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THE COLLEGE NEWS





THE COLLEGE NEWS,

FOUNDED IN 1914



Published weekly during the College Year (except during Thanks-
giving, Christmas and Easter holidays, and during examination weeks)
in the interest of Bryn Mawr College at the Ardmore Printing Company,
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Editorial Board
Betty-BricHT Pace, *49, Editor-in-Chief
Jean E is, 49, Copy EMILY TOWNSEND, 50, News
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ANNE GREET, ’50 BLAIKIE ForsytuH, ’51, Makeup

Editorial Staff

JACQUELINE ESMERIAN, ’51
JANE ROLLER, ’51

JANE AUGUSTINE, 52
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Betty LEE, ’52

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Joan McBripe, ’52

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Concerted Efforts

Chorus, Music Appreciation classes, radio and record
concerts in the halls, and the Philadelphia Symphony. When
these are so popular with Bryn Mawr students, it seems
strange that the most musical of us have not agitated long
ago for campus concerts such as there-are at many other col-
In this week’s NEWS it is suggested that the student
body guarantee the money for a concert series if we are real-

leges.

ly interested in importing outside talent.

One way to raise the money would be to levy a tax on
every student—about $1.50 a head if we financed a series
of concerts, and much less than that if we backed only one
concert. There would probably be no admission charge ex-
cept for outsiders. Naturally, a student vote would be taken
before such a program could go into effect.

An alternative method of raising money would be to add
$.50 to the Common Treasury dues to finance one concert

which students would pay to attend. More concerts could

follow during the year if there were enough profits from the’
|death. Richard McKinley,

first one.
Subscription Series
There is at present a concert series on campus which has
not had much publicity because it was not open to students

~Jast- year. It -consists-of-four~concerts and is supported by

about twenty members of the faculty at $5.00 apiece.

Only one of the four concerts has already taken place;
there are three more —a string concert this Sunday, and
later in the year, a woodwind quartet and a cello and piano
concert. Students are welcome to join this group. If enough
co so, undoubtedly additional concerts can be financed this
year. :

| Attendance and Letters
- Before we can, legitimately, ask for mid-week concerts
or campus during the year we must be able to justify the
trouble and expense by proving the existence of really active
interest i in the project. The best proof would be attendance

Current Events

Common Room, November 22—
“If it is necessary to fight, we
fight’? — this, said Senor Alcala,
speaking. on ‘“Argentina-Govern-
ment under Peron,” is the philoso-
phy of General Juan Peron, Argen-
tinian dictator, and is why he relies
upon the military to back him.

In explanation of the present
Argentinian dictatorship, Senor-Al-
cala traced the development of
Argentinian government from 1890
with the fight against the oligarchy,
through 1916 with the election of
the first radical president, and the
growth of a special caste under
Uriburo.

Peron achieved his present power
as a result of a loan to the govern-
ment by the Banco Central Argen-
tino after its nationalization, and
by his control of paper, which en-
ables him to dictate journalistic
policy.

Especially concerned with stud-
ents in the six universities, since
they do wield political infltence,
Peron, with the creation of the five-
year plan in October 1946 (Plan
Kincinale), appointed six intervent-
ors, changed retirement age of
professors in order to rid the
schools of those opposing his plans,
and instituted protectors for the
universities. As a result, teachers
left the schools, although financial
conditions forced many to remain.

Senor Alcala brought the prob-
lem into sharper focus, by saying
that Argentina
country in South America with a
totalitarian movement, for in ad-
dition“to Peron and his influential
wife, Evita (sympathetic to the

Germans), there is the tiny country

of Santo Domingo under Trujillo.

Voc. Committee Outlines

Possible Jobs Abroad

Continued from page 1
The expenses of A.F.S.C. em-
ployees are paid but they receive
no salaries since the agency is
supported mainly by private dona-
tions.

In conclusion Dr. Wells spoke
briefly, discussing his experience
with job opportunities in military
government. He urged prospective
workers not to refuse a job abroad
because it is not in the requested
place, to get to know the country
where one’s job is and to realize
that an apparently dull job often
leads to a more interesting one.

“The Inspector’’ to Call
Fri.-Sat., in Robert’s Hall

Continued from page 1
deepening pathos, independently of |
these off-stage “plots”. The In-
spector has revealed the suicide,
that same evening, of an unknown
girl in a hospital bed. Taking each
‘one in turn, he points out how ev-
ery member of the Birling family in
some way is responsible for her
who
plays the Inspector, shows a pic-
ture of the dead girl to each one in
turn, so that they will recognize
her, even if they don’t want to re-
member they have known her. In-
Adentally,.Mac.changes this. photo-
graph of the “dead girl” at each
rehearsal, supposedly to keep the
actors’ interest in it alive and re-
alistic. After the tension of the
climax, the mysterious Inspector
vanishes, leaving the Birling fam-
ily and Gerald in disarray, and the
spectators probably on the edge of
their seats.

As yet, the play is in an embry-



{onic phase; there is still a lot to be

done before Friday, December 3.
The actors sre still in their “civil-
ian costumes”. The stage is al-
most bare, «nd the scenery wal!s

is not the only

Opinion

Robbins Suggests Fund
To Finance Concerts

On Campus

To the Editor:

I am glad the NEWS is. tak-
ing an interest in music. I have
never thought that the existence of
an intelligent audience is related to
anything ‘but general. level of
taste in the student body and prop-
er catering to it. However, there
are certain considerations that I
think ought to be made quite clear
before we plan, and the first con-
cerns money.

Single concerts, if not guaran-
teed, are a tremendous risk. A ser-
ies, of course, is double, triple, or
quadruple the risk. People do not
buy tickets until they know what
they are getting and if not enough
like what is offered, someone has to
pay the deficit. Stars who’ might
fill Goodhart, if it were possible
to sell cheap seats throughout the
hall, cost too much to be paid by
that means. There are not enough
seats in Goodhart even at $3.50 or
$4.00 apiece to cover that sort of
concert. Incidentally, the acoustics
of the hall are such that many out-
siders who might have $3.50 or
$4.00 do not buy tickets.

Concert Poll Tax

The only possible way, it seems
to me, of financing concerts on the
campus is to have a sum of money
available for concert series raised
by a small poll tax, as an addition
to Alliance or other dues, and a
similar contribution from other
campus inhabitants. The college
can then cut its coat according to
its cloth, and the sale of additional
single tickets provides some gravy
and perhaps some additional con-
certs, but at least no concerts
would then be arranged until the
cost was guaranteed. There is an
objection, I know, to the sale of
series tickets. The small faculty
group, of which I am a member,
continually receives requests from
people who want only a single con-
cert. ‘However, we can’t arrange
concerts until the money is in hand
for at least the first three or four,
and are thus unable to depend on
the sale of single tickets. If we
were stuck by poor weather or by
a program which did not have a
popular appeal we should have no
funds with which to pay our way;

‘'so a basic minimum of fifty or

sixty subscribers is essential to our
existence. If we have that, we sell
single admissions, but not before.



Promising Artists

| My suggestion for college music
is to abandon the idea of. getting
great stars, that is to say, well-
known musicians, to the campus;
to abandon Goodhart concerts until
we have a pretty good audience
educated to it,and to use The Dean-
ery which holds some 200 people
for samll concerts of a sort that
can easily be financed. For exam-
ple, the concerts of the Wayne Tri-
County Association average in cost
about $400, the money for which is
collected in the beginning of the
year. These concerts are given hy
promising artists just out of
schools (like Mr. Goldstein a week
or two back), or by first-chair men
from the Orchestra (Mr. Kincaid,
Miss Phillips and Mr. Mayes gave
a wonderful concert three years
ago), and by quartets and trios,
local people whose fees are not
quite so high as those of national-
ly known organizations. Orches-
tras are obviously too expensive
and only when funds are in hand
can more ambitious projects, like
the Budapest quartet, be undertak-
en.
Guaranteed Sum

I suggest that the student body

decide what money it could pay to-

Thien Relates
Patriotism to God

Goodhart Music Room, November
21. The address at the Thanksgiv-
ing service in Chapel was delivered
by the Reverend Howard Thurman,
Minister for the Church (for the
Fellowship of All Peoples, San
Reverend

Thurman discussed the demands
of high religion upon the authentic
patriotism of the United States.

Reverend Thurman praised those
who believe that life is not com-
plete but. “fluid and dynamic” and
said that creative purposes are the
goals of the living. He cited three
reasons for the relationship of the:
power and significance of an inte-
grated goal.” The goal inspires the
second reason, the “willingness to.
surrender not only one’s resources
but one’s very life.” If the goal be-
comes evil, however, it causes the
individual to lose his sense of di-
rection and standard of behavior.
This was the cause of the powerful
appeal of fascism, a “socially re-
demptive goal” which caused the
destruction of millions. The third
reason is “a sense of participation
in a collective destiny.” No one
can stand isolation or being ignor-
ed; he must be part of a group of
other persons.

Meaning of Thanksgiving

Reverend Thurman claimed that.
if these ideas are applied to the
history of America and its relig-
ious faith, a new meaning is given
to Thanksgiving. The United
States is an example of different
peoples united by a “creative
ideal.” ;

The atomic bomb heralded an
age in which no isolation exists.
The “whole planet earth” has had
to participate in the experience of
unity which had formerly belonged
only to the United States. Rever-
end Thurman said “Life sent us to
school to learn how people of dif--
ferent cultures may develop a
sense of the whole, so that when
the atomic age appeared we could
teach the whole world, that had nos.
had a chance to go to school.”

Francisco, California.

French Club Discusses
Foreign Schools, Camps
Continued from page 1

what the campers learn while they

are there. Mr. and Mrs. Sangree
showed a film of the school and

told what they have been doing to

arouse American interest in the
school. After the war many peo- |
ple wanted to send their children

to Chambon but there was not suf-

ficient housing to accommodate

them. Classrooms, dormitories,

and all sorts of school, office and

household supplies are still needed.

For the last three years the Con-

gregational Service Committee has.

financed the work camp.



wards a series of concerts of this
kind, interesting for a campus and
as. enjoyable as most of the con-

terts outside of the Orchestra and’

star-series in town. These, in fact,
offer such competition that to try
& rival set out here is quite impos-
sible. If the student body were to
guarantee some sum, a thousand
or fifteen hundred dollars, for ex-
ample, three or four concerts could
be arranged, and the sale of single
tickets to persons outside the stud-
ent body might well provide for an
additional two .or three in the
course of a year. This seems to me
to be the only possible way, short
of a gift or endowment like the
Swarthmore Cowper Foundation,
by which the college can enjoy con-
certs without all the fuss and the
heartbreak of selling tickets for in-





on Sunday afternoons at this and future Deanery concerts,
and the sending of constructive letters of suggestion, criti-
cism, or enthusiasm to the NEWS at once. \



are of a ‘sling pink, left over
from the les: : Jay given in Roberts
| Hall. Howo.._the-play—shows
every symp. of future success,
and the syr - inscription “Had
Enough?” w:\‘en on one of the
pink wal's, .). have been meant





only for the weary actors; no audi-
ence, I think, can ‘have “had

enough” of An Inspector Calls be-
| fore the last curtain.

dividual concerts and covering the
deficit when any one concert proves
unprofitable.

Sincerely yours,



Caroline Robbins