College news, December 6, 1950

“The College Hews



VOL. XLVIi, NO. 9

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1950

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1950

PRICE 15 CENTS



R. W. Chapman
Gives Personal
Side of Austen

. Spicy Anecdotes Liven
Limited Material
Of Letters

Mr. R. W. Chapman of Oxford
University spoke on the letters of
the nineteenth-century English
novelist, Jane Austen, from the
stage of Goodhart Auditorium on
Thursday, November 30. He be-
gan his address by listing all the
reasons why one could not expect
to learn much from the letters,
which is probably what most crit-
ics would say, and then very neat-
ly proceeded to present the charm-
ing, personal glimpses of Jane
Austen which are found only in
her letters.

He described the expense of
writing letters in her. day, and the
limitations of space inthem. When
a letter found its way into a
household along with a supply of
cheese, and was then read by all
of the family and half the serv-
ants, it would naturally contain
gossip and chatty bits of news,
rather than personal revelations.
The letters to Cassandra Austen,
Jane’s sister, which one may pre-
sume to have been more intimate,
were for the most part destroyed
by that reserved and proper lady.

(Mr. Chapman reminded his _au-
dience of Jane Austen’s back-
ground; her family was a remark-
able one. Tiwo of Jane’s brothers
became admirals. Her many live-
ly nephews and nieces were among
her favorite correspondents. Her
advice to a niece who inclined to-
ward writing novels states the
principles which she herself car-
ried out so admirably: “Let the
Portmans go to Ireland but as you
know nothing of the manners
there, you had better not go with
them.” Her belief that a writer
should write about what he knows
best because he has lived with it
longest is rephrased another way:

. “Three or four families in a coun-
try village are the very thing to
work upon.”

In the letters one is also pleased
to find specific references to Miss
Austen’s novels. She tells of vis-
iting a gallery where she sees a
picture of Mrs. Bingley of Pride
.and Prejudice in a white dress

Chilly

by Betty-Jeanne Yorshis, °52

The hall is dark, and cold, and
empty. Two silent people sit in
the middle of the deserted audi-
torium. The only life and animation
in the place is centered on the
stage, on Deirdre’s (Sue Halperin)
golden hair, where she stands,
framed by the beginnings of an el-
egant but sombre set, supplicating
the Fates for happiness with her
husband, Naisi. The scene—Rob-
erts Hall, Haverford. The time—
end of the first act rehearsal. The
play—Deirdre of the Sorrows, to

UC Loyalty Oath
Jeopardizes Right

To Free Opinions

Specially Contributed by
Phil Kunze, ’53 and
and Barbara Goldman, ’53

_ for the Alliance

With the growing threat of Com-
munist infiltration, the citizens of
the United States are facing a
grave practical dilemma. They
must decide whether they would
rather curb the activities of per-
sons suspected of Communist af-
filiations, or permit Communist
groups to operate freely in at-
tempting to indoctrinate ‘our
citizens. We, as students, are par-
ticularly interested in the educa-
tional aspect of this problem, which
has been brought to the fore by
the Loyalty Oath at the University
of California. We wonder just how
many people know what the Oath
is all about. .How did it-originate?
Who supports it? Why has it
caused such a furor in the whole
academic world?

The oath began its stormy his-
tory on March 24th, 1949. At that
time, the Regents of the University
of California adopted an “oath of
loyalty” requiring each faculty
member to assert not only that he
supported the Constitution of the
United States and the Constitution
of the State of California, but that
he was not a Communist, or con-
nected with ideas or enterprises
which could render his loyalty
doubtful.

When this requirement was pre-
sented before the Northern section
of the Academic Senate (roughly
those members of the faculty with
three or more years service) it
aroused immediate and strong op-
position. A Senate committee was
appointed to confer with the Presi-



with green ornaments. (She had} ent. A revised form of the oath

always suspected that green was
a favorite color of hers). How
ever, she saw no pictures of Mrs.
Darcy and concluded that her hus-
band was so fond of her that he
kept all her portraits at home
away from the prying eyes of
other men.

Mr. Chapman had somewhat
limited material to deal with, and
much of it was already familiar to
a good part of the audience. For
these disadvantages, however, his
careful presentation and charming
anecdotes were excellent compen-
sation. His friendly feeling, not
only for Jane Austen but all of
her: associates, both real and fic-
tional, made the evening a pleas-
ant addition to one’s experience

was apparently agreed upon be-
tween them, and June 24th, this
form was accepted by the Regents.

During the summer it became
obvious, however, that the new
form was not at all acceptable to
the faculty. A new committee was
asked to meet with the Regents on
September 29th and 30th, and a
new revision slightly different
from the previous one was framed.

The entire Senate, North and
South, voted, in February, two
resolutions. One rejected the spe-
cial oath; the other suggested as
an alternative that aside from the
Constitutional Oath, faculty con-
tracts contain a statement of the
non-communist policy and that the
faculty member accept his position
‘subject to this condition of employ-



in the literary field.



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‘Deirdre’ Rehearsals Anticipa
A Warm and Enjoyable Opening Night

be given December 8 and 9 at



te

8:30.

We had come much earlier than
8:30 to watch the rehearsal of this
Synge play, based on the turbulent
history of Ireland. We were driv-
en over by the energetic and om-
niscient director, Margery Low,
who, every night at seven, ferries
her entourage in shifts to Roberts
Hall where the Haverford section
of the cast is met, and the rehear-
sal begins. Costumes are tried on,
and soon the cast emerges, meta-
monphosed from a college group
to a set of Irish nobles and peas-
ants. But there is only a semi,
transformation. Naisi wears a
flowing red cape, but the rest of
him resembles Haverford. Deirdre,
likewise dressed in red, shows her
plaid skirt and lumber jacket un-
derneath. Only Conchubar, (Jiggs
Kunkel) the King of Aidan, is ful-
ly costumed, but even he is not
complete, for his large stature is
too much for his Anglo-Saxon
dress which is fine in front, but is
split in the back.

The stage crew, meanwhile,
rambles around oblivious to every-
thing but their own special busi-
ness, looking after the wants of
the production. The minor char-
acters ‘busy themselves over a

Continued on Page 3, Col. 4

CALENDAR
Wednesday, December 6
Alliance Discussion (Group,
‘Mr.-Charles Walker, “Is Paci-
fism Valid Today?” ‘Common
Room, 8:45 p.m.
Thursday, December 7
Dr. Leo Strauss, Professor of

Political Science at the Univer-

sity of Chicago, “Can There be

an Ethically Neutral Social
Science?” Common Room, 8:30
p. m.
Friday, December 8

Synge’s Deirdre of the Sor-
rows, presented by the Bryn
‘Mawr College Theatre and Hav-
erford Cap and Bells Club, Rob-

erts Hall, 8:30 p. m.

Saturday, December 9

Deirdre of the Sorrows, sec-
ond performance, Roberts Hall,
8:30 p. m.

Farber Expounds

On Transcendence

And Philosophies

On Tuesday, November 21, in
the Common Room, Dr. Marvin
Farber, Chairman of the Philoso-
phy Department at the Univer-
sity of Buffalo, delivered a lecture
on “Transcendence and Experi-
ence”, under the auspices of the
Bryn Mawr Philosophy Depart-
ment.

Mr. Farber began by expound-
ing the position of the phenomen-
alist as exemplified in the phil-
osophy of Edmund Husserl. Any
philosophy of experience must
answer the’ questions where is ex-
perience, when is experience, what
are its causal conditions, and
what are its boundaries. It must
also deal with what is beyond ex-
perience. This problem of trans-
cendence is a central one in his
philosophy. “The term ‘beyond’
is as intriguing as it is useful.
When the immediate environment
is sufficiently penplexing or em-
barrassing, we must press ‘be-
yond’ it . .. thus, ‘transcendence’
may refer to the limits not of hu-
‘man taboos, prejudices, or vested
interests. ‘Freedom’ then lies in
the ‘beyond’. Under a dictatorship
that may be one of the few poss
ible devices for conveying the as-
pirations of deliverance.”

Since the procedure of phenom-
enology is to begin with the self
and its experience of phenomena,
Husserlis—-confronted with the
difficulty of how to ground the giv-
en by means of the given. Phen-
omenology meets this problem by
raising the phenomena into the

Continued on Page 5, Col. 1

Common Treasury

Dues Set at $7.40

Common Treasury dues for the
year, 1950-1951, have been fixed at
$7.40 per person. The dues will
be put on the December 13 Pay
Day of every undergraduate and
will be allotted as follows:

$3.25 Undergrad
1.65 Alliance



Sunday, December 10

Bryn Mawr Music Club Con-
cert, Wyndham Music Room,
5:00 p. m.

Sunday Evening Chapel Serv-
ice, Rabbi Morris S. Lazaron of
Baltimore, Music Room, 7:30
p. m. :

Monday, December 11

Current Events, Mr. Reid of
Haverford, “South Africa”,
Common Room, 7:15 p. m.

English Department, Dr. Rhys
Carpenter, “Two Legends in
Verse”, Art Lecture Room, 8:30
p. m.

Tuesday, December 12

. Hugo von Hosmannsthal’s Je-
dermann, presented by the Ger-
man Club, Skinner Workshop,
8:30 p. m.

Wednesday, December 13

Wednesday Morning Assem-
bly, Dr. Joseph C. Sloane, “The
Diamond Jubilee Exhibition at
the Philadelphia Museum of
Art”, Goodhart, 8:45 a. m.

Film on_ Skiing, Common

-75 =Self-Govt.

45 N.S. A.

1.00 A. A.

30 Drama Guild '

The Common Treasury is an
amalgamation of the treasuries of
Self-Govt., Undergrad, Alliance
League, and most of the clubs
The League is financed by the Ac.
tivities Drive; and the clubs, with
the exceptions of N. S. A. and
A. A., are supported by separately
collected dues. The remaining or-
ganizations, however, are financed
almost entirely by Common Trea-
sury dues. Since every student is
“ipso facto” a member of Self
Govt., Undergrad, Alliance, Lea-
gue, and A. A., and has a right to
participate in any of their activi-
ties or in the activities of any
other student organization, it is
felt that the method of charging
each student a fixed amount is the
most equitable.

In order to clarify the present
apportionment of money among
the organizations, an approxima-



Room, 4:15 p. m.

A. A. Produces
Dance Numbers
And Two Plays

‘Lady Precious Stream’
And ‘The Night’
Outstanding
by Helen Katz, ’53

If the performances put on by
Actresses Anonymous last Friday
and Saturday nights were, as
Trish Richardson, production man-
ager, said, ‘not attempts at a fin-
ished production, but merely out-
lets for their creative energies”,
then the group can well be proud
of its attempts, its creativeness,
and its energies. The dance se-
quences, the one-act play Over-
tones, and the first act of Lady
Precious Stream were an amusing .
though, at first, slow evening’s en-~
tertainment.

The first piece, Alice Gersten-
burg’s Overtones, was interesting



in the cleverness of the lines; the
idea of two women and their inner
selves all appearing on stage at
once was intriguing. It was Mai-
sie Kennedy, as Harriet, who held
the production together, and au-
dience interest seemed to center
about her. Her shadow, Patsy
Price, was excellent in her por-
trayal, but at times too enthusias-
tic. One wished that Chris Scha-
vier, as the second woman, would
have projected her lines more con-
sistently, but toward the end, she
gained confidence and was- better
heard. Perhaps it was the bar-
renness of the stage, the iback-
stage noise, or the lack of rehear-
sal time, but somehow the produc-
tion lacked sparkle.

By the time the intermission
was over, the Workshop was com-
pletely filled, and the first number,
danced toa Debussy string quartet,
begian. As the curtain opened the

Continued on Page 5, Col. 2

U-Grad Suggests
Mayday Program

The proposed program for Mid-
dle-sized May Day, to be present-
ed on Saturday, April 28, 1961, is
as follows:

8:00 A.M. Sophomores wake the
seniors.
Hymn to the Son

9:00 a.m. Breakfast.

10:15 a.m. Academic Assembly.

11:15 a.m. Hooprolling.
Singing at top of
Senior Row.

1:00 (P.M. Lunch.

2:30 p.m. College Parade led by

Fireman’s : Band.
Maypole Dancing.
Crowning of Senioz
President as May
Queen and her speech,
Miss McBride’s
speech,
3:30-6:00 p.m. Sophomore
nival.
6:30 p.m. Dinner.
8:30 p.m. Arts Night.
10:30 p.m. Hall or informa}
dance.
The voting will be on Thursday,

Car.



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Wednesday, December 6, 1950





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EDITORIAL STAFF
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Middle-Sized May Day

The college will vote on the proposed program for Mid-
dle-Sized May Day, which is printed on the first page of this
issue, on Thursday, December 14. Since the principal criti-

‘eisms are presented in the “Opinion” column, we would like

to offer a few of the arguments in support of it.

Ever since 1936, Bryn Mawr has had nothing except
Little May Day, beginning at five o’clock of a Monday morn-
ing and ending at ten, whereupon classes are resumed for the
remainder of the day. It consists of waking the seniors, the
parade, dancing around the Maypole, the speeches, the aca-
demic assembly, and hoop-rolling; the rest of the day is ex-
tremely anti-climactic.

The suggested program proposes that May Day be held
on a Saturday, and that its activities occupy most of the day.
The seniors would be awakened at the more civilized hour of
eight, and there would still be sufficient time for the other
activities.

_An Elizabethan theme could be perpetuated through the
more elaborate Maypole dancing, and through the Sopho-
more Carnival, which is an appropriate subject for a Renais-
sance setting.

In answer to the objection that May Day should not be
a “date weekend”: very often there are many male spectat-
ors who come not to mock but to appreciate. The inclusion

of Sophomore Carnival, Arts Night, and a dance afterward

would provide ample opportunity for students to entertain
their dates.

- By the enlargement of the May Day program, more
members of the student body could be included in its activi-
ties, and the college would thereby be united through the
cooperative event which, above all, should unify it.

Case of the Vanished Volumes

One announcement in particular has resounded through
the dining rooms so many times lately that it is now a cam-
pus cliche, generally ignored: “The following books are miss-
ing illegally from the Reserve Room...” Last Monday the

names of no less than eight books were read aloud. Eight
people, then, or fewer, have assumed that they are so extra-
ordinary in one way or another that they have the right to
be exeused from the rules which the ordinary students must
follow. ~~

,

There is no one in this college who has not been informed



Current Events

December 4. 1950; Common
Room: Dr. Roger Wells, speak-
ing on War or Peace in Asia,
stressed two points: a) “The So-
viet enemy was; the Soviet enemy
still is.” b) “We have more to lose
in Europe than in Asia.”

Dr. Wells stressed the gravity
of the world situation and warn-
ed that we must not let our emo-
tions override our reason in deal-
ing with the Far East. We must
not forget that our main enemy is
the Soviet Union. If we become
engaged in a full scale war in
Asia, the USSR will move militar.
ily in Europe. There are many
weak spots in western Europe.
The manpower situation is criti-
cal there, and if the Soviet Union
attacked, Western Europe would
be defeated. What could the
United States do with a war on
two fronts? The USSR could bar-
gain with the U. S. with European
hostages in the case of the atomic
bomb. Maybe the Soviet Union
plans to split the West by threat-
ening western Europe and, there-
fore, forcing its countries to come
over to their side. ‘Whichever
way we turn, the situation is very
dark.”

Dr. Wells continued by stating
that he thought that the United
Nations could not have overlooked
the North Korean aggression. The
act involved a country connected
with the UIN, and the resistance
was “collective security for peace.”
He stated that the U. S. was warn-
ed not to cross the thirty-eighth
parallel, but he personally thinks
the decision to continue north
was the right one.

After condemning the senes-
cence in the high command for
military imefficiency, Dr. Wells
evaluated different possible solu-
tions. A treaty at the thirty-
eighth parallel or lower would not
be pleasant, but perhaps a neces-
sity. Or again, “suppose that Ko-
rea said, ‘You’ve got to get out of
here lock, stock, and barrel!’ ”
Could the General Assembly over-
look this aggression which would
be much greater than that or
North Korea?” It would be not
only a terrific military defeat, but
a big defeat in the principles for
which the United Nations stands.”

“Strategic bombing has had a
bad effect all over Asia.” We come
out at a point where we must use
extreme caution in taking immed-
iate steps in the East.” This
statement particularly applies to
diplomatic steps which are the ba-
sis for militaristic steps. We have
no reserves. Must we turn to
Chiang Kai
troops failed once, or must we
turn to industrially strong Japan
where we said we would not allow
rearmament?” It is unfortunate
that the United States is in the
position where we have refused a
five-power conference. Such a
conference would probably do no
good, but, on the other hand, it
would probably. do no harm eith-
er.

‘Shek again, whose|





Oninion

Emendations Proposed
For Middle-Size
May Day

To the Editor:

‘We would like to present our
case against “Middle Size May
Day’, and to propose an alternate
solution to the problem. [We un-
derstand that the purpose of such
a weekend would be a bigger May
Day which would bring the stud-
ent body closer together and put
new life into an old tradition. The

plan suggested was to celebrate
May Day on a Saturday and to
lengthen the ceremonies until the
middle of the afternoon, when the
Sophomore ‘Carnival| would be
held. This would be followed in
the evening by Arts Night and a
hall dance. ‘We feel this plan is
defeating its own purpose. Sopho-
more Carnival was originated to
fill in the Saturday afternoon gap
in Junior Prom Weekend. We don’t
think that anyone goes to Sopho-
more Carnival unless they have
dates, and very few people will
ask men down to May Day. There-
fore, in depriving Junior Prom
weekend of the Sophomore Carni-
val, we are creating two small
weekends instead of one big one.
Middle Size May Day would not
be a traditional college function,
and much less a means of uniting
the student body.

Instead of this we would like to
suggest that Sophomore Carnival
remain on Junior Prom Weekend,

that May Day be lengthened as).

planned, and the two or three
hours left vacant by Sophomore
Carnival be given over to inter-
class sports and hall open house
teas. (Also, that Arts Night and
a hall dance be held in the eve-
ning. In this way the spirit of
May Day as a traditional college
function will be preserved, more

people will be on campus to take |
part in it, Arts Night will benefit

from a larger audience and a hall

dance, which Pem East would be!

delighted to sponsor.
Yours sincerely,
Elisabeth Nelidow,
Ellen Bacon, ’51
Adele Lawrence, ’53
Jane Norris, ’53

NOTICES

Double -Octet

.On Thursday, December 7, at
6:30, the Double Octet will appear
on televison on Station WFIL-TV.
They will sing on the program,
“Features: for Women”, during
which Mr. Goodale will be inter-
viewed.

1

Finding Lists
The new Finding Lists for the
year 1950-1951 are available. at
the Public Relations Office for the
price of one dollar.



of the library rules regarding reserved books. They are stat-
ed succinctly in the freshman handbook and reiterated on the
library tours which every entrant must attend. Whoever
has taken these books has done it cautiously, deliberately

and with minimal qualms of conscience . .

. if any at all. By

removing a book which a student is required to read, the pil-
ferers deter that student from completing assigned work.
The variety of subjects covered by the titles of the van-
ished volumes makes it seem very unlikely that one person
only is responsible. Also, the titles indicate difficult and ad-
vanced material not usually perused by freshmen and ist

omores.

It is a cold day on campus when! Beyn Mawr girls who
are selected on the basis of their intelligence and integrity
are so blatantly inconsiderate that they must stoop to the

shoplifting level for the achievement of their own selfish .

ends.

Trio Pleads for Rest
Saturday; Hoops
Monday

The Editor

The College News

Bryn Mawr College

Dear Gracious:

We like to sleep late...
urday.

We want breakfast at the Inn...
on Saturday.

We do Crossword Puzzles ..

on Sat-

. on
Saturday.
We want rhubarb for Lunch , ..
on Saturday.

We want to relax .. . on Saturday.

We want to wake up early ..

- on
_ \Monday.
We want to wake up Miss McBride
. on Monday.
We only sing our Hymn to the Son
- on Monday.
We want strawberries for break-
fast ...on Monday. .
|We want a Maypole ... on Mon-
day.
Firemen always blow better .. .
on Monday.
Academic Assemblies belong ...
on Monday.
We like to roll our hoops ... on
(Monday.

PLEASE LEAVE US OUR MON-

DAY MAY DAY!
Annie-Lawrie Fabens, 1951
Eleanor Gunderson, 1951
Alice Hendrick, 1951

Writers Feel May Day
Does Not Mix
With Dates

December 4, 1950
The Editor College News
Bryn Mawr College
Dear Editor:

It may be that approaching old
age inclines us to be reactionary,
but it seems to us that adequate
reasons have not been presented
for breaking with what we consid-
er a very nice, if somewhat damp,
tradition. As Seniors we have
looked foyward to being wakened
‘by the Sophomores early on May
_Day morning and would gladly, if
grumblingly, emerge at dawn to
Sing to the Son in the rain. We
)agree that 5:30 a. m. is an early
hour and not one acceptable for
daily rising, but it really is not
such a hardship if you consider it
as a once-a-year proposition.



- To break up the order of events
of May Day and to insert activi-
ties which have always had a
place of their own on the College
Calendar, such as Arts Night and
Sophomore Carnival, seems to de-
tract from the spirit of May Day.
May Day is an end in itself—it
lends an atmosphere of general
good feeling. (Middle-sized May
Day is to be an attempt to unify
the undergraduate body, but mak-
ing it a social affair is defeating
this purpose. How many of us are
going to be able to relax and en-
joy a leisurely breakfast with our
class if we are worrying about
our dates missing trains and what
dress to wear? How many Sen-
iors are going to want to distrib-
ute May Day sticks and hoops on
Saturday if they have a date to
entertain, and how many under-
classmen will show real pleasure
at receiving them if they are sim-
ilarly occupied?

It sems to us that this compro-
mise will take away one of the
nicest traditions at Bryn Mawr.
The advantages of Middle-sized
May Day are few compared to its
disadvantages, especially that of
the loss of a definite spirit which
belongs to May Day as we know it.
Sincerely yours,

Marianne Klein, ’51
Doris Zimmerman, ’51












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LAST NIGHTERS

Ring Around the Moon
Brings Promised
Pleasure

Specially contributed by
Linda Bettman, ’52

It’s hard to know what to say
about Christopher Fry, basing
my femarks on two plays seen.
(Wolcott Gibbs in last ‘week’s
New Yorker opens his review of
Fry’s The Lady’s Not For Burn-
ing with much the same Sort of
remark, so I thought it would be
safe). My reading friends grow
so irate if I say that sometimes
Fry seems just plain wordy, rath.
er than grandiose and flowing.
But sometimes I wonder if he is
saying anything at all in the
grand manner, or something very
“important in the slickest lines; or
is he just terribly promising and
rather uneven as yet.

‘His newest show, Ring Around
the Moon, opened the first of the
month in New Haven, moved to
Boston and then on to New York,
where it opened on Thanksgiving
night. This play is a delightful
comedy, translated by Mr. Fry
from Jean Anouilh’s L’Invitation
au Chateau. Basing this opinion
on Mr. Fry’s own Venus Observed,
I feel that Mr. Fry has. done more
than just an interlinear on the
French. It has delightful dia-
logue, very seldom lapsing into
the tedious or confusing. It seem-
ed that Fry was trying to break
a message through to us, but the
innate funniness of the play held
it above and beyond that.

The original London cast is su-
perb. Lucille Watson leads as
Lady India, confined to a wheel
chair. The funniest moment I can
recall in theatre is her monologue
about the old days, when life was
really gay down in Biarritz. Den-
holm Elliott handles the difficult
role of twins (or should I say, two
difficult roles) who are identical
only in their appearance. I wasn’t
so sure until I checked the pro-
gramme at the first intermission
that it was only one handsome
young man. I lost faith until the
last tense scene in which the but-
ler is sent to fetch Hugh while
Frederic is on stage; he comes
back, looks hard at Frederic, and
announces that because Mr. Hugo
is occupied at the particular mo.
ment, he is unable to appear.

The rest of the cast is equally
good, the butler ‘butlerish, the
French companion ooo so French,
the interfering mother tedious,
stupid, and yet just a little pa-
thetic, the little millionaire, Oscar
Karlweis, infinitely appealing and
convincing in a difficult part, and
the ingenue-heroine, Stella An-
drews, breathtakingly beautiful.

The plot itself is very amusing
The timid brother, Frederic, is in
love with the beautiful Diana, who!
has become engaged to him, be-
cause she loves his wild and evil
brother, Hugo, and her millionaire
papa cannot quite buy him. On the
eve of a ball given by Lady India,
aunt of the twins, Hugo hires a
young ballet dancer, whom his
uncle has been more or less sup-
porting, to come as a guest to be- |
witch his brother away from
Diana, who does not love him.
Hugo makes the young innocent
the star of the party. She falls
in love with Frederic, and after
the great confusion of identity,
the outcome is that Diana gets
Hugo and Isabella, Frederic. There
are innumerable brilliant sequenc-
es. The height of dramatic inten-
sity was reached in the scene in
which the millionaire admits to
Isabella, who has refused to take
a cent from him, that he has nev-
er been so happy as when he was
a young tailor in Krakow. There-
upon the pair tear up and fling

Professor of English at Swarthmore,

Whicher Grew up ‘Inbred’ in Am. Lit.

by Julie Ann Johnson, ’52

Dr. Stephen E. Whicher, who is
teaching the course in American
Literature at Bryn Mawr this
year, in addition to a _ full-time
schedule as Professor of English at
Swarthmore, possesses an hered-
itary interest in American Lit. In
fact, Mr. Whicher considers him-
self “inbred” in the subject; his
father has long been a professor
of American Literature at Am-
herst, and his mother, now retired,
was for many years an English
professor at Mount Holyoke.

True to family interests and
the town where he had _ been
brought up, Mr. Whicher attended
Amherst, graduating in 1986. He
took his M. A. in Fatt at
Columbia, writing *his thesis on
Plato’s view of Poetry, which he
“hopes no one ever reads.” Mr.
Whicher then reverted to Ameri-
can Lit. with his Ph. D., which he
completed at Harvard in ’42; he
wrote his thesis, “which is as yet
unpublished,” on Emerson. He
then became an Instructor at the
University of Rochester.

Mr. Whicher had been married
in 1940, and his first child, a



Random Reporter

by Helen Katz, ’53
and Margie Cohn, ’52

With the true inquiring spirit of
philosophy and scientific investiga-
tion, we herewith present some
answers to the significant ques-
tion: Why do you smoke?

Maggi Stehli,,’53: “To coat my
lungs with nicotine.” (Ever try
camel’s hair?).

Charles Adams: “I like to gouge
my friends’ eyeballs out with
the lit ends.”

Ann Mudge, ’54: “I don’t.”
(‘Smoke ? )
Polly Dickenson, ’52: “I haven’t

had a cigarette for two days.
(Checks bouncing:? )

Harriet, Cooper, ’°53: ‘Sophomore
Slump.”

Dr. Nahm: “So I can blow smoke
rings.”

Judy Leopold, 58: “I just do it
when I’m _ nervous.” (Habitual,
huh?)

Jesie Hausman, °52: “I’m trying
for T. B.” (Taylor Burning?)
Marianne Neuses, ’53: “I have an
Continued on Page 4, Col. 4

Foreign
Correspondent

by Mary Berenice Morris, ’52

“Land of volcanoes,” “Land of
pyramids.” With these _ trite
phrases, North Americans evaluate
Mexico. Trite indeed, for they are
mainly tourist slogans—by-words
of a group that capitalizes on the
obvious, the apparent.

A stroll down a side street of
any small city reveals the real,
the vibrant, that is Mexico. Long
shadows stripe the street, already
divided into clearly defined areas
of sun and shade, thus offering
a unique choice of climate. A busi-
nessman with very official air
rushes, in Mexican manner, to his
office, while a nino, in tattered
shirt, and barefoot runs along side
of him calling “Chicle, senor, chic-
le,’ without any success at all.
Every store and street stand is
open for business, but an agree-
able business in which everything
is “por nada,” and is always ne-
gotiated at leisure with much time
passed in the pleasant game of
bargaining. A group of local hom-
bres is gathered outside the neigh-
borhood bar, and they discuss the
affairs of the day with wild ges-

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daughter, was born in Rochester
in ’43, not long before her father
entered the Navy in November.
Another daughter was orn at
Christmas, ’44, while he was away
at war. As a Fighter Direction
Officer (direction of planes by ra-
dar), Mr. Whicher served in the
Pacific, and was stationed on the
carrier Saratoga when she was
hit by the Japanese.

He received a post-war Rocke-
feller Scholarship which provided
the opportunity of rewriting his
thesis on Emerson; “the second
draft of Emerson was, if anything,
worse than the first.” Mr. Which-
er came to Swarthmore in the fall
of 47, and has been ‘there ever
since. The family roster was ev-
ened up by the arrival of twin
sons in ’48,

At Amherst, Mr. Whicher re-
ceived an athletic letter in swim-
ming. (He was “the only one who
could swim the breast stroke; the
opposing teams usually had only
bwo entries in the event, and the
points accumulated for ‘thirds’
were sufficient to win a letter.” He
also belonged to the Glee Club,
and “did some debating”, but his
second major extracurricular in-
terest was college dramatics. He
played the part of Horatio in
Hamlet, and it was in “a play no-
body ever heard of, Bridie’s To-
bias and the Angel, that Mr.
Whicher attained his “most exalt-
ed role’—that of the Archangel
Michael!

Irish Tragedy Unfolds
Under Direction of Low

Continued from Page 1

crossword puzzle, waiting for the
rehearsal to begin. They are se-
rure in their roles, and have noth-
ing to do but art them out when
the time ‘comes. Everything at
last seems to be ready, but there
is still a lull. What is lacking?
At last the door opens and some-
one comes racing down the aisle.
It is the missing person, breath-
less and apologetic. She is brief-
ly reprimanded, told to get into
her costume, and the play begins.
Everything goes off splendidly;
the director sitting halfiway back
interrupts not once, for the cast,
in spite of the deathly cold, gives
warmth and expression to their
performance. Then to the cry of
“Take five”, the first act ends, and
noise breaks out once more.

We did not know whether it was
because of the chilling atmosphere
of the hall, or the solemnity of the
tragedy, but no one seemed very
cheerful or spirited off stage.
There was none of the usual devil-
may-care attitude of a college pro-
duction. Instead everyone went
about his business soberly and in-
tently. Everyone mwas doing a
good job, however; the second act
came into shape as successfully as
the first.

“Take five, but stay close’ was
the order when the _ houselights
went on again. By this time, ev-
eryone’s blood was ocngealed to
solid lumps. We couldn’t bear the
cold any longer, mumbling an ex-

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iQ.





Reformer Condemns Pagan Exercise;
Parents Fear Sawdust Doll-linquents

by Claire Robinson, °54
(Text of a speech made on a
slightly-used crate once used to
ship Ivory Soap, by the President
of the Get Our Girls Back from

Nature Club of North Philadel-
phia):
(Ladies, we are gathered here

today to discuss the shocking pro-
cedures that have been taking
place before our very noses, yes
taking place in full view—infam-
ous happenings at Bryn Mawr
College which all of us have tried
to rationalize, in the hopes that
steps would be taken to abolish
the endurance trials that our poor
innocent children have been fore-
ed to undergo. We know full well
that the aforementioned college is
trying to {break sweet girlish
spirit—as well as sweet girlish
backs—in a particularly shocking
and diabolically planned course
called Body Mechanics. One of
our sharpest observers managed to
be present at several meetings of
this course, and the following are
her first hand reports.

The young women were herded
into a room and were told that
they were to line up alphabetical-
ly. This particular class took
place early on a Monday morning,
and our observer says that many
of the poor youngsters were un
able to remembber their last names.
Numbers were then issued to each

Violinist, Pianist
Starred in Concert

The first of the 1950 series of
the Bryn Mawr Music Club con
certs will be held in Wyndham on
Sunday afternoon, December 10
at 5 p.m. Toshiya Eto, violinist
and Marion Zarzeczna, pianist
both students from the Curtis In-
stitute, will be the soloists. Their
program includes a Brahms sonata
for violin and piano, Schumann’s
Abegg Variations, Pour le piano by
Debussy, Impromptu by Tor Aulin,
and arrangements for violin of
Chopin’s Nocturne Op. 9, No. 2 and



in turn, and the delicate flowerlets
of young womanhood were forced
to bounce a ball against the wall
of the gymnasium. This would
not have been difficult had not the
young ladies then been informed
that it was the Lower Merion
High School Gymnasium wall they
were aiming for. $

At another time they were
marched into a room and made to
face the window. One by one
they were told to leap about the
room in tune with a tom-tom beat.
This, ladies, was sheer paganism,
as well as sheer torture. Of
course, if these, our glowing
youth, made mistakes of any sort
in the performance of any activ-|
ities, they are to be given correc-
tive exercises. One other time,
ladies, the damsels were told to
walk up and down stairs. My own)
sister’s cousin’s niece, who was,
among those present, happened to}
stumble over her athletic tunic as |
she marched up the stairs. When)
I left her three hours ago, she was |
still marching.

This, however, is not the crush-
ing blow. All of us know the ways
that impressionable young minds
are apt to grasp the wrong impli-
cations about all sorts of things in
these troubled times. It has been
actually reported by our observer
that at one of the latest meetings
of this gymnastic ordeal, the in-
nocents were told repeatedly and
emphatically that they were—
please excuse me—sawdust dolls:
This has serious implications.
Certainly no right-thinking moth-
er today will endure having her
own flesh and blood turned into a
juvenile doll-linquent. Not only
that, but the sawdust made the
wooden floor awfully messy. And
so, ladies, let me conclude by say-
ing—Body Mechanics, and all they
stand for—Must Go. And, ladies
so must I, you see, I’ve discovered
that my posture is exceedingly
poor, and a woman named Miss
Kilby is coming to see me today.
She says she knows of a place I
can go where I can improve, and



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a Saint-Saens Caprice.



. . well, I’ll see you next week. ~



LAST NIGHTERS

| Jupiter and Juno Romp

Through New
Musical

by Margie Cohn, °52

Cole Porter has written a new
musical comedy, Out of This
World. People are clamoring for
tickets because of the magical ef-
fect the name Cole Porter has on
the theatre-going populace How-
ever, laurels are about all Porter
has to rest on, for Out of This
World is not his usual great show.
Of course, parts of it are excellent,
and the thing as a whole is not un-
enjoyable. It is just not great.

The plot concerns the affairs of
the gods and goddesses and their
relations with mortals. Jupiter
(George Jongeyans), unfolds the
story by asserting that he is in
love with a human Helen (Priscilla
Gilett), and will stop at nothing to
win her. He sends his son, Mer-
cury (William Redfield) to find
Helen; but to complicate matters,
she is to be married to Art O’Mal-
ley (William Eythe). Mercury
blithely transports the bride and
groom to Greece, where Jupiter
can have his way. Of course Juno
(Charlotte Greenwood) is jealous
of her husband’s gadding about in
various guises, and finds herself
a Chicago gangster, Niki Skolianos
(David Burns). The major part of
the action takes place during “the
longest night in time,” produced by
Jupiter with the apt aid of a limber
and expressive dancer, Night (Jan-
et Collins).

Of the nineteen songs in the
show, only three can be termed
really good. The first, employed
to open and close the show, “Use
Your Imagination,” left the audi-
ence humming its lilting melody.
Likewise, “I am Loved’ is a beau-
tiful tune, although through it
could be detected excerpts from
Kiss Me Kate’s haunting “So In
Love.” Outstanding as a comedy
hit was Miss Greenwood’s rendi-
tion of “Nobody’s Chasing Me,”
lamenting her plight as an un-
wanted female. Other than these,
the songs lacked spirit, and a few,
such as “They Couldn’t Compare .
to You,” seemed to be direct steals
from Mr. Porter’s successful Kiss
Me Kate.

Outstandingly excellent were
Agnes deMille’s sets and staging.
The properties were lavish and

Continued on Page 4, Col. 2

Bard’s Eve View

by Margie Cohn, 52
I

This is the classroom primeval;

The murmuring needles for knit-
ting,

Covered with wool, make a clicking
sound

Heard above the professor.

Socrates gives way to crosswords,

And tic-tac-toe fills in for Homer.

“What are you doing next Satur-
day night?”

Who was Hesiod anyhow ?

Back in the classroom primeval,

The quizzes are now being taken.

Covered with ink are the students’
hands—

We see a blank piece of paper.

II

I think that I shall never see

A spot as dark as the library.

Enlightenment — that age is
through;

Instead we sleep—go blind—turn
blue! :

What happened to that fine fluor-
escence

Or Edison, or incandescence ?

Without, the sun shines on with
glee—

Inside, a tomb—toom uch for me!






Page Four

THE COLLEGE NEWS



Wednesday, December 6, 1950



Between the Leaves

Evelyn Waugh’s Helena
Varies Earlier
Satires

by Judith Waldrop, °53

Fans of Evelyn Waugh have
been puzzled, perhaps, but not sur-
prised by the appearance of the
English satirist’s new book,
Helena. It has been advertised with
the rather misleading blurbs “Pa-
gan Princess! Roman Empress!
Christian Saint!”, which is all true
enough, but the author, more
subtly, has omitted the exclamation
points. In Helena, Waugh has at-
tempted to answer some of the
questions his earlier books have
asked.

Waugh has clarmed that he is
a satirist by trade. Scoop, Decline
and Fall, A Handful of Dust, Put
Out More Flags, Black Mischief,
and Vile Bodies are brilliantly
amusing and poisonously snide.
Waugh’s angular characters per-
form in a glittering aura of de-
licious badness, but they can sel-
dom avoid the traps and snares he
has put out for them. Through his
constantly surprising plots, Waugh
emphasizes man’s’ unimportance
and ineffectuality. Fate is a filthy,
toothless gipsy whom her victims
wouldn’t touch; yet, laughing ob-
scenely and spitting tobacco, she
crushes them under her grimy
thumb.

The question that Waugh opens
through these books is “but why?”.
These Gay Young People, so
dazzlingly charming, so delight-
fully human—why should they suf-
fer the tedious and thoroughly un-
suitable consequences of their
peceadillos? The unwritten an-
swer is that sin is terrible, even
when it glitters. This conclusion
is only dimly perceived, so cloying
is the charm of these sinners.

Again, in Waugh’s more recent
books, the death knell is scarcely
heard over the din of the orches-
tra playing on the First Class Deck
of this sinking ship. Behind The
Loved One, a satire on tribal cus-
toms in California, is the idea “As
you live, so shall you die.” As the
United States is a rootless, mate-
rialistic society, so its people are
buried amid strangers in bad taste
and denial of death. Most people,
however, find The Loved One, like
Waugh’s other books, too funny to
be taken seriously.

Brideshead Revisited, the story
of an English Roman Catholic fam-
ily, is more direct in its message:
there is no compromise between
the demands of Faith and the de-
mands of Society. Even in this
excellent book, true values are dis-
torted by the sensual charms of
Waugh’s prose. “Charm is the
great English blight. It does not
exist outside these damp islands.
T spots and kills anything it
touches. It kills love; it kills art;
I greatly fear, my dear... it has
killed you.” This quotation from
Brideshead Revisited applies to the
way sharp satirization has over
shadowed Waugh’s most powerful
ideas.

Waugh’s new book is concerned)
with St. Helena, the mother of the
Roman Emperor Constantine, who
in her old age went to Palestine
and found the True Cross, thereby
becoming a Saint. In this book,
Waugh has let sincerity come be-







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by Margie Cohn, 52

Feeling almost at home, since
the same architect built both Bryn
Mawr and Sleighton Farm for the
Reeducation of Wayward Girls, we
settled down in the administration
building where Miss Emily Morri-
son told Dr. Kraus and her classes
of the working of this institution.
The farm is privately owned, but
girls are committed from the Ju-
venile Courts of the State of Penn-
sylvania. Founded by John Ser-
geant, the institution was first
called the House of Refuge, and
was used to take boys and girls
out of the prisons and jails of the
early nineteenth century. His sup-
position that it should be an edu-
cational, and not a penal institution
has lasted; up until the present day,
and what was once a barred build-
ing in Philadelphia is now a beau-
tiful farm in the rolling Pennsyl-
vania country near Media.

To enable the girls to have more
freedom, a Mrs. Falcon initiated
the use of cottages for living fa-
cilities, whereby each girl can live
where she chooses. In addition,



Typically Porter Music
Rendered by Immortals
Continued from Page 3

exquisi‘e, as were the costumes,
especially those of the gods and
goddesses. In Act II there was a
moving curtain, one end being the
dark shades of night, and the other
the orange tones of day, so the
transition was reached quite effec-
tively. Also outstanding were the
scenes in heaven, especially the
last with Jupiter and Juno sitting
on a raised golden throne.
Excellent dancing was done by
Miss Collins,.as Night, and she
created the desired mood whenever
she appeared on the stage. One
chorus dance was almost unneces-
sarily lewd and the rest of the
choreography was mediocre.

Moving slowly until the appear-
ance of Miss Greenwood in Act I,
the show lapsed again into a
plodding meter, and didn’t pick
up again until Miss Greenwood ap-
peared again in Act II, scene 8, to
sing the humorous “Nobody’s
Chasing Me.” In fact, as Juno,
she seemed to sustain the whole
show. However, Mr. Redfield’s por-
trayal of Mercury cannot be ne-
glected, for he was delightful with
a constant twinkle in his eye.

What Out of This World lacked
was pep, and good dialogue, for
the idea is a fertile one. How-
ever, it certainly did not measure
up to Porter’s past successes.



fore rhetoric with an effect some-
times ungainly, sometimes beauti-
ful. Waugh was completely able
to capture and criticize the petty
lives of his English society people;
but Helena was of a nobler race,
and Waugh does not show as much
talent to build as he did to destroy.
Helena has a nobility rare among
Waugh’s creations—character. The
author strives to prove that the
true Christian finds a better life
than the _ thoughtless sinner.
Waugh’s success, though only par-
tial, is certainly greater than the
success of most writers today.



Sleighton Farm for Misguided Girls
Prepares Confident, Healthy Citizens

she instigated a student- govern-
ment, and hired college girls to
work there to lend the necessary
“youthful” atmosphere. In the
country, moreover, the girls can
do outside work, such as farming
and raking leaves, in order to “help
body and soul both.”

At Sleighton Farm, the term
“delinquent” is never used. The
authorities feel that there are psy-
chological causes for stealing, ill-
temper, and the like, and that the
children here have a deep craving
for something which their homes
have not given them. Thus, the
delinquency is placed upon the
home rather than upon the child,
who is thought of as “socially mal-
adjusted.”

Each girl stays at Sleighton
Farm for at least two and a half
years, and after that she either
goes ,back to her family, or finds
a “wage home” with the aid of
social worker. From there she may
go on to another job, but she is
legally under the jurisdiction of
the Farm until she is of age. How-
ever, after being carefully watched,
the girl may prove herself capable
of taking sufficient care of herself,
in which case the agency considers
her on her own.

The girls’ ages range from 12 to
17, and they live in cottages of
about thirty girls each. The staff
of a cottage consists of a house
mother and a dietician, as well as
the elected officers of the hall.
The students are proud of their
self-government system, which
makes provisions for discipline,
which usually means a deprivation
of a privilege, such as Friday night
movies, or Saturday night dancing.

Practical Education

The school they attend is not an
accredited high school, since most
of the girls are not interested in
going to college. Instead, Sleighton
teaches them practical aspects of
community living, preparing them
for the world to which they will
eventually return. Courses are
given in homemaking, nature stud
ies, music, literature, typing, sex
hygiene, and other important sub-
jects, for these girls are all from
poor homes, and have received little
or no education of any sort from
their mothers.

Besides the cottage staff, and
the academic teachers, the staff
includes farmers, case workers, a
psychologist, and in the summer,
college girls. These officials work
with the girls, and have a day a
week, and every other Sunday, off.

When the girls are not in classes,
or working outdoors, they have
recreation either in the cottages,
some of which have television, or
jointly. They take pride in them-
selves and the work they do, and
most of them seem to be approach-
ing adjustment. They are treated
kindly, and not as penal cases, and
many of the alumnae return for
visits, proving the great worth of
the institution.







For the perfect gift |
Christmas wrapped!
JOYCE LEWIS







Correspondent Reports
On True Life in Mexico

Continued from Page 3

tures and jovial laughter. From
within, a juke box blares the
strains of the romantic danzon,
and they mingle with the irresisti-
ble aroma forever ushering forth
from the pasteleria. A group of
college students congregates
around the ice cream vendor on the
corner; others descend upon the
tempting cart of sweets near him,
and a wide-eyed youngster suc-
ceeds in selling them a bunch of
crimson carnations.

Towering over all the buildings
and the people is the Church, re-
flecting all the glory and wealth
of a long and successful colonial
period. The inevitable beggar or
two are squatted on the sidewalk
in front of it. A handsome Indian
woman with her baby wrapped in
her rebozo blesses herself as she
leaves the Prose Entering, is an
elegant woman of Spanish descent,
dressed in the latest style and
wearing a beautiful black lace
mantilla. The door of the adjoin-
ing conve it bursts open and girls
from five to eighteen take over
the sidewalk for’asmoment or two
before they are put on the colegio
bus by the accompanying nuns.
Their shining faces and dark uni-
forms with white collars and red
bows leave a lasting impression. ..

This is the true Mexico—a land
of contrasts, over which reigns a



profound realism, an_ incredible
ability to accept existing condi-
tions, probably caused by their just
pride in a brilliant past.

Quiz Steals Kools’ Fire;
Smoke Builds Vice Pyre

Continued from Page 3

inferiority complex and_ the

smoke calls attention to me.”

(Try low-cut dresses!)

Dr. Leblanc: “I started to smoke

because I. met people who smok-

ed and therefore I smoked to

make them happy, and finally, I

started to like it myself.” (Very

logical).

Cynthia Sorrick, 54: “I have a

chimney complex.” (Just a brick

at heart).

Mary Anne Hennessey, ’52: “So I

can get my nameinthe NEWS!”

Mimi Baicker, ’52: “Because I like
to hold onto something.” (No
comment).

Patsy Bennett, ’51: “Because I’ve
wanted to smoke since I was
seven years old!”

Sarah Sutherland, ’53: “The
smoke makes my eyes look tir-
ed, so when I go home, my par-
ents will think I’ve been study-
ing.”

Dr. Berliner: “I don’t answer any-
thing for Chesterfield or Philip
Morris, and I don’t smoke in
Taylor!” (Ouch!)











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Christmas !
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You'll get what you want
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‘Ring Around the Moon’
Hides Message in Humor

Continued from Page 3

about all his money. Then there
is the hilarious tango scene in
which the mistress and the secre-
tary of the millionaire discuss
their painful affair, tangoing all
the while; I’m sure that all the
lines were as funny as the ones I
could hear through the.screams of
laughter,
mine.

I suspected Fry of pushing life

many of which were

force and personifications of good
and evil in the twins; and the mil-

lionaire’s two fatal discoveries

about his money whispered of
deeper meaning, but I preferred to
discount these and view the play
as an utterly delightful and suc-

cessful comedy,. rather than as
something approaching the up-in-
the-airness and confusion of Ve-
nus Observed. The first act; of the
play did seem a little long but
afterwards all is riotous, spark-
ling, warm humor.

The single set is rather inter-
esting and establishes and: main-
tains the lightness and not-quite-
of-this-worldness of the play. *”

The cast is an integrated"and |
handsome import.’ Venus Observed
was carried by Laurence Olivier’s
superior rolling style, and while
“all hands were capable’, the in-
genue just wasn’t pretty enough
for me, and everybody seemed
conscious of the fact that the lead
was a Great. The play itself
(Venus Observed) was a bit long
and more than a bit long-winded,
occasionally sparkiing, but often
just piling up nothing. it prom-
ised the pleasure that Ring
Around the Moon gives.



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Wednesday, December 6, 1950

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Five



Philosophical Problems
Discussed by Dr. Farber
Continued from Page 1

status of noumena. (This trans-
cendence occurs in the natural
world.

At this point, Mr. Farber criti-
cized Husserl’s position sharply.
The analysis of the given sug-
gests an isolation of the concepts
of mind and knowledge which is
highly misleading. This kind of
isolation of concepts is permiss-
ible if it is recognized as an ar-
tificial device, but the phenomen-
ologists do not seem to be aware
of its artificiality. Phenomenology
is wrong in its reduction of con-
sciousness, for instance, inner ex-
perience can be just as mistaken
as outer experience. Although
Husserl believed himself to be
a consistent phenomenologist, he
was actually a practising idealist.
He tacitly identifies imminent be-
ing with absolute being. The
phenomenological method is only
one of a number of scientific
methods and should be evaluated
as such.

The latter part of Mr. Farber’s
speech was concerned with a brief
examination of some existential-
ist philosophy. Referring to Hei-
degger’s pamphlet entitled What
Is Metaphysics?, which attached
great importance to the concept
of “nothing”, the speaker conclud-
ed that “Heidegger has directed
imaginary weapons against a non-
existent target”, so that the anti-
scientific thrusts of Heidegger
were declared to be baseless.

Heldegger’s lingiuistic extrava-
gances were exiceeded by Oskar
Becker. Reviewing the latter’s
analysis of “Transcendence and
Para-Transcendence’’, Mr. Farbe
asked: “What kind of blossoms
could one expect to sprout in such
an , atmosphere? If Heidegger
made a dive into Nothing, Becker
offers us a rebirth in which most
of us would hardly feel at home
granting that we could gain ad-
mission.”

The anti-scientific trend —of—ex-
istentialism was continued by Karl
Jaspers, himself a former medical
scientist of “note. The evolution-
ary: conception is unwelcome to
Jaspers; he is impressed by “mys-
- tery”, above all by a mysterious
“transcendence.”

Mr. Farber concluded by deliv-
ering several admonitions to phil-
osophers: “It is well for philoso-

phers to remind themselves . re’ |]

Continued on Page 6, Col. 2 _

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Productions of Actresses Anonymous Provoke
Choregraphic Energies and Thespian Talents

Continued from Page 1

dancers’ positions, arranged be-
fore a large Janschka_ sketch,
were impressive. All four had

wonderfully flexible bodies, and
could have done a great deal more
than they did. As they arranged

their own choreography, perhaps
it was a case of too many cooks.
Ellen Liandis seemed to have the
largest part, and her smooth con-
trolled motions brought murmurs
from the audience. Ann Blaisdell
and Mary Kay Lackritz performed
well, and in time with each other,
but Jeft one feeling that they
were capable of more than the
choreography permitted. Eliza-
beth Gjelsness was striking while
she danced, but she lacked Ellen’s
control, and was somewhat nerv-
ous. However she followed the mu-
sic well, and was very attractive
on stage.

It remained for the second dance
number to begin the climax of the
evening’s - entertainment. The
Night, a passage adapted from the
Koran, for which John Davison
wrote music, was interpreted by
hine dancers. Eritha von der Goltz
read the passage before the cur-
tain (we couldn’t understand why
it was not read simultaneously
with the dancing); and explained
the number’s meaning. [It was a
pantomime of man’s responsibil-
ity, and his obligation to an high-
er power. (Ruth La Place, with
her sharp, clean motions, was the
dancer of the evening as the Beg-
gar, symibol of man’s responsibil-
ity. Her movements were controll-
ed, perfectly-timed, and her aban-
don into the part was a joy to
watch. The music was moving and
an excellent intenpretation. Ellen
Landis as The Good One took a
last-minute part, and performed
well. Sorra Lee Raven as Day, was
also good, but Barbara Otnow as
The Child was innocent to the
point of the ridiculous. The oth-
ers, Lita Picard, Sherry Cowgill,



de-
In this number, chore-

upstage swaying that was
tracting.
ography was much better exploit-
ed than in the previous piece, and
showed off the dancers to better
advantage. It was arranged by
Eritha, Ruth, and Sherry. As a
piece, it held together beautifully,
was well+executed, and altogether
satisfactory, and the
showed its appreciation in the ap-

audience

plause.

The first act of S. I. Hsiung’s
Lady Precious Stream was hilar-
ious. Bea Merrick’s introductory

explanation set the mood. The
play, in which two parents, their
two daughters, and their two sons-
in-law, try to convince 16-year-old
Precious Stream to marry an “ap-
proved suitor” proceeded at a
wonderful pace. The more ama-
teurish it was, the funnier it was.
The entire cast seemed to be hav-
ing such a good time with the
play, that after a while, the at-
mosphere became contagious.
Marcia Polak was an adequate
Precious Stream, but neither she
nor the hero, Howard Shoemaker,
was as funny as John Corey and
Bob Reynolds, as her sisters’ hus-
bands. The attendants, Marian
Bretherton and Rae Warner, were
also very amusing, and the father,
John Kittredge, put over his obvi-
ous observations in complete ser-
iousness, and mwas wonderfully
funny. There were a lot of bright
spots—Precious Stream’s onstage
striptease, the sight of four seat-
ed women fanning furiously, and
the wproarious entrance of a mel-
ange of suitors. The way in which
Precious Stream helps along the
“will of God”, when her father de-
crees she is to marry the suitor
who catches an embroidered ball,
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Repeated Revision of Oath Proves Ineffectual;
Thought Control Threatens Academic Freedom

Continued from Page 1

ment. The Regents in March voted
10 to 10 nct to rescind their ulti-
matum.

At this point, an alumni com-
mittee was asked to study the con-
flicting sides of the situation, and
to produce a compromise. At the
April meeting, the Regents accept-
ed this compromise with a vote of
21 to 1. It transferred the essentials
of the oath to the body of the an-
nual contract, and provided that
no non-signer should be dismissed
without the right to a hearing be-
fore the Committee on Privileges



for a hearing, and action was put
off on 62 Academic Senate non-
signers.

In August, the vote was 12 to
10 to discharge the 31 Senate mem ..,
bers (the rest had signed) whose
cases had been reviewed by the
committee and who had been found
loyal.

Now why is there so much oppo.
sition to the oath? If a man is
not a Communist, shouldn’t he be
willing to affix his signature to
a paper stating that he is not?

and Tenure of the University. The Some feel that of course he should.

Committee would ascertain the

loyalty of the individual, and the |

Regents would have to act on the
basis of its findings. The catch
here was one of interpretation. The
anti-oath Regents took it for
granted that should the Committee
find the record of a non-signer to
be clear and uncontaminated with
Communism, he would not be
fired. The pro-oath group private-
ly intended to take advantage of
the Regents’ ultimate authority by
firing the non-signers regardless.
What happened is indicated by the
Regents’ meeting which followed.

In May it was announced that
412 had refused to sign, including
92 members of the Academic Sen-
ate.

In June, 157 lower faculty mem-
bers were fired who failed to apply

But others see important principles
jeopardized. This seems as insult-
ing as if a man were asked for no
apparent reason to swear that he
had not been guilty of infidelity.
For another thing, the faculty is
required to take the regular Con-
stitutional oath of allegiance which
is good enough for the President
of the United States and the Gov-
ernor of California. Are the Re-
gents, by imposing the additional
oath, singling out the faculty as
a particularly suspicious body?

Is mere failure to sign a slip
of paper a valid reason for dis-
charge? One indisputable argu-
ment is that no Communist would
think twice about signing the oath;

Continued on Page 6, Col. 1





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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, December 6, 1950



Disputed Loyalty Oath
Disputes Liberty, Honor

Continued from Page 5

he would have no qualms about
lying.

How does such an oath endanger
academic freedom? Professors
have to swear that they are not
members, etc., of the Communist
party. May not they have to swear

tomorrow that they never, drink|}

erange juice, or that th@y~have
never asked students to read the
Communist Manifesto? Does a
professor dare to continue to pur-
sue truth regardless of where it
may lead his mind? Just how far
can fear carry us toward regi-
mented education?

The importance of this issue can-

not be overestimated. What do you
think about it?



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the publishers, Harper and
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has ought their entire re-
maining stock of Carey Thomas
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Irish Tragedy Unfolds
Under Direction of Low

Continued from Page 3

cuse to the director, we rushed out
into the clear, starry night, won-
dering at the courage of the cast,

and wishing them good luck in
their coming performance.



The Freshman Show Direct-
or is Danielle Luzzatto, ’54.



Philosophical Problems
Discussed by Dr. Farber

Continued from Page 5

peatedly of the time-honored func-
tions of philosophy: clarification
of basic ideas, periodical syntheses
of the chief results of science
methodology, and the continued
elaboration of a theory of values
Respect for their scientific col-
leagues will ‘therewith be emphat-
ically brought to mind, with a

wholesome effect on their think-].

ing. If philosophy is to bring wis-
dom to others, it must not be
wasted by narrow and unclarified
motives, or warped by nationalism
and verbal jugglery, which at
times seems __ indistinguishable
from downright lunacy.”

Continued from Page 1

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en below:
Undergrad

$600 Undergrad
Day Mistresses
Announcers).
Undergraduate scholarship.
Freshman Handbook.
Firemen’s Band and other
expenses for May Day and
Parade Night.
Miscellaneous (conferences,
pictures, parties, mimeo-

salaries (Pay
and Hall



650
300
150





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Alliance
3600 Assembly speakers.
150 Expenses connected with
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ICG, and UWF).
50 Miscellaneous (mimeograph-
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Self-Govt.
$330 Signing-out and
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70 Conferences.
10 Miscellaneous.
N. S. A.
$170 ‘Conferences.
80 National dues.
18 Regional dues.
85 Miscellaneous.
A. A.

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expand its program and take over
expenses that the Gym depart-
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and that A. A. feels should be
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