College news, March 19, 1947

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VOL. XLIII, NO. 18

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Spiritual | Force
Of Christianity

Zealotism, ._Herodianism
Form Defensive
Response

Specially contributed by
Nancy Morehouse °47

The Christian ‘Church is the chief
spiritual force in the ‘world today
and will be the chief factor deter-
mining our future, declared Pro-
fessor Arnold Toynbee, in the last
Flexner lecture, entitled “Other
(Zealot-
ism, Herodianism, Evangelism).”

The only. effective response of a
civilization to aggression, Profes-
sor Toynbee feels, is spiritual, sub-
merging specific elements of either
culture involved in a new universal
religion. Thus the relation of
Christianity to other spiritual
forces of our time will be decisive
in-creating- the future of our civi-
lization.

A defensive response, according
to Professor Toynbee, may take the
form either of “zealotism” or “her-
odianism.” The zealot’s response
is a form of cultural isolationism,
in which he rejects any influences
of the aggressor civilization by an
insistence on the ancient elements
of his own culture. Even if this
response is successful it runs the
risk of fossilizing the culture in its
attempt to preserve it from alien
influences, while failure means de-
struction of the culture under at-
tack.

Professor Toynbee cited numer-
ous examples of this type of re-
sponse. The Jews have been suc-
cessful zealots, resisting assimila-
tion, but the culture which they
have preserved has become fossil-
ized. The Slavophile movement in
Russia, Japanese isolation in the
17th and 18th centuries, and Gan-
dhi’s attempt to return to tradi-
tional Hindu forms of life are all
illustrations of zealotism.

The Herodian, said Professor
‘Toynbee, prides himself on his re-

« Continued on Page 2 °

College Choruses
Sing With Vassar

Forty-five members of the Bryn
Mawr College Chorus travelled to
Poughkeepsie to sing with Vassar,
Radcliffe and Smith on Sunday af-
ternoon at the Skinner Recital Hall
on the Vasser College campus be-
fore an audience of about two hun-
-dred.

Each group sang separately five
or six pieces. The choice of Vas-
sar’s College Choir was purely re-
ligious music. Radcliffe sang Lake
Werna’s Water, written by Edward
Ballantine especially for the Choral
Society, and the Smith College
Glee (Club’s program _ included
Francis Poulenc’s Petites Voix.
Bryn Mawr’s selections included:
Awake, Thou Wintry Earth, Bloom-
ing on the Hilltop, Suscepti Israel
from Bach’s Magnificat, Alleluia
by Irving Fine and My Soul, There
Is a.Country by Robert Delaney.

Together the four colleges sang
“Mendelssohn's Laudate Pueri and

~ Bach’s In Dulei Jubilo.



tire eects heise lunch in Main,

and in putting up the members who

-wished to go up on Saturday and

spend the night.



Brightly Attired

Faculty Beats

Students with Subway Tactics

By Emily Townsend, ’50

Nike, Lattimore

Let’s see you splat ’em more.
or

Gates and. Hewitt, -

You can do it.

Such classic rhymes of praise
and rejoicing rose from the Gal-
lery as the sturdy Professors trot-
ted onto the floor. (Out of coyr-
tesy to the Biology department we
suppress whispers that seemed to
rhyme “Berry” with “hairy”).
Tastefully attired in practically
nothing at all, the Faculty did in-
deed make a fetching team. Mr.

Gilbert Explains

Political Science

Of Macchiavelli

Common Room, March 12. Dis-
cussing the relationship of History
and Politics in Macchiavelli’s
Thought, Dr. Felix Gilbert, of the
History Department, stated that
“Macchiavelli held a strange, dou-
ble-sided view of Fortune: It is an
inexorable Fate, but at the same
time, if you try all your powers,
you can perhaps force Fortune to
serve you.” This double concep-
tion greatly influenced his theory
of Political Science and of History
for, according to Dr. Gilbert,
Macchiavelli felt that man can con-
trol Fortune by knowledge, and
by a study of practical political ex-
perience throughout History. Dr.
Gilbert stated that “Macchiavelli’s
world is no longer one of super-
natural forces; it is-a world of
men, and can be managed by man’s
rationality.”



Therefore, Dz. Gilbert feels,
Macchiavelli considered Politics an
exact science requiring a precise
knowledge of History, and his own
historical scholarship was as real-
istic and as critical as any in the
Renaissance period. However, in
his historical works, Discorsi, deal-
ing with the life of the ruler Ce-
sare Borgia, and The Prince, deal-
ing with the life of the tyrant
Castriccio Castracani, he gives an
eclectic description of the ideal ty-
rant and of the ideal ruler rather
than an exact review of the lives
of those two individuals. The char-
acteristics which he attributed to
them were drawn largely from his-
tory and especially Roman history,
which he admired greatly. Dr. Gil-
bert state that this historical meth-
od of Macchiavelli supposes two
prerequisites: firstly, that man is
the same at all times and does not
change; secondly, that man is al-

ways guided by the same motives,
Continued on Page 4

Faculty Schedule
Vaudeville Show

On Saturday, April 12 the Fac-
ulty will present a show in Good-
hart at 8:30 P.M. Mr. Crenshaw,
Committee Chairman, refuses to
divulge any specific information
about the production, although he
hints at “vaudeville turns”. Pro-
ceeds of the show will go toward
the undergraduate quota for the
Drive.

Other ae of the | Faculty
Lattimore, Mr. Hewitt, and Mrs.
DeVaron: Mr. Thor wild: act az
Consultant. Seat rates will be $2.00
for the reserved front section, $1.50
for the back section. and $1.00 for

+7 Thursday,



Hewitt displayed an ancient Crim-
son shirt, topped off with one part
of spectacle to two of blindfold (or
it may have been a tribal symbol;
we didn’t ask). Mr. Lattimore had
on a blazer; we saw little more.
Forwards Berry and Broughton
were purely attired in white (is
for fight, etc.) Enough of Faculty
Fashions—on with the game.

It all started with mass intro-
ductions and handshaking; the
Faculty team took its position,
beating on its collective chest and
grunting. Berry, Broughton and
Hewitt started as forwards, Latti-
more, Miller and Lang as guards.
Look at Mr. Broughton jump! He
gets the ball, he crouches, he
shoots—the ball flies out the win-
dow in upper Gallery. Mr. Berry
hangs on the basket with one hand
and drops the ball in with the oth-
er. The quarter ends, 8 to 3, as
Mr. Broughton ie to play in-
side the gym and sinks two.

The second quarter brings two
fascinating new elements into

play: Boy’s Rules and Eugene Gal-
..Continued_onPage—4

Cleland d Speaks
On Humanity’s 3

Eternal Interests

Reverend J. T. Cleland, Profes-
sor of Homiletics and Preacher to
the University, Duke University,
spoke on “The Three Unending In-
terests of Man” in the Common
Room last Saturday night.

Dr: Cleland analyzed the values
and insufficiencies of science, phil-
osophy, and ethics, man’s great in-
terests. He explained that religion
is the great synthesizing force
which binds them together to give
them meaning and to allow man
to translate his thought into action,
going beyond the limits permitted
in either science or philosophy.

The value of science, explained
Dr. Cleland, is that it gives us a
method of analysis, aids man in
controlling the forces of nature for
his comfort, and shatters the Old
World concept of a limited world,
controlled by man since its begin-
nings. The scientific spirit of al-
legiance to a cause, or self-sacri-
fice to the pursuit of truth is one
of the most admirable of human
virtues.

But science alone is not enough,
added Dr. Cleland. “Science does
its. work in a moral vacuum.”
Science works for knowledge, with
little regard for the effects. Nor
does science search far enough. It
cannot transcend the sphere of
exact, known data. Philosophy
goes beyond science to find the sig-
nificance of life. ~

Science must not be abandoned,
but presupposed in the study of
philosophy, a “study to interpret.”
Here is asked the “why” of the
universe, and wisdom, instead of

knowledge, is the aim. Philosophy
Continued on Page 2

CALENDAR

Wednesday, March 19

10:00, Goodhart. Self-Govern-
ment Mass Meeting.

Friday, March 21

Last day of classes.

Monday, March 31

9:00, Classes begin after Spring

Vacation. ss
April 3 eae

8:15, Goodhart. Concert by the
Harvard Glee Club and the
Bryn Mawr cada ; °
Tuesday, April 8

8:00, Goodhart. Prof. Leo
Strauss, “The Classical Theory
of European Absolutism.”









Harvard-B. M.
Easter Concert

To be April 3rd

The Bryn Mawr College Chorus
and the Harvard University Glee
Club will give their Spring concert
on April 3, at 8:15 P. M. in Good-
hart Hall. This first all-religious
program includes one of the most
beautfiul of early choral works,
Giovanni Gabrielli’s In Ecclesiis
and selections from one of the
greatest of modern choral works,
Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms.
The entire concert could be called
a representation of some of the
greatest religious music, yet it of-
fers as well comparatively unkown
pieces such as fourteenth century
motets and the first public per-
formance of a twentieth century
composition.

The concert will open with the
In Ecclesiis sung by the combined
choruses and accompanied by a
brass ensemble of three trumpets
and three trombones played by
members of the Philadelphia Sym-
phony Orchestra. The —choruses
will offer individually several se-

Tod, the duet from Bach’s Easter
Cantata, Christ Lag in Todesban-
den, the Dutch Easter carol,
Awake Thou Wintry Earth, My
Soul There is a Country by Vau-
ghan Dulaney, and the first per-
formance of Alleliua by Irving
Fine, a member of the Harvard
faculty. The double octet will sing
two eighteenth century rounds,
Continued on Page 3

Strauss to Talk
About Absolutism

“The Classical Theory of Europ-
ean Absolutism” will be the sub-
ject of a talk to be given by Pro-
fessor Leo Strauss in Goodhart
Hall, April 7 at 8:00.

Mr. Strauss is a member of the
Graduate Faculty of Political and
Social Science organized under the
New School of Social Research.
His talk will comprise the Mallory
Whiting Webster Lecture in His-
tory for 1946-1947.

lections: Bryn Mawr will sing Den’

France Faces ~
Economic Crisis,
Cameron States

Need for Financial Aid
To French Nation
Explained

Goodhart, March 18. Dr. Eliza-
beth Moore Cameron, Research
Associate of the Institute of Inter-
national Studies at Yale Univer-
sity, spoke on “France and Recon-
struction” at the Fifth College As-
sembly on (Current Affairs.

Dr. Cameron stressed the im-
portance to America of helping
France recover as a self-sufficient
nation. If France has a major
economic breakdown and is unable
to continue reconstruction, this ne-
cessitates intervention by one of
the two surviving “elephants,” the
United States or Russia. More-
over, political tensions which are
increasing between Right and Left
would be sharply increased. Dr.
Cameron added that a revolution
threatens if the present “patch-
work government” breaks down.

Pointing out that it is not nec-
essary for the United States to go
in as a bulwark against Commun-
ism, Dr. Cameron declared that the

rench should be given a chance
to ‘build up a government them-
selves. ‘However, they need econ-
omic assistance, and the United
States is the only nation with the
credit and equipment to provide
this.

Dr. Cameron added that even if
the present” Socialist = dominated
government were overthro} by
the Right there would be no change
in the economic system because na-
tionalization of resources is accept-
ed by all. Therefore, we as a cap-
italist nation would gain nothing
by its downfall.

(Dr. Cameron maintained that
France is\a good risk for credit.
The Monet /Plan of modernization
and equipment has been praised by
the British. She warned that the
French desire a plan which they can



carry out themselves.



K. F. Gerould Encouraged Writing
Stimulated Latent College Talent

Specially Contributed
By Cornelia Meigs

As the final date approaches
when manuscripts must be submit-
ted for the Katharine Fullerton
Gerould Award, it is perhaps a
proper moment for Bryn Mawr un-
dergraduates to hear something of
Katharine Fullerton herself from a
person who worked under her. For
nine years she was a vivid and dy-

namic part of the College, al-*

though she had not then begun her
literary career or the writing of
those. essays and stories which
were so particularly her own and
of her own time.

The fact that she wrote little at
8ryn Mawr might be explained by
her being chairman ofthe Fresh-
man Composition course and being
obliged by the curriculum of the
day to teach it in a single class, a
hundred or so strong. But realiz-
ing that this method had its draw-
backs, she organized the first

recourse” in “Descriptive andk@vasi

tive Writing,” wherein a few peo-
ple at*a-tintee~*""_@jtivaatare’
of her peculiarly “keen judgment
and discerning advice. She was
quite unforgettable as she presid-



ed over those gatherings, a very

| latent in the <. °
be carrying further those results -



handsome young woman with a
beautiful reading voice. She al-
ways made papers sound better
when she read them aloud than the
halting writer had ever dreamed
that they could be. She under-
stood exactly what to bring out in
them and she was always sure that
there was something to bring out.
Her criticism could be piercing and
her praise was never too abundant,
but her interest was untiring and
always generous.

Among those people who had the
privilege of working with her,
some found their first chance to
express themselves in anything
but their own tlundering terms;
some discovered, in the evercise of
these early and uncertain efforts,
that this was to be their future
calling. Theresa Helburn was one
of her early students, as was also
Marianne Moore. If the prize to
be given yearly as a memorial to
Katharine Fullerton Gerould has

“> own. stimtiwiien.c-Tucuurage- ©

ment for the imaginative



for which she worked with such -

enthusiasm and such confidence.
Cc. L. M.














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tL o Se
The Critic,

It has been charged that’ in the New? s attitude towards
creative effort it has killed this effort by “devastating re-
views.” Criticism is an art in itself and the critic is writing
from an individual point of view. His function is to judge
the finished performance, not the effort that goes into it.
Anyone sincere in the desire to create should be equally sin-
cere in receptiveness towards just criticism.

Mere production of an artistic effort is not enough, even
though it may represent courage on the part of the amateur.
A creative expression which collapses in the face of just crit-
icism fails through its own weakness and the critic cannot
be held responsible. He is responsible for maintaining the
integrity of certain standards. If his evaluation, according
to these standards, is expressed in a manner displeasing to
the reader, it doés not make the criticism any- less sincere.

Critics are chosen because they are considered competent

in their field, not because of their ability to write favorable
reviews.

8



The Quota System

Attention should be called to the newly-formed fifteen-
college Intercollegiate Race Relations Board, which has just
concluded its inaugural meeting at Swarthmore. College
representatives of this board intend to foster active interest
in the organization on their respective campuses and to work
also with their administrations.

Most important present projects are the removal of the
questions of race and religion from college admission blanks
and complete elimination of the “quota” system. It is im-
portant te note the complete absence of this system at Bryn
Mawr. Admission blanks have no question of race, and the
question of religion is used only for statistical purposes.

There has been earnest effort to have more Negroes on
campus due to the feeling that such a situation would be ‘of |.
immense advantage to an already liberal student body which
has had in many cases no opportunity to associate with them

-on an intellectual basis.

The Negro desperately needs this chance for intellectual
equality. It is unfair to condemn his cultural contributions
when he has never been given an education and opportunity

=~ equal to AUNEE-wnd- ave made contributions.” “Prejudice is
more. diffie e above than pa A
be banisheaonly
\en the intellectual plane only that real tolerance and under-
"rnd can ne meres &. Be



jand establish

= prejudice. --—
ere ‘there is ‘understanding. Today its]

home, Miss Oppenheimer explain-
ed. In other words, no changes
could be made to disturb the other
races in Palestine, notably the
Arabs, and no feeling could be
raised against the Jewish people
in other countries, who did not
wish to avail themselves of a na-
tional home.

In. 1982, Miss Oppenheimer con-
tiwfied, Winston Churchill took his
stand on the question, stating that
Palestine should not be turned into
a Jewish home as a whole. He en-
visaged a bi-racial state, with a
mixed government of Jews and
Arabs.

Between 1932 and 19389 violent
disorders broke out in this near
Eastern firebox until finally the
British took their stand on the fa-
mous “White Paper.” This. estab-
lished an independent Palestine
state with the Arabs and Jews
sharing governmental power. It
also limited the immigration of
Jews. After five years:there was
to be no more immigration unless
the Arabs consented.

Although conditions in Europe in
1944 warranted special action, the
Arabs did not feel that a 18% min-
ority should have power in the
government, or should be added t5
by extended immigration.

The alternatives include the as-
similation of the Jews, and, as
Miss Oppenheimer suggested, this
is impractical as the Jews do not
assimilate easily. The other solu-
tion is some sort of trusteeship
which is also impractical because
of the strategic position of Pales-
tine, directly North of Britain’s
lifeline, the Suez Canal, and neigh-
bor to Iranian oil fields.

Toynbee Illustrates
Defensive Response

Continued from Page 1

alism and rationalism, aiming at
the adoption of just those elements
in the aggressor civilization as will
enable the attacked to resist the
pressure. The danger of this tech-
nique is the difficulty of drawing
the line at which the new influence
is to stop, as the adoption of one
factor in a civilization tends to
bring others with it. If success-
ful, the Herodian becomes: part of
the ruling group in the aggressive
civilization; if unsuccessful, he is
simply added to the victims of this
ruling group.

Many illustrations of the Hero-
dian response ‘were given by Pro-
fessor Toynbee, principally of cul-
tures which have been forced to
take over Western civilization to
prevent domination by a western
nation. In many instances, zeal-
otist and herodian trends can be
found together in a civilization un-
der attack; among the Jews one
finds strict religionists intent on
maintaining the old forms, liberal
Jews who favor assimilation, ‘and
Zionists, who aim at “collective as-
similation” in that they wish to
make the Jews a nation in the us-
ual western sense.

The case of the Bolsheviks is an-
other example of both tendencies
in one group. The West, said Pro-
fessor Toynbee, considers a com:
munism one of ts heresies, and one
of the most effective defenses is to
take over a heresy of the attacker
it. In Russia the
Slavophile tendency and the at-
| tempt, to reach the material level
rof. the west show ee two influ-



zealotism and arodfaniam is now
hover, and the present conflict is
over which of the ageressive civ-
ilidations * adopt.



Current Events)

for—_Jews,—but—not—the—national

= ‘between: ero "Reso icerts..

Polish Students Write
Note of Thanks
For Books

18th December, 1946,

——— Poznan,—
Poland.

Bryn Mawr College, =”

Bryn Mawr, Pa.:

We are very glad to have re-

ceived all these fine books from)

you. You may well imagine it’s
very difficult nowadays to get any
books, specially English ones. We
incorporated them into the library
of the Circle of the English Philol-
ogy students. They will do no end
of good to all our zealous students.

By the way, will you mind start-
ing a correspondence with our stu-
dents of the English Philology,
Poznan, Fredry 7, what might im-
prove their English and be a mu-
tual exchange of ideas on a gen-
eral basis. We should very glad
to hear your opinion in that re-
spect.

Closing this epistle we should
like to remark, that we should be
very thankful in case you should
be able to do something more for
us. We are rather short of dic-
tionaries and English literature.

Expecting to hear from you, we
remain,

Yours faithfully,
V-President of the Board,
Teresa Micewicz.
Secretary,

Emilia Marchwicka.

(Editor’s Note: This letter was
received from a Polish university
to which Bryn Mawr students have
sent books.)

Hourani Delivers
Lecture on Islam

Goodhart, Common Room, March
11: Mr. Cecil Hourani from the
Arab Office in Washington spoke
on Islam in the second of a series
of lectures on Oriental religions.
“Mr. Hourani described the three
parts of the Islamic belief. The
first is belief in the unity of God.
“There is no god but God, and Mo-
hammed is His prophet.” The sec-
ond is duty. There are five duties
in Islam, called the five pillars,
which every Mohammedan must
perform. They are, Mr. Hourani
explained, profession of
prayer towards Mecca five times 2
day and attendance at the Mosque
on Fridays, charity to the poor,
fasting in the month of Ramadan,
and making a pilgrimage to Mecca
once in his lifetime.

The third part of Islam, Mr.
Hourani continued, is the belief in
the heavenly revelation of the Ko-
ran which asserts the unity of God
and the prophetship of Mohammed.
The Koran completely controls the
life of the Mohammedan, and the
whole religion is based on ‘these
“ancreated revelations” which have
the form of a somewhat rambling
poetry.

Mr. Hourani also discussed many
of the moral aspects of Islam. He
explained the position of women by
saying that although a man is al-
lowed to have four wives, very few
do because they are unable to treat
all four equally, as the Koran de-
mands,

faith, |



Opinion

Reviews of Arts Night
Are Criticized
_ By Students

pro the Editor:
f- There-was-a-glaring discrepancy —

between the News’ editorial policy,
calling for constructive criticism
of Arts Night, and “the various
pseudo-New Yorker reviews. It
requires considerable courage for
an amateur to display his crea-
tions.
the News’ reviews certainly tends
to intimidate any potential artist.
If the News supports creative ef-
fort, why the devastating reviews?
It couldn’t have picked a surer way
to kill Arts Night.

Virginia Johnson ’47
Esther Smith ’47
Elizabeth Steinert ’47
Jean Switendick ’48



ELECTIONS j

President of A. A. 4

Elizabeth Bagley
President of Alliance

Ning Hitchcock }-
Common Treasurer

Sue Kelley
Vice-Pres. of Self-Gov.

Nellie Keffer
Secretary of Self.-Gov.

Ann Seideman
_Vice-Pres. of Undergrad

Ann Chase

Secretary of Undergrad

Helen Martin







Religion, Ethics Tie
Interests Together

Continued from Page 1

makes for clarity of judgment, Dr.
Cleland stated, but the multiplic-
ity of ‘specialized knowledge, the
inability to reconcile different
views, and the very intellectual
quality of the subject prevent its
close relation to human experience.

These objections are partly met
by ethics, whose purpose is to pro-
vide for action upon the preceding
studies and interpretation, Dr. Cle-
land pointed out. Ethics asks the
question, “What do we do about
it?” But ethics knows no way to
turn “ought” into “is”. It is too
abstract for the ordinary man; the

result is cynicism, fatalism, or
static conservatism. Ethics, how-
ever, is more important than

science or philosophy, for its theme
is essentially moral.

The three interests of man are
then essential to the education and
thought of us all, but are insuffici-
ent in themselves, or even when
grouped together.

Dr. Cleland then explained. the
place of religion as the great bind-
ing force which accomplishes a full
synthesis of the three, to infuse
them with meaning, and empower
man to transcend the more lim-
ited sides of his being. With
the comforting faith of a positive
religion we can venture into areas
of thought and experience which
we cannot enter with these three
studies alone. Without religion,
we must reserve judgment, and
are limited by the extent of exact
knowledge, Dr. Cleland declared,
but must act, must live, basing our
actions on the knowledge afforded
by science, philosophy, and ethics,

and acting surely with the faith of
religion.



League Nominates Worthington,

LaGrande, Geib,

The,League Board has nominat-
ed the following persons for Sec-

retary of the League for the com- |

ing year:
Edythe LaGrande

Edie is, Sgphe™ora,.member. to
the League and head of the Under-
Sally Worthington

Sally is in charge of the Soda



Fountain, a League activity, and is
Secreta of the Athletic Associa-



Boas for Sec’y

tion.
Katherine Geib
Kathy was a representative to
Self-Government her freshman
year. She is manager of the swim-
ming teametgme--<*-:* tanage~ the

peaenet team next year. _ allie .
oe Barbare zn rrr

Rirbara has worked at the Bryn +

The supercilious attitude of °

O34

Mawr Summer Camp and attended Bie

a Work-Week-end, both of which

are League activities.




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Page Three



Race Relations Board Formed
By Fifteen College Conference

Specially: contributed by

Alison Barbour 47 and
Sara Berman ’48

“There is no-:such thing as a

_Vicious circle where prejudice is

concerned,” said Dr. Kresh, Pro-
fessor of Psychology at Swarth-
more, at the close of the conference
on Race Relations in the Colleges
held at Swarthmore on March 8
and 9. “Once a step is taken to
combat prejudice,” he continued,
“the circle is broken.”

The conference, at which Bryn
Mawr was represented by Alison
Barbour ’47 and Sara Berman ’48,

- ‘was attended by delegates from

fifteen colleges. The colleges in-
cluded Cheney, Columbia, Connec-
ticut College, Cornell, Harvard,
Howard, Lincoln, Mount: Holyoke,
Princeton, Smith, Swarthmore,
Vassar, and Yale. The purpose of
the conference was to discuss the
discriminatory practices of the
colleges aganst racial and religious
minority groups. Among the prob-
lems considered by the students
were admissions policies, methods
of discouraging quota systems, and
the small representation of Negro
students in the colleges. ‘
The majority of the colleges have
discriminatory policies, it was felt,
although they will not admit them.
Bryn Mawr was one of the few
schools that had no quota and ad-
mitted students on the basis of
their abilty to do college work.
Most of the delegates were
agreed that the number of Negro
students in all but the Negro col-
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publicize the fact that the colleges
wish to encourage Negro students
to apply. One of the suggestions
was to publish a joint statement by
the colleges to this effect in the
Negro press. Another suggestion
was to write to the high schools
asking them to recommend that
their qualified students make ap-
plication.

The principal work of the con-
ference was the setting up of the
Intercollegiate Board, a permanent
organization dedicated to the prin-
ciple of education for all who are
qualified. The Board, among its
varied functions, will’ serve as a
publicity bureau for the activities
of the various college Race Rela-
tions groups. It will work to do
away with the practice of having
question of yace and religion on
college ‘admission blanks and on
employment bureau applications,
The group will organize panels on
race relations in the secondary
schools in’ an effort to combat
prejudice below the college level.
And, they will press for state laws
such as the recently defeated
Austin-Mahoney bill in New York
State which would outlaw discrim-
inatory practices by the colleges.

Besides Dr. Kresh, Mr. Walter
White, executive secretary of the

National Association for the Ad-
vancement of the Colored People
addressed the meeting on the sub-
ject. of the race relations problem
in this country.



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/Miss Pope Talks

On Spanish Song

Miss Isabel Pope .of Radcliffe
College: spoke to a group of fac-
ulty and students from Bryn Mawr,
Haverford and Villanova on “The
Spanish Cancionero” on March 13,
in the Spanish House.

Miss Pope approached the sub-
ject of the cancionero from _ its
liturgical rather than from _ its
Moorish origins. She explained the
construction and development of
these Renaissance Spanish songs,
demonstrating the elaboration of
the simple, direct forms which are
so typical of Spanish music. .

To illustrate her talk, Miss Pope
played records made by the Har-
vard Glee Club and the Radcliffe
Choral Society which revealed the
beautiful harmony found in the
cancioneros. Margit Frenk, a gra-
duate student, sang several of the
songs, accompanying herself with
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NOTICES

Room Applications

Room applications will be dis-
tributed before vacation. Students
are requested to have them signed
and returned immediately after the
holiday.

Title Awards

The _ Title board takes—great-
pleasure in announcing the winners
of its contest, which was sponsor-
ed by the Undergraduate Associa-
tion. The prize for the best prose
entry was awarded to Susan Feld-
man ’49, for her-“Time of the Mid-
night Snow,” and the poetry prize
to Carolyn

hen ’50 for “Night
Train.” 3
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Creative writing to be considered
for the new Gerould Award must
be submitted to the Alumni Office
immediately after vacation, by
April 2.



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Concert on April 3rd

Continued from Page 1
When Jesus Wept by William Bill-
ings and Ave Maria by Mozart.

The Harvard Glee Club will sing
five motets including Maria Stella,
a fourteenth century Laude, and
Gretchininov’s Credo with baritone
solo-by—Paul- Tibbetts. .

The second joint selection has of-'
fered the Chorus a unique experi-
ence in dealing with the interpre-
tation of a~modern choral work,
the first and third choruses from
Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms.
As a conclusion. the combined chor-
uses will sing the Crucifixus and
Dona Nobis from Bach’s Mass in
B Minor, also accompanied by the
Philadelphia Orchestra brass en-
semble.

The management of the concert
is under the supervision of Hope
Kaufmann, ’48. Admission, which
will defray expenses, is $1.20 and
college admission is $.60.





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THE COLLEGE NEWS





Alliance Angles

Since the return of Carol Mc-
Govern, ’48, from the Chicago Con-
ference, the National Students’ Or-
ganization (NSO) has been
brought to the fore on the Bryn
Mawr campus. This Chicago Con-
ference met to give birth to the
now functioning NSO. The ques-
tion of -whether-Bryn Mawr should
join this progressive organization,
in which over 200 colleges and uni-
versities are represented, must be
decided by a campus vote.

The Alliance feels that each stu-
dent should realize the importance
of joining the NSO. In the first
place, the aims of the NSO are
essentially the aims of Bryn Mawr
itSelf. It stresses the importance
of international co - operation
through student exchange and
travel and the granting of student
scholarship aid. It promotes stu-
dent government and advocates the
abolition of racial and creed dis-
crimination in colleges and univer-
sities. Furthermore, the NSO does
not support -political activities or









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F, Gilbert Discusses
Macchiavelli’s Theory

Continued from Page 1

which he considers egoistic and
materialistic.

Dr. Gilbert discussed * Macchia-
velli’s belief that Virtu, or political
power, migrated’ from state to
state, resulting in a political cy-
cle-—This theory was important to
Macchiavelli, for his native city,
Florence, was at that time on the
wane, and was no longer the cen-
ter of economic activity. There-
fore, he was concerned with the
problem of whether Virtu was
leaving Florence, or whether it was
possible to retain it. This problem
shows Macchiavelli’s two conflict-
ing conceptions of History, of
which, Dr. Gilbert concluded, “I do
not believe a complete reconcilia-
tion is possfble.”

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Shooting will begin the first
week of April for a film of the
college, which will be available
to such groups as alumnae and
schools. The movie, to be di-
rected by Miss Helen Grayson
"26, will be photographed by the
Affiliated Film Producers, pro-
ducers of such documentary
films as “The City” and “The
River.”

















Boisterous Betty goes
into her two new songs

with that hectic Hutton hubbub.
‘Poppa, Don't Preach

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Rumble’

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Faculty Squad Demonstrates Prowess
In Rousing, Colorful Basketball Game

Continued from Page 1

Gentleman Refetee. The
The Stu-
(Beauregard) score, Miss

Lang flashes by attired in a be-
coming shade of cerise from the
neck up. Tactics well-known to
bring success in a crowded subway
brought the Faculty score up to
22. Sprague (Mrs.), Yeager and
Gates all contributed to The Great
Varsity Massacre and a fine art
was developed in making personal
fouls (“very personal, indeed,”
muttered# a bruised Freshman).

anter,
Faculty (Berry) scores.
dents



“Good game, sells: ” said Mr. Gates
jauntily standing on a Senior’s
stomach. The final score: 34 to 17,
favor of guess whom.

Down at the refreshment table
(sherbet-and-grape juice and gin-
ger ale), the cookies disappeared
with disappointing rapidity, and
Mr. Hewitt, casually wrapping his
legs around his ears, offered to
take on “anyone at swimming a
hundred yards.” Darst Hyatt, who
gamely accepted the challenge, was
beaten by a long length (“because
she isn’t double-jointed,” whisper-
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