College news, March 2, 1955

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VOL. Li, NO. 16

ARDMORE and BRYN een Pl WEDNESDAY. MARCH 2, 1955

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1954

PRICE 20 CENTS



Hartz Finds Ideological Unanimity
A Threat to Freedom Of Individual

“What is the connection between’

foreign policy and domestic free-

dom, and how can we dramatize!

it?” asked Louis Hartz, Class of
1902 lecturer, in his speech, “For-
eign Policy. and Domestic Free-
aom.””

Americans shave .always tended

to define freedom in terms of in-,

ternal politics, as the issue of ma-
jority rule. Due to our present in-

ternational involvement, the defini-}. . .

tion has been changed to mean a
unanimous response of the nation
to ideological threats.

Lockean Tradition

This America national faith is
derived from the liberal philosophy
of John Locke. In the American
colonies this doctrine encountered
no antagonism, whereas in Europe
it was only one of many move-
ments and had to contend with the
old feudal structure of society.
Lockeism assumed national pro-
portions and became “an expres-
sion of the national faith.”

Viewed in relation to our deal-
ings with the rest. of the world,
this philosophy has one-of two re-
sults. We can endorse .a-policy of
intervention and try to reconstruct
the world according to our ideals,
as in the case of Wilson, or we can
adopt an isolationist policy as the
Harding administration did. In
both cases, however, this absolute
national morality makes it. hard to
live with other nations from day
to day.

To Wilson democracy was neces-



sary in the world and war was un-
intelligible “unless it were to make
other nations like the American
naiion.” He failed to appreciate
che meaning of European social
revolutions which the U.S. had es-
caped, and insisted on self-deter-
mination when Europe was crying.
ior order.

On the other hand Harding made
an “effort to preserve the purity
of the American political
creed” by isolationism, a doctrine
stemming from Washington’s
Farewell Address.

Since the 1920’s, “the--figures
have changed, and yet the issues
remain.”
now more limited in insight, as we
are one nation upholding the

Tickets To ‘Profs’
Sold March 7, 8

Tickets for Faculty Show on
March 19 will be sold in Goodhart
box office on Monday, March 7, at
6:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m., and:on



College elections for 1955-56 will
begin next Monday, March 7.-The

Tuesday, March 8, at 1:30 p.m. and winning candidates will take office
5:30 p.m. The 800 two-dollar seats @fter spring vacation, At the time
have been divided into four groups, the News went to press, the fol-
each group containing an equal lowing candidates, listed in alpha-

number of.the better seats. These
four groups will be put on sale at
each of the four times listed above,
so that as many of the good seats
will be on sale at the final period
as at the first sale. Each student
may-buy only one ticket, and may
pay for_it or have it put on pay
day. :



Our foreign policy is|

Students desiring more expen-
| Sive seats should send: written re-
quests to Miss Biba of the Public
Relations Office before Thursday,
, March 17. Three, five, seven fifty,

betical order, were known:

President of Self-Gov.
Anne Hobson, Jane Keator,
Charlotte Smith, Jean Young.

President of Undergrad :
Anne Hobson, Nonie Powers,
koslyn Siman, Charlotte
Smith, Sara Stifler.

President of AA
Dina Bickerman, Betsy Dug-
dale, Lee Reynolds, Cynthia
Rogers.

Reports



of these candidates

Lockeian tradition against class and ten dollar seats are available, have been posted in the halls.

conflicts and diverse philosophies.
It is difficult for our Declaration
of Independence to be meaningful

in Asia as the Communist Mani-|,

festo is, as the Manifesto repre-
sents a social clash and other na-
tions think of democracy in social
terms, whereas we only realize the
political implications.

os Limitations

The solution to the American ab-
solutism in thought is a transcend-
ence of this limited experience, .a
shattering of the old liberal way
of life and the realization that oth-
er rational people hold diverse phi-
losophies. Perhaps experience will
help us and the American nation
can experience a “Renaissance of
speculation and thought.”



Chorus Numbers, Solos And History
Presented At Spiritual Concert

By Helen Sagmaster, °58

Bryn Mawr’s maids and porters,
together with several singers from
outside the college, presented their
second annual Spiritual Concert in
Goodhart auditorium, Friday eve-
ning, February 25.

‘Altogether thirty-five men and
women were included in the chor-
us, directed by Joyce Mitchell and
Carlene Chittenden. The songs
were accompanied by Harriet Bar-
sky.

After the opening Negro Nation-
al Hymn, George Bryan gave the
audience a brief history of the Ne-
gro spiritual. It began as the only
means of communication between
Africans speaking different dia-
lects, and told not only of religious
feelings but also of loneliness and
longing. At the beginning of the
nineteenth century, the spirituals
began to express a desire for free-
dom, and became a sort of code
language by which the slaves urged
one another to escape to the North.

... Audience Enthusiastic

All ‘the choral numbers ‘were
sung with a great deal of feeling,
and the better known..songs, such
as “I’m A Rollin’” and “Swing
Low, Sweet Chariot,” were partic-
ularly~well received by the audi-
ence.

Soloist Edward Dudley displayed
a powerful voice in “Let Us Break
Bread Together,” and “Honor

Honor” showed Doris Gaymon’s
clear and assured tones.

Archie Lytle’s solos, “Go Down,
_ Moses” and “City Called Heaven,”
and his encore, “Deep River,” were
sung with great feeling and good
interpreation. The choral number





following the latter, “Steal Away
to Jesus,’’ was one of the slaves’
code songs which came to mean,
“Steal away to the underground.”

Louis White had the gay manner
and clear enunciation necessary for
“Joshua Fit the Battle of Jerichée”’
and the novelty number, “When
Melindy Sings.”

Doris Richardson, who took the
part of Melindy, was also soloist
in “Ride the Chariot” and later,
“Oh, What a Beautiful City,”
which contained some interesting
syncopation. Her encore was “I
Want Jesus to Walk with Me.”

Soloist Margaret Greer display-
ed her excellent voice and stage
presence in “Sometimes I Feel like
a Motherless Child”; later in the
program she did “I Couldn’t Hear
Nobody Pray.” i

“He’s Got the Whole World in
His Hands” was very well sung by
Aloysius I. Mackey, who did the
well-known “Water Boy” as an en-
core. Pear] Bailey’s “Listen to the
Lambs” was done in” the form of
alternating statement and answer
with the chorus.

The best of the soloists was
Louis Carroll, Jr., whose renditions
of “Land of Degradation” and
“The Man Stood by the Road and
Cried” were much applauded by
the delighted audience. Mr. Car-
roll, who is conductor of the Mt.
Carmel Choir, has a resonant and
vowerful voice. s

The program closed with two
choral encores, the ‘optimistic “Let
us Cheer the Weary Traveler,”
with Dorothy Backus and Evalin
Johnson as duetists, and “In That
Great Gettin’ Up Morning.”

Aaiteietsenses
13 Appointments
Given To Faculty.

President McBride has announc-
ed thirteen faculty promotions for
the year 1955-56. The promotions,
to take effect next September, are
as follows: 7

Professors—Mrs. Rachel Duna-
way Cox, Psychology and Educa-
tion; Miss Frederica deLaguna,
Sociology and Anthropology; Mr.
Jose Ferrater Mora, Spanish; Mrs.
Myra R. Jessen, German; Miss
Marguerite Lehr, Mathematics;

and Religion; Mrs. Agnes. K. Mi-
chels, Latin. :

Associate Professors—Mr. Peter
Bachrach, Political Science; Miss
Frances deGraaff, Russian; Mr.
John R. Pruett, Physics; Mr. Eu-
gene V. Schneider, Sociology and
Anthropology; Mr. George L. Zim-
merman, Chemistry; Miss Gertrude
Leighton, Political Science.

CALENDAR

Wednesday, March 2
8:30—Legislature meeting
Rumpus Room.

Saturday, March 5

8:30—Bryn Mawr College Chor-
us and Lehigh University Glee
Club Concert. Student tickets
$.75. Goodhart.
Sunday, March 6
7:30—Chapel will be a Quaker
meeting. :
Monday, March 7

College elections begin during
lunch hour.
7:15—Dr. Schneider will speak
on “Desegregation” at Current
Events. Common Room.

Tuesday, March 8

-§:00—Dr. Hubbard will speak on
“Relation of Religion and Eco-
nomics.” Common Room.
8:15—Walter Bryan, Emery Ed-
wards, Professor of Egyptology
at the University of London, will
speak on “The First Egyptian
Dynasty.” Common Room.

Friday, March 11 ~

in

~\

Goodhart.
Denbigh Dance.
Saturday, March 12

-8:30—“Arms and the Man.”
Goodhart. — ve
WBMC Dance in the Common



Room.

Mr. Geddes MacGregor, Philosophy |

8:30—“Arms and the Man.” |

, These reports-include a list of the
college activities participated in by
the candidates ,and comments on
|their personalities and qualifica-
tions, collected by the nominating
committee. In the cases of candi-
dates for presidents of Undergrad,
| Alliance, League, and A.A., the re-
ports also include opinions and
ideas ‘of the candidates, concerning
their conceptions of the organiza-
tions, and plans and changes they
|would like to see made.

At the present, the candidates
have been listed only in alphabet-
\ical order, not in preferential or-
der as in previous years. The col-
lege Legislature will meet tonight
to discuss and vote on definite ac-
tion to be taken regarding prefer-
ential order.
| This year a number of elections
have been shifted from college to
class elections. The complete sched-
ule is as follows: :

College Elections

|
|



March

7 President of Self-Gov

8 President of Under-Grad

9 Presidents of A.A. and Alliance

10 President of League

14 Chapel Committee Head

15 Self-Gov Vice-President, Sec-
retary, and 1st Sophomore
member

16 Undergrad Vice-President and

55 College Elections To Extend
Hom March 7 Through March 24

Secretary
\ Junior Elections —
March
17 Vice-President of Alliance
21 Vice-President of League
22 Senior Member to Self-Gov,
Vice-President of A.A.
24 Secretaries of A.A., Alliance,
and League
‘ Sophomore Elections
March
17 Vice-President of Alliance
21 Vice-President of League
22 Common Treasurer, lst Junior
to Self-Gov.
23 1st Junior to Undergrad
24 Secretaries of A.A., Alliance,
and League .

Freshmen Elections
March
17 1st Sophomore to Undergrad
21 2nd Sophomore to Self-Gov and
Undergrad
22 1st Sophomore to A.A., 2nd
Sophomore to A.A.

Common Treasurer
The office of Common Treasurer
is being broken down into four
smaller offices, so that the job will
not be such an enormous one. These
ware as. follows:

1. The Common Treasury proper,
whose treasurer will retain,th
name of Common Treasuret, ~
and will handle the finances of
the Undergraduate Association,
Self-Gov and all clubs.

2. The Bryn Mawr Alliance.

3. The Bryn Mawr League.

4. The Athletic’ Association.

Each organization will elect. its .
own treasurer to whom all corre-
spondence for that organization
should be addressed. Next year
Common Treasury dues will still
include dues from all of these or-
ganizations, so that Pay Day bills
will be simpler. The Common
Treasurer will be responsible for
sending out total bills as well as
breaking down the budget of each
organization.

This change takes effect after
spring vacation. No bills will be
accepted after March 15, so that
the present Common Treasurer can
audit the accounts. ae





‘Aaron Copland, modern sym-
phonic composer, was the speaker
at weekly Collection in Roberts
Hall, Haverford, Tuesday, March
p

Mr. Copland spoke on the prob-
lems of the contemporary compos-
er, who appears to be something
of an “odd fish” in our industrial
civilzation. It is nothing unusual
when a European student or even
a Mexican peon produces a. work
of art, /but our society is not con-
ducive/to creativity, partly because
we.have little tradition.

Mr. Copland’s definition of an

form, what we are all about. To



ing: “You can’t create art from
negative feelings.”

land feels, does not aprpeciate, as
does the European public, what it
means to a country to have artists.
‘The reason for our general lack of



Composer Aaron Copland Claims
U.S. Lacks Appreciation For Artists

‘appreciation for the fine arts and
their creators has something to do
with the spread of radio, televi-
sion, and recordings, and the in-
crease of concert life.

It is possible that the situation
can be changed through the edu-.
cational field. Mr. Copland: feels
that it is necessary for thé gov-
ernment to’ be finan¢ially involved
with art. The risk of "givitig the”
government too much control over
the arts is present, but it is a cal-
‘culated one, and must be taken
|here as it is in other countries.
Music is now supported indirectly,



,artist is a person who tries to putin the name of education or of
_'down, in more or less permanent) ‘information about America.”

Americans have what might be

do this, he must be free, and he/jcalled a “masterpiece complex:”
. must have a belief in what he’s do- they are not willing to listen to
anything that has not been pro-
claimed good by an authority. The
The American public, Mr. Cop-
stood by the general public; we

new musical idiom is, not under- ~

can hope to remedy this situation
through. government aid and more
educational opportunities.


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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, March 2, 1955





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The Unescorted Girl

In the vicinity and, indeed, throughout the country,
Bryn Mawr has acquired the reputation of being a woman’s
college with “very liberal” rules. And on the basis of what
we are or are not “allowed to. do’, we are, compared with
other colleges, very liberal.

But we are a campus beset by dichotomies: a dichotomy
between what the rules specifically contain and what may be
read into them, between what we do and what we would have

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others think we do, between what we think and what we think.

we think. One might well say that we are liberal in action
within a framework of ideological conservatism. This para-
dox is rooted deep in our “tradition” or “heritage”. We don’t
have to look very far to find a parallel; the views of M. Carey
Thomas are a striking example of a revolt against a tradition
and yet, in some ways, a secret adherence to it.

In considering. the theories behind our regulations, we
were particularly intrigued with the sign-out rules. Why,
we queried, does one sign out until 12:30 if one is an “unes-
corted girl’, while, “if escorted, students may sign out until
2:00 any night of the week’? (Special dispensation, i. e.,
1:30 permission, is extended to those unescorted girls who
happen to frequent the opera in Philadelphia.)

Assuming that we are reasonably mature and respons-
ible human beings, it seems illogical to draw such a distinc-
tion between “escorted’”’ and “‘unescorted”. An “escort” is
understood to be a responsible individual who provides ‘‘ade-
quate chaperonage” for the student. This person may be
either male or female; in fact, he/she may be just about any-
body.gwho is our age or older, as long as the individual i is not

fo resident of the Bryn Mawr campus.

_ chaperonage”’

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‘The little book informs us that the reason for “adequate
is to transfer legal responsibility for the stu-
dent from the college to other responsible individuals. This
is why the “chaperone” may not be a resident of the campus.
The only question remaining in our minds is whether the‘ col-
lege is really not legally responsible for us when We are sign-
ed out escorted.

Assuming that the college does disclaim responsibility
for us when we are signed out until 2:00, why is it willing to
accept such responsibility until 12:30, or, in the event. of
opera attendance, till 1:30, or, returning from college vaca-
tions, till 2:00? Apparently, the hours after 12:30 are not
totally pernicious, for there are excepions to “the rule’; these
exceptions would seem to indicate that so long as the rule

may prescribe exactly what we are doing after 12:30, the col-|

lege is willing to be responsible for us. If we are “on our
own”, we are not a very good risk.

If, as is more likely, the college is responsible for us, es-

not feel that either the college or the Self-Gov. constitution
means to suggest that non-resident students or Haverford
or Penn students are more mature and responsible than we
are.

In short, we believe that any Bryn Mawr student is ma-

- ture enough to be trusted with a_2:00 sign-out, any night of

the week, regardless of the state of her “‘chaperonage”.





Open Houses and Looking-
Glasses? Come to Denbigh
Open House on Friday, March
11, and WBMC dance on Satur-
day, March 12. Both will be
held after performances of
“Arms and the Man.”

| The League regrets that due
to illness Mayor Clark of Phila-
pe ae Ye webiste sank
; ~ His st . ll -be--re-





















corted-or-not,-why do we require chaperones at.all? We do}





Letters to the Editor



‘Founding Fathers’ Go On Record, State Their
Convictions In Interest Of History And Reason

The Elysian Fields

February 18, 1955
To the editor of the College News:
Madam:

In several recent communica-
tions to your estimable journal, as
my friends and I here in Elysium
have not failed to notice, our
names and our authority have once
more been invoked on one side and
put in question on another, and
though after so many decades and
cycles of public passion, we
“Founding Fathers” (as you
quaintly call us) have become per-
sonally indifferent to this form of
partisan exhumation and care very
little what new enterprises our
reputations are appropriated for,
nevertheless — in the interest of
history and reason—we have all
been moved to wish that the record
of our spiritual .convictions be set
straight. Yesterday, therefore, we
found ourselves once more in con-
vention, and unanimous in the be-
lief, and regret, that we have once
more been grossly misrepresented
‘nd at as usual neither have any
royalties-been paid us nor, worse
yet, any honest attention.

Open Meeting

In deference to my age, and to
the consideration that I am your
fellow Philadelphian and in the’
fullness of time something respon-
sible for you, my honorable friends,
General Washington, Mr. Jeffer-
son, and Mr. John Adams, invited
me to open our meeting, which
went forward as follows:

— Gentlemen (i said), the ques-
tion has been raised, did we believe
in and worship God, and the an-
swer has been implied, that we did
not. In fact, our names have been
grouped in this respect with that
of our old comrade-in-arms, and
professed atheist, Tom Paine.. For
my part, it matters little what is
said of me; nothing can harm the
reputation of a truly honest man
except self-betrayal; yet, mindful
as I must be of my own diligent
labors—to choose but one instance
—to improve the Lord’s Prayer, so
as to deepen its piety (you will re-
call how I begin it: “Heavenly
Father, may all revere thee... .”),
I cannot allow any portion of man-
kind, in its commendable concern
for the truth of things, to stay for
one moment -under the delusion
that I was an atheist. Gentlemen, |~
what say you?

Liberty from “Maker”

— May I point out (at once
spoke up Mr. Adams, ever alert to
the illiberal consequence) that to
believe this of any of us would be
to misapprehend the very princi-
ples of our sacred Revolution. Did
I not myself argue that our very
right to liberty is “derived from
our Maker’? Did not my friend
Jefferson say that men “are endow-
ed by their Creator”? I gladly re-
affirm that “God Almighty has
promulgated from heaven liberty,
peace, and good will to man!”

—'(Here the good Jefferson in-
terposed): Let no man misunder-
stand. us. We are no lip servants
of a vague and cautionary belief in
some nameless higher power. My
own “paradigma of the New. Tes
tament” is “a document .in proof
that I am a real Christian, that is

[to say, a disciple of the doctrines

of Jesus, very different from the
Platonists,. who call me_ infidel,
while they draw all their charac-
teristic arguments from what the
author of the Gospel never said or
saw.” *

— Yes, yes (replied Adams),
“why should we abhor the word
God, and fall in love with some
other word?”

— Indeed (I ‘spoke up), we
should not; yet the overzealous-
ness of unthinking devotees often
makes a wise man hesitant to be

associated with their shallow and



contentious worship.

— That is sadly true (Jefferson
agreed). “In my district, for ex-
ampté, there is much fanaticism,
though it is chiefly among the
women.”

— (Here the sage and noble
Washington spoke up, whose
words, never hastily or. idly ex-
pended, when they are ripe at last
for delivery, carry irresistible au-
thority): It is as I wrote to Col.
Arnold as he was setting out for
‘Canada: “Prudence, policy, and a
true Christian spirit will lead us to
look with compassion upon the be-
liefs of others, and to be very cau-
tious not to violate their rights of
conscience, ever considering that
God alone is the judge of the
.hearts of men, ang to him only in
this case are they answerable.”

— (Mr. Adams was by now be-
side himself with intellectual fer-
vor and the polemic glow): “The
Christian religion, as I understand
it, is the brightness of the glory
and the express portrait of the
character of the eternal, self-exist-

Continued on-Page 3, Col. 1

‘Lief’ Goes On Record
In Favor Of “‘Bumble”’

27 February 1955.

To the Editor of The College News:

I, too, have been asked by my

dog to act as his amanuensis, so I

attach the following letter that
was dictated by Lief.
Sincerely,

Mary Gardiner,

Dear Editor:

Bumble is my friend. I also
have several other friends that are
‘black dogs. Bumble often plays
with me, and sometimes he comes
into my house for a bite of biscuit,
or to chew the bone for a bit.
Sometimes, when he is unavoidably
delayed at home in the mornings,
and late for work, he rides up with
me in my car, and sometimes, when
he has had an especially tiring day
at college, he waits and drives
home with me. I am always glad
to see him. Once he chased away a
very large dog that was bothering
me. He chased him so splendidly
that I could get out of my car
without speaking to the fellow, to
whom I had never been introduced.
Bumble is my friend, and his
friends are my friends, too.

Respectfully,
Lief of Faunbrook, C.D.

Contemporary Art
Work On Exhibit

By Paula Dunaway, ’58

Bryn Mawr College,’in celebra-
tion of the Philadelphia Art Fes-
tival, has opened an exhibition of
Twentieth Century art in the Com-
mon Room. The exhibit comprises
contemporary paintings, prints and
sculpture, some from the College-
owned collection and others lent by
members of the faculty and staff.

Included in the show are two
busts by Jacob Epstein; of these,
a portrait of Lucy M. Donnelly,
done in his typical impressionistic
but accurate style, is particularly
impréssive.

Also included are two very sim-
ple but extremely effective pic-
tures, one a lithograph by Roual-
ult, and one an etching by picasso.

One of the outstanding pictures
in the exhibition is a small oil by
»Gris, in typical grey-green-brown
tones, the composition orderly but
subtle; and far from dull. —,

Also of«interest. are a handsome
Milton Avery in surprisingly dark
colors, and a Jackson Pollock wat-
ercolor, very delicate, which bears
little resemblance to his more re-
cent loud splashings.

Fritz Janschka, the artist ri res-
idence ‘at the College, is represent-



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Current Events

Lack Of Development
Halts Progress
Of Brazil

Brazil seemingly possesses the
resources with which to attain the
power she covets, but conditions
must change ‘before she can
achieve this power. This was the
view of Mr. Watson, in his Cur-
rent Events talk on February 28.
Having spent last’ summer work-
ing on a project in southern Goiaz,
in central Brazil, he has made ob-
servations concerning this ambi-
tious people who are trying to pro-
gress from an oxcart to an air-
plane economy.

Mr. Watson stressed the fact
that Brazil is unable to use most -
of her huge resources. Cattle are
very important in this area, but.
eannot be exported due to lack of
facilities. Cement, though cheaply
manufactured there, must largely
be imported, since there is little
oil or coal for its production. Thus
lack of fuel and transportation fa-
cilities seriously hamper the econ-
omy.

As for social conditions, consid-
erable political freedom and the
nonexistence of a color line, are
encouraging factors. There is a
fantastic amount of religious free-_
dom, although the churches are
poor. The people are generally
miserable; disease and _ illiteracy
are prevalent, and phenomenal -
population growth does not allevi-
ate conditions. Unfortunately prac-
ticing the professions is definitely
unprofitable; and thus those such
as medicine and engineering are
unpopular.

Even among this great poverty
and ignorance, communism has not
really developed, perhaps because
the Portuguese are so pleasant
that they cannot harbor revolution-
ary hatred.

At present, the country has no
oil and refuses to let other coun-
tries look for it. The sale of her
great coffee crop cannot pay for
the oil necessary for development
of Brazil’s resources. Inviting for-
eign interests to invest capital
would seem the only solution to the
dilemma. Only a realistic scheme
can make the country the “land of
tomorrow” and powerful entity
which she wishes to become.

Players In ‘A In ‘Arms

Begin Rehearsals

especially contributed by
Linda Levitt, ’57

Rehearsals of Shaw’s Arms and
the Man are in full swing now at
Goodhart, and from all appear-
ances, College Theatre is going to
have another hit on its hands.

Mrs. Lois Goutman, who will be
remembered for her direction of
Oedipus at Colonus, now is having
an opportunity to adapt her talents
to an entirely different type of
play.

In the cast itself are both nov-
ices and “old hands” at Bryn
Mawr-Haverford histrionics. Both
“Rabbit” MacVeagh, who will por-
tray Raina and Gerry Goodman,
playing Nicola, had prominent
roles in last year’s Madwoman of
Chaillot; John Pfaltz and Char-
lotte Busse, whom we will see as
Major ~-Petkoff .and-his wife, took
part in Oedipus at Colonus. Har
vey Phillips now taking on the role
of Bluntschli, the Chocolate ‘Sol-
dier, will be remembered for his
work as Dr. Einstein in Arsenic
and Old Lace.

The new faces belong to Nancy
Moore as Louka, and Fred Burel-
bach as Sergius. Nancy directed
this year’s Freshman Show where-
as Fred, a Haverford senior, is
taking his “first stab” at local the-
atricals. — a

‘With Mary Darling as assistant.
director, and Chris Flint and Nor-’
ma Aronson heading the stage
crew, Arms and the Man seems to
have the odds in its favor.




Wednesday, -March:2,.1955."

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Page Three



‘Franklin’ Clarifies
Founders’ Beliefs

Continued from Page 2

ent, “independent, benevolent, all
powerful and all merciful creator,
preserver, and father of’ the uni-
verse, the first good, first ‘perfect
and first fair. It will last as long
as the world. Neither savage nor
civilized man, without a revelation,
could ever have discovered or in-
vented it. Ask me not, then, wheth-
er I am Catholic or Protestant,
Calvinist or Arminian. As far as
they are Christians, I wish to be a

fellow-disciple with them all!”

— Most nobly spoken (rejoined
the generous Jefferson), for which
reason “I have subscribed to the
building of an Episcopal church,‘
two hundred dollars; a Presbyter-
ian church, sixty dollars; and a
Baptist .church, twenty-five -dol-
lars.”

— Ah, gentlemen (I broke out,
quite forgetting the specific pur
pose of our meeting and joyously
rising to its magnanimous spirit),
I think I speak for all of us when
I say, “Let me not fail, then, to
praise my God continually, for it
is his due, and it is all I can return
for his. many favors and great
goodness to'me; and let me resolve
to be virtuous, that I may be hap-
py, that I may please him, who is
delighted to see me Happy. Amen!”

Whereupon, it falling Sunday,
we adjourned to His worship.
Very sincerely and amiably yours,



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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, March 2, 1955



E. G. Vining

Discusses Parallels

Between Quakers, Zen Buddhists

On February 28, Mrs. Elizabeth

Room, under the auspices of the
Chapel Committee. Her topic was
her experiences in Japan with Zen
Buddhism.

Mrs. Vining’s talk was especial-
ly interesting as the subjective re-
port of a Westerner, a Quaker,
who came into direct contact with
an Oriental religion thousands of
years old, and who thoughtfully
analyzed it and compared it with
our own religions and beliefs.

The main aim of serious Zen
Buddhists, Mrs. Vining explained,
is to go beyond, and eliminate, all
duality. They seek “the sense of
essence of things in themselves”.

Zen Buddhism came from India
to China in. 528 A. D.-but- did not
become established there until
about two centuries later. It did
not reach Japan until about the
thirteenth century, but since then
has had a direct influence on Jap-
anese life, thought, customs, and
especially art.

The serious seeker after enlight-
enment goes first to one of the Zen
temples, where he has a “master”;
this is a rather misleading term,
for there is no actual teaching or
even logic in this religion.

The novice has a series of inter-
views with the master, and is giv-
en an insoluble problem to ponder
(example: “What was your origin-
al face before you or your parents
were alive?”). After constant

meditation, he reaches a state of| ,

almost unbearable tension.

To break through this tension
into another consciousness, and in
a “sudden, blinding flash” receive
enlightenment, the sense that /all
is one, a sort of universal under-
standing, is the aim of the Zen
monks,

Mrs. Vining explained that the
Quaker religion is, of all our West-
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search. Quakerism has. a relation-
ship both vertical and horizontal,
for the Friends worship together,
and are aware of each other, while
the relationship in Zen Buddhism
is a vertical one, each seeking
alone and in a different way.



Chorus Presents
Concert Saturday

The Bryn Mawr Chorus will pre-
sent the premiere of a new cantata
dedicated to them at their joint
concert with the Lehigh University
Glee Club, Saturday evening in
Goodhart. The cantata, written by
Katherine ‘Danforth Fisher, is en-
titied The Lamp on the Stream. It
is a musical depiction of the suc-
cessive stages in the life of a wom-
an from childhood to death. The
citle is taken from its prologue.

Under the direction of Robert
Cutler, the Lehigh Glee Club will
sing foug Schubert songs. Togeth-
er with the Bryn Mawr Chorus
they will. also sing a Mass in F
Major, written by Mozart at the
age of 18.

formance of her cantata on Satur-
day.

ENTERTAINMENT

Mar.
Mar.
Mar.
_ Mar.

Mar.
Mar.

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2, 3—Trouble in the Glen.
4, 5—So This Is Paris.
6, 7—Black Night.
8-10—Silver Chalice.

Ardmore

2-5—Sign of the Pagan.
6-12—20,000 Leagues Un-

der the Sea.

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Mar. 1-5—Sabrina.

Mar.
Mar.

Ivy.

Mar.

6-8—Sign of the Pagan.

"9, 10—The Holly and the

Greenhill
2—Derby Day.
Hedgerow

Mar. 2-4—Twelfth Night.
Mar. 5—Right You Are.

Mar.
Mar.

9-12—Unfinished Portrait.
16-19—The Crucible.



The freshman class is pleased
to announce-the election of the
following as temporary class
representatives:

Self-Gov.— Catharine Stimp-
son, Nancy Dyer.

A. A. — Donna _ Cochrane,

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Contemporary Art.
Work On Exhibit:

Continued from Page 2

ed by a self-portrait, in pencil,
and “Beginning to Sleep,” a water
color in warm reds and yellows;
it is to be hoped that we will see
more of his work in an exhibition
here.

As the exhibition is made up
only of pictures from the college
and its associates, there is natural-
ly no definite unifying thread; but
there is certainly no discord, eith-
er. It is an interesting and individ-
ual collection, and well worth see-
ing.

The exhibition, which will re-
main open until March 14, has been
assembled by Leslie Kaplan, Emmy

Rauh and Lois Glantz, with the

help--of Dr. Sloane.



SPORTS SCHEDULE

During the past week, Bryn
Mawr teams won two victories and
suffered one defeat. The fencing
team lost a practice meet to Tem-
ple 16-9, on Feb. 24. On the same
day Bryn Mawreeut-swam Ursinus
to win the varsity meet 31-25, and
also to take the J.V. meet. The
J.V. badminton team played thie
Baldwin School» in an informal
meet on Feb. 22, and “won by a
score of 6-1.

On March 9 Bryn Mawr swims.
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