College news, January 16, 1952

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VOL. XLVIII—NO. 13

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1952

Bryn Mawr College, 1951



McBride Outlines Costs and Fees;
Students Offer Economy, Devices

Gummer ih

Audience Shows Lively Interest in Meeting
As Ways to Cut Costs
Are Discussed

. Tuesday night, January 15, Miss
McBride discussed the current sit-
vation of “Costs and Fees” before
ean open meeting. The Board of
Directors decided in December that
an increase in tuition and resi-
dence fees is necessary. What
amount this increase will be is to
be decided by a meeting of the ex-
ecutive committee of the Board of
Directors on January 25. The
$88,600 deficit may be a slight ov-
ereslimaie, Miss McBride stated,
because of the difficulty in predict-
ing how much the rate return on
the college’s endowment invest-
ments will be. Last year it was a
phenomenal 5.7%. Even if the in-
terest rate is more than the nor-
mal estimate of 4.5%, rising costs
will make up some of the differ-
ence. This year will probably end
with an increased deficit, but prob-
ably not so high as $88,000.

The most significant figures on
the income list for last year are
those of tuition, $399,880.58, resi-

dence fees, $499,053.50, and en-|

dowment funds, $450;348.59. The
largest expenditures are for aca-
demic salaries, $442,208.53. The
expenditures of 62% for al! sal-
aries and 14% for materials and
upkeep are unchangeable. An in-
creased tuition, estimated at $100-
$200, is necessary ‘because of the
rise in living costs, which make
necessary an increase in all salar-
ies, especially academic salaries.
Bryn Mawr’s expenditures during
the last ten years have risen 60%
in comparison with a 20% in-
crease in tuition. The residence



POETS IN THE FLESH!!

Two young English poets,
David Gascoyne and W. S. Gra-
ham, are coming to Bryn Mawr.
Brought to America for a short
time by the Poetry Centre in
New York, they are reading se-
lections from their poetry in a
few eastern colleges. Hear
them in the Deanery on Thurs-
day, January 17, at 5 P.M. (if
you wish to read their works,
see the desk reserve of the
library.)







Miss Moore Wins
Yale Library Prize

Miss Marianne Moore, Bryn
Mawr ’0¥, was recently awarded
the annual $1000 Bollingen Prize
in Poetry of the Yale University
Library. The award was made
hy W. H. Auden, chairman of the
award committee, for Miss Moore’s
most recent book, “Collected
Poems”, which was published in
November.

Miss Moore received her Bache-
lor of Arts degree from Bryn
Mawr in 1909. She was an assist-
ant at the New York Public Li-
brary foi four years, and then ed-
itor of The Dial magazine from
1925 to 1929.

She has written six other vol-
umes and has won several other
awards.





costs for students last year were
about $149.00 more than the stu-
dents paid, continued Miss Mc-
Bride. This year, because of ris-
ing food costs, the difference will
be even greater. If student fees
are increased by $100, about $60,000
will be cieared. With this $100 in-
crease, not even a 10% increase in
salaries would be possible. Miss
McBride concluded her remarks by
emphasizing that all the charges
should not be met in terms of fees,
but that small changes will make
some difference.

Studest discussion followed. It
was decided that the present din-
ing room service system could not
be changed in any satisfactory
manrer. Savings on student-sup-
plied bed linen and blankets were
considered. The saving from re-
moval of tablecloths would be

Contiued on Page 5, Col. 3

Library's Friends
Hear of Pursuits

Of Rare Volumes

The Friends of the Bryn Mawr
Library gathered for their first tea
on Monday afternoon in the Dean-
ery, and Mrs. Jacques . Vauclain,
president of the hundred and eight
people dedicated to helping the li-
brary, introduced the _ speaker,
Miss Caroline Newton. Miss New-
ton’s “Random Indiscretions” were
confined to some of the experienc-
es of book-buying and the pursuit
of rare volumes. She had brought
with her a volume of Johnson’s
Dictionary, and several Severn por-
traits and sketches of Keats, in-
eluding the deathbed scene.

The Juhnson Dictionary was the
ultimate result of her parents’ at-
tendance at the “last of the great
book sales”, that of R. W. Adam,
the Johnsonian, in 1926. The one
volume edition was put up for auc-
tion, and after spirited bidding be-
sween her mother and father, on
4pposite sides of the room, Lady
Newton got the book, but Mr.
Adam insisted upon sending them
the much rarer three volume edi-
tion, and a letter to Sir Edward
that accompanied the volumes was
displayed along with a picture of
Adam. When the Dictionary was
put up for sale for the benefit of
victims of Hitler, Miss Newton bid
it in, the upshot being that her
mother had to pay the $1000 which
she had enthusiastically bid!

' Aiso sold at the time was the
Melk Gutenberg Bible, now at Yale
after the complications of being
bbught for $106,000 by Dr. Rose-
well, who didn’t have that much
money, and came to the Newtons
for help.

.Miss Newton moved on to the
sale of her father’s books in New
York when she had promised not
to buy anything, even the Severn
portrait. A friend bought the por-
trait, gave it to her, and withir

. Continued on Page 5, Col. 5







Election Changes
Appear On Ballot
For College Vote

Thursday at lunch the College
will vote on proposed changes in
election procedures. The ballot,
which is reprinted below, was pre-
pared by the Undergrad Council
after ideas and suggestions had
peen gathered at the “mass” meet-
sng on Monday and the hall meet-
ings on Wednesday of last week.
A welter of different alternatives
as somehow been reduced to five
4uestions arranged under three
aeadings. The ballot has been sim-
vlified as much as possible, but the
-ssues are complex, so please read
it carefully and vote intelligently.

The first two questions concern
the most controversial issue, pref-
erential order. Question one sim-
ply asks whether the voter is in
favoc of preferential listing of
candidates in some form or opposed
to it in any form. Question Two
suggests a compromise first
brought up at the Pem West hall
meeting, whereby we would retain
preferential order as a guide for
those who need it but would dimin-
ish its importance by stating it
only on the reports and not on the
ballots. Please choose between the
alternatives in question two, even
if you are opposed to preferential
order.

Question three concerns the func-
tion of the nominating committee.
The voter is asked whether she
would like to keep the present sys-
-em_ or limit the functions of the
class nominating committee to in-
erviewing and report writing

Continued on Page 5, Col. 2

CALENDAR

Thursday, January 17
5:00 p.m. David Gascoyne and
W. S. Graham, English poets, will
read their poems in the Deanery.
Friday, January 18
Last day of lectures in the first
semester.
Saturday, January 19
9:00 a.m. French conditioned
examination.
Monday, January 21
Semester examinations begin.
Saturday, January 26 .
9:00 a.m. Spanish and Italian
conditicned examinations.
Saturday, February 2
Semester examinations end.
Tuesday, February 5
9:00 a.m. The second semes-
ter begins.
Wednesday, February 6
7:30 p.m. The Bridge Tourna-
ment will begin in the Rumpus
Room.
Friday, February 8
8:30 p.m. Square Dance in the
gymnasium.
Saturday, February 9
Maids and Porters Dance in the
gymnasium.
Monday, February 11
8:30 p.m. Isaiah Berlin, Re-
search Fellow at All Souls’ Col-
lege and University Lecturer in
Phiiosophy at Oxford University,
wiil deliver the first Mary Flex-
ner Lecture in Goodhart Auditor-
ium. His topic will be “The Con-
cept of Nature and the Science of
Politics” (Helvetius and Holbach).
Wednesday, February 13
7:30 p.m. Fencing Meet in the
gymnasium.

He Explains Military

Dr. Gordon A. Craig, Professor
of History at Princeton Univer-
sity, delivered the Mallory Web-
ster Memorial Lecture in History
on January 9 in Goodhart Hall at
8:00 p.m. In his lecture, entitled
“Military Politics in Prussia and
Germany”, Dr. Craig emphasized
the fact that history proves the
improbability of the Allies being
able to restore the German army
while, at the same time, fostering
in Germany a demucratic state.

Only seven years ago we were
all pretty well convinced that the
new German state would be both
democratic and disarmed, he be-
gan. “The terms were, indeed,
almost synonomous in our minds.’

Today “we still hope for a demo-
cratic Germany, but—in view oi
the threat from Russia—we have
become uncomfortably aware that
it would be good to have German
forces on our side if war should

Cleland Examines
Laughter, Listing
Lhree Catagories

Following his address at chapel
on Sunday night, January 13th,
the Reverend James T. Cleland,
chaplain of Duke University, Dur-
nam, N. C., stayed at Bryn Mawr
all day Monday, the 14th, to meet
anyone who wished to talk to him.
The chapel committee held a tea
in the Common Room at 4:30 Mon-
day afternoon, to which the col-
iege was invited to hear Reverend
Cleland give “Some Thoughts on
Laughter”.

Since Bryn Mawr is such an
academic institution, said Dr. Cle-
land, he would begin his talk by
defining laughter according to
Webster. He went on to say that
laughter is caused by a sense of
humor, and for the definition of
humor he referred back to Web-
ster. Humor is the “disposition
that leads one to perceive the
ludicrous, the comical, the ridicu-
lous, and to express one’s percep-
tions so as to make others see or
feel the same thing.” Humor is
divided into three component
parts: 1) a happening, the ac-
count of a happening external to
self; 2) the perceiving self so dis-
posed as to see that happening as
a cause for laughter; and 3) the
capacity to tell that experience to
others so that they think it is
funny too.

Humor is based on the incon-
gruous relation of several “in-
harmonious, incompatible circum-
stances”. Humor results from the
introduction of an abnormal ele-
ment into a perfectly usual situ-
ation, or conversely from the in-
troduction of something normal
into an impossible situation.

Most humor arises from an ap-
preciation of the incongruous.
Sometimes this reaches the pro-
portions of absurdity in its exag-
geration. When this. appreciation
is characterized by an intellectual





Continued on Page 6, Col: 4

Dr. Gordon A. Craig Delivers
M. Webster Memorial Lecture

Politics In Germany,

Stressing Peoples’ Distrust
Of Rearmament

come again in Europe.”

Tne enthusiasm in the United
States for rearmament, Dr. Craig
continued, is not matched in Ger-
many itself. “We are apt too
readily, I believe, to think of the
German people as a ‘militaristic’
people. This theory, however,
does not accord with actual ex-
perience in Germany in the nine-
teenth century.” At this time,
even in Prussia, there was a deep
popular distrust of the army based
in part on a perhaps natural dis-
like of military service, but even
more on the hatred toward the
army as an instrument for an a.-
thoritarian government.

To the middle classes of 1...
Prussian state the army was a..
“object of devastation” because 1,
it was expensive; 2) it was a bar-
vier to their political aspirations.
Specifically they desired a con-
stitution defining the rights and
responsibilities of the individual
citizen anid some form of repre-
centat.ve govecnment. Since the
crown remained opposed to their
petitions, they became increasing-
ly antagonistic to the force which
made royal resistance possible —
he Prussian army,

“As early as the 1830’s, there-
fore, the lines were being drawn
for a conflict that was to continue
in Prussia, and later in Germany
as a whole, until the very recent
past.”

The significant thing about the in-
termittent encounters between th.
middle class liberalists and the
military establishment is that the
army was never definitely beaten,
and, therefore, democracy was
“always balked.”

The first of these encounters
took place in 1848 as a result of
the revolutionary disturbances
which swept over all Europe, with

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C. O. Skinner Acts
Parisian Portraits

Two years in preparation, Cor-
nelia Otis Skinner’s solo drama,
Paris ’90, a distaff portrait of
Paris, comes to the Locust Theatre
for one week, beginning Monday,
January 28, with matinees on
Thursday and Saturday.

Paris °90 revolves around the
colorful women of the Toulouse-
Lauirec period. In presenting this
new gallery of fabulous characters
from a fabulous period, Miss Skin-
ner vividly recreates episodes
frora the lives of thirteen sharp-
ly contrasting Parisiennes, includ-
ing three who have been immor-
talized .n the posters and draw-
ings of Lautrec—Yvette Guilbert,
Bertha La Sourde (“Deaf Ber-
tha”), and La Goulue. Other
femmes include a chic Parisienne,
a dowager duchess, and The New
Woman, a British miss cycling
with her Gallic fiance.

Bryn Mawr students may obtain
special rates for the production, if





they will con‘act the manager of
the Locust Theatre.










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For Preferential Listing

Preferential listing is an asset to our college: election
system. It is very difficult for an individual student to say
which one of four candidates whom she does not know is best
qualified for a certain job. The ones she knows best are those
she has met in her class, her hall, her courses and her extra-
curricular activities. Even if she is acquainted with the nom-
inees in these capacities, the student seldom knows which
nominee would be most competent in a special position.

Therefore, some guidance is necessary to help the stu-
dent decide. The general capabilities of the candidate, often
equal, are revealed by the reports from the nominating com-
mittee. The class, however, determines the particular differ-
ences that prove which girl is best qualified for the specific
position. The opinion of the candidate’s class seems much
more valid than the opinion of two or three friends of the
voter, especially if the voter does not know the nominee. It
is essential to have preferential listing to help students know
the candidate as a candidate for a certain office.

Alert students will consider the qualification of the nom-
inees under any system. Those who do not bother to inquire
about the candidates now will vote according to their person-
al opinions or the views of a few friends, if the candidates
are not preferentially listed.

Existing student apathy can not be avoided by abolish-
ing the present preferential system of voting. If it is abol-
ished, elections by only personal prejudice will result. There
are many flaws in the present election system, but until these
flaws are corrected, preferential] listing should remain.

Against Preferential Listing

Listing candidates in preferential order on the ballot is
a poor practice because it does not present the candidates
fairly to the student body. It gives the class undue weight
in the voting procedure.

As the system stands now, a class nominating committee
presents a slate to the class, which can nominate from the
floor. The ballot is narrowed to four candidates by a class
quorum. It is this ballot which is presented to the student
body with the nominees listed in the order of the class’ pref-
erence.

_ Often only a few votes determine the position of names
on the slate. But yet, these few class votes frequently decide
the election since students who do not know the candidates

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Letter Writer Finds
Articulateness
Lacking
(Editor’s Note: The ideas express-
ed in the following letter are those

of an individual student, exclusive

of her affiliation with the COL-
LEGE NEWS, or Counterpoint.)

In the January 9 issue of the
COLLEGE NEWS is a review of
Counterpoint, thorough, full of ex-
amples, and with two main points.
Mr. Berthoff claims that the mag-
azine is “suffering not from a lack

ot talent but from a lack of in-
verest”’, and that the writing
“lacks discipline, solidity, and
minimal tougnness”. What he says
is fair enouga, but 1 would like to
bring to the tore two points that
Mr. Berthotf has only touched on,
and which seem to me to be the
root ot the problem: why is the
writing in Counterpoint the way
it is?
Mr. Berthoff has said: “The sub-
ject-matter of the five original
poems is recognizable.” Trace
this statement to its source and
you have in one word, half of the
reason for Counterpoint’s failure
to satisty — communication, Why
should the subject of any piec¢ of
writing be only recognizdble?
Because the writer is too inter-
ested in eloquence and phrasing to
be articulate. You cannot be elo-
quent before you are articulate.
The second point Mr. Berthoff
covers in one sentence, which I
found submerged in his comment
on only one story: “Any writing,
especially satire, is difficult when
you don’t know that you don’t
know what you think of your sub-
ject.” This is an example of a
true statement in bad phrasing—
what I think it means is that stu-
dents don’t know enough about
their subjects to be genuine, and
hence, convincing. You write for
Counterpoint because you have
something to say, and there is no
integrity or vitality in a piece of
writing that is solely words, with
no genuine feeling behind them.
‘(Now for the problem of the
statement of Mr. Berthoff’s criti-
cisms. I have no quarrel with the
intent, but with his communica-
tion. Why, if he feels all that he
writes, does he add to the confus-
ion by writing in the same man-
ner he seeks to correct? And why
has he not assumed or pretended
that the average reader of his re-
view _ stupid that phrases
and senterices like “But the other-
wise lapidary poem demands this
last unblemishing, and the (when
badly pronounced) ambiguity is
legitimate”; or “makes fine use of
the chance she has for montage”



Laura Knipe Lightens | Unsolicited Literature

NEWS with Comic
Cartoon

To the Editor:

The prize for Life Brightener of
the Week goes unquestionably to
Laura Knipe, whose cartoon in
The News more than offset a pes-
simistic review of Counterpoint
and a frightening list of subver-
sive organizations. More of her
work, please; after considering
the discouraging side of life, it
comes as a great relief to find
someone skillfully pointing up the
funny side, A
Sincerely,

Ann Shocket, ’54

Bess Foulke Criticizes

Berthoff Review
As Unclear

To the Editor:

I am most interested by Mr.
Warner B. Berthoff’s statement,
in his review of the Winter Coun-
terpoint, that “the work of Miss

Forbes and Miss Phipps deserves

more serious comment”. Since
five paragraphs precede this state-
ment, I can only conclude that Mr.
Berthoff’s remarks in those para-
graph’s were not serious, This
seems regrettable, since his fa-
cetious comment covers the photo-
graphs and three poems.

Having laid by a copy of Coun-
terpoint, I was able to observe
that the reviewer omitted far
more than punctuation in his quo-
tation from “Beethoven”. He
omitted words as well; and I be-
lieve it’ is customary, even when
saving expense, to indicate word-
omissions by dots. Furthermore,
it is not. clear to. me why Mr.
Berthoff criticizes what he says
Miss Forbes did not write, rather
than what she did write.

Continued on Page 4, Col. 1



are simply beyond understanding.
To me, they are beyond under-
standing, because a dictionary and
an English handbook fail to clari-
fy the phrases, the meaning, or
the frivolity. As for me, I am
stupid, and I do not understand
what a “lapidary poem”, “neo-
Dada writing’, “pantheistically
significant” windows, “minimal
toughness”, “a charming scatolog-
ism”, and “the Ur Bryn Mawr
girl”, are. With a little effort, I
can read a dozen things into such
generalities, but I refuse to try to
do anything except to receive
what the writer is trying to com-
municate, — and little comes
across. I cannot believe that in
Continued on Page 6, Col. 1



vote according to the choice of the class.

There is not suf-

ficient stimulus under the present system to encourage vot-
ers to seek out the candidates for questioning or ascertain
the opinions of others about them.

The reports are stereotyped. Even if a student does take
the time to read them, she concludes that all the candidates
are equally capable and votes for the class’ choice.

If the four final candidates were iisted in alphabetical
order on the ballot, it would still be very easy to vote for the
top person first and on down the line. It is a proved fact that
in elections the first name on the ballot has an advantage.

It has been suggested, therefore, that the practice of pre-
senting blank ballots to the studeni be adopted. This would





encourage finding out about the nominees and make the pro-
cess of voting a more difficult one than just writing 1, 2, 3, 4.

Under such a system there are two alternatives: a) that the}

class narrow the slate to four, but do not list its order of pref-
erence; b) that the class’ order of choice be indicated in the
reports.

The system as it stands is inadequate. Until the present
there have been no concrete suggestions for reform. A blank
ballot seems to be the best alternative. Surely the four fina’

| candidates are all capable of assuming the position, and a

blank ballot would give nominees 2, 3, and 4 a greater chance
A blank ballot would also stimulate inquiry and send as
‘sure more intelligent voting.

back :



Fails to Invalidate
Loyalty Oath

January 14, 1952
To the Editor of The College News:

An arricle in the News last week
said that the loyalty oath for gov-
ernment employees included 32
statement that they have not re-
ceived literature from subversive
organizations. This is not our un-
derstanding at all. Some agencies
now listed as subversive started off
life in a perfectly blameless way;
and lists of names of all kinds are
available to almost anyone. You
may be asked if you have ever had
such literature but you should be
in the clear if you explain that the
organization got your name ir
some way unknown to you or that
you had some connection with it
when it was reputable if not pa-
triotic.

Very sincerely yours,
Louise F, H. Crenshaw
The Bureau of Recommendations



Reader Decries Review
for Destructive
Criticism

Jan. 10, 1952
To the Editors:

Before beginning, I want to
make it clear that I write this let-
ter as a private individual, inde-
pendent of my connection with
Counterpoint and without its sup-
port.

_ Even to save expense of quot-
ing” it seems scarcely permissible
to leave out words and entire
phrases in a quotation without at
least indicating the deletion by
dots or asterisks, as was done in
Mr. Berthoff’s review of the Win-
ter Counterpoint, with reference
to the poem “Beethoven.” Mr.
Berthoff says: “There may be a
poem hidden in ‘Beethoven.’ Let
us cut the deadwood and see.” He
then quotes, as an entity, the
parts of the poem which he has
singled out as essential, neglect-
ing to indicate the places where
he has amputated. Where dead-
wood has been cut, the living trees
do not automatically move up next
to each other; there are spaces,
which in print must be dealt with
in a manner immediately obvious
to the reader, if a grossly mis
leading impression is not to be
gained.

He continues, “Check your copy
for the punctuation; I deliberately
omit it to permit an ambiquity or
two, notably ‘and deaf creation
drags the self.’ This gives the
reader (taking the safe assump-
tion that he has not a copy of
Counterpoint in hand, since it
came out over a month ago) the
mistaken impression that punctu-
ation (a word which, as used here,
seems to refer to the original
punctuation of the poem itself and
not to the punctuation of omis-
sion) and punctuation only has
been left out. Although he adds,
“That is not what Miss Forbes
wrote”, it is unclear whether this
statement refers to the entire

quotation or simply to the phrase

he repeats from it. In any case,

what Miss Forbes did write is now

a matter of extreme ambiguity,
“but it,” as Mr. Berthoff has re-
arranged it, “seems very promis-
ing. She is of course entitled to
it.”

Leaving the reader confused and
very likely repelled by this piece
of apparent (since he does not ac-
count for its value) jargon, he
passes on to the next, having made
the fatal mistake—decidedly not
unique in this review—of pulling
a thing apart without putting it
er. The ambiguities
which he wishes to point out (pos-
siblf with real perception and
merit, were he only to develop his

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Wednesday, January 16, 1952

THE COLLEGE

NEWS

Page Three



Movie Illustrates
Hypnotic Effects

Tuesday evening, January 8, the
Science Club showed a movie in
the Common Room on Unconscious
Motivation. A companion film on
Hypnctic Behavior was also sched-
uled to be shown, but a mixup in
film resulted in the substitution of
a movie entitled The Streamlined
Donkey Goes North.

Dr. Brown of the Psychology
department gave a short intro-
ductory talk on the history of
hypnotism. An interest in hypno-
tism can be traced back as far as
the Sixteenth century. In_ its
early stages it was frequently as-
sociated with the use of magnets.

Mesmer, an eighteenth century
Viennese physician, found that he
cculd cure certain illnesses first
by the use of magnets, and later
by so-called “animal magnetism”
which did away with the actual
use of magnets. Mesmer estab-
lished a clinic in Paris but was
judged to be a charlatan and final-
ly exiled to Switzerland.

Hypnotism has also been used
as an anesthesia, but that use was
soon abandoned in favor of chem-
ical agents. Today, hypnotism is
valuable to the psychologist chief-
ly as an experimental technique to
study unconscious. motivation. un-
der laboratory conditions.

The movie Unconscious Motiva-
tion was filmed by Dr. Beck of
the University of Oregon, with the
cooperation of two of his stu-
dents. Completely unrehearsed, it
showed the boy and girl going into
a hypnotic trance. While hypno-
tized, they were told of an ex-
perience in which the boy was sup-
posed to have found some money,
used it to buy gum, and concealed
his guilt from his mother. When
Dr. Beck brought the couple out
of the trance, they did not remem-
ber what had happened but they
both felt nervous and uncomfort-
able. Through questioning and
and several testsinvolving ink-
blots and word association they
were able to reconstruct the orig-
inal experience and were thereby
relieved of their feelings of guilt.

After the film, Dr. Brown an-
swered questions. Punch and
cookies were served.

Alumnae To Offer
$50 Gerould Prize

Undergraduates are at this time
reminded that again this spring
the Alumnae offer the Katharine
Fullerton Gerould Memorial Prize
of $50 for an original piece of
English Composition, not neces-
sarily a-class assignment in writ-
ing courses. Student may submit
a narrative, short or long, an in-
formal essay, a play or some
verse. Multiple entries are not
excluded, especially if individual
entries are very short; but formal
essays are excluded since they are
in the field covered by the M.
Carey Thomas prize.

All entries are to be fresh work,
completed or especially revised
since Commencement 1951, clean
copy, typed double space and with-
out the author’s name. Entries
submitted in former years are not
cligible, but the prize is open to
all undergraduates.

Manuscripts are to be left at
the Alumnae Office in the Deanery
where each contestant will be giv-
en a number to identify her entry.
The deadline is 4:00 P. M., Tues-
cay, April 8th.

The readers this year are Pro-
fessor Laurence Stapleton, Miss
Cornelia Meigs, 1907, and Eleanor
F. Rambo, 1908, Chairman.

Inquiries are welcome.



Panel Discussion
Debates on Oath

On Monday evening, January 7,
in the Common Room, a student
panel discussion on loyalty oaths
was held. The panel was debated
in conjunction with §S.D.A.’s_ Op-
eration Free Thought Week. Speak-
ing in favor of the oaths were
Judy Waldrop and Kay Sherman,
and speaking against were Patsy
Price and Barbara Fischer.

Patsy Price spoke of the danger
of loyalty oaths as a means of
forcing convention and orthodoxy
upon our thinking. A person ac-
cused of disloyalty is often unable
to obtain any other job, though
he may be completely texonérated.
It was also pointéd out that a
communist would probably lie as
to his affiliations, so that the oaths
actually do not accomplish their
purported task.

Kay Sherman spoke on _ the
Government Loyalty Review pro-
gram and Judy Waldrop on loyal-
ty in relation to academic free-
dom. They both pointed out the
dangerously insidious methods of
the Communists, and the need for
protecting young people against
such propaganda. It was further
said that the government program
was a check-up measure necessary
in such a critical situation.

The views expressed by the
speakers were not _ necessarily
their own.

NSA Participates
In World Meetings

American students will be rep-
resented this month by the U. S.
National Student Association
(NSA) at two world student con-
ferences. The student meetings in
Edinburgh, Scotland and Rio de
Janiero, Brazil will be attended by
officers of the NSA.

At the first meeting in Edin-
burgh, Jan. 3-8, USNSA president
William T. Dentzer, and NSA
vice-president of international af-
fairs, Avrea Ingram, will urge the
establishment of an international
secretariat, limited strictly to ad-
ministrative implementation and
coordination of the activities of
national student unions for the ex-
change of information and student
personnel.

Dentzer said that NSA is “es-
pecially interested in setting up a
body that will coordinate the ac-
tivities of the Students Mutual
Assistance Program (SMAP).”
The SMAP program each year
arranges for the sending of stu-
dents in technical studies in
America and Europe to South

‘East Asia, Africa, and the Middle

Hast.

The second International Stu-
dents conference at Edinburgh
will be sponsored by the National
Union of Students of Canada and
Scotland.

The National Student Associa-
tion is the official voice of Amer-
ican students throughout the
world. More than 250 American
colleges and universities and 700,-
000 students are members of the
NSA.

The NSA president and inter-
national vice-president will also
be present at the meeting of the
British National Union of Students
at Nottingham, England. They
will present the views of Amer-
ican students as voted last sum-
mer at the fourth National Stu-
dent congress in Minn., Minn.





A. L. Fabens, Bryn Mawr,
1951, who is now at Somerville
College in Oxford, has had a
short story published in the
“Cherwell”, Michaelmas Term
issue. The title of the story is,
“A Novel Acquaintance”.











French Club Picks
Future Production

The French Club has announced
its selection of the play Andro-
maque to be presented on March
25 in the Otis Skinner Workshop.
The play by the celebrated 17th
century author Racine is an ex-
cellent example of classic tragedy.
Andromaque’s story is that of a
beautiful queen, Hector’s wife,
who is prisoner of Hector’s mur-
derer Pyrrhus. Pyrrhus, who
wants to marry her, is betrothed
to Hermione, whose former lover
Oreste has just arrived on the
scene. From this complicated be-
ginning the tragedy develops
along familiar classical lines. Ed-
ward Morris will direct the pro-
duction.

Paula Donnelly, newly-elected
president of French Club, has an-
nounced tryouts held on January
14, 15, and 16. These are open,
as are all French Club meetings,
to any and all interested students,
whether or not they are taking
any courses in the French depart-
ment,

S.D.A. Sets Week
For Free Thought :

‘The week of January seventh
vo January eleventh was devoted
vo a campaign for “Free Thought”,
sponsored by the Students for
vemocratic Action of Bryn Mawr
Loliege. The aim of the Free
‘nought Week, as stated by Alice
Hartman, ’54, of S.D.A., was to
reawaken and preserve freedom of
thought concerning civil liberties.
Many people have the same feel-
ing which the Students for Demo-
cratic Action have, that freedom
and individuality of thought, par-
ticularly in political affairs, tend
to disappear in times of crises
such as these.

To stimulate the general declin-
ing sense of responsibility of
thought, the S.D.A. has sponsored
several . activities. The first of
these, Monday night, January 7,
was a panel discussion on Loyalty
Oaths, a subject of vital poli-
tical importance today, held in the
Common Room. Patsy Price, ’54,
Judy Waldrop, ’53, Kay Sherman,
64, and Barbara Fischer, ’55, de-
bated. Thursday evening, the
eleventh, Peter Bachrach, former-
ly of the Department of Political
Science at Bryn Mawr, (now on
leave of absence at Harvard Uni-
versity) spoke on the subject, “Is
the Classic Justification of Free

Expression Valid Under Mod-
ern Conditions?”, A discussion
period followed Dr. Bachrach’s

lecture.

The third activity, sponsored
jointly by the Students for Demo-
cratic Action and the Bryn Mawr
Alliance for Political Affairs, was
to have the Alliance Hall Repre-
sentatives give each girl in her hall
a list of her senators and also her
representatives, if possible. The
object of this is to facilitate writ-
ing letters to senators, giving
them the students’ point of view,
particularly in matters which con-
cern us as directly as do Loyalty
Oaths. As a further incentive, the
Alliance will furnish stamps,
gratis, to anyone who takes the
trouble to write to her congress-
man.

Alliance Promotes
Student Activities

Have you received a slip of
‘paper with your Congressman’s
name? Write to him whenever
you wish to express yourself on a
congressional bill. , Congressmen
must consider their electorate’s
opinion when they vote, and your
letters will influence them. Give
your letters to your hall Alliance
representative; she will see that
your letters are stamped and

Bachrach Discusses

Free Speech

In Adjunct With SDA Campaign

Is the Classical Justification of
Free Expression Valid under Mod-
ern Conditions? This is the title
of the speech and the primary
question which Mr, Peter Bach-
rach offered for consideration in
his lecture in connection with the
S.D.A. and its campaign, Opera-
tion Free Thought, in the Com-
mon Room on Thursday evening.

At the onset Mr. Bachrach cited
the case of the Supreme Court’:
upholding of Communist leaders
under the Smith Act for conspi:
ing to teach and advocate thr
overthrow”of the United State
Government by force. There wa
agreement that mere advocacy o
overthrow does not contradic: ¢’
first amendment and “can only b
squared with the requirements o.
this amendment when a clear anc

Flexner Lectures
To Begin Feb. 11

The Mary Flexner Lectures foi
1952 are to be given by Isaia
Berlin, Research Fellow at Ai.
Souls’ College and University Lec
turer in Philosophy at Oxfor.
University. His topic will be Pr
litical Ideas in the Romantic Age,
1760-1830.

There will be six lectures on
Monday evenings from February
11th to March 17th. The _ sched-
ule is as follows:

1. February 11th

The Concept of Nature and the

Science of Politics (Helvetius

and Holbach)

II. February 18th



Political Liberty and the Ethical

Imperative (Kant and _ Rous-
seau)
III. February 25th

Liberalism and the Romantic
Movement (Fichte and J. 38.

Mill)
IV. March 3rd
Individual Freedom and _ the

March of History (Herder and
Hegel)

V. March 10th
The Organization of Society and
the Golden Age (St. Simon and
his successors)

VI. March 17th
The Counter-Revolution (Mais-
tre and Gorres)

present danger existed.” In. ex-
pressing the view of the tradi-
‘tional “clear and present danger”
doctrine, Mr. Bachrach reviewed
Brandeis’ belief that “unless
danger is very imminent, any ad-
vocacy of law _ breaking only
heightens it.”

A second test, one of balance,
was defined by Judge Hand as a
test weighing the evil of the sup-
pression of free speech against
the gravity and probability of its
occurrance. Under such a policy,
free speeca would be safeguarded
unless specific circumstances
wureacenea, Mr. Bachrach dis-
agrees and believes this Handian
viewpoint challenges the funda-
mental and traditional concept
that “truth awaits to be discover-
ed by full and free discussion”.
Botn Justices Black and Douglas
uphold this philosophy, which had
its roots in Locke, Jefferson,
Holmes and Mill. But the dom-
Nant view is still Handian. Why
wait for the truth to be discussed
when powerful conspiracy may be
active in a country in our presen
sndustrial and financial straits.

Mr. Bachrach called upon the
iiberal to examine his preconcep-
vions on the issue and consider
che evidence against a Mill-
| Holmes philosophy. Two points
were presented for examination:
“whether truth can be revealed by
full and free discussion of op-
posing ideas; and is the common
man sufficiently rational to recog-
nize truth among competing ideas
in the market place?”

McCarthy and his cohorts re-



ject the first proposition on the
premise that the truth is known
and they have a corner on it. Mr.
; Bachrach pointed out that it is
| here that any deviation from
ja..y line is considered disloyalty
‘and he agreed that the position
| was logical, for if one has faith
-n_a_ premise, that faith is ex-
pressed in laws confiscating any
opposition. Therefore, in permit-
ting opposition to free speech, the
power of speech is weakened
Here again Mr. Bachrach agreed
with Justice Holmes that the best
truth is that which can survive
free speech and competition in the
market. The Justices who ques-



Continued on Page 4, Col. 2



NOTICE

COUNTERPOINT takes great pleasure in announcing the fol-
lowing elections: DIANA FORBES, Editor-in-Chief; BOBBYANN

ROESEN, Business Editor.

Former associates who have moved up

to the Editorial Staff are HELEN KATZ and NAOMI ELLEN-
BOGEN. Former Business Editor, VIRGINIA HOLBECK, has join-
ed the staff again. Remaining members of the Staff are LEATRICE
HOARD, LUCY TURNBULL, and ANNE PHIPPS.

Associates will be determined by tryouts and elected before

the first meeting for the spring issue.

Tryouts are due by Wednes-

day, March 5, and are divided into three parts:

1) Two or three samples of recent creative writing.

2) A criticism of the Winter Counterpoint.

3) Three or more suggestions for improving Counterp in
To each separate article attach an envelope containing name clas

and campus address.

The deadline for regular contributions is Wednesday, Mar-h 1]
The Counterpoint box is underneath the hall announcement {

in Taylor.

Counterpoint now comes out only twice a year, wintei

“

spring. Under the present system, the same board handles the

spring issue of one year and the winter issue of the next.

Ths

means that seniors who are former or present members are avail

able to help a partially inexperienced board when needed.

It also

means that Counterpoint loses Staff members when they graduate.
Associates will be elected in the fall to replace them.

Counterpoint needs original, unselfconscious and coherent writ-
ing. It is your magazine, not to complain about idly, but to improve.
It never will improve until those who can write, do write. If you want

a better magazine, write it.

And don’t limit yourselves to stories and

poems, if you feel they are not your metier. Counterpoint needs crit-

ical writing, essays, reviews.

t is time for hidden talent to come

out from under that bushel and write. Write about what you know.
This does not require, to take a violent example, that in order to
write about a murderer you must be one; but it does require that you

have experienced the feeling which prompted the act.

Writing fails

when the author is on the outside looking in. He must, in some way,

be a part of what he is saying.



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Page Four

THE

COLLEGE

NEWS

Wednesday, January 16, 1952



Counterpoint Judgment
Lacks in Real Appraisal

Continued from Page 2

Since I have no fault to find
with what the critic himself calls
his “doctrinal - quibbling”’, and
since I agree with him that Miss
Wei’s translations are “the best
verse in the issue’, I turn to his
paragraph on “The Star”. Here Mr.
Berthoff leaps to a conclusion for'
which I am unable to see any
basis. He says “... the end (is)
unwisely entrusted to two small!
boys...” Nowhere in the Coun-
terpoint text is the age of these’
boys stated; but it.is implied by:
the words they speak — words
which the reviewer, groundlessly
assuming the boys to be “small”,
says are “unwisely entrusted” to
them. Here again I fear that Mr.
Berthoff is criticizing what Miss
Forbes did not write.

The paragraph on “Lightly
Turns” opens with a_ sentence
which led me to hope at last the
review was becoming construc-
tive. It reads “‘Lightly Turned’
sets aside the most difficult tech-
nical problem and is consequently
the best piece so far”, But the
critic—who_ incidentally appears
to be uncertain of the title of the
piece he is reviewing — does not
continue. He does not tell us what
he considers the “most difficult
technical problem” to be, so that
we too may set it aside as Miss
Holbeck has done; nor does he
explain how she succeeded in do-
ing so.

All in all, I feel that Mr. Bert-
hoff’s review of the Winter Coun-
terpoint ended where it should
have begun; for I think a review-
er is shirking his job whose only
idea of constructive and clarifying
criticism is the statement that
“ .,. unless Counterpoint’s editors
understand the kind of difference,
we may as well abandon hope
whenever again we enter here”.
Evidently they do not; and I do
not think that Mr. Berthoff’s re-
view will help them.

Sincerely,



Elizabeth George Foulke, ’52

Bachrach Asserts Positive Progressive Program

Will Form Greater Civil
Continued from Page 3

tion free speech certainly have not
adopted the McCarthy-Soviet posi-
tion, but are simply rejecting a
fundamental tenet of liberalism
under present conditions. -Mr.
Bachrach’s point is that on the

basis of the forementioned prin-
ciples, all unorthodox thoughts be-
come suspect as reflected in gov-
ernment purges and loyalty oaths.

In consideration of the second
point, man’s irrationality, Mr.
Bachrach questions whether the
average man gives any considera-
tion to complex policies and is-
sues of the day. He also suggests
vhat man’s rationalization may re-
flect his class interest; but social
scientists say that individuals are
poor judges of their own interest,
and, for example, join a political
party “to relieve their own dis-
orders by irrelevant palliatives.”
But whether man can settle his
problems intelligently or not, what
use is there in seeking truth by
discussion if one charge by a pro-
fessional informer can ruina man?
If the men who talk in the market
place decide to favor policies un-
favorable to the government and

they are accused of irrationality, | -

it is then unconstitutional to re-
strict free speech if the people
wish it. Mr. Bachrach’s point was
that there should not be both free
speech in the market and uncon-
stitutional declarations of free
speech restrictions simultaneously.

Mr. Bachrach feels that the lib-
eralists should realize the irra-
tional force in man and make
their objective “to utilize this
knowledge of the irrational in an
effort to broaden the area of ra-
tionality in society.” For example,
if the people fall into hysteria it
can best be combatted by destroy-
ing its roots and not by simply
using “rational argument against
its manifestations.” The cause for
such hysteria Mr. Bachrach be-
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It appears to him to be a reac-
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of ourselves from the ideas of

social revolrtion and not an un-
controllable fear of military pow-
er. What really is evolving is an
insistance of the people for broad-
ening and intensifying democracy.
Because some individuals fear this
change they deem such considera-
tions irrational. Mr. Bachrach
agrees with Archibald MacLeish,
that this hysterical fear, the ob-
session of Communism, can best
be alleviated by American acquisi-
tion of an affirmative rather than
a negative, completely defensive
objective.

What the liberalists should do is
effect a positive program of eco-
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Wednesday, January 16, 1952.

THE COLLEGE

NEWS

Page Five



Counterpoint Review
Stirs Writer’s Comment

Continued from Page 2

point) would not suffer from the
indication of deletions which 1
have suggested, while the poem—~
that of the authors’ intention, at
least,—suffers seriously without
it.

I have chosen to examine Mr.|}

Berthoff’s criticism of “Beethov-
en” because, to me, it is a flagrant
example of the type of criticism
which can be most harmtul to a
college magazine, and because I
am better qualified to discuss my
own work than to discuss that of
Uuuers sn Wae Winter Counterpoint.

aliuerehy IM Criticism are Clarity,
anu oObjecvlvity. ‘100
a.eyueluly this review tails to
luiccy vue requirements. 1 exempli-
4y my point im the criticism of
~peevunoven.” Mr, Berthott men-
ions “aeadwood” but is never spe-
ciuc enough to explain why he
cuusiders 1t $0; he Goes not tell us
What 10 18 that he 1s attacking (clar-
luy). anstead, raising the hatchet
uarkly, he suddenly becomes cre-
avtlve and carves out a little poem
oc his own. ‘This might be in-
structive were he to enlighten us
on its merits and draw a valid
comparison to the original effort.
As 1t 18, he takes the reader on an
excursion which, in its present
context, is vague and pointless
(coherence and objectivity).

Cumereuce,

Supercilious Tone

Another fault of this sort ot
criticism lies in its tone, which is
too often pompous, condescending,
supercilious or silly; in any case,
renecting lack of respect for the
only creative magazine on campus,
the magazine which, whatever its
faults (some of which are indubi-
ably retiections of conditions be-
yond our control or even our ap-
prehension), is the vehicle of ex-
pression here for everyone who
nas the desire to transmit some-
thing of himself onto paper. It
is the business of the reviewer of
sucn a magazine, which can im-
prove only through wider reader
and contributor interest, to be
nonest, but to be constructive as
well, It is easy to damn (“... its
vwuoughts are fatally satisfied . ..
ana its readers ... are liable
unemseives not to give a hoot.”),
put it is the harder and better
part, even while exposing the de-
iects, to point out, equally spe-
cifically, the existent and poten-
tial good. If one compares this is-
sue of Counterpoint with the two
immediately preceding, one may
conclude that the authors of the
most recent issue are (with certain
exceptions) striving for a less ab-
struse, less cluttered, and simpler
quality of expression. Perhaps
new faults have developed in the
attempt to get rid of the old. But
this very attempt is a proof of
that interest, the lack of which
Mr. Berthoff decries: an “interest
in the work of writing.”

At the moment, this interest in
the work of writing may be mere-
ly latent, It is certain that it
needs encouragement and motiva-
tion, neither of which is likely to
be found in a review which ranges
from the general to the picayune
but never truly finds the heart of
the matter or seizes on the in-
dividual composition as a whole.
It takes no extra space to do a
proper job, if space is an object;
it simply requires organization,
which is another name for per-
spective. I do not imply that
Counterpoint stands or falls on
the nature of the review. But I
hold that the review, at its best,
no matter what it has to say, can
be one source of support and in-
spiration to the magazine. Coun-
terpoint needs more constructive
reviews. _
Sincerely,

Diana Forbes, ’54



ENGAGEMENTS

Miss Deborah S. Austin, to Mr.
Richard G. Bozorth.

Lynne Antoinette Leach, ’53, to
Edward Windell.

Constance Logan, ’52, to David
Eaton, Jr.

All Balloting Requires
Attention, Consideration
Continued from Page 1

alone. If the class committee’s
functions were limited, the reports
would be read to a joint meeting
of the three class nominating com-
mittees who would vote together
on the slates to be presented to the
classes. This suggestion was
brought up at severai hall meet-
ings anc is an attempt to mini-
mize the strong influence of the
class on the nominations.



Questions four and five are self- |
expianatory. The voter is asked
whether she thinks the first Jun-'
.or and Sophomore members to
Undergrad should be college-elect-|
ed as at present or should be
class-elected. There was strong
-eeling in some of the hall meet: |
.ngs that the number of college
zlections should be cut, but these
-wo elections were the only ones
which any substantial group of
yeople thought could be eliminated. |

Tne hall meetings produced a
great number of suggestions for
smproving the elections which do
aot appear on the ballot becaust
-hey do not require any constitu
uonal change. No matter how th
voting turns out on Thursday the
.ollowing improvements, among
sthers, will be undertaken: an ei
.ort wili be made to make the re
yorts mvre objective, more than.
.our people will be interviewed 1.
aecessary, blank ballots will prob:
wbly be used,*ra tea will be held tc
ntroduce the candidates and pub.
ucity will be improved. Other sug
gestions are still welcome.

No constitutional changes can bi
nadé without the consent of two
hirds of the entire college, so ev
ry vote on Thursday is impor.
int. Think about the issues, every
ody, try to vote intelligently, bu.
whatever you do, please vote.



BALLOT ON ELECTION
PROCEDURE

Read this ballot carefully!
once under every question.

PREFERENTIAL ORDER
1. [] I am in favor of class pref-
erential listing of candidates
in some form.

{ ] I am opposed to class pref-
erential listing of candidates
in any form.

2. If preferential order is retained:

{ ] I am in favor of class pref-
erential listing of candidates
on the ballots.

{[] I am in favor of stating
class preferential listing of
candidates the reports,

but using blank ballots.

NOMINATING COMMITTEE

3. [J] I am in favor of the pres-
ent functions of the class
nominating committee; i.e.,
drawing up reports and nar-
rowing the slate to be pre-
sented to the class.
I am in favor of limiting
the function of the class
nominating committee to the
drawing up of reports and
having the three-class nom-
inating committees together
narrow the slate to be pre-
sented to the class.
POSSIBLE REDUCTIONS IN THE
NUMBER OF ALL-COLLEGE
ELECTIONS

4. [] I am in favor of the pres-
ent system whereby the
First Junior Member to Un-
grad (who runs the Under-
grad dances) is_ college-
elected.
I am in favor of having the
First Junior Member to
Undergrad elected by her
class.
5. [] I am in favg@ of the pres-
ent system whereby the
First Sophomore member to
Undergrad is college-elected.
I am in favor of having the
first Sophomore member to
Undergrad elected by her

Vote

[]

CJ

LJ





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Suggestions for Saving
Continued from Page 1

about $2.000 per year. If the hall
manager could know by Thursday
all the students who are leaving
college for a weekend, $3,000 would

be saved. With a shitt in our
private electricity system to a gen-
eral system, rates would be lower-
ed, but the cost of the change
would counterbalance the immedi-
ate saving.

Miss McBride closed the meeting
stating that the problem of ‘Costs
and Fees” is both a long-term and
a short-term one. There is no cri-
sis of bankruptcy at present, but
acticn must be taken immediately
to decrease the deficit and increase
professorial salaries, to make

Continued on Page 6, Col. 5

SPORTS

by Emmy Cadwalader ’53.

The Fencing Varsity sent fow
entries to the Amateur Fencer’s
League of America last Wednes-
day, January 9. The Bryn Maw.
grovp consisted of Maggie Glenn
Lillian Smith, Caroline Morgan
and Joyce Greer (captain). The
other cojleges also competing werc
the University of Pennsylvania
Tyler Art School, and the York
W.M.C.A.

Bryn Mawr should be very prow
of her fencers, because they did a
beautiful job at their first meet of
the season. Maggie Glenn and
Caroline Morgan both qualified for
the fina!s, and the grand triumph
of the evening was when Caroline
Morgan placed first for the whole
meet. With this good start it looks
very much as if the coming season
will be a promising one.





Woodward Book Given
At Library Friends Tea

Continued from Page 1

teen months, the entire Severn
lection of her father had been
returned, with the climactic acqui-
.uon ot the last by her own ef-
orts.

At tea after the “Indiscretions”,
he audience examined the Dictien-
ary and pictures, and in the midst
of it all ,the gift of a translation
of The Divine Comedy was an-
anounced. This hook, given by
Mrs. Woodward, had belonged to
Quita, and was the Nonesuch Press
editiun with illustrations from
Botticelli. It. will be in the Quita
Woodward Memorial Room, and
the rest of the gifts of the Friends
of the Library will be on display
in the Rare Book Room.



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Page Six

TH

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Wednesday, January 16, 1952



Student Sees Sincerity,
Directness, Necessary
Continued from Page 2

criticizing a style in the same
style (which I cannot accept as
the trend on my generation of
critics and creative writers), that
there should be a loss of articu-
lateness or objectivity. If the stu-
dents need to write in a better
way, tell them simply: “Write
about what you understand, and
consider the vatue of the individ-
ual word; consider, too, that sim-
plicity, honesty, directness, and
carefulness have never been con-
sidered sins.” But to criticize
vague writing in brilliant, uncom-
municative, tongue-in-cheek word
inations is destructive. Coun-
point: does not put out a light
of light, “soft”, “foggy”,
r “satisfied”, and as for the abus-
ed “extracurricular muse”, who
is “not a spittoon for unmarket-
able distillations”, might it not be
more powerful for, and less dis-
concerting to the points he should
stress, to say that there is an in-
tellectual laziness current which
fosters inarticulatenéss, and re-
fuses to be thorough?
Sincerely,
Helen Katz, ’53



Militarists Frustrate Germany’s Democratic

Progress During Recent

Continued from Page 1

the effect that the king gave the
people limited suffrage and a na-
tional parliament whose lower
house exercised control over the
budget. The move satisfied neither
the liberals nor the army. The
minimal demands of the former
had been that the army be requir-
ed to take an oath to defend the
constitution and be bound by its
provisions. When in 1850 the con-
stitution was revised, it was stat-
ed that the oath would not take
place. The army was lifted above
the law of the land, a position
which it maintained.

A great constitutional crisis-oc-
curred in 1860-1866, Dr. Craig
continued, in which middle class
liberalism staged its last real at-
temps to control the military. It
was completely defeated, and the
army made its 1850 autonomous
position secure.

When in 1870. Austria unified
Germany the army maintained its
Prussian position. After 1871 it
forgot its primary allegiance was
to the state and became an inde-
pendent political factor, especial
ly active in forming foreign pol-
icy. World War I intensified the
divorce of diplomatic and military
relations.

In 1918 the Weimar Republic



Century of History

tried to make the army an
“agency of the people”, but was
dependent on it for defense
against the Communists and Na-
tional Socialists. In the long run,
the army again became a_ body
separated from the people. In
1930-33, the critical period of the
Weimar Republic, the army was
a great factor in determining po-
litical policy. The National Social-
ists realized that to dominate the
state they would first have to
gain the army’s backing. In Jan-
uary, 1933, Hitler’s rise to power
was tacitly supported by the mil-
itary. Within five years he had

-completely subordinated the army

to his own control.

For more than a century the
military retained an autonomous
position, “frustrating Germany’s
progress towards democracy.” Its
reactionary position was firmly
against the social and economic
reforms required to make Ger-
many a peaceful, democratic state.

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teaching at Bryn Mawr attractive
to qualified instructors. There
must be no loss in the integrity of
instruction which students receive.



Cleland Analyzes Three

Catagories of Laughter

Continued from Page 1
quality, humor reaches the realm
of wit.

The difficulty arises with the
necessity of relating the situa-
tion to others so that it is still
funny. “Now, that’s the rub,”
he said. Two things are neces-
sary: first, a very good memory,
and second, “a certain grasp of the
principles. of public speaking.”
He needs a keen appreciation of
the human situation, an instinct
for selection of stories suitable to
his audience,

Laughter comes under three
headings, cruel, objective, or sym-
pathetic. Cruel laughter is char-
acterized by sarcasm, which comes
from the Greek sarkazein, mean-
ing “to tear flesh like dogs.”

Objective laughter is aimed not
at. people but ideas, the ideas
which people have of themselves.
This may go in two directions,
either from wit to satire to ridi-
cule to reform, or from amuse-
ment to tolerance, the quiet ac-
ceptance of the incongruities of
life because life is congruous.

Sympathetic

has described it as “the kindly |;
contemplation of the incongru-
ities of life. Laughing sympa-
thetically, a man laughs with, not

laughter contains} resound

love and understanding. Leacock |!



Bard’s Eye View

by Sheila Atkinson, ’53,
and Claire Robinson, ’54

Mother dear; to you I write

With fear and trepidation,

Because from you I ask a very

Special dispensation.

When I come home from B.M.C.

Let. me sleep late, I pray you

Don’t say to me, “My child —
you’re thin

I must have Daddy weigh you!”

Don’t scream, “The ercles ’round
your eyes

Are horrible—I’m seething!”

Oh Ma—be glad exams are past,

And I’m still here—and breathing!



at, his fellow.

Reverend Cleland closed by
reading a quotation from Niebuhr:
“Humor is a fact, a prelude to
faith, and laughter is the begin-
ning of prayer. Laughter must be
heard in the outer courts of re-
ligion; and the echoes of it should
in the sanctuary; but
there is no laughter in the holy
‘of holies. There laughter is swal-

‘lowed up in prayer and humor is

fulfilled by faith.”



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