College news, February 22, 1956

‘Miss McBride at a special faculty



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VOL. Lil, NO. 13

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA.,,. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1956

© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1955

PRICE 20 CENTS



Grant From Ford Foundation Stimulates
Gifts To Increase Salaries Of Faculty

Bryn Mawr College has an-|
nounced a two-year program of
salary increases for its faculty.

‘the program, as outlined by

meeting last Wednesday night,
provides for a new scale of sal-
aries, which will go into effect Sep-
tember 1, 1956, with increases up
to 14% over the present scale.
Full professors will receive the
largest increase, for these mem-

.bers of the faculty have benefitted '

least. when_earlier increases Wwéré
made at Bryn Mawr. Starting
salaries for instructors will be giv-
en the lowest percentage increase,
but all changes will amount to
more than 6 per cent.

Additional Income

The additional income necessary
to maintain these salary increases
is estimated by the Board of Di-
rectors of -the College at about
$75,000 a year. —

TheeFord Foundation Grant for
salary endowment and the Accom-
plishment Grant, totaling $594,300,
will be devoted entirely to faculty
salaries at Bryn Mawr. This fund
will provide about one-third of the
new income,

The eight-year period from 1946
to 1954 brought increases in the
average salary at Bryn Mawr from
$4,000 to $6,200. It was on the ba-
sis of this increase that the Ford
Foundation made Bryn Mawr the
recipient of one of the 126 awards
to the institutions in the country
that “have made outstanding effort
since World War II-to raise the
economic level of their teachers,
and to recognize the central im-
portance of the faculty in the edu-
cational process.”

The aim of the two year pro-
gram is to raise salaries sufficient-
ly so that a well-qualified person
could choose to be a college pro-

fessor without having to accept a

choice, Miss McBride said.

“If the ceiling on professors’
salaries is not lifted, the teaching
institutions of the country will not
be able to recruit their share of
the best talent,” Miss. McBride
stated. “Teaching is the basic pro-
fession, and it must be the choice
of a.large number of the ablest
men and women if qualified per-
sonnel are to be ready for the oth-
er professions and if the general
educational level is to be raised.”

Editorial Praise

The following editorial, entitled
“Bryn Mawr’s Kesponse,” was pub-
lished in the Philadelphia Evening
Bulletin on Friday, February 17:

“An illustration. of what the
Ford Foundation’s grant meant to
an institution in the Philadelphia
area can be read in Bryn Mawr’s
plan to increase faculty salaries
from 6 to 14 per cent in the next
two years. Bryn Mawr received
from the Ford Foundation $594,-
300, which will all be applied to
salary increases, especially for the
senior members of the faculty.

Alumnae Help

This deserved increase could not
be given if the alumnae of the
college and its directors and
friends had not joined in matching
the Foundation’s gift.

None of the directors of the
Foundation believed that its
princely gift could solve the prob-
lem of providing a higher living
standard for teachers in independ-
ent colleges and schools. But its
substantial help dramatized the
situation. and -challenged the
friends of higher education to dig
down into their own pockets.

College professors have often
had to make financial sacrifices to
perform a vital and indispensible
service to the community. Their
work deserves reward, not hard-





financial sacrifice as a result of his

ship.”



New System Of Straw Ballot Elections

Goes Into Effect In

College elections for all campus
offices will be held during the next
three weeks. A new system of
straw ballots has replaced the
nominating committee arrange-
ment that has been in use up to
now.

This new system involves a shift
in. responsibility from the few
members of the nominating com-
mittee to all the members of the
class, as the members of the class
through the straw ballot system
will pick the people who will make
up the final slate.

Eight Candidates Picked

The junior class. has. completed
the selection of candidates. for the
presidents of Self-Gov and Under-

The candidates for president of

Fox, Mary Lou Kemp and Eliza-
beth Thomas. Those running for
president of Undergrad are Mimi
Machado, Mickey Nusbaum, Joan

—__— Parker and Jane White.

This class will pick the can-
didates for the president of A. A.
tomorrow, and with the sophomore
class presidents of League and Al-
liance and chairman of the Chapel
Committee. Elections for other
college elections plus other class

®

Next Three Weeks

elections will be held after the
heads of these organizations are
chosen.

The College News will publish
an election issue next week with a
list of the candidates, their activi-
ties, and statements. The first ac-
tual election will be on March 5.

Before the balloting there will
be a series of dinners in the halls
in which the candidates, ‘with the
present officers, will eat/dinner in
each hall and then stay for coffee
and to get acquainted with the
members of the hall. It is hoped
that through the candidates’
statements in the News and
through this personal contact, stu-
dents will make their own judg-

| ments of the candidates-instead-of
Self-Gov are Pat Ferguson, Pat

relying on the nominating commit-
tee’s preferential order.

In Experimental Stage :

Pat Fox, who with Barbara Or-
linger and Shelly Eskin, completed
the final draft of the election sys-
tem, said: “This new system is in
an experimental stage. Its success
depends on the effort of the class



members and their serious consid-
eration of all the candidates.”

B. Haney and |. Kliegman Are Outstanding
In Well-Staged And Enthusiastic. Production



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Scene From “The Apian Way”



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Harvard Theology Professor To Speak
On Religion And Recent Existentialism

Dr. Paul Tillich, Professor of
Theology at Harvard University,
will deliver the Class of 1902 lec-
ture Monday, February 27, at 8:30
p.m. in Goodhart auditorium. One
of the world’s most distinguished
contemporary Protestant. theolog-
ians, Dr. Tillich will lecture on Ex-
istentialism and Religion.

A philosopher as well as a theo-
logian, Dr. Tillich bases his teach-
ings on the tenet that human self-
determination leads to faith in
God. The religious basis of human
life is inescapable and ultimately
concerns man as the center of his
existence. “Man is a creature part
animal and subject to fate, yet also
a being which takes thought and
has certain powers over itself in
freedom.” At the same time, Dr.
Tillich warns against the fallacy
of man’s claim to be self-sufficient.
There is the demonic element in
man’s personal as well as social
life.

Born in Prussia of Lutheran par-
entage, Dr. Tillich came to the
United States in 1938. Because of
his opposition to the Nazi regime,

he was dismissed in that year from
his post as Professor of Philosophy
at the university in Frankfurt am
Main.

Upon arriving in this country,
Dr. Tillich was immediately given
a post at Union Theological Sem-
inary. In 1954 he was invited to
teach at Harvard Divinity School.

Dr. Tillich studied theology at
the Universities of Berlin, Tuebin-
gen and Halle and in 1912 received
his Ph.D. from the University of
Breslau. He holds honorary de-
grees from the Universities of
Halle, Yale, Glasgow, Princeton,
Harvard and The New School.

In 1953 Dr. Tillich was invited
to deliver the Gifford lectures on
philosophy at the University of
Edinburgh. He is one of the four
Americans to have received the
honor of this lectureship.

Dr. Tillich has written several
books, among whiclf are: The In-
terpretation of History, The Prot-
estant Era, The Shaking of the
Foundation, The Courage to Be
and Systematic Theology, his ma-
jor work. ©



Authoress To Be
Alliance Speaker

Sponsored by the Alliance, Mrs. |

Elizabeth R. Cameron will speak

Tuesday, February 28, on “Recent

Political Trends in France.” The
talk will be held at 8:30 p.m. in
the Common Room.

Mrs. Cameron took her. under-
graduate work at Bryn Mawr and
the University of Chicago. For a
while she was advertising manager
for -the—Marshall--Field-Company.
Then she returned to this part of
the country and took her Ph.D, in
modern history at the University
of Pennsylvania.

She taught history at Bryn
Mawr for several years and in
1946 moved: to Cincinnati, where
she has done public relations work
at the Cincinnati Public Library.

Mrs. Cameron is the author of
Prologue to Appeasement, a study
in French foreign poilcy. Several



Wright. oan a ee

Cast Of Oklahoma!
Has Been Chosen

The cast list for the Maids’ and
Porters’ production of Oklahoma!,
which will be presented: Apr. 11,
has been announced. Louise Jones
will play Aunt Eller; Curley will
be played by Al Mackey; Laurey,
Florence Wilson; Will Parker, Ed
Dudley; Jud Fry, O. Brown; Ado
Annie, Evalin Johnson; Ali Hakim,
George Bryan; Andrew Carnes,
Louis White; Gord Elam, Jack

The chorus list, which is still in-
complete, includes Gertie Cum-
mings, played by Mabel Chapman;
Carrie, Pearl Edmunds; Ellen,
Naomi Nottingham; Kate, Shirley
Nottingham; Sylvie, Augustine
Moses;Armina, Mary Powell; Ag-

ney; Ike Skidmore, John Whit-
taker; Fred, Fred Gaymon; Slim,

gie, Jean Weeks; Pearl, Sara Fin- |:

P. Page And E. Cooke
Enjoy Trip Along
*“Apian Way”

By Epsey Cooke and Patty Page

The Apian Way, presented by
the Freshman class ‘on Saturday
night, was-an enjoyable show with
good music and acting. %*

Though slightly weak in plot, as
are most amateur musicals, the
show gave a good over-all impres-
sion. Excellent scenery and an en-
thusiastic cast helped to make The
Apiari Way a success. The rela-
tive merits of the Queenery (not
the Deanery) and Beehomia would
seem to indicate that it is neces-
sary to do a little work to get
along, a doctrine always advocated
at Bryn Mawr.

Outstanding in the cast, which
was better than average, were Isa-
bel. Kliegman as John L. and Bette
Haney as Jacob. Jacob’s mobility
of expression and skillful interpre-
tation of a timid, repressed First
Vice-President who suddenly was
influenced by the outer world, in
the form of Gametica, was excel-
lent. Jacob’s stage presence did
much to keep alive audience inter-
est during some otherwise static
scenes, ;

John L., spokesman for the
working man (or bee), dominated
the stage with his swaggering
manner and “tough guy” voice, in
excellent contrast to the character
of Jacob. Both his songs, “In Bee-
homia” in Act I, and “Faith in. the
Queen” in: Act III, were delivered
with force and directness in keep-
ing with his character.

Other Principals

Janet Myles as Queen Partheno-
genita at times failed to hold audi-
ence interest, perhaps because her
part was a weak and poorly writ-
ten one.’ As a cross between a
vamp and a sweet Southern girl,
the character of Honey Chile, play-
ed by Peggy Cowles, was confus-
ing. As a result her song, “I
Wanna Be Neurotic,” was not com-
pletely convincing. Susan Gold sus-
tained her woman-of-the-world
role as Gametica well. Her appeal
to Jacob in “Live” was quite ef-
fective.

B. David Shine and Honey Comb,
played by Lucy Wales and Mary
Ann Robbins, added a light comic
touch in the group scenes with
their servile officiousness. Rita
Rubinstein as T. Bee, coughing at
opportune moments, presented a
rather ghastly spectacle, while
Cousin: Buzz, as played by Liz
Rennolds, was a thoroughly engag-
ing character. Lynne Kaplan and
Katherine Kohlhas as Beelinda and
Beetrice were the last word in so-
phistication and on Kulture. Mary
Louise Cohen, as the ..Medium,
seemed rather stiff and never real-
ly caught the spirit of her part.
Janet Wolf, as Busy Bee, was a
very
salesman as she expounded on the
excellencies of the Honey Do.

An amusing element was provid-
ed by the music tableau which fea-
tured Diana Dismuke as a_ Bee-
homian Carmen and Nancy Fair-
banks as a down-at-the-heels char-
acter in a rather unusual duet.

The chorus backed up the prin-
cipals well, staying in character
and reacting properly to the events





of her articles have been published.

— Drumwright.

Continued on Page 6, Col. 2

convincing and amusing

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THE COLLEGE NEWS.





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Acting on the general belief that
most Bryn Mawr students are in-
terested in various religions and
their different modes of worship,

‘Symposium On Church Music To Be
Sponsored By Chapel Committee Soon

Alwyne, who received his degree
from the Royal Manchester Col-
lege of Music, will speak on “Prot-
estant Music since the Reforma-

Current, Events
_Jay Sorenson States
~ Russia Stresses
Incentive
“With the new law reforms the

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The first lecture will be given
on February 28 by Rabbi Martin
serkowitz of Temple Adath Israel
of the Main Line. Rabbi Berko-
witz was educated at Temple Uni-

‘Chapel Speaker for Sunday, Feb.
26, will be Rabbi Elias Charry, of
the Germantown Jewish Center.
Dr. Charry was educated at City

secure system of laws that engen-
ders a feeling of stability and con-
formity,” said Jay Sorenson, grad-
uate of the Columbian Russian In-
stitute, at Monday’s Current

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York. His first congregation was
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Education In A Democracy

In May. of 1954, the Supreme Court of the United-States
declared that all segregation was to be abolished in the na-
~ tion’s public schools. This is the law. The administering of
this law was left entirely to the states and local communities,
the only demand being that progress must be made from time
to time. This does not seem like an unreasonable request.
But the “deep south” revolted. The most publicized in-
stance of this involves Miss Autherene Juanita Lucy, a
twenty-six-year-old library science student. By now nearly
‘everyone knows the story of her admission to the University
of Alabama, the subsequent refusal when it was discovered
that she is a Negro, her readmission by court order, and the
rioting that followed. The mob, composed not only of Uni-
versity students but many brawling townspeople, won out, for
‘after her third day of classes Miss Lucy was banned from the
University by the board of trustees “for her own protection”.

‘The exact motives of the board of trustees are not above
question. On February 29 Miss Lucy has a court hearing.
If the court rules that Miss Lucy may return, and this seems
likely, the board has stated that they will allow her to come
pack without further question. However, the editors of this
paper agree with the N.S.A. letter stating that the trustees
should readmit Miss Lucy immediately without waiting for
the court order. ;

We also feel that the student government of the Uni-
versity of Alabama should take a more progressive view to-
wards the proceedings. So far they have passed only one
resolution, opposing mob rule.

Autherine Lucy is an American citizen, presumably with
constitutional rights and equal opportunities. If she wishes
_ to, she should be allowed to attend the university and should
be given dormitory privileges like any other student. It is
entirely her own decision. She cannot be forced to do one
thing or the other either by the university or the N.A.A.C.P.

Just as Miss Lucy will be readmitted to the University
of Alabama, segregation will be abolished in the south. All
people, whether they will admit it or not, know that it is
just a matter of time—that unequal educational opportuni-
- ties cannot coexist with the democratic ideal of equality.
Everyone looks to the universities, which supposedly contain
the most educated and therefore the most tolerant people, to
set an example for the rest of the south. Miss Lucy is a
symbol of this hope.

Elect Sophomore
To Head WBMC

Adrian Tinsley has been elected










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radio station, WBMC. She will)” For example, February 24th’s issue
take over from the present man-| EVENTS IN PHILADELPHIA says that in Philadelphia, at the
ager,. seeaier Thomas, after MOVIES a # “Arcadia will be Billie Burke in
spring vacation. :| Arcadia: I'l Cry Tomorrow, Susan Hayward. 0000 Se the. first-presentation-of Peggy.”
= ~“Ann’Morris was elected program: estan “| Fox: The Man ‘Who Never Ww as, Clifton Webb and Gloria Graham. However, many things were the






















ment of Music at the United Syna-
gogue of America, and has been
the spiritual leader at Temple
Adath lsrael for 10 years. His
topic on February 28 will be “Jew-
'Ysh Life as Seen Through Jewish
songs.”

Un Monday, March 6, the sec-
ond lecture in the series will be
given by Miss Ethel Thurston, In-
structor in Music at Bryn Mawr
College and Hunter College, New
York. Miss Thurston graduated
trom Vassar College, received her
Ph.D. from New York University,
and studied in Paris with Nadia
Boulanger for three years. Before
coming to Bryn Mawr, Miss Thurs-
ston taught at the Gregorian chant
school at Manhattanville College.
On March 5, she will speak about
the Gregorian chant in general and
particularly about “The Doctrine
of Ethos in Medieval Music.”

The third and concluding lecture
will be given March 13 by Mr.
Horace Alwyne, Alice Carter Dick-
erman Professor of Music and
Chairman of the Department of
Music at Bryn Mawr College. Mr.

for 13 years.
His topic will be “New Dimen
sions of Religious Thinking.”



Fund Raising Drive
Planned By League

Next Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday, the League will open its
annual activities drive, during
which the League solicits dona-

tions on which it operates through-
out the year. League’s funds are
not supplemented by the college,
but come entirely through the in-
take of this drive.

Besides bringing speakers to
the college and paying the operat-
ing costs of the activities included
in League, the intake of the fund
operates and maintains, with the
help of the Soda Fountain pro-
ceeds, the Bryn Mawr Summer
Camp, which runs for six weeks
during the summer for underpriv-
ileged children from. the, Phila-
delphia area. .







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The Arch —

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By Rita Rubinstein
HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT...

the two whiskered individuals re-
cently seen on campus. Theory
was that both felt very strongly
about A. Lincoln and stopped shav-
ing around Feb. 12 in observance
of the day. Recently they’ve as-
sumed more of a Smith Bros. ap-
pearance and it has left us won-
dering. We have faith in our
deep-thinking Haverford students.
Surely there must be some esoteric
motivation behind all this mad-
ness. ... Pembroke’s raucous mid-
Hell week water fight quickly ter-
minated by the Freshmen Mass
Exodus... . East House’s success-
ful luncheon. Weekend dates and
other guests joined with the fif-
teen East Housers to enjoy a light
buffet of sandwiches, petit fours
and coffee prepared by Ann Bouil-
let and Elaine, the dorm’s indis-
pensible maid. The informal lunch-
eon began at about one and con-
tinued right on through the after-
noon turning into an all-day open

for an encore of Warden Ann Mac-
Kinnon’s fascinating hula dancing.
... The Pembroke East march on
Lloyd fifth entry Wdenesday night.
'Twas a big surprise fun time for
the girls who went armed with
pails and mops. The consensus is
that informal intimate size gath-J
erings are much more desirable
than standard mixers. Or do some
incline towards the wholesale auc-
tion type affair? ... The power
of the mob shown in Rhoads Hall.
In their Animal Farm the center
of authority was a moot point.
WEEKEND POST-SCRIPT....

All agree that Judy Sniscak made
a regal Cinderella at Merion’s
“Sweepy Time.” Surely the Yalies
must have been inspired in their
serenading. . . . Many thanks to
Judy Harris and Committee for a
wonderfully disguised gym. We
hope no Samson in the throng was
disastrously deceived by the mar-
ble columns. QUERY. Are “for-
mal” formals passe? What’s hap-
pened to the Feminine idea of the
bouffant dream dress? ... Old





Trans-Lux: The Rose Tatoo, Anna
THEATRES
of Shaw’s Pygmalion.

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‘ at the

‘Schubert: Mr. Wonderful, Sammy Davis Jr., Will Mastin Trio.

Randolph: Pienic, William Holden, Kim Novak, Rosalind Russell.
Stanton: The Man With The Golden Arm, Frank Sinatra.
Studio: The Sheep Has Five Legs, Fernandel.

Magnani, Burt Lancaster.

Erlanger: My Fair Lady, Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews. Musical version

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sion. Stalin emphasized the last,

trol to the greatest extent. To-
day the stress is on incentive. The
man.-is—still-lowly-and-subservient,
but he does. enjoy a few law re-
forms and can purchase more con-
sumer goods.

Russian Since Revolution

Mr. Sorenson quickly traced the
status of the Russian _ siiee the
Revolution, showing the consist-
ently low standards and curtailed
liberties. The situation was ap-
proximately the same after World
War II, with Stalin still asserting

coercive control and emphasizing
heavy industry. In 1953, after
Stalin’s death, an increased con-
sumer production was - promised.
Relatively little has been done in
that direction and the general
party policy is the same. It is still
geared to molding the collective
man who will conform.

The speaker cited a number of
reforms, The Soviet man can no
longer be imprisoned for quitting
a job, and the secret police power
has been somewhat curtailed. How-
ever, double jeopardy still exists
and the political criminal has no
lawful right of protection. Harsh
penalties are imposed upon those
guilty of treason, espionage or
banditry.

In conclusion, Mr. Sorenson
stated there was nothing in the
20th Party Congress to indicate a
true change of Communist civil
liberties policy. He feels this
trend towards a comparatively
Pmore secure and liberal system of
laws will continue as. long as. the
present. party fight continues.

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Things Have Changed

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The Bryn Mawr gymnasium may
see many sights, from Cinderella
balls to vigorous badminton
games; but perhaps none will be
remembered as well as this inci-
dent quoted from The College
News of February 10, 1916: “The
gymnasium was crowded to the
last corner of the balcony Satur-
day, January 22d, when Mr. John
Masefield delivered. his address on
English poetry. After the lecture
Mr. Masefield read from his own
works.”

same, as is shown in the following
excerpt from an editorial. in the

{same issue: “It is too bad that the

clubs of which we have so many
here at Bryn Mawr, “cannot be
more loyally supported, and more
influential. We have French, Ger-
man, English, Philosophy, History,
and Science clubs, most of which



and Pagliacci, Philadelphia Grand Opera Com-
the Academy of Music, Friday night. ee

cies

asserting terror and coercive con- |
Wednesday, February 22, 1956

THE COLLEGE NEWS

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Page Three



Five Students Present Views On Regional Differences:
Discuss U. S. Culture As It Changes With Geography



Williams Feels That Casualness
ls Texas’ Most Striking Feature

By Annabelle Williams

The most striking characteristic
of the Southwest is its casual at-
mosphere. In Texas one finds a
simple, if sometimes extravagant,
way of life, unlike the more for-
malized conventions of the East.
Texas society is not stratified as in
the East; social predominance is
based entirely on wealth, rather
than on traditions of background
and family standing. Despite this
easy-going atmosphere, most Tex-
ans have a provincial, small-town
outlook. Although not snobbish,
they lack the tolerance that goes
with the more cosmopolitan atti-
tude cultivated in the East. They
openly admit to being unsophisti-
cated and uncultured, and even
consider that this makes them
more genuine, down-to-earth.

Texas combines features of
Western liberalism and Southern
conservatism. With its capacity
for expansion and progress it pro-

vides opportunities for success to
all newcomers, especially those in-
terested in industrial experimenta-
tion. Much of its potential wealth,
however," is controlled by a group
of oilmen, real estate and insur-



ance brokers, contractors, lawyers
and politicians. These men, like fi-
nancial leaders in the East, have
adopted a conservative policy to
protect their vested interests. The
traditional Southern doctrine of
states’ rights -plays an important
part in this policy, for Texas’ only
means of retaining her -tideland
oil rights is to insist that because
they were hers before she joined
the Union they cannot be claimed
by the federal government as a
source of revenue.

The states’ rights position is also
taken by most Texans in regard
to the segregation issue. The ra-
cial problem is not so severe there,
the proportion of Negroes to
whites in the population being
much smaller than in the South-
east. Integration in the public
schools was introduced cautiously
in the state this fall, and has been
generally successful. Although
Texans have yielded to the pres-
sures for integration, they feel
that the process must be a slow
one, conducted on the state’s terms
and not subject to outside interfer-
ence. In this and other respects
Texas is representative of both
West and South.



Northwest Lends Vigor And Freshness
To Nation, Maintains Dodie Stimpson

By Dodie Stimpson

Toward the two Northwestern
states of Washington and Oregon
the settled Easterner has seeming-
ly abandoned an attitude of active
ignorance in favor of a vague
apathy. On the other hand, the na-
tive Northwesterner, often a con-
tradictory collection of provincial
and progressive ideas, may regard
the Easterner with suspicion and
misapprehension. The “The North-
west? Oh, out there,” of a New
Yorker may be compared with the
“Why do you want to live with
those Easterners?” of a Washing-
tonian.

There are several external dif-
ferences between the Northwest
and the East which may explain
the differences in character and at-
titude of the two regions. In the
first place, the Northwest is obvi-
ously much younger than the East.
As a result, it is only now under-
going certain steps of cultural evo-
lution which the East knew gen-
erations ago.

Land and Resources

Secondly, the Northwest is com-
‘posed of vast stretches of land of
‘every geographical description, of
which many acres are still unset-
tled. Because of this land ang its
resources, the Northwest knows an
almost unlimited capacity for
growth, a feeling of spaciousness,
and an enormous number of un-
realized opportunities which the
East lacks.

_In_the-third-place,the~North-
west was very often settled by men
with a great spirit of adventure,
and we are still close in feeling to
the pioneers. Finally, the North-
west has felt an influence from
both the Orient and the American
Indian which does not seem to be
a part of: the fabric of Eastern
civilization.

The external influences of youth
and land have shaped our way of
life. We are, in spite of our atomic
energy plants, net yet a manufac-

_ turing society; our first great for-|_

‘



tunes were made by exploitation of
natural resources, and many peo-
ple still live because of the land
and its resources. Consequently,
we are not yet a region of cities—
our largest have a population of
little more than half a million.
Thus, while we lack the civilization
which only a large city may sup-
port, we are free from the mechan-
ical life which such a city may
bring. Moreover, there is a great
deal of social mobility; people
think nothing of traveling a thou-
sand miles to find a summer job.

Casualness and Freeness

But perhaps the most basic fact
of Northwestern life is its free-
ness, easiness and _ casualness,
which are both the cause and the
cesult of the flexibility of class di-
visions. In the Northwest, where
she signs of imitation of Eastern
society are sometimes painful by
their newness, an individual’s posi-
tion is determined in part by
wealth, in part by pretense, in
part by aggressiveness, but mostly
by individual qualities. In sum, we
lack social traditions, and while we
borrow from the East in creating
our own, we still retain a spirit
which is essentially Western.

However, we are guilty of what
I have heard called “superficial
anti-intellectualism”. and a smug
provincialism. We have our artists
and writers, a few average sym-
phony orchestras, and our theaters,
but we still are apt to scoff at
learning-and- the intellectual;it-is|
this scoffing which may make the
East mean so much to some North-| °
westerners. Perhaps our anti-in-
tellectualism is the expression of
certain feelings of inferiority, par-
ticularly in comparison with the
East; we are too young and too
busy creating our physical envir-
onment to make a cultural environ-
ment, and we mock that which we
do not possess. Perhaps we have
so much natural beauty around us
that we do not feel compelled to

Bryn Mawr College has students
who bring to its campus the out-
look of their sections of the coun-
try. It is our opinion that in the
general emphasis on American na-
tionalism the differences in these
points of view are often overlooked.
Although it is impossible in such a
brief poll to cover very deeply the
characters of the sections, we feel
that the judgments of the repre-
sentative group of students may
help to point up various back-
grounds from which Bryn Mawr-
ters, and Americans in general,
come.

Mellow Considers
Midwestern Ideas

By Judy Mellow

One is always opening’ oneself
wide to criticism when one at-
tempts to say what people are like
who inhabit a-certain ‘area; of ne-
cessity, to describe the character-
istics of any group of people is to
speak in broad generalities, and
this I intend to do.

I come from the Midwest, that
broad and nebulously defined ter-
ritory which begins vaguely some-
where in Ohio and ends at some
unknown point probably in Nebras-
ka, extending perhaps from the
Mason-Dixon line to the Canadian
border.

Obviously then, the Midwest is
not exactly homogeneous. Com-
menting on the Midwestern char-
acter is like commenting on that of
the Texan: Columbus is about as
far from Sioux City as El Paso is
from Galveston. So my impres-
sions will surely not fit the entire
Midwest accurately.

Political Parties Narrow

Because the Midwest is mostly
farm area, dotted with intensely
industrialized cities, one may leave
a city whose entire administration
is Democratic, and within a mat-
ter of minutes be in a Republican
farming county where the sheriff |-
offers a.«bounty on Democrats.
Both parties in that section seem
to be very narrow in their inter-
ests, Democrats vehement about
labor, Republicans about farm
legislation, and comparatively few
concerned with any aspect of for-
eign policy except the mere avoid-
ance of war. There is some truth
in' the legend of the isolationist
Midwesterner, who frequently, if
he is not opposed to “foreign en-
tanglement”, is unaware of it. I
hesitate to conypare this aspect
of the Midwesterner with that of
the Easterner, for my observations
of Easterners are necessarily con-
fined largely to what I see in the
presumably untypical environment
of Bryn Mawr College, but I would
hazard a guess and say that peo-
ple here who are aware of political



‘|}issues at all, are very much con-

cerned with foreign policy. .

One coming from a Midwestern
city that is not extremely large—
and such large ones are numbered
—does not generally have the
chance to meet with a wide vari-
ety of national groups. Immigrants
of various national origins settled
densely in certain areas, and unless
one has moved around a lot, one
‘may not have contact with more
than one or two groups of foreign
extraction. So there may lurk a
kind of prejudice against certain
foreign groups in the Midwest that
stems. entirely from ignorance—
not the ignorance of the Southern-
er in his prejudice against the
Negro, for the Southerner has full
opportunity to understand the
‘Negro if only he will—but an ig-



Continued on Page 4, Col. 3

Continued on Page 4, Col. 4



South, In State

By Epsey Cooke
“It’s so different where I come
from,” is a comment often heard
on the Bryn Mawr campus. We
Southerners say it, too, only a lit-
tle more slowly than the rest of
the people. And then we smile
with secret pleasure when we are
kidded about our Southern accents.
No other region of the country
has por be so romanticized as the

and Easterners who have
-never been. there often..envision
the South as one vast cotton field
with ante-bellum plantation homes
and small towns of the William
Faulkner variety scattered here
and there,

This picture is no longer a true
one, if it ever was. True, the South
is still predominantly an agricul-
tural region, but farming has be-
come much more diversified, and
the raising of fine cattle has be-
come an important occupation. In-
dustry has assumed an important
/place in the Southern economy, and
many Eastern manufacturers are
seeking opportunities to move to
the South, where there is an abun-
dant labor supply and where the
cost of living is not so high. Tex-
tile manufacturers, especially, have
found the South a good place to
locate.

In many ways it is as incorrect
to speak of the South as a single
unit as it is to speak of the “solid
South” politically any more. Peo-
ple who live in the Old Dominion
are different from Tarheels, who
are different from Georgia crack-
ers, and of course Texans are dif-
ferent from everyone else. To
many Southerners Florida is not
really the South, with its more cos-
mopolitan conglomeration of tour-
ists and retired people.

of Flux. Is Not

Solid Unit, Epsey Cooke Says

Politically, the South is now a
conglomeration of Democrats,
Democrats for Eisenhower, . Dixie-
crats and even a few out-and-out
Republicans. Eisenhower carried
several Southern states in the last
election, and will undoubtedly do
as well if he runs again.

Southerners are proud of their
culture and their heritage, and al-
ways have been. In the South
there is a strong sense of family
which-seems-less.-noticeable in-oth-
er parts of the country; to us fifth
cousins are still “kin.”

In a section where there are fix-
ed ideas of what life was like and
should be like, it is difficult to
make changes. The South today is
in a state of flux, much more so
than any other part of the country.
It is impossible to expect us to
change ideas which we have held
for over a century overnight; it is
impossible to make drastic and
lasting changes quickly without a
great deal of friction.

Southerners have always resent-
ed outside interference and held a
very sectional, states’ rights atti-
tude. Today, more than ever, that
feeling is‘at its height. Only if the
rest of the country realizes that
Southerners are divided among
themselves on the deségregation
problem ‘and give us some leeway,
can we ever succeed in settling the
problem.

The South has wakened up in the |
past 20 years and is trying to
catch up to the East and other
parts of the country in areas in
which we lag behind. Our educa-
tional system is still under the na-
tional standard and we do not have
many turnpikes yet, but in a few
years I, who am an optimist, feel



that all this will change.



L. Cope Portrays

By Eliza Cope

More than any ‘other section of
the country, with the possible ex-
ception of the South, traditional
New England may be said to revel
in a blissful conviction that noth-
ing much of importance exists be-
yond the frontiers of its six states.
When my mother announced that
she was going to leave Boston to
go to Cleveland for a winter, a
friend replied, “Good heavens,
Alice, do they speak the King’s
English out there?”

This traditional New England
was the land of the small, frugal
farmer tilling a few hopelessly
rocky acres, the land of lobster
fishermen and Nantucket whalers.
The home of laconic, straightfor-
ward individualists with neither
time nor inclination for frivolity
oy ostentation, New England could

said, when questioned what he
thought about sin, “I’m agin it.”
This is the country whose neat
white colonial houses and red
barns, whose village greens and
cobbled streets, were the back-
ground for so much of our history
—for the Boston Tea Party and
for Bunker Hill. Times have
changed, but landmarks of this
past and a tradition which goes
with them. have remained, giving
many New Englanders a sense of



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New England:

Traditionalism Characterizes Area

a Wish the modern world, however,
even New England has yielded to
the uniform tendencies which
touch the whole country. The small
mill towns have turned into grub-
by industrial centers; the village
greens now have a drugstore on
one corner. The same bobbysoxers
as in California go to the same
movies chewing the same gum.
One sometimes even suspects — in
horror—that New England might
be yielding to other parts of the
country, the place of preeminence
which people like Sam Adams or
Ralph Waldo Emerson won for it.
Though we may hate to admit it,
New England is no longer the in-
dustrial center, nor perhaps the -
cultural. center, of the country
which it once prided itself on be-
ing. Worse still, a Bostonian
might conceivably wonder if his
native land were even a little back-
ward when a Blue Law—relic of
Puritan times— forced him to go
home at midnight on Saturday
night.

There is still a strong sectional
tradition which every good New
Englander uses as defense against
the rest of the country. We have
our modern distinctive features,
too, like the New Haven Railroad.
I suspect, though, that the pre-
dominant characteristics and

~ Continued on Page 5, Col. 5






Page Four

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, February 22, 1956



Hedgerow Closes For indefinite Time;
Dreinie Group Fails To Meet Expenses

The Hedgerow Theatre closed
last Saturday night, thus depriv-
ing a Bryn Mawr audience of one
of its few local opportunities to
‘gee works—often laudable, though
sometimes less so—of well-known
dramatists.

The group, which presents its
winter productions in the foyer of
the Academy of Music, has, stead-
ily met financial difficulty, losing
its original investments and also

-.@ large part of operating costs.
Plans for reorganization and re-
opening will be carried forward
and committees will still select
plays for future repertory while
an extensive campaign for funds
is conducted. The date of re-open-
ing, if at all, is indefinite, how-
ever,

Hedgerow, iy summer home
is a theatre in se Valley, was
until three years ago situated
there throughout the year. But

because the Rose Valley establish-
_ment—could. only seat 167 people,

A. A. To Present
Olivier's Henry V

The Athletic Association, by
popular demand, has obtained the
movie, Henry V, with Laurence
Olivier. The film has just been re-
released by International World
Films, Inc. The technicolor movie
will be shown this Friday at 7:30
p.m. in Goodhart.

Henry V includes such charac-
ters as Prince Hal, Bardolph, Nym
and Pistol of Henry IV, the
Boar’s-Head-Tavern group and the
inimitable Mistress Quickly.

The play takes place both in
England and France, and includes
scenes of the Globe Theatre as
well as of the courts and the
Boar’s Head Tavern. Among the
episodes is that of Prince Hal go-
ing through his camp in disguise,
before the battle of Agincourt, and
his hilarious attempt to teach the
French princess English. -

The admission charge is 75¢. A.
A. has been forced to increase its
price from 50¢ because the movie
will cost them $100. They feel,
howerdy, that the high calibre of
the film justifies this difference in
price.





Academic Society
Elects T.Broughton

Mr. T. R. S. Broughton has been
elected to ~membership in the
American Philosophical Society.

Mr. Broughton is now the only
active member of the faculty in
the society. Other members were
former Dean Taylor and Mr. Rhys
Carpenter.

WBMC Schedule
Thurs., Feb. 23

8:15 p.m —dMozart: 36th Sym-
phony, “Linz”

9:15 p. m.—Strauss: Ein Helden-
lehen; Rogers: Victory at Sea.
Sun., Feb. 26

8:15 p.m.—Golden Age at the
Metropolitan; Rubenstein plays
Debusssy.

9:15 p.m.—(Moussorgsky: Pic-
tures at an Exhibition; Beethoven:
Sonata in F Minor.

Mon., Feb. 27

8:15 p.m.—Debussy: Three Im-
ages for Orchestra



~--9:15 p. m.—Saint-Saens: Concer-| _

to No. 1 in A Minor.

Tues., Feb. 28 :
4:30 p.m. — Wagner:
and Isolde

Concerto

9:15 p.m.—Grofe: Grand | Can-| |

yon Suite.
gee Feb. 29

8:15 p.m. — Tehaikovsky: Swan ||}

Lake



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8:15 p. en—-Beethoven: Emperor

' 9:15 p. m—Ravel: Mother Goose

the organization could not meet
costs, and moved to the Academy
of Music for the fall and winter
season. The foyer of the Academy
has a seating capacity of approx-
imately 300. However, the added
size of the auditorium and the more
convenient location of the theatre
have failed to attract larger audi-
ences, and the theatre has remain-
ed unable to meet. expenses.

Hedgerow will maintain its edu-
cational work and classes in act-
ing, and may be able to maintain
production this summer in Rose
Valley, but most members of the
group are now working on only a
part-time basis or are available on
leaves of absence.

«|Haverford Plans

Wilson Lectures

Haverford College has announc-
ed -a Woodrow. Wilson Centennial
Series of lectures on “United
States’ Responsibilities Towards
the Western Community.” The lec-
tures will be given in Roberts Hall
Tuesdays at 11 a.m., with one ex-
ception, as listed:

Feb. 28, Military Aspects, Major-
General J. McCormack.

March 7, A European Point of
View, Hon. Denis Healey, M. P.
(This lecture will be given in the
Common Room of Founders Hall
at 8:15 p.m.)

March 18, Economic Issues, Ray-
mond Vernon.

April 3, Political Issues, Profes-

sor Lincoln Gordon. ;

Hospital Requests
Aid From Students

Seven miles west of West Ches-
ter live 850 mental patients at the
Embreeville State Hospital. Most
of them spend their days sitting
in the wards with nothing to do.
The American Friends’ Service
Committee, with additional volun-
teer help, has made the hospital
its first institutional weekend
project in the area.

In an effort to vary the routine
for some of the patients, about 10
students from colleges in this area
spent the weekend of Feb. 11. play-
ing volleyball, dancing and talk-
ing with those patients who could
leave the wards.

The project, which is still in the
experimental stages, welcomes all
students interested in working
with mental patients. Anyone who
wishes more information about the
program should contact Charlotte
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create it within ourselves. Never-
theless, this anti-intellectualism, a
tendency which causes 4 university
president to forbid J. Robert Op-
penheimer to speak on his campus,
will prevent the Northwest from

ever assuming national leadership.

Our admiration for the man who
acts rather than for the man who
thinks has, however, made us. lib-
eral in politics and progressive in
social legislation. Although some
areas and influential men are deep-
ly conservative, it is much more
Northwestern to elect a Wayne
Morse as senator, and it is signifi-
cant that there is a marked ab-
sence of “big city political bosses.”
But perhaps the essence of the in-
dependence of our political thought
is shown in the statistics of the
most recent presidential election:
both states gave Eisenhower a

large majority, but.they also cast.

two of the largest number of votes
for third-party presidential candi-
dates.

Many times the label “The Last
Frontier” has been applied’ to the
Northwest, and it is only natural
that the contrary Northwest should
prove the label both true and false.
Because of mass communication,
we have not become the last fron-
tier in the cowboy and sagebrush
sense of the phrase, yet we are one
of the last American regions which
still has physical barriers to con-
quer. Defiantly independent and
haltingly self-conscious, we are
still young in many ways. Per-
haps, however, it is fairest to con-
clude that the Northwest is in a
state of transition between the
crude, loud strength of the fron-
tier and the civilized living offered
by the East; but, as the Northwest
matures, it is giving the nation a
vigor, a freshness and an almost
intangible feeling of adventure
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Midwest Lacks ‘Cultural’ Opportunities;
Contempt Of Universities Not Justified

Continued from Page 3

norance born because one’s contact
with many national groups is fre-
quently limited.

If there is an aversion to culture,
and a tendency to term everyone
from the East “snobs”, it is an
aversion of the sour-grapes vari-
ety. It is hard (and this is not
an extreme example) for the resi-
dent of an average-sized town in
Indiana or Illinois (125,000 popu-
lation) to grasp what-the theatre
section in New York is like, when
his only local opportunity for ‘“‘cul-
ture” is the auditorium (which
doubles as gymnasium) of the
town’s largest high school where
the local symphony orchestra plays
five times a year and the Ballet
Russe makes a one-night stand
yearly, An instance like this can
hardly refer to Chicago or Detroit,
but it is offered in good faith as
an unexaggerated example to ex-

plain why many” Midwesterners

turn up their noses at “intellec-
tuals”. One in the Midwest sim-
ply may not be anywhere near a
“cultural center” and these are
centers of awareness too: to point
this up, a person in the East trav-
elling fast (by car or train) could
be in five cities of over a million
population in one day; depending
upon where in the Midwest he be-
gan, a traveller might be in none
at all, or at the very most, two.
There is’ a stigma attachéd to
Midwestern university education
that sometimes exists even in the
Midwest—the idea that Midwest-
ern universities yearly turn out a
flock of trainees who have ma-
jored in personnel, advertising, or
bookkeeping. This idea is not
without foundation in fact, and ed-
ucation at many of the Midwest-
ern universities—private as well
as state-owned—may demand lit-
tle of the student. The emphasis



on athletics at the Big Ten schools
contributes to this notion. But
there is without doubt an opportu-
nity for good education at these
schools which may frequently de-
mand less. It is a touchy subject
to deal with, but I would simply
like to dispel the utter contempt of
Midwestern universities that: is
quite rampant in many circles.

I hold no particular brief for the
Midwest, except when I am away
from it or when I hear it maligned
by someone who has been to Eur-
ope but never to Chicago. My
feelings about the Midwest are
paradoxical: it. may have produced
Babbitt and Main Street, but it
also produced the man who wrote
about them.



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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Five



The Second Lecture Of Jacob Viner
Condemns Earlier Theological Dogma

Jacob Viner’s second lecture,
Thursday night, on British Social
Thought from 1660-1776, was an
analysis of the “Pulpit in the
Service of Status Quo.”

In his lecture, Mr. Viner showdd
how the theological doctrines of
the 18th century acted as serious
obstacles. to much needed social
criticism and reform. As the con-
ditions of the period contained
glaring inequalities of wealth and
status, the Anglican Church and
many of the dissenting sects felt
the need for an instrument of apol-
ogetics for the system of the sta-
tus quo. They did not wish to do
away with the situation. Thus the
Church turned to a few convenient
theological doctrines as a means of
justification.

The most important of these
was the doctrine of the chain of
being. Here the basic premise was
that God, in order to establish
plentitude on earth, had created a
chain of beings of great variety.
Differences in status had to exist.
There was to be no rise or decline.
A social class was accepted as a
species. If one class were to rise
or’go out of existence, a gap most
sure to bring cosmic disaster
would occur. This doctrine was
used as a theological argument for
inequality,

‘The second doctrine useful to

Laursen’s Speech.
Pictures Denmark.

Although its program of social
legislation is highly advanced,
Denmark is still a markedly dem-
ocratic country. This was the main
point brought out by Johannes
Laursen of the Danish Information
Bureau when he spoke last Wed-
nesday under auspices of the
League.

Within this tiny country—Den-
mark is one-third the size of North
Carolina—there exist six political
parties, yet all are agreed on the
subject of social legislation. In-
side this framework, the country
maintains private industry and in-
dependent farmers.

No Tuition Charge

Not only is elementary educa-
tion free to its citizens, but there
also is no tuition charge at Danish
universities. Also paid by the gov-
ernment are the transportation ex-
penses of children going to camps
in the summer.

Laborers in Denmark receive
three weeks vacation a year with
pay, but work 48 hours a week.
Accident. insurance in factories
and plants is paid entirely by the
employer.

The largest bills from which
Danes are exempt are medical ex-
penses. The people belong to
health insurance clubs, which re-
ceive 20 per cent of their support
from the state and 80 per cent
from the monthly dues of mem-
bers, All expenses for doctors,
hospitalization and: medicine are
covered by this.

Unemployment Insurance

The program for unemployment
insurance is similar to that in the
U. S., requiring that the individual
work a certain amount of time in
order to receive pay in time of un-
-employment. Social legislation for
the aged allows married men and
women to retire at 65 on what
amounts to about half the earnings
of an unskilled worker. Unmarried
women may retire at 60, There is
no stigma of shame attached to
receiving the pension, and recipi-

_ents may have other income as
well.

Because of the country’s small
size, the entire program is carried
on by the national government. —

Mr. Laursen presented the li-
brary with Freedom and Welfare,



a book about social welfare in the

Scandinavian countries,



the Church’s defense was that of
theodocy or cosmic optimism. The
original purpose here had been to
explain the existence of evil and
to justify God and His works. In
order to do this, the social order
had to be justified. The world was

accepted as being as perfect as it
could be. The evils were explain-
ed away by being classed as not
real evils or as being overbalanced
by the good in the world. The cos-
mic optimism of this doctrine re-
garded life on earth as a proba-
tionary period for the after life.

Another form of theological op-
timism of this period stressed the
notion that much of the evil we see
is not real. . Thus, the clergy and
the literautre of the time played
upon “blessings of the poor”, the
poor man’s contentment, the ter-
rible cares of the rich. The ignor-
ance of the poor was said to be
their privilege. It led to their
subordination and, thus, the sub-
sequent good of society.

A pessimistic doctrine that was
also prevalent emphasized the fall
of man, original sin and the trivi-
ality and transitory nature of this
world’s affairs. The better fea-
tures of the world ahead were
stressed. Here, social thought was
used as a theological apologetic
instead of the other way around.



Longstreth Talks To
BM Alliance Board

Thatcher Longstreth, defeated
Republican candidate for Mayor of
Philadelphia, termed the Republic-
an Party the “party of the individ-
ual,” when he spoke informally at
Bryn Mawr. Mr. Longstreth, who
spoke to a group of students in
the Common Room on Thursday,
said that the G. O. P. philosophy
was one of “private free enterprise
and the right of each individual to
make his own way in the world.”

Mr. Longstreth stressed that the
Republican Party would have to
make a concentrated effort to ap-
peal to the youth of the country,
which heretofore has leaned to-
ward the Democratic Party. —He
felt that “Eisenhower Republican-
ism” supplies the political ideals
and principles that would attract
youth to the party. Increasing
personal opportunities for young
people in Republican ranks are
also opening up, he noted.





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year-old advertising salesman, dis-
cussed the recent mayoralty elec-
tion in Philadelphia, and also vari-
ous problems in practical politics
in large urban areas.

After eating dinner in Rockefel-
ler Hall, Mr. Longstreth and his
wife spent three hours discussing
a wide variety of subjects, political
and non-political, with a group of
Bryn Mawrters. Even those stu-
dents who disagreed strongly with
his ideas reported that they were
impressed with his charm and in-
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New England Joins
The Outside World
Continued from Page 3

thoughts of the people are largely
American characteristics—that. the
average New Englander has _ for-
saken his quiet village green, his
frugality and simplicity, to join
the scramble of the rest of the
world—for better or for worse.

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Page Six

THE COLLEGE NEWS:

Wednesday, February 22, 1956



E. Muir Discusses
“Evil” In J. Austen

Edwin Muir, English poet and
critic, discussed the ‘‘sense of evil”
in-Jane Austen’s novels in the Ann
Elizabeth Sheble Memorial Lecture
on Monday. Mr. Muir, who is
presently Norton Lecturer at Har-
vard University, spoke before a
large group of the administration,
faculty and students in the Dean-
ery.

Jane Austen’s “sense of evil is a
part of her sense of proportion,”
said Mr. Muir. It is this “almost
perfect” sense of proportion, rath-
er than irony, which is her chief
virtue.

Evil in Jane Austen’s novels is

generally represented by attract-
ive, charming and “questionable
young men,’ who are _ actually
“more an embodiment of tempta-
tion. than_ of—evil.”~-These-young
men are very attractive to women,
but the heroines generally marry
men of good sense rather than of
charm. Mr. Muir questioned wheth-
er Jane Austen’s sense of propor-
tion was as good in this “central
image of attractive evil” as it was
in most things.

The distinction between good and

evil in Pride and Prejudice is very |

clear. Mansfield Park, “the most
faulty novel that Jane Austen ever
wrote,” is, on the other hand, a
“full-scale study of corruption.”
It makes use of “what might al-
most be called symbolism,” and in
many ways is a novel well ahead
of the age in which it was written.
In her novel Persuasion, Jane
Austen has changed the balance
between, sense and sensibility; “the
‘wisdom of the heart has replaced
the confidence of the head.”





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Freshman Show’s Set Complimented;

“Commendable Results’’ Accomplished

Continued from Page 1

on stage. Their singing, and that
of the principals, was character-
wed by excellent diction.

‘she music was especiaily good,
we songs being Characterized by

catchy tunes as weil as clever
words. Outstanding among them
were the “Apian Way,’ “Honey-
comb Blues,” and “Faith in the
queen.”

The dance routines were gener-
ally less successful than the music,
although the “Honeycomb Blues”
number succeeded in conveying the
proper mood and was rhythmical
and graceful. Cynthia Lovelace’s
solo, although amusing, seemed
rather out of place in the general
atmosphere... Poor choreography
made the kick chorus routine dull
and unoriginal.

The Apian Way was handicap-
ped by a poor script which failed
to create or define any character
completely enough. The. exception
to this rule was the character of
John L., and Isabel Kleigman took
advantage of it. Similarly, Jacob’s
character allowed room for posi-
tive interpretation, excellently car-
ried out by Bette Haney. The
weaknesses were most noticeable
in the part of Honey Chile which
was ill-defined and confusing. The
dialogue ‘was inclined to drag, es-
pecially in the Queen’s scenes, and
there were relatively few clever
lines. The credit for putting the



show across so well goes to’ the
cast for their acting and singing.

Excellently done scenery, espe-
cially the elaborate, three-dimen-
sional bee hive, added a great deal
to the show. The stage crew is to
be congratulated upon its execu-
tion of an original and effective
set,

FreshmanWeekend
Is Successful One

Even five days “after the week-
end the echoes of “Echoes of Rad-
nor” are still humming about cam-
pus. From the triumphal arch
over the door to the continental
posters and murals inside the at-
mosphere was, to put it appropri-
ately, tres successful. In keeping
with the Parisian spirit was a
kick chorus which danced the Can-
can. Donna Cochrane did a mod-
ern dance solo and Isabel Klieg-
man sang two numbers. Another
highlight was a group of songs by
the Cloudy esate Quartet of
Haverford.

On Saturday The Apian Way
was followed by the formal “Cin-
derella Ball”. Under a canopy and
chandeliers of a grand ballroom,
princesses and princes danced to
the music of Eddie Clausen and
‘his Orchestra. Intermission songs
by both the Bryn Mawr Octangle
and the Yale Augmented Seven
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5:30 p.m.—Ulassics Club lec-
ture by Miss Lang, "A Guided
‘sour. of the Atneman .Agora.”
With slides. Arc Lecture Koom.
rriday, February 24

7:30 p.m.—A.A. presents Hen-
ry V with Laurence Ulivier in
‘rechnicolor. Goodhart.
Monday, February 27

8:30 p.m.—Dr. Paul Tillich, of
the Harvard University Divinity
School, will give the 1902 Lec-
ture on “Existentialism and
Religion.” Goodhart.

Tuesday, February 28

5:00 p.m.—The first in a series
on.Church Music sponsored by
the Chapel Committee. “Jewish
Religious Music,” a talk by Rab-
bi Berkowitz. Music Room.

' 8:30 p.m. — Mrs. Cameron
will talk on “Recent Political
Trends in France.” Goodhart
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numor alike.

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Merion Open House. Judy Sniscak
presided in state. Sue Gold re-
peated her hit song, “Live”, from
Freshman Show and gave a Mar-
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lar Augmented Seven added more
calypso music and south of the
border songs ending with “Adios”.

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