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Te COLLEGE NEWS



/OL. XLV, NO. 18

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1949

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College,1945

PRICE 15 CENTS





Dr. Marion Park
To Give Awards
At Fri. Assembly

Travelling Scholarships
Will Take Grads
To Europe

The Graduate Fellowship Assem-
bly will be held this coming Friday
at noon in Goodhart. All 12 o’clock
classes will be cancelled in order
-that the Undergraduate body will
have the opportunity to hear Dr.
Marion Edwards Park present the
European Travelling Fellowships
and deliver a speech entitled,

‘Graduate Work in Administra-
tion.” The Faculty has not yet
decided whether one or two awards
will be given.

It is interesting to note that
Miss Park herself held this high-
est academic award, a European
Fellowship, in 1899, the year after
she graduated, having held the of-
fice of President of Self4Gov in her
senior year at Bryn Mawr. Miss
Park received her iA.B. here in
1898 and her Ph.D. in 1918, after
studying at the University of Chi-
cago (1900) and the American
School of ‘Classical Studies in
Athens, Greece. She was an in-
structor and assistant professor in
Classical ‘Studies at Colorado Col-
lege (1902-1906). From 1910-1921
she was dean of Simmons College
and in 1922 dean of Radcliffe Col-
Jege.

Park Returns

Miss Park ibecame President of
Bryn Mawr in 1922 and has been
President Emeritus since 1942. She
4s: now living in Plymouth, Mass.,
and this will be her first public ap-
pearance at the college since 1944.

Her distinguished career as an
2ducator and leader of this college
makes Miss Park one of Bryn
Mawr’s most well known Alumna
and her address concerning grad-
uate work in administration will
undoubtedly ibe one of the most in-
teresting to be given this year.

On Friday evening there will be
4 dinner at the Graduate School
to celebrate the award which will
be presented to one of the students
there.

Burch Describes
Scientific, 3-fold

Universal Theory

Philosophy Club Lectures, March
14—The distinction between par-
ticulars and universals is that the
latter must be understood before
they can be identified, declared Dr.
George Burch, speaking to the
Philosophy Club on “The Theory
of Universals.” Whereas the par-
ticulars can be distinguished from
one another by being pointed to,
the universals have to be described.

Continued on page 2

Dr. G. A. Kennedy,
Far East Scholar,

To Discuss China

Professor George Alexander Ken-
nedy, director of the Institute for
Far Eastern Languages at Yale
University, New Haven, Conn., will
speak on “China” at the next Al-
liance Assembly, March 22.



Nude Descending Niche-case, and Friend









Haverford Holds

Review Session



Professor Kennedy was born in
Mokanshan, China, and received
his A.B. from Wooster College in
1922. He attended Western Theo-
' logical Seminary, Union Theolog-
ical Seminary, in New York, Colum-
bia University, and was awarded
the degree of Ph.D. in Berlin in
1938.

Well prepared to addfess the
students, with a background as
Chinese lecturer at Yale from 1936-
1938, appointed assistant professor
of Chinese language and literature
‘in 1938, Professor Kennedy is a
member of the Oriental Society
and Linguistic Society.

Dr. E. Boell Gives
Sigma Xi Lecture

On the evening of March 9, Dr.
Edgar J. Boell,
Harrison Professor of Experimen-
tal Biology at Yale University,
gave the annual Sigma Xi lecture
in Dalton. Dr. Boell, the first to
hold the Harrison Chair of Biology
recently established at Yale, where





Continued on page 2



Who, What, Where, Hoot Mon?
Bryn Maur 3 Reply, Win Quiz

By Emily Townsend, 50

Irina Nelidow loomed up out of
the Taylor mist. ‘You and Nancy
Martin and I are having a
quiz with-Scotland,” she announc-
ed. “It’s going to be lots of fun.”
We never had a chance. Protests
-were useless, Nellie was firm;~and
the battle of the intellectuals was
on.

We scraped together twenty sad
little questions for Alberdeen, like:
‘What author’s name reminds you
of a fondness for delicate needle-
qwork or a small carbonaceous ele-
vation?” ’and “Who said ‘Nuts!

took us in charge. We spent the
trip into town trying to persuade
Judy Nicely, our alternate, to take
over the show herself, but she
proved adamant. “It’s going to he
lots of fun,” Nellie kept saying.
We didn’t believe her.
_Arrived—at—the WPEN_ studios,
we were introduced to our moder-
ator, Fred Bennett. He tried us
out on test questions about grey
eminences and gloomy deans, and
we failed miserably. He -began to

and then Mr. Adams.

look unhappy. “We had been hop-
ing for another win,” he said. Ap-
parently Drexel had just been beat-
en by Edinburgh, and Philadel-
phia was not holding its end up
properly.

With our earphones on over one

chit-chat start: it was three-cor-
nered, between our Fred, someone
called Lillian in New York, and
Aberdeen’s Philip, a BBC man.
They were cleaning up the mess
the last quiz had left behind. Then
our opponents introduced them-
selves: Evelyn Smith, Alan Rob-
ertson, and Iaian MacPherson—

Celtic way,” he assured us.
Aberdeen called, “Are you ready,
Bryn Mawr? Are you ready?”
And then the terrifying question
same, the question that was to ex-
pose our abysmal ignorance and
the utter inefficiency of the Amer-
ican educational system: Who were

Ross Granville | -

ear, we heard the transatlantic)

| ‘not spelled Ian—inthe--wretehed

Of UN Charter

“Be it resolved by the General
Assembly, the Security Council
concurring, that a general confer-
ence of the United Nations for the
purpose of reviewing the present
Charter shall be held at Haverford,
Pennsylvania, USA, on the 18th of
March, 1949.” This is the “author-
ization” for the model review con-
ference which will bring delegates
from six states, representing the
member-nations of the U.N., to-
gether Friday in a model. review
conference to amend the U.N.
Charter. The goal of the confer-
ence is to decide what amend-
ments are possible and practicable
to give the United Nations the
powers needed to make it capable
of enacting, interpreting and en-
forcing world law.

Friday night the conference con-
venes to hear keynote speaker,
James Warburg, in Roberts Hall,
Haverford, at 8:00. This opening
plenary session will break up into
discussion groups after electing a
chairman and adopting rules. At
the second plenary session, Satur-

Continued on page 4



Calendar
Wednesday, March 16:

7:15 p. m.—Dr. Martin Foss,
Religious Discussion, Common
Room.

Friday, March 18:

12:00 m.: Miss Park, Graduate
Fellowship Assembly, Goodhart.

7:30 p. m.—Convention of

U.N. Review Conference, Rob-
erts Hall; Haverford:

8:30 p. m.—Foolish Notion,
Drama Guild and Cap and Bells
Production, Goodhart.

Saturday, March 19:

8:30 p. m.—Foolish Notion,

Goodhart.

Sunday, March 20:

1:30 p. m. Rev. S. H. Bishop.
‘Chapel, Music Room.
‘Monday, March 21: ..

7:15 p. m—Dr. Wells, Cur-
rent Events.
Tuesday, March 22:

12:30 p.m.—Dr. George Ken-
nedy, China, Alliance Assembly,
Goodhart.

8:30 p. m.—Dr. Kohler, Sci-



the crew of the wooden shoe?”
“Wynken, Blynken, and Nod,”
gasped Nancy in relief, and we
were off.





Continued on page 2 |

Wednesday, March 23:
8:15 p. m. — Open German
Club. Lecture, Dr. Bernheimer,

Library q.









60-yard breaststroke, with Demp-

Club_Leeture, Dalton. __|-_ ot there;""-said~thedirector,



BMC Swimmers

Come in Second;
Badminton Lost

On Saturday the Intercollegiate
Swimming Meet was held at Penn,
in which Swarthmore placed first
with 50 points, Bryn Mawr sec-
ond with 32, and Temple third with
21. Bryn Mawr’s position alone
in second place marked an im-
provement over last year, when we
tied for that position. C. Herman
and Geib swam in the 100-yard
freestyle, with Herman coming
in second. Bacon placed first in



ELECTIONS

The college take pleasure in
announcing the election of Eliz-
abeth Mutch as Vice-President
of Self-Gov., Mousie Wallace as
Common Treasurer, Cynthia
Lovejoy as Vice-President of
Undergrad, and Sue Sayage as
Secretary of Self-Gov.







the 50-yard freestyle, in which she
and Dean participated. Laidlaw
swam the 50-yard backstroke and
B. Dempwolf and ‘S. Howells the

Princeton-BMC
Concert Shows
Fine Technique

Ginastera, Thompson,
Haydn Highlight
Program
by Anne Greet 50

Bryn Mawr provided the techni-
cal polish and Princeton the en-
thusiasm at last Friday’s concert
in Goodhart. The Chorus and Glee
Club opened the program_ with
“Modern Music” by William Bill-
ings which was pleasant but unex-
citing. Bryn Mawr then present-
ed an interesting but not exactly
enjoyable group of songs. The
whole chorus sang Haydn’s Song
of Thanksgiving with grave gusto
and the double octet without ac-
companiment the haunting harmo-
nies of David Stanley Smith’s Two
Madrigals—Why So Pale and Wan
and The Bracelet. But Young Jo-

,seph seemed at first hearing a

combination of monotonous music
by David Diamond and a ponder-
ous text by Thomas Mann. Old
Abram Brown was as gloomingly
and charmingly interpreted as
ever but is beginning to lose his
appeal with repetition. It was a
Continued on page 2

Kohler to Speak
To Science Club

On Tuesday, March 22, Dr. Wolf-

-+gang Kohler, ‘Research Professor

of Psychology and Education at
Swarthmore College, will address
the Science Club on New Facts in
Perception. The lecture will be
given in the Biology Lecture Room
in Dalton.

After gaining practical experi-
ence as director of an anthropoid
station in the Canary Islands, Dr.
Kohler taught psychology at the
Gottingen and Berlin Universities
in Germany, and has been at
Swarthmore since 1935. Dr. Kohler
is the author of The Mentality of
Apes, Gestalt Psychology, and The



Continued on page 3

Place of Values in a World of Facts.



Ropes, Polka Dots, and Wet Man
Mark ‘Foolish Notion, Rehearsal

by Claire Liachowitz, ’52

Gigantic Goodhart stage was
bare of all appropriate scenery the
other night, when Mr. Thon and a
crew of actors and actresses strug-
gled through a rehearsal of the
third act of “Foolish Notion.”
Ropes were strung in all conceiv-
able places, and huge piles of flats
loomed in the wings. A few step-
and-fetching stage hands worked
m the background, painting and
scrubbing. The only available seats
were five uncomfortable chairs; a
bushel basket squatted in the mid-
dle of the stage, serving-as a low
table. A greasy tin can represent-
ed a very important silver urn.
Against the wall leaned a large
frame; and beside it was a larger
picture of a man in a bright blue
suit and polka dot tie. He looked
quite attractive, even if his paint
was still wet.

“that’s not the door!” A _ sigh-
ing actress turned around, went |
back off the stage, and said

And then she walked in again,
seemingly in the same place as be-
fore, but this time obviously walk-
ing in the door.

Even the characters, who were
doing the third act on the front —
of the stage, did.not-look.much like
characters. Their faces were col-
orless behind the footlights, while
class blazers above and stained and
patched blue jeans below were
hardly appropriate costumes. The
weary actors giggled when they
missed cues and forgot lines, and
general confusion reigned over
where to stand, and “You’re not
spedking loudly enough!”

But the actors had no audience
or inspiration. The usual crowd’
of wanderer-inners and_ strays
from the Soda Fountain was ab-
sent, for closed rehearsals were the
rule. The NEWS barely convinced
the director that it had a legiti-
mate reason for watching.
|-Friday-and* Saturday nights the—-
play will be presented in Good-
hart by Bryn’ Mawr and Haver-
ford.- “Foolish Notion” looks like



“Here?” “Yes, that’s much better.”

a

fun!