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VOL. XLIV, NO. 22

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1950.





Copyright, Trustees of

Bryn Mawr College, 1950





arriet Smith Receives Hinchman for Work

PRICE 15 CENTS



in Biology



Janschka Displays True Genius
At Showing of Contemporary Art

by Jane Augustine, 52

The Carlen Gallery in Philadel-
‘phia is now exhibiting for the first
time in America the work of Fritz
Janschka, the Viennese artist whom
the Catherwoods have brought to
Bryn Mawr to work and teach.
Forty drawings and paintings are
mow on display; some are water-
colors, some are done in ink, a few
are in pencil. It is difficult to judge
any way but subjectively, and for
that reason some would think them
more beautiful than others would.
‘But it seems impossible that any-
one could think they are not beau-
‘tiful — and to achieve beauty is
the artist’s foremost goal.

These pictures show infinite as-
pects of the artist’s conscious and
subconscious mind. They reveal
thoughts much too elusive for
words — and that also hinders
objective criticism. Underlying the
great variety of subject matter
-and treatment are a few charac-
teristics which distinguish __ Mr.
Janschka’s work from that of other
artists. All of the pictures con-
ttain much detail and many fine
lines. Yet none of these fine lines
js meaningless, any more than a
fine strand of steel wire is mean-
ingless to a bridge cable. The
‘watercolors are characterized by a
nebulous juxtaposition of color-
splotches — in the background
usually, but not always — on which
minutely drawn objects are super-
imposed. An underwater theme
runs through both subject and
treatment of several watercolors,
and can be detected in the treat-
‘ment alone of some scenes which
are not undersea. It is the quality
of an oceah-bottom, or a magic
garden. Many pictures contain
groups of tiny faces all bearing
different expressions, viewed from
different angles, and placed in dif-
ferent positions. The artist seems
to see faces in inanimate objects,
or to conjure them out of blank
plane surfaces and thin air.

One watercolor From My Gar-
den is very simply constructed.
From a distance one has an im-
pression of seven parallel strands
of blurred blue. Up close one sees
that there are many shades of blue
ranging from royal through Prus-
sian blue to green or grey. One
sees flowers with faces drawn by
a single-hair brush dipped in pur
ple and maroon. The feeling is one
of finding the overlooked beauties
of small things — like seeing a
butterfly’s wing clarified by a
microscope. The water color Dance,



Athletes Receive
Awards on May 3

This Wednesday, May 3, the
Athletic Association of Bryn Mawr
will hold the annual Award Night.
There will be a general review of
all sports events of the past year,
the presentation of point awards,
and later there will be refresh-
ments. Everyone in the college,
‘professors as well as students, is
cordially invited, whether they are
athletic or just have friends who
are. So don’t forget Awards
Night, May 8 at 8:30 o’clock in
the Common Room.







;lent by Mr. Politzer, is similar,

but in it the parallel strands are.
black, detailed in white. The top
foreground is black; behind and
below there is the sooty-yellow
and green of undersea light,
through which fat fish swim in one
direction. In People Courtesying,
black and purple definitely-shaped
strands against a sunset back-
ground have the effect of a shadow
play. %

Several paintings are nothing
more than a closely-packed group
of faces showing every possible
expression. One of these is Fish
and Mussels, with black and white

‘detail on deep pink paper; another

with a lavendar background is
From the Sea, lent by the Charles
Chaplins. The two paintings The
Animal Kingdem Discusses War
andA Living Mountain tell a story
— in them the faces are grouped
less closely. In the former, intelli-
gent-looking beasts, red-brown and
tawny, stand up before a yellow
sky filled with tiny fuschia and
peacock-blue rocket toys remini-
scent of certain so-called comic
strips. In A Living Mountain, reds
and pink-browns again predomin-
ate in a group that suggests so-
ciety in general — a few outstand-
ing individuals at the top, and a
great many crowded underneath.
Two miniscule purple figures in
Continued on Page 2

Schrecker Traces
“Descartes Today”

Dr. Paul Schrecker, who has just
been appointed full Professor of
Philosophy at the University of
Pennsylvania, spoke last Wednes-
day evening in the Common Room
on “Descartes Today.” Descartes
died only several days over three
hundred years ago.

Dr. Schrecker began his talk
with an explanation of the detail
in a Picard engraving that symbol-
ized Descartes’ influence on his
own age. Descartes is represented
in the center, led toward Truth,
and surrounded by Father Time,
a large university building “not
unlike Taylor Hall,” and other al-
legorical figures. The work was
meant to represent the penetration
of Cartesian thought into all the
arts and sciences. The reason for
the success of Descartes’ over-
throw of established methodology
was that he furnished the first
new reasoning along with the
fruit, analytic geometry, of his
Discours de la Methode. Then Dr.
Schrecker traced the progress Car-
tesian reasoning had made from
its inception in 1687, past the inter-
diction of Louis XIV against its
being taught in French universi-
ties, past the trend of conformity
to such accepted ancient authori-
ties as Aquinas and Euclid, and up
to its eventual counterpart in polit-
ical, as well as intellectual, revo-
lutions. It was Richelieu who said
that the French Revolution began
with Descartes. —

For Descartes it was the “free-
dom, or rather, the duty of all to
doubt” anything founded on author-
ity. The political repercussions of
this were immense. The unsubstan-
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Hinchman Winner, Harriet E. Smith



Harriet Smith, Hinchman Winner,
Plans To Do Honors in Biology

The Charles S. Hinchman Mem-
orial Scholarship, awarded annual-
ly to a member of the junior class
for work of special excellence in
her major subject, this year was
received by Harriet Elaine Smith.

Harriet comes from Forest Hills,
New York, where she was prepared
by the Forest Hills High School.
In her Freshman year she was
awarded the Class of 1902 Scholar-
ship for the year 1948-49, and this
year she is the James E. Rhoads
Memorial Junior Scholar. This
award is given to the student in
the sophomore class who has the
highest general average.

In addition to the Hinchman,
this. year Harriet received the
Maria L. Eastman Brooke Hall





Mr. J. Henry Scattergood will
speak on the finances of the Col-
lege at the next morning assem-
bly, on Wednesday, May 3. Mr.
Scatergood has been a trustee
from 1927 to 1950, and is now
treasurer of the College.





CALENDAR

Wednesday, May 3

Athlétic Association Award
Night, Common Room, 8:30 p.m.
Friday, May 5

Bryn Mawr College Theatre,
“The Beautiful People,” Roberts
Hall, Haverford, 8:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 6

Bryn Mawr College Theatre,
“The Beautiful People,” Roberts
Hall, Haverford, 8:30 p.m.
Monday, May 8
_ Current Events, Dr. Hubbard,
“The Brannan Plan,’ Common
Room, 7:15 p.m.
Tuesday, May 9

Alliance Assembly, Victor G.
Reuther, “Labor’s Role in an
Industrial and Political Democ-
racy,” Goodhart, 12:30 p.m.
Wednesday, May 10

Morning Assembly, Miss Tay-
lor, “Opportunities for Study
Abroad,” Goodhart, 8:45 a.m.









Memorial Scholarship, awarded to
the member of the junior class with
highest overall average, and the
Lillian Babbitt Hyde Foundation
Scholarship.

Harriet is majoring in Biology,
and represents her department on
the Curriculum Committee. She

plans to do honors in the field next

year.

College Publishes
Cum Laude List

Class of 1950
(69 of 185=51 %)

Susan Williams Binnian*, Anne
Marie Bobis, Patricia Nichol Both-
field, Isabel Burchuk, Karen D.
Cassard, Doris Marie Chambers,

’Martha Amn ‘Chowning, Carolyn

Cohen, Elizabeth Jean Connor, Joan
Dudley Davison, Chantal deKerillis,
Elizabeth H. Dempwolf, Marion
Dugdale, Louise Harding Earle,
Sheila Eaton, Marian Edwards,
Eloise Weld Fleming, Gretchen
Gaebelein, Helen Goldberg, Sylvia

‘Ann Good, Virginia S. Graham,

Claireve Grandjouan, Dorothy
Greeley, Nancy Greenewalt, Pen-
elope Greenough, Louise Harned,
Katherine T. Harper, Katherine A.
Harrington, Alta Mae Harris,
Elizabeth Hebb, Melanie A. Hewitt,
Maud Louise Hodgman, Hanna
Dorothea Holborn, Priscilla M. P.
Johnson, Ellen Mary Jones, Laura
Kaiser, Adele G. Kurtz, Edith
Rotch Lauderdale, Milena Louise
Lewis, Barbara V. Lightfoot, Marie
Grant Lukens, Annette McMaster,
Ruth Metzger, Lois Ruth Miller,
Mary H. Morrisson, Elizabeth A.
Mutch, Irina Nelidow, Anne T.
Newbold, Judith Anne Nicely, Mary
Elizabeth Porter, Frances K. Put-
ney, Louise Riker, Nancy Riley,
Winifred Runton, Isik Sagmanli,
Alice W. Shroyer, Ellen D. Shure,
Anneliese Sitarz, Florence A. Sny-
der, Elizabeth Spalding, Karen
Stuebben, Ethel S. Tessman, Emily
Continued on Page 2



Pres. McBride
Announces List
Of Scholarships

Shippen Lang., Science
Awarded to Kreis,
Taylor

Goodhart, May 1. At the annual
May Day Assembly this morning
Miss McBride read the list of
scholarships and academic awards
to be held during the year 1950-
1951.

The Charles S. Hinchman Mem-
orial Scholarship for excellence in
the major field was awarded to
Harriet E. Smith, who also receiv-
ed the Maria L. Eastman Brooke
Hall Memorial Scholarship, for the
highest general average in the jun-
ior class, andthe Lillia Babbitt
Hyde Foundation Scholarship.

Mildred Doris Kreis was award-
ed the Elizabeth S. Shippen Schol-
arship in a foreign language for
her work in German. Mildred comes
from Litchfield, Connecticut, where
she was prepared by the Litchfield
High School; and she also attend-
ed the Abbot Academy in Andover,
Massachusetts.

Janice Taylor of Scarsdale, New
York, received the Elizabeth S.
Shippen Scholarship in Science, a3
well as the Anna M. Powers Mem=
orial Scholarship. She was pre-
pared by the Scarsdale High
School. In her sophomore year,
Janice held the Maria Hopper
Scholarship, and this year is an
Anna Margaret and Mary Sloan
Scholar.

The Skeelah Kilroy Memorial
Scholarship, awarded for excel-
lence of work in advanced English,
went to Sophia Anne Sonne, ’61,
of New York. She was prepared by
the Chapin School in New York
City and the Masters School, Dobbs
Ferry, New York.

Nancy Laird Loomis of Oyster
Bay, Long Island, New York, was
awarded the Sheelah Kilroy Mem-
orial Scholarship in English, which
is given to the student in the re-
quired course in English Composi-
tion who writes the best essay
during the year. Nancy was pre-
pared by the Foxcroft School,
Middlebury, Virginia.

The Elizabeth Duane Gillespie
Scholarship in American History,
presented for work of special ex-
cellence in that field, was awarded
to Anne-Rosewell Johns, 52, of
Richmond, Virginia. She was pre-
pared by Saint Catherine’s School
in Richmond.

Anne Pamela Hughes Wahl, ’50,
Glen Ridge, New Jersey, won the
Katherine Fullerton Gerould Mem-
erial Prize, awarded for outstand-
ing work in the field of creative
writing. She was prepared by the
Glen Ridge High School, and the
Kent Place School, Summit, New
Jersey. Sara Elizabeth Herming-
haus, ’52, and Emily Dickinson
Townsend, ’50, received honorable
mention.