College news, November 29, 1950

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VOL. XLVII, NO. 8

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1950

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1950

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Hough Analyzes
Varying Trends
In Yeats’ Work

Upholds Poet’s Beliefs
Against Attacks
Of Critics

Graham Hough, visiting lecturer
at Johns Hopkins from Cam-
bridge, spoke on (William Butler
Yeats in the Art Lecture Room
on Thursday, November 9. He dis-
cussed the “general critical furor”
over Yeats’ poetry;.and, by way
of explanation, he outlined the
trends in the poet’s life and
thought and read some of his
more. representative writings.

In the late thirties, said Mr.
Hough, the flood of Yeats’ criti-
cism was for the most part con-
cerned with the poet’s beliefs. It
was questioned whether they were
arbitrary and fantastic, or did he
really believe in fairies, and was
he really a Fascist. I. A. Richards,
in his book Science and Poetry,
started this worry. He emphasiz-
ed the confusion between the point
of view of the reader and that of
the poet. Some poets write from
the point of view of the reader;
while others write from the point
of view of their poetry. Richards
also raised the question of why
you can enter into some poetry
whose ideas you do not believe and
why you can’t enter into others.
Said Mr. Hough, you can sympa-
thize with quite a wide range of
poetry. (just as you can with a
variety of actors on the stage),
but even so there are limits.

Also important is the relation
betiween a ipoet’s beliefs and his
poetry. Richards analyzed poetry
in his distinction between intellec-
tual beliefs and emotional attitudes.
Others say that a poem is made
either well or badly, that the only
important thing is coherence, and
we should not consider it beyond
itself. Poetry, maintained Mr
Hough, is really about something.
It isn’t merely to excite emotional
attitudes, nor is it simply patterns.
It does have a definite purpose
behind it.

Yeats started to write poetry in
rebellion against Huxley and Tyn-
dale. He tried to manufacture a
mystical religion of his own. He
worried about believing in fairies,
saying that he tbelieved with the
emotions. For a time he searched
to find something to live by: he
wrote Irish poetry, plays, and was
obsessed iby a desire for simplic-
ity. He attempted to recapture
the folk songs. The poetry of this
period harks back to the Pre-
Raphaelites, and is notable for its
use of special words, and its slow
pace. :

Yeats then fell in love, “not with
ideal beauty, but with a real wom-
an”; this was Maud Gonne, tall,
beautiful, and of a most fiery and
tempestuous nature. She dragged
him into political fracases and the
like, which she loved, but which
were alien to him. At the same
time he was being drawn into po-
litical affairs because of his man-
aging of the Abbey Theatre. He
was sunprisingly good at business

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Hough Combines Study

of Romantics

With Interest in Oriental Philosophy

by Jane Augustine, ’52

Graham Hough is a compara-
tively young British professor of
Victorian literature, who lectured
here [November 16 on Yeats. He
is sandy-haired and soft-spoken,
and dressed casually in a _ loose
tan jacket with a pipe in the poc-
ket, he seems typically, but not
ovenwhelmingly British. He is as
casual as his tweed coat when ask-
ed for information about his ap-
pointment as guest professor at
Johns Hopkins for 1950-51, and
the work he did which led up to
it: “Nothing to tell, you know,”
he says, shrugging his shoulders.
This trip is his first to the United
States, and the brief detour to
Bryn Mawr, his first to a woman’s
college completely detached from
a like institution for mén.

Mr. Hough went to school in
Liverpool and then, having obtain-
ed a lectureship at Raffles Col-
lege, which is half of the Univer-
sity of Malaya, he went out to
Singapore. A few years later
found him back in the heart of
England, at Cambridge, finishing
up his studies—then he voyaged
back out to Singapore again. At
that time the tropical Malay Pen-
insula ‘was a relatively peaceful
and absolutely fascinating part of
the world in which to live, work,

Actresses Emote,
Dancers Perform

For Fall Program

Two one-act plays, and an _.in-
terlude by the Dance Club will be
featured in Actresses Anonymous’
fall program, to be presented at
8:15 in the Skinner Workshop on
December 1 and 2. Trish Richard-
son is general manager of the
production.

The first play, directed by Elis-
albeth Nelidow, is Alice Gersten-
beng’s Overtones. The cast is as



follows:

BNET. caicinsasierssevumieies ‘Patsy Price
ERATIOL crssssisessvins ‘Maisie Kennedy
LOD csscossyesstesact ‘Danny Luzzatto
Margaret ....... is Schavier

The Dance Club Interlude will
consist of one dance to the music
of Debussy and one based on the
Koran, with music by John Davi-
son.

The second, and last, play will]

be Lady Precious Stream, by S. I.
Hsiung. The directors are Ellen
Bacon and Memee King. The cast
is:

Lady Precious Stream

Marcia Polak],
Hides sGloria Von Hebel}.

Madame
Golden Stream ....Carey Richmond
Silver. Stream §..ccccsscescoee! Suki Webb

Maids. ....... Jo Case, Anne Wyckoff
Property Man ....... -Freddie Kolker
Readers

Bea iMerrick, Ruth Bronsweig
MAOH Si cciiiclaniiss John Kittredge
Pe iSvisssvtasaverionnenl si iecia John. Corry
WGI ies siilacsvecassine ‘Robert Reynolds

Hsei Ping Quei

a“: Howard Shoemaker

Four Suitors
1st, Tom Perot; 2nd, Tom Gold-
‘smith; 3rd, Harry Richter; 4th.
Frank Little.

Attendants

_ Marion Brotherton, Rae Warner.



and study, particularly for one
who, like Mr. Hough, cherishes a
deep interest in the intrigues of
Oriental philosophy and culture.

War came; the British Army
was augmented by the young
British professor. In 1942 Singa-

pore fell, and he—plusea volume
of Yeats—was taken prisoner by
the Japanese. The Yeats book
proved a very useful bargaining
item—everyone wanted something
to read that had a little meat to
it, and the rental of the book was
happily computed in terms of to-
bacco and the like. Life as a POW
was not as hard on Mr. Hough as
on many—yjust luck, he says. ‘At
any rate, the fates smiled on him,
and he found himself in the midst
of men with whom he had some-
thing in common, and whose com-
pany he.enjoyed. ‘He was assign-
ed with other prisoners to a work
gang building a railroad from
Bangkok to Moulmein—or trying
to build it. The British and Amer-
icans kept taking it apart again.
Mr. Hough’s luck held out; one-
third of his outfit, not so lucky,
lied.

After his release he went home
to England, and then returned to
Malay again, sandwiching a brief
period of teaching in Italy be-
tween voyages. A short while
later his critical work which has
been highly praised called The
Last Romantics appeared. It
evolved from researches into
Yeats’ Victorian ancestors —
through the Pre-Raphaelites, Wil-
liam Morris, and Ruskin in partic
ular.

His future \book—which ‘will
probably come out next year after
his return to his Cambridge lec,
tureship—he speaks of as casually
as he relates his past experiences
“Oh,” he says, “I’m working on a
horrid little book about the Ro,
mantic poets. Niothing original,
you know, very dull. . .”.

CALENDAR

Thursday, November 30

English Department Lecture,
Mr. R. W. Chapman of Oxford
University, Jane Austen, Good-
hart, 8:30 p. m.
Friday, December 1

Actresses Anonymous, one-
act of Lady Precious Stream,
one-act play Overtones, Darice
Club Recital, Skinner Workshop,
8:15 p. m.
Saturday, December 2

Actresses Anonymous, second
performance.
Sunday, December 3

Sunday Evening Chapel Serv-
ice, Dr. Jerome Nathanson, So-
ciety for Ethical Culture, New
York City, Music Room, 7:30
[p. m.
Monday, December 4

Current Events. Speaker to
be announced, Common Room,
7:15 p. m.
Tuesday, December 5

Classics Club Panel Discus-
sion, Miss Lang and Miss Mell-
ink, on “A Summer in Turkey”,

' Common Room, 8:30 p. m.

Wednesday, December 6

‘Wednesday Morning Assem-
bly, Mrs. Cox, “The College
Helps the Community”, Good-
hart, 8:45 a. m.



Ernst Busehbeck
Opens Art Series
With ‘Old Gallery’

by Helen Katz, ’53

‘As a result of an idea conceived
thirty years ago by a member of
the Board of Trustees, Dr. Ernst
Buschbeck, Director of the Vienna
Museum of Art, spoke here on
November 15. He was the first
speaker in this year’s Art Series.
Aside from being Director of the
painting collection, he is a distin-
guished Austrian patriot, and au-
thor of Early Medieval Art in
Spain, Austrian Primitives, and
other books. His topic was “The
Making of an Old Gallery”; and
was concerned with the growth of
the great Vienna collection and
the taste which masterminded it.
The lecture was illustrated with
color and black-and-white slides of
parts of the collection.

First Dr. Buschbeck explained
the gradations between the lay-
man’s “history of art” which
judges on the merits of a work;
rnd he saw the middle road as the
best way to select fine work, and
the only way to tell what has ac-
tually happened in the past. Then,

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‘Ancient Mariner’
Gets New Beauty
With Translation

On Monday, November 20, at
8:30 P.M., the Bryn Mawr German
Club. presented its first. program
of the year, in which Coleridge’s
Rime of the Ancient Mariner, was
interpreted and read by the Messrs.
Chew, Politzer, and Lattimore. Mr
Chew, introduced by Jane Horner,
president of the German Club,
prefaced the program with a few
remarks giving the background of
the poem. “Coleridge,” said Mr.
Chew, “had always been interested
in the sea,” and as a result, col-
lected information on the subject
intermittently during his life. He
had intended to write six hymns
to the sun, the moon, and other
elements, the sea being among
those, but this intention was never
brought to fruition. His interest
in nature, however, “precipitated”
the Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
in which all of Coleridge’s exhaus-
tive knowledge of the sea was put
to use. It was written in the ballad
measure, giving it “the romantic
spirit of wonder.”

Mr. Chew concluded by saying
that contemporary critics have
given many interpretations to the
ballad, some seeing it as symbolism
—a “personal allegory,” in which
Coleridge is “one of three,” the
other two persons being Words-
worth and Wordsworth’s sister,
contemporaries of Coleridge
Others called it “an experiment in
the Dutch sublime,” meaning by
Dutch, German. Mr. Chew ob-
served that this epithet was par-
ticularly applicable that evening—
Mr. Politzer being the “Dutch su-
blime” among the gathering. He
then turned the program over to
Mr. Politzer and Mr. Lattimore
saying as he did so, that Mr. Polit-
zer’s translation was a “tour de
force”, since it adhered to the

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Mebuhr Backs |
WSSF Reliefs
For Foreigners

Organization Provides
Help for World
Community

How a nation as great as
America can “relate itself to the
world community in terms of tol-
erable justice” is one of the most
difficult prceblems which we, as
students and citizens, face today.

Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, who ad-
dressed a large audience in Good-
hart Auditorium Monday evening,
in concordance with the opening
of the U. S. F. Drive, maintained
in his talk on Students in the
World Community, that the “mor-
al and spirtual aspects of the to-







tal world situation”, must be faced
by each of us from where we
stand. The eminent theologian,
who maintained that there is a
tremendous need for the establish-
ment of a communion which tran-
scends geographical levels, con-
fronted this problem in a specific
and immediate manner, and stated
that the World Student Service
Fund, which is “a federation of all
significant student organizations”,
is attempting to aid in the allevi-
ation of this difficult situation by
two concrete means. One is re-
lief, and the other cultural ex-
change. In two outstanding cases,
these means have achieved signi-
ficant effects, and have aided in
the correction of certain “unbe-
lievable illusions and prejudices’’,
held by the Europeans about Am-
ericans, and have modified the
scorn which masks their envy of
our wealth. :

The first example, that of tre-
mendous achievement through re-
lief is the Free University of Ber-
lin. A collection of makeshiift
buildings, it accommodates 17,000
students, every one of whom is
desperately poor, and half of
whom are escapees from the phys-
ical and intellectual oppression of
‘Communist « dominated Eastern
Germany. The second example,
that of achievement through cul-
tural exchange is the Salzburg
Seminar, a summer school for
American citizens which was con-
ceived and is supported entirely
by Harvard students, on a budget
of $25,000 a year.

Dr. Niebuhr, who believes that
we must have practical and moral
imagination in order to deal with
the problem of World Community,
remarked also that the World
Student Service Fund, which pro-
vides practical help for the furth-
ering of moral and _ intellectual
advancement, sends a great deal
of aid to Europe, which is mostly
given to refugee students. To
China it provides as much aid as
possible under the stringent con-
ditions of an adverse political sit-
uation and the lack of funds and
the means of their distribution.
The aid which the W. S. S. F. pro-
vides affords to foreign students

such necessities as supplemental
diets and textbooks in addition
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Dr. James Llewellyn Crenshaw

A week ago today Dr. James Llewellyn Crenshaw died.
Dr. Crenshaw had been chairman. of the Chemistry Depart-
ment since 1925 and secretary of the faculty for many years.
His death presents an immeasurable loss to the College.

Dr. Crenshaw received his A. B. and M. A. from Center
College, Kentucky, in 1907 and 1908 respectively, and his

doctorate at Princeton in 1911.

He was an assistant chemist

at the Geophysical Laborator at Carnegie Institution in
Washington, D. C., and in 1918 was appointed assistant pro-

fessor of chemistry at Bryn Mawr.

chairman of the department.

In 1925 he became the

. Considered by all his students and colleagues as the uni-

fying force in the department,

Dr. Crenshaw will be remem-

bered for many reasons: officiating faithfully as umpire at
Science Club baseball games; his devotion to his birthplace,

Dermott, Arkansas; gallantly

tipping his cap to the seniors

as he read their names at Commencement; and above all,
the personal interest and kindness that he displayed toward
even his first year students, although he knew that some of
them would not continue in chemistry.

Not only because of his high academic standards but be-
cause of his personal influence on campus, Dr. Crenshaw’s
absence will be keenly felt by everyone in the college com-

munity.



Ernst Buschbeck Describes Gradual Evolution
Of ‘Institutional Character’ of Vienna Showing

Continued from Page 1
he clarified the word “collecting”.
The Hapsburg valuables were not
originally ‘collected’, but were
things of practical use, such as
the reyal goblets, which were
“trotted out for great occasions”,
or the Velasquez miniatures which
were used to show one branch of
‘the family to the other. Collect-
ing began to get its “institutional
character” in the second half of
the 16th century, under Emperor
Ferdinand, who specified in his
will, that his “pagan pennies”
were not to be divided up. Then,
his grandson, Ferdinand of the
Tyrol, had his chamberlain put out
the first illustrated catalogue in
Europe for his collection of armor
and portraits. The pieces were
acquired by exchange and pur-
chase, but for a memorial to war-



riors, not in the “collecting” sense.

In the next generation, Rudolph
II was the European collector of
the day, gathering “all. kinds of
things which we would put in a
natural history museum”, How-
ever, not as yet had the distinc
tion between a real work of art,
and “something hard to make”
been made. After his death, half
the collection went to Vienna, but
the Prague half was scattered
when Swede and Saxon looters
took some pieces to Rome and
some to Scandinavia. :

It was Leopold Wilhelm, the
“father” of the present gallery
and one of Europe’s richest men,
who exemplified the change in
taste in the 17th century. His
ancestors had bought paintings
“off the easels”; now he bought
the same masters’ works, showing



Current Events

Miss Caroline Robbins explained

at the November 20th Current
Events meeting that nationaliza-

tion in England, the product of
current morel principles, has pro-
duced few changes that are tangi-
ble to the man in the street.

The people felt that socialism
was the best way to raise the stan-
dard of living of their war-sick
country. Under the influence of
political philosophers they felt that
profit for owners exclusively was
wrong.

The Labor government which
came in in 1945 first nationalized
commercial banks, transportation,
gas gnd electricity. In July 1946
they extended their control to the
mines. Now their sphere of in-
fluence includes iron and _ steel.
The arm of government control
has swung around to embrace pri-
vate industry as well as public
service. :

Under the new regime it is actu-
ally only the source of control
which is different. The same
labourers and managers are em-
ployed; problems have not van-
ished. Although the miners had
refused to work for anyone but the
government, they are by no means
putty in the hands of their new
owners. Plane accidents are now
the fault of Civil Aviation. Rail-
road losses are now public informa-
tion, and a public problem. Disso-
lution in bankruptcy is not a pos-
sible way out for the government.

The new plan has not produced
the miraculous efficiency people
had dreamed of. Management
works well enough under its new
direction, but absenteeism is a
problem among the labourers. They
distrust management, so bargain-
ing is continual.

Labour is disillusioned: there
are not yet representatives of
every level of society in the direc-
tors’ ranks; the individual’s posi-
tion is unchanged; nothing has
been found to replace the old profit
and loss system.

Miss Robbins agreed with Dr.
Hubbard’s suggestion that social-
ism is not to be blamed for its fail-
ure to produce a rosy England.
Any government would have had
many troubles. with post-war Eng-
land.

Austen Lecturer

To Speak Thurs:

R. W. Chapman of Oxford Uni-
versity will speak in Goodhart Au-
ditorium tomorrow night at 8:30.
His subject will -be Jane Austen.
Mr. Chapman is known for his
edition of her novels and letters,
and has also written The Portrait
of a Scholar, and edited Selections
from Boswell, and Selections from
Johnson, and many other books.
Mr. Chapman has contributed arti-
cles to the London Times Literary
Supplement and was a Fellow of
Magdalen College from 1931-1947.
He was the Clark Lecturer at Trin-
ity, Cambridge, in 1948; and is
also Secretary to the Delegates of
the Oxford University Press.



his interest in the past, as well as
purchasing contemporary paint-
ing. Here was the birth of the
modern “collector” with no space
or time boundaries. His collection
was enormous and magnificent.

(Later additions of two different
reigns brought in more Titians,
Rubens, and other works, through
the austerity of the Cromells in
England, who sold paintings to
Leopold’s agents; and the reign of
Charles VI brought the collection
up to date, except for modern ad.
ditions. It was Charles who re-
grouped the treasures according
to taste, periods, color, size, and
value, and had them exhibited.
The “institutional character” of
the collection had evolved.



Graham Hough Outlines Trends in Yeats’ Poetry;
Emphasizes Theory of the Mask, Second Coming

Continued from Page 1

matters, dealing with ‘tempera-
mental actors, and other things
that the position entailed. At this
point his search for religion and
a framework for belief had tem-
porarily lost, its vitality. “The
most astonishing thing about
Yeats,” said Mr. Hough, “is the
amount of experience he is able
to assimilate.” He has a contin-
ued attempt to put actual things
into the material of his mythol-
ogy. He writes poems about his
friends, politics, and begins to
think in terms of his family and
background, rather than in terms
of literature. “One poem in which
his speaking voice is heard more
than his singing voice“is ‘Respon-
sibilities.”

In 1916, when the Irish Rebel-|
lion occurred, Yeats found him-
self emotionally engaged in it in
a way he never thought he could
be. Yeats was fortunate, said
Hough, in living in one of the last
of the picturesque circles that our

country has. seen. He made his'



friends into figures from history. ag

For example, Major Robert Greg-'
ory turned up as a kind of Sir
Philip Sidney. It is then that he
developed his doctrine of the
mask, in a prose essay. He didn’t
believe that a poet could put forth
his philosophy without conflict,
that is, assuming a part or mask
not his own, in order that his own
ideas may crystallize more clear-
ly. This perpetual seeking for
one’s own opposite necessitates a
perpetual turmoil, and, reacting
against this, Yeats searched for
peace and for “simple piety like
that of an old woman.” He never
found it, and indeed knew he
wouldn’t, as he said that one may

Between the Leaves

Skinner’s Nuts in May
Cracks Kernel
Of Levity

by Jane Augustine, 52

Cornelia Otis Skinner, ex-Bryn
Mawron, has gone Nuts in May
with her latest book. A collection
of sketches — personal reminis-
cences, mostly — this 188-page
tome reveals her as a mother, an
actress, a world traveler, and an
observer of life who takes it none
too seriously. She is hilariously
funny at all times, disseminating
useless information spiked with
sensitive insight and light-hearted
characterization. Her wit is often
brittle, but the joke is usually not
at the expense of others. She will
not ridicule a specific individual or
situation, but rather a particular
type of person or a general cultur-
al idiosyncracy. For example, her
parody of Steinbeck entitled “Sea-
weed Sewer” seems not to be
fish flung in the face of that noted
author, but only a little fun-poking
at the characteristics of contem-
porary literature. Besides it makes



you laugh—so nuts to the deeper] ,

implications.

Every now and then a serious

incident will appear in the midst
of barbed-wit context—as when,
in the story of amateur theatricals
in a genuine Chinese play written
by a elubwoman, is inserted the
near-suffocation of an eight-year.
old boy. That’s the way it hap-
pened, of course, but the complete
reversal of mood from silly to
sober is very skillfully managed
within a few lines. In this episode,
and others concerning experiences
with her own son, Miss Skinner (at
one point she does slip in her mar-
ried name, which is Blodget) shows

human sensitivity and mother-}

love.

References to Bryn Mawr, not]



infrequent, indicate an. occasionally
' Continued on Page 3, Col. 3

fore.

think that when he has found the
mask the suffering will stop, but
this does not really happen. His
hope for tranquillity came to be a
desire for some sort of religious
rest. “Sailing to Byzantium” gives
the idea of this search for religious
tranquillity. The Byzantium sym-
bol is the hope for contemplative
life, but he was continually turn-
ing away from it and returning
to the world of phenomenal exper-
ience. ‘He took an interest in his-
tory, and especially in its cyclic
theory (i. e., that history repeats
itself), which appears in his later
work “The Vision.” The symbol
of the second coming recurs again
and again, and the powerful poem,
titled “The Second Coming,” writ-
ten in 1922, embodied these ideas.
Yeats did not believe in the Lea-
gue of Nations’ idea that the first
World 'War was a “twar to end
wars.” ‘Mere anarchy is loosed
upon the world”, he said, and ex-
pected a second coming and a new
world with a God of wiolence and
terror, rather than a God of Love.
In his later years a resentment
ainst old age, a new passion for
phenomenal experience, and an in-
terest in young people came to the
His later poetry related to
human affections and human exper-
ence.

In all Yeats’ speculation about
the next life and the world to
come, we find a repetition of our
experiences in this world and a
following of fantasies to their
logical conclusions. Far off is
the idea that these experiences
will someday be resolved. The
feeling is “Save my soul, in fact,
but not just yet.” Yeats wants
salvation only after several rein-
carnations... The actual going -
through-again of the experience
is what counts for him.

The poet is neither versifying
an existing philosophy nor mak-
ing something independent. He
begins by communicating a phil-
osophical ‘way of life, but in the
writing it becomes enlarged and
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On Thursday, November 16, the
graduate team played the third
team in a hockey match suggested
by the spirited graduates. More-
over the challengers defeated the
third team 3-2. The first.two goals
were made during the first half
for the third team by Phyllis Til-
son and by San Tilghman. During
the second half, however, due to
the overconfidence of the third
team, the’ graduates rushed
through two goals. By the time
the third team had realized the
new strength of their opponents
the graduates made the final goal
of the game, making the score
3-2. In spite of the almost total
darkness that fell at the end every-
one enjoyed the last game of the
season. Dr. Sprague was extreme-
ly kind to referee for the game in
spite of the lack of a whistle.

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ENGAGEMENTS

Jane H. Horner, ’51, to Dr.

Heinz Politzer.

Judith Cary Blair, ’58, to Jos-
eph Green.

Estelle Hassid, ’61, to Jerry
Brody.

(Anne4Rosewell Johns, ’52,to Lt.
Edwin Metcalf Gaines, USIMICR.

Lois Kalins, ’62, to Daniel Su-
darsky.

Louise Riker,
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vember, the Bryn Mawr first and
second hockey teams played their
last game of the season against
Swarthmore. The record for each
varsity until this final game stood
at 3 wins and 2 losses. The varsity
game was. an exciting one, with
no scoring in the first half, but
evenly matched playing and fine
teamwork. The first goal was made
in the beginning of the second half,
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Cornelia Otis Skinner’s Humor Better Than Ever
In: Hilarious Reminiscences Titled ‘Nuts In May’

Continued from Page 2
jaundiced view of the Yellow and
White. Her Latin came in handy
for translating the invitation to
the Pope’s audience, but then there
were always old classmates who
dropped backstage with such com-
ments as “I’d hate to say how
many years it’s been since we were
in school together” while a movie
producer or two skulked in the
background. The classmate invari-
ably winds up with a recount of
Miss Skinner’s girlhood passions
(hopelessly divided between a Hav-
erford sophomore and Francis X.
Bushman) and then presents a
bouquet of yellow and white be-
gonias crying “Greetings from
your Bryn Mawr friends of 1902!”
As a suitable finale to all this fun-
ny business, Miss Skinner dis-
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be questioned by Dr. Kinsey, and
her acceptance thereof.

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MARRIAGES

Sylvia Good, ’50, to Leslie Cline.

Jeannette Burnet Hersey, ’560, to
William Duffield.

Lu-Anne Olsen, ex-’52, to Carl
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Learning for Europeans
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Continued from Page 1

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In conclusion,: Dr. Niebuhr
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be human beings and relate our-
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vored nation”, to accept the re-
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Third. Team ene 3
Grads Sweep to Victory,

Continued from Page 3

by Louise: Kimball, right wing, for
Bryn Mawr. Swarthmore’s. center
forward socked in the first Swarth-
more. point with fifteen minutes
left in the game. From then on,
there was no scoring, leaving the
final score a tie at 1 to 1. Thus
the varsity wound up the season
with 3 games won, two games lost
(to Temple and Penn), and one tie.

The second team game resulted
in a victory for Swarthmore. M. G.
Warren, right wing, made Bryn
Mawr’s only point in the opening
of the first half. Swarthmore’s
right wing retaliated to tie the
score at the end of the half at
1 to 1. The game remained a tie
until the closing minute of the sec-
ond half, when the opposing team’s
right inner pushed in a goal to
defeat Bryn Mawr, 2 to 1. The
second team’s record after its final
game: won 4, lost 1, tied 1.

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At. German .Club’s, Presentation .of C ——

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original.

Following the introduction, the
i-lingual reading of the poem he-
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short intervals so that Mr. Politzer
could read his translation while
the English was still fresh in
everyone’s mind. As soon as Mr.
Politzer began, one was_ struck
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“Es war ein alter Seefahrer

Er haltet einen von Drei”
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