College news, April 22, 1953

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VOL. XLIX, NO. 21

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1953

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1953

PRICE 20 CENTS



Maids and Porters Production
Spotlights Talents For Comedy

by, Barbara Drysdale, ’55

The sixteenth production of the
Maids and Porters was an out-
standing combination of talent and
good fun. The talent displayed was
a natural one for comedy—this
was particularly enjoyable in the
parts of Martin, played by Odelle
Brown, King Arthur, played by
Louis White, and Morgan LaFay,
played by Pearl Edmunds. The
play was one, however, which gave
the whole cast the opportunity for
delightful moments of comedy.

The show was irresistibly gay
and tuneful. Taking place in Hart-
ford and Camelot, the story is that
of Martin who loves one girl and
is marrying another, Fay. The rea-
son for this basic dichotomy is ap-
parent the moment Fay, played by
Dorothy Backus, enters because
she’s “always wanted to crash a
stag party.” It would be imposs-
ible to oppose her. |She celebrates
her last ‘night of freedom (or, more
probably, Martin’s) in “My Night
to Howl”.

Stage Presence

Pearl Bailey, playing the sweet
girl whom Martin loves, was all
one wanted in a heroine both in
voice and in action. Martin’s down
to earth speech found a perfect
foil in the antiquated Arthurian
idiom of the inhabitants of Came-
lot.

The stage presence of the actors
added greatly to the audience’s re-
laxation and surrender to the gay
mood of the evening. Especially
delightful were the slumming ad-
ventures of Martin and King Ar-
thur and the plotting of Merlin,
the Mighty Magician (played by
George 'W. Bryan, Jr.) and Mor-
gan LaFay.



Pearl Edmund played a com-
ically realistic evil queen whose
husbands were past counting. Her
delightful memories of former
spouses (with reminders from Ev-
alin Jonson as Maid Angela) Hi
tunefully, recounted in her effo
“To Keep My Love Alive’—a ris-
que number carried off with per-
fect aplomb.

Sir Launcelot (Aloysius Mackey)
and Queen Guinevere (Tabitha
Trower) provided an_ interlude
from the problems of Siz Boss and

is Miodernized Court. Launcelot’s
deep voice added greatly to the in-
spiring atmosphere of the triumph-
al “Hymn to the Sun”,

“Desert Isle”

“Desert Isle’ was the tune to
which the dancing chorus (directed
by Nancy Tepper) kicked and ca-
vorted; also deserving mention
was the Genii’s Dance by little
Deedee Davis.

The entire production upheld
the high standard of the music, di-
rected by Di Druding and accom-
panied by John Whittaker’s band.
The stage sets executed by Ann
Nicholson and Jesse Sloan ‘were
bright and realistic. Costume man-
agers Dorothy Fox and Judy Hay-

wood highlighted the characters|

beautifully against the grey back-
ground of castle stone (scattered
with shields and signs). Especial-
ly well done was the opening scene
in King Arthur’s court when Laun-
celot, Merlin, and the Knights and
Ladies of the Court sang their
toasts.

Under the able direction of Janie
(Miller and Cathy Rogers the Maids
and Porters put on a show from
which the songs will be re-echoing
around campus for a long time to
come,



Fellowships Supply Four Members
Of Faculty With Time For Research

Miss de Laguna

Frederica de Laguna, associate
professor of anthropology, has
been awarded a grant-in-aid for re-
search by the Arctic Institute of
North America supplied by funds
from the Office of Naval Research.
The project is the combined arch-
aeological and ethnological inves-
tigation of the Tlingit Eskimos of
Alaska.

Part of a long-term research
project begun in 1949, the work
next summer will continue both in
Alaska and the United States. Miss
de Laguna and Catherine McClel-
lan, Bryn Mawr alumna of 1942,
will resume their collaboration in
collecting ethnological notes taken
during previous summers at the
Tlingit villages of Yakutat and
Angoon.

-In Alaska, other associates will
return and finish the excavations
(the archaeological side of the
study) pursued last summer under



Miss de Laguna’s direction. The
project was supported by a prev- |
ious fellowship and grant from the
Wenner-Gren Foundation for An-'
thropological Research. The work- |
ers will eventually publish a series
of combination reports on the dy-
namics of Tlingit culture.

Miss Leighton

Miss Gertrude Leighton will do
extensive study in political theory
and history next year with the
help of a Ford Faculty Fellowship.
This award was founded especially
so that professors specializing in
a particular field can have the op-
portunity to develop a more well-
rounded knowledge of that field,
including closely related studies.
The fellowship does not require
teaching or producing an original
work, but simply studying to
broaden the teacher’s outlook on
his field.

Since Miss Leighton is a lawyer
and has done most of her study-
ing and teaching within the field
of law, especially on an interna-
tional level, she will use this grant
to increase her knowledge of his-
tory and other aspects of politi-
cal science. Also next year, she
plans to investigate new methods
of teaching international relations.
International studies are now in a
transitional stage, where new
methods of approach are being ap-
plied to old problems. In exam-
ining the new techniques employ-
ed, Miss Leighton will visit Prince-
ton, Columbia, Harvard and Cal-

Continued on Page 5, Col. 1





Klibansky Speaks
Of The Platonist
Nicholas Of Cusa

The Theodore and Grace A. de
Laguna lecture will be given in
the music room in Goodhart on
Monday, April 27, at 8:30. This
lecture was established through
the generosity of friends and for-
mer students of the two profes-
sors, both of whom taught phil-
osophy at Bryn Mawr . It will be
delivered by Raymond Klibansky,
the internationally renowned
Frothingham professor of logic
and metaphysics at McGill Univer-
sity, Montreal.

Mr. Klibansky, most noted for
his writings in mediaeval and
renaissance fields, was educated in
Paris, Hamburg, and Heidelberg.
A lecturer in philosophy at Heidel-
berg University of London, Ox-
ford, and Liverpool, in 1947 he be-
came the Director of Studies, War-
burg Institute, University of Lon-
don. He has edited the Corpus
Platnonicum Medii Aevi of the
British Academy since 1936 and
the Heidelberg Academy edition of
the works of Nicholas of Cusa,
about whom he is to speak at his
lecture here.

Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1461)

rose to be one 0 ithe great med-
Continued on 5, Col. 8
"eae

Chorus Plays Host
For Tiger Singers



For their last major concert of
the year, the Bryn Mawr College
Chorus will entertain the Prince-
ton Glee Club next Saturday, April
25, in Goodhart Auditorium.

The Chorus will include in its
part of the program Rejoice in the
Lord Alway by Purcell, Benedic-
tus by Palestrina, Ora Pro Nobis
by Williams, and The Spirit of God
by Katharine Danforth Fisher.
This composition will be performed
for the first time in the Philadel-
phia area.

Princeton will offer The Prison-
er’s Song from Beethoven’s Fidelio,
four peasant songs by Stravinski,
and selections by Schubert and
Berlioz.

The combined choruses will sing
Henry Purcell’s Masque from Dio-
cletian.

The concert will be directed by
Mr. Robert Goodale of Bryn Mawr,
and Mr. Carl Weinrich of Prince-
ton.

CALENDAR
Thursday, April 23

College votes on League Con-
stitution.

12:30 p. m. Alliance Assembly.
Hans Kohn, Professor of History
at City College in New York, will
speak in Goodhart Hall.

Saturday, April 25

9:00 to 12:00. French, Russian,
Greek orals.

Athletic Association Work Day
to complete work on the Applebee
(Barn.

8:30 p. m. Concert by the Bryn
Mawr College Chorus and the

‘Princeton Glee Club for the bene-
fit of the Regional Scholarship

Fund, under the direction of Rob-'
ert L. Goodale and Carl Weinrich. |
Tickets $2.00 from Mrs. Reade
Nimick (BRyn Mawr 5-1880).'

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Mr. Chew Relates
Sequences of Life
To Artistic World

“The theme of "the Ages remains
attractive because it is an easily
apprehensible generalization from
an experience that is at once in-
dividual and universal,’ said Sam-
uel Chew in his lecture on “The
Ages of Human Life” on April 21
in Goodhart.

“The familiar lines are a con-
necting link between the thir-
teenth-century sculptured portal
of the baptistry at Parma and such
modern versions of the theme as
... the huge circular mosaic on the
floor of the foyer of the Waldorf
Hotel in New York,” he continued.
The idea of Ages has been used
not only in stained glass windows,
frescoes and engravings but in
morality plays and the works of
writers “who discussed the prob-
lem of the proper number of the
Ages: their division into periods of
years; the characteristic indica-
tions of demarcation between each
and the next following; the physio-
logical and psychological muta-
tions; the control exercised by the!
four seasons or by the seven
planets.”

The number of divisions ranges
from three to twelve with seven,
which is cited in Jaques speech
in As You Like It, as most fami-
liar. Jaques says that man plays
seven parts on the stage of life:
“the mewling and puking infant,
the reluctant schoolboy, the sigh-
ing lover, the boastful soldier, the
prosing justice, the aging panta-
loon, and the decrepit old man.”
Raleigh as well as Shakespeare,
connects-the-number-with-the-the-
ater. “Birth is the Prologue...
Death the Epilogue, and between

; Romance

Faculty Sports
New Personnel
And Promotees

College Lists Changes
For the Year
1953-54

The following are the promo-
tions and new appointments to the
faculty for the year 1953-1954. —

The promotions include: Miss
Jane Oppenheimer to Professor of

Biology, Mr. Ernst Berliner to
Professor of Chemistry, Miss
Machteld Mellink to Associate

Professor of Classical Archaeol-
ogy, Mr. Hugues Leblanc to Asso-
ciate Professor of Philosophy, Mrs.
Frances Berliner to Assistant Pro-
fessor of Chemistry.

The new appointments are: Juan
L. Marichal (Ph.D., Princeton Uni-
versity, Assistant Professor of
Languages, Princeton
University) to Associate Professor
of Spanish; Mario Maurfin (Ph.D.,
Yale University, Assistant Instruc-
tor in French, Yale University, Re-
search Assistant in preparation of
language program, Marine Corps
Institute) to Assistant Professor
of French; Rene N. Girard (Ph.D.,
Indiana University, Instructor in
Department of Romance Languag-
es, Duke University) to Assistant
Professor of French; Hanna Hol-
born (A.B., Bryn. Mawr College,
M.A., Radcliffe College) to In-
structor in History. te



The Freshmen class wishes to



them come the five acts of the
tragedy of life.”’ Seven was the
theme of “what was probably the |
most elaborate of all versions in)
the arts of design . . .” a fresco
designed by Vasari.* “In this fres- |
Continued on Page 6, Col. 2

announce the election of the fol-
lowing:
Jean Young: second Sopho-
more member to Undergrad.
Anne Hobson, Louise Breuer:
representatives to A. A.









Denbigh Dragon
Gala Weekend In

In real night club style, the
Denbigh dance Friday night fea-
tured two floor shows. With music
provided by the Howard Michaels
Trio, the dance opened the week-
end’s festivities on a gay note.

Entering through the Looking
Glass, party-goers found silhou-
ettes of Alice and the white rab-
bit hanging gracefully in mobiles
and more Alices, Rabbits, and
Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum
decorating the walls. Muggy Mc-
Cabe opened the show, followed by
the Denbigh Kick Chorus. Gwen
Davis completed the program with
several original songs.

Sophomore Carnival

April showers did not scare the

Sophomores, nor for that matter
any of the brave souls participat-
ing in the Float Parade nor the
judges—Miss McBride, Miss Fales,
Mr. Ferrater Mora, and Mr. Ver-
dier,

The parade, with which the
eventful afternoon commenced, was



i

and Dance Open
Medieval Theme

a colorful array including a. por-
trayal of Lady Godiva, a circus, a
replica of Charles Adams, a guil-
lotine, a dragon, the Wizard of Oz,
the King’s new clothes, and Punch
and Judy. Denbigh, with its dragon
made of wire and colorful paper
napkins was judged the best.

The Sophomore Carnival itself,
so aptly headed by Julie Williams
and Jan Warren ,was held very
successfully in Goodhart because
of the rain. This did not scare
anyone away.

The refined atmosphere of the
Music Room was converted into a
Freak Show, and the various meet-
ing rooms, as well as the Common
Room, became carnival booths
where one could throw darts at
balloons, race turtles or ships, toss
rings, and generally amuse one-
self. The soda fountain, very ap-
propriately, was the scene of much
eating and drinking. In addition
to all this, there were professors
to be squirted at—Mr. Parker and
Mr. Von Laue, and the fire engine
and a pony to be ridden.

Carrying out the theme of King

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LETTER —s Experiment Plans| Current Events

Citizenship Encampment Tr avelling Abr oad Miss McBride Reviews

i Valuabl Congress Inquiries
a a Of Education

Wednesday, April 22, 1953







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EVERY year Bryn Mawr watches its old students leave
_and new ones come in. Year succeeds year, class group fol-
lows class group, and yet traditions which even newcomers
expect take place automatically, are enjoyed, even revered.
They are part of Bryn Mawr.

So established do they become that it is sometimes hard
to see beneath the final Carnival or Maids and Porters Music-
al, beneath the Junior or Freshman show, what hard work
has gone into making such a weekend of enjoyment possible.
Working on, and for these big weekends is fun. Not only is

your work needed but it is appreciated. Minor crises may be
stimulating to the few, and it may develop their “savoir
faire” but how much better would it be to develop a co-opera-
‘tive give and take spirit backed by spontaneous fun and the
enjoyment of the many participants.

Everyone agrees that our traditions are fun. Let’s make
working for them a better established tradition.

This Friday the annual May Day festivities will begin
‘once more with May Day baskets, early awakenings, singings
and Maypole dancing.

It is to be hoped that the occasion will not again bring
the Haverford contingent. Unwelcome and unruly morning
visitors not only disrupt the festivities, they can also ruin
‘weeks of patient effort and rehearsal.

Im the past Haverford’s arrival has been considered hu-
morous. In the light of possible loss of the day’s meaning
and enjoyment, however, the situation is less amusing. Hav-
erford’s boys would not come unless they expected the fun
of showing off their mischief to an admiring (or at least
= Seaees) ab tonce. ein lamenting

Weekends

May Day



Experience

To those of ‘you who are wonder-
ing what you are going to do this
summer, I would like to suggest
the Encampment for. Citizenship,
the most exciting experience in
group living I have ever had. In
Fieldston, a school in Riverdale,
the classrooms are turned into
dorms to house an amazing group
of people, for living in these rooms
is literally a cross section of the
youth of the United States. There
are farmers from ranches in the
West, Negroes from slums in the
South, students from Harvard, a
boy from a Polish Concentration
Camp, five American Indians,
Southern Whites, all having a dif-
ferent point of view and a dif-
ferent story to tell. '

I shall never forget the first day,
when-wé all sat on the grass and
istened to the amazing life stories
of some of the people. My first
reaction was, “My, what a shel-
tered life I’ve led!” My second
was “My, how lucky I am to be
here!” My second reaction did not
change for the entire summer.

Purposes

It is almost impossible to state
the purpose of the group, because
it has so many, but as I see it,
(and one could get one hundred
different answers from one hun-
dred different campers), there are
three purposes. The first is to
give you a political and social
cross section of the U. S. from the
people represented. The second is
to make one aware of present is-
sues and give you action tech-
niques for helping to implement
an issue you feel strongly about.
The thi¥d is simply to have a won-
derful time.

There were many ways that we
tried to fulfill the second purpose.
In the morning there were vari-
ous lectures given by people high
in their field. The topics ranged

ism, to Fascism to labor problems,
to foreign policy and covered most
of the present issues. After the
lectures, we divided into small
groups, and sitting under the
shade of some tree, we discussed
the lectures. Here the varied
backgrounds of the group came in
handy. For example, if we were
discussing “Jim Crow”, a South-
ern Negro and a Southern White
could give us first hand experi-
ence, In the afternoon, there were

tion techniques were stressed, so
that we could feel useful after the
encampment was over.

Fun

This article is much too short
to tell of all the fun we had, for
there were thousands of small per-
sonal incidents that could have
only happened in a place that had
the amazing spirit and people that
the encampment had. There was
folk singing all day long. Square
dancing, folk dancing, good
movies, and campfires were some
of the night activities. Some
nights, when the stars were out,
we would sit on the grass, and
listen to classical music. Tennis,
swimming, basketball, modern
dancing, and learning to play the
banjo, were just some of the ac-
tivities. I was a chorus girl, in
what was probably the most unique
cancan line ever to be seen. We
felt extremely creative when we
wrote and put on a civil liberties
radio script, with banjo music
playing in the background.

The summer was a_ unique,
broadening experience for me, and
therefore I would like to recom-
mend it to you. I think it is espe-



me roan.f, feb. 8

from farm- problems to Commun-,

for 510 young people expected to
go abroad this summer with The
Experiment in International Liv-
ing, which has one of -the largest
programs of some 200 non-profit
organizations in the student travel
field. Going abroad to get to know
one country well at the person-to-
person level, rather than to tour in
many countries, Experimenters
will leave on five different sailings
between June 15 and July 4.

Under The Experiment Plan,
carefully selected young people, 16
to 30, travel in mixed groups of 10
members, each with a well-quali-
fied leader. They spend one month
living as members of separate
families, and the second month ex-
ploring other regions of the coun-
try in the company of the U. S.
group members and their young
hosts. During the homestay per-
iod, Experimenters share in every-
day family life, taking occasional
trips to local points of interest
such as the cheese markets in Hol-
land; the Croatian Parliament in
Yugoslavia; the coal mines in Eng-
land; the Fiat automobile factory
in Italy. The second month fea-
tures hosteling and camping trips:
in Norway, Experimenters may
hostel through the Chateaux coun-
try of the Loire; Mexican groups
may travel by boat to the Mayan.
ruins in Yucatan; German groups
may choose the Black Forest as
their camping site.

All Experimenters spend a week
in a capital city such as Paris or
London, and all European Experi-
menters who qualify may travel in-
dependently for a week.

1953 Experimenters will go to
Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Eng-
land, France, Germany, Holland,
Italy, Mexico, Norway, Peru, Scot-
land, Spain, Sweden and Yugosla-
via. For the first time, groups will
also go to Finland and Ireland.

Continued on Page 6, Col. 3

Legislators Discuss

Senator Herbert Lehman of New
York and Representative Walter of
Pennsylvania (co-sponsor of the
McCarran 'Bill) will debate at the
University of Pennsylvania on
Thursday, April 28, on the ques-
tion “Is the McCarran Act Good
For America?”

New York and head of UNRRA
before his election to the senate,



workshops, in which practical ac- |



will speak against the bill. Rep-'
resentative ‘Walter will defend it.

The debate will be held at 3:15
p. m. in Irvine Auditorium, located
at 34th and Chestnut Streets. All
those students interested are urg-
ed to attend.

Swarthmore Picks
Nason’s Successor

Courtney Craig Smith has been
elected ninth president of Swarth-
more College. At 36, he is one of
the youngest college presidents in
the United States. Making his
home in Princeton, New Jersey,
Mr. Smith is American Secretary
of the Rhodes Scholarships, direct-
or of the National Woodrow Wil-
son Fellowship Program, and Bi-
centennial Preceptor and assistant
professor of English at Princeton
University.

Born in Towa, he graduated from
Harvard in 1988 and was a Rhodes
Scholar the following year. He
taught at Harvard and received his
M.A. and Ph.D. there. Mr. Smith
joined the Princeton faculty in
1946.

He succeeds John W. Nason, for-
mer president for twelve years,
whose resignation becomes effect- | is
ive on June 30.



The McCarran Act

Senator Lehman, governor of,

Miss Katherine McBride present-
ed the problem of Congressional
Investigations of Education at Cur-
rent Events Monday night. After
reviewing the history of the three
different investigating committees,
their present leaders, and specific
activities, she answered some of
the problems colleges and univer-
sities face in the present system
of investigations.

In the first place, the House Un-
American Activities Committee
and the Senate Internal Security
Subcommittee have taken on the
job of investigating higher educa-
tion because they feel the institu-
tions do not have adequate means
of protecting themselves against
subversion. Miss McBride felt that
the college faculty, not the inves-
tigating committee, should judge
the professor on the question of
his achievement. Among colleges
reacting to the investigations few
have held to the belief that the
colleges should protest investiga-
tions on the grounds of the first
amendment, because they abridge
the freedom of speech insured by
this amendment.



Majority Opinions

The majority opinion is that in-
vestigations should be permitted
on the assumption legislation may
result from them and: that they
should reveal how little subvers-
ive activity actually exists in our
colleges and ease the prevailing
distrust.

The procedure of the investiga-
tions includes a preliminary dis-
cussion, private hearing, and then
public hearings. Contrary to pop-
ular belief, the witness may have
a personal counsel. The commit-
tee’s counsel’ does most’ of the
questioning; the~chairman and
other members add their questions.
The witness is never permitted to
make a long statement of explana-
tion. During the months of Jan-
uary and February, the committee
seemed quite sensitive to criticism.
While investigating Mr. Davis of
Harvard, the House Committee
made a point of asking him
whether he thought he was being
questioned fairly.

Refusal

Demonstrating the type of evi-
dence of subversive activity found
in these investigations Miss Mc-
| Bride pointed out the Associated
| Press statement that fifty-four
people had refused to answer ques-
| tions on the basis of the fifth am-
endment, but not all of these are
teachers. Mr. Davis’ testimony re-
garded a small group at Harvard
in the thirties which was associat-
ed with the American Federation
of Teachers. In addition to their
teachers’ union activities, the group
secured communistic delegates for.
elections in other organizations,
formed Marxist study groups and
raised funds for Communist. activ-
ities. Professors and students as-
sociated as colleagues within the
group.

Occasionally, people refuse to
testify as a matter of principle.
Recently a Somerville high school
teacher, invoking the fifth amend-
ment, issued a statement explain-
ing that she had taught school for
thirty-five years and could not con-
tradict her beliefs by cooperating
with the committee. Authorities
such as Professors Chaffee and
Southerland of the Harvard Law
School, Professor Cushman of Cor-
nell, and even Mr. Malin, president
of the American Civil Liberties
Union, have said that people should
testify instead of invoking the fifth
amendment unless they want to
avoid self-incrimination. Since it

a citizen’s duty to cooperate
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Wednesday, April 22,. 1953

‘THE’ COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three



Miss Fales Urges All Future. Majors
To Choose Field For Interest’s Sake

“IT would like to discuss your
curriculum with you as much as
necessary,” said Miss Fales to the
Sophomores at a meeting about
majoring on Wednesday, April 15,
in the Common Room. Miss Fales
and the Curriculum Committee,
which was present at the meeting
to advise students wishing to
major in their respective depart-
ments, offered suggestions.

Miss Fales stated that students
should not feel that just because
a course is easy they should not
major in it and instead take some-
thing that is more of a challenge.
On the other hand, the . student
should not avoid a seemingly dif-
ficult course, which is at the same
time either necessary or valuable
to her for what she plans to do
after college. The courses one
takes should be determined by
their individual value to the stu-
dent, the academic needs of the
student, and the various interests
of the student as well.

Another point that Miss Fales
stressed was the fact that grades
are not all-important. A student
should not major in a course sim-
ply because her grades in that par-
ticular course were highest. Nor
shouid she be discouraged from
majoring in a course which she
likes and perhaps needs merely be-
cause she is not getting her high-
est marks in that subject. Again,
the needs and interests of the stu-
dent are of greater importance.

While the student is deciding,
she should go to faculty members
of the department or departments
in which she thinks she would be
interested; and with them, she
should discuss her interests in or-



Bard’s Eye View
by Joan Havens, 56

Coats and mittens are discarded
And Bermuda shorts are on;
Spring cottons and silks
We have started to don.
Geologists are searching
For specimens with zest,
While loungers are sunning
On the rooves of Pem West.
From Haverford and distant points
The men are everywhere,
Now that seasonal “‘fever”is in the
air. (
The May, poles are implanted;
From the looks of everything,
t’s apparent to Bryn Mawrons
hat it’s really, truly Spring!

Cook-Out Climaxes
Recreation Classes
by Harriet Solow, ’56

“Sing for your supper” might
have been the gym department’s
motto for April 15, when a cook
out was the lesson for the day in
the Recreation course.

Songs with gestures like “John
Brown’s’ Baby” and “Eentsy
Weentsy Spider” and several part
harmonies were appetite builders
but only a part of the prelimin-
aries for the meal. Making a fire
was a major stumbling block. Each
girl had a tin-can stove and the
fuels varied from no grass, no
paper — and only two matches
(Dina Bikerman’s technique), to
lots of dry grass and a few twigs,
down to the unscoutly and desper-
ate use of paper plates.

The end products were scrump-
tious — especially “Some-mores” a
dessert composed of graham
crackers, milk chocolate, and toast-
ed marshmallows. Students came
away from this lesson either ex-
claiming over the fun ,of outdoor
cooking and the Applebee barn or
humming new tunes including one
lullaby with eight part harmony.







der to try to work something out.
Miss Fales stated that she would
always be glad to discuss any cur-
riculum problem with the students
either before or after they have
talked with faculty members. of
the various departments.

In connection with the possibil-
ity of interests falling perhaps
under two departments, Miss
Fales pointed out that it is pos-
sible to major in two departments,
taking two comprehensives in one
department and one in an allied
field. ‘Bryn Mawr thrives on ex-
ceptions,” she added.

“You should not base your en-
tire curriculum on the compre-
hensives,’ said Miss Fales, follow-
ing a question about them. “They
are designed to see what you have
learned and should not determine
what you learn.’ She also pointed
out that, with faculty advice with-
in the department, the right
courses can be included for the in-
dividual’s interests, and that the
comprehensives will cover what
has been learned.

A period of informal questions
and discussion followed to give
the Sophomores an opportunity to
speak to the Curriculum Commit-
tee members representing the vari-
ous departments,

Observer

Spring is the time for the ob-
server. (Unfortunately, however,
Spring began early this year with
a mid-winter preview of coming at-
tractions and the real show is a
late one. There has even been
some worry that the Maypole
dancers would have to accommo-
date themselves to skis—at least
their white dresses would escape
being grass-stained although their
feet might be wetter.

The ceremonial significance of
May Day is observed throughout
the world. Bryn Mawv’s is distinc-
tive in an unusual way. It is en-
tirely_different_from__the _usual
American celebration. On the oth-

‘er hand it is very similar in parts

to the festivities in the England of
several hundred years ago, combin-
ing these parts with the features
and fun of collegiate existence.

(Waking up on May Day morn-
ing is (depending on the weather)
exciting. ‘Besides the morning’s
festivities and the strange but de-
lightful additions to the college
campus, there is an added feature
—May Day marks the near ending
of the academic year. The Fresh-
men see the pressure ending for a
brief time with the carefree duties
and fun of the Upperclassmen. As
the classes join to sing for and
with each other on the green, the
observer realizes that May Day is
a time for remembrance—and one
to remember.

Biology Instructor
Aitains Fellowship

Mrs. Joan Fulton White of the
Biology Department has_ been
awarded a Public Health Research
Fellowship by the National Insti-
tute of Health. The grant is spe-
cifically for a year of research.
Mrs. White plans to work at Bryn
Mawr, studying problems in
growth from tissue cultures, a

| project connected with cancer re-

search.

Mrs. White attended Monmouth
College and received her A.B. de-
gree from the University of Iowa.
She did graduate work and re-
search at Columbia University
prior to coming to Bryn Mawr.
She is a candidate for a Ph.D. de-
gree which she expects to receive
in June.



Letters from
Abroad

Paris is a kaleidescope of differ-
ent cities. Of the thousand patch-
work patterns which tumble before
my eyes, three are particularly
brilliant and persistent. They are
the cities I see as a tourist, as a
student, and as the guest of a
French family.

The tourist city, it seems to me,
might take as its motto the old
saying, “Things are seldom what
they seem.”

Things are carefree. Tourists in
Paris are lulled by the physical
pleasures of comfortable hotels
and superb food. And lest they
grow too lazy, they are tempted
into the activities of sightseeing,
shopping and staying up all night.

Hotels are everywhere. On the
Right Bank, they are often large
and luxurious. Big rooms and
meticulous service accompany high
prices. But scattered all through
the city are small, retiring, un-
fashionable hotels where life is
cheap and pleasant.

Restaurants

Restaurants also have an enor-
mous price range. It is possible
to eat such expensive perfection as
fried sole at Maxim’s, or such in-
expensive perfection as rum-cake
at Raphi’s.

But no tourist spends all his time
sleeping and eating. There are
other, more active occupations.

Sightseeing has a few require-
ments, notably the Eiffel Tower,
the Louvre, the Sainte+Chapelle
and Notre Dame. After that, it
is a matter of choice—a bewilder-
ing choice, because the possibilities
are so complex. There are places
where history turned corners, like
the site of the Bastille. There are
specialized museums—the Cluny
for Mediaeval art, the Orangie for
Impressionism, the Grevin for
waxworks—as well as_ private
houses which have become national
monuments because people’ like
Balzac or Victor Hugo lived in
them. And there are not only per-
manent collections. This week, for
example there-are thirty-two tem-
porary exhibitions, including the
works of cavemen and of several
avant-garde artists.

Museums

Tourists who are not too busy
sightseeing can spend their time
shopping. Antique stores line
streets like the Rue des St. Peres,

Continued on Page 4, Col. 3

Girl Chemist Wins
Fellowship Honors

She can be found in the Non-
Res Room, at the Inn, or in Park,
but Park is by far the easiest place
to find her, for Chemistry lab oc-
cupies most of Joan’s time, to say
nothing of her honors work. Joan

Spector has been recognized as
outstanding by faculty and stu-
dents alike; she holds the Eliza-
beth Shippen Scholarship in Sci-
ence, is Non-Res hall president and
co-president of the Science Club.
For her excellent work in Chem-
istry, Joan has been offered grad-
uate fellowships from several uni-
versities, including Harvard and
Yale. She is now the proud win-
ner of a National Science Founda-
tion Fellowship, which is awarded
to students at every level of grad-
uate work for continued study in
science. This fellowship offers
fourteen hundred dollars plus tu-
ition, fees, and travelling expenses
at any accredited university either
here or abroad. Joan intends to
use this award to do graduate
work in organic chemistry at Yale.
Her plans for the future are as
yet indefinite, but she is consider-
ing working directly for her Ph.D.
in chemistry. :



‘barn’ added a special attraction to



| accompanied the group.

Applebee Barn Scene of Award Night
Featuring Sports Prizes Presentations.

The official opening of Applebee

Awards’ Night, held Monday eve-
ning, April 20. The crackling of
a warm fire presented a pleasant
background for Emmy Cadwalla-
der as she opened the meeting to
announce this year’s winners.

The first matter on the agenda
was the report from each of the
teams: after Ann Fosnocht read a
research report (on the importance
of the A. A. to Bryn Mawr) by
Evie Jones, there were summaries
by Liz Klupt of Dance Club, Mimi
Mackall of the Outing Club, Liz
Denegar of the ‘Synchronized swim-
ming Club, Emmy Cadwallader for



hockey, Bea Merrick for basketball,

Kathy Rodgers for fencing, Mary

Jones for badminton, Pat McElroy
for swimming, Ann Wagoner for
lacrosse, Patsy Price for tennis,



Assembly Discusses
Academic Freedom

An Intercollegiate Conference
on Academic Freedom is to be held
on Saturday, April 25, at the Eth-
ical Cultural Society Auditorium
in New York City. Sponsored by
the Student Council, New York
School of Social Work Student Ca-
binet, Union Theological Seminary,
Executive Committee, and Student
Senate, Temple University, the
morning session will begin at 9:00
with registration of delegates. The
keynote address, to be delivered at
10:30, is entitled “The Challenge
to the University Today”. It will
be followed by a question period.

Discussion group meetings will
be held in the afternoon on the
subject of “Freedom in the Univer-
sity Community” in relation to the
right to learn, the right to teach,
and the right to extra-curricular
activities. Two groups will meet

Mary McGrath for golf, Adele ‘Fox
for softball—which is attempting
to regain varsity status this year,
and Lee Berlin for volleyball.

There were a great number of
awards this year to outstanding
and deserving students; there wére
nine blazers awarded, ah espécil-
ly large number.’ Blazers’ went
to Deedy McCormick, Ann Gure-
wich, Maggi Stehli, Ann Wagoner,
Phoebe- Albert, Adele Fox, Bea
Merrick, Terry Osma, and M. G.
Warren. A special award of. dis-
tinction was given to Emmy Me-
Ginnity.

Pins went to Harriet Cooper,
Joyce Greer, Janet Leeds, . Lois
Bonsal,. Phil Tilson, Phoebe Bell,
Barbara ‘(Bourneman, Gail Gilbert,
Mimi Mackall, and Sarene Merritt.
Owls went to Pat McElroy, Ann
Lebo, Sue Hopkins, Virginia Ran-
dolph Moppet Ewer, Wendy Ewer,
Mary Jones, Pru Oliver, Mary Jane
Chubbuck, Ann Foley, Ann Fos-
nocht, Dierdre Hanna, Sarene Hic-
kox, Sue Lucas, Kathy Rodgers,
and Pauline Smith.

Some plaque winners were at-
nounced too, although all of the

plaques were not presented eg
winners. The Hall hockey pla
was won by the Pems, the hall bas-

ketball plaque by Pem West, the
Continued on Page 5, Col. 4



If you feel your creative tal-"
ent is going to waste, the Ath-
letic Association has just the
job for you. Write a cheer for
the Bryn Mawr teams that will
be shouted years from now.
The contest to determine the
three best cheers began yester-
day and will continue until
Tuesday, April 28. A panel of
faculty and students will judge;
the only requirement is that the
cheers be in English. Drop your



on each topic, each consisting as
far as possible of delegates who
expressed a preference for that
particular meeting. The groups
will develop a statement of policy
which will be submitted to the Res-
olutions Committee. The Student
Assembly will meet at 4:00, and at
4:30 the Resolution Committee will
make its report, followed by de-
bate and development of the reso-



|! entrances in the “Cheer Box”
en the donut table in Taylor.

His
SPORTS

by Lynn Badler, ’56

On Wednesday the spring sports
season began with the first ten-







lution in the open meeting.
Registration fee is $1.00. If in-
terested, please contact the Inter-
collegiate Conference on Academic |
Freedom, c/o Russ Williams, 600
West 122nd St., New York .27 at
once.



The League and Alliance con-
stitutions and the proposed
changes in them will be posted
on the Undergrad Bulletin
Board in Taylor 48 hours before
the Legislature meeting on
April 29, to enable you to
glance at the new form of the

organizations.

BMC and Trinity
Sing in Town Hall

On April 14 the combined Glee
Club of Trinity College and the
Bryn Mawr College Chorus pre-
sented a concert in Town Hall,
New York City.

The 60-voice Bryn Mawr Chorus,
directed by Robert L. Goodale,
sang works of Mendelssohn, Pou-
lenc, Fisher, and Schubert, and the
40-man Trinity Glee Club, under
the direction of J. Lawrence Coul-
ter, presented Randall Thompson’s
“Testament of Freedom”. The
two groups joined in offering
works of Hindemith and Vivaldi.

Mary Lee Culver, contralto, and
Rona Gottlieb, soprano, sang solo
parts. Charles Schilling of Spring-
field, Massachusetts, was featured
at the organ, and the Harriet Cur
tis Quartet of Cleveland, Ohio, also











nis matches of April. Bryn Mawr
played Rosemont here and won
5-0. In the singles, Patsy Price,
Maggie Stehli, and Pauline Smith
won their matches. The teams of

| Harriet Cooper-Lois Bonsal and

Nancy Potts-Phil Tilson helped to
achieve the shutout win. LF

This week’s schedule is fuller as
far as sports events go. There
will be a Lacrosse game against
Beaver on Wednesday played at
Bryn Mawr, and another one

against Penn the following Wed-
nesday, also here. On the 29th
(the second Wednesday) there will
be a tennis match against Temple
played at Temple.

For all of you who enjoy jeans,
color and painting, the work-day
to fix up Applebee Barn ought to
be enticing. The barn is near the
Child Study Institute (you can get .
there by way of Rhoads); the date
is April 25.

Workman Fellowships

Three Bryn Mawr graduate stu-
dents have been awarded coveted
Workman Fellowships for the year
1953-1954. Isabel Witte, M.A. and
Bryn Mawr Fellow in History, has
also received a Fulbright Fellow-
ship, so her Workman award is
honorary. Julia McGrew, M.A.
and Howard L. Goodhart Fellow
in Mediaeval Studies, and Mar-
garet Epstein, B.A. and Fellow in
French, also received Workman
Fellowships.

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THE COLLEGE. NEWS
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: Wednesday, April: 22, 1953



INTERVIEWS OF THIS WEEK
Mr. Yohn of the Central Intelli-
gence Agency will be here on
Thursday, April 28rd, to interview
prospective clerks and secretaries.
These positions are about all that
CIA has to fill this spring and Mr.
Yohn will be the only recruiter
from CIA. A schedule of appoint-
ments is posted outside of Room

H in Taylor.
s

JOBS FOR NEXT YEAR

Please see Mrs. Crenshaw

The American School of Tangier
in French Morocco.

Several vacanices on its faculty.
Will consider seniors. No details
given in the letter. Salaries about
$100 a month. Transportation not
provided,

The Educational Testing Service
in Princeton.

Administrative Assistant to the
Senior Project Director — back-
ground in Psychology desired; As-
sistant in the Centers and Super-
visors Section—ability to type her
own letters; Assistant in the Sta-
tistical Analysis Department —
statistics needed; secretarial posi-
tions—shorthand not necessary but
good typing. Salaries around $200
a month,

Shulton, Inc., Clifton, New Jer-
sey.

Manufacturers of Early Amer-
ican, Old Spice, Desert Flower, etc.
perfumes and soaps—also chemic-
als and pharmaceuticals. “Person
with art and fashion backgrounds
to work in commercial art, writing,
sales promotion and development
- + « People with a knowledge of
Spanish and interest in advertising
or administrative follow-up work.”
Also secretaries, also chemists.
Salaries not stated.

City Service Commission of Bal-
timore.

Senior and Junior Recreation
Leaders. Graduates with social
science majors who can teach ten
or seven respectively of the follow-
ing: arts and crafts; boys’ and
men’s activities; girls’ and wom-
en’s activities; children’s activities;
dramatics; music; story-telling;
social recreation; nature and gar-
dening; tap dancing, folk dancing,
social dancing; swimming; first
aid. Salaries $2850 to $2300 a
year. Applications must be filed by
April 24th. Not necessary to be a
resident of Maryland.

The YWCA has sent list of open-
ings in many parts of the country.
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‘are any seniors who ,know typing

and some shorthand who are inter-
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course at beginning salaries of
$265 a month,

‘The Friends’ Central*Sehool in| *
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Overbrook. :

Part-time teacher of girls’ sports
—Monday through Thursdays, 2:45
to 4:15.. $750 for the year.

* * *

ODD JOBS NOW OPEN
Please see Mrs. Sullivan
Waitress-Baby sitter.
Two students. Saturday night
to Sunday morning.
Time & Life.
Sales agent for next year.
Reservation Agent for ranch in
Poconos. 10% commission.
* * *

SUMMER JOBS

Please see Mrs. Sullivan
Harry Conover, New York.
Photographic models.

John Wanamaker, Philadelphia.

Sales and non-selling. $30 a
week and commission.

Children’s Hospital of Philadel-
phia. |
Clerk-typist. $1.00 an hour. 39-
‘our week,

Presbyterian Hospital, New York.

Volunteers needed in all depart-
ments. '

Lake Champlain Club, Malletts
Bay, Vermont.

Swimming
guard.

Camps:

World Council of Churches. Work
camps in Europe, Asia and U. S.

Alford Lake, Union, Maine. Na-
ture, dramatics, and arts and
crafts.

Chicago Commons Farm Camp.
Counselors. $150 to $200.

Federation of Protestant Welfare
Agencies.

Counselor positions in 40 differ-
ent camps.

Families — interested students
should apply at once.

Brant Beach, New Jersey.

Boys nine and one, girl six. Some
housework, $30 a week.

Cohasset, Massachusetts.

Girls seven and three. Some
housework.

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Letters From Abroad

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offering everything, from a tiny
blue snuff-box to a white porce-
lain elephant five feet tall at the
shoulder. Second-hand books are
sold from stalls along the Seine.

Place Vendome, the great dress-
makers in a few streets off the
Champs Elysees.

The dressmakers, just at the
moment, are showing their spring
collections. Tourists and buyers
crowd in eVery afternoon at three
o’clock, to sit on little gilt chairs
and to see the new clothes being
paraded by, on tall, exotic and ex-
pressionless mannequins. Dior is
presenting what he calls the “tu-
lip line”, a style of high waists
and full skirts. Balenciaga, how-
ever, prefers low waists and tight
skirts. The battle is on, and those
who wish to look chic are busy
with fittings. Movie stars and
princesses buy directly from the
big houses, but many tourists have
adaptations made by copyistes—a
practice which is quite illegal and
quite widespread.

If the tourists have any energy
left, after sightseeing and shop-
ping, they can choose from two
hundred and forty movies and
fifty-three plays, tonight. Later
they can talk for hours in a liter-
ary cafe, or remain speechless be-
fore a naked floorshow.’ Early in
the grey morning, winding past
the bales of fresh vegetables in the
marketplace, they can make their
way to onion soup and oysters in
Les Halles.

Quite naturally, almost all tour-
ists are delighted with what they
have found in Paris. They enjoy
the apparent abundance. Over and
over again, I have heard Amer-
icans comment on the luxury
around them, and then add, “You'd
never think they’d had a war
here.”

Things do seem carefree — but

they are not. The French economic
situation, as far as I can under-
stand it, is very precarious. The
cost of living, in francs, has gone
up 2440 percent since 1988, Stock-
holders are consequently left high
and dry: what used to be a for-

tune in investments now hardly
represents a leg of mutton. Among
those who are making money,
rather than trying to subsist af a
tiny income, there is a tendency
to live in the present rather than
to look towards the future. Mean-
while, according to the financial
paper La Vie Francaise, exports to
dollar areas have dropped 40 per-
cent during the last year. And the
government budget, despite for-
eign aid, is strained almost beyond
endurance by the war in Indo-
China, by the damages of World
War II and by the preparations
for a possible World War III.

The position of the tourist, then,
is not as superfluous as it may
seem. The tourist trade is big
business. Individual hotel-owners
and shop-keepers profit, but so
does the nation as a whole, as the
money spreads, in large or small
amounts, into the various chan-
nels of industry all over the
country.

The tourist city is a city of para-
doxes. In it, luxury is necessity,
relaxation is work, and escapism
is reality. ,

/ Anne Phipps, ’54

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USNSA Sponsors.
Asian Study Group

World University Service com-
mittees of India and Canada are
sponsoring a seminar on “The Hu-
man Implications of Development
Planning,” this summer in India.
American student. and. faculty
members are eligible to participate
in this study and analysis of .the
economic, social, and political situ-
ation in Asia and North America,
with particular referencé to South
Asia and Canada.

The seminar will comprise over
100 delegates, and will take place
during the five weeks following
the approximate date of June 7th
at a Hill Station in India. At the
end of the seminar, participants
will split into small groups which
will tour Asian universities and
visit development projects in
Southern and Southeast India.

Delegates will represent . such
countries as Pakistan, . Thailand,
Indonesia, Ceylon, Burma, | and
Malaya, as well as Canada, India,
and the United States.

Participants will be chosen, for
their intellectual calibre and record
of participation in extra-curricular
activities. Expenses will be par-
tially subsidized by the WSSF, due
to a generous grant from the, Ford
Foundation.

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THE COLLEGE NEWS

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From Tlingit Villages To Post Biblical History—
Four Of Faculty Receive Fellowships For Study

Continued from Page 1

ifornia, but her other studies will
be conducted here.

Mr. Leblanc

“ aprived on a beautiful spring
day in May 1948—the grass was
green and the cherry trees were
blooming. Lots of girls were run-
ning around barefoot.
Brigham Young, said to myself,
‘This is the place!’ ”

So Dr. Hughes LeBlanc arrived
at Bryn Mawr. He had taken a
plane down from Boston for the
day, to be interviewed by President
McBride and the Deans; his ex-
pected short afternoon lengthened
as Dr. and Mrs. Nahm took him to

Merion for dinner. “The dinner

4vas quite painful; I didn’t eat very

much. I was quite shy having
talked to few American girls, for
I worked seriously at Harvard...
But I was accepted in spite of my
miserable performance!”

Dr. LeBlanc was born on March}.

19, 1924 at Ste. Marie de Beauce
near Quebec. He graduated from
St. Hyacinthe College in his home
town. He spent the next two years
in graduate work at the University
of Montreal where he obtained his
M.A. in Philosophy, and then went
on to Harvard for his Ph.D. in
Logic.

At Bryn Mawr, Dr. LeBlanc be-
gan as an instructor and became
an assistant the following year.
This year finds him as an asso-
ciate professor, teaching Philoso-
phy 101, Logic, and “an advanced
course to which hardly anybody
comes.”

As for the Fulbright which he
has just won—“I applied and got
it.” In the application Dr. Le-
Blane wrote that although logic
began in Europe, it was soon for-
gotten, only to be continued in
America. “Because of this I would
be the perfect person as a middle
man for you.” The reply to this
stated that the only true fact in his
whole letter was his being the
middle man!

Dr. LeBlanc will conduct re-
search in symbolic logic in Brus-
sels and, at the same time, try to
see as much of Europe as pos-
sible; “I don’t know where I will
end up.” He will be in Europe for
one year and plans to return to
Bryn Mawr in September 1954. By
then he hopes that his book writ-
ten in collaboration with Dr. Fera-
ter Mora will be published in Mex-
ico City. It seems that the authors
first work out the English version
which Professor Mora puts into
Spanish and then reads back to
Professor LeBlanc in French for
the final check-up. Their prime
means of mutual communication
is French.

Having done his best for two
years “to reduce the percentage of
unmarried girls at Bryn Mawr”,
Dr. LeBlanc finally selected a
member of the Class of 1950 as
his wife.

Incidentally, Professor LeBlanc
wishes to inform the student body
at large that “unfortunately” he
is not a Frenchman for which he
has often been mistaken.

Bon voyage, Monsieur!





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don’t delay

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Mrs. Michels

Agnes K. Michels of the depart-
ments of Latin and Religion has
been awarded a Ford Faculty Fel-
lowship from the Fund for the Ad-
vancement of Education of the
Ford Foundation.

Mrs. Michels will spend next
year at home studying background
m ial for her course in the his-
tory 0: eligion—mostly post-bibli-
cal history of Judaism and Christi-
anity and the development of The-
ology. “I’m going to read all the
books in the stacks that I’ve passed
so often and wished there was
was time for studying,” she said.
This was an award of the same
type given her husband, Mr.
Michels of the Physics Depart-
ment, for research during this past
year.



The French Club wishes to
announce the election of the fol-
lowing officers for 1953-1954:

President: Lois Bonsal.

Vice - president: Mary Mc-
Grath.

Secretary - treasurer: Ellen
Sass.







LETTER (continued )

Continued from Page 2

cially valuable for those of us at
Bryn Mawr who feel we are liv-
ing in a ivory tower and would

like to meet people unlike our-
selves who could give us new, and
challenging ideas. There are many
scholarships available, so if you
are interested, please see Mary
Cahn, Denbigh, 21.

‘Mary Cahn, ’56



The Bryn Mawr College The-
atre is happy to announce the
election of the following officers
for the year 1953-1954:

President: Danielle Luzzatto,
54,

Vice-president:
"64.

Production Manager: Joseph-
ine Case, 54,

Business Manager:
Richmond, ’54.

Publicity Managers: Charlotte’
Busse, ’55; Irene Ryan, ’55.

Head of Play-reading Com-
mittee: Elizabeth Gordon, 55.

Elsie Kemp,

Carey







Klibansky Will-Lecture
On Philosopher Of Cusa

Continued from Page 1

iaeval churchmen. He was prom-
inent at the Council of Basle and
served as Papal Legate and Bishop
of Brixen. Of greater importance,
however, was his work as a phil-
osopher, forming a link in specu-
lation between the Middle Ages
and modern times. His best known
was de docta ignorantia. He was
a Platonist writing in a time of
Scholasticism and _ his original
mind dealt with such varied prob-
lems as the theory of creation and
the coincidence of contradictories.
He anticipated much of the philo-
sophic thought of later times.
Professor Theodore de Laguna
taught at Bryn Mawr from 1907
until his death in 1930. Grace A.
de Laguna, now professor emeritus
of philosophy, has been associated,
with the college since 1912. She

was chairman of the Department
of Philosophy from 1930 until her
retirement and is a past President
of the American Philosophical As-
sociation’s Eastern Division. She
is the author of many studies in
philosophy, including Speech: Its



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Awards’ Night Begins,
Applebee Barn Opens
Continued from Page 3

interclass fencing plaque by 1953,
the interclass basketball lantern by
1953, the interclass swimming
plaque by 1958, the interclass bad-
minton by 1955.

The all-around championship
class was 1953. The individual
plaque winners were: Pat McElroy,
who won the junior varsity swim-
ming cup for the second straight

‘time, Ann Lebo who won the var-

sity swimming cup, and Judy Mc-
Cullough who won the non-varsity
interclass individual championship,



When all the awards had been
given, Emmy introduced the new
A. A. president Bobby Olsen. Bob-
by announced that, to comply with
requests from the students for dif-
ferent athletic cheers, there will be
a contest for the best original
cheer, starting this Wednesday.



Karl Darrow of the Bell Tele-
phone Laboratories will speak
at the Science Club meeting on
Wednesday, April 22, at 8:30 in
Dalton Hall, instead of Thurs-
day the 23rd as previously an-
nounced,







ENGAGEMENT
Anita Roberts, ’54, to Roger C.



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Talks On Investigations
Continued from Page 2

with government procedure, he
should answer questions hohestly
rather than keep silent. If a teach-
er has nothing to hide, he should
testify, and if he invokes the law
allowing him to avoid: self-incrim-
ination, “t can be assumed that he
is guilty.

Instead of stressing how much
communism exists, these investiga-
tions should show how little sub-
version we need to fear. Any truly

subversive activity has’ probably
gone underground and is less like-
ly to be discovered. The investiga-
tions are not helping universities
because the only people heard are
those accused of subversion, not
the greater section of the educa-
tional field.

Robert Maclver’s interpretation
of*freedom of speech implies an
educator’s duty to learn and to
teach, He must exert an effort to
seek and impart knowledge, free
from external control, and “to
reach conclusions according to
scholarly investigations.” It is the
teacher’s service to society to find
truth, not necessarily to take ac-
tion and certainly not to overthrow
the govermnent, but to inquire and

to share his knowledge.

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Wednesday, April 22, 1953



Castle Rock Hospitality
Brings Evening To Close
Continued from Page 1

Arthur’s Court proved gay and
colorful with an array of shields,
flags, and battlements. A good
time was had by all the Knights
and Ladyes.

Junior Prom

Knights and their Ladyeswaltz-
ed gaily into the small hours as
the 1953 Junior Prom traversed its
medieval course. Sylvan Herman
and his orchestra provided excep-
tionally danceable music from
their canopied bandstand. Inter-
mission found the castle floor cov-
ered with a crowd enthusiastically
applauding the Mistress of Cere-
monies, Gwen Davis, the Suburb-
an Squires, and the Bryn Mawr
Octangle. The Octangle, charm-
ing in their Arthurian caps, pre-
sented several special songs as well
as a few of the popular old fav-
orites. Gwen, after introducing
two of her new songs, exploded
with her inimitable version of

“Wambi” in answer to audience
requests. The Suburban Squires
then received the center of at-
tention and performed several
numbers with deceptively casual
practice. The prizes for the most
complete list of costumed char-
acters present were awarded to
a guest from Princeton, and to
Betty Ann Cerruti of Bryn Mawr.

Rock Open House

Castle Rock entertained the cam-
pus after the Junior Prom on Sat-
urday night from 200 to 3:15 a. m.
The Mike Dunn Trio provided
music and candlelit tables offered
a romantic atmosphere. There
were refreshments including hot
dogs, sandwiches, cookies, and cof-
fee to satisfy the appetites whetted
by an evening of dancing the



Dr. Samuel Chew Speaks
On ‘Ages of Human Life’
Continued from Page 1

co each Age was associated with
a planet, with one of the Seven
Liberal Arts,
Virtues, one of the Seven Deadly

one of the Seven

Sins, and with a miscellaneous as-
sortment of other personified ab-
The sins appear too
in other versions with- each sin
often attached to a particular, age
A Momento Mori
print by George Breu the Younger

stractions.”

and animal.

represents nine stages of life as
part of a stairway with an animal
beneath each step.

Use of a circular pattern rather
than one of rise and decline, may
be connected with the theme of
fortune.
teenth century print . . . the label
reads ‘The Wheel of Life which is
called Fortune.’” In some prints
of this type the wheel appears in
the center of the composition,
while in others its spokes form a
boundary between the various
stages.

Time also is found in connec-
tion with the theme of the Ages.
Three divisions—youth, manhood,
and old age—correspond to morn-
ing, noon and night; four—‘child,
youth, man, and elder’ — corre-
spond to Spring, Summer, Fall and
Winter, and a similar use may be

made of the twelve months.



Charleston, waltz, and the bunny-
hop.

A general castle atmosphere ef-
fectively carried out the theme of
the weekend down to the last

weary hours, and the Rockettes
proved to be charming hostesses
by providing an enjoyable close to
a delightful evening.



“In in anonymous fif- | $1300.



Experiment Plans To
Visit Seventeen Nations
“Continued from Page 2

Both high school and _ college
groups will be sent to all countries
with the exception of Austria, Den-
mark, Finland, Italy, Norway,
Spain and ‘Yugoslavia, which will
only receive Experimenters 19
years of age and over.

Average costs for Europe run
from $715 to $765; Mexico, $390;
Peru, $790, (estimated). Applica-
tions for Experiment membership
can be accepted through June 1,
but it is to the student’s advan-
tage to apply now.



Experimenters will leave for In-
dia sometime in October to spend
four months in a program similar
to the summer Plan. Applications
for this group can be accepted
through October \ Estimated cost:

|

Address inquiries to: Director of
Admissions, The Experiment in.
International Living, Putney, Ver-
mont, or see your College Experi- |
ment Representative, Josephine!
Case, Pembroke East.

Founded in 1932 by Donald B.
Watt to build up in various coun-
tries groups of people interested
in creating mutual respect and un-
derstanding between their own and
other countries, The Experiment
since 1950 has been directed by
Gordon Boyce. In the past 21 years |
The Experiment has provided some |
6,000 students with the way to)
make -enduring friendships in
twenty-five countries in Europe,
Asia and the three Americas.

Recognition of the value of an
Experiment summer has come
from Trenton State Teachers Col-
lege, Agnes Scott College and the
German Department of the Uni-
versity of Chicago, which have es-
tablished scholarships for partici-
pation in The Experiment’s 1953
Program. The A.A.U.N. awards
a $500 travel grant in competition
to a high school student, which, for
the past several years, has been
applied toward an Experiment sum-





Calendar (Cont'd)

Continued from Page 1

Goodhart Hall.
Sunday, April 26

Chapel service by the Reverend
Philemon F. Sturges, St. Martin

in the Fields, Chestnut Hill, Penn-
sylvania.

Monday, April 27

7:15 p. m. Miss Angeline Log,
rasso speak at Current
Events on “Personal Experience
with Christian Democrats”.

will

8:30 p. m. Raymond Klibansky,
Professor of Philosophy at McGill
University, will deliver the Theo-
dore and Grace A. de Laguna lec-
ture, speaking on “The Philoso-
phy of Cusa.” Music Room, Good-
hart.

Tuesday, April 28

8:30 p. m. Alliance Assembly.
James Farmer of the League for
Industrial Democragy will speak.
Common Room, Goathart.

Wednesday, April 29

8:30 p. m. Legislature meeting.
Common Room, Goodhart,

Thursday, April 30
Freshmen and Sophomores put
streamers on maypoles.

Friday, May 1

5:45 a. m. Sophomores awaken
seniors with waking song.

6:00 a. m. Seniors are served
coffee and doughnuts.

6:40 a. m. Seniors bring May
Day basket to Miss McBride.

6:50 to 7:00 Taylor bell rings,
ushering in May Day for the
whole college.



mer. In addition, many universi-
ties award academic credit for par-
ticipation in one of The Experi-
ment’s foreign language goups.



7:00 a. m. Seniors sing Magda-
len Hymn from Rockefeller Tow-
er. Following this the classes ar-
range themselves in the Rock
smoker—the Juniors facing the
stairs, Sophomores with their
backs to the fireplace, and Fresh-
men opposite Sophomores—as the
Seniors descend from the Tower.
The May Queen is crowned by the
Sophomore class president.

7:15 a. m. Breakfast in the halls,
‘by classes.

8:00 a. m. Seniors at Rock, oth-
er classes at Pem should be lined
up ready to go to the Merion
Green. The procession will be led
by the Firemen’s Band. Maypole
dancing at Merion Green. Speech-
es by Miss McBride and the May
Queen. Miss McBride will an-
nounce the scholarships at an as-
sembly in Goodhart. Seniors roll
their hoops down Senior row, fol-
lowed by class singing.

10:00 a. m. Classes begin.

‘Note: In case of rain, May Day
will be held on May 4 and 9:00
classes will take place on Friday,
but not on Monday.

Saturday, May 2

9:00 to 12:00 Spanish and Ital-
ian orals.
Parents’ Day.



Come to the Soda Fountain
this week! New specialties are
offered for sale every day, in-
cluding hoagies (sold at the
same,low price of hoagies ev-
erywhere), fried egg sandwich-
es, marble cake squares, straw-
berry shortcae, pie, bacon-let-
tuce-tomato sandwiches, and Big
Tops (chocolate-covered ice
cream). Come and ask for to-
night’s specialty. Make a date
to meet there for tea after a
gruelling afternoon’s work. Or
breakfast there Sunday morn-
ing after a festive Saturday
night.




















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