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“VOL. XLIV, NO. 19
ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1950
Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1950
PRICE 15 CENTS
Holborn Speaks
About:Problems
Of Scholarship
Professor Considers
Man as Dualist;
Must Unify
Hajo Holborn, Professor of His-
tory at Yale University, addressed
‘tthe Graduate Assembly on April 4
with a talk entitled, The Challenge
of Scholarship.
Professor Holborn opened his
address by saying that scholarship
does not exist by or for itself and
that today’s problem is the direc-
tion of the power it gives men to-
wards good ends. To do this, he
continued, we must consider the
essence of scholarship. Although
many believe that the unity of
scholarship has ceased to exist,
Mr. Holborn pointed out that em-
inent scholars of the past two gen-
erations have combined several
fields of work for a rich harvest
and have thus strengthened the
growing counter current against
' the isolation of departments.
Mr. Holborn considers the funda-
mental problem of scholarship to-
day is how we can hope to recon-
ile the ideal of scholarship with
the specialization which exists. Al-
though departmental scholarship
‘ is beneficial, it has become an ob-
sstacle to the free progress of
scholarship. Professor Holborn
‘said the boundaries must be made
‘invisible. However, he recognizes
the fact that recent advances have
‘made it impossible for someone to
master all fields of even one sci-
ence or history.
To facilitate the integration of
knowledge, attempts have been
amade to establish a universal sci-
ence such as mathematics or nat-
ural sciences but it has been
proven that unity of scholarship
cannot be achieved by the substi-
tution of one science.
Descartes, Mr. Holborn said, had
the first conception of scholarship
as a function, instead of a thing
or substance. Under this new
methodological conception of
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Curtis Institute
Students To Play
In Wyndham Group
The last Young Musicians’ Con-
cert of this season will be held at
five o’clock in the afternoon on
Sunday the sixteenth of April in
Wyndham Music Room. Students
from the Curtis Institute of Music
will play. The program will begin
with Mozart’s piano quartet in G
minor, No. 1, K-478. The second
number is to be “Augen glassern”
for Viola and Violoncello by Bee-
thoven. Faure’s piano quartet in
C minor, opus 15, will complete the
afternoon’s entertainment.
The guest artists are Hyman
Bress, who will play the violin;
Richard Parnas, viola; Leslie Par-
nas, violoncello; and Charleton
Meyer, the piano.
Specially Contributed
By Bettina Linn
The spring number of Counter-
point is best when it is lightest.
Three of the seven prose contri-
butions account for this success.
The exception is the group of
verse parodies by Lucy Turnbull
which are neat imitations but dull
reading. If parody is the mimicry
of a manner with the substitution
of an incongruous subject, good
parody demands interest and wit
in the incongruity, something
more than a flat or banal theme.
In contrast, John Dyson’s “Fold
in Lightly,” Barbara Wakeman’s
‘Train Ride,” and “The Pea-green
Dragon” by Jill McAnney, are
clever and amusing in their very
different ways. Any one who has
often ridden the Paoli Local in
school-commuting hours will ap-
Sophomores To Convert Campus
Into Lower Slobovian\|Playground
by Patricia Murray, ’52
Senior Row is going to be
startled out of its stateliness next
Saturday afternoon by the sudden
arrival of the citizens from Dog-
patch on Merion Green. Sophomore
Carnival’s traditional parade of
floats from the different hal!s will
set the tone of the afternoon:
Dogpatch Day officially begins
right afterwards, at three o’clock.
A baseball game will be followed
by a Knee Contest, so that both
athletic and aesthetic values of
legs can be judged upon. At this
‘point _the Harvard Krokodillos will
sing, so that the contestants can
catch their breaths before the next
event—a Sadie Hawkins Race. All
contestants will line up, and at a
given signal, the girls will chase
the boys. The boy when caught
must carry the girl back to the
starting line, and the first couple
to return will receive a prize. All
‘the while, screams will be issuing
from Merion Basement, which has
become a Horror House, and Old
Man Moses, the Fortune Teller
will be filling the hearts of his
customers with expectation or de-
spair. Happy winners of prizes
Maids, Porters ‘Vagabond King’
To Star Pearl and Al Mackey
By Margie Cohn °52
“Sons of toil and danger”’—
shades of The Vagabond King!
This delightful operetta, with
music by Rudolph Friml, will be
presented by the Maids and Por-
ters on April 15th, before Junior
Prom. Helen Louise K. Simpson
is directing the unforgettable
anusic, including such songs as
‘Only a Rose,” “Someday,” and
the “Song of the Vagabonds,”
while Cornelia Perkins is directing
the show itself. The play takes
place in 14th century Paris, and
centers around the romantic char-
-acter of Francois Villon, “poet,
pickpocket, drinker—they ‘call him
the ‘King of the Vagabonds.’”
Amidst conical hats, salvaged
evening capes, and a deluge of old
«chianti bottles strewn on an in-
~verted “You Can’t Take it With
You” set, the Maids and Porters
‘have been diligently rehearsing.
‘The cry of “Silence, cease your
din!” is typical of the work of the
stage crew. In addition, various
members of the cast often com-
plain that they’ll catch cold with-
out their scripts.
The dress rehearsal will be given
Thursday: night, since one of the
singers, John Whitaker, will be
conducting the band at the Den-
bigh dance on Friday night. In
addition, there is a group coming
out from the Dra-mu Opera Com-
pany in Philadelphia to assist in
part of the singing. A member of
this company, Margaret Greer, has
successfully taken over the part of
Lady Katherine, the heroine, since
Katherine Jenkins has left the
east. In addition, Francois Villon
will be portrayed by Merion’s Al
Mackey, while Pearl, of Taylor
fame, will do the role of la grosse
Margo. Likewise, the rest of the
cast will be familiar to most of us.
| Of course the name Friml con-
notes good music, and The Vaga-
bond King promises to be a fea-
ture attraction before the formal
dance.
for having kicked a Kigmy or hit
'a Nogoodnick will mill about,
munching the abundant food and
‘sipping Kickapoo Joy Juice. Flat-
| tered giggles will be heard from
couples who have just had their
Li’l Abner, Daisy Mae snapshots
taken.
'tertainment, and Claire Liachowitz
lis handling decoration and con-
struction. Marcia Polak is in
charge of food, Lucy Turnbull of
publicity; Helen Loening is Busi-
ness Manager, and Caroline Price
lis Chairman of the Carnival as a
whole.
CALENDAR
Wednesday, April 12
German Club Lecture, Dr.
Arno Shirokauer, on the trends
of thought behind translations
from Aesop made from the thir-
teenth to the sixteenth cen-
turies. Common Room, 8:00
p. m,
Thursday, April 13
Fifth Russian Lecture, Alex
Inkeles, “Public Opinion in the
Soviet Union.” Meeting House,
Swarthmore, 8:15 p. m.
Friday, April 14
Denbigh Hall Dance, Denbigh.
Saturday; April 15
Maids and Porters Show,
“Vagabond King,’ Goodhart,
8:30 p. m.
Orchestra Concert, Handel’s
“Acis and Galatea,’ Roberts
Hall, 8:30 p. m.
Junior Prom, Gymnasium.
Sunday, April 16
Evening Chapel, The Rever-
end Grant Noble, Williams Col-
lege. Music Room, 7:30 p. m.
Monday, April 17
Current Events, Peter Bach-.
rach, “The Aspects of Mc-
Carthyism,” Common Room,
7:15 p. m.
Tuesday, April 18
Alliance Assembly, Charles P.
Taft, “Russia and American
Foreign Policy,” Goodhart,
12:30 p.:'m:i ~ *
Piano Recital, Horace Alwyne,
Goodhart, 0p m.
’ Wednesday, A ees
French Club Play, Moliere’s
“Monsieur de Pourceaugnac,”
Skinner Workshop, 8:80 p. m.
United World Federalists’
Movie, “Great Expectations,”
Goodhart, 8:00 p. m.
. \ .
Rosie Johns is in charge of en-
Spring Issue of Counterpoint
Appears Best When Lightest
preciate Mrs. Wakeman’s sketch.
Any one who has read certain
fairy tales or romances will enjoy
Miss McAnney’s dragon of under
size and “bilious color,” with his
centrally heated castle and over-
sized pearl bathtubs.
“The Ark-hunter” by Sydney M.
Cone III has one of the best sub-
jects in the issye, and the wordiest
style. Touching on adventure,
diplomatic relations, and a stub-
born man’s faith in the evidence
of things seen, this article on a
trip to dig up Mount Ararat is
good reading. The subject of
atomic discoveries and destruction
is used in the longest piece of
prose, “Unified Field’ by Thomas
Garbarty. Ambitious in plan, it
reports on “this little world,” an-
other part of the universe, re-
cent international events in head-
line form, and several persons
who have Christian names and
government jobs but nothing else
to vivify them. As events accumu-
late in this uneasy synthesis, it
becomes rather hard to follow, be-
fore the simple foreseeable end.
In writing this Mr. Garbarty must
have forgotten to ask himself an
Continued on Page 6
Alliance Assembly
To Feature Taft
On Foreign Policy
On Tuesday, April 18, Mr.
Charles P. Taft will speak at an
Alliance Assembly in Goodhart Hall
on the subject of Russia and Amer-
ican foreign policy. Mr. Taft,
brother of Helen Taft Manning, has
recently returned from Europe
where he worked as Special Assist-
ant to the Undersecretary of State.
In the past, Mr. Taft has served
as President of the Committee of
World Council of Churches and di-
rector of Wartime Economic Af-
fairs in the Department of State.
He has also been a member of the
Federal Security Agency, director
of the Transport and Communica-
tions Policy, and a trustee of the
Twentieth Century Fund of the
Carnegie Institute.
H. Nelson Wins
Workman Prize
For Grad Study
49 Graduate Fellows
And Scholars
Appointed
Tuesday, April 4, at the Grad-
uate Assembly, President McBride
announced the following awards to
graduate students.
Miss Haviland Nelson of Fred-
erick, Maryland was awarded the
Fanny Bullock Workman Travel-
ling Fellowship for study abroad
during 1950-1951. Established in
1927 by bequest of Fanny Bullock
Workman and by gift of her hus-
band, Dr. W. Hunter Workman,
the award is made to a candidate
for the degree of Doctor of Phil-
osophy at Bryn Mawr College who
is. exceptionally distinguished in
her work.
Miss
McBride also announced
the appointment of forty-nine
Graduate Fellows and Scholars.
Recipients of these awards repre-
sent seventeen. states. inthis coun-
try, eight from Canada, one from
Egypt, and one from China.
The resident graduate fellows
are as follows: In chemistry, Tien-
chuan Liu; in classical archaeol-
ogy, Nancy Loyd Ashby; in Eng-
lish, Marilyn Jean Keck; in Ger-
man, Mary Barbara Morrison; in
Greek, Barbara Hughes; in his-
tory, Doris Silk; in history of art,
Marion Veals; in Latin, Martha
Hoffman; in mediaeval studies, the
Howard L. Goodhart Fellowship
went to Jane Elizabeth Howk; in
philosophy, Stasha Furlan; in
physics, Elizabeth Ann Farrelly;
in social economy, the Carola
Woerishoffer Fellowship went to
Jane Marshall.
The resident graduate scholars
are as follows; in biology, Jane
Noyes Shaw; in chemistry, the
Lillia Babbitt Hyde Foundation
Scholarship went to Muriel Sny-
der; Frances K. Putney will also
be a resident graduate scholax in
chemistry; in economics, Rose-
mary Beeching; in English, Joan
Continued on Page 5
Over the Denbigh Rainbow Go;
Find Enchantment After Show.
by Jane Augustine, ’52
When nine o’clock rolls around
next Friday night, will you be
sprawled on your smoker sofa
reading Life instead of enjoying
it? Don’t delude yourself that
Bryn Mawr Big Weekends begin
on Saturday—they don’t. This one
starts Friday — with a bang?
Nope, guess again. It starts with
the soft and mellow music of John
Whitaker’s trio. When you hear
the gentle strains of the electric
guitar coaxed out under the stars
by a spring breeze, you'll be sor-
ry you didn’t get on the phone
early in the week and get yourself
a date for the Denbigh dance.
|| You'll be sorry you didn’t go
“Somewhere Over The Rainbow”
— or at least over the Denbigh
Green.
The tariff is a dollar-twenty and
the music starts eagerly at nine
to finish off regretfully at one.
If you have a nickel and a phone
number and an idea that you’d like
to start out The Enchanted Week-
Foe
end dancing, give any one of the
following people the word that
you'll be at Denbigh at nine: Rat
Ritter in Merion, Katusha Chere-
meteff in Radnor, Trish Mulligan
in the Pems, Claire Liachowitz in
Rock, Emmy (Cadwalader in
Rhoads, or the chairman of the
dance, Julie Stevens, in Denbigh.
There will be food—the keynote
for dress is informal. Helping
Julie with decorations are Lea
Hoard, Betty Lorenz, Judy Mc-
Culloch, Dede Schaefer, and Judy
Silman.
You never can tell, you might
find a pot of gold at the end of
Denbigh’s rainbow—!
The time has come: the wizened
little alchemist in a pointed silver
cap raises his star-tipped wand,
and lo and behold! You are trans-
formed from the grubby child in
bluejeans and sweatshirt who sits
amid the ashes of her year paper
manuscript inte a Cinderella in a
pink cloud evening gown. You are
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Whistles on the Grass, Alas
Spring seems to be arriving in spite of itself. Though
it takes one step forward and two steps back, its advent is
Forsythia - and - onion - grass
breezes waft insidiously through the windows of Taylor.
They wreak havoc in Philosophy 101, contaminate the water
in the cooler with essence-of-lotus, and slow the hands of all
clocks.
Lest this atmosphere tempt you to succumb to its
languid indolence, Undergrad has officially declared a Spring
Cleaning campaign. Signs of deterioration have been found
all over campus: smoker fireplaces display deep black scars,
books show an unusual propensity for life on the floor, the
lawn has great bald spots and has even been known to turn
white overnight. Too long Nature has carried on her de-
structive winter warfare against the Powers of Light, Order,
and Dustmop. The time has come to strike back.
Ashcans are going to be painted. There will be a new
crop of fences to stumble over in the night. Blaring whistles
will admonish all who dare to tread on the green and white
tufts of grass. In the smokers, the floor will relinquish its
most obvious advantage to the less convenient, but more
stylish, ashtray. Waste baskets will come into their own
again, and books will somehow find their way back to the
shelves. This is to be the era of the Made Bed, the Dusted
Corner, and the Reincarnation of the Soap Sud.
Never let it be said that the Bryn Mawr Mind was lulled
by the Spring-scented air. Let us welcome the new season
with brooms in our hands, air-wick in our nostrils, soap in
our eyes, and the music of a hundred whistles jarring in
our ears.
May Day Mayhem
The letter received this week concerning May Day re-
flects the opinion of many students at Bryn Mawr. The
fined song-meetings have already begun, which all, regard-
less of their enthusiasm, have to attend. It must be admitted
that very little is accomplished at these post-luncheon gath-
erings; fifteen minutes are ocvupied in writing the songs on
the blackboard, the other fifteen in copying them. The
monotony of these meetings takes the joy out of May Day,
and it becomes a chore rather than a pleasure.
We feel that a more painless system of learning the
songs could be put into effect. Song mistresses for each
class could be appointed in every hall, and one hall meeting
could be held every week. After the songs have been learned,
the class could meet jointly, at a time closer to May Day, to
add the finishing touches.
We disagree, however, with our contributors in one re-
_ spect: the speeches are an essential part of May Day, and
en, can project and possesses a sense of humor,
: ovable. But if the preliminary drudgery
ay oats would be celebrated in its
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
‘“s
Wednesday, April 12, 1950)
Current Events
Monday evening, April 10, Dr.
Joseph C. Sloane gave the Current
Events lecture on The Challenge
of the Schnorkel.
The importance of submarine
warfare was reemphasized, Mr.
Sloane said, with the replacement
of Admiral Denfield, who had con-
centrated on air power, by Ad-
miral Sherman, Mr. Sloane, who
served on an anti-sub craft in the
Pacific during the last war, said
he himself was “relieved” by this
change, for the last two wars were
almost lost by the Allied Powers
because of their inadequate knowl-
edge of submarine tactics and de-
vices.
The recent development of the
schnorkel has dramatized this
need, for it has revolutionized sub-
marine methods of attack and de-
fense. The schnorkel, a device in-
vented by the Dutch and perfected
by the Germans, is similar to a
|
periscope, but it is slightly larger.
It is made up of two pipes which
enable the submarine to travel
partly submerged on its diesel
engine, for it supplies the engine
with fresh id and a means of ex-
haust. In case it is temporarily
submerged, it can continue run-
ning on the air in the submarine.
This means that a submarine can
run at twenty to twenty-two knots
per hour partly submerged, where-
as formerly its usual speed was
eight knots per hour, and at top
speed, ten knots. At this increased,
speed, known methods of detection
become useless. Submarines can get
in position and attack unknown. It
is unlikely that sonar could pick
up its sound, and radar, from the
air, would have :to be extremely
delicate. The development of the
schnorkel also implies the develop-
ment of new torpedoes with an in-
creased range. Mr. Sloane said the
schnorkel calls for drastic revision
- our methods of attack especial-
y.
“Homing” Torpedo
The whole problera of submarine
warfare is further augmented by
the fact that the Russians, with
whom former German submarines
were divided, also have ones which
run under water at from twenty
to twenty-five knots per hour. The
Germans were also developing the
‘homing” torpedo at the end of
picking up the sound of its target.
Of course, the recent news of one
of our submarines having traveled
from Hong Kong to Pearl Harbor
without refueling, and completely
under water, shows that the time
for which submarines can travel in
this method is indefinite.
Mr. Sloane then presented some
possible solutions to this problem.
He said the “homing” torpedoes
could be used against the subs as
well as against ships. Also, inter-
sub warfare may develop. Mr.
Sloane also pointed out the possi-
bility of location of submarines
from the air by a magnetic meth-
sonar equipment could be increas-
ed, although previously it had not
been effective at high speeds;
radar could be made more sensi-
tive. Of course, we oan still attack
bases and use mines, as before.
\At all events, Mr. Sloane said
we must find a sviution to the
schnorkel if we are to maintain
our American tradition of carrying
out successful trans-oceanic cam-
paigns.
Inkeles To Speak
On Soviet Opinion
On Thursday, April 18, Mr. Alex
Inkeles, a Research Associate at
the Russian Research Center of
Harvard University, will give the
fifth in a series of tri-college lec-
tures on Russia. Mr. Inkeles will
speak in the Meeting House of
Swarthmore College on the sub-
Jeet of public opinion in the Soviet
the war which governs itself by |
od. Perhaps, he said, the range of :
Opinion
Review Brings Praise
As Understanding,
Constructive
To the Editors,
We the undersigned would like
to commend Jane Augustine’s re-
view of You Can’t Take It With
You in the March 22 issue of the
NEWS. Jane showed an acquaint-
ance with and an understanding
of the play itself. Moreover she
appreciated the limitations of the
actors and judged accordingly. Her
criticism was well thought out,
and constructive. Please use this
review as a model for future ones.
It warmed the cockles of our
hearts.
Signed
Lou Earle
EllieLou Atherton
Plan To Make May Day
Volunteer Affair
Suggested
To the Editors:
As every year when May ap-
proaches, we have again been
thinking over May Day. We have
never been quite happy with it.
It is a large event, not entirely
meaningful, which cannot be suc-
cessful unless it is extremely well
attended, and very fully rehearsed.
This means that a large number
of students who are not interested
must be induced by fines to appear
at song-rehearsal meetings every
day for several weeks. It also
means that when the ceremony is
actually performed it is always
somewhat confused.
We therefore suggest that it be
modified in the following manner:
retain the sophomores’ waking the
seniors with May baskets before
breakfast; have breakfast early,
(about 7 or 7:30) by halls, not |
classes; omit the Rockefeller-tower
sunrise ceremony and the Senior
Queen; have maypole dancing
after breakfast. But only those
who dance around the poles need
dance; these will be volunteers a3
now. Those of the others who are
interested, have voices, and have
rehearsed, can stand near the poles
and sing. With this arrangement
the singers will not be out of
breath from dancing. The singing
by classes can, in the same way, be
done by those who have been in-
terested enough to rehearse volun-
tarily. The others can listen if
they care to. There also need not
be so many songs. The speeches
may be omitted; they cannot be
heard beyond the first few yards
anyway. After the singing, the
assembly can take place as usual.
We feel that with this program
May Day could be both a more re-
laxed and a more aesthetic experi-
ence.
Sincerely,
Ruth Metzger
Penlope Greenough
Mickie Natelson
Elaine Marks
Nevine Halim
Carmen Velasco
Alwyne To Give
Recital, April 18
On Tuesday evening, April 18, at
8:30 P. M. Mr. Horace Alwyne
will give a piano recital in Good-
hart Hall. The program will in-
clude the following numbers: Bach-
Busoni, Chaconne (from 4th Violin
Sonata); Liszt, Sonata in B minor;
Dohnanyi, Rhapsody in F sharp
minor; De Severac, The Mule-
drivers before the Christ of Olivia
Fiddlers and Gleaners; Ravel, La
Vallee des cloches (from ‘Mi-
roirs”); J. Stauss-stausig, Nacht-
Error of News Report
Of Talk on Belgium
Corrected
Professor Felix Gilbert’s recent:
speech on the Belgian situation in.
Current Events was without doubt.
one of the clearest and most in-
formative talks of the year. From.
reading the writeup it was givem
in the last issue of the News, how-
ever, one gains the impression that.
the speaker had gone suddenly
berserk. Such was most emphat-
ically not the case. Mr. Gilbert.
is still with us, sound in both mind.
and body.
The so-calléd “Waldroons” re-.
ferred to as “pro-Catholic” and
“reactionary” in contrast to the
‘liberal Flemings” should in real-
ity be the more liberal Walloons
as opposed to the generally Cath-
colic and conservative Flemings.
The present ruler is not Prince
Leopold; Prince Charles has been
acting as regent in the absence of
his brother, King Leopold. Mr.
Gilbert did not state that “no gov-
ernment will possibly be able to
cope with the problems in Belgium
today,” nor did he say that Leo-
pold, after the death of his first
wife, had assured his people that
“he would rule peacefully and
dedicate his spare time to his chil-
dren.” The reporter did not state
the problem of collaborationism
and of economic conflict as it ap-
plies to the present domestic situ-
ation; these were emphasized by
the speaker as fundamental points.
The statement that the condition
of the Belgian government “has
been deteriorating rapidly” has al-
most nothing to do with anything
that was said in the lecture. As
a matter of fact, there is practical-
ly no indication of what Mr. Gil-
bert really did say.
Some of these mistakes, such as
those of terminology, should have
been caught immediately; a look
at any issue of any daily news-—
paper of that week would have
done so. All in all, it would prob-
ably be worthwhile for a report-
er at such a lecture either to at-
tend the whole of the talk or at
least have her write-up verified by
one who had. The quality of News
reports is generally much higher,
and we hope this represents only
a temporary deviation.
‘Sincerely yours,
H. D. Holborn.
Art Historian Sloane
Corrects Errors
In Review
March 23, 1950:
To the Editor of the College News:
It was very kind of the NEWS
to give such a generous amount of
space to the review of the current
show of prints and drawings. Since
there is a certain educational pur-
pose involved in it, I trust you will
forgive my pointing out a few
minor errors which might be mis-.
leading to visitors.
The Girl with the Deer by Hofer
is not an “etching and dry point’”
but a lithograph as the label on it
says. The Whistler “Seymour” is
an etching and consequently the.
effects described are obtained by
the use of the etching needle and
acid rather than with a pen. The
Durer is not on “parchment” (i,e.
skin) but on paper.
It is not in any attempt to quar-.
rel with your reviewer in matters
of taste when I say that the Haden.
should hardly be described as “of
no importance” since it is both a
very pleasant picture and an ex-
cellent sample of the work of one-
of the best of English 19th cen-
tury etchers. Also; in spite of its
rather poor condition, the hunting
scene by Jacques Callot is well
worth careful study as it is an un-
usually fine example of that im-.
portant master’s work.
Sincerely yours,
falter Waltz. 2 ee
~ Joseph C. Sloane.
SALA re EE AOE asec raninaarsTD
aia itn
Wednesday, April 12, 1950
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Page Three
Mawrtyrs’ Myopia Brings Plush_
Prosperity to Optometrist Edwin;
by Barbara Joelson, ’52
Edwin wasn’t very smart,
Music bored him, so did art.
But he had a scientific streak,
And since his eyes were very weak,
He decided he’d grow up to be
A student of optometry.
Someday in his own store he’d sell
Specs and eye-glasses; he’d do well
Enough to have ‘a pleasant life,
With picket-fence and kids and
wie.
So Ed apprenticed in a store
And learned the glasses-seller’s
lore:
Learned what the eye prescriptions
mean,
And how
clean,
Why every year there is a fad
For frames of diamonds or of
plaid,
Chic for the ladies, bold for men.
And something practical now and
then
For bookworms, grandpapas, and
those
Who don’t care what rests on their
nose.
When he had learned from A to Z
The tenets of optometry
He set up trade (at a good ad-
dress)
And labored to achieve success.
Alas! Few people came to buy
B.M. Camp Needs
Counselors, Suits
This summer from July 5 to the
21st, an old ramshackle Victorian
house on the seashore by Cape
May will be opened for three shifts
of 20 underprivileged Philadelphia
children... These_ children, supplied
by the Family Agency and a Main
Line agency will have the privi-
lege of enjoying lots of sun and
beach at the Bryn Mawr Summer
Camp which is run by the pro-
ceeds of the Soda Fountain and
the League Drive. There, they
will be taught the rudimentary es-
sentials of play and how to get
along with each other, meanwhile
getting a pleasant and very whole-
some rest from the dirty, smoky
city life. Nancy Blackwood, its
director for this season, will try
to teach them individualistic play,
and will write a report for their
parents on their progress there.
Nancy Blackwood and Frieda
Wagoner, who is assisting her,
have made plans to have the first
shift begin from July 5 and last
for a week. During that time,
she hopes to have three shifts of
8 counselors for each shift of chil-
Continued on Page 4
to ‘best ‘keep lenses
Edwin’s accessories for the eye.
For years he failed to get ahead,
His former hopes were almost
dead.
‘When finally, as a last resort,
A last stab at his goal, he sought
To move to some town, new and
far,
And arbitrarily picked Bryn
Mawr.
* * *
Now Edwin’s dreams have all
come true,
He has a house and fam’ly too.
His‘ wife has fur coats and a cook,
He wears a settled, prosperous
look.
And all day long he sells his wares
To girls with dull, myopic stares,
The squint-eyed type with vision
blurred
From contact with the written
word.
For Edwin found to his delight
That tiny print and dimmest light
And reams of work, made Bryn
Mawr eyes
Have constant need of his sup-
plies. :
The Observer
All right, girls, get ready, get
set — go!
T. Git}
Ping, ping, ping ... (who’s play-
ing musical water-glasses outside
the comptroller’s office) ping, ping,
ping ... (is that what stone-
threwing at glass houses sounds
like?) ping, ping, ping . . . (who’s
working the Chinese water torture
on an empty suit of armor?) ping,
ping — ping! Of course, it’s the
grandfather clock at the foot of
the McBride-Paul staircase and at
the head of the Robert-Pear] stair-
case.
It’s noon. It’s Friday. It’s free-
dom.
Taylor Hall — the bean-bag
bursts and scatters little bean-
brains, some sprouting, in seven-
teen directions. Leap, run, run
everybody — leap, run, run past
the Alliance Bulletin Board and
Mr. Adams, whip around the water-
cooler, whoops! Crush Mr. Chaucer,
Miss Custer — Locke and the lab-
oratory. Join the Friday Evening
Fish-haters’ Society and Students’
Ukulele Band! All those in favor
Continued on Page 5
A Short But Learned Treatise
Investigates Era of Pierced Ear
by Jane Augustine, °52
What is this, a back-to-nature
movement? Has Bryn Mawr gone
primitive?
A conservative count estimates
that thirty-five members—rough-
ly seven percent—of the student
body have pierced their ears. The
origins of this impulse to probe
holes in the earlobes are obscure,
but they seem to have originated
somewhat in Merion Hall, where
they overcame close to one-sixth,
or approximately seventeen per-
cent of the inhabitants (or should
we say dwellers, as in cave?).
Rare cases have ‘been recorded
where women were born with holes
in their ears; but then there are
always those born with holes in
their heads....
The history of pierced ears is
an interesting one. The women of
ancient Crete wore “ear-studs of
gold, silver, lapis lazuli, stones,
glass and beads.” All at the same
time, no doubt. Roman women
spent huge sums of money on their
earrings. Nowadays you may pur-
chase magnificent pendant gold
earrings set with emeralds, ame-
thysts, and aquamarines for only
twenty-five cents at Atkins-in-the-
ville. Silver earrings for pierced
ears are comparatively rare but a
few speciments may be seen lo-
cally.
The ladies of the Italian Renais-
Skinner Workshop Goes Parisian
With ‘Monsieur de Pourceaugnac’
by Patricia Murray, 52
“Silence dans la salle!” And
with three loud claps of the hand
the rehearsal of Monsieur de
Pourceaugnac, Moliere’s Comedie-
Balet, starts on its exclamatory
way. Julie and her forbidden
suitor, Eraste, in a hurried mo-
ment together, are plotting to ex-
tricate Julie from her proposed
marriage to Pourceaugnac, a
wealthy provincial of her father’s
choosing. They are to be abetted
‘by Nerine, a lady skilled in the
affairs of this world. She is in
the midst of a voluble explanation
of the difference between Parisi-
ans and barbarians, that is, other
people, when suddenly—
“Non, on, il faut refaire la
scene!” and the players relax, drop
their hands, and become Nevine
Halim (Julie), Miriam Bernheim
(the suitor), and Kathy Harper.
Murmurs about “les acoustiques
horribles” of the Skinner Work-
shop, and again three claps. This
time Sbrigani, a Neopolitan gen-
tleman who lives by his wits, en-
ters, or rather leaps upon the
stage. This gentleman (played by
Monsieur Guicharnaud) seems to
have less use for the ground than
most people, and must be as in-
ventive in intrigue as he is quick
in movement. His meeting with
Monsieur de Pourceaugnac (Mr.
Morris) who now rolls rather than
walks into the scene, resolves into
a series of elaborately exchanged
bows.
The story unrolls with much
singing and dancing; almos:
everyone in the play is carrying
out the pretenses, invented in
rapid succession by Sbrigani,
which are to separate Pourceaug-
nac from the heroine.
The music for the piece is a
chamber ensemble under the direc-
tion of Mrs. Edward Morris, con-
sisting of piano (Mrs. Morris),
flute (Ruth Young) and violin
(Annette Fisher). The dancers,
directed by Francine du Plessix,
are Seta Mahakian, Nora Vala-
breque, Cathy Cazale, and Nikki
de Langley. The original sets are
designed by Fritz Janschka.
sance wore pear-shaped pearls, but
Elizabethan damozels indulged in
egg-shaped ones. One cannot help
but conjecture as to whether the
shape of the ladies was analogous
to that of their pearls. Stubbs,
the censor who lived during the
reign of Queen Elizabeth, com-
mented drily in his Anatomie of
Abuses: “The women are not
ashamed to make holes in their
ears whereat they hang rings and
other jewels of gold and precious
stones.” Earrings ‘were pierced
through the earlobe and tied with
strings. Even the gentlemen wore
pierced earrings. They were just
ALL the rage at the court of that
most effeminate of French princes,
Henri III, whence they filtered
into Elizabethan England.
Holinshed reports: “Some lusty
courtiers, also, and gentlemen of
courage do wear rings of gold,
stones or pearls in their ears,
whereby they imagine the work-
manship of God to be no little
amended.” This remark is sugges-
tive of the poet MacDonald’s
couplet:
“Where did you get that pearly
ear?
God spoke, and it came out to
hear.”
During the reign of James I,
jewels in the ear were replaced
by two or three black silk threads
which hung to the gentleman’s
shoulder. Sometimes, but not al-
ways, there were jewels attached.
There is a picture of this sort of
ear-decoration (minus _ jewel)
which is said—upon no good au-
thority — to be a portrait of
Shakespeare. During the reign of
Louis XIV it is said that jewels
on ear-strings “disappeared never
to return.”
That pierced earrings add beau-
ty even to the beautiful has re-
ceived eminent verification of two
different sources. Jean de Meung
says that when Pygmalion created
the exquisite Galatea out of mar-
ble he
“met a ses oreilletes
Deux verges d’or pendans gre-
letes.”
Last week in the magazine Quick
the movie actress Faye Emerson
(as if you CARED!) advocated
pierced ears because then earrings
don’t get lost so easily. The same
article said that the fad began
when WACS and WAVES brought
home pierced ears from overseas.
Their own ears, that is—the influ-
ence of an ear, no matter how
thoroughly pierced, when brought
home pickled in brine is dubious.
There was at one time during the
war a tradition among sailors who
had been to Malta te pierce one
Continued on Page 6
Display of Rare Books, Portraits
Honors Wordsworth Centenary
by Joanna Semel, ’52
April, 1950, is the month of Wil-
liam Wordsworth centenary cele-
brations. In Grasmere, and
throughout the Lake District of
England, admirers of the poet will
gather to honor his memory. In
Princeton, on April 28, 24, and 25
there will be a Wordsworth sym-
posium, climaxing with a memorial
service in the college chapel:
At Bryn Mawr, through the ef-
forts of Dr. Mary K. Woodsworth,
Dr. Samuel C. Chew, and Miss
Mary Peirce of the Class of 1912,
an exhibit has been arranged in
the Rare Book room of Words-
worth material.
Here are first editions of the
“Lyrical Ballads” in which “Lines
Composed a few miles above Tin-
tern Abbey” and @oleridge’s im-
mortal “Rime of the . Ancient
Mariner” first appeared, and
Poems of 1807 with its first re-
cording of the “Ode on Intima-
tions of Immortality.”
Also to be seen are rare copies
of “An Evening Walk,” “The Ex-
cursion,” and “The White Doe of
Rylstone.”
‘Swarthmore College has lent
the original collected work in two
volumes of “Poems of 1815,” and
editions of “Ecclesiastical
Sketches,” “Peter Bell,” and “The
River Duddon.”
Portraits of Wordsworth at
various ages by Carruthers, Han-
cock, Boxall, and Benjamin Rob-
ert Haydon were made available
to the exhibit by the Free Library
of Philadelphia. From the “Poet’s.
Corner,” 1904, there is Max Beer-
bohm’s humorous caricature of
“William Wordsworth in the Lake
District at Cross Purposes.”
Dr. Woodworth has_ supplied
first copies of “Yarrow Revisited”
and “The Prelude,” first published
posthumously in 18650.
Perhaps the most unusual frag-
ment on exhibit is Miss Peirce’s
contribution of an autograph
manuscript signed by Words-
worth, September, 1844. The rest
of this poem was not composed
until 1845, and these lines may be
the original autograph:
‘So fair, so sweet, withal so sensi-
tive
Would that the little flowers were
born to live
Conscious of half the pleasures
which they give.”
Bard’s Kye View
MAID JANET
(upon the author’s raping of her
own locks, with apologies to “Lord
Donald” and roommates)
“QO what hae ye done t’day, Maid
Janet, my girl?
O what hae ye done t’day, my
clever young maid?”
“I’ve been in there cuttin,—room-
mate, bobbypins send,
For I’m shorn o’ my locks, and I
fain would amend.”
“What used ye for scissors, Maid
Janet, my girl?
What used ye for scissors, my
clever young maid?”
“My true barber scissors — room-
mate, bobbypins send,
For I’m shorn o’my locks, and I
fain would amend.”
“Why used ye the scissors, Maid
Janet, my girl?
Why used ye the scissors, my clever
young maid?”
“T saw Harper’s pictures — room-
mate: bobbypins, girl!
For I’m shorn o’ my hair, and I
fain it would curl.”
“Ye look like — well, windblown,
Maid Janet, my girl.
Ye look like — well, windblown,
my clever young maid.”
“O yes, I look windblown — room-
mate; bobbypins, girl!
For I’m shorn o’ my hair, and I fain
it would curl.”
“T’ll put it up for you, Maid Janet,
my girl.
I’ll put it up for you, my clever
young girl.”
“No need — I am done for! Room-
‘mate, the effort is nil,
For I’m shorn 0’ my hair, and I’m
makin’ my will.”
“What will ye leave to your college,
Maid Janet, my girl?
What will ye leave to your college,
my clever young maid?”
“My scholarship money — room-
mate, mak my bed sune,
For I’m shorn o’ my locks, and I
fain would lie doun.”
“What will ye leave to dear Mer-
ion, Maid Janet, my girl?
What will ye leave to dear Merion,
my clever young maid?”
“A lock for each door — room-
mate, mak my bed sune,
For I’m shorn o’ my locks, and I
fain would lie doun.”
“What will ye leave to your room-
mate, Maid Janet, my girl?
What will ye leave to your room-
mate, my clever young maid?”
“A noose of old hair-ribbon to hang
on yon tree,
And let her hang there for the
shearin’ o’ me!!
Author Michener Says American
Literature Definitely in Infancy
by Patricia Murray, ’52
|
In reviewing America’s literary
In the fourth of the Revolt in| Past, Mr. Michener remarked that
the Arts series given by the Uni- though Americans are not the
versity of Pennsylvania, James A.
Michener, author of Tales of the
South Pacific, discussed Fiction.
Mr. Michener was concerned with
the ‘American novel, its past and
future; in his opinion, American
novels must be like instruments
by which Americans examine and
learn to understand their own
characters and their own prob-
lems. In this effort Americans
can hope to develop a more clearly
defined notion of the processes of
democratic society than they pos-
sess at present: a necessity for a
nation which, according to Mr.
Michener, has so great an influ-
ence on the opinions of people of
other nations. As a result of this
same effort novels of finer liter-
ary: quality than have been writ-
ten so far will be produced. Mr.
Michener regarded the novel as a
literary form which can be at
once an artistic creation and a
social force.
“stainless steel barbarians” they
have been called, their literature is
admittedly in its infancy. Mr.
Michener suggested two novels,
Moby Dick, and Huckleberry Finn,
as best representing American life
in the last century; he noted that
‘both are marred by the lack of
powerful women characters and
commented that they were pro-
duced in a society still afraid of
both culture and women.
In the more recent past there
has occurred a literary revolt. Cur-
rent literature previous to the
first World War had been florid
in style and sentimental in sub-
ject. After the war, however,
came writers like Hemingway, who
emphasized simplicity and force,
both in vocabulary and in charac-
ter representation; Dreiser, who
lacking in artistic skill, makes his
novels valued by their understand-
ing of American life; Lewis, who
Continued on Page 4
Page Four
THE COLLEGE NEWS
, Wednesday, April 12, 1950:
Michener Finds Room For Development
Of New Subjects in Current Literature
Continued from Page 3
satirized so bitterly the material-
ism of sudden riches. The litera-
ture of this period, however, writ-
ten in disillusionment, and dis-
gust with America after the first
war, contains much destructive
criticism of its society, and, said
Mr. Michener, few constructive
ideas.
(Mr. Michener believes that a na-
tional literature “must contain a
core of thought which relates to
current problems.” He mentioned
the possibilities of the novel as a
social force. Books are freer from
authority than other influences
which tend to govern public opin-
ion — religion, education, and the
newspaper press, The novel has a
wider public than poetry or the
stage, and requires less specialized
intellectual and artistic endowment
on the part of writer and reader.
Mr. Michener then defined more
closely his conception of the novel
as a social force. “No good novel,”
he said, “is about an idea. It is
about people who chance to rep-
resent an idea.”
Mr.’ ‘Michener cited certain re-
cent novels which he thinks illus-
trate his idea of what the novel in
America should accomplish. One
was The Man With The Golden
Arm, another, Mister Roberts.
Both these novels assert the value
of human individuality: the first
in a study of the criminals of a
great city; the other in a story of
a Navy crew which rebels against
the tyranny of its captain. An-
other, The Just and the Unjust,
treats of the nature of justice in
our society.
America, said Mr. Michener, is
a “nation which leads the world
without knowing itself.” He sug-
gested various fields yet unex-
plored about which novels of
“people who chance to represent
ideas” might be written. Among
these were the rise of labor in
this country, the relationship be-
tween the sexes (especially as re-
gards divorce), the absorption of
people into society.
Mr. Michener concluded by com-
menting on the tendency of young
writers, notably John Hersey in
A Bell for Adano and Hiroshoma,
to deal with international prob-
lems; he considers that the’ im-
portance of this subject arouses so
much interest among writers that
the analysis of American life,
which he regards as essential to
Americans’ understanding of their
place in the world, may be ne-
glected.
Dance Through the Weekend From Oz to Eden;
Find Pot of Gold Friday, Forbidden Fruit Sat.
Continued from Page 1
about to enter the Enchanted For-
est — you are about to wander
throug Eden picking forbidden
apples. ...
When will this millenium occur?
Sooner than you might think.
_ The first spell is by. candlelight
about seven o’clock Saturday eve-
ning with dinner either at the
Deanery or the Inn. Next you
are subjected to the magic music
of The Vagabond King, and then
at 10:30 you take your escort’s
arm and the mysterious piece of
paper and you enter upon the third
and final incantation to make the
enchantment complete.
What! You don’t think the gym-
nasium is Paradise, an enchanted
garden? But it too has been sub-
jected to a potent spell and you
will not recognize it because it is
in disguise. Here the Junior Prom
will take place.
The Yale Collegians will make
music and you will be strangely
compelled to dance. Members of
the Mask and Wig will entertain
you with feats of singing and
dancing. Joanie Woodworth is re-
sponsible for the particular abra-
cadabra which produces decora-
tions. Mousie Wallace as publici-
ty chairman for the Prom, has
spent the past two weeks spread-
ing the open-sesame: “forbidden
fruit.” Margie Carlson takes care
of the mundane details of business,
and Betsey Repenning is responsi-
ble for bringing entertainment to
the Enchanted Forest.
Two-fifty plus tax will enable
you and your date to pass the en-
chanted gates, but at two o’clock
the ball is over and Cinderella
must flee — but she can at least
take her prince with her. Unless
greater wizardry than theirs
makes rain in spite of the charms
the juniors are working against
it, there ‘will be tables outside the
gym. To receive the necessary
piece of paper, see any one of the
following people, and cross her
PERSONALIZED
agemend Stationery
; RICHARD
STOCKTON’S
LANCASTER AVENUE
palm with silver: Pat Donoho,
Radnor; El] Lyman, Merion; Nancy
Burdick, Denbigh; Pat Hirsch,
Pem East; Fifi Sonne, Pem
West; Marge Mullikin, Wyndham;
Radha Watumull, Rock; Sally
Howells, Rhoads South; Katchy
Torrence, Rhoads North; and
Frieda Wagoner, non-res.
On Sunday afternoon at three
everyone will come down to earth
—let us hope not too literally—on
Denbigh Green where there will be
baseball for all Bryn Mawrtyrs
and their weekend guests who are
still somewhat under hypnosis.
League Campers Learn
Fundamentals of Play
Continued from Page 3
dren. She is going to post a no-
tice to be signed on the hall
bulletin board for anybody to sign,
regardless of previous experience.
She is also going to start a drive
for bathing suits with which she
will try to clothe the children, and
she hopes for lots of contributions.
So, please sign and please give,
for you, the children and _ the
camp will benefit by it, and will
help make this season a success
at the Bryn Mawr Summer Camp.
ENGAGEMENTS
Sheila Eaton, °50 to Heyward
Isham,
Hope Ferguson, ’53 to Andrzej
Kuhn.
Josephine Spitzer, ’50 to Brian
Mead, Jr.
“PRINTS FOR EASTER TIME”
says
Nancy Brown
(under Country Bookshop)
Bryn Mawr Avenue
S.D.A. Speakers
Present Policies
“We definitely take an anti-
Communist position;” So spoke
one of the three representatives of
the Students for Democratic Ac-
tion who spoke in the Common
Room last night. The SDA is the
student branch of the Americans
for Democratic Action, and is de-
voted to backing liberal causes in
politics, education and “anything
with bearing on the public wel-
fare.” An organization with stud-
ent groups at Vassar, Princeton,
Dartmouth, and headed by a stud-
ent at Antioch College, it also
sponsors student trips abroad.
The first to speak was Joseph
Nesis, chairman of the Middle At-
_lantic region of the ADA who gave
the increasing number of older’
some of the history of the organ-
ization, which was formed in 1947,
to further “New Deal” principles.
Their policy is to back liberalism
and democratic government in the
country regardless of the party
they back. For example, they
support the Democratic Party in
Philadelphia, but the Republicans
in Hartford, and the Socialists in
St. Paul. Among the more prom-
inent of their membership is Hu-
bert Humphries, who is the Na-
tional Chairman.
Paul Harriton, the student chair-
man of the SDA on the University
of Pennsylvania campus related
the results of the ADA convention
in Washington, last March 31. He
covered the three different divi-
sions of the organization’s policy:
domestic, foreign, and political.
The keynote speech of the conven-
tion, which was held at the Shore-
ham Hotel in Washington, the first
hotel there to allow Negroes,
largely through the efforts of
ADA, was a speech by Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, Jr. Then Mr.
Harriton outlined the general pol-
icy results. The ADA favors po-
lice powers for the U.N. and the
Atlantic Pact until such time as
the U.N. has police power; it backs
ERP, separation of the United
States government from the mil-
itary, and the Baruch plan for
atomic control, Also, ADA wants
faster denazification, no Western
German army, and a free and inde-
pendent Austria. It believes that
we should oppose the “Soviet sys-
tem of aggression” without any
political conditions.
While they do not believe that
the Spanish regime should be al-
lowed to be represented at the UN,
or that there should be any trade
tariffs, they are in favor of recog-
nition of the present Chinese Com-
munist so as to “temporarily offset
assimilation behind the Iron Cur-
tain.” A speech by Walter Reuther
ended the conference with a blast
against Sen. McCarthy, the “dum-
my of Sen. Taft just as Charley
McCarthy is the dummy of Edgar |
Bergen.”
The last speaker to stand before
the huge posters of Communist
Compliments
of the
Haverford Pharmacy
Haverford
NOTICES
Baseball Game
Everybody is invited to the
baseball game, on Sunday, April
16, at three o’clock on Denbigh
Green.
Transportation for Russian Lecture
The bus for the Russian Lecture
at Swarthmore, Thursday, April
13, will leave Pembroke Arch at
7:30 p. m. See the Office of the
President for reservations.
Maids and Porters
There will be no dress rehearsal
of the “Vagabond King” on Fri-
day, but the rehearsal on Thurs-
day night is open to anyone who
wants to come. It will be in full
costume,
Dr. Michels
Dr. W. C. Michels, president of
the Sigma Xi Chapter at Bryn
Mawr, has been invited to partici-
pate in impressive rites marking
the installation of a chapter of the
top scientific organization, April
14, at the University of Denver.
Civil Service
April 14 will be the last day to
file State Civil Service Commis-
sion applications for about five
hundred stenographic typing jobs.
Counterpoint Deadline
The Counterpoint deadline for
the last issue is this Friday, April
14. All contributions, short stories,
poems, essays, pictures, sketches
should be in hall boxes by that
evening.
UWF Movie
On Wednesday, April 19, the
United World Federalists will pre-
sent “Great Expectations,” in
Goodhart Hall at 8:00 p. m. Ad-
mission will be fifty cents per per-
son.
and Fascist headline charts show-
ing the bias of those organizations
was David Mayer, chairman of the
Philadelphia non-student chapter.
He explained the campus functions
of the various groups, and the
local aims. They plan to support
Dillworth and faction in the Penn-
sylvania primaries and next No-
vember, although he stressed the
fact that each group acts autono-
mously, supporting the candidates
they feel are best suited, and most
interested in the public welfare.
The final question period reveal-
ed that the ADA backs President
Truman’s Fourth point, which is
improvement of underdeveloped
areas of the world with United
States aid.
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Continued from Page 1
scholarship, it is possible to con--
strue the unity of the sciences, for
all sciences use concepts and log-
ical deductions.
Kant, however, said that a sci-
ence is only properly a science ac-.
cording to the amount of mathe-
matics in it. This was an integral
part of his scientific method which
no longer exists, for under it the:
unity of even just the natural
sciences was destroyed.
As far as man himself is con-
vterned, Dr. Holborn said he must
always be considered dualistically,.
—as an individual and as a being
among his fellow beings. As a
result, the natural and the cul-.
tural sciences must be combined
to achieve the interpretation of all
events so that their causes may be
known. This is the desire of all.
scholarship, and the more serious-
ly we take methodology, the more:
we will realize the unity of the
sciences in this effort.
In research, Professor Holborn
continued, we must always be:
guided by the correlation of fact.
and law, or method, for in this
way the individual and the univer-
sal, which prevails in all general
knowledge, are brought together.
The isolation of method, as well
as departmental isolation is dang-
erous, for it leads to mental pov-
erty, as it seeks no new ideas.
Method is the way to something
which must be changed and sup-
planted as the facts are faced. By
teaching us the limits of knowl-.
edge, method enables us to have
precise knowledge if it is properly
used,
Professor Holborn said that the
progress of true scholarship is
threatened in more than half of
the world. ‘However, he warned
against believing that we can use
freedom such as we have in this
country to undertake what we
want and to do what we want. We
must face the fact now that no
scholar has this personal freedom.
Scholarship is regulated by the
highest definitions, laws, and prin-
ciples of the human mind, and as
scholars we must take our places
as masters and servants of these
great human principles.
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THE COLLEGE NEWs
Undergrads Vote
On Rule Revision
Below are the revisions to the
Self - Government Constitution,
_ which have been voted upon by the
undergraduate body. These re-
visions will be incorporated as part
of the Constitution and will be put
into effect as soon as they are ap-
proved by the Board of Trustees
of the College. The Board will
meet on May 18.
The revisions are as follows:
I. “Each member of the Associa-
tion is urged to assume responsi-
bility for attempting to prevent in-
fringements of the rules by others.
She may exert social pressure and
report infringements at her dis-
cretion.”
II. “Students are responsible for
seeing that their dayguests are ac: |
quainted with and comply with the
rules.” Gee |
IV. “If a student wishes to leave
the hall after 10:80, she may do so
if she gets special permission from
the Hall President, Vice-President,
or, in their absence, from a senior
Permission Giver, and makes ar-
rangements with the Warden.”
V. “Students may have a 1:15
permission when attending the op-
era in Philadelphia.”
VI. “When living in the Dean-
ery, students are under Self-Gov-
ernment rules.”
Geol. Department
Holds Open-House
In Park Hall, at 8:15 p. m. on
April 11, the Geoiw zy Department
continued the ope; -house custom
established two yexrs ago by the
Biology and Physic: departments,
in conjunction with the Bryn Mawr
chapter of the societ; of Sigma Xi.
The aim of opening 2. indivvidual
science department tu the entire
Sigma Xi chapter is 1 acquaint
the members who are secializing
in other fields with the methods
and problems of researcr.. in the
department in question, an with
the research advance made vp» this
department.
This last meeting of the coliege
chapter of Sigma Xi for the year
1949-50 was opened with initiation
of new full and associate member:
of the society. Dr. Walter C
Michels, chapter president during
the past year, reminded the new
J
members of the society’s aims:
promotion of research in the sci-
ences and fellowship among those
engaged in scientific research.
Page Five
Ross To Keynote
W.A.C. Foum
The College Student Council of
the World Affairs Council of Phil-
adelphia will sponsor a symposium
in Goodhart on Friday, April 21.
This is the third in a series of
meetings and will have as_ its
theme United States Foreign Pol-
icy, with a discussion of its prob-
lems and objectives. John. Ross
of the State Department will de-
liver the keynote address in the
Common Room. Mr. Ross was
Deputy Secretary General at the
U.N. San Francisco Conference,
and has since served on the Atomic
Energy. Commission, the Security
Council, and in various advisory
posts on the U.N. His speech will
be followed by round table discus-
sions on various aspects of the
U. S. foreign policy toward west-
the Far East.
Pres. McBride Presents
Graduate Scholarships
Coutinued from Page 1
Morriso:.. Florence Rosenfeld, and
Thelma-a \ne McLeod; in geology,
Mary Cat \erine Magaw; in Ger-
man, Marzrit Hess; in Greek,
Nominations of officers for the:
coming year were submitted and
approved: Dr. Ernst Berliner was j
nominated as president, Dr. Magda
VII. “Trousers may be worn to
dinner during the examination
period.”
|
Noble of Williams |
To Deliver Sermon’
The Reverend H. Grant Noble
of Williams College, Williamstown,
Massachusetts, will speak in
Chapel on Sunday, April 16. Sev-
eral years ago Reverend Noble de-
livered a series of sermons dealing
with the fundamental laws of life
as they apply to social relation-
ships and marriage.
Thank God It’s Friday,
Sighs Weary Observer
Continued from Page 3
of the reinauguration of the Era
of the Great Unwashed please sig-
nify by saying Aye. + nuts to neo-
Platonism, Communism, cretinism.
C’mon you stiffs; relax, revert, re-
cede, rescind, resort, revolt — the
weekend is here! I] est arrive, es
ist hier, is kommen und das Win-
ter ist aus, in short, the Weak
End is here.
Herausmit!
What was the tale of woe you
moaned to us last Monday? You
have to read three short stories,
a full-length novel, and two sec-
ondary sources for your term pap-
er. You have to write two stories
for the NEWS, and if time, one for
your Experimental Writing teacher.
Five poems, a quiz and your schol-
arship blanks are due. Also your
payday. Kindly remember to make
a@ small payment to the Devil who
bought your soul last week Tues-
day on the installment plan. You
needed the time to study for a
tough midsemester ...
But anyhow, what was your
moan last Monday?
I JUST CAN’T WAIT TILL
Blondiau Arnold as Vice-President,
Dr. John R. Pruett as member at
large, and Dr. Lindley J. Burton
continues as secretary.
Dr. Edward H. Watson, head of
the Geology department, opened
by expressing his view that fifteen
minute talks by several depart-
ment professors were inadequate
to give a true impression of the
department as a whole. He said
that geology is many things to
many people, that even a more
complicated definition of the sci-
ence does not represent it. Dr.
Watson stated that one must be
fundamentally a pure geologist in
order to engage in geologic re-
search. He presented the problem
of study of the rock formations on
the earth, involving structure,
Emily Mavie Spence; in history,
Mildred Buighman, Phyllis Arline
Reiss, Eva Toni Helen Brann, and
Dorothy Shirley Gordon; in his-
tory of art, Helen J. Dow; in
Latin, Marjorie Alkins and Mary
Ayer Taylor; in mathematics
Margaret B. Roston and Aloisse
Marie Askin; in philosophy, Nancy
Louise Sutton and Martha Lee
Pennebaker; in physics, Margaret
Jean McAvoy, Rika Caroline Sar-
faty, and Beatrice Anne Slater;
in social economy, the Carola
Woerishoffer Scholarships were
awarded to Mary P. Laughlin and
Shirley M. Ostroff; in Spanish,
Arline Ebert and Mary Lou Hale.
Non-resident graduate scholar-
ships were awarded in classical
archaeology, to Anna C. Mathis; in
French, to Avriel Horwitz; in his-
tory, to Eloise Brown Segal; in
philosophy, to Beverly Levin Rob-
bins; in psychology, to Norma
Bassett, in social economy, to Sara
chemical analysis of the minerals,
and showed seven typical steps in
formation of rocks as seen today,
explaining the proof of the ac-
curacy of such analysis.
Dr. Dorothy Wykoff discussed
metamorphic rocks and the pro-
cesses involved in the study of the
intricate chemical changes and
foldings which have occurred dur-
ing the periods of geologic history.
She also outlined the study of min-
eral structures in metamorphosed
rock. Dr. Lincoln Dryden spoke on
sedimentary rocks, which are his
field of study, telling the methods
used in tracing the sediments to
their source. He said that all
fields of geology are interrelated in
such study.
The meeting ended with a tour
of the Geology department, and
refreshments in the Deanery for
Society members.
The Spanish club announces
the election of Diana Goss as
president, Giafira Vizcarra as
vice-president, and Judy Silman
secretary-treasurer.
THE WEEKEND TO DO MY
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Work — work??? w-o-r-...
Six unwritten papers due
Vanish in the glint of brew
It’s Friday!
It’s Freedom!
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You slip out in the cool morning |
for the bundle of Times’s left on'
the doorstep, glance beyond—and
the lawns, no longer dull, have
taken on a shade of green—how
to call it? brilliant . . . vibrant. |
- - You stumble with your stack 'yeilow light of the
of newsprint back
winter distinctly barred agains’
the evening sun, have become biur-
red in outline. Go up close, you
will see that red oily leaves have
burst the tips of the twigs.
In the hall at night. In the
room opposite
into the dim yours two girls sit endlessly talk-
hall, pondering, unsuccessfully asjing. One of .them returned: from
always, the correct adjective for | vacation with
a ring on her fin-
cpring grass; then take refuge in iger, and an air of serene detach-
the thought that the change re-/me
sults from last week’s application
of white dust.
In the hot sun the sunbathers
have appeared in the little square
made by the wings of the build-
ing; they are protected by its
walls from the high, cool wind. “It
has begun. .
-” the phrase; form |
ed in disgusted envy of those who |
feel they
ringing in the mind and
kes on a different, half-admit-
ted meaning. Not that “those peo-
ple” will go on right through
exams, but that of course people
have come out of their winter bun-
dles, as other things from their
shells and holes, because the sun
has returned. As you leave the
hot still quadrangle a sudden wind,
a winter wind, strikes you. Yes-
terday, darkness and fog; today,
the sun, it must be these sudden
| final
ulternations which produce the
nt from all college affairs. Most
cf her sentences begin or end, “...
ift- dune.”
After dinner, having given up
the idea of work, you wander out,
not to go anywhere, but because
it’s close inside. Two dim figures
whom you noticed first because of
their lighted cigarette ends, stop
murmuring as you pass them, By
have time to sunbathe, |yourself in the dusk, you see that
the brightest stars have come in
a sky yet touched with blue. They
always slip your gaze just as they
appear. -By now you have suc-
cumbed to your attack of the an-
nual fever, and have stopped try-
ing to word it off by mumbling
cynically to yourself that spring
promises the world and _ brings
exams. Your thoughts,
checked all day, extend themselves.
All winter you have written,
glib and unconvinced, of that force
poets talk of, that makes the grass
sense of excitement. | grow, the stars move, makes peo-
You have sat reading until the|Pple want to go on living. Now
bright afternoon has retired, an¢ jthat force renews its impetus. At.
great shadows
the walls and among the furniture ber the theories;
while still the sky in the high win-
dows is full of light. Your lamp
chines hot on bent forehead, your
eyes fixed the staring
words. Then a bird sings one song
—two low minor notes, then a fal-
tering throaty trill to a higher—
clear, round, sweet. Perhaps it is
because you have tried to ignore
it that the feeling comes so
strongly now. It is the emotional
certainty that something is about
to happen, which no thought of
schedules can deaden.
Outside, the black branches, all
are on
have come along|this moment you cannot remem-
the emotional
understanding is paramount. The
excitement which you feel now,
whieh you realize you have felt
ail your life just because you are
alive, is tremendously increased
by your knowledge of its cause
and its commonness.
Moved by your discovery, you
cannot speak to anyone, you can-
not write poetry; you simply wan-
der about restlessly in the dark-
ness; and glancing up, are startled
by the sight of the belltower,
swaying among the stars beneath
the moon.
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
Wednesday, April 12, 1950
Atkins’ Jewels Replace
Elizabethan Earstrings
Continued from Page 3
ear and tie a string through it. In
the South Pacific some service-
men embedded small sapphires in
their earlobes. Among the gypsies
pierced earrings have a_ special
language. A single gold hoop, for
example, means that one never
knew one’s parents.
Contrary to Miss Emerson’s
statement, however, a pierced ear
may occasionally lose its earring.
There is an apocryphal story that
one Bryn Mawrtyr was so soundly
bussed by an over-eager boyfriend
that her earring not only came
out of her ear, but sprang half-
Way across the room. The evi-
dence for this, however, was pure-
ly circumstantial, and could not
be construed ag absolute and ulti-
mate truth.
The rumor that there is an abor-
tive move to inaugurate a new
fashion of a bone through the lip
for ladies and a ring through the
nose for gentlemen is likewise
wholly unfounded. We'll stick to
old fashion(eds).
Spring Counterpoint
Succeeds When Light
Continued from Page 1
important question: exactly what
did he want to make his readers
think or feel?
Of the two other prose contri-
butions, Edith Mason Ham’s
“Child of the East” is engaging
and well written but falls a little
short of its subject’s possibilities.
The only interest of John Dyson’s
“Beautiful Isle” is its contrast
with his other, much better sketch.
Among the three poets Helen
Goldberg, who published extraor-
dinarily good fiction in Counter-
point last year, has a disappoint-
ing sonnet. Sperry Lea’s poem is
weakened by poor lines, particu-
larly in the third and fifth stan-
zas; and Joanna Semel’s verses are
pleasant and insignificant.
In spite of a great deal of com-
petent writing, variety of materi-
al (including a full-page photo-
graph and several small draw-
ings), and sincerity of tone, this
Counterpoint is decidedly inferior
to the lively and interesting spring
issue of 1949.
The German Club announces
the election of Janie Horner
’b1 as President, Ginny Rees ’52
as Secretary, and Helen Loen-
ing ’52 as Social Secretary.
Ginny Rees will be temporary
chairman during the remainder
of Janie Horner’s junior year
in Zurich.
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| Williams To Join
BMC in Concert
The choruses of Bryn Mawr and
Williams College will present a
joint concert on Saturday night,
April 22, at 8:30, in Goodhart.
‘The choruses will sing the fol-
lowing numbers together:
MA ek a A ey Gibbs
BE Sec iccc wismuas Kodaly
Cantate Domino ................ Schutz
William Schumann
The Bryn Mawr Chorus will per-
form two numbers by Mr. Goodale,
“High Flight,” and “What the
Bluebird Said.” The Williams pro-
grom has not yet been released.
There will be an’ admission
charge of $.60 for students and
$1.20 for outsiders.
This Sunday, April 16, on the
week-end of Junior Prom there
will be two major activities.
Immediately after lunch or as
near two o’clock as_ possible
there will be a big Baseball
Game held on Merion Green.
Everybody is invited to come
and play, whether they are with
dates or without, and even stray
men are urged to comee. So if
you are looking for something
exciting to do on Sunday don’t
forget to go hit a couple of
homers.
Just in case Baseball is not
your calling, there will also be a
Volleyball game in the gym at
the same time for everyone who
want to play.
INCIDENTALLY
Department. of Utter Confusion
Our subscription manager re-
cently received this plaintive plea:
“T know I have been a nuisance,
trying to get the NEWS. Now I
get two identical copies every two
weeks, and miss the issue between.
Could you straighten this out?”
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Ode: Indications
Of Insomniability
by Jane Augustine, '52
The world is so full of a number of
things hectic and frantic;
Like, after vacation, a late and
lousy paper in the Period
Romantic.
After three nights on the News
and a No-doz night in Merion,
My test on Descartes came out
half-Kant, half-Perfectibilitarian.
After Wednesday afternoon at the
plant, being for wear a little
the worse,
On Thursday I think Milton wrote
in unrhymed couplets and Dryden
in rhyming blank verse.
But I really have no gripe to lay at
the feet of my vee
editor:
I’m passing one course. But it’s the
one at Haverford that Bryn
Mawr won’t give me credit
fer!
1
“German Youth Being Taught
Political Maturity” will be the
topic for the next I.R.C. meet-
ing, to be held Thursday, April
13 in the Common Room at 8:30
P. M. Special Bryn Mawr Ger-
man students will lead the dis-
cussion on the education of
German youth for future jobs,
and for political reasons.
What To Do
JOBS—
Notice—To Seniors and Graduate
Students:
If you are looking for a job and
have not already registered with
the Bureau of Recommendations,
please register as soon as possible.
A schedule of appointments is
posted outside Room H, Taylor
Hall.
For Next Year—See Mrs. Cren-
shaw.
Gertz Department -Store in Ja-
maica, L. I. (member of Allied
Stores Corp.)—offers training pro-
gram—must live within 30 or 40
minutes commuting distance of the
store, new branch may be opened
in 1951 in Flushing.
Sloan-Kettering Institute for
Cancer Research — Biology or
Chemistry majors —for positions
beginning July or September —
“screening chemical compounds
against mouse lukemia.” See Mrs.
Crenshaw.
For the Summer—See Miss Jeph-
cott in Room H, Taylor.
Juniors in Chemistry or Physics
—for Student Aide positions in
government labs in Pennsylvania.
$239 a month—applications must
be made by April 20. Blanks may
be obtained in Room H, Taylor
Hall.
Ca
amp Owaissa, Pocono Pines,
Pa.—needs a good riding coun-
selor.
Alford Lake Camp, Union, Maine
i'needs 8 counselors: one to teach
_|nature’ lore to small children; two
arts and crafts counselors.
Social Welfare
National Federation of Settle-
ments—positions in camps all over
the country.
Life Camps—Girls Camp in Sus-
sex, N. J. for underprivileged chil-
dren of all races.
West Side Community House,
Cleveland, Ohio—for majors in
Sociology, Psychology and Educa-
tion—$70 plus residence. (social
group work.)
Training
East Harlem Settlement House,
N. Y.—re¢reational leadership, ex-
penses $135 for 10 week period.
Travel
International Study Tours an-
nounces trips to Mexico and Eu-
rope in the fields of History, Phil-
osophy, and Art.
Family Jobs—please notify Miss
Jephcott immediately if you are
interested in any of the following
jobs as the parents are anxious to
have interviews.
Family going to Ocean City, N.
J.—want student to take care of 3
boys, aged 8, 3 and 9 months, gen-
eral help with children and house.
Salary to be arranged.
Student to go to Martha’s Vine-
yard, Mass. for the summer — 2
boys, 8 and 2% years, care of boys
and general help with house, prim-
itive life, camp on the beach, love-
ly place and location. Salary to be
arranged.
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