College news, April 26, 1950

The College News



VOL. XLIV; NO. 21

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1950

Copyright, Trustees of

Bryn Mawr College, 1950

PRICE 15 CENTS



Red-Haired Marshall Heir Arrives Sunday, April 23rd



Morrison Says
Land Influenced
Soviet Growth

Soviet “‘Achilles’ Heel’’
Is Rail Transport
Prof. Claims

‘(Music Room, April 24, 8:15 P.M.
In the sixth and last of the series
of Russian lectures, Dr. John A.
Morrison, Chairman of the De-
partment of Geography at the
University of (Maryland spoke on
the “Influence of Geography on
Soviet internal and Foreign
Policy.”

In discussing the foreign policy
aspect, Dr. Morrison pointed out
and illustrated the fallacy of the
popular theory that Russian ex-
pansion is to be explained in terms
of an “urge to the sea” and the
meed of a land-locked country for
‘warm-water (ports.

This (fallacy becomes dangerous
when it leads to policies allowing
Soviet expansion, such as_ the
peace conference decision to grant
Dairen to Russia. This Manchur-
jan (base has given the Communists
direct access to (China, and has
been instrumental in their success
jn their war of aggression. This
thesis _is_a-fallacious and danger-
ous over-simplification of the prob-
lem. Dr. Morrison went on to show
that the expansion during the past
centuries, to the north, across the
Caucasus, to the Indian Ocean, and
across Siberia to the Pacific were
all’ motivated by interests of ag-
gression or trade rather than the
need for a warm-water port.

A second, geo-political theory
which has been accepted uncritical-
ly is that Russia’s central posi-
tion in Eurasia gives her the best

” strategic location. This has been

as much of a liability as an asset,
owing to the possibilities of attack
‘from two sides at once, and the
vast distances and transportation
difficulties.

In discussing the internal eco-
nomic geography of the Soviet
Union, Dr. Morrison demonstrated
the problems of a diminishing food
supply. This is because of the
short growing season, small

Continued on Page 5

Victor Reuther
To Speak May 9

Victor G. Reuther of the United
Auto Workers, C.1.0., will be the
speaker at the fifth Alliance As-
sembly, to be held on May ninth.
Mr. Reuther, thirty-eight years old
and a native of Wheeling, West
Virginia, has chosen for his topic
‘Labor’s Role in an Industrial and
Political Democracy”. A _ noted
anti-Communist who comes from a
family of labor organizers, Reu-
ther is a top policy maker of the
UAW, which is in turn a pace-
setter among labor unions. Last
June, at the time of a fourth round
‘wage increase battle, Reuther was
shot from ambush near his home
in Detroit as part of a plot against
him and his brother Walter, pres-
ident of the UAW.

\

Colleges To Show
Varied Interests

At 30 Arts Night

The most notable thing about
this year’s Arts Night is that there
are going to be so many new fea-
tures. For one thing, it is going
to be held in Goodhart for the first
time. It will be on Friday, April
28th at eight o’clock p. m., and
there will be a dance in Rhoads
Hall following it.

In the foyer of Goodhart there
will be an exhibit of art and pho-
tography work, done in or outside
of the art classes. The first item on
the program is to be a one-act
play by Robert DeP. Brown, en-
titled The Changing of the Guard.
It is a military play, and Leila
Kirpalani will direct it. After that
there will be a guitar interlude, at
which Bess Foulke, Eula Harmon,
and Laura Knipe will play.

The portion of the program de-
voted to the Bryn Mawr dance club
is divided into three parts. The
first of these is an interpretation
of T. S. Eliot’s Rhapsody on a
Windy Hill, with original incidental



music by Sperry Lea. The entire
dance club will participate in this
,ambitious work, which is for the
most part an idea of Eritha Von
Der Goltz’s. The second number,
,to be danced by Seta Mahakian
;and Irina Nelidow, is about mar-
| ionettes; it will be done to Gounod’s
Death of a Marionette. The last
dance, by Addie Lou. Wahlert_and
Marcelle Wegier, is to be an in-
terpretation of Tschaikowski’s
Marche Slav.

After the intermission, the sec-
ond of the one-act plays will be

Continued on Page 2

Curriculum Comm.

Chooses Officers

The newly-elected members of
the Curriculum Committee for
1950-51 met recently and chose
Barbara Grant as their chairman,
with (Marjorie Mullikin as vice-
chairman. It was emphasized dur-
ing the meeting that the Commit-
tee can be useful in clarifying
many problems which arise con-
cerning the nature of the different
courses offered and the work cov-
ered in them. Each member has a
copy of the Committee’s supple-
ment of the college catalogue,
which describes the courses more
fully, and students are unged to
make use of these descriptive out-
lines in planning their programs
for next year. Members of the
committee are:

Anthropology, S. Braman, Rock
Archaeology, E. Smith, Denbigh
Biology, H. Smith, Pem East
Chemistry, B. Grant, Denbigh
Economics, \D. Putnam, Non-res
English, K. Torrence, Rhoads South
French, M. Mullikin, Wyndham
Geology, (D. McKenney, Rock
German, M. Kreis, Denbigh

Greek and

Latin, S. L. Esterline, Non-res
History, F. Wagoner, Non-res
History of Art, ’

J. Woodworth, Rhoads North
Mathematics,
J. Richmond, Pem West
Music, L. Biddle, Rhoads North
Continued on Page 5



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Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense



Quick Contrasts and Pantomime
Make French Club Play Success

by Patricia Murray, ’52
The French Club made a good

show of (Moliere’s Monsieur de;

Pourceaugnac; the audience forgot
itself quickly and easily in laugh-
ter and excitement. The directors,
Mr. Morris and Mr. Guicharaaud,

and the actors supplied the re-

quirements of the script and the

Rhoads Sponsors

Springtime Dance

No, it’s not true! You don’t
have to wake up at the in-
considerate hour of 6 A. M. on
Monday morning to dance around
the proverbial May Pole. You'll
feel much more like indulging in
th art of Terpsichore from 10 to 1
on Friday night at the Rhoads Hall
Dance. Ag you enter the. dining
room, you will imagine yourself
in a beautiful Springtime dream,
complete with May Pole and gay
music, supplied by Don McCarger
and his four piece band. \As you
float in and out of the pastel-
shaded ribbons, you’ll wish that
Spring would come around more
often. Then, when your fancy
moves you, refreshments will be
generously provided by the springy
sprites in charge.

‘Mary Will Boone is chief May
Pole dancer, planning this mirth-
ful evening, to be held after Arts
Night. With the meager toll of
$1.20 per pair, everyone should
feel the call of Spring this Friday
night, April 28th, at Rhoads.

CALENDAR

Wednesday, April 26
' Philosophy Club Lecture, Dr.
Paul Schrecker, “Descartes To-
day,” (Common Room, 8:00 p. m.
Friday, April 28

Arts Night, Goodhart, 8:30
p. m.

Rhoads
p. m.
Saturday, April 29

NSA ‘Conference, Goodhart.
Sunday, April 30

Evening Chapel, the Rever-
end A. Grant Noble, D. D., St.
John’s Church, Williamstown,
Massachusetts, Music Room,
7:30 p. m.
Monday, May 1

MAY DAY.





Hall Dance, 10:30









~needs of the audience by making
the piece largely a pantomime. It
was a study in quick contrasts, not
only of gesture ahd movement, but
also of effect and idea; and these
contrasts were generally stimulat-
ing as well as merely funny.

The story of Monsieur de Pour-
ceaugnac concerns two lovers, Julie
and Eraste, who are foiled in their
love by the plans of Julie’s father
Oronte. Julie is to marry Pour-
eeaugnac, a rich provincial. Sbri-
gani, a gentleman of intrigue, in-
vents and executes a complex plan
by which Pourceaugnac is separ-
ated from Julie, and the lovers
united. ‘He is aided by Nerine, who
also lives by her wits, and Eraste.
Pourceaugnac, new to Paris and
civilization, is tormented by a
greedy medical profession, by ac-
cusing wives whom he doesn’t re-
call having married, and by sup-
posed officers of a capricious Paris
law.

The piece was a study in con-
trasts of movement; further, each
player reflected in his movements
the character of the person he
played, so that characters were
contrasted in contrasting move-
ments. Both the general situa-
tions and the details of the story
were told in action. The formal
miming which introduced the story
was in fact inexpressive by com-
parison with that of the play it-
self. The contribution which each
player made to the whole can only
be -uggested ‘by describing flashes
of action.

In the first tableau, Nerine
(Kathy Hanper), with a force and
positiveness resulting from the
fact that it is to her interest to
support the lovers, orates on
her disgust with Pour-ceau-gnac
and all he connotes. But an instant

ier she has shown her stripes:
having separated the whispering
pair with an exclamation of warn-
ing, she reassures them again with
a look of pious complacency. After
Sbrigani’s entrance, the two com-
pliment each other on their feats
of profitable intrigue. Sbrigani
stands behind Nerine, his pointed,
greenish-white face above her
round, red one, bending from one
side of her to the other with each
compliment he turns. Her latest
accomplishment has caused the
hanging of two men, as he shows

Continued 'on Page 4





Marshall, Junior
Steals Spotlight

From Shakespeare

The long-awaited arrival of the
heir to the J. Nathaniel Marshall
fortune occurred at three o’clock
p.m. on Sunday, April 28, at the
Women’s Medical Hospital in Phil-
adelphia. He weighed six and one-
half pounds at birth, and is re-
splendent with red hair. Although
he is as yet nameless, there have
been circulated rumors from re-
liable sources to the effect that he
will be christened either J. Na-
thaniel, Jr. or Nicholas. The child
is assured of abundant good for-
tune for two reasons: first, be-
cause he is the son of such fine
parents; and second, because he
was born on the same day as Shir-
ley Temple and William Shake-
speare.

Enthusiasm Adds
Interest, Effect —
To Lessing’s Play

by Jane Augustine, ’52

Last Monday night in Roberts
Hall, Haverford College, the Ger-
man Clubs of Bryn Mawr and
Haverford presented Gotthold Les-
sing’s Minna yon Barnhelm. The
eight members of the cast handled
the language very well on the
whole. Only two of them were
native-born Germans, but the rest
spoke with speed and variety of
inflection equal to theirs, and
seemed only occasionally to be un-
easy in a tongue not their own.

Roberts’ small stage was for
once not crowded with setting and
properties to trip up the actors.
The austere set with its brown and
salmon - colored walls and two
white-curtained windows was ap-
propriate to Lessing’s play. In-
deed whatever fault could be found
with this production of Minna von
Barnhelm lay not with actors but
with the play itself. The charact-
ers were therefore necessarily one-
dimensional and the action, what
precious little there was of it, was



If you want to see some ex-
cellent Tennis come down to the
Bryn Mawr Courts on this
Thursday, April 27, at 3 o’clock,
and see the exhibition match
between Mrs. Margaret Osborn
DuPont and Mrs. Vosters, who
are both nationally ranked ten-
nis players. It ought to be a
wonderful match, so don’t miss
it.







forced and unnatural. If the actors
seemed to pace the floor rather
more than necessary, it was partly
because Prussian officers always
pace the floor if they are true to
type, and partly because Lessing
was not a good enough playwright
to figure out what else he could
make them do.

Tom Forsythe made a good-look-
ing Major von Tellheim in a braid.
covered red-and-blue uniform. An-
neliese Sitarz was a charming
Minna, appropriately bewigged
and costumed in a greenish-gold
gown that matched the set. An-
neliese’s German was faultless,

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Wednesday, April 26, 1950.





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Under Act of Congress August 24, 1912







Library Negligence

As exams approach, the negligence of students toward
the library: increases, or at least becomes more obvious
Books disappear from the reserve room, seminaries and of-
fices, and smoking in the library is more prevalent.

Although a new system of signing out books has been
instituted, facilitating the reservation of volumes for spe-
cific hours, it cannot prevent students from taking them out
without signing for them at all. Before semester, several girls were seen leaving the library carry-
ing books with the reserve cards still in them. At almost
every meal an announcement from a professor is read, list-
ing the books that are missing from his reserve, office, or
sem. The counterfeiting or disguising beyond recognition of
library signatures is also practiced; thereby causing the
permanent disappearance of much-needed or valuable vol-
umes from the stacks.

Only last week, a fire was started in the cotton-bat ting
lining the book-box outside the Quita Woodward Room. If

the books had not been collected, as is often the case, and|

“if an observant student had not spotted the blaze immedi-
ately, serious damage could have resulted. The fire could
‘have been caused only by someone dropping a lighted match
_or cigarette into the box.

The library rules, as they stand at present, provide the
fairest possible means for all students to use the books. If
the rising thoughtlessness does not cease, those who take
advantage of library privileges correctly will have to be de-
prived of some of those privileges, or the rules may have to
_be made more severe.

Junior Show

With the election of next year’s Junior Show director,
the inevitable questions concerning the show have once again
arisen. Because Junior Show is such a new tradition, its
variations and possibilities are unlimited. Foremost, of

‘course, is whether or not to have a show. Because of the
crowded fall schedule, there is never sufficient time for re-
-hearsals; and eleven-day wonders are not easy to produce.
However, if the spirit of the junior class is enthusiastic and
energetic, there is no reason why. the show should not be
-suecessful. Once this spirit is achieved, the other problems
become incidental. It is up to the juniors, and to any campus
opinion, to decide whether to have an original show, whether
“to have Haverford Play the ‘men’ PY parte, and other such
questions.
"3 ow es a flexible tradition it should not be un-
dertaken unless it is sarnedty smported. ioe iil ake

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Uhe|tions under = : Commencanien
‘oaet | breeds.” :

Current Events

Common.Room, Goodhart, April
24: Dr. Roger Wells described
several aspects of the Point Four
program which President Truman
first set forth in his inaugural ad-
dress of January, 1949. Point Four
aims at American support in the
improvement and growth of un-
derdeveloped areas through tech-
nical assistance and the encour-
agement of capital investment.

In one respect Point Four is not
entirely original—it has
dents in both private and govern-
Missionaries

prece-

ment organizations.
have for years been endeavoring to
raise the standard of living in un-
derdeveloped countries, and have
tried by starting at the base, with
‘the problem of illiteracy. And the
Christian churches are not alone,
for organizations like the Rocke-
feller Foundation established in
1913, with its foreign program in
agriculture and public health, and
the Near East Foundation, started
in 1980, are also anticipators of
Point Four. Nor is governmental
implementation an innovation: the
United States and other countries
have stressed international coop-
eration for many years. The Brit-
ish Colonial Development Act of
1940 and our Good Neighbor Policy

examples.

Global Approach

Four is new because it adopts a
more global approach, a more
comprehensive view of things.”
Suggestions have been made that
the governmént appropriate ten
billion dollars for Point Four ac-
tivities butas—yet we are not—in
the billion stage. Since the inaug-
ural address some advances have
been made: executive agencies
were examined to see what exact
implementation would be neces-
sary; then, in June, 1949, the pres-
ident made the specific recommen-
dation that 45 million dollars be
the initial appropriation to start
the wheels rolling in this program.
Bills were introduced into the
eighty-first congress, but when it
adjourned in October, 1949, nothing
had been accomplished. Again in
1959, Point Four is up for congres-
sional consideration; The House of
Representatives, “in a moment of
economy”, said that the specified
amount was over - lange, desires
that it be cut to 25 million; the
Senate on the other hand wishes to
adhere to the original figure.

A large part of the money we:
spend under Point Four will go to
the United Nations, well-equipped
to handle development work, so
there is no objection of our short-
circuiting the U. N.

Avoid Imperialism

However, warned Dr. Wells, we
must remember nineteenth century
imperialism. “If the net -effect of
Point Four is to create hostility in
the minds of recipient countries,
that is not the idea of the (pro-
gram.” It must be acceptable to
the countries it will benefit. Then,
too, if not accompanied by consid¢
erations of social welfare, Point
Four might lead to more trouble
than already exists. There is a
need to balance economic develop-
ment with social values, to consid-
er “improvement” in social and
cultural terms as well as economic.
There must be work in education,
in public health. To a certain ex-
tent, we are already engaged in
this work. In 1948 there ‘were
thousands of Americans working
abroad, and about 50,000 foreign
students studying in. this country,
Point Four “is a program which
relies on exchange: . .

“When so much of our energy is
consumed in . negative measures
(combating communism, _ etc.)
Point, Four is positive, and will,
in the long run, remove.the condi-



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with Latin America are but two’!
i'8:00 P. M.,

“In one sense, however, Point,



Phila. Proclaims:
World Gov't Week

Bernard Samuel, Mayor of the
City of Philadelphia, has proclaim-
ed the period of April 28rd through
April 30th, 1950, as World Gov-
ernment Week in Philadelphia. Mr.
Samuel has done this with the
hope that people will give prayer-
ful consideration to this matter
and familiarize themselves with
the workings and the principles
of a world government, so that
they can decide for themselves
whether it is the means of achiev-

ing a just and durable peace or
just a beautiful dream.

To help people learn more about
world government many libraries
are setting aside books dealing
with this subject. Meetings will
also be held in the auditorium of
the Free Library at 19th- Street
and the Parkway, and elsewhere.

The Bryn Mawr Chapter of the
World Federalists have been active
in publicizing World Government
Week. Together with the World
Federalist Chapters of Haverford,
Swarthmore, and Temple, they
spent last Saturday afternoon tak-
ing “floats” through the streets of
Philadelphia. Bryn Mawr was able
to secure a truck for the purpose.

Wednesday evening, April 26, at
the Curtis String
Quartet will perform at the Free
Library with an intermission talk
by Andrew R. Klein, Esq. Friday
evening, April 28, at 8:00 P. 'M. a
movie, Things to Come, will be
shown there with another talk by
Andrew R. Klein, Esq. The Free
Library will also exhibit original
federalist papers all week.

At the present time, there is a
resolution before Congress which
recommends the strengthening of
the United Nations toward. an
eventual world federation of de-
fined and limited powers, open to
all nations, with the purpose of
preserving peace and preventing
aggression. This resolution is
supported by one hundred and five
Congressmen, six of whom are
from Pennsylvania.

Students Invited
To Labor School

This summer the Hudson Shore
Labor School, which began on this
campus in 1921 as the Bryn Mawr
Summer School for Workers, will
continue its educational activities.
The purpose of the school has been
to provide instruction in leader-
ship for persons interested in
workers’ education. In past years,
maids and porters from Bryn
Mawr have attended the school.
Students qualified by their voca-
tional objectives have in the past
served as staff and faculty assist-
antss. This year for the first time,
students who have the endorse-
ment of the professors under
whom they have been studying
may apply as regular students of
the school. This provides an un-
usual opportunity for students to

eet with leaders of the labor

ovement and with workers from
industry, as well as to learn about
the workers’ educational move-
ment of this and other countries.

The curriculum of the school is
planned to meet the needs of per-
sons wishing to teach workers’
classes or planning to work in ed-
ucational situations other than
classrooms. Courses will include
instruction in economic principles
in collective bargaining, human re-
lations, leadership methods, and
“the Union”.

The Hudson Shore Labor School
is located at West Point, New
York, -near Poughkeepsie. ‘Mini.
mum ‘attendance of two weeks is
Planned. Tuition and board total
eth a week. For further informa-

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Prof. Discusses USSR
In Geo-political Terms
Continued from Page 1

amount of rainfall, and poor soil
in most of the territory. Only
eight to ten per cent of the land.
is able to be cultivated. For this
reason, any increase of produce
can only come from more highly
developed intensive cultivation.

In discussing the coal situation,
Dr. Morrison showed how the re-
cent concentration of the. coal.
among a heavy industry in the
East proved of strategic value in
World War Two. This ‘rapid shift.
of location from South to East
was only gained at the expense of
extreme forced savings and forced

labor, however. Similarly the re-
location of oil centers from the
Caucasian region to the zone be-
tween the Urals and the Arctic:
makes it more accessible to con--
suming centers and better for de-
fense.

In concluding, Dr. (Morrison
demonstrated the need for im-
proved railway and waterway fa-
cilities, the growth of which has
not kept pace with the growth of
the country. The “Soviet Achilles”
Hee)” is its rail transport.

Thon Will Speak
At Vassar Conf.

Associate Professor of the
Drama Frederick Thon has beer
asked by Vassar College to conduct
the Saturday evening session of
the Theatre Today conference to
be held at Vassar from April 28
through 80 at which over sixty
Eastern men’s and women’s col-
leges will ibe represented. Among
the subjects to be considered will
be summer theatre theory and
practice, on which Mr. Thon wil!
speak, circulation of student-
written plays, exchange of college
productions, the extent of profes-
sional collaboration advisable, and
means whereby college - trained
students can continue in theatre
after graduation. The program
will include talks by Arthur Mil-
ler, Jose Ferrer, Donald Oenslager,.
Kermit Bloomgarten, Rosamond
Gilder of the American National
Theatre and Academy, and Robert.
Edmond Jones.

‘

Arts Night Boasts
Goodhart, Princeton

Continued from Page 1

presented. It is Carter Bledsoe’s.
Words, Like Dust on the Road..
This play, with Lee Haring as the.
director, takes place in a farmer’s

/shack in the south, in 1934. It is

a drama concerning a drought, and’
how the farmers react to it. After
this the Haverford Octet will sing:

‘a few numbers; the regular part

of the program will be concluded
by an ensemble from the Bryn.
Mawr and Haverford orchestra.
They will play original composi-.
tions by Ted Handy, Larry Gushee,
John Davidson, Al Clayton, and
Donald Loebelenz.

As a very special feature, the-
Arts Night program will present,.
by invitation, a group from Prince-
ton’s Theatre Intime. They will’
perform a fifteen-minute sketch,
written by: one of the Princeton-
ians, and of a highly experimental:
nature. It will take place in some
Limbo of the future, and is said’
to be a combination of Salvador.
Dali, e. e. cummings, and T. S.
Eliot. As this is something that is
so completely new, amazing, and”
excitingly executed, it- is import-.
ant not to miss it..

‘The Arts Night committee feels
that because of its expanding in-.
terests, and many new features, its-
'1950 program will have an. even-

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Wednesday, April 26, 1950



THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three



Seminars Reveal Intimate Traits
Of the Studentiensis Graduatatis

by Jane Augustine, "52

Around this institution the more
learned creeps have their own
variety of wormwood. Have you
ever wondered about the habitat
—mainly nocturnal—of the rarely-
observed genus _ Studentiensis
Graduatatis? If you maintain
complete silence and, camouflaged
by a fire extinguisher, lurk behind
a doorway or under a staircase
until about nine-thirty at night,
you may spot one of these crea-
tures. But never, never will you
be able to violate the sanctity of
their abodes, technically known as
seminars. For the information of
plebians who are neither of the
genus Studentiensis Graduatatis or
Studentiensis Honoris, this disser-
tation is written.

The psychology seminar conceals
the true personality of its inhabi-
tants. Except for a neutral-col-
ored cushion on one chair, there is
nothing the least bit unusual, odd,
or indicative about it. The psy-
chologists are on to themselves:
this seminar looks so normal!

Upstairs the history seminar
has a few items of interest. A col-
orful collection of volumes dis-
tinguishes it. In one corner are
piled enormous books genteelly
bound between mottled pink-and-
green covers. The contents: Jour-
nal of the House of Lords — the
date on one volume: 1675-1681. In
another corner volumes are en-
titled Patent Rolls, Calendar Rolls,
and Pipe Rolls — what, no break-
fast rolls? Titles to look at twice:
Rymeri Foedera, Rotuli Hundre-
dorum. The Bloody Assizes was
appropriately bound in the bloodi-
est scarlet possible, and then there
was somebody’s diary, bound (one
can only guess how appropriately)
in purple. ... All the window
shades lie on the top of the book-
shelves. By the door is hung the
Temperance clipsheet, bearing a
vituperous quotation from General
Evangeline Booth. This is the only
seminar which displays this pe-
culiar_periodical._From_history to
social economy is only a few steps.

The social economists are in
somewhat the same category as
the psychologists; their seminar is
not too revealing. More interest-
ing book titles under the heading
of Beginning Social Casework,
however —e.g. Anthony Adverse,
The Good Earth, and Life With
Father. Also, Some Aspects of Re-
lief. . . . Human notes are few: a
package of Luckies, a small comb,
a squelched paperbag, and the very

faint and forbidden odor of food.
The door marked “Please Keep
This Door Closed” wags standing
open. Letters to the department
sounded a dismal note for job fu-
tures: “We realize that our stand-
ards are higher than’ our salary
scale... ”and “A speaking knowl-
edge of Yiddish is essential . . .”
This is the only seminar display-
ing a railroad schedule for trains
to Atlantie City.

The Greek seminar is positively
luxurious. It has a round table
with a tiny vase of blue and yellow
flowers in the center, and a fire-
place whose mantel boasts ivy in
a gilt-edged pitcher. T. S. Eliot’s
discreetly erotic lines beginning
“April is the cruellest month. . .”
decorate the blackboard. Tacked
on a shelf is a paper entitled How
to Study, and under it a deck of
cards. On another shelf there is
an orange plastic chicken with a
marble inside to make it cluck....

Greek’s companion Latin occu-
pies a nearby room. There the
white marble bust under the win-
dows looks as if it might be Dr.
Lattimore with hair in his eyes.
The blackboard is filled with a
doubtlessly ephemeral mural de-
picting snakes, bits of architec-
ture, gyrating figures, tribute
lists, and “pius Aeneas” reclining
on Twelve Tables (nested). Ex-
clamations of “Io, vivat’ and “Tri-

_ Continued on Page 4

Bard’s Eye View

by Barbara Joélson, ’52
Never trust a dogfish,
He’s slippery and sly:
He’ll perversely lose his cornea
As you dissect his eye.

Likewise for a lobster,

His arteries are queer,

And his veins and capillaries
Always seem to disappear.

A rat is no help either,

His caecum makes you “seeck””’;
The sheep with head and kidney
Will scent you for a week.

No, never. trust. an animal

When he’s pickled for dissection;
For his tricks will only bring you
Biological dejection!!!



Miss Robbins would appreci-
ate the return of the following
books: Marriott, “The Eastern
Question’”’; Seltau, “French Po-
litical Thought etc.”











Hymns to Son, Dancing Highlight
Program for Gay May Morning

The schedule for Monday morn-
ing, May 1, is both confusing and
complicated. Every moment of
May Day is so specifically planned
that it is important to have a clear
picture of what is going on at
what time. The schedule is as
follows:

The Sophomore representatives
in each hall get up at 5:15 a. m.
and prepare coffee and doughnuts
for the Seniors. At 5:30 they sing
their Waking Song, and the desig-
nated Sophomore wakes each sen-
ior by leaving a May. Day basket
fin her room. (Coffee and dough-
nuts are served at 6:00.

The Seniors then go to Goodhart
where they leave their hoops and
baskets. Led by the senior presi-
dent and song mistress, they go to
Miss McBride’s at 6:40, and pre-
sent her with a May Day basket.

Taylor bell rings from 6:50 to
7:00. By 7:00 the Seniors should
be at Rock Tower to sing “Magda-
len Hymn.” Everyone then goes
inside of Rock and the Seniors, led
by their president and songmis-
tress, come downstirs singing “The
Hunt Is Up”. After that the Sen-

or class president is crowned

and the college cheer is given.

Breakfast is served at 7:15 in
the designated halls. The Senior
class officens and members of the
old college council eat with Miss
McBride.

Everybody but the Seniors lines
up at Pem arch by 8:00. The Sen-
iors line up at Rock arch carrying
their baskets. At 8:00 the proces-
sion starts in the following order:
Undergrad President, the Band,
Senior president, Senior song mis-
tress, Senior dancers, rest of Sen-
ior class, Junior dancers, Sopho-
more dancers, Freshman dancers,
Grad dancers, Junior class, Sopho-
more class, Freshman class, Grad
students. The Seniors skip to Mer-
ion Green; the Senior dancers
leave their baskets under the pole
and the rest of the class leaves
them on Merion steps. The Senior
president meets Miss McBride and
escorts her under the maypole.
The dancing then starts with the
band playing and everyone in the
outside circle singing. After the
band stops, the May Queen and
Miss McBride give their speeches.
Everyone should wear a_ white



dress, and either a blazer or sweat-

Queen by the Sophomore president er of her class color. Bee



“| eerity soon rears

LAST NIGHTERS

‘Liar’ Proves Unoriginal,
Lacks Showman’s
Touch

by Paula Strawhecker, ’52

Last Friday, April 21, the Phila-
adelphia Inquirer offered students
tickets to a dress rehearsal of a
‘Musical Version of The Liar by
Carlo Goldoni.” The Liar’s official
premiere is April 24; its technical
and mechanical difficulties can
thus be dismissed, but it is to be
feared that no amount of rehear-
sal could redeem the present pro-
duction from its appalling medioc-
rity.

This version of The Liar tells
the story of one Lelio, a chronic
prevaricator, and the difficulties,
especially amorous, to which his
inventions. lead him—all in 16th
century Venice.

It is apparently the intent of the
director Norris Houghton, and Ed-
ward Eager and Alfred Drake,
who are responsible for the book,
to satirize the saccharine operetta
—and an excellent idea indeed. Di-
rect contact with the audience
is immediately established (over an
imaginary canal, i.e. the orches-
tra pit) by an old doctor—in much
the manner of a Venetian counter-
part of the stage manager in Our
Town. This prologue is far too
long and proves worthless since
after the action begins, the doctor
is one of the few characters who
does not continue to play to the
audience. (It is possible this open-
ing will be cut). Supposedly the
play is a grand joke that the au-
dience is in on from the beginning.
As long as the satire continues it
is moderately witty. There are
several good characterizations: the
painfully shy lover, the timid
swordsman, the valet who looks
and talks like a Dead End kid. Sin-
its ugly head
however and all is lost.

Dull and Incoherent

The book is dull and incoherent;
the authors apparently exhausted
themselves thinking up innumer-
able puns on “lying”. The songs
by John Mundy and Mr. Eager run
the gamut from Gilbert and Sulli-
van to Cole Porter. Not one is dis-
tinguished or even memorable.
Patter songs are directly followed
by love songs in a most disturbing
way; the comedy characters sud-
denly disappear and without ex-
planation we have the young lov-
ers. The chorus marches in and
out only when needed.

Alfred Drake obviously wrote
the part of Lelio for himself; it. is
the personality given him in Kiss
Me, Kate: brash, impudent, and
charming. Dennis Harrison plays
Mr. Drake excellently. He is a
comedian, however, instead of a
singer and his songs cannot be
heard beyond the first few rows of
the orchestra.

Paula Laurence, who is usually
an able comedienne, is subordinat-
ed to an extremely minor role,
Continued on Page 4

N.S.A. Will Debate

Students’ Issues

The Bryn Mawr NSA ‘Committee
will act as hostess for a confer-
ence to be held in Goodhart on
April 29th. Various local colleges
are sending representatives to dis-
cuss student rights and responsi-
bilities. There will be several guest
student speakers, and Ralph Scott,
NSA national public relations di-
rector, will deliver the keynote ad-
dress.

The topics chosen for separate
discussion touch on almost every
aspect of student life and will in-
clude freedom of the college press,
political activities of students,
student say in the curriculum, and
rights and responsibilities under



student government.



Good, Curiously

by- Frances Shirley, ’53

Goodhart was the scene of more
music-making last Saturday eve-
ning, when the Bryn Mawr Col-
lege Chorus and the Williams Glee
Club joined to present a spring
concert. Both groups were well-
trained and sang the oddlygchosen
program competently and usually
with spirit.

Mr. Goodale conducted the first
half of the program which opened
with the combined choruses sing-
ing a cappella the “Cantate Dom-
ino” of Schutz and Tallis’ “Blessed
Are Those.” In both pieces the
tone and attack were good, and
the tempo was kept up throughout.
The latter selection was marked
also by excellent volume control.

The Bryn Mawr Chorus sang
next, and their selections ranged
from the Dutch carol “Awake,
Thou Wintry Earth” and a Renais-
sance group to two pieces composed
by Mr. Goodale, one to a poem by
Robert Frost. The carol was light
and enthusiastically sung. The
pieces by Byrd, Weelkes, and John
Bennet were well-balanced and
spirited, and the high notes of
Bennet’s “All Creatures Now Are



Council Discusses

Our Foreign Plan

On Friday, April 21, the World
Affairs Council of Philadelphia
sponsored a symposium on “Unit-
ed States Foreign Policy: Its Ob-
jectives and Problems,” held in
Goodhart Hall. Paul Smith, Chair-
man of the Student Council of
Haverford College, presided over
the meeting and introduced Mr.
Porter McKeever, the Director of
Information of the United States
Mission to the United Nations. In
his keynote address, Mr. McKeever
spoke on American foreign policy
and the United Nations.

The meeting later divided into
four roundtable groups, each of
which discussed a prepared topic:
American policy toward the Far
East, Eastern Europe and the So-
viet Union, Western Europe, and
Latin America.

Present at the meeting were
representatives from Bryn Mawr,
Haverford, Swarthmore, the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, St. Jo-
seph’s, Villanova, Chestnut Hill,
Drexel, Ursinus, Temple, the In-
ternational House, La _ Salle,
Muhlenberg, Lehigh, and Rose-
mont. Eve Glassberg, President of
IRC, was chairman of the Bryn
Mawr Hostess Committee.

Choruses Present Technically

Chosen Program

Merry Minded” were especially
full-toned. Perhaps most indicative
of the chorus’ skill was the sing-
ing of “High Flight” and “The
Last Word of a Bluebird,” both

| written by Mr. Goodale. The voices

were perfectly controlled and nego-
tiated the key changes and chro-
maticisms easily. Here, too the
singing was spirited and brought
Bryn Mawr’s part to a successful
close.

After the intermission, the Wil-
liams Glee Club, under Robert Bar-
row’s direction, presented a group
of Renaissance pieces by Antonio
Lotti, Thomas Weelkes, and Or-
landus ‘Lassus; Handel’s “How
Beautiful Are The Feet,” from The
Messiah; “Song of the Blacksmith,”
a Hampshire folk song; and
“Warm Babies,” which Mr. Bar-
row had written to a poem by
Keith Preston about Shadrach,
Meschak, and Abednego. Lotti’s
“Crucifixus,” sung by a part of
the glee club, was pure in tone.
The Handel was marked by sharp,
clear attacks, good balance, and
spirit. Of the two madrigals
that followed, the last, Lassus’
“Echo Song,” was the high point
of the program. The offstage echo
was particularly effective, and the
entire piece was light and clear.
The “Song of the Blacksmith” was
rhythmic, and “Warm Babies” was
clearly enunciated, though Mr.
Barrow’s reading of the poem be-
forehand helped in understanding
the words, which were really the
most important part of the piece.
(Let it suffice to say that the
music was reminiscent of other
pieces on the same order, and
merely served as a pleasant vehicle
for the Preston poem.) Nathan
Rudnick gave the Handel and
“Warm Babies” the benefit of a
clear, cleanly played accompani-
ment, and on the whole the Wil-
liams group was well-done.

The two choruses then joined in
what proved to be a very anti-
climactical group of three more
modern pieces. The first, Gibbs”
“Tears,” was not bad; it was quiet
and balanced, and the tone was
good. Kodaly’s “Evening” was not
as successful, and the “Prelude” of
William Schuman was even less
effective. The music is hard to sing,
and the Bryn Mawr Chorus was
not used to Mr. Barrow’s direction,
which might have explained some
of the roughness. At one time in
the Schuman the singers lost the
beat, and in places tle work skid-
ded out of balance. Elizabeth Con-
nor’s solo work in the last two
pieces was a good attempt, but



Continue1 on Page 4



by Barbara Joelson, °52

Among the Bryn Mawr profes-
sors who will be teaching at sum-
mer schools this summer is Dr.
Richmond Lattimore, professor of
Greek. He is going to give a
course, for Columbia University’s
summer session, on Comparative
Literature: Greek and Roman

Although Columbia gives a course
along, these lines every session,
this is the first time that it will
be taught by Dr. Lattimore, so it
will in a sense be an innovation.
The Columbia catalogue says in
its commentary on the course:
“The history and form of Greek
and Latin lyric poetry are studied
in various translations; as inten-
sively as circumstances allow; and
the forms and ideas established
for the Classical lyric are then
traced out through the course of
subsequent literature down to our
own time.”

Dr. Lattimore has not worked
out his plan for this course in any

Lyric Poetry in Modern Literature. |

Lattimore to Teach Lyric Poetry
In Summer Course at Columbia U.

English translations of Greek and
Roman works, which he will sup-
plement with a mimeographed
sheet. The particular classifica-
tions on which he will concentrate
include the ode, the lyric, the folk
lyric, choral, lyrics in tragedy, the
epigram, the anthology, and the
Idyll. The English poets to whom
Dr. Lattimore will give special at-
tention are Campion, Milton, Hop-
kins, Bridges, and Swinburne. It
is interesting to note that these
men represent different ages from
Elizabethan times up to the pres-
ent day.

On May 11th and 12th, Dr Latti-
more will be appearing at Dart-
mouth for their annual poetry lec-
tures. He and one other poet will
be reading poetry, talking on it,
and holding individual conferences
with undergraduate poets. This
program will deal with poetry
from the creative standpoint, that
is, from the aspect of the poet,
himself. It will not take verse in
its capacity as literary history, or
from a critical standpoint, as the
course on Comparative Literature



great detail as yet; however, he



intends to use several published

will.






cd -~

THE COLLEGE NEWS



Wednesday, April 26, 1950



Mr. Piglet Comes to Paris ’mid Applause
For Morris, Guicharnaud, Comedie Francaise

Continued from Page 1

us with an electric movement of
his white hands.

Pourceaugnac enters, tormented
by an invisible Paris mob as by a
swarm of flies. The great hulking
fellow exchanges bows with the
slim Sbrigani; and as Eraste pro-
ceeds to introduce himself as an
old friend, Sbrigani, with every
twist and turn of hand and body,
directs the doubting (Pourceaugnac
away from himself and toward
Eraste.

Miriam Bernheim’s slimness and
height made it easy for her to play
@ young man’s part gracefully.
Her Eraste was a suave and know-
ing accomplice of Sbrigani; she was
clever at the shrug-shoulders type
of comedy, the kind which shares
the joke with the audience. She
suggested nothing of a romantic
and courtly young lover. Mr.
Morris filled out and almost ex-
ceeded the demands of his part. He
performed great lumbering charg-
es across the stage, and constant-
ly vociferated against his persecu-
tors in a voce of honest, stupid in-
dignation. He played his part
with the relaxed enthusiasm it re-
quired. Mr. Guicharnaud protray-
ed Sbrigani with controlled energy.
While on the stage he was never
for one moment at rest; when he
was not taking the main action
himself, he was expediting the
progress of the situation by means
of smooth gestures, or miming the
actions of the other players. With
his harlequin costume, pointed, ex-
pressionless face, and lithe move-
ments, he was par excellence the
villain who is not the less roman-
tic for being greedy of lucre, not
the less charming for being com-
pletely malicious.

Pourceaugnac in Pantaloons

Costume, makeup, and stage
properties were almost as import-
ant as the gesture in putting over
the story and in producing funny
and surprising effects. Pourceau-
gnac was provided with billowy
pantaloons and an _ enormously
broad-brimmed hat. Sbrigani’s cos-
tume—inecluded a pointed cap with
a beaklike brim in front. The es-
pecially effective makeup of Sbri-
gani and Nerine has been noted.
Among the stage properties, the
apothecary’s shop and the mysteri-
ous three chairs of the second
tableau were surrealistic in char-
acter, matching the set. The shop
was nothing but a table, which had
been so/draped and painted as to
seem like a dusty den stocked with
deadly poisons.

The second tableau was remark-
able because it combined burlesque
with a faint suggestion of the sin-
ister and mysterious. The apoth-
ecary, played by Beatrice Freed-
man, appears first. She made him
a stooped and nearsighted little
fellow, who seemed faintly poison-
ous, like his wares, in all his pov-
erty and humbleness. Eraste
leaves Pourceaugnac in the hands
of two doctors who are to convince
him that he is mad. Each is dress-
ed to resemble a sorcerer of the
Middle Ages, with tall pointed cap,
and long black robe, twined round
with a yellow serpent. Three dis-
torted, dreamlike chairs are
brought forward, and poor Pour-
ceaugnac is placed between the
bright-eyed men of science. The



the lore of evil. The second doc-
tor (Ellen Shure) is unbelievably
stiff, old, and pompous. The first
doctor harangues his victim,
showing Pourceaugnac the state of
his insides by means of a gory
mechanical chart. At the same
time Pourceaugnac, bored to dis-
traction, gets into a game of slap
with the dignified old doctor. More
doctors are called in to convince
him of his illness. Dressed alike
in black tights and white aprons,
each armed with a medical instru-
ment that strongly resembles a
spray gun, they dance around him,
chanting. They would seem night-
marish in their persecution if they
were not so completely ridiculous.

Alcala Plays Oronte

The part of Oronte, the father of
Julie, was taken by Mr. Alcala.
This gentleman, with his short
steps and bobbing movements, dis-
plays a complaisant, diplomatic
personality. In a most amusing
moment, he and Pourceawgnac
meet and bow, not at, but over
each other, first the large figure
over the small, then the small over
the large. A moment later Julie
appears. Nevine Halim portrays
her as a young lady who is a little
too worldly-wise to be completely
demure. In an ironic scene, the
delicate and elegant creature lit-
erally throws herself at the large
and red-faced Pourceaugnac who,
having been convinced that she is
not virtuous, recoils.

‘Many are the effects and con-
trasts which must go unmentioned.
Even the two supposed wives of
Pourceaugnac, who rush in to ac-
cuse him of neglect and bigamy,
provide a contrast with one an-
other: for the tirade of one is hys-

terical in tone, that of the other,
pathetic. |

If anything struck one as unpol-
ished, it was the movements of the
dancers, who must not have re-
hearsed for long. Their awkward-
ness ‘was easy to overlook, how-
ever, because their persecution of
Pourceaugnac, spray guns and ex-
ecutioner’s knives, was so amus-
ing.

Surrealistic Set

Mr. Janschka’s set was a valu-
able addition to the production. Its
brilliant color and strangeness
helped take the audience out of the
Skinner...Workshop into a more
fascinating and romantic world.
Its variety made more than one
set unnecessary. It gave an effect
of distance, restful to eyes gazing

upon so active and bright a spec-
tacle.

The musie¢ and the singing, like
the set, were valuable in (producing
an atmosphere of relaxation and
romance. The singing of Roger
Goode and Pamela Field was
especially pleasing.

The members of the faculty and
the students who produced Mon-
sieur de Pourceaugnac chose a
play which was well within their
capabilities. The Play demands
merely clever and competent act-
ing, which they were able to pro-
vide. The rest of their attention
went into inventing and putting





“Spring is the time
For a lovely new dress”





Goldoni’s “‘Liar’’ Proves:

Incoherent as Operetta
Continued from Page 3

given no material and one unfor-
tunate song. She plays her part
with the apathy it deserves. Mel-
ville Cooper is amusing as Lelio’s
father, but again he is restrained
by inferior material. Barbara Ash-
ley’s magnificent voice and satiri-
cal bravura are outstanding in the
finale, which momentarily recap-
tures the gleeful spirit of parody
with a particularly operatic death
scene. Unfortunately, Miss Ashley
appears only a few minutes before
the final curtain.

One bright moment is provided
by Joshua Shelley, when, as the
valet, he sings about “Stomachs
and Stomachs”. The song is not
nearly as vulgar as it sounds and
his delivery is delightful. It is a
relief to find someone who can
project after the ineptitude of
most of the cast.

Donald Oenslager’s mobile set is
interesting but sloppily executed.
Since there is no dancing, Hanya
Holm has staged only the “music-
al sequences” or songs, relying al-
most exclusively upon formations
she used in Kiss Me, Kate.

And more things than these are
reminiscent of Kiss Me, Kate.
Among those items present are
Petruchio’s whip, the costumes by
Motley, a song called “Out of
Sight Out of Mind”, and one of the
principals who, in a role similar to
that of Bianca, bears an uncanny
resemblance to Lisa Kirk.

The Liar suffers from a lack of
the showman’s touch. At no point
does it approach the deft satire of
Cole Porter’s “Wunderbar” se-
quence. One wonders why all con-
cerned were in such an obvious
hurry to get the play into produc-
tion. It is reminiscent of a dozen
successful plays, containing noth-
ing of itself and wallowing in med-
iocrity. Perhaps the most unfor-
tunate thing about The Liar is that
in its present form it has been pro-
duced at all.

Graduates Ghosts Jar
In Each Empty Seminar
Continued from Page 3

umphe!”’ surmount the drawing.

Underneath is a verse which will

serve very well as the last word

on the attitude of the inhabitants

towards their seminar-habitants:

Tie glory that was Greece and

the grandeur that was Rome

Have led the classicists to pen
many a worthy tome

And so you will agree that

there’s no need to write a

pome (sic)

On the grandeur that was
Greece and the glory that
was Rome.



into effect the many details of a
complicated production. They set
out to produce, not a masterpiece,
but a good comedy. In what they
attempted to do, they succeeded.





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League Actresses
Join in VA Show

On Thursday, April 27, volun-
teers from Bryn ‘Mawr are partic-
ipating in the fourth and last play
to be given this year with the pa-
tients at ‘Coatesville Veterans Hos-
pital and Mental Institution. The
Little Theatre Group there is made
up of Bryn [Mawr girls and pa-
tients who are well enough to
leave the hospital soon. The plays,
which are written by patients, re-
quire about three weeks work with
students going out once or twice
each week. This week’s play is a
minstrel show with an Army-Navy
theme.

The Red Cross provides trans-
portation out to ‘Coatesville. Sup-
per is served to Bryn Mawr girls
in the Nurses’ Home.

This year the Coatesville group
has been admitted to the Bryn
Mawr League. It is now under the
direction of Anne Ritter of Mer-
ion.

Magazine Names

Three to Board

Counterpoint is happy to an-
nounce, albeit tardily, the elec-
tion of Helen-Louise Simpson,
’*h2 as business manager, and
Annie Lawrie Fabens ’51, and
Virginia Holbeck ’52 to the ed-
itorial board.

Also you are reminded that
the deadline for Counterpoint
tryouts (a two-page criticism
of an old Title, available in the
Self-Gov room, a sample of cre-
ative work if you have not prev-
iously contributed something to
Counterpoint, and a notation of
suggestions for improving the
magazine,) is this Friday, April
28. All entries, with your name
in a separate envelope should
be placed in the tryout box in
the \Self-Gov room.

Incidentally

Department of Utter Confusion
and Psychic Traumatic Experi-
ence:

E. Goldblatt recently received

the following notice from the li-

Sports

by Emmy Cadwalader, °52

. The Spring athletic season start-
ed last Wednesday, April 19 with
the first Varsity Baseball game.
Bryn Mawr was decisively vic-
torious by the score of 14-2 over
Drexel. It was an excellent game
as far as Bryn Mawr was concern-
ed, the team was extremely well-



coordinated and each member
showed a good understanding of
the game. The starting line-up
was as follows:

‘Catcher—Blankarn

‘Pitcher—Leeds

First Base—Sloan

Second Base—Raskind

Third Base—Tilghman

Short Stop—Hayes

L. F.— Wells

C. F.—Cohen

R. F.— Austin

Subs.: Foulke, Jackson.

The Tennis Varsity also played
its first match on Wednesday,
April 19, against Ursinus on the
Ursinus courts. The final total
score of the match was 4-1 in
favor of Bryn Mawr. Everyone
played an extremely good game,
especially since it is so early in
the season. The Bryn Mawr ten-
nis varsity was undefeated last.
year, and we hope it will continue
to have such good luck. The line-
up of the match was as follows:

First Singles—Groves

Second Singles—Kimball

Third Singles—Shaw

First Doubles—Price and Black-

wood

Second Doubles — Trippe and

Cooper

Technical Skill Shown
By BM in Joint Concert
Continued from Page 3

the sustained music was not suited
to her voice. In short, it would
have been much better if this last
uninspired and musically unreward-
ing group had been left out of the
program. However, the lack of
success could best be blamed on
the music, and not on the choruses,.
and-one- can hope fora better
choice of pieces next time.

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Wednesday, April 26, 1950

THE COLLEGE N



Students Discuss
Germany's Youth

In the Common Room at 8:30
p. m. on Thursday, April 20, IRC
met for a discussion of the topic,
“Is German Youth Learning Po-
litical Maturity?” The partici-
pants in this discussion were five
of the ten German students who
are studying under the German
Exchange Project at Bryn Mawr
this year. The aim of these girls,
who have been very active in col-
lege life here, was to give a pic-
ture of the role.of German youth
in national and world affairs in
their own country, and in this way
perhaps to help the American col-
lege student to gain full realiza-
tion of her own role in these and
other fields.

One of the main points of the
discussion was the question of
Nazism, and whether it_is as prev-
alent in Germany today as has
been rumored. Annemarie Duelp,
who gave the opening speech, said
that there was

present which has been publicized
in the American newspapers. Ur-

sula Schmidt discussed the refugee | :
\the university’s fall term, but will

problem, which is still a vital con-
cern in Germany, while Regina
Rompel outlined the youth organ-
izations, including those in the re-
ligious field. Marianne Plinke
spoke about juvenile delinquency,
which is an important problem in
post-war readjustment, and Liesel
Wolfslast discussed educational
problems in present-day Germany.

The discussion combined both
optimistic and pessimistic points
of view, the most optimistic being
Gene Rompel. All agreed that
through the youth the German
people were learning, votin: » and
beginning” again to be curious
about political affairs. For the
listeners this problem of re-educa-
tion emphasized the fact that
young Germans of college age at
the present time were brought up
through their childhood and early
youth under the Nazi regime.

A question period followed the
meeting, in which the statement
that Nazism was not strong in
Germany now was challenged. This
controversy was not formally re-
solved, but continued after the
meeting adjourned. At the close
of the formal discussion, an-
nouncement was made of the next
IRC meeting, to be held at Haver-
ford on the subject of “Interna-
tional Living.” The participants
will be students who have been
abroad and who will outline the
advantages of spending a summer
there.



The classes will be distributed
for breakfast on May Day
morning in the following man-
ner: The Seniors will eat in
Rock, the Juniors in Rhoads,
and the Freshmen in Pembroke;
the Sophomres from Rockefel-
ler and Radnor will have break-
fast in Radnor, those from
Merion, Denbigh, and Wyndham
in Merion, and those from Pem-
broke will eat in Denbigh.











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not the great.
danger of Nazism in Germany at |

Curriculum Committee
Makes Grant Chairman

Continued from Page 1

Philosophy, L. Kinpalani, Merion
Psychology, iP. Bennett, Rock
Physics, J. Richmond, Pem West
Politics, B. Repenning, Denbigh
Russian, J. Martin, Radnor
Sociology, C. Comly, Denbigh
Spanish, J. Silman, Denbigh



The Class of 1952 takes great
pleasure in announcing the elec-
| tion of Pat Onderdonk as direc-

tor of next fall’s Junior Show.



“chrecker Named

To Penn Faculty

Dr. Paul Schrecker, at present
professor of philosophy on joint
appointment at Swarthmore and
Bryn Mawr, has been named pro-
fessor of philosophy at the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, President
Harold E. Stassen announced re-
cently.

Dr. Schrecker will assume his
new position upon the opening of

continue to teach his advanced
courses in German Idealism and
the Philosophy .of History at Bryn
Mawr.

Born in Austria, Dr. Schrecker
received the degree of Doctor of
Laws from the University of Vien-
na, and in 1928, the degree of Doc-
tor of Philosophy from the Uni-
versity of Berlin. During the last
ten years Dr. Schrecker has been
a professor of philosophy succes-
sively at the New School for So-
cial Research, the Ecole Libre des
Hautes Etudes, Columbia Univer-
sity, and now Swarthmore and
Bryn Mawr.

An authority on Leibniz and
Malebranche, Dr. Schrecker has
written extensively on the lives
and works of both. He has also
written many other books on the
philosophy of civilization and his-
tory.

Awards Offered
For N.S.A. Conf.

Five scholarships have been
made available to the United
States NSA by the Summer Insti-
tute for Social Progress. They
cover all expenses for tuition,
room, and board for a conference
to be held on the Wellesley Col-
lege campus from July first to
fifteenth. Atwards are made upon
recommendation, and if enough in-
terest is shown, more scholarships
will be made available. Applica-
tion blanks are on the NSA
bulletin board in Taylor.



We have
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Page Five



Gaiety of Cast Makes
German Play a Success
Continued from Page 1

and, delivered in a clear and pleas-
ant voice, was completely under-
standable.

Ruth McVey, as Franziska, Min-
na’s sprightly handmaiden, enthus-
iastically entered into her part,
and with the greatest of vigor
kicked intruders out of Minna’s
drawing-room. Franziska’s pur-
suit of Paul, “Wachtmeister des
Major” was just coy and just bold
enough; Larry Gusheer as Paul
was stalwart, mustached, and thor-
oughly “der Soldat.” ’ Just was
portrayed by Peter Kohler with
lightly farcical ‘touches; Kohler’s
German came out more clearly
than that of the other male mem-
bers of the cast. Dan Oppenheim
as the innkeeper spoke and acted
well. Tom Thornton’s appearan:e
in the last act wearing a black
chesterfield with a fur collar and
his pants tucked up produced much
hilarity in the audience. Will Han-
son correctly and inconspicuously
played two bit parts.

Special mention should be given
to Traud] Gerstner for the prompt-
ing and for taking care of all sorts
of backstage details. Ellie Lou
Atherton and Milly Kreis deserve
praise for the costuming. Last but
not least Susanna Jungbauer’s di-
rection certainly was outstanding
considering the difficulties of the
play itself, and of coping with a
cast largely non-German, which,
for that reason, had more trouble
speaking and memorizing their
parts.

All in all, Minna von Barnhelm,
in spite of factors working against
it, was a success because of the
enthusiasm and gaiety with which
the two German Clubs collaborat-
ed. It is not ultimate dramatic
perfection that is important in
language club plays, but the ex-
perience in speaking an unfamiliar
tongue and the enjoyment of co-
operation which determines its
success.





The contribution of the Dance
Club to Arts Night will be an
interpretation of T. S. Eliot’s
Rhapsody on a Windy Night.
The poem will be spoken by
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from an English major

by Jane Augustine, ’52

(or is it a horse?)

Pope: How should I know?
never studied the Bible.
you’re liable.
sonneteers imitating
Barrett Browning.
ing).

exactly resemble tea.

Lammermoor.
Scott: something dour.



Dactyl: primitive bird, of course.
I

Bunyan: something that on your
foot if you wear tight shoes to get

Elizabethans: a group of female
Elizabeth

Anapest: boyfriend’s kid sister
Ann (candidate No. 1 fer drown-

“Saki”: a liquid which doesn’t

Pastoral: Preacher? Shepherd-
ess? Rhapsody!
Sestet: a song from Lucia di

Joyce and Gibbon Reconditioned;
They Turn Up As Daffynitioned

Gibbon: take? No, it must be
something eruditer ... Oh yes, a
Roman ape with a typewriter.

Chaucer; ...um. A chipped
saucer.

Novel: something with a bosomy
girl on the cover.

Pease - blossom: Porridge - blos-
som’s lover.

Paradise Lost: bad news at rou-
lette.

Romeo: in a play (story maybe)
by somebody whose name I forget.

Daisy Mae: sexy blonde heroine
of the comic strip “L’il Abner” by
Al Capp.

Joyce: a stnarquel whose didi-
minwhtp khjag xfisre bd qkchmw-
yehj and xi roadmap.

Iamb: quickest and truest an-
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overwork and indigestion?”







by Julie Ann Johnson, ’52

|Rain, rain, more rain;

The drops come down...

Fine mist, thick sheets,

And medium-grade rain,

Plain rain, April rain

At Bryn Mawr...

Puddles come, puddles stay,
Puddles become lakes,

Lakes become seas.

To traverse seas one needs boats,
But there are no boats,

Only boots, leaking sneakers,
Ventilated loafers, to contest
The April rains...

April showers brought the flowers,
April showers send the flowers
To their inundated fate

Together with the sneakers,

Loafers, boots;
quered,

Rain is king,
Plain rain, April rain,
At Bryn Mawr.

Rain has con-

Bard’s Eye View

by Jane Augustine, ’52

Spring, ah spring—new buds are

seen;

Bare branches. change for aios-
soms :pink.

The lawn has gone from mud to
green,

And you’ve forgotten how to
think...

You’ve changed from jeans to ten-
nis shorts,

You’ve changed your desk for
grass,

You’re almost glad you’re taking
sports—

You'll change your mind and

change your heart,
(Your spring behavior’s strange)
But don’t you think you’ll have to
start
To make that one long - dreaded
change—?
After you’ve changed hall, clothes,
men, haircut, program and where
class meets,
Shouldn’t you strain yourself to
the breaking point and change
last November’s sheets?









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Page Six

THE



_ Garden Hours

As black branches begin to show
a fringe of palest green, the sea-
son comes again for the Garden,
the Estate, realm of the initiated.
During the daylight sessions, one
can dream, while buried in the car-
rels, deep in a tilting Reading
Room chair whose reclining angle
induces dizziness, or nodding
drowsily in the too-comfortable
modernity of Park Library. One
can dream during the midnight to
dawn seige under a mountain of
dead and dying cigarettes. in
smoker, silent smoker, showcase,
front hall. Despite term papers,
year papers, imminent exams,
dreams will come, dreams of Para-
dise.

Paradise lies beyond a meadow,
a high iron fence, a stream. Above
the stream, the barrier has long
since been rusted by the forces of
nature and crumpled by the suc-
cession of suppliants who have
passed therein. Within the Realm
there lies the Enchanted Garden;
unused road leads on to winding
brook, and rustic bridge points out
the way to colonnade, carpeted in
velvet. Lange blossoms, waxy-
white, sway gracefully above the
heads of saints and satyrs; the
path leads from Christian martyr
enshrined in niche to broken-nosed
pagan, hiding on his marble pede-
stal just beyond a straggling
shrub.

Even the one-time pilgrim has
her visions and her memories of
Paradise. She sees the Enchanted
Garden, surrounding the dimly-
lighted house of mystery on the
hill, she hears the birds singing at
dusk, she feels the wavering wind.
In early spring the dungeoned sup-

pliant can escape into Enchant-
ment.

NOTICES

Chapel Meeting
There will be an open meeting
‘concerning chapel this evening at
ten o’clock in the Non-Res room
of Goodhart — everyone is urged
to come and join inthe discussion.



State Department Program

Students wishing further details
on the four programs recently an-
nounced by the Department of
State concerning student summer
internships with the department
and with the U.N., and the pro-
fessor-student seminar on foreign
affairs, should contact Miss du-
Bose in the Dean’s office.

Chesterfield Contest
Joyce Lustgarten is the winner
of the fish bowl contest sponsored
by the Chesterfield campus repre-
sentative. The prize is a carton of
Chesterfields.



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Wednesday, April 26, 1950



The Observer

There are many ways to do it;
One
could fling one’s self headlong on

we’ve considered almost all.

the Goodhart door or jump into
the mysterious pit in the cata-
combs of the library. Innumerable
ways...

Or one could turn in one’s paper.
But this is the coward’s way out.
it
contains no meticulous diagrams;

Our paper’ is not illustrated;

it consists mainly of typographical

errors. We are sorry; we have

done our best. We spent at least
50 hours reading for our paper and
at least ten years writing it. We
are old and worn and haggard.

Our professor believes we have
dropped the course. He is mis-
taken. It has fallen on us.
The Library detests us. We are
being followed by a private inves-
tigator. We admit we inadvertent-
ly crushed an aspirin between the
leaves of one book, but we swear
that we did not cut out the frontis-
piece. We repeat, our paper has
no illustrations.
Then today we saw them, both
of them. One is sturdy and grey
and hangs from the big tree in
front of the library. The other
is delicate and white and sways
seductively in the wind. It hangs
from the cherry tree at the side
of the library. They are nooses.
We were happy when we saw
them. No, we do not mean to be
morbid. We feel they represent
a kindred spirit. Somewhere there
is someone who understands. Pos-
sibly, oh possibly, there is some-
one else who has not passed in her
paper. Please.
It sits on the floor of our room
and we loathe it. It is like a hoagy
—it permeates the atmosphere and
the longer it stays, the more we
hate it. We should pass it in..
There are so many ways to do
it. One could fling one’s self head-
long on the Goodhart door or jump
into the mysterious pit in the cata-
combs of the library. Innumerable
ways...





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The Nation Associates and the
Nation magazine are sponsoring a
conference on “The Atomic Era—
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ance?”, this coming weekend,
April 29 and 30th at the Waldorf
Astoria in New York. Among the
outstanding speakers scheduled for
the different sessions are Gardner
Murphy, psychologist, Hans Mor-
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details on particular topics to be
dealt with, and additional speak-
ers are posted on the Alliance Bul-
letin Board, Taylor.

Summer Theatre

Applications Due

This is a last reminder that ap-
plications to the Bryn Mawr Sum-
mer Theatre must be mailed to
Director Frederick Thon before
May first. The summer theatre,
which lasts from June 20 to Au-
gust 14, is an acting and produc-
ing company entirely of students,
co-educational, and includes lec-
turers from the New York theatre.
Total cost for the period, includ-
ing tuition, college residence room
and board is $3765.



Loquacious PhilosopherComments

Upon Slash in U.

by Barbara Joelson, ’52

Inflation, it seems, has finally
hit the government’s pocketbook.
It has affected everyone, and I
guess it was inevitable that Uncle
Sam should suffer from the High
Cost of Living, too. As a result of
this pecuniary pressure, the pow-
ers-that-be in Washington have
very sensibly decided to cut their
budget. This all appears quite logi-
cal and intelligent, I thought; and
then the knife fell! The first step
in this “tightening-up” process,
turned out to be in the department
of the U.S. Mail. Millions of post-
men, is seemed, were delivering
mail, unaware that they were en-
tirely superfluous. At little incon-
venience to themselves, and with
the greatest economy, the Gov-
ernment could lay off these postal
appendages, and cut everybody’s
mail delivery down by one. (For-
give them, for they know not what
they do.)

Ah, Harry, there are certain
matters in which the best advisors
are not Senators and Elder States-
men, but your own and beloved
daughter Margaret. She perhaps
could have told you that, although
a Congressman may not look for-
ward to his letters at all, a young,
social-minded woman feels quite
differently.

Never would I depart for my
nine o’clock class without a fran-
tic search through the morning



S. Mail Service

mail. This would either result in
a morale-boosting epistle, or a
void, which would at least assuage
my curiosity. Similarly, a hopeful
look cast at the postman’s meagre
collection would always fill the few
empty moments before lunch; and
what was the purpose of tea, ex-
cept to pass time until the evening
delivery? The times between these
three important events, were al-
ways subdivided by the less ex-
citing, but nevertheless intriguing,
advents of cgmpus mail.

No more can this systematized
scheme be applied to my waking
hours. The regular deliveries have
been cut to two: one arriving at
some nebulous time between 9:30
and 11:00 A. M., and the other ap-
pearing inconspicuously between
4:30 and 5:00 in the afternoon.
Campus mail, as a_ result, has
achieved a most academic quality.
Not only do letters, magazines, and
packages come much less frequent-
ly, but it also has become impos-
sible to figure out which is the
really interesting delivery of the
day. Result? Chaos!!!

Please, Mr. ‘Truman, think of a
potential voter in the 1952 elec-
tions, and revoke this well-mean-
ing, but sabotagical gesture. After
all, nothing could stop the Pony
Express, so never let it be said
that a little thing like rising prices
impeded the progress of the Demo-

cratic donkey’s mail service.















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