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OLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, February 14, 1951





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THE COLLEGE NEWS

FOUNDED IN 1914





The College News is fully protected by copyright. Nothing that
appears in it may be reprinted either wholly or in part without permission
of the Editor-in-Chief.



EDITORIAL BOARD

Jane Augustine, ‘52, Editor-in-chief
Julie Ann Johnson, ‘52, Copy Frances Shirley, ‘53, Make-up
Helen Katz, ‘53 Margie Cohn, ‘52, Make-up
Sheila Atkinson, ‘53 Claire Robinson, ‘54

EDITORIAL STAFF
Betty-Jeanne Yorshis, ‘52
Lucy Batten, ‘54
Phoebe Harvey, ‘54
Ann McGregor, ‘54 Anna Natoli, ‘54
Christine Schavier, ‘54 Mary Stiles, ‘54

STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS

Sue Bramann, ‘52 Phoebe Harvey, ‘54
Judy Leopold, ‘53 Ann McGregor, ‘54

Lucy Batten, ‘54 Christine Schavier, ‘54
BUSINESS MANAGERS .
Tama Schenk, ‘52 — Sue Press, ‘53

BUSINESS BOARD

Barbara Goldman, ‘53 Evelyn Fuller, ‘53
Margi Partridge, ‘52 . Vicki Kraver, ‘54

SUBSCRIPTION BOARD

Lita Hahn, ‘52, Chairman

Ellie Lew Atherton, ‘52 Carolyn Limbaugh, ‘53

Alice Cary, ‘52 Trish Mulligan, ‘52

Susan Crowdus, ‘52 True Warren, ‘52

Lois Kalins, ‘52 Gretchen Wemmer, ‘53
Nena McBee, ‘53

Judy Waldrop, ‘53
Diana Gammie, ‘53
Beth Davis, ‘54



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Entered as second class matter at the Ardmore, Pa., Post Office
Under the Act of March 3, 1879









Help for Subfreshmen

You have now started a new semester of your struggles
to graduate from Bryn Mawr. Presumably you have chosen
this goal because you feel that this college has as high an
academic standing as any in the country. But you also want
a well-rounded reputation for Bryn Mawr. Down with the
myth of myopia and library pallor—we want intelligent and
attractive graduates to show the world the “Bryn Mawr
type”. If you want assurance that future classes will meet
the superlative standards of past ones, you must help to per-
petuate a student body of high calibre.

How? you say, and the answer is, be a campus guide.

This reply may surprise you, but campus guides are one
of the strongest links between present students and prospect-
ive ones. Each guide is sole personal representative of the
college to a sub-freshman’s family. In that moment you alone
embody all Bryn Mawr. Our rooms are not always neat,
exam-exhausted students are not always considerate; you
must prevent visitors from receiving superficial impressions
only. You must reveal to them the deep friendship which
pervades the dormitories, the sincerity of intellectual effort
which gives meaning to lab and library—that is the true
Bryn Mawr. :

You may protest that campus activities fill your spare
‘time. But you particularly show that Bryn Mawr presents a
‘balance between the academic and extra-curricular aspects
of college life. We now need, therefore, many students to
donate very little time for this important and honorable ser-

Current Events

Common Room, February 12,
7:15 p. m. Miss Mildred Northrop

trollable. Both economic and pol-
itical issues are involved. In the
last analysis the monetary issue is
a simple one. When there are scarce
goods and services and a great
deal of money in circulation, the
money must play on the goods and
the prices must go up.

The reason for the present crisis
is that because we are preparing
for defense we are drawing from
the normal supply of goods. If we
are to pay for defense as we
go, through taxation, it would
mean a tax increase of sixteen

Volunteers Give

Onin (OW
Work Camps Aid | _ |

Published weekly during the College Year (except during Thanks- || spoke on “The Present Declared : Pur ose
giving, Christmas and Easter holidays, and during examination weeks) Emergency in Domestic Affairs.” At the weekly assembly this Pp of BMC Stage,
in the interest of Bryn Mawr College at the Ardmore Printing Company, ‘ ? : , morning Doris Hamburger spoke Duty of Critic
Ardmore, Pa., and Bryn Mawr College. The present inflation, she said, is W k d Work C S
— || immediate and desperate, but con- psi dhe ease o ee Analyzed

sored by the Philadelphia Yearly
Meeting, the two camps run in
downtown Philadelphia consist of
about fifteen students each. They
are held in an old mansion, and a
church basement, and both high| ‘There has been much discussion
school and college students par-| about Bryn Mawr College’s theat-
ticipate. After getting acquainted | re critics. For the benefit of future
with each other and the neighbor-| reviewers, those whose judgments
hood, they start out on Saturday | are published in the News and
to paint and repair the local North | those whose opinions are reserved
Market Street area. Co-operating 'for their friends, it would be well
with the families they aid, the stu-/| to point out several factors which
dents split into groups of two or) should be kept in mind when con-
_ three, work all day, and then meet sidering student productions, and

Letter To The Editor

To the editor of the Bryn"Mawr
College News:









in the evening for singing, relax-

billion dollars in the next three ation, and discussion. The work is
months, making the total taxation’ gone in a spirit of working with the
for the fiscal year seventy-one bill- people, not with any feeling of
ion dollars. At present the govern- | “charity.”

ment has only been able to find |



means of raising fifty-five billion,

from 1) individual taxes; 2) cor-!|

poration taxes; and 8) trade and
commerce.
The treasury now sustains one-

third of the national debt; it wants.

to keep the interest rate low so it
can pay off the debt. If the general
market interest rates go up; the
treasury will have to ask Congress
to raise taxes so it can continue
to pay the national debt. The Fed-
eral Reserve Board suggests rais-
ing the interest rate to stop infla-
tion. This would raise the general
market interest rate and affect the
Treasury adversely.

The FRB is therefore seeking
Congressional sanction for this
measure, although they have the
power to take it without sanction.
Congress is trying to avoid decid-
in the issue. If inflation continues

it will get out of hand and render

us incapable of fulfilling our inter-
national commitments and of
meeting the state of emergency on
its broader basis.

The administration is not now
taking a firm stand on wages and
price control. The Wage and Price
Stabilization Board consists of
labor and industry. members. _In-
dustry members say that wages
should not increase more than eight
percent over the general increase
since June 1950, before they start
increasing in proportion to living
costs. Labor members say wages
should increase sixteen percent.
The public opinion, favouring a ten
percent increase, will probably pre-
vail.

The main effort to control prices
is now directed at control at the
raw material stage. The problem
remains of how the end-product
cost can be regulated when effect-
ive control exists only over raw
materials. The WPSB may oper-
ate upon agricultural prices only
when they are over the parity
price. The legislature, which an-
nually fixes parity, has kept prices
under parity. Opponents of - this
agricultural price raise policy
argue that it will lead to uncon-
trolable inflation.



Counterpoint takes great

The Katherine Fullerton Ger-
ould Prize Committee of the
Alumnae Association will award
a prize of $50.00 to an under-
graduate for her entry of one
or more articles in the follow-
ing categories: narrative; in-
formal essay (excluding critical
papers and formal essays);
verse; or drama. Any student
may submit one or more entries,
unsigned, to the Alumnae Office,
second floor of the Deanery, not
later than 4 p. m April 4. En-
tries should consist of work
completed since Commencement,
1950, although class assign-
ments are not excluded, and
previous appearance in a stud-
ent publication is not a barrier.







to clarify several important points

_in the review of Le Miracle de The-
ophile (The College News: Decem-
ber 20, 1950).

There is much less rehearsal
time for college productions than
for professional ones. What time
there is, is not worth as much as
in the professional theatre because
; the energies of all the members of
‘the production are divided between
| college work and the play at hand.

The actors and the workers be-
hind the scenes are amateurs. They
are interested in the theatre and
may know a lot nl but they



are not professionals. Yheir work
represents an attempt to produce
art. In many cases they have diffi-
culty in expressing their feelings
and their understanding. But they
are willing, and they have the cour-
age, to share their attempt with
the college and its friends.

For these reasons it is unreason-
able to review college productions
as Howard Barnes reviews Broad-
way plays.



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Be The Class Hit,

Pa ae
Take A Baby Sit!

Was your course card ornament-
ed by a string of summa cum laude
grades? For the few who were
not so fortunate, here is a unique
solution.

How can you make sure your
politics professor thinks well of
you? Pour propaganda in his
children’s ears by .. . swell idea,
you interrupt, but when will I get
a chance to tell the kids a “slant-
ed” fairytale? — d’ya think I’m
James Thurber or somebody, may-
be?

We’re coming to that in just a
minute. For a Greek professor’s
obviously erudite youngster, you
can recite an original Greek ode
in the form of Pindar’s tenth Py-
thian. (For a French professor’s
child, you can render with drama:
tic inflection Le Chanson de Ro-
land... o.k., 0. k., you mutter, I
should put my hair in pigtails and
creep down to Low Buildings on|
my hands and knees—but I still
don’t get it.

Please, you’ll understand in a
minute. For the Dean’s baby, it’s
a cinch; just rattle some course|
cards and coo “cut-pro, cut-pro,|
cut-pro” at him, and... Nicholas |





The goal, the effort, and the re-
sults produced are essential ques-
tions in an amateur undertaking.
Therefore in all fairness and gen-
uine interest, the NEWS reviewer
should go to a half-way point re-
hearsal. If she sees only one pre-
sentation of the play, she cannot
know the progress made during
rehearsals; nor can she fairly
judge the final realization of. the
end in the minds of the group.

The review of Le Miracle de
Theophile illustrates some of the
shortcomings of student reviewers.
When she wrote the article the re-
viewer was unaware of the tre-
mendous effort, of the many extra
hours of work given by Marianne
Schwob to her role. Attendance at
one of the rehearsals would have
indicated this effort.

Nor did the reviewer make suffi-
ciently clear its superior results.
Marianne Schwob made striking
use of movement in portraying the
role of Theophile, the thirteenth
century cleric with a tortured soul.
Her expression would have been
impressive in a professional theat-
re. Inadequate praise can be a
harmful mistake in the criticism
of professional artists. Their
self-confidence is easily shattered.

One of the problems in student
productions, where a professor di-
rects, is to break down the student-
professor barrier. The members of



and I aren’t on speaking Resse a theatrical production must work
you shriek. Keep cool: here’s what together as one. The Theophile re-
we're driving at. How can there viewer did not crystalize her dis-
be a Faculty Show if nobody takes cyssion of this aspect of the French

pleasure in announcing the fol-
lowing elections:

Editor-in-chief, Marcelle We-

4 vice. A college cannot be much better than its students,
; present and to come.





The inevitable, but enjoyable Freshman Week is here

- again. Much hard work is being put into the show, and re-
hearsals have been sapping Freshman energy. An appalling)

number of the cast is in the infirmary, and many of this
group are almost indispensable to the play. Still, the show
goes on. The general attitude has been one of complete co-

_ operation with the director, and the other members of the| parel
cast. A 0 i ti that will hold the class together, | no n

Sip

free is desperately needed off and
on until the tenth of March. Please,
do your part just so the faculty
can do theirs Leave your name
with Mrs. Sullivan in Room H, in
Taylor, now! )

Members of the Board, Diana
Forbes, ’54; Anne Phipps, ’54.

Associates, Naomi Ellenbog-
en, ’64, Helen Katz, 63, Bobby-
ann Roesen, ’54,













: ea gier, 52. care of the faculty children during Cjybh production, where the barrier
4 er Hell for Fr eshmen | Business manager, Virginia ||Tehearsal? Anybody and every-| was non-existant. There was co-
Holbeck, ’52. body who is willing to baby-sit for operation on all sides. Peter Park-

hurst and Mr. Janschka who worked
on lighting and scenery are neither
students nor professors. Much of
the originality of the interpretation
came from Mr. Morris; but the
choreography of Nancy Burdick
and Sherry Cowgill and the rich
contributions of Marianne Schwob
and Elaine Marx in their acting
gave full representation to the stu-
dent element in the unquestionable