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THE COLLEGE NEWS §

Monday, May 1, 1950





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Joan McBruwe, ’52, Editor-in-chief

PauLa STRAWHECKER, "52, Copy
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- Editorial Staff
Emmy CADWALADER, 52 Hexen Katz, ’53
Patricia Murray, ’52 MaRGIE COHN, 752
JupirH Konowi7z, ’51 Jute ANN JOHNSON, 752
' FRANCES SHIRLEY, ’5 3 Mary-BERENICE Morris, 52
JupirH Waxprop, ’53

Staff Photographers
FRANCINE Du PLEssix, ’52
SuE BRAMANN, 752

Jane AvucusTINE, ’52
JOANNA SEMEL, 52

Business Managers
TaMa SCHENK, ’52 & Mary Kay Lacxritz, ’51

Business Staff
BarBARA GOLDMAN, ’53
Joan Rueps, ’52
Betty ANN SCHOEN, ’51

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The Significance of May Day

May Day is one of the best-known of all Bryn Mawr tra-
ditions. However, its original appeal seeyfS’to have become
tarnished through the years, and its original significance is
most certainly obscured.

The threat of one-dollar fines, and the tedium of daily
meetings and rehearsals have overshadowed, to a great ex-
tent, the charm and effectiveness of the actual singing of the
songs on May Day morning. .The worry about hopping on
the right beat and.straining to hear the speeches tends to de-
‘tract from the May-pole ceremonies. And assuredly the early
hour: does little for the general spirit of gaiety which should
characterize a holiday of this sort.

There are'so many little things connected with May Day,
that the important, significant ones are often unappreciated.
The waking of the Seniors with May Day baskets, the hoop-

- rolling down Senior Row, the Seniors’ willing of their “prized
possessions”, -and. the Assembly which is the culmination of
. the ceremonies: all these are the customs on which May Day
was originally based. -It is because the detail of these cus-
toms is stressed, -and their meaning generally overlooked
- that May Day seems:like-an outworn event to many. On the
- morning of May first,-if-at no other time, the travail and
monotony should be divorced from the ceremonies, and their
significance and: pleasant qualities realized and appreciated.

_——



The Creative Problem

In letters to the editor and in smoker sessions, students
have long deplored the lack of creative opportunities at Bryn
Mawr. In response to student demand they have grown: we
have the College Theatre, Freshman and Junior shows, Coun-
terpoint. And this is the fourth year that we have had Arts
Night, which presents what may be the most challenging and
rewarding opportunities.

But this year’s response has been discouraging in two
ways. First, from the creative aspect; dancers and musicians
have responded to the call of Arts Night, but Bryn Mawr is

not represented by a play. Those connected with Arts Night
have talent and great enthusiasm, but their number is not
proportionately representative of the many creative and
highly talented students on the Bryn Mawr campus.

Second, a glance at the seating chart will indicate the
apathy of the student body. Unless a great many tickets are
sold at the door, the auditorium will be less than half full.
The Arts Night committee was pleased to be able to present
its entertainment in Goodhart this year—an innovation and
tangible proof that Arts Night is growing and establishing
itself as an important Bryn Mawr tradition. Without the

‘support of the | students Arts Night has no importance. It is
ade; mas by, and for the students, and a magnificent





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M. DuPont Wins
Exhibition Match

On Thursday, April 27, the Ex-
hiibtion Tennis match between Mrs.
Margaret Osborne DuPont and
Mrs. Bunny Vosters was held on
the Bryn Mawr Varsity courts.
Two games were played, and were
both won by Mrs. DuPont, 6-4,
8-6. Both showed excellent form
and skill in their games, and to al!
the students watching, it must
have been a great inspiration.
There ‘were many amazing shots
and plays, which gave the specta-
tors a wonderful chance to see
tennis well played and enjoyed.
Both players moved with grace and
speed, making the match not only
thrilling but beautiful to watch.

Mrs. DuPont now holds the Na-
tional Women’s Championship title,
and Mrs. Vosters is ranked four-
teenth nationally, as well as being
the chairman of the Junior Wight-
man Cup Team.

The concentration during the

match was mostly on long base-|

line shots. Neither player came up
to the net very often, but when
they did they showed perfect con-

trol of the ball. Mrs. DuPont hit |

quite a few: beautiful cross court
shots, some of which were hit back
with exceeding ease on the part of
Mrs. Vosters. Mrs. DuPont’s serve
was one of the most outstanding
features of the match. It was a
very fast, powerful drive, which
went deep into the service court,
and almost had the strength of a
man. Both players had good, clean
hits and seldom cut or sliced the
ball, which all went to make the
match a very open and graceful
game.

Janschka Art Exhibit

Seen Impressive Start
Continued from Page 1

the pale blue sky whisper together,

pointing at the top of the moun-

tain.

Lantern Night at Bryn Mawr,
lent by Miss McBride, and First
Impressions of Philadelphia are
particularly interesting to anyone
conected with Bryn Mawr College.
Lantern Night has a dark misty
background; feminine faces sur-
reund their lanterns and peer out
of trees and doorways. In the
center Janschka paints himself
looking through an arched and
grated window |as if he were look-
ing, somewhat surprised, into a
convent. First Impressions of Phil-
adelphia masses male and female,
negro and Caucasian faces in the
dark foreground, while in back
buildings loom up into a _ red-
orange sky. Another obviously
Philadelphia - inspired painting,
Jazz, with its cold, dominant scar-
let, depicts its title well.

The ink drawings like Seven
Kinds of Death and The Parable
of the Loaves of Bread and Fish
are baffling and fascinating simul-
taneotsly, they demand
prolonged contemplation.
They are thought-out and ex-
ecuted with the most meticulous
care. Shapes are curiously connect-
ed, and their full meaning with
implications is not immediately
evident. Lines of poetry are print-
ed in the corner of It is Raining
on the Euphrates and there is let-
tering also in a similar picture
Military Pomp. These in their de-
tail remind one of Durer.
Ink drawings of a more immediate-
ly understandable kind are the
Illustration for Kafka and Mental
Hospital. In the former the faces
are hard and mask-like, contrast-
ing with the very human suffering
faces in the latter.

When using pencil, Janschka
treats his subject with a different
sort of detail. Infanticide and The
Burial are both done in pencil, and
yet are not done in the same way.
They, like some of the ink draw-
ings, contain so much that one

Carpenter Takes Thumbnail Trip
Of Frozen Fjords, Sunny .sslands’

by Patricia Murray, ’52

I sat facing Dr. Rhys Uarpenter.
He gave me a smile, which signi-
fied complacency for himself, and
chalienge for me.

“Now you are supposed to dis-
play your skill as an interviewer,”
he said. “Where are your leading
questions?” I knew that Mr. Car-
penter is Professor of Greek Lit-
erature and Classical Archeology.
The pamphlet in my hand stated
that he is to lead an extensive tour
of Europe and the Greek Islands
this summer. That was the extent
of my conversational ammunition,

“T thought I’d get you started on
whatever part of the trip interests
you most,” I replied, finding a
little brashness my best support



Majority of Seniors
Make Cum Laude List

Continued from Page 1

Townsend, Jeanny Vorys, Barbara
Smith Wakeman, Martha Helson
Warren and Linda Whitney.

Class of 1951**

(46 of 106=—43%)

Johanna Alderfer, E. Joan Arn-

old, Ann Harnwell Ashmead, El-
mira Avery, Ellen A. Bacon, Doris
C. Balant, Nancy Blackwood, Mar-
garet Blodgett, Sylvia S. Breed,
Joan M. Brinton, Nancy Burdick,
Margaret Carlson, Valery Crafts.
Patricia Donoho, Lola Mary Egan,
Sara L. Esterline, Pamela P. Field,
Helen R. Finkel, Betty J. Gold-
blatt, Ellen Hanlon, Estelle Hassid,
Alice Hendrick, Patricia Hirsch,
Claire Hirshfield, Leila Kirpalani,
Judith Konowitz, Elsa Wells Kor-
mann, Mildred D. Kreis, Eleanor
M. Lyman, Marjorie Mullikin, G.
Colston Nauman, Elizabeth Park-
er, Deborah Putnam, Jeanne D.
Richmond, Jane Roller, Susan Sav-
age, Cecilia Self, Esther Arnold
Smith, Harriet E. Smith, Sophia
Sonne, Janice Taylor, Edith O. Val-
entine, Eritha von der Goltz,
Frieda S. Wagoner, Marilie G.
Wallace, and Joan Williams.

Class of 1952

(60 of 178=34%)
Mary W. Allen, Janice Angstadt,
Sally Ankeny, Alexine ‘Atherton,
Jane Augustine, Pauline Austin,
Reba Benedict, Miriam Bernheim,
Mary Lou Bianchi, Lydia Biddle,
Juliet Boyd, Julie M. Burk, Yvonne
Chu, Susan Comora, Elizabeth
Davies, Bertie B. Dawes, Ann Dick-
inson, Sherry Dobrow, Francine
duPlessix, Carol Dee Feinstein,
Leyla Fettah, Annette Fischer,
Joyce B. Haber, Nevine Halim,
Doris Hamburger, Josephine Haus-
man, Martha C. Heath, Sara Et
Herminghaus, Leatrice Hoard,
Anne R. Johns, Priscilla Kalins,
Ellen Landis, Claire Liachowitz,
Elizabeth Liu, Anne Mackall, Har-
riet Manice, Elaine E. Marks, Joan
McBride, Ruth Thomas McVey.
Marion Michel, Georgianna Mit-
chell, Patricia S. Murray, Mary
Natelson, Nancy Pearre, Joanna
Pennypacker, Ellen Powell, Caro-
line Price, Eleanor Rees, Tama Joy
Schenk, Constance Schulz, Joanna
Semel, Judith H. Silman, Helen L.
Simpson, Caroline A. Smith, Paul-
ine Strawhecker, Lucy C. Turnbull,
Renee Veron, Eva Wiener, Nancy
Wullschleger, and Ching Yuan.

Class of 1953+

(18 of 164=11%)

Kahryn Ehlers, Anne §. Foley,

Nancy Goldring, Rona Gottlieb,
Mary Hendrickson, Anne T. Howell.
Lois ©. Lawrence, Nancy Loomis,
Katherine Lurker, Jane J. Martin,
Mary T. Merchant, Barbara Penny-
packer, Frances Ann Shirley, Sal-
ly Shoemaker, Lillian E. Smith,
Joan R. Spector, Eleanor Toumey,
and Ann Wagoner.

* Not registered 1949-50 but can-
didate for June 1950.





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in complete ignorance. Mr. Car-
penter responded beautifully.
“Well of course I’m leading this
tour for the sake of seeing the
Greek Islands again. In our special
boat we have permission to travel.
straight from one island to the
next. Believe it or not, this is a
great advantage, for ordinarily
one is requiréd to return from each
separate island to. Pireaus, and
then set off again for the next
island. Why do I want to see
them? Because they’re Greek, for
one thing.” Here Mr. Carpenter:
held up his hand, and counted off
the reasons on his fingers.
“Natural beauty’s another. Most:
beautiful scenery in the world; the.
Norwegian fjords are the only-
thing like it. The third reason is.
archeological: they’ve been doing a
lot’ of digging in those islands.
The islands have a good many in-
teresting associations for us. Cat-
mos, for instance. Saint John wrote.
the Revelations there, and it has.
a very fine Greek monastery.”
Since ‘Greek’ to me means temples.
and goddesses, I was puzzled for
a minute, then thought to ask, “By
Greek, do you mean Greek Ortho-.
dox?” He looked at me, startled.
“You really don’t know anything,
do you?” I shook my head, and he
went on to explain that some of
these monasteries date from early-
Christian times, and that they are
built in the Byzantine style, and
are richly adorned with mosaic.
“Aren’t you going to ask me
why they’re so beautiful? That’s:
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Dr. Schrecker Traces
Descartes’ Influence
Continued from Page 1

tiated conclusions of the past were.
swept aside, although with the ex-
ample of Galileo before his eyes,
Descartes, as a moral conformist,
picked no quarrel with the Church.
Dr. Schrecker cited the Brownist
movement in India as an example
of non-acceptance of the Church
authority that he himself had
deigned to question. According to.
his plan; doctrines were to be dis-.
qualified as criterions unless they
had “clear and distinct” proof; and
God, Descartes’s Deus Ex Machina,
was to be the only guarantor of
knowledge. This dependence. on
God’s veracity is the weak point of
the system.

Descartes believed that “the
seeds of truth are within every-
one” ‘since there was now a ques-
tioning of any supreme outside.
authorities in intellectual affairs,
the same question was soon extend-
ed to real life. Revolt against any
authority between man’s “inner-
voice” and the “direction in action
of the inner voice” was the result.
Dr. Schrecker raised the parallel
of the two great. revolutions of
the eighteenth century as eventual-
ities of this system. The French
Revolution, an_ intellectual one,
was the “deification of Reason;’”
while the American one, was large-.
ly Puritan and Christian inspired.
Both were directly traceable back
through Malebranche and other-
“advocates of autonomy and free-
dom,” like Spinoza and Locke, to-
Descartes system of doubt. The.
paradox of “security” or certainty
of knowledge, vis-a-vis “strenuous
freedom,” or freedom of knowledge-
both stemming from the same
source, cannot be exactly satisfied,
Dr. Schrecker said, but must be-
blended as best we know how, tak-.
ing into account the inevitability-
of error. Man must reconcile his-
antithetical desires for freedom:
and for security,—that is the prob-
lem that Descartes has left to.
modern philosophy, and it is bal-.
anced, only by the great force he.
lent to philosophic thought, that