College news, November 5, 1958

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VOL. XLIV—NO. 6

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1958

© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1958

PRICE 20 CENTS



Critic Acclaims

Recent Concert
Of Agi Jambor

by Alison Baker

Bryn Mawr alumnae and stu-
dents filled Goodhart auditorium
almost-to-capacity Saturday night,
many of them to hear Mme, Agi
Jambor’s piano playing for the
first time. With the first a few
notes of Bach’s “Goldberg” Varia-
tions, the audience was brought to
rapt attention, and Mme. Jambor
managed to sustain this breath-
less silence throughout the work.

She vigorously defends herself
from the accusation of being a
Bach “purist”, that is, one who
likes his Bach in its own simplicity,
feeling that any subjective inter-
pretation is tampering with what
is sacred, ‘Going to the opposite
extreme, she treats him as a com-
poser just as full of feeling as any
romanticism. Every passage of
the Variations played by Mme.
Jambor was obviously the result
of much thought and experimen-
tation;-and never did her playing
become purely mechanical.

In spite of their name, what the
Variations most often lack is vari-
ety. Mme. Jambor avoided this ,
danger by emphasizing their na-
tional contrast, and underlining in
each variation the qualities which
give it a characater all its own.
tentially cold and mechanical com-

The piano isn’t exactly a warm
melodic instrument, and Bach lacks
the dramatic subjectivism. of later
“tone poets”, but out. of .this po-
teneially cold and mechanical com-
bination, Mme Jambor manages to
coax a music absolutely bursting
with emotion .and, pathos. This
was at its most effective in the
slower passages and in dealing
with ornamentation. Each turn or
trill she handled with loving care.
dwelling on the beauty of every
note. In the faster. scale passag-
es, her attempt to emphasize what
she feels to be the most important
figure occasionally resulted in dis-
tortion of the natural flow and pat-
tern in. Bach’s musi¢. On the
whole, I think Bach would have
found it very refreshing to be
treated as an expressive rather
than a mechanical genius; and
Mme. Jambor played with such
conviction and intensity, that sure-
ly not even Count Kaiserling could
have fallenasleep in Goodhart last
Saturday.

Schumann’s surging melodies in
the Fantasia were the perfect
complement to Mme. Jambor’s
style. Never have his surprise
modulations been more of a breath-
taking surprise, or the changing
moods more clearly defined and
brought out. Mme, Jambor show-
ed the importance of beginnings
and ends, and not once in either
this, or the Bach, was one ap-
proached without. precision and
full consciousness of its effect both
as a close to the preceding passage,
and an entrance to the next. She
also seconded Schumann in using
silence as a dramatic effect. This
technique of “playing the. rests”
was a great factor in the intensity

of the entire performance.
\

NOTICE

Current Events will present
a discussion of capital punish-
ment with Dr. Eugene. V.!



“lyear, to -be. presented this Satur-

Arts Night To Present Short Pieces _
In Simple Setting On Saturday Eve

Gaiety: and simplicity are the
watchwords for Arts Night this

day evening at 8:30 in Skinner
Workshop. Art and photographs
on the wall (perhaps even balloons
on the stage!) will provide a color-
ful setting. The program consists
entirely of short pieces. Marion-

ettes and cowboys will figure in
the dances, with elsewhere a.touch
of the medieval for which: Dave
Rosenbaum of Haverford has pro-
vided original music. Mendelssohn,



Bach, Mozart, and Anonymous
wrote the rest of thé music on
the program. aa alte

Drama will be represented by
a comic scene from Congreve’s
Way of the World. The one-act
play originally planned proved too
long and of good enough quality
to be presented at another time by
itself,

Following the performance will
be folksinging for all interested.
The leaders will be Dee Wheel-
wright and a group from Haver-
ford.



Ferrater-Mora Begins Series
Skirts Definitions, List-isms

Tuesday evening, November 4,
Jose M. Ferrater Mora gave the
first of a series of four lectures
on “What Happens in Philosophy”
which he will present on successive
Tuesdays in November, under the
auspices™>f the Philosophy Club.

-- After explaining that, contrary
to commonly held belief, these are
not the same lectures as his
Princeton series of last year, Mr.
Ferrater Mora previewed the gen-
eral topics for all four: a com-
parison of philosophy and con-
temporary philosophy; a look at
philosophy from the political and

social viewpoint; an attempt to
place--philosophy..in contemporary
science; and a comparison of phil-
osophy with religion, art, and sci-
ence today.

According to Mr. Ferrator Mora,
the difficulty of defining philosophy
has greatly increased in the twen-
tieth century. Although contem-
porary science too is in a highly
fluid state, and ‘consequently just
as hard to define, scientists at
least believe that they know what
they are talking about. The very
subject matter of philosophy, how-



Continued from Page 6, Col. 1

Democrats Gain

Although early trends in yester-
day’s election returns gave the
Democratic party an even greater
apparent lead than that which
they actually accumulated, the re-

Calendar

Thursday, November 6:

4:30—Common Room, two Alliance
Films,

Friday, November 7:



_|7:00—Pem East Mixer.

Saturday, November 8:

8:30— Skinner Workshop, Arts
program of music, dance and
drama.

Sunday, November 9:

7:30—Musie Room, Chapel Service,
Address by Douglas Steere, Pro-
fessor of Philosophy, Haverford
College; Chorus.

Monday, November 10:

Current Events, a discussion of
Capital Punishment. Dr. Schnei-
der will speak briefly and dis-
cussion will follow.

Monday, November 10:

Arts Forum, Musicians from Cur-
tis Institute. p

Tuesday, November 11:

8:30—Common Room, Mr. Ferrater-
Mora will give the second lecture
in the series, “What Happens In



Philosophy.”



Wilson Memorial Marker Unveiled Behind Denbigh,

Denotes Impecunious Tenure Of American Statesman

by E. Anne Eberle

In case there exists a breed of
unobservant Bryn Mawrters, these
should be informed that behind
Denbigh, between its delivery
entrance and Old Gulph “Road,
there is now a shiny new flue and
yellow (officially “‘gold”?) histori-
cal marker. Its inscription bears
a dedication to Woodrow Wilson,,
and the marker itse!f was unveiled
last Saturday morning as part of
the Alumnae. Weekend festivities.

Promptly at 12:30 the impatient,
roaring, milling mob of nineteen,
including the photographer, left
its gathering spot, the little island
of grass in the Merion parking lot,
and converged on the enshrouded
marker. Miss Biba efficiently herd-
ed them into a rather compact
group for the benefit of the pho-
tographer, and the huddling group
listened as Miss McBride, who had
unvelied the monument, read brief-
ly from the minutes of the Bryn
Mawr College Executive Board
meetings of 1884-94.

She read that in December of.
1885, the Board announced that it
had voted to make Woodrow Wil-
son an associate professor, at the
rate of $2000 a year, starting the
next term. The crowd “ah”-ed and
repeated the sum gleefully. '

Unorthodox Opinion

A. woman. who. .was. wearing: a
small yellow tag that said “Class
of 1906” said in the most skilled

.|3tage whisper ever heard at the

corner of Old Gulph and the De-
livery Driveway, “He didn’t think
much of Bryn Mawr women.” A
fellow alumna raised her eyebrows
looking quite shocked, and 1906
felt prompted to add, “He didn’t

jlike to teach women.” Miss Mc-



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Bride, having delivered the perti-|

spect it now that respect for cere-

son’s. eminent position at Bryn
Mawr, indicated that she had no
more to say, and the “crowd” be-
gan chattering about Wilson—his
life, his political accomplishments.
Dr. Dudden was explaining ‘ that
the wrong pole had been sent, but

no one seemed to be able to guess
quite what was wrong with the
one that was there. ,
Centennial Concvluded
Dr. Dudden also mentioned,
while drawing an apparent sigh
of relief that this was the last
event in the Wilson Centennial
celebration, which was really 2%
years ago, but since the State of
Pennsylvania was footing the bil]
for Mr. Wilson’s bit of decoration
for the Denbigh service entrance,
wrong pole and all, it took time
and the usual red tape to ooze our
way onto the State’s budget.
While d&scussing, everyone
moved closer to. the marker to in-



nent information ‘concerning Wil-

the pictures did not require keep-
ing a respectful distance away.
They read:
WOODROW WILSON
Educator, Statesman, President.
Here, at Bryn Mawr College,





i Miss McBride unveils the Wilson marker.



mony and the “crowd effect” for

Wilson held gis first teaching




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position. From 1885 when the

college opened, until 1888, he
taught history and politics in
nearby Taylor Hall.”

Aftér inspecting and seemingly
approving the landmark they had
come to see, the “crowd” dispersed,
much to Miss Biba’s dismay, who
was. busy getting people to be in
the pictures, and the alumnae were
busy getting each other to be.
“Well, I guess we lost them all,’ |
she said sadly, thinking of her
pictures, Wilson, too, had just lost
what.-was.. probably one. of.-the
smallest audiences that had ever
attended him, but his shiny blue
and gold marker. stood bravely
waiting to inform “future genera-

A Senate Seats;

15 House In Nationwide Sweep

sults- of the 1958 mid-term elec-
tion gave the Democratic party a
stronger control of Congress than
they have had since the time of
the second world war. This morn-
ing’s figures indicated that 278
House seats are now under Demo-
cratic control, and 62 seats in the
Senate, In the gubernatorial con-
tests thirty-three Democrats were
elected, leaving only 15 Republi-
can states.

Unusual victories

Democratic

Night, a Bryn Mawr-Haverford were recorded in California where

Attorney General Brown defeated
former senator William Knowland,
long-time Republican leader, in New
Jersey, in Ohio where another
strong Republican, John Bricker
lost to Democrat Robert Young;
and a Democratic governor was
elected in Connecticut where the
‘Democratic ticket swept the state,

and in Vermont where William
Meyer will be the first Democratic
Congressman since the Civil War.

In contrast, Nelson Rockefeller
runseated Governor. Averill Harri-
man in New York’s gubernatorial
race by a large plurality. The con-
test, called a “popularity race” by
all commentators, gives the Repub-
lican party a potentially strong
leader. .With Rockefeller, New
York elected a Republican senator,
Keating; in contests for the House
of Representatives the city’s rep-
resentation figures remained un-
changed.

In Pennsylvania, Republican
Scott retained his place in the sen-
ate, but Democrat Lawrence took
the governorship.

BMC, H’ford List
“King John” Cast

College. . Theatre... has .. chosen
Shakespeare’s King John as its
fall production, to go on Good-
hart’s boards Friday and Saturday,
November ? and ?. Tony Killip
was chosen assistant to director
(Robert Butman.

The main characters are:

Constance, Jane Parry, ’61.
Elinor, Mimi Gisolfi, ’59.

Prince Arthur, Cisca Duran-Rey-
nals, 61.

Blanch, Nahma Sandrow, ’61.

Haverford students will take the
following parts:

King John, Charlie Knight.
Philip Falconbridge, Donald
Knight,

Pembroke, Ned Wolf.

Salisbury, Keith Bradley.

Philip, King of France, Howie
Heslenger. . ae

Randolph, Pete -Garrett.

There are many other smaller
but very important men’s parts.

Jinty Miles, president of Col-
lege Theatre, said that King
John was chosen because the
Bryn Mawr-Haverford coalition
had never done a Shakespeare his-
tory._and because it is a “good
play”. The setting and costumes
will be abstract and will not con-
form to any particular period. In
this way. Collegé Theatre hopes

Lady Falconbridge, Harriet Hig- |
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tions of his glorious work at~Bryn}|to~emphasize-the-moral-andmeati-————-—

Mawr ... for $2000 a year.

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Arma Virosque

As the returns from the 1958 elections came in yester-
day, few commentators omitted to speculate that the candi-
dates for the presidential election of 1960 had received their
preliminary endorsement at the polls. Certainly, in any case,
the interest roused by this mid-term election was primarily
oriented towards an election of the future. This election was
no series of local contests, decided by local issues, but state
returns were dwarfed by national tendencies and the preval-
ent trend was nationwide. In two senses this was a national
election; not only will several of the successful candidates
loom important on the political scene in the next two years;
but the issues on which the voting turned were national
issués whose development has been slow and obvious in the
~ past two years. No one has been able to ignore this factor.
Vice-president Nixon has campaigned all summer.on a de-

fense of the administration’s record; and the president him-
self joined the campaign two weeks ago on vaguely national
terms, charging his opposition with ‘ ‘radicalism’ ’and by-pass-
ing the strong support he had been receiving from a Demo-
cratic Congress in order to emphasize the danger of an exec-
utive-legislation split at a critical moment.

The results of the election have run very close to prev-
ious predictions. They had been developing hand in hand
with its issues, as the economic situation of the country loom-
ed critical and crisis followed crisis in Near and Far East
diplomacy. The administation fell under criticism far more
specific than any answered by Mr. Nixon’s statements that
the party could stand on its record, that it had maintained
“confidence, steadiness and strength” . On the contrary, the
lack of these qualities seems to have impressed the voters.

But the situation is not that simple, for the Democratic |
party has also shown itself lacking; while criticizing its riv-
als, it has not developed any strong leadership or any strong
policy to counter that i in operation.

Adlai Steveson, in a television spot last night, said the
appropriate thing: that the Democrats of the 86th Congress
had received a “mandate”. Perhaps he might better have
said that the Democratic Congress had the nod and therefore
had the power and even the responsibility to assert itself
as such. Characteristic of the Eisenhower regime has been
executive-legislative rapport, particularly since 1954. This
is: ominous: Congress and the President have almost always
been at it tooth and claw; what is more, partisan bickering
used to enjoy service other than as hollow, ugly, silly recrim-
inatives of a campaign.

Now the Democrats have undeniable control of Congress,
and a vastly strengthened position vis-a-vis the White House.
They are able to play the roles of majority party on Capitol
Hill and of the loyal opposition at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave-
nue, holding these two powers with surety and without over-
emphasis on coalition, compromise and cooperation. Let’s
have some partisan scraps, not on the vapidities of a cam-
paign, but on issues that will come to a vote. We call on Hera-
clitus who assures us that strife is the father of all things;
perhaps a little healthy hassling might be the-father of a for-

- eign policy worthy of the name!



‘lection of term papers,



rae Council cman

Arts Council is peased to announce the election of the follow-
ing hall representatives:

Denbigh _—Becky Tingle.
Merion —Barbara Kaye
Non-Res —Bonnie Bendon
Pem. E, —Alice Turner
Pem. W. —Garril Goss
Radnor- —Gen Vaughan
_ Rhoads —Sarah Bosworth
~ —Susan Chaffee

Rock. —Joelle de Pontet

Please give these girls any suggestions for an por







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by Lois Potter

t isn’t being publicized, but a
time capsule containing 150 term
papers has been buried under the
new Biology building, A special
mechanical device will enable it to

explode in the year 3000, reveal-
ing its contents to the surprised,
delighted, and—one hopes—human
eyes of the future inhabitants of
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.

No information has been releas-
ed-so. far as to the types of papers
represented in this collection. The
selection has probably been made
as varied as possible, so that the
man of the future, reclining beneath
a dogwood tree (by then, the
height of a California redwood),
will have a choice ranging from
“Existentialism in the works of
Pascal” to “The Downfall of Mer-
cantilism” and “The History. of the
Bootleg Trade in Oklahoma”.

Learning of this plan, however,
leads us to propose a second col-
which
woud be of great benefit to every
student. The papers would be filed
according to type and given a room
to themselves in the library. Thus,
instead of being catalogued in the
ordinary way, from “Aaron Burr”
to “Zygotic Miosis”, they would
start with “Abstract ideas which the
author does not quite understand
herself” and ends with “Zesty con-
clusion, in a last feeble effort to
get preteasor excited about dull|
paper.” ~
Suppose that you wanted to ex-
press- a personal opinion in-words’
that made it sound like someone
else’s. You would look in the file
under “indirect—oh, so indirect”
and find papers with such sentenc-
es as, “It must indeed be evident
that this last was true, although
one cannot help wondering, in
spite of one’s own convictions,
whether one is not a little preju-
diced in favor of one’s opinion.”
Or perhaps you have reached the
point where you must discuss a
book you haven’t read. Open the
drawer marked “Bluff” and you
will find a thick pile of manu-
scripts, bursting with such sen-
tences as “The Fairie Queen, that
lovely poem, is rather like the epic
we are now considering, altbongs

“Tale Told By











Chesterton, on the contrary, main-
tains... "OF (for there are many
subdivisions of this category) the
dogmatic style: “Surely no one
would claim that the works of
Francis Bacon have any bearing
on a discussion of. Shakespeare’s
authorship.”’ 'Who would guess
that this noble phrase, translated,
means, “I didn’t have time to read
any Bacon’?

You want to brighten up your
paper with a bit of poetic lan-
guage? Turn to “Purple Passag-
es” and you will.find passages that
are literally purple, having been
blue-pencilled until they are black
and blue,

“When summer came back to|

America in a flood of gold, when
the corn rose bright and tall under
a sapphire sky, then Cyrus McCor-
mick began to talk about his new-
ly-invented reaping machine.”
How to begin a paper? You have
many examples. The modest par-
agraph: “Although I do not now
much about this subject, and be-
cause of time limitations was able

to read only four books on it, nev-|
ertheless, I am going to try to/|'

tell the history of the French Rev-
olution.” The sweeping generali-
zation: “No art can be great art
Junless it excludes great ideas.’
The guess-what-my-paper’s-about
Opening: “Life, as many authors
have observed, is rather like a
game of chess: But one must play
it blindfolded and without calcu-
lation. Chaucer is but one of the
many great men who remarked
that one can never win a game
with Dame Fortune. These melan-
choly facts are well illustrated in
the story of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road.” The blunt beginning: “I
am writing my paper on the Works
of Frederick the Great, who, in
my opinion, was a very mediocre
author.”

The advantages of this system
must by now be apparent to ev-
eryone. Perhaps in time some
clever Mathematics major will be
able to work out a formula for the
perfect. paper, combining all these
elements in the proper proportion.



by Carolyn Kern

Differences between the first and
last halves of the decade of the
twenties were due to the difference
between the administration of Miss
Thomas and that of Miss Park.
As Miss Woodworth and Mrs.
Manning pointed out, Miss Park
definitely lowered the pitch of the
college atmosphere. This is_ per-
haps best illustrated by the chang-
ing attitudes towards feminism.
Miss Thomas opened the year
1920-1921 with the following
words:

“The very most vital thing in
all the world, because without
it the democracies of our mod-
ern world cannot go forward

Brun Mawr in the 20’s

but must go backward, is
Woman’s Suffrage. ... By
women’s interest in, and respon-
sibility for, state and civic mat-
ters the commonwealth will
immeasurably gain.”

Miss Woodworth graduated with
a feeling that she had a special
obligation as a woman. But there
were signs of reaction even: then,
for when one of the lecturers
stressed the “call for college
women, the News editor re-
marked, “This is becoming to the
Undergraduate what the red flag
is to the bull.” (College News,

1921.) The following editorial also
Coniinued on Page 4 Col. 1





NOTICE

Professor Hywel Lawis; “visit-
ing Bryn Mawr’s department of
philosophy this year ,will speak
to the Student Christian Move-
ment, Sunday, November 9 at
4:00 p.m. in the Converse
House of the Bryn Mawr Pres-
byterian Church. His _ topic
mill be “The Justification of
Religious Belief.”

‘Professor Lewis is at pres-
ent Web d the Philosophy





she Cotmnell. mer. will be awed student iow ete, this

Interfaith

by Helen. Ullrich.

The chapel speaker for Novem-
ber 9 is Professor Douglas V.
Steere of Haverford.

Professor Steere is the T. Wis-
tar Brown Professor of philosophy.
His specialty is the great medieval
mystics.

A Rhodes Scholar, Professor
Steere received a B.S. from Michi-
gan State. He has graduate de-
grees from Oxford, Harvard, Law-
rence and Oberlin Colleges.

.| southerners”.



_A prominent. Quaker, Mr, Steere|f



















travels to all parts of the world.

Letter to the Editor

Woodrow Wilson Group
Discontinues. Operating

||-To-the--Bditor:-

The placing by the Common-
wealth of Pennsylvania of a his-
torical marker to commemorate
Woodrow Wilson’s tenure on the
faculty was the last act of the cen-
tennial observances with which the
undersigned were entrusted. We
can deliver our assurances that no
further echoes will be forthcoming
—at least béfore the bicentennial.

To the scores of colleagues, stu-
dents, and friends who reiterated
over and over again to us the
classic mythology which now en-
shrouds the, facts. of _ Wilson’s
three years at Bryn Mawr College,
we wish to offer our thanks. We
hope we listened patiently, and
refrained from overly boring you
with the fragments of data surviv-
ing,

We now take this public oppor-
tunity to go out of business, with
gratitude for your cooperation and
forbearance,

Sincerely yours,
Arthur P. Dudden
Roger H. Wells
Gertrude Leighton
The Woodrow Wilson Centennial
Committee

1961’s Dee Wheelwright
Takes Issue With News

Last week I had the privilege to
be among a group of students (be-
tween nine and fourteen thous-
and students) which matched a
mile and a half through Washing-
ton to the Lincoln Memorial in
token of their belief that the schools
of America should be integrated, .
in hope that the presidept/ would
take a stronger stand on this cru-
cial issue than that which he has
heretofore taken, and in expression
of their conviction that no indi-



vidual should be discriminated ,
against because of\his race or re-
ligion,

I would like to take issue with
the editorial which appeared in the
College News of October 22nd. I
remain in some doubt as to the
stand the News takes, but-I get
the impression that you are for
integration, but against demonstra-
tions—in other words, you believe
the river should be crossed,. but
you are afraid to get your feet
wet.

I am surprised by your wide-eyed
assertion that the demonstration
would be “repugnant to nine out
of ten students here on campus”
and other brief glimpses you give
into the mind of the average Bryn
Mawr girl which leave one with a
rather damp picture of a spaghetti-
like, feminist cheerleader-turned-
sophisticate,; whose sensitive soul
“shinks instinctively” from the |
thought of, any digression from a
vague code, called a “fetish for
decorum”,

I cannot believe that you would
or could make these assumptions
and assertions if you fully under-
stood the demonstrations that took
place in ‘Washington, D.C, on Oc-
tober 25. Therefore, I am going
to try to clear up some misconcep-
tions that you seem to have.

In the first place, the march was
most emphatically NOT (as you
term it) a “purposeful creation of
disturbance”, nor was it (as you
insinuate), an emulation or a con-
donement of mass protests in the
south’ on the part of “incensed
It was a quiet, dig-
nified, and solemn procession of
students from colleges (among
them Harvard, Yale and Swarth-
more), church groups, and some
children accompanied by adults.
It was carefully planned and
smoothly executed; the tone was.
one of hope, not bitterness; the
motive was positive (appeal), not
negative (protest). It took as its
model, not the incensed southern
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Wednesday, November 5, 1958

THE

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~ Juniors Abroad for Year Report Varied Experiences:
~ Reaction Favorable to Years in Geneva, Paris, Madrid

Junior Describes Sp

anish ‘Merienda’:

Fried Octupus And Squid, ‘Rubbery’

Lantern men, it seems, are not
something unique to the Bryh
Mawr campus. They are found
even in Spain according to Cam
Lank who spent last year there
on the Junior Year Abroad plan.
' The doors to private homes. in
Madrid are locked at 10 p.m. after
which time little men dressed in
uniforms and carrying large bun-
dles of keys admit one to the
house. These men are called “ser-
enos” and according to Cam they
remind her of “little lantern men
only they don’t carry lanterns.”

Lived With Countess

‘With the exception-of the “lan-
tern men,” most of Cam’s experi-
ences during her stay in Spain
were different from any she might
have had here at Bryn Mawr. She
and a girl from Smith lived with
a widowed countess and her four-
teen-year-old daughter. Their home
was on the fifth floor of a large
building in what had once been a
very plush section of Madrid and
is still a fashionable one. They
had hot water three mornings a
week; the heating system in. gen-
eral was rather poor. According
to Cam, “the most outstanding
thing about our house was the
creaking floors!”

Unfortunately, life in the house-
hold left much to’be desired. The
countess had a bad temper. and
Cam comments, “We had a crazy
maid. In fact, we had three maids
during the year; they kept giving
up or something!”

Language Problem Overcome

When asked about language and
academic studies, Cam told of the
two weeks of special language
study which the group had in the
coastal town of Santander before
traveling to Madrid. Following
that, adjustment to the language
was not very difficult and “almost
everyone was speaking fluently by
Christmas time.”

“At the International Sahiiterhs
where the group studied, Cam took
courses in the history of Spanish
art, Spanish literature, Spanish
history, pronunciation, composi-
tion and the geography of Spain.

‘For her history of art course,

taught by the daughter of a fam-
ous art historian, the class made
a trip to the Prado once a week.
One of. Cam’s literature courses
was taught by a poet, critic and
professor from the University of
Madrid whom she describes as
“very young and very dynamic.”
Her comment upon Spanish stu-
dents is that they are very. indus-
trious but many of them don’t con-
sider cheating dishonorable if: one
can get away with it.

Dates Wear Out Shoes

When asked about the dating
situation in Spain, Cam mentioned
that Spanish boys are very inter-
ested in dating American’ girls.
What one does on the date is de-
termined by how much money the
boy has, If he doesn’t have very
much money, a date usually con-
sists of walking downtown, having
a snack or “merienda” and then
walking back home. Cam’s_com-
ment: “You wear out so many
pairs of shoes in Spain!”

A merienda might consist of
wine and potato chips. One of the
favorite snacks of the Spanish. peo-
ple is squid or fried octopus. They
come out like onion rings and
taste “somewhat rubbery.”

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are ony naar of _— one can

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to dinner or to the theatre. While
Cam was in Madrid, she had the
opportunity to see a dramatization
of The Nun’s Story given in Span-
ish.

Enjoyed Guitar Lessons

Among Cam’s most interesting
experiences while she was in Spain
were her guitar lessons. She laugh-
ingly admits that even if she did
not learn very much, she found
them most enjoyable. Her first
teacher was small and dark and
wore shoes with pointed toes look-
ing very much “like something
from Spanish folklore.”

“T never got a chance to play
for him,” she comments, “because
he played all the time.” Later
Cam changed guitar teachers and
studied under a man who was blind.
He had a great many pupils be-
cause his rates were so reason-
able,

During vacations, Cam had an
opportunity to see something of
other countries in Europe. She
spent Christmas vacation in Swit-
zerland where she met Brigitte
Noetzlin, a former Bryn Mawr
student.” She and Brigitte. then
went to Austria to ski and later
Cam and her roommate from Smith
went to Paris. Spring vacation
was spent in Majorca, an island off
the coast of Spain and the summer
in Spain and Italy.
B. B,

Dean Discusses

Jr. Year Abroad

Deciding on a Junior Year
Abroad is a problem for the indi-
vidual and no rigid desiderata ex-
ist, Dorothy N. Marshall Dean of
the College, remarked in an inter-
view on the advantages and disad-
vantages of the plan. There are;
however, some factors which should
be consideerd before the choice is
made.

The chief source of hesitations
is academic in nature. The junior
year at Bryn Mawr is the “back-
bone year” of the fiiajor subject,
providing a broad basis for the
senior year.. Abroad, Mrs. Mar-
shall said, it is unlikely that a
student can maintain a developing,
contiguous course of study in her
field. In fact if she is deeply inter-
ested in her. major subject she
may find the courses in Europe too
superficial for her wants.

Advantages Also Listed

Balancing academic drawbacks,
the plan has elements of unques-
tionable value. Among these are,
of couse, the experience of living
in a foreign country for a signifi-
cant period of time, and intimate
and necessary association with a
language other than Americanese.
For some people, the Dean noted,
living in a foreign country, ‘far
from home, is beneficial to person-
al development and maturity.

If a student is planning to-study
abroad, added Mrs. Marshall, per-
haps as a caveat, she must sacri-
fice her American ideas of educa-
tion, for the approach in a Europ-
ean university differs markedly
from these. Students there are
not required to attend clases as
long as they take their final ex-
aminations, for example. Once
some measure of understanding
and adjustment is. obtained the
student can have a good time
abroad and an interesting year ac-
ademically, if one rather different

,|£rom.that ofa year at Bryn. Mawr.;vi



With this year’s marked in-
crease in language popularity,
the college might well expect a
subsequent increase in the popu-
larity of the Junior Year Abroad
program. The News presents a
a series of interviews with ten
members of the class of 1959
who spent 1957-58 far from this’
madding crowd, with an eye to
those underclassmen who feel
their destiny. has-designated them
as the answers to the problems
of the Department of Halls.



Bryn Mawrtyrs
Describe Paris

As “Invaluable”

“Extraordinary” and “invalu-
able” were two of the adjectives
used most often to describe Paris
and Junior Year Abroad by these
interviewees: Faith Mary. Pleasan-
ton, Sylvia Kowitt, and Victoria
Benedict.

Faith Mary, a History of Art
Major, was the only Bryn Mawr
student in Paris under the aus-
pices of the Smith College group,
and, as she said, “by virtue of the
Smith group, I met nobody.” The
exception to this statement was a
“marvelous family” ‘with whom
she was placed by the Smith group,
This family, which included “nine
children and grandmother,” lived
in Paris, boarded three other stu-
dents. The household, says Faith
Mary, had a wonderful “esprit de
corps” to the extent of everyone’s
helping with the dishes. It was an
extremely “social house,” “with
never less than fifteen at the
table.” There were no domestiques.

Dearest Friends Profs

Faith Mary attended classes at
the Science Po, Ecole de Louvre and
at L’Institute D’Art et Archaeolo-
gie at the Sorbonne. Although she

found it difficult to meet French| ,

students, Faith Mary did get to
know her professors. “Tie pro-
fessors were my dearest and clos-
est friends.” She is
sponding with one of them, a
young woman of twenty-four,
whom Faith met socially as well
as. academically.

“Life was not stratified. We met
a lot of people, from penniless stu-
dents, who thought a movie a great
extravagance, to families who
owned three and four houses. All
had one thing in common, the
same interests, the same recip-
rocity of tastes.”

“Each region has its own char-
acter, as there are not typical
French, but Paris is “the melting
pot of a complex people. Living in
Paris provided us~ with insight
and allowed us to learn to live
with the French people.”

Previous Contacts Helped

Socially, Faith Mary had al-
ready made contacts before her
arrival in Paris. She felt this made
a big difference as far as meeting
other - students andthe French
people were concerned. With the
agreement of “her family” Faith
Mary -was able to have dinner
guests and reciprocate with par-
ties.

Sylvia Kowitt lived in an apart-
ment. belonging to. a.lower. middle

class woman. The apartment had].

an elevator and hot water, and
“these are luxuries!” Sylvia was
quick to add. Not having much in
common with “madame” Sylvia
became friendly with a young
couple in the same building. “The
neighbors were _ intélligent and

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Foreign Students, Varied Courses

Make Jr. Year In Geneva ‘Fabulous’

A life surrounded by a variety
of foreign students, an interest-
ing set-up of courses at the: Uni-
versity of Geneva, luxurious liv-
ing in a hotel, and good food were
constituants of the “fabulous”
year Madelaine Adler spent as her
Junior Year Abroad.

Madelaine, with one other Bryn
Mawr girl, went with a group of
388 Smith College girls under an
administrative leader, Professor
Koffka, and her two assistants.
Madelaine attended the University
of Geneva, and the Institute of
Graduate Studies, its graduate
school, where she took nine

Food Disillusions’
Student In Paris

Bonnie Bendon (non-resident), a
lucky student who spent her junior
year abroad, says she is happy
she went to France but she is even
happier to be home. Bonnie spent
her first six weeks taking a pre-
paratory course in Tours before
she started classes in Paris. The
house in which she stayed was
three hundred years old and was
almost falling apart. There was
no plumbing except for a trickle
of water on the third floor. Bonnie
became sick her third day there
for the simple reason that she was
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When asked why she didn’t go out
to eat, she said that by the time
she realized she had malnutrition
she had to spend all of her money
on doctors,

So it was a vicious cycle!

Fascinating, but Overcrowded
: Courses

Bonnie then went to Paris where
she studied at the Sorbonne and
at the Political Science Institute.
She had courses in the history of
political ideas, art criticism of the
nineteenth century, recent meta-
physics, and phonetics. The cours-
es were fascinating but terribly
overcrowded. The Sorbonne was
originally built for about four hun-
dred students. But when Bonnie
was there, six tho students
were enrolled. Very often she
stayed at home and _ listened. to
her classes which were broadcast
over the radio,

Appreciates Baths, Basic Seven

Bonnie says that now she really
appreciates America where she can
take a bath whenever she pleases
and can eat some of the “basic
seven” each day. It was a won-
derful experience but she wishes
she had been healthy enough to
enjoy it. Her advice: anyone who
is aspiring to study in Europe
should not speak to her about it.







courses: including philosophy, re-
ligion, history of the Church, psy-
cnology, international law, labor
iaw, French literature, and. labor
economics. These were all under
the subjects of history, econo-
mics, political science, and theolo-
gy. The attendance of big lec-
tures ran to about 300 students,
and the more specialized courses
nad from 2 to 6 students in a
class,

Many Wealthy Students

Madelaine said that the Univer-
sity consisted of at least 70%
toreign students, mostly Arabians,
although there were also many
German, British, Americans, and
Persians. She attributed the influx
of near-Eastern students to the
Algerian crisis amd the conse-
quence that they could not study
in France. Switzerland is the only
other French-speaking state in
Europe. Most of the students are
very wealthy, many of those from
Persia and Arabia of royal blood.

Geneva is not like any other
Swiss city, Madelaine said, though
is resembles New York City in its
cosmopolitan population. Although
it is .an international city, it is
not very large. However, it seems:
to have almost everything. Most
of the people of Geneva are fairty
wealthy; even the farmers own
their own land and everyone lives
comfortably.

“Switzerland is a welfare state
with no great class distinctions,”
said Madelaine. An index is the
fact that there are no private
universities in Geneva, and it is
easy for anyone to enter a uni-
versity.

Lived In a Hotel

All of the girls lived in the
Hotel de Russe for half a year,
then many of them lived for the
remainder of their stay with Swiss
families. Madelaine and another
girl, however, chose to live in a

;|suite at the hotel. They enjoyed

excellent food, and freedom from
housework. From their room, they
had a_ beautiful view of Mont
Blanc. The university was a. half
hour’s walk from the hotel—some
of the girls rode bicycles, others
went on trains, and the rest walk-
ed. Madelaine was one of the lat-
ver; she loved to walk, especially
across the bridge of the River
Du Rhone. Autumn and winter
were bleak with the ubiquitous
Bise, a cold wind that often de-
creased the temperature to 0°.
The summer was perfect, since
it only went up to the high 80's.
it is most beautiful then, accord-
ing to Madelaine, because the gey-
ser can be seen in the lake.

Year Featured Travel

Madelaine traveled with other
girls during the holidays. She came
home for Christmas during her
four-week vacation; and during her
six-week spring vacation, she
traveled with friends to Spain,
Portugal, and North Africa. They
also went to London, Paris, Mun-
ich, and Zurich several times, and
attended the Brussels World Fair.
In the inter, they went skiing
often, and in the summer, played
tennis or went water-skiing on
the lake. Madelaine said they
even had some time to taste Swiss
social life. This ranged from night-
clubbing to drinking. coffe in the
“Bagdadish” side-walk cafes.

Madelaine recommends the Jun-

ior Year Abroad as a truly “re-
warding experience”; she wishes








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Kern: Bryn Mawr In The ’20s

Continued from Page 2, Col. 4

presents evidence that the old
feminist attitude towards men was
slowly crumbling:

“Every man that comes to Bryn
Mawr is a lover, for no one but
a lover would come. Something
is undoubtedly wrong at a col-
lege where a man is regarded
as nothing but a frea; for with-
out adopting the Lady’s Home
Journal or Youth Companion’s
attitude toward the opposite sex,
no one can deny that they are
heaithy, normal, and stimutating
companions. ... Bryn Mawr has
always been a leader. ‘lo quote
the New York Tumes, ‘feminine
defiance and--inaependence are
antique, and the vine is again
reauy to cling to the oak,’ and
we must not be in the rear!”

By 1926 Dean Manning observed
that the great age, ot feminism
was over, and “We are now in a
reactionary stage where it is con-
sidered ciever to dismiss the temi-
nine movement as a great mis-
take.” Mrs, van nulsteyn was not
paruculariy interested in women’s
new freeaom, because she had
never known anything else; and
Mrs. Nahm and her triends were
not conscious of “representing”
anything. Once the feminist battle
was tought and won, Bryn Mawr
women seemed to accept their
freedom’ as their “just due” and
forget about it; but perhaps it
was easier for the Bryn Mawr
women to adjust because of the
guidance of an institution which
had prepared so long and well for
their. “emancipation.”

The rules under which the Bryn
Mawr girl lived were steadily re-
‘laxed throughout the period. She
never found it necessary to stage
any dramatic rebellions in order
to win greater freedom, which is
what I consider unique to the
Bryn Mawr culture. This is due,
in my opinion, to the fact that
while. Miss Thomas, who would
probably have obstructed any very
serious liberalizing changes, was
president, Bryn Mawr girls en-
joyed so much greater freedom
than girls in comparable colleges
that they felt no need to seriously
change things. Bryn Mawr was the
first woman’s college to establish
self-government, and it was unique
in permitting the girls to leave
college on the week-ends. Then
when the stage was reached where
a serious redefinition of the rules
was necessary, the students were
unusually fortunate in having a
president who believed in a great
deal of freedom for the Self-Gov-
ernment Board and in the neces-
sity of basing rules upon intelli-
gent public opinion.

The thing which I consider Bryn
Mawr students to have had in com-
mon with other young people ot
the period is their disregard~ for
the rules that they did not formu-
‘late and institute, and their con-
stant search for rules that were
realistic and workable.

The College News of October 7,
1919, stated:

“There are .. . three classes
of people in college: those who
conscientiously obey Self-Gov.,
those who are entirely oblivious
to it, and those who start out

with the definite purpose of
breaking it. To. the second class
belongs the great majority .. .’

At the beginning of the year
1920-1921, an upperclassman was
told that the Freshmen considered
reading the Freshman Rules
“amusing” and “rather unneces-
ssary.” (College News, 1929.)
Clearly something had to be done.
__ Until 1922, smoking was forbid-

den within -a twenty-five mile
radius of the college, but in No-
vember of 1922, Self-Government
passed a rule allowing smoking
while visiting private homes in the
vicinity. “Smoking is no longer a
Foo ofan ane ll — * Statement



Hew 1822) According to ‘the

College News, this constiuted a de-
parture from the traditional atti-
tude of Self-Government in regard
to conduct rules. For the first time
they looked “rather to plausibility
and reason than to what outsiders

will say.” They expressed the
“self-confidence of a sane adult
community which has become res-
tive under boarding school prohi-
bitions,” and they considered a
girl of college age “intelligent
enough to be. free.” But these
minor changes. were only tempo-
rary stopgaps.

“By the middle 1920’s it wag un-
deniable that the spirit had largely
gone out of Self-Gov. with a
strong tendency toward the As-
sociation’s rules being little imple-
mented or observed.” (Cornelia
Meigs, What Makes a College?).
The President of Self-Gov. wrote
in the College News that radical
revisions were all that could save
it. “A clean sweep ig necessary.
The’ present resolutions are not
upheld nor are infractions of them
reported, because they are obso-
lete, and the College no longer
feels bound by them.”

The rules that the girls objected
to included the smoking rule, the
overly strict ‘chaperonage, close
requirement as to the hours of
return from social occasions, and
overconservative regulations of
dress on the campus. The final
indication that the board had lost
control came when they obtained
permission for the halls to be open
until twelve, and people still came
in the windows until three.

guna observed: 'The present sit-
uation is a reflex of a crime wave,
of a spirit throughout the country
of breaking small rules like pro-
hibition and speed laws,” and urg-
ed that the board think twice be-
fore yielding to such a_ spirit.
“Frances Gay, the President of
Self-Gov. ... called a mass meet-
ing and put the question boldly,
‘Should Self-Government be abol-
ished?’ The body of the students,
come to their senses at last, re-
jected the possibility with empha-
sis and a single dissentient vote.”
(Cornelia Meigs, op. cit.)

A new set of much more liberal
social regulations was compiled,
e.g., three or more girls were per-
mitted to go to the’theatre in Phil-
adelphia unchaperoned, provided
they had a definite destination and
returned directly to the College.
Miss Park issued a statement say-
ing that. there had been a change
in attitude toward women smoking,
and that “no democracy can keep
on its books a regulation . . . that
no longer rests solidly on intelli-
gent public opinion.” (College
News, 1925)The girls would now
be allowed to smoke on the lower
campus and in specially provided
smokers in the halls. Bryn Mawr
lde the other women’s colleges in
this matter, but the others follow-
ed quickly in establishing similar
regulations.

Parleys between students from
the seven eastern women’s colleges
indicated that the problem of “the
honor system in general” and the
problem of inordinate noise in the
halls and libraries were common
headaches. It was at this time
that Bryn Mawr was faced with

| ‘ball-throwing, gum-popping, so-

cial gatherings, and poker games”
in the reading room of the library.
The role of proctor seemed to be
an extremely difficult and thank-
less job.

Mrs. Manning remembers that
one of the distinguishing charac-
teristics of the Self-Gov. boards}
during this period was their care-
ful taking into consideration of
the motives behind an infraction
of the rules, One particular board
came to Mrs. Manning to request
that no serious action be taken
against a student who had been
discovered spending the night with

At this point Frederica de La-

Paris Junior Year

Continued from Page 3, Col. 3

found that her fellow students
were mostly foreign or French
students from socially climbing
families. Faith' Mary concurred
with this opinion. “I was able to
meet French students in outside
activities and on trips. The French
don’t make friends at school, they
have them from childhood and
keep them the rest of theirelives.

“We did meet French girls, who
wanted to meet foreign students,

however; it was much easier to
meet the international group otf
otudents.” One of the French girls
whom Sylvia became friendly with
in Paris is presently studying here
at Bryn Mawr.

Politics Cause Anti-Americanism

In response to a question about
anti-American feeling, Sylvia
mitigated her response by laying
che blame on American political
policy. “The French expect great
chings from us and they are very
otten disappointed. They are tired
of our boasting. If there is anti-

American feeling, it is because of

che emphasis we place on materi-
alism in our dealings with other
countries, France in particular.
Most of this feeling is directed
against the erican soldier and
the tourists, who have no respect
for the French traditions.” Both
Faith and Vicky felt there was a
considerable anti-American feeling.

Paris Is Magnificent!

“One of the great values of
studying in Paris is the opportun-
ity it offers for cultural expan-
sion.” Sylvia found that in Paris
she had adequate time to study
and attend concerts every other
night. Prices on student tickets
were very low. .

Sylvia summed up her year
with one statement. “Paris is the
most magnificent city in the
world!”

Concentrated Study At Sorbonne

Vicky Benedict, a French major,
studied at the Sorbonne. She found
her courses radically different
from those she had taken here.
“The French approach is that of
concentrated _ Study,” Vicky spent
a whole year in one of her courses
studying one of Racine’s plays. Of
all the classes she attended only.
one was given by the Sweet Briar
group, with whom she went.

One class, Sociological Theory
of Democracies, was taught by
Raymond Aron. As the only stu-
dent in this course, Vicky was
given an oral final examination.
Other than in’ this instance she
did not come in close contact with
her professors. She maintains,
however, “anybody who wants to
meet people can.”

French Are Happier

Vicky differed from most other
Junior Year Abroad students, and
both Sylvia and Faith Mary, in
that she had attended school in
France previous to this past year.
Thus she had friends before she
arrived and had contact only with
Freneh people. “The French peo-
ple are happier with simpler
things. They have an intrinsic ar-
tistic and cultural interest. It is a
common occurrence for the French
people to go visit a chateau on
Sundays. When one goes out in
Paris, it is usually with a group
of six or twelve friends. They or-
ganize activities more than is
common in this country.”

“The French people are a broad-
minded, liberal people and it was
an invaluable experience to -live
over nine months in their country.”
G.L.

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independent schools. Copies are

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Dr. Rachel Cox, professor of
Education and Psychology at Bryn
Mawr, presented her findings in a
survey of the “Teen-age Clique”,
as one part of the series of lec-
tures to the Alumnae on the devel-
opment of the individual, which
has run through the whole week-
end.

She described ‘the prevalent
views of teen-age mentality and
behavior as paradoxical. The com-
mon conception of the teen-ager as
sociable and running in packs
seems to be diametrically opposed
to clinical.evidence proving him to
be essentially introverted, pulling
away from group conformity, In
her investigation of teen-age
“cliques” she found the key to res-
olution of the paradox.

Most teen-agers don’t know what
they are or what they want. They

WheelwrightLetter

Continued from Page 2, Col. 5



Let us not assume that “bore-
dom with the segregation issue is
widespread”! That attitude would
appear to me to be as shocking as
would have been boredom with the’
plague in the fourteenth century!
No! Let us not be bored, prissy
or blase. Let us not be afraid to

trade a cheap kind of unreal soph-
istication for enthusiasm af@ sin-
cerity,

I hope that the tenor of your ar-
ticle does not reflect the tenor of
the student body. If it does, I
feel that it is a great pity that a
college which vaunts itself the
“wisest” college in the country
cannot also be the most sensitive.

Sincerely,

Delia Wheelwright, ’61

Bureau of
Recommendations

JOB NOTICES

If you had 1) a particularly
good sumer job, 2) a particularly
bad summer job, Miss Farjeon
would be delighted to hear about
it. Drop in any afternoon to see
her.

* * *

Odd Jobs Now Open: Please see
Miss Farjeon.

Steady Baby-sits: Bryn Mawr:
Wednesdays from 12 to 5:30, Twin
girls, 7 months old; Rosemont:
Two afternoons a week, 1 to 5.
Boy, 21 months.

Shipley School—Main Building:
Bells, Sundays, 5 to 10. $.75 an
hour,

Lantern Slides Substitutes: Art
class; Monday, Wednesday, and
Friday at 12.

Campus Interviewer for market
research firm. To begin about No-
vember 15th. $20 for 100 inter-
views,

Jobs for Next Year: Please see
Mrs. Crenshaw.

Rockefeller Institute for Medical
Research, New York: Technicians,
Biology or Chemistry majors, At
least $300 a month.

Alexander’s Department Stores,
metropolitan New York: Executive
Trainees. Salaries not stated.
Booklets available at the Bureau
of Recommendations.

Further Training:

The University of Pittsburgh
Graduate. School of Retailing:
Scholarships available. Notice post-
ed on the Bureau bulletin board.

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The Secondary Education Board

has sent booklets on teaching in









tives ‘were “pure”,

*

nowy V OF X-Boy’
Delineates Rigid Clique Structure

s Undershirt

are prevented from gaining poise
by the loss of a “solid core of
I-ness.” Thus the™@lique forms a
bulwark against society behind
which the individual trys to find
himself, From childhood to mid-
adolescence the clique bonds be-
come more and more prorfounced,
until later, when the individual is
less threatened by confusion, and
able to assert himself as an en-
tity, they begin to disintegrate.

The Studies on which Dr. Cox’s
observations are based “were con-
ducted in two high schools, both
situated. in attractive, highly cul-
tured suburban communities. About
six hundred boys and _ girls in
grades seven through twelve were
tested by interview and question-
naire. In every grade in both
schools there was a definite con-
sciousness of the clique system,
although it varied from the least
clarity in the seventh grade, to
the fully blossomed ninth grade
clique, through a process” of dis-
integration in the eleventh
grade, until finally in the twelfth
grade the clique assumed a
position of very minor import-
ance, A _ definite hierarchy of
cliques was always in evidence.
For reference purposes they were
labeled as: X, the highest and
most desirable clique; Y, the mid-
dle strata of society; and H, the
rebel outcasts.

Dr. Cox then proceded to. iden-
tify representative members of the
various groups, from the snowy
white V of undershirt showing at
an X boy’s collar, to the rebellious
sideburns of an H boy. At the end
stage of clique structure, when
they start falling apart, the bond-
age of X becomes too hampering
to members, and gossip flourishes.
Meanwhile Y are coming to value
their group more highly, as it
doesn’t exercise much domination. .
over the individual. They view the
social situation with a critical eye.
Members of the Y group have in-
tellectual success and usually en-
ter the top colleges, whereas their
X counterparts only get into sec-
ond-rate ones, H._ continues to be
a bitter and scornful group, look-
ing up to the others with envy,
and making a pronounced effort
not to conform to -X standards.
They are, as a group, much more
isolated than either X or Y. Dr.
Cox pointed out that by getting to
the base of, and understanding the
clique, we may be able to work
towards the raising of the “Iron
Curtain” isolating the H clique.
After the lecture she answered a
few questions,

e
Movies
Ardmore: Wednesday through
Saturday, At War with the Army
with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
and Let’s Go Navy with the
Bowery Boys. Sunday through
Tuesday, Gun Runners with Audie

Murphy, and Voice in the Mirror
with Julie London.

Suburban: Wednesday through
Saturday, Me and the Colonel with
Danny Kaye, held over.

Anthony Wayne: From Wednes-
day for indefinite duration, Mike
Todd’s Around the World in Eighty

Days. Only one evening show, at
8:30.
Greenhill: From Wednesday

through Wednesday,
Exile with Louis Jourdan and Bel-
inda Lee.

Bryn Mawr: Wednesday, Funny
Face with Audrey Hepburn and
Gene Kelly and D. A,

Thursday through Saturday, The
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THE

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ALLIANCE

Alliance is sponsoring two films
on Radio Free Europe, the organi-
zation which broadcasts to five
iron curtain countries, Bulgaria,
Romania, Czechoslovakia, Poland
and Hungary, on Thursday after-
noon at 5:30. They wilk be shown
in the Common Room.

These films are of particular in-
terest in so far as they show life
behind the iron curtain. (There are
some excellent shots of the Hun-

“garian Revolt.) The films deal
with the mechanics of Radio Free
Europe as well as with the effects

of the Radio’ Free Europe broad-
casts.

The showing of these films on
‘the. Bryn Mawr campus is timely,
since last week marked the second
anniversary of the Hungarian
Revolution. The relationship be-
tween the Radio Free Europe pro-
gram and the signs of distress in
satellite nations, and the value of
the Radio Free Europe program

has ‘been the subject of much heat- |

ed debate. Come and see what your
views are on the subject. THE
COMMON ROOM, THURSDAY,
NOVEMBER 6, 5:30; TWO PRO-
VOCATIVE FILMS.



NOTICE

All athletes and even semi-
athletes are urged to try out
for varsity sports they are in-
terested in, barring the per-
petual “But I’d never make it’
remark, Tryouts for the swim-
ming team are at 5:00 today
(guess where), and basketball
tryouts will be tomorrow,
Thursday, at 7:15 and next
‘Wednesday at the same time.

Monday evening, November 3.

civil rights program. Mr.

a third party.

cratic party. As_ still

as the “idea men,’ the
tower” or “ivy league” men,

the Democrats.

Four possible effects of a Demo-
cratic party victory on November
4 were given by Mr. Peter Bach-
rach of the Political Science de-
partment in the Common Room,

The first of these is a stronger |P0licy.
Bach-
rach’s comment on this was that
the Northern Democrats wil] take
a firm stand on civil rights and
that the South may be forced into

A second possible effect offered
by Mr. Bachrach was a shift to
the “new deal” left of the Demo-
another
effect, he noted factors for con-
servatism stemming from a strug-
gle within the party itself which
is taking place between the “pro-
fessionals” and the “eggheads.”
He further defined the latter term
“ivory

. Lastly, Mr. Bachrach noted that
an overwhelming victory might
mean the control of some state
legislatures resulting in a redistri-
bution of state districts to favor

According to Mr. Bachrach, how-
ever, the real problem is not on
the November 4th ballot, and it



VOLLEYBALL

Having gone to Temple Univer-
sity for a playday on Monday
night, Bryn Mawr volleyball play-
ers will entertain the U. of Penn
girls here this Monday in the gym
at 7:15. There will be two games,
so two teams of eight will be
needed, and Alice Todd, manager

Democratic Victory, Foreign Policy

Discussed By Bachrach On Monday

is one to which the voters have
given little thought. This probleni
is that of foreign policy. The Dem-
ocratic party, Mr. Bachrach feels,
has failed to offer an alternative
of any kind to the Dulles-Brinkman
He described the present
Republican policy ag consisting of
four major tenets: (1) The Soviet
Union is run by power-mad men
who seek to rule the world. (2)
This will happen if they are not
stopped. _(3)--We have enough
strength to stop them or frighten
them into stopping. (4) Therefore,
we will threaten war or some-
thing near war.

Unfortunately, according to Mr.
Bachrach, the Democrats have this
same idea of “keeping ahead of
the Russians.” Everything seems
to be based on our military su-
premacy over Russia, or, as Mr.
Bachrach expresses it, “Everyone
in the United States is hopelessly
united—on the wrong point.”

As one of the only alternate
policies that has been offered, he
described that of George Kennan
who was driven from the’ Demo-
cratic party. Kennan agrees that
the United States is dealing with
a power-hungry group of men in
Russia but he feels that their
methods are political rather than
military. Kennan believes that we
need something with which to
deter the. Soviet Union but this
doesn’t mean that our military
strength must be greater than
theirs. Sufficient power to retali-
ate, if necessary, should be. all
that is needed, Other aspects of
Kennan’s plan include a militarily
disengaged Europe and a neutral
Germany. He further suggests

New wardens are at. the helms
of five Bryn Mawr halls this year.
Although springing from vastly
different backgrounds and exhibi-
ting a wide range of interests
each of the young graduate stu-
dents has at least one thing in
common with the others—a sur-
prising and delightful enthusiasm
for her work, her studies, and her
life at Bryn Mawr.

Social science is the main in-
terest of Emily Dutrow, Warden
of East House and a graduate
of-The University of Pennsylvania.
Studying for her Masters degree,
Miss Dutrow works’ two days a
week at the Albert Einstein Med-
ical Center in Philadelphia, help-
ing patients with social and emo-
tional difficulties and doing “just
everything”. Strangely enough,
her now consuming interest in
medical social work had its roots
not in the interest’in people, but
in her love of travel! Seeing
a iRed Cross advertisement for
mobile social workers she applied
for a position in a hospital and
then eagerly traveled to Washing-
ton from her Pennsylvania home
to learn her assignment. To her
chagrin and her family’s mirth
she was dispatched — not to
Alaska or Australia—but to Val-
ley Forge, Pennsylvania! Her
wanderlust thus thwarted, Miss
Dutrow nevertheless found work
in the hospital so interesting and
exciting that she has returned
to school to prepare for continued
work in the field.

New Wardens Interviewed;
Surprising Reaction Noted

mode of dress of the student; “..
bermuda shorts and —— just
wouldn’t do in Torofto”, she
laughed.

Daphne Knights

Also from Toronto is Radnor
Hall’s Daphne Knights. Majoring
in English Literature, Miss .
Knights hopes--to- study in Eng-.
land and travel through Europe
after achieving her Masters De-
gree at Bryn Mawr. Although the
connotations of the word “war-
den” disturbed her at first and
she’s sure her friends still visua-,
lize her jangling a huge ring of
keys, she loves her job and finds
the atmosphere “wonderfully
stimulating.” Miss Knights, whose
girlish face and slight build seem
to beiie the advanced office of
warden, found herelf taken for a
treshman continualiy during the
tirst weeks, and, much: to the
amusement of her charges in Rad-
nor, she was “rushed” at the
Haverford mixer!

Milnor Alexander

Rockefeller Hall’s Milnor Alex-
ander, a candidate for a PhD de-
gree, aims to teach Political Science
on the college level. Graduated
from the University of Pennsyl-
vania in 1946, she has since work-
ed in an administrative capacity
for her alma mater, the Univer-
sity of California, and Bard Col-
lege. She enjoys this field and
would like to continue in admin-



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bribe or threat. He emphasizes
solving our domestic problems
such as the industrial and racial
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Although there are . weaknesses
{in certain aspects of Kennan’s the-
ory, Mr. Bachrach feels that he
certainly is thinking about what
is wrong in the American foreign
policy.

Mr. Bachrach believes that
constant comparison between the
United States and Russia is not
a good policy. Furthermore, he
fears that the American public is
simply not concerned enough with
the problem until it finds itself
faced with another war. Mr. Bach-
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to, where she majored in Modern
History. Working towards her
Masters degree in Political Science,
she finds being a warden “fun”
enjoys the life
of a small college. Although the
large, heavily enrolled university
she last attended differs greatly
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Ferrater-Mora Lecture

Continued from Page 1, Col. 3

ever, is just as difficult ‘to pin
down as philosophic methods and
conclusions. Since the .issues are
always so fundamental that con-
clusions involve unprovable as-
sumptions, each philosopher sees
every other philosopher ‘as his mis-
vuided enemy.

Such a situation, said Mr. Fer-
rator Mora, is inherent in philoso-
phy, as testified by the large num-
ber of definitions of philosophy in
western philosophical . history. In
the past, however, a_ sort of
gentlemen’s agreement existed,
between conflicting schools, not to
argue over goals and materials.
Thus philosophy was able to play
the role of queen of the sciences.
But then began the division which
has continued to the present, ex-
cept for the temporary reunifica-
tion effected by Kant. Nineteenth
century philosophy was in a situa-
tion similar to today’s, with the
exception that we no longer hope
for reunion, having reached, in
Mr. Ferrater Mora’s opinion, the
furthest limit of anarchy in the
movement. of philosophical sys-

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Materialism, Solipecism — the
schools in contemporary philosophy
are overwhelmingly numerous, di-
vided ‘among themselves and

against each other, leading to the
conclusion only that “in -contem-
thing can happen.” Mr. Ferrater
Mora cited two groups which have
resisted internal division more
than others—the Marxists and the
Neo-Scholastics. The greater de-
gree of internal unification and
self-preservation of these two,
however, he attributes to their pre-
occupation with extra-philosophi-
cal—for example, political and so-
cial — considerations. Philosophy
has thus turned from the study of
great problems to a “fastidious”
survey of minutiae. Contemporary
philosophic literature abounds in
cases, in a “return to the con-



The Bryn Mawr hockey teams
made a considerably better show-
ing yesterday afternoon on their
own field than they had the pre-
vious week at Swarthmore, as the
j.v.’s romped to a 4-0 win and the
varsity struggled to a 1-1-tie. The
improvement might have been due
to the extra cheer afforded by Bryn
Mawr’s wearing red tunics, since
Chestnut Hill’s pale yellow ones
would not afford much contrast
with our usual dingy gold ones.

But a more scientific: reason for
the j.v.s’ success lay in the fact
that they played an excellent and
very fast game. A more vital rea-
son was that we made four goals,
two of which. were contributed. by
Polly Merrill, one by Louise Mun-
son, and another by Abbie Trafford
in the second half.

The varsity game was much less
wide-open, a back-and-forth, hard-
fought contest which showed
spurts of really fine playing and
occasionally degenerated into
what looked to be athletic-style
bickering. Edie Murphy scored the



trete2” only: goal Pi ir either team in the
first half ‘giving Bryn Mawr an
Events In Philadelphia
THEATRE:

Walnut: Look Back in Anger.
opened Monday, November 3.
Angry Young Men.

1958 New York Critics’ Prize Play,

John Osborne’s manifesto of the

New Locust: The Cold Wind and the Warm, a new play by N.S. Behr-
.man, based on the playwright’s early life in Worcester, Mass.,
opened Tuesday for five days, with Eli Wallach, Maureen Stapleton,

(Morris Carnovski,

Erlanger: Enrico, pre-Broadway opening of play by Piandello with
Burgess Mereidth, Alida Valli, Charles Korvin.

The Barber of Saville, Friday night*presentation of the Philadelphia
(Grand Opera Company, with Guillette Siminnato.

Friday afternoon Eugene Ormandy conducts the orchestra with Leon-

ard Pennario soloist.
MOVIES:
Midtown: South Pacific.
Stanton: The Defiant Ones.
Arcadia: Houseboat.

Viking: opens Saturday, new movie In Love and War.



Hockey Report °
impressive half-time outlook, but
that lasted only until the Chestnut
Hill right inner made a scoring
dash in the second half.

With the score tide both teams
made concentrated efforts to make
the extra tally that would certainly
mean a win with time running out,
but despite frenzied attempts near
the end, with Bryn Mawr doing

most of the threatening, neither
team could overcome the tie, which
isa-very sporty result when it



comes to discussing things over
postgame punch and cookies, but
isn’t half so nice as a win on the
record.

Bryn Mawr’s last chance for
glory on the hockey field for this
season will be next Tuesday when
they play Rosemont’ here at 4:00.
Several members of the team in-
dicated that an enthusiastic (well,

at least smiling crowd of cheerers
would be a great help in trying
to get that last win.









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