College news, November 17, 1948

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VOL. XLV, NO. 8

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1948

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College,1945

PRICE 15 CENTS



“Earnest” Combines Precision, Ability
In Excellent, Stylized Performance



Act Ill: (left to right) Harriet Morse, Sot BLEcKER, LEE
Harinc, CYNTHIA SCHWARTZ, SUSANNE HENDERSON.

Haring, Henderson Mix
Realism and Comedy
In Performance

by Melanie Hewitt °50

The combined. Haverford - Bryn
Mawr preduction of Oscar Wilde’s
The Importance of Being Earnest.
which took place in Goodhart Fri-
day and Saturday nights, compar-
ed favorably with Gielgud’s pro-
duction of 1946-47. It was an am-
bitious choice for a college cast as
it demands great precision, pace,
and a professional understanding
of comic —effect.__However, Mr.
Thon did a remarkable job of di-
recting and the result was an un-
mistakeably finished effect, which
would have been enhanced had the
actors remembered more often to
wait for laughs.

In general the cast was excellent
and thee were several instances of
really o@tstanding acting, notably
by Sol Blecker, Lee Haring, Cyn-
thia Schwartz and Suzanne Hen-
derson. Sol Blecker as Algernon
Moncrieff who, in our opinion, stole
the show, displayed remarkable
stage presence, and, despite the ar-
tificial British accent, gave all his
lines full value, showing a fine

Continued on Page 6





USF to Combine

Seven Charities

In Single Drive

' The United Service Fund drive
will start Thursday, November 18.
This drive includes all the charities
which the students would be asked
to contribute to during the year.
The minimum donation hoped for
from each student is $1.50 per Pay
Day, and anything over this
amount will certainly not be re-
fused. USF includes the following
charities: Community Chest, Red
Cross, Care, World Students Serv-
ice Fund, Care (for children), and
the United Negro College Fund,
which helps the 32 negro colleges
in America. The amount which each
charity will receive has been work-
ed out in terms of percentages,
which will be Community Chest,
18.3%, Red Cross 18.38%, Care,
15.3%, WSSF, 15.8%, Care (for
children) 9.1%, and the United
Negro College, 7.3%. This leaves a
reserve fund of 16.3% which will
be used for charities which have
not as yet sent in appeals, and
Continued on page 5



Flashing Sambas at Fall Dance
Inspired by Brazilian Silhouettes

By Claire Liachowitz, °52

After a cross-campus hike last
Saturday from Goodhart’s The Im-
portance of Being Earnest, form-
ally clad Bryn Mawr girls-and-their
beaux poured into the Gym to the
year’s first Undergrad Dance.

Still shivering from the very
much November weather, the sec-
ond nighters found no warmth to
spare in the Gym, which resembled
at the time a very frigid Rio.

The cordial members of the re-
ceiving line soon helped to defrost

red ‘and yellow decorations with
Brazilian hats and blankets inter-
spersed, plus the low lying smoke
from the generously distributed
Chesterfields, made the whole affair
a cozy one. Chattering groups
gathered at the tables which sur-
rounded the dance andthe,
photographer’s flash bulb blinked
incessantly. The dance was one of

100

at Bryn Mawr in a long time.

One of the brightest spots of the
evening featured Haverford’s octet,
and Bryn Mawr’s octet (minus
one). The carefully arranged boys
and girls on the floor listened with
delight to the singing groups, and
enthusiastically applauded them
both back for encores.

The Brazilian silhouettes and the
palm trees outlined on the gym
walls really inspired Larry Miller’s
orchestra to play many rhumbas
and sambas. To the alumnae view-
ing the proceedings from the bal-
cony, the samba-ers must have pre-
sented a hilarious picture. _

For the hungry, the room ad-
joining the gym held well-filled
bowls of foamy punch and pretzel
sticks.

The dance officially ended at two
+sion gave the revelers an additional
hour and a half to make merry—
and up to the final minute the



the brightest, electrically speaking,

weary dancers straggled in.

o’clock, but a three-thirty permis-

By Jane Augustine, ’52

A collection of eight paintings
by contemporary American artists
has been given to Bryn Mawr Col-
lege by Mr. and Mrs. Roy R. Neu-
berger of New York City. The
paintings are now hanging in the
basement corridor, Goodhart Hall,
outside the music department
offices.

Suzy Frelinghuysen’s Composi-
tion is a superb example of disci-
pline in abstract art. The inter-
weaving of forms and colors, which
is essential to abstract paint-
ing, is very well planned
here. The _ juxtaposition of
blacks, greyed blues, and clear
blues is particularly pleasing, and

Marcuse Traces
Hegel’s Influence

On Mod. Dialectic

Goodhart, November 16—Mr. Her-
bert Marcuse gave the sixth de
Laguna lecture on the Origin and
Principles of Modern Dialectical
Philosophy. He interpreted Helgel’s
dialectic method as being directed
against the “optimistic” tendencies
of traditional Western thought and
pointed out that its character is
divergent and opposite from that
of Marx, which however, “unfolds
the full critical import’ of the
Hegelian system. He went on to
show possible discrepancy in Marx’s
solution.

Western thought, said Mr. Mar-
cuse, is based on Aristotelian prin-
ciples and is directed in a rational,
abstract way towards a contradic-
tion-free system. Hegel, aware of
the contradictory nature of reality,
accuses the system of not corre-
sponding to reality and attempts to
“provide conceptual instruments
capable of comprehending and ex-
plaining reality.” He is guided by
two principles: (1) that the world
is a negative totality—that is,
everything is the object of integra-
tion of contradictory forces, and
(2) that the world is a historical
totality. These two principles in-
validate the Aristotelian principles
of contradiction and identity, since
every object falls into conditions
which are its negation and oppos-
ite. Hegel uses “the family” as an
illustration of this “triadic” scheme
—the negation of a negation re-
sulting in an affirmation. The pri-
vate interest of the family is neg-
ated by its consolidation as a social
institution and re-negated as the
social “mechanisms” to which it is

Continued on page 5



Calendar
Wednesday, November 17°
4:00 p.m. Social Economy Mov-
ie, “The Child and Society”

4:30 p.m. Rockefeller Hall Tea

7:15 p.m. Religious Discussion,
Common Room

Thursday, November 18

4:00 p.m. Vocational Commit-
tee Tea, “Jobs Abroad,”
Common ‘Room

8:30 p.m. Science Club, A. S.
Besicovitch, “The Measure
of the Assymetry of

Curves,” Dalton

Sunday, November 21

7.30 p.m. Chapel, Dr. Howard
‘Thurman, Music Hall

Monday, November 22

+7T:15 p.m. Current Events.
Czechoslovakia

Wednesday, November 24

Thanksgiving Vacation begins













Striking Mediums, Colors Viewed
In Display of Modern Paintings

she gives greater variety to the
composition by using collage for
the striped areas. Most striking is
her signature, a large block F in
the lower right hand corner, which
is essential to the balance of
the painting. In daily life Miss
Frelinghuysen is Suzy Morris, the
wife of George L. K. Morris, also
a prominent artist.

Rich Colors

Milton Avery’s Young Artist
Standing, a painting of his daugh-
ter, March Avery, is not so im-
mediately appealing as Miss Fre-
linghuysen’s work. It has a very
crude, unfinished appearance, and
lacks a third dimension. Its effect-
iveness lies in the amazing choice
of colors—bright and murky greens
opposed by shades of red-brown
and wine-red. Avery is a very pro-
lific painter; he paints rapidly and
his pictures look almost as if he
were called away from the canvas
before he had finished. Since the
flat design and the crudeness of
outline in his painting are: so diffi-
cult to get used to, his use of color
remains the strongest point in his
favor.

. The most unusual quality of John
Heliker’s still life, Fish, is the
curious tipped-up angle at which
he places the table with the dead
trout on it. Heliker is studying
abroad at present with the aid of
a Prix de Rome.

Stevens Painting

Woman with a Mask by Edward
John Stevens depends largely up-
on its textural effect, though the
subtle use of the primary colors is
also important. The medium is
gouache, an—opaque water color,
and the texture is achieved by
scratching parallel lines in the
paint. Stevens is only twenty-seven



' Payday Bills

Payday bills should be made
out in the following manner:
(1). List in alphabetical order
the names of people to be billed;
(2) List individual sums as well
as total of the individual bills;
(3) List the name of the per-
son to whom the check should be
made out and the place where
the check should be sent. If bills
are not made out in this man-
ner, they will have to be re-
submitted in the proper form
before they will be put on pay-
day.







years old, lives in New Jersey, and
has developed this highly original
technique completely on his own.

Romare Bearden’s Madonna and
Child is a much more extreme ab-
stract painting than Miss Freling-
huysen’s. The interweaving of the
predominant shades of violet and
the subordinate shades of green
and blue is very complex, but is
handled with superior artistic in-
telligence. The use of heavy black
line is excellent. Bearden is a
thirty-year-old negro who now has
a series of water colors inspired by
the Ilidd hanging in the Niveau
Gallery in New York.

David Aronson has also taken a
Biblical subject and treated it en-
tirely differently in his The Young
Christ Disputing with the Doctors.
The very brilliant yellow of the
faces is a result of a medium call-
ed encaustic, which is pigment
mixed with beeswax. The black

shadow next to the bright yellow,

is dramatic lighting against a dull

ochre background. The strange

conspicuous hands are character-
Continued on Page 4



Dr. E. Panofsky
Relates Poussin
To Elegiac Art

Goodhart, Novemliser 15th, Mon-
day evening, Professor Erwin Pan-
ofsky, of the Princeton Institute
for Advanced Study, read a paper
entitled “Et in Arcadia Ego: Pous-
sin and the Elegiac Tradition.” Dr.
Panofsky gave particular atten-
tion to the origin of the Arcadian
symbol, the development of its ap-
plication as such to fine art, and
the meaning and connotations of
the tag itself, “Et in Arcadia ego.”

It was Vergil, declared Dr. Pan-
ofsky, who first transformed the
“poor, bare, rocky, chilly country”
of the actual Arcady into the land
of the “all-pervading sound of
flutes,” by synthesizing the natural
charms of the Sicilian landscape,
with the mythical music-loving
characteristics of the Arcadian in-
habitants. “He transformed two
realities into one Utopia ... myth-
ical truth into elegiac sentiment,”
said Dr. Panofsky.

Tomb of Daphnis

The tomb of Daphnis in Vergil’s
fifth eclogue, continued Dr. Pan-
ofsky, was the first introduction
of the theme of death into the Ar-
cadian atmosphere of innocence
and delight. This theme was later

Continued on page 6

Three Speakers
Discuss Campus

Religious Needs

The new department of philoso-
phy and religion was the topic con-
sidered by the alumnae Saturday
morning, November 13. Dr. Nahm,
Mrs. Michels, and Elizabeth Mutch,
50, presented different phases \ of
the question.

Dr. Nahm emphasized the -fact
that “the task is not the inculca-
tion of religious faith and conform-
ity,’’ but, instead, the idea that re-
ligion and philosophy are inter-
dependent and should not be de-
partmentalized. Furthermore, he
pointed out, it is extremely improb-
able that a student, after taking
the required philosophy course,
would passively accept any doc-
trines presented. It is hoped, how-
ever, that, through these courses,
students will realize that “the
world can be ordered in purposive
terms”—that a mechanistic explan-
ation of the universe is wnsatis-
factory.

Mrs. Michels Speaks

The next speaker, Mrs. Michels,
stated that religion, per se, cannot
be taught, but that it is possible to
analyze and appreciate religious
experience. Deploring the lack of
knowledge of even basic religious
ideas, knowledge which is impor-
tant in the study of almost any
subject, Mrs. Michels warned the
audience that “intellectual freedom
cannot be safeguarded by ignor-
ance.”

Presenting the ideas of the stud-
ents, Betty Mutch admitted that
there was small attendance at Sun-
day evening and Wednesday morn-
ing services, but said that this was
partly due to the lack of an ade-
quate chapel. The discussions on re-
ligion draw a larger crowd, indicat-
ing a need for formal courses on
religion. Miss Mutch felt that
“from the point of view of those
sincerely interested, religious life
on campus has been seriously neg-
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Bryn Mawr and Music

During the past few years there has been an ever in-
creasing demand for more opportunity for creative expres-
sion on the campus. We hailed Arts Night as a means to
achieving that end; we have agitated for a music major. In
the face of these facts, it seems incongruous that to date no
musical presentation on Goodhart stage has been a financial
success.

Guest artists have been invited by the college to bring
their music to the campus where for “popular prices” stud-

_ ents might have an opportunity of hearing them. Somehow

there has not been an audience sufficiently large to make
these concerts worthwhile. Even the.Bryn Mawr-Penn con-
cert last spring was a total failure, financially speaking.

Bryn Mawr certainly likes good music. Wandering
through the halls, we hear record concert after record con-
cert; the record library is thriving. Therefore no reason for
not attending a professional performance in Goodhart seems
logical.

We would like to suggest that the College plan another
concert and that all of us show by our attendance at that per-
formance that music is indeed important to us.

The Vocational Committee

Tomorrow afternoon, the Vocational Committee will have

a tea and a discussion of Jobs Abroad. Many of us have too| ef

long ignored the valuable functions of these meetings and the
committee which sponsors them.

The Vocational Committee -has~-not “always” existed” on |

campus, nor has it ever been a part of the Bureau of Recom-
mendations. The two work together; they are in some meas-
sure dependent on one another; but their functions are clear-
ly and separately defined.

The Bureau of Recommendations handles all recommen-
dations coming from the college on behalf of alumnae and
students seeking employment, and it lists available jobs.
Since the Bureau must list those jobs most appealing to the
interests of the students, a direct link between .it and the
students was initiated in the form of the Vocational Commit-
tee. This committee therefore functions primarily as the
voice of student ambitions after college. It encourages and
specifies our present career leanings, while the Bureau of

- Recommendations helps us in our job hunting later. This en-

couragement is furnished by the Vocational. Committee—in



the form of speakers such as those we shall hear tomorrow

_ —speople already successfully pursuing careers in which we

a oe

have indicated our interest on annual polls.

Regional Meeting
Of NSA Delegates

Held at Temple U.

Temple University was host to
over one hundred delegates to the
meeting of the Eastern Sub- Region
of the Pennsylvania Region of the
National Students Association on
November 13. From Bryn Mawr,
Ann Seideman (chairman of the
Student Government workshop)
and Marian Edwards were dele-
gates, Blaikie Forsyth and Mar-
garet Carlson, alternates, and
Helen Woodward, Ann Rosewell
Johns, and Joanna Semel, observ-
ers.

Workshop Results

Following a plenary. session ad-
dressed by the past national officer
Ralph Dungan, the delegates dis-
persed to the various workshops
to formulate plans and committees
for area work. Results were sub-
mitted in reports to the afternoon
plenary session and the general
program for the _ sub-regional
schools in Pennsylvania has now
been set-up.

Ann Seideman, head of the Stud-
net Government clinic which is held
at Bryn Mawr, reported on the
Student Government workshop de-
cision to plan a conference of stud-
ent government officers to discuss
specific problems, to eliminate the
failure of many students to realize
their own social resposibility, and
to plan a method of orientation in
structure and functions of Student
Government to be presented to
Freshmen each year and upper-
classmen too. She also stressed the
importance of a good faculty mem-
ber assigned as Dean of Student
Activities.

Purchase Cards

The Purchase Card Committee
decided to establish a Purchase
Card Area Committee for the east-
ern sub-region which will control
all cards that students will buy for
one dollar and which will entitle
them to discounts at stores in the
Philadelphia area.

From the Culturale workshop
came the announcements that the
first Seminar will be held at the
University of Pennsylvania on
November 20. The National Art
exhibit now touring the country is

now at Temple. A report on the’

Symphony Forum plan told of the



Engagement
Lillian B. Wheeler to Sanford
C. Plumb.



seat discount for college students
which will go into effect soon. April
29 and 30 are the dates for the
Spring Culturale whose auditorium
has not yet been decided upon.

The chief decision of the work-
shop on International Affairs was
to carry on next summer a project
like M.I.T project last summer, in
which foreign students would study
at an American University. in this
area. It would be an attempt to
ve ‘these students an idea of
American life as well as academic
training.

Activitiy.in Colleges ~

The Domestic Affairs group
established committees on student
cooperatives, student petty loan
funds, faculty rating polls on
campus, speakers’ bureau on hu-
man relations, and resolved to sup-
port the continuance of academic
freedom, tempered by proper re-
spect in this area.

The Workshop Analysis group
devoted itself to a criticism of pres-
ent conditions — and attempted to
theoretically find an improvement.
The group recommended limita-
tion of topics, discussion only of
most important items, and a pre-
convention agenda.

Sixteen colleges sent representa-
tives to this regional. meeting —
which was followed by a univer-
sity-sponsored dance with special

rere |



| entertainment. .

Current Events

Common Room, November 15 —
Speaking on “Western Union and
the British Commonwealth,” Miss
Caroline Robbins discussed the re-
cent meeting of the British domin-
‘ions in the Commonwealth Confer-
ence of October, which was con-
cerned primarily with the problem
of the relation of the Common-
wealth to the project of “Western
Union.”

Miss Robbins quoted the London
Times in saying that the meeting
of the dominion representatives was
“unexpectedly cordial.” And, she
added, they were “unexpectedly in
agreement as to what they wanted
in a peaceful world, and seemed
prepared to make certain sacrifices
for it.” The Dominions proved to
be united in recommending cooper-
ation, and in the approval of Eng-
land’s plan, as a European power,
in regard-to Western Union, and
of the Marshall Plan. They joined
also in promising their support of
the United Nations, as well as
their cooperation in the building
up of defenses and in the encour-
agement of economic vitality for
the increased welfare of their sub-
jects. Finally, an increase in mutual
good will was built up.

Commonwealth Complications

On the other hand, Miss Robbins
pointed out, there are many diffi-
culties inherent inthe idea of com-
monwealth and in its real func-
tioning. For instance, many people
believe that racial equality should
be maintained in all dominions;
the new discrimination policy in
South Africa makes this ideal im-
possible. Again, the aim of assur-
ing the free movement of all peo-
ples within the Commonwealth is
complicated by Eire’s withdrawal
from the Commonwealth and her
prohibitive and intense national-
ism. ee

Miss Robbins took up the ques-
tion of Western Union itself, bring-
ing out both the pros and cons of
this plan and pointing out the ob-
stacles to its achievement. On the
whole, she felt that the plan was
not feasible as it now stands, both
because of nationalistic aims and
because it would be an implicitly
aggressive measure,- one “more
provocative of war with Russia
than capable of preventing a Rus-
sian victory.”

Besicovitch Talks
Here Thurs. Night

A. 8S. Besicovitch, Professor of
Mathematics, Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, England and Visiting Pro-
or of Mathematics, at the Uni-
} ersity of Pennsylvania, will lec-
tire tomorrow night on “The Meas-
ure of the Asymmetry of Curves”
in the Biology Lecture Room,
Dalton Hall at 8:30 p.m.

Thon, Cox Outline
“Beyond the Pale”

Goodhart, Nov. 13—Included_in
Alumnae Week-end Festivities was
a session “Beyond the Pale” Sat-
urday afternoon with speeches by
Mr. Thon of the English Depart-
ment and Mrs..Cox of the Educa-
tion Service.

Mr. Thon discussed the unique
features of the Bryn Mawr Sum-
mer Theater, where last summer
with a co-ed company of forty,
five plays, two from original
scripts, were produced, directed,
staged, and acted by the students.

The student group at the Sum-
mer Theater was fortunate in be-
ing able to supplement first hand
experience with visiting lecturers
who talked on the various fields of
directing, acting, _producing,and
criticism:

* *





*
Mrs. Cox spoke on the important

_ | use of the Educational Service, in



Lerner to Speak
At Next Assembly,

Alliance Diseloses

The Bryn Mawr Alliance for
Political Affairs will hold its sec-
ond assembly on Monday, Decem-
ber 13. Max Lerner, professor at
Williams College and correspondent
for the New York Star, will speak
on a subject to be chosen by him.
The next assembly will be in Feb-
ruary at the beginning of the sec-
ond semester. The address will be
delivered by Harold Stassen, form-
er governor of Minnesota and pres-
ident of the University of Pennsy]l-.
vania.

The Alliance is participating in
conferences concerning domestic
and international political problems.
Jane Macatee, president, attended
the “special seminar on opposing:
forces” of the Foreign Policy As-
sociation in Philadelphia on Tues-
day, November 16. Joseph Barnes,
editor of the New York Star, and
Vera Micheles Dean, associate pro-
fessor at Harvard, spoke on the
“Ideological Problems of the East
and West.”

Convention News

During the weekend of Novem-
ber 12-14, the Alliance sent two
delegates to the United World Fed-
eralist conferences in Minneapolis,
Minnesota. The representatives
were Priscilla Johnson and Mar-
jorie Shaw.

Three delegates are still to be
chosen to attend the IRC confer-
ence at Penn State, November 19
and 20. The topic for discussion
will be “Russia and the United
States.” Three representatives, also
to be chosen, will be sent to the
conference of the Barnard Politi-
cal Council at Barnard College.
The subject will be “South Ameri-
ea-Comes of Age.” Anyone inter-
ested in attending these meetings
may sign up at the Alliance bul-
letin board in Taylor Hall.

Plans Announced

By French Club

The Bryn Mawr French Club,
headed by Barbara Bentley, ’49,
has announced some of its plans
for the coming year. Record con-
certs of French music, to which
anyone interested is invited, will
be held during the course of the
year, as well as the teas given by
the Club which are reputed to be
lavish with French pastry. On the
evening of Wednesday, the 17th of
November, there will be a discus-
sion of the Junior Year Abroad
plans. Another event scheduled by
the French Club is their Christmas
play, “Le Jeu d’Adam,” to be given
on December 15 th.

Thurman Will Deliver
Sermon at Sun. Chapel

Dr. Howard Thurman, well-
known Negro leader and co-pastor
of the Church for The Fellowship.
of all Peoples of San Francisco,
will speak at Chapel this Sunday,

November 21 at 8:30 in the Music =

Room. A graduate of the Colgate
Rochester Divinity School, Dr.
Thurman was an outstanding pro-
tagonist at the Northfield Summer:
Conference.



which the college and community
collaborate to apply psychology in
the problems of children, adoles-.
cents and their parents.

Last year the staff, with the
help of grad students in training,
dtudied 164 children and young:
people as well as college students
who asked for psychological evalu-
ation. There is a mutual exchange.
of facilities between the college
and the schools; the schools refer-
children to’ “clinic to be tested”
for their/abilities or to be analyzed
psychologically, and in return grad
students are welcome to observe-









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Page Three



Broken Door, Pale Seaweed Rug
Centralize Kast House Activities

Specially Contributed by
Kaie Mason Ham, 750

(Continued from Last Week)
rrobably what interested us most
was the people.
*

* *

Chowning occasionally _ sallied
forth. Betore these events she
would come stolidly and matter-of-
1actiy down into the smoker. Here
she would wait, making caustic re-
marks at intervals. She came from
the deepest south, and though she
was ravishing to look at, long hair,
red lips, sultry, deep voice and slow
motions, sne would stand no non-
sense irom any boy, “Bitterest
woman we ever knew,” or “Can’t
do a thing with her,’ or more sim-
ply, “What a woman,” were com-
ments from her gentlemen. They
loved the “bitter woman” though,
and they came back for more until
Chowning would firmly squeich the
atfair. After one of her encount-
ers with a man, Chowning would
give her inimitable account of it.
She always talked about the boys
with utmost scorn. Any joke or
repartee she could repeat perfectly.
Drinking, she said, made her miss
people, so she never had a thing
and her observations: on any part
of the evening were extremely
acute.

It is hard to describe Chowning.
There was the slow, deliberate ele-
ment, the apparent lack of the rage
or deep distress which most of us
suffered. But there was something
inscrutable about her, something ot
the cat which walks by itself. She
appeared to be so surrounded by
her own mystery that the little
things of life did not bother her.
And yet she made uncannily shrewd
observations upon her surround-
ings. lf it was late at night and
suddenly in the dark you saw the
door slowly opening, you knew that
the shadow slipping in was Chown-
ing. You would sit and talk until
Chowning’s inexorable fate called
her at which time with no prelim-
inaries she would say, “We-el,
uood-bye,” and glide away.

ee, A

We found that Priscilla threw

herself into different parts. She

Community Center
Needs Volunteers

Every day of the week, volun-





teers from Bryn Mawr are sent to!

the Haverford Community Center
to help with its School. In the
morning, it is a Nursery School,
and the workers take care of
children up to six years old. They
organize the children’s games, take
groups: for walks, assist them in
eraft. Older children, from six. to
twelve years old, find in the Com-
munity School a place to go in
the afternoon.

The workers at the Community
Center from B. M. C. and those
from Haverford College (for such
there are!) have plans for square-
dancing evenings for older chil-
dren. These plans, however, have

not yet materialized as~ the “yvol=

unteer ranks are greatly under-
staffed.

A festive occasion for the Haver-
ford Community Center is the pro-
ject which the volunteers organize
jointly once a year for the chil-
dren. Last year, for example, it
was an all-day outing in the coun-
try, with picnic and games. This
year they are thinking of giving
some kind of a Christmas party,
but plans for this are still “nebu-
lous,” and, as Dixie Greeley, ’50,
the head of the Bryn Mawr vol-|
unteers, says, any “scintillating
suggestion” would be greatly ap-
preciated. So also would be more
volunteers. All of you, then, who

enjoy working with children” and} of leaves,-made—-distinet—patterns_

would like to assist the Communi-
ty Center, see Dixie for details.

was sincere when she did it, and
she meant what she said, but we
learned to temper her comments a
little before we accepted them.
rriscilla came from Indiana, and
she felt that anyone from the East,
“and particularly Massachusetts
ana New York,” wrote just to see
a pretty page. “You,” she said,
turning on me, “Look at those
gieat, messy capitals.” Priscilla
was, 1or the afternoon, the sensible
Westerner who is shocked by the
effeteness and degeneracy of the
East.

Another phase was when Pris-
villa and Betty Jean planned to be
lawyers. Betty Jean, in spite of
her marked rhetorical and persua-
sive powers, was plainly only hu-
moring the idea. She was too ele-
gant a creature to be involved in
anything like that. But Priscilla
planned her office, the title of the
tirm, and her future education at
the Harvard Law School.

The Actress

Priscilla’s aberrations from the
normal pattern of thought were
sources of great pleasure to both
her and ourselves, but they put her
at a definite disadvantage. e
could take her remarks at face
value and grossly misinterpret
them. Weeks after one of these
phases we would quote her own re-
marks to her. She could not still
defend the remark in all sincerity,
and ‘she could not explain it away
without invalidating any comment,
past or future, which she might
make. We justified our little prac-
tice to ourselves and considered
ourselves the victors although both
sides saw quite clearly what was
happening.

Roommates’ Rising

Gwynne and I roomed together.
We were prone to rising in the
morning at the last possible mo-
ment, leaving bed-spreads, bath-
robes, stuffed animals and rugs in
piles all over the floor. Sometimes
we lett the shades down and the
preeze,*making them waver, would
cause little spears of sunlight to
glance over the room, The rugs
at first had been spread neatly on
the floor, but mine was an Indian
| vianket and it had a habit of wind-
ng itself around the feet of any-
one who stepped on it and throw-
ing her on the floor. Gwynne’s rug
locked like pale green sea-weed and
we used it once to mop up a bottle
of spilt ink. After that it was
just as well that this article be
‘wrinkled up or left under a bed.
There was another small rug so
horrible that I very early misplaced
it .in the back of the closet.

It was on days when this chaos
was extreme that the walls could
no longer contain us. Sometimes
it would grow moist and warm out-
doors. A mist would rise and drib-
ble in over the window-sills. The
room became unearthly and _ irre-
sponsibility would seize all who en-
tered.



Winter Comes

If there were days of chaos and
madness, there were days of ex-
treme~peace: > The-room-would be
neat and we would be very fond
of it. We pictured ourselves as
inhabiting the most extreme point,
tn nose so to speak, of the col-
lege (We would gloat over our
position and peering out our win-
dow down the lawn to the street,
‘we would almost pity the rest of
the college, the stagnant campus,
spreading out behind us. Our room
| was bright and clear, shining like
a bubble in the sunshine which

came in so generously. We would
talk for hours about the people we
‘knew, of our childhood, or Fate and
| why things were as they were.
| (Winter came and the moon,
shining through the branches bare



on the floor. Or the huge snow-
Continued on page 4

Between the Leaves

The Wine of Astonishment,
by Martha Gellhorn
by Rhada Watamull, ’51
In_ her The
Astonishment, Martha
sharply analyzes World War
from the point of view of the men |
who had to fight it.

man accepts and faces war in his

novel,

Though each |

own individual way, all men bas- |
the |

share same.
profound conviction of its brutal, ,

ically
senseless waste.

(Miss Gellhorn has used as a base
for her ideas the fictitious opera-_
tions of an American Army battal-
ion. She traces its experience
up through the end of the war, and
creates two principal characters
through whom the the war is seen:

Lieutenant Colonel John Dawson

Smithers and his driver, Jacob
Levy. There is nothing excep-
| tional about these two men.

Smithers is a young officer who
guides his. battalion with pr ide,
clear thinking, and sometimes with
an inner feeling cf futility. Jacob
Levy was born a Jew, but has
lived all his life without any spe-
cial feeling cf separation from the
rest of existence; he shows, in con-
trast to the Nazi belief, that such
barriers that might be produced by
circumstance of birth are artificial
and have nothing to do with what
a man lives for.

Each of these two characters
comes from an ordinary home, or-
dinary upbringing. Each has the
ordinary, decent ideals that go
with such a background. They find,



NSA ART EXHIBIT

The NSA’ committee regrets
that the NSA Art Exhibit
scheduled to be shown at Bryn
Mawr over last weekend could
not be secured in time. However,
the exhibit will be at Houston
Hall, University of Pennsyl-
vania over November 20 to high-
light the NSA sponsored Art
Seminar to be held there Sat-
urday morning. All are invited
to attend.







however, that their whole accus-
tomed system of values disinte-
grates when they see how easily
human life is laid waste. They
realize that one must create for
oneself a meaning that will not
allow. destruction. Jacob, un-
consciously sensing this necessity,
has desperately built up a blanket
of insensitivity around himself, for
he understands that he is unable
to solve this alone. He will admit
only survival itself as his reason
to survive. In his loneliness he
finds Kathe, and although he can-
not speak her language he loves
her. He finds this love worth-
while enough to build a future
upon.

The sternness and misery of par-
ticipation in war produces a state
of introspection. The emotional
expressions of men upon whom
discipline and duty is constantly
imposed.__is__ graphically demon-
strated by Miss Gellhorn. The
hope of peace of mind and a beau-
tiful, calm future is concomitant
with the hope of a hot bath and
a week’s battle layoff.

The author’s style is realistic
and extremely vivid, and the
transition from thought to action
smoothly handled. A well-done
passage is that in which Jacob
visits the Dachau prison camp.
One sees how the encounter of
each new horror crystallizes the
newly formed values in Jacob’s
mind. In this lies the whole sig-
nificance of Miss Gellhorn’s book

. to fight and continue fighting
‘tis source of evil and insane waste
| in_order that what is peaceful and

Ist Soe. Ke. Film
Shown Wednesday

Wine of was the first in the series of film

Gellhorn | programs which the Department of
Il

|
kind of observation trip.

‘ City,”

“Housing and City Planning”

Social Economy is currently spon-
As
Miss Hertha Kraus, professor of

soring here at Bryn (Mawr.

Social Welfare, explained to the au-
dience at the first presentation last
Wednesday, November 10, the film
series is an experiment, a different
The first
held in the Music Koom,
consisted o: three movies: ‘The
“Rebuilding America:
Houses,” and ‘rhe Proud City,
sritish film.

“Whe Vity”’ vividly contrastea thy
typical village of a century ago,
und the modern huge city 0: to-
day, with its slums and unbeliev-
aoly congested living areas. Don’t
et the city grow too big to man-
age, was the frequently recurring

program,

Last Nighters

By Jean Ellis, ’49

Taking into consideration the
tacts that a performance in Phila-
delphia 1s not always a finished pro-
auction, that a Philadelphia audi-
ence is not the most enthusiastic
group of spectators that can be
sound, Maxwell Anderson's new piay,
Anne of the ‘Thousand Days, cu:-
rently being staged at the sores
rheatre, still needs a substantia.
amount ot work and revision to ve
successful,

Lack of Synthesis

Presenting the story of Aime
Boleyn and Henry Vili in a series
ot flashbacks, the play attempts vv
capture a decisive moment in tung-

‘Juish history and at the same ute

to retell one of the world’s tuiai-
liar love stories. it tens
just short of attaining eitner
vI these goals or ot achieving a
meaningtul synthesis. As the story
ot Henry’s intatuation for Anne,

nls courting and winning o1 his



theme.

Second Movie

“Rebuilding |
Houses,” explained the
vasic iacts o: the economics otf
nousing. ‘lhe movie, produced by
vue tncyclopaedia Brittanica, cited
several reasons for the high cost of
houses, and then advanced various
methods for reducing these high
costs. To the end of supplying
more houses to more people at low-
er cost, the film emphasized mass
preduction methods: prefabricated

The

America’s

second film,



nouses, and well organized housing
projects.

The British idea for city plan--
ning, explained in the film, “The
rroud City,” is to localize industry
and community groups. Showing
that partially destroyed Lon-
uon actually provides an excellent
vpportunity tor the people to re-
.uild the city so that it suits their
i.eeds, the film suggested a plan ot
natural boundaries, main highways
auu vivers, to keep industry and
udime well separated.

This program presented the so-
cial problem of Rural America.
Next week the film groups will
center around The Child and
Society.

Stud. Federalists
Organize Chapter

With the ranks of the Bryn
Mawr Chapter of Student Federal-
ists swelled by the addition of
many Freshmen who were mem-
bers in their schools, Margery
Shaw, newly-elected Chairman, has
formulated plans for an active year.
Student chapters of the United
World Federalists, an organization
working to strengthen the U. N.
into a world government with lim-
ited powers adequate to prevent
war, exist in many colleges and
schools. This year Bryn Mawr will
continue to work with the Haver-
ford Chapter. A fifteen minvte
weekly news report on world gov-
ernment to be presented on the
Haverford radio station
is planned as a_ joint effort.
Haverford is currently having a se-
ries of orientation meetings on the
basic issues of world government
on Wednesday nights to which
Bryn Mawr students are invited.
Bryn Mawr also expects to make
some recordings with Swarthmore.

The work of all UWF chapters
in this region is coordinated by
the Philadelphia Area Council.
Bryn Mawr volunteers are needed
to assist at the Area Council office
in Philadelphia.

There are four committees which
will divide the work of the chap-
ter. The Speakers’ Committee will





again this year send students to



constructive can continue to pro-



gress.



talk on world government at near-
by schools.

Nan,
irom

his final struggle to be tree
her, there can be no doubt
tnat Anne of the ‘thousand Days is
a moving, eloquent drama. Unfor-
tunately, several of the scenes pro-
viding historical background and
developing the reasons for Henry’s
need to cast otf Anne are remini-
scent of a high school performance
“written, acted and directed by the
students.” Such, tor example, is the
episode at York palace where Sir
ihomas More and Anne attempt
to presage the arrival of the
kKenaissance in England by forced
references to Utopia and to the

sonneteers, Wyatt and Surrey.

Historical Fallacies

k'urtnermore, although it is per-
lectly acceptable to stretch an in-
terpretation of history to support
dramatic effect when the result is
good theatre, in this case the end
does net justify the means. To
maintain that Anne’s emotional de-
velopment in her relationship to
Henry was responsible for his
change of attitude towards those
who would not sign the Act otf
Succession or swear allegiance 10
nim as the spiritual head of the
Church is not only farfetched, but
because of its presentation ludic-
rous.

On the whole, these are minor de-
.ects in a script which manages to
convey a convincing and powerful
tragedy. The characterizations are
vican-cut and penetrating in most
cases. ‘lhe cast, however, with few
exceptions, fails to produce ade-
quate portrayals.

Whether the supporting players
in Anne of the Thousand Days are
miscast or simply unequal to the
task before them, this reviewer
does not know. The fact remains
that most of the time they were on
stage, they seemed inexpressibly
bored with the proceedings and
were therefore ineffective in con-
tributing their share to the per-
formance. Kathleen Bolton as the
Serving Woman and Robert Duke
as Percy afforded a vivid contrast
to the general apathy which seem-
ed to have pervaded the minor
characters. Cardinal Wolsey played
by Percy Waram turned in an ade-

|quate performance. while..Wendell

Philipps as Thomas Cromwell de-
veloped his role with full appre-
ciation for the melodramatic.

Credit for saving what is at
times a very clever and deft text
must be given to the stars, Joyce
Redman and Rex Harrison, for
their acting is of such a calibre that
the mediocrity of the rest of the
cast disappears when they enter a
scene,

Mr. Harrison, while preserving
the Laughton tradition and creat-
ing a Henry whose stance and ap-
pearance are faithful to the famous
Holbein portrait, adds a certain -

zest of his own to the role. Al-
though his transitions from Henry
|the king to Henry the lover are not
always smooth, his ease in the part
Continued on page 4












Page Four

THE COLLEGE NEWS





Deanery Philosopher- Waitress
Swallows Routine, Tasty Victuals

By Marian Edwards, °50

When I watch the living meet
And the moving pageant file

Bored, yet happy while they eat
As I wait tables for a while...

With apologies to A. E. House-
man and with a wistful look at the
quaint olde Deanery, let us remark
the adventure of, the philosopher-



Spring’s Mist Breaks
Portal in East House
Continued from page 3

flakes fell on to.a muted earth and
through the arching trees into a
gently lighted, untrafficked street.
Then came spring with disturbing
breezes and hot afternoons and
early evenings with the sun sud-
denly gone and the cool refracted
light that came from the whole
sky. Gwynne went away for a
weekend into the country and
brought back armfuls of lilacs. They
filled the room and, dripping lushly
over our desks, spilled little purple
stars on our white paper.

Spring was disturbing, but the
nights would be cooler, not warm-
er, and there were not as many
possessions, sweaters and blankets,
to bother with as before. Still
there were times or restlessness,
and in late April our door was
broken. It was bound to have
happened. Jeannette need not have
made such an issue of it.

“Wrassling, you were,” she ex-
claimed, not once but many times.
“Big girls like you. wrassling.
Often I’ve come to this door and
seen you wrassling.”

Gwynne and I never wrassled
but somehow the door was broken.
It had one large, central panel of
thin wood which became separated
from the thicker wood frame. This
happened gradually; first there
was a long crack and one finger
could be thrust through the door,
then more cracks and a fist could
come through, then a network of
cracks and you could practically
walk through the “door without
opening it.

“Wrassling,” Jeannette muttered
as she came into the room in the
early morning. ‘“Wrassling,’” she
said again to be sure we were
awake.

Mr. McClure, a pleasant man,
came and took the. whole door
away so that the room appeared
to be a hole scraped away in a
- solid wall of plaster. The door
came ‘back soon, very stiff and
brittle and new. We were careful
of it after that, though as we
tried to explain to Jeannette, its
breakup had been a natural thing
like the blistering of paint on a
hot-water pipe.

(to be continued)

waitress, who steps twice a week
from the dust of the library and of
sages (or pages or ages) past into
the mundane role of the Deanery
lray-carrier.

This do-good, earn-money sprite
rushes to take on this change o1
character not only because it otfers
an escape from the mad race of
the academic life and its devotees,
not because it helps pay for the
tea she will go to that afternoon,
vut because she is hungry at 12
anu the Veanery specializes in de-
41¢i0us victuals tor its help ...i.e.,
1amy chops, French tried onion
rings, baked Alaska, hot einnamon
vuls and the rest ot supra-sook-
vinuer goodies.

Aiter donning a gay colored but
complex apron-skirt atfair and eat-
ing a delicious but hurried mea!
wnile enjoying the rustic wit ot
white-coated ‘l'om, the cook, and the
aishwasher,
(Lhis

she begins to wait.
not with
“rest.”) The robot routine includes
putting butter, crackers, water and
menus out on the buftet, opening

is synonomous

the doors and then assuming a
“they also - serve-who - only-stand-
and-wait” stoicism.

As soon as the first customer en-

ters the still dining room, the imag-
ination of the waitress along with
her embryonicaily philosophic mind
Starts tunctioning. Who is the
person’ What is she doing here?
What relation is she to Bryn Mawr
—alumna, prospect, guest, facul-
cy member, secretary, librarian or
-Inposter ?

| As whe customer ponders the



menu, our waitress examines her!

vuretully. After all
A poor life this, if full of care

we have no time to stand and}

stare.
limmm.
iveSseirode pie type, and that man
with the Uld World look ... he’ll
probabiy order vichysoisse — cold!
Goulash for that one, and avacado
and pear for the pince-nez matron.
rrovabiy cream in her tea, too.
After the menu is taken along with
the order, the juicy table conversa-
tion begins... The most interest-
ing of waitresses’ amusements.
Whether it be a faculty, Alumnae
Fund Committee, class reunion
luncheon or a cocktailed wedding
reception, the waitress is waiting
with baited ears. “You know, dear,
we have comparatively few di-
vorces in our class,” “. .. And
when I got a check, my deahs, for
$3.63 ... well... I thought...”
“Oh, dahling, don’t look now, bué
I'm going to be an olive-snatch-
rs) ley geared

Redman, Harrison Liven
‘Anne of the 1000 Days’

Continued from Page 3

and his complete self-identification
with the arrogant, determined, yet
sensitive king are strong points in
his favor. Mr. Harrison follows the
king’s development, displaying all
the lust, all the weakness, all the
confidence which made Henry great.
itis interpretation is especially fine
in the last act when Henry is fight-
ing within himself in his knowl-
euge that Anne must go, in his
knowledge that she still holds him
in her grasp.

As the stubborn, enticing Anne
who loved the king but one of the
thousand days she spent with him,
Joyce Redman’s performance leaves
little to be desired. Less convincing
in the early scenes of the play, she
ouilds up to a magnificent climax
when, knowing she is to die, she
sirikes at Henry’s vanity for the
iust time by her assertion that she
nas been unfaithful to him. Miss
Redman’s task in creating a por-
trait of the woman responsible for
the Reformation in the eyes of



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College NEWS next week be-
cause of the Thanksgiving va-
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out on Wednesday, December 1.







hat one looks like the'



XVIth century England was diffi-
cult. The result is somewhat un-
even, but truly great at many mo-
ments. Hampered by a cold, on the
evening this reviewer saw the play,
Miss Redman’s voice was often
monotonous, and therefore her lines
were not given their full value or
emphasis.

Technical Problems

Praise for Miss Redman and Mr.
idarrison is also due because in
addition to poor dramatic support,
they are faced by technical handi-
caps. Miss Redman’s gowns al-
though beautifully executed simply
did not fit correctly. The dull gold
marriage robes of both Henry and
Anne faded into the background of
the brownish yellow set, thus de-
manding a special effort on the
part of the stars io be noticed. Also
irom a production angle, Anne of
tne Thousand Days is imperfect.
Scene shitts were accompanied by
fully audible scrapings and clearly
visible figures. The lighting which
wes effectively planned was poorly
executed. These defects may be
overcome on a different stage and
with more practice, but certainly
were ‘out of place ina professignal
presentation.

In conclusion this reviewer hopes
that” during the next week the pro-
duction will be whipped into shape
so that an essentially well-written
play starring capable and adept
actors may merit the praise which
by all the rules should be theirs.







Compliments
of the
Haverford Pharmacy

Haverford

- ATTENTION -—-

Reasonably personable,
intelligent male, embittered;
regards women as avaricious,
artificial, self-centered.
This can’t be possible.
Any woman who can help him
change his opinion —

Please write to R. L. H., % this paper.









REMIND YOUR DATE

THAT LOVELY FLOWERS

COME FROM

JEANNETT’S

Bryn Mawr













“HURRY ON DOWN”

TO THE COLLEGE INN

FOR DELICIOUS MEALS

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The Observer

(Specially contributed)

We learn to conjugate, to dissect
the dogfish, to “expliquer le texte,”
but this is the grimmer and there-
What
we miss seeing is that our muses

fore the more obvious side.

are being encouraged as well. “‘His-
tory-haunted,” they say but they
forget to say “muse-haunted.” The
muse is the reward for all our la-
bor.

1 had never thought about my muse
1 had been pleased, perhaps, atter
learning a little something, but
that was as tar as it went. One
night 1 was sitting in the Library
im one of the leather chairs. (‘I'he
whole case should be stated as it
may help you find your muse.) 1
nad read some 50 pages in a cer-
tain large book and, partly trom
desire for a change and partly from
a wish to understand a little more
clearly what I was reading, I turn-
ed to the Introduction.

Muse Discovered

“Fool,’ said my Muse to me,
“look in thy heart and write.”
These words were on the first page.
Suddenly, and it had never occurred
to me before, I thought that maybe
I had a muse. Things. like that
are usually behind you, so I got up
irom my chair to see if I were sit-
ting on my poor muse. I guess I
wasn’t —he wasn’t there. But I
thought about the poor little thing
for a while. What would I call him?
— Calliope, Aldebaran, Shaun
O’Day ? I felt that he was slender
and a little sad and not quite sure
just what should be next. :

Happy Hunting Grounds -

And then I wondered about other
muses. Does anyone have a big,
fat, laughing one with red cheeks?
Does he blow cheery clouds of
white smoke from his pipe, or
white steam because of the cold
weather which he revels in, being
so warm himself? And does some-
body have a muse who is huge and
tall and brown like a Genie?
Smoky clouds weave about him
and he stoops over from his height,
uxing a aark green eye on his hu--
man,

1 peered about me into the glooni
which surrounds eaen bright tittle
ci.cie Ox lamp-light. The chande-
lier with its dull-burning orange
1ights was a very breeding pia-e
fcr the sombre muse. The mis.)
dark im the corners of the room
biing forth the poetic, whispering
muse, and the red and gold and
black of the ceiling hint of a muse
of glory, one who earries a flam-
ing sword and signs of battle, arms
and trumpets.

Sports

At the tryouts for the Intercol-
legiate Hockey Team, three Bryn
Mawr girls made the team. Laurie
Perkins made the first team as
right half back. Silvia Hayes and
Margy Shaw made left and right
wings on the Second Team. Nancy
Blackwood also played in the semi-
final tryouts.

But these girls who made the
team will not be allowed to play in
the games because Bryn Mawr is
only an associate member of the
Middle Atlantic Hockey League.

Hall representatives to the Ath-
letic Association have been chosen.
They are Radnor, J. Spade; Rhoads,
L. Abell; Rock, D. Sloan; Pem
West, S. Savage; Pem East, S.
Merion, H. Martin; Wyndham, Har-
riet Rodes.

Penn Defeats Bryn Mawr

The Penn hockey teams defeated
the Bryn Mawr teams with the
following scores: 1st team, 5-2,
and the second team, 38-0, at the
games held here on Monday.

Neubergers Present
Paintings to College
Continued from page 1

istic of Aronson.

Raymond Breinin’s The Raid is
different from the other paintings
in the collection. It is a softer,
quieter picture—a landscape under
a stormy sky. The beautiful ar-
rangement of light and shadow,
and the use of grey-greens convey
directly the feeling of “calm be-
fore the storm.” Breinin is now
working in Chicago, painting scen-
ery for the ballet.

William Zorach, a very famous
contemporary sculptor, has several
times taken a holiday from his
mallet and chisel to paint water-
colors. His Monday in December is
a delightful little picture, very
quickly done in pastel shades.
The placement of subjects is con-
ventional and pleasing. Examples
of his sculpture may be seen in
Radio City, the Museum of Modern
Art and the Downtown Gallery in
New York.

At the School of Industrial De-
sign in Philadelphia a series of
watercolors by a negro, Jacob Law-
rence, which are also from the
Neuberger Collection are now be-
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DP Students Ask
-WSR Financial Aid

The United Service Fund includes
the World Student Relief Organi-
zation. In the releases of the organ-
ization, dated October 3, the condi-
tions of the lives of foreign stud-
ents are set forth. Measures to en-
courage their studies have already
been taken, and aids to improve
their living conditions are request-
ed.

The emigration of DP students
and the German monetary reform
have lowered the conditions of
study in the U.S. zone of Germany.
The DP students are forced to sell
some of their allotted rations on
the black market in order to buy
bread and potatoes.

Many students in Athens are
housed in tents behind an old or-
phanage. One meal a day is served,
and there is meat only on holidays.

or in shops and warehouses.

Lous-Mohr Talks
At IRC Meeting

Last Wednesday night,
Lous-Mohr, Norwegian teacher,
and international co-chairman of
the Women’s International League
for Peace and Freedom, spoke at
the I. R. C. meeting on “Teaching
Under a Dictatorship.” Because
the subject actually concerned the
Norwegian civilian reaction to the
Nazi occupation, the lecture title
might have been “A Form of Non-
Violent Resistance to a Dictator-
ship.”

With the exception of some
Quislings, the Norwegian people
were absolutely united in a “Pass-
ive” resistance by a completely ta-
cit and very effective agreement.
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WHAT TO DO

Come and hear about jobs abroad
on Thursday afternoon, November
18th, at four o’clock in the Com-
mon Room. There will be speakers
from the American Friends Serv-
ice Committee, the Foreign Serv-
ice, and the Army. Everyone is in-
vited whether or not she got a
special notice. Notices were sent
only to students who had indicated
their interests on the Vocational
Committee questionnaire.

Marcuse Interprets

Mod. Dialectical Philos.
Continued from page 1

exposed effect its disillusionment.
The import of Hegel’s system —
especially for Marx, said Mr. Mar-
cuse, is signified in the fact that
potentiality demonstrates itself in
conflict as limited and arrested by
of reality.
However, Hegel’s conclusion—that
we are directed towards a stage
of the world in which all potential-
ity can be freely developed, and we
will “self consciously realize our
freedom” is based on traditional
principles of reason and freedom
which Marx opposes.

Marx draws different implica-
tions though his dialectic is based
on Hegel’s materialistic interpre-

tation of history and the idea that

Continued on page 6

ridiculous mistake. In spite of all
they have suffered, the Norwegians
do not now crave revenge on the
Germans, but are striving to re-
build the world in a spirit of co-
operation. Even with the Germans,
they feel, cooperation can eventual-
ly be possible.



By Jean Ellis, ’49

For one class at Bryn Mawr the |
Alumnae Association is no longer
a mysterious, somewhat elusive,
body returning to plague under-
graduates with prying eyes. The
Seniors who were the Alumnde
guests for lunch last Saturday in
the Deanery agree, “They’re human
too!” The inquisitiveness stems
from a genuine desire to know
what the undergraduates think and
feel about the college, because, as
one alumna said, “These weekends
during the college year mean so
much only because we have a
chance to see and meet the under-
graduates who are taking our place
at Bryn Mawr.”

Following a delicious lunch, credit
for which goes to the Alumnae and
to Mrsy Cleaver, new head of the
| Deanery, came Emily Kimbrough
Wrench, ’21, with a “Strange In-
‘terlude.” This consisted of a
“Dutch auction” for the benefit of
the Drive. Four Bryn Mawr alum-
nae in Turkey had sent the Asso-
ciation, as a contribution, a silver
belt to be auctioned. Having ex-
plained her fitness for the role of
auctioneer, Mrs. Wrench led the
wild and furious bidding which
lasted until an alarm clock went off
announcing that of all people Mrs.
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Seniors Find Alumnae Human
At Luncheon, ‘Strange Interlude’

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Wrench discovered that the real
winner was Elinor Donnelly Erd-
man, ’21, her roommate! A total
of $454.50 was collected for ‘the
Drive.

USF Combines Seven
Charities in Big Drive

Continued from page 1

also for the Bryn Mawr Hospital,
to which the college has pledged
help.

This is the first time that the
college has organized all its charity
drives at once. There will be inten-
sive soliciting in the Halls, which
will start Thursday night, and there
is a representative of the USF in
each hall, who can answer ques-
tions as to what the particular
charities do. They are: Radnor,
Jane Walker; Merion, Shirley Fish;
Denbigh, Louise Harned and Louise
Earle, chairman; Pem East, Elisa-
beth Nelidow; Pem West, Ann Igle-
hart; Rock, Suetse Li; and Rhoads,
Gretchen Gabelein.

Foss Emphasizes

Church Mysticism

“We must work out our own sal-

vation, for God works in us both
to will and to do.” Dr. Martin Foss,
speaking in Chapel November 14
explained that though this. state-
ment from the Bible was paradoxi-
cal, so were mysticism and the
great processes of life, faith and
prayer since they are concerned at
once with life and after life.
‘In discussing mysticism, Dr.
Foss outlined the differences be-
tween the two mysticisms of the
world. The mysticism of the Greeks
and of India depends on reason and
the importance of death as a be-
ginning of true knowledge. How-
ever, continued Dr. Foss, the Chris-
tian mysticism is the only satis-
fying one in that it is centered on
birth and love and life. Therefore,
in this mysticism which has the
essence of universality, we may
seek the solution to the original
paradox that will include other
lives. In this way we will unify
ourselves with all humanity, and
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Professional Acting
Highlights ‘‘Earnest’’

Continued from page 1

sense of comedy. Lee Haring as
John Worthing, J. P., was very
convincing in a difficult part, and
his use of pantomime was excel-
lent. Cinnie Schwartz and Suz-
anne Henderson both created real-
istic and sympathetic characters in
their roles of Lady Bracknell and
Gwendolyn Fairfax. In fact, Lady
Bracknell’s majestic entrances and
exits were often hailed by ap-
plause.

Unfortunately, Harriet Morse
was miscast as Cecily Cardew. She
has neither the stage presence nor
the voice for this precise comedy,
and at no time did she seem to
share the prevalent understanding
of its exquisitely aphoristic lines.
In consequence, her scenes in the
second act with Miss Prism and
Gwendolyn Fairfax dragged. Sper-
ry Lea as Canon Chasuble and
Libby Grey as Miss Prism deserve
special mention for their capable
acting and apt characterization.
They both played their parts well
and seemed perfectly cast and com-
pletely at ease.

‘Robert Kunkel and Henry Ewald

made appropriately imperturbable
butlers .

Stylized Sets

The set for The Importance of
Being Earnest was designed by
Julie Ann Johnson, and was very
striking indeed if you must have
a stylized setting for a period com-
edy. The backdrop, an English
hunting scene, was especially good.
The Mozart’ music played before
and after each curtain was pleas,
antly appropriate. It must ° ibe
mentioned, however, that it was
the excellence of acting and direct-
ing that kept the production from
relapsing into painful amateurish-
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Dr. Panofsky Correlates

Poussin and Symbol

Of Arcady in Elegiac Tradition of Paintings

Continued from page 1

to become an inseparable part of
the whole symbolism, and provides
the key to the interpretation of
the title phrase, Et in Arcadia
Ego.” We are content nowadays
to take the meaning as “I, too, was'
born in Arcady,” declared Mr. Pan-
ofsky. “Indefensible though it is,

from a philological point of view,” |
he continued, the scholarly dead

ion of George the Third that it|
meant “Death is even in Arcady”
comes much closer to the truth
as manifested in the elegiac tra-
dition of fine art.

Guercino’s representation
“two Arcadian shepherds
checked in their wanderings by the
sudden sight of a skull” was the

of



quite appropriate for the mood of
the play, and made much of the
English-cucumber sandwiches at-
mosphere—difficult to portray. Per-
iod sets have been created for
Bryn Mawr productions with great
success, notably for The Seagull.
We feel that interiors would not
have been too hard to put together
and would have repaid the effort
tremendously in the effectiveness
of the production. A whole new di-
mension would have been added to
the comedy, which, as it is inten-
tionally artificial, needs the basis
of a convincing and realistic set-
ting.

tense, explained Mr.

first pure expression of the Ar-'



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Drive Totals
The Bryn Mawr College Fund

jcadian theme of the conflict’ of | now totals $1,731,000, it was an-

naive delight with death. Here the
“Et in Arcadia” line issues from |
the lips of the skull, which is
clearly the abstract of Death, not
}an individualization. » From here

on, Dr. Panofsky explained, inter-
lonobablsn of the line varies even
|unto Fragonard’s “Even in death,
| there may be Arcadia.”

Nicholas Poussin, as the heir of
ithe Italian - Guercino tradition,
| produced the most enduring differ-
| entiation in the handling of the
Arcadian theme. He converted the
missing verb of the tag to the past
Panofsky, so
that the pervading tenor of. the
theme became contemplative mel-
ancholy instead of dramatic con-
fli¢t with death. “What had been
a menace had become a romance,”
said Mr. Panofsky. Since Pousssin
substituted for the abstraction. of
the death’s head the individuality
of the tomb, it was an easy shift
from the abstract to the indivi-
dual as the speaker of the phrase.

Bases of Philosophy

Like Ovid, from whom he took
so much of his artistic subject
matter, Dr. Panofsky concluded,
Poussin based his philosophy on
change as the one permanent ele-
ment in life. He saw the aesthetic
process as a continual metamor-
phosis, the death of one beauty



|



nounced this weekend. Included in
this figure is $66,286 which has
been raised toward the Rufus Jones
Chair in Philosophy and Religion.
Russian Club Officers
The newly organized Russian
Club announces the election of
Helen Ostoia, President and Fran-
cine du Plessix, Secretary-Treas-
urer. Non- Russian speaking mem-
bers may join the club,
Library Committee Chairman
The Library Committee takes
pleasure in announcing the election
of Elizabeth Spalding, ’49, as chair-
man. The Graduate representative
to the committee is Wadid Habib.
Flying Club
The Flying Club of Bryn Mawr
will hold its first meeting with the
Haverford Flying Club on Wed-
nesday evening at 9:30.

Freshman Class Officers
The Freshman Class takes pleas-
ure in announcing the election of
the following officers for this year:
Trish Mulligan, President; Ginny



being the genesis of another. So,
for Poussin, the most formally
perfect of the exponents of the
elegiac tradition in painting, “Et
in Arcadia Ege” could mean, as
Mr. Panofsky said, “not the end
of physical death, but the continu-
ance of metaphysical life.”



Marcuse Interprets
Mod. Dialectical Philos.

Continued from page 5

prevailing circumstances are sup-
pressing potentialities. His analy-
sis of the capitalistic development
corresponds to Hegel’s analysis of
the family: private property based
on individual labor (capitalism) is
negated by large scale production
(socialism) through which the in-
dividual will realize his own inter-

/ests (communism) by his “coopera-

tion” in this production. The con-
tradiction of a “gigantic productive
system” in which labor is more and
more intensified and a society of
“each according to his needs” is
resolved by the theory that labor
will realize its own destruction in
its movement into the final phase
of individual fulfillments. Mr. Mar-
cuse observed that he did not think
labor would “disappear” but would
continue in the final phase and con-
sequently continue. to repress.



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The final of the hall hockey
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Pebroke East-West.

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