College news, October 11, 1950

VOL. XLVII, NO. 2

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1950

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1950



PRICE 15 CENTS



Merger Unifies
And Renovates
Drama Groups

Hard Work in Theater
Decides Election

Of Members

Interest in theatrical arts has
always been widespread at Bryn
Mawr, but until last spring the
various groups working on differ-
ent aspects of drama had no uni-
fying organization through which
to contact and cooperate with one
another. At meetings held in
March the Drama Guild and the
Stage Guild merged to form the
Bryn Mawr College Theatre,
which now has complete jurisdic-
tion over all dramatic activities on
campus. In the election of officers
it was decided that the first pres-
ident of the new organization
should have been a member of the
old Drama Guild, and the _ vice-
president a member of (Stage
Guild. Sue Kramer and Ellen
Bacon, respectively, were elected
to those offices. Hereafter, some
similar arrangement may be fol-
lowed, although not too closely,
since it may help smaller affiliated
groups if one officer can be con-
sulted about acting and the other
about staging.

The Theatre owns all equipment
—lights, makeup, costumes, flats,
and other stage tools and mater-
ials. Makeup may be rented for
language club plays, Actresses
Anonymiousy. productions, and
Freshmen Hall Plays. Many mem-
bers of the Theatre are both act-
resses and stage hands. In view
of this fact, a new system of elec-
tion to membership was inaugur-
ated with the merger. It is based
on accumulation of points; five
points are needed to become a
member. Points are awarded ac-
cording to the following scale:

1) Three points for participat-
ing in a full-length production of
the Bryn Mawr College Theatre,
whether as a member of the cast,
crew, or business staff.

2) Two. points for participation
in Freshman or Junior Show, or
the Maids and Porters Show.

3) One point for participating
in language club or Freshman Hall
plays, Arts Night, Dance Club, or
Actresses Anonymous productions

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‘02 Has “Just the Ticket’ For You:
With Variety of Songs and Scenes

“This is just the ticket for you!”
sings 1952’s chorus of trainmen,
as the curtain rises on the Junior
Show. Unlike most class shows,
this one is a musical revue, and
your ticket will entitle you to six
station stops.

Just the Ticket has a most amaz-
ing amount of variety, encompass-
ing everything from an old-fashion-
ed melodrama to a very caustic,
British-type scene, fraught with
“pregnant silences.’”’ The roster of
characters includes a restless in-
genue, who dwells in the wilds of
“West Austral-ee-a;” a reappear-
ing ghost; a “unique” servant; a
hand-wringing Little Nell, and her
three maiden aunts who brew a
potent cup of tea; a suave Italian
Casanova, and his woman-hating
friend; a cow-girl kick chorus; and
a love-sick southern gal. A side
trip on the “Twentieth Century
Unlimited” unveils a prudish miss,
who is finally forced to admit that

Statistics, Goals
Of °54 Reported
By Miss McBride

The first Wednesday morning
chapel service of the year was held
in Goodhart at 8:45 A.M., Octo-
ber 4. Miss McBride spoke, giving
statistics on the class of 1954. Of
the 171 new undergraduate stud-
ents, 160 are Freshmen and 11 are
transfers. 54 represents 20 states
and 7 foreign countries. Represent-
ation from various parts of the
country is approximately the same
as in former years, although the
percentage from the far West has
risen slightly, while that from the
Mid-west has declined.

Miss McBride emphasized the
fact that there would be more
foreign students in the college if
there were more full scholarships
available to them. At present the
Chinese, Japanese, and two DP
scholarships are the only full schol-
arships for foreign students. There
are fewer foreign students at Bryn
Mawr this year than there were
last year.

There are no 15-year-olds in the
entering class, but the average
age of the entering Freshman re-
mains almost exactly the same, 17
years and 11 months. There are 21
alumnae daughters in the class,
and the majority of fathers of 754
are engaged in manufacturing and
sales.

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Voorhis, Lurker, Sonne, and Cooper

Nom. as Soph. Member to Undergrad

There will be a _ college-wide
election, Thursday, October 12, to
elect a First Sophomore Member
of Undergrad to replace Eleanor
Toumey, "53, who is not back this
year. The candidates in _preferen-
tial order are:

Corrie Voorhis, as well as play-
ing Varsity hockey and volleyball,
was an A. A. hall representative
last year. She was also on the
Nominating Committee, in Fresh-
man Show, and was the third ro-
tating Freshman member to Self-
Government.

Kathy Lurker was on the Fresh-
man Show Song-Writing commit-



tee, as well as being in the show
itself. Moreover, she was a League
representative and a member of
the Dance Club. .

Carol Sonne worked in the soda
fountain and was co-chairman of
her hall Christmas skit committee.
She was on the script committee
and stage crew for Freshman
Show, is a member of Stage Guild
and of Chorus, and was in the
Freshman Hall Play.

Harriet Cooper has been a ro-
tating member of both Self-Gov-
ernment and the League. She has
worked in the Soda Fountain, and
was in the Freshman Show.







“Television is Passe,” and a lady
who accosts her psychiatrist with,
“Is it true that you are neurotic?
Fancy that, well I am psychotic,
Coincidence dear, too good to be
true.”

In colorful Messina we learn
that, through the art of a clever
woman “a man’s resistance soon
snaps,” and an unwilling bachelor
is urged that “Though she upset
thee, get thee a wife.”

No less varied than the individ-
uals and the songs, are the sets.
A maximum of art and efficiency
on the part of the stage crew has
engineered a number of quick
changes. One minute the decor is
of a cozy “Home Sweet Home”
scene, and the next it is an Aus-
tralian sheep ranch. Still again you
see a colorful market place in a
seaport town of Sicily, a back-
drop of dramatic silvery draperies,
or a hut in the humid tropics.

Add to these kaleidoscopic scenes
a diversity of costumes, many

spirited songs, and a liberal sprink-

ling of actors from Hav-
erford and Penn, and you have a
small sample of what is in store
for you at 8:30, Saturday, October
14th, in Goodhart auditorium. So
listen to the Junior’s advice, “Buy
a ticket, take it,” for the many-
faceted Just the Ticket is, without
question, “Just the ticket for you!”

“lust the Ticket”
To Debut Oct. 14

Incorporating a new idea in Jun-
ior Shows, the class of 1952 has
chosen a musical revue, composed
of six separate acts. “Just the
Ticket” will be given on Saturday,
October 14, at 8:30 P.M. in Good-
hart. The Director is P. Onder-
donk; Stage Director, B. Lese;
Business Manager, G. Chase; Music
Director, T. Richardson.

The cast is as follows:

“West Australia’: ©. Price, L.

Bishop, and chorus

“A Cup of Tea”

Aunt Columbine ........ N. Alexander
AUNE WOSBIO eins L. Bishop
Aunt Tessie ......05:.,. T. Mulligan
Little Nev jai M. Bianchi

Squire Flintus Moneyclutcher .......

G. Cadwalader

Dan Dauntless ........,:.. C. Hansen
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CALENDAR

Wednesday, October 11
First in series of marriage lec-
tures, “Precourtship Relations.”
Dr. Mudd, Common Room, 7:15
p.m.
Saturday, October 14
1952 Junior Show, “Just the
Ticket,” Goodhart Hall, 8:30 p.m.
Rockefeller Hall Dance, “La
Roque,” 10:30-1:00 p.m., Rocke-
feller Hall.
Sunday, October 15
Sunday evening chapel service,
Dr. Paul Austin Wolfe, the Brick
Church, New York, Music Room,
7:15 p.m.
Monday, October 16
Current Events, Dr. Felix Gil-
bert, “Preventive War,” Common
Room, 7:15 p.m.
Wednesday, October 18
Marriage lecture, “Courtship,
Choice, and. Engagement,” Dr.
Mudd, Common Room, 7:15 p.m.





College Announces
L. Donnelly Grant
In Creative Work

This year the college has an-
nounced a new Fellowship in crea-
tive writing or research in the
humanities of the value of $2500
for the year 1951-52. This Fellow-
ship is given in the memory of
Lucy Martin Donnelly, 1870-1948.
A member of the Faculty of Bryn
Mawr College for many years, Miss
Donnelly was Professor of English
and Head of the Department from
1911 until her retirement in 1936.

Miss Donnelly had a vital sense
of the literature of the past and
an equal interest in the writing of
the present. She helped to create
at Bryn Mawr a hospitable atmo-
sphere for young writers. Friends
and students of Miss Donnelly who
value the distinction in letters and
scholarships that she revealed in
her personality and her teaching
have founded this Fellowship to
provide for talented women oppor-
tunities to develop their creative
powers or to pursue constructive
research in the humanities.

This Fellowship is open to women
who are citizens of the United
States, Canada, or Great Britain.
It will be awarded for distinction
in writing and may be held for a
project either in creative writing
or in research in the humanities.
Candidates who wish to use the
Fellowship for research should al-
ready have made progress that is
equivalent to the usual require-
ments for the Ph.D. degree.

The holder of the Fellowship is
expected to reside at Bryn Mawr
College during the academic year
(October to June) unless in the
opinion of the Committee of Award
residence elsewhere or travel is de-
sirable for a part of the year. The
Féllowship is not to be used to ful-

fill the requirements for any aca-/

demic degree. The holder will have
no academic duties.

Applications must be submitted
before January 15, 1951. Applica-
tion blanks and further informa-
tion can be obtained from the Office
of the President, Taylor Hall.

Miss McBride
Relates College
To World Scene

Individuals Need Faith
To Achieve High
Concepts

Miss McBride officially opened
Bryn Mawr’s sixty-sixth academic
year in assembly on October third.
First she mentioned recent faculty
appointments and announced sev-
eral changes in the courses offered.
The student body is larger than
most, she said, and there are the
usual money problems, with a very
tight budget and the danger of a
deficit. In spite of the shortage of
funds, however, many improve-
ments have been made in the build-
ings during the summer.

Turning from the college to the
international picture, Miss McBride
emphasized the changes in the
world situation during the summer.
She agreed with Ralph Bunche that
we will have reached a “turning
point in history” if we can control
aggression and encourage peace-
ful change. However, most of us
are inclined to plan only in individ-
ual terms because we feel far
away from the control centers of
nations. We are not really as un-
important as we think, though, for
decisions are open to world judg-
ments. She stressed our need for
understanding, whether we choose
to work in the government or form
a part of public opinion while de-
cisions are being made. Our acts
will affect final decisions, and in
the perilous future these decisions
will either be mistakes, or they will
lead to the gradual development
of a peaceful world.

During this search for world
peace, our conceptions of right will
be tested. By increased interest in
philosophy and politics, we may
learn how to carry out our concepts
and build world unity. At present,
a unity has been achieved because



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Freshman Speaks Seven Languages:
Plans International Relations Career

by Julie Ann Johnson, ’52

Name almost any European
language you can think of, and
you still won’t be able to stump
Bohuslawa JZabko (pronounced
Sabko) Potapovich, who is called
Bo or Bushka for short. She
speaks German, Russian, French,
Dutch, Polish, and Ukrainian, as
well as English, fluently, and is
wondering whether to take her
Orals in French and German, or
French and Russian! Bo is now a
Freshman, but she hopes to get
credit for the year of college work
which she took at the University
of Liege, when she has completed
her Freshman year at Bryn Mawr.

Bo’s father was a member of the
White Russian Army and, from
1917 to 1920, a member of the
Ukrainian Nationalist Army,
which at the time was opposing
the newly-formed Communist re-
gime in Russia. Bo therefore grew
up in the Ukraine, and lived there
until 1989, when her family was





foréed..to flee to -Western Poland,



as refugees from the Communists.
She graduated from the Gymnas-
ium in 1944, the year in which her
family left Poland, and spent the
next year in a working camp in
Germany.

In 1945 she went to Holland for
a few months and then Belgium,
which she left in 1947 to come to
the United States. In contrast to
Bryn Mawr, the University had no
boarding facilities, and was co-
educational, with only one-third of
the students girls. There was
more of a lecture system than
there is at Bryn Mawr, especially
in philosophy, psychology, and
history, where classes num-e -l
several hundred students. The
courses required much individual
study, with no quizzes or examina-
tions until the finals, at the end of
the year.

Bo originally intended to come
to Bryn Mawr in order to get
credit at the University, where she
was going to major in Germanistic
philology. She was supposed to

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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, October 11, 1950





- satiric drawing-room comedies which had been presented

- Much more is to be learned from making this sort of at-

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Professional Directing

At this time, late in 1950, we find ourselves aware of the
fact that no professionally directed play has been presented
by the dramatic organizations of Bryn Mawr College and
Haverford since early in 1949. Dissatisfaction with the first
three plays of the 1948-1949 season bought about the selec-
tion of a student director for the fourth. Everyone liked the
idea of student direction; it would bolster a shoestring bud-
get and revive a badly flagging interest in the theatre. This
it did. The performance of Juno and The Paycock was a sub-
stantial improvement over what had gone before. The choice
of that particular play was a happy one, for O’Casey’s trag-
edy is intrinsically better drama than the two shallow and

previously that year.
Last fall confidence in the director of Juno and the Pay-
cock led to production of two difficult but worthwhile plays,
Liliom, and Elizabeth The Queen. It is admirable that these
excellent plays were given even at the risk of failure to sur-
mount the obstacles they contained, since the aim of college
theatre is to teach through practical experience on the stage.

tempt with less success than from doing more competently
a mediocre play which is plainly within the capabilities of
amateurs.

Now “amateur” is a word which has been studiously
aveided in local dramatic circles. Even if we should lose face
by admitting it, we ought to remember that we are only ama-
teurs. We simply do not have the experience which all peo-
ple have to whom the theatre is bread and butter, no matter
how little talent they may have to go on with it. It became
obvious with the two spring productions that something was
needed which wasn’t there, but nobody connected with those
plays came right out and said so.

The Bryn Mawr College Theatre as a whole now feels
the need for another change. It is important that students
interested in directing should have the opportunity to learn
by doing it, but not at the expense of those equally interested
in learning to act. A play has considerably more actors than
directors, and the desires of the majority should take prece-~
dence over those of a few individuals.

After five student-directed dramas and two student di-
rectors it would seem that a return to professional assistance
means greater enthusiasm for the activities of the College
Theatre. Any student interested in any phase of dramatics
would profit by observing a professional who has necessarily
emerged the wiser from the buffetings of legitimate theatre.
For these reasons the Bryn Mawr College Theatre last Mon-
day voted to employ a professional director for its first play
this year.

It is not yet known who that director will be. Of the
many possibilities, one comes to Raps asin bie di-
rector who has been with the PasadenX Playhouse, runs the
Bryn Mawr Summer Theatre, and who has now been relegat-
ed to the position of teacher of Freshman Speech, Theatre
Arts (no credit), and Playwriting. He will always be remem-
bered for his connection with the magnificent performance
in 1948 of King Lear, even if others directed by him do not
measure up to Lear’s excellence. During this past year, he
was treated inconsiderately and unjustly, and his critics soon
defeated their own purpose: the presentation of a superior
play. The Bryn Mawr College Theatre would do well to con- |
sider him for the job of directing one or more of its plays

Current Events

In the first Current Events lec-
ture of the year, Dr. Wells of the
Political Science Department dis-
cussed the Korean situation. He
first reviewed ‘Korean history,
contrasting the centuries of Kor-
ean freedom with the oppression
Korea has endured at the hands of
the Japanese for the past fifty
years. These years of exploitation
(“Korea for the Japanese’) fan-
ned the flame of Korean national-
ism, but gave the country the

worst possible -preparation for
self-government.
At the Cairo Conference in

1943, a declaration stated that “in
due course, Korea shall be free and
united”, a promise which was too
indefinite to satisfy the Koreans.
Later, the Potsdam conference
called for a four-power rule. ‘The
country was to be divided by the
38th Parallel, a purely military de-
cision whereby Russian troops
would disarm Japanese in the
north, and the U. S. would do the
same in the south. This division
was economically and politically
unfortunate, but the only alterna-
tive was to leave the entire task to
Russian troops, which were al-
ready occupying the area.

This plam was not satisfactory,
so in 1945, a three-power confer-
ence met in Moscow to appoint a.
commission to direct the setting
up of a provisional government in
Korea, and of a four-power trus-
‘eeship in Korea which was to last
five years. Only the Korean Com-
munist parties approved this plan.
Since the Russians insisted that
dnly parties which approved be al-
lowed influence in the trusteeship,
there was another deadlock. In
1947, affairs were not yet settled:
the Russians refused to partici-
pate in further conferencees. The
matter was presented to the U. N.,
which established a “Temporary
Commission on Korea”. This Com-
mission was refused any commun-
ication with North Korea, but it
supervised elections for a General
Assembly, which in turn elected
President Rhee. The Russians
were carrying on similar activities
in the. north, from which they
withdrew their troops in December
1948. American troops withdrew
from the south in June 1949.

Analyzing the problem as it is
today, Dr. Wells noted the import-
ant precedent that this summer’s
activities have set: joint action has
met armed aggression. This ‘Po-
land in the Far East” remains as
important to the larger powers as
it was at the close of the 19th cen-
tury. “The really hard days of
making peace in Korea lie ahead,”
said Dr. Wells. The U.N. will not
be admired for its recent activities
in Korea, but rehabilitation must
be carried on. “We are back to the
old formula: ‘In due course Korea
shall be free and united.’ ”



K. McBride Stresses
International Outlook

Continued from Page 1

of common danger. By means of
the Marshall Plan, the Point Four
Program, exchange students, and
an all too small exchange of pro-
fessors, the world is open to a
sharing of opportunity. However,
because of fear or a selfishness
arising from fear, our concepts
have had limits imposed upon them.
Restrictions on individual freedom,
such as those enforced by the Cali-
fornia Regents, are more in evi-
dence than ever, and our highest
conceptions are often trammelled.
Only by small deeds and actions
and*by undiscouraged faith can we
hope to achieve our goals of peace
and security. “The struggle will



this year.

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be everyone’s.”

Continued from Page 1

Three points a year must be
arned in order to maintain mem-
bership. The Theatre cooperates
with the Cap and Bells Club of
Haverford College to produce four
plays a year, two of which are
staged on this’: campus in Good
hart. ‘A joint reading committee
from both colleges selects the
plays. First a list is ‘posted in
Taylor where anyone may write
down play suggestions. These are
then discussed by a committee of
eight, consisting of the four club
officers and four elected at large
from the membership. Before the
joint meeting with Haverford the
eight decide which four will vote.
After eliminating any plays which
have been done recently or are too
difficult to stage or costume, the
committee from the campus where
the show is to be presented sub-

Class of 54 Joins
Haverford Rhinies

In Square Dance

A week ago last Saturday night,
in a red and blue balloon-clad gym,
Bryn Mawr’s class of ’54 met Hav-
erford en masse. The occasion:
the annual introduction dance, this
year featuring Ricky Conant as
square dance caller, Al Clayton
and his four-piece band for ball-
room music after intermission.

The dance progressed in high
style from reels to fox trots, with
a pleasant ovenproportion of men
assuring a steady stag line. At the
outset, sets squared off for ener-
getic skipping on the polished gym
floor, while upperclassmen’s legs
and jackets dangled fascinated
from the spectators’ balcony.

Midway in the evening came
time out for cider and donuts,
songs by the Bryn Mawr Octangle
and a spirited rendition of “Big
Rock Candy Mountain” and “The
Blue-tail Fly” by Walt Robinson
and his guitar.

Katusha Cheremeteff, Dance
Committee chairman, and her
aides (Price, Loening, Hamburger,
Freytag, Mitchell and other host-
esses from the Freshman Week
committee) administered the order
of the night—Everybody Dance.
And they did—from 8:30 on until
“Good Night Ladies” gave the sig-
nal for the closing of gym doors,
hurried trips back to change sign-
ing out—and the post-party com-
ment of a “good time had by all”.



Reporter Revamps
Old Vernacular

by Helen Katz, ’53



Baroque—without money.
Patrol—English word for gasoline.
Revamp—make love to an old
flame,
Pimento—token of remembrance.
Nitrate—charge for telegrams
after 6 p. m.
Buoygnt—acting childish.
Scruple—a Russian coin.
Cistern—opposite of brethren.
Tenure—usually the hero in grand
opera.
Vernacular—field glasses.
Sepulchre—what the king holds.
Larva—comes out of a volcano.
Cardigan—pertaining to the heart.
Triumph—three groans.
Pompous—large stretches of
plains.
Libretto—type of dagger.
Sultry—buggy used in harness
racing.
Bandana—type of fruit.
Trepanning—hitting a tree.
Antidote—a funny story.
Parasite—one_ who. lives in Paris.
Squall—an Indian’s wife .
Howdah—Southern greeting.



Valid—a gentleman’s gentleman.

Drama Guild and Stage Guild Merge to Form
B.M. College Theatre; Kramer, Bacon Elected

mits four play suggestions. The
other reading committee suggests
two plays. A total of six plays is
read by the joint reading commit-
tee and voted upon. After a play
is chosen, the director and stage
manager are elected.

Actresses Anonymous is a work-
shop in which individual problems
are discussed and advice is given.
Freshmen inexperienced in college
theatre will find this group stimu-
lating, helpful, and encouraging.
This year it is sponsoring a series
of lectures by important person-
ages in the dramatic world. Any-
one can attend any meeting of this
organization regardless of wheth-
er or not she is a memiber. Any-
one who wants to work and learn



is welcome at Actresses Anony-
mous meetings.

The February Freshman Show
is always an important event for
the college’s newest class. The
stage manager for that show is
picked from those freshmen who
work well on stage crew for the
two fall plays of the College The-
atre. Freshmen are only restrict-
ed in one way during their: first
semester: they may not act in var-
sity productions. They may, how-
ever, do whatever else interests
them in connection with those pro-
ductions. There is always much to
be done in the line of business,
makeup, costuming, stage crew,
properties, lighting, set designs
and publicity.

‘With the revised college theatre
a new unity in dramatic endeavor
at Bryn Mawr is hoped for, so that
through greater cooperation, ef-
fort, and friendship a higher de-
gree of artistic success will be
achieved.

Junior Cast to Give
Six-Act-Revue on Sat.
Continued from Page 1
“Rancid Honey”

Louisa Chapin ............ N. Pearre
Leonora Hale ................ E. Winton
Lady Isabel Freezington ................
M. Wegier

TINIE, sissccieoseisescnsvsnngs T. Warren
Peter Chapin ............ B. Edgerton
Sir George Freezington ................
C. Armstrong

Commander St. John Corvett, R.N.
B. Pepper

“Twentieth Century Unlimited”

Bryn Mawr Song .... B. Foulke and
guitar

“Coincidence Dear”

Psychiatrist. ........ G. Cadwalader

RE oa haiti E. Macllroy
Kick Chorus:

directed by A. L. Wahlert

M. W. Boone, A. Chambers, M.

Cohn, J. Freytag, E. Gjelsness,

C. Nash, L. Perkins, C. Price, J.

Silman, E. Wadsworth.
“Television is Passe’

Sung by ........... E. Macllroy and
Chorus
Pantomimist ...... G. Cadwalader
“Moon and Nonsense”
oO ee enor J. Augustine
Shangri-Lana ......cscsese M. Wegier |
TIATECRGOT oocssssscscccsessornes R. Reynolds
GFBEOOT acc sccocsessscsonseies B. Green
I cistacnine I. Mogul
“Without Much Ado”
DMRS sais ci sicretscdves A. L. Wahlert
MNMEROD hors sésscciccstdiccanvns M. Allen
NS i pccvicsccscsostincnebiovia B. Dawes
MME iciiesis decid iver S. Herminghaus
Mrs. Bennett. ............ L. Bettman
MNO ook Sssscvccsesscs C. Armstrong
RE ivic sce ckcsscipicdeoss P. Edgerton
PI ohossisiidinsosatn B. Pepper
Chorus:

A. Pennypacker, McBride, Yor-
shis, Liachowitz, Cheremeteff,
Crowdus, Perkins, Glassberg,
Benedict, McKenny, Smith,

Mason, Angstadt, Appel,
Marx, Morel.
B. Rogers, Wadsworth, Bird,

Cary, Chase, Craig, Herming-
haus, Price, Bishop, Alexan-



der, Mulligan, Bianchi, Semel.








Wednesday;:October.11; 1950 —

THE COLLEGE NEWS



Statesman’ s' Letter

to IRC Urges

Understanding Others’ Way of Life

Last May the College News pub-
lished an article which includéd
four letters: from Eleanor Roose-
velt, Count Sforza, Senator Taft,
and George Bernard Shaw. These
were answers to a letter sent by
the International Relations Club,
requesting advice on how Ameri-
can students could help improve
the ‘chances for world peace. Since
that time the IRC has received an-
other letter. It appeared, in part,
in the July 30 edition of the Her-
ald Tribune, and in the June 26
issue of the Yugoslav Newsletter.

‘In your letter you request my
advice about the way in which you
students can most contribute to
peace and understanding among
peoples. Your incitement is really
worthy of praise. But you your-
self have said at the beginning of
your letter that the best way to
get acquainted and gain under-
standing among peoples is through
direct contact. I really have noth-
ing to add to that for it is elemen-
tary.

“Therefore, you, American stu-
dents, should try to get universal-
ly acquainted with the other peo-
ples. Learn about their past and
present. Strive to understand their
way of life, their hardships and
their aspirations for the better.
Separate the positive from the
negative in their way of life and
you will surely get to like them.

_ “If you wish to dedicate your-
selves to the struggle for the
strengthening of peace in the
world, then do not just work by
means of declarations but by ac-
tual deeds. Scrutinize in all re-
gspects which those elements are
that threaten world peace and
when you have established them,
be firm in the struggle against
them. You must be objective and
consistent in this sérutiny.

BMC - Haverford
Debate Scheduled

In college debating you “think
on your feet,” stated Mary Lee
Culver, president of the Debate
Club. This year the group is com-
bining with Haverford’s Northwest
‘Comfort Debate Society to organ-
ize contests throughout the year.

Although the national topic will
be “Resolved: The Non-Communist
Nations Should Form a New Inter-
national Organization,” still the
club plans to debate topics other
than this. At some point in the
year there will pe a debate to de-
termine which of the sexes is
superior.





“Never believe more in empty
words than in facts. Never regret
the effort you might make to learn
the facts, for the finding out of
facts removes the danger of blun-
ders which can bring forth serious
results.

“Finally, I might also tell you
that it is especially important to
respect the peoples of other coun-
tries no matter how small they
are.”

This -letter was received at the
end of June. It was signed “Best
regiards from,”and the signature
was Tito’s.

Disguised Sophs
Parade to Fire,

Expose ’54’s Song
by Helen Katz, ’53

What could be better for a first-
hand report of Parade Night than
to march with the initiate Fresh-
men, sing their discovered anthem,
and record all the facts as an un-
biased (?) Sophomore? And so we
marched with the Freshmen, sang
with the Freshmen, and were sub-
sequently mortified when we saw
our own classmates hands clasped
tightly against us as we and the
Freshman class charged down the
hill behind Rhoads toward the
annual bonfire.

Parade Night, the traditional
torchlight welcome of the incoming
Freshmen to the ranks of Bryn
Mawr students, takes place every
year on the eve of the first day of
classes This year, eagerness prevail-
ed, from the massing underneath
Pembroke arch, where we began to
despair of our eardrums; to the
march down to Rhoads, accom-
panied by the Junior and Senior
classes with their class lanterns,
to the music of the Fireman’s
band; to the restrained battle to
encircle the bonfire guarded by the
Sophomore Class; right down to
the final moment of the step-sing-
ing. Enthusiasm and sportsman-
ship were shown, as the group
took the discovery of
their Parade Night tune, and the
many cheers raised to the Fresh-
men, with smiles and good spirit,
anxious to show that they would
bring the same sportsmanship and
enthusiasm to their other college
ventures. Afterward, there were
parties given by the Sophomores
for the Freshmen in the halls,
where, over ices, ginger ale, and
cookies, the two classes became



better acquainted.



Veteran Warns Guileless Freshmen

Of the Inevitable Weighty Problems

by Helen Katz, ’53

Dear Freshmen,

This is an open letter dedicated
to those who have perhaps raised
an eyebrow at the thought of girls
who have’ gained enormous
amounts of weight at college, and
to that stalwart group who think,
“Tt can’t happen here!” In all ser-
iousness, we offer to all the Fresh-
men a warning and an example in
the true case of Miss X, ‘who gain-
ed _ sixteen pounds. during one
school year. The, reasons were
many,—extra_ food to keep going
late holars;.. too many teas, and
- generous helpings of starches and
ice creams at regular meals. The
menus we will not go into, but we
will say this—it could#Wave been|s
avoided! It is not a eeMeeebhe
to get up at nine o’clock every
morning of a supposed vacation,
and tear off to a tennis court or
golf course, rain or shine, to tone
up skin that never should have
been stretched in the first place.





Miss X was fortunate enough to
have an angry parent who shipped
her off to Elizabeth Arden’s, to be
toasted, broiled and whacked
around. Perhaps you will not be.
But then, perhaps you will not
gain weight, or act like a perish-
ing Armenian until the hall book-
shops open, or the dinner chimes
ring.

We forget which contemporary
actress it is who said “I always
get busy on myself when I: go up
two or three pounds; if I waited
until it were ten, it would be dev-
astating!” ‘And so ‘it would be.
We are not actresses, but someone

does care about us, and it‘ simply |:'

is not worth the extra cinnamon
toast to see the shock and then

, on” the face...

Off the train for a weekend, or
come xeon to friends and family
at vacation, many kilograms over-
weight. Please, Freshmen,, remem,
ber the example of our Miss X,
who spent the siitiimer” ‘touching
her toes!

a date, as we

Page Three



Last Nighters

Celeste Holm Enchants
‘Affairs of State’
Audience
by Helen Katz, 53

The eternal triangle assumes
many forms, but the sunprising
situation arrived at in “Affdirs of
State,” currently playing in New
York’s Royale Theatre, is one of
the oldest outgrowths of a triangle
we have ever seen. The inimitable
Celeste Holm, its star, steals the
acting honors of the day as the
pawn of a former Cabinet minis-
ter, his wife, and a Senator, and
as Louis Verneuil’s heroine/ Hilar-
ious as the situation is, ih whi
she finds herself married ih name
only to the Senator, erstwhile love
of the ex-minister’s wife, the plot
is othenwise tenuous, and relies
heavily on her to carry the rest of
the show. By the end of Act 1 we
can dimly foresee that true love is
going to triumph over the reasons
of state, for which the Senator had
to be married, and that the Senat-
or is about to change his mind and
his light 0’ love. Unfortunately, the
hero, Sheppard Strudwick, is too
worried to be convincing, and it is
Reginald Owen, as the “not old,
but with more years behind him in
which to be young,” cabinet min-
ister who is completely enchanting
with a naturalness that draws the
audience into the play.

As to the lines, the entire archi-
tecture of the play is a minor
masterpiece. The words are beau-
tiful and beautifully played with,
and all the characters get a chance
to be the author’s mouthpiece, in-
stead of just one character, a la
seventeenth century French plays.

Such lines as, “Marriage is like
a besieged fortress, all those in
want to get out, and all those
without to get in,” and “French
women never knew they had
charm or glamour until the Amer-
icans told them about it”? show the
clever, incisive logic of the bi-lin-
guistic playwright, who knows his
diplomacy, but not his Washing-
ton, well. Fascinating costumes,
especially those for Barbara O’-
Neil, the “other woman,” by Dor-
othy Jenkins, are well worth men-
tion, and the single set of a Wash-
ington drawing room, by Paul

orrison, is lovely.

e laurels, though, still go to
Miss Holm, who with her naive yet
clever performance, reminiscent of
Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday,
makes the show a howling success.
The basic situation keeps a smile
on one’s face all the time and she
puts across most of the laugh
lines, with her strict adherence to
her conitract to pose as a_ wife,
while her husband, falling in love
with her, itches to change her ov-
erly ‘businesslike attitude to a
more conjugal one. She carries out
her more delicate. scenes with the
greatest of pathos, and certainly is
a versatile stage personality. We
never regretted having seen this
play, and as a final criterion of it
as a comedy, thought that if the
chance arose, we would like to see
it again.

Incidentally

. One conscientious sophomore,
earnestly trying to fill out her
course card, went up to her Span-

jish instructor after class one day

and asked her what her name was.
“Are you Senora Esteves?” she
inquired:

“No,” was the answer, “the

name is Marsball, Mrs. Marshall!”

And: then ‘there ‘was the innocent |!
Freshman, who, upon hearing |
Mrs. Marshall pronounce the |
Avords™ “Buenos Aires,” informed
the “Dean ‘that’ shé ‘Spoke “rost





excellent st



N.S. A. Congress Considers Impact
Of International Crisis on Education

by Ronnie Gottlieb, ’53
and Lita Hahn, ’52

The Wolverine left Grand Cent-
tral on August 21st bearing two
Bryn Mawrtyrs with tennis rac-
quets. We sat breathless, warmed
by cocktails at the Biltmore, a
little unbelieving that we were go-
ing west of Paoli for the first time.
We were going as elected repre-
sentatives to the 10-day National
Student Congress to be held on the
University of Michigan campus.

We arrived in Ann Arbor with
three things in mind. The first was
to decide once and for all whether
or not N.S.A. was something Bryn
Mawr should continue to support.
The second was to learn as much
as the Congress could .teach us.
The third was tennis.

. The first days were filled with

BMC Club Plans
Season of Music

The Bryn Mawr ‘Music Club is
making plans for its fourth season
this winter and has announced
that memibership is open to fac-
ulty, students, and staff of Bryn
Mawr, and all others who are in-
terested. As usual the subscription
is five dollars payable in advance.
Since there is no provision for def-
icits, and because any other meth-
od of ticket sale would involve
payment of an entertainment tax,
tickets must be sold for the entire
series. Guests of members may be
paid for on a single concert basis.

There will probably be five con-
certs, as there have been in for-
mer years, though final plans de-
pend on the number of tickets
sold, since eighty subscriptions are
needed for a five-concert series.
The concerts will be held in the
Wyndham Music room, between
five and six-fifteen on Sunday af-
ternoon.



The programs usually are made
up of classical selections, played
by advanced students from the
Curtis Institute and other music
schools, and the recitals have fea-
tured everything from horn trios
to vocalists. Last year the Con-
temporary Music Reading Center
presented one concert made up of
the work of four young composers
and ‘played by Paul Olefsky and
friends of the composers.

All who are interested in joining
the music club may see Ann
Johns in Rhoads’ North or send
checks, made out to the Bryn Mawr
Music Club directly to the treasur-
er, Miss Mildred Northrop.

general orientation, renewing ac-
quaintances with old friends from
the Pennsylvania Region, getting
used to living with over 800 stud-
ents from more than 300 colleges
throughout America, and realiz-
ing that we who had wondered
“Just how much can you talk in
ten days?” had underestimated
ourselves. Oh yes, we talked. We
talked with girls from Bennington
and Vassar and Sarah Lawrence
and Mills and Maryhurst. and
Northwestern; with boys from Har-
vard and Yale and Ohio State and
U.C.L.A. and Miami U. We talked
to visiting people from the United
World Federalists, the NAACP,
the Red Cross, the American As-
sociation of University Professors,
yes, and with people from Com-
munist front groups who were lob-
bying at the Congress, people from
the Labor Youth League and.Young
Progressives. We talked and we
listened, we voted, we read litera-
ture and we took notes. We went
to plenary sessions, commission
meetings, sub-commission meet-
ings, caucuses.

Whatswas it all about? It was
all about the things that concern
students as such. The annual Na-
tional Student Congress is the
legislative body for the National
Student Association. During its
sessions, student delegates re-
evaluate the work of the past year
and plan the work for the next.
This summer we were concerned
with the problems of student gov-
ernment, and the exchange of ideas
on projects, faculty-student rela-
tions, and cultural activities. But
this summer the big issue at the
NSA Congress was the same big
issue as that in the United States
Congress. Our draft-conscious, lib-
eral-minded body was concerned
with Soviet Communism, Korea,
and the effects of these on the edu-
cational world.

It would be impossible for us to
tell in this limited space every-
thing we discussed and decided.
We hope to get this information
to you in other ways, but here are
some of the more salient stands
we took. We passed a resolution
backing the U.N. action in Korea,
along with a statement expressing
our strong desire for peace and
international cooperation. At the
same time, we voted to break off
relations with the International
Union of Students, having found it
to be Soviet controlled, completely
uncooperative, and, in fact, work-
ing against us. All attempts to
work with it on non-partisan is-
sues had failed, and all good will

Continued on Page 4, Col. 5





Music, Crystal Chandelier, Doorman
To Mark Debut of ‘Boite La Roque’

La Roque, Bryn Mawr’s newest
and most fashionable nightclub,
will fling wide its doors for the
first time promptly at 10:30 o’clock
Saturday night, October 14, after
the Junior Show. For fear that the
public will be subjected to too much
of a good thing, these glittering
portals must be closed reluctantly
at one in the morning. In the mean-
time, a liveried, brass-buttoned
doorman (Cissy Puschett is travel-
ing incognito these days) will stand
outside to greet the guests. A
marquee, spotlights playing upon
it, will glamorize the doorway of
La Roque (Rockefeller Hall lurks
under a ‘Pseudonym these days,
itoo).

‘Tuck Howell and Sally Shoe-
intaker are co-managers : of, La
Roque; Nancy Bolton handles pub-
lieity; _and Cissy Puschett the
tickets of admission. Cissy’s cohorts
in each’ hall’ are ‘Mary Merchant,
Pem East; ‘Phil Kunze, Pem West;

Barbara Maude, Merion; Myra



‘Becker, Denbigh;: Jane Martin,

Radnor; and Jenny Dole, Rhoads.
The necessary expenditure is $2.40
a couple.

La Roque’s newly-decorated in-
terior runs the gamut from the
Bohemian intimacy of candlelighted
tables in the smoker to the lavish
grand ballroom, void of dining
tables, where a crystal chandelier
will radiate romantic atmosphere.
Appropriate soft music will be sup-
plied by John Whitaker’s trio en-
-sconced beneath a canopy. A bar
will dispense punch made accord-
ing to a secret recipe and other
refreshments for the dancers. No
information is yet available about
the floorshow.

Since it is an exclusive club, La
Roque will not admit those in peas-
ant attire. A cocktail gown is as
suitable as evening dress. Two-
thirty permission allows enough
time for the merry-makers to-wan-
der back ‘to their: various halls
after the club closes down. Don’t
forget to see your hall agent for
‘tickets to the Grand Opening next
Saturday night!









Page Four



THE COLLEGE NEWS

a

Wednesday, October 11, 1950



Observer

This campus is interwoven with
sounds and silences. Tense laugh-
ter harasses the dining room. Sil-
ver clacks against the crockery;
shrieks ‘burst out above murmur-
ing ... and yet at midnight the
quiet stakes the streetlight’s ghost
to Goodhart’s floor. The door-hinge
echo ricochets, and disturbs the
velvet ropes of chandeliers.

“Cigarette!” is the ecstatic cry
as the bell tolls. A hundred feet
come thump-thumping down from
Taylor’s upper stories; the narrow
staircase vibrates. A hundred
tongues compete beneath~ the
smoke-haze. Fat water-drops plop
into paper cups. Doors open, shut
and open—a loose tile clicks like a
pencil dropped incessantly, and
matches grate on sandpaper...
and then again the pervading
greyness cf a morning mist’ dead-
ens the squeak of icy leaf-stems.
The wind is muffled; grass smoth-
ers a footstep’s crackling. Listen
to the song of starlings in the ivy
as the sky grows lighter.

Listen to the sounds that tempt
you, and the quietness that pleads
with you—iwhich way will you go?
Noise presents the exciting un-
known factor. What do the voices
say, what is the song someone
sings, who waits beyond the ring-
ing telephone? Music is magic; a
cafe’s raucous din screens off the
corner conversation of two linger-
ing over coffee. What revolution-
ary possibilities are presented!
You want to find the source of the
sound, and bring what might be
into being. Sounds are the key to
dear and simple pleasures. A word
may pievent a frenzy of depres-
sion, and a song cam turn the blue
‘moon into geld.

But you know also the ugliness
of noisy smokers where cacophony
clubs you without mercy, and gos-

sip prostitutes the truth. Voices}.

spew out sarcasm, and one cruel
word inflicts agony.. You curse
your ears for hearing and your
heart for caring. In that painful
moment, remember all the silent
places_you-forgot._In the cloister
at dusk there is solitude as cool
and tranquil as stone, and in the
library stacks, the quaint friendly
silence of old books.

But there is not always peace
in quiet. You must fight the prob-
lems you cannot circumvent by
letting noise distract you. Quiet
places make you think. They pre-
sent you with tormenting sadness
from which you must forge cour-
age and comfort. Sound is kinetic
thought transformed into a poem

SPORTS

With high expectations for a
spectacular season, Bryn Mawr
plays its first hockey game against
Drexel on October 11 at 4 o’clock.
An enthusiastic and promising
troup of freshmen are swelling
che ranks of the able veterans.
Coaching the team for the first
time this year is Miss Margaret
‘Lasbrey of the Union of South
Aifrica, who has spent the past
five years in England teaching
hockey and who has also been a
member of the All-England Hoc-
key Team: Her secret “W” for-
mation will be tried on the field



| this Wednesday. Miss Lasbrey

istarred in running and javelin
throwing in the Olympic Track
Events.

Plans are being made for at
least four active hockey teams.
Janie Stone is Captain of the
squad; Trish Mulligan, already
wounded on the field, is Manager
The first and second Varsities
(subject to change) are:

1st Team Position 2nd Team
Kimball lw Riegle
Blackwood Ii McCormick
Merritt ef Muir
Thompson ri Parker
Stone rw Hetzel
Iglehart nh Rogers
Townsend ch Albert
Perkins th Atherton
Howell lf Merrick
Woodworth rf Savage
Mulligan g Wagoner



Counterpoint boxes are up
now in every hall on campus,
awaiting your creative and crit-
ical work, your short stories
and poems, your essays and re-
views, photographs and draw-
ings. So type your work, dig
out your pictures, and clip an
envelope containing your name
and hall together with it, and
drop it where the sign directs.
Ail contributions are~ judged:
anonymously, ‘and .~ rettirned
promptly wth constructive crit-
icism. Deadline: October 22:









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Silence is po-|.

Engagements
Cynthia Cresap Comly, ex-’53, to
Theodore G. Montague, Jr.
(Mary Millburn Conelly, 53, to
Benson Murray.

Janet Elizabeth Groff, Pem East
warden, to William S. Greever.

Jeanette Burnet Hersey, *50, to
George William fiffeld.

Marian Clifford John, ’49, to
Stratton Morey Bell.
Luanne Olsen, ex-’52,-to Carl

Otjen.
Nancy Sherman, ’52, to Law-
rence Rosenberg.
Delight © Simmons,
Charles Robinson.
Lillian Smith, ’53, to Gilbert
Phare. :

ex-’53, to

Caroline Taggert, ’51, to Ned
Pennypacker.
Marriages

Julie Martin Burk, ex-’52, to
Richard Henderson Dent.

Pamela Davis, 50, to Colgate
Selden Prentice.

Sheila Burton Eaton,
Heyward Isham.

Ann (berstadt, ’50, to Peter
Best Connell.

Delia Fleishhaker,
John Stephen Erlich.

Virginia Southall Graham, ’50,
to Hugues Leblanc.
Anne Starr Holmes, ex-’51, to
Charles Bradley White.
Judith Konowitz,
Philip L. Sykes.

Nancy Laird Loomis, ex-’52, to
Michael M. Mooney.

(Cynthia Lovejoy, 50, to Jacob
Berry Underhill, II.

Joyce-Marie Lustgarten, ex-’51,
to Dr. Robert Weinstein.

Lois Ruth Miller, ’50, to Regin-
ald Bruce Collier.

Barbara Rosenbloom, ex-’53, to
Earl Bronsteen.

Nancy Schaberg, ex-’52, to Ed-
ward J. Gately, Jr.

Barry Trowbridge Seymour, ex-
52, to Michael Boyd.

Josephine Spitzer, ’50, to Brian
Mead, Jr.

Elizabeth Hayward Swope, ’50;
to. Benjamin Collins.

Shirley Winter, ’50, to Samuel

50, to

ex-’52, to

ex-’51, to



Mason.

Members Listed
By BM Theatre

(For the convenience of those
interested in any phase of drama-
tics, the News presents a com-
plete list of officers and members
of the Bryn Mawr College Thea-

tre. The officers are:
President — Sue Kramer
Vice-president Ellen Bacon

Bus. Mgr.
Publicity

Mary Starkweather

Katchy Torrence
Costumes Adele Lawrence
Makeup Jill McAnney

Trish Richardson is the presi-
dent of Actresses Anonymous, the
College Theatre’s, workshop, in
whose activities freshmen are in-
vited to participate during their
first semester. Members of the
Theatre are as follows: in Pem-
broke East—Molly Allen, ’52; El-
len Bacon, ’51; Linda Bowden, ’53;
Katusha Cheremeteff, ’52; Pat
Hirsch, ’51; Julie-Ann Johnson,
52; Betsy Kevin, ’52; Adele Law-
rence, 53; Liz Nelidow, ’51; Mary
Starkweather, ’51; and Judy Wal-
drop, ’58.

In Pembroke West — Helen
Armsby, ’51; Minnie Cassatt, °53;
Virginia Randolph, ’52; and True
Warren, ’52.

In Rockefeller—Jane Augustine,
52; Linda Bettman, ’52; Genie
Chase, ’52; Maryann Holmes, ’52;
Mary Sue Hopkins, 53; Tucker
Howell, ’58; Suki Kuser, ’53; Judy
Leopold, ’58; Jill McAnney, ’52;
Trish Richardson, ’52; Sally Shoe-
maker, 758; and Paula Strawhec-
ker, ’52.

In Wyndham—Pat Onderdonk,
52.

In Denbigh—Myra Becker, ’53;
Ann Blaisdell, 53; Candy Bolster,
538; Isabell Frey, ’58; Nancy
Pearre, ’52; Penny Rand, ’53; and
Eritha von der Goltz, ’51.

In Merion—Sue Halperin, ’538;
Mary Klein, 52; Sue Kramer, ’51;

Continued on Page 5, Col. 1



N.S.A. Considers Impact
Of International Crisis
Continued from Page 3

had disappeared. After heated dis-
cussion, we voted in favor of Fed-
eral Aid to all educational institu-
tions, and in favor of unqualified
academic freedom. We also decided
to lower N.S.A. dues, to revamp the
Purchase Card System, and to com-
bine the Domestic and Internation-
al offices.

When the Congress was over,
we sat on the train and tried to
forget the incidental things we had
enjoyed; the dances, the singing,
the LIFE photographer snapping
anything that looked sensational
the people, the surroundings ind
the tennis courts we had not used.
We sat back and answered the
question that had been foremost
in our minds. Was'N.S.A. some-
thing Bryn Mawr should support?
We took into account that we had
not agreed with everything the
Congress had decided, and with
which a lot of Bryn Mawr stud-
ents would probably not agree
either. But we did agreed that we
had just seen the most inspiring
display of democracy in practice
we could ever hope to witness, and
that in a democracy you don’t quit
when the majority is not with you.
You work to persuade them. We
thought about the need for a Na-
tional Student Association, and we
thought about its basic policies.
Slowly we decided that N.S.A. was
worthwhile, that it was for Bryn
Mawr and that we had a challenge
before us.

When we voted at the Congress,
we could not really represent you.
N.S.A. at Bryn Mawr has been too
remote for its issues to have in-
terested you. We had not really.
heard your opinions. When Bryn
Mawr joined the N.S.A. it took a
step the implications of which it
did not fully understand. This year,
we hope to bring N.S.A. issues to.
the attention of the entire student
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Wednesday, October 11, 1950

THE COLLEGE NEWS



Polyglot DP Student
To Major in Politics
Continued from Page 1

enter Bryn Mawr two years ago,
but was delayed in entering by
- illness in the family. She consid-
ers convenience and a sense of at-
tachment for the school two of. the
outstanding features of Bryn
Mawr, both of which were imposs-
ible at the University, which is
geared for three to five thousand
students. At the University also,
intellectual supervision was con-
sidered the only necessity, and Bo
notes with pleasure the spiritual,
intellectual and physical supervi-
sion that she has found here.

Bo thinks she will probably ma-
jor in Politics, and hopes to con-
tinue her studies in law school, or
perhaps get a job with the UN.
She has decided on a career on in-
ternational relations because of
her concern for the relations be-
tween European countries, and
her anger at the havoe which po-
litical leaders have brought -upon
the lives of Europeans.

Drawing on her knowledge of
post-war Europe, Bo feels that. the
Marshall Plan should have been a
Spiritual, as well as a material
project. We don’t understand the
Russian system or the strength of



College Theatre Lists
Members for 1950-51

Continued from Page 4

Peasy Laidlaw, ’52; Ruth Laplace,
"51; Bobbie Lese, ’52; and Bev
Singer, ’53.

In. Radnor—Lola Mary Egan,
51; Elaine Marks, ’52; and Betsy
‘Taliaferro, ’52.

In Rhoads—Alys Farnsworth,
61; Maggie Glenn, ’53; Lita Hahn,
*62; Mary Anne Hennessey, ’52;
Katchy Torrence, ’51; Margie
. Turner, ’51; and Joanie Wood-
worth, *1.

NOTICES

Do you want to win $50 in cold
cash? Then get out your camera
and find yourself an outstanding
member of the Bryn Mawr student
body. Get her to take the Chester-
field Mildness Test and while she
is doing it, take three pictures of
her. dt’s as simple as that; for
further details see your hall bul-
etin board or Betty Anne Schoen
-n Rock. ‘Deadlines: November
3 and December 6.

+

‘Paul Austin Wolfe, D. D., is to
”e the speaker at the next chapel
service, Sunday, October 15. Dr.
Wolfe has been for the past twelve
years pastor of the Brick Church,
New York. Before that he was
pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church of Evanston, Illinois, and
chaplain of the Taft School in Wa-
tertown,

There will be a discussion per-
iod after the service Sunday night.



the tantalizing ideal which the
USISR presents to the people as a
goal to be achieved. Although she
doesn’t know whether she wants
‘o enter the field of internatioal
relations in Europe or in America,
our seven-language linguist does
know that she wants to help save
the people of Europe from any
more of the terrible tragedy which
she saw and experienced herselif.









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Page Five



The Rare Book Room has fitting-
ly inaugurated the new semester
with an exhibit of local color —

‘Bryn Mawr literary efforts. Samples

of Bryn Mawr publications from
The Bryn Mawr Almanac of 1934
and The Fortnightly Philistine (For
Private Circulation Only) of 1895
to the recent Title and the current
Counterpoint are represented.

Included, too, in the - historical
display, is a tome entitled Pagoda
Sketches, by pupils of the Phebe
Anna Thorne Open Air Model

















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Meeting the gang to discuss a quiz
—a date with the campus queen—or
just killing time between classes—
the University of Miami ‘Student
Club is one of the favorite places for
a rendezvous. At the Student Club,

as in university campus haunts

everywhere, a frosty bottle of
Coca-Cola is always on hand for the
pause that refreshes—Coke belongs.

Ask for it either way... both

trade-marks mean the same thing.

BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY

THE PHILADEL-riiA COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY

School for Girls . . . opposite Pem-
broke Arch. The first line of one
young lady’s composition from
this anthology: “I was not always
a hinge. Once upon a time I was
a lump of iron.”

‘Bryn Mawr musical composi-



Rare Book Room Exhibits Local Color
With Books, Programs, College Writing

tions are elegantly represented by

an illustrated score of the College |

Hymn, and A Book of Bryn Mawr
Verses lies opeh to a Sonnet to our
Alma Mater. As an echo of for-
mer times in “Fifty Years of Bryn
Mawr,” the first paragraph com-
mences with, “During Bryn Mawr’s
50 years, the college has support-
ed or grown tired of supporting
five publications.” Among those not
already mentioned: The Lantern,
Tipyn O’Bob, the Bryn Mawr Re-
view, and the College News.

In the two cabinets smiled on
by the Cloister sun are biographies
of M. Carey Thomas and Joseph
Wright Taylor, yearbooks old and
new, and mementoes of Big May
Day.

Assembly Gives 1954
Insight on College Life

Continued from Page 1

Sixty percent of the Freshman
class was prepared entirely by pri-
vate school, 32% entirely by pub-
lic schools, The 160 Freshmen at-
tended 148 secondary schools, and
took their final preparatory work
in 1183 schools. Winsor prepared
9 members of the class of 1954,
the largest representation from
any school, with Saint Timothy’s
and Farmington each sending 6,
and Brearley 5.

Twenty-three of the Freshmen
were the highest students in their
respective classes, which ranged in
size from .6 to 707 students. ’54
stood very high in their aptitude
test scores, their median score be-
ing higher than that of any enter-
ing class, with the exception of

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simply asks you to try Camels as your steady smoke — on a pack
after pack, day after day basis. No snap judgments needed.
After you’ve enjoyed Camels — and only Camels —
for 30 days in your “T-Zone” (T for Throat, T for Taste)

we believe you'll know why...

More People Smoke Camels
than any other cigarette!













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Page Six



THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, October 11, 1950



Assembly Gives 1954
Insight on College Life

Continued from Page 5
the phenomenal class of 1950.

Miss McBride compared the at-
titude of the class as a whole to
ist who was paint-
ing her po t'\this summer, at
the request” e alumnae. At
the first sitting, the painter de-
clared that the portrait would be
“heroic;” the next day he shrugged
and said, “Welly we have to face
reality!”” Miss McBride said that
many of the Freshmen seem more
ready to make choices than is
usual. The world situation has
touched their academic interests,
as shown by the class in Political
Science, which numbers twice as
many students as the same class
last year.

French is the favorite choice in
the field of languages, with inter-
est in Russian increasing. In the
science field, there are the usual
pre-med students, but the number
ef Freshmen who have decided on
a science major is as yet smaller
than in previous years. In conclud-






Elections

Announcement has been made of
the following elections: Business
Manager of Junior Show, Genie
Chase, ’52. Business Manager of
the Bryn Mawr College Theatre,
Mary Starkweather, 751. First
temporary Freshman Song Mis-
tress, Peggy Hitchcock, ’54. First
temporary Freshman chairman,
Caroline Morgan, ’54. Junior class
officers: President, Alice Mitchell,
52; Vice President, Bertie Dawes,
52; Secretary, Helen Woodward,
52; Song Mistress, Caroline Price,
‘52; Senior class officers: Presi-
dent, Di Goss, ’51; Vice President,
Ellen Bacon, ’51; Secretary, Mousie
Wallace, ’51; Song Mistress, Er-
itha von der Goltz, ’51. Yearbook
Editor, Fifi Sonne, ’51.



ing her survey of what she de-

scribed as an excellent and promis-
ing class, Miss McBride took note
of the fact that with 1954 the de-
mand for double rooms exceeded

the usual room choices of enter-
ing Freshmen.







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the supply, a complete reversal of

What

All students who would like odd
jobs should see Mrs. Sullivan in
Room H. You are not registered
with the Bureau unless you have
filled out the job preference sheet.
Any students who have outside
jobs which they did not get
through the Bureau of Recommen-
dations are requested to report
them to Room H so that we may
have a complete record.

ON-CAMPUS JOBS—for details
see Mrs. Sullivan in Room H.

Deanery waitresses—The Dean-
ery needs regular waitresses and
substitutes for lunch, dinner, and
special parties. See Sally Herm-
inghaus in Merion.

Laboratory and Storeroom—One
or two girls, with a knowledge of





To Do

chemistry, for Thursday 12-1 and
2-6. ‘See Dr. Berliner in Park.

Merion Cleaning Agency—One
representative in Rockefeller Hall
and two in Rhoads Hall are needed
to work 2/2 to 8 hours per week
taking clothes from their halls to
Merion basement and calling fo)
them. Excellent commission. See
Anne Gurewich in Merion.

work Saturdays from 7 to 10 p.m.
See Miss Geist in the Library.
Hall Librarians needed in Pem-
broke East and West,
Rockefeller, Wyndham and Gradu-
ate Center. This means taking
care of the hall libraries and work-
ing in the main library reserve
room 8 or 4 Sunday afternoons a





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semester. Pays $10 to $20 a sem-
ester depending on the hall. See
Miss Geist in the Library.

Regular Baby Sitting—Woman
needs sitter for practically every
Saturday afternoon or Sunday, or
both, from 2.30 to 6 p. m.

General Baby Sitting—Room H.





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