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College news, March 25, 1959
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
Bryn Mawr College (creator)
1959-03-25
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Weekly
8 pages
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North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 45, No. 18
College news (Bryn Mawr College : 1914)--
https://tripod.brynmawr.edu/permalink/01TRI_INST/26mktb/alma991001620579...
Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation.
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
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Wednesday, April 8, 1959
Faculty Show Features Solitary Chess Game
Elates Student Student Body Despite Exorbitant Cost
Undeterred by the $20 per tic-
ket cost, students gladly returned
several days early from vacation
to applaud Pedagogues on Parade,
or, The Plot That Failed, the 1959
Faculty Show which was present-
ed in a great splash of flowers and
pink champagne on April 3 and 4.
Part.of the credit for the un-
questionable charm of the show
must certainly go to the director,
Mr. Smedley, as well as to the
lively music by Miss Kenney and
Mr. Goodale, with lyrics by Mr.
Lattimore.
The script—the work of Mr.
Wallace, Mr. Herben, and Mrs.
MacCaffrey—focussed on the ad-
ventures of a mysterious spy ring
whose mastermind (chillingly por-
trayed by Dr. Michels) disguises
its members as strolling players
A scene from a skit dramatizing the “INFERNO,” one of
the longer numbers in the show. .Setting is the fourth circle.
Virgil is the one with the baggy sweater and long tongue. His
companion is apparently thet Angel Gabriel, who looks, as
he is, out of place.
This photo is sadly unidentified, since all NEWS staff
members are deep in penury, due to fines resulting from the
last April Fool’s Issue, and were therefore unable to attend
the show. Some, we hope, will find it familiar.
M. Cary Confidently Solves Problems
Q. Dear M. Cary,
No matter what I do I can’t man-
age to keep up. I have two mid-
“semesters this week, a thirty page
paper to write, and three labs to
make up. What should I do?
Desperate
A. Dear Desperate,
Have you considered Harcum?...
ok ef a
Dear M. Carey,
I am a nice, normal, friendly in-
telligent, attractive, . personable,
and compatible freshman but am
being ostracized by my classmates
because I can’t bear to drink tea.
What should I do?
Outcast
Dear Outcast,
You might try rolling it in your
: | *
>» Dear M..Cary,_. eee A receanantacnect
I am crazy about Existentialism
(and would like to be really Bohem-
- but I look simply ghastly with
my hair loose. Please give me some
advice.
Moonfaced
Dear Moonfaced,
If you can’t learn to love tran-
scendental idealism, shave your
head.
* *
I’m a senior with a great ethical
conflict... I have grown inordinately
fond of my empty whiskey bottles,
my broken teddy bear, and my life-
size plaster of paris replica of Gen-
eral Grant. As a matter of fact,
I like them bttter than any people
in my dorm! Do you think I should
leave school before the first of May,
or stay and risk the censure and
baneful glances of resentful lower
classmen ? ;
Possetsive
Dear Possessive, : ees
“Stay. You “might want to do|
social work some day and you'll
*
j and Mr.
1 Greek chorus behind them acted
i out the inner meaning of each line.
in order to accomplish some sec-
ret mission which we must con-
fess we didn’t fathom. The major
part of the play is devoted to acts
put on by the “players”, including:
A solo number in which Miss
Lang entertained the audience
with a three-hour game of chess.
A desert scene, in which, after
she had been excavated from under
the stage by Mr. Dryden, Miss
in an Indian ritual dance.
(Mr. Herlihy as the Little Engine
That.Could..
A brilliant ensemble featuring
simultaneous recitation of “Casey
at the Bat” in a Russian accent (by
Miss Stearns), “The Reign in
Spain is Mainly on My Brain” (by
Miss Robbins), and an exchange of
Pat and Mike jokes by Mr. Leblanc
FerratersMora, while a
A jungle scene, in which mem-
-bers of the. gym department swung
4 from tree to tree (congratulations
4 to Dr. Sprague on his clever set
designs!), four brightly dressed
Sahibs—Mr. Nahm, Mr. Brough-
ton, Mr. Wells, and Mr. Berry—
lounged in hammocks below them
and an animal remarkably like
Pogo (admirably played by Miss
(Biba) commented on the situation.
(Mr. Berthoff, passing across the
stage in black doublet and hose,
after which the show had to be
stopped until the bouquets could
‘be swept off the stage.
Needless to say, the “plot” fin-
ally fails, but all ends happily
through the efforts of a Dea Ex
Machina (Dr. Humeston),
Lost And Found
LOST
1 plane ticket home to Oregon.
If found within one year, can get
home for next spring vacation any-
way.—R.L.S., temporarily of Pem
East.
1 honors paper, any topic—not
fussy. If one is found I’)] take it—
P.M.Q., ’59, the sarcophagus.
1 dogfish, vicinity of Park. Last
seen without most of its innards.
Use. caution in approaching—has
been successfully resisting attack
all semester.—P.B.N.
Most of the contents of the Re-
serve Room. If found, mark in pref-
erential order:
1) If you would like the fine on
the installment. plan.
2) If you think bloodhounds at the
door would help you remember
to sign the card.
8) If the honor system prevented
you from taking the other third
of the books.
1 kerosene lantern. Lantern Man
reports distinct loss of security and
sharp decline in business.
1 knitting pattern. Desperately
needed—have been working over
this mass of wool'so long can’t re-
member what it’s going to be -with-
out pattern. Seems to be either
small afghan, blimp-style sweater,
or community mitten for family of
five: No other identifying features
for pattern, except I am using gray
wool, if that helps —K.N.T., Infirm-
ary.
FOUND
1 Aga Khan wandering aimlessly
and“Asking further directions on re-
porting for duty as freshman class
animal and mumbling about being
sorry about being a trifle late, but
we know how these things are,
don’t we, and he hopes it hasn’t
spoiled any plans or anything that
he wasn’t precisely on time.
1 Finding List. Only: thing to do
with them. Hardly appropriate to
lose a Finding List.
1 large whitish statue, vicinity of
Goodhart. Please bring her a little
something to wear when you come
to claim her.
_1.Princeton: scarf _tied-in.a_noose.|-“-
The combination to all refriger-
ator padlocks. Bids accepted for}
need your degree. —
one week.
Ars Apoetica
by Jessen Ketchup ’58 (with thanks to Archibald MacLeish)
A Definitive Study, Of Occasional Rhyme And/Or Reason
Study is not meant to end
Nor mend
(The traditional tea is. such:
At which the few agreeably eat much).
The trump card, Custom, says: Never a midnight vig-
Il keep, but for Bridge.
In class
x seolaek, should be palpitant and mute
As an unstrung lute
A question is not not
That to which the answer’s “what?”
(The sole saw to this season’s well bard scene may be:
‘Faint heart never - - - ‘One to Fair Lady’!’”’)
Wise ivied walls are those
That the good student from the bad sun’s rays foreclose
(A weekend’s that in which
Even a pressagent Nike might forsake her niche)
So that she may create from great book-strewn quarries
The ten page answer to her querries
Though a nice library
’*s gnomic tome does oft less bear, than bury
(No, there’s no excuse, save unwithheld truth, for these
Select parentheses)
Now, see the open mind will,
Formed to its pellucid best, equal but ‘vacancy’
For sure, a college should not mean
But be.
To Arms
The time is come. The time, in fact is past. But let us
not despair.. All may yet be saved, if we shoulder the axle,
put our ear to the ground, our probosis to the grindstone
and our heart in the right place. Now is neither the moment
nor here the place for indifference; events are stirring, and
all men’s souls are or should be aquiver.
The issue before us is immediate, crucial, life-or-death,
and consequently demanding. Our very way. of life is at
stake; our liberty, our ideals, yea, even our sense of the right
hangs in the balance. Everything which we daily press to
our bosoms may be snatched therefrom. Shall we now be
craven, shall we cringe and crumble before more necessity ?
No. Nyet. Non. Nein. Ie. But rhetoric solely will not
suffice. Alctions alone will rise to this unprecedented chal-
lenge; bold, sober, daring, considered, imaginative action.
New dreams, new vistas, new visions.
What matters one in such extremity? One is one and
all alone and ever more shall be so? Nonsense. One letter,
one telegram, one loud voice crying in the wilderness can
turn the tide, crest the wave, tip the scale. To be uppermost
demands our utmost, each of our utmosts, a crowd, a conflu-
ence, a grand alliance of utmosts. Let us set forth abreast
upon the highroad, marshalling our courage and battering
the heavens. with that immortal hymn which has so long
inspired and informed our gracious land:
Columbia, the gem of the ocean of grain,
It’s a grand old flag, oh say can you see?
Mine eyes have seen the glory. Hail Columbia!
God bless America, my country ’tis of thee.
THE COLLEGE NEWS
FOUNDED IN 1914
Published weekly during the College Year (except during
Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter holidays, and during examine-
tion weeks) in the interest of Bryn Mawr College at the Ardmore
: Printing Company, Ardmore, Pa., and Bryn Mawr College.
The College News is fully protected by copyright. Nothing that appears
in it may be reprinted wholly or in part without permission of the Editor-in-Chief.
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