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VOL. -XEH, NO. 14 ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1948



Student Dramas
Expose Talents,
Provoke Praise

Audience Discussions
Emphasize Merits

Of Dialogue
by Gwynne Williams, ’50

Saturday night Mr. Thon’s Play-
writing and Production class pre-
sented three one-act plays written
and produced by the students them-
selves. Anybody there must have
been impressed by the obvious fun,
enthusiasm and interest that went
into these plays. There should be
more of this sort of activity; one
comes away from such an evenifig
with a creative incentive, but ade-
quate excuse is needed (such as a
class, combined with such excellent
guiding as Mr. Thon’s) to render
the inspiration actual.

Audience Discusses Plays

The plays were each discussed
briefly by the audience. The first,
Less Than An Animal, by Marjorie
Low, ’50, dealt with the depressing
conflict between a sharecropper and
his-wife,--In- this melancholy ex-
hibition a husband, angered by his
wife’s unresponsiveness, plans to
Jesert her and: go off with. his
daughter. The wife, aware of her
husband’s attitude, stirs up her
idiot half-brother’s vague inten-
tions to marry the daughter. The
idiot’s quality of mad possessive-
ness for the girl’s prettiness makes
him putty in the hands of the
scheming mother and presents an
origina] aspect of the play. The
audience expressed the opinion that
the idiot was not entirely credible
and criticized some\smaller details,
such as too many entrances and ex-
its and some repetitiousness. For
what the play was worth, the dia-
logue was well created and pre-
sented, but my impression is that
the author is not adequately versed
in the lot of sharecroppers to write
plays about them.

Scream to the Winds, by Alan
Levensohn, of a more philosophical
nature, deals with the characters

and thoughts of five soldiers await-
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Kuder Pref. Test
Set for Feb. 21

What profession or vocation to
choose? The question of choosing a
vocation will be the main concern
of the Educational Service of the
College during the next few weeks.
On February 21, at 9:30, in Taylor
Hall, Rooms F and G, the Kuder
Preference r gti ill be admin-
istered to . ents who wish to
take it. Miss Bates is now taking

registrations in Taylor Hall, Room
H. Following the administration
of the Preference Record, there will
be a group interpretation of the
results. Mrs. Cox, Director of the
Educational Service, will be avail-
able for individual interpretations
the week after ‘the test. The indi-
vidual interview provides an oppor-
tunity to discuss your own test re-
sults and vocational possibilities.

The Kuder is a standardized psy-
chologicahtest which helps students
identify the vocations which most
nearly fit their individual interests.
According to Mrs. Cox, the test
gives the student an opportunity to
survey briefly nine different voca-
tional areas and to express a pref-

erence for the activities which
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Sleighing, Movie, Pennmen Here:
Take the Big Leap of the Year!

by Irina Nelidow ’50

This. year’s Freshman Show

Weekend (Leap Year into the bar-|.

gain!), promises to be more excit-
ing, more original, and more spec-
tacular than ever before. High-
lighted and climaxed by the Fresh-
man Show itself on Saturday, Feb-
ruary 28, the weekend holds a
store of gay activities that should
keep everyone and her date busy
every minute.

First on the agenda is a movie
on Friday evening in the Music
Room. Noel Coward’s Cavalcade
will be shown at seven-thirty, fol-
lowing which all will adjourn to the
Soda Fountain, due to open at nine
fifteen. The movie will be shown
again on Saturday afternoon at
three o’clock. After this there will
be a brief respite to give every-
one time to prepare for the show.
Then at eight-thirty The Big Leap
will have its world premiere in
Goodhart, and sophomore sleuths
will have ended or given up their
twenty-four hour search.

After the show; more fun will
begin with the Undergraduate
Dance at 11:00 in the gym. Bril-
liant, startling decorations whose
basie-theme~is~ still secret are be-
ing “cooked up” by Gale Minton
and her decorating committee. New
features of the dance include small
card tables placed around the dance
floor which may be reserved ahead
of time and will make it easier for
groups to stick together. Starting
tomorrow, dance cards and table
reservations may be obtained from
eleven to two o’clock in Room A.
Representatives to Ann Eberstadt’s
Dance Committee include: Virginia

Goodhart Dances
Multiply Chances

Saturday night may be the lone-
liest night in the week, but last
Friday, the 18th, was anything
but that for innumerable Denbigh
and Merion girls and more Haver-
ford boys. The first in a series of
dances, in response to a student pe-
tition for more social life on ¢am-
pus, was held in Goodhart. From
most reports the affair was a thor-
ough success and even the NEWS,
intending to put in a brief and
business-like appearance, was
caught in the mood.

Music, supplied by the juke box,
was continuous because of the ten-
cent admission fee. The soda foun-
tain worked overtime, supplying
welcome refreshments. It was a
gala occasion, which served the
purpose for the petition signers. A
similar dance will be held next Fri-
day for the Pembrokes.

Miss Dodd Gives
20 Books to Lib.

The New Book Committee would
like to announce that the books
given by Miss Katherine Dodd in
honor of Lucy Martin Donnelly are
now in the Quita Woodward Me-
morial Room. There are 20 new
books in all with a great variety
of subject matter ranging from
Fine Arts to Novels.

Some of the titles are The Let-
ters of James M. Barrie, edited by
Viola Maynell; Robert Graves’
Poems 1938-1945; Trial of a Poet,
by Karl Shapiro; Butterfield’s The
American Past, A Pictorial History
1775-1945; American Interior Dec-
orating, by Merrick R. Rogers, and
John Steinbeck’s The Pearl.





Graham, Judy Nicely, Nina Cave,
Jeannette Hersey and Jess Vorys.
Music will be provided by the
Pennmen, invited back by popular
demand, and during the intermis-
sion the Nassoons from Princeton
will sing. The Dance Committee
has emphasized the fact that every-
one must come formally dressed
and should go through the receiv-
ing line.

‘More festivities on Sunday! A
sleigh ride in the afternoon will end
up at Valley Green, a hot chocolate
tavern. A lack of snow will mere-
ly turn the sleigh ride into a hay
ride. Four sixteen-seater sleighs
have been hired for the occasion,
and on this note will end the best
Freshman Show Weekend yet.

One last item: the gym will be
open from three-thirty to ‘six on
Sunday afternoon for all those who
feel athletic.

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College,1945

PRICE 10 CENTS



Freshmen to Take

Their “Big Leap”

To Ancient Tomb

What is a bandersnatch? Why
is each member of the Freshman
Class perfecting her game of leap-
frog? What mysterious rites have
been taking place behind the close-
ly guarded doors of Goodhart? The
answers to these and many other
questions will be revealed when The
Big Leap, this year’s Freshman
Show, is presented on February 28.
in Goodhart. Until then the Direc-
tor, Cynnie Schwartz, only smiles
enigmatically. In spite of this veil
of secrecy the news has leaked out
that the Show is not based on a
college theme but concerns the ad-
ventures of three innocent archeol-
ogists stranded in an Egyptian
tomb. Obviously a plot with pos-
sibilities.

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about.

of our own taste—and an
personalities.

grees and methods.

sey Report.

paper.

campus organization made
the Phoenix staff!

to have a free press.



The Free Press

Freedom of the press is something we rarely think
Especially we of the News have come to take
for-granted-what-is actually our privilege, to write about
any issue as we want to, controlled only by the dictates

Last Sunday, however, we went to an
inter-collegiate press conference at Rosemont, where we
were stunned to find that only we and three others of
this entire area had a really free press.
have “supervison”, “control”, “advice”, in varying de-

The matter has come to a head with the suspension
of the Swarthmore Phoenix for an editorial on the Kin-
The editorial, published in a January 16th
issue, rode through the exam period—although even
then a subject of considerable campus discussion—until
the Alumni Association demanded the suspension of the

We have read the editorial.. It is vulgar, flippant,
and disgusting: to write in such a way about an import-
ant and serious report seems to us unforgiveably stupid,
It also seems to us that student opinion would have
forced a public apology from the editors of the Phoenix
—had they not been suspended. Obviously the suspen-
sion by the administration at the request of an extra-

We have never realized before exactly what it means
Certainly we have never seen so
dramatically illustrated before its privileges and its re-
sponsibilities. We are grateful for the insight we were
given into the theory of freedom of the press—and we
are grateful to our own administration that at Bryn
Mawr that theory is also practice.

occasional conflict between

Other colleges

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College Includes
Spiritual Aspect
Says Butterfield

Religious Enterprise
Essential Part

Of Program

Common Room, February 16.
“Religion in College Education” is
a “difficult, delicate subject, to be
faced with courage and concern,”
said Dr. Butterfield, President of
Wesleyan College. The college
must make the best possible plan
for furthering “the spiritual de-
velopment of the student, broadly
considered.” The importance of
the problem arises from the ten-
dency of religion to disappear
from our campuses in the present

-“age of secularism.” Dr. Butter-

field stressed the necessity of relat-
ing “religion in some form or oth-
er& to education in general “be-
cause the growing sense of spirit-
ual uneasiness has made religious
enterprise an attempt to satisfy
the unrest arising from confu-
sion.”

Dr. Butterfield’s discussion was
based upon “a relatively loose def-
inition” of religion; he included in
the term two main facets: “com-
munion with, search for, belief in a
being not ourselves, above and be-
yond us, towards which we reach”
and “values generally, towards
which religious enterprise will
move.” Religious enterprise, thus
conceived, includes both “faith”
and “experience.” “Conceptual no-
tions, which conceive of a_ being
symbolically” supplement and are
supplemented by action and exper-
ience.

Practical Approach —

In addition to the justification of
learning in a liberal college as
“something of supreme value in
its own right,” Dr. Butterfield
pointed out that there is an equal-
ly important justification which
may be termed “practical,” not in a
superficial sense, but rather, “what
Aristotle meant by practical wis-
dom.” In connection with this end
of education, Dr. Butterfield be-
lieves that religion is essential to a
college program. The student must
become, “by virtue of the kind of
learning one gets in the whole lib-
eral program,” a “more highly
sensitized, capable thinker,” with
increased understanding to enable
him to face better the “problems
of his unpredictable future.” To
make this possible, “one of the
burdens of the college is to see
that the mind of the student does



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Calendar

Wednesday, February 18
7:15 —=-Marriage---Lecture,
Common Room.
Thursday, February 19
8:00 — Debate with Muhlen-
berg, Rhoads.
Friday, February 20
8:00 — Debate with Muhlen-
Rhoads.
8:30—Pembroke - Haverford
Dance, Rumpus Room.
Saturday, February 21
9:30—Kuder Preference Test
—Taylor, Room F.
Sunday, February 22
7:30—Chapel, The Rev. Mi-
chael Coleman, Music Room.
Monday, February 23
7:15—Current Events, Miss
Gertrude Ely, Common Room.
8:15—Dr. H.' Richard Nie-
buhr, “Our Responsibility in
the Light of Christian Faith,”
Common Room.









Broughton, Berry, Lattimore
Fell the Grads, Pile up the Score

by Cecelia Maccabe ’50

The basketball game between
faculty and graduate students was
given the first suggestion of the
unorthodox with posters “plug-
ging” the faculty team. The first
to strike our attention was “Martis
40c, with olives 45c,” and this made
a lasting impression upon us when
Miss Marti failed to put in an ap-
pearance. The sign asking “Have
you Broughton your first aid kit?”
reassured all spectators that the
casual gentleman in slacks who
gallantly stopped to pick up each
of his student victims was none
other than our own classicist.

One very ‘young’ gentleman,
whose name we think is Jim, com-



pletely ignored the poster com-
manding “Do not feed or in any
way annoy the faculty.” At reg-
ular intervals as this spectator pro-
ceeded to slide through the railing
of the track, ecstatically watching
his scientist father boost the fac-
ulty score, he was heard to shout
“Daddy—Daddy. Hey, Pop!” Oth-
er than the score, 53-16, in favor
of the faculty, there were no major
catastrophies. Several grad stu-
dents were felled by strong blows
in the course of the game, but since
each managed to pick herself up

before her guard or guarded, rush-
ing valiantly to her side, could be

of service, we presume nothing se-
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