College news, November 10, 1948

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VOL. XLV, NO. 7

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1948

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College,1945

PRICE 15 CENTS



Dr. Henry J. Cadbury Elected Trustee of B. M.



Clair Wilcox in Last Shaw Lecture
Presents Objections to Trade Plan

Wilcox Advises U.S.
Ignore Objections,
Sign Charter

Goodhart, November 8. In the
last of the lectures, entitled “What
We Have at Stake,” Dr. Clair Wil-
cox presented and answered the ob-
jections to the Charter for the In-
ternational Trade Organization
which he had explained the pre-
vious week.

The Charter has been under at-
tack from all sides. The U.S.S.R.
and the international Communist
press have called its sponsors (i.e.,
the United States) “predatory cap-
italists and pretenders to world
domination,” whose only interests
are imperialism and the enslave-
ment of others. Dr. Wilcox pointed
out, however, that the United
States made no attempt to exclude
imports or acquire special priv-
ileges for itself.

Rightists are quite perturbed
about the Charter, too. They state
that it “would condemn the United
States to international Socialism
and commit it to global planning.”
They assume this purely because

Continued on page 6

Neubergers Give
Modern Paintings

Mr. and Mrs. Roy H. Neuberger
have recently presented to Bryn
Mawr a collection of eight paint-
ings by living American artists.
The paintings will be hung’ in
Goodhart, in the corridor leading
to the Music Department offices,
by November 12, in time for
Alumnae Weekend. Most of these
will be permanent gifts to the col-
lege.

The collection includes work hy
Breinin, Aronson, Zorack, Avery
and others. Mr. Neuberger hopes
that these pictures will serve as a
focus for interest in contemporary
art at the college, which is fortu-
nate in receiving this interesting
and valuable gift. :

The Neubergers are increasingly
prominent among well-known col-
lectors and their pictures are often
seen on loan in museums. Mrs.
Neuberger is a graduate of Bryn



Seznec Relates

Ariosto, Tasso |
To 16 Cent. Art

Ariosto and Tasso in Art was
the topic of Dr. Jean Seznec’s lec-
ture in the Deanery November 4.
Dr. Seznec is an authority on the
XVIth century poets, Ariosto and
Tasso. These “two Italian Magi-
cians” have played a significant
role in Art, for it is through their
poems that the French cycle that
centers around Charlemagne and
his peers has been transmitted
through the ages and propagated
in the world of art.

Dr. Seznec pointed out that the
Charlemagne cycle, as well as the
cycles of other countries, such as
the Arthurian cycle, had permeated
Italy, brought there through oral
tradition, by troubadours long be-
fore Ariosto and Tasso. As early as
the XII century sculptural decora-
tions, church mosaics, manuscripts,
which represent episodes of these |
cycles, testify to their early pop-
ularity in Italy. We know that
Dante was acquainted with the



Undergrad Election
The Undergraduate Associa-
tion takes pleasure in announc-
ing the election of Edie Mason,
Ham, 750, as First Junior Mem-
ber,









Charlemagne cycle from, several
references in the Inferno.

However, as Dr. Seznec said, it
remained for Ariosto, in the XVIth
century, to give “the final and most
brilliant word” on the chivalric
cycle of France.,In his peom, Or-
lando Furioso, ‘Ariosto has woven
together the various stories about
Charlemagne and his peers. Or-
lando, the French Roland, is the
hero, and the poem is centered on
his fights and on his frenzied love
for Angelica. Tasso has also depict-
ed episodes of the Charlemagne
cycle, in La Gerusalemme Liberata.
This poem, however, Dr. Seznec
added, creates an atmosphere of
tustic romance rather than of hero-
ism. ZF

Ariosto’s and Tasso’s poems have



Mawr, class of 19380.

Continued on page 2



Election Eve GOP Headquarters
Tired Even Staunchest Hopefuls

_Brilliant—white.lights,-cigarette

|
smoke, and intense heat were the

main characteristics of the board
room at the Statler Hotel in Wash-
ington, the Republican National
Committee Headquarters, as elec-
tion returns were coming in last
Tuesday night. The blackboard on
which the results were being listed
was a confused jumble of figures,
constantly changing as the balance
wavered one way and then the
other. Television machines were
roving around the room, following
the glaring spotlights that swung
over the scene.

Fragments of conversations
caught your ear: “This is the urban
returns—wait till the rural ones

_come.in_and_then.-you’ll_see;”?—“H

wonder if Truman is listening in;”
“I thought that Wallace would get

that-Truman-was~leading~ didnot
worry people yet, as Dewey was
sure to win; hadn’t all the polls
proved that?

In another room, people stood on
tip-toe to see the television screen,
which showed interviews, party
leaders, and discussions — Both
were still confident of victory. Be-
low, in the drug store, soda foun-
tain attendants worked frenziedly
to fill the continous plea for service,
and mainly, for coffee.

At about midnight came the an-
nouncement: “New York has gone
to Dewey.” There! That was it, the
turning of the tide in favor of the
Republicans! 47 electoral votes
right there—all he needed now was

“Bryn Mawr Myth’’ Annihilated
As Princeton Finds Looks, Wit

By Jane Roller, ’51

“Ohs” and “ahs” are whispered
over the campus, pandemonium is
rampant in the bookshop, tele-

|phone wires to halls are crossed.

The cause? . The November
issue of the Nassau Sovereign has
exploded the “Bryn Mawr myth.”
Princetonians are as convinced as

Bryn Mawrtyrs that the latter are |

not all “high foreheaded_intellect-
uals.”

According to the Princeton boys,
Bryn Mawr comes close to them in
at least one respect other than
proximity. The girls prefer their
gingerale with bourbon. And upset
stomachs do not result as a rule,
which “may or may not be a good
thing.”

Princeton has discovered the col-
lege rules, and points out with

ve
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Alumnae Choose

Weekend Theme
Of “Inside BMC”

“Inside BMC’—Bryn Mawr Col-
lege’s ~problems, forces, influences,
management, and objectives—is the
subject of the Alumnae Weekend
program.

Commencing Friday, Noven:ber
12, Bryn Mawr alumnae will have
the opportunity to attend classes
and see students and faculty at
work._At—1:00—there will _be—a
luncheon in the Deanery to meet
members of the. faculty; while at
2:00 Dean Marshall will address



the group on “Health on the Cam-:

pus”, followed by a discussion of
“Admissions, Studies and Policies”
by Dean Broughton.
Demonstrations of projects in
Science for which Bryn Mawr has
received grants from the Research
Corporation will be given in Park
Hall by Dr. Berliner and Dr. Gates.
Continued on page 5



Calendar
Friday, November 12

Alumnae Weekend at Bryn
Mawr Begins.

8:30 p.m. Bryn Mawr Drama
Guild, Haverford Cap and
Bells, “The Importance of
Being Earnest,’”’ Goodhart.

Saturday, November

8:30 p.m. “‘The Iniportance of
Being Earnest,’’ Goodhart.

11:00 p.m. Undergrad Dance
Dance, Gym.

Sunday, November 14 ne

7:30 p.m. Chapel, Student
Service, Music Room.

Monday, November 15

7:15 p.m Current Events,
Miss. Robbins, “Western
Union and Commonwealth,”
Common Room.

8:30 p.m. Art Lecture, Dr. E.
Panofsky, “Et in Arcadia
Ego: Poussin and the Ele-
giac Tradition,” Goodhart.

Tuesday, November 16

8:30 p. m. De Laguna Lecture,
Dr. H. Marcuse, “Origins
and Principles of Modern
Dialectical Philosophy,”
Common Room.

Wednesday, November 17
4:00 p.m. Social Welfare

great elation that they place only
“negligible curbs on the girls’ social
impulses.” Bryn Mawrtyrs do not
let their freedom go to waste by
studying nights in musty rooms.
They flaunt the “new lodk” on male
college campuses, and leave the
impression that they. are women
who know the way. They are world-
ly enough to give “spicy” musicals,
realizing that their male guests
will “soon begin to yawn, if sex
fails to rear its lovely head.”

However, the gay, sophisticated
“I can hold my liquor” type de-
picted by Princeton is hardly repre-
sented in some of the pictures.
Fortunately, the cover girl com-
pensates for the ancient photos of
Bryn Mawr’s Big May Day which
were dug up for the articles. Mary
Will Boone, from Denbigh, the ‘Sov-
ereign’s” first cover girl, is a treat
for Bryn Mawr as well as Prince-
ton.

All in all, it seems that Bryn
Mawr girls have at last made a
name for themselves along lines
other than high-brow intellectual-
ism. Whether or not they agree,
however, with the reputation at-
tributed to them by Nassau is a
question they coyly evade. Never-
theless, they must face the facts,
and Princeton seems to know them.

Undergrad Plans
Gala Rio Dance

Do you know what happens next
Saturday night? It’s Bryn Mawr’s
answer to the Yale-Princeton house
parties —our big Undergraduate
Dance. Tickets are now on sale at
$2.50 per couple and $1.25 per stag.
The hours are 11 p.m. to 2 a.m.,
with one and one-half hour inter-
mission to get hamburgers nfter-
wards. The place is the Bryn Mawr
College Gymnasium. The orchestra
is Larry Miller’s, and the decora-
tions will be “marvelous,” accord-
ing to the committee, headed by
Fifi Sonne. Theme is South Amer-,
ican—there will be silhouettes ‘of
Rio de Janeiro along the walls. Fifi
is being aided by Palen Snow
Mary Starkweather, Elizabeth
Crist, Betsy Repenning, Sherry
Cowgill and Pam Field. Priscilla
Hunt is in charge of publicity for
the dance.

It is a strictly formal affair,
complete with receiving line. Some-
thing new will added—Chesterfields
on every table! The Bryn Mawr
Quartet, organized last year, will

|sing during the intermission. The

dance committee has sponsored this
plug: everyone who possibly can,
please come and show the world
what a really big weekend at Bryn
Mawr is like!

BMC Chorus to Sing

To Incurables on Sun.

On Sunday, November 14th,-the
Bryn Mawr Chorus will sing at a
service at the Home for Incurables.
Under the direction of Mr. Goodale,
the Chorus plans to sing among
other selections the Hail Holy
Light by Kostalsky, “Ye with
sorrow now are filled” from

Dr. E. A. Bliss Elected
Director-At-Large
Of College

President McBride has announced
the election to the Board of Trus-
tees of the college of Dr. Henry
Joel Cadbury, D.D., Litt.D., Ph.D.,
Chairman of the Friends’ Service
Committee and Director of the
Andover-Harvard Theological Li-
brary, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Miss McBride also announced that
Dr. Eleanor A. Bliss, noted bacter-
iologist of Johns-Hopkins Univer-
sity, Baltimore, Maryland has been
made a Director-at-large of the
college.

Dr. Cadbury was named at a re-
cent meeting of the Trustees of
the college to fill the vacancy cre-
ated by the death of Rufus M.
Jones last Spring. Graduated from
Haverford in 1903, Dr. Cadbury
did graduate work at Harvard Uni-
versity and returned to Haverford
as an instructor, and, later as
Associate Professor of Biblical
Literature. He taught at Andover
Theological Seminary and at the
Episcopal Theological School, both
in Cambridge. In 1926, Dr. Cad-
bury became Professor of Biblical
Literature at Bryn Mawr College,
where he remained until he was ap-
pointed .Holis Professor in the
Divinity School at Harvard Uni-
versity in 1934. Long a member of
the American Friends’ Service
Committee, he was its Chairman
from 1928 to 1934; and from 1944
to the present. A Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, Dr. Cadbury is a member
of numerous other learned societies.
He is the author of many books
and articles in the fields of religion
and history.

' Dr. Bliss is a graduate of Bryn
Mawr College and received her
Doctorate in Science at Johns-Hop-
kins University. A bacteriologist
of wide note, she is consultant to
the Secretary of War, Board of In-
vestigation for Epidemic Diseases.
Her work on minute Haemolytic
Streptococci, now know as Group
F, led to studies of the effect and
mode of action of the sulfonamide
compounds. In the NEWS inter-
view: with her last year, Miss Bliss

‘discussed in detail her work with

Dr. Perrin Long on _ antibiotic
agents. In the spring of 1948, Miss
Bliss and Dr. Long began study-
ing the action of a new “miracle
drug,” an extract of bacillus
polymyxa. “Polymixin,
as. we call it,” Dr. Bliss ex-
plained, “ is different from penicil-
Continued on Page 6

Panofsky to Talk
On Poussin Nov. 15

Dr. Erwin Panofsky will speak
Monday, November 15, on “Et ‘in
Arcadia Ego: Poussin and the Ele-
giac Tradition.”

Dr. Panofsky is the author of
many works, among them Studies
in Iconology, Albrecht Durer, and
Abbot Suger. In 1937 he spoke
here as'the Mary Flexner lecturer;
this time his lecture is under the
auspices of the History of Art De-
partment.

Doctor Panofsky was born in
Hanover, Germany. After study-
mg and teaching in his native land,
he came to America in 1934, where
he has held professorships at var-





-to—make—sure~—of California “and
Ohio, and everything would be set.
But figures are obstinate, and al-





more votes that that.” The fact



Continued on page 6

Movie, Music Room.
7:15 p.m. Religious Discus-
sion, Common Room.









Brahms’ Requiem with B. J. Con-
nor as soloist, Glory and Worship
by Purcell, and Haydn’s Song of
Thanksgiving.

ious colleges and has also made
lecture tours, At present he is Pro-.
fessor at the Institute for Advanc-



ed Studies, at Princeton.

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Entered as second class matter at the Ardmore, Pa., Poss Office
Under Act of Congress August 24, 1912

N. S. A.

Last year Bryn Mawr became a member of a voluntary
association of student bodies—the United States National
Student Association, whose primary concern is “with the en-
hancement of students’ welfare and with the increase of op-
portunities for students to contribute to the welfare of the
national and international community. To accomplish this,
the basic unit of NSA is the student body. Since self-gov
is the channel through which NSA reaches the individual stu-
dent, its major emphasis has been toward the development
and improvement of student governments.

When Bryn Mawr joined NSA voluntarily, the campus
recognized the fact that the responsibility for NSA lay with
the body of students as a whole. For this reason, Bryn
Mawr undertook and undertakes again the responsibility of
functioning as headquarters for the student Government
Clinic of Pennsylvania Region NSA. The purpose of this
clinic is to help colleges and universities solve problems of
student government structure and function. By promoting
better self-government on campuses, the clinic is improving
the students of all colleges in two ways—it gives them a
better chance for a well-organized self-gov, and this-in turn
offers them a better opportunity of receiving the services of
NSA.

However, the distinction between NSA and a strictly
service type of organization is this: all students are respons-
ible. All projects such as the student Government Clinic de-
pend on effective implementation and full support of all stud-
ents on campus.









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Musceules Dilexi

Princeton came, Princeton saw, Princeton went away de-
termined to explode the “Bryn Mawr Myth”. But one ele-
ment in this myth is a part of our heritage that we would be
loath to dispense with. While praising Bryn Mawr brains,
even friendly critics are apt to overlook the equally well-de-
veloped Bryn Mawr muscles..
tamely “the academic spread’ produced by long sittings on
cold benches in the ivory tower. Farfrom it. From time
immemorial our battle of life has been won on the hockey
fields of Bryn Mawr. Even in these modern times, our flam-
ing spirit is not dead, nor burning with a flickering flame.
Every Bryn Mawtyr should remember with pride the
gallant efforts of the Seniors on Tuesday afternoon. Stooped,
spread, warped as they were by the intense demands of the

Common Room, November 8. In
her talk on “The Significance of
the Elections,” Miss Bettina Linn
enumerated the results of the
elections and discussed the reasons
for the Democratic victory. She al-
so speculated on the prospects of
the other parties involved. .

Miss Linn cited the Biblical
prophets who spoke of “salvation
or doom” and compared them to
the modern stafisticians. “Probab-
ly never before have so many
people been so wrong about a sin-
gle event.” She said, however, thaf
‘both the disappointed and the en-
thusiasts have been driven to
think.”

She expressed doubts concern-
ing future successes of the Dixie-
crats, the Progressives, or the
Socialists. A successful third
party must have more strength in
numbers, appeal, and influence.

Domestic Issues Vital

Miss Linn gave several reasons
to account for the Democratic
party’s wide geographical and eco-
momic representation. A partial
shifting of the farmers’ vote from
Republican to Democratic-and the
support of labor were two factors.
The general opposition to the Taft-
Hartley law also cost several Rep-
pubican congressmen their seats
in Congress. Prosperity mattered
a great deal in the election, as the
public is beginning to resent in-
flation, the wealth of the big bus-
inesses, and the high cost of
living. Miss Linn stated that Tru-
man had the advantage in the cam}
paign. Although Dewey was “lofty
and elegant,” he argued for “too
much unity;” while Truman was
“hard-fighting and aggressive.”
However, she admitted that it was
“no battle of giants.” She sub-
stantiated this statement by say-
ing that it was a choice of parties
and positions rather than personal-
ities. The voters indicated approv-
al of the Roosevelt administration.
and preferred to “go along the
the New Deal road.”

Democrats Need Improvement

(Miss Linn made an analogy be-
tween the White House, which
“does not seem a safe place to
live for another four years.” and
the party in power. “The Dem-
cratic party could also stand a
few improvements, and the cabinet
could stand a few repairs.” How-
ever, like the White House, “it is
as good a structure as we could
require at the present time.”

Club Announces
Debate Schedule

Madeline Blount, President of
the Bryn Mawr Debate Club, has
announced the plans for the com-
ing year which will include debates
at Haverford, Princeton, Columbia,
Barnard and Swarthmore. On
Tuesday, Nov. 8, the first debate
will take place at Haverford with
Madeline Blount and Robin Rau
presenting the affirmative side of
the subject, Resolved: That the
Federal Government should adopt

Bryn Mawr Joins
AFCW State Div.

On the weekend of October 29th,
an A.F.C.W. (Athletic Federation
of College Women) conference was
held at Grove City College. The
purpose of the conference was to
join the Eastern and Western Col-
leges to the National Conference.

The function of the National and
State organizations is to collect
ideas and problems concerning all
the college A.A. systems. In the
conferences, new suggestions for
solutions can be presented and
ideas for new activities created. In
its present form, the National or-
ganization meets every two years

and discusses various problems, the’

subjects of which are written down
to be brought forth as a platform
for divisional consideration. The
state divisions bring ideas and
problems to a larger representa-
tive group, which will again offer
new thoughts. The state division
also serves as an intermediary be-
tween. the national organization
and all colleges in each division.

Bryn Mawr has now officially
joined the state division in order
to benefit by suggestions for fu-
ture A.A. activities.

Chorus Records

Will Go on Sale

Records by the Bryn Mawr
Chorus will go on sale this week
and next in all the halls. On Wed-
nesday, November 10th, Thursday
the 11th, and Friday the 12th they
may be had in Rhoads, Merion, and
Radnor, respectively; on Monday
the 15th and Wednesday the 17th,
in Denbigh and Rockefeller, and
Thursday and Friday, the 18th and
19th, they will be sold in Pem
East and Pem West. For those
who miss the hall sales, orders will
be taken in Taylor on the following
Monday, November 20th.

There are sets of two records,
three sides of which are cut, which
may be had for $2.75. These may
also be ordered separately. Other
records may be had for $2.75 per
record. Payment may be made by
check madé out to the Bryn Mawr
Chorus, or else put on Pay-Day.
Among the selections, there is a
group by the Double Octet, “Ken-
tucky Riddle Song,” and two Ital-
ian Renaissance pieces, and such
humbers from the chorus repetoire
of last year as “Hymn to Vena”
from the Rig Veda, and “High
Flight,” for which Mr. Goodale
composed the music.



a policy of equalizing educational
opportunities.
Future debates will include such

questions as the Taft-Hartley Act, |

Nationalization of Our Basic In-
Industries, and the Inferiority of
Women Compared to Men. Bryn
Mawr will debate the last subject
at Haverford, taking the negative
side.

The Debate Club looks forward
to a most interesting season with
the old members and many prom-



ising Freshmen.



the 1948 elections.

ballots for Truman they were

tive one, the total result was.

country has been “explaining’

Election Results ~

During the last week nearly every newspaper in the
’ the Democratic landslide of
The record of the 80th Congress, a re-
volt against the polls, the personalities of the candidates, the
We were never ones to accept, Strength of the New Deal ideas and the campaigns of the two
major parties are among the many “justifications” for the
election of Harry S. Truman as President.

When the majority of the American people cast their

in fact giving him a vote of

confidence. Whether or not the individual vote was a posi-

Therefore, Mr. Truman himself must justify his elec-

tion and the confidence of the majority by strengthening
through democratic means both national and international
unity during his administration. Though our vote may have.



academic life, they did not shrink from deserting the pleas-





ures of the library from the toils of the field. Let our motto
henceforth be: For Seniors, For Hockey, For Bryn Mawr.
Muscules Dilexi.

been among the negative ones, we must abide by the decision.
Although we may disagree with many phases of his policies,
we must support as far as it is possible the positive over-all



‘Gold Rush’ Production
Directed by Seniors

At Coatesville
To the Editor:

We wish to write a review of a
play that was one of the biggest
hits in October, at least as far as
we are concerned. Entitled the
Gold Rush, it was a far cry from
49’s “Big as Life’ which was our
original intention. The play was:
given at Coatesville Mental Hos-.
pital for veterans. It was written,
acted, staged, and produced by the:
patients with our help. The char-
acters, consisting of hero, heroine,,
villain, and chorus, moved within:
the simplest of plots. Jane Ann
took the part of the heroine, while:
Brenda, Skip, and Margo were the
kick chorus, wives, and any other
part needing a girl. We played be-
fore an audience of 2300 patients



Meeting for Coatesville
There will be a meeting for
all those students interested in
working on the shows at Coates-

Thursday at 1:30 for full de- [|
tails.







and loved every minute of it. Our
brief stage careers were climaxed
by a cast party after the show at
which we sang, danced, and ate
ice cream,

The seven rehearsals before the
show gave us time to know and like
the patients and somewhat to un-
derstand their problems as we saw
them, and as the doctors explained
them to us. Miss Heckt, the recre-
ational adviser at the hospital, did
imost of the direction of this first ©
play and we are gradually to take
over the complete production of the
Little Theater in the future. The
work was so satisfying that at
the end of each rehearsal we hated
to leave the patients and the hos-
pital. We had no feeling of sacri-
fice, rather a sense of gain. Every
moment was alive with humor and
interest, and we thoroughly enjoy-
ed every new experience and éach
new patient.

Student Aid Solicited

We have promised to do four
more plays this year in Novem-
ber, February, March, and April.
Next Wednesday, November 10, we
will go out for our first meeting of
the November production. We need
more people to help us. We know
that whoever comes will enjoy the
work and have no regrets for the
three hours time they give. It is
an experience to go once. It is sat-
isfying to continue going. And it.
is a circus to be in the final pro-
duction.

This letter is in a way a plea
to get more people interested in
the work at Coatesville. But more
than that we wish to state that
never have we had so much fun
doing something that was so
worthwhile. *

Brenda Bowman
Jane Ann Houze
Skip Martin
Margo Vorys ae



Senzec Explains Role -
Of Ariosto, Tasso in Art

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always been a source of inspiration
to artists, and many painters have
illustrated them. That these artists
were for the most part not con-
temporaries of Ariosto and Tasso,
and not Italians, shows how wide
an influence the two poems had,
and testifies to the vitality of that
influence. Dr. Seznec showed slides
of some of these illustrations, by
Tiepolo, Tintoretto, Poussin, Bou-
cher, Delacroix, Fragonard, and
| others. With each_slide, he read
the passage of the poem that was
filustrated, and the melodious ac-
cents of Ariosto’s language pene-.



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Variety of Wardens Came, Went

During ’50’s Reign in East House

Specially Contributed by
Edie Mason Ham ’50

(continued from last week)

When first I came, to East House
it was a sunny day in late Septem-
her. The breeze was making the
curtains in the open window flap.
I got out of the taxi with Little
Eva whom I had met on the train
and went up the porch steps. Just
inside the door was a tall, thin
woman. She was pushing her fin-
gers through her hair. This wasn’t
so much a gesture of despair as 4
denial of same. When she saw us
she extended her hand. From her
height she. asked us how we ‘were
and got our names straightened
out. Then I followed her up the
stairs. Although from her general
appearance she might seem to be
a usual person, her yellowish-fleck-
ed eyes were mischievous and had
an I-can-elude-all-of-you look. I
followed that ambiguous creature
through the hall and we came to a
room.

“This is yours,’ she said and
saying something about “anything
I can do to help” and “so many of
you” she walked off. It was quite
clear just what her game was, why
her eyes seemed so ready to laugh.

2:8 #

Later, although Biffy was still a
rock and a pillar, we realized that
she was possessed of a madness.
We would come in from going out
on a Saturday night and ring the
doorbell. There would be a clatter-
clatter-clatter on the stairs and
then the door would open. You and
your escort would see Biffy, taller
than ever, standing behind the
door. She would have on a straight
gabardine raincoat, no_ slippers,
hair in rags and a blank expression
as if to obliterate herself from the
situation, but there would be that
madness in her eye, madness and
hilarity.



And then Biffy said she was go-
ing to France. Priscilla, whose ca-
pacity for splendid and practical
schemes for the future is unlimit- |
ed immediately extracted promises '
for a job in Europe. Biffy prom-|
ised all, she got passports, she
went to New York to see people. |
There would be delays and Biffy
would nervously count the weeks
she had been with us.

““Miss Sanford,” she would say,
“came to help at Bryn Mawr for
six weeks and she’s been here for
twenty years.”

We would snicker unsympathet-

Walthour Stresses

Need for Christ

Goodhart Music Room, Nov. 7.
Speaking at chapel on Sunday
evening, the Reverend John B. Wal-
thour, Dean of the Cathedral of
St. Philip at Atlanta, Georgia,
stressed the need for one to have
a clear picture of Christ, since
Christianity is a relationship be-
tween God and man. Creeds are im-
portant, but it is possible to get
tangled up in them. One should
clear-one’s-- mind of _ritual...and
squabbles between the sects, the
Reverend Walthour said. He then
described Jesus as he must have
looked—a man of the open air,
with strong, kind hands, eyes that
reflected all his emotions, and
through which one could see into
his soul, which was that of a man
of joy. He was always seeing the
good in people, not the bad. In con-
sidering oneself, one should see
oneself against the standard of the
perfection of Christ, Reverend Wal-
thour declared.

Religion just came out of Jesus,
he said. It was spontaneous rather
than formal. He also spoke of
Christ’s courage, both physical and
‘spiritual, and_concluded by saying
that it is impossible not to love
and need Christ.







ically. But we knew there were no
strings on Biffy. Then suddenly a
date was set for her departure. We
sat and reminisced about those
first days, now two months past.
“Remember this,” we would say,
“yemember that.” We were very
appreciative of ourselves by this
time. Though the psychologists
say it is impossible, we had devel-
oped a superiority complex. We
regarded anyone who did not live
in East House with slight con-
tempt and with pity.

“Be good to the new warden,”
Biffy implored.

Here we would laugh delighted-
ly. We remembered the dead fish
we had sewed into Biffy’s pillow.
That was the extravagant sort of
thing we did in the evening. We
remembered Sylvia sitting in a
pixyish manner in Biffy’s room’and
playing for hours with imaginary
feathers and chewing gum.

“The new warden better be
good,” we said and Biffy would
groan.

The day of departure finally
came and Biffy left in a thoroughly
incompetent black Ford. Our rock
was departed. She who had given
us all the knowledge we had of the
new life had left us. The help she
had given us was the sum total of
what we were going to get and
from now on we must get along
by ourselves. The black Ford pop-
popped desperately around the cor-
ner, but there was no hope there.
If it stopped Biffy would get out
and push. She would never come

back.

” © Ff

We were not prepared for the
new warden. She came stumping
in one evening in heavy shoes, cot-
ton stockings, thick woolen skirt
and sweater, a heavy jaw and a
thick coil of red-brown hair. We
said, “Are you the warden?”, and
she started speaking. She tilted
her head back a little and the
sounds that came forth were some-
thing like a gargle. Though her
voice was deep and resonant, you
had the feeling that she might
suddenly lose control, that the
pitch would become higher and
higher, and that she would go on
frantically gargling forever.

In the days that followed we
learned little about the new war-
den. She had an existence of her
own and how she gathered knowl-
edge through the great barrier be-
tween herself and the rest of the
world, it is hard to say. But she

knew without being told what time;

certain things went on, which chair
was hers at the table, and various
details. It gave one the uneasy
feeling that maybe she was only
pretending the baryier and that all
the time she understood perfectly
the world about her.
New Warden Unpredictiye

To some things she was quite
oblivious. One of these was the
telephone. I came into the house
one night when the others -were
still out. The telephone was ring-
ing wildly and the warden was sit-
ting serenely on the sofa.

“That is the telephone,” I said
slowly and distinctly, thinking of
all the people it might be.

“Oh, ya-as,” she said equally
distinctly. These were the only
two words she ever said which I
fully understood. She made no
move to leave the sofa.

I answered the telephone ,hop-
ing that a desperate call would
give me some revenge. But it was
only someone calling the wrong
number. This sort of thing made
you dread and suspect the new

warden.
/* * *
Then Miss Haller came. For
two days she sat around doing
what was expected and for the

first time in several weeks-we felt



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|fecting the student.



Philos. Lecture a
To be Given Here
By Dr. H. Marcuse

Dr. Herbert Marcuse, philoso-
pher and at present the Acting
Chief, Central European Branch,
of the Division for Europe in the
Department of State, will give the
fifth De Laguna lecture in philos-
ophy on Tuesday, Novémber 16th.
His subject will be “Origins and

Principles ot Modern Dialectial
Philosophy.”
The De Laguna ‘lectures are

given in honor of Theodore and
Grace De Laguna, who were for
many years associated with the
philosophy department here at
Bryn Mawr. The lectures are made
possible through contributions of
former friends and students of the
De Lagunas but since they are not
regularly endowed, do not consti-
tute a permanent series.
Dintinguished Career

Dr. Marcuse, next week’s speak-
er, has had a career equally dis-
tinguished in both the fields of
academic work and of public ser-
vice. Born in Germany, he took his
degree at the University of Frei-
burg and was, before the Nazi re-
gime, a contributor to many of the
German learned journals. After
leaving Germany, he spent some
time at the Institute for Social Re-
search at Geneva, and then, until
1941, he taught history of philoso-

By Jane Roller, ’51

“All jump up and never come
down! ’—The eall brought a clamor
of feet and loud ‘ya hoo’s” from the
crowd of enthusiastic square dan-
cers. The revelry began about 9:00
last Friday night when Haverford-
ians and.some Penn boys eagerly
entered the gym and found girls
to start Bryn Mawr’s first square
dance of the year.

The gym floor shook as almost
forty partners dos-a-dos swung
dizaily, and promenaded.The boys,

vlad. in jeans and bright plaid
shirts, honored their “ladies,’’ who
wore peasant blouses and_ full,

colorful skirts. The spirit and pep
of the dance never wore off as the
evening progressed, even when
everyone became tired and _ hot.
White handkerchiefs tucked in the
boys’ pockets came in handy for
wiping dampish faces.

During intermissions, entertain-
ment was provided by an im-
promptu “show” performed by the
caller, Charley Thomas, and part-



Election Returns
Exhilarate Faculty

In the midst of last Wednesday’s
excitement, the NEWS interviewed
various members of the faculty to
gather reactions to President Tru-



phy and social, philosophy at the
Columbia Institute of Social Re- |
search.
Scholar and Author

Dr. Marcuse joined the Office of
Strategic Services in 1942, and has
been with the State Department
since the end of the war. A scholar
with a wide range of philosophical
interests and knowledge, he has
written a number of books and
articles, among them a recent study
of Sartre’s Existentialism. His
best-known book, Reason and Revo-
lution: Hegel and the Rise of So-
cial Theory, was published in 1941.

The lecture will begin at 8:30
and_is_to_be held in the Common
Room.

| —eeeiaminn

NSA to Convene
At Temple U. Sat.

Two delegates, two alternates
and eight observers from Bryn
Mawr will attend the Eastern Sub-
Region Convention of the Pennsyl-
vania Region of the National Stud-
ents Association, Saturday, No-
vember 13 at (Mitten Hall, Temple
University, Philadelphia.

This convention, the first one to
be held this fall, will discuss and
formulate its year’s program first
in committee meetings, then in
plenary sessions. All discussion
will be guided by the report of the



Madison this summer, plus the re-
ports from the region committce
meeting held at Penn State in
June.
- Agenda for Meeting
__1, The Culturale Committee will
make further arrangements for the
regional culturale to take place in
the spring. It will also plan the
Art Seminar and the National Art
Exhibit for the Philadelphia area.

2. The Purchase Card Committee:
will take steps for promoting. the
National (Purchase Card Plan and
the possibilities of integration in
the Eastern Sub-Region.

3.The Student Government Com-
mittee, led by Ann Seideman, will
discuss functions and structures of
student government, student apa-
thy, student rights, and faculty,
student, administration relations.

4. The Domestic Affairs Com-
mittee will consider the economic,
social and educational problems af-

‘sis of campus

National Student Congress held in|* °





5. The International Affairs |



| tie

'man’s re-election. We cannot pre-

tend that this is a complete analy-
opinion, since it
seems somewhat one-sided.

The following are excerpts from]

the comments we received.

Miss Robbins: “This is the end
of Gallup and of Dewey ... the in-
articulate mass have a mind and
expressed’ their terror of the Re-
publicans.”

Mr. Bachrach: “It’s tremendous!
This gives Truman the ball, the
question is can he run with it?”

Miss Lograsso: “This is decisive;
the Democrats won because they
are the people’s party. Talking with
the cobbler made me know Tru-
man was going to win.”

Miss Northrop: “I am pleased.”

Dr. Nahm: “Well, I am astound-
ed, and—pleased!”’

Dr. Wells: “Did you see the ac-
count of the impromptu Demo-
cratic celebration in front of the
Union League last night? They
went down there and sang: ‘Nearer
My God to Thee!’”

Dr. Broughton: “This is an as-
tonishing thing; the polls have been
upset.”

Dr. Gilbert: “I am stunned! Tru-
man is still ahead!”

Names Withheld: “One thing is
clear: the majority of the people
prefer the Democratic party.”

Fire Pole Gets Unusual Workout,
Square Dance Vogue Sways Gym

ners he grabbed from the audience.
He and Miss Kilby demonstrated
some of the more complicated
dance patterns, and executed them
with facility and grace.

A commotion ensued after one
of the square dances when one girl
abruptly left her partner and made
a dash for the pole leading upwards
to the ramp circling the gym. Evi-
dentally intoxicated by the free-
dom and exuberance of the evening,
she shinnied up the pole, and whiz-
zed down. Others, imbued with the
same lively spirit, took off their
shoes and danced barefoot. All in
all, the informality and gayety
made the evening a great success.

The square dances _ included
“Wearing of the Green,” “Marching
through Georgia,” and the old
favorite, “The Virginia Reel.” A
particularly spectacular square
dance was one in which the boys
in each square formed a pinwheel,
and gradually attained enough
speed to lift up the girl holding
onto their shoulders. No one fell,
but laughter and_ shrieks rang
through the gym as girls felt their
feet leaving the floor.

At 12:00 the square dance ended,
but the general feeling seemed to
be that it should be continued as a
regular affair. The caller’s slogan
won wholehearted approval: “If
you haven’t tread a measure (and
a few toes) on the square dance
floor, you just h’aint lived yet.”

On Saturday, November 6, the
Bryn Mawr first hockey team at-
tended the Intercollegiate Meet at
Swarthmore played three
games, defeating Rosemont (5-1)
and East Stroudsburg (4-2) and
losing to Ursinus (0-1).

Three people from Bryn Mawr
the final intercollegiate
teams; Laure Perkins, 52, as right
halfback on the first team, and Syl
Hayes, ’50, and Margie Shaw, ’50,
as left and right halfbacks respect-

and

made

ively on the second team.
Bryn Mawr vs. Haverford

On Sunday Bryn Mawr triumph-
ed over Haverford 8-1 in a “very
nilarious and exciting game.” Con-
trary to tradition, no one was
injured.

Bryn Mawr Victory

On Monday, November 8, Bryn
Mawr won its third hockey match
of the season. Playing on the Bryn



“This is a moment of historical de-| Mawr fields, both the first and

light.” “This is the end, Ohio has
gone Democratic!” “They can go)
. with their elections.” (The |
NEWS regrets that a portion of
this opinion must be withheld.)
Dr. Miller: “I haven’t thought

about them. Some people are
happy.”
Incidentally, it seems faculty

member” Dr. Diez predicted Tru-
man’s re-election last July without
the aid of a poll!

And on the blackboard in one of
the Sems: “What a night!”



Committee will discuss material
assistance abroad, international
exchange and hospitality to for-
eign students.

6. The Workshop Analysis Com-
mittee will determine and analyze
the merits and defects of the
workshop technique.

The convention will open at
9:00 a. m. with a welcome address



second team defeated the Rosemont
teams by scores of 4-1 and 11-0.
For the Bryn Mawr first team Ed-
wards scored one goal and Boas
three. For Rosemont, Mell scored
the only goal.

The second team played an offen-

sive game. throughout..both halves,

rarely letting the ball pass their
own 25 yard line. At last Greenie
can claim the ice cream cone and

apples that have been promised
all season. She scored a goal! The
final tally was Parker\7, Hamburg-
er 1, Winslow 1, Greenewalt 1,
Nowel 1.

The class games were fought out
on the hockey field Tuesday after-
noon, November 9. The final result
of the afternoon was the elimina-
tion of ’49. The Junior, Sophomore
and Freshman teams were tied.
These class hockey games are a

by Robert McCaffery, President of | good opportunity for even the least

Temple Senate. An
addtess will be given by Ralph

introductory | athletic underclassmen to learn
which end of the hockey stick to

Dungan, Vice President of Domes-! hit the ball with and this year

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THE COLLEGE,.NEWS



Slightly Mad Prismic Victorians
Come to Goodhart in ‘“‘Earnest”

By Julie Ann Johnson, ’52

On November 12 and 138, Oscar
Wilde’s play, “The Importance of
Being Earnest,” will come to life
on Goodhart stage. In a highly
stylized setting, the Bryn Mawr-
Haverford cast portray the exag-
geratedly polite characters of the
play, sporting realistic British ac-
cents. Wilde was not striving for
realism when he wrote “Earnest,”
and hysterics have often broken
out during rehearsals. The cast is
diligently practicing straight faces,
so that the audience will be able
to catch the lines and enjoy the
humor.

The Observer

(Specially contributed)

The little instances which add up
to a suspicion, a foreboding, have
increased of late. The leaves, after
unusual brilliance, have fallen
meaningfully. Have you not at
dreamiest moments heard their dry
serape-scraping through the win-
dow? Have you not glanced up
from a merry tea to see the pale
yellow leaf cutting through air,
ghastly, determined? And we who
are aware have witnessed so much
more: an old woman picking up
sticks, all Taylor’s clocks record-
ing a different time, two young men
walking swiftly in step, the happy
ghost faces on the lanterns turned
red and lurid, peculiar outcomes of
major issues.

It is Surely Coming and it will
be in late November.

I am sitting in the customary
place after lunch when the one with
the round eyes and the green coat
comes in. Although it is but a
moment ago I have had cause for
fresh horror, I talk to her of usual
things. It is not etiquette to look
someone in the eye and say “Have
you felt it?” Far more delicate
must be the approach. One comes
in and says, “Who makes up the
College Senate?” .

Blood dripping from the doors
and death-like rain. The green-
coated one looks, at me and each
knows the other knows:—strange
incidents imposed upon an exist-
ence of the expected, harmless in-
cidents breathing a vile signifi-
cance.



Unanticipating Innocents

Friends gather in the room, so
young, so sweet, so heartbreaking,
for we cannot warn them. Some,
at a hint, are suddenly aware of
the past, almost unthought-of fore-
bodings. But others simply do not
feel it. “Anticipate,” we say. “Not
a very clear command,” they reply,
“Certainly not worthy of being a
maxim for the coming weeks.
Wouldn’t it be better just to go
to the National Cathedral?” “No,
no,” we cry, floundering and lost.
How can we explain that It which
is Coming is unknown, unprece-
dented ?

Anticipate, anticipate, anticipate.

That is the very horror of it—
nothing else to do. Do not flee—

maybe our salvation will be inj

something more subtle than that.
Vague intuitions, nothing more,
hover like white moths outside a
darkened window. Fill the bath-
tubs, do not use candles, -watch out
for people in all-white, and above
all, anticipate.

“Uplifting” gestures, to quote
Mr. Thon, and accents “veddy,
veddy” British have flowed during
rehearsals, while the cast sur-
mounted the difficulties of stage
crew walking, crawling, and paint-
ing around them. They are pre-
pared for just about anything
that comes ,even a misplaced chair
amid the carefully calculated furn-
ishings. During a rehearsal Miss
Prism, played by Libby Grey, who
must upon one occasion sit down
without looking behind her, re-
marked, “But the chair is in a
totally different spot during each
rehearsal!”
Dialogue Brilliant

At rehearsal Gwendolen, Sue
Henderson, and Cecily, Harriet
Morse, used remarkable logic in
their trials with their respective
‘suitors, each of whom claims the
name of Hrnest Worthing, and
neither of whom actually possesses
it! The “explosion” of the myster-
ious Mr. Bunbury, and the spicy
comments of Lady Bracknell, Cyn-
nie Schwartz, promise to be strong
supports for the delightfully ridic-
ulous dialogue, which continues in
its light vein from the opening
sound of a piano offstage to the
closing, title line.

Reese Discusses
Mozart’s Operas

Specially Contributed
By Sue Williams, ’50

On Tuesday night Dr. Carroll
Reese gave an informal lecture to
the German clubs of Bryn Mawr
and Haverford. Speaking in Ger-
man, he discussed Mozart as an
opera composer.
Mozart was fully at home with
all types of music, but unfortun-
ately his operas, of which there are
twenty, are not well known in this
country. He began writing oper-
atic music at the age of eleven or
twelve, and wrote the first signi-
ficant opera to a German libretto.
The songs are light and flowing and
similar to folk music—exemplify-
ing the idea of the enlightenment
that opera should have popular ap-
peal as well as being deep, Dr.
Reese explained. The Magic Flute
deals not only with enchantment
but with freemasonry, for Mozart
was a freemason himself, Dr. Reese
continued.
The famous story of the Don
Giovanni overture, which was writ-
ten the night before the perform-
ance is more easily understood
when one knows Mozart’s method
of composing. He thought the en-
tire composition out before writ-
ing it down so that the actual re-
cording of the music was very
rapid.

cult composers to perform, because



Mozart is one of the most diffi-_

Last Nighters
By Betty Beierfeld, ’51

An enthusiastic Philadelphia
audience predicted a long run for
Light Up the Sky, a new comedy
by Moss Hart. The stock characters
of this play about the people who

care about a pre-Broadway open-
ing did “not seem quite so “stock”
when delivering Mr. Hart’s witty,
Noel Cowardish lines. Phyllis
Povah, as Stella Livingston, was a
bit too dramatic, even for a too-
dramatic character. The author-
director, however, tried hard to
make up for this defect by making
Bartlett Robinson, who played the
star’s husband, into little more
than a talkative piece of furniture.

The other characters, from a
remarkedly good-natured ,Shriner
to an unbelievably naive play-
wright, were similarly overdrawn.
And then, there was Sam Levene!
Taking the part of Sidney Black,
a clever businessman with good
taste and idealism—when they
didn’t cost him money—Mr. Levene
thwarted the script by becoming
the central figure of every scene
he was in, even when only frown-
ing at an obnoxious parrot in the
corner of the room. His sense of
humor, grace of movement and fine
vocal inflections made this actor
the outstanding member of the
cast. noel
The plot itself—Act I—before the
play everyone is nervous; Act II—
after the play everyone is discour-
aged; Act III—after the reviews
everyone is elated—was very ob-
viously used as an introduction to
the author’s moral. Mr. Hart de-
picted the extreme discouragement
of a naive author when no one was
interested in his play, seemingly
a failure. Then came the efforts of
the director, star, and backer to
convince him that they were not
friends, only humans with an ordin-
ary degree of fiendishness. Finally
the young man realized that angels
exist only in Utopia and _ that
Utopia doesn’t exist. With that
settled, and the audience happily
digesting Mr. Hart’s thesis, every-
one on stage went to-work-on their
play and, presumably, mawe won-
derful reputations and lots of
money out of it.

The costumes (credit: Kiviette)
were excellent; the setting by Fred-
the music is so delicate that one
missing note makes a great deal
of difference Dr. Reese said.

While describing some of Moz-
art’s chief operas, Dr. Reese illus-
trated his talk with records from
the Magic Flute and Don Giovanni.







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Incidentally

Rummaging through the NEWS
old-cut file, we brought an ele-
gant gentleman to light. As is
our way, several of us immediately
became enamoured of him. Said
one: “What handsome legs!” An-
other: “He looks like Basil Rath-
bone.” A xthird, more practical,
clutched him to her bosom and de-
manded: “What is his name?”

We axamined his credentials, en-
graved on the back of his waist-
coat; it said BM Lantern. We felt
this insufficient. Would anyone who
knows the truth write in and teil
us? Down in Goodhart, half-a-doz-
en hearts are breaking.

Orchestra Group
Plans Its Season

The Bryn Mawr-Haverford Or-
chestra has been organized this
year under the direction of Dr.
Carroll Reese, head of the Haver-
ford chorus. Meeting every Thurs-
day evening in the Bryn Mawr
Music Room, the thirty players
from both colleges make a _ well-
balanced orchestra. Although the
string section is usually large, this
year there are only ten violins, and
there is need for more. There are
four cellos and a double bass but
the viola section is greatly lacking.
Two or three oboes, a clarinet and
four flutes comprise the woodwind
section. The orchestra is fortunate
to have a French horn, a rare in-
strument for an orchestra this size,
and an extremely. difficult one to
play. -

Orchestra Schedule

Currently, the group is working
on Haydn’s Clock Symphony and
some of Bach’s music. The most
impertant of the performances to
be given is the Christmas program,
presented in conjunction with the
Bryn Mawr Chorus. The purpose
of the orchestra is twolfold: to
give good concerts with some de-
gree of polish, and to provide. the
young musicians with experience
in playing in an integrated group.



erice Fox, mediocrally appropriate.
Light Up the Sky undoubtedly
will—for quite a while; its funny
lines are very funny and everyone
concerned with the production tries
hard to please. The result: a com-
pletely pleasant, if totally unmem-
orable evening.





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“Weekend” Guides,
Tells of Colleges

Following “For Men Only,” a
guide to weekends at representa-

tive eastern women’s colleges,
comes “Weekend,” by the same
authors, Bill Jones and _ Dick

O’Riley, this time on men’s col-
leges. All information, useful, im-
portant, and relevant, is included,
with & chapter on each of the ten
major men’s colleges covered. Di-
rections on getting to the colleges,
pach campus itself, its traditions,
and what the town has to offer,
are given in detail.

Mr. Jones and Mr. O’Riley have
even included information, taken
from girls in almost all the big
eastern women’s colleges, about
what to wear and the general fem-
inine point of view toward college
weekends and the various activities
they include.

The price for this book is $1.50
and it will be on sale the middle
of November. Watch for its ap-
pearance and for any further news
On 10

NOTICES

Barnard Convention
Saturday, December 11, a stud-
ent discussion will be held at Barn-
ard College in New York City. The
title of the discussion will be
“South America Comes of Age.”
Three delegates have been asked to
represent Bryn Mawr. This con-
vention is sponsored by the Politi-
cal Council of Barnard College.
Alumnae Weekend
The program for the Alumnae
Weekend will include four stud-
ent speakers. For the Senior class,
Barbara Bentley will speak on
“Bryn Mawr in Perspective after
Junior Year Abroad.” Irina Neli-
dow, ’50, will have as her title “Am
I Getting What I Want?” The
Sophomores will be represented by
Susan Savage speaking on “After
a Year at Bryn Mawr.” Jane Au-
gustine’s talk will be on the sub-
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Notices
Continued from page 4
ject of “Why I Chose Bryn Mawr.”
Sigma XI

Members of the Sigma Xi Society
will join with the Science faculty
and graduate students of Bryn
Mawr in a discusion to be held in
an open house at Dalton, Wednes-
day, November 17. The Physics de-
partment is in charge of this meet-
ing. The discussion will include an
explanation of the Research Pro-
gram here. This meeting is not
open to undergraduates.

Spanish- Club

Professor Manuel Alcala will
speak to the Spanish Clubs of
Bryn Mawr and Haverford tonight.
There will be informal dancing
after the talk.

Med. College Test
Planned by ETS

A second Medical College Ad-
mission Test will be given Manday,

February 7 at administrations to |
be held at more than 200 local cen-' gepvice” wil] procede Mr. Thon’s

ters in all parts of the country. description of “The Bryn Mawe |

These examinations are required of
candidates by many leading medi-
cal colleges. They consist of four
tests of general scholastic ability
and two achievement tests-Premed-
ical Science and Understanding of
Modern Society. According to the
Educational Testing Service which
collaborates with the Association
of American Medical Colleges in
preparing and administering the
tests, no special preparation other
than a review of premedical sub-
jects is necessary. All questions
are of the objective type.

Application forms and a Bulletin
of Information, which gives details
of registration and administration,
as well as sample questions, are
available from premedical advisers
or direct from the
tional Testing Service,
Princeton, N. J. Completed appli-
cations must reach the ETS office
by January 24 for the February 7
administrations.



Marriage

Sally Gatlin, 50, to Philip ||

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Educa-! Present as you glimpse the con-
Box 592 | trast with the past.”
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!portunity for many alumnae, as

Alumnae Will Attend
‘Inside BMC’? Weekend

Continued from page 1

Dr. Michel’s demonstration in Dal-
ton Hall will complete the after-
noon schedule.

On Saturday, a program on
“Teaching Philosophy and Relig-
ion”, with Dr. Nahm and Dr.
Michels representing faculty, ‘and
Elizabeth Mutch, ’50, presenting
the student point of view, will fill
the morning.

A buffet luncheon to meet the,
Senior Class will be highlighted by
an address by Emily Kimbrough
Wrench entitled “Strange Inter-
lude.” Four undergraduate speak-
ers will follow; a freshman who
will discuss “Why I Chose Bryn
Mawr”; a sophomore, speaking on
“After a Year at Bryn Mawr”; and
a junior and senior talking re-
I Want?” and “Bryn Mawr in Per-|
spective after Junior Year
Abroad.”

‘population speaks Flemish, while



Dr. Cox’ speech on “Educationa}

|

Summer Theatre’.

For the finale, a supper in honor '
of’ President McBride will be heid

in the Deanery, at which time
Caroline McCormick Slade, ’96,
will speak on the topic, “The

March of Dollars Must Go On”.:
President ‘McBride will present “It
All Adds Up” and, conclude the
weekend, the alumnae will attend
the undergraduate production,



est” in Goodhart. |

Sunday, although not included in
the program, will provide an op-



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IRC Probes Idea
Of Benelux Union

At the IRC meeting on Wednes-
day, November 3, Mr. van den
Heuvel and Mr. Gutwirth, of the
French ...departments of Bryn
Mawr and Haverford respectively,
discussed the formation of the
Benelux ‘Customs Union. Mr. van
den Heuvel, who is a Belgian,
spoke in French, and Mr. Gutwirth
later translated for the benefit of
those present who did not under-
stand French easily. He sketched
the background of the relations be-
tween France and Belgium; he
emphasized the three factors which
make co-operation betwéen the
two countries difficult, First, there
exist cultural differences. Belgium
is composed of two distinct ele-
ments: in the North, the Germanic



the Southern people speak French.
After the first world war a reac- |
tion began against the French!
language and against France. The
high point in this antagonism was

reached in 1940 when Belgium
capitulated to Hitler. Secondly,
there are economic differences.

Belgium came out of the war in
much better shape than did France.
Her industry was less destroyed,
the Congo remained unconquered,
and her economy was easier to
manage because smaller. The black
market and inflation were effect-
ively checked in Belgium. The
third difference between France
and Belgium that Mr. van den
Heuvel mentioned was that no
great political problem exists in
Belgium. The three important

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East House’s ‘‘Biffy”’
Leaves in Shaky Ford
. Continued from ‘page 3

Biffy’s absence. On Sunday morn-
ing we didn’t see Miss Haller. One
might think that by this time. we
would have been suspicious of lit-
tle things like this but we were
sublimely insensible. Miss Haller
did walk in finally and she looked
a little pale.

We gathered around for the
story. It seemed that she had wak-
ed in the middle of the night, got-
ten out of bed and knocked herself
out by hitting her head on some-
thing sharp. With head in terrible
condition, she had dragged herself
across the floor to the telephone.
Here she had called the infirmary.
The powers of that place are no
dreamers.

“We can’t do anything about
it,” they said. “Stay where you are
’til morning.”

Haller Suffers Concussion

She had stayed, valiantly slap-
ping off the slumber of concussion
until morning when the Infirmary
sent someone to get her. They sent
her back to us after two hours,
pale, but in our eyes a new charac-
ter. Later when various ones of us
were interned in the Infirmary the
nurses always mentioned the enor-
mity of Miss Haller’s experience.
Misery is their diet over there and
Miss Haller must have made a,
considerable impression. or they
would never have mentioned her to
us.



(to be continued)

WHAT TO DO |

Positions in Pennsylvania and
Delaware for chemists, engineers,
librarians and physicists. $2974 a
year. Applications must be mail-
ed before five o’clock on November
9th.

Probably no one can qualify as
an engineer but anyone with a full
year’s experience can qualify as a
librarian. Application forms are in
Room H, Taylor Hall.

Student Aids in chemistry and
physics: Tommorow is the last day
for your application too.

* * * ek *

Sales agent wanted for hand-
made argyle socks for men and
women. Very reasonable prices. If
interested, come to Room H for de-
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The Deanery still needs waitres-
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See Betty Mutch, Pembroke East
as soon as possible.

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Wilcox Ends Lectures;
Favors ITO Charter |

Continued from page 1

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the Charter does not specifically |
denounce Socialism. Conservatives |
also hold the completely baseless
fears that “adherence to this organ-
ization would involve loss of sov- |
ereignty to a super-state,” and that
the United States would be forced |
into unfavorable trade agreements.

Thus, people holding both radi-
cal and reactionary views have dis-
torted the facts and fear the Char-
ter.

Middle-of-the-roaders have been
more objective in examining the
contents of the Charter, but are
quite pessimistic about it. They say
it just won’t work. The U.S. will
not import enough European goods
to keep the world from entering a
state of pronounced permanent un-
balance . .. liberal trade relations
depend on industrial stability, but
the United States is about to have
a serious depression... the Mar-
shall Plan will be a failure. Dr.
Wilcox admitted that these things
might happen, but added that
nothing could be gained by “sitting
on our hands” and waiting for de-
feat. Another centralist statement,
that the Charter is based on 19th
century laissez-faire philosophy
and is doomed in a century of state
planning, implies that we should
surrender hope for freedom in the
world without a struggle.

The center faction has expressed
disappointment in the terms of the
Charter—they are not as idealistic
and uncomprising as they would
like. They overlook the fact that,
without compromise, no workable
agreement of any sort would exist.
The fears of the center group that
the rest of the world is taking ad-
vantage of the U.S. are unfounded.
The U.S. introduced four of the
eight important escape clauses in
the Charter; the U.S. controls one-
third of the votes of the Interna-
tional Monetary Fund which makes
many important decisions; other



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Of Benelux Countries
Continued from page 5

parties are all moderate and the
Communist Party is practically
non-existent. In spite of these dif-
ferences Mr. van den Heuvel
pointed out that co-operation is
essential since Belgium is the key
to Western European Union.

Mr. Gutwirth outlined the his-
torical background of the Benelux
union and discussed its possible
development into a federal ‘union
of Western Europe. He described
Belgium as the meeting point of
Germanic and Gallic cultures. He
mentioned the difference in the
historical development of the
Netherlands, which became Pro-
testant and gained independence
from Spain in the 16th Century,
while Flanders (later to become
Belgium) remained Catholic under
Spanish rule.

weaknesses in the Charter — the
lack of any control over the inter-
nal affairs of nations, the weak
provisions concerning state plan-
ning, and the possibility that the
spirit of ‘the Charter may be
abused.

However, he said, the U.S., to re-
tain world respect, to receive bene-
fit from the billions of dollars it
has already invested in the organi-
zation, and to avoid government
control of trade, must ratify the
Charter and join the Trade Organ-
ization.



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Tri-County Asso.

Begins Concerts

Nathan Goldstein, distinguished
young violinist, will be the soloist
at the last of the Tri-County Con-
certs Association’s fall series of
concerts, Sunday evening, Novem-
ber 21st, at 8:30, at Radnor High
School, Wayne. The program will
include Mozart’s Sonata in F major,
the Mendelssohn Concerto, and the



After the Congress of Vienna,
Belgium was under Dutch rule un
til 1880 when it became independ-
ent due to a Flemish-led revolt. In
1921 a customs union was estab-
lished. between Luxembourg and
Belgium, which served as a pre-
cedent to the establishment of the
present one between all three
countries. This plan was developed
in 1944 by their respective gov-
ernments in exile. The aim of the
customs union is, that by estab-
lishing uniform tariffs for the
three countries, they will benefit
jointly by the enlarged market and
greater political influence. There
are difficulties because Holland
has not recovered as completely as
Belgium. There seems to be some
possibility that Benelux may form
the nucleus for a wider European
Union, but in view of the obstacles
presented by the East-West con-
flict, Mr. Gutwirth
against too much hope for the
immediate widening of the union.



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Continued from page 1
lin and the sulfa drugs, which are
more effective in killing gram posi-
tive bacteria, in its action on gram
negative bacteria.” An Associate
Professor of Preventive Medicine
at Johns Hopkins Medical School,
Miss Bliss has been an Alumnae
director of the college since 1944.



Brahms Sonata No. 2 in A major,
as. well as several shorter selec-
tions.

Admission to this concert, as to
ill Tri-County events, is free. Col-
lection boxes, for the support of
the organization, are placed at the
doors.

Mr. Goldstein, though only 24
years old, has already acquired a
considerable reputation as a re-
citalist and concert soloist. Gregor |
Piatigorsky, the well-known cellist, |
has called him “One of the out-
standing violinistic talents of the
American generation.”

He was born in Tel Aviv, Pal-
estine but has lived in this country
since he was a child. Soon after
coming to this country, Goldstein
showed such marked musical abil-
ity that he was awarded a scholar-
ship to Curtis Institute.

In 1946 he won a scholarship to
the Berkshire Music Centre where
he appeared as soloist in the
Tschaikovsky Concerto; in 1947 he
scored an unusual success at Robin
Hood Dell, Philadelphia, playing
the Sibelius D Minor Concerto.





Election Night in Wash.
Filled With Confusion

Continued from page 1

though, according to calculations,
should have gradually swung over
to Dewey, they just® didn’t seem
to want to do it. Faces began to
get long, as well as exhausted.
What was happening, anyhow? If
Truman did win (which surely was
impossible), it would be the big-
gest upset in history. ‘Obviously,
this was going to go on all night,
and the place began to thin out.
By 2.00 o’clock, the board room
was empty. A few people still wan-
dered around the corridors, drag-
ging their feet as they shuffled
home, Truman was way ahead with
the electoral votes, and Dewey had
lost California. Hope for the Re-
publicans was beginning to dwindle.
Republican Hopes Die

At 5:30 the Washington stations
went off the air. Many outlying
rural districts would not get their
returns in for quite a while, so
there was nothing to broadcast. In
the morning the news came that
Dewey had conceded the election,
and President Truman was set for
another four years. Amid the con-
fusion of this complete upset, one
thought seemed fairly prevalent,
which was voiced by one of the
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