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VOL. LI, NO. 8

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, oe

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1954

PRICE 20 CENTS



~ Alliance. Conference Features Ulam, Inkeles, and Cressey:

Ulam Finds Yugoslaviat
Anti-East And
Anti-W est
10, Goodhart,

November 8:30

p.m. “Yugoslavia’s Position in| Second speech of the Alliance Con-
-Today’s World”, was explained by

Adam Ulam, Professor of Govern-
ment at Harvard University.

Yugoslavia is still hopeful that
her example of rupture with the
USSR in 1948 will be followed by
other satellites, Mr. Ulam com-
mented, “Thus Yugoslavia is not
important as a military ... or as
an economic power ... Instead,
she is important for her ideological
overtones.”

Still Socialists

After the break, the Yugoslavs
continued to be fanatical Commu-
nists, distrustful of the West. Mr.
Ulam noted, “They were still con-
vinced that the key to economics
lay in the over-simplified and vul-
garized picture that socialism pre-

sents..... They pursued radical,
socialistic policies.” When the
Communists assumed power in

Asia during this period, Tito and
his advisers thought China would
follow Yugoslavia’s pattern and

- disavow Russia. Only the Korean

War destroyed the illusion of a
“burgeoning Titoism in Asia.”
_ Russia is now making overtures
to Yugoslavia, but Mr. Ulam be-
lieves that Yugoslavia will not
wish ‘to return to a subordinate po-
sition. Moreover, Yugoslavia’ is
now a potential enemy of Russia.

“Russia knows that Yugoslavia
is her one political failure, the one
instance where Russia lost. terri-
tory; and besides, the United
States had nothing to do with the
rupture and cannot be blamed for
it.”

The Yugoslavians were fanatical

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'strictions the USSR placed upon
their freedom. They liked the pro- |:

Soviet Social System
' Discussed By
Inkeles

November 11, Goodhart, 12:30 p.m.

ference on “Communist Powers in
the Cold War”.

A highly stratified social system,
an extremely centralized economy
and, an elite, all-powerful political
party were among the “Main Fea-
tures of the Soviet Social System”
as described by. Alex Inkeles.

Dr. Inkeles is Professor of Soci-
ology at Harvard University. He
is also Director of Research for the
project on the Soviet Social Sys-
tem, conducted by the Russian Re-
search Center at Harvard.

Dr. Inkeles gave a picttre~of the
Soviet Union from within. This
was constructed from information
received through interviews with
former Soviet citizens, obtained
from his work at, the Russian Re-
search Center.

Opportunities Greater

That the Communist principle of
social equality is not present in
Russia was evidenced by the fact
that professional and semi-profes-
sional people living in the cities
had far greater chances for ad-
vancement, ‘socially and economic-
ally, than workers and peasants.
They spent more on their children,
had greater opportunities for high-
er education, felt that their family

unit was..strengthened under the |.

pressures of war and had a much
greater sense of reward from their
jobs.

These’ former USSR citizens
from all walks of life were, in gen-
eral, quite willing to accept the re-

gram of social welfare and the
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Counterpoint Plans
Changes This Year

By Jessica Dragonette, 55

This year the editorial board of
Counterpoint has decided on a new
policy. The first issue, which may
be expected early in \December,
will be a more comprehensive an-
thology of prose and. poetry writ-
ten ‘on campus; the magazine will
be mimeographed, and the price
will be considerably lower.

This experiment is being con-
ducted with several aims in mind.

...We..feel-that_ Counterpoint should

be a more representative publica-
tion; a larger selection of pieces
will enable readers to have a clear-
er notion of what writing is being
done on campus. There will be less
attempt to make the review a “fin-
ished” magazine; instead, we hope
that it will come to be an outlet
for experimental ideas, a closer
approximation to the workshop
which Mr. Berthoff, among others,
has felt Counterpoint ought to be.

In addition to these goals, we
have the somewhat less lofty am-
bition of making Counterpoint fin-
ancially self-supporting. By chang-
ing the format and printing, we

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Louis MacNeice and
Wife to Give Recital



The second Class of 1902 lecture
this year will be a performance by
Louis MacNeice and his wife,
Hedli Anderson on December 2.
The program will be a combination
of song and verse reading.

At Sarah Lawrence

Mr. MacNeice, one of England’s
most important contemporary po-
ets, has done writing for films and
BBC. He has published his first
children’s book recently. Currerit-
ly, Mr. MacNeice is a guest lectur-
er at Sarah Lawrence.

A Centaur |

Mrs. ‘MacNeice, professionally
known as Hedli Anderson, is a sing-
er of great versatility. She has
done contemporary work and me-
dieval and Victorian ballads, as
well as cabaret singing. Many
contemporary composers have done
songs especially for her, using
texts of today’s finest English
poets.

‘Marianne Moore, well known to
Bryn Mawr, describes their com-
bined performance as “a centaur



not to be missed”.

Cressey Hopes for Break |.

Between Russia,
Red China.

November 11, Goodhart, 8:30 p.m.

“China is going to remain Chi-
nese,” said Dr. George Cressey,
Professor of Geography at Syra-
cusee University, who discussed
“Changing China.”

He believes that the Chinese]|
have become so conscious of their | §

place in the world that they will
never consent to be a satellite.

A wedge between Moscow and
Peking may be possible now that
Stalin is dead, for before that, Red
China: looked to . Soviet Union
for. support and“guidance. Now
that he is no longer alive, Mao Tse
Tung considers himself the world’s
leading interpreter of communism,
and sees no reason to depend on
Malenkov.

China still looks to the Soviet
Union for economic support, but
this may prove to be a weak spot,
for the Peking government has put
under way an extremely ambitious
five-year plan on the Russian pat-
tern which will cost two or three

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CALENDAR

Wednesday, November 17

8:30 p.m.—Robert Speaight will
read from English dramatic poets
including T. S. Eliot and Shakes-
peare as Sheble Lecturer. Good-
hart.

Thursday, November 18

8:30 p.m. — “Four European
Characters” (Hamlet, Don Quix-
ote, Faust, and Don Juan) will be
the theme of Salvador de Made-
riaga. Deanery.

8:30 p.m. — Archaeology Lec-
ture in the Art Lecture Room.

Sunday, November 21

7:30 p.m.—Dean Louis Hirshon
will discuss “Frank Briscol’s
Eyes” in.chapel. Music room.
Monday, November 22

4:30 p.m.—William G. Pollard
will speak to the Science Journal
Club. Dalton...

8:15 p.m.— “Things and Per-
sons” will be Mr. Pollard’s lecture
topic. Goodhart.

Tuesday, November 23

8:30 p.m.—Frederica deLaguna
will describe her “Ethnological
Field Work among the Indians of
Alaska,” sponsored by Sigma Xi.
Park.

Monday, November 29

9:00 a.m.—Classes resume.

7:15-p.m.—Miss~ McBride- -will
describe “The Crisis in Educa-
tion” at Current Events. Common
Room,

8:15 p.m.—Philosophy Club. talk
on “Existentialism.”

Tuesday, November 30

8:30 p.m.— The Science Club
will sponsor a lecture by Mr. Ber-
acewitch, a mathematician. Dal-
ton.

Monday, December 1

8:15 p.m.—Louis Fieser, former
Bryn Mawr Chem. professor,. will
speak at Park.

Tuesday, December 2

8:30 p.th.— Poet Louis Mac-
Niece and his’ wife will give a
combined program in Goodhart.

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~ ‘Communist Powers in Cold War’ Discussed by Speakers



sense” in ‘Goodhart Auditorium
Saturday night. The Nobel prize-
winning poet was sponsored by
the Friends of the Library.

Mr. Frost has been called the
New England poet, but the “syb-
jects he discussed on Satuday
| night extended much beyond the
| thoughts of one section of the
country.

Unlike most of as, Mr. Frost
knew what he was thinking at any
time in his career because he has
it, “all writtem down.”

Thirty-five years ago. Mr. Frost
taught at Bryn Mawr for two
years. He was secured by M. Ca-
rey Thomas to guide a club of em-
bryo poets. He therefore started
by telling the audience of his reac-
tions to students and ideas he met
on college campuses at that time.

Ideas at Bryn Mawr were “rad-
ical then”. It was the poet’s great-
est disillusionment to discover that
“Radicals. were the same from
Maine to- California, just like the
conservatives”, It was then that







ROBERT FROST

Robert Frost Expresses Own Philosophy
Through Informal Readings Of His Poetry

Robert Frost expressed his ideas
through poems of “sense and non-

he “stopped cheerimg and started
jeering”’.

A Case for Jefferson and the Lost
Followers were two poems he wrote
affectionately mocking the -yquth
of that day. He describes one,
“Harrison”, rather completely. '

“He’s (Freudian Viennese by
night, By day he’s Marxian Mus-
covite, It isn’t because he’s a Rus-
sian Jew, He’s puritanical Yankee
through and through”,

In the last lines of that poem
he gives his main criticism.: “With
him the love of country “means,
blowing it all to smithereens and
having it all made over again”.

In the Lost Follower, talking of
two young poets who were deflect-
ed to another path, he gives his
ideas on the thing for which they
and we are striving. “The millen-
ium to which you tend in longing
is not at progress end , ,.. but
right beside you “book-like on a
shelf, or even better Godlike in

yourself,”

In his own college days Mr. Frost
was often teased about being alone
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By Ann Harris, ’56
When I told Robert Frost that

tice in an interview, he said, “Well,
do the best you can, the angels
can-do-no-mere.”.. The eighty year
old poet, still young with New
England spirit and wit, was being
besieged in the new Rare Book Room
by admiring fans, photographers,
and two reporters, one professional
and one not (namely, me). Yet he
took all in stride, and as he auto-
graphed his books for people, he
remarked philonophicalty, ° “T’m just
doin’ my duty.” . me

Speaking of his younger ion
and--of~his~ -diverse occupations
throughout life, he mentioned
newspaper work, , farming and
teaching. Although a reporter and
an editor, he felt unsuited to the
newspaper world, for he was in-
adequately “citified,” and wasn’t

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it would be difficult to.do him jus-.



Frost Disavows Title Of ‘Literary Man’;
Life Includes Cobbling, Soins BMC

“full of politics.” Qnce a colleague
even suggested, “You should” get
around saloons more.” |

While Mr. Frost is a farmer. in
spirit, he feels morally obliged to
dispel the popular notion that his
entire life has been’ spent behind. a
plow. Only for about ten years did
he farm seriously, and even though
he claims he “made a bad living at
it,” he is quite proud’ that he
wasn’t just a “gentleman” farmer.

The professional interviewer
asked Mr. Frost about his experi-
ence as a cobbler. Amused by this
particular reference to his personal
history, he clarified the point.
When a lad of twelve, he had spent
the summer ‘pounding nails into
shoes, a very routine job. “Yes,”
he reminisced, “I had a mouthful
of nails all summer.” Later in life,
in answer to that inevitable ques-

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