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VOL. XLII, NO. 20

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1957.

© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1957

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Awards Presented In All Sports

Five Seniors Win

Climaxing a—year of activities
in all sports from lacrosse to
bridge, AA’s Awards Night was
held last Wednesday evening in the
Common Room, Goodhart.

A spirit.of amusement: was set
by the t aptains’ reports—al-
though it ' strongly felt that

Bryn Mawr had in every case won
a ‘moral victory’, somehow the op-
ponents seemed to have racked up
more points. But since the lack of
wins was always correctly inter-
preted, Bryn Mawr remains assur-
ed of a highly successful season.

Winners of the coveted white
blazers (minimum requirement:
4000 points, plus membership in
two first varsities and two second
varsities) were Gail Disney, Janet
Hondercan Stoffie Hetzel (mast. AA
President), Diana .iRussell, and
Jane White. Special awards of a
gold. and black pin were given to
June Costin, who had 4000 points
but was one varsity short, and Joan
Parker, who had almost enough
points for a second white blazer!

Donna Cochrane (AA_-President),
Joyce Cushmore, Marty Fuller,
Grace Labouchere, and Kitty Stod-
dert received silver BMS pins in
recognition of 2500 points, while
owl emblems were awarded to Fair
Alice Bullock, Pat Cain, Cally Col-
burn, Louisa Cooper, Sandy Colt,
Sally Davis (as freshmen, Sandy
and Sally have showed —unus-
ual enterprise in winning the em-
blem), Blair Dissette, Terry Farr,
Mary Morriss Gibbs, Nancy Inger-
soll, Mary Knauth, Judy Kneen,
Edith Kunhardt, Mary Lou Kemp,
Mary Masland, Ginny Mills, Natalie



Naylor, Laura Pearson, Eve Pell, |}

Ruth Simpson, Corrie Starks, Theo
Stillwell, and Alice Todd for 1000
points.

The campus bridge tournament
was won by Mary Knauth and Lou-
ise Cropley, who also placed sev-
enth in the Middle-Atlantics. Carol
Bradley and Judy Meinhardt came
in second.

College Theaters
Plan Production

y by Liz Rennolds ’59

Don’t those College Theatre and
Haverford Drama Club people ever
get tired? ‘With Cocktail Party
and Arts Night just finished, they
have already got the cast.and most
of the crew lined up for the next



production, Oliver Goldsmith’s +e

Stoops to Conquer.

| Those of us who are struggling
along on mere trifles like term pa-
pers, exams, weekends, etc.
salute you. The show must go on!

Mr. Robert Butman will direct
the performance which will take/|,
place Friday and Saturday eve-
nings, May 10 and 11. Assistants
to the director are Nina Broekhuy-
sen and Eric Koskoff.

The cast is as follows: Sir
Charles Marlow, Dave Edsall;
Young Marlow, Bill. Moss; Hard-
castle, Keith Bradley; Hastings,
Dick Mermin; Landlord, John Hay-
ter; Tony Lumpkin, Lorenz Luth-
erer; Diggory, E. B. White.
Also: Mrs. Hardcastle, Anne
Schaefer; Miss Hardcastle, Pam
Wylie; Miss Neville, Mimi Gisolfi;
Maid, Nina Broekhuysen; and Ser-
vants, Phil Miller, Niky Lary, and
Robert Van Alphen.

The play will be given at Hav-
erford in Roberts Hall at 8:30 p.m.





White Blazers

The diving ¢up went to Sally
Davis, while Betsy Johnson and
Cynthia Butterworth took the
swimming cups for Varsity and
Junior Varsity respectively. The
inter-class cup was given to the
sophomores, who had won the bad-
minton and fencing meets, and
Pem West carried off the inter-ha!l
trophy for victories in hockey and
swimming.

Marty
To AA Conference

The Athletic Federation of Col-
lege Women held their national
conference on April 15-18 at the
University of Nebraska in Lincoln,

}where nearly 300 delegates from

192 colleges and universities regis-
tered for the conference.

The ‘student delegate from Bryn
Mawr College was Martha Faust
’60. Dr. Harriet O’Shea, Associate
Professor of Psychology at Purdue
(also an aunt of Terry Elsom ’59),
wddressed the conference on
“AFCW Crossroads — To and
Through Forty”.

The Athletic Federation of Col-
lege Women is an onganization of
the Women’s Athletic Associations
and the Women’s Recreation As-
sociations in universities and col-
leges. The purpose of AFCW 1s
to further women’s athletic inter-

ests and activities throughout the
United States.

Barbara Pinney ’58 will be
head of Freshman Week next
year.





May Day Schedule

5:30 a.m.—Sophomores up. Pre-
pare coffee and doughnuts for Sen-
iors.

5:45 a.m.—Wake Seniors.

6:00 am.—Coffee and doughnuts.

6:30 a.m.—Seniors leave hoops
and baskets at Goodhart.

6:40 am.—Seniors wake
McBride with big May basket.

6:50 a.m.-7:00 am.—Taylor bell.

7:00 am.—Seniors go to Rocke-
feller. Crowning of May Queen
inside Rock.

7:15 am.—Class breakfasts -in
designated halls.

7:45 am.*—Procession to the
Maypoles on Merion Green led by
Fireman’s (Band from town of
Bryn Mawr.

8:00 am.* — Maypole Saneta
Presentation of gift to May Queen.

8:45 am. — College Assembly,
Goodhart Hall. President Kathar-
ine McBride will announce Schol-
arships and Awards for 1957-58.

9:30 am.*—Hoop Race on Sen-
ior Row, followed by Class singing.

10:00°-a.m.—Schedtled classes re-
sume.

Miss

Evening

6:30: p.m.—Morris - dancing on
Library green. |

6:45 p.m.—Presentation of scenes
from Shakespeare’s “The Merry
Wives of Windsor”. Library Clois-
ters. oe

7:15 p.m.—Step singing in front
of Taylor Hall,

In case of rain, all starred events
in the morning will be postponed |-
until May 2. Other events will
move indoors and take place on
May 1. Gheppie Glass, president
of the Senior Class, will be the
May Queen.”

Faust Goes



Maids’, Porters’
Cast Announced

The Maids’ and Porters’ show
“Paint Your Wagon” will be pre-
sented at Goodhart at 8:30 on Fri-
day and Saturday. The list of cast
and staff is the following:

Ben Rumsen, George Bryan;
Jake, Al Mackie; Jacob, Louis
White; Jennifer Rumsen, Patsy
Edison; Elizabeth Woodling, Eve-
lyn Johnson; Sarah Woodling,
Mabel Stinson; Julio, Ed Dudley.

Blair Dissette, Director; Angie
Wishnack, Accompanist; Lyn
Kuper, Assistant to the Director;
Whitney Drury, Music Director;
Penny Eldridge, Stage Manager;
Sally Powers, Technical Director;
Kathy Kohlas, Costumes; Terry
Farr, Prompter; and Jan Wolf,
Business Manager.

This is the twenty-fourth Maids
and Porters production. (Ed Dud-
ley, playing the romantic lead of
Julio is from sa campus.) C

Undergrad Views
The ‘Student Center’

The study of the possibility for

a college “student center” has been |

undertaken by Undergrad, in con-
junction with Anne Farlow and the
administration.

Because of the limitations of
space and finance, several sugges-
tions have been eliminated; the
most practical proposal so far ad-
vanced would incorporate an ex-
panded soda fountain into the Col-
lege Inn, with a corresponding
change in the policy of the Inn to
include student waitresses and long-
er hours. The surplus of the Un-
dergrad Association ‘would be
used to help finance this plan, too.

According to Dodie Stimpson,
Undergrad president, the student
center under consideration would
employ and improve already exist-
ing facilities, and it would be con-
structed with a planned usefulness
of five to ten years only. In this
way, it is felt, the present finan-
cial situation would be best utilized
to fulfill an immediate need; the
student center should be built now,
but a permanent center is econom-
ically unfeasible. As a consequence,
only a temporary plan can be con-
sidered.

At the present moment, Under-
grad is engaged in answering three
questions: 1) What facilities would
be desired in an ideal student
building; 2) what facilities would
be desired in a compromise center?
and 3) would expanded, but divid-
ed, facilities be accepted? Would
the college want improved eating
services in the Inn building, while
Goodhart was expanded as a pure-
ly social center ?

‘Feeling or opinion on the gen-
eral isue of a student center or on
the specific quesions can be direct-
ed towards either Dodie Stimpson
or Anne Farlow.

Philosophy Club.

, The next lecturer. under the aus-
pices of the Philosophy and Class-
ics Clubs, will be Father Paul
Henry, professor of philosophy at
Penn. Father Henry’s topic is to
be “The Personality of God in
Plotinus.” He will speak on Mon-
day, April 29, at 8:30 in the Com-
mon Room. ~



Beth Carr ’59 and Fair Alice
Bullock ’69 are Editors of the
Freshman handbook. Mary Mas-
land is business manager.





Parents’ Day, Set For May 11,

To-Feature Discussions, Exhibits,

Parents’ Day, to be held on Sat-
urday, May 11, will feature a series
of. panel discussions, faculty lec-
tures, an afternoon assembly and

‘a variety of exhibits and informal

tours.

Beginning at 11:00 a.m., three
panel discussions on “The Under-
graduate College” will take place.
Professors Milton Nahm and Ed-
ward Watson, Marjorie Milbank
’57 and Helene Rosenbaum ’57 will
discuss “The Required Subjects:
Their Place in the Curriculum”,
Dean Marshall will be chairman.

“The Major Subject: Lecture,
Laboratory, Discussion, Research”
will be chaired by Professor Mary
Gardiner, with Professor. Juan
Marichal, Ruth Corn ’57, and Paula
Coudert ’57 serving on the panel.
Participants in-the “Student. and
Professor: Cooperation in Class-
foom and Conference” panel will
be Professor John Pruett,. Nancy
Coyne ’57, Sylvia Hewitt ’57, and
Joan Parker ’57. Professor Helen
Taft Mianning will be chairman.

Faculty lectures will begin at
12:15. There will be a diverse
choice of subjects in the five lec-
tures presented. L. Joe Berry,
Professor of Biology will speak
on “Of Mice and Mountains”. Don-
ald Brown, Assistant Professor of
Psychology, will speak on “Per-

sonality Development and Higher
Education: The Vassar Study.”
“Ajax: A Study in the Poetry of
the Greek Tragedy” will be the
topic of Richmond Lattimore, Paul
Shorey Professor of Greek. Alex-
ander Soper, Professor of History
of Art, will lecture on “Painting
in the Far East”, and Roger Wells.
Professor of Political Science will
give a lecture on “The College
Graduate in Practical Politics.”

A buffet luncheon will be served
in the halls at 1:15. Campus tours,
library exhibits, open house in the
laboratories and step-singing—all
after lunch, have been arranged for
the benefit of the parents.

At 3:30 p.m., the afternoon as-
sembly will feature President Kath-
arine McBride speaking on “The
Year at. Rryn Mawr” and Neil H.
McElroy, President of the Procter '
and Gamble Company and Chair-
man of the White House Confer-
ence on Education, who will talk
on “The Decade for Higher Edu-
cation.”

The President’s tea will follow
the assembly. Marty Fuller ’68 is

chairman of the Parents’ Day
Committee. The list of the com-
mittee’s faculty and undergradu-
ate members has been printed in a



previous issue of the News.



Hildebrand 1902 Lecture Criticizes
School System, Suggests Reforms

Joel H. Hildebrand, Professor
Emeritus at the University of Cal-
ifornia, gave the 1902 Lecture, last
Thursday evening in Park. His
topic was “Education in a Democ-
racy ... What Is It?”

Professor Hildebrand, a_ well
known, and often severe, critic of
present-day education, emphasized
the effect of the philosophy of John
Dewey upon the professional ed-
ucator’s mind, and of this distilla-
tion, upon the form of secondary
school education.

Dewey’s book, “Democracy in
Education,” caused a near revolu-
tion in secondary schools, Professor
Hildebrand said, and indeed there
is now hardly an institution that
isn’t to be “democratized.” The
emphasis is on becoming, instead
of a good person, a good citizen;
on the group, rather than on the
individual.

Men As Individuals

However, both Dewey’s views
and their posible interpretations
are multitudinous. Men can find
authority in them for what they
wish to believe. Thus, Dewey’s
philosophy implies men in society,
but it implies men as individuals,
too. A

The real test of value of an edu:
cation, Professor Hildebrand said,
is the extent to which man is edu-
cated to his fuli-stature. This test
is being failed when, for instance,
50% of entering students at the
University of California last year,

‘with A and B high school rec-

ords, had to have remedial Eng-
lish and/or math; when a girl who
needs ‘Latin is taught instead to
stew prunes; when a well known
educator (Kilpatrick) says stu-
dents should “be compelled to co-
operate for the common good.”

| here is, in fact, a definite attempt



to de-emphasize drill, reward and
competition, in the classroom.

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Much reading is considered “un-
healthy.” Superintendents of
schools particularly often force this
kind of attitude, in opposition to
the teachers themselves.

But Dewey himself says “too
rarely is the teacher free from au-
thority, to form the individual”,
and Professor Hildebrand maintain-
ed that it is “a poor education that
doesn’t fit man to be alone with
himself.”

Teaching Independence

Professor Hildebrand outlined a
program of improvement for the
school system. This would include
salaries that would attract and
maintain good teachers, allowing
teachers to teach in their own way,
less extracurricular work for them,
a revision of present teaching cer-
tificate requirements which include
many courses that seem doctrinaire
and repetitious, a scrutiny of
schools of education, encouraging
leading citizens to rtm for school
boards, reduction of departments
of education which have expanded
into huge bureaucracies using
money better spent on teachers,
lowering the “required schooling”
age limit to relieve classrooms.of.
the many unfit students now crowd-
ing them, and, finally and most
important, to reject the fallacy of

democracy meaning equal treat- .

ment instead of equal opportunity
and equivalent treatment.

Bryrt Mawr Student
Loses Her Gold Ring

Quoted from the Main Line
Times, April 18: “Nancy McElroy,
a student at Bryn Mawr College,
on Monday asked the Lower Merion

police to help her find a white gold -

ring worth $850 that she lost
‘samewhere between here and

Brmuda’.”

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(music reporter); Dodie Stimpson, ‘58; Jana Varlejs, ‘60;-Helene Valabregue, ‘58.
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Bad Day At The P, 90.

Postmaster Arthur E. Summerfield and the 38,000 post-
al branches in the United States made history Saturday, April
13; it was the first time regular service was cancelled on a
business day because of financial haggling between Congress
and the Postal Department. While Congress was working on
general budget cutting, Summerfield asked a deficiency ap-
propriation of $47 million to cover expenditures through the
end of the fiscal year on June 30. This request was also ac-



companied by several threats to be enacted if. the House

Appropriations Committee failed to comply.
Summerfield promised to close down post offices on Sat-





“urday and to Stop deliveries tnut uay. tie promised.cther pro-|

gressive curtailments, i. e. to trim business district deliveries,
to curb third class mail (advertising matter, small merchan-
dise shipments, samples) and mail order services. The Com-
mittee approved the $41 million request on Friday, but the
pill was rushed to the House floor too late to avert the sched-

‘uled Saturday shut down.

We disapprove of the Postmaster’s tactics; they set a

dangerous precedent as sensationalist coercive politicking.

The general concensus has long been that the Post Office
is both big business and a vast public service. The allevia-
tion of the problem by Congress solves only the immediate
problem; to us a Congressional refusal seemed highly im-
probable. With almost every voter. receiving mail nearly every
day, Congress could hardly have prolonged the discontent.
But the deep-rooted postal problems remain unsolved.

As early as last July, Postmaster Summerfield protested
that his funds would not last through the year. The causes
of this inability to live within the budget were clear enough.
Congress’ revised postal pay structure increased the payroll
$17 million a year. Also the growth of population and econ-
omic activity in the United States had increased the amount
of mail handled yearly. Summerfield contends that this mail
does not completely pay for itself and hence the increased
volume resulted in an increased deficit. In March the Budget
Bureau authorized Mr. Summrefield’s request and the Com-
mittee approved the $17 million to cover pay raises. Their
firm stand against further appropriations resulted in the Fri-
day-Saturday crisis.

As a service claiming business-like organization, the Post-
al Department should have worked out its financial problems
sooner, It is true that Congress has viewed that Depart-
ment’s proposal of higher rates coolly. Yet if the government
is reluctant to compensate an actual deficit, mail service as a
business should pay for itself. An inquiry into the appraisal
of our postal system as a whole is more than advisable. The
U. S. mail system is also reputedly the worst of any of the
Western Powers. Mr. Summerfield should concentrate on
managing his affairs peaceably and improving service; April
13’s theatrical was disturbing and unfair; it imposed an extra
burden on mailmen and deprived citizens of a necessary serv
ice. !

An Aprille Magical Bower of Bliss Will Be
In Wyndham, On Friday, A Sight For To See

Dear Editour .
Can .you helpe me in my severe distresse?
The goodly Palmer, he has gone astray
And I am lefte here in this dire messe—
And know not how to hide my sad dismay }
_And_so shall chant to you this sweet sad lay... }.
In Wyndham gardens we met, wandering, ,
Maidens who bade us come this next Friday
To.a masquerade they all were pondering—
_.*Twas thén the Palmer gan his maundering. |





“One dollar twenty-five for two”, he
“Silver musicking of Whittaker, iwis ~~

coos,

- "Tn ‘trembling groves with Crystall running through, =

Where laurells, roses white and red shall kiss,

An Aprille, magieal BOWER OF BLISS.

‘We'll dance from nine to one, spring hours four,

A party, Sir Guyon, you must not miss,

The twenty sixth, remember, and what’s more,
I'll ne’er be guide again, nor fun deplore. —- .

- Shall I send Dragons, him to me restore,

Or with you all, join him through Wyndham’s doors? dea ae gut ais. Pitas
Sir Guyon “ % i ae



There cometh/now to Earth that

wi on which the Poete
hath termed Spring, the time of
that . sweete passion which the
Poete hath termed Love; indeed
it is a time to be kind to our
fellow Men, and treat all things
with gentleness, Concerning the
Beastes of the Fields the wisdom
of the Ancients has said many
wise Sayings, which as we call
againe to our Mindes let us also
recall how all men too belong to
the kingdom of Beastes:

_The Squirrel (sciurus vulgaris)
is a _tree-born Creature .which
clings like the ivy to stone walls.
He is often found single, but when
in pairs he maketh a noise like
unto a rusty Door upon its Hinge.
His little gyes are sharp and dem-
oniacal as his pointed teeth.

His Name cometh from the Latin
tongue, but whether the sciurus
relates to the verb scio (to know)
and thus denotes wisdom or to the
word scurra (buffoon) and thus
denotes pest, is unknown. The vul-
garis is no doubt signifies common.

Squirrels are predatory, no nut
is too tough for their teeth to
crack; they are strong; tio tree is
too tall for their swift leap.

Some persons who have been
able to Trap and Cook the Squirrel
find this meat delicious.

The Squirrel was once beloved by
a Great Man; he was the. favorite
of Woodrow Wilson. Some also
believe him sent from Jupiter and
thus it may not be wise to exterm-
inate him.

The Cockroach (cucararcha) is
seldom seem in the light of the
Sun but inhabiteth dark Closets,
and cometh forth only to make
War. He hath many Legs and is
known to attack the Unwary.

The Silverfish (depisna) is a
pleasant and learned animal who
feedeth upon books. His nature

when properly » approached is

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Medias Res

By Ellie Winsor

friendly; although shy, as when
Astonished the wriggleth away at
Swift Speed and hideth in his
native Floorboards,

This creature should always sym-
bolise to us the desire and hunger
for learning that is in the Breasts
of ‘the very lowest of life, and we
too should make our. meals upon
the learned Matter in our Librar-
ies.

The Termites(reticulitermes luci-
fugus) hath often wings to mount
upward, but his heart is base. He
is a best of destruction, a force of
evil ever eating away at the Walls
and Roof over our head. Let him
ever to Virtuous Hearts symbolise
the impending doom of this Earthly
dwelling (by termites ye shall
perish).

The centipede hath an hundred
feet, but his name, although it
seemeth to signify this, is in real-
ity a reference to his ferocity as
he often biteth the Feet, or Toes
of those who come near his mouth.
On the sides of his head he hath
two great Horns which precede him
to determine his way.

The Kelpie (aquaeous equus) is
the water horse of the deep dark

‘Llake. Woe unto him who meeteth

the Kelpie, for soon he too will
perish beneath the deep lake
waters. When the Kelpie riseth
from the bottomless pool, terror
may Well strike the -hearts.of. men.

The Kelpie is formed in the shape
of a Horse, with the hands of a
Man; he lives only in the wilds and
is a Scot by birth.

The “creeper” is a beast yet
unknown to civilised man, but his
name hath once or twice come to
the ear and Inspired great Wonder.

Thus speaketh the ancients in
weighty words of the Beastes and
Reptiles known to inhabit, along
with Man the civilised World.. Let
us always maintain this Golden
Age when the Beaste of the field
liveth beside us in our Homes.



Preparation for social work, as
well as for the field of social econ-
omy as a career was discussed by
Mrs. Katherine Lower, head of the
School of Social Economy at Bryn
Mawr, Monday evening in the Com-
mon Room. Mrs. Lower presented
her topic in relation to Bryn Mawr,
and to education in general.

As yet there are very few wom-
en’s colleges. which oat geet
study in the field of sociak work,
in spite of the’ pressing demand

social workers. Bryn Mawr was
one of the first colleges to institute
a department in this field.

Mrs. Lower presented a brief

summary of social economy in
practice, distinguishing between
group and case work and re-
search. Group work no longer fits
the picture of “basket-weaving and
tiddley-winks,” but is more closely
related to social psychology.
Case work is usually inseperable
from the social agency. Here the

_|case worker deals directly with the

for large numbers of accredited |-

Mrs. Katherine Lower Discusses Social
Economy As Career At ‘Current Events’

can be no control group, for the
right to receive aid and service
cannot be denied to anyone.

Mrs. Lower brought out one
central thought: graduate study in
social economy is not available to
enough prospective social workers,

thus creating a serious shortage
of indispensable social workers.

Letter To The Editor

Drooling Lunacies
Written In Drivel?

Dear Editor:

What’s this outrageous drivel
about the kelpy?. Are there not
enough home-bred monsters on
campus without introducing a sea-
borne alien?

Death and Dool (Blood and Ghoul
too, doubtless) are fine in;their
place, but to invite them to the
civilized-sodden culture of Bryn
Mawr is the nadir of bad judg-
ment. I advocate this beast’s anni-
hilation before thé*sensitive, the
innocent, the good are forever
mesmerized by the kelpy’s gape
and glare.

Act before your senses are car-
ried away on a watery bier of
drooling lunacy.

D. H.



¥unds Asked To Save
Wright’s Robie House

To the Editor:

As You probably know, the Chi-
cago Theological Seminary plans
to destroy Frank Lloyd Wright’s
Robie House, located at 58th Street
and Woodlawn Avenue in Chicago,
in order toverect a student dormi-
tory on the site, The Robie House
can be ranked as one-of the great
masterpieces of modern architec-
ture,

Vincent Scully, Associate Pro-
fessor of the History of Art at
Yale “University; states the-case-in
these words:

“Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie
House of 1909 culminated, in ar-
chitecture, a full century of Amer-
ican attempts to find symbolic ex-
pression for some of the most deep-
ly felt American myths and urg-
ings. The low, ship-scaled spaces
of the Colonial Revival, and its
zentral fireplace mass (‘I and my
chimney,’ ‘wrote Melville, ‘will
never surrender,) are there, as are
the compulsively horizontal con-
tinuities of Whitman’s ‘Open Road.’
The Robie House is one of those
few major monuments which em-
body the American soul inthe
forms and images of poetry. It
compacts within itself the west-
ward sweep from Puritan parlor
to Oriental pavilion, and it weaves
out of these elements the charac-
teristic American images of flight
and movement: it is both ship and
airplane. It’s loss, so that it re-
mained to us only in photographs,
might roughly be compared to the
loss of all copies—except comic



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TRE COLLEGE NEWS

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Radnor Exchanges Dinner With Graduates;

Participants Stimulated

Radnor Hall recently followed
Denbigh’s example of last year by
having an exchange dinner with
the Graduate Center to foster so-
cia] contact betweeen undergradu-
ates and graduate students. About
eight girls from each place traded

halls for the meal’ and coffee after-
wards.

Those from each group were en-
thusiastic about their venture.



by Social Contact

Beatrice Yamasaki, one of the grad

‘students who went to’ Radnor, said,

when interviewed, that she and
most of the graduate students
thought the idea of exchange a
good.one, as they would like to
meet more of the undergraduates.

The graduates enjoyed the Rad-
nor exchange very much, and “do
hope to have it later in the spring

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Kelly Views Jobs
In Foreign Service

Mr. William B. Kelly, Chief of
College Relations, State Depart:
ment, spoke to a group of interest-

‘Jed students Wednesday afternoon,

April 17, on the advantages and
disadvantages of a. career for wom-
en in the Foreign Service,

Briefly, the functions of the
Foreign Service include _ repre-
senting the U. S. abroad, keeping
track of what is happening in and
around the eign post, and pro-
tecting the interests. of fellow
Americans abroad. ~

Life as a Fopetgn Service of-
ficer, says - Kelly) is both inter-
estings-ahd rewarditg. However,

it requires a high intelligence,
adaptability, and, for a woman, 4
non-interest in marriage. The writ-
ten and oral exams are very diffi-
cult and necessitate a broad but
deep liberal arts education; the
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‘work follows from the other.

Dichotomy. Found
In Greek Thought

Last Wednesday night in the
Ely Room, Wyndham, Professor
W. K. C. Guthrie, Laurence Field
Professor of Archaeology at Cam-
bridge, and author of several books,
among them:The Greeks and Their
Gods, lectured on “The Rational
and Irrational in Greek Thought:
Empedocles”,. Mr. Guthrie first
made some remarks on the general

characteristics of Greek thought of
Empedocles’ time, and proceeded
from them t@& a specific considera-
tion of the philosopher’s works.
The Greek temperament shows
a dichotomy, one side of which is
embodied in the classic ideal of
harmony, measure, purity, which
culminates in the Aristotelian
‘golden mean”. Everything was
thought to have its “proper nature”
and limit. The other side is shown
by the popular welcome of the god,
Dionysius, who appealed to the
immediate emotions, and gave tem-
porary freedom from the rule of
reason. Along with this went the
Eleusinian mysteries which promis-
ed their initiates, “Thou shalt be
God instead of mortal”, thus des-
ignating an immortal soul. This
was in contradiction to the rule of
measure, one of whose tenets was
to remember one’s mortality.

In this climate appears Empe-
docles, a philosopher whose work
seems to be so sharply divided
into ‘two parts that he has been
called a “philosophical centaur”.

_§Empedocles had four basic sub- ©

stances, earth, air, fire and
water, which themselves did not
change but accounted for ap-
parent change by their mixture
and separation, They were moved
by two opposing forces,. Love, the
uniting force, and Strife, which
separated the elements. Our world
is in an in-between stage, proceed-
ing from union to dissolution.

The Purifications, Empedocles’
other work, speaks to us of the im-
mortal soul, and of the cleansing
and raising of men’s souls to the
divine state. The underlying unity
in the two works lies in the mo-
tive causes, Empedocles posited
Soul-substances as moving forces
—Love and Strife possessed their
normal psychological and morai
connotations, Those men who would
not give up Strife would have an
endless cycle of births going from
one element to another, but he
who followed Love would become

|a god and be imperishable,

So the one part of Empedocles’
Al-
though difficulties remain in fitting
them together, especially because
we possess his writings only in

'|fragments, it is not too. hard to
|conceive them as the product of

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Wednesday, April 24, 1957



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book versions— of Moby Dick,
Leaves of Grass, or Huckleberry
Finn.

“No one regrets the efforts which
many heavily financed organiza-
tions have lavished upon the pres-
ervation of Colonial houses. But
the Robie House is a more intrinsic
expression of a peculiarly Ameri-
can culture than any of those hous-
es have been. If it should be lost
while they are preserved, one could
only conclude that modern Amer-
ica hardly understood the whole
challenge of its past and did not,
want to understand. it.”

Throughout the country there}

are numerous people who do un-
derstand the full significance of
the vital role played by the Robie
~ House in the development of mod-
ern American architecture. These
individuals are united in their de-
sire to preserve the Robie House
as a national monument. To achieve
this end a committee of students
has been formed at Yale to raise
funds toward its preservation. We
have invited forty-five colleges and
universities in the East to join us
in this undertaking by organizing
similar fund raising activities. We
ask you... to take the lead in pro-
viding publicity on this matter.

Further information on both the
campaign and the Robie House it-
self can be obtained from the
Chairman of your History of Art
Department to whom we have also
written,

The prospect of saving the Robie
House is critically dependent on
the amount of publicity given to
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traditional literary costume of the
Andalusian”, a man trying “to lib-
erate himself from Carmen’s An-
dalusia, from the. self-conscious-
ness of the Andalusian who sees
himself as a ‘typical Spaniard’. . ”
were the phrases with which Pro-
fessor Juan Marichal described
Juan Ramén Jiménez, 1957 Nobel
Prize Winner, at a program in his
honor last night in the Common
Room.
According to Senor Marichal,
Juan Ramén “belongs to an out-
standing generation of Spanish his-
forical figures, all of them intent
on transcending their local boun-
daries, within which were includ-
ed the painter, Pablo Ruiz Picasso,
and the philosopher and essayist,
José Ortega y Gasset,

Like Picasso and Ortega, Juan
Ramoén needed first a geagraph-
ical liberation in his search for
universality in poetry. This he
achieved by his trip to France in
1901 in which he discovered “a uni-
versal landscape”. ’

Juan Ramén, in Marichal’s opin-

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As A Tribute To Juan Ramon Jimenez

ion, stands out from his contem-
poraries because of his efforts to
make man aware of his inner unity
in what might be defined as “the
Age of Dissociation.” His life of

total dedication to poetry is seen
“as the only way of approaching
and incarnating man’s unity.” By
working always in solitude in his
search for “poetic truth’, Juan
Ramon found, ‘what Marichal de-
scribed as a unity, “a meeting,
with god, ‘dios’, (always written
with a small d) and a meeting, in
a sense,—with himself.”

Following .Marichal’s remarks
on Jiménez as “The Universal An-
dalusian”, several’ of his poems
were read in the original text by
Mrs. Marichal. Professor Mario
.|Maurin then read his own French
translations of these poems,

Later in the program Mrs. Mar-
ichal read three more of Jiménez’s
poems “A Un Amigo” (To a
Friend), “Soledad” (Solitude), and

“Primeravera Amarilla” (Yellow
Spring) after which Professor
Warner Berthoff ‘read W. S. Mer-

win’s English translations of these
poems.

A highlight of the evening was
the discussion of Jiménez and his
work‘and of the problem of trans-
lation which followed his poetry
Led by Professors Fer-
Marichal, Berthoff,

rater (Mora,

filled with humor, providing a

and Maurin and Mrs. Marichal, it]
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