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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

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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

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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

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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





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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.