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Wednesday, January 13, 1954



THE COLLEGE NEWS
FOUNDED IN 1914










. Published weekly during the College Year (except during Thanksgiving,
Christmas and Easter holidays, and during examination weeks) in the interest
of Bryn Mewr College at the Ardmore ‘Printing Company, Ardmore, Pa., and
Bryn Mawr College.







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EDITORIAL BOARD
: Editors-in-Chief
Joan. Havens, ‘56 Harriette Solow, ‘56
Evelyn deBaryshe, ‘56, Copy Marcia Case, ‘57, Make-up
Charlotte Smith, ‘56, Managing Editor
Molly Epstein, ‘56

EDITORIAL STAFF :
Joyce Mitchell, .’55 Epsey Cooke, ‘57
Marcia Goldstone, ‘56 Barbara Palmer, ‘57
Carol Bradley, ‘57 Ruth Rasch, ‘57 i
Donnie Brown, ‘57 Helen Rhinelander, ‘57

Carole Colebob, ‘57 . League Representative
Mimi Collins, ‘57

Staff Photographer
Eleanor Small, ‘55










Business Manager

Marjorie Richardson, ‘55
Margi-Abrams, ‘56, Associate Business Manager







Business Staff
Virginia Gavian, ‘57 : Gloria Strohbeck, ‘57
' Annabelle Williams, ‘56 .

toe SUBSCRIPTION MANAGER
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Honor In The Library? :

As most students realize, the Reserve Room in the Lib-
rary has been closed since the end of Christmas vacation.
In other words, students have had to ask a Library assistant
to find and bring them the Reserve books and cannot enter
the room themselves. The reason for this rather drastic
and perhaps arbitrary step depends first in the fact that
forty books are now missing, AWOL, from the Reserve

G Room. Secondly, statistics from past years show that - the
heaviest use of the Reserve Room is during the two weeks
just before exams. Therefore in order to make sure that
students can find the books they need when they need them,
the Closed Reserve System-has~been: instigated in spite of
a great deal of additional.trouble and expense to the Library.
Both the Library Staff and the Library Council, how-
ever, feel that a Closed ‘Reserve is degrading to the integ-
rity of Bryn Mawr students, and therefore is a matter of
) universal concern. When the carelessness and irresponsibility
of a small minority lead to the curtailment of rights for the
' whole group, it is time that the student body take a strong
stand on the issue. su

For this reason, the Library Council -will pass. out. a
questionnaire to find out exactly what student opinion is on
the subject of the Library. The recurrent problems of Open
versus Closed Reserve, and of several much-violated library

«regulations will be presented, also the possibility of some
definite type of honor system for the library will be set

| ing on a revised tax code, the first

Ja period of five years after the



~ Current Events

Republicans’ Tax Code
Favors Business,
Says Hubbard

The coming depression will be
more serious than that of 1948-’49,
said Mr. Hubbard, speaking Tues-
day, the 11th, on “Prospects For
A Balanced Budget”, but it will



not approximate that of the 1930’s.

He went on to say that this de- |
pression will be due partly to he!
Administration’s. policy-which fav-

ors a balanced budget. .A Treas-
ury committee is at present: work-

time that the tax laws of this
country have had a going over
since the 19th century. |

The committee is proposing leg-
islation which will probably result
in a greater budget deficit and at
the same time be favorable to busi-
ness. It will effect,this by two main
methods. ;

-The “first. dispensation to “busi-
ness, will allow a company to de-
duct two-thirds of the cost of cap
ital goods from its income tax, for

money for the capital goods has
been laid out. “Capital goods” in-
cludes such items as new machin-
ery, etc.

Personal income taxes may also
be lowered at the recommendation
of the committee. This reduction
would affect those personal in-
comes which are dependent com-
pany stocks) which. are, in turn,
dependent on company profits. Un-
der the present system a corpora-
tion’s profits will be taxed directly
by the government. These profits,
after taxes, are distributed to
stockholders, and are again sub-
ject to tax as personal income.

Some of Mr. Ejisenhower’s ad-
visers recommend a policy of na-
tional spending which would run
over the debt limit of 275 billion
dollars. They feel that the more
we balance the budget, the worse
the depression is-apt to be. This
is because government spending,
one of our economy’s. supports,
will be cut down.

The debt limit is not likely to
be raised, but Mr. Hubbard feels
that the debt limit should be, set
in relation to the national income.
He says the national income was
considerably lower when the limit
was set than it is at present, and
a higher national -inco
mean a higher .debt limit.

Mr. Hubbard does not believe
that this depression will be as
serious as that of the 1930’s, part-
ly because the Republicans have
learned that to. stay in office and
to avoid being blamed for the de-
pression they must take steps to
alleviate economic conditions.

Iranians Create Mosaics
Continued from Page 1

A. D. - 640 A. D. — were con-
structed of stone cemented with
mortar. The Iranians had master-
ed by that time the engineering
feat of placing a round dome on a
square building: Carvings in

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forth. .

The Library Council hopes that every student will take
the trouble to consider these questions seriously, because
it is only by the concerted force of student opinion and res-
ponsibility that they canbe permanently solved. |

\ es ‘Student Library Council





Alumnae Assist College
Through Loan Funds
Continued from Page 1 |
by the Alumnae Association and
the other by a gift from Mfrs.
Gerard Swope, an alumna of the
college. This year student loans
were under $10,000, Miss McBride
said. : |









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Letters To

ee
Haverfordian ‘Expresses
Dissatisfaction |
Of Review

Dear: Editors,

First, let me state that I am
not, in this letter, challenging the
right of any reviewer of dramatic
entertainment in so far as the
presentation of opinions is con-
cerned, The person writing the re-
view must be left at liberty to say.
anything about the show that. she
chooses.

However, I think that the re-
viewer must realize that she has
a responsibility to her paper, her
readers;-and the people connected
with the pfoduction in question.. 1
refer, specifically, to the review
that. appeared in the December
ninth issue of the College News.

My main objection to the review
of “The Little Foxes” is that al-
most one half of it is devoted to
heaping praise on the set, the
props, and the make-up. This, in
my opinion, is sheer nonsense. A
well-written__review comments on
the technical aspects of a produc-
tion, as to their effectiveness and
excellence, but the reviewer should
not make this her major consider-
ation, in evaluating the play

It seems unnecessary for me to
attempt to untangle this review
and criticise its every phrase, A
great deal of time and effort was
put into this production by many
people, as is the case in every
College Theatre production, and it
seems a shame that a critical eval-
uation of the production should be
so lacking in depth of any sort.
When the reviewer finally puts
aside her discussion of make-up,
props, and set and gets around to
the character portrayals, she dis-'
misses two of the major characters
with but. a few words of inade-
quate praise.

This réview seems to lack any
understanding of the basic tech-
nique and purpose of theatrical re-
views and it seems to me that if
the College News is to continue
its policy of reviewing almost all
of the dramatic_productions at
Haverford and ‘Bryn Mawr, it
should think rather seriously about
the problem of getting qualified
and competent people to do that
reviewing,

Sincerely, :
Rodney H. Clurman,



Reader Praises Acting,
Set, Direction
Of “*Child”’
December 16, 1953
To the Editors of the College News:

I should like to congratulate
John Hawkins, who produced

Benét’s A Child Is Born at Haver-;

ford December 14th, and also Elsie
Kemp, who played the part of the
Innkeeper’s wife. Right in the
midst of the cheerful caroling and
carousing of Christmas week, they
managed to create half an hour of
real joy and peace.

One-act plays ought to be given
more often around here. They are



travelers of the glory and power
of the gods and the kings. The
dead were not buried, as this would
corrupt the earth; but they were
left on the tops of high towers.
Color was used: extensively and
effectively during the third period
of Persian cultural development
i.e. from 700 A.D. on. Small bits
of vari-colored. baked brick were
used together to create intricate
patterns or mosaics. All of the
outer walls of some buildings were

made of such tiny pieces of brick. |

Places of worship and religious
universities were the most elabo-
rate. Green was the dominating
color in such buildings, for it sug-
gested light and life. Many formal







within the range of non-profes-
‘sionals. They can be sustained in
full force from one end to the
other, and do not need to be elab-
orate. The set of A Child Is Born
(brown paper hangings, around a
cube of light) was realistic, just
because of its simplicity! The cos-
tumes were daubs of strong colors.
The acting was also strong-colored.
Each‘ character, whether miser,
soldier, slut, grumbler or thief,
‘was clearly and quickly defined.
All-except for Elsie. She had
become much more, a person com-
plicated and many hued. She was
living under the Roman sword, but
abhorred injustice and resisted
collaboration. She was a childless
woman,a“barren bough” but the



gardens accompanied these build-



first to understand the miracle of



The Editor
News Mistreats Staff,
| Future Theatre,

Says Reader

December 18, 1953
To the Editor
Bryn Mawr College News
Strange as it may seem for a
Haverford student to write a let-
ter to the Bryn Mawr News I feel

institutions to question the advisa-
bility of certain practices of the
News Board. Specifically I am re-
fering to the method of dramatic
reviews. Four presentations have
been given’‘this fall, members: of
both.colleges participating. In each
case the ‘review following in the
News has showed a marked lack
of dramatic understanding and a
general misunderstanding of thea-
trical / techniques. I well under-
stand why the News Board feels
the necessity of keeping the (News
‘strictly a board project, but I do
not- feel that it ‘is fair’ to the ac-
tors, actresses, crews of both col-
leges when an inexperienced re-
viewer is allowed, nay even pressed
against her ‘will, to write. I feel
that it must be remembered that
these reviews play a part in the
record of many individuals’ activ-
ities. To inadequately express|
criticism -of their talents is in my
opinion a lazy, selfish oversight
on the part of the reviewing paper.



vising the News Board to look
| elsewhere than on its staff . for
theatrical reviewers. The Board is
| certainly. not enhancing- the name
of the News nor. its quality with
the pitifully inadequate reviews it
has thus far presented.

I do not feel that I am writing
pthis letter in retaliation to any

ceived, but because I believe this
present practice is harmful to both
the individuals concerned in the
plays and to the News itself.

P William W. Moss

‘ Haverford, ’57

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- Editor’s Note: Two statements
in this letter are so misleading
they demand correction, despite
our general policy of printing
letters without comment... The
NEWS is not a board project. No
writer is at any time forced to
write any article.

Foundation Favors
Behavioral Science

The Behavioral Sciences Division
of The Ford Foundation announces
a second annual competition for.



first year graduate fellowships—in-

the behavioral. sciences. Under the
terms of this program ‘stipends of
$1800 each are awarded to success-
ful applicants who wish to study
such behavioral sciences as psy-
chology, sociology, and anthropol-
ogy but who did not as undergrad-
uates concentrate in these areas.
A total of fifty-eight institutions

plicants and it is estimated that
approximately twenty-five fellow-

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it my duty to the students of both’

I feel that I .am justified in ad- !

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ships will -be-awarded:

At each participating institution
a faculty member has been...ap-
pointed as college ‘representative
of the program. At Bryn Mawr
College, Professor Joe K. Adams
is serving in this post. Applica-
tion forms and’ other information
may’ be obtained from him.

The deadline for the submission
of applications is February 10,
1954. Awards will be announced
by the Foundation on April 1, °



Christ’s birth: Her performance
had sureness and sincerity and
that lucky, rare quality of quiet-
ness, that makes acting worth-
while. .
Sincerely,



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