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.THE COLLEGE

_NEWS

Wednesday, May 7, 1952





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Goodbye, Miss Taylor

Lily Ross Taylor is retiring from the faculty of Bryn
Mawr at the end of this year. Professor of Latin here since
1927 and Dean of the Graduate School of the College since
1942, Miss Taylor is a distinguished scholar and an authority
on Roman civilization and literature, well-known both
through her work in this country and abroad and her publi-
cations, the most recent of which is Party Politics in the Age
of Caesar.

Born in Alabama, Miss Taylor received her A. B. from
the University of Wisconsin in 1906 and, after further study,
including some abroad at the American Academy in Rome,
received her Ph. D. from Bryn Mawr in 1912. Since then her
work in Classical Studies has brought honors and many new
opportunities for service. During World War II Miss Taylor
held the position of principal social science analyst for the
Office of Strategic Services. She accepted the post of Sather
Professor of Classical Literature at the University of Cali-
fornia for one semester in 1947, and two years ago received
the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature from the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin.

Because Bryn Mawr offers its undergraduates the privi-
lege of studying under the same professors, such as Miss
Taylor, who teach the graduate school, there is a unique op-
portunity for more intensive and more inspiring work. More-
over, our graduate school is in itself outstanding, for Bryn
Mawr is the only woman’s college granting the degree of
Ph. D. in all its major departments.

Miss Taylor’s retirement from Bryn Mawr this year will
mark a climax rather than the close of her career, for she
has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and next year will act
as Professor in charge of Classical Studies at the American
Academy in Rome. We say goodbye to Lily Ross Taylor with
regret for the future Bryn Mawr students who will not under
her surveillance learn to understand ancient peoples and ap-
preciate an ancient literature. We know that for her “the

- Jamp of true learning” will shine undimmed through the com-

ing years.

Problems?

The results of the counseling questionnaires seem to in-
dicate a trend of independence, a desire on the part of the
students to work out their own problems. :

Often stating that they approved the present counseling



Bard's Eye View

by Ann Shocket, °54

First day as a freshman she
entered her room,
So empty, so dreary, such horror,
such gloom!
A cot, a chair,
An empty wall,
A desk, a dresser—
That was all!

Looked in on a senior and gasped
with surprise—
Such splendors as met her incredu-
lous eyes!
Hoops and pandas,
Candles half burned,
Bottles and posters—
How she yearned!

Then May Day: the senior like
Santa appears,

four years.
A cot, a chair,
An empty wall,
A desk, a dresser—
That is all!

‘The freshman sits smiling with all

of the treasure,
She wallows in wealth with the
greatest of pleasure!
Hoops and pandas,
Candles half burned,
Bottles and posters—
The tables have turned!

Junior Geologists Hack
Recalcitrant Trilobites

Continued from Page 1

two bus drivers, lowered into the
quarry to remove a chunk of rock
that had been blasted. Fortun-
ately for a group of coal miners
who worked near Tamaqua, the
students visited their strip mine
on Sunday, when they were not
working. The city of Tamaqua
was an interesting stop in itself.
Saturday night was spent in the
Majestic Hotel, “Modern and Mod-
erate” with lovely rooms priced at
two dollars, coal dust running
from the water faucets, and Snow
White and the Seven Dwarfs en-
acting their adventures below the
bedrooms, in the movie theater.

Sunday afternoon, the girls
«amped ‘on the railroad tracks,
holding tight from fear of falling
into the Lehigh River Gap, while
listening to proof of the exist-
ence of the Taconic Revolution in
that area. After barely missing
a lonely little hot dog stand when
Walt, one of the bus~ drivers,
vehemently turned a corner, the
exhausted geologists flung their
field equipment to the seat and
leaned back to relax a bit before
their return to the everyday
routine of college life.

Her room tells no longer the tale

CALENDAR
Continued from Page 1

the Common Room.
Tuesday, May 13
8:00 p. m. Sigma Xi discussion
mezting, featuring “Dating the
Past” with Mr.
Dryden, Miss Mellinck, Mr. Zim-
merman - composing the panei,
and Mr. Michels as moderator.
Wednesday, May 14
4:00 p. m. Tennis, Swarthmore
at Bryn Mawr.
4:15 p. m. Lacrosse,
more at Bryn Mawr.
Friday, May 16
‘Last day of lectures.
Monday, May 19
Examinations begin.
Friday, May 30
Examinations end.
Sunday, June 1
8:00 p. m. The Reverend Mr.
Harry Emerson Fosdick will give
the address at the baccalaureate
service in Goodhart auditorium.
Monday, June 2
4:00 p. m. Senior Garden Par-
ty. Admission by invitation only.
Tuesday, June 3
11:00 a. m. Commencement. Ad-
dress by Miss Lily Ross Taylor.
Luncheon on Dalton Green im-
mediately following the program.
Admission by invitation only.

Swarth-

ForeignPopulation
In Colleges Grows

There. is a record-breaking for-
eign student population in U. S
colleges and universities, accord-
ing to a report issued by the In-
stitute of International Education,
1 East 67th Street, New York.

The currrent “census” conducted
jointly by the Instiute and the
Committee on Friendly Relations
Among Foreign Students, shows
that well over 30,000 students
from other lands are being trained
this year in the United States.

Top countries, with the largest
number of their young citizens
studying here, are Canada, China,
and Germany. The biggest jump
in numbers over past years, how-
ever, is in the rapid increase in
students coming from Asia, the
Near East and Africa.

The Institute estimates that
these students (one-third of them
women) represent a financial in-
vestment of $75,000,000, working
om the basis that total cost of
travel, tuition, room and board
for the average student is $2,500.
Almost half of them are “scholar-
ship students”, receiving their
training on funds provided by
their governments, our govern-
ment, private agencies, or by the
colleges and universities them-



selves.



Carpenter, Mr?

service because of its liberal tendencies, at least half of those
who took part in the survey found the present system ade-
quate. Some of them felt, however, that available service,
especially the psychiatric and vocational fields, should have
wider publicity.

Of those who thought the present system inadequate,
about one-third blamed themselves, saying that they were
unwilling to ask for or take advice. Many, again, felt that
their problems would seem trivial to an impersonal advisor.
Most of the questionnaires suggested that the student would
prefer to solve her own problems after discussing them with
her family and friends.

The non-imposing counseling service which is now in ex-
istence is a part of Bryn Mawr’s liberal tradition. The col-
lege treats the student as a mature person who becomes
more mature through solving personal problems by trial and
error.

The existing system is satisfactory. It does not force
itself on the independent individual; it is waiting for those
who feel its need. The counseling service available should be
publicized more widely, however, so that students with crit-
ical problems who require professional advice, or just plain
sympathy from an older person whom they respect, will be-





come aware of the avenues of counseling available to them.



Current Events

Contest With Russia
Raises Problem

‘Of Policy

“It seems clear, from the pro-
fessional standpoint, that tie
U.S.S.R. is pretty stable”, stated
Mr. Holland Hunter, in his talk at
the Current Events meeting of
May 5. He based this comment on
the outcome of the Tri-College
Conference on “Our Contest with
Russia”, Mr. Hunter claimed that

there was no foreseeable danger
of overthrow of the Bolshevik Gov-
ernment in the U.S.S.R., and that
despite resentment and friction, it
is felt that only the Communist
party could control there. There
is general stability in political, ec-
onomic, and military respects.

The United States also seems
stable and unlikely to be over-
thrown. “It is reasonably accur-
ate”, said Mr. Hunter, “to state
that most of the membership in
the Communist party in this coun-
try is composed of misfits’. In the
satellites, however, there is consid-
erably more discontent, partly
caused by the structure of the pop-
ulation. If we were to exert a mil-
itary spirit there, it would precip-
itate World War III. In order to
avoid this, it is necessary to help
them.

On Our Side

“Western Europe is still—quote
—on our side—unquote,” Mr. Hun-
ter remarked, “but we cannot pre-
dict that it will remain so”. Peo-
ple are still talking about post-war
settlements and are discussing the
notions of “ebb and flow” and
“strategy of tactics”.

. Cenecerning the time dimension
of the contest, it will probably be
longer than we would like it—in
fact, almost endless. Questions
raised as to the nature of this con-
test have asked whether this is a
contest in war or in peace and
whether we can counter the ad-
vance of Communist expansionism
through words or military force.
Apparently it is both.

Spiritual Contest?

‘Another question often raised
concerns whether this is a spirit-
ual contest. There is the notion
that hunger, poverty, caste, social
injustice, and various other pres-
sures make people turn to Com-
munism. These pressures, how-
ever, are almost passive as the
people have been subjected to them
for a long time. Charles Malik has
stated that Communism, in that
respect, is now a religion, that the
feeling against these pressures is
almost a creed.

It seems that there is no defin-
ite United States policy in regard
to the east-west contest. On the
military side, Mr. Hunter said, “it’s
like a spectrum, with disarmed
peace at one end and World War
III at the other end”. Since neither
end is good, we are left in the mid-
dle with no definite, clear-cut,
“consistent” military policy. This
position in the middle carries with
it several domestic problems. One
is McCarthyism, a kind of sickness
and fear of such an indefinite posi-
tion. Another is that if we try io
devote a larger fraction of output
to rearmament than our income,
the result is inflation. If this pro-
ceeds, it tends to choke out many
desirable classes of society. “In
fact”, added Mr. Hunter, “it tends
to rub out places like Haverford
and Bryn Mawr”.

Our policy should be to maintain
prosperity and keep the military
forces in bounds in Europe and to
grab control and help industriali-
zation our way in Asia. Stated
Mr. Hunter: “We must exert an
alert, imaginative, and yet passive



position”. .