College news, November 9, 1949

VOL. XLVI, NO.6 ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDN ESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1949







Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1949



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PRICE 15 CENTS



Faculty, Seniors

Explain Changes
To BM Alumnae

3-College Cooperative
Plan Explained
To Alumnae

Goodhart, Saturday, November
5. The theme of this year’s Alum-
nae ‘Weekend, “Changes in the
March of Time: 1989-1949”, was
presented at the opening meeting
by Mrs. William L. Savage, Presi-
dent of the Alumnae Association,
The most important innovation of
the past ten years, the three col-
lege cooperative plan, was explain-
ed and evaluated by the presidents
of the participating colleges, Miss
McBride, John Nason of Swarth-
more, and Gilbert White of Haver-
ford.

The joint Russian language de-
partment, which is the major co-
operative project, was representel
by Miss Frances de Graaff, who ex-
plained the purpose of her course
and the objectives of her students.
Professor Felix Gilbert outlined
the Russian history course givea
at Bryn Mawr, indicating the or-
ganizational. difficulties posed by

_the amount of material and student

emphasis on the Soviet period.

Alumnae Hear Talks
On Honors System

Sunday morning, the alumnae
and faculty met in the Deanery to
discuss honors work of Bryn Mawr
seniors.

Mrs. Marshall first outlined the
general plan of the senior year.
“Final examinations in the major
field were introduced in 1985.”
Several of the fourteen and one-
half units required for the A. B.
degree must be taken in fields of
general knowledge; the rest may
be done in the major subject. As
seniors, the students may spend
most of their time doing honors in
their fields of specialization.

Dr. Sloane, associate professor of
History of Art, first explained the
honors program, which follows
similar outlines in all departments.
All students who have an 81 aver.
age and who the department feels

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Miss Agnes Mongan





Goodhart Shows
Japanese Prints,

Oils, Still Lifes

by Francine du Plesssixy ’52

A new landmark has been made
in Bryn Mawvr’s growing art treas-
ures. The paintings now being
shown in the basement of Good-
hart were contributed from two
private collections. One is that of
Mary La Boiteaux, a Philadelphia
painter and art-collecter who died
a few years ago; she was closely
associated with the college, and it
'is to her memory that the garden

brary is dedicated. The other col-
lection is that of Lucy Martin
Donnelly, former head of Bryn
Mawr’s English department.

In the Donnelly collection are
works of some of the leading
names in modern art. Four color.
prints by Mary Cassatt reveal the
turn-of-the-century Japanese in-
fluence on French painting, done in
Paris when recently - discovered
Japanese prints were the sensation
of the art-wérkd. Cassatt’s two
megther -and-child prints, of fine
coloring and great tenderness, are
especially charming. Of more *re-
cent times, Pavel Tchelitchew’s
purple “Anemones” is a rare ex-
ample of this painter’s early per-
iod. Somber and relatively aca-
demic, it shows none of the ana-
tomical obsession and the stress in



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Year Book 'Man Makes Pixies,
Schizophrenics, Stupes of 1950

by Irina Nelidow, ’50

“Now think of him and wet your
lips,” “Get that half-smile on,”
“Try to behave yourself for this

96,” ‘To such promptings did“the }

class of 1950 make its collective
debut before the camera as the
Year Book Picture Man, ensconc-
ed in the Undergrad Room, strove
to -reproduce for ‘posterity the
charms of the seniors. ’

Reproduce them he did, but let
us hope not for posterity. A sur-
vey of the proofs revealed facts
about ourselves we never knew.
We are evidently all schizophren-
ics, as indicated by the evidence
below:

1) At least ninety per cent of
the senior class are leprechauns.
Fey, pixie expressions illuminate
our faces as we try to look both
subtly feminine and mischievous-

“ly inscrutable.

2) The class of 1950 is ready to
face life. With a masterful though



slightly vacant look we attemp¥ to
gaze with serenity beyond the hor-
izon. At least one of each set of
proofs examined to date reveals
the Woman of Tomorrow, aspiring
resolutely and grimly to a Noble
Future. : .

3) We all want to be wistfully
appealing. Perhaps~ our expres-
sions of gentle helplessness stem
from feelings of our own inade-
quacy before the camera, or ‘per-
haps thoughts of coming mid-
semesters. from which we crav2
protection, overwhelm us. ‘At any
rate, Jane Eyre at school had noth-
ing on the class of ’50.

4) We have a remarkable gift
for producing deadpan stares.
Blank bovine looks, devoid of all
emotion, are probably the result of
our drained feelings after we have
given Our All in previous poses.

The Year Book. Picture Man
tried hard, but it’s still a shock to
see ourselves as we hope others
don’t see us.



between the Deanery and the Li-'



Miss Mongan Expiains her Job:
Ingres Catalog, Picture Search

by Elisabeth Nelidow, ’51

At ten o’clock on the morning
of November 2nd, this reporter
was striding purposefully towards
Miss McBride’s house, there to. in-
terview. Miss .Agnes Mongan,. and
all the way trying desperately to
think up brilliant questions to ask
her. The situation became critical
when I was ushered into her
presence, for nothing worthy of
the fascinating art lecture she had
given the night before in Goodhart
came to mind. But a cheery “Good
morning, Miss McBride said you
would be coming” did much to dis-
pel any nervousness.

We chatted aimlessly about
Bryn Mawr for a while and the
differences between 1927, when
Miss Mongan graduated, (she lived
in Merion, incidentally), and now.
After receiving her A.B. degree,
Miss Mongan went to Florence to
study for her M.A., and there saw
the wonderful collection of draw-

‘ings in the Uffizi Gallery. These,

she said, moved her so much that
she studied them at great length.
“But,” she added hastily, “I’m not

Student Describes
Literacy in China

specially contributed by
Suetse Li, 50

Even though the number of lit-
erate people in China is very lim-
ited there is an even smaller group
of those who are privileged enough
to get high school education. Out
of those who graduate from high
school, only a small minority is
able to get into universities. On
the average, there is about one
in a hundred of the total popula-
tion who gets university education
and out of all university’ students,
about five per cent of them are
women. Usually, Chinese women
who do get into universities are
interested enough to carry through
the four required years for the
A.B. degree and some do go on
for. further. training.

Although the women’s position
in Chinese society has been ris-
ing constantly, jobs open to them
are still pathetically limited. But,
on the other hand, there still are
only a few women who aim at hav-
ing a permanent career, though
there is an increasing need for
them to share in supporting »the
family. During the war, with the
rising cost of living, there was
a temporary increase in the num-
ber of working women. They took
on such jobs as secretarial, cler-

Continued on Page 5





Wednesittty, November 9

8:30 p. m.—NEWS party,
Miss Ely’s.
Friday, November 11 ;

8:30 p. m.—Drama Club Pro-
duction, Liliom, Goodhart.
Saturday, November 12

8:30 p. m.—Liliom, Goodhart.

11:00 p. m. — Undergrad
Dance, the Gym.
Sunday, November 13

7:30. p. m.— Chapel,
Room. f
Monday, November 14 —

7:15 p. m.—Current Events,
Mrs. Maxine Woolston, “Deval-
uation and World Economy.”
Wednesday, November 16

8:45 a. m.— Miss McBride,
“Self-Government,” Goodhart.

Music









“so much more interested in draw-
ings than I am in paintings; it’s
just that I seem to have gotten
off on them from the start.”

When she came back to the)
United States, she-started-to-work
for the Fogg Museum .in Cam-
bridge, where she is now curator
of drawings. At this point, Miss
Mongan is working on a catalogue
of all the Ingres paintings. and
drawings in America. Overwhelm-
ed at the idea of such a piece of
work, we asked her how many of
them she had seen. “Oh, all of
them, except one, and that’s on
the West coast.” Being a curator
of a museum always involves much
travelling, Miss Mongan said, for
one must go to see exhibitions and
collections all over the country.
Her own method for tracking
down pictures, she says, is mainly
by word of mouth, or, “If you
hear of. one, just let me know!”
Really old drawings are very hard
to find, Miss Mongan continued,
for it wasn’t until the 18th cen-
tury that they were considered as
anything other than preparatory
work for painting, and were there-
fore very seldom signed.

Miss Mongan has currently been
invited to the American Academy
at Rome for a year to be the Art
Historian in Residence. However,
she is afraid that she would not
be able to go for more than six
months, and as yet she is still

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McIntosh to Give
Graduation Speech

Mrs. Millicent Carey McIntosh,
Dean of Barnard College, has been
invited to address Bryn Mawr at
commencement exercises this June.
A graduate of Bryn Mawr in 1920,
Mrs. McIntosh received her Ph.D.
at Johns Hopkins University
(1926), and LL.D. from Smith
College (1940), and N. Y. Univer-
sity (1940). She taught at. Rose-
mary Hall from 1922 to 1923.

Returning to Bryn’ Mawr in
1926, Mrs. McIntosh became In-
structor of English, and from 1929
to 1930 was Assistant in English
and Acting Dean. Subsequently,



Mattingly Talks
(n Kmissaries
(Of Renaissance

Exposes 15th-Century
Lion and Fox
Tactics

Goodhart, November 7. The am-
bassadors of the Renaissance “suf-
fered from the blight of power
struggle ...so that even the best
of them were spies... liars...
and more than one of them agents
for conspiracy, assassination, anl
revolution,” said Dr. Garrett Mat-
tingly, Professor of History at
Columbia, talking on the topic of
“Princes and Ambassadors in the
Renaissance.” Speaking as Mal-
lory Whiting Webster Memorial
Lecturer, Dr. Mattingly empha-
sized the distinction between the
medieval and Renaissance concep-
tions of the functions of ambassa-
dors and pointed out the causes
which gave birth to new develop-
ments in the field of diplomacy, be-
ginning roughly in the last quarter
of the fourteenth century.

The emergence of the “modern
state,” bringing with it a new
theory and fact of princeship,
served as the immediate back-
grounds for the growth of profes-
sional diplomacy—which began in
Italy. In medieval theory, declar-
ed Dr. Mattingly, the ambassador
was conceived of as a public serv-
ant responsible to Christian soci-
ety as a whole; his business was to
make~peace~and-to~-conciliate~-dis=
putes. In the Renaissance, how-
ever, there arose an idea of the
ruler as a “power-seeking organ-
ism” which brought with it cor-
responding changes in diplomatic
needs and institutions. It was the
main occupation of the prince to

Continued on Page 2



QUICK

If you are reading this before
ten-thirty Wednesday night,
drop your paper and run over
to Miss Ely’s for a drink and a!
song. If you have time to stop
for your costume, you may win
a prize. Stimulation of all sorts
guaranteed.



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A-Ray Machine,

Concentration

Characterize ‘Liliom’ Rehearsal

by Jacqueline Esmerian, ’51
Two girls are alone on a phan- |
tom-like stage, in a huge, dim

auditorium. They are sitting at a|.

little table, deep in a discussion.
I gather that they- are Marie
(Nancy Pearze) and Julie (Eritha
von de GOltZ;~and that the char-
acter who looms through their
conversation, fearfully, is Liliom,
the latter’s domineering husband,
whom she still loves. Liliom (Bill
Bishop) enters in the midst of this
scene, a. sullen, irritable, jobless
Liliom, who repels the hesitating
advances of his wife. As he sits,
remaining alone on the stage, he
has a visitor, Mrs. Muskat (Mol-
lie Allen) the director of the Car-
ousel, and his erstwhile lover. She
appeals to him to leave his wife
and come back to the life of “stars,
and beer, and music,” to the Car-
ousel, from which she had before
discharged him. Liliom is torn. be-
tween his duty to his wife and his



ter;
scene, to announce to him that he

desire to go back to the Carousel,
and is about to give into the lat-
when Julia interrupts the

will soon become a fafher.

So concentrated had the action
been, that I had not before ob-
served my surroundings. In the

darkened. Goodhart Auditorium,
jthe stage stands out, dimly. It is

bare, except for the strictest n

demanded by the ‘action’, a table
and chairs; and sundry objects
which are not meant to be there:
the lectern and chairs, debris of
the morning’s Assembly, which
are tucked away discreetly on a
side of the forestage, and not the
less evident for that, jars of paint,
and, monstrously planted in the
most prominent position... an
X-ray machine. This last object
has no connection with Liliom, and
léads an existence of its own, as
I had a chance to learn by experi-

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Entered as second class matter at the Ardmore, Pa., Poss Office

4| ter, Mr. Bachrach proved his point







| JUader Act of Congress August 24, 1912

Ink

We were making out an invitation to our professor to
come to our party with the News pen, when we found we had
attached our thumbprint to it. Instead of wiping our thumb
on our shirt front as we are wont, and going on, we stopped
to gaze upon it, ruminating. Words of the very morning
echoed in our hearts: “Poor badgered News—” thus we had
heard and glanced up from our notes with a catch in the
throat and tear in the eye: “It should write about ink.” We
dabbed at our eye and leant an ear: “Ink. Bryn Mawr girls
seem to have trouble with it. When the West Wing was new
it had tan walls and I came in one morning to find one—
there—’”’ he pointed rather close beside us—“covered up to
there’—he pointed a bit above our heads—“with ink.” You
cannot distract me with your knitting nor with your falling
asleep, but if there is a noise and a great gathering around,
I shall know a bottle of ink has fallen and I shall be dis-

tracted .. .-Your pens always run out in the middle.” . And
then he went on to other things, but we were profoundly
affected and fell into contemplation. Here was one calling to
us across the dark spaces. One who deepest in the depths of
his mind—in back of all the Art—broods about ink. Ink
on tan, ink run dry, spilt ink with people gathered around
... And we who have taken it for granted and not written
about it. Why? Is it because it has, like toothpaste and
broccoli and Selections From Early Greek Philosophy, be-
come such a part of us that we have no affection for it?...
because it don’t recall our childhood or have intimations of
__immortality_in_it?~-Are we then like him who hath never
fed of the dainties that are bred in a book, hath not eat paper
... hath not drunk ink? ...a small drop of ink falling like
dew upon our thought makes thousands perhaps millions
think—tthink, but not of ink?
darkness, ‘like the drop of ink, falls, and: we, of the News
think, of Ink. As it oozes from the Pen, as it stains the
Editor’s lip, we gaze upon it with affection and write about
it. And—we shall let there be gall enough in our ink; though
we write with a goosepen, no matter ... and you, who suck
it up out of bottles—let it recall your childhood—you who
once spilled it on your mother’s bedspread—let it intimate
immortality—the inky cloak that will envelop us all... for
we cannot be like the old hermit of Prague, that never saw
pen and ink, who very wittily said to a niece of King Gor-
boduc, That that is, is. We need ink to say things like that
“nowadays—so let us no more throw it against the wall nor
spill it—to distract and bring black thoughts to the surface
of him who spoke to us across the inky darkness, “Poor
badgered News, write of Ink.”







telligence agents. ~~Their~ overall

The plea, hovering in the).

Current Events

At Current Events on Monday,
Mr. Bachrach spoke on “The De-
cadence of the American Liberal.”
Taking examples from Arthur M.
Schlesinger’s book, The Vital Cen-

that the program of the American
liberal of today is confused, weak,
and uninspiring.

The chief reason for this vacil-
lating state of the liberal is the
fact that he is caught between
two fires; he is either forced to
agree with the Truman Doctrine,
or he is accused of supporting the
Communists. The result of this is
that now there is no strong criti-
cism of the foreign -policy...Mr. |

Schlesinger says, however, that |
class strife and a‘third party com-
pletely separated from the Com-
munists and fellow-travelers is the
answer to the problem. He feels
that there should be a strong cen-
ter party and a balance between
government and big business.

Mr. Bachrach, on the other hand,
says that if the liberal can come
up with a strong policy which will
be judged for its own merits, the
third party can remain on the
left. He also believes that class
struggle in an economic sense is
not essential to'-a two party sys-
tem. Morever, the government can
control jbasic industries without
becoming totalitarian.

Only a reform government can
give security to all people, and if
the liberals would evolve a con-
structive program, they could
easily rise above the barrage of
free enterprise and the fear of
Communism and become an effec-
tive third party.

Mrs. McIntosh To Give
Commencement Speech
Continued from Page 1

she held the position of Headmis-
tress at Brearley School, until 1947
when she became Dean of Barnard
College.

Mrs. McIntosh is trustee and
director of Bryn Mawr College,
and member of the Board of Man-
agers of Bryn Mawr School in
Baltimore. _

Power Game Corrupts
Renaissance Legates
Continued from Page 1

make war, through peaceful or
through forceful means, and to
this ,in Machiavelli’s formulation,
he had to bring the qualities of
both the “lion” and the “fox.”
This quality of the “fox,” said
Dr. Mattingly, was represented by
the Renaissance ambassador; with
the emergence of resident am-
bassadors, who in fifteenth century
Italy came to form a new profes-
sional class, the Renaissance may
be said to have come into being.
These ambassadors had three prin-
cipal duties—to serve as liaison
officers between states, as “diplo-
matic troublemakers,” and as. in-

function was to serve the prince in
the furtherance of his. aims and
to be useful to the state.

This system of diplomacy, Dr.
Mattingly continued, originated
first in .Italy, under the stress of
unique political circumstances; it
was taken up by Spain—especially
in the period of Ferdinand of Ar-
agon—and later by France and
England. As formal diplomatic
credentials and reports came into
being, the resident agents gradual-
ly became a “more dignified and
responsible body” with specific and
valid duties.

But, concluded Dr. Mattingly,
throughout the Renaissance period
‘the ambassadors could not escape
from their logical functions as
servants of power-eating mechan-



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Oninion

‘‘Montserrat”’ Criticism! Plant Poet Gives Tips;

Wins Haverford’s
Appreciation

To the Editor of the Bryn Mawr

News:

We should like to express our
appreciation to the Bryn Mawr
News and to Miss Paula Straw-
hecker for her review of Mont-
serrat. In three years of reading
the Bryn Mawr and Haverford
News, we have never seen a finer
review. Our one criticism of Miss
Strawhecker’s review is that she
failed to point out that the play
is so constructed that it deceives
the audience into believing a much
greater moral problem is. -present
than actually is. This is done
through the device of withholding
a vital piece of information from

the audience until the last scene.,

The play therefore becomes not
the study of a moral issue, but of
a weak man. -
But this is a minor point, for

what we really want to say is that
reviews of this calibre would be
welcome for local college produc-
tions.

Yours hopefully,

H. C.

J. K.

(Haverford College)



Art Display Features
Gemberling’s Still-life

Continued from Page 1

line typical of his recent work. A
still life of Juan Gris is probably
a very early achievement of the
cubistic style, done when Gris and
Braque were the leaders of that

new school; a small canvas, it is’

rendered massive and powerful by
its solid, block-like forms. Also ‘o
be noted in the Donnelly collection
is a charming pastoral scene by the
French primitive Andre Bauchant.
naive and delightfully refreshing
in color, and a beautifully stylized
flower vase by the Japanese-Amer-
ican Kuniyoshi.

The La Boiteaux collection, com-
posed of American art, particular-
ly stresses, the medium of water-
color, The most striking of these
is the series by Earl Horter. His
thinly-applied purples and blacks
express the form of the nude body
more effectively than could the
most generously applied volumes
of flesh-colored oil paint. O’Hara’s
“Cypress Swamps” has great dec-
orative value, a feeling of eleva-
tion in the long smooth sweeps of
tree-trunks. .

One of the water-colors was
painted by the owner of the collec-
tion, Miss La Boiteaux. A small
landscape, it is very similar. in its
predominance of purple and green
coloring to a fine landscape by a
contemporary of hers, Margaret
Gest. All these works show water
coloring not -in its former standing
of subordination to oils, a sketch-
book medium of study towards 2
more important work. They show
the medium of water color perfect-
ed by first-rate artists into an art
by itself.

Noticeable is the very sparse ap-
pliance of color, and the use of the
untouched” white background ~ of
the paper in the composition. Of
the whole LaBoiteaux collection
the finest work, I thought, is a
still-life in oils by Gemberling, 2
little-known American painter.
The three rounded yellow pears in
the scalloped basket are perhaps

reminiscent of the use of organic

forms in modern painting, a trend
stressed in a present exhibit at
New York’s Museum of Modern
Art. Organically-minded or not,
Gemberling has great tactile value
and a masterly handling of oil
paints.

Mr. Sloane is to be thanked for
arranging this exhibit, which will
remain in Goodhart until Decem-
ber 5. No one should miss it—it
is a small but splendid showing of
some of the finest names in twen-



ism.”

tieth-century art.

Offers Soap, Fit
As Cures

To the Editor:

Your dissatisfaction noted here,

It’s time for YOU to lend an ear;

Attention please while we peint out

Complaints that time has brought
about.

If thou would’st be Athena’s.
daughter,

Quickly, rush for soap and water;

To be considered ’mongst the fair..

Banish the robins from thy hair.

Fingernails are important assets,,
To-pick-the teeth, scratch in classes,
But this you'll learn, be sure of it,.
A chorus will rise, ‘Quick, the Flit.’

Pallas, you’ll find, a patient quail,,
But with thy foot on many a rail,.
Thou’ll woo her, woo her but in

vain, u
She’ll pick herself a Harcum Jane.

Wishest thou a place on Haverford
knee?

Then scrub and mend the dungaree.

Should introspection sad the heart,,

Well, Pagliacci played the part!

Learn these things, heed them well,,
Thou mayst yet hear Founders bell;
Otherwise a seat beneath the bough,
Just Tennyson, Shelley—and thou.

Thou art soon to face the test,

Ermine for some, sackcloth the rest.
But for the majority, well we guess.
It’s clasp the adder to their. breast.

For in Pem East and in Pem West,
Of criticism there is no dearth;

But you’re getting a damn good job,.
And more than your money’s worth

The shades in of night are falling
fast
It’s home to cold, refreshing glass:
We need it! “You don’t” some may
say.
Did THEY work on College News
today ?
Cordially yours,
THE PLANT

Six Players Make
I. C. Hockey Team

On Saturday, November 5, the
Bryn Mawr Hockey Varsity went
to the Inter-Collegiate Tryouts,
which were held on the Swarth-
more College fields. It was a ter'-
ribly cold day; so the team spent
its time playing fiercely or huddled
{n sweat pants and blankets. Bryn
Mawr played three matches dur-
ing the day, and was- quite success—
ful. The first match was again
Temple, and though we lost 1-0
Bryn Mawr played very well, as
Temple had a terrific team. After
lunch Bryn Mawr played and tied
Ursinus. This was the best match
of. the day both in good hockey and
in enjoyment for Bryn Mawr. In-
cidentally it was wonderful to tie
them, because they beat us when
Bryn Mawr played them a few.
weeks ago. The third match was
with West Chester, and after 2
very exhausting ~ thirty-—-minute-.
half, Bryn Mawr emerged decided-
ly victorious, 2-1. When the list
was read out of the players asked
back to continue to the final try-
outs the next day, Bryn Mawr
found with great excitement that
six of our players were asked hack.
This is almost the greatest number
that Bryn Mawr has ever had. The
players who went back to the fina
tryouts were: S. Hayes, J. Stone,
M. Shaw, S. Savage, L. Perkins,
and A. Wagoner. The final results
were announced the next day. Syl-
via Hayes was placed as Left
Wing on the All-College Varsity,
and the other five players were
made honorary members to the
All-College Squad. Everyone who
went to the tryouts played better
than ever before, and Bryn Mawr



should be very proud of them all.




_ Wednesday, November 9, 1949

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THE COLLEGE NEWS

4

Page Three

Z



LAST NIGHTERS

Style of Pure Ballet
Completely Lost —
In New Form

by Francine du Plessix, °52

These are sad days for the real
balletomanes; for the lovers of
classic entrechats and crisp tutus,
of the porcelain delicacy of “Les
Sylphides” and the pure line of a
haltingly poised toe. Gone is the
real epoch of ballet glamour, when
Pavlova’s dressing-room was the
Mecca of dance lovers. And with
the end of this epoch the style of
pure ballet seems to be overshad-
owed by new styles. The trends of
modern music, the spectator’s de-
sire for sensationalism, the popu-
larity of ‘satire and take-off, all
these factors have led the trend of
contemporary dancing away from
the purity of the classical ballet.

‘Thus we find that what creates
the furor in the dance world this
season is not the dream-stuff of
which “Les Sylphides” and “Swan
Lake” are made. It is created by
the sultry, erotic dancing of the
Paris Ballet’s “Carmen”; and by
the Sadler’s Wells Company, com-
ing to Philadelphia next week, the
majority of whose repertoire is
anything but classical. Apart from
a few stand-bys such as “Swan
Lake” and “The Sleeping Beauty”
Sadler’s Wells’ most recent offer-
ings are representative of the
trends in modern dancing.

“The Rake’s Progress”, for in-
stance, is an interpretation of the
Hogarth etchings. Partly unleashed
romping, partly pure pantomihe
never capturing the poignancy of
the original subject matter, it at-
tains a successfully bedlamic cli-
max in the last scene, where the

Continued on Page 4

by Emmy Cadwalader, °52

On Wednesday, November 1, the
Varsity and Junior Varsity hockey
teams each played an excellent
match against Penn. The Bryn
Mawr Varsity tied with Penn, 3-3.
Shaw made two of the goals, and
Stone made the other one. It was
a very good game to watch, but
due to darkness the last half of
the second half was pretty much
of a confusion as far as the spec-
tator was concerned. The players
managed beautifully, though it’s
hard to see how they did it. They
really. lived up to being Bryn Mawr
Owls by playing hockey in the
dark. The Junior Varsity had all
the advantages in this game. The
team beat Penn’s J.V. by the very
decisive score of 7-1. Three of the
goals were made by Kimball, and
Merritt and Cadwalader each made
two apiece. The team played with
a great deal of spirit, and would
surely have scored..more goals if
the time had not been cut due to
darkness. It was a great thrill to
watch these games, as Bryn Mawr
hasn’t beaten Penn in hockey for
quite a few years. The hockey sea-
son for both teams has been very
successful so far.

ie —Halls__Tie

The semi-finals of the Hall
Hockey Tournament were played
off on -Sunday, November: 6, but
unfortunately both ‘matches ended

.

soormins-. o._Pem West- tied. Rhoads,

and Pem East tied with Denbigh,
so that some sort of play off ar-
rangement will have to be made so
as to get two teams to play in the
finals. Both games were especially
amusing due to many male Play-
ers who felt that the hockey stick
was to be swung as a golf club,
and that people’s shins were made
to hit with either the ball or the
stick. The feet were also used quite
professionally. These accusations
were verified when later a few
brave Bryn Mawrtyrs played a
team composed of Princeton men.
Although Princeton was the vic-
Continued on Page 4







Hyveieve Exam

°C

versational decorations below.

Of eating, and drinking
Have ye a good stomach?
I’m almost starved.
Methinks I’ve eat nothing these
three days.

—p

cueaTerR!



The NEWS Look

There is, we have heard, increased
attention to style and fashion in
the big world this year. We give
you as much reflected chic as we
have been able to find on campus.

“We wear our blue jeans with
polished belts and polished shoes
this year.” Melanie Hewitt.

“Tt’s changed since my day.”
Miss Lang.

“Je n’aime pas du tout les fem-
mes en pantalons.’”’ Karen Cassard.

“Surtout avec les gros der-
rieres.” Katherine Harper.

“Everyone should dress like me.”
Judy Nicely.

“Tyrolean capes
lous.” Nina Cave.

“Do you think wardens ought to
wear wool stockings and big black
shoes? It says we should dress like
college officials, but .. .” Jeanne
Theis.

“Fingers are being worn bony
this year.” Mrs. Marshall.

“Where possible.” Dr. Nahm.

“You ought to be in a large co-
ed institution.” Mrs. Michels.

“If I saw a skirt in this office
I’d faint.” Miss Custer.

“Do you’ wear seamless stock-
ings, and how big?” Mr. Adams.

“How can you girls go around
with no heels?” Miss Campion.

“Where’s your head?” Miss Don-
aldson.

“If you have a nice background,
draw attention to it.” Edie Mason
Ham.

“T have to wear sweaters if I
haven’t done my laundry, don’t I?”
Gwynne Williams.

“T feel enormously overdressed.”
Mr. Lattimore.

“Nonsense.” Miss Stapleton. :

“Little rags in the hair...” A
Senior.

“How nice to see you girls out
of your pants.” An Alumna.

We sincerely hope that these
style hints have been helpful, and
that if you have any further ques-
tions on how to dress to look your
best, you will get in touch with the
NEWS at once.

are marvel-

Committee Plans
Vocational Panel

Friday afternoon, November 4,
at the Vocational Committee tea,
Miss Alice King, chairman of the
newly formed Alumnae. Vocational
Committee, presented for discus-
sion plans for the weekend confer-
ence on vocations to take place
February 25, 1950. Featured at the
conference, according to present
plans, will be a panel discussion by
alumnae and representatives of
several vocations, possibly center-
ing around the question of the best
way of securing a job in each field;
the panel is planned for Friday
afternoon of the weekend with
some arrangement for individual
discussion on Saturday. Miss King
also asked for opinion on a ques-
tionnaire from Mademoiselle’s
“Jobs and Futures” department;
Mademoiselle would like to have
the questionnaire filled out by
Bryn Mawr students for use in an
article in Mademoiselle. Students at
the tea generally approved of the
questionnaire.





HELP ! ag

The..NEWS_ is -momentarily
in serious financial difficulty. It
would make planning our bud-
get a great deal easier if we
could count on getting all. our
subscription money soon. May
we urge alumnae, faculty, par-
ents, and friends of the col-
lege to mail in their checks at
once?







N.S.A. - Sponsored

Projects Succeed

Common Room, November 7.—
The N.S.A. Committee opened its
year of activity with a tea, at
which several representatives of
the committee spoke. Marian Ed-
wards, last year’s Chairman, sum-
marized the doings of NSA last
year. These were as yet rather dis-
organized, and only a few of its
projects, such as assisting with
the Student Government Clinic in

Pennsylvania, sponsoring tours in
Europe during the summer, adopt-
ing a DP student, were success-
fully carried out. Bertie Dawes,
the present Chairman of the NSA
Committee on campus, then spoke
of the NSA this year. Joan Piwos-
ky is the Vice-chairman, and Lita
Hahn, the Secretary, who is con-
cerned mainly with the problem
of DP’s; among the other mem-
bers, Helen Woodworth is in
charge of problems of student af-
fairs, and Frieda Wagoner, with
those of international affairs, in-
cluding the NSA-sponsored tours.
Madeleine Blount and Marge Carl-
son then spoke on the tour they
took this summer in France, Eng-
land, and Holland.

The Committee’s. representative
on the national literary magazine,
Essai, is Lea Hoard, ’52, who has
been recently appointed.

Sub-regional Meeting

Saturday, November 19th, will
be an important day for the NSA
chapters of all the colleges in the
southern part of Pennsylvania. For
on that day will be held the N.S.A.
Sub-regional Meeting, in Beaver
College, Jenkintown. The speak-
ers are Mr. Thomas Boylan, Chair-
man, Eastern -Pennsylvania Sub-
region, Miss Natalie Brooks, Stud-
ent Council President at Beaver
College, who will deliver the wel-
come address, and Dr. Theodore
Kistler, President of Beaver Col-
lege. But the round-table discus-
sion of various problems of inter-
est to the NSA will be the main
feature of the Meeting. Among the
topics to be discussed are problems
of international affairs, such as
that of the DP’s, hospitality to
foreign students, foreign corre-
spondence, the World Student Serv-
ice Fund; educational problems,
the Purchase Card System, the or-
ganization of a regional human re-
lations Clinic; problems of student
life common to all the sub-region-
al colleges, such as reduced music
rates for students, intercollegiate
social affairs, student governments;
and the organizations of the NSA.
Bryn Mawr sends two delegates,
two alternates, and eight observers

to represent it at the Sub-regional

Meeting.

Take a mouthful of something.

Give me a bit of whatever you
please, for I’m fainty.

Of speaking, saying, doing

You speak too softly.

Would ye have me bawl?

No, but speak loud enough to be
understood, and don’t whisper, as
if you was afraid of being heard.

‘Who are you talking with?

Hold your tongue.

She does nothing but chatter.

Who told ye so?

The Gentleman told it me, I also
heard it from several Ladies, espe-
cially from that Lady.

Why don’t ye mind what I say?

It’s very rude, clownish, and un-
civil to look another way when a
person speaks to ye.

Between Two Young Ladies.
Your most humble servant, Miss.
I’m yours; I hope, Miss, you’re

well?

I’m very well, thank God; but
what’s the matter with you? You
seem as if you wasn’t well.

I’m very well, but I‘m very much
afflicted.

Why so?

Because my Mamma isn’t well.

What ails ’er or what’s the mat-
ter with ‘er?

She has an Ague, the Colic, a
violent Cough, a Fever, a Pleurisy.
She’s in a deep Consumption. She
has the Headach.

Hadn’t we better play a game
at Cards?

I can’t play.

Why not?

I’m the most unfortunate crea-
ture in the world, I always lose, [
lost Five Guineas yesterday, [
never win, I’ll never play any
more.

Pray, what’ study employs your
time so, or,takes up your time so,
that you haven’t any leisure to
see your old friends?



Continued

18th Cent. Italian Grammar Book
Promotes Cosmopolitan Chit-Chat

This is the last of the NEWS Italian lessons.
helpful eighteenth century instruction may prove to be on future Orals,
we hope at least that you will find pleasant phrases and useful con-

However doubtfully

Del mangiare, e del bere

Avete dell’ appetito?

Sono quasi morto di fame.

Mi pare de non aver mangiate
questi tre giorni.

Pigliate un boccone di qualche:
cosa.

Datemi un pezzetto di quel che
volete, che mi sento mancare.

Di parlare, dire, e fare.

Parlate troppo basso.

Che vorreste che io gridassi?

No; ma parlate da da essera in-
teso, e non sotto voce, come se
‘aveste paura di essere udito.

A chi parlate?

Tacete.

Ella non par altro che ciarlare.

Chi ve lo disse?

Il Cavaliere me lo disse, l’ho
sentino anche da varie Signore, a
spezialmente da quella Dama.

Perche non badate a quel che
dicho?

E’ mala creanza, cosa villanesca
ed incivile il guardare altrove
quando una persona vi parla.

Fra due Signore Giovani

U milissima serva, Signorina.

Sono serva vostra; spero, Sig-
norina, che stiate bene?

(Benissimo, grazie a Dio; ma voi,
che cosa avete? Sembrate non star
bene.

Io sto benissimo; ma sono molto
afflitto.

Perche?

Perche mia Madre non sta bene.

Che cosa ha ella?

'*

Ha una Terzana, la Colica, une
Tosse violenta, una Febbra, un mal
di petto. Elle tisica. Ha il dolor
di capo.

non sarebbe meglio fareun guio-
co alle Carte?

Non posso guiocare,

Perche?

Sono la piu sfortunata creature
del Mondo, sempre perdo, persi
eri cinque Ghinee, non vinco mai,
non voglio mai piu guiocare.

Dj grazia, quale studio occupa il
vostro tempo, che non aubiat al-
cuna orelibere per vedera gli an-
tichi vostri amici?
on Page 6



OBSERVER

We walk, indeed, upon a stage.
It is not the one of life and of
death:—“and all our yesterdays,”
—‘“man’s acts being seven ages,”
it is another.

Who knows who walks up the
path from the hockey field, past the
Deanery and the low, wide tree,
into the side door? Who knows
who will be by the water cooler at
quarter of five in the afternoon?

Who knows who will be walking
through the Cloisters at ten min-
utes of ten and who walks on the
Cloister baleony for air?

I know these things, and the faun
will smile at me, a slow sweet sin-
cere smile and I shall be given a
glass of water and I shall have
hushed words in the Cloister and
someone...will smile. down .at me
from the balcony as I trip across
the grass. And so you see, it is
my stage and they smile when I
come for I bring them a touch of
sweetness and light.

But — i

Who says at quarter of four in
the, dusky room “but don’t you
think he means rather—?”

Who smiles when I get my coffee
at the Inn but goes off to a pre-
arranged table in the other room?

Who passes almost without notic-
ing because he has another life
outside the grey and ivy and is
going there in a car?

Yes, others say these things and
do these things and they say and
do them to me for on this stage I
am only a_ pretender.

Continued on Page 4



Angels, Cardgame
Set Dance Mood

by Barbara Joelson, ’52

The Fall Undergrad dance on
November 12th will not only be
extremely divine, but also quite
heavenly. This will be due in part
to Don McCarger’s orchestra, in
part to the fruit punch that will be
served, in part to all the people,
but most of all to the imaginative

decorations. The theme (if you
haven’t guessed it by now) will be
decidedly celestial. A crepe paper
sky will fade from deep blue to a
much paler shade and a gigantic -
crescent moon will cradle the or-
chestra. On the walls there will be
fluffy clouds and a great amount
of.angels, doing. such -un-angelic.
things as playing with stars, skip-
ping rope, playing poker, and even
seeing ethereal pink elephants.
The formal dance will be held

after Liliom, from 11 p. m. to 2
a. m., and the admission will be
$2.40 per couple and $1.50 stag.
The chairman is Ann Hinman, head
of decorations is Anne MacIntyre,
and publicity chairman is Julie
Freytag. Tickets may be bought
from the representative in each
hall. They are as follows: Rhoads
North, Emmy Cadwalader; Rhoads
South, Madeline Blount; Rockefel-
ler, Nancy Bolton; Pem West,
Nancy Blackwood; Pem_ East, |
Claire Minton; Denbigh, Betsy
Repenning; Merion, Eleanor Ly-
man; Radnor, Pat Donoho; and



Wyndham, Mary Cluett.




Page Four

THE

COLLEGE NEWS

¢

Wednesday, November 9, 1949



Bard’s Eye View

THE WILLOW TREE

Just about noon last Saturday

I ran down behind Rhoads to see

The President planting a willow
tree.

The sun was yellow, the wind was

free,

Just the day for planting a tree,

But nobody seemed to be there but
me,

Haverford came and said “Don’t
you see

Right down there? That’s our wil-
low tree.

But the President’s off with the
Alumnae.

We brought the spades and we
brought the tree, ‘

But we never told the President,
see,

That. we wanted her help on a

:_... planting spree.”

The sky was blue, and the willow
tree

Kneeled sadly there on its burlap

. knee.

The President dined with the
Alumnae,

And Haverford left for an early tea,

And I couldn’t stay, it was almost | ——

three —

But the sun was yellow, the wind
was free,

It was just the day for planting
a tree.

THE DIET
by Paula Strawhecker, ’52
Goodbye to cake,
Goodbye to cookies,
Goodbye to chocolate
And stomach ache.
Goodbye to sticky buns,
Goodbye to pie,
I’m overweight and therefore I
Am going on a diet.
In six short weeks,
Prepare to see
A new, a sleek,
A slender me.
I shall be firm
And answer no
When offered pastries light as
snow.
I’m going on a diet.
I'll play the bunny,
Eat my greens
And dish my dinner
From soup tureens;
Oh, just a minute,
The Hearth you say?
I do believe I’ll wait a day,
And then begin my diet.



NEWS Files Reveal Alumnae Wit
As Sub-Freshman Roams Campus

In deference to the Alumnae
Weekend just past, we feel the
college should be supplied with
samples of what the alumnae

thought and wrote in their day. |:

While Philosophy Professor Ethel
Sabin was being walled up forever
in her office in the. Library, sen-
iors were being allowed, de nou-
veau, to walk for credit in the Gym
Department and to go to the
theatre, though not the gpera, un-
escorted, the NEWS was spouting
on topics of univerSal and electric
interest in 1918:
On Campus Guiding

“That is the owl-gate, Little
Rachel,” said Aunt Desdemona as
they drew near the campus, It was
one o’clock, and an atmosphere of
feverish unrest lay over the col-
lege.

“I suppose those are the owls,”
rejoined Little Rachel, who was
slightly near-sighted. She was
watching the figures flying with
kaleidoscopic rapidity from one

The Observer

Continued from Page 3

And yet —

I know where there will always
be three people singing under the
stairs and —

I know where there will always
be another and myself in the spring
on a white porch with green
branches and a gentle wind blow-
ing memories that we have never
had and hopes we have made up
into dreams, — dreams.

And I know that whomever we
may go to next will never know,
for them it will never exist, this
hour, this blessed hour in this
room, where you are singing be-
tween snatches of whatever it is
we are doing and you are being in-
tent and you are being vague and
you, your face is hidden by this
swinging lampshade, but you are
saying something so like you.

It is these things that I really
know. Let the curtain go up—let
the bright lights be upon us—let
us separate. For I lead three lives
now and this last, this dearest, will
continue to be, known to a few,
known to each other, for ever and
ever.





-Rake’s Progress

From Woman

To Winecup to Purpling Pansies

—a patchwork melodrama—

Enter Rake and Chorus.

Chorus: There’s many a gilded
saloon, my boy, and many a si-
ren song to lure you away from
the right, my boy, as you jour-
ney iife’s path along.

Enter Girl in pensive thought.

Girl: My soul in silence and in
tears has cherish’d now for
many yearg a love for one who
does not know the tho’ts that in
my bosom glow. Oh! cease, my
heart, thy throbbing hide. An-
other soon will be his bride. I
know my cheek is paler now, and
smiles no longer deck my brow.

*Tis youth’s decay, ‘twill soon |-

begin to tell the tho’ts that
dwell within,

Rake (in attitude of admiration):
Only say, you’ll have Mr. Bral-
laghan. Don’t say nay, charm-
ing Judy Callaghan. (Tugs at
her sleeve). O list to what [
say. Charms you’ve got like
Venus. Own your love you may.
There’s not even a wall between
us. I’ve got the ring to wed,
some whiskey to make us gaily,
a mattress, a feather bed, and a
handsome new shellelah.

Chorus (tugs at other sleeve): Lis-
ten to the gypsy’s warning. Gen-
tle lady, trust him not.

Girl (musing): He twin’d with
care the virgin wreath and smil’d
if I approv’d, but tho’ he laid it
at my feet, he never said he
lov’d.

Rake (agitated): O why did she









flatter my boyish pride? She’s
going to leave me now.

Chorus (agitated): Lady, in- that
green grave yonder, lies the
gypsy’s only child.

Exit Girl. Enter Another Girl.

Rake (bitterly):-Gaze on the storm
cloud and flee. (They embrace.
His manly whisker sweeps her
cheek, She utters no reply.
Years pass,

Chorus: O ’twas rum that spoil’d

‘my darling, rum enthron’d but
to destroy.

Wife: Tho’ the winecup may be

tempting and your friends are

full of glee, don’t drink tonight,
my boy.

Exit Rake. Enter Child.

Wife: O my God, he’s gone and
left me, with a curse upon his
lips!

Child: Why does he leave us to-
night all alone? Why from
strong drink will he not refrain?

Wife: All he craves is rum, more
rum,

Chorus: Hear the sweet voice of
the child, which the night winds
repeat as they roam.

Child: Please, father, dear father,
come home.

Wife and Child lie down and die.

Chorus: Hear the tread of heavy
footsteps. Hear that rap upon
the door. They have bro’t her
home her husband. There he lies
upon the floor. Now tell him
gently she is gone, and apeek of

_heav’n, and smile.

Continued on Page 5





side of the arch to the other.

“No, indeed. It is the hash. They
are students, bearing down upon
their prey.”

“It must be the rush hour,”
Little Rachel.

“It is, but when you are older |.
you will learn that the rush hour
is not so vital in Rockefeller as the
wash hours,” replied/ her aunt, as
they passed up the campus.

“How can you tell where Rocke-
feller ends and Pembroke begins?”
queried Little Rachel.

“The air is the chief distinction,”
was the answer.

“Denbigh on your right is com-
fortable and homelike,’ continued
Aunt Desdemona. “A cross section
would show you the rabbit hutch,
the chicken coop, and the fiction
library.”

Little Rachel looked curious, but
she was too well-bred to interrupt.

“Llysyfran, seen from the rear
elevation of Denbigh,” went on
her aunt, “is a transient house. By
the way, it is called the duplex
apartment, because its government
is a dual monarchy.”

“The next building, bristling
with gables, reminds me of war-
like Heorot,” said Little Rachel,
who. planned to take Anglo-Saxon
for her second science.

“You are right, only it is war-
like Merion,” replied Aunt Des-
demona. “The next is Radnor. The
rooms there are almost totally un-
used, except the dining room. The
affections of the natives have been
alienated to the Library.”

“Yet it seems attractive,” said
Little Rachel.

“The outside of the halls we have
just viewed,” said her aunt, “is en-
tertaining, but the inside is in-
structive.”

*

On Health

Every student should feel her-
self under obligation to take every
precaution against® influenza. The
NEWS Board of Health has sug-
gested the following:

Do not get cold feet about your
orals. Wear rubbers in the bath-
room.

Avoid. crowds and go to Chapel.

Keep the home fires burning: re-
member the thermostat and the
hairpin.

Get plenty of sleep and attend
lectures regularly.

Even though your feelings may
be too. deep for words, refrain
from kissing except when wearing
gas masks.

Play hockey every afternoon:
remember that you get as much
exercise on the fifth team as on
Varsity, particularly if you play
goal.

Be up and coming about your
setting up exercises. Don’t be |
slacker in the health army.

SPORTS

Continued from Page 3

said

* *

tor, 2-0, they had the advantage

of being stimulated and not too
mindful of what or who was in
the way. °

The Odds and Evens teams were

finally chosen last week, and the |

match was held on Tuesday, Nov-
ember 1. After quite an exciting
game, and lusty choruses of the

well-loved Odds and Evens songs |,

the Odds finished victorious by the
score of 2-0,





Flowers
for the

Undergrad Dance

from
JEANETT’S











NEWS Cues

Theatre

Locust: 1411. Locust St.

Signor Chicago, Guy Kibbee.
Two weeks starting Monday.

Walnut: 9th and Walnut. |

The Man Who Came to Dinner,
Monty Woolley. Two weeks start-
ing Monday.

Shubert: 250 South Broad.

A Night in Spain, (Cabalgata on
Broadway). A musical review.

: Music

Thurs., Nov. 10:

Sadler’s Wells Ballet; Academy
of Music, Broad and Walnut, 8:30
P. M.

Fri., Nov. 11:

Sadler’s Wells Ballet; Academy
of Music, 8:30 P. M.

Philadelphia Orchestra; Acad-
emy of Music; Ormandy conduct-
ing; All-Tschaikovsky program,
2:30 P. M.

Agi Jambor; Lecture-recital;
Philadelphia Musical Academy,
1617 Spruce St., 8:30 P. M.

Sat., Nov. 12:

‘Philadelphia Orchestra; Acad-
emy of Music; Ormandy conduct-
ing; All-Tschaikovsky program,
8:30 P. M.

Tues., Nov. 15

American Opera Company; Aca-
demy of Music; Verdi’s La Trav-
iata.

Wed., Nov. 16:

Philadelphia Orchestra; Acad-
emy of Music; Fiftieth Anniver-
sary Concert; Ormandy conduct-
ing; William Kapell, piano; Gold-

mark, Beethoven, Tschaikowsky,
Weber, Wagner.
MOVIES

Bryn Mawr Theatre

Thur. The Spoilers, Marlene Die-
trich, John Wayne.

Fri. and Sat. In the Good Old
Summer Time, Van Johnson, Judy
Garland.

Sun. and Mon., The Green Prom-
ise, Stage Coach.

Tues. and Wed., Madame Bov-
ary.

Suburban Theatre

Starting Fri. and continuing
through the next week, Anna Lu-
easta.

Ardmore Theatre
Thur. through Sat., The Big
Steal.

Sun., Mon., Tues., Black Magic.



LAST ‘NIGHTERS

Continued from Page 3

rake is shown ending his days in
a cell for the mentally diseased.
The only value of this pantomine’
lies in the scene design and the
blocking of characters, not in the.
actual dancing. “Hamlet” is an-
other attempt to translate a litér-
ary idea into the medium of the:
ballet. It is danced, or rather walk-
ed, in bare feet and empire-waisted.
gowns, a most suitable way to
hide the motion of the body. In--
stead of being achieved by rhythm
and movement, dramatic effect is.
forced through by macabre light-
ing and agonized expressions. In
these two numbers the British at-
tempt at intellectualizing the dance:
resulted in not much more than
pantomine.

But itis adequate pantomine,,
better in its own way than the at-
tempt at the modern classical style,,
such as “Symphonic Variations”.
This Pas de Six on a Cesar Franck
theme is made awkward by its lack
of balance — most of the steps.
are executed by one male dancer
and three ballerinas. It tried to
recapture the mathematical pre--
cision of classical ballet but lacked
its grace and true beauty of line.
Even Margot Fonteyn did not re-
trieve it by her excellent dancing.

“Facade” is a blithe piece, the
least pretentious and choreograph-.
ically the most original of these
four new numbers. Set to William
Walton’s witty music, it contains
a soft shoe-dance, a cow-milking
pantomine, and a Scotch jig. In it
Robert MHelpmann, choreogra-
pher of all four of the so-called
ballets mentioned, shows a fine
sense of comedy, if not of the
dance. “Facade” is an excellent
variety show.

That is why the true talline .
manes might well be distressed
nowadays — the most talked-about
dance events of a New York sea-
son show little of the true essence
of ballet. Sadler’s Wells has ex-
cellent cancers and a lavish pro-
duction. But its recent innovations
are disappointing; they lack the
freshness of such modérn® Ameri-
ean ballets as “Fancy Free”, and
the beauty of other English chore-
ography, such as Anthony Tudor’s.
Let us hope that during their stay
in. Philadelphia the Sadler’s Wells’
Company will recapture the grace
of what was once, and may yet.
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Rummy Rake Progresses

Leering to Sinful Grave
Continued from Page 3
Rake (weakly): O my poor Nellie

Grey! They have taken you
away!
Chorus: Hush, hush! she only

sleeps. She’ll wake again tomor-
row.

Rake (delirious): Johnny Jaspar!
don’t you know me—your old
playmate? Look once more! I
am wifeless, childless, homeless.
Help me, hear my piteous tale!

Chorus: No indeed. I pay my tax-
es. Seek the workhouse or the
jail.

Rake, lies down and dies.

Chorus: After death there is re-

lief! May the grass grow green
above you! May. sweet clover
‘round your tomb ‘and bright
purpling pansies ’bove you blos-
som with a rich perfume!



Alumnae Sen Duties
Of Organization Heads

Continued from Page 1

are capable are invited to do hon-
ors, and they do the work with
their post-graduate careers. in
mind. After independent research
and conferences with their profes-
sors, they complete their honors
‘long papers.”

All students, whether or not
they are doing honors, have com-
prehensive conferences with the
professors in their major depart-
ments, to prepare for the final ex-
aminations.

Dr. Chew, professor of English,
next pointed out that a mind for
detail and concentrated interest of
the student are important factors
in determining whether the stud-
ent is invited to do honors.

Dr. Watson, of the Geology de-
partment, discussed the amount of
time spent in honors work: ten
hours a week, with five spent on
research. He also announced an
innovation in the Geology depart-
ment, the formation of the “Junior
Journal Club.”

Dr. Watson rounded out the
day’s discussion by describing
what he considered the three main
factors in education: (a) a good
teacher, one who inspires the stud-
ent, (2) a good student, who ;s
really interested and works hard,
and (3) a good environment, ii
which the student and teacher may
meet and work together.

Heads of Organizations

Speak on Innovations
The presidents of the five major

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by Nina Cave, ’50
Last August I went to the Isle
of Skye. Nobody we’d met in Eng-
land had ever been there and most
of the people we talked to about
it thought we were crazy, except

‘|for one Scottish musician we met

in Glasgow the night before we
left. But all warnings of the hard
trip, midges and other evils were
overcome by our romantic deter-
mination, based on a Jacobite love-
story and a J. Arthur Rank pro-
duction.

We left Glasgow at five o’clock
a. m. in a train that was to take
us up the western coast of Scot-
land to Mallaig. The Queen was
to open the Scottish Industries Ex-
hibition at eleven and the flags and
bunting were grey and dripping
wet in the heavy smog. The sta-
tion was dark and we dragged our-
selves into a second class carriage
pulled coats and Tyrolean capes,
over us, wishing we’d never heard

| of Skye.

For the next five hours we slept,
opening an eye to see the sun rise
over Loch Lomond. At ten o’clock
the scene changed. We stopped at
a small village near Oban and a
group of workers boarded the
train and we heard “the” Gaelic
for the first time. It is a lilting
and beautiful language and im-
possible to explain to someone
who has never heard it. The peo-
ple still speak it in the North of
Scotland and in the Hebrides when
they are in the family or among
friends.

The hills were very dark and
much rockier the further North
we went. One of the women in our
carriage, who had a son called
Curdy (this really looked like
Princess and the Goblin country)
obligingly nudged when we reach-
ed Ben Nevis, the highest peak in
Scotland, and showed us the bit
of snow on its top.

The steamer sailed from Mal-
laig at noon and the dock was a
mass of long-socked Scottish legs,
bicycles, walking sticks, and dogs.
There were some wonderful peo-
ple on the trip; a fat cockney ’fam-
ily from London; an Austrian

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

artist with beret, canvases, and a
“companion”; and a bored Cali-
fornian, with suede shoes and dark
glasses,

The Cuillins (or Coolin Hills),
which may have gotten their name
from the legendary Irish hero
Cuchulain, form the central moun-
tain of the island. They are not
very high, but they are very rocky
and from the distance they look
smooth rounded, rather like the
strange mountains in the end of
the world sequence in the movie
Fantasia. As we chugged towards
Portree, the capital, the water
around us was very blue, the air
soft, but the Cuillings looked cold
and evil in the eery northern at-
mosphere.

We reached Portree at 6 and
drove over a narrow dirt road to
the west end of the island. We
stayed at a large croft right on
the Minch. The next 24 hours were
wonderful; we ate trifles with salty
whipped cream, lamb with onions
and homemade donuts. The next
day we were rowed across a loch in
a heavy sea and then climbed up a
little hill to the tweedmaker’s
house. Her name was Mrs. Martin
and she gave us ‘warm milk and
cookies and told us about the time
she was presented to the King and
Queen as the representative of the
tweedmakers of Skye.

The people on the island were
friendly, and kind. The Campbells,
our hosts, helped us to find patches
of lucky white heather and told
us stories of drinking and the
island chieftans. Skye was the
battle ground between the Mac-
Leods of the north and the Mac-
Donalds of the south and there are
many savage stories about their
quarrels. Mr. Campbell took us
over to the MacLeod’s castle, Dun-
wegeen, the one evening that we
were there. We crept in quietly and
saw “the fairy flag” which has
brought good luck twice to the
MacLeods.

The musician we met in Glasow
the night before we left told us
that once you’ve been in Skye you
can never put it away, and it’s
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Pleasant Phrases from Eighteenth Century
Offer Italian Instruction for Future Orals

Continued from Page 3

Don’t be surprised if I tell ya
I’m learning English.

@n what days of the week do ye
learn?

On Mondays, Wednesdays, and
Fridays; sometimes on Tuesdays.
Thursdays, and Saturdays; but my
master told me this morning that
from henceforward -I must go to
school every day, not even Sun-
days and Holydays excepted.

Vocabulary

The Chamber Pot

The Kings’ Evil

A Swimming of the Head, or
Giddiness

A Belch

I'm~all--over-in--a-sweat
The Wines will be good and cheap
this year

Garlick

A Cramp-Fish

Cambrick Ruffles.

Non vi maravigliatese di dico,
che impare la lingua Inglese.

In quali giorni della settiman
imparate ?

I lunedi, mercoledi, e venerdi,
alle volte i martedi, giovedi, e sab-
bati; ma il mio Maestra m’ha det-
to stammatino che da qui avanti
io debbo, andare a Squola ogni
giorno, non eccetuate neppure la
domeniche e le feste.

Vocabolario

L’Orinale
’ La Scrofola

Un Giramento di Testaio Verh-
gine

Un Rutto

Sono-in--un..lago..di. sudore

1 Vini saranno bueni e a buon
mecato questi anno

Aglio :

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Suetse Li Discusses
Illiteracy of China
Continued from Page 1

ical, o social work.

Teaching in elementary and sec-
ondary schools has been and still
is about the most common profes-
sion for women who do take up a
career. Because there are so few
universities in the country and
there is such a keen competition
with men professors, the women
seldom have the chance to teach
more advanced students.

It_is my sincere wish that the
government will adopt a system
whereby educated women will be
given the chance of contributing
their efforts in increasing the num-
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|Miss Mongan Invited

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Continued from Page 1

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Fulbright Grant which would make
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regretfully decided that her time
was valuable and that our conver-
sation should really end, we were
about to say good-bye, when Miss
Mongan said “Will you please,
please put one thing in for me?
Please say how overwhelmed I
was by Dr. Sloane’s introduction.
I couldn’t think of a thing to say
at the time, but I do want to say
what a pleasure it was to come
and speak to such an audience.”
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Page Six



THE COLLEGE NEWS.



Wednesday, November 9, 1949



Recent Changes In College Life Explained
To Alumnae By Presidents, Faculty, Students

Continued from Page 5

college organizations spoke to the

the Sunday afternoon session of

Alumnae Weekend, Dr. Geddes

alumnae at Sunday dinner on| MacGregor spoke on the new pro-

“New Occasions- Bring New Du-|gram for
|

ties.” In keeping up with new de-
velopments, the Bryn Mawr girl
has had to discipline herself in a
cooperative, responsible direction.

Nancy Corkran pointed out that
Self-Government has increased the
student’s responsibility to judge
By contact
with other colleges and countries,

,Dixie Greeley said that the student

has had an increased opportunity
to cooperate. Expansion has en-
abled her to have a broader out-
look. Self-Government reflects the
essence of democracy; Undergrad
enables orc to understand its
value.

Andy Newbold described the ef-
forts..of the Athletic Association
to reach the average athlete, by
sponsoring inter-hall and_ class
competition and a hoped-for Sport:
Day in the winter.



teaching religion at

Bryn Mawr. Dr. MacGregor re-

lated the p:ogram of his ‘‘experi-
mental” work in the academic for-
mulation of religion to the report
of the Alumnae Academic Commit-

tee on the need for more religion
at college, a report which was pub-
lished last spring.

Dr. MacGregor’ commented on
“the one percent of alumnae who
considered religion and higher edu-
cation antipodal.” He condemned
this view as dogmatic and directly
opposed to the spirit of liberal ed-
ucation. “If there is agnosticism.
let it be a reverent agnosticism.
That is: the spirit I hope to bring
to..Bryn Mawr.”

Dr. MacGregor went on to dis-
cuss his method of teaching the
course in Philosophy and -Religion,

Suetse Li touch-/@nd read his quiz aloud. As to the

ed on all of the Lezzue’s various | Value of the course, “it is my job

charitable activities. Priscilla
Johnson spoke on the Alliance's
efforts to acquaint the students
with political affairs—by Current
Events, assemblies, and observa-
tions of the city government.

Dr. MacGregor Discusses
Religion in Curriculum

The Deanery, November 6. At

to teach, not to move,” he said; lie
hopes, however, that his teaching
will make his students better able
to deal with religious experience ii
it should come to them later in
life. Dr. MaeGregor finished ap-
propriately with a quote from Ru-
fus Jones: “Our last line of action

note His revelations, to discover
where He has broken .in.”

is to become quick and acute to!

‘Liliom’ In The Making:
A Play Comes To Life

Continued from Page 1

ence. Dangling down above the
stage from nowhere, are a series
of sets, which will come down on
D-day to represent Liliom’s house,
the Carousel, the park (where the
first timid love scene between Julie
and Liliom takes place, only to
be interrupted by two unmanner-
ed policemen). A blank backdrop,
of the most uninspiring pale green,
enhances, by its neutrality, the
| pathos of the scene that is taking
piace in front of it; nevertheless,
let us hope it will be of a different
color by Saturday night.



Director McKinley .paces_ rest-
lessly up and down the auditor-
ium aisle all the while that his
| marionettes function on the stage,
| keeping them always in view. This
| play requires tremendous emotion-
al..concentration,._because®-of—its
tenseness and of the interplay of
personalities, with which it is
chiefly concerned. As Richard Mc-
Kinley said, the players must as-
sume their roles even before com-
ing on stage, so as to be able to
depict their characters the more
fully.

Every now and then, a figure
would sneak across the stage, go-
ing from one side to the other,
and there was lots of activity al-
together going on backstage. Also,
there were a few ‘spectators’ amid
the many rows of empty seats,
‘planning the scenery, light ef-



Morning Assembly
Miss McBride will speak at the
next morning assembly on Wed-
nesday, November 16 at 8:45 in
Goodhart. Her subject will be
“Self-Government.”

Educational Film

The next in the series of educa-
tional films presented every Wed-
nesday afternoon in the Music
Room at 4:15 will be shown on
November 16. Sponsored” by -the
Child Psychology department, the
movie is entitled “This is *Robert,”
and was made by Sarah Lawrence
College.

Movie Preview

Samuel Goldwyn will give a
special advance showing of a new
movie, “My Foolish Heart,” in
Philadelphia. The film is about a
college girl who marsies a soldier
just before Pearl Harbor, and
therefore would be of interest to
college students. Would anyone
who is interested in seeing this
preview please contact Emily
Townsend in Wyndham so that ar-
rangements as to time can be
made?



fects, and costumes. For the com-
ing-to-life of a play is not the
creation of the actors only, but of
all those who work on it, back-
‘stage as well as on stage. Here’s
to the cast and crew of Liliom,
‘and to their dress rehearsal and
opening night presentations!





NOTICES ~

Livestock Exposition
The News has been presented
with two season passes to the In-
ternational Livestock Exposition
in Chicago at the end of Novem-
ber, for one man and one woman.

1 Anyone interested in going please

get in touch with the News.

“Glass for Science”

Next Wednesday evening at 8:30
yp. m. the Science Club will present
a colored movie called ‘Glass for
Science.” It represents the manin-
facture of glass for scientific stud-
ies. A trip through the glass
plant is.taken, showing hand blow-
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all the yérious intricacies of ma.
chine glass construction, in “glor-
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