College news, April 20, 1949

The COLLEGE NEWS



VOL. XLV, NO. 21



ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY,

APRIL 20,

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College,1945

1949



Dr. W. Seifriz

Reveals Nature
Of Protoplasm

Movies Show Response
Of Slime Mold
To Stimuli

Speaking on ‘Problems in Proto-
plasmic Research”, Dr. William
Seifriz, Professor of Botany at
the University of Pennsylvania,
lectured in Dalton last Monday.

The lecture, sponsored by the
Science Club and illustrated with
movies, dealth with the response of
slime mold, the “primordial ooze’,
as Dr. Seifriz called it, to certain
stimuli. Slime mold is one of the
most primitive forms of life and
one of the easiest with which to
work,

The first problem dealt with by
Dr. Seifriz was that of internal
flow, “streaming”, within living
protoplasm. Protoplasm is a “tough
and fluid living jelly”, one of its
most important features being its
great elasticity. It does not obey
Newton’s laws of fluidity, and so
the questions, why does protoplasm
flow, and what makes the flow re-
verse, are of vital interest. The
tidal flow within protoplasm is as
yet unexplained, although several
theories’ on the subject have been
proposed,

Dr. Seifriz illustrated the effect

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Swans Bring Park

To Junior Prom

Band concerts, a balloon man,
and little girls pulling each other’s
pigtails are only a few of the at-
tractions which the Junior Prom
offers this year. On Saturday,
April 28, from eleven to two in the
gym, prom goers will dance to the
strains of Larry Miller’s orchestra,
and at intermission time will hear
the harmonizing of the Bryn Mawr
Octangle and ithe Haverford Octet.

When the time comes for a cig-
arette, the Chesterfield Company
will provide an ample supply, and
couples will sit on (real!) park
benches while admiring the merry-
go-round and the swan boats which
form part of the decor.

Refreshments will include cakes
and punch (whose exact composi-
tion has not yet been revealed by
Priscilla Hunt, in charge of the
food situation).

‘Cynnie Lovejoy and Bebe Bord-

Continued on Page 4

By Emily Townsend, ’50

“Flat-Chested Ferdinand” Eber-
stadt and the chicken song may
have been the high point of the
Princeton Tiger show last Thurs-
day night, but the evening had
started long before. An attempt
(unsuccessful) was made to pass
eight husky gentlemen off as ex-
changes from other halls to the
Pembroke dining room. “I’d use
my bosom to help you if I had it
on me,” offered one gallantly; un-
fortunately he had dropped it
somewhere along the road.

The show itself was late start-

Wittkower Speaks
On Bernini’s Visit
To French Court -

Goodhart, April 183—Dr. Rudolph
Wittkower’s topic for the Art Lec-
ture was Bernini at the Court of
Louis XIV. The French king invit-
ed the great Italian Baroque artist
to his court in Paris, to rebuild the
Louvre, which at the time was the
royal palace. Great things were ex-
pected from this visit, which took
place in 1665, for Bernini was con-
sidered aninfallible authority on art.
However, the dramatic meeting of
the two great personalities of the
XVIIth century was not successful
and Bernini’s visit proved a failure.
Bernini and his art, for subjective
as well as objective reasons, were
inot popular in Paris. ‘When the
| artist left, after a five-month visit,
he left behind only a portrait-bust
of the king; his plans for the re-
construction of the Louvre had
been for the most part rejected. Dr.



| Wittkower brought out clearly dur-

ing his lecture the reasons for Ber-
nini’s unpopularity in France.
There was. personal feeling
against Bernini himself, for he was
outspoken and did not like the
French; there was even direct en-
mity between him and Colbert, who
was then minister in charge of the
arts, and some of the French arch-
itects. But it was mostly against
his distinctive and original art that
objections were raised. Dr. Witt-
kower mentioned that Bernini had
already sent many plans for the
Louvre to Paris before coming
over. These, however, as later
plans were to be, were all rejected:
they were too typically Italian, and
did not fit the French requirements.
As Dr. Wittkower showed on slides,
the preoccupation of the Italian art-
ist in all his plans for the Louvre
was mostly for an imposing facade
which had no apparent connection
with the functional structure of the
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Preview of Arts Night Reveals
Poor Mexico, Rich Country Club

Notes on the back of a Princeton
Tiger Subscription Blank: what is
that dentist’s chair doing in the
midst of the set? ... are those
colored light bulbs or Easter Eggs
on it? ... what can it have to do
with Mexican tragedy? ... a tall,
blond Jack Armstrong type with
a Spanish accent is directing .. .
a ten year old boy throws him-
self upon a dark “soldados” ...
someone turns to me and whispers,
‘Soch a mexture of nationalities
in the cast, Puerto Rica, and Cuban
and Greek and American.” “But
he_is__a“_perfect_Mexican_type,” I



whisper; “Oh,” comes the answer,
‘he is, for a Greek” . . . crest-

fallen I turn back to the stage...
the child is pantomiming cutting
his arm, the soldier in threatening
the women, the women are hiding
the hero and their distress ...
tension is very high, mood is very
intense ... there is the sound of
a shot and I jump, caught in the
spirit; “But I cannot scream!” an-
nounces the heroine . .. the mood
is broken; it is not a tragedy,
merely a rehearsal, but is surely
going to be a tragedy.

We take a break.

I re-enter the Workshop, glance



Princeton Tiger Turns Chicken,
Has Anatomy Trouble Thursday

ing. Someone had informed Di-
rector George Montgomery that
most Bryn Mawr girls had never
heard of the facts of life, and
didn’t believe them if they had.
Three-fourths of the dialogue was
hastily scrapped. After *the first
laughs it was as hastily put back
in again by half the cast; the other
half remained innocent and con-
fused.

“Messy” is the kindest adjective
one could use of. the result. Mr.
Montgomery seemed harassed. Be-
tween his brief career as Super
Tiger repulsing the Paoli Local
with his bulging anatomy, and his
jealous cries of “Lecher!” at his
fellow judges in the beauty con-
test, he wailed to the audience;
“We just lost the most beautiful
prop.” Bets were taken among the
spectators as to its liquid nature.

Dick Warren in the kick chorus
was superbly undulating; as the
cigarette and cigar girl he seemed
to sell many little brochures
through the audience (“formerly
sold to married women only”).
Perhaps he would feel better if he
had his brassieres custom-made.
Mordecai Liverbile, the radio men
who had faith in alcoholic rough-

Continued on Page 2

Bree Will Direct
B.M. - Sponsored

Students in Paris

Miss McBride announced today
that Bryn Mawr College will spon-
sor a student group in Paris this
summer under the direction of Pro-
fessor Germaine Bree of the
French Department.

Students will study at the Uni-
versity of Paris and at the Ecole
du Louvre, where they will be offer-
ed courses in contemporary French
literature, political sciences and a
course in the history of French Art.
The courses will be given under the
direction of the faculties of the two
Parisian schools and will be headed
by M. P. Fouche, Directeur de
Ecole de Preparation, Professor
de Sorbonne; M. Jacques Chapsal,
Directeur de l'Institut Politique of

the University of Paris; and M.; Franck:

—

PRICE 15 CENTS





DR. ERICH FRANK



wing to Deliver
Paper in Memory

Of Rufus Jones

A special philosophy lecture in
memory of Rufus. M. Jones will
be given by Dr. A. C. Ewing, Lec-
turere in Moral Science at Cam-
bridge University and Visiting Pro-
fessor of Philosophy at Princeton
University, on Monday, April 25th
at 8:30 in the Music Room, Good-
hart. Dr. Ewing attended Zurich
and Oxford and received his D.Litt
from Cambridge. He has lectured
at Oxford, the University of Mich-
igan, Armstrong College, and. the
University of Colorado. He is a
John Locke Scholar in Mental
Philosophy and received the Green
Prize in Moral Philosophy at Ox-
ford. He has written many books,
including Kant’s Treatment of
Causality, Idealism: A Critical Sur-
vey, and A Short Commentary on
Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason.
His most recent books are The
Definition of Good and The Indi-
vidual, The State, and World
Society.

Alwyne to Play
Debussy, Franck

Mr. Horace Alwyne, F.R.M.C.M.,
will present a pianoforte recital
on Tuesday, April 26 at 8:30 P.M.
in Goodhart Hall. Mr. Alwyne is
the Alice Carter Dickerman Pro-,
fessor of Music and Director of
the Department of Music. There
will be no admission charge for
the concert; reserved seats for the
front section may be secured from
the Public Relations Office.

The program of the concert will
include the following works: Bal-
lade, Op. 24 by Grieg: Prelude,
:Chorale and Fugue by Cesar
-Oiseaux tristes (from



Marcel Aubert, Membre de 1’Insti- “Miroirs’) and Le Tombeau de

tut, Directeur des Etudes de |’Ecole
du Louvre.

Members of the group will be in
residence in Paris at Reid Hall,
Hall, American student center, and
will have ample opportunity, both

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Calendar
Thursday, April 21:

8:30 p.m. I.R.C., Common
Room.

Friday, April 22:

8:30 p.m. Arts Night, Work-
shop.

11:00 p.m.-2:00 a.m. Pem-
broke and Rockefeller Hall
Dances.

Saturday, April 23:

2:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m. Soph-
omore Carnival, Denbigh Green.

8:30 pcm. “The “Mikado,”
Goodhart.

11:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Junior
Prom, The Gym.

Monday, April 25:

7:15 p.m. Current Events,
Common Room.

8:30 p. m. Dr. A. C. Ewing, Ru-
fus Jones Lecture, Music Room.
Tuesday, April 26:

Couperin by Ravel; La cathedrale
engloutie, Poissons d’or, Des pas
sur la neige, Feux d’artifice by



Debussy.
ENGAGEMENTS
M. L. Newell, ’51, to Isaac
Cate Lycett.

Harriet Morse, ’51, to Arthur
Altschuler,







Frank Outlines
And Interprets
Existentialism

Jaspers and Heidiger
Traced Back
To Hegel

Goodhart, April 14. — Speaking
on the subject of “Existentialism”
under the auspices of the Philoso-
phy Club, Dr. Erich Frank, Pro-
fessor of Philosophy at the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, defined it
as the “most important, most cre-
ative, most— original philosophical
movement after Hegel.” Today,
he said, existentialism is the pre-
valent philosophy; even Thomism
and positivism, the only other im-
portant schools of the day, have
been called in some sense existen-
tialist.

Schelling, Marx, and Kierke-
gaard, said Dr. Frank, all started
from Hegel’s “diagnosis of his
time’ —that man’s. rationalistic
and concrete existence are no longer
reconciled. These men, though not
existentialists in the’ narrower
sense of the term, contributed
greatly to modern existentialism
which takes the same _ starting
point and which has been formu-
lated particularly by Jaspers and
Heidiger.

Outline of Existentialism

Dr. Frank went on to give an
outline of existential philosophy
under eleven general headings.
Existentialism, he said, takes the
fact of existence as the beginning
of philosophic thought, and in re-
volt against subjective idealism,
goes back to the old Greek con-
cept of being and reality as it
develops fundamental ontology.
The essence of this existence lies
in the fact of man’s reason, which
enables him to transcend his im-
mediate existence and makes him
“a self by being concerned with
his being.” It is this also which
gives him his freedom and his
potentiality to actualize himself
as a true being in this world,
which is the end of existence.

Although man becomes cogniz-
ant of himself through reason and
through the ensuing ability to
recognize objects apart from him-
self, he cannot grasp the true ex-
istence of his self merely in the
category of objective reality. As
seen .by the existentialist philoso-
pher, his great problem is, indeed,
not to lose himself in such objec-
tive absorption to the exclusion
of his true self, a type of self-
estrangement too common in the
modern world. It is the “voice of

Continued on Page 2



By Paula Strawhecker, ’52

Last Thursday night the piano
didn’t have a leg to stand’ on, but
the Maids and Porters needed na
support for their second act re-
hearsal of Gilbert and ‘Sullivan’s
“Mikado”. Flapping arms, paper
fans, and much genuflexion trans-
frmed drab Goodhart stage into the

ket-handkerchiefs, as, between
bites of incongruous ice cream
cones, the cast serenaded “the Mik.”
The cones, it seems, are only part



had been cavorting . . . there is
Continued on Page 2





8:30 p.m. Mr. Alwyne, Piano
Recital, Goodhart.







chorus has been increasing steadily



each rehearsal, until now it is ap-

Land of the Japanese-without-poc-'

of_the-interesting sidelights,__The | view _Tuesda



Japan-minus-pocket-handkerchief
Blossoms at ‘Mikado’ Rehearsal *

proximately twice its initial num- -
ber. =

The usual rehearsal complication
reared its ugly head in the form of
‘the pile of Oriental kimonos
found in Goodhart’s costume room,”
a dubious windfall, which, unlike
the cast, do not come in assorted
sizes,

“One, two, three, back, one, two,
three, forward,” and hilarious pit-
ty steps were orders of the eve-
ning as Katisha described her
“stunning left shoulder blade, on

ans Pri Ag
presentation of a visiting ply, 4
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Nearing The Goal

After nearly three velivs of work by the alumnae, the
time has almost come when the $2,000,000 Drive will be offic-
However, the quota is still short $167,000, which
must be raised by June if it is to be raised at all.

ially over.

The alumnae have done their best, in gratitude to Bryn
Mawr for what it once gave them; let us in turn feel the same
gratitude and make the last big concerted effort on campus
to help.
once in the past, but every undergraduate must now consider

True, upperclassmen have been solicited more than

it her responsibility to help Bryn Mawr maintain its stand-
ards The freshmen are already doing their bit by contribut-
ing their show profits and the profits from next Sunday’s pic-

nic. The sophomores and juniors also plan to give the money
they will make next weekend to the Drive. The proceeds from
previous Undergrad dances will likewise be donated.

But time is getting very short, so when we are solicited
individually next week, let us realize that anything we give
can be but small repayment of what Bryn Mawr is giving us.

No Noise Is Good Noise

There has been too much of that “sound without agree-
able musical quality”, noise, this Spring, and though we may
feel it to be as natural as our lightly-love-turning fancies, we
must suppress it before it gets out of hand.

The most prevalent is Hall Announcement Noise; com-

mon courtesy should induce us to stop talking while we chew, |;

if we cannot stop both chewing and talking during these few

-important minutes. Then there are Library noises: whisper-
ing and whistling in the reading room and corridors and rau-|" *
cous laughter around the water cooler.

Miss Aignew lives
right next door to the water cooler, and she has had to dis-
perse countless congregations.

There are the little noises outside the hall late at night
as well as the big ones in the daytime. In all these places,
let us restrain ourselves and alee not only to announce-

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mie of folly, most sminical, (os melancholy)”.

Current Events

Common Room, April 18—“Our
occupation of Japan has been in
many ways the opposite of what is
usually connotated by military
government”, said Mr. Ralph Brai-
banti, of Syracuse University,
speaking on “Japan since V-J
Day”. The U. S. military govern-
ment has attempted to make last-
ing reforms by using an advisory
rather than a coercive technique
and in this way forming a balance
of concepts between the ideals of
western democracy and of Japan-
ese philosophy.

Our function has not been direct
operation or control of the govern-
ment in Japan, Mr. Braibanti -ex-
plained, but a cooperative attempt
on the part of Americans and Jap-
anese to organize reforms which
can be adapted to Japanese culture
patterns. Though the mandatory
technique was necessary in remov-
ing restrictive laws it has been
used only twice for positive re-
form; in the question of rural land
reform and in the setting-up of a
new constitution, in all other cases
reforms were suggested to the Jap-
anese, not forced arbitrarily upon
them,

In this way definite progress has
been made in many ffields, assisted
by the adaptability of the Japanese
people and their eagerness for re-
form, Mr. Braibanti stated, and in
spite of the two major difficulties,
which are the language difficulty
and the fact that accurate, reliable
information on the occupation has
not been made available. At the
present time the occupation is pre-
paring to set up a research bureau,
to study the bases of Japanese so-
ciety and to evaluate the reforms
in relation to it.

Super Tiger Lays Egg
At Impromptu Revue
Continued from page 1

age, poor Andy Newbold in the
Dean’s office, and the chorus’ baby
who obstinately refused to cut her
toenails to the great damage of
the household linen, remain vivid
memories: how unfortunate that
they should have netted only a
dozen subscriptions to the Tiger!

Arts Night to Produce
Plays by Two Students

Continued from Page 1

still cavorting, but this time the
girls are girls ... and the men
know it ... on either side of a
bush are a pair of feet ... the
stage is connected to the auditor-
ium by empty amber bottles that
stream from the stage to the piano
and first row; “Props,” I murmur
consolingly to myself ... the di-
rectress paces dramatically up and
down; “Look here, Tommy, you en-
joy kissing her somewhat;” “Ah,
he’s my grandmother” from the
girl in Tommy’s arms ... “But
you feel so schmoochy”... “Men
should take the initiative” . .
Nora, I Love You

“Oh, Tommy” . . . someone whis-
pers to me, “None of them have
ever acted before but Jane;” “It
makes them realistic,” I politely
whisper back, and then I realize
that it does... “But you’re a man”
. “You’re so insensitive” . .
I discover that I can’t tell which
are the lines of the play and which
are the witticisms of the actors
... I dm roaring with laughter
- “Nora, I love you? Nora, I
love YOU; Nora I love you—but
not the way I should”... “You’ve
still got your biology” “That'll be
all for tonight ... I realize that
that line is not the dialogue but
the director ... the actors gather
round her and I go out laughing...

Must go to Arts. Night Friday,

“Sundown” and Kat Thomas’
“Simply _Concupiscence.”



ow

Existentialism Explained
In Philos. Club Lecture

Continued from page 1

his conscience” which must call
him back from worldly absorption
to actualize his own potentialities
in the world and to become a true
self once more.

This realization of the true self,
said Dr. Frank, is regarded by the
existentialists as coming about
only through free and equal com-
munication with another self. Final-
ly, a fundamental concept of ex-
istentialism-is that man, in order
to attain the end of true existence,
must “choose himself,’ that is, he
must accept his own limitations
and make something out of them
—“he must love his own destiny
terrible though it is.” Only in this
way will he be able to free himself
from the bonds of self-estrange-
ment and estrangement from the
world in order to become a true
and creative being.

Dr. W. Seifriz Discusses

Protoplasmic Reactions
Continued from Page 1
of carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide,
harmless anesthetic gases, on the
flow within living protoplasm. In
both cases the flow stopped tempor-
arily, then recovered after ten min-
utes. While the flow had stopped,

thickened, which is Dr. Seifriz’
explanation of the effect of an an-
esthetic on the human body. This
theory is in opposition to ithat of
those who believe that under an an-
esthetic protoplasm coagulates.
Since coagulated protoplasm can
never uncoagulate,’the latter the-
ory would indicate that the bedy
can never recover from the effects
of anesthesia. When, however, Dr.
Seifritz exposed the slime mold to
sulfur dioxide, a poisonous gas, the
flow stopped, a death tremor occur-
red, and then complete breakdown
of the protoplasm took place. Per-
forming the same experiment with
an embryo chicken heart, he ob-
tained the same result.

Using an electric shock as an
anesthetic, Dr. Seifriz found that
(thirty and sixty volt currents pro-
| duced temporary gelation (thick-
ening) but that ninety-six volts re-
biniee: in death. However, Dr. Sei-
'friz predicted that in the future
‘normal clinical anesthesia should
;be possible by electric shock. Cold,
| too, is an anesthetic at the right
' temperatures, but results in death
at excessively low temperatures.

Since the above Wepressants pro-
duced gelation, it seemed reason~
able that stimulants should produce
in protoplasm the reverse, i. e. sol-
ation, or loosening. And indeed he
found that caffeine and benzedrine,
strong stimulants ,in relatively
small amounts, produced solation,
and in excessive amounts, death.

With the above data, Dr. Seifriz
was able to establish an approxim-
ate relationship between the state
of solation or gelation of proto-
plasm and the amount of depress.
ant or stimulant required to pro-
duce that state. Drawing a graph
on the board, he illustrated on the



.|curve the two approximate points

at which death occurs from ex-
treme solation or gelation,

The question of death led Dr.
Seifriz to a discussion of the various
theories of life. First he mentioned
the religious ‘belief in an elan vital
which inspires all life, then the sci-

. |entific theories, (a) that some vi-

tal chemical produces life, and (b)
that the correct assemblage of
commonplace substances was the
life-determining factor. Finally, he
illustrated a new and exciting dis-
covery, that ATP (adenosine tri-
phosphate), actually activated pro-
toplasm and produced muscular
spasms in slime mold, which itself
is completely without muscles.

And thus Dr. Seifriz ended the
lecture, having shown that even
slime mold, a primordial proto-

conditions, nervous and muscular
properties: But even so, as he said,



the protoplasm had gelated, or|

Opinion

To the Editor,

On behalf of the Alliance, and
for the sake of the record, I would
like to correct a statement which
appeared in the 1949 Yearbook. In
its writeup of college organiza-
tions, the Yearbook states that
“the Alliance never lets us forget
that there is an outside world in
desperate confusion and appropri-
ates $7.50 from our allowances to.
help put it to rights.” The Alliance:
wishes it were the happy recipient
of $7.50 from every student, since
the scope of its activities could
be greatly broadened if this were
the case. I would like to point out,
however, that the Alliance, like
Self-Gov, Undergrad, A.A., and
N.S. A., is financed by Common
Treasury dues, and this year re-
ceived $1.80 per student. The
League is the lucky organization,
which through its Activities Drive,
solicits $7.50 from each student.

With best wishes,
Priscilla Johnson, President:
Alliance for Political Affairs

Wittkower Describes
Bernini and Parisians
Continued from page 1

building. Bernini moreover sug-
gested an exterior facade with ar-
caded windows, reminiscent of the
Italian palazzos, while on the in-
terior facade, which encloses the
courtyard in the center of the
Louvre, he wanted a colonade, as in
Italian cortiles. Also, whereas
French architecture of the period
insisted on flat, straight facades,
Bernini, as was the trend in Italian
Baroque architecture, made use of
curves in his facade plans. This
was another of the many points of
controversy between Bernini and
Colbert.

Bernini, Dr. Wittkower said,
clung obstinately to his ideas, and
made but few changes in his plans
to satisfy Colbert and the king: his
art came before his patron, In the
end, the commission was given to
Claude Perrault, brother of Charles
Perrault. Perrault stituted, for
the grandeur of Bernini’s proposed
building, the comfort and intimate.
connection between structure and
appearance that was expected in
French architecture.

Showing slides of the bust of
Louis XIV, one of ‘Bernini’s grand-
est pieces of portraiture, Dr. Witt.
kower talked at some length about
Bernini’s sculptural technique. Ber-
nini would first make many sketch-
es of his model in motion, for he -
believed that these spontaneous
sketches best revealed the person-
ality of his model. Then he would
work on clay models, from the
sketches and from memory, never
directly from the subject. This
method, as Dr. Wittkower observ-
ed, involves more concentrated ap-
plication than any other sculptural
technique.

Discusses Bust

Dr. Wittkower discussed the bust
of Louis XIV as an example of the
idealization that is found in all of
Bernini’s sculpture, and which here
is- harmoniously blended with the
realism. Though some of the fea-
tures are particularly realistically
depicted, it is always for the sake
of the general effect of the por-
trait, to which all else is subordin-.
ated; while on the other hand, al-
ways for the same purpose, some
other features are greatly minimiz-
ed. On the whole ,it is the general
expression of the king, rather than
an accurate resemblance, that Ber-
nini renders.

Dr. Wittkower concluded his lec-
ture with a few general remarks
on the basic differences there were
at the time not only between
French and Italian art, but also be-



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Page Three





Be Thankful For Blue Books
Instead of Steely-Eye Judges

If we think that Orals are a
ghastly and blighting experience
in the year 1949, let us be thank-
ful for blue books and blotters,—
‘and consider those many hardy
students who, cap in hand, recited
in French, German, and/or Greek,
confronted by steely-eyed judges
and “the presidential desk” of Miss
Thomas ... and passed. For the
benefit of everybody’s morale, the
NEWS reprints “Oral Statistics”
of 1914: ,

“For the benefit of future “Or-
alists” we offer the following sug-
gestions, gleaned from the exper-
iences of sadder but wiser seniors:

“Don’t try to place your cap on
the presidential desk to appear at
your ease.

“Don’t think you can help your
friends in the corridor by trans-
lating at the top of your. lungs.
The device is too obvious.

“Don’t, don’t, don’t, (as one of
our reverend editors did) translate
Gotz and Werter as “charm” and
“worth.” If you don’t know a pro-
per name when you see it, omit
iti

“The following statistics were
compiled from the forty-eight sen-
iors in regard to the “essential
condition” for passing:











“Don’t ‘bluff?’ whatever you: do.
Be quite honest, if you can’t guess
with a reasonable degree of suc-
cess, confess your ignorance. Don’t,
as one of our number, call ‘Iphe-
geneia auf Taurusa,’ ‘Iphegenia on
the bull,’ it makes a bad impression
(69 2/3 per cent).

“Read slowly and accurately.
This is more important than flu-
ency in translation (42 per cent).

“Read quickly and glibly. It is
rapidity and catching the sense of
a passage that counts (69 per
cent).

“If you are allowed to read only
one passage it is a bad sign. The
judges evidently can stand no more
(1 per cent).

“If you are allowed to read only
one passage it is a good sign. You
have convinced the examiners. of
your knowledge at ‘once (79 4/9
per cent).”

Stout-hearted 1914! Whereas the
the degenerate ’50’s must be forti-
fied with impersonal blue books
and 10 per cent for writing their
names.





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Eine Blume’’







Shorts

The Inter-Class Varsity Swim-
ming Meet on Monday, April 18
brought the swimming season to
a thrilling close. It was a very
good meet and had many outstand-
ing examples of fine swimming.

The cups and awards were given
oue that night at the Swimming
Tea. The awards were as follows:
the cup for the class with the
greatest total points in both var-
sity and class meets went to the
Class of 1950, with 1951 and 1952
in second and third place, the Non-
Varsity Cup for the person with
the greatest total points in class
meets went to Nettie Hersey, ’50,
the Non-Varsity Diving Cup went
to Helen Dobbs, ’52, the Junior-
Varsity Cup for the person with
the greatest total points in J-V
meets was won by Betty Mutch,
’*50, and the Varsity Cup for the
person with the greatest total
points in all varsity meets went to
Ellen Bacon, ’51.

After the cups were given out,
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THE COLLEGE NEWS



NOTICES

Morning Assembly



Carnival Features



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Mile. Bree Will Supervise Students in Paris
As B.M. Group Starts First Summer Session



Junior Prom Will Offer

Balloons, Park Benches

Horror & Passion

This year’s Sophomore Carnival,

Continued from Page 1 students, the work may be offered Continued from page 1

Don’t forget morning assembly

| before and after the school tS Tiav- |for credit towards graduation un- man are co-chairmen for this gala

next-Wednesday and the“two suc- ; :
: der the circumstances stated in the

in Goodhart.
French Club

Club are: President,

Harper; Vice - President,

Nicely, all of ’50.

Yearbook Errata



ceeding Wednesdays, at 8:45 p. m.

The new officers of the French
Katherine

Shure; Secretary-Treasurer, Judy

The Editors of the 1949 Year-
book wish to apologize for omitting
the following names from its Busi-
ness Board Staff: Suzanne Bachner,
Joan Sunderland, Vivian Johnson.

to be held on Saturday afternoon,
April 23 on Pembroke East Green,
will take the form of a Mardi Gres,
with each hall contributing a float
to a grand parade which will be the

climax to the whole Carnival. The
best float will receive a prize and a
Queen of the Mardi Gras will be
chosen, Among the countless other
attractions will be a Punch and
Judy Show, a Chamber of Horrors,
games like penny-pitching and ap-
ple-bobbing, tests of strength and
of passion, and possibly a “pseudo-
striptease”. The photogenic will
be able to have their pictures tak-
en, the curious to learn their fu-



el and see France and other Europ-
Mile. Bree stated

that the students would leave New
York on June 7 and land in Le
Havre June 17. They will then
tour northern Franee, arriving in
Paris in time to have a week of
| Sight-seeing and theatres before
the courses start on July 5. When
classes end on August 18, the stu-
dents will have three weeks for in-
dependent travel, (Mlle. Bree said.

Stressing the value of a summer
in France, Professor Bree noted
that 120 hours of work in the three
courses would /be the equivalent of
1 unit of work (or of 8 semester
hours for students from other col-

ean countries.



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Expenses for the entire trip, ex-
cept for the final three-week per-
would be $725.00
from New York to New York.

The group would assemble at Le

iod of travel,

Havre September 6 and would ar-
rive in New York on or about Sep-
tember 16. Mlle. Bree will be glad
to talk with any student who would
like to know more about Bryn

Mawr’s first
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occasion, Amelie Hains is provid-
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you may have your cake and...
Buy a ticket to the Rock (or Pem)
dance and later on go to the Pem.
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11 to 1, and both admissions are

$1.20 (you pay one), and both are
summer optional dress, with emphasis on
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The following people have been
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Kramer, Ruth La Place, Sue Neu-
bauer, Pat Onderdonk, Jeanne
Pieri, Trish Richardson.

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Didi Fleishacker, Elaine Marks,
Clare Minton.

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