance to win free smokes for the
next four weeks from CHESTER-
FIELD campus __ representative,
Gwen Davis. :

“It’s a CHESTER-FACT” is the
name of the contest which pro-
vides a free pack of CHESTER-



{FIELDS if you know the answer

and you are carrying a pack of
CHESTERFIELDS when Miss
ABC asks you, “Do you know the
CHESTER-FACT?” You can win
two free packs if you can state
the CHESTER-FACT verbatim
and happen to be smoking a
CHESTERFIELD from your own
pack.

The contest opens Thursday.
March 20, when Miss ABC will be-
gin making calls on campus. She
will approach students at random
to ask, “Do you know the CHES-
TER-FACT?” The answers (a
fact-a-week) will appear at the
bottom of the CHESTERFIELD
ad in the College News and will
be announced elsewhere on cam-
pus by posters and other media.

All you have to do to win is to
correctly state the CHESTER-
FACT when you are approached
by Miss ABC. If you are carry-
ing CHESTERFIELDS at the
time, you win one free pack—two
free packs if you are actually
smoking a CHESTERFIELD from
your own pack.

the situations and characters ap-
pear quite modern.

In brief, the story is that of an,
aspiring young actress, Manya,
who is overheard practicing her
lines for the part of an unwed
mother. This leads to great com-
plications in which Manya’s three
lovers, after ardently seeking her
hand, abandon their suits and then
decide to take them up again after
all. In the end, Manya is united
by some clever plotting and con-
trivance with her own true love
Kostya, and all difficulties are
cleared up. At the same time a
young technician, Raya, who has
been befriended by Manya, meets
Yakov and together they run off to
the Caucasus.

Susan Weil, as Manya, was an
excellent temperamental young
thing who could believably make
fun of all unfortunate circum-
stances occurring in her attempt
to make modern people out of the
surrounding bourgeois. Paul Noyes,
as Manya’s father, was not only
a convincing supporter of the old
school of moral conduct, but also
the kind of father you can always
depend on for a laugh in any em-
ergency. The audience was aware
that Sergey himself appreciated
the farce of which he was an in-
tegral part.

The outstanding comedian was
Charles Cooper as Yakov, a Mo-
hammedan student from the Cau-
casus. His large frame and frank
face contributed much to Mr. Coo-
per’s characterization of a great
and gentle-hearted man who aptly
described himself as “a bank where
all may deposit their troubles.”

The part of an ill-adjusted den-
tal technician, in love with Man-
ya, was imaginatively and sensi-
tively portrayed by Marc Merson,
whose talents extended even so far
as presenting probably the most
ineffectual serenade ever sung.

The remaining characters were
admirably well cast for their parts
as members of a Russian farce, es-
pecially Sheila Mills (Raya), Sally
Andrews_(the— midwife), _Geonge
Papanek (Manya’s lover), Jack
Hughlett (her own true love), and
Judy (Wubnig (Manya’s mother).

The most enjoyable feature of
this farce was the author’s tech-
nique of. using the unusual and ex-
tremely clever phrase or play on
words in the most unexpected
place.

Barbara Pearson Lange, the di-
rector, achieved from her script,
actors, setting, and most unusuai
blocking this most enjoyable ef-
fect: a common bond was created
between audience and actors...
they all were laughing at the
farce together.





Fascinating Science
Formaldehyde and

by Kay Sherman, °54

Science at Bryn Mawr, the new
pamphlet which was released re-
cently by the Office of Public Re-
lations, would appear at first
glance to ibe the annual report pub-
lished by a large corporation. The
gleaming silver cover, with its
modernistic impression of the sci-
ences, is reminiscent of the beau-
tifully done covers of a report to
the stockholders. The cover draw-
ing is well done and particularly
striking, producing a touch of
fascination from the, beginning.

Once the cover is turned, the
booklet immediately comes alive;
even a sub-freshman to whom
none of the faces is familiar could
not fail to miss the mixture of in-
terest and yet a resignation to the
smell of formaldehyde on the faces
of the students at the dissecting
table. The intent expressions of
the chemistry students watching



Booklet Advertises
Facilities At B.M.C.

the drip, drip of solutions through
numerous glass tubes embody con-
fidence and competence.

The atmosphere of concentration

that surrounds the last picfare in
the physics section is so intense
that one can almost hear the
Geiger Counter tick. And, then,
as if to prove that all scientific
study is not connected with white
coats and shining tile walls, the
‘cheery naturalness of the jean-
clad, pick-carrying geology stu-
dents pops up. The photography,
‘sureiy, could not fail to evoke a
spark of interest in the mind of
any reader.
. The arrangement of the pages,
the pictures interspersed with Mr.
‘Fritz Janschka’s amusing and
clever impressions of the sciences,
‘particularly the goose-flask look-
‘ing quizically over its shoulder at
‘its contents, are attractive and
varied. The explanatory material
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Wednesday, March 19, 1952



THE

COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three



Gianturco Alleges
e e & i
Da Vinci’s Genius

Elio Gianturco, from the For-
eign Law Section of the Library
ot Congress, spoke to the Philos-
ophy Club Friday night, March 14;
in the Common Room on the phi-
losopny of “Leonardo Da Vinci”.
Mr. Gianturco emphasized the
“unique conjunction of artistic and
scientitic spirit” in Leonardo which
gives him the right to be called
a philosopher.

Leonardo was an engineer by
profession, as well as a great art-
ist. ‘Lhe tremendous versatility of

the man is proved by this fact, |.

since during the Renaissance an
engineer was not so specialized as
today, but needed a knowledge of
all phases of science. The human-
ism of Leonardo, his “universality
of culture, balanced with scientific
discipline’, was the basis for his
genius.

To Leonardo, continued Mr. Gi-
anturco, art was not. purely
esthetic, but involved philosophy,
science, and mathematics. “Your
eyes themselves must be philo-
sophical eyes,” said Leonardo in
one of his many analytical essays.
lt is essential that the artist know
a synthesis of the laws of nature.
To Leonardo, nature was a micro-
cosmos in every part of which he
had an interest.

Leonardo was the first man to
attempt to classify the arts in or-
der of their importance. He con-
sidered painting more important
than music, since to him the es-
sence of painting was simultane-
ousness, while the essence of mu-
sic was time. Use of the memory is
necessary to understand music,
since music is a “continuous birth
and resurrection”, and its entirety
cannot be grasped in a single mo-
ment. Leonardo preferred poetry
less than the aforementioned arts
since, to his mind, poetry dealt
with everything “at second hand”.
To him it could only give “suc-
cessive representation”, and he
preferred simultaneous represen-
tation. Despite his classification
of the arts, Leonardo did stress
the intimate ties among them, said
Mr. Gianturco. The arts have an
“intersolidarity” which can not
be denied.

The scientific method of re-
search was a Leonardo invention,
declared Mr. Gianturco. Leonardo
was the first to emphasize the in-
terdependence of theory and ex-
perience which is the basis for
scientific inquiry today. Leonardo
also stressed the importance of

Continued on Page 6 ,Col. 4



Peyre Represents

Cuitural Migration
Especially contributed by
Joan Lee Corb.n, ’53

The. second of whe Benjamin
#.auklin iecuures for lyoz was
given on Lnursuay evening, Marcu
4d, 1N Lhe irvine Auditorium ot ine
Uuiversiy of Pennsylvania. Henri
reyre, nead or the french Vepart-
ment at yale and tormer protes-
sor and Visiting prolessor ac Bryn
Mawr, spoke on “ihe Stuay ou
Literature’ as it relates to the
geneial theme of the series: the
cultural migration trom the Old
World to the New.

M. Peyre opened his talk by
posing questions: what are for-
eigners contributing to American
culture, what are they getting in
return, and how are they helping
the nation assume its role ot
world leadership? He briefly con-
sidered five significant -cultural
migrations: that of the Huguenots
trom France, that which resulted
trom Napoleon’s rise to power, the
migration of Russians after 1917,
that of Italian and Spanish anti-
fascists, and finally that of the
Germans and German Jews under
Hitler’s purge. These _ influxes
played important parts in the es-
tablishment of European culture
in, this country. In most cases,
the scholars were already well
steeped in their own cultural na-
tionalism and pride, but they were
assimilated to a degree dependent
upon their relative adaptability.

Here M, Peyre used himself as
a representative Frenchman com-
ing to this country to teach and
analyzed the comparative features
in teaching here and abroad. To
begin with, tha material facilicies
in this country are far greater
since capable assistance may be
found for any research project,
and the nature of library cata-
loguing and the like do much for
the scholar which he would have
to do alone in a European uni-
versity. In the second place, the
freedom here from traditions,
hierarchy, and solemnity, whatever
the drawbacks, is a healthy thing,
as is the “free enterprise” of the
university. The “sense of history”
we have in this country makes us
look to the future, not to the past,
as in Europe. The results of this
are important in that we have a
pragmatic faith that we can mold
the future whereas to the young
abroad it seems a fearful thing.

M. Peyre finds less prestige here

.as a scholar, due to the financial

basis of social standings, and this
is to him at once disconcerting and
Continued on Page 7, Col. 1



Squirrels, Numerous Taxis, Hard Work
Impress Scottish Lassie on Fellowship |

by Marcia Joseph, °55

“The Squirrels!” was the answer
given by Miss Lorna Dunbar, the
lovely Scottish lass, when she was
asked about the first thing she
noticed upon her arrival at Bryn
Mawr. “It was a lovely after-
noon,” she added, “and as we en-
tered the gate, I saw about six
or eight squirrels. It was the first
time I had ever seen any up
close.”

Miss Dunbar, a graduate stu-
dent in Psychology, is studying
here on the English Speaking
Union fellowship given to three
men and three women in British
universities to study at Harvard,
Princeton, Yale, Bryn Mawr, Rad-
cliffe, and Smith. Miss Dunbar’s
room and board and tuition are
paid by Bryn Mawr; however,
since she was allowed to bring
only 10 pounds with her, the Phil-
adelphia branch of the ESU gives
her money to pay for other ex-
penses. A resident of Aberdeen,
Scotland, and a graduate of Aber-
deen University there, Lorna Dun-
bar applied for her fellowship a





year ago in January. The ESU
sends notice for the fellowships
to British universities, and Miss
Dunbar was asked to apply. “I
remember that it was a pouring
wet day,’ she told me, “and I
heard a professor’s voice behind
me. He asked me if I’d like to go
to America. ‘Of course! Who
wouldn’t?’ I answered, so I ap-
plied to all three — Bryn Mawr,
Radcliffe, and Smith. I never ex-
pected to' get it!” At the time,
Miss Dunbar knew very little
about Bryn Mawr. “All I knew of
Bryn Mawr,” she said, “was a
James Thurber cartoon about
Bryn Mawr that I had once seen.”
Also, Professor Ferguson of Aber-
deen University had once lectured
here.

Accepted in April, Miss Dun-
bar arrived in America on Wed-
nesday, September 19. It was the
first time that she had ever been
in this country, and as her ship
sailed up the Hudson at 5:00 in
the mo#ning, she could just see the
Statue ef Liberty in the darknes;.
“The silhouette of the skyline of

Continued on Page 6, Col. 2

Pastors on Panel —
View Christianity |

Lulminating the two day dis-
cussion groups on the topic, “Faith
—xvealluy or welusion?”’, woich be-
ga iu we nalls on ‘Luesday night,
a panel discussion composed of six
muusvers met in the Common
oom on Wednesday afternoon,
march 12, at 4:00 p.m. to answer
questions. The ministers who
composed the panel were Grant
Noble, Leslie Glenn, Guthrie
speers, A. Graham Baldwin, E, A.
ae Bordenave, and Gerald B.
U’Grady.

‘he discussion centered around
the question of a morally good life
as opposed to a life based on faith
in Christ. One of the ministers
pointed out that although! it is
good to live a good life, it is even
better to know Why that life is
good, He said that a life which
is based on a faith in Christ is
better able to be good: because it
is rooted in something bigger than
itself, ;

in answer to the question,
“where do we get our system ot
ethics !”, Reverend O’Grady point-
ed out that it has evolved from
custom. Christ, he said, was sent
because people felt a despair of
themselves and of their ethics. He
came to bring the good life with
a new dynamic spirit. Mr. de
Bordenave added to this that there
has been no change in Christian
doctrines“ since their beginning.
‘There has been only a rephrasing
of the same truths. He said that
Christianity has no ethics but love
ot God and of neighbors.

The question of the importance
of The Apostles’ Creed was dis-
cussed. Dr, Glenn pointed out that
since the Creed is a summary of
the beliefs of the Christian
Church, it is important not only
to believe it, but to know what
each phrase means. Reverend
O’Grady added that neither the
Creed nor The Bible are ends in
themselves. “They are signposts
pointing to God where the real
thing lies. Although one of the
ministers suggested that we some-
times neglect the teachings of

Continued on Page 7, Col. 1

- WBMC Program
Schedule

‘March 20-26
2:00 WFLN (Classical Music)
8:00 News (New York Times)
8:05 Treasury of Classics

10:00 Popular Music and Feature

Program

News

11:05 Popular Music

12:00 Off the Air

FEATURES OF THE WEEK

Thursday
9:00 Gilbert and Sullivan Inter-

11:00

lude

9:45 Campus News (with Claire
Robinson)

10:00 Intermission Time (South

‘ Pacific)

11:05 “Just For A While” (with
Dick Hardy)

Friday

11:05 Dance Date (from WHRC)

Sunday

8:00 Sacred Music

10:30 Cafe International (Pro-
gram of Foreign Records)

Monday

9:00 Halt The Symphony — win
a carton of Chesterfields

9:45 Faculty Interview:

10:00 Dramatic Show |

Tuesday

10:00 Folk Song Program

10:30 Meet the Mawrtyrs (Listen
to Kay Sherman interview
your friends)

Wednesday

7:30 Battle of the Sexes

10:00 The Variety Show (“Retri-
bution” an original radio
play by Harold Lynch,





Haverford, ’49)

A Progress Report
Offered by Council

‘An estimate is being made by
the college architect of the cost of
installing florescent lights through-
out the reading room; the model
under-*onsideration does not glare
or make noise. However, unless
class gifts or other funds beyond
the library budget were available,
new lights could not be installed
for some time.

Both smoking and typing rooms
have been strongly recommended
to the board of directors by Miss
Agnew, but lack of space and
money still make it impossible to
have them immediately.

The rules for reserving books
are posted on the bulletin board in
the reserve room with all other li-
brary rules. The present weekena
rule reads: “Reserve books may be
borrowed for the weekend at 9:30
p. m. Saturday and are due Mon-
day morning at 9:10 a. m.” The
Library Council is in the process
of revising this and other library
rules in cooperation with the li-
brary staff. If students have sug-

| gestions,-they are asked to put

them in the suggestion box in the
reserve room.

Certain desks in the geading
room are reserved for the conven-
jence of seniors needing to use
many books in the library at once.
These desks are not the private
property of seniors, but it is only
common courtesy on the part of
others not to use these desks, es-
pecially those with many books on
them, unless there are no other
vacant seats. Seniors are remind-
ed to.,keep their reserve desks
neat!

Emmy Cadwalader is chairman
of .a new student committee io
keep the history of art and arch-
eology reserves in order.

CONTEST

“Halt the Symphony” will be
conducted in a new way. All those
who want to get a chance to iden-
tify the symphony played on Mon-
days at 9:00, and win a carton of
'Chesterfields, pay heed! Put your
name and the hall where you will
be at the time of the program on
an empty pack of Chesterfields, and
leave it in the box provided for the
empty packs in Pem East Smok-
er. Names will be picked at ran-
dom from the box, and that per-
son will be called, and asked to
identify the Symphony. You may
be the one to win! Get your entry
in now.

Lecturer Explains
Carbon Processes

The most recent Science Club
lecturer was Dr. George Zimmer-
man, of the Bryn Mawr Chemistry
Department. His March 13 lec-
ture treated Radio Carbon Dating.
Dr. Zimmerman, who worked at
Chicago with Dr. Libby, Dr. Ar-
nold, and Dr. Anderson on their
experiments with Cl4, explained
carbon dating as the determina-
tion of the amount of time which
has elapsed from a certain time in
the past until the present. Certain
substances, (about twenty are
known) are radio-active, that is,
they give off highly charged par-
ticles, thus decreasing their vol-
ume continuously. There are dif-
ferent ways of observing this ir:
reversible process, one being to
watch the particles come off the
radio-active substance. Lf the num-
ber of particles and the rate of
emitting the particles is counted
and a relationship set up, a law of
decay can be formulated. These
radio-active substances have a
“half-life” which signifies the
amount of time required for one-
half of the substance to disinte-
grate, and no matter what is done
to the substance it will continue its
disintegration at its usual rate. If
all this happens now, then it prob-
ably happened in the past also, and
therefore this law of decay can be
used to measure time.

Carbon is present in plants, an-
imals, ocean, and the air. The car-



bon atom’s nucleus is made up of
six positively charged particles
'(protons) and six particles with
no electrical charge (neutrons).
This is the structure of C12, the
stable carbon atom. However, if
two extra neutrons are added to
the original number, the resulting
atom (C14), although behaving in
almost the same way, is unstable
and is radio-active. When C14 dis-
integrates, N14 (nitrogen) and one
electron are given off, and this
process is the background of de-
cay.

Dr. Libby states that the forma-
tion of C14 in nature is by cosmic
radiation which produces neutrons.
Neutrons are reduced to a slight
extent in the air, and when united
with nitrogen, C14 is formed. The
Cl4 js oxidized inte CO2 and thus
a cycle begins where C is used in
plants and animals and the ocean
and given back into the atmos-
phere. Thus Cl‘ is continuously

produced and continuously disinte-



Continued on Page 7, Col. 2



_by Judy Thompson, ’54

Mrs. Marshall, in an interview
concerning Frederico Garcia Lor-
ca, author of The Shoemaker’s
Prodigious Wife, to be presented
in Goodhart on March 21 and 22
by the Bryn Mawr College Thea-
tre, described what she had actu-
ally seen of Lorca and his band of
traveling actors. Lorca, whom she
described as extremely talented as
a poet, musician, playwright, di-
rector, actor, and painter, had, at
the time she was taking her Jun-
ior Year in Spain, a traveling com-
pany called La Barraca, made up
mostly of amateur University act-
ors, who traveled around the coun-
tryside giving classical and mod-
ern plays.

The company, she said, was or-
ganized on the basis of two main
purposes, the first to give simple
but poetic and valuable interpre-
tations of classical and modern

‘Spanish theatre, and the second to

make the medium of the theatre
more meaningful, on the theory



that theatre was not part of the

Dorothy Marshall Describes Contact
With G. Lorca and Traveling Actors

was, rather, a popular medium
which had been neglected. The
group, with these two purposes in
mind, gathered in trucks and bus-
ses and arived at small villages to
give their performances.

Their response was overwhelm-
ing, and they were always met
with great excitement. Mrs. Mar-
shall described the first time that
she saw one of these performances
when she was at the summer ses-
sion of Saintander University,
held in the palace of the last king
of Spain. The performance was
put on in an outdoor court of the
palace and proved very well acted
and extremely impressive.

The scenery consisted of port-
able impressionistic scenery, de-
signed and painted by Lorca him-
self. The whole performance de-
pended on Lorca whose own dom-
inating personality seemed to
sweep the other actors along with
it. Mrs. Marshall was able to see
them again the following winter
when sha was at the University of

Madrid Where she lived near some
of the stars of La Barraca, and



literary life of any country, but



went to some of their rehearsals.




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Wednesday, March 19, 1952





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7



Necessity Of Quorum

All of our extra-curricular life is based on a student gov-
ernment plan in which everyone is expected to participate.
No one would want this system abolished in favor of a strict
administration rule, yet many are unwilling to attend a class
meeting (without the force of a fine) in order to perpetuate
this system. Through the class meeting, the student may ex-
press her opinions, participate in class activities, and vote
for her choice of campus leaders, thus deriving personal ben-
efits, as well as contributing to college life as a whole. It
seems unfair for some students to benefit by this plan, with-
out contributing something to it, at least their presence at a
class meeting.

For class meetings to function, a quorum is necessary.
It is often very easy for a student to think that her individ-
ual attendance at a class meeting is not important, especial-
ly if she has little interest in the office for which nominations
are being made or in class activities in general. The effort
expended in attending a class meeting, however, is very small,
and the presence of every student at the meetings is import-
ant to the class, the college, and the individual.

Faculty Column

The News and Counterpoint offer an opportunity for
students to express their opinions, observations, and ideas

about events exclusive of strictly academic life, giving the
readers a chance to participate in these extracurricular ex-
periences. In contrast to this fact, the principal opportunity
for students to know faculty members and their outside in-
terests is through classroom connections. Therefore, most

students know few professors beyond those with whom they
have classes.

As a possible bridge for this gap between faculty and
students and in answer to many requests made to the staff,
the News would like to initiate a faculty column which would
appear as a regular part of the News and which would con-
tain short articles contributed by faculty members pertain-
ing to observations on any experiences aside from college
life.
Such letters as that contributed by Dr. Sprague for the
issue of March twelfth show the extra interest which such a
column might add, and we hope that the members of the fac-
ulty can find time to contribute to such a project.

Continued from Page 1

ruling a state, and that only a
mystical, absolute, stable govern-
ment could properly benefit its
subjects.

In quoting Maistre, Mr. Berlin
gave several examples of the phil-
osopher’s theory. that ‘Whatever
is. reasonable collapses; whatever
is irrational survives.” Maistre
showed that the reasonable, logic-
al free elections in Poland, where
the best-fitted person was ostens-
ibly chosen for each position, led
only to unrest and disorder, while
the monarchial system in the rest
of Europe, where a man became
ruler for the unsatisfactory reason
that his father ruled before him,
had been able to maintain peace,
unity, and stability. Here reason
fell before irrational policies.

Maistre believed that the laws
of nature, too, were lacking in the
reason that was ordinarily attrib-
uted to them. It appeared to him
that nature was destructive, vio-
lent, and furious. The earth was



~The candidates for League
| Secretary are as follows:

Molly Plunkett
Muggy McCabe
Barbie Floyd

. (Marilyn Muir





“perpetually steeped in blood”,
and man, by his very nature, was
a killing animal; he killed for food,
adornment, attack, defense, shel-
ter, and even for the sake of kill-
ing. Just as man exterminated
animals for these necessities and
pleasures, so, thought Maistre,
would he kill other men if uncon-
trolled. ‘Since his instinct was de-
structive, government must be in-
stituted to control this instinct and
to provide order.

‘Government, then, must be bas-
ed on certain principles that are
off-shoots of Maistre’s mistrust in
man and in reason. Since criti-
cism, uncertainty, and freedom of
expression and thought are means
towards the assertion of the vio-
lent individuality of man, such
ideals are harmful to the author-
itative, powerful state. The only



Clown-Like Characters
Show Light Originality
_ Continued from Page 2

and that “the breeze she makes in
walking is a measure of wind ve-
locity.” The poet too is impress-
ed by Helen and when he sees her,
“I faint, I foam at the mouth, and
I improvise.” At the end of one
such improvisation he adds, “Lis-
ten and I can get even better ef-
fects.” ;

Hecuba, mother of Paris, played
by Etienne Sturhahn, and Ronald
Harper as the meek Troilus, adol-
escent admirer of Helen, though
their parts were smaller, gave a
clear picture of their characters.
Hecuba was the “grand lady of
stage and screen” type and her
tone of superior sarcasm was bit-
ing and peppy. Troilus was excel-
lent from his first shy encounter
with the passionate‘Helen to the
final scene in which the gates of
Troy are opened and we see that
he has finally overcome his shy-
ness. The characters of Ulysses
and Cassandra, however, seemed
flat, and were paled by the other,
more vibrant members of the cast.
This could have been because of

The Theatre Intime created a suc-
cessful production, and though
therc was a great range in the
capacities of the actors, they man-
aged to produce a homogenous, en-



joyable and meaningful perform-

the nature of the roles, however. '

French Philosopher Maistre Refuted Reason;
Believed Nature Destructive, Violent, Furious

way of exerting complete control
over human beings is to base their
society on something that they
cannot question, rebel against, or
he center of their au-
thority must be mysterious, “some-

criticize.

thing which is terrifying, some-
thing which is dark”. Only com:
plete obedience to such sure, in-
comprehensible, frightening “some-
things” can prevent reason from
taking possession of a man’s mind
and destroying dogmatic author-
ity.

The government. proposed by
Maistre is, of course, totally an-
tipathetic to the social contract
which was the newly-accepted the-
ory of his liberal contemporaries.
To Maistre, the social contract as-
sumed the shape of a series of
misconceptions leading to an un-
realistic system. He could not ac-
cept the proposition that a prom-
ise was a natural relationship be-
tween men; he could not accept
the savage as a man with some
habits of as great value as the ha-
bits of civilized communities; the
could not accept society as a mu-
tual trust and belief in the good
intentions of one’s fellow-men. His
view of the ‘social structure was
that it was built on man’s desire
to suppress his very wicked in-
stincts, to sacrifice his individual
evil for his own protection. . This
element of self-sacrifice was com-
bined with man’s innate desire to
be obedient to some power. By
giving man some ultimate power
to. obey, governments could main-
tain peace and security.

The power that Maistre thought
man needed and wanted was, of
course, without reason. One of his
most famous passages speaks of
the executioner as “the terror of



The slate for Undergrad vice-
president is as follows:

Carol Sonne
Kathy Ehlers
Mary Lee Culver
Joyce Greer







human society, but . .. also the
power that holds it together”. The
dark, violent punishment repre-
sented by the executioner is the
bond that keeps government alive,
If reason is denied, doubt and
refutation cannot exist, and the
oscillation that causes the down-
fall of governments is thus done
away with.

To the end of absolute, irration-
al, mysterious power, Maistre ad-
vocated the abolition of the test-
ing, examining, and questioning of
science and literature, and a blind
faith in the past, in the mystery
of tradition, maintained by “po-
tential terror”. The enemies of
Maistre, as he defined them, were
not just those who differed from
his. basic precepts, but all who
would not conform to irrational,
unthinking obedience, “all persons
who, in one way or another, ques-
tion the order”.

For an absolute, immobile, stable
society, the reverence for myth,
absolute authority, and terror pro-
vided the best curb on the individ-
ual and, according to Maistre, the
only practical direction of his nat-
urally destructive instincts.

Mr. Berlin closed with a sum-
mary of his five previous lectures,
and Dr. Nahm expressed the col-
lege’s gratitude for the opportun-
ity to hear them.



The slate for Undergrad sec-
retary is as follows: —
Suki Webb
*Beth Davis
“M. G. Warren
Floyd







*Tied

Letter

Two Students Claim
Goodale Slights
Assistance

March 16, 1952
Editor of the College News
News Office
Goodhart Hall

At the Princeton-Bryn Mawr
Concert given here Saturday,
March 15, a rude oversight was
made in that no recognition was
given to Lois Beekey who accom-
panied most of the selections. El-
len Powell was given an apprecia-
tive half line in®@the News preview
of the concert but neither she, Di-
ane Druding, nor Lois had even a
grateful wave of the hand on
stage.

Mr. Forbes, the Princeton di-
rector, shared his applause with
the two Princeton accompanists
but Mr. Goodale seemed to forget
that small yet graceful action of
saying thank you to those who
willingly gave their time to help
make the concert a success.

Lillian E. Smith, ’°53
Charlotte Drabkin, ’54

Disputation Over UMT
Ends in Uncertain Loss
Continued from Page 1

sults of polls of their campuses
only on the first ballot, and then
could vote according to individual
preferences.

Committee meetings held at ten
o’clock on Saturday morning in
Taylor were attended by represen-
tatives from the nine member col-
leges: Beaver, Bryn Mawr, Drexel,
Haverford, University of Penn-
sylvania, Rosemont, Swarthmore,
Temple, and West Chester State
Teachers’ College. Delegates met
in 13 concurrent conferences to
draw up items for the party plat-
form, under such headings as for-
eign affairs, civil rights, labor, tax-
ation and finance, and agriculture.
Committee reports at 1:30 yielded
results such as that of the civil
rights committee, which advocated
fair employment practices legisla-
tion, elimination of the poll tax,
repeal of the McCarran act, and
a federal anti-lynching law. To
this the assembly added a provision
outlawing loyalty oaths other than
constitutional oaths of office. The
health and welfare committee ad-
vocated a compulsory national
health program and a system of
federal aid to public schools, as
well as scholarship aid to worthy
college students. Perhaps the most
debated committee report was that
of the Military Affairs Committee.
Originally taking a stand against
Universal Military Training, the
report was amended by the assem-
bly to be favorable towards UMT.
However, when it came to a final
decision on accepting the report of
the committee as a whole, the en-
tire report was turned down by
the assembly, by three votes. Tem-
pers rose as appeals to the deci-
sion of the chair for a recount
were lost.

The conference was opened by
a welcoming address by Jane Cas-
ter, President of the Bryn Mawr
chapter of ICG. Dr. John Roche,
professor of Political Science at
Haverford College, gave the open-
ing address.



The nominees for the first
junior member to Undergrad
are as follows:

Muggy McCabe
M. G. Warren
Gleria Von Hebel
*Caroline Morgan
*Claire Robinson
















ot

is

Wednesday, March 19, 1952

THE COLLEGE



NEWS

Page Five



Swarthmore’s Skill
Wins College Meet

Especially contributed by
Phoebe Harvey, ’54

Eleven Eastern colleges, among
them ‘Bryn Mawr, took part in the
annual Intercollegiate Swimming
Meet for Women at the University
of Pennsylvania on Saturday. The
meet was won by Swarthmore,
with a combined score of 36 points,
9 more than the second-place team,
Brooklyn College. Bryn Mawr,
with no entrants in the low board
fancy diving competition (won by
Brooklyn’s Frick with Swarth-
more’s Jill Morrell second) and
outmatched in most of the other
events, took seventh place in the
meet.

Anne jikebo, however, helped
‘Bryn Mawr a great deal by plac-
ing second in the 100-yard free-
style, losing to Brooklyn’s Rosky
by only three-tenths of a second.
Anne swam beautifully and be.
sides being the runner-up for the
100-yard championship, gave the
team 4 points. ‘Congratulations,
Anne.

In the other individual events,
Marjorie Fair placed tenth in the
50-yard freestyle, Phoebe Harvey
tied for eighth place in the 50-
yard breaststroke, and Peasy Laid-
law took sixth in the 50-yard back-
stroke. f

The Bryn Mawr 150-yard med-
ley relay team composed of Peasy
Laidlaw, Phoebe Harvey and Judy
McCulloch placed fifth, gaining 2
points of the total score. The 200-
yard freestyle relay team consist.
ing of Sarane Hickox, Nancy Tep-
per, Maggie Stehli, and Amne
Lebo took third place and 6 points
by doing a fine job on starts and
turns and some of the fastest
swimming a similar Bryn Mawr
team has ever done. Bryn Mawr’s
total score: 12 points. .

French Club Play Poses|

Stage Problem for Cast
Continued from Page 1

by Pyrrhus, king of Epirus and
victor in the Trojan War, played
by Catherine Cheremeteff. Pyr-
rhus, engaged to marry Hermione,
the daughter of Menelaus, (play-
ed by Elaine Marx), falls in love
with Andromaque. She, however,
is not in love with him but is torn
by her love for her son and his
safety and also by memories of
her husband. Meanwhile, Oreste,
the son of Agememnon, played by
Marianne Schwob, is in love with
Hermione but she is not in love
with him. In events leading up to
the climax, the story involves this
quadrangle.

The remaining characters in-
clude Pylade, a friend of Oreste,
featuring Rita Mousso, a student
in the graduate school; Phoenix,
tutor of Achilles and Pyrrhus,
Peggy Hitchcock; Cephise, a con-
fidante of Andromaque, played by
Isabelle Viennot; and Cleone, a
confidante_of Hermione, featuring
Julie Boyd.

The cast, ranging from Fresh-
men to Graduate Students, is at-
tempting to overcome the chief
problem of the: strong formal
movement in actors and the part
of the stage used, as all the Bs
acters are on the stage through-
out the play, whethe? acting or
not,

Mr. Fritz Janschka has designed
the set and the costumes for the
production. English translations
of “Andromaque” are available.

The candidates for the first
sophomore member to Self-Gov
are as follows:

Sara Winstead
Nancy Houghton

Melissa Emery
Saren Merritt |













Spector Finesses

All Non-Res Aces

“Bridge anyone?”, called Joan
Spector as she entered the Non-
Resident room just before lunch.
In about five minutes she was
deeply engrossed in trying to
make one of her usual wild bids,
when Bunny McClenahan, the
present president, announced that
Joan had been elected to that hon-
ored position for next year. With-
out batting an eye, Joan looked
coolly up and accused Bunny of
playing the wrong card. The room
filled with laughter,: and it was
only after Bunny had completely
obliterated her with one of the
most tremendous corsages ever
seen on such a small person, that
Joan looked at all excited, and
then all she could do was grin.
Joan, who organized all the deco-
rating that was done in the Non-
Res room, has many plans to put
into action. For instance, she is
planning té work very hard on
getting better accommodations for
the non-res’s with a hot plate,
water cooler, and a few more of
the more civilized luxuries of life,
such as a shower or even an old
tin tub if there is no better solu-
tion. Whatever the results are
though, there will be bigger and
better bridge tables, for being a
science major she likes to get a
little culture in her free periods.

Film, Food, Songs
Show Danish Life

by Kay Sherman, ’54

The colorful red and white na-
tional costume worn by Ellen
Kristensen lent the first touch of
Denmark to the International Re-
lation Club’s Danish evening on
Tuesday, March 138, in the Com-
mon Room. A peek at the Danish
delicacies assembled on a long

table in the corner had eyes grow-
ing large with anticipation. Au-
thentic Danish songs by Joanna
Pennypacker, Dorry Rainsford,
and Louise Kimball set the mood,
and Birgit Carstensen and Kirsten
Rodegaard’s glowing descriptions
of their native country brought
smiles and wistful expressions to
the faces of the group of listeners.
Kirsten told of Denmark’s educa-
tional system, her talk punctuated
by a movie of Birget’s commence-
ment, showing the girls in their
white dresses, wearing red and
white caps signifying their gradu-
ation, being taken in a_horse-
drawn carriage to the principal
square in Copenhagen. Their joy-
ous faces, laughing and singing,
the colored balloons bobbing in
the air, and their dance around a
statue of a horse reserved only for
such occasions, presented a gay
picture. Birgit, introducing a
travelogue film on Denmark, gave
a short resume of the historical
and economic aspects of her coun-
try . The film showed a bicycling
chimney sweep, ladder and tools in
hand, adding a note of humor, as
did the storks nesting on top of a
telephone pole. Most impressive,
perhaps, were the scenes of the
beautiful and peaceful Danish
countryside, picturing windmills
and waving grasses. The ancient
castles with their formal gardens,
the Viking formations and grave
mounds, testified to Denmark’s
ancient culture. The many im-
pressive churches, particularly the
Grundtvig Church at Copenhagen,
which architecture was inspired by
the simplicity of the Danish vil-

lage church and the symmetry of |.

a pipe organ, brought out the
architectural attractions.

The enthusiastic questions ad-
dressed to the two Danish students
over coffee and unusual, but de-
licious Danish concoctions evinced
the success of IRC’s introduction
to Denmark.



Pem East’s Sonne

To Shine Showcase

“Oh, Starr, why didn’t we think
what to say to her?” Carol Sonne
exclaimed when she was approach-
ed for her interview. ° Actually,
Carol, the new president of Pem-
broke East couldn’t stop talking
while she was getting ready to
play a badminton game which had
been postponed so that she could
celebrate.

Roommate, Starr Oliver, beamed
with pride and enthusiasm saying,
“Her only reaction was ‘I’m so
surprised!’ ”’

Carol said that she felt very
much honored to be chosen pres-
ident of such a good hall and that
she hoped to maintain the spirit
that made Pembroke East out-
standing, When asked if she had
any plans for her administration,
she replied, “My only platform is
to improve the showcase, and if
there is any money left over, I’d
like to get a washing machine. Of
course,” she said, her eyes twink-
ling, “that’s impossible because
the only place we could put it
would be in my room.” So with
visions of her room transformed
into a laundry, Carol Sonne dashed
off to play her delayed badminton
match,

Spartan J. Martin
Rules Over Radnor

Janie Martin, sporting a camel-
lia corsage and a beaming smile is
the new president of Radnor. “We
had no idea who was to be pres-
ident until before dinner when
Tama approached me with a white
box,” stated the number one Rad-
norite, “and then I thought it was
a white radio and warned her not
to drop it!” The first step in
Janie’s new position will be to
“put Radnor on the map!” “It
may be the smallest hall, but we’ll
make it appear the biggest.” As
a final comment to the News be-
fore hitting the books, Janie
laughingly added, “To be legal
with Reigle, Radnor will have to
be Spartan with Martin!”

Rhoads President
Relates Ambitions

Said Penny Merritt, new presi-
dent of Rhoads, as she peeked
smilingly from behind her corsage,
“My ambitions as president of
Rhoads are to make a few inno-
vations and additions. First of all
I would like, to install a twenty-
four hour service soda fountain in
the big smoker. Second I would
like to install escalator service to
all floors—especially to the tower!
Third and most important, I really
would like to install bus _ service
leaving every fifteen minutes from
Rhoads’ front door to all points of
the campus. Particularly to Park,
Dalton, and Taylor and even more
particularly on rainy days!”

An anonymous personage at
Penny’s table suggested that she
advocate cocktails every evening
at six in the main showcase “with-
out need of off-campus callers.”
This suggestion, however, was not
deemed advisable!



Don’t forget—Dr. Dudden is
on the WFIL-TV_Wniversity. of
the Air Friday ‘mornings from
11:10 a. m. to 11:30 a. m. The
lecture this week is on the
“Constitution of the Confeder-

acy.









Camellias to Kent,
New Denbigh Head

Cornered in her room reading
Samuelson’s Economics (of all
things!), Norma Kent --yelped,
“Ooooooh, how magnificent,” when
told of being elected to hall pres-
idency of Denbigh. She was —
literally — speechless, but glowed
appropriately for the occasion, and
wangled her way out of words by
being “just too surprised.” Coaxed
and coaxed, she finally smelled her
camellias, and innocently said,
“It’s spring!!” A few minutes
later, Norma and her following
trouped down to the smoker—“oh,
dear, I think it’s time for a cigar-
ette.”

W. Pem’s Voorhis
Bridges in Election

“T hope that I can live up to
the responsibility placed upon me,”
stated Corrie Voorhis, the new
president of Pem West, when the
News interviewer interrupted her
bridge game. Of course, Corrie,
the former vice-president, was de-
lighted that she had been chosen
to be the leader of her hall.

Upon ting asked about her first
reaction when she learned that
she had won the election, she ans-
wered that Lois Bishop, the for-
mer president, had come into the
freshman class meeting, where
she was ibeing introduced to the
freshmen as a candidate for vice-
president of Self-Gov, and pre-
‘sented to her the beautiful corsage
of red roses and a gardenia. “Oh,

added that she was really thrilled.

As she turned back to her bridge
game, which she requested to be
mentioned because her parents
would be amused that an interview
had interrupted her bridge, Corre
commented: “Lois has set very
high standards for the job. I hope
that I can live up to them.” We’re
sure_you—can, Corrie. _Congratu-
lations and good luck!

Merion Race Sees
Halperin Triumph

“Oh, I haven’t anything to say
except thank-you.” Sue Halperin,
Merion’s new hall president, threw
up her hands in mock despair, as
she was descended upon by ex-hali
president, Rat Ritter, and a loyal
Merion contingent, with a tremen-

As the crowd gathered and the/
singing of “For She’s a Jolly Good,
Fellow” filled the silent study, Rat
pinned the corsage on Sue, who sat
and shook her head in bewilder-
ment. “Speech! Speech!” was the
cry, but Susie merely protested,
“Oh, no. This is the first time in
my life that I’m tongue tied.”
The interviewer, Sue’s daughter
by proxy, (Sue is her S. A.), tried
vainly to get some pertinent facts
about Miss Halperin. Career af-
ter Bryn Mawr? Sue threw her
arm up triumphantly in the air
and announced, “I’m off to storm
the world!” Then she added ser-
iously, “I’ve lots of ideas.” Get-
ting married? “I’m not going to
get married ... that is, not for a
long, long time.” She smiled and
said, “I’m just too bouleversee to

interviewer completely at a loss,
until it was translate@ to mean
“overwhelmed.” Needless to say,
Sue is a French major,

As the crowd began to shake her
hand and congratulate her, Sue
protested, “I can’t ‘shake hands;
my hands are too clammy!” Then
she laughed and od, “What I
really ought to do is to go right up
stairs and bone up on the self-gov



rules.”

Lois!” she had exclaimed and she

Lorca Emphasizes
Death and Daggers

Speaking on ‘Federico Garcia
Lorca, author of the “Shoemaker’s
Prodigious Wife,” Senor Manuel
Alcala described Lorca and his
place in Spanish literature, at a
tea given by the Bryn Mawr Col-
lege Theatre in Wyndham on Fri-
day afternoon. Senor Alcala point-
ed out that in the literary, as in
the artistic traditions of Spain,
there are several great artists,
embodying the Spanish soul, but
that these great artists tend to be
widely spaced in time. Lorca is an
exampie of this fact, for he is the
ast gieat national Spanish poet
in the several hundred years since
Lope de Vega. In his works,
which included within
eight volumes are prose, poetry,
and drama. Of these, Alcala added,

the poetry and drama are by far
the most outstanding, and form a
unity reflecting two aspects of
Lorca’s own inner unity, a unity
in that his poetry is dramatic, his
drama essentially lyric.
Lorca’s work expresses the An-
dalusian aspects of his original en-
vironment. This fact can be seen
in that all of his writing is filled
with popular elements. From the
Andalusian, he takes the elements
of poetry and place and the Anda-
lusian fatalistic anxiety of life.
Therefore, the idea of man facing
death, a death which occurs in a
tragic manner, recurs in his writ-
ing. As a symbol of tragic death
and as a demonstration of the use
of Andalusian elements, there
very trequently occur references
to a dagger, according to the An-
dalusian—o. rather Gypsy tradi-
tion that everyone should be
taught to fight with a knife, An-
other example of the Andalusian
element is the constant reference
to horses demonstrating the great
Andalusian horsemanship. Senor
Alcala demonstrated these charac-
teristics by reading one of Lorca’s

can be



famous poems, “Cancion de Jinete”
(Song of the Rider) in which oc-
curs the idea of violent inevitable
death and the references to horse-
manship. Placing “The Shoemak-
er’s Prodigious Wife” in his de-
scription of Lorca’s works, Senor
Alcala said that this play contain-
ed all the elements of the rest of
Lorca’s work but was somewhat



dous corsage of red red _ roses,’’}

think right now,” whieh left the’

lighter. In the play appears the
ballad-like air, the traditional folk-
tale element, the mention of the
dagger and of horsemanship, be-
sides an excellent blending of the
popular tradition and artistic
creation,

Foley Inherits Hat
Of Rock President

“What’s happened to you all?
Why is everybody sitting around
with great big grins on their
faces? — Oh, Foley!!” and the
speaker too was speechless, for
there sat Foley wearing a large
corsage and trying to be very
calm about the fact that she is
now president of Rockefeller Hall.
The situation has its drawbacks,
though. Said former vice-presi-
dent Foley, “Oh dear, now I'll
have to make my bed.” On one
finger was a large band-aid which
she hadn’t had at lunch. What ;
happened? The corsage pin was
a little sharp. She had a Chem-
istry midsemester this morning,
and it is to be hoped that Dr.
Berliner will sympathize when he
reads the note at the end. “I’m
sorry,” it read, “I don’t think I
was thinking very clearly this
morning.” ;
Besides the fact that Foley’s
flowers matched her purple blouse
beautifully, the Hall President’s
hat, fits her beautifully too, as Rock

knew it would.














Page Six

THE COLLEGE

NEWS

Wednesday, March 19, 1952



Bryn Mawr’s Fencers
Score High Over Penn

Continued from Page 2

get to the basket and score. The
J. V. redeemed the afternoon by
beating Swarthmore in a very
close game, 27-23. Here, as on the
varsity, the guards were by far
the strongest part of the Bryn
Mawr team in comparison with
the forwards who seemed a bit
iost. This was the last game of
the season, and though the var-
sity has won few games ,it was felt,
that there had been great im-;

provement, and that not any of the
games had been easily lost. The
J. V. has done considerably better
and has lost only one game this
year.

The basketball teams were as
follows for the Swarthmore game:
Varsity

forwards
Tilghman
Kennedy-Merrick-Cohen
Fox

guards
Eristoff
Mackall
Gurewich
Junior Varsity

forwards
Smith
Gilbert
Simpson-Merrick-Lindau

guards &

Warren
Olsen
Cohen-Cadwalader-Bird

The first and second swimming
varsities had poor luck last Thurs-
day in their meet with Chestnut
Hill. Both meets were terribly
close, but in the end Bryn Mawr
lost both to their opponent. The
varsity lost 31-26, and the J. V.
32-25. In the varsity meet, Laid-
law, Harvey, and Tepper won the
medley relay, Harvey and Hopkins
took first and second place in the
breaststroke, Laidlaw won the
backcrawl, and Fair came in sec-
ond in the freestyle. The free-
style relay was won by Chestnut
Hill, as was the freestyle. Judy

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| local schools,
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; since she will return to Scotland
jin August, she is applying for a

Continued from Page 3

New York in the darkness,’’ she
told me, “made it look like a med-
ieval city.” When asked avout her
“first.-impression of New York,”
Miss Dunbar answered, “I was
wmazed at the huge number of
taxis and the gay colors.” After
spending several days in--Manhat-
ten with relatives, she came to
Philadelphia and finally to Bryn
Mawr on Monday, September 24.

“I like Bryn Mawr,” was the
question,
“There is a terrific emphasis on
work and assignments, but on the
whole I am very pleased.” Lorna
Dunbar’s primary interest is
Child Psychology, and she is rather
pleased that she has an oppor-
tunity to work with children in the
Since her fellow-

position as assistant lecturer in

| Psychology at Bedford College of

the University of London. “I had
a heck of a time getting refer-
ences from Miss Taylor, Mrs. Cox,
and Dr. Money,” she said. “It’s
really quite complicated.”

Mr. John Prizer, the president
of the Philadelphia branch of the
ESU, and Miss Dunbar were in-
vited to be guests on the television
program, “Meet the MacMullans,”
on ‘Wednesday, February 27. Mrs.
MacMullan organizes parties and
benefits in Philadelphia, and Miss
Dunbar and Mr. Prizer were in-
vitedto speak about ESU. The
Philadelphia branch is trying to
interest the people and thereby
raise money to further the educa-

McCulloch won the J. VY. freestyle,
and Dean, Osma, McQuaig, and
McCulloch the freestyle relay. All
the other events were won by
Chestnut Hill, but only by a mat-
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She apparently enjoys talking
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wonderful way they have treated
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benefit performance by the Sad-
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E. Gianturco Considers
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ture, since the senses, despite their
elusiveness, are often quicker than
intellectual perception. Nature is
the supreme guide in all fields of
knowledge, and must be thorough-
ly understood.

As a predecessor of Deéscartes,
Leonardo stressed the importance
of mathematics in an evaluation
of nature. He considered the fun-
damental basis of science to be the
reduction of everything to certain
universal mathematical principles.
He was interested in the relation
between the spatial and temporal
conceptions of nature. To him, the
universe is made of ultimate ele-
ments, or points, but these. points
do not exist. There is no present,
since the point between the past
and the future does not exist.

Concerning life in general,
Leonardo had Nietzschian ideas.
To him life and death were the
same, there is no purpose in life
except a drive toward death, Man
is a “monstrous creature of crea-
tion’ and -his melancholy has no
limits. However, said Mr. Gian-
turco, despite his emphasis on
man’s degradation and his phil-
osophy of annihilism, Leonardo
had a great exultation of life, as

proved by his many interests and

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Quintet Skill Embraces
J. Bach and Stravinsky

Continued from Page 2

a seeming lack of inspiration in
the two pieces of Ropartz, but this
feeling, fortunately, did not cairy
over into the Haydn, which was
delightfully played. The Debussy,
too, was well played, and here
again the oboe passages were par-
ticularly good.

The final selection, Gion’s “Har-
monica Player”, was full of good
humor, and left the audience clap-
ping for more. The encore was
“Passacaglia” by Barthe, and here
the clarinet and oboe played beau-
tifully together, and the whole
group was perfectly balanced, with
sharp attacks and more strong
rhythms.

On the whole, the program was
excellently played, and one must
admire the way Miss Edwards
filled in with little notice, and
the way the quintet, without a
previous rehearsal with her, pre-
sented a difficult and surprisingly
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Page Seven



Pastors Discuss Ethics
And Faith Of Christians
Continued from Page 3

Christ, it was affirmed that one
first must know who Christ was
in order to know why His teach-

ings are important.

When the question of Judaism
was brought up, it was suggested

__that people should go back to their
tradition and find out what it is.

The new trend in Christianity re-

‘quires a fuller knowledge of the

Old Testament.
Even though Christians believe
that they are: saved by faith,
orks must enter in, for faith
must be exemplified in the works
of Christians.

M. Peyre Criticizes
Standing of Scholars

Continued from Page 3

unhypocritical. The ideal life in
America is that of the business-
man; this has several unfortunate
results tor the scholar. It forces
him into a regularity of living
which is not conducive to the soli-
tude needed for slow intellectual
maturing and artistic productiv-
ity. Quantity of output replaces
quality; the creator may “read a
book which has not been written,
in orde: to write a book which no
one will read”, There is here,
however, a remarkable lack of
jealousy among colleagues and
far fewer professional “inflated
egos”.

One stimulus to the migrations
of the past fifteen years has been
a sense of “tragic urgency”, a
knowledge that the classical and
other cultures could not survive on
the war-ravaged continent, and
that the only hope was to carry
them over to this country to be
grafted on and preserved for the
future.

Criticism in this country has a
keener and !ess negative approach
although we kav: less skill and
have lost the so-called “urbane
style” of the English. Our writ-
ing of the English language has
been undermined by the vogue of
the business or “Washington”
turn of speech, making critical
language into mere technical jar-
gon. The United States has more
political freedom than many other
countries, but this does not mean
that we have here more intellec-
tual freedom. The two have never
been as interdependent as we are
led to believe. Perhaps a lack of
originality and courage springs
from our free thinking. An un-
fortunate trend in our thinking
today is complacency; M. Peyre
said that now more than ever we
must study foreign languages and
civilizations in an attempt to
bridge the all-important gap, but
instead we seem to be increasing-
ly satisfied with a meagre study
of our own culture. We have a
tendency to use science as a guide
to everything, as something to
“keep up with”, Although this
gives us an honesty of approach,
the soluble problems with which
science deals are changed and out-
dated within twenty years, where-
as the insoluble questions alcne
are worthwhile in that they al-
ways fascinate and lead us on.

Standards must be flexible, and
the only critical question we can
ask of a creator is “has he been
faithful to his own inner vision
and inner word?” To do other-
wise is to fail him in understand-
ing and open-mindedness. Liter-
ature must be irrational, and we
must not use another’s work a3
a vehi!) to demo, strate our o.vn
This is «.
sad prac:c: of many contemp.-
rary critics. The scholar or crea-
tor, on the other hand, has the
duty of leading the public away
from the comics and television

(“the chewing gum of the eyes’).

Combellack States Ignorance of Homerists,
Points to Influence of Old, Learned Audience

Continued from Page 1

single author, a trend followed by
all but a stout few by the end of
the nineteenth century. Out of
the clash of learned forces, how-
ever, has grown, in the last fifty
or sixty years, a reaction, a “Uni-
tarianism”, insisting that each of
the epics had one, if not the same
author. Still there is no sign of
a truce, for the scholars interested
in linguistic phenomena feel there
are many authors. Each school,
working on assumptions, is stub-
bornly trying to convince the oth-
er!

Ignorance, again, makes 1mpos-
sible a conclusive statement of the
way the poems were presented.
They could have been sung in
small pieces to banquet gather-
ings, or offered in larger sections
before large gatherings in towns.

Because of concrete knowledge,

a theory that Thackery influenced.

Fielding is labelled absurd. Yet
equally absurd theories about
Homer can go undetected in a fog
of ignorance. Homer could have
‘been influenced by some non-ex-
tant work, and today’s criticism
may be faulty because the ex-
istence of a pattern is not real-
ized.: As the problem of Homer's



Four Assumptions Form
Basis of Carbon Dating

Continued from Page 3

grates so that a balance is reach-
ed. The approximately half life
of C14 is 5570 plus or minus 30
years.

Therefore, if more than half the
amount of C14 in a substance is
gone, the particular substance
‘must be at least 5570 plus or min-
us 30 years old. To find the amount
of C14 that was originally in a
piece of decayed wood, for exam-
ple, a current sample of wood is
taken and the percent of C14 mea-
sured by a Geiger counter. Then
this percent is compared with the
percent of C14 found in the decay-
ing substance and the difference of
the two percentages shows to what
extent the wood has decayed and
thus how long the process has been
going on. Knowing the half life of
C14, and then measuring the re-
maining life time by the Geiger
counter, the archaeologist or geo-
logist, or any interested person
can determine how long ago the
substances were living.

Dr. Zimmerman explained the
technique used in this work. He
showed a diagram of the Geiger
counter, explained the mechanism,
and stressed the skill necessary to
keep out outside factors which
would influence the process. He
ended the lecture by stating that
carbon-dating is based on four as-
sumptions: ;

1. The Decay Law has been the
same for the past 20,000 years; it
has not been influenced by glaci-
ers.

2. Cosmic radiations have been
the same for the past 20,000 years
or longer.

3. There is an equilibrium and
a complete mixing between vari-
ous sources of carbon.

4. There is no exchange of car-
bon atoms after the death of the
plant or animal.



Germany and others has perform-
ed a greater service to its people,
in this respect, than ours. Amer-
ican literature is generally lack-
ing in ideas and originality.

M. Peyre felt that it is the task
of foreign scholars in America to
help this country to understand
the rest of the world. It is equally
urgent that they convey to their
own countries the fact that Amer-
ica is not just a capitalistic power
but has a soul and spirit of its
own, and this may be done most



The literature of France, England,



successfully tniough literature,

predecessors or models arises,

Homerists create, work out, and|_

criticize sources. Again, because
of lack of knowledge, no one can
prove them wrong.

The ignorance of the cultural
milieu of the poetry is more seri-
ous because only part of the

poetry is understood, out of gen-|

eral cultural context.

This ignorance was non-existent
for the audiences who saw Homer.
They had a deep relevant knowl-
edge, and Homer wrote for them.
As they pay more attention to
Homer’s poetry, critics realize
that he was less the naive rustic,
more the learned scholar, The sim-

plicity is that “of a Greek temple, |.

not a shepherd’s hut.” The Homer-
ists, however, too often neglect
the audience, learned in old
legends and capable, as today’s
audience is not, of seeing rich vis-
tas behind the guideposts of pass-
.ing references.

The audience inherited know]l-
edge of more than the main out-
line of the legends, and needed no
footnotes, Mr. Combellack stated.
Of course this, like the orthodox
theory, is only guesswork, but it
would’ explain many passages that
seem to be irrelevant interpola-
tions.

The archery contest at the fu-
neral games for Patroklos, in the
Iliad, for example, could be ex-
plained, not as interpolation of a
highly improbable sort, or a mo-
mentary lapse in Homer’s genius,
but as a deference to the knowl-
edge of the audience. The listen-
ers probably knew that one man
hit the string tying the target
bird to the ship, while another hit
the {pigeon itself. Therefore it
would seem more logical to them
if Achilleus announced these con-
ditions for awarding the prizes
than if he named the second prize
for some feat which, according to
the legend, could not be accom-
plished. The speech becomes a
“kind of remembrance of time’s
future”.

The author treating tradition
works differently, and creates dif-
ferent effects for a listening audi-
ence. Too often critics forget this,
and create in themselves an in-
terpretive blindness that could be
cured by a closer attention to
clues furnished by the epics. In
explaining passages, they may ne-
glect qualities of Homer which ap-
pear only with a knowledge of his
cultural heritage and his audience.

Minute Special Touches
Improve Movie’s Quality
Continued from Page 2

can play outside whenever he
wants to, he has a dog to play with
and he never has to practice for
concerts. A chase enters in, but
this time has a special twist: while
his friend Rocks is being threaten-
ed with a gun, seven-year-old Se-
bastian grabs the wheel and starts
the car. This throws the gangster
off his guard, enabling Rocks to
overpower him. By this time the
police come. fe

Deciding it is wrong to keep Se-
bastian any longer, Rocks turns
him in. However, his captivitiy
has taught Sebastian a few things.
He refuses to play unless he gets
an increase in pay, a dog, and
Miss Frisbie for his guardian. The
movie ends with the suggestion
that Sebastian has spent a summer
with Rocks.

It is not easy to show someone’s
reformation as a side issue in a
movie without having it cloy. Yet
Rocks, played by Robert Shakle-
ton, is always the good-hearted
American who is somehow in the
position of a thug. Miss Frisbie,
in her dowdy clothes, is a perfect
governess. Bobby Henery, who





also starred in “The Fallen Idol”,

Fall.

Deanery Sales,Come Up in the Spring;
Donations Are Welcome--Just Anything

(Ladies of Bryn Mawr, please hark to this call,
It’s meant for each one of you, meant for you all,
And will damage your pocketbooks hardly at all!

The purpose and point and intent of this tale,

Is to ask you to help with the Deanery Sale.

“But why have these sales?” you may ask with good reason.
‘Our reply: “At the end of each Deanery season .

All profits are used with most diligent care,

To refurbish and paint, and to mend and repair.

Not a nickel is left . .. we don’t start with too much...
For needed equipment, improvements and such.

Thanks to money trom Deanery Sales in the past,

The cubicles now have a bathroom at last.

And two shabby bedrooms are shabry no more, ”

New paint, drapes, and bedspreads, new rugs on the floor.
Other Deanery plans must be kept on the fire,

Until Sales can provide all the cash they require.”

If by chance-you are off on a cruise or a tour,
Won’t you pick up some items with local allure?

If you’re staying at home... and a few of us may!
\Won’t you knit, won’t you sew,
Sweaters and booties and soakies and caps,
Cuddly blankets for small people’s naps.
Little boy playsuits and dresses for sister,
Aprons for missus, her daughter, her mister.
Napkins for cocktails and napkins for teas,
Lampshades or bureau scarves .
If you’re one of the ladies who lack finger arts,
- Buy a few likely items in giftshops and marts:
Fancies and frillies for dressy-
Gay belts and earrings for want-to-be-seen-agers.

Cases for cigarettes, ashtrays and frames,

Toiletries, lipsticks and scent for the dames.

Argyles and scarves, wallets, lighters and ties,
Handbags of every description and size.

Beads, bits of jewelry, pendants of jade,

Linens and petitpoint, ends of brocade.

Gloves made of nylon and gloves made of hide.

Gifts for the debutante, gifts for the bride.

Place cards and placemats and china and glass,

Odd bits of silver and old bits of brass.

Vases and flowerpois, teacups and trays,

And paraphernalia for cock:ail buffets.

Stuffed dogs and dollies and all sorts of toys,

To gladden the hearis oi small girls and boys.

Wherever you live won’t you help with The Sale?

You can bring things, express them or send them by mail.*

won't you paint or crochet:

. . make what you please.

up teen-agers,

Ladies of Bryn Mawr, please hark to this call,
It’s meant for each one of you, meant for you all,
And will damage your pocketbooks hardly at all! (

*The articles you send us before May 15th

will be sold at our big Commencement time

Sale... the rest at Alumnae Weekend in the —

Packages should be addressed to

Mrs. Donald Wilbur, Sale Chrmn., The Deanery, Bryn Mawr



**Science At Bryn Mawr’’

New Booklet Modern In
Continued from Page 2

gives a sufficient and concise ac-
count of the progress that can be
made in the study of each sci-
ence, but it stresses, rather than
competent instruction and _ intel-
lectually stimulating relationships
with others in the field, the instru-
ments with which the laborator-
ies are equipped.

Little mention is made of Bry
Mawv’s particularly able and qual-
ified faculty, whereas many stu-
dents interested in the sciences
would find the opportunity to
study under such scientists a de-
ciding factor in choosing a college



steals the show. His mature in-
terpretation, combined with a cer-
tain naivete, makes the more his-
trionic school of child actors seem
ineffective.

The film has some very good ef-
fects which help to lift it out of

the class of a SS and
nothing more. There is . tian’s

fingerbowl of hot water after a
concert,'in which he has to soak
his hands while the press clusters
around him; Mr. Gorrick’s ubiqui-
tous secretary with her ubiquitous
box of candy; and the not fright-
ened but amazed look on a girl’s
face as she gets up from the floor
of the car which ‘Sebastian has
just driven.

In addition, there is music by
Mozart and Schubert throughout.
The movie was filmed with the





Austrian Tyrol as a background.

Proves Absorbing Topic,
Approach and In Design

for study. Some mention might
have been made of the outstanding
faculty in the physical science de-
partments,* and the easiest and
most unpretentious way would
have been to include their names
under their photographs.

Among the bright aspects of the
written material is the emphasis
on the fact that the advanced stu-
dent, through the honors work pro-
gram, can embark on programs of
independent research and can
specialize in particular aspects of
her science. In addition, the im-
portant point that undergraduates
have the advantage of being
taught by the same professors who
instruct in the graduate school,
thus receiving even beginning in-
struction from competent men and
women, is stressed. The fact that
students are informed of the lat-
est advances in scientific research
through tl®® journal clubs points
up the spirit of progress which ac-
companies scientific study at Bryn
Mawr.

On the whole, the pamphlet is
attractive and gives a satisfactory
picture of opportunities for scien-
tific study. It should attract many
who are interested in these fields
of specialization, as well as help
those who intend to fulfill only
their one-year requirement to
make a happy choice. Perhaps it
will be only the first of a series of
such publications elaborating on
the various departments of study



at Bryn Mawr.




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THE

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COLLEGE NEWS

EEE Pa COREE OR NTIE RARR RI ASR NTR IE I



Wednesday, March 19, 1952



Cassidy Proposes New
Educational Expansion

Continued from Page 1

demand for political expression,
which he considers greater than
hunger. This demand, however,
does not come from the masses,
but rather from the young intel-
lectuals, people with some educa-
tion. These “five-percenters” are
the dissatisfied ones, ,and wilt
eventually be the leaders of. the
masses.

In order to solve our difficulties
of misunderstanding and misinter-
preting the Middle East, we must
follow several steps. First, we
must increase our Point Four pro-
gram to include more territory.
In comparison to our European ex-



penditures, we have actually
spent very little in this problem
area. We must attempt to drop
our mask, learn ‘more, and try to
reach the intellectuals, thereby ex-
panding ourselves while educating
them. The study of political sci-
ence is a prime necessity (China
is a good example); Mr. Cas-
sidy advocated the plan of bring-
sng more foreign students to the



Students who are interested
in applying for rooms in the
French or Spanish House next
year should make appointments
with Miss Bree or Mrs. Mar-
shall before Friday, March 28.







United States to see our politics in
action. In addition to this, the in-
formation program must be ex-
panded by extending the Voice of
America programs and_ sending
good magazines, rather than State
Department propaganda, at rea-
sonable prices to the Middle East.

CALENDAR
‘(Continued from Page 1

student admission $.60.

9:00 p. m.-12:00 p. m. Square
Dance in the Graduate Gym,

Undergrad exhibit of china in
the Common Room.

Saturday, March 22

8:45 p. m. “The Shoemaker’s
(Prodigious ‘Wife’, Goodhart audi-
torium.

10:30 p. m. - 1:00 a. m. The
Shoemaker’s Shuffle, Radio Club
dance, in the Rumpus Room and
the Common Room.

Sunday, March 23

2:30 p. m. Hall basketball finals
in the gym: Pem East vs. Pem
West.

7:30 p. m. The Reverend Mr.
Thorne Sparkman of the Church
of the Redeemer, Bryn Mawr, will
deliver the address at the evening
chapel service.

Monday, March 24

5:00 p. m. Modified Nurses Aid
demonstration in Goodhart audi-
torium.

8:00 p. m. The Art Series Lec-
ture on “The Graphic Art of
Francisco Goya” will be given by
Phillip Hofer, Curator of Print-
ing and Graphic Arts, Harvard
University Library.

Tuesday, March 25

exam in Taylor.
8:30 p. m. The French Club will

ner Workshop.
sion $1.20;
$.60.

5:00 p.m. Modified Nurses Aid

present “Andromaque” by Jean
Racine in the Cornelia Otis Skin=|
General admis-
student admission

Dynamic Unity Of BMC
Continued from Page 1

When two. strange choruses

meet. and combine the products. of
many months work, the results

ean be numerous. Princeton and
Bryn Mawr meshed in a harmonic
compatability which was general-
ly more complete in the final per-
formance on Sunday.

The Princeton Glee Club offered
three Schubert Choruses: Wider-
spruch, Nachthelle with Harry
Powers as tenor soloist, and Can
tata written in celebration of the
recovery of Irene Kiesewetter, from
an Italian poem of unknown au-
thorship, Princeton, on a whole,
was considerably more successful
on Sunday when these three selec-
tions attained more closely the
musical stature which they merit.

Mass in G. Minor. And Hecuba’s Lament Display

And Princeton Choruses

Both Princeton and Bryn Mawr
introduced small groups of singers
which followed their respective
choral portions of the program,
the Princeton Madrigal Group and

the augmented Bryn Mawr Double
Octet. The two groups sang Idylls,
Airs, Madrigals, Catches, and Pas-
torals which were unquestionably
the lighter side of the program.
The Octet, possibly because it is
larger, seemed more unified in
voice types and sang with a pleas-
ant surety that reached the audi-
ence immediately. The Madrigal
Group did not effect a balance
similar to that of the Double 9,
but on ‘Sunday sang with enunci
ation and rhythm that compensat-
ed for the lacking balance.

With a glance back over the





ELECTION CALENDAR

Con.inued from Page 1

tary, and first junior member te
Undergrad.
Tuesday, March 25

College elections: League Sec-
retary, First Sophomore Member
to Self-Gov.
Wednesday, March 26

College elections: First Sopho-
more Member to Undergrad;
First Junior Member to Under-
grad.
Thursday, March 27

College election: Alliance Sec-
retary.



weekend as a whole, from the for-
mal concert to the Open House at
Denbigh, (yes! even to the bus
rides to and fro) a good time was
had by all!





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It was emphasized that the re-
lationship of the church and state
in this general area is not a seri-
ous problem. Its singular contin-
uation implies only a legal and so-
cial system of an archaic era, cer-
tainly not valid in the twentieth
century.

By following this program, we
will not only make our position

faculty and students invited
to
the only DaDaDramatic
Symposium
on
Jean Racine
ever to have been presented
ANYWHERE
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The News would like to correct
an error in the Flexner Lecture in



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on Cigarette Tests
No.

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THE OVENBIRD

the issue of March 5. The Italian
philosopher referred to in the lec-
ture was Vico, not Vigo as print-
ed. Our apologies to Mr. Berlin
and also the Italian Department.

more admirable in the Middle East,
but we will combat the overtures
now being made by the Soviet
Union. It is of utmost import-
ance, however, to prepare these |
peoples for our way of life. Mr. with them, they are of no use un-
Cassidy stressed the fact that less people are equipped to use
while democracy and freedom may , them. It is our first job to makc
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