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‘Wednesday, March-15, 1961

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three



a) lexner Humanities! ectures Dancers Present
"Heer Art Historian This Year

by Brooks Robards

On April 6, the 1961 series of
the Mary Flexner Lectures on the
Humanities will bring Mr. Doug-
las Cooper, art conoisseur and spe-
cialist in the field of cubism, to the
Bryn Mawr campus. Mr. Cooper,
a lecturer for the Courtauld Insti-
tute for History of Art, will pre-
sent in his talks at the college an
historical analysis of cubism, Mr.
Cooper has a personal acquaint-
ance with many of the artists
whose works he will discuss, and
his own ‘art collection at his home
in the south of France is extensive.

Among his published works are
books on Juan Gris, Toulouse-Lau-
trec, Picasso, Van Gogh, Degas,
Fernand Leger, and, most recent-
ly, Graham Sutherland. Last spring
he gave an informal lecture here
on Picasso.

Essence of Cubism

In describing cubism, Mr. Coo-
per has said: “The essence of cub-
ist painting was distrust of ap-
- pearance and a renewed assertion
that the mind of.the artist was as
important as his eye. More sig-
nificant, however, was the rejec-
tion ‘of the notion that a picture
should be a mirror held up to Na-
ture and the putting into practise
of the new idea that a picture has
a reality of its own and exists
independently of but on equal
terms with the reality ‘which our
eye perceives. Such at any rate
is the basis of true cubism.”

Mr. Fowle related that Mr, Coo-
per is particularly important as a
scholar of cubism becaues of his
friendship with the artists them-
selves; others study cubism, but
not from the viewopint of one
who knows the artist as a person.

Mr. Cooper’s “focus” will be “on
the beginnings, and speedy growth
of cubism to its fulfillment, passing
on from there to consider many as-
pects of its influence outside of
France and up to 1

The topics for Mr. Cooper’s lec-
tures are: 1). Early ‘Cubism:
Whence? Whither? Why? Braque
and Picasso; 2) High Cubism:
Braque and Picasso; 3) The Paris
School; 4) Intellect versus Intui-
tion; 5) Can It Move?. 6) —
“Gris, ‘anid Picasso.

Flexner History.

Mr. Cooper will be the most re-
cent in a long line of prominent
men who have come to Bryn Mawr
‘under the Mary Flexner lecture-
ship in the humanities, The wom-

Reports of Sport
From Pool, Court

by Jo Rosenthal, °63
‘With delightful unpredictability,



the Bryn Mawr basketball team |

lost two games to Rosemont last
‘Thursday and split with Swarth-
more on Monday. No one really
understands why Bryn Mawr bow-
ed so readily to Rosemont (varsity
37-62; jv 26-48); it was just one
of those proverbial “off-nights.” In
addition, players’ nerves, unsteady
at best, were effectively shattered
by shrieking Rosemont spectators.
The varsity’s loss to Swarthmore
came as no sunprise—in fact, in
view of the giant-size forwards
confronting varsity guards, it was
_ a minor success to lose by only 12
points (82-44)! The jv, meanwhile,
beat the Garnet by a respectable
32-17.

The swim team, in a tie with
Swarthmore, captured 8rd place at
the Intercollegiate meet held at

Penn on Saturday, March 11. Com-)

ing in after West Chester and
Penn, the BMC swimmers manag-
ed a number of wins: the freestyle
relay team, 2nd; Beverly Keith,
100 yd, freestyle, 3rd; Ellie Beid-
ler, 50 yd. back crawl, 4th; Betsey
_Booth, 60 yd. freestyle, 3rd; and
Anne Rassiga, 50 yd. ‘butterfly, 4th.

Since freshmen garnered most of.
_..__ these—victonies,.. the. team. looks

an in whose name the lectures are
sponsored was a Bryn Mawr grad-
uate.

Mary Flexner of Louisville, Ky.
was a history and political science
major in the years when every stu-
dent had her own suite of rooms
and was required to have a double
major. After she graduated in
1895, Mary Flexner took her Mas-
ter of Ants degree at Columbia
University, and for twenty-five
years was connected with such
projects as the Henry Street Set-
tlement and the Ethical Culture
School.

Mary Flexner

In her later years, she was a
close companion for her brother
Bernard who lived in New York.
Impressed by the education that
his sister had received at Bryn
Mawr, Bernard Flixener establish-
ed in 1928 in honor of his sister
the now famous Mary Flexner
Lectures on the Humanities. The
two specifications which he made
concerning the lectures were that
they exclude pure science, mathe-

matics, and the social sciences, |

and that the lecturer “be in resi-
dence for the punpose of contact
with the faculty and students.”

J. H, Breasted was the first lec-
turer in 1928-1929, and spoke on
“The New €rusade.” ‘Whitehead,
the philosopher, followed him with
“The History of Ideas,” which was
incorporated into his book Adven-
tures of Ideas, In 1982-1983, Ralph
Vaughan Williams came to speak on
“Nationalism in Music.” Toynbee
the historian spoke on “Encounters
between Civilizations;” Erich
Frank on “Philosophy and Relig-
ion;” Henri Peyre on “The Con-
temporary Novel in France;” and
in 1960 Paul ‘Henry Lang gave a
series of lectures under the title
“Music and Christian Worship.”



Movement Ideas
For First Program

(Dance Club’s first concert in sev-

eral years will be given Monday,

March 20, at. 8:30. p.m. in Roberts
Hall, Haverford. The danger of
splinters on Goodhart’s stage in-
fluenced the dancers’ choice of
Roberts Hall. Twenty-six Bryn
Mawr girls and one Haverford stu-
dent will take part in the concert.
Mrs, Anne Carter Mason is the
director; the stage manager is Les-
lie Hartley.

The dancers themselves wrote all
the choreography for the first. half
of the program. Nicole Schupf
has choreographed a piece by Bar-
tok; Mina Jahan and Barbara Hein
have choreographed one of Stra-
vinsky’s works. The Double Octet
will provide the accompaniment for
both dances.

Several studies based on differ-
ent relations in form and dynam-
ics have grown out of work in
“movement conversation.” These
spontaneous dances, originally im-
provisations, were “captured” one
night for the concert.

Other numbers, ranging in va-
riety from modern ballet to panto-
mime, include a lyric couplet bas-
ed on Thornton Wilder’s play, Our
Town; a satiric dance pantomime,
“The Builder,” written by Mary
Johnson; and a jazz suite consist-
ing of three sharply contrasting
types of jazz. The last dance,
“Evolution of the Soul,” is an ex-
perimental rendition of symbolic
ideas.

Laura Neilson, president of
Dance Club, arranged an exchange
workshop demonstration with
Swarthmoré last fall. Dance Club
plans to invite dancers from sever-
al nearby colleges to another ex-
change workshop later in the
spring.



Candidates for Interfaith



Interfaith contenders: top steps—Nancy Culley,
Condon; lower steps—Carolyn Smith, Marjorie Hibbard.

Stephanie



Candidates






















forward to a successful season. next
year.







for League

1 Acts in History (1955).

student Recalls Travel {nr inailand:
Pictures Watery New Year Festival

by Nancy

Field, 62

Last year I took a leave of absence from Bryn Mawr to be with
my family in Bangkok, Thailand where my father is working for our
State Department,...In the spring of the year’I made a trip to Chieng-
mai in northern Thailand, Anyoné visiting. Thailand should visit not

only the capital of Bangkok, in the-
too, for there is a great difference in the terrain, in the degree of civi-

lization and in the tribes of people.

The land around Bangkok is so

flat that people in the country build their houses and temples three or
four feet off the ground in anticipation of the floods which occur every



Speaker, Cadbury,
Maintains Custom
Of Tie with BMC

Henry Joel Cadbury who spoke
last night on “Quakerism” has long
been associated with Bryn Mawr
College. From 1926-1984 he was
Professor of Biblical Literature
here. In 1948, he succeeded his
brother-in-law, Rufus M. Jones, to
a seat on the Board of Directors
and since 1956 he has been chair-
man of the Board.

Became Professor

The Cadbury family, established
in Philadelphia since early in the
19th century, has developed a tra-
dition of sending their girls to
Bryn Mawr and their boys to Hav-
erford.

After receiving a Doctorate in
Philology from Harvard in 1014,
Mr .Cadbury taught at the West-
town School. He married Lydia
Caroline Brown, one of his for-
mer pupils and the daughter of the
principal of Westtown, (Mr, ‘Cad-
bury has taught Greek and Biblical
Literature at Haverford and Har-
vard (Andover) Divinity School.
He is at present Lecturer in Quak-
erism at Haverford. Mr. Cadbury
is considered one of the foremost
Biblical scholars in the country.

Among his many books are: The
Style and Literary Method of Luke
(1919), The Making of Luke— (1927), The Peril of Modernizing
Jesus (1987), Jesus: What Manner
of Man (1947), and The Book of
He also
collaborated in the translation of
the New Revised Standard Version
of the Bible.

AFSC. Work

A birthright Friend, Mr. Cad-
bury has worked on many projects
for the American Friends’ Service
Committee. During both World
Wars, he made trips abroad to help
alleviate the needs of civilians in
occupied areas. He served as
Chairman of the AFSC for a few
years in the twenties, and held
that post from 1944 until January
of this year when he was made
honorary chairman, In 1947 he ac-
cepted the Nobel Peace Prize on
behalf of the AFSC.

Then and. Now

The above data is gathered from
an interesting and warm biograph-
ieal sketch by Mary Hoxie Jones
which serves as dedication to the
book Then and Now, a series of
Quaker essays edited by Anna H.
Brinton and collected for the oc-
casion of Henry Joel Cadbury’s
retirement from active chairman-
ship of the ASC. The name of

*'|the book is a paraphrase of Mr.

Cadbury’s pseudonym, “Now and
Then,” column, “Letters from the Past,”

‘tin the Friends’ Journal.



REVIEW

The Review announces the

election of new officers:



Editor, Jane Taylor, ’61









rainy season (from November to

| April) and which reduced all trans-

portation to shallow canoes until
the United States completed the
elevated Friendship Highway last
year. Chiengmai, on the other
hand, is Surrounded by low moun-
tains and hills covered by teak for-
ests and tea and opium plantations.
The people in central Thailand are
mainly farmers growing rice, sug-
ar cane and tapioca. Chiengmai
has many small industries which
are gradually being mechanized
and improved, The average cler-
ical-working woman in Bangkok
has her hair done every week in
the latest French style and has her

dressmaker copy patterns in Vogue
and Mademoiselle, while the aver- ”
age Chiengmai farm-woman has a
chopped, manish haircut, chews
beetlenut, wears a sarong and
dirty white blouse and goes bare-
foot.

I travelled to Chiengmai with an
American secretary from the Em-
bassy and a Thai secretary who
spoke excellent English, since he
had attended high school in the
United States -on a _ scholarship.
We went.by a Thai commercial
plane which was rather uncomfort-
able since the seats were built for
Thai twenty-seven inch hips, the
ceiling was only five feet high and
it was not air conditioned although
the temperature stays between 80°
and 110°F all year. It was quite
a change to go from Bangkok’s
fairly modern, partly air-condi-
tioned airport, whose runways reg-
ularly accommodate jets, to come
bumping down over the heads of
water buffalo onto a pasture with
only a radio tower at the side.
Sinee, a friend of Chris’s (short
for Chalounkwan) drove up to the
plane and took us to our new and
“modern” motel, that is to say, it
had cold running water for the
toilet which only worked half of
the time and for the shower but
not for drinking; three beds, a
table and one chair; two hooks for
hanging clothes; and screens and
shutters but no glass in the win-
dows.

The first three days: we spent
touring “factories” of six to twelve
people weaving the brilliantly-col-
ored Thai silk into dress or stole
lengths; pounding silver into bowls
and embossing them with scenes
from ancient Buddist tales; past-
ing and hand decorating paper um-
brellas at the rate of 120 per day
for a profit of 2%¢ each of $8 per
day; coating and decorating teak
bowls with lacquer, each dish tak-
ing 2% months for completion af-
ter the wood has cured from 15
days to 2 months.

The culmination of our trip was
the Chiengmai water festival which
celebrates the new year according
to the Thai religious calendar. For
several days the local farm dis-
tricts have parades, fireworks and
ceremonies at the temples. The
young girls enter a beauty contest,
and the winner and runners-up then

‘serve as salesgirls in the town’s

shops, so that everyone can enjoy
their beauty. But the real fun is
on the last two days when you say
“Happy New Year” by throwing
water on each other! What started
out as a genteel custom of pouring
perfumed water from a silver bowl
over a friend’s hands has developed
into a rip-roaring” free-for-all.
Tanks of water stand on the.