College news, January 9, 1957

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VOL. XLII, NO. 10

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR,.PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1957

© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1956

PRICE 20 CENTS



Role of Foundation Scholar And
Ustruggling Students Discussed

by Rita Rubinstein

Criticisms ‘of the modern student
and scholar by Perry Miller, Pro-
fessor of American Literature, and
David Riesman_sociologistwere-re-
cently discussed in The Harvard
Crimson. Articles in the fall issue
of the’ quarterly magazine, The
American Scholar, published by Phi
Beta Kappa, served as the sources
of information.

According to Miller “The Plight
of the Lone Wolf,” the ideal of
“scholarship on the grand scale”
is losing ground in academic cir-
cles: he asserted that the human-
istic scholars are concentrating on
“dreaming up team projects” rath-

-er than pursuing individual schol-

arship—and “the dreadful reality
is that the humanities just don’t
work that way.” The nineteenth
century conception was one of the
“magnificent individual’—the per-
son who pursued scholarship for
its own sake without, attempting
to conform to a restrictive living
pattern.

No Longer Ideal of ‘Lone Wolf”

The younger generation of schol-
ars no longer has this ideal of the
“Jone wolf” due in part to recent
“developments in*technology, trans-
portation, advertising and com-
munication, which have made ev-
eryone more socially conscious”.
However, he carefully adds:

“JT am the last to grieve because
advertisers bring standardized pro-
cedures into the kitchen or even
into the bedroom, but I tremble for
the future of our civilization when
the methods of Madison Avenue
penetrate the scholar’s sanctuary.”

Mr. Miller also places blame, in-
directly, on foundations that dis-
tribute large sums of money to
group projects, while rarely giving
adequately to the lone scholar. This
tendency is increased through the
scholar’s lack of personal financial
resources. Four decades ago these
scholars either “inherited money
or they married it.” Now they turn
to foundations.

The situation is not hopeless and
certainly valuable work is current-
ly being done. But Miller does ask:
“What has happened to that arro-
gant scholar of the generation long
since gone? His suééessor, dis-
tracted with course reports, com-
mittee faculty meetings, letters of
recommendation, finds himself en-
dowed less and less ... with those
moments of solitude that permitted
a William James or a John Lowes
to pursue the phantom of making
a contribution to knowledge.” In
the final analysis, all is dependent
upon the. individual who “can al-
ways close the door of his lonely
chamber . . . What has formerly
been may, MUTATIS MUTANDIS,
still be done, even in the era. of
television.”

Student Today More Confident

David Riesman concludes in “The
Found Generation” that the col-
lege student of today is a more
confident but a less ambitious one
than his predecessor of twenty-
five years ago.

“This discussion of the present
college generation was first given
in-a talk by Riesman to a Class of

- 1981 Symposium during last June’s
Commencement. At that time, be-
cause of its provocative tone—
highly critical in parts of today’s

graduate—it caused a great deal

of.ibanter in Cambridge that week

the graduating. seniors.

“The article as well as the speech
was based on a series of interviews
conducted by Time Magazine with
183 college serfiors from the Class
of 1955, including ten from Har-
vard. These interviews, Riesman
says, produced a picture ‘which
contrasts sharply with what would
have been obtained from seniors
in the samé, colleges twenty-five
years ago’.”
Continued on Page 4, Col, 1

Student in London
Tells British View

by Darrall Kidd
Junior Year, University of London

It is extremely difficult to be an
American
great stretching city with its fam-
ous squares, fur helmeted palace
guards and rigidly sedate buildings

all muted in the ever-present white |

fog is most vocal in its anti-Amer-
icanism. The press from the hys-
terical News of the World to the
steadier Times is denouncing us
whole-heartedly. The newsreels
mercilessly paste our weakness
alongside the valor of the Anglo-

French forces creating order in|.

the Suez. ;

In- the Houses of Parliament,
barely discernable in the fog; M.P.s
met and decided how to cater to
public opinion. They were well
aware that the government’s action
in the Suez could bring about a
decisive election and so they out-
did each other in popular condem-
nations.

Several weeks ago three resolu-
tions were tabled.in the House of
Commons deploring the American
attitude toward the “police action”
in Egypt. The seriousness of these
resolutions is not to be under-
estimated.

Feel U. S. Precipitated Crisis

Firstly, the British people, and
this includes the range from the

man who goes to the pub at night
and discusses politics over a glass

of ale to the M.P., believe that the},

United States has precipitated the
conflict over the Suez. With our
offer to finance the Aswan dam

which we dangled in front of Egypt |

only to snatch away, we created
4 situation where Nasser was forc-
ed to take any means to build the
zanal or his considerably growing
prestige would have been nipped.

There is perhaps some truth in
che British accusation that our of-
fer was mischanneled. Perhaps,
as they say, we seriously hurt the
U.N. by trying to play solitary
benefactor. Secondly we are con-
demned roundly by the British and
the French for our dismal lack of
policy. Dulles’has been .particu-
arly singled out as a statesman
worthy of the Machiavellian school.

Unfortunately, the trans-Atlan-
tic quarel has ceased to be an ac-
ademic discussion of principle and
policy and has become more of a
personal matter of national rivarly.

The-ominous gap between Amer-

become -more foreboding with the
impending gas dole which the
United States will soon be sending
to Europe. It is essential that
Americans realize that they are
dealing with a country on the de-
fensive, a country that considers
‘itself to have been humiliated be-



between the 25th reunioners and

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Continued on Page “2, Col. 4



in London now. This}.

ica and Britain will undoubtedly}

Senator Kennedy
Will Speak Here

John Kennedy, Democratic Sen-
ator from Massachusetts — will
speak in Goodhart Hall Monday,
January—14th—-at-8:80-p-m;;~on-the
“The Politician’s Lament.” Sen-
ator Kennedy is the second major
Alliance speaker for the year.

Senator Kennedy obtained prom-
inent press notices this summer
when he was a contender for the
vice-presidency on the Democratic
ticket. He is also the author of
two books, the most recent, Pro-
files in Courage, containing bio-
graphies of various figures in
American political history, and
While England Slept, published in
1940. ' . ‘
A graduate of Harvard and of
Notre Dame Law School, Mr.
Kennedy served in Congress from

1947 to 1953 when he. was ee

io the Senate.— ae -

The Senator is the second of
the Kennedy family to speak at
Bryn Mawr. Robert Kennedy, his
brother,- was here last year.

CALENDAR
Thursday, January 10

8:30 p.m.—Miss Mellink will
give an illustrated lecture on
“The Excavations at Phrygian
Gordion.” Art Lecture Room.
(Please note location, as the place

of this meeting has been chang-
ed.)

8:30 p.m.—Miss McBride will
show two films on “Diagnosis
of Childhood Schizophrenia” and
“Palmour Street, a story of
Family Life.’ The lecture is
open to students in Education,
Psychology, and Sociology.
Common Room.

Friday, January 11

7:30 p.m.—A.A. will” sponsor
the movie “Oliver Twist.” Ad-
mission fifty cents. Goodhart.

Monday, January 14

8:30 p.m.—Senator John Ken-
nedy wil speak on “The Politic-
ian’s Lament.” Senator Kennedy
is: the. Junior Senator (Demo-
cratic) from Massachussetts.
Goodhart.

Wednesday, January 16.

8:30 p.m.—Millard Meiss, Pro-
fessor of Fine Arts, Harvard
University, will give the Class of
1901 Lecture on “An Episode in
Renaissance Art, Humanism and
Diplomacy.” Goodhart. ©

Thursday, January 17

8:30 p.m. — Another of the
Philosophy Club’s discussions,
this one between Mr. Nahm and
Mr. Sloane. Common Room.







A grant: of $300,000 from the
Research Facilities Branch of the
National Institute of Health, an-
nounced on December 13 will en-
ablethe_.college to begin formal
construction on its new science
center. The; possibility of breaking
ground in late spring is conting-
ent on technical and architectural
considerations.

The money has been granted in
accordance with. the provisions of
U.S. Public Law 835 which went
into effect July 30, 1956. Its pur-
pose is to assist in the construc-
tion of facilities for the conduct of
research in the sciences related to
health by providing grants-in-aid
on a matching basis to public and
non-profit institutions.

The college’s qualification for
the grant from the Division of
Research Grants of the Depart-
ment of Health, Education and
Welfare is based on the record of
original work on health now being
Department.

Professor L. J. Berry is engaged

Study In Florence
With S. Lawrence

__ Sarah Lawrence College has just
anounced the opening of a summer
school in Florence, Italy, to be in
session from July 1—August 2,
1957. As the project is a new and
experimental one, information has
been sent to Bryn Mawr and other
schools, describing various features
of the program, and details neces-
sary for application. (Although
most places will be filled by Sarah
Lawrence girls, several remain for
outside students.)

The plan is rather different from
that of most foreign summer
schools, while the courses given
carry full academic credit, com-
plete freedom as to time, studying,
interests, and social life will be
given to each student. The school
itself may be used as a sort of
headquarters for excursions into
Florence and the _ surrounding
countryside, and when the aca-
demic session is over, students may
remain for very little at the school,
using it only as a “hotel.” This
should prove to be quite pleasant,
as the “school” is in actuality a
16th century palace on the hill of
Bellosguardo, overlooking Florence
(ten minutes away on foot), with
cypress-tree gardens, a_ large
swimming pool, and, for practi-
eality, twelve modern bathrooms.
In the winter it serves as a finish-
ing school run by the Countess
de Germiny, a French woman who
rents the palace and: grounds from
an Italian nobleman.

Courses will be held in Renais-
sance Art, Italian Language (he-
ginning and intermediate), and
Modern Italian Civilization, which
will be given in two parts, Poli-



jtical and Social Life, and Litera-

ture..Each student may take two,
of the four courses offered, which
will be held on week-day morn-
ings only. In the ‘afternoon. excur-
sions to Florence will be made with
special attention to the art trea-
sures for which it is famous. Week-
end trips to Pisa, Assisi, Perugia,
and other hill towns of Tuscany
are already planned.

The tuition cost for the whole

-}summer is $350.00. Those students

interested in applying or obtain-
ing more information should con-
tact Maya Yardney in Wyndham.



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Wwe by —anemberscf.the Riolacv|

B.M.C: Receives $300,000 Grant
For The Planned Science Center

in analyses of the factors involved
in the Ymereased susceptibility to
bacterial infections that has been
Observed in animals exposed to
reduced atmospheric pressures and
oxygen lack comparable to condi-
tions experienced at high altitudes,

studying growth, especially the in-
fluence and mode of action of ster-
oids in promoting or inhibiting the
growth of certain unicellular ani-
mals. Also working under a U.S.
Public Health Grant, Professor
Mary Gardiner is studying the phe-
nomena of growth as exhibited by
plant tissues in solutions of known
chemical composition in which in-
creased or decreased amounts of
certain substances may cause
atypical or deficient growth.
Professor Jane Oppenheimer’s
research is in the field of experi-
mental embryology. Using fishes

is. engaged in analyses of the



development, particularly in rela-
tion to the nervous system. Finally
Dr. Eleanor A. Bliss, Professor of
Biology and Dean‘ of the Graduate
School is studying the relation-
ships between bacteria, and anti-
biotics known to have been de-
veloped by certain strains of
bacteria. . Pu SIGH A

Peter Dyer ‘58 An
Active Stockholder

By Debby Ham

“Peter” Dyer, a junior in Rad-
nor, spent Christmas
in St. Louis, examining the rec-
ords of the Union Electric Com-
pany of which she is a stockholder.

According to Peter, the Union
Electric Company has been using
the stockholders’ money in prac-
tices that are legally dubious if
not illegal.

Charges against the Company
include the following:

That it paid a $35,000 lobbying
fee to influence the Illinois State
Legislature to see that a bill it
wanted would be passed; that the.
Company bought approximately
$10,000 worth of newspaper space
“white-washing” the whole affair
in two St. .Louis papers; that the
Company _ representing private
power successfully worked against
the Gore Bill, a bill intended to
appropriate public funds for build-
ing and investigating possibilities
of cheap electric power by means
of atomic reactors,. by citing
optomistically false data concern-
ing the development of atomic re-
actors in the United States. This
deceptive advertisement was fi-
nanced by corporation funds_in-
vested in the Company by the in-
dividual stockholders.

The entire affair is “extremely
complicated,’tind is, as Peter says,
“a subtle moral issue,” for as long
as the company is making a profit,
most stockholders (there are 57,000
in the Union Electric Co.) are not
overly interested in its methods.
Peter, with the help of her father,
hopes to redirect the policy of the
Company. This would include a
change in the by-laws stating that
no money should be spent for
lobbying or deceptive advertising.

The stockholders’ meeting next

spring will prove to be a final



factor on the issue.

Professor Robert L. Conner, is’

as her experimental material, she .

factors involved in the contro] of |
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No News Is NOT Good *News

Three Ameyican Journalists have been the subjects,
first of wide publicity and then of government penalty .in
their search for complete coverage of world news. The three,
William Worthy of the Afro-American of Baltimore and
Edward Stevens of Look Magazine are the first American
reporters to enter Red China in seven years. They arrived in
Peiking within three days of each other at Ch¥istmas time.

_... The reason-for the American press avoidance of Red
China is the Américan lack of interest. -Haiters have

been hoping to send reporters into that country ever since
the Communist government first offered to admit United
States newsmen in August 1956. However, a State Depart-
ment ban has continued to prohibit travel in China by Amer-
icans, newsmen and private citizens alike. The ban was in-
stituted because of Department claims that travel by Amer-
ican newsmen in China will prejudice attempts to Free U. S$.
prisoners still held by the Chinese. They further claim that
reporters might be held as hostages by the Peiking govern-

ment.

~The State Department took immediate action against
the three reporters for violation of the ban; they revoked
their passports, making them valid only until the reporters
return to the United States. The Treasury Department has
also reported that it is contemplating action to block the
correspondent’s bank accounts for violating the 1950 law,
forbidding any financial dealings with the Communist Chin-
ese. No definite action on this penalty has yet been taken.

.. We feel that both. the ban and. the action taken against
the three reporters is unjust. It is doubtful whether travel
in Red.China by American newsmen will in any way hinder
attempts to obtain the release of American prisoners still
in China. Meanwhile the American public is being deprived
of direct news from one of the most vital countries in the
world. © |

With the question of admission of Red China to the
U. N. such a current one, a report on this area is of.interest
and importance to the country. i. ore
' The penalty against the reporters is a heavy one (a pass-
port is one of the tools of the trade for a foreign correspond-
ent) but any penalty would be too heavy. These reporters
have called attention to a violation of freedom of the press
by their action. They also will probably bring back the first

China which the United States government has shut off from
the American public since August by a curtain of red tape
and regulation. In this case it is the job of our government
to cut the red tape and lower the barrier so that the Amer-
ican public can benefit.from the American journalists’ abil-
ity to get at the facts and present them well.

Pathetic Fallacy

Now come we to the festal board
Each and every Vestal bored

At sight of dainties lushly spread ;
Meat supplies and picnic bread
Veritatem dilexi.

On wines’ and partidge have we dined
Here in place of feasts sublime p

-Qur-joyvs-excell.when now we view
Boiled ricé and weakly ste
Veritatem dilexi. ~ ;

Hence, vain'palatable delights. .
Intellectual are our appetites _
Which ravish books, ignore the looks _
Of pleading oP and egg uncooked.
Veritatem dilexi. ee

<.% ., food, how like thou art to me!
And in thy pallid state I see .
y soul and withered mind



BMC Experienced

. By-Gretctien Jessup

“Pippa” MacElhenny, as_ sie

Library (Pallas’ Prescriptions for
Appalling Apparitions — Pallid

-- + Professors Guaranteed~ -—. . Mid-

Semesters: $.01, oral Reports: for-
eign Coin only, Mid-Years: $.20,
Term Papers: $.50, on the deferred

Payment Paper Plan), and chanted
a light, Mid-Semester Imprecation
in a Hellenistic Greek Dialect, felt
somehow “hat life really was hard-
ly worth even the penny Price
these Days. She sighed, and fell to
lower case musings. She had tried
so hard. She had cut all her classes.
She had bought Rover Ramblers

| Best Boys’ Best Short Pants, from

that casual Troublesome Teens’
Shop, in town. She had taken off
her Harvard scarf. She had told
Stu not to come down that week.
She had Aviggled her ears fifteen
times dafly, as doubtless influential
peripheral training. She had not
smiled.

: But it was all in vain (in vano),
she hastily amended, remembering
her lively interest in Latin), and
a dementia de mente et vanitate.
Eheu, quoth Pippa, sadly but soft-
ly, with womanly restraint. For she
was not In. Here Pippa sighed for
the second tirne; patted, in a gentle
gesture of imploring farewell, the
eternally stretched out bronzed
palm; and moved toward the door
marked “exit.” And her spirit, her
intellectual processor, while above
that sort of thing, still — Pippa
stubbed her toe on the steps out
(she had taken her glasses off, as
she always did before going out-
side)—-was bruised by the thought,
the idea, the discrimination of it
all. Her high expectations were
dashed—Pippa put her shoulder to
the door and gradually pushed it
open, squinted slightly (the bright
foggy daylight always hurt her
eyes), and cut off slowly leftward
(she was, as usual, bound for class,
though indirectly. No really typical
Bryn Mawr girl goes straight to
class. Cut, yes. Walk, no), and
things were not the same, ~

Where Was It?

Theré was a Void, though if on
page 102 or 105, she could not tell.
True,: she still had, if not her
High Hopes, then her High Goals,
her High Pursuits. True, she still
had her five and half hours of class
daily, not to mention (much) her
one hour of cabalism and con-
ference, her four minutes of casual
dressing, her 2:1 proportionately
correct ten hours of: library (the
world might call her well leaded if
it liked; words, being, so to speak,

‘vocational, could not impinge upon
authoritative stories on what has been happening in China, aher intellectual process), her bi-
‘weekly study date, and alternate
‘days of one hour of .Cultural Con-.

'versation, and Greatness Gazing—

Tea and Brisqueness, 4380, it was
called—yet, there was a definite
void, where hopes had been.

But the mere renaming of her
familiar Pursuits recalled Pippa
to them; her intention, even her
attention, turned again thinkerly
to these, with a reasonably revolv-
ing resolution that was as clear
and open as any doer could wish.
If she were not a part in the Whole
Life, the Bona Vita (dutifully
loving Latin again), she would be
of it,a copy, but a faithful one.
True to Woman, true to Faith, to

-. | Vita, to Truth, to, well, everything.

(Pippa paused, struck... by...the
wonder of such a womanly achieve-
ment. As the hour was also struck,
she paused some more, to have
her 1:00 Mental Refreshment.
Today it was the Law of Diminish-
ing Returns. Well mulled, it warm-
ed and cheered). So patterned and
directed, vita pro Vita might go
on, learning and Learning. |

But she must (could she) at one
point hurdle her principles as sure-
ly as she hurdled her education
she must also hurry. She would
be late to class. (Pippa cut the



Deanery and, of coursé, unsched-

greased the cold bronze palm in the |

“A Day On The High Hill,” Or-Life At

By P. MacElhenny

uled teas, idle. teas.) She made a
mental note not to forget, as she
had last week, that today was
Laughter in-Class Day—or was it
tomorrow? She could not remem-
ber; but she could not bear to
forget again, horrified as she was
by the tiny thought of being
assigned a second _ penetential
paper like last week’s, on the Place
of the Secret Smile in American
Divorce Cases—If Vita had only
forborne to introduce the required

it vocational? That was the prickle
in her pattern. The forced choice
that must follow between the Goals
of Vita, and Pippa’s Purity of In-
tellectual Process, would be a
terrible one. After her earlier
lowered Expectation, to have to
lose her High Goals, on the
grounds of-imperfection, would be
too much for even an analytic mind
to bear (here Pippa stumbled,
thought again “too much”, and
then “how much”, and then, as
anyone would, “quantum”. She
then reviewed with vigor, the
Quantum Theory, thoroughly and
analytically. :
As she was finishing this ten
minutes later, she tripped, she

looked up, she seemed to see sud-

den sunlight fall through the grey
clouds; but she turned quickly
away. before her brain. noticed.) It
was all very hard. But Goals must
count out even such Principles as
“No Vocation with Cogitation” and
“Cogitation No Vocation”—or was
“goal” equivalent to “princi .. .”
Three sudden “hellos” jolted Pippa
from this reverie, and _ three
acquaintances passed by her. Two,
who-were running, were en route
from the gym to the Inn for tea,
and quite likely to stop in the
library to read magazines on the
way. Both girls were in the pink;
Pippa, of course, was pale.

Fourteenth Yale Weekend

The third girl, Holly (short for
Holiday) Biddie, was off to get
ready to go on her fourteenth Yale
weekend this year. Needless
(though intriguing) to say, Pippa
had always considered all three
atypical Bryn Mawrters. Though,
she reflected, oddly enough, there
seems to be a number of others
like, and unlike, them around. Very
many. Yes, a great number. In
fact, it almost seemed . . . (there
was Stu wp at Harvard, there was
“War and Peace” at the movies,
there was snow on the ground,—
and indeed she.suddenly felt like
running, and tea, and laughter, and
then History. It was Friday after-
noon)... could it be she was
atypical, too? Pippa MacElvenny
blinked, and wondered all at-once,
if perhaps Life with a capital “L”
were not worth living. Only life

with a very small and individual
ol

‘British Viewpoint
Continued from Page 1

fore the eyes of the world.

Not only has Britain been em-
barrassed about Egypt, but daily
the suspicion increases that the
tragedy of Hungary may also have
been caused, in part, by the Brit-
ish example of protective inter-
vention in the East. :

As-one_-of.my-—British~ friends

commented the other night; Eng-
land is like a faded foolish actress
who got dressed up in a low cut
gown and put on her old makeup
but was no longer capable of play-
ing the parts of-her past.
_ America must offer Britain the
fullest support which is morally
possible. The ruffled plumage of
France and Britain must be
smoothed with understanding de-
void of scoldings and blame, or the
breach may widen still further and
‘seriously hamper the uni



aim of world peace. ee

Wednesday, January 9, 1957
Letter To The Editor

Correspondents Desired
For European
Students

Wiesbaden, Germany
27 December, 1956



U.S. Government and a
graduate of Boston University, Pe
B.S. and M.B.A. (’48). This is my
eighth year in Europe with infre-
quent vacations in my hometown

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riflery course. Who would not find’ - nok Temeenene

I have traveled widely in Europe -
and have covered all countries in
Western Europe excepting Yugo-
slavia, Finland, Portugal and_Ire-
land. I have refused to-allow the.
spirit of my college days to fade
away and, therefore, I have de-
veloped a great interest in the

universities of Europe, have met
the students, visited the’ campus,
student unions, dormitories, dining
halls, student dens and _ under-
ground dancing pubs, student thea-
tres, arts and musical entertain-
ment. It has been a wonderful
experience.

Students Want Correspondents

Most of the students are inter-
‘ested in the American college boy
and girl and desire to correspond
and meet with them and speak of.
fashions, dates, vocations, student
expenses,. arts, ‘music, dancing,
living, Russia and America. These
students may be found at Heidel-
berg, Frankfurt, Paris, Vienna,
Rome, London, Munich and Zurich.
Most of them speak English, Ger-
man, or French. I wish to find cor-
respondents for these _ students,
Therefore, if you are aware of
any students who would like to
correspond with Western Europ-
ean students, I would appreciate
receiving their names, address, in-
terest and country designation.

Sincerely,

Carl E. Johnson
Headquarters
U.S. Air Force in Europe
Comptroller, Dir/ Accounting
APO 633, N.Y., ‘N.Y.

(Anyone interested please write
to Mr.. Johnson directly.) '

(OW...

Let’s face it, they had us beat.
Forty years ago, even The College
News was better, well, anyway...

In the upper left-hand corner of
page two of the January 10, 1917
issue of The College News, we see:
“OBITUARY .. . Antiquarian
and archaeological circles were
shocked today by the news of the
death of the Trophy Club at its
home in Pembroke East. The Tro-
phy. Club, for many years was
prominent in excavation and re-
search and conducted tours of
inspection among the relics of
Bryn Mawrtyrs of the unlighted
aeons preceding the Rock Age.

Gradual paralysis of the brain
centers was cause of the decease. ©
Remains may be viewed at the
residence.”

Anyone call for a re-birth? Just
think, a place for all those
redicul—er, useful relics gathered

every May on those world-renown-*.—

ed field trips.
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CHAPEL SPEAKER

Chapel speaker this Sunday will
be Martin Foss, Professor of Philo-
sophy at Haverford College. Mr.
Foss studied in Berlin and Munich
and in Paris with Henri Bergson.
He has published two books: The
Idea of Perfection in the Western
World and Symbol and Metaphor -
in Human Experience.



His sermon topic will be: “Reli- __

lgion and History.”

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Wednesday, ‘Januaty: 9; 1957

THE COLLEGE NEWS

°

Page Three



June Graduate Reports on Social Work
A Departure from Academic Detachment

By Phyllis Hall, B.M.C. 56

Student, N.Y. School of Social Work

The reconstructed picture of last
May’s harried Senior buried be-
neath term papers, comp. notes
and application forms for graduate
schools is still warmly familiar to
the recent college graduate. That
inevitable question, “And what do
you plan to do when you gradu-
ate?” often followed by the agon-
ized response, “Vegetate on a dis-
tant South Sea Island,” by Sep-
tember has found the student reg-
istering with anticipation once
more as a beginner in unfaypiliar
academic environs.

One finds a school for social
work ‘not only different from un-
dergraduate school but different
also from the_ strictly academic
graduate setting. The predomi-
nance, for one thing, in the stu-
dent body of many long-time vet-
erans in the field of social work
practice brings to each class vary-
ing levels of experience. Classes
are attended two days each week.

Two weeks after sessions began,
I found myself on the Staten Is-
land ferry headed towards my first
agency placement, working with
the department of public welfare.
Three days a week from 9:00 to
5300 I can call myself a_ social
worker! I find myself budgeting
and re-budgeting the financial as-
sistance needs of my clients, inter-
viewing each of them once a week
and writing up the interview in
interpretive detail, attending group
and individual conferences, and in
general gradually learning what is
meant by the “applied sciences.”

‘ Social work education aims at
the preparation of the student for
a profession.. She must first learn
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sic concepts and methods and to
try to acquire ‘a genuine under-
standing of human personality in
its many facets of development.
Not only is such a_ theoretical
foundation important, but she is
trained to become aware of social
welfare services and their relation
to social change and to utilize
the techniques of research as one
instrument for social action. Close
supervision in the form of three
différent advisors assigned to each
student contributes to an almost
tutorial system of education.

Coming from the acddemic tra-
dition of Bryn Mawr, this whole
educational process is new indeed.
Here one must learn to apply the
theoretical to the actual human sit-
uation and to utilize not only those
intellectual tools, sharpened in
one’s undergraduate training, but
also the emotional tools which
must somehow find their way to a
happy synthesis. Face to face with

a human being with whom you

work in an effort to “help him to
help himself,” one must not only
be able to diagnose intellectually
the elements with which one works,
but must also establish an emo-
tional rapport where these ele-
ments may find expression. Such an
educational process demands far
more self-involvement and _ self-
awareness than any strictly aca-
demic course previously experienc-
ed. This is not to say that ideally
speaking undergraduate courses do
not involve the self, but it is to

detachment alone will never fulfill
these professional goals. Gordon
Hamilton, a graduate of Bryn
Mawr and at. present a prominent
member of the faculty—of the New
York School of Social Work ex-
presses that in her book, Theory
and Practice of Social Case Work,

jin this way.

“In applied social science, and
perhaps this is true of all sciences,
there is an increasing awareness
of ends and moral purpose. In the
pure sciences this awareness is not
allowed to influence methods of
measurement or otherwise obtain-
ing facts, but in the humanistic
sciences means and ends are indis-
solubly bound together from the
beginning.” (page 6)

Social work has been accused of
sacrificing depth to breadth in its
effort to cover the vast field of hu-
man experience. It is true that its
training methods are not those of
Bryn Mawr, but they are not nec-
essarily in conflict. Rather, the
values contributed by this under-

say that in social work intellectual

aa

Dean Discusses
Graduate School

By Helene Valabregue

The question of whether’ or not
going to: graduate school is a good
idea is almost entirely an. individ-
ual one, which many students in
the liberal arts face during their
senior: year. or -earlier. Graduate
work can be done in such a variety
of fields — vocational, educational,
professional, -academic—that it is
extremely difficult to make general-
izations about it. Mrs. Marshall,
Dean. of the College; has remarked,
however, that for jobs in most pro-
fessional* areas, study beyond the
A.B. degree is required. \_

The possibilities and opportuni-|
ties for doing graduate work are
a more concrete question, on which
information can be more easily giv-
en. Admission, in proportion to
the number of applicants, is easier
than for undergraduate schools.
The. difficulty of obtaining scholar-
‘ships varies both according to the
field and to the institution. On
the whole, however, it is more diffi-
cult to get large scholarships for
the first year than afterwards. A
really good undergraduate /academ-
ic record and aiieciatens aaleaeat
mendations are necessary to ob-
tain scholarships.

Continuing in the same field as
before the A.B. is unimportant, al-
though it may take longer to ob-
tain a degree in a field in which
one has had little formal training.
The major concern of graduate

>

|be a clear indication of ability and
of sincere academic interests.

The opportunities for women,
Mrs. Marshall stressed, are about
the same as for men. Even law
and medical schools are making ef-
forts to attract able women, and
medi¢al school admissions policies
are becoming ‘much less rigid.
Higher “higher” education is real-
ly open to women ,if they choose
to take it.

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By Molly Epstein, B.M.C..’56
Student, Yale Law School

‘The legal Mawrter, having sus-
vived theé-initial immersion and re-
flected upon it during a brief tur-
key-filled: respite, presents the fol-
lowing report of the wisdom glean-
ed thus far.

Item. When crossing the street,
as the oncoming car bears down
upon--you, think not upon bodily
danger but rather ask yourself
this: if he hits me, is he liable, or
am I guilty of contributory. negli-
gence? f
“ Item. When attempting legal
writing, remember to aim at clar-
ity and conciseness of style. In
this respect, legal writing is to be
distinguished from journalistic or
other forms of writing which you
have previously done,

Item. Thy cup runneth over. At
Law School functions, always re-
member that one. Martini is the
equivalent of three anywhere else.

Item. Lawyers are not reason-
able men. They must be passion-
ately opinionated on any subject
from the relative merits of the de-
murrer and the motion for sum-
mary judgment to the color of the
Torts book..

Cigarettes for 25¢
Item. The “Yale Approach”:

I assigned?” “No sir, I’m terribly
sorry.” “Good—new you -can con-
tribute a fresh and perhaps. un-
prejudiced viewpoint.”

Item. Females who have attain-
ed the degree of-Ll.B. are address-
ed as “Esq.” To prove it, there is
a copy in the women’s lounge.

Item. Cigarette machines in the
Law School Coke Room are the
only ones in the state of Connecti-
cut where cigarettes still cost a
quarter. The Student Association
threatened the vendor with a suit
for breach of contract when he
tried to change them,

Item. After graduating from
law school, and finding yourself
with & scarcity of clients, you of-
fer a professional ambulance-chas-
er 40% of your fee for every case

he brings you. Is such a contract
valid?

Item. When asked a seemingly
innocent question, think through
all possible ramifications. If you
fail to do so, you too may espouse
a position unknown to the Anglo-
American legal tradition, although
curiously in keeping with the view
held by primitive tribes. “Ha-
rumph! Very interesting anthro-
pological specimen.”

Item. When short of cash, try
the following: rent your room to a
fellow student’s weekend date.

Item. Attend Saturday classes,
painful as the thought may be.
Professors are in rare form to en-

“Oh, so you haven’t read the case}.

Former Mawrter Gives Report from Yale
Reflects on Classmates, Maétly Male

tertain
friends.
Item. Always have a ready an-
swer to an inevitable question.
When asked “why does a girl want
to go to law school?”, a fitting
reply is “to avoid the draft.”
Item. When asked to measure
your law school against others, try
the following characterization: at
Harvard they teach law, at. Yale
they teach jurisprudence, and at

Chicago they teach Political Sci-
ence.

your colleagues’ gir]

Item.. On returning to Bryn

.| Mawr, people seem as glad to see

you as you are to see them. Which
is really pretty amazing, since you
start getting nostalgic about a
place once you've left it.



Berry Speaks On ~~

Bacteria Research

The fact that instructing is only
one phase of the work of the Bryn

Mawr faculty is commonly known ©

but frequently forgotten. Sigma
Xi’s lecturer Monday night, Bryn
Mawr’s Mr. L. Joe ‘Berry, brought
this fact forcefully to , mind by
his talk on “Dynamics of Infec-
tion”,

The lecture dealt with phases of
Mr. Berry’s research in the effects
0 fbacteria upon living organisms.
Nllustrating his remarks with slides
and graphs, ‘Mr. “Berry presented
the statistic results. of his experi-
ments.

He was particularly concerned

with the effects of certain chemi- :

cals which were injected into mice
to study the resultsof-the—infec-
tion. The problem was to deter-

mine why some animals survived .

longer than others. Comparative
data of survival time and bacteria
counts under various conditions
and injections of different chemi-
cals was presented.

Mr. Berry attributed most of
the fluctuation found in survival
time to the variability of types of
defense mechanisms and their ef-
ficiency, It follows then, that sur-

vival depends upon the time it-

takes the bacteria to break down
the organism’s resistance in order

‘

to reach a certain number of leth- ©

al cells.



HAVERFORD EVENTS
Friday, January 11

8:15 p.m.—Gordon Allport,
Professor of Psychology,
‘Harvard University, will dis-
cuss “The Individual in So-
ciety” in the Common Room,
Founders Hall.
Tuesday, January 15

11:10 a.m.—Dr. Clyde R.

Miller, propaganda analyst.
Collection speaker. Roberts
Hall.

4:00 p.m. — Senator Paul
Douglas, a Phillips visitor at
Haverford will give a lecture
on “Politics as a Way of
Life,” in the Common Room,
Founders Hall.











tion a meeting of Legislature~was

campus for an Arts Council, and,
more specifically, to discuss the
constitution, drafted by students
who were particularly interested
in an Arts Council.

Pat Moran represented the en-
thusiasts for an Arts Council. The
purpose for such an organization,
as Pat described it, is “to represent
a large group of students who are
already’ united by a common in-
terest.” The Arts. Council would
include chorus, college theatre,
dance club, the art and record
libraries, the Revue Editors, the



orchestra. Representatives would



Plans for Arts Council Get Underway
Would Be Included Under Undergrad

Shortly before Christmas vaca-}

also be sent from the Freshman
class as well as from each hall.

whether Arts Council wanted to

called__.to-..diseuss-the-~plan—on}—There-was some confusion as to ~~

establish itself as an independent ;

organization on an equal basis with
the so-called “big six,” or whether
it wanted to organize under Under-
grad. The latter plan was finally
decided upon, and Legislature was
dismissed until] further notice as
it was discovered that the sanc-
tion of Legislature was not needed
for the co-ordination of several
groups under Undergrad. However,
if the Arts Council should go into
effect and prove successful, it will
probably try to establish itself as
an independent organization.






Page Four

THE COLLEGE. NEWS

Wednesday, January. 9, 1957



Reisman
Continued ‘from Page 1

The current generation, although
entering “a far more prosperous
and secure world in economic
terms, appears in more of a hurry
—not from a driving ambition, but
because they have already made up
their minds as to exactly who they
are and exactly where they want
to go on the superhighways of
their ‘chosen corporation or pro-
fession. It is this vision of life on
a plateau that perhaps most dis-
tinguishes the Class of 1955 from
that of 1981. We... found our
way by trial and error to many of
the values and styles of life the
Class of 1955 already begins with.
We were’more immature in many
ways, and by the same token we
expect to change and to be chang-
ed by our work and our experienc-
es.”

Riesman says that “there is very
little evidence in the interviews
that the respondents have had to
struggle for anything they want
—or have wanted anything that

young men; they dream of neither
conventional prestige and social
eclat nor, in genera] of unconven-
tional acomplishments.

“They like Ike: and in a certain
complacency, a fondness for golf
.. and the outdoors, they are like
Ike. For most of them save for a
few who are going into law and
want to dabble in politics, the na-
tional and international political
scene holds neither fear nor fas-
cination.”

ENGAGEMENTS

Christine Brown ’60 to George
M. Armor III,

Alison Cragin
John Rhinelander.

Bette deSabato ’58 to Neil Swin-
ton.

Mary Jo Griffith ’58 to William
A. Meyers.

Jennie Hagen ’57 to John Rich-
ardson.

Sharon Hartridge ’59 to George
Fettus.

Betsy Johnson ’59 to Aldon Bell.

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