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Wednesday February 16, 1954

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Five



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bag Clow.’ and “The Cleaning|

Man” by Mary Lou Kemp and Al-
ison Cragin, respectively, are both
of interest and are both too long
py about half.

Jessica Dragonette’s work, al-
though ambitious, never seems to
me to cease being prose in ap-
proach; “Shepherd in the Subway”
is disfigured by too many small
images. and too many words that
say too little in phrases so nebul-
ous they don’t mean much at all.

There is a promising ring, a
gripping quality of the imagined
speech, that soun through the
‘first few lines of Shirley Conant’s
“Monologue” which is not, unfor-
tunately, fulfilled in the rest. of the
poem. I’d like to see her try more
' of this; it should be ‘highly inter-
esting.

Of all the verses, only “Friends,”
by Jane Blake, found me definitely
hostile. The banality of the open-
ing lines is not lifted by the suc-
ceeding ones: “But perhaps it is

not real love that wants the very

oneness”, (e.g.) could harm evert a
good poem,

On the whole, this is an excellent
issue. A really surprisingly large
amount of good material, much of
which I haven’t the room to dis-
cuss, has turned up in this win-
ter’s Counterpoint. But my copy’s
already come apart at its rather
spineless staples. Until it publish-
es an edition whose cover survives
a harsh glance, Counterpoint rates
only two cheers.



Symposium On The Soul's immortality
Conducted Recently By Four Students

re symposium on the immortality
of the soul was conducted by four
Bryn Mawr and Haverford stu-
dents in the Rumpus Room on

tuesday, Feb. 15. Barbara Kalb
explained the Jewish position, Joan
Smith une ‘Catholic one, Win Hall
the Protestant view, and Peter
kosenberger the atheistic attitude.
The concept of immortality of
the soul is'not tuo clearly explain-
ed in the Judiac religion, as it is a
religion for the living and‘ not the
dead, and is concerned with this
world rather than the next.
Barbara~ Kalb distinguished be-
tween the reform, conservative and
orthodox positions. Common to
Judaism as a whole, however, ‘is
the view that true piety serves God
trom love, not for reward or fear
of punishment. According to Moses
Maimonides the reward for virtu-
ous living is the good life itself.
The Catholic position is that ev-
erything which is living has a soul.
Because of his reason and free
will, man has an immortal soul,
which goes to heaven, hell or pur-
gatory. His body reverts to the
elements from which it was made.
Joan Smith brought in the Aris-
totelian premise that the body is
potentiality and the soul actuality.
She also explained the purposes of
science and philosophy. Science

must answer the question of
“how,” and -philosophy must ex-
plain “why.”

In explaining the Protestant po-









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sition, Win Hall cited as’ his
sources the Gospel of John, Rufus
Jones and the existentialist philos-
ophy of Kierkegaard. There are
two kinds of reality—spiritual and
physical. According to Rufus
Jones, eternal life is the union of
man and God-in-this-world:- Eter-
nal life is life raised to new capaci-
ties and new dimensions,

Peter Rosenberger propounded
the atheistic point of view, al-
though he, himself, is not an athe-
ist. An atheist asserts that there
is no personal deity, while an ag-
nostic holds that it is impossible to
make a _ philosophical statement
about Christianity. The atheist be-
lieves in a Godhead, but says that
a‘personal deity cannot be con-
strued from. this.

Atheism appears mainly in three
philosophies. Pantheism says that
the deity is the sum total of na-
ture. Panantheism holds that the
Godhead is the source of being and
non-being. Nihilism holds that ex-
istence as such is bad, and non-

existence is much more basic.

Girard Views Rule
Of French Premier

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from England and the United
States, they are apt to conform
with the policies of these countries
more than the Assembly wishes to;
and that it is the ensuing conflict
which has caused the overthrow
of so many French cabinets.

As to the future, M. Girard sees
no immediate chance of control by
either the Communists or the
Christian Democrats, as they will
not ‘unite. He believes that there
is a very good chance that Mendes-
France will regain power, prob-
ably after the elections next

spring.



History Professor Delineates Reasons

For Ticket Price To

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joy themselves and each other im-
mensely. And I should like to em-
phasize that this alone is. sufficient
answer to off gdbstion of Why a
faculty show anyway?

Lasting Benefit

But it seems possible to exam-
ine this matter upon still another
plane, that of leaving some last-
ing benefit to the college from our
evening of fun and frolic. Thus
there occurs the question of What
worthwhile cause could profit while
we enjoy ourselves? For I submit
that the matter of a faculty show
should not be divorced from the
idea that it ought to be a benefit
performance. This is an excellent
opportunity in a traditional atmos- |
phere of great goodwill for both |
faculty and students to give some- |
thing substantial of themselves, to|
share in each other’s pleasure by
doing so, and to leave an enduring
monument to their moment of mu-
tual generosity. How is all this
possible? The answer is easy. The
faculty give their time—the most
valuable gift they have, and the
one they can least afford: The
students contribute generously
from their purses, keeping in mind
that faculty shows are a once-in-a-
lifetime proposition (unless any-
one overstays the customary hos-
pitality of four years, but this
would be a bitter price to pay even
if it meant seeing two faculty
shows). Thus faculty performers
and student audience will be able
to amass an impressive sum of
money, and have a lot of fun at
the same time.

The final question becomes
therefore—What do we do with all
this money accumulated while we
were lost in the reckless gaiety of
participating in or viewing the fac-
ulty show? The faculty considered
this m¥tter thoughtfully: It recall-
ed the experience of four years
ago when over. $2,000 was given
toward the purchase of the Scull
property. Then “cornered the cam-







Faculty Production

pus” with substantial help from
the profits of KIND HEARTS
AND MARTINETS. As a result
West House is now part of the
functioning campus, and the col-

lege’s teaching and community
services have been enlarged there-
by.

This time we are in the initial
stages of a major drive to enlarge
and modernize the facilities of the
science departments. That we must
do this is obvious to any visitor to
Dalton Hall. That the library and
general classroom facilities need
similar concern is almost equally
obvious: The point is that, by
backing the drive for funds to en-
large Park Hall, we all speed the
day when the entire college plant
more accurately corresponds with
our visions of what it ought to be.
Therefore the faculty voted to do-
nate our hoped-for profits from the
faculty show to the capital build-
ing fund for the natural sciences,
We did so with the conviction that
this was the best thing we could
do.

Uphold Tradition

Now I have taken a lot of space
to say some simple things. (Un-
happily historians are the most
longwinded of all scholars.) In
closing, I should like to stress my
belief that THE PROFS IN THE
PUDDING will uphold the oldest
and happiest traditions of faculty
shows. Yet still more, in support-
ing the additions to the facilities
of the natural sciences, faculty and
students together will be. able to
cooperate to provide for the college
the kind of lasting benefits of
which we shall all be proud.

Sincerely yours,
Arthur P. Dudden











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