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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, March 12; 1958



THE COLLEGE NEWS

FOUNDED IN 1914
Published weekly during the College Year (except during
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EDITORIAL BOARD



Eleanor Winsor, ‘59

re. SS OR re ene ere Gretchen Jessup, ‘58
Managing Editor ..........sssseeserescreeecesesecececseses Janet Wolf, ‘59 .
Make-up Editor .........-.-esecececereseretesseeeeees Miriam Beames, ‘59
Member-atlarge ......-.-scereeseceerecsrteteseeeees Betsy Levering, ‘61

EDITORIAL STAFF
Barbara Broome, ‘60; Sue Goodman, ‘60; Frederica Koller, ‘61; Gail Lasdon, ‘61;
Lynne Levick, ‘60; Elizabeth Rennolds, ‘59; Susan Schapiro, ‘60; Judy Stulberg, ‘61; .
Alex van Wessem, ‘61; Gail Beckman, ‘59, (Alliance reporter).
BUSINESS STAFF

Elizabeth Cox, ‘60; Sybil Cohen, ‘61; Jane Lewis, ‘59.
Staff Photographer
Business Manager
Associate Business Manager
Subscription Manager
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of March 3, 1879.

A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

On a bleak March evening when the blustering winds
bluster, and chill the very marrow of your bones, have you
never sought the friendly warmth, the mellow glow of the
great wurm library, and passed an idle hour watching the
eager multitudes pursue learning in and out of the Reserve
Room? Back and forth they scuttle, enraptured faces, eager
feet, bright red eyes bent on their task,and before them
ranged on the shelves lies all the wisdom of the ages with
class assignments carefully noted. But look not too closely
or among these honest faces and tripping feet you may see
one whose shifty eyes range furtively over her unsuspecting
fellows, whose soft feline tread deceives even the ever-wake-
ful echoes. Like all the rest, she carries a pile of books, and
yet you never truly know, you can only suspect, that pressed
close to her black, beating criminal heart is a stolen reserve
book. Unseen she glides away in the dim light, melting into
the shadows, leaving behind a gaping wound in the order of
the shelves, and an unsigned reserve card.

Suddenly confusion arises. Cries of “It’s gone Y? “T had
it signed out.” “I'll flunk my quiz; I haven’t done the read-
ing,” mingle with indignant protests of “What do you think I
can do about it, I only work here.” The innocent are undone;
slowly, slowly they make their way into the bitter night,
dragging behind the poor torn fragments of their shattered
faith. They are doomed to ignorance. While the sinner too
arises and glides through the black night. Gloating in her
sinful heart, this wolf in sheep’s clothing goes away to feast
alone on stolen wisdom. The perfect crime again has suc-
ceeded. ne

If you confront her all-unsuspecting in broad daylight
and ask her what should be done about the problem of the
reserve room, you will notice her deep concern when, tongue
in cheek she suggests, “Put it on the hpnor system” or “Try
closed shelves.” “The honor system indeed,” you mutter sil-
ently, “Is there then no honor even among thieves T
honor a formal sentiment, only to be called forth according
to rule under the name of a “sense of responsibility”, or ma-
turity, and other formulae.

If we are driven to closed shelves, then we will eliminate
crime in our midst, by removing both the temptation and op-
portunity, but what then of the poor innocents. How their
happy faces will fall, when they must stand in line to have
their books checked out one by one. And yet already they
have been heard t- say they would rather wait in line for
their books than never have them at all. Wretches, their.
sorrow is on your heads; look deep into your evil hearts,’
count the crimes recorded there . . . and repent.

Root and Branch

Of recent months a new activity has gripped the cam-
pus with the recurrent and unfriendly strength associated
with a twinge twang tweak type of chronic malaise: the
activity is tree watching. The successful but unhappy prac-
titioner periodically sees another maple tree bite the grass
between Taylor and Radnor. The occupation’s only pre-
requisite seems to be a fondness for senior row; its onset
usually comes with a roar of buzz-saws at 7:30 a.m: Symp-
toms are diverse and may include fatigue,:- headache, wounded

sensibility, and rheumatic sentiments, separately or all at
eonce. A severe melancholy is not uncommon as a condition
of practise, and souvenir scroungingly has been observed
(maple chips are now at a premium(, while nearly every
tree watcher suffers Acute Curiosity, or Horror Morbidus.
Not unaffected ourselves (“a paper’s gotta have heart,” we
heard Steve somebody, swell City Editor, say in a movie
once), we decided
_ truth sleuthing on the matter, with results to be printed, of

Holly Miller, 59
Jane Levy, ‘59
Ruth Levin, ‘59

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‘60; Barbara Christy, ‘59; Susan Crossett, ‘60;
‘60; Sandy Korff, ‘60; Gail Lasdon, ‘61;
Diane Taylor, ‘59;





dalism, counter-Row, or anti-tree, but of sheer bleak neces-
sity. The sad and official word is that death disease and
Maple Blight (perhaps it was a similar ailment, long Luther
Burbank’s bafflement, that carried off the American edible
chestnut in its pioneer prime of production) is sweeping the
country, and with it, the local hoop rolling course and favor-

lite arboreal attraction. But measures have been taken; tree-

lovers take cheer! Professional advice has been sought,
Bartlet and Co., tree surgeons, called in; and appropriate

-|treatment preescribed. This includes removal of dead trees,

and building up the resistance of the living by fertilization.
There is, it seems ,nothing that a samaritan student could
now do such as picking predatory caterpillars off the hapless
deicuoids, or setting smudge-pots under their leafless limbs) ;
even a local arbor day is not presently suitable, as what is
the hardiest variety of tree for the area hasn’t been deter-
mined yet. Bartlett and Co., however, is currently working
on this problem.

In the meantime, we feel able only to fix our eyes with set-
tled gloom upon the ever-opening gap in the Row, and think
bitter thoughts upon sturdier alternatives to the maple tree.
Will we one May day be forced to carom madly down through

-|Senior Hedge? Or, as has been suggested, should seniors be

ericouraged to weave paterns in the hoop rolling? as a kind
of spring slalom, one supposes. Again, perhaps two stone
walls, painted green... or (from still another source) per-
haps an electric fence, metal hoops, and a super magnet at

the other day to do a bit of gum shoe and ||

the finish line.

More in keeping with college atmosphere

might be a nice 17th century box maze, wtih an appropriate
prize such‘as the complete works of Kafka or a one-way tic-

ket to Dartmouth, at the center of it...

Suddenly, what we really want to say is, good luck to
Bartlett and Co.; and down with Maple Blight.



Members of the Bryn Mawr
faculty are just as active as their
students when it comes to writing.
The President’s Report, publish-
ed in December, 1957, includes a
long list of faculty publications
for the year October, 1956 to
September 30, 1957.

The following is a list of pub-
lished books. This does not in-
clude numerous reviews and mag-
azine articles written in the past
year.

Arthur P. Dudden, Ph.D., Asso-
ciate Professor of History:

Editor, Woodrow Wilson and the
World of Today. Essays by A. S.
Link, W. L. Langer, E. F. Gold-
man, University of Pennsylvania
Press, 1957.

Jose Maria Ferrater Mora, Ph.
Lic., Professor of Philosophy and
Spanish:

Man at the Crossroads. Trans-
lated by W. R. Trask. Beacon
Press, 1957. eee

Ortega y Gasset: an Outline of
His Philosophy. Yale University
Press, 1957.

Unamuno: Bosqueso Deuna Phil-
osofia.

Second edition. Editorial Sud-
americana, Buenos Aires, 1957.

(Also Philosophical Dictionary,
which will go on sale on March
15, 1958.) |

_Richmond Lattimore,
Professér of Greek:

Editor, Sophocles, Four Traged-
ies. University of Chicago Press,
1957.

Ph.D.,

Poems. Ann Arbor, University
of Michigan Press, 1957.

‘Bettina Linn, M.A., - Associate
Professor of English:
~ A Letter to Elizabeth. J. B. Lip-
pincott. Company,. 1957.

Geddes MacGregor, D.esL., D.

Phil., Professor of Philosophy and
Religion:



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Notice
The Bryn Mawr-Haverford

Dresident’s Report Includes List
Of Faculty’s Recent Publications

The Vatican Revolution. Beacon
Press, 1957.

The Tichborne Imposter. J. B.
Lippincott Company, 1957.

The Thundering Scott: a Port-
rait of John Knox. Westminster
Press, 1957.

Juan Marichal, Ph.D., Associate
Professor of Spanish:

Editor, Teatro Completo, by
Pedro Salinas. Aguilar, Madrid,
1957.

Machteld Johanna Mellink, Ph.
D., Associate Professor of Class-
ical Archaelogy:

A Hittite Cemetery at Gordion.
The University Museum, Univer-
sity ‘of Pennsylvania, 1956.

Walter Michels, Ph.D., Profes-
sor of Physics:

Electrical Measurements and
Their Applications. D. Van Nos-
trand Company, 1957.

Robert A. Rupen, Ph.D., Assist-
ant Professor of Political Science:

Mongolian People’s Republic,
Subcontracter’s Monograph HRAF,
1956.

Eugene B. Schneider, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor of Sociology:

Industrial Sociology: The Social
Relations of Industry. and _ the
Community. McGraw Hill Book
Company, Inc., 1957.

Paul. Schrecker, Ph.D.,LL.D.,
Visiting Professor of Philosophy:

La Estructura de la Civilizacion.
Fondo de Cultura Economica,
Mexico, 1957.

Dr. Sloane Will
Lecture Tuesday

Dr. Joseph C. Sloane, Professor
of the History of Art, will pre-
sent the next Arts Forum lecture
at 8:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 18
in..the Common. Room. . His’ talk,
which will be illustrated: with
slides, will deal with the free-
thinking 19th-century French
painter Chenavard, whos life’s
work toward the decoration of the
Pantheon was cast. aside as here-
tica Iby the Church when they re-
claimed the building in the 1850’s.
Dr, Sloane will discu

Letters to the Editor.



Animals Find Another
Friend Among Readers

To the Editor of the College News:
This is to state that I as a read-
er of the News, strongly endorse
the sentiments expresed in the let-
ter from Martha Hubbard, as pub-
lished on page two of the College
News of February 26, protesting
the use of living animals for the °

Freshman Show.
(Mrs.) C. E. Bromley

Lehigh Sings With
BMC Sunday Eve

The chapel service Sunday eve-
ning was a concert of sacred mu-
sic by the Bryn Mawr Chorus and
the Lehigh University Glee Club.

Also appearing on the program
was the Lehigh Brass Ensemble,
a group of eight who played sev-
eral selections alone, and also ac-
companied the combined choruses
in the number In Excelsis.

The Bryn Mawr chorus | sang
Hans Leo Hassler’s Cantate Dom-
ino, and Kodaly’s Ave Maria. The
double octet gave from Bach’s
Jesu. Meine Freude Denn Das
Gesetz.

Among the numbers sung by the
Lehigh group were Bach’s Now
Let Every Tongue Adore Thee,
Handel’s O Magnum Mysterium
and Gerald Finzi’s Let Us Now
Praise Famous Men.

Mr. Hugh K. Wright, Jr,, the
director of the Main Line area
Student Christian Association gave
the invocation, the -benediction and
read several scripture passages.

A social hour for the two groups
followed in the Common Room.

“The Bryn ‘Mawr Chorus and
the Lehigh Glee Club get together
for ‘a concert every year,” said
Ellie Clymer, Chorus president.
“We always enjoy singing under
‘Mr. Cutler and Mr. Elkus, not to
mention seeing again the congenial
Lehigh boys.” :

Connecticut Pastor
To Present Sermon

“Square Pegs in Round Holes”
is the title of the sermon to be
given on Sunday, March 16, by this
week’s chapel speaker, the Rever-
end Henry K, Yordon. The Rever-
end Yordon grew up in New Jer-
sey, graduated from ‘Wesleyan
University in Middletown, Connec-
ticut, in 1949, and attended Yale
Divinity School in New Haven
where he graduated in 1953. He is
now minister of The Federated
Church (Congregational Christians
Church) of. Southbury, Connecti-
eut. This is a small church in a
semi-rural community northwest
of New Haven. Reverend Yordon
says of his job: “The minister not
not only preaches. He also turns
the crank on the mimeograph
machine, rounds up the _ high
school kids, gets embroiled in
small town politics (member of the
Board of Education), and tries to
keep in the good graces of the
Women’s Guild.” Reverend Yordon
has worked extensively with young
people, both counseling them and
preaching. at summer youth con-
ferences. He is particularly look-
ing forward to the discussion in _
the Common Room after the serv-
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Notice ,

On Monday afternoon, March
17, there will be an all college
meeting in Goodhart Auditor-
ium at 5:00 p.m. to introduce
the candidates for the vice-













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course, in the News. ? :
Ag no doubt everyone but the gunpowder few had sur-

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election of Elizabeth Carr, ’59,
and Cynthia: Lovelace, ’59, as
Bryn Mawr co-editors.





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sophomore to Self-Government
and for the vice-president .and
secretary of Undergrad.