College news, October 13, 1954

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VOL. LI, NO. 3

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1954

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1954



- PRICE 20 CENTS



M. Mead Examines
Effects Of Spirit
On Technical Help

GOODHART, Oct. 12—“How we
are to integrate our religious back-
ground with the plan that has de-
veloped since World War II to
share advanced technological un-
derstanding witn other people”

was tne question Dr. Margaret
Mead posea m her address “‘i'ne
vilemma of a Point Four Ethic”.

‘Yur dilemma, as Dr. Mead ex-|§
“We 4

pressed 1t mure concrete.y, is,
aren't sure whether keeping babies
alive is material or spiritual”. The
nations of. the Soviet bloc have no
such dilemma as they have estab-
lished material things as good.
‘nerefore the problem involved is
peculiar to our civilization whose
ethics. are descendents of Judo-
Christian religious ideas.

Most of the medical achieve-
ments of the West have been
brougnt about by devoted religious
workers—nuns, nurses, medical
missionaries. They, however, “were
originally organized around ‘the
doctor rather than around the pu
tient”. pe
Compassion was built up as a
virtue of the Judo-Christian relig-|
ions and thereafter it was prac
viced. At the same time one fact
was emphasized: “The less tite
you spend in the world the better”.

As one Catholic Bishop express
ed this position of all our Western
religions, “the purpose of this
world is to colonize heaven”. Or
as she explained, ‘“‘when little souis
of babies. are unspotted why keep
~ them-here to be spotted?” _

Because of this religious ethic,
there was a split between the re-
ligious workers and. the . devoted
followers. of technical assistance.
The latter group wanted the so-
called “underprivileged” people to
obtain education and food so that
health would be good enough to
keep -babies alive and growing.
These people were devoted, they

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Utopian Aspirants Arrive in Eden



-When the script committee met
last spring to decide upon a theme
for Junior show, they had in mind
a melodramatic mystery. Slowly,
during the last weeks of May,
throughout the summer, and final-
ly, during four days in September
this. intense drama _ production
evolved into Odd ’n Eden, a mu-
sical comedy. But how did this in-
ception and evolution begin and
progress ?

From the very beginning, the
concept “island” was considered
the-major-theme of Junior show.
However, the history of this island
changéd drastically. At first. the
plot: involved a maniac who takes
a group of people from all walks
of life to an island which is sink-
ing. His.motives for wanting to do
away with these people could not
be decided upon. In addition, the
script committee could not imag-
ine any form of music that could
be composed for this theme.



After crossing off this idea, the



Non-Reses Spoo

f Brando In Original

Parody, “Tricycle Named Waterfront”

By Marcia Case, ’57 >

An original work with a timely
subject was offered by the Non-
Reses on Friday night. Boasting
an excellent set, a hero who could
out-Brando Brando, and mood mu-
sic by the talented “L. Beethoven
and G,; Gershwin,” “A _ Tricycle
Named Waterfront” proved great
fun for both the audience and ac-
tors..

The plot, sanduiac after the lat-
est Marlon Brando vehicle, con-
cerned a “marbles racket,” headed
_ by J. F.

The plot, however, was not the
strongest part of the play, for it
lacked continuity and failed to build
up to a real climax. What made
the play a success was the excel-
lent acting, or maybe “impersonat-
ing,” the clever lines, and the gen-
eral atmosphere.

Sybille Von Bulow made a su-|

perb Eddie, “a misguided goody.”
She had the physical qualifications
_of a shaggy haircut and bangs, an
accent, an easy awkwardness, and
-a torn shirt. She was also excel-
lent at s
eng a general disdain for the



+ her curt lines,



people around her, and exhibiting
her animal] instincts by emitting an
occasional “gruh!”

Gwen Gentile looked very much
the part of J.F., “head of the local
crime syndicate. ” She was a shad-
owy and sinister,-if not too force-
ful; figure. In a long blonde wig

‘and a slip, Jane Epstein as “Ter-

ry” had little else to do than ac-
cept the off-handed advances of
Eddie. But she filled the bill as the
only “feminine interest” in the

play. Llynda Hinds made a very|T

stolid.-and convincing bartender,
who appeared to be forever giving
and receiving confidential informa-
tion, As “Odds and Ends,” Ro-
chelle Eskin put enthusiasm and
life into her roles as a street ven-
dor and the driver of the dreaded
tricycle. ;

‘The authors, Jessica Dragonette
‘and Constance Horton, of “A Tri-
cylee Named Waterfront” are to
be commended for their cleverness.
The actors should be praised for
their complete naturalness and

their apparent_ mre: in the}



production.

“Odd ‘N Eden” Revamped Innumerable
Times Before Finding Its Final Form

group progressed to the Garden of
Eden legend. Starting with this
legend, the group planned to de-
velop an allegorical comedy. The
key to the allegory was an apple.
Digressing from the biblical: story,
the apple denoted man’s failure to
share and symbolized the failure
of all utopias.

A narrator who tells the legend
of this ever-failing utopia was also
added to the list of characters.
Shortly after this plot was devel-
oped, the committee decided the
appie symbol-as-well-as the nar-
rator’s were superfluous.

By this time finals were over,
and everyone wanted to go home.
However, the island theme and the
character’s personalities had begun

Continued on Page 5, Col. 1

CALENDAR

Thursday, October 14

8:30 a. m. to 12:30 p. m. and
2:00 p. m. to 5:00 p. m. Last
chance to have required x-rays
taken free.

Friday, October 15
8:30 p. m. First performance
of Junior Show, “Odd ’N Eden,”
at Goodhart..
Saturday, October 16
8:30 p. m. “Odd ’N Eden” ends
its engagement at Goodhart.
10:30 p. m. to 1:00 a. m. Her-
nando’s Hideaway moves to Rock.

Sunday, October 17

7:30 p. m. “Romance of the
Deep”:“wilk be the subject of a
chapel talk by Rev. Warren C.
Johnson in the Music Room.

7:15 p. m. Mr. Gilbert will
speak on European defense at-
tempts at Current Events in the
Common Room.

Tuesday, October 19

5:00 p. m. The situation in
North Africa will be the theme
of the I.R.C. meeting with Ed-
ward Latham as speaker. The
club will meet in the Common
Room.

8:30 p. m, James Kietzman, a
member of the Friends’ Social
Order Committee will speak un-
der the auspices of the Alliance
in the Common Room.
Wednesday, October 20 |

4:30 p..m._Curriculum-Commit-
tee tea in the es Room.

HEN



Freshman Class Shows Skill And Originality In Their Plays;
Rhoads Wins Plaque, Radnor Merits Mention, Opine Judges

Fine Staging Of Fable
Brings. Acclaim
To Radnor

By Rosemary Rudstrom

The last presentation of Friday
evening was Radnor’s play, “The
Golden Doom,” by Lord. Dunsany,
directed by Leigh Ellis, and ad-
visor, Paula Sutter.

An enchanting folk tale which
was brought closer to the human
side by the quality of the acting,
the comedy became, at times, al-
most serious.

The foibles of humanity were
excellently pointed out by the plot.

|The king who was too proud and

therefore became afraid of the
stars, claimed that he was _ over-
whelmed by no man but by the
gods. Actually, of course, he and
his learned and powerful court
were overcome by two weak chil-
dren.

Actors Excel

The satire on the weakness of
the mighty was well done, yet the
audience was overcome by the se-
rious acting which entered in when
the king, for instance, spoke of his
build-up of his country. All the
actors did a very good job, from
‘the king down to two nonchalant
sentinels, and the audience was
well content when the king, pulling
out another crown, went along on
his former path, as one realized, at
1ast, that it was only a fairy tale.
The play was quite erennys: and
very well done.

The cast was, in order of ap-
pearance: 1st sentry, Lucia Sow-
ers, 2nd sentry, Peggy Carter,
‘Stranger, Connie Demis, Boy, Don-
na Cochrane, Girl,..Nan Sheehy,
Spy I, Debbie Zimskind, Spy II,
Rosemarie Said, King, Betsey
Hilgeberg, Lord Chamberlain,
Nancy Dyer, Prophet I, Zoja Pav-
loskis, Prophet II, Pat Hill, At-
tendant, Judith Malm, Chief Pro-
phet, Sue Fox. Props were man-
aged by Sue Fox and Kitty Mil-
mine.

‘Hideaway’ At Rock
Following Jr. Show

Couples who follow the black
footsteps painted under Rock Arch
between 10 and 1 P.M. on October
16, will find themselves in “Her-
nando’s Hideway” amidst. gin-less
gin, hot music, and paper dice.

‘All the corruption of the 1920
prohibition and flapper days will
descend upon the interior of Rocke-
feller as the hall converts itself
into a gambling casino for the tra-
ditional dance following Junior
Show.

Bath-tub gin, actually witha in

‘a bathtub, will be served to all pa-

trons of the notorious rendezvous.
Music for dancers will be furnish-
ed by John Wittacker’s band. Dur-
ing intermission the Bryn..Mawr
Octangle will introduce their new
arrangements.

Tickets for the dance (cost $2.00)
may be purchased from sopho-
mores in each hall or in Taylor,
from 9-11 A.M. Arrangements; are
under -the direction of Sheppie

_Glass,Marilyn- Keyes, and ‘Judy {|

Harris. -



‘of Cuchulain by Joan Shikekawa.






















































Rhoads Shows Talented
Acting In Play
By Yeats .

By Carol Hansen. .~“

The Rhoads freshmen won first
place in the play contest this year
for their excellent production of
“The Only Jealousy of Emer,” by
W. B. Yeats. The combination of
fine acting and originality of pres-
entation rated high with the
judges.

The story in poetic form con-
cerned Emer, superbly portrayed
by Erica Lann, a devoted wife who
had lost her husband’s love to his
mistress. She had only a memory
and a hope that someday he would
return to her. And the latter she
was forced to renounce.

Sara White, Marianne McDon-
ald, and Madlyn Wolfe, the three
musicians appeared on stage first.
They walked across to the steps
and began to play their original
Next came the narrators,
Connie Brown, Sandy Grant, and
Walda Barnett, who “unfolded the
plot” in the form a huge piece of
material which stretched across
the entire front of the stage.

After the narrators with their

speeches and the dull lighting had
set-the-mood, the cast became ani-
mated.

music.

Eyes Opened

Emer had summoned -her~ hus-
band’s mistress hoping that she.
could awaken him from a trance
which he was in. When the mia-
tress, Eithene Irguka, played
by Bette de Sabato, kissed the fig-
ure in the white tent it became
evident that this was not Cuchu-
lain, but a person with special
powers.

This person opened Emer’s eyes
so that she could see her husband
being seduced, by.a woman of the
Sidhe, Leslie Kandell. To save
Cuchulain from this fate, Emer re-
nounced his love’ forever only to
see him awaken in the arms of his
mistress.

Again the narrators appeared
and unfolded their cloth and spoke.
The musicians again crossed the
stage.

The ghost of Cuchulain was
played by Nancy Moone; the figure

Martha Bridge is credited with the
direction, Adrienne Schrieber serv-
ed as upperclass advisor and Jane
Rouillion, production manager.



Elections

College-wide:
', A.A. President—Gail Gilbert

Junior Class:
Secretary—Charlotte Smith
Song Mistress — Miggy

Schwab

Sophomore Class:
President—Miriam Forman ;
-Vice ee Glass EB

ry—Elizabeth Thomas










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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, October 13, 1954



~-peer at it cautiously and with some trepidation, finally pro-

- with the graduate students, for the most part we mever know
- them as individuals, feeling perhaps that these “older, sub-

with people who have a slightly different outlook on them.

_is to gravitate over to the Grad Center for occasional meals.

’ change basis. In discussing “formal” plans for such exchange,
_. we discover that the resident graduate students would we'-
_ eome the chance to finesse the long trek home and substitute





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nouncing it,a dark, dank prison where life is “solitary, poor,
nasty, brutish and short”. Such seem to be our associations
with the Graduate Center, a place which we tend to feel is as
different from the rest of the campus in atmosphere as it is
in architecture. _ °

Although we share a faculty and academic facilities

dued and more serious” students might look upon us as
totally dull company. Of course, thanks to the Dean’s Of-
fice, we are all acquainted with at least one graduate student,

“the Warden”, whom, we find, is not as forbidding as her
title would seem to suggest. Occasionally, if we are members
of undergraduate ‘organizations, we may .discuss pertinent
matters with the graduate representatives to the League or
the A.A. And if we are Honors students, we may share a
Sem. with the graduate members of our Department.

We are beginning to realize that we are missing a great
deal. We lose the opportunity to discuss academic matters

And, more important, we lose many potential friends by fail-
ing to meet and know some valuable human beings.
Some of us feel that one way to overcome this barrier

However, “because of the crowding which we are all experi-
encing this year, these plans must be conducted on an ex-

1 lunch in Rock or Pem. And so we have a framework, for
of us ‘who are interested in trying it out .



Schools ,

| takes office and the A.A. embarks

/October 6, labeled “what’s this?”

‘the ice creayn cone was the ex-

(| girl. hirerne a Bingen sequence
| three—girl is ‘ont *



Supreme Court Segregation Ruling —
Brings No Trouble To Most Areas

From time to‘time THE NEWS
intends to present signed arti-
cles, of current political and/or
social interest. We'd like to hear
what you think of them—partic-
ularly if you disagree.—The Eds.

By Mimi Collins
' Generally speaking, the Supreme
Court segregation ruling has been
accepted calmly by the American
people. However in a few states
such as Georgia, Mississippi and
South Carolina, which comprise
the “Plantation South”, opposition
has crystallized with the support
of the state governments. Here,
segregation will be hard to break
and legal -minds are already at
work devising obstacles. Missis-
sippi is counting on a law passed
in the last session ofthe state
legislature which stated: “In mak-
ing assignments of children to
. as provided by this act,
the Board of Trustees shall take
into consideration emotional needs
and welfare of the child involved,
the welfare and best interest of
pupils attending the schools in-
volved, and health and moral fac-
tors at the school.” This gives lo-
cal school boards unlimited power
for moving students like pawns
and requiring them to attend
whatever school the boards choose.
South Carolina is counting on
voluntary segregation, hoping that
Negroes won’t want to defy the

Undergrad Pres. Lauds
B. Bornemann’s

A.A. Work
Dear Editor:

By the time this edition of the
NEWS is published, the vacancy
left by, the resignation of Barbara
Bornemann as president of the
Athletic Association will have been
filled. Before the new president



on its winter plans, I would like to
call attention to the excellent work
Barbara has done both last spring
and during the fall in connection
with Freshman Week. Her interest
in A.A. and her participation have
helped to make possible such ac-
tivities as the picnic supper in Ap-
plebee barn.

Barbara’s resignation will be a
loss to A.A. but the decisien be-
tween extracurricular activities
and academic work is one that ey-
eryone has to make and the de-
mands of comprehensive confer-
ences and preparation for gradu-
ate school combined. make a very
full schedule.

‘ We all appreciate Barbara’s con-
tribution to the extracurricular
schedule during the past few
months. We are looking forward
to a year of successful A.A. ac-
tivities which has begun promis-
ingly under her leadership.
Sincerely,
Wendy Ewer,
President of Undergrad.

Cones Can Be Thinning

Hints Cartoon

Captioneer
Dear Editor:
In response to your cartoon of



may I ask—what is this?

Since I didn’t dig the cartoon
‘at all I read the footnote “The
NEWS offers one large ice cream
cone for the best explanation of
this cartoon.” Naturally I thought

planation. *
It figures; sequence. iieicites

eats cone: is fat, sequence two—|

tadition esiabiished over the last
utty-elgnt years. ‘lhose who ‘do
cnallenge it can be kept in line by
economic and social pressure. In
addition, the state leaders feel
vney can count on the support ot
some /,00U Negro school teachers,
because the teachers know white
schools ‘will be hesitant about em-
ploying them,

Yet another device of evading
the Jaw, is that of gerrymander-
ing or re-zoning. By zoning the
school districts in such a way that
the Negroes fail into one area, the

ians feel they can lawfully main-
tain segregation.

There is also the dogmatic ap-
proach of Governor Talmadge ot
Georgia which appears neither leg-
al nor rational. Without even at-
tempting to justify his position,
he stated, “I do not believe in Neg-

»-f-roes and whites associating with

each other socially or im our school
systems and as long as I am gov-
ernor, it won’t happen.”

sort came to the news front in
Milford, Delaware, last week. Mii-
ford had decided to tussle with the
problem thrown to it by the Su-
preme Court by admitting Negroes
to Lakeview Avenue High School,
which was all-white until lasi
month,

The experiment operated smooth-
ly durimg the first week of school
and it appeared that discrimina-
tion had been successfully ended.
Then rumors started and bitter-
ness spread.

The opposition , onganized under
the auspices of the Delaware chap-
ter of a group that calls itself the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of White People. And
even though the majority of the
people seemed to have no objection
to desegregation, their silence en-

schools to close. Milford finally
disposed of the problem by circum-
venting it—the school reopened the
last week with Negro students
again commuting twenty miles to
the all-Negro high school in Dover.
But certainly nothing is solved.
Looking for the instigator of the
trouble in Milford we find Bryant
W. Bowles, Chairman of the Na-
tional Association for the Ad-
vancement of White People.
‘Bowles, who is married, but has
no children of school age, has an-
nounced that he would never send
a child of his to a school attended
by Negroes “as long as I can draw
a breath and gunpowder will
burn.” He spoke to a mass meet-
ing attended by some 3,000 people
and as a result attendance at Lake-
view Avenue school was less than

_| one-third of the normal.

Who is this nonenity -who-ma-
terialized from nowhere to become
the fulcrum of opposition in Dela-
ware? ‘Why did desegregation
start so smoothly, then simultane-
ously with Bowles’s appearance
cause heated opposition? In a rou-
tine police check it was revealed
that Bowles was arrested by the
Baltimore police on May 12, 1958
on five charges of false pretense.

Warrants for him were also on
file in Bel Air and Harford Coun-
ty, Md. He is also alleged to have
paid some employees of the Bry-
ant Roofing Company with bad
checks. Does a record of this kind
warrant a man worthy of assum-
ing a position of national leader-
ship?

Perhaps these exiaviptas will



serve some punpose. Perhaps they

whites in another, South Carolin-'

Unfortunately opposition of this’

Current Events

Race Prejudice Major
Foreign Policy
Criticism

Poor ‘race relations, McCarthy-

ism, an imperialistic foreign policy

—all these are -charges leveled

against the United States by citi-

zens of countries overseas. How

Americans can explain United
States policy abroad was the topic
of Current Events last Monday.
The speaker, Mrs. Manning of the
history. department, discussed these
and other criticisms leveled at this
policy by members of the family
of nations.

Three criticisms are basic to ill
feeling about the United States
abroad. Race relations in the Unit-
ed States is the first, most impor-
tant, and long enduring. Of all the
points this is the only one which
can be blamed on effective com- ©
munist._propaganda. :

Our relations, particularly in In-
dia, have suffered much from the
general belief in our complete con-
tempt for all who are not of the
white race.

Mrs. Manning’s reply to this



abled the opposition to force the}.



charge of intolerance was to point
out the fact that we are the only
country she knows who have been
going uphill instead of downhill in
race relations, Spreading this true
statement isn’t going to end argu-
ments, but it is important to our

foreign relations.
( McCarthyism

The seeond criticism is of Mc-
Carthyism in general. This phen-
omenon, little understood by Euro-
peans (and perhaps equally badly
understood by Americans) has
sometimes put the United States,
in the eyes of the allies, and par-
ticularly England, next to the
Communist countries of the East
in our demands for political coh-
formity.

The Dr. Court ificident aroused
a storm of criticism of the United
States in letters to all segments of
the British press. ——Having once
been rejected for the draft, he
went to England and was again
called to the army as a doctor.
When the United States demtanded
his return he refused. The con-
servative government’s statement
that they would extradite him
aroused this storm.

McCarran Act

The McCarran Act is the last of
the three basic criticisms of Unit-
ed States policy abroad. Our’ re-
strictions, mot only on permanent
settlers, but on short term visas
for teachers and lecturers, are hav-
ing the effect of cutting us off
from the give and take of inter-.
national ideas.

Our road in the Pacific, our urg-
ing the Dutch to give up their col-
onies, our futile attempt to have
France give Indonesia freedom,
and our giving independence to the
Philippines all prove we are not |
imperialistic. °

We must understand that the
Europeans will never see the prob-
lem of holding the line in Asia as
we do. Though they think that
putting up a strong front in Eu-
rope will stop Russia, they do-not
think that in Asia that line exiats
to hold.

Progress Made

The new act for European de-
fense ratified at the conference of
London, shows that our foreign
policy is not as inefficient as it
sometimes appears. There we
achieved. an arrangement even
more satisfactory than the E.D.C..
which was rejected bie the French
Parliament.

| Britain for the first time assum-

her responsibility in the defense




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“THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three



Recent Tax Bill Provides Freedom

For Students Earni

One of the recent pieces of
legislation of great ..importance
and interest to Bryn Mawr stu-
dents is the Tax Bill signed by
President Eisenhower this summer
It newly establishes. our status
as dependents and grants us free-
dom to accept part of the burden
of college expenses from our par-

ents without the loss of an income
tax exemption to them.
Bill Explained

‘According to the new bill, a de-
pendent child who is earning part
of his own way may earn over
$600 and still be claimed as an-.ex-
emption by his parent as long as
the parent contributes more than
half of his support. The dependent
also claims himself as an exemp-
tion when..he. reports his income.
This ruling applies to any depend-
ent child of the taxpayer—includ-
ing a step-child or an adopted
child—under age 19. It also holds
true for children 19 years of age
or. older, provided that they are
full-time students at educational
institutions during some part of
five months in the year.

Any individual can be claimed as
a dependent worth a $600 exemp-
tion if he resides with a taxpayer
who provides over half of his sup-
port. As long as the dependent
lives there, it is no longer impor-
tant that one of the eight close re-
lationships required by the old law





There is now just about
enough space to accommodate
all those who must use their
cars daily to reach the college,
if all available spaces are used
and if those who drive will com-
ply with the regulations sug-
gested by the parking commit-
tee. If these are followed, a
system of licensing and of al-
loted-spaces may be: avoided.









ing Own Money

be satisfied, Dependents who do
satisfy one of these relationships
however, are not required to live
with the taxpayer. Absence of the
dependent while attending school
or college does not prevent exemp-
tion credit.

Another provision important to
many Bryn Mawr students is that
scholarships do not affect depend-
ency status. Their value will not
be included as part. of the stu-
dent’s earnings. In general schol-
arships and fellowships are*exempt
from tax unless they are in pay-
ment for research, teaching, or
other services,

Waiver of the $600 earnings test
applies also to children’s incomes
from investments as long as it is
not used for their support.

Thesechanges.—in—-dependency.
rules are effectives retroactively
to January 1.

MOVIES

Bryn Mawr Theatre

Wed. and Thurs., Oct. 13 and 14,
The High and the Mighty

Fri. and Sat., Oct. 15-16, Susan
Slept Here .

Sun. and Mon., Oct. 17- 18, Dawn
at Socorro; Black Horse Canyon.

Tues. and Wed., Oct. 19-20,
Night People .
Ardmore Theatre

Wed. thru Sat., Oct. 13-16, Van-
ishing Prairie

Sun. thru Tues., Oct. 17-19, The
Student Prince

Sun. thru Tues., Oct. 17-19, Sands
of Iwo Jima; Wake of: the Red
Witch

Wed., Oct. 20, The Caine Mu-
tiny”
Anthony Wayne Theatre

Wed. thru Sat., Oct. 18-16, Van
ishing Prairie

Sun. and Mon., Oct. 17-18, The
Student Prince

Tues. and Wed., Oct. 19-20, King
Richard and the Crusaders



Madonna Faulkner Of Sierra Leone
Tells Of African Customs, Proverbs

By Charlotte A. Smith

Three weeks ago Madonna Faulk-
ner was in Sierre Leone, ‘West
Africa, and now she is living in
Pembroke West, Bryn Mawr Col-
lege, Bryn Mawr, Pa. Many of us
wish that we could exactly reverse
her trip and wake up in fourteen
days in the midst of the King Sol-
omon’s Mines’ country. But for
Donna, if she had regrets at leav-
ing home for more than two years,
this is the fulfillment of many
hopes. Q Sale 4 f

Sierre Leone is a British pro-
tectorate and exchange of students
between it and the British. Isles
is therefore very ¢asy—those who
want a higher education are en-
couraged to go to Oxford or Cam-
bridge. The British are less anx-
ious, however, to encourage stu-
dents to come to America and put
almost impossible barriers between
the average person and an educa-
tion here.

When a few people meet the re-
quirements of extra’ years at
school, many examinations, and
winning a scholarship, they have
to go to an “accredited” college.
Donna had great difficulty in per-
suading the Board of Education to
allow her to come to Bryn Mawr
because they had never heard of
the place: and so did not consider
it an “accredited” college.

When we talked to Donna about
‘Sierre Leone, her face lighted up
as she told us about how the Por-|

‘tuguese named it; how they saw the |.

mountains from the ‘sea and
thought they looked like crouching |’

the role.



lions and when Rey. ‘heard wi



thunder which sounds continually,
they said it was the lions. roaring.

She also tells of the nights
which are as light as day, with a
moon so bright that the children
go out on special occasions and
play games with their shadows.
There are no tall buildings or ar-
tificial lights to spoil the effect.
When asked if there wasn’t some
danger of being attacked by wild
animals while out in the middle of
the night, she laughed and admit-
ted that she would have to go to
one of our zoos to see all the ele-
phants, giraffes and even the lions
that everyone talked about.

Daughter of Chief

Though Donna is the great-
granddaughter of a village chief
and so is in line of succession to
the position, she has no desire for
The chiefs have great
power in West Africa and are not
British subjects but equals with
the Queen of England; when writ-
ing to the Queen they say “My
dear friend.” Donna, however
wants to go to England after leav
ing Bryn Mawg and then return
to Freetown in . Leone and
teach biology.

‘Donna says that her chief im-
pression of America is that every-
one is very friendly and informal.

At home she says oné must be in-|

troduced to everyone one /smeets
Continued on o 5, Col. 3



girl, Alice.

-| Schwartz.

BMC Outing Club’s
‘Voyage’ A Success

especially contributed by
Betsy Fisher, ’57

This weekend the Bryn Mawr
and Princeton Outing Club jointly.
tackied the roaring Rancocas River
in Southern New Jersey. They ca-
noed from Browns’ Mills to Mount
Holly taking Saturday and Sunday
tor the trip, and stopped overnight
at a boy scout camp two thirds of
the way along.

Perhaps the Rancocas. rates the
name of “river” towards its end,
but’ at its beginning , “creek” is a
generous term for it. Some who
had never canoed before and some
who had were very literally upset
py the turn (hairpin) of things the
tirst afternoon which: dampened
their spirits less than a slight driz-
zle which luckily cleared shortly.

Princeton gallantly brought the
food, and in the evening served an
interesting..stew—of—beans,.onions,
rice and a few extra ingredients

| it was too dark to see, and topped

it off with instant butterscotch
pudding. The evening was spent
around the campfire with musi-
cians taking turns on the ukelele.

By the next afternoon some of
the outing zest had disappeared in
the hot day and Sunday atmos-
phere and at one point thirteen
canoes were held together across
the river with everyone reading
the Sunday paper except a few
boys who were steering. Behind
this group, however, a few were
paddling furiously to catch up
after making a final cleanup of the
camp site (among them Miss Tow-
er, warden of Rock). Finally the
heat caught up with them too and
after a few disasters they quit to
swim in what they had on.

,The various groups met at Mt.
Holly without losing anyone and
separated for Princeton and Bryn

Mawr with fond en ells.
~ ENGAGEMENTS

Joan Wolfe, ’55, to Ira G. Smolin.

Martha Kenarik, ’56, to Mark
Klein,

Sandra Green; 756, to William
Button.

Margot Green,
Salsbury Kulman.

Gwen Groves * Soke A. Robin-
son,

Marian Holland to lowe Febardt
McAllister, Jr.

Agnes Kelley to Malcolm Hall,

Winifred Trimble to Clive Run-
nels, Jr.

MARRIAGES

’ Leila Atwood to John Russel, III.

5b, to Payton

Nancy ‘Hayward, ’54, to Grant
Gross, Jr.

‘Mary Merchant, ’53, to R. W.
Jasperson,

Winifred Sexton to Arthur Wy-
man Procter, Jr.

Mary Gould Warren, ’54, to Reg-
inald Foster, III.

Elaine Broomfield, ’56, to Roger

Jacqueline O’Neill, ex-’55, to
Luther Ginkinger.

‘Marilyn Fain, ex-’56, to Dean
Lowenthal.

Maria M. Burgee, ex-’56, to Wil-]
liam Dwight, Jr.

Sue Rule, ’b4, to Thomas T. Mil-
ler.

Lucy “Batten, ’b4, to Lt. jg Ben
J. Ricardo, USN.

Donna Morrison, ’54, to Donald
Swan.

Gloria » spe 54, to Myron



Sally Nelson, ex-’56, to Nelson
Peters. .

Sylvia Shields Allen, x's baby| ss zs





Jessie M. Sloane, = te. John}:

s Watson Surveys Unexplored Area
In Amazons Amid Rheas, Murder

By Rosemary Rudstrom

Mr. Edward. Watson, Bryn Mawr
pro.essor of geology, has returned
irom an expedition into Brazil’s
snverior, where he spent. the sum-
mer,
Working with a group of ae
scientists, Mr. Watson was engag-
ea to help the Brazilian govern-
ment determine wherevits new rotodk
1vai shall be.

Mr. Watson, who left New York
June 15, reached Rio de Janeiro
ine next day, flying over the Ama-
zon jungles at night, There mod-
ern jeeps, equipped with »walkie-
valkies, were supposed to. be fur-
nished by the government for the
group of experts, engineers, re-
giohal planners, agricultural, road,
ana soil scientists who were ‘to in-
vestigate the possibilities of— the
savannah, or tropical open country,
ror the new capital of Brazil.

''he jeeps did not arrive, so hir-
ing a battered old jeep and a re-
tired sea captain for driver, Mr.
Watson drove into the state of
Goiaz, which is about the size of
‘Vexas,

Arriving in this “boom country,”
which was filling up with poverty
and disease stricken Brazilians,
Mr. Watson found himself on the
edge of the Montogrosso forests,

Boys Meet Girls;
A Smokey. Drama

The door of a ‘hall opened -and
three young men, princely garbed
in hove into view. With no little trep-
idation and shoving, they industri-
ously consulted the flick board and
watched a freshman standing at
the other end of the hall. The
Freshman lighted a cigarette
blasé-ly, worked hard to get it go-
ing, and figuring she had snowed
them enough, asked if: she could
get some one for them.

One said he thought not, they
were just seeing if someone they
knew was in this evening. Well,
what was her name, sometimes the
flick board wasn’t right. There was
a hasty reversal as all three turn-
ed to the board to search for a
“| plausible name. Well, what about
Knees OCalnoran, was she
around?
e Freshman gave an ill con-
ceale& start of jubilation and sus-
picion,\and said well, it just hap-
pened she was Knees O’Calnoran





and did they want to take her to
the flicks, she had some too divine
roommates. The young men moved
uneasily in their Brooks shirts and
said what they really wanted was
a good rousing game of bridge.

Knees hadn’t been at college|
long enough tox learn this social
grace but leering gracefully she
said she’d love to try it. The four
sauntered into the. smoker and
Knees made quite an impression
until people realized she didn’t
know the little men’s names. Feel-
ing there was safety in numbers
the three boys scrubbed their white
bucks on the floor and eyed the
upper classmen.. Knees faded into
the distance, probably in search of
the too divine roommates.

It seemed that someone had al-
ready beaten them to the good
rousing game of bridge, and the
Sunday comics were studiously
read until one of them asked when
the next local ran. Then without a
show. of haste the three got up,
wandered around the room casual-



which are as yet comparatively un-
explored and filled with Indians
who have never seen white men.
Here the elevation is 3,000 to 4,000
feet, in a region called Plan Alto.

Coffee growing is spreading into
this section of the country, and
there are hopes of finding quartz
to. be used for electronic equip-
‘| ment.

Mr. Watson saw many rheas, os-
triches, and iguanas, but only one
small-sized snake, and an equally
small sized jaguar.

. Primitive Existence ~ °
Life in’ Anapolis, the frontier
headquarters of the group, was

somewhat like life in the Western
frontier of the United States dur-

-ing the-1870’s, Mr. Watson said.

The food and water supply was
bad, and murders were frequent.
Diseases: also were rife, yet the
Brazilian engineers in the group
laughed at Mr. Watson for’ boiling
his water. until it was discovered
that the corpse of a murdered sol-
dier had been reposing in the water
tank for some length of time. _

- Mr.- Watson field-mapped 20,000
square miles, about half the size of
Pennsylvania. The geology, he

‘noted, is something like that of

Pennsylvania, but it looks different
because of tropical weathering.

’ The climate is bone dry for six
months, with a rainy season for
the other six months. As our sum-
mer is their winter, Brazil was in
the middle of the dry season dur-
ing Mr. Watson’s’ stay, and not
one drop of rain fell.

The Brazilian government or-
ganized the expedition to try to lo-
cate a spot for the planned re-
moval of the government from Rio
de Janeiro, as it wishes to stimu-
late development of the interior by
placing the capital in a more cen-
tral position. The government also
hopes—to attain_a better climate,
and to protect itself from attack.

Four or five sites have been rec-
ommended to the government for
the site of the capital. The de-
sired spot will be picked by them,
and an international regional plan-
ning competition is proposed.

Returning home by plane again,

-Mr. Watson flew across the Andes

and in and around smoking vol-
canoes, landed in Lima, and con-
tinued on from there to the Unit-
ed States.

The geology professor intends to
write of his summer’s work in this
previously little known section of
Brazil.

Maria §. Casanova
In Freshman Class

By Carol Hansen

In spite of her name and Cuban
citizenship, Maria Salome Casa-
nova is not a very ‘foreign’ foreigh
student. She has traveled a great
deal and received much of her ed-
ucation in the United States—at
the Ethel Walker School in Con-
necticut, to be specific.

Maria is a likeable girl of
medium height with brown hair
and dark eyes. She has a variety
of interests but at Bryn .Mawr
would like most of all to partici-
pate in League and Alliance activ-
ities,

“To get a fine education” was

Maria’s primary réason for com-

ing to Bryn Mawr and so far she
is not unhappy with the choice. In’
a school with such high academic —















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- comradeship and fun in the prepa-

_been better coordinated with it. As
“a dance, it consisted basically of

Page Four

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, October 13, 1954



Freshmen Display Talent And Enthusiasm In Hall Plays



East House Uses Few People, Many
Roles In Wilder’ . “Pullman H tawatha”

ad

. East House freshmen chose an
excellent play, and then success-
fully divided its rather large num-
ber of parts among a small num-
ber of people. The play was “Pull-
man Hiawatha,” by Thornton
Wilder, who is an understandably
popular playwright with Bryn
Mawr freshmen. Almost all of
the actors took at least two parts.
Their costume changes were quick-
ly and easily accomplished, and
they handled their several assign-
ments without mixing characters.

The setting of the play is a pull-
man. car, shown by chairs depict-
ing berths. Through the help of
the narrator “stage-manager” the
audience is enabled to see both the
outward surface relations among
the travelers and their private
dramas and inner thoughts.

Avis Flemming, as the doctor
and “Grovers Corners” gave one of
the better performances. She cap-
tured the patience and quiet com-
petence of the doctor and gave a
good interpretation of the sing-
song monotony of the town, Grov-
ers- Corners, Ohio. In the latter
part she teamed with Margaret
Gordon, “The Field,” in providing
one of the humorous incidents of
the play. Margaret also proved a
good comedienne in the role of the
harried porter.

Ann Warnick as a crotchety old
lady and an insane woman made

“Will ’O the Wisp”
Shows Good Acting

By Harriette Solow, °56°

Denbigh’s production of “Will ’O
the Wisp,” directed by Sue Opstad,
was most interesting as an attempt
to combine several arts. This is a
particularly good idea for fresh-
man hall plays since the more peo-
ple who get into the act the more



rations for it.

Unfortunately, although embel-
lishments can improve the original
immensely, they can also drag it
down and, when time is limited, it
is safer to try to do a minimum
well. The dance of the “Will O’
the Wisp” Giselle de Nie) might
have been the high point of the
play if the lighting and music
(provided by Joan de Graaff) had

graceful turns, yet it had angular
gestures which made one wonder
whether the spirit’s power lay in
enticing or compelling. This was
very appropriate for a being which
could appeal to both the poet and
his materialistic wife.

In general, the acting was very
good. The poet’s wife (Marjolyn
de Beus) ‘the superstitious maid
(Anna Kisselgoff) and’ the old
woman (Judy Robertson) were
consistent in their roles, from their
accents to their posture. There is
a question of whether the widow’s
lines which related“to money were
meant to be funny. There was
much mention of that commodity
in the script, and it was good for a
change of pace, but to this review-
er it seemed inappropriate.

The homey atmosphere of “the

world’s end” was cleverly provided |}
by. a patchwork background — ali .
very ingenious idea on the part of|{

pearance oe gle y cer



By Marcia Case, ’57

x corms: meonneriits
quite convincing people out of two
very different characters. Robin
Hicks and Nancy Barovick as en-
gineers were good in their casual
reactions to each other, and Ann
Furey iplayed an attractive nurse
and lady of fifty. Linda Hampton
had the difficult role of “Harriet,”
who dies of a heart attack during
the night. She captured the ethe-
real quality of her part, and put
over well her bewilderment at dy-
ing.

For those who were confused by
the character of Harriet’s husband,
Philip, played by Mary Skinner, it
should be reported that Philip in-

Continued on Page 6, Col. 3

Men Lend Clothes
For Pem W. Play

By Harriette Solow, °56

Ears perked when Ted Weeks,
of Haverford, was announced as
costumes director for Pembroke
West’s hall» play, “Salt for the
Savor.” This was partly in sur-
prise at hearing a male name con-
nected with a supposedly all fe-
male production and also, when the
light dawned, in curiosity about
how successfully the girls could
imitate boys.

Patrick (Louise Cropley), Mr.
Nausworthy (Mary Knauth), and
J. B. (Tawn Stokes) were most
convincing as males, which means
they accomplished a fairly difficult
feat. Perhaps it is unfair to judge’
Sandra Stein, who played Mr. Jen-
kins and Katie Westervelt, who
played Mr. MacDougal, since their
physical. appearances were against
them and they had very little time
on stage. —

The part of J. B. offered the
greatest opportunities for dramat-
ic ability, since the others spent
most of their time expressing dis-
gust as they were discharged and
happiness when they were rehired.
Another play would have shown
Pem West’s dramatic talent to bet-
ter advantage. Tawn really did it
up brown. She harrumphed and
growled and pleaded both amus-
ingly and without destroying the
dignity of the character she play-
ed. ‘She could have used more in-
genuity in handling the scissors,
though.

Patrick’s son (Elinor Amram)
and the Leprechaun (Marion Per-
ret) were easier parts to play be-
cause they didn’t demand mascu-
linity. Both girls did fine jobs and
the leprechaun’s sprightly pranc-
ing and pantomime a special
praise.

Credits go to Anne Sidious as
director, Judy Scott as upperclass
advisor and Fran Haffner for
props.



Flowers for
JUNIOR SHOW WEEKEND





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Unique Production

By Rosemary Rudstrom

The third production of Fresh-
man Hall Plays, put on by Pem-
broke East, was “Outside This
Room,” by Dorothy Ackerman.
This ‘play was of a serious nature,
rather different in subject matter
from the other productions of the
evening.

The scene was set in Zurich,
Switzerland, and. the setting was
quite’ well done. The plot concern-
ed a woman running a typeof
boarding home for Americans.

Tragedy was -introduced by the
plight of the woman’s husband, a
Polish patriot ruined by the war,
and her own insistence on keeping
the girls, who were boarding at
the house, from the outside world.

The ironic nature of the play
came about through the hatred of
the girls for their.well meaning
but tactless foster mother. The
girls portrayed very: well their in-
dignation at being hindered from
entering the outside world by the
death of the third.

Fundamental Conflict

The divergence of views between
the Europeans and the Americans
was quite well expressed, as well
as the fundamental conflict of the
young and the old, the too experi-
enced, and the too inexperienced.
“Outside This Room” was an in-
teresting play; but a little too dif-
ficult for college students to wn-
dertake in so. short a time.

Members of the cast were Stan-
islaus, Adelaide Miller; Jean, Elene
Constantinople; Ann, Gini Stewart;
Betty, Anna Rarnum; Ruth, Linda
Jett; Helene, Margo Piri.

The play was directed by Kay
Gilbert with the help of the ad-
visor, Patty Ferguson.

Tht stage manager was Betsy
Wilson, prompter, Patti Page, pub-
licity, Kitty . Stoddert, costumes,
Betty Verway, piano, Leslie Burgl.



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Rock’s Freshmen
Give Wilder Play

By Carol Hansen

The freshmen of Rockefeller pre-
sented “Thornton Wilder’s comedy
“The Happy, Journey to Camden”
as their haf. play. The story was
centered about an automobile trip
which a “typical American family”
took to Camden, New Jersey, to

visit the married daughter.

The play was conspicuous for
two things—lack of props and the
portrayal-of several minor roles by
the stage manager. Four chairs
served as the car and the only
piece of furniture in the daugh-
ter’s home was a bench. The cast
used some effective pantomime to
fill in.

Catharine Stimson, the stage
manager, remained on stage, script
in hand, during the entire perforni-
ance. She read the parts of several
neighbors and a gas station at-
tendant,

Marilyn Wood and Susie Safier
were very cute as the two children
who were taken out of school for
a day to make the important trip
to see their married sister. Their
garrulous, God-fearing mother was
portrayed by Tulsa Kaiser.

And. Pa, who took orders, but
didn’t have much to say, was play-
ed by Phyllis Sonnenberg. The
daughter, Beula, was Paula Dia-
mond. Bobbie Drysdale was the
upperclass advisor. Eliza Cope di-
rected this production.



Lend Charm to Merion’ s Production

By Harriette Solow, ’56

The ices of “ ‘Op-O-Me-Thumb”
and how she fabricates an explan-
ation of why she doesn’t have a
date and later uses the same meth-
od to acquire “proof” that she does
have a gentleman friend, was the
theme of Merion’s hall play.

The surprised gentleman around

whom she plots offered a fine op-
portunity for comedy playing.
Ann Schaefer’s varied astonished

jand disgusted exclamations in the

role drew many laughs.

As the scheming but pathetic
female lead, Becky Rand had a
very difficult part. She was ex- .
cellent in the scene where the girls
tease ’op-o’-me-thumb, but was less
convincing in the more dramatic

scenes. %

Accents Good

The roles of the other girls in
the shop were well played in gen-
eral. Celeste (Sylvia Jacoby),
Rose (Joyce Sargent) and Mrs.
Galloway (C. C, Ramsey- and Ma-
dame (Helene Valabregue) had
noteworthy English and French
accents,

The English brogue of the shor
girls and ’Orace Greensmith were
checked for authenticity by Eliza-
beth Thomas who proved an espec-
ially good upperclass advisor for
this play.

The main flaws in Merion’s per-
formance were minor; uneven
pace, obvious consultation of the
prompter at one point, and the
slow final curtain which forced
Becky Rand to sob less and less
convincingly: as time went on.







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“Wednesday, October 13, 1954

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Five



Script Committee Meets

In Bronxville To Bring

Show From Budding Concept To Blooming Reality

(Continued from Page 1)

to take shapé. Junior show had
germinated.

After three months. of sleep Jun-
ior show was again revived for
four days, September 13-17, at
Mary Darling’s home in Bronx-
ville, New York. The ten people
who were to assemble the various
‘strands into »the comical whole
were Roslyn Siman, Hllen Spector,
Kay Foley, Mary Darling, Clare
Harwood, Merry McLaughlin, Eve-
tyn DeBaryshe, Carlene Chitten-
den, Margi Abrams, and Toni Rich-
ards.

‘On the first day of work the idea
was conceived of spotlighting each
character by reading a_ want-ad
which sought participants for a
utopian experiment. After that,
ideas kept popping, and by that
evening, the entire outline was
agreed upon.

By the end of the second eve-





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ning, most of the first act was un-
der control, That night the group
took off for New York ir to see
Rear Window.

Work continued in sai groups.
Each -group-wrote a scene and then
submitted it to the others for ap-
proval. With this method, the en-
ture script, exeept for the ending,
was fiinished by the third evening,
and ‘everyone celebrated at a
marshyhallow roast.’

During the third evening, Lee
Wahrsinger read the script and
commented that the show needed
spice.

“Spice” set the pace for the
fourth and last day of Odd ’n
Eden’s birth. The entire script
was polished and rewritten. Clare
Harwood solved the ending prob-
lem with her suggestion of free
enterprise. The convict spreads the
rumor that the island is sinking so
chat he will have sole access to the
oyster pearls, His action—is—justi-
fied when he explains that he is
merely exercising free enterprise.

CHAPEL SPEAKER

“Romance of the Deep” will be
the topic for discussion in chapel
next Sunday, Octobey 17, when
Reverend Warren Carl Johnson, of
Nativity Lutheran Church, Phila-
delphia, is the guest speaker.

Reverend Johnson, a graduate of
Gettysburg Seminary, is -current-
ly the official delegate to the “Con-
vention of the United Lutheran
Church in America.” He spent
some time.in the summer of 1949
as an exchange preacher in Eng-
land and Scotland.

At one time a radio speaker on

Mutual’s coast-to-coast program,
in Our Time,” Reverend
Johnson is at present president of
the Philadelphia Council of
Churches.



\M. Faulkner, °58,

Talks Of Africa

Continued fom Page 3

before speaking to him. But en-
tering the~spirit- of American in-
formality, she invited everyone tv
come and hear some more about
Sierre Leone.

She has told us some of the
proverbs of Africa which, as she
translates from the dialect)are
like these: on

1. If a child wants to grew a
long tooth, let her, she will have
to face the difficulty of finding lips
to cover it. (If a person wants to
have her own way, let her; she will
have to face what catastrophe that
follows, alone.)

2. A baboon has a natural ia-
clination for giving false alarms,
and now you’ve given him the job
of a watchman. (Somebody has
always had a desire to be noticed;
now you’ve given -her a position
wherein she will be the focus of
attention.)

38. What good have you done to
shake a branch when the birds
have already been contemplating
on, flying away. (What good have
you done to fire me from the job
when I had already been contem-
plating on quitting.)

4. If a bug can eat an iron pot,
clay pot will have to look out. (If
significant people find themselves
involved, how much more small
people.)

5. Street will not know you’re
for sale until house sells you, (lt
is not possiblé for people to know
so much about me, unless, of
course, I was betrayed by one of
those I consider intimate.)









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Academic Gowns Do Disappearing Act;

Bobs Replace Buns
By Donnie Brown ’57

Since the roaring days of Emily
Kimbrough, Bryn Mawr has lost.a
very useful article of clothing. We
are’ no longer known as the Bais
of Bryn Mawr and our academic
gowns come out only on the first
day of a semester, Parade Night,
Lantern Night and finally the cri-
terion of all for gowns, gradua-
tion.

But the cleaning’ bills on cam-
pus have risen phenomenally since

gowns. stopped being a standard

thing to throw over your pajamas
in time to drink a cup of coffee
and stagger off to nine o’clock
philosophy. An academic gown
served even more purposes than
the constantly.worn raincoats that
now adorn the campus. And they
created a much greater intellectual
air, calculated consciously or oth-

Stagecraft Classes
Start In Goodhart

All aspiring stage managers and
stage crew workers will soon have
a chancé to become experts in their
field. As soon as Junior Show is
over, College Theater will sponsor
a series of classes in play produc-
tion.

The .-vrious aspects of produc-
tion will be dealt with separately,
especially as they relate to the
needs of College Theater and
Goodhart. The subjects covered
will include painting and construc-
tion of sets, lighting, make-up and
costumes.

This is an excellent opportynity
to train people for Freshman Show
stage work. College Theater also
invites any upper classmen that
may be interested, to attend.

Liz Gordon will be in charge of
the classes. Announcements will
be made later giving the exact
dates and time. In general, the
classes will be held on Saturday
mornings. .



Of Ancient History

erwise, to show your grandparents,
However, it is certain that a Bar-
racuta or Lady MacIntosh is going
to. be a better thing to meet.that
Princeton Tiger in, than a fully
gathered slightly bedraggled aca-
demic gown.

Hair. Changes

The other enormous change on
campus or at any rate a change
that could be pointed out the most
easily in the back issues of the
yearbook ‘is the length of hair.
When the mothers and aunts of
"68, ’57, ’56 and ’65 pursued knowl-
edge in much the same manner
that we do now, they all either sat
on their hair or balled it at the
back of their necks.

This is a far cry from the girl
who looks like a boy from the
back,.from not only her shorn head
but all the-way down to her grubby
white bucks. Which brings us to
the point that if our mothers evér
wore knee length. pants they were
white and trimmed with lace, not
wild tartans and casual charcoal
gray Bermudas,

Middies Return

There has been, however, a defi- ©
nite revival of the fashions of the
class of ’14, in one respect. The
middy or extremely stretched
sweater look has returned with a
vengeance, This may be caused by
beach parties and young men who
are free with their cashmere
sweaters or it may be the lovely .
feeling of not having a belt that
you have to loosen after a dinner
of scrapple, asparagus, fruit salad
and ice cream.

It is a’ known fact that our
grandchildren are going to look at
our pictures in the yearbook with
quite as much amusement as we
are doifig now. And it is very like-
ly that the raincoat, though not as
universal as the academic gown
was, will go the same way.


















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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, October 13, 1954



M. Mead Relates Religious and Moral
Values and Technical Assistance Plans

Continued from Page 1

were willing to give their lives to
this ideal despite the dangers of
the security program, but they
were working in a totally secular
framework.

To them life was important;
the longer one lived the more val-
uable he was. Thus, in concrete
.terms they were anti-religious as
they did not separate the mortal
from the immortal.

Dr. Mead illustrated her tatk
with a description of the Admir-
‘alty Islands today as compared
‘with 25 years ago. Then these peo
ple were in the stone age. They
had no writing, mo calendar ,nv
concept of geographical and poli-

tical setup of the world, and no °

Christianity.

They had a concept not of the
soul but of soul stuff. When this
_'was gone man died, and the ghost
presided over the -household asa
stern and puritanical patriarch.
Curing of disease involved the re-
storing, through religious ceremon-
‘jes, of the soul stuff which ghosts
had stolen,

In the thirties they were Christ-
ianized and they accepted this doc-
trine ardently, but abstractly.
They liked the idea of the brother-
hood of man and would say in
their sermons: all men are broth-
er, white, black, yellow, red, and
green. This Christianity left their
economic and social ideas untouch
ed.

At the end of World War II two
million Americans of all kinds
came to live with them. From ob-
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lowing as our }rinciples: we re-
spected life, we treated each man

‘Pullman. Hiawatha* Uses
Large Cast, Few Players
Continued from Page He

tended to sit up and play Russian
bank, rather than Russian Rou-

as an individual ,we were~not ma-
terialistic because we could ater lette as he announced. This slip

not to be. %

From this they reorganized their
life. They had new ideas in medi-
cine, new writing, a calendar, even
a P.T.A. and they did it them-

selves because they wanted it.
This is what we are trying to do

‘with technical assistance.

Their criticism of the Mission.
was: “The mission told us_ the
truth but it didn’t show us the
way.” The people of these islands
say we don’t want you to cure the
sick, we want you to show us ho:v
so keep people well.

This brings us face to face with
the basic issue. ,We have come to
believe that all things material are
evil, that the old fashioned, the
ufimechanical is good. “We have to
realize, that to an old peasant
working to death lugging water,
plumbing is a good thing. This wili
close the gap between the secular
workers on technical assistance
and the spiritual ones, It will
make our program more success-
ful.

‘Or the tongue made Philip appear

a more desperate person than he
should have been.

As the stage manager, Happy
Crane explained the setting and
events clearly and naturally. But
she lacked the warmth and sympa-
| thetic interest in the happenings
that were necessary both to bind
| the various characters in the play
into a unified whole, and to serve
as the desired link between the
audience and the actors. She ex-
emplified the chief trouble with the
play—that it moved so fast that
there was little time Sha deep-
er philosophy and human under-
standing -of Wilder- to come
through. This was undoubtedly due
in part to the shortage of rehears-
al time.

A more thoughtful interpreta-
tion would have made “Pullman
Hiawatha” more meaningful, but
East House did give a very enter-
taining, and *in some spots, dra-
matic, performance.







European Hostility To American Policy

Concern Of Pacifist Lecturer, Tatum

Mr. Arlo Tatum, executive secre-
tary of the-War Resistors’ Eéapve,
spoke last Tuesday, at "Haverford
College, on the subject. “Pacifism
and Some of its Problems.”

Since Mr. Tatum had just come
back from. Europe, he introduced
his speech with a brief summary
of European attitudesyand feelings.
Although Europeans strongly dis-
like American foreign policy, he
said, although they watch the
growing loss of civil liberties with
horror, they can still distinguish
individual Americans from Ameri-
can foreign policy. This, he felt,
was a good sign.

Interestingly enough, the only
pro-American person that Mr. Ta-
tum met in all of Europe turned
out to be a German Nazi who con-
gratulated America on finally ad-
mitting what Germany knew be-
fore World War II, that is, that
it was necessary for America and
Germany to fight Russia together.

Mr. Tatum then went on to the
subject of pacifism. During my
lifetime, he said, I have been in two
wars, and now another one is shap-
ing. We have allied ourselves with
the fascist or semi-fascist coun-
tries of Spain, Yugoslavia, and



Formosa,

We are arming countries that
are sick of war and suffering and
death, and, in pouring money into
arms, we are almost ignoring the
kind of economic help that under-
developed countries really need.
The way to ‘fight Communism is
not through guns, but through
tractors, food, and better living
conditions. :

Threat of War

War, Mr. Tatum felt, has be-
come the worst threat and dictator
of all. With our modern weapons,
the terrible destruction that a Third
World War would bring about,
would make parts of this planet
completely unlivable, and would
cause fantastic havoc and suffer-
ing.

The pacifist, however, is not un-
willing to die for his cause, he is
merely unwilling to kill. Non-vio-
lent defense, such as was. used in
India, can be even more effective
than guns, with the result that
afterwards there will be a real
chance for peace. Perhaps if there
aré enough thinking, courageous
people, the whole conception of
war can be approached in an en-
tirely different, and very challeng-
ing way.





























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