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The COLLEGE NEWS
VOL. XLV, NO. 19
ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1949
Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College,1945
PRICE 15 CENTS
Park Calls Dean
Linking Apostle
Of College Life
Administrative Position
Requires Tact,
Maturity
(Marion Edwards Park, President
Emeritus of Bryn Mawr, spoke on
“Graduate Work in Administra-
tion” at the Graduate Fellowship
Assembly in Goodhart, Friday,
March 18th. Following the an-
nouncement ‘by. Miss McBride of
the Fanny Bullock ‘Workman Trav-
eling Fellowhip which is awarded
this year to two Bryn Mawr grad-
uate students, Wadad Habib, of
Cairo, Egypt, and Denise Martin,
of New York City, Miss Park de-
scribed the function and method of
academic administration, the qual-
ifications necessary for this kind
of work, and its importance in
modern education.
The organizer’s job, “a steady
framework of education stronger”,
is a particularly essential one to-
day because of the confusion and
disorder of our educational system.
Any democracy is extremely de-
pendent on its system of education,
to develop the right thinking of
the individual for intelligent man-
agement of his own life and for as-
. Continued on Page 4
Kennedy Explains
Chinese Problems
Rhoads Showcase, March 22.—
Speaking at an informal discus-
sion after lunch instead of ad-
dressing the college as originally
planned, Dr. George Kennedy of
Yale University answered ques-
tions about the situation in China.
The Chinese people, he said, think
that anything would be better than
what they have been getting in
the way of government from the
Chiang administration, and there-
fore support the Communists. One
of the listeners pointed out that
the Chinese Communists have dif-
ferent political ideals from the
Soviet ‘Communists, in that the
former want only the basic in-
dustries to be nationalized, and the
rest left to private control. It has
been the United States’ support
Continued on page 2
Variety of Style and Material
Make ‘“‘Counterpoint’’ Absorbing
by Emily Townsend ’50
The spring issue of Counterpoint
is a fine magazine. The eighteen
contributions, both prose and po-
etry, are without exception good,
sensitive work, and the whole se-
lection and makeup has been intel-
ligently handled. In this issue at
least, with over forty pages of
commendable writing, the wisdom
of combining with Haverford can-
not be questioned; the calibre is
higher, the range wider, the whole
Kohler Lectures
On Perspective,
Optical [lusions
Dr. Wolfgang Kohler, last night
in Dalton at the Science Club lec-
ture, explained some relevant and
important facts which have come
from his research at Swarthmore
College; that certain phenomena
previously considered errors of
judgment are real.
Vision, he explained, is govern-!
ed not by the retina but by the cor-
tex, so disproving the prevalent
theory that the third dimension is
a “learned” plane. Since it is un-
likely that there are two separate
mechanisms for perception and our
memory of it, there must be a cor-
relation between memory and fig-
ural after-effects. [He explained
that certain visual phenomena
such as the Muller-Lyer illusion,
the apparent difference in distance
between arrowheads facing in op-
posite directions, is a fact of per-
ception rather than the supposed
error of ‘judgment.
Figural after-effect, those phen-
omena by which the subject, hav-
ing (fixated a line curved to the
Continued on page 2
Dr. R. Wittkower
To Speak on Art
Dr. Rudolf Wittkower, of the
University of London, will give the
next ‘Art Series Lecture in Good-
hart on Wednesday, April 13, at
8:30, on “Bernini at the Court of
Louis XIV”. A Reader in the His-
tory of the Classical Tradition in
Art in the Warburg Institute, Uni-
versity of London, Dr. Wittkower
has written on Michaelangelo and
Bernini and, in his most recent
work, on “British Art and the Med-
iterranean.” ,
‘Eat None of It’-S. Speaks Well
On Drowned Mice, Rankest Smell
by Paula Strawhecker ’52
William has taken the words
out of our mouths...
GEMS FROM THE SMOKER
I have not slept one wink.
Cymbeline: III, 4
I have no other but a woman’s rea-
son:
I think him so, because I think him
40, °
~Two Gentlemen of Verona, IV, 4
I am slow of study.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: 1, 2
O, what men dare do! what men
may do! what when daily do, not
knowing what they do!
Much Ado About Nothing: IV, 1
He thinks too much; such men
are dangerous.
Julius Cocsar: 1,3
A Madoummer Night's Dream: 1, 1
LECTURE COMMENTS
(PURELY HY POTHETICAL)
Zounds! Iwas never so be-
thump’d with words...
King John, 11, 2
He draweth out the thread of
his verbosity finer than the —
of his argument.
Love’s Labor Lost: V, 1
I pause for a reply.
_ Julius Caesar: III, 2
BIOLOGY 101
FAMILIAR LAB QUOTATIONS
The rankest cémpound of vil-
lainous smell that ever offended
nostril.
Merry Wives of Windsor: III, 5
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog.
Macbeth: IV. ’ 1
~} -will-kill thee a hundred and
Continued on Page 4
magazine stronger than the exclu-
sive Title ever was.
The non-undergraduate contribu-
tions are a welcome feature in the
new issue. Mr. Richmond Latti-
more’s Three Poems axe excellent:
remarkable for controlled intricacy
of image and sensitivity to the
quality of words. “The Meaning of
Myth” is perhaps the best, with
its complex shift of reference and
color of expression; “The Brink”,
although reminiscent of Pound’s
Canto II, is a more compact and
affirmative treatment of the same
material. Mrs. Hilda Foss’ illus-
trations of scenes from The Broth-
ers Karamazoy have a curious
woodcut quality and produce an in-
Continued on Page 4
Faculty Endorses
New Requirement;
1953 Will Benefit
Several changes in the curricu-
lum were voted by the faculty at |
a meeting on March 16th. The
changes were proposed after in-
vestigation by the faculty Curri-
culum Committee and the Com-
mittee on Post-War Curriculum.
They will be effective for the class
of 1958.
A requirement in social science
or history is to be introduced. The
requirement is to be met by a first
year course in economics, history,
politics, or sociology, with the later
possibility of a first year course
developed jointly by two or more
of these departments. The place
of psychology in relation to this
requirement is to be postponed for
for discussion next year.
The requirements in English
Composition, Philosophy, Litera-
ture, and Science are to be contin-
ued. All “substitute requirements
are to be abolished: that is, the
“reading course” for _ science
majors, the unit substituted for
first year philosophy by philoso-
Continued on Page 4
Fr. Club to Stage
Modern ‘Antigone’
Antigone, a modern tragedy
by Jean Anouilh, will be given by
the French Club this spring: in the
Skinner Workshop on April 8, and
in Philadelphia on April 13.
Gerry Warburg is cast as Antig-
one, with Francine duPlessix as Is-
mene, Fred Exton as Creon, Mich-
ael Barrett as Hemon, and Lee Ha-
ring as the Chorus. The other
parts are those of: the nurse,
Claireve Grandjouan; the page,
Jackie MacMillan; the messenger,
John Davidson; three guests, Skip
Beckley ,Walter Sangree and Paul
Moses; Eurydice, Nancy Riley; and
the prologue, Jacques van den Heu-
vel.
Claireve Grandjouan is directing
the play and Barbara Bentley,
president of the French Club, is
producing it. Stage manager is
. Contintied on Page 3
Calendar
Wednesday, March 23
8:15 p. m. Dr. Bernheimer,
on German Art, Library 1.
8:30 p. m. M. Jean Bruneau
on Jean-Paul SartreyWyndham.
8:30 p. m. Student Govern-
| ment Panel Discussion, Good-}-
hart.
Excellent Acting and Setting
Give Life to'-“Foolish Notion”
Low, Cooper Interpret
Roles With Humor,
Imagination
by Gwynne Williams 50
The Bryn Mawr-Haverford pro-
duction of “Foolish Notion,” di-
rected by Mr. Thon, Saturday night
was excellent; I have ‘but one com-
plaint, the usual one—the play is
not worthy of such beautiful act-
ing and direction. However, Bryn
Mawr and Haverford have a unique
capacity for “saving” plays, and
although “Foolish Notion” has its
share of very foolish dialogue,
it is not, like “An Inspector Calls”,
hopeless; its plot is clever and sus-
penseful, and its characters are
sufficiently ‘unformed’ to give act-
ors opportunity to interpret them
as they wish.
The two outstanding perform-
ances were Marjorie Low’s as So-
phie, and Brooks Cooper’s as Hor-
atio Wing. Margie brought out all
the comic implications of this play
in her subtle, delicious way. The
“Oh the dear boy shouldn’t have”
moment with the roses, the “tell
his Excellency just one word, ‘Dis-
cretion’” and above all the cradl-
ing of the bronze urn of her ‘late’
husband’s ashes was done with su-
perb comic delicacy. Brooks Coo-
per is a delight on any stage; his
Continued on page 4
Workman Award
To Aid Research
Of Habib, Martin
In the Graduate Assembly on
Friday, March 18, Miss McBride
announced that the Fanny Bullock
Workman Travelling Fellowship
has been awarded to two graduate
students: Wadad Habib of Cairo,
Egypt, and Denise ‘Martin of New
#| York City. This award is not made
every year, but only when an out-
standing graduate student worthy
of such an honor can be found.
Miss Habib, president of the
Graduate Club, received her A.B.
at the American University in
Cairo and her M.A. at Bryn Mawr
in 1948. In her major field, philos-.
ophy, she is studying the Theory
of Value and plans to attend Har-
vard University, where she will
“examine ... a theory of value,
discussing the most significant
theories that have. been given as
answers to this problem since
Plato and Aristotle on to modern
contributions . . . but more par-
ticularly with reference to C. I.
Lewis’ recently published book,
An Analysis of Knowledge and
Continued on page 4
McBride Speaks
At S. Gov. Clinic
The Student Government Clinic
of the NSIA, which is headed by
Ann Seideman, is holding a panel
discussion on “Student ‘Govern-
ment: Its Relation. to the College
Community”, in Goodhart on the
evening of Wednesday, March 23.
There will be three short speeches
followed by a discussion period.
The speakers of the evening will
be Miss McBride; Mr. William Nel-
son West, a trustee of Haverford;
and Mr. Ralph Dungan, an under-
graduate at St. Joseph’s. Each will
speak on the point of view toward
Student Government inculcated by
his or her particular ‘position.
The Student Government presi-
dents of twenty-five colleges have
ben invited, along with their vari-
ous campus officers, and one hun-
dred and fifty delegates to the last
NSA convention,
Chaperons and Wine In Rooms
Vanish From Bryn Mawr Rules
by Elizabeth Nelidow °51
Where, oh where, has the chap-
eron-gone?--She-has vanished from
the earth, and, more important, she
has also disappeared from the
Self-Gov rules, where, at the turn
of the century, she was omnipres-
ent... “students shall not receive
men, excepting members of their
own families (this excluded cous-
ins, who, it was decided, did not |
belong to the family) in their stud-
ies without the presence of a cha-
peron.” “Students shall not go, in
the evening, either to places of en-
tertainment, or on the trains, with-
out a chaperon.” But what hap-
pened on the big weekends? There
must have been an awful shortage
of chaperons. Maybe they could
do double, or even triple duty. Thia|
‘may even have been the origin of
the double date. There is a myster-
ious exception to this universal
chaperon law, however. ‘Students
unchaperoned shall not lunch or
dine with men in town. Broad
Street Station is excepted.” What
the formers of this particular rule
were thinking is open to conjec-
ture. Men in rooms must be
watched—men in Broad Street
Station don’t, need to be watched.
The possibilities of this line of
thinking are endless.
Men’ seem to have been the chief
pre-occupation of Self+Gov in 1903.
“No men’s clothes shall be worn
on the campus or in the public
part of the halls, at any time,
without being completely covered.”
In other words, wear two layers of
clothes. Ah well, anything for the
sake of love. It certainly couldn’t
be for the sake of comfort.
Continued on Page 4
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Miss Park Returns
It was a delight, a pleasure, and an inspiration to hear
Miss Park last Friday. President McBride, in introducing
her, said that she always felt Miss Park’s presence to “com-
plete” the college. It did. The Assembly, and Miss Park’s
speech in particular, proved to be the most impressive and
enjoyable college event of the year.
The Assembly gave us a sense of what Bryn Mavr is,
what it can be, and what it is trying to do. It made us feel
proud of the college, of its administration and faculty; we
were proud of Miss Park and of the fact that she is associat-
ed with Bryn Mawr. Her speech was in all respects sound,
courageous, and realistic; the ideals put forward were tem-
pered by humor and penetrating insight.
The most outstanding thing, perhaps, about Miss Park’s
speech, was her statement that modern education must be re-
built, “no matter how revolutionary the foundations will have
to be.” In that attitude were reflected some of the finest tra-
ditions of Bryn Mawr—traditions of progressive scholarship
and service, of constructive thought and action. As presi-
dent, Miss Park was in large part responsible for the devel-
opment of these traditions. As President-Emeritus, she is
contributing to them still.
Harmony Of Spheres
We have heard a depressing rumor that the NEWS is
working in opposition to the Chorus, which arises, we think,
from confusion as to NEWS’ policy of music criticism and its
attitude. toward the.Chorus’ choice of music, We understand
and appreciate the Chorus’ position:
work ‘experimentally’ in the field of modern music rather
than to conform solely to popular opinion and taste.
We, representing the audience, would like to state our
position also. Although the main job of the NEWS’ critic is
to judge how the music is sung, she also has the right to give
her opinion of the program as a whole. Our objection to Bryn
Mawr’s portion of the last concert is that the music lacked
variety, in that all the songs seemed to emphasize ‘idea’ rath-
er than the varied color and tones of voices in four parts.
Also, an entire program of short, unfamiliar pieces is a
strain, not a pleasure to an audience.
We would like more big works, and though we shudder |
to display the conventional taste of the common audience, we
would welcome a little more of the classical, for instance
‘its purpose being to
Opinion
Chorus Offers Models
For Criticism
By NEWS
To the Editor:
We are enclosing for your edifi-
cation a copy of the criticism by
William Smith, music critic of the
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin,
| written about last Friday’s concert.
We think it shows an interesting
comparison to the purported criti-
cism in last week’s NEWS, For fu-
ture policy, we suggest that the re-
porter assigned to cover concerts be
one who is familiar with music and
the art of criticism.. Since most
of the students at Bryn Mawr
form their judgment of chorus con-
certs from the NEWS rather than
from attendance, it is very impor-
tant to present a fair and intelli-
gent assessment.
Kathryn Geib
Sally Loomis
The following is reprinted from
the Philadelphia Bulletin:
A choral concert presented on
Friday night in Goodhart Hall,
Bryn Mawr College, merits recog-
nition as one of the season’s genu-
inely distinctive musical events.
The performance engaged the
Bryn Mawr College Chorus and the
Princeton University Glee Club,
with Robert L. Goodale and J. Mer-
rill Knapp as conductors. The 150
voices of the combined groups sang
a capella a setting of Latin texts
from the Lamentations of Jere-
tinian
tera.
The skillfully constructed work
made a deep impression with its
tonal and melodic substance and
the artistic use of “modern” har-
monic and intervallic devices. The
work was given its local premiere
and as far as is known, its initial
performance in the United States.
The choral groups also were
heard in music by the late 18th
Century composer and American
Revolutionary patriot, William
Billings; David Diamond, Bach, and
Randall Thompson, and in two
clever “catches” (rounds) by Hen-
ry Purcell.
composer, Alberto Ginas-
The following is reprinted from
the New York Herald Tribune:
The Bryn Mawr College Chorus
and the Princeton University Glee
Club were heard in concert Satur-
day night at the Hunter ‘College
Playhouse. Robert J. Goodale con-
ducted the Bryn Mawr Chorus,
while J. Merrill Knapp directed
the Princeton men. The program
included music by Billings, Pur-
cell Diamond, Hindemith, Randall
Thompson, and Alberto Ginestera.
The Bryn Mawr Chorus is a
suave, full-bodied group, pure in
timbre and rich in color. Like the
Princeton Club, and like all ama-
teur choral societies in general,
they tend to become a bit explo-
sive when making wide interval
skips, but their work was never
without spirit and style.
Fine balance between bass and
tenor choirs, ringing sonority and
real unity of execution marked
-the---work--of.--the--Prineeton~-Glee:
Club in its major effort, Thomp-
son’s “Quis Multa Gracilis.” And
this setting of a Horatian Ode
best. Harmonically simple, with a
firm tonal center, the work creates
its tensions rhythmically through
elided ostinato and accented ap-
pogiatura. These in turn are
coupled with a variety of dramatic
italics: whispering, hollow ca-
dences and continual shifts in
choir textures. It is good theater
from first to last.
The program concluded with
Ginestera’s “Lamentations of Jere-
miah,” a perfunctory setting which
miah by the, contemporary Argen- | -
represented the composer at his’
SCC Chairman Upholds
New Curriculum
Requirement
To the Editor:
In reponse to your editorial of
last week, the Student Curriculum
Committee would like to draw at-
tention to the faculty vote on
Changes in the (Curriculum. Al-
though a requirement in Social
Science or History has been intro-
juced, the amount of elective work
remains substantially the same,
since all “substitute requirements”
have been abolished.
The poll taken by the Student
Curriculum Committee indicated ,
as the only strong objection to a
requirement in the field of Social
Science further limitations of elec-
tives. In the Committee’s opinion
the present plan of the faculty ob-
viates this difficulty. If, however
there are questions or suggestions
concerning this plan, any member
of the Committee (names are post-
ed on the Curriculum Committee
Bulletin Board in Taylor) will be
happy to hear opinions.
Sincerely,
Jean Ellis, 749
Chairman
Student Curriculum Committee
—
Arts Night Producers
Ask College
Support
To the Editor:
For the past three years the
whole student body has pooled all
their creative and artistic resources
to produce Arts Night. Arts Night
attempts to present a sampling
of what has been done in the field
of music, drama, art, and dance
thru the year. Participation is
open to all those who wish to con-
tribute.
This year due to the crowded
schedule it was inadvisable to give
the performance in Goodhart. As
an alternative, Arts Night is to
be given in the Cornelia Otis
Skinner Workshop, Friday, April
22nd. This necessitated a reduc-
tion in the scope of the perform-
ance, but we have accepted that
as a challenge to make this year’s |
Arts Night.. the best in quality
if not quantity.
We are writing this letter to en-
courage all those, particularly
Freshman, who may not know of
Arts Night, to come and help us
make it a bang-up performance.’
Sincerely,
Dory Chambers, ’50 Bus. Mgr.
Lucile Mahieu, ’49 Director
Nancy Blackwood, ’51 Publicity
Evil Insects Intimidate,
Insult, Unnerve
Audiences
Dear Editor:
I attend Current Events lectures
in the Common Room. Until last
week I arrived on time and was
fortunate enough to secure a place
on one of the couches. This Mon-
day evening, arriving one second
too late, I sat on the floor — or
rather, I squirmed!
I heard later that the lecture
-was--interesting;—I-—wish~I—could}
have concentrated on it! But when
one looks down and sees bugs
crawling up and down one’s legs, it
is rather difficult. When one be-
comes curious, and cautiously picks
up the edge of what passes for a
rug to find layer upon layer of
hideous bugs, long thin white sil-
verfishes, little black bugs — all
kinds wriggling in and out of the
floor cracks — the situation is not
conducive to concentration.
I therefore propose — not more
furniture, for the decor of the
Common Room is attractive, and
not fewer people in the audience
for Currents Events, (although |
some
the Purcell and Palestrina Princeton sang, which is
go well raaited 6 to women’s voices. Too much of the same kind
_ of music ig monotonous;
aligns itself with vocalise (sic) in
its failure to use textual syllables
for more aan. rich melodic em-
| broidery. ©
J. S. H.
that may be the result) but — a
thorough delousing job, or at least
an investigation. ' Though maybe
the bugs read the NEWS and have
Current Events
Common Room, Mar. 21.—The
purpose of the Hoover Commission,
explained Dr. Wells, is to coordin-
ate and reorganize the various de-
partments and agencies under the
President into a chain of command
with the President at the top and
the department secretaries next.
The office of the President needs
to be strengthened to cope with the
towering administrative structure
consisting of nine departments and
sixty-two agencies under its au-
thority, said Dr. Wells. The de-
partments are also in need of re-
vision; more authority given to.
agency heads and under secretaries.
would resolve much of the inter-.
departmental “red tape” and mix-.
ups.
Dr. Foss Leads
Religious Talk
Dr. Martin Foss, leading the Re-
ligious Discussion in the Common
Room, March 16, on the subject.
“The Value of Institutionalized
Religion,” brought out the fact,
that there never has been a reli-.
gion without form, by defining it
as “a unique relationship between,
God and man, a living and dynamic.
movement which is expressed in.
prayer.”
Religion, Dr. Foss _ declared,
needs discipline and organization.
However, there is always the dan-.
ger that, with institutionalized re-.
ligion, the ritual will lose sight of,
its spiritual goal.
Dr. Kennedy Sioaks
On Chinese Situation
Continued from page 1
of the Nanking government which
has caused the anti-American feel-.
ing now prevalent in a large part.
of China, Dr. Kennedy declared.
Elaborating this point, Dr. Ken-.
nedy said that the Chinese Com-.
munists are poor propagandists to,
this country, and have failed to,
make us understand what their.
goal actually is. Dr. Kennedy be-.
lieves that this group really has,
the good of the country at heart,,
‘which—the Nanking government,
did not.
The food supply has been. poor-
in northern China, particularly in.
the cities, where laborers and stud-.
ents do not have the energy to.
accomplish anything. In the rural.
areas, there is enough to eat, al-.
though the food is not of the best,
quality. Lastly, there is a complete,
weariness of war in China, and a,
coalition government which can,
minimize factions is what China,
now needs.
Dr. Kohler Discusses
Figural After-effects
Continued from page. 1
left, when next fixating a straight.
line sees it as curved to the right, |
were first noted in an experiment.
by Professor Gibson in 1983. That,
vision is cortical rather than retinal’
has been discovered by. Dr. Kohler, .
so that effects can be more easily-
observed by the subject if he fix-.
eye, and the test object, . the»
straight line which appears oppos--
itely curved, with the other. The»
same effects are found to be true:
in three dimensional experiments, ,
thus proving that vision in the.
third plane is not “learned.”
Having assumed that the Muller-.
Lyer phenomena was_an_ illusion,
earlier experimenters proved that
by practice it could be correctly-
seen. Kohler continued the repe-.
tition until the subject saw a neg--
ative error, thus proving that the.
so-called error in judgment was;
rather a fact in perception.
ates the inspection object with one, ss
Yours truly,
Anonymous :
' P.S. I cruelly stepped on all ‘the.
insects I saw.
r
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Page Three
Careers; Pyrantd Gleb, Politics
Discussed on Radio Bull Session
By Joanna Semel, ’52
The Paoli local left Bryn Mawr
last Wednesday afternoon with six
Bryn Mawr girls aboard — Cyn-
thia Lovejoy, Cornelia Perkins,
hatusha Cheremeteff, Klaine
marks, Jane Augustine, and Jo-
anna Semei — wno were to record
a campus bull session, over
Station WCAU for transcription
Saturaay morning at 10:30.
Unce seated, Cinny Lovejoy as
moderator threw in a provocative
statement on career versus mar-
riage. Perky staunchly defended
women in the home against re-
peated attacks from Jane, with her
“i’m going to write, have a home,
a career, and six children—oh yes,
and a husband.” Katusha kept re-
minding us of “the woman bending
over the kitchen sink,’ and Elaine
reiterated the psychological effect
upon the man: “After all, he must
be made to feel superior.”
Pyramid Clubs
The Pyramid clubs moved us
next. Despite the insistence that
there were moral issues involved,
Katusha’s succinct statement of
the problem, “If you give the dol-
lar, how are you going to get home
next weekend?”, despite Cinny’s
facts and finite series, and others
passing the buck, Perk won with
Dr. Martin Foss —
To Lead Chapel —
The Chapel Committe of Under-
grad announced today that Dr.
Martin Foss, Professor of Philoso-
phy at Haverford will speak hero
at the Sunday Chapel Service on
April 10. Dr, Foss conducted Cha-
pel services here first semester,
when he spoke on mysticism in
Christianity.
Characters Outlined
Of 3 Gerould Judges
Specially contributed by
Florence Hitchcock
As a reminder of the approach-
ing deadline for the Gerould con-
test, the Alumnae Office has pro-
vided the NEWS with thumbnail
sketches of the committee:
Josephine Young (Case, A. B.
1928, Chairman of the Committee,
is the author of “At Midnight on
the 31st of March”, “Written in
Sand” and “Freedom Farm”. In
private life she is the wife of Dr.
Everett N. Case, President of Col-
gate University; the mother of a
daughter and three sons; and 2
member of the Board of Directors
of Bryn Mawr College.
Elinor Parker
Upon the resignation of Doro-
thy Meserve Kunhardt, Miss Elin-
or M. Parker, A. B. 1927, consent-
ed to serve on the Committee. She
has had editorial experience with
Charles Scribner’s Sons, is assist-
ant manager of their New York
Book Store and has recently pub-
lished a book, “Cooking for One”.
She edited the Bryn Mawr Song-
book published in 1930:
The third and only male member
of the Committee needs no intro-
duction to the readers of the Col-
lege News. He is Frederick W.
Thon who has contributed so much
to the drama at Bryn Mawr,
through his teaching, his coaching
of student productions and his suc-
~ cessful venture of last year, The
Bryn Mawr College Summer Thea-
tre. He represents the English
Department on the Gerould Com-
mittee.
Engagement
her subtle mention that “There are
other sorts of gambling in college
—remember those little bets on the
games in the smoker!”
Hitting censorable territory
there, Cinny, at the suggestion of
program director Mrs. Miller,
started us off on another track.
NEWS Elections
The NEWS announces with
pleasure the election of five new
members to the Editorial Staff:
Emmy Cadwalader, Francine du
Plessix, Barbara Joelson, Caro-
line Smith, and Paula Straw-
hecker, all of ’52.
Spring comes to Rhoads.
What about fraternities and so-
rorities? “They’re bad as part of
the American scene,” from Elaine.
“They’re a haven for novices in
large universities . . Take Cal,”
from Jane. “And _ categorically
speaking, they’re bad,” was Perky’s
contribution. Cinny illustrated her
views with her sister at Cornell,
and we were almost sidetracked
there, until we hit upon a solution
—enlarging the club system, so
people would be judged not on
what they are, but what they like
and do.
We chose a political topic next,
Socialist Britain. Katusha brought
roars of laughter into the hereto-
fore gerious discussion with “the
multi-millionaires of the gay nine-
ties — and David Milford - Haven
selling radiators.” (She’s still not
sure that’s what he sells).
Men at Last
Men were our final topic — and
the longest. We each professed our
virtues of older men, Jane the dif-
ferent attributes of western and
eastern men, Katusha claiming
that nothing could top Princeton
tigers,Perk trying hard to be neu-
tral, but clinging to the Harvard
type in the end, and afterwards
regretful about her rash statement
that “The Princeton type is abom-
inable.” Someone mentioned the
numerical proportions of men to
women in Alaska; then we dis-
cussed the advisability of traveling
across two continents in search of
a husband. We never did reach a
conclusion, but closed the “Bull
Session” when the five freshmen
asked Cinny, the only upperclass-
man, what she thought of college
men,
She judicially replied, “They’re
all nice,” and we stopped.
B.M. Airs Views
On Atlantie Pact
On Wednesday evening, March
16, Alice Mitchell and Julie Boyd
of Bryn Mawr joined Don Smith
and Bill Nary of Villanova to dis-
cuss the Atlantic Pact over the
Villanova radio station. The half-
hour broadcast seemed very short
to the participants, who, once
warmed up, abandoned the Atlan-
tie-Pact~in~ favor -oftheories~ of
their own. With four individual-
ists present, there were, of course,
four. separate theses under discus-
sion—each one by its own advo-
cater. The general consensus,
Lhowever,. was that a world secur-
ity pact should be formed, with
countries working through the
Ideally, the members of the discus-
sion thought there should be an
attempt to implement the charter
by establishing a world police
force. However, they realized the
impracticability of such a plan in
the face of present east-west an-
tagonism,
ideal type, heard Elaine extol ie)
United-Nations, not—outside—of-it.|ing_he_still_lives, shining through
Last Nighters
by Linda Bettman ’52
Thomas Mitchell’s new comedy,
“The Biggest Thief in Town” is a
riotous story of an undertaker’s
struggle against his own honesty.
It opened here in Philadelphia
March 14 for a week’s engagement
before opening in New York.
Thomas Mitchell, a small town
undertaker, is waiting with the
rest of the town for the millionaire
swindler who has his mansion
there to finally die and is hoping
vainly that he, instead of a bigger
Denver firm, may get the funeral.
His daughter is in love with a ne’er
do-well, and the money is needed.
His friends, Dr. Jay Stewart, play-
ed by Walter Abel, the newspaper-
man Horton Paige, played by Russ
Brown, and the revivalist druggist
Sam Wilkins, Rhys Williams, are
hoping with their friend, the un-
dertaker, Bert Hutchins, These
four men’s parts are played with
tremendous humor and conviction
throughout and carry the not-too-
new plot and situations.
Pace Swift
The first act moves very quickly
with very funny dialogue, the sec-
ond act is less swift and less fun-
ny, but still good, and the third act
again gives brilliant pace and a
wonderful scene in which Wilkins
“prays” the dying man back and
forth between death and life with
equal vigor and _ enthusiasm.
‘hroughout, Mitchell plays his role
with the pathetic humor that
makes the audience “pull” for him
even when they are laughing at
him. Abel is consistently helpful
and encouraging, and Brown is a
perfect portrait of the editor of a
small town newspaper who longs
to be William Allen White.
Of the minor characters, Robert
Readick, playing Buddy Gwynne,
the no-good dancer “going” with
Hutchins’ daughter, is outstanding
by his defiant face, manner, and
parents just don’t approve of.
The set, done by Leo Kerz, is
very clever; the parlor of the un-
dertaker’s establishment with one
wall that is transparent when
there is a light behind it showing
the embalming room, the light
from the millionaire’s estate, show-
-word_and.is-the.image-of.the-boy-}
~* The Observer
Specially contributed by
Edie Mason Ham, ’50
I come into the room, still a lit-
tle dizzy from the heat of my
early morning shower, and prepare
to read Matthew Arnold until ten
o’clock, My roommate sits quietly
at her desk. I will be able to read
a whole essay before class. It is
almost like being at home what
with the sounds of vacuum clea - -
“Qoo-00-0000, I’m only a human
veing.” The quietness of my room-
mate has been the quietness of
agony.
“You know what I have to do?”
she asks. “Today I have to stew
about that speech and Tuesday I
have to stew about a mid-semes-
ter. And Wednesday I have to do
something for Miss K. and Thurs-
GAY.
On it goes. I take a reading po-
sition. Wait a few minutes, Mat-
thew ol’ boy.
“What about your physics prob-
lems?” I say heartlessly.
“Oh yeah, that too,” and she
sinks into a head-in-hands position
which is good for ten minutes’ sil-
ence.
I read social criticism and then,
suddenly feeling uneasy, look up
into the blank eyes of my room-
mate. She comes to.
“What is it that goes on in
there?” she says, beating her head
with the palm of her hand. She
has pulled herself together enough
to start copying a philosophy pap-
er.
“I want a thick-pointed pen,” she
continues.
I start nervously. Why does she
want that.. My unhappy brain sees
a thick-barreled pen with long
sharp point. Murder? Suicide?
Ah no, simply to appear distin-
guished. Matthew Arnold contin-
ues, very sane, very organized,
“I don’t know-w-w,” she inter-
‘rupts in anguish. “Oh hell, I don’t
care,” and she’ writes feverishly
with her fine-pointed pen.
Matthew, Matthew, are our na-
tures complete? Where is right
reason ?
“Oh this is ghastly, how ghastly
can you get? — Damnation,” and
then bitter laughter. She doesn’t
care any more.
And lo, there is the professor.
See how he leaves Taylor Tower
and walks squarely across. the
green.
“T will hand this in now. I will
not proofread it—I will stick it in
his office without his seeing me.”
“You will have to go awfully,
fast to get there ahead of him,” I
tell her, sensible like M. Arnold.
“He stops for his mail,” she says
loftily and leaves.
She is back almost instantane-
ously. She huddles herself unhap-
pily in a chair.
“Well?” I say.
“Why do I-do these things, why
do I do these things?” she moans.
Apparently she has made herself
too clear in this paper. “Maybe
he’ll_ never see it,” she comforts
herself. “I put it in a very incon-
spicuous place.”
She mourns gently and I read
distractedly until the bell rings.
Then we go to a ten o’clock class
as if ... as if the hour from nine
to ten were just any old hour.
the transom, and the sky and poor
building around showing over the
partially open roof.
Though the characters are fairly
common types in rather stock sit-
uations, nevertheless Dalton Trum-
bo has written a play that is ex-
tremely amusing and quite fascin-
Bernheimer to Give :
German Club Lecture
Dr. Bernheimer, of the History
of Art Department, will give an
open German Club Lecture on
“German Art”, Wednesday eve-
; at. His
~~ Deirdre Delaney, ’51
“
Joseph P. Bannon -
7
Villanova holds these broadcasts
twice a month, discussing various
questions with different schools;
this was the first one in which
Bryn Mawr has participated.
ating and interest holding. Direct-
ed by Herman Shumlin, “The Big-
gest Thief in Town” adds up to a
very enjoyable theatre evening, if
not a masterpiece.
Dra-Mu Will Perform
‘“‘La Traviata” April 11
On the night of April 11th, the
all negro Dra-Mu Opera Company
is coming to Goodhart to do a per-
formance of La Traviata in con-
cert form. This company, under
the musical direction of Henry El-
kan and the over-all guidance of
Raymond L. Smith, has given
several performances at the Acad-
emy of Music, and has connec-
tion with the college. Pearl Ed-
munds sings with them.
After La Traviata, the Pro-
kofieff ballet One Among Us, will
be given. Students, faculty, and
friends of the college are all wel-
come, at $1.20 a head, ~~ .
“
Pd
French Club Will Give
Anouilh’s ‘‘ Antigone”
Continued from page 1
Dave Thomas; publicity is being
handled by Betty-Bright Page.
Kippy Mueller is in charge of
makeup, and Nancy Riley and
Helen Goldberg are doing the cos-
tumes.
The English version of Antig-
one is now being done in London
with great success, starring Vivien
Leigh as Antigone, and Laurence
Olivier as the Chorus. It also
played in New York a few years
ago, starring Katherine Cornell;
during the war, it was a great suc-
cess in France.
Antigone is a modern interpre-
tation of tragedy and is being done
French, with no scenery and mod-
ern costumes.
Last Wednesday the Bryn Mawr-
Ursinus swimming meet was held in
our pool. Bryn Mawr won with a
score of 40 to 17. The 40-yd. free
style was won by Bacon; Herrman
came in third. Bacon also took the
40 yd. backstroke with Warren
coming jn second. Betty Dempwolf
broke the pool record for the.40 yd.
breast stroke. Sally Howells fin-
ished second in the breast stroke.
Owens and Rotch took first and
third in the diving, and Laidlaw,
Dempwolf, and Dean won the med-
ley relay. A team consisting of
Dean, Laidlaw, Herrman, and Ba-
con won the freestyle relay.
Bryn Mawr was aiso successful
at beating Penn in badminton on
the same day.
The class volley ball games have
waxed hot and furious, sparked by
an unusually enthusiastic Gradu-
ate team. The final and important
playoff will be next Tuesday after-
noon at 5:30 when the Freshman
A team and the Grads will fight
beat the Seniors 57-20 and the
Sophomores 56-22. The Freshman
A team beat the Freshman B team
in a very close game, 31-30. The
credit a win over the Juniors,. 47-
21. In the playoff of the losing
teams the Sophomores won.
The Varsity basketball team op-
posed Swarthmore here at Bryn
Mawr at 4:00 last Friday after-
noon. Swarthmore won the game,:
with a score of ~ 53-28,..Swarth-
more’s second team won also’ with
a score of 30-24.
Playoffs in the class basketball
games will come next week. So
far the Freshman A team has won
four games, lost one; the Fresh-
man B team has won one, lost
three. The Sophomore A team has
won four, lost one. The Sophomore
by the French Club in the original.
for the championship. The Grads _
Freshman~A’s~also™have to” their”
cp at
3
talk, which will be given in Eng-
lish, will concern the historical de-
velopment and characteristics of
German art as compared with that
of other European countries.
B team has lost four. The Juniors
have won two, lost’ three, and the
Seniors have two wins, two losses.
The Grads have won the two
games they played.
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THE
COLLEGE NEWS
Skill and Imagination
Fused in Counterpoint
Continued from Page 1
teresting effect of sordid frozen
tension; the inclusion of art work
as a Counterpoint policy is a pleas-
ant innovation.
Of the undergraduate poetry,
Marcia Morris’ The Modern Spring
had by far the most direct appeal,
with its fresh pleasant surprise
and strong rhythmic manipula-
tions—the first two stanzas are eS-
pecially good. Royal Francis
Shepard’s Dog in the Night is a
nice piece of intuitive, sympathet-
ic writing, although it suffers at
moments from artificial phrasing.
Clarissa Platt’s Night Colors
shows a strong sense of color and
pattern. Lucy Turnbull’s Seven
Moons is a very nicely expressed
and imaginative conceit, although
the last line seems to jar the mood
slightly.
(Herbert Cheyette’s Chautauqua:
Lovers is a semi-clever, often pur-
posely unpleasant treatment of a
typical youth-age theme. In Rob-
ert Kunkel’s The Telegraphic
Night the better lines are the less
consciously sophistcated ones; the
thought central to the poem is
perhaps not worth quite the effort
it takes to work it out. And, final-
ly, The Huntress Unlaced, by Nick
Norton, is not really well enough
written to compensate for the flat-
ness of its humor. These three
poems are not unqualifiedly bad by
any means, but they suffer by
comparison with the rest.
Of the prose, Gwynne Williams’
enchanting Summer Life is far and
away the best. Here is the power
to make mood unforgettable by the
apparently haphazard collecting
of living detail. Her Priscilla Says
... is in quite another mood, a less
immediately attractive one; but it
shows the same humorous insight
and superficially loose, really
strong writing. . Sally McIntyre’s
Wash Day is good for sensitive de-
lineation of character rather than
originality or skill in plot construc-
tion. Weary Rose in the yard is
a vivid piece of scene drawing.
Evan Jones’ The Death of a Qua-
ker is very strong on “character
and atmosphere”, and, until the
over-dramatics of the last para-
graph, is a remarkably good piece
of work. Style and character are
suited to each other very under-
standingly. Helen Goldberg’s Op-
eration is, again, strong on situa-
tion and impression, weak on con-
struction; it is disappointing when
reread. Addison Beckley’s You'll
Be a Man, My Son, is feelingly
written, though barely steering
clear of sentimentality; for a story
Continued on page 5
Required Social Science
To Affect Class of °53
Continued from page 1
phy. majors, and the unit substi-
tuted for literature by English,
Greek, and Latin majors.
The College requirement in
language is to be met by a read-
ing “knowledge of two languages
not belonging to the same linguis-
tic group, the languages to be list-
ed by the Curriculum Committee
and to include Greek. The Curri-
culum Committee expects to pre-
pare this further report in the
near future.
MISS
NOIROT
Distinctive
Fail
u
Shakespeare Quizzed
On Blind Dates, Orals
Continued from Page 1
fifty ways.
As You Like It: V, 1
Off with his head!
King Richard III: III, 4
ORALS
If we should fail?
Macbeth: I, 7
This is the third time; I hope
good luck lies in odd numbers...
Merry Wives of Windsor: V, 1
Piteous they will look, like
drowned mice.
Henry IV, Part 1:1, 2
Take the hint
,; Which my despair proclaims.
Antony and Cleopatra: III, 2
ON SUSTENANCE
A sorry breakfast...
Henry V, Part II: 1, 4
Welcome, one megs is like to b2
your cheer.
Something is rotten...
‘Hamlet, I, 4
A very ancient and fishlike smell.
The Tempest; II, 2
My cake is dough,
The Taming of the Shrew: I, 1
Eat none of it.
Comedy of Errors: II, 2
BLIND DATE
If there be no great love in the
beginning, yet heaven may de-
crease it upon better acquaintance.
Merry Wives of Windsor: I, 1
God made him, and therefore let
him pass for a man.
Merchant of Venice: I, 2
ROOM INSPECTION
A harmless necessary cat.
Merchant of Venice: IV, 1
Wherefore are these things hid?
Twelfth Night: I, 1
THE BRYN MAWRTYR
A wretched soul, bruised with
adversity.
Comedy of Errors: [I, 1
. - small beer.
King Henry IV, Part II: 11, 2
I, thus neglecting worldly ends,
all dedicated
To closeness and the bettering
of my mind.
The Tempest: I, 2
Seifriz Speaks April 18
On Protoplasm Work
Dr. William Seifriz will present
the next Science Club lecture on
April 18 in the Biology Lecture
Room. He will discuss “Problems
in Protoplasmic Research” and ac-
company his talk with movies.
Dr. Seifriz, who is a Seesel Fel-
low at Yale, is now conducting
graduate classes at the University
of Pennsylvania. He is distinguish-
ed for his work in the fields of mi-
crodissection, ceil physiology, and
colloid chemistry as well as for his
latest experiments into the nature
of protoplasm.
Park Makes Exposee
Of Dean as Apostle
Continued from Page 1
sumption of public responsibility.
Apostolic Link
With illustrations from her own
experience in the administrations
of Simmons, Radcliffe, and Bryn
Mawr, Miss Park showed the evol-
ution of “deanships” and the diver-
sity of responsibility which a col-
lege dean must assume. As the
“accredited apostle of conciliation”
she forms a link between faculty
and students, keeps herself inform-
ed on the individual student as well
as the student community, takes
part in faculty decisions and gives
information to both faculty and
students,
What Makes A Dean?
A deanship or other adminis-
trative job is not a teaching or a
studying position, though closely
connected with both; therefore,
Miss Park explained, it is not for
the instinctive teacher or research-
er. The qualifications for this kind
of work include love of learning
and a possession and understand-
ing of academic training, including
graduate work. Personal qualities
such as maturity, patience, and in-
terest in the community and indi-
vidual, as. well as in the organizing
side itself, and
teaching experience is also an as-
set to the academic administrator.
are important,
Old Bryn Mawr Rules
Insisted on Chaperons
Continued from page 1
Discrimination against men
seems to have been rampant, but
there was one “unwritten rule” that
most unfortunately, not only has
become written, but also had the
exception removed. “The associa-
tion (Self4Gov) does not allow its
members to use wine in any form
in entertaining, and students may
not drink wine together except in
the single case of two roommates.”
This seems a little rough on the
poor souls in singles. But how nice
a wee nip would be the night be-
fore and/or after a mid-semester.
The final blow must have been
Resolution XI, “That students shall
make no social engagements with
the men of the Faculty.” Whether
this might be demoralizing to the
student or to the professor was not
explained—Self-Gov was impervi-
ous to broken hearts, and even Pla-
tonic friendships were impossible.
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With Humor and Style
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was a thoroughly imaginative in-
terpretation of a thoroughly imag-
inative old man; the bit with the
Highland ‘Lassie (Sheila Tatnall)
was enchanting.
Lee Haring’s Jim Hapgood and
difficult parts; Lee’s four Jim Hap-
goods seem to me _ insufficiently
varied; unfortunately he did not
look the part—certainly not “al-
most forty.” Poor make-up was
partly responsible for this too
youthful effect. However, his easy,
natural handling of the part made
it convincing. Joan 'Gale’s part was
perhaps the most difficult. Flor-
ence Denny—the nice, inconspicu-
ous friend—was played by Joan
with admirable sweetness and sim-
plicity.
Jeanne Pieri could have heen
lankier and more awkward, but she
manged to save this “Happy” from
the sickening depths to which little
girl parts are apt to sink. In fact
in general she was quite bearable;
her singing of “Poor Wandering
One” over her father’s dead body
was hilarious.
Chris Amussen was a disappoint-
ing Gordon Roark. He said almost
everything with the same inflection
and gesture; the part lacked life.
His most active moment, the at-
tempted smothering of Mr. Hap-
good, was his best. Phyllis Bolton’s
rather depressing part as Rose and
Sheila Tatnall’s very delightful
Elsie were both well done.
The production crew of this
play was also admirable. Com-
fortable living room settings are
not easy to create: this one was
cozy and convincing. Make-up,
other than Hapgood’s was good, es-
ecially Sophie’s and Horatio’s.
Hapgood’s costumes could have been
more gay and ridiculous—Sophie’s
last costume was unbecoming; her
first was charming. Sound, lights,
and all backstage action were
beautifully coordinated and timed.
Joan Gale’s Florence Denny were:
Workman FeHowships
Go to Habib and Martin
Continued from Page 1
Valuation.” At Harvard she hopes
to confer with Professor Lewis
himself. She also plans to study
Arabic philosophy as related to
Aristotle, and writes, “I feel that
this field would open up for me a
topic of lifetime interest.” Her
enthusiasm for this subject is
owing largely to her work at the
Institute of Advanced Studies at
Princeton University.
Miss Martin graduated from
Barnard College in 1947 and receiv-
ed her M.A. at Bryn Mawr last
year. She is a fellow in Romance
Languages at Bryn Mawr for the
year 1948-1949 and intends to use
her award to study in Italy as pre-
paration for teaching the Italian
language and literature in college.
She writes, “It would be most de-
sirable that I spend a year in Italy,
to gain better command of the
written and spoken language, to
become familiar with Italian cul-
ture and civilization, and to en-
rich my studies of Italian litera-
ture through attendance at a uni-
versity in Italy.” Miss Martin plans
to investigate the concept of love
in the Vita Nuova, applying as
sources certain religious writings
which have not as yet been con-
considered in this light.
Both Miss Habib and Miss Mar-
tin are candidates for the degree
of Doctor of Philosophy.
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WITS END
Islands drifting across a moth-
eaten campus in the wake of a
wafting trade, smoking islands, the
water-cooler archipelago, hilarious
islands in the cloister, (and, far
off, those mysterious isles, under-
going submersion in the infirm-
GtV) .4
We know that the essences of
different islands are different—just
as one pipe will smell delicious and
another simply awful, or just as
some mountains have been pro-
truded and others are the remains
of spreadings-out, as I once heard
a philosopher say. Somebody else
said that the whiteness I’ve noticed
1ately in the tops of certain high
trees is white, woolly flowers that
soon blow to fuzz, and vanish. The
trees, of course, are worthless, hy-
brid ones—elm-ashes or ash-elms-
es—which is why they have flow-
ers. I do not vouch for the truth
of this statement. Fuzz-flowers
grow too high for the myopic eye.
Islands are easier to see. The
little ones float by mournfully:
“| ..and the cloister is rabbitless
and the cat with gold eyes has
gone away.” And now one bigger
and wreathed in tobacco smoke
wobbles on the crest of senior
steps: “O... fora... small fille
de chambre who would fit in a
largish filing box,“ and a bouncy
young thing charges by who
yearns either to be a peninsula or
to be dead: “ ... and when I die,
tell him you distinctly heard me
say, ‘Tell and the
rest .was_ silence.” They swoop
from whirlpool to eddy and back
again, according to the season.
Now it is spring and each morn-
ing I awake, inspired with the ec-
stasy that comes when you have
just learned how to mix.up a mess
of bronze—and immediately want
to go out and build a Big Tomb.
Each morning it snows, and the
snow and the spring and I want to
make large-limbed snowmen and
snowladies—but the sun and the
monitor are our undoing.
O island all mine, I would rather
sit with you on an expansive pump-
kin than be crowded on velvet with
all those others!
|
Indonesian Factor
Discussed at IRC
International Relations Club,
March 10. Paul van der Veur, a
Dutch subject who has lived in In-
donesia, now studying at Swarth-
more, discussed tonight the factors)
which make difficult a solution of
the Indonesian situation.
The war in Indonesia was over
eight or ten days after the
Japanese invasion in 1942. The
Dutch forces, totaling about 60,000
were nearly all imprisoned by the
Japanese, who proceeded to indoc-
trinate boys from the age of six to
seventeen through a military train-
ing program emphasizing anti-
western ideas. When the Japs
were defeated, these boys formed
armed guerilla bands which added
considerably to the disorder of the
situation.
Mr. van der Veur admitted that
the Dutch had made mistakes in
their handling of the situation, es-
pecially in their inconsistency in
carrying out or disregarding U.N.
decisions. He pointed out that
technically the Dutch would be jus-
tified in considering the situation
an “internal breach of the peace
rather than an international one
which is under U.N. jurisdiction.”
He feels that it is the duty of the
Dutch to find a solution for the
problem. It is difficult to say just
what this could be. The Repub-
licans, now violently anti-Dutch,
although the most politically active
and holding the important central
position in Java, do not represent
the majority of the population—
actually only about a third of it.
International Quiz
The broadcast of the Bryn
Mawr - Aberdeen International
Quiz has been changed from noon
on April 3rd. to 10:30 a. m., over
station WPEN and WPEN-FM. It
will be heard simultaneously over
the BBC network in Great Britain.
Chorus Election
The Chorus takes pleasure in
announcing the election of Nan-
ey Greenewalt as President.
r21 and 35.
WHAT TO DO
FOR NEXT YEAR‘ (for details
see Mrs. Crenshaw).
The Foreign Service of the State
Department is opening examina-
tions for Officers. Open to United
States citizens between the ages of
Applications must be
made |by July Ist.
Laboratory Teclnicishs wanted
at Jackson Memorial Laboratory,
Bar Harbor; Boyce Thompson In-
stitute for Plant Research, New
York; Harvard Medical School.
The Cook County Bureau of Pub-
lic Welfare wants case aides and
ease workers for ‘Chicago. Prob-
ably only residents.
* * *
FOR THE SUMMER: (for de-
tails, see Mrs. Vietor).
The United Charities of Chicago
| summer outing workers—$150. to
$200 a month.
University Hospital in Philadel-
phia—information and file clerks.
Stores: College shops at R. H.
White’s.and Jordan Marsh in Bos-
ton; Saks Fifth Avenue in New
York; J. L. Hudson in Detroit.
Mental Hospital in Taunton,
Massachusetts; New Jersey and
Pennsylvania state hospitals—psy-
chiatric aides. $155 a month.
Training courses included.
Summer Camps: Hiawatha in
Maine, Sleepy Hollow in the White
Mountains, Christadora House in
New Jersey, Robin Hood in Bear
‘Mountain—counselors.
Wooden Acres Hotel in Canada
—several positions.
The Guidance Bureau in New
York—volunteers. Will train in
psychological testing and guidance.
The Migrant Child Care Pro-
gram—work in social work centers
in upper New York State. About
$25 a week. Minimum service, 10
weeks.
CAIMPUS JOBS NOW OPEN:
Sharpe and Dohme Drug Com-
pany—help with photographing of
records in Ardmore this week or
during the vacation, Well paid.
Time at your convenience.
Mr. Thon—two students to type
sitoicictaisiitiipnisbinasiaiciahansinanttty
Skill and Imagination
| Fused in Counterpoint
addresses for any two days during
the vacation. $.65 an hour, See!
Mrs. Vietor, not Mr. Thon. | of its type, the grasp of character
Continued from page 4
Overnight baby-sit Friday and js perhaps too flabby to create real
part of Saturday, March 25th and
26th. $6.00. Undergraduate must
take friend with her. Can baby-
sit the whole weekend if prefer.
a
ATTENTION, BABY-SITTERS!
Jobs are already coming for the
vacation. If you will be on campus
or in the vicinity, sign up immed-
iately in Room H of Taylor.
Museum Assistants for the Na-
tional Gallery and the Smithson-
ian Institute in Washington. Ap-
plications must be made by April
19th. Blanks in both offices of the
Bureau of Recommendations, Tay-
lor Hall. Civil Service positions
but no written examination neces-
sary. Salaries for A.B.’s in His-
tory of Art, $2974,
Elementary School Teachers for
the State of New Jersey. Sum-
mer courses at State Colleges will
qualify applicants for provisional
certificates. Details at the Bureau
of Recommendations.
County Visitors (social workers)
in the State of Pennsylvania. Sal-
aries $2124 for beginners. Exam-
inations will be given in the spring,
probably April, for lists to be made
up in June. Details at the Bureau.
Summer Training Course
Radcliffe College is again offer-
ing its course in Publishing Pro-
cedures, June 27th to August 5th.
Tuition $135, room and_ board
$115.50 to $141. Applications must
oe made by May 15th. Open to
graduates of four-year colleges.
interest. Skip Lea’s Flattery Sure
Works is fairly amusing, and pro-
vides the kind of rather factual
prose the lack of which has made
past issues so rarefied. And, fin-
ally, William S. Peifer’s Mike’s
Easy Money is good standard
story -with-a-message writing,
which compares favorably with a
great deal of professional maga-
zine literature.
There are weak points in Coun-
terpoint of course, but they are to
a certain extent counterbalanced
by the variety in fundamental style
of Haverford and Bryn Mawr. On
the whole, Bryn Mawr’s writing
represents a self-conscious aware- _
ness of literary tradition, while
Haverford produces almost unadul-
terated naturalism. The second
issue has markedly improved over
the first, and may be praised with-
out the qualification “for a col-
lege.”
There is a
Large
Assortment
of
Easter Cards
AT
STOCKTON’S
BRYN MAWR
For spring .
Be refreshed .
at
THE COLLEGE INN
BRYN MAWR
. and a fling
. with the best
Here’s Sant Donahue and Patsi: Mahar,
a featnred singer with his: baid,
conipating notes on Cainel Mildness.
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ee. and you'll know!
Sam Donahue’s new waxing is a real something. Yes! It’s
smooth, it’s swingy, it’s something terrific for a fast Lindy—or
what-do-you-do? In music, Sam knows that whether you dance
it fast or slow—you’'ll want it smooth. And when it comes to
cigarettes, Sam himself wants a cool, smooth-smoking cig-
arette. That’s why Sam says, “Camels suit my “T-Zone’ to a “T’.
Camels are the mildest cigarette I’ve ever smoked—and they
taste great, too!”
Smoke CAMELS for 30 DAYS
—and you'll know!
In a recent coast-to-coast test of hundreds of men and women
who smoked only Camels for 30 days—an average of one to
two packs a day— noted throat specialists, after making weekly
examinations, reported
NOT ONE SINGLE CASE OF THROAT
IRRITATION DUE TO SMOKING
1
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Page Six
THE COLLEGE NEWS
PORTRAIT OF A QUEEN
By Hanna Holborn, ’50
Elizabeth Kennard, senior, his-
tory major, and bonne vivante, was
BORN in Baltimore—but, she told
us quickly, ‘that was just inciden-
tal—I just happened to be born in
Baltimore.” The reason for this
disavowal of her birthplace is that
she son became a resident of New
Orleans, so much of one, in fact,
that she was chosen Queen of Co-
mus at this year’s Mardi Gras cel-
ebration.
As queen, Miss Kennard wore a
“jewel-studded” silver lame gown
with an 18 foot train. (To manip-
ulate the latter, she wore a special
harness around the knees). It took
two hours to sew her into her cos-
tume, which was finally completed;
by crown, sceptre, and necklace.
She had two pages and _ seven
maids, and stood on a balcony as
the parade want by underneath.
When the float with the King—
who is masked and unknown—
came ‘by, she was toasted by His
Majesty in champagne. During the
ball, the Queen sat on a throne
decked in red velvet, with Persian
carpets going up the steps and
gold lions on either side.
Ann Corcoran, who went down
with Elizabeth as a visitor to the
Mardi Gras, added color to the pic-
ture by her description of some of
the events. The parades, she said,
were the most exciting; each with
its own motif which would be car-
ried on at the ball where the par-
ade ended up. All the balls are
costume balls, and all the men are
masked, so that no one knows with
whom she is dancing. Instead of
being asked to dance, the young la-
dies are called ,and after the dance,
receive presents from their un-
known partners. The Comus ball,
She said, was decorated to look like
the old French court, with white
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canvas spread over the floor.
Elizabeth proceeded to the par-
ade in a regal, if modern fashion,
with a police ecort. Just before,
as she sat alone in all her splendor
in the back seat of the car, a wom-
an’s head came suddenly through
the window. “Greetings from Id-
aho!” it said.
NSA to Sponsor
Culturale, April 1]
According to the Daily Prince-
tonian, the almanac of student
opinion on a nearby campus, 24
Vassar girls far and away out-
stripped all rivals for the coveted
title of “the college girl most in
evidence” at their Junior Prom.
. Bryn Mawr and Smith tied for a
pogr second—thirteen apiece.
This fact might seem a little
discouraging to some of us of the
green-hilled campus in Pennsyl-
vania, were it not for the fact that
the Tiger tabulators neglected to
The Pennsylvania Region of the
NSA is presenting an all-student!
Culturale at the Met Theatre in!
Philadelphia on April 22 and 23.
The Culturale is designed as a
mu@ic festival which will include
glee clubs, vocal soloists, instru-
mental soloists, instrumental. en-
sembles, and representative na-
tional dances; the performers will
total more than seven hundred. A
collection of art work will be on
constant display.
The program is to be presented
in three parts, on Friday night,
day night. Each presentation will
differ from the others, and will
feature different performers. The
whole purpose of the Culturale is
to present as much student effort
in the musical field to the public
present proportions of total stud-
ent bodies.
Yes, we have the advantage of!
proximity. Yes, we have the same
stone architecture. Yes, train con-
nections are so convenient. (The
Pennsylvania railroad is always on
time).
But think of our numbers! Bryn
Mawr has approximately half as.
many students as does Vassar, and
only % as many as Smith. Take
this into account and Bryn Mawr’s
thirteen can return from such 4
weekend proudly.
Joyce Lewis
HAS
WEATHER VANE SUITS
IN VARIOUS COLORS
$14.95
as possible.
Bryn Mawr
Bryn Maur Girls Rank Second
To Vassar At Princeton Prom
in any reasonably alive state).
We are not rationalizing.
are not apologizing.
We
Secretly we
may yhave envisioned every Bryn:
Mawrtyr on the steps of Nassau
Hall. But we are only explaining
and augmenting, an unexplained
news item.
But, there’s always Haverford!
Elections
The college takes pleasure in
announcing the election of Alys
Farnsworth as Secretary of
Undergrad, Frances Putney as
Head of Chapel, Sherry Cow-
gill as Secretary to the League,
Bertie Dawes as First Sopho-
more Member of _ Self-Gov.,
Suzie Kramer as First Junior
Member of Undergrad, and Car-
oline Price as First Sophomore
Member of Self-Gov.
ERRATA . .
The NEWS does its best to keep
its proofreaders amused. In this
week’s article on the Religious
Discussion: “Dr. Martin Foss...
brought out the fact that there
” And
. there
never has been a religion.
on a NEWS tryout: “..
were twenty-five students present,
who were pocked at random.”
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Family Plan
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Easter Cut-outs for Children
Cards and Gifts for Grown-ups
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Bryn Mawr
>
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The TOP MEN of AMERIC’
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STARRING IN
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A WARNER BROS. PRODUCTION
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It's MY cigarette,”
College news, March 23, 1949
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