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VOL. XLVI, NO. 3
ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1949
Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College,1945
PRICE 15 CENTS
NEWS Outlines
Phi Beta Kappa
Pros and Cons
Campus to Answer Poll
On Question
Of PBK
The question has been raised as
to whether or not a Phi Beta
Kappa chapter should be started
on the Bryn Mawr campus. In 1947
a group of alumnae appointed a
committee to investigate the feel-
ing for and against having such
a chapter. This committee issued
a poll which was circulated among
the alumnae, while a poll was also
distributed among the faculty. The
opinions both for and against hav-
ing a Phi Beta Kappa chapter,
which were expressed in the polls,
are outlined below.
Pro: that having a chapter would
increase the prestige of the col-
lege.
Con: this is questionable and not
subject to proof.
Pro: that it would decrease Bryn
Mawr’s reputation for intellectual
snobbery.
Con: it has not been proven that
this reputation really exists.
Pro: as an economic and profes-
sional..advantage — that prefer-
ence is given to college graduates
with Phi Beta Kappa.
Con: that the present psycho-
logical trend is not to use achieve-
ment as measured by grades as
Standard for selection, and that
there is no. object now in institut-
ing a method of rating that may
soon be outmoded.
Pro: necessity for graduates to
justify the college’s standing in
regions where it is not well known.
Membership in Phi Beta Kappa
would give them immediate stand-
ing.
Con: such justification, if neces-
sary, should be made on grounds
Continued on Page 6
Freshmen To Give
]-Act Hall Plays
On October 28 and 29, the Fresh-
men will first exhibit their Thes-
pian talents in the hall plays. The
one-act dramas will be presented in
the Skinner Workshop on Friday
and Saturday nights.
Denbigh will offer Noel Cow-
ard’s Chaste, directed by Eliza-
beth Grey, °50, with Katherine
Lurker as Freshman director and
Anne Blaisdell and Sally Bolster
as stage managers. An ancient
Greek drama, The Girl With Her
Hair Cut Short, by Menander, will
be produced by Merion, with D.
Fleisshacker and Jane Augustine,
750, directing. Constance Luding-
ton is the assistant director, and
‘Corinna McBee is the stage man-
ager.
Pembroke East’s production is
Spreading the News, an_ Irish
comedy by Lady Gregory. Claire
Minton and Molly Allen, ’52, are
the co-directors; Linda Bowden is
the Freshman director; and the
stage manager is Debbie Babbitt.
Will o’ the Wisp will be offered by
Pembroke West.-The directors are
A. J, Rock, 50, and Pat Onder-
donk, ’52, with Minnie Cassatt as
assistant director and Millie
~~ Continued on Page 2
New, Surrealistic Art Instructor
Adnires the Bryn Mawr Gothic
by Irina Nelidow, ’50
“Composition is my hobby —
technique from the old masters,
but.the surrealist style,” said Mr.
Fritz Janschka. Mr. Janschka is
the ~new. art. instructor. for the
classes in the Skinner Workshop,
and flew over from Vienna less
than three weeks ago. He has fin-
ished six years of study at the
Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna,
and is currently showing some of
his work at an exhibition in Rome.
He feels that, in‘ Europe at pres-
ent, Italy is probably the country
which offers the most promise to
young artists.
“Vienna is beautiful now, but
dead,” Mr. Janschka explained
sadly. People are too exhausted by
their many long privations to take
Fritz
Janschka
Standing
Self-Portrait
Ushenko, Holland,
To Lecture Here
As the first Philosophy Club
speaker, Dr. Andrew Paul Ushen-
ko, Associate Professor of Philoso-
phy at Princeton, will discuss
Artistic Truth Thursday, October
20, at 8:30 p. m. in the Library
Room 1.
The lecture by the former visit-
ing professor at Bryn Mawr (1947),
and the author of books on the
theory and problems of logic, and
the philosophy of relativity, is
open to everyone.
' Born in Moscow, Dr. Ushenko
took part in the suppression of the
first Bolshevist uprising in 1917,
joined the white Russian forces
under General Denikin in 1918,
and later came to the United States
where he received his PhD. at the
University of California in 1927.
Starting as an instructor at'the
University of Michigan, Mr. Ushen-
ko was an associate professor
when he came east to Princeton
in 1937, and is at present a mem-
ber of the American Philosophical
Association, the Fullerton Philoso-
phy Club, and the Eugene Field
Society.
Under the auspices of the Class-
ics Club, Mrs. Louise W. Holland of
the Bryn Mawr Classical Archae-
ology Department will speak on
Thursday, October 20 at 4 p. m. in
the Common Room. Mrs. Holland,
who spent the summer traveling
in Europe, will describe a trip
which she made in Italy, down the
Tiber River in a surplus navy
boat. The lecture will be illustrat-
ed with slides. Everyone is wel-
come to attend.
any real interest in the arts. How-
ever, next spring Vienna will hold
a big art exhibit sponsored by the
International Art Club, in which
Mr. Janschka will also have some
paintings. on view. He plans to
start an American branch of the
International Art Club (which was
founded in Rome in 1945), .and
hopes to arouse enthusiasm for
this project in the art, music, and
theater worlds. One of the people
he expects to see in connection
with the Club is dancer-choreogra-
pher Valerie Bettis.
Because he came by air and had
to travel light,. Mr. Janschka was
able to bring only one of his paint-
ings over with him. Entitled “The
Fourth Dimension,” this surreal-
istic work struck us as forceful,
uncanny, and eerily fascinating.
It will probably soon have more
than one companion-piece, however,
for Mr. Janschka works steadily,
daily, in Skinner. .
Mr. Janschka’s wife is still in
Vienna, but he hopes to bring her
over to America when his plans
are a little more settlec
“Your Gothic is very good, you
know,” he added. “It’s not the real
Gothic, the early French Gothic,
of course, but the English univer-
sity Gothic, and,” he repeated, “it’s
very good!”
USF Organizes
Drive For Funds
The United Service Fund, now
conducting its annual campaign
for contributions, is asking every-
one to donate $10. this year. The
Fund fis an organization which
combines all the separate charity
drives into one, thus eliminating
the need for scattered appeals
throughout the year. Soliciting will
start on Wednesday, October 26,
Continued on Page 2
CALENDAR
Thursday, October 20
4:00 p.m. Classics Club Lec-
ture: Mrs. Holland, “Down the
Tiber in a Rubber Boat.” Com-
mon Room.
5:00 p.m. French Club Party,
Miss Ely’s.
8:00 p.m. Professor Ushen-
ko, Artistic Truth, Philosophy
Lecture, Art Lecture Room.
Sunday, October 23
7:30: p.m. Chapel, Mr. Gedde=
MacGregor, Music Room.
Monday, October 24
7:15 p.m. Current Events,
Mrs. Manning, Mr. Michaels,
Atomic Energy, Common Room.
‘| seminars
Whalebone Will
Students In Paris
Inspired By Men,
Bree, Broken Beds
Specially contributed by Elaine
“Marks ’52 atid June Moyer °50
We were kissed at, waved at, and
photographed at Pier 62, NYC, on
June 8, 1949 before and as the Ma-
rine Tiger set sail. We were
twenty-four, whistled for, orient-
ed for, ten days (and nights) until
we landed at Le Havre in “The Old
Country”. Eager were we for
| sleep, pulled were we through cus-
peims, pushed were we by the
waiting and efficient “Madmazelle
Bray” into a large bus where we
met our first native, Roger, the
driver.
“Maintenant nous parlerons seu-
lement le francais” said Mlle. Bree.
There was a great silence. It took
us a while before we got accus-
tomed to the idea of an eight day
“group” trip through the north of
France, but finally we got acclim-
ated, conversation began, and the
idiosyncracies of the members of
the Bryn Mawr Summer Session
became apparent and flourished.
There were the little cafes by the
Chateaux, there was the constant
singing of Marks and Wegier
which was particularly strong
while we crossed bridges. Also, not
to be forgotten: the numerous in-
ternal difficulties, the chocolate
patisseries, the games of Battle-
ships. Mlle Bree was a “brick
through ‘the whole ugly mess,”
Continued on Page 2
Bennett Stars
As Salty Will
In Junior Show
Underwater Scenery,
Dragon, Chorus
Effective
sto by Gwynne Williams ’50
’51l’s “Willy Nilly’” was a won-
drous and well-knit show—Eleven
Days well spent! And the wonder
of wonders is Miss Patsy Bennett
as Willy, a joy to witness and the
central attraction of the show.
Miss Bennett has great stage
presence and charm. Another
wonder of this eleven days was
the scenery. The Act Underwater
was a delight of light and design,
expertly managed by Jane MacIn-
tyre, M. Starkweather, and crew.
Five old ladies open the show
with some nice. coordinated rock-
ing and snappy dialogue. Best of
these were Sue Savage and Debbie
Putnam. Sue scatters a mean as-
pirin. Whisked back to youth,
Katchy Torrence managed to re-
main coyly ancient; Mousie Wal-
lace and B. A. Schoen blossomed
beautifully.
Bert, Dragon Delightful
In Benzedrine Bert (Sue Kra-
mer) we have another case of
wondrous dialogue and song. Ben-
zedrine’s and Willy’s tall tales
were creations of genius (or did
those things really happen?). Mc-
Gqueam (J\-Hoenig)’s pomposity
was nicely backed by the Tail and
Alice Hendrick, friend and valet—
best yet we’ve seen in dragons,
Though Minnie (Joan Woodworth)
made a mean mermaid, I cannot
say as much for her singing; her
song was pitched a little high and
was not up to the show’s top mu-
sical standard.
Salty Choruses
I suspect the Welcoming Com-
mittee’s song will last forever;
unique lyrics to the familiar tune
sung by a charming and definite.
ly Bryn Mawr Committee! The
Sailor’s Chorus was as pretty a
bunch of sailors as we’ve known;
it looked as if it were really en-
joying the whole thing.
The undersea creatures did some
superb flitting and floating, en-
Continued on Page 5
by Anne Greet and
Hanna Holborn ’50
“That’s New York!” cried an of-
ficer, pointing to a spot on the
horizon. The spot turned info a
ship, but at last land appeared
with the setting sun, and the Ger-
man students who are now at
Bryn Mawr -sailed.-past-the Coney
TTsland parachutes and” the fizzling
neon of “Seven Up” to their pier
at Staten Island.
These students are part of a
group studying at Anierican col-
leges under a new cultural-ex-
change program set up by the
Military Government. Most of
them live with families at Brya
Mawr, a few live at the Graduate
Center, and Regina Rompel, the
youngest (she is 20 years old)
lives in Pem East. They are
studying social and - political
science at Bryn Mawr, both jin
and undergraduate
German Expert Finds America
Friendly, Healthy, Full of Ads
courses. All have attended Europ-
ean universities and their English
is much, much better than our
German.
We found Antje Lemke, who was
a German consultant for commun-
ity education with the OMGUS,
and Elizabeth Ehm,‘a journalist
who left her native Prague for
Germany in 1948, down on the ten-
nis courts. “We play tennis to-
gether, so we can talk politics,”
but they-seem even more interest-
ed in the problem of community
work. “Here, it is more on a vol-
untary basis than in Germany.
There is more individual participa-
tion in public life . . . People at
home talk philosophy, but do noth-
ing practical.”
America—even New York—ap-
pears “friendly,” “healthy,” “full
of traffie and advertisements.” Be-
sides the trips planned for them
Continued on Page 3
Page Two
THE COLLEGE NEWS
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Under Act of Congress August 24, 1912
International College
Bryn Mawr has a unique reputation among small col-
leges for the number of foreign students it attracts. Often
more than ten per cent of the undergraduate school is made
up of students from abroad, and the proportion in the grad-
uate school is much higher.
The presence of ten German Experts, the new DP
scholar, and the first Japanese scholar since pre-war days
has lately drawn our attention more strongly than usual
to Bryn Mawr’s standing as an international college. Miss
McBride has emphasized this, too, in her article which ap-
pears in the Bulletin this week. The number of the class
of ’49 who are studying abroad, and the generous allocation
from the United Services Fund Drive for the restoration of
university libraries in Europe, are further signs of an in-
terest in cross-Atlantic exchange of education and ideas
which is probably stronger now at Bryn Mawr than it was
before the war. :
We have on this campus a remarkable chance to study
Europe at home, as it were; surely no Bryn: Mawr student
with any spark to her mind can fail to find these opportun-
ities exciting.
Oratio In Homines Negotiores
Quod negotium? Ad nos litterae pervenerunt atque di-
cunt ad hoc exemplum: :
“Vultis circumnavigari a pulchris, admirantibus viris?
Vultis exhortari aciem e stipatissimo stadio? Vultis corripi
in conviviorum turbine laetarum? Vultis suum quaequé
pulcherrimum comitem bracchium tenere quocumque iter
faciatis?”
_- 0 tempora! o mores! o lapsus linguae! Quo pergamus?
Pergamus? Omnes hic haec hoc erunt nobis si hanc sentent-
iam complerimus: “Mihi viri Harvardiani ludi litterarum
negotiorum omnibus aliis viris praelati sunt. qui quae
quod...” : ere
Omittemus omnes lascivias implicationes huius rei,
omittemus quod eveniat ut habeamus suum quaeque comitem
pulcherrimum superioresque sedes ad inflammantem ludum
‘Harvardi in Princetoniam vel si virum Yalinsum nupturae
simus atque possimus ad quam octo cyathis campus bibat
esse. Omittemus haec et alias quoque res.
Non tanta inopia virorum laboramus.
|impressed by the hopeful outlook
Wednesday, October 19, 1949
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Current Events
Common Room, October 17, Miss
Lily Ross Taylor, Dean of. the
Graduate School, spoke on the sub-
ject of “Italy: Present and Fu-
ture.” Her talk, which was based
on her visit to Italy this past sum-
mer, was particularly notable for
its optimism. In contrast with
Fascist days, Miss Taylor was
pleased’ to find “courtesy instead
of discipline.’ Among the Italian
people there was a marked lack of
complaint, resignation to condi-
tions, and “general good humor,
hope, and confidence.” The major-
ity of Italians feel that Mussolini
made his great mistake in allying
himself with Hitler, and now that
the war is over they are anxious
to accept the Americans as their
friends; they have faith in Italy’s
ability to recover from her
damages.
Optimism Prevails
This optimistic ‘spirit seems
amazing in the face of Italy’s ex-
treme poverty and appalling hous-
ing situation. The latter has been
brought about to a great extent by
the tremendous over-population of
the large cities, the high birth
rate, and the limited opportunities
for emigration. Faced with the
problem of high prices and low
earnings, the people preserve their
good humor and are able to enjoy
a genuine laugh in recalling the
prices of past years.
Poverty, Hope, Confusion
Italy today is a very poor coun-
try. The discovery of oil in the
north has given hope to many, but
as yet no one knows how much
help it will be. The political sit-
uation seems to be filled with con-
tradictions. Since every news-
paper is a party document, it is.
necessary to read all the papers in
order to get a rounded and unbi-
ased picture. Miss Taylor noticed
preposterous headlines, slanted
news items, and prejudices pro and
con different governments and
peoples.
However, it was notable that for
every man who felt that German
law influenced the Italians, there
was some one to disagree with
him; and for every man who stat-
ed that “to get a job one must be~-
long to the Christian-Democrat
party”, there was someone to con-
tradict the statement or say that
it was exaggerated. In addition to
listening to the people, Miss Tay-
ior had the opportunity to visit
several political leaders and to at-
tend the Chamber of Deputies. In
this assembly she was able to ob-
serve the action of the solid Com-
munist block, the method of tak-
ng a vote, and to see the well-
known Palmiro Togliatti.
When she visited Don Storzo,
founder of the Christian-Democra:
party, Miss Taylor was once more
that seemed to prevail in Italy.
Storzo felt that Italy could be in-
fluential in the development of
Africa and was only anxious for
the nations of the world to make
definite plans for the future.
Communist Scare Decreases
The old fear of Communism
seems to have been moderated to
a great extent, and although all
radical elements are still much in
evidence in Italy, terrorism has
been overshadowed by the tremen-
dous good will, fair, play and
friendliness of the people: “The
great hope of Italy,” Miss Taylor
feels, “is the vitality and vigor of
the population and the confidence
the people have in themselves.”
: The Sophomore class takes
pleasure in announcing the
election of Catherine Chereme-
teff as Song Mistress.
Les Enfants Crient
Oo-la-la-la a Paris
Continued from Page 1
screaming “cul-chah”, and incred-
ulous at our occasional apathy and
disturbances which we felt she
considered peculiar to our nation- |
ality. She nevertheless did some
bit of worrying which unfortun-
ately took the form of questions,
‘Avez-vous bien dormi?” “Qui
tousse?” and “Ca va, megs en-
fants?”
The trip was beautifully plan- |
ned, and we were fortunate to see,
more usual tourist
inaccessible except
We managed,
among the
stops, places
by car or bicycle.
in that short time, to cover some
of the cathedrals ofthe North, the
beaches of Normandy, the Cha-'
teaux de la Loire.
1953 Sees Light
On Lantern Night
On Friday, October 21st., the
freshman class will be formally in-
itiated into the intricacies as well
as the traditions. of-college life. In
the annual ‘Lantern Night cere-
mony, to be held at 8:00 in the
Cloisters, the sophomores will pre-
sent to the freshmen the “light of
wisdom,” burning in red lanterns.
Traditionally, the temporarily
silent freshmen file into the dark-
ened Cloisters and, carefully avoid-
ing the pool, form a semi-circle
facing the west wing of the lib-
rary. The enlightened sophomores
enter next, each bearing the wis-
dom of her college year in a light-
ed lantern and evoking the god-
dess of learning and, fortunately,
strength. The sophomores. then
form another semi-circle, each
thrusts her lantern into..the. hand
“Paris sera toujours Paris”
We were glad when we finally
saw Paris. We. loved the city
from the start and more as we got
to know it. The Paris headquar-
rs of the Bryn Mawr Summer
Sessions was at Reid Hall, where,
thanks to Miss Dorothy Leet, and
Joann Mott, ’47, we were comfort-
able. Life at Reid Hall was not
without its humor. Never before
had there been male residents, but,
jfinally, everyone managed to make
the adjustment. Ark-like we lived
two-by-two in the fourth floor
studios. One day a leg came out,
a bed collapsed, and the occupant,
feeling stiff, went down to break-
fast. The roommate slept on un-
til the maid came.in. “Regardez
le’ lit! Regardez le lit!” she
screamed with horror. The room-
Continued on Page 5
ie
Dilworth Finds |
City Corrupted
“Public apathy and the consist-
ent opposition of big business are
the two main problems facing the
Democratic party in the Philadel-
phia elections on November 8,”
claimed Richardson Dilworth,
Democratic candidate for city
treasurer, at a political rally in
the Common Room, October 18.
Bryn Mawr is the first women’s
college to hear Mr. Dilworth, who,
describing the present Republican
administration, insisted that the
evils of a big city political machine
cannot be exaggerated. There is
no interest in improvement of the
tity, jobs are distributed, not on
ability or integrity, but on party
and privilege lines, there is dis-
proportion in the distribution of
rural and city funds, and corrup-
tion even reaches the state legis-
lature.
‘Citing the fire force as an ex-
ample of a city department which
has degenerated. under the Repub-
lican administration, in power
since 1883, Mr. Dilworth spoke of
the resentment of the firemen
against a government which fur-
nished them nothing in the way of
equipment.
“A crowd like that now running
City Hall, and if you have ever
been there you remember the situ-
ation of general filth and decay,
could prostitute any system of
government,” argued the candi-
date, while telling of his need for
volunteers to/‘help provide f =
cent municipal government.” ~
He feels that it is a question of
volunteers . versus mercenaries.
There is nothing which can com-
pete with enthusiasm, organiza-
tion, house-to-house canvassing,
and this was Mr. Dilworth’s main
aim—to enlist workers and sup-
porters for his campaign.
A graduate of Yale, and Yale
Law school, a lawyer, and nominee
for mayor last year, Richardson
Dilworth maintains that his best
workers in this campaign came
from the ranks of college and uni-.
of the nearest freshman and runs
away. The freshmen, now presum-
ably “friends of wisdom” respond
with “Sophias” and _ retire with
greater dignity to step singing at
Taylor, where each will discover
a sophomore’s invitation to tea at-
tached to her lantern.
Those participating -in the
Cloister ceremonial must not be
startled by the indistinguishable
and eerie faces peering from the
clouds above the west wing. Con-
trary to popular belief, they are
not Olympic deities, but paying
guests.
Both classes wear black caps and
gowns over white dresses (or im-
provisations thereof). A few years
ago the custom of wearing black
stockings was terminated and “tan
hose are now acceptable.”
Among the more interesting
‘traditions surrounding’ Lantern
‘Night are those concerning wis-
dom and fortune. Guard the candle
flames with care ,for the girl whose
light burns longest will either be-
come hall president or be the first
of her class to marry, depending
upon personal inclination. The girl
who finds her gown spotted with
wax will earn her Ph.D. or grad-
uate cum laude.
The class of ’53 is asked to use
discretion in hanging its lanterns
in the windows and in burning its
candles at the other end.
Freshmen to Produce
One-Act Hall Plays
Continued from Page 1
Thompson as stage manager.
Death Comes to My Friends, by
Karl Dollman,. will be presented by
Radnor. Elaine Marks and Mar-
celle Wegier, °52, will direct it;
Didi Yost is the Freshman direc-
tor, and §S.. Kramer, the stage
manager. Rockefeller will give
Beauty and the Jacobin, a drama
of revolutionary days in France,
by Booth Tarkington. Patricia
Richardson, ’52, is the director;
Sally Shoemaker, the Freshman
director; and Maryanne Holmes,
the stage manager. Rhoads will
produce Waiting for Lefty, by
Clifford Odets, and directed by
Margie Low, ’50.
USF Organizes Drive,
Explains Urgent Need
Continued from Page 1
and continue through the follow-
ing day. Irina Nelidow, ’50, Fund
chairman, emphasizes that contri-
butions may be put on any or all
Pay Days. :
The college Legislature recent-
ly voted to distribute the donations
as follows:
World Student Service Fund
24.0%; CARE (for foreign uni-
versity libraries) 140%, CARE
(for children) 9.5%, Red Cross
18.7%, Philadelphia Community
Chest 13.7%,United Negro College
Fund 10.0%, and Reserve for pos-
rsible new appeals 15.0%.
The World Student Service Fund,
American branch of World Stud-
ent Relief which has centers all
over the world, sends aid to stud-
versity students. -
ents in nations devastated by war
~: Ceatined on, Page 2.
SPENT WS ARTE Bil
Wednesday, October 19, 1949
THE COLLEGE NEWS :
Page Three
Between the Leaves
Figures of Revolution
Live in Novel
By Meigs
by Nina Cave, ’50
‘ine Violent Men, by Cornelia
lieigs, professor of*-English at
bryn Mawr College, isthe story
of the*First Continental Congress,
and the events that culminated in
the Declaration of Independence.
lt often happens in a long histori-
cal novel of this kind that either
the histori¢al characters involved
are magnified to the point of dis-
tortion, or that the mass of mater-
ial is presented in an undigested
and confusing form. Miss Meigs,
however, thas achieved an excel-
lent balance between these two
elements and the result is a fas-
“-ceinating “and often” very exciting
book.
‘his book deals primarily with
a series of struggles. On the broad-
est scale, there is the sharp quarrel
in the English Parliament between
the government in power and the
group led by Burke, and the ven-
erable Karl of Chatham who comes
out of retirement to speak on be-
half of- the “rebellious” colonists.
There is the fight for control of
the Congress between John Dick-
inson, the rich, conservative, Penn-
sylvanian who wanted to avdid an
open and definite break with Eng-
land at any cost, and John Adams,
the leader of the “violent men”
who brought with them “that
' dreaded aspect, a desire for inde-
pendence.” These men fundament-
ally liked and respected each other,
but they fought a tough, unpleas-
ant battle on the issue that event-
ually split the Congress between
them,
But it is the personal struggle
of each delegate that the author
manages to bring out very vividly.
All of these men, most of them
Jeffersonian aristocrats, had to re-
concile the best course of action of
their own colony with the good
of the other twelve. Later, they
had to decide if a proclamation of
independence from England was
justified and advisable at that time,
if it was worth the risk of the well-
being of their colony and their
personal livelihoods as well.
This is also the story of men
who were not in the’ Congress but
who worked towards its ends with
the greatest devotion; Franklin,
who risked this life on a mission
to Canada on its behalf, after the
defeat at Quebec; the two messen-
gers, Paul Revere and Cesar Rod-
ney, who galloped along the Post
Road with instructions for the del-
egates and news from the fight-
ing fronts; and Tom Paine whose
famous leaflet, Common. Sense,
helped to turn the tide in favor of
Adams ‘and independence.
In the first paragraph,
Continued on Page 4
the
The German Experts at a Seminar
Continued from Page 1
during the academic year (includ-
ing~-a-~-shopping-tour of Philadei-
phia with Miss Kraus soon after
they arrived) and during next
summer, most of the group have
made travel-plans of their own.
Anna-Mavrie Duelp will spend
Christmas with her uncle in New
USF Ba Nia
Explains Urgent Need
Continued from Page 1
and When not
enough money is available for a
student (as/is too often the case)
the Fund helps him or her find a
job, a cheaper place to live, learn
a trade, etc. WSSF is the only na-
tional agency organized exclusive-
ly for this kind of relief.
CARE is having a special drive
this year for books tor toreign
universities, which are so despex-
ately in need. A typical example is
the University of Louvain, in Bel-
gium, which lost 900,000 volumes
during the war. CARE aiso sends
aid to the many thousands of chil-
dren sutfering from malnutrition
and war injuries, the victims of
destroyed homes.
The Red Cross and the Com-
internal strife.
faithfully for many years, require
funds for the many various emer-
gencies they encounter as well as
for their regular programs of com-
munity assistance.
The United Negro College Fund,
supporting over thirty accredited
all-negro colleges, provides schol-
arships for many needy students
and awards grants to the individual
colleges. Its work is ever increas-
ing in scope, as is its need for
financial help.
The United Service Fund drive
will be the only charity drive this
year, and students are asked to
keep this in mind when the solicit-
ing begins.
XVIII th Century Discalced Carm
Teaches Spicy Brand of Italian
At Oral time the NEWS feels
cur course of imstruction with
eighteenth century grammar
its duty deeply — We are beginning
an Italian lesson, taken from an
written by a mysterious Discalced
Carm. We have chosen the Loeb style purposely, for it is our boast that
no one has ever needed a. dictionary to read the NEWS. We bring it
down to college level.
Vocabulary
At two o’clock jn the morning.
““A’ Damned Soul.
Eternal punishments.
Maidenhead.
_A dead body or corpse.
The Jaw Teeth or Grinders.
The Back-Side or Breech.
The Spleen or Milt.
The Small guts.
Dandriff or Scurf.
A Stink.
The Dropsy.
The Cramp.
The Hickup.
Histerical-fits.
A Wart or Wen.
Continued
Vocabolario
Alle due dopo la mezza notte.
Un’ anima damnata.
Pene eterne.
Vergenita.
Un Cadavere.
I Denti Grossi.
1 sedere.
La Milza.
I Budelli piccoli.
La Forfora.
Un Puzzo.
L’ Idropisia.
Il Granchio.
Il Singhiozzo.
Effettisterici.
Un Porro.
on Page 4
Vi
munity Chest, two organizations | vation for women
whose work has been continuing |
‘however,
|to “do something with it.”
German Experts Acclaim Dr. Wells As Father;
Argue About Politics on the T ennis Courts
i York:
! when the ship landed, and she did
He was waiting at the dock
not. recognize him at. first—he'
jooked so much younger than. her
father “because of not having been
through a war.” Everyone ha;
relatives and friends conveniently
located for handy weekends (“Just
how long does it take to: get to
Texas?”). And if one | spends
every other weekend working hard
at Bryn Mawr, then, on the week
ends in between one can dash off
to New York, Boston, Chicago or
Syracuse.
“Dr. Wells was just like a fath-
er”; consequently, few difficulties
have arisen, except how to ap
proach “corn on the cob” and
(since prices ‘vary from store to
store), how jot to spend one’s
days pursuing a phantom bargain.
McBride Analyzes
Women’s Studies
(Ed Note: The following is an
article reprinted by the courtesy
of Think Magazine from its Sep-
iember issue.)
“What Studies for Women?” by
Katherine McBride.
Controversies about college edu-
are of such long
standing that they seem familiar
from any angle. They do change,
and the present contro-
versy is not on the old subject of
what women can do but on the sub-
Ject of what they should do.
Frustrated Women?
It is usually granted women can
undertake all college studies from
anthropology to zoology and carry
them with success . .. The ques-
tion put by modern critics is
whether women should carry the
same studies as men, and by this
the critics mean: Is women’s role
as wife and mother less well served
by a four-year liberal arts curri-
culum than by general studies
with a strong admixture of home
economics and child care? Does
the liberal arts curriculum, how-
ever interesting at the time, make
women who later have no careers
outside their homes dissatisfied
and frustrated? ;
There is today an eager audience
ready to say “aye” to these ques-
tions. It is made up in part of
women reacting against the great
emphasis of their own time in col-
lege on women’s “right” to higher’
education ‘Und their responsibility
It is
made up in part of progréssive
minded people who want to stress
the fact that liberal education,
however sound and stimulating, is
not all of life. It is made up in
part, too, of the psychiatrically
excited, who. through psychiatry
itself or through literature have
come to believe that women will
undermine our civilization if they
do not concentrate on their “role
as wives and mothers.”
The critics who find college edu-
cation for women most inadequate
usually recommend its improve-
Continued on Page 5
‘*Apple’’
Raia to Bean Maur,
Makes Hockey Players “‘k-r-run’’
by Emmy Cadwalader, ’52
Un Monaay, October 17tn., Miss
Appiebee, known as “The Appie’
by tnose she ‘has taught, came to |
coach the Varsity Hockey Squad. |
Miss Applebee, who used to coach |
at Bryn Mawr, introguced hockey |
into America in the early nineteen |
hundreds. Since she came over |
trom Kngland, she has coached |
teams ali over the United States. |
‘Ine hockey camp, whiecn Bryn
Mawr and many other colleges at-
tend, has been run by Miss Apple-
bee tor many years. In the time in |
which she has been coaching, she |
has become one of the most tam-
ous and well-loved coaches hockey
has ever known. Yelling lustily, in
her clipped British accent and-xoll-
ing her R’s, she has sent many a
ieam to victory through-her exce-
| lent directing,
Miss Applebee appeared on Mon-
day in her famous brown tunic, and
the practice began. “R-r-r-run you
lazy things,” cried Miss Applebee,
and slouching Bryn Mawr players
straightened quickly and tore down
the field. “What is the matter with
that ridiculous left inner,” she
Storts
The first: hockey game of the
season, against Drexel, was played
last Wednesday, October 12, on
the Bryn Mawr College field. The
Varsity won by a large margin of
7-1, and the Junior Varsity won
3-V. In the Varsity game two goals
each were made by J. Stone, and
S. Haton, and one each by N.
Blackwood, M. Shaw, and A. New-
bold. P. Merritt made two of the
goals in the Junior Varsity game,
and M. Turner, who came into the
game during the last half, put in
the final goal. Margie claims she
had to make a goal because Miss
Grant said she’d slaughter her if
she didn’t. Both teams played with
a lot of spark and spirit. The Var-
sity forward line was_outstanding,
due to excellent teamwork and
good passing Trish Mulligan, the
Varsity goal-keeper, did an amaz-
ing job of keeping out goals along
with the rest of the defense. The
Second team game also put on a
showing of very nice hockey and
enthusiasm. —
This year the Varsity is captain-
ed by Sylvia Hayes, and the Jun-
ior Varsity by Nancy Greenewalt.
From the first game it looks as if
the coming season will be quite
good, and also lots of fun for all
those participating.
The first round of the Hall Hoc-
key tournament was played off on
Sunday, October 16. Pembroke
East beat Radnor, 6-0, in a very
exciting game. The high scorer
was E. Wadsworth, totaling three
goals. E. Nelidow made two and
D. Chambers made the other goal.
Then Denbigh won over Rock, 4-0.
E. McIlroy and A. Cary were re-
sponsible for the. Denbigh goals.
The games were very officially
umpired by Sue Savage and Sylvia
Hayes. The gym department had
better watch out, these two are
pretty good. The next round of
this tournament will be played off
next Sunday.
The Sophomores tied the Fresh-
men, 1-1, and the Seniors beat the
Juniors, 2-0; in the first series of
the Class Hockey Match. Jo Ras-
kind was the big scorer on the
Senior team. The rest of the
matches will be played off this
week and next. The class who wins
the greatest number of games will
have its name put on the Class
Hockey Championship Cup, which
has just recently been resurrected
after having been forgotten for
quite a few years. At the same
time the Odds and the Evens team
will be chosen, and people will be
able to sing the two Odds and
Evens ‘songs lustily to their hearts
content for their team.
—
, yelled, and gave the poor thing a
| hearty shove toward the goal.
kiveryone, with the exception of a
|1ew players, had ‘“Klephantitus,”
|sne claimed, as a large fullback
| uied to put on an extra burst of
| speed to please her. Then some un-
iortunate kicked the ball, and the
‘whistle blared. After suitticient
; reasons as to why to hit the ball
|instead of kicking it, the game
was continued and that player was
| now hitting instead of kicking. “If
| that girl gets in your way, kick
| her,” she calls #0 the goal-keeper,
as a halfback blocks her view of !
| the ball. “Get your sticks on the
| ground, this is hockey not lacrosse,
you silly darlings.” “You all look
lovely but you’re here to play hoc-
key,” and she sends the ball fly-
ing towards an awaiting forward. _..
Throwing players off the field...”
and correcting others, practice
progressed until finally the game
looked quite good, and a few shouts
of praise rang out to cheer the
squad.
Although Miss Applebee contin-
ually jumps on players, her bark
is definitely worse than her bite.
She is genuinely fond of all the
players she teaches, and has all
their interests at heart. The more
she corrects the players, the more
interested she is in them. After the
practice she*has won everybody’s
| praise, and to the squad’s delight,
nee heard to say that the Bryn
Mawr teams would be pretty good
if they kept on working as hard
as they had been.
Miss Applebee will return to-
morrow, Thursday, October 20th.,
to coach us again, and anyone who
loves hockey or is at all interested
would profit a great deal by com-
ing down to watch the practice.
Certainly anybody who has ever
heard her famous “R-r-r-run you
sillies” will be there. Bryn Mawr
is very lucky to have Miss Apple-
bee come as a Visiting coach, be-
cause she is wanted by almost
every other hockey-playing college.
F oreign
Correspondent
by Francine du Plessix ’52
One of the greatest joys of each
summer’s return to my _ native
land is in hearing tales about my
ancestors, in digging skeletons out
of the genealogical closet. There
are wayward uncles and _ never-
mentioned cousins, ghosts and the
perennial black sheep. But not
until this summer did*I hear of my.
great-aunt Theresa, It was during
a visit to a branch of my family in
Auvergne, the central part of
France; a dry, mountainous coyn.
try where the earth is bitter, its
inhabitants sullen and often ec:
centric; a coal-mining country
where in small mountain towns
the sun hides early behind the
nills.
In such a little town, twenty
feet away from the railroad yard
where trains leave for a night’s
journey to Paris, there stands the
wall of a Carmelite convent, the .
strictest order of the Catholic
faith. Once enclosed within its _
walls a woman cannot step outside
them, nor receive visitors, nor look
gut upon the world outside. Ta
admit air and a ljttle light there is
in each cell a slit near the ceiling,
placed too high to be looked
through. In this kind of solitude
and abstinence did my great-aunt ©
Theresa wish to spend her days.
For at the age of twenty, her
heart shattered by an unhappy
love, she took the eternal vows of
the Carmelites.
This was in 1880, when the con-
vent stood in the stillness of a
wide lonely plain. But at the turn
of the century industry reared its
ugly head into the rich coal dis-
trict of Auvergne, and a railroad
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RARE SES
Page Four
~~
THE
COLL®GE NEWS.”
Non temete non e che una nuvola.che_ passa
Fear not, ’tis but a cloud that passes by
Continued from Page 3
A Leech.
The Close-stool pan.
To Draw Wine.
A Red Herring.
Bird Lime.
A Bitch.
The Plague.
The Bloody Flux.
Of Dressing and going to School:
Are ye abed still? Awake, ye
sleep too much.
You’re a sluggard, are ye awake
yet?
Blow your nose. Dress yourself.
Help me to put on my nightgown.
You’re very tedious.
Say your lesson. You don’t know
your lesson.
I’'m..sorry..to-find--you.-so-lazy.
Aren’t you ashamed?
I don’t belive you ever open your
Dictionary. One would think
. you hadn’t looked for a singie
word.
' You learn nothing. You don’t
study.
You don’t improve. I don’t under-
stand you.
Begin again.
Of Walking.
Let’s go and take the air, or let’s
go airing.
With all my heart.
Shall we go in the Coach or on
foot?
Walking gets one a stomach.
Methinks I’m in an Earthly Para-
dise.
Don’t you hear the sweet melody
of the birds? The sweet sing-
ing and warbling of the
nightingale?
You go too fast, I can’t follow
you.
You’re a sorry or poor walker.
Pray if it’s possible, go a little
softlyer.
Are you weary? Or tired?
I’m mighty weary, I can’t stand
upon my legs.
Let’s lie down upon the grass.
No, no. Don’t do it, it’s very
unwholesome.
The grass is moist or sAMD, and
wet.
What a pleasant place this is!
How fit for study!
I could eat some of those plums.
It rains as fast as it can pour.
Fear not, ’tis but a cloud that
passes by.
Let’s go into that Barn.
It only mizzles.
It’s a stinking fog.
Here endeth the first lesson.
Una Mignatta.
ll Cantero,
Cavare il vino.
Un Aringa salata.
Vischio, Pania.
Una Cagna. /
La . Peste.
Mal de’ Pondi. =.
Wednesday, October 19, 1949
SF poeta
‘Ocean Creatures
inspire Campus
by Jane Roller, ’51
Smoker crowds seeking diver-
sion might gain inspiration from
the bright children at the Bryn
Mawr Summer Camp. After a
whole summer of contending with
their imaginative activities, Man-
|op-Lou Crist, chairman of the
Del Vestire, e andare a Squola.
Siete ancora a letto? Svegliatevi,
dormite ‘troppo.
Sjete un poltrone; siete sveliato
ancora?
Soffiatevi il naso. Vestitevi. —
Ajutatemi a mettere la vesta da
camera.
Siete molto tedioso.
Dite la vostra ‘lezione. Non sapete
la vostra lezione.
Mi... dispiace-.trovarvi.-cosi-pigro....
Non vi vergongnate?
Non credo che apriate mai il
vostro Dizionario. Si cre-
derebbe che non abbiate cer-
cata non imparate nulla. Non
studiate.
o
Non fate profitto. Non v’ intendo.
Cominciate da capo.
Del Camminare.
Andiamo a prendere aria.
Volontieri.
Andaremo in Carrozza, o a piedi?
il camminare produce l’appetito.
camp this year, still wonders at
their originality.
The young campers; aged four
' to ten, indulged in forms of enter-
tainment ranging from battles of
the sexes to saving seashells.
Manon Lou recalled liyely sand
fights between the boys and girls.
And she reminisced about the
aesthetic appreciation they showed
in insisting on storing choice sea
animals under their beds. It wasn’t
until one of the Bryn Mawr coun-
sellors placed a barrel for speci-
mens on the porch that the cottage
lost some of its wharf-like aroma..
Tin-pan parades on the board-
walk were another activity devised
by the inventive campers, who
crammed everything into their two-
week stay in the country. And
when they returned to the city, to
be replaced by another eager
group, it was evident they (and
their parents) had benefited from
the opportunity of camp.
It was obvious Bryn Mawr girls
had benefited too, after two weeks
of counselling. The strained lines
of study on their faces had van-
Mi sembra essere in un Paradiso
terrestre.
Non sentite la dolce cantare, tril-
lare de rusignolo?
Andate troppo forte, non vi posso
seguitare.
Siete un meschino comminatore.
Di grazia, s’e possibile, andate un
poco piu piano, o adagio.
Siete stracco? o stanca?
Sono molto stanco, non posso stare
in piedi.
Sdrajamoci su l’erba.
No, no. Non lo fate. e molto mal-
sano.
L’erbe e umida, e bagnata.
Che luogo delizioso e queste!
quanto addatato allo studio.
Mangerei di quelle susine.
Piove quanto ne puo scaricare.
Non temete, non e che una nuvola
che passa.
Entriamo in quella Capanna.
Piovififiina solamente.
E’ una nebbia puzzolente.
LONELY HEARTS
Excerpts from contest letter
from Harvard Business School
which .we have answered in our
editorial, satisfactorily we hope:
“Do you want to be swept along
in a whirlwind of gay parties? Do
you want a handsome escort on
your arm wherever you go? ...
Just complete the sentence: I pre-
fer Harvard Business School men
to all other college. men because
- No boxtops, no down pay-
ments, no knowledge of B-School
men needed ... You may be the
.toast of the campus Harvard-
Princeton weekend. You will be a
~~ Cinderella for a weekend!” ~
“Violent Men” Emerge
Convincing, Forceful
Continued from Page 3
scene is laid in Carpenters’ Hall|
Hall in Philadelphia. The story
eventually reaches across the sea
to the Visitors Gallery in the House
of Commons, to the Lee’s estate
in Virginia and to beseiged Boston, | Science
but there is no choppiness in the
narrative, in spite of the large-
ness of the canvas. It is an ambi-
tious book in its attempt to make
the events of 150 years ago as real
», as today’s newspaper, and the peo-
_ ple involved convincing, and end-
~ lessly interesting as well. It has
,of campus activities. °
eet respective presidents are:
| French Club
i5 Clubs Search |
For Young Blood
Jump out of your ivory tower.
Join a club — and you'll run into
everything from enlightening dis-
cussion to Haverford members.
There’s no better excuse than a
club meeting for sailing out of the
library. And the most progressive
alternative to an isolationist-study
policy is mixing with people who
have a common interest.
Clubs this year are bigger and
~| better. Certainly the latter; and
they’re bound to .be bigger — if
you just join. You’ve a wide choice
They and
ERG K. Harper
PO aa, A. Sitarz
PII ccscsnsirclen coavses A. Chowning
| Drama Cink: ::..c50cc A. J. Rock
Staee Gud 6 candiian . B. Swope
eh sie D. Chambers
PRUOSOORY ised E. Grey
CRE sein iivitins N. Greenwalt
COMNUREEOIRE isvscscversysttis P. Ripley
BO Sa ockn H. Dobbs
ON ii diiisigaaaainn M. Partridge
Na Ten ee paces H. Ostoia
TNR i hibhiscmasy.. S. Cowgill |
CIO ssisen snes ssn a+ I, Riker
ished. Instead was a healthy, per-
haps vaguely maternal, look.
Yearbook
Tonight you can order your
1950 Yearbook. A member of
the Subscription board will be
canvassing your hall Wednes-
day and Thursday. The price
is $4.50 and you can split it up
over any number of Paydays.
‘Now is your chance to learn
the story of the last four years:
now you may have in picture
form your campus, your pro-
fessors, and your friends. And
bear in mind that this is THE
TURN OF THE CENTURY
YEARBOOK!
ERRATA
A number of rather unfortun-
ate mistakes appeared in the
NEWS’ new column, Smoker
Sweepings, last week. We list them
below:
. The Sloane’s summer cook has
assured us repeatedly and with
fervent heat that ptomaine poi-
soning is caused by bad food, not
bad cooking ... Virginia Graham
is not taking a logic comprehen-
sive ... the mange we were look-
ing for turns out to be eczema af- |
ter all... no one on the first floor
of the Library is giving consulta-
tions in chic, now... People should
have known better than to think
that “Once there was a young rat
named Arthur” referred to any
faculty member: we’ve all taken
Speech, haven’t we?
Further errors: we had two
page fours in the last issue, which
discouraged readers who had really
reached the end but thought they
still had two pages to go to get
their money’s worth. Worst of all,
that the cartoon last week de-
picted: a chemical explosion, not
realizing until it was printed that
it dated back to the days of stud-
ent waitresses and wasn’t very
funny at that..
JEANETT’S
has
Flowers! |
: LANCASTER AVE.
BRYN MAWR
‘Wednesday morning’s
| while the other prefers Clemen-
; tine.
‘near-sighted editors were convinced ||~
Weeds Give Reply to Gardener
In Poetic Genius
Mrs. Marshall’s speech at last
assembly |
had unusual andurprising effect:
4 there were entertaining, though en- |
tirely unexpected. The next morn-
ing there appeared on her door u
large’ cardboard, containing «
poem (obviously written by
weeds), and dedicated to “The |
Gardener of Bryn Mawr.” Not
long after, a piece of paper bear- |
ing Browning’s “My Last Duchess” |
(which had obviously inspired the
authors of the aforementioned |
poem) was
door with “For weeds only” mark-|
ed in red pencil. ‘We give you
here the complete: story: both: the
‘Browning Version’ and the weeds’
subsequent. poetical. inspiration...
MY LAST DUCHESS
by Robert Browning
That’s my last Duchess painted on
the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I cail
That piece a wonder, now: Fra
‘(Pandolf’s hands
Worked busily a day, and there
she stands.
Will’t please you sit and look “
her? I said
‘Fra Pandolf”
never read
Strangers like you that pictured
countenance,
The depth and passion of its earn-
est glance,
But to myself they turned (since
none puts by
he curtain I have drawn for you,
but I)
And seemed as they would ask me,
if they durst,
How such a glance came there; so,
not the first
Are you to turn and ask thus, Sir,
*twas not
Her husband’s presence only, call-
ed that spot
Of joy into the Duchess’ cheek:
perhaps
Fra Pandolf chanced to say, “Her
by dnaion. ee
Incidentally
One young sophomore to a sen-
ior as she slumped down at the
table: “Gosh it’s a terribly busy
year ...I haven’t even opened
my Bible yet.”
This is not from the catalogue
nor even from the Curriculum Com-
mittee report: they call it baby
German because it keeps you up
also placed on tha! .
a la Browning
mantle laps
Over my lady’s wrist too much,”
or “Paint
Must never hope to reproduce the
faint
lalf-flush that dies
throat:” such stuff
Was courtesy, she thought, and
cause enough
For calling up that spot of joy.
She had
A heart—how shall I say?—too
soon made glad,
along her
Too easily impressed: she liked
whate’er
She looked on, and her looks went
everywhere.
Sir, ’twas-all- onel....-,
THE GARDENER OF
BRYN MAWR
That’s our gardener behind the
desk
Looking as if she were aghast.
We call
That expression DEATH; Smith
Labored long and there she sits.
Please us stand and look at her.
We repent
“Smith” by design: for never
think,
Blossoms like you, that studied
* look,
That profundity and perception of
her scholastic stare,
But to you only turns.. Since none
lift
That curtain we have drawn for
you, but we-eds)
And some might ask us, if they
dared, .
How came she by such a glance;
so, you
The lovely blossoms, are not the
first to imagine. Blossoms,
It was not the weeds’ presence
alone that caused that spot
Of disgust in the gardener’s fur-
row: perhaps
The faculty pointed a bony finger,
“You have
Sown your own seeds too frag::
rantly,” or “Have
You any... transom information”
Such words
Are damnable, she thinks, and rea-
son enough
To cause that spot of consterna-
tion. She has
A cardial contraction—how shall
we say—not soon upset,
But easily impressed; she is sur-
prised by whate’er
She looks on, and her stares are
everywhere .
WEEDS, WE ARE UNDONE! !:
all night.
There is a kind of musical rival-
ry between two members of the
Latin Department: one insists Sa-
turnalia can best be sung to the
tune of Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo,
The NEWS Board is proud to
announce that’ two of its members,
Nina Cave and Irina Nelidow,
have passed the New York State!
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McBride. Analyzes. Issue
Of Women’s Education
Continued from Page 3
ments by directing it to “life prob-
lents” and... courses in marriage
and the family, child care, and so
forth. The vexing problems of
women’s education would have
been solved long ago if a course
in Marriage and the Family en-
abled men and women to. establish
happy homes and an A in Child
Care insured ‘a good job on the
children.
The problem is of course far
more complex than either criticism
or recommendations generally in-
dicate .. . The president or dean
of a small college ,as he sends the
procession of seniors across the
platform at commencement, may
look absorbed in the ceremony.
More. likely -he-is-absorbed’in-won-
der at the complexity of life and
the intricacies of character and
circumstance that have led to each
student’s degree .
The college that proposes to aid
the process to a course in adjust-
ment or family relations, but de-
pends on a many-sided program
which includes curriculum, the
stimulation and discipline of dif-
ferent professérs, counseling and
special services, student activities,
and various qualities within the
college life itself. Only a kind of
psychiatric. post - mortem years
later would analyze out the differ-
ent values of different parts of this
program for one student.
To turn to the academic curricu-
lum only is to limit the consider-
ation of what is important in wo-
men’s education, but at least it
helps to select a major center of
controversy.
Although the “free elective ‘sys-
tem” is out of fashion, for men
or women, almost all colleges of
liberal arts and sciences permit
wide freedom of choice of a major
field. For a long time it has been
possible for women to make such
choices entirely according to their
interests, whether the choice is a
major in child study, which would
meet no opposition anywhere, or a
major in physics, which might well
be frowned upon by the student’s
family and generally considered
unfortunate, unpromising, or odd.
.-» But the choice is not quite free,
for the further she departs from
any of the special provinces of
women the more she has to be
willing fo put up with a variety
of implications — surprise that
she is pretty though a scientist,
concern that she will become
“warped” ... It is rather these
limitations than any lack of op-
portunity that leads only the fair-
ly determined women to go far
from the “approved” fields of study
for women.
. . « The question in college
education is whether literature and
history and philosophy from ages
seventeen to twenty-one make a
better or worse jumping-off point
for the next fifty years than home
economics or child care.
Both the liberal arts program
and the vocational arts program
are excellent in themselves. The
crux of the matter is whether the
young student should choose ac-
cording to her interests or whether
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* * *
On Thursday at 5:00 pm. Le
Cercle Francais is giving a glori-
ous party of which one of the fea-
ture attractions will be sauterne
and brandy punch. The party is at
Miss Gertrude Ely’s across from
Pem West and next to Wyndham.
Distinguished Daughter
Miss McBride was made a Dis-
tinguished Daughter of Pennsy]l-
vania yesterday, at the Governor’s
Mansion in Harrisburg.
Social Economy Tea
On Saturday, October 22nd., the
the Alumnae of the Carola Woeris-
hoffer Department of Social Econ-
omy, headed by Mrs. Otto Pollak,
will give a tea in honor of Mrs.
Amey Watson, their retiring pres-
ident. Dr. Norman Nixon, Director
of the Children’s Unit of the
Pennsylvania Hospital, will be the
speaker. In addition to the Alum-
nae of the Social Economy Depart-
ment who are the hosts at the tea,
invitations have been extended to
the faculty of Bryn Mawr and
neighboring schools in the Sociol-
ogy and Psychology departments,
and to various agencies of stud-
Stage Merger
The Drama Club and the Stage
Guild of Bryn Mawr have decided
to merge, by unanimous vote of
both groups. As yet a name for
the joint organization has not been
chosen, but the move is expected
to mark a definite step toward the
improvement of the two associa-
tions. Many enthusiastic plans for
the future have been discussed:
the first play to be produced will
be Ferenc Molnar’s Liliom, follow-
ed by Anderson’s Elizabeth, the
Queen, at Haverford.
* * *
Roland Hayes
The Service League of the Bald-
win School is sponsoring a song
recital which will take place in
Goodhart Hall, Thursday, October
20, at 8:30. Roland Hayes, the
tenor, will sing, accompanied by
Reginald Boardman at the piano.
Admission to the concert will be
from $1.50 to $2.40, and the tickets
can be purchased now at the Main
Hall Desk, The Residence, Bald-
win, or on the evening of the per-
formance at the box office in Good-
hart.
regardless of interest she should
be determined by her expectation
that she will soon need to apply
herself to a home and family and
require training for the process.
The arguments for a choice ac-
cording to the student’s own inter-
ests are substantial, substantial
enough to hold until such an im-
probable event as the demonstra-
tion that women trained in family
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The Bryn Mawr College Chorus,
along with a number of other
choral groups in and around the
Philadelphia area, will sing at the
Goethe Fete, which is to be held
on the 200th Anniversary of Johann
Wolfgang Von Goethe’s birth. The
festival will be held at the Acad-
amy of Music on the night of Octo-
ber 26th.
The director will be Robert El-
more, director of the university of
Pennsylvania Choir. Eugene Or-
mandy is training and directing the
combined chorus during its re-
This makes it very
exciting for those choral groups
"| participating.
The pieces that will be sung by
the combined... chorus. are... the
“Chorus of Angels” from Goethe’s
Faust by Schubert, “Zum Schluss”
(Now Ye Muses Be Hushed) by
Brahms, and “Auf Dem See’ (On
the Sea) and “Fruhzeitiger Fruh-
ling” (Early Spring), both by Men-
delssohn. The words to the last
three pieces are poems by Goethe.
The program looks very promising,
not only will the music be excel-
lent, but also the speakers are very
well selected. One of the speakers
will be President McBride.
Dragon, Aspirin, Duel
Meet ‘Will’? Underwater
Continued from Page 1
hanced by wavering backdrop and
lights. The Cafe Chorus achieved
the effect it probably had in mind
(of being under water), but we al-
ways like to see choruses pick up
and kick a bit.
I have one complaint, for which
only eleven days’ preparation is
adequate extuse: the long waits
between scenes, especially before
the last Act which was too short.
The burden of these waits might
have been lightened by some nau-
tical chanteys; we would have en-
joyed lots more of Miss Silveus at
the piano.
’*51 has made a name for itself;
much congratulation. is due “Willy
Nilly’s” director, Ellen Bacon.
Les Enfants Crient
Oo-la-la-la a Paris
Continued from Page 2
mate, still sleepy, managed to
| prop herself up, open an eye and
emit an enthusiastic “Oo-la-la”,
whereupon she went back to sleep.
It was under such practical con-
ditions that we learned a basic:
French,
Travail and Travels
Then there was the French of
peas Art, Politics, and Literature
‘courses. The Contemporary Lit.
course at the Sorbonne, given. by
| the Mssrs. Teyssier and Michelin
lran for six weeks. This course
was the most popular of the three,
due probably to the fact that it
was the least intensified. Under the
direction of the Ecole du Louvre,
the students of the art course were
given not only lectures but the op-
portunity: to visit. various.museums.
and places of historical import-
ance. A supplement to the art
course was a weekend trip to Ve-
zelay and Bourges. The other
three weeks course was given at
the Institut de Science Politique
and covered French foreign affairs
since the Treaty of Versailles.
Goodbye, Europe
With the finishing of the courses
there was a general exodus from
Paris, to Switzerland, Italy, the
Pyrenees, and England, for Gide
had liberated us. We were not re-
united until sailing time when,
souvenir-laden and weepy, we
waved goodbye to Europe. There
was a uniqueness and_ general
spirit that made our trip more
than sight-seeing, more than
study, more than “my trip abroad.”
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Wednesday, October 19, 1949
McBride Analyzes Issue
Of Women’s Education
Continued from Page 5
importance for the best develop-
ment of the individual. To the wo-
man of intellectual curiosity inten-
sive study and reading is an ur-
gent matter. Without it, not with
it, her life will be frustrated and
her family poorer. To the woman
with no such interest in ideas the
more specific applied program is
far’more satisfactory ... And as
facilities for adult education grow
neither need suppose that she can-
not continue in the field of her
choice or step into the field she
missed, «
« » +.» If it could be said that the
family had certain specific needs
for which education could be es-
tablished,.-most.-women. ‘would sign
up for the program and be thank-
ful. The impressive fact is, how-
ever, that the needs of the family
call on a great variety of talents
. .» The woman whose education
has best developed her own re-
sources and talents has a—good
chance to call them into action.
Even so, while she is concen-
trating on her family she may not
call directly on all the talents she
has. She can expect a lack of con-
tinuity in the use of her training
and experience, but she can also
expect a life span far longer than
she can spend on her family alone.
However full her concentration on
her family, she has in several
decades the time to turn her tal-
ents to some of the evident needs
of society beyond the family, and
this she can do to better effect if
she has had the good fortune to
find in college interests which she
could so well reinfocre by study
that they lasted despite all the
distractions of her life.
_
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station began to be built next to
the convent. Its solitary inhabi-
tants had never seen a train. For
months, as the tracks were being
laid, Sister Theresa heard the clink
of steel upon steel, the hiss of
fire and the thud of bricks againsi
her cell wall, and the roaring
voices of earthly men.
she heard the trainman’s first
shrill whistle, and the satani?
thunder of the first train shatter-
ing forever the stillness of the
Carmelite convent.
The whistle and the great thun-
der she heard many times a day,
for many years. But she had vow-
ed never. to look. out..of. her. con-
vent wall.
Sister Theresa was devoted to
her life, and became one of the
guiding spirits of her order, The
Mother Superior, on. the occasio:
of the devout nun’s fiftieth year in
the convent, asked her to name a
wish. She had served her Lord so
well that surely he would give it
to her. Sister Theresa’s wish was
One day
vent quite at wit’s end: she wished
to stand upon a ladder in her cell,
ing to see the monster she had
heard these thirty years. To allow
such a drastic rupture of the rules
of her convent the Mother Super
an unusual one, that put the con-|
and through the slit near the ceil--
Unearthing of Family Skeletons Brings Out
Strange Story of Sister Theresa, Locomotive
a
ior wrote a special petition to the
Pope, begging him for an excep
tion to reward her sister’s piety.
Many months passed before an
answer came, and great was the
concern of the Carmelites about
'the Pope’s judgment of this peti
tion. But finally a letter arrived
from Rome, and with tears in her
eyes the Mother came to bear the
glad tidings to Sister Theresa, who
was saying devotions in her cell.
His Highness the Pope, consider-
ing the extraordinary circum-
stances of this case, his daughter’s
righteous devotion, and the will of
the Lord to reward his servants,
| allowed an exception to the rules
of the Carmelite Order. Sister
; Theresa might stand_upon a ladder
‘in~-her---eell;--and ste the --object
| whose thundering noise had be-
‘come familiar to her after thirty
years.
| But my great-aunt Theresa, s9
\I heard this summer when I was
died
For in
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‘without seeing a train.
town,
. . ¥
| self-renunciaticn, she gave up her
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Alumnae Give Pros,Cons
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Continued from Page 1
other than college’s membership in
Phi Beta Kappa.
Pro: that it provides simple and
convenient proof of good scholar-
ship.
Con: this is already recognized
in grades and in the different de-
grees of cum laude given.
Pro: that it would provide a
stimulation to scholarship. °.. , ,
Con: that it would be an incent-
ive to work for grades only, not
for the broadening of intellectual
interests. Also that the size of the
senior class varies so much from
lyear to year that the standard
would have to be different each
year,
A poll on this subject will be
distributed to all students at the
end of the week.
The Freshmen emerged vic-
torious in their hockey match
‘against the Seniors, with. a
score of 1-0. The Juniors de-
feated the Sophomores, 4-0.
PERSONALS
MATURE faculty member
wishes experience with student
body. Inquire at the water cooler
tomorrow morning at 11:00.
IMMENSE gratitude forthcom-
ing for donation of concert piano.
See Mrs. Nahm, Miss Robbins.
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immediately. Bring merchandise
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