College news, September 30, 1950

“lhe College News



VOL. XLVII, NO. 1

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1950

Pf it Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1950



PRICW’15 CENTS





Campus Gleams
In New Paints,
Linoleum Floors

Merion Goes Tropical,
Rhoads Smoker Dons
Rainbow

Paint and elbow grease are fine
in their way, but the firm of Bryn
Mawr decorators, Inc., has dis-
covered the final soupcon of taste

- linoleum. In tones of beige on
tan... or is it tan on beige...
the new color scheme marches
across miles of corridors, smokers,
and showcase floors. The only var-
jation of this theme is found in
Pem West, where a giant checker-
board . . of linoleum ... adorns

_ the smoker floor.

Of course the Freshmen don’t
realize the full import of the start-
ling innovations which have ap-
peared on Bryn Mawr campus
‘since last June. In initiation of the
campaign to liven the domestic
‘color scheme, the dowdiness with
which Rhoads has long suffered (!)
has been relieved by a dose of shock-
ing blue and coral in the smoker,
with chasers of black, white, green,
yellow, navy, and orange thrown
in,

Merion now glories in a year-

round “Yuletide theme of red~and}

green in the smoker, while in the
showcase you can look out on a
tropical landscape, through a win-
dow panel of scenic wallpaper. In
Denbigh, which long ago petitioned
for complete redecoration, blue
drapes have been created to over-
hang the green upholstery, and
here, as well as in Radnor, re-
arrangement formed a major part
of the rejuvenation. New rugs,
paint, and tiled tubs are hidden in
obscure corners of all the halls,
but above all else, linoleum has ar-
rived at Bryn Mawr.



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Cook’s Tour of the Ville Reveals
Local Convenience in Versatility

by Barbara Joelson, ’52

If you have arrived in Bryn
Mawr by train, all you have seen
of this Main Line suburb is one
side of a very small branch of the
Pennsylvania Railroad. If you have
arrived by car, you may possibly
have had a fleeting glimpse of the
facade of the Bryn Mawr Trust
Company. Regardless of what way
you have engineered your ap-
proach, your impressions of the
town of Bryn Mawr (comrhonly
known as “The Ville’) have, of
necessity, been limited. Since Bryn
Mawr is not exactly a booming
metropolis, one or two trips will
easily acquaint you with its vagar-
ies, however, until those few trips
are completed, the NEWS offers
you a brief “Cook’s Tour” of the
stores in the Ville.

If it is food you’re looking for,
it can be had in quantity at the



DP Student Considers Freedom
America’s Most Unusual Feature}:

by Joanna Semel, °52

“Of all the things in America
which are strange to me, it is free-
dom which puzzles me most of all,”
mused Xenia Grudzinsky when we
cornered her for an interview just
after her arrival in Radnor. “Here,
in a family, everybedy has his
own life. In Europe, at fourteen
‘you are still a child . . . There, to
go dancing unchaperoned, to wear
makeup — it was out of the ques
tion.”

The twenty-year old blonde, in
‘the midst of unpacking, stopped to

cell us about her experiences sihee

#he and her doctor-mother left
Munich and a displaced persons
preg in November, 1949 to eore
eblo, Colorado, and later,
Passaic, New Jersey. “We came
east from Colorado by bus around



Christmastime. The towns were
wonderfully decorated — and as
we were half-sleeping, and the bus
went very fast, we had a picture
of all America at Christmas. It
was wonderful!” So is Xenia’s Eng-
lish — learned chiefly at the In-

stitute for World Affairs in Salis-|

bury, Connecticut.

We wanted her impression of
New York: “What can ohe say? It
was surprising, for there is nothing

like it in Europe—the skysctapers, |

the traffic .. . but I think the shop
windows were the most surprising.
We had not seen new clothes in
ten years, let alone all the food
... and after all that emptiness ... .”

Afid fiw, about Bryfi Mawr:
How did she hear about it? “When
we first came over, through the

A & P supermarket. For delicious,
home-made tea sandwiches, cin-
hamon toast, and layer cake, stop
in at the Community Kitchen
around tea-time. Should you pre-
fer your tea in your room, many
succulent provisions can be pur-
chased at Meth’s Bakery, where
you may also stop for lunch. Juicy
hamburgers in a relaxed atmo-
sphere are to be found at the Ham-
burg Hearth, and for an after-the-
movie snack, be sure to try The

Continued on Page 3, Col. 5

CALENDAR
- Saturday, September 30

Gym suit fittings, Gym, 2:00-
5:00 p.m.

Measurements for caps and
gowns, Rhoads smoker, 2:00-
5:00 p.m.

Square Dance with Haverford,
Gym, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, October 1
Upperclassmen will be avail-
able to take Freshmen to
churches of every denomination.
Class meeting: Song Mistress,
Lantern Night, Parade Night,
Taylor, 1:30 p.m.
Faculty Baseball
Hockey Field, 3:00 p.m.
Sunday Evening Chapel serv-
ice, Music Room, 7:30 p.m.
Halls of Residence open to re-
turning, upperclassmen, 8:00 p.m.
President’s Reception for the
entering class, Deanery, 9:00 p.m.
Monday, October 2
Reading Tests, Taylor, Rooms
F atid G, 9:15 and 10:15 a.m.
Dr. Humeston will speak to all
Freshmen, Gym, 1:30 p.m.
. Sports afternoon: tennis,
hotkey, baseball, 2:00-5:00 p.m.
7 Picnic, followed by a Scaven-
‘Ox “Hunt, 5:00 p.mi.
Tuesday, October 3

Parade Night, Hockey Field.
Wednesday, October 4

5

Game,





Continued on Page 2, Col. 5



Freshman Speech meeting,



a a a

Cancert Series
Offered in Phila.

The Philadelphia Orchestra As-
sociation is now offering seats for
ten Monday evening concerts at
special rates to groups of 10 or
more subscribers. Under this group
plan, seats in the Parquet, Parquet
Circle and Balcony, regularly sold
at $24.40, are available for $20.40
a subscription. The representative
of the Philadelphia Orchestra will
be in the Public Relations Office,
first floor Taylor Hall, on Thursday,
October 5 from 12 noon until 2:30
for the convenience of those inter-
ested. Among the musicians fea-
tured in this series are Zino Fran-
cescatti, violinist; William Kincaid,
flutist with Marilyn Costello, harp-
ist; Rudolf Firkusny and Solomon,

pianists and Elsa Hilger, violin-
cellist. Conductors include Or-
mandy, Van Beinum, and Anser-
met. Concerts begin at 8:30 p.m.
in the Academy of Music. The first
concert of the season is to be held
on October 9, and the last is sched-

Sophomore Spy
Will Haunt ’54
To Learn Tune

Parade to Fire Dance
Will Reveal Song
By Freshmen

Tradition rears its head from
time to time, but seldom more
violently than on Parade Night.
As if the first day of classes were
not sufficient to keep a freshman
busy, there is also the problem of
keeping a secret. The sophomores,
on the other hand, are racking
eam trying to think up

ays to learn the freshman Parade
Night song. There are meetings
in Taylor beforehand, when the
freshmen are cautioned to secrecy
and the sophomore spies are chased
from the room. Then the slips of
paper with the words are passed
around and everyone tries to re-
member the words and wonders
what the all-important tune will
be.

Tuesday evening falls at last,
and in uneasy silence the fresh-
men stand under Pembroke Arch,
waiting for the firemen’s band to
arrive. The upperclassmen are
gathered further up the walk and
in the darkness can be _ heard
fqueries of “My candle is almost
out. Do you have a new one?” or
“Hey, can someone lend me a
match?” Behind Rhoads red light
from the bonfire begins to flicker.
There is an air of expectancy as
the freshmen wonder if the sopho-
mores have found out the words
and music to the song. There is
a general craning of necks as
someone anounces for the sixth
time that the band is coming.

After a tentative playing of
THE SONG, the freshmen begin to
sing. The noise mounts as the pro-
cesion gradually moves past the
library and on the fire. Around the
flames can be seen the figures of
sophomores, forming a chain and
determined to keep the freshmen
from the flames. The ritual really
pegins when the band moves to
one side and the freshmen charge
in a screaming mass, bent on sac-
rificing themselves in the coals.
The sophomore line sags and
surges back, and the frenzy mounts,
till no one knows who is keeping
whom from the fire.

Suddenly the fire is deserted as
if another mysterious signal had
been given, and a general move-
ment toward Taylor steps begins.
Step singing starts, and after good
will has been restored Parade Night
ends, and the secret-keeping fresh-
men or the parody-making sopho-





uled for the 28rd of April, 1951.

mores go off in triumph. '



by Jane Augustine, 52

NOW WE ARE ENTERING that
garbage can is a bright yellow,
isn’t it, Maryanne? Why d’ya sup-
pose the step is worn like that?
Oops, sorry — my fault really.
Mary-anne, can I bum a cigdtette?
All I’ve got are those lousy things
DESIGNED AFTER BALLIOL
COLLEGE OXFORD shoes are

Goodhatt, 7: 30 p.m.
Monday, October 9

Current Events, speaker to be
announced, Common Room, 7:15



Fighting ’54 Goes to the Fore:
All-out Offensive Against Library

simply ghastly—look at them,
kelly green suede! Oof, sooo sorry!
No, feally, my rib got in the way
of your elbow. What’s everyone

looking at, Mary-anne? Every-
pbody’s in the way—all I can see
js people’s heads.

UNTIL TEN P. M. SUN-
DAYS. DOWN TO THE LEFT
PLEASE AND LOOK AT THE
corn on my left foot. These new
shoes are killing me. What’s every
one looking at down here? There's
a poster for a poetry reading —
d’ya supose that’s part of the li-





p.m.

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THE COLLEGE NEWS



Saturday, September 30, 1950.







THE COLLEGE NEWS

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JOANNA SEMEL, ’52 BARBARA JOELSON, ’52, Make-up
FRANCES SHIRLEY, ’53

Editorial Staff
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Jutrm ANN JOHNSON, ’52
Mary-BERENICE Morris, ’52

Patricia Murray, ’52
JupirH _KonowiTz, ’51
HELEN Katz, ’53

Staff Photographers
FRANCINE Du PLEssix, ’52
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Business Managers
Tama SCHENK, ’52 & Mary Kay Lacxkritz, ’51

Business Staff
BARBARA GOLDMAN, ’53
Joan Rupps, ’52
Betty ANN SCHOEN, ’51

Lita Hawn, 52

JANET CALLENDER, ’52

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Entered as second class matter at the Ardmore, Pa., Post Office
Under Act of Congress August 24, 1912







“Welcome, welcome, we’re so glad you’re here,

”?

It starts off like this every year

Through the maze of appointments, physicals, and “in
formative” lectures there is indeed a welcome, a sincere wel-
come extended to all the freshmen by every upperclassman.
Not yet does the cry of “FRESHMAN!” ring out through the
smokers in response to an unanswered telephone; the seniors
even get their own coffee; the freshman-sophomore rivalry
that exists at Parade Night and Freshman Show time is not
yet even apparent.

But even in the days to come, when you penetrate the
complexities of your hail to fetch a dozing junior for a mid-
night phone call, or balance wobbly coffee cups for a thirsty
senior, the welcome will still be there. It will soon cease to
be conscious and will dissolve into acceptance and easy-going
friendship.

Bryn Mawr is one of the few colleges that houses fresh-
men indiscriminately with upperclassmen, and by the same
token, your work, your play, and your problems will be re-
garded with similar equality. Your courses are just as de-}
manding and as interesting as those taken by members of
the other three classes, and you may take advantage of the
identical privileges which they enjoy.

Life here at Bryn Mawr is far different from that at
high school, where off-campus lunches, weekends, and night-

time study and relaxation are rationed according to classes.

You will be regarded as adults by the students, faculty, and
administration alike, if, in the coming weeks, you prove your-
self to be adults.

This proof will consist principally of curing yourselves
of that common disease, freshmanitis, an affliction which is
characterized chiefly by lack of perspective and attitude of I-
will-take-this-course-because-it-looks-like-a-simple-snap. You
were accepted here because you were outstanding” members
of your class in preparatory school; you were all equally out-
standing, and now you are all in the same position. This re-
alization calls for re-evaluation of yourselves and readjust-
ment to your own normal and vital positions in your class
and in the college. The proof will also lie in your ability to
accomplish those things which your confidence i in yourselves
implies.

By facing yourselves honestly and maturely and by sup-
pressing the normal tendency to over-confidence, you will

successfully resolve these problems and make 1954 a class of

which its members, its dam and its followers can be



List of Freshmen
Helps to Locate

. J e se
Missing Friends
1954...
Merion

Brinkman, K. 7
Coll, I. % 68-72
Connor, V. 2
Fasick, N. 64
Fox, A. M. 19
Holden, M. E. 22
Huff, L. 47-51
Jobes, M. L. 1
Kraver, V. 1% 68-72
Nason, J. 8
Ozanne, C. 12
Painter, M. 27
Rorison, G. 34
Sapir, M. 20
Schavier, C. 6
Stiles, M. 62
Strong, M. 38
Struthers, G. 47-51
VonHebel, G. 5
Webb, S. 23
asi
‘ Appel, P. E. 13
Bati, E. A. 46
Batten, L. , 57
Clarke, N. M. > 23
Damon, E. 26
Dewan, D. 25
DuBose, J. 5
Ewer, E. 2
Falkenstein, H. 41
Glayser, E. 53
Grudzinsky, X. 20
Halloway, P. 83
Hansen, K. 6
Harris, E. J. 36
Harvey, P. 51
Meyer, J. 29
Miller, A. - 12
Milner, S. 49
Natol, A. 60
Petsiavas, A. 27
Roesen, B. 32
Shulkin, A. 47
Sosin, M. 31
Taylor, E. N. 52
Treene, A. 56
McElroy, F. 40
Denbigh
Conkling, M. 63
Davis, Georgette .. b-9
Forssell, J. % 55-59
Fox, J, L. ¥ 83-84
Grimminger, J. 38
Gustafson, G. 165-9
Hartman, A. 22
' Hayward, N. 71
Hetzel, H. 70
Hitchcock, P. 410-14
Holmes, M. N. 1% 83-84
Jones, E. 67
Miller, C. A. ( 4% 16-20
Pertz, M. ) 69
Sherman, K. §, 46 55-59
Trimble, W. 4410-14
Westerman, S. 68
Zorn, S. 16-20
Pembroke East
Albert, P. 32
Barker, E. 30
Bogley, J. 25
Case, J. 23
de Lustrac, F. 34
Drabkin, C. 70
Hopkins, D. 53
Kennedy, M. S. 1418-20
McCormick, E. 2A
Mudge, A. A. 62
- Richmond, C. B. 59
Rogers, A. A, 1
Roosevelt, S. D. 69
Tilson, P. 3
Woodruff, E. 1418-20
Wyckoff, A. 56
Zabko, B. 27
Pembroke West
Auch, M. 48-12
Bailey, E. %%38-35
Bonsal, L. 1463-67
Davis, E. 447-51
Eristoff, A. 1% 56-60
Francke, N. 1463-67
Hess, D. 19
Kemp, E. 79
Kennedy, L, L. %47-51
Kern, M. 1 22-26
Luzzatto, D. 83
McCabe, M. 72
McGrath, M. 73-74
. McIntosh, J. % 33-35
‘ Oliver, P. 448-12
Osma, M. eae
Pearre, L. 4422-26
_Phipps, A. % 56-60
. Plunkett, M, 76
Price, P. ie
Rainsford, D,

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Fighting ’54 Advances;

Library Seeks Retreat
Continued from Page 1

brary tour? I guess not, it was
last May ...I can’t stand up much
longer, I have to go to the PRO-
FESSORS’ OFFICES WHERE
THEY WILL BE GLAD TO GIVE
YOU ASSISTANCE IN PRIVATE
eyes won’t focus beyond two feet
without my glasses. What are they.
all doing, Mary-anne? What are
they writing on? I haven’t got a
pen, can I borrow yours? Oh, it’s
empty — no, no that’s all right.
Where do I what? What card? I
didn’t get a . . . NOW THAT
YOU’VE PUT YOUR CARDS
AWAY, WE CAN GO TO THE
CLOISTER.

Oh boy, air! Where are we,
Mary-anne? All I can see is a tree-
branch growing out of a redhead,
and a tower way up on the right.
What d’ya suppose they use it for?
I can see a row of windows, too.
Somebody said they’re seminars
because they’re only for SWIM-
MING IN THE POOL THE NIGHT
BEFORE COMPREHENSIVES.
Mary-anne, why is everyone talk-
ing about a swimming pond? Who-
ever heard of a swimming pool in
a library? Did somebody say that
door goes to the rest — oh, to the
west wing ...I can’t hear a word.
Whoever’s talking is a BACK
NUMBER OF A NEWSPAPER,
GO DOWN TO THE devil of a fix,
Mary-anne, I can’t hold out much
longer. Oh, good, we’re going back.
Uh, that is back, isn’t it? Oh golly,
look at that! Look at that dia-
mond on her HELMET TO THE
WISEST WOMAN AT BRYN
MAWR. Whose what? Helmet?
Oh, helmet dat, I say . . . Who’s
the wisest woman? The one who
finds out where the books are and
where the YEARS AT BRYN
MAWR WILL BE SPENT IN
HAPPY HOURS OF STUDY IN



THE ... rest room, please, Miss
Agnew?
Thompson, J. 4673-74
Rockefeller
Belsche, C. 5
‘Braun, J. 8
Davis, Gwen 13
Dunning, B. : 14
Forbes, D. 71
Hoak, M. 10
Keyes, —C, 31
Kolker, F. 65
Marx, B. S. 11
Otnow, B. 69
Potts, A... 37
Robinson, C. 38
Schwob, M. 75
Seay, M. 3
Shocket, S. 6
Simpson, E. Me
Warren, M. G. 4
Whittaker, H. E. 7
Rhoads North
Barmon, M. 258
Blodgett, K. %164AB
Brenner, G. 62
Carter, A. %164AB
Farb, M. 264
Floyd, B. 169
Gibson, S. 154
Jeanes, C. 261
Jones, M. A. 251
Kneeland, H. %63AB
Maioglio, L. 55
Morgan, C. 144638AB
Morrison, D. BL
Muir, M. 351
Silverman, D. 352
Zantzinger, S. 260
Rhoads South
Beecher, J. 815
Butler, J. 104
Bystryn, D. 810
Coghlan, D. 307
Dew, M. ae
Edwards, S. H. 805
Elder, S. 306
Ellenbogen, N. 301
Gardner, A. 208
McGregor, A. 212
Merrick, B. %211AB
-Olsen, R. besaich >
Packard, M. 202
Roberts, A. 811
Rule, S. D. 313
. Sass, E. 304
Shupp, S. vce
| Sorrick, C.. 101
Weltmer, V. 809
West, M..T. 308.
. Winsor, M. P. - %211AB

Witmaf, A. - #110AB





Guide Maps Way
To Hidden Haunts

Tho Fountain, situated on
the second floor ‘of Goodhart next
to th us Room, caters to all
hungry souls between the hours
of 9:30 and 11:00 on Sunday
through Friday evenings. Ice
cream, sandwiches, cokes, and
milkshakes are all available.

The Maids’ Bureau, in the base-
ment of Taylor next to the Book-
shop, makes chair covers, bed-
spreads, and curtains (from your
own material or theirs) to fit; you
can also have clothes mended or
made over there.

The Rumpus Room, on the sec-
ond floor of Goodhart, is a good
place to relax. Magazines, juke-
box, and a ping-pong table are
among its assets.

The Taylor Bookshop, in the
basement of Taylor, houses, in its:
shadowy recesses, a multitude of
miscellany. Text-books, food, sta-
tionery, writing utensils, paper,
glue, college banners, animals, and
stickers, toothpaste, soap, shampoo,
aspirin, cigarettes, and stamps:
these are only a small sample of
its vast stock.

Hall Bookshops, one in each hall,
open next week. You can buy al-
‘most anything here except books
—stationery, toilet articles, foods,
candy, fruit juices, and cokes.

Hall Libraries are useful, partic-
ularly for Freshmen. Here you'll
be able to borrow many of the
books required in your courses,
which will be on reserve in the
main library.

The Periodical Room, on the main

floor of the Library, carries the
New York Times and Herald Tri-
bune, the Christian Science Moni-
tor, and the Philadelphia Inquirer
and Bulletin. Here, too, you’ll find
almost every magazine worth read-
ing and many that will come in
handy for your classwork.
_ The Rare Book Room, across the
hall from the Periodical Room, al-
most always has an interesting dis-
play on hand, in addition to its
permanent treasures which are on
view.

The Reference Room, down the
hall from the Periodical Room,
contains all manner of dictionaries,
encyclopediae, atlases, and biog-
raphies. These are always useful
in bewildering moments.

The Archaeological Museum, on
the third floor of the Library’s
West Wing, is something you won’t
want to miss. Terra cotta heads,
old coins and pots, etc.

The Non-Res Room is to be
found in the Library basement,
West Wing. This is where non-
resident students can keep books
and clothes, study and read, and
get their mail.

Two Tennis Courts, of En-Tout-
Cas, have been constructed by the
end of the hockey field. Ready for
use in any weather.

The College Inn, straight down
from Pem Arch, is the most con-
venient eating spot. Open for
breakfast, 9 to 11; lunch, 12:30 to.
2; tea (their specialty) 3:30 to 5;
dinner, 6:30 to 7:30. On Sundays
open only for breakfast and din-.
ner.



DP Lists Citizenship
As One of Main Goals
Continued from Page 1
Church World Service, some Amer-.
ican friends told me about organi-
zations which sponsored scholar.
ships, and I wrote to the World
Student Service Foundation. They:
told me about Bryn Mawr—and I
wrote another letter. Then I came.
to the campus — it was raining.
Now, I want to see it in the sun-
shine, ” What does she want to take.
in the line of courses? Here,
Xenia’s (“Say Senia, it’s easier’’)
eys lit up: “Chemistry, and every-
thing possible allied to chemistry.”
To that curricular interest, add
the desire to get her U.S. citizen-.
ship papers just as soon as pos-
sible, and you have Xenia’s im!
mediate plans for the future—plus,
hayrides © sli aabaag
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Saturday, September 30, 1950

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three



Observer

Oak leaves trace their odor in
the air, the concrete are curves
across the grass, and the sky is
slightly overcast, as in.many late
Septembers gone by, whether you
were here to see or not. You rever-
ence this place a little, ever since
its first impact made your knees
crumple and straighten again, de-
terminedly. Sometimes it is the
very scornfulness of your words

that subtly speaks of the influences | 7

focussed upon you here; s@orch-
ing you beneath a burning glass.
Up three 'stone steps, and you’ are
enveloped: here you are and you
have never been away. You are

living again with the old ignor-
ances whi e the basis for in-
jured wisdom. Here too are the

the. old mistakes overgrown with
summer, cleft rocks with their jag-
ged contours moss-softened . .
but this is what you feel when you
are coming back, and it is far
from the feelings of those just
coming.

You arrive with a heavy coat
and a too-heavy suitcase, excited,
the high color of autumn in your
face, threading through your haiv.
The world you looked at uncom-
prehendingly through the blind
eyes of College Board Exams now
begins to move and vibrate about
you. Much laughter, many names
and. many numbers . . . sunlight
runs between the shutter-slats, and
you must stop ‘pulling crumpled
tissue out of packing boxes in
order to go to tea. There you meet
delightful people, and munch on
juicy little macaroons. You will not
acknowledge the slight discomfort
you feel, this sensing that they
are all strangers, because you know
it will pass—in a night and a day,
for then you will all be living to-
gether, inescapably bound.

You walk underneath ' trees
which speckle the half-dark sky
with their leaves . . . and then it
is dinnertime. The food is not what
you are used to.at home, and it is
impossible to say whether it is
good or not, only that it is differ-
ent, It is new, like everything, and
newness is the magic of this special
world. You feel that it is transi-

tory, this tension, and that only a}

relaxed glow will remain in the
routine days to come. You are con-
fident: you are confidence in con-
centrate. What you cannot know
is how that confidence will be
shaken down like oak leaves in an
unseasonable wind, and how it will
come back again, not rejuvenated,
but new. This is the newness to
wait for, the illumination that
does not quaver in its quietness
and strength. But there will be no
sadness for the leaves that were
so rashly red and were seared so
soon.



FRESHMEN ! !

NO N EWS IS NOT GOOD
NEWS; A NEW NEWS
WILL BE BIG NEWS! CAN
YOU READ AND WRITE?
WHY NOT DO IT WITH VEN-
GEANCE! WE NEED YOU—
SO COME TO THE NEWS
ROOM IN GOODHART ON
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5 AT
5:30 P. M. WHEN EDITOR
McBRIDE WILL GIVE YOU A
SCOOP!





MEMO

This campus is on DC current
—all except Pem East, which
-is on AC. If your radio doesn’t
work, don’t forget to reverse
the plug.









|’52 Claims to Have

“Tust the Ticket”

For the past few days your
life has no doubt been filled
with a veritable , chaos of
tickets: your train ticket, your
luggage ticket, the ticket for
your trusty bicycle, and several
other’ tickets. However, all
these meaningless pieces of
paper can now be cast aside,
for they are definitely passe.
But lest you should feel lost
without them, we have found
Just The Ticket. for. you. So
circle October 14th on your cal-
endar, and invite a date down
to share the wonderful enter-
tainment that 1952’s Junior
Show has in store. And what-
ever you do, be sure to buy a
ticket, for it is most emphatic-
ally Just The Ticket for you.

Bard’s Eye View



Turn of the Screw, leaves much to
imaginations
readers. Although it is a master-
piece of eerie psychology, the read-
er may endow it with his own in‘
terpretation.
Peter Quint and Mrs. Jessel really
exist, or are they merely symbolic



by Barbara Joelson, ’52_
Sing a song of angel robes
And damply hanging hair,
Of queries, “Where is Goodhart?”
And of rooms quite dark and bare.

Sing a song of name-tags and
Appointments to see deans;

Of nasal twangs from Kansas
And of drawls from New Orleans.

Sing a song of vocal tests,
And.trunks arriving late;

Of hours of endless meetings
And of times you stand and wait.

Sing a song of book-shelf tours,
Vague names you vainly seek;
Of chaos and confusion

That makes a Freshman Weak.

. by Jane Augustine, °52
Speeches must be given,
Parties must be planned,
The president must soon present
The rules—Self-Gov’s command.

Hockey, tennis must be played—

Freshmen, sign this list!

On name recalling, trunk install-
ing,

Meetings, teas we must insist.

Seniors must be good examples;
When freshman eyes are gazing.
No beer (save root) will constitute
Upperclassman Hazing.



All students may have meals
at the Deanery when accompan-
ied by off-campus guests, and
parents and relatives of stud-
ents are welcome at all times
as guests of the Deanery. The
Deanery provides accommoda-
tions for dates on big college
weekends.







Last Nighters |

“The Innocents” Brings

Novel
Life
by Joan McBride, ’52

Jam

Henry James’ short novel, The

of the individual

Do the ghosts of

of the evil influences that dwell in
even the most innocent?

In The Innocents, William Arca-
ibald’s literal and moving adapta-
tion of the James thriller, the
spirits are indeed corporeal. Just
as substantial is the influence that
both of them maintain over their
youthful victims. The spectator
watches the transformation of
Flora, admirably portrayed by
twelve-year-old Patsy Bruder, from
a precocious but radiant little girl,
to a child subtly and tragically
possessed. When Miss Giddens
questions Flora concerning her pre-
dicament, the child’s protracted
“vou know” is at the same. time
haunted and haunting. ,

Character Portrayal

The effect of Peter Quint upon
Miles is not as subtle as that of
Mrs. Jessel upon Flora. It is ob-
vious that he has been persecuted
for a much longer time than has
Flora. With his first entrance fol-
lowing his expulsion from school,
the evil expression is present in his
eyes. The whole nature of his per-
secution is revealed in the tervri-
fying ballad for his dead master
that, garbed in royal attire, he
sings to his sister’s brooding ac-
companiment.

Fourteen - year - old David Cole,
who plays Miles, and Patsy Bruder
are a refreshing departure from
the usual type of juvenile acting.
The characters they portray are
pathetic for different reasons: the
girl, because she seems to be
scarcely touched by evil; the boy,
because he is already so deeply en-
trenched in it. Flora’s rhapsody
over the dead beetle “and Miles’
death scene are high points of
their performances.

Sylvia Sidney’s portrayal of Miss
Giddens, the unfortunate govern-
ess, discloses exquisitely the tor-
ments which she suffers. She skill-
fully remains astride the narrow
dividing line between complete
understanding of the childish char-
acter and bewilderment concerning
the forces that possess it.

The Ghosts’ Reality
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“‘Bibliophile-Detective”’
Discovers Motive

For Murder

by Frances Shirley, ’53

Death and Letters by Bryn Maw:
Alumna Elizabeth Daly is anothe:
in the series of stories about book
loving part-time detective Henr:
Gamadge. The first clue that ther
is some sort of skullduggery afoo
is a code message received bh;
Gamadge, who alone realizes th
importance of the sentences work
ed out in the crossword puzzle dia-
grams. He believes that the widow
Sylvia Coldfield is not insane, as
her family would have everyone
believe, but that she is in some
grave danger. Realizing that she
must be virtually a prisoner in the
home of her prominent suburban
New York family, he makes an
effort to learn the details of her
case and then decides to rescue her
and investigate the entire situa-
tion.

The rescue is unique for its sim-
plicity, as Gamadge managed with
the aid of a friend to talk his way
intothe--house and escort. Mrs.
Coldfield out to the car before her
family are aware of what has hap-
pened. With what he has learned
previously and the facts which Mrs.
Coldfield gives him, Henry Gamadge
becomes even more certain that Mr.
Coldfield’s death shortly before a
planned trip abroad was not a
suicide, but rather a case of delib-
erate and well-planned poisoning.
Sylvia also tells him that an at-
tempt was made on her life while
she was very depressed by her





given cast credits, they play an
equal part in the drama. The
orange-colored head of Mrs. Jessel
and the foreboding profile of Quint
are as visible to the audience as to
the children whom they pursue.

If, as in the case of Harvey, the
spectre is visible only to its victim,
it is taken for granted that it is
merely his hallucination; but if it
appears to all present, it is gen-
erally regarded as an actual being.
In The Innocents, it may be inter-
preted that the ghosts of the two
servants are real, as real as the
evil which infests all of us. If we
are weak, it may eventually be-
come so powerful as to overwhelm
its victim, and in order to relin-
quish it, he must die. Clifton Fadi-

Continued on Page 4, Col. 1









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husband’s death, so that her mur-
der would also look like suicide.
Fortunately she was found in time
by the family and recovered from
the almost lethal dose of sedatives
that had found their way into her
soup. The Coldfields then had rea-
son to consider her insane and
have her sent to a sanitarium for
a rest cure. When she was dis-
charged, they hired another doctor
who insisted that she was still in-

Continued on Page 4, Col. 4

Take a Tip—Make Trip!
Buy Your Fill in Ville

Continued from Page 1
Greek’s, more formally known as
the Bryn Mawr Confectioner.

Should your wardrobe be in need
of replenishment, Nancy Brown’s,
Martie’s, Miss Noirot’s, and Joyce
Lewis are all quite convenient.
Four minutes away, in Ardmore,
you can shop at Best & Co., Straw-
bridge & Clothier, and Peck and
Peck, all of which are greatly en-
hanced if your family has a charge
account there. For chicness, try
Rene Marcel’s Beauty Shop; for
wool for those argyles, Dinah
Frost’s has a wide selection; and
if you simply must get someone a
gift, just browse around Stockton’s
or The Country Bookstore.

For drug supplies, there are
Moore’s Pharmacy and Parvin’s;
for floral offerings you can always
rely on Jeannett’s; and if you’re
an ardent camera fan, you'll find
the Photo Center is easy to reach.
In the repairs department: your
bicycle can be rehabilitated at the
Service Station on the corner, your
glasses fixed at Limeburner’s, and
your clothes renovated at a variety
of cleaning establishments.

Perhaps the most pressing thing,
as far as you are concerned, will
be to relieve the bareness of your
room. For furniture, there is Hob-
son and Owens, quite far down on
Lancaster Pike, and your rugs can
be purchased at Shihadeh’s. Lamp-
shades, wastebaskets, and numer-
ous other indispensables will be
found in great variety at the five-
and-dime stores, and at the Sub-
urban Hardware. Also, don’t for-
get that a much wider selection
awaits you in Ardmore, easily ac-
cessible by the Paoli Local.

There you have the highlights
of the village of Bryn Mawr
(Welsh for “high hill”), so get ac-
quainted with it, as it looks as
though you’re stuck with it, for
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Page Four

THE COLLEGE NEWS



Saturday, September 30, 1950



Mawrtyrs’ Myopia Brings Plush,
Prosperity to Optometrist Edwin

_by Barbara Joelson, ’52

Edwin wasn’t very smart,

Music bored him, so did art.

But he had a scientific streak,

And since his eyes were very weak,

He decided he’d grow up to be

A student of optometry.

Someday in his own store he’d sell

Specs and eye-glasses; he’d do well

Enough to have a pleasant life,

With picket-fence and kids and
wife.

So Ed apprenticed in a store

And learned the glasses-seller’s
lore:

Learned what the eye prescriptions
mean,

‘And how to best keep lenses clean,
Why every year there is a fad
For frames of diamonds or of plaid,
Chie for the ladies, bold for men.
And something practical now and

then
For bookworms, grandpas, and
those
Who won’t care what rests on their
nose,

When he had learned from A to Z
The tenets of optometry
He set up trade (at a good address)
And labored to achieve success.
Alas! Few people came to buy
Edwin’s accessories for the eye.
For years he failed to get ahead,
His former hopes were almost dead.
When finally, as a last resort,
A last stab at his goal, he sought
To move to some town, new and
far,



‘The Innocents’ Brings
James Novel to Life

Continued from Page 3

man, editor of the Short Stories of
Henry James, comments: “Let us
ask ourselves only whether we
were filled with a vague, troubling
sense of the evil that exists in the
world, in us, and even in the very
heart of innocence. If we do have
this sense, the play has given us
much of what it has to give.”

Curriculum Comm.

Lists Its Officers

The permanent members of the
Curriculum Committee for 1950-51
are as follows: Anthropology, S.
Bramann, Rock; Archaeology, E.
Smith, Denbigh; Biology, H. Smith,
Pem East; Chemistry, B. Grant,
Denbigh; Economics, D. Putnam,
Non-res; English, K. Torrence,
Rhoads South; French, M. Mullikin,
Wyndham; Geology, D. McKenney,
Rock; German, M. Kreis, Denbigh;
Greek and Latin, S. L. Esterline,
Non-res; History, F. Wagoner,
Non-res; History of Art, J. Wood-
worth, Rhoads North; Mathematics,
J. Richmond, Pem West; Music, L.
Biddle, Rhoads North; Philosophy,
L. Kirpalani, Merion; Psychology,
P. Bennett, Rock; Physics, J. Rich-
mond, Pem West; Politics, B.
Repenning, Denbigh; Russian, J.
Martin, Radnor; Sociology, C.
Comly, Denbigh; Spanish, J. Sil-
man, Denbigh.



FRESHMEN!

Don’t forget the faculty-stu-
dent baseball game! It will be
played on Sunday afternoon at
three o’clock at the hockey
field. If you want to see your
professors in action, you must
not miss it.











And arbitrarily picked Bryn Mawr.
: * * *

Now Edwin’s dream have all come
true,

He has a house and fam’ly too.

His wife has fur coats and a cook,

He wears a settled, prosperous
look.

And all day long he sells his wares

To girls with dull, myopic stares,

The squint-eyed type with vision
blurred

From contact with the written
word,

For Edwin found to his delight

That tiny print and dimmest light

And reams of: work, made Bryn
Mawr eyes

Have constant need of his supplies.



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| Impressions

First Day ‘presents a kaleido-
scope of images; some confused
and fleeting, some possessing mo-
mentary permanence. There was
the mother of one of the members
cf 1954 who was preparing to wait
for her daughter outside of Tay-
lor: “Don’t worry, I’ve only got a
four-year sentence,” said ’54 coolly
as she closed the door behind her

. and then there was the small
brother of another freshman, in
his element at the furniture sale:
‘Hey Mom, this chair’s neat—
Motherrrr, look at this table”...
and lastly, the terrified freshman
required to “TALK” for wupper
classmen; the reason? Her voice
bore a strong resemblance to that
of a departed senior.



A Sinister ‘Sunset Boulevard’
Created by Swanson Comeback

by Jane Augustine, ’52

Dawn breaks over the ten thous-
and block of Sunset Boulevard and
the scarecrow-limp body of a

young man drifts with white eyes
in a swimming pool that was, ironi-
cally, filled for his‘benefit. His dead
voice tells his story, which began
with the explosion of a left front
tire and ended with the report of
a pistol echoing through the fog.
Joe Gillis, a broke scenario writer,
found his car careening up the de-
serted driveway of a decaying
mansion where he encounted a mil-
lionairess, an artist, and a queen
in one person—a woman who was
once a star, a shiny spark from a
roman candle that burst brilliantly
and cooled soon. He was jobless
and she held out a job to him,
lucrative and ridiculous. He was
to rewrite the movie which she
had written as a vehicle for her
“neturn.” “Don’t use that word!”
she hissed, turning on him when
he made an allusion to her “come-
ack.” “It isn’t a comeback, it’s a
return! A return to the thousands
of people who are waiting for it
— waiting for ME!” Her sole
thought was of the people who had
appaulded her, the fabulous Nor-
ma Desmond, twenty years ago,
and whose applause she would
never permit herself to stop hear-
ing. For them she preened in
~equined gowns, and spread a heavy
makeup on her aging eyelids, and
crooked her finger in a tiny golden
wirecigaretteholder. Shehearsfrom
them daily, fan letters, request
for pictures . . . and the morose
butler waited upon her with tears
in his eyes, jealous of tough, young
Joe who usurped a position he had
himself coveted, possessed and lost.
After Joe came Norma no longer
performed for them so much; soon



Incidentally

A grateful freshman spoke thus:
“When I got my room-preference
blank, I put Radnor as, my first
choice because it was the smallest
hall. But two days later I got a
map of the campus, and then I
just prayed. and prayed!”







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the show was given for him. On
New Year’s Eve with tangos and
champagne, she gave a party —
for him, and danced with him in a
room crowded with her photo-
graphs, but no guests.

Then Joe met a girl, a script
writer like himself who found an
old script of his and added to it
a new idea. They start to work to-
gether at night when Joe can get
away from the deluded woman and
her great mausoleum of a house.
One night she cried out and the
man she had kept so carefully neat
her in the bedroom that had housed
her first three husbands, was not
there to hear her. The end was in-
evitable. The last scene was play-
ed to an audience of newsmen and
photographers. The music was
ringing telephones and clanging
sirens when Norma Desmond came
down the stairs at dawn with rhine-
stones on her shoulder and the
smiles of invisible applauders re-
flected in her eyes.

William Holden plays Joe with
the utmost naturalness, Nancy
Olsen as the girl writer is not too
pretty-pretty and acts with vigor
and charm, but “Sunset Boulevard”
belongs to the repellently, pitiful
heroine that Gloria Swanson
creates. Miss Swanson did a
dangerous thing when she agreed
to portray a movie career so sim-
ilar to her own, but by virtue of
acting that would be nearly im-
possible to surpass, one never feels
that Norma Desmond’s story is
Gloria Swanson’s. The difference
between the two is that the fiction-
al heroine never faced reality, and
the living heroine did. This suc-
cessful return of a good actress
who has long since passed the
youthful age of cinematic beauty
has set a precedent for the return
of many other former actors and
actresses whose dramatic reputa-
tions only, and not their dramatic
abilities, have vanished with their
youth.







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Continued from Page 3

sane and should be allowed to see
no one, write no letters, and be
allowed to talk to no one either in
person or on the phone. While she
was being held a prisoner in her
own home, Mrs. Coldfield natur-
ally feared for her life and finally
contrived to get her code message
to the outside world.

When he has heard her story
Gamadge decides to hunt for the
murder motive and the murderer,
whom he suspects is one of the
Coldfields. The search for clues
leads him back into the huge man-
sion that has been the-Coldfield
family home for generations., Here
he boldly talks to the family and
tries to lead someone into making
an unguarded statement that will
shed a little light on the situation,
and put him on the right trail. He
learns a great deal about the fam-
ily background and even sees a
part of the dark and cluttered
house, which is still decorated in
the furnishings typical of the Mc-
Kinley era. When he leaves, how-
ever, Gamadge still doesn’t know



Counterpoint, the Bryn Mawr-
Haverford literary magazine,
wants you as a reader! For $1.75
“per year, Counterpoint offers
three big issues, filled with
short storiés and essays of
merit, poetry of distinction, fine
drawings, and unusual photo-
graphs. This year, the staff
plans an extra issue; artful but
not arty, modern but not maud-
lin, Counterpoint awaits your
subscription.



Finger-Printing and Lock-Picking Aid Sleuth
In His Search for a Family-Haunting Poisoner

whom to suspect, and he is still
unable to name the motive. How-
ever, he feels safe in returning
often to the house because the
eminently respectable Coldfields
would hesitate to harm him for
fear of getting unfavorable publi-
city.

The puzzle becomes more and
more complicated as Gamadge de-
cides that the late Mr. Coldfield
must have known something that
the murderer feared might become
generally known. The chase goes
further and further afield and final-
ly involves even a Victorian poet,
Mark Garthwain, whose letters
hold the key to the final solution
of the case.

The book is good, light reading,
not quite in the conventional pat-
tern, and the action moves quickly
from the code message right up to
the rather violent conclusion.



FRESHMEN !

There will be a picnic for all
freshmen seryed on the hockey
field at supper time Monday
night, followed by a scavenger
hunt. So, if you notice any un-
usual or improbable articles in
the possession of an upperclass-
man, be sure to keep them in
mind, for you may need them.











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