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| ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, E WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1956

: © Trustees of ki Mawr College, 1955

* PRICE 20 CENTS



VOL. Lil, NO. 11 .

Second Semester Will Bring Changes
In Bryn Mawr Faculty And Curriculum}

The beginning of the second
semester on February 7 will bring };
two outstanding new courses to the
curriculum, as well as_ several
changes in the faculty with the re-
turn and departure of professors
on leave.

In the biology department Miss
Gardiner will go on leave; her
work will be divided between Mrs.
White and Mr. Benoit.

Mrs. Berliner of the chemistry
department will change from part |:
to. full-time leave.

Miss Gamble will be teaching
her 17th Century course in English,
while the Creative Writing course
which she has been giving will be
taken over by Mrs. Berthoff. Mrs.
Berthoff has taught here before,
and creative writing is her special
interest. Miss Stapleton will go on
leave, and Miss Woodworth is to
offer her course on Blake.

This course, English 212b, prom-
ises to be especially interesting as
Miss Woodworth plans to discuss
Blake as both a poet and artist.
In preparation she has secured ma-
terial from museums and collec-
tions which will be exhibited in

connection with the course.

‘Mr. Gilbert’s Europe Since 1890
a course will be taught by
Mr. Rich, who is new this year.
iThe department also promises a
fe course. Miss Robbins is plan-
ming a seminar type class in Great
‘Historians. The students will ex-
famine critically a few works rep-

cal writing from ancient times to
‘modern,

_ In studying writers - as. histor-
ians rather than purveyors of in-
formation, the group will discuss
the purpose, methods and style of
whe historian. Their object will be
ithe reading and enjoyment of his-
(tory as great writers have record-
‘ed it; for instance they will study
a man such as Macauley for his
style of writing as well as his con-
tent. States Miss Robbins, “In a
subsidiary way the course will
teach how to read history, but as

usual it will depend upon the stu-
dents in it.” f

Miss deLaguna will resume her
‘courses in anthropology and soci-
ology.





‘Atlantic, Monthly’ Carries Article
Bu Brun Mawr Faculty Member

By Ruth Rasch

In the process of participating
in the “most wonderful feeling” of
losing a prejudice, Mrs. Fetter,
who teaches creative writing here
at Bryn mows, has become active-
ly engaged ‘in the movement for
Negro rights and_ integrated
Negro-white neighborhoods, and is
at present one of the nine unpaid
members of the Philadelphia Com-
mission on Human Rights.
problem the comission is facing
and the work that it is doing, were
described by Mrs. Fetter in an ar-
ticle in the January Atlantic
Monthly under the pen name of

- “Hannah Lees.”

In a recent interview Mrs. Fetter
explained that the prone ap
first job is aiding the NEPC im en-
forcing equal job opportunities for
everyone. As this aim is reached,
more and more Negroes are able
to move into higher cost housing,
and become “an irresistible force

‘which a traditionally immovable

body is anxiously eyeing.” As she
explained in her article, the im-
movablebody is the average white
American with a deeply ingrained
resistance to accepting Negroes as
next door neighbors.

Helping to overcome this ingrain-
ed resistance is the job the com-
mission attempts to do. As Mrs.
Fetter explained it, “the real basis
of prejudice is fear of the un-
known,” and to overcome this fear
and work for “equal opportunity in
every” area” is ‘what the commis-
sion is laboring for, and little by
little succeeding in doing.

-The employees of the commis-
sion work with the whites on the
blocks where a Negro family is
moving for the first time. They
help. absorb the hostility and pre-

‘ vent the violence which often ac-

companies integrating a Negro
family into a formerly all white
neighborhood. However, as_ the
article emphasizes, it is on the
Negro’s willingness to fight the

The| |

hostility and remain, that the suc-
cess of the committee’s work de-
pends. All the commission can do
is enforce his rights*to stay where
he is.

Mrs. Fetter feels that the work
of this commission has been suc-
cessful in Philadelphia, and is like-
ly>to continue to be. “When yo
children are in high schoe] much of
Philadelphia will be integrated,”
shé predicted to this interviewer.
Already Germantown has many
Negro families living in formerly
all white blocks without property
values falling or the neighborhood
visibly deteriorating. Despite the
talk of Germantown “going down,”
Mrs. Fetter feels that this area is
one where the committee’s work
has been especially successful. __

In discussing the problem of in-
tegration in the Southern public
school, and the action being tak-
en in opposition to the Supreme
Court decision by some states,
Mrs. Fetter said she feels that the
South is a “primitive area,” and
added that it is “not the Negro
down South who is primitive, but
the white who is depriving him of
his rights.” In order for the Negro
to achieve the civil rights he is
guaranteed, the South must be
pushed gently, but continually, to
take the necessary steps.
| In the general field of Negro
rights, the most encouraging fac-
-tor emerging from the article and
Mrs. Fetter’s remarks is the devel-
opment of the Negro, who is now

ht The
Negro who remains in white neigh-
borhoods fighting for his rights
until the hostility dies down, and
the Negroes of Montgomery, Ala.,
who are conducting a strike in pro-
test against segregation on public
buses, show that the American
Negro is willing and able to fight.
The Philadelphia Commission on

in over 60 other cities are just help-
ing these Negroes in their struggle
; for. civil rights.



resenting developments in histori- |!

Talks On Marriage
Will Start Feb. 13

The Bryn Mawr marriage lec-
tures will be given this year on six

inning February 13.
lis presented each year, in which
ithe social, psychological, physio-
logical and. practical. aspects of
marriage are presented by a group
of specialists in health, marriage
counseling and family life.
Participating in the presentation

this year are Dr. Genevieve Bur-
‘ton, of the Marriage Oouncil of
'Philadelphia; the Reverend Joseph
'P. Bishop, of the Swarthmore
Presbyterian Churen; and Dr. Eliz-
abeth Humeston, College Physician
of Bryn Mawr.

No Freshmen Admitted



Each session will last approx-
imately an hour and a half and stu-
dents enrolling for the series will
be expected to attend the six ses-
sions. Admission to a single ses-
sion is not permissible, All stu-
dents except freshmen are eligible
to take the course, although upon
application to Dean Broughton,
freshmen may be, admitted if spec-
ial circumstances warrant their
acceptance. ¢

The course offers an opportunity
to ask questions at the discussions,
and individual counseling will be
available to registrants. A _ bibli-
ography of related books wilh be



Human Rights and its counterparts |

provided, and the books listed will

The first of the Anna Howard
‘Shaw lectures will be delivered
‘Wednesday evening, February 8,
in Goodhart by Jacob Viner, Pro-
fessor of Economics and Interna-
tional Finance at Princeton. Five
‘more lectures will be given on suc-
ceeding Wednesdays. The theme
of the series is “British Social
Thought from the Restoration to



Cummings’ Works
Heard At Museum

By Debby Ham

“Maybe if my name were e. e.
cummings, 1 could introduce him
better.” Thus, on Jan. 13 the Phil-
adelphia Fine Arts Center present-
ed the renowned American poet to
a large and appreciative audience,
gathered in wne University Mu-
seum Auditorium. ¢

Mr. Cummings tulfilled every
expectation an audience could have
ol hearing a poet read his own
works. His opening. statement,
‘Writing is an art, and artists are
numan beings,” proved to be a
very apt crivicism OL his own per-

i. Viner To Deliver First Lecture
Of A. H. Shaw Series February 8

lsuecessive Monday evenings, be-|’
The series |}

the American Revolution.”
Lecture topics. include: The Man
of Property’s Utopia, Feb. 8; The
Pulpit in the Service of the Status
Quo, Feb. 22; Life, Liberty, Prop-
erty and the State, Feb. 29; The
Duties and Rewards of the Labor- —
ing Poor, Mar. 7; Some Intima-
tions of New Things to
Mar. 14.

Canadian born Mr. Viner has
had a distinguished career as edu-
cator, economic advisor and au-
thor. He has taught at the Uni-
versity of Chicago and Princeton
and served as visiting lecturer at
various other universities.

He has worked with the U. S.
Shipping Board and the Tariff
Commission and acted as consult-
ing expert to the U. S. Treasury
and Department of State, and spe-
cial assistant to the Secretary of
the Treasury. Mr. Viner was the
alternate U. S. representative to
the Economic Commission of the
League of Nations at Geneva in
1933 and is a fellow of the Ameri-
can Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Mr. Viner’s publications include
Dumping, A Problem in Interna-
tional Trade, Canada’s Balance of
International Indebtedness, Stud-
ies in the Theory of International



tormance. He read with feeling
and without the professional aloot-
ness an artist sometimes employs



be placed in the Reserve Book
Room.

The exact topics of the lectures |'

will be announced later. Last year
the subjects covered were Pre-
courtship Relationships, Courtship,
Choice and Engagement, Careers
and Marriage, Values in Marriage,.
Anatomy and Physiology of Mar-
riage, Practical Information on
Engagement and Marriage.

CALENDAR
Thursday, January 19
8:30 p.m.—Cornelius Vermeule,

ano da Pozzo and the Study of An-
tiquity in 17th Century - Rome.
With slides. Art Lecture Room.

Sunday, January 22
7:30 p.m.—Student Chapel Ser-
vice.

Monday; January 23-
Friday, February 3
(Collegiate examinations.

Tuesday, February 7

8:45. a.m.—Dean (Marshall will
speak at the assembly opening
Semester II.

9:30 a.m.—-Work of Semester II
begins,

Saturday, February 11
‘Maids and Porters Dance.

Sunday, February. 12

7:30 p.m.—Dr.. Edmund A.
Steimle, Professor.._of Practical
Theology at the Lutheran Semin-
ary in Philadelphia, will speak at
Chapel Service.

Monday, February 13 :

Marriage Lectures begin. Exact
time and location to be announced
later.

Wednesday, February 15 _
Johannes Laursen of the Danish
Information Office in New York
will speak on social welfare legis-
lation in Scandinavia. Rpengered



by the League. |

>

Assistant Professor of Classical | '
Archaeology, will speak on Cassi- |;

in addressing an audience of ad-
mirers.

| The first part of the program
consisted - of _excerpts from the
fourth of his six “Non-Lectures,”
given at Harvard over a period ot
ZU years, from 1930 to 1950. Much

tailings in the categories of war,
foreign relations and government.
“War is the science of inefficiency,

‘pnd Peace is the inefficiency of sci-

ence . . . Equality is what does
not exist between equals.” The
contradictory mode of expression
lent new color to ordinary and con-
ventional topics.

The second half of his program
consisted of a reading from a col-
lection of his own poems. Included
were “In Just Spring,” from the
“Chansons Innocents,” ‘‘Proud of
His Scientific Attitude,” “When |}.
Serpents bargain for the Right to
Serve,” “Next to of Course God,
America I,” “Anyone Lived‘in a
Pretty How Town,” “Sweet Spring
Is Yours” and “This is a Rubbish
of Human Rind.”

They were marked by a lyrical
quality and a quiet and pervading
wisdom. His delightful sense of
humor was typified by phrases
uch as, “Think twice before you
think.”

' Mr. Cummings’ terse manner of
expression: held unique charm for
an utterly’ captivated audience.

THE KATHERINE FULLERTON
GEROULD MEMORIAL. . PRIZE
- »- FOR WRITING

The Alumnae Association
again offers its annual award of
$50 to any undergraduate for
excellence in writing in the
fields of short or long narrative,
poetry, informal essay and dra-
ma. More than one entry may
be submitted. The competition
closes at 4 pm., Tues., April 3,
1956, but it is not too soon to
“woo the Muse”. Further de-
tails will appear in a later issue



ut this material satirized human}

Trade, Trade Relations Between
Freemarket and Controlled Econo-. -
mies, The Customs Union Issue
and International Trade and Eco-
nomic Development.

E. Muir To Talk
On Jane Austen

Edwin Muir, poet and critic, will
give the Shebly lecture on Febru-
ary 20th. He will discuss Jane
Austen, a subject’ on which he is
an authority.

This critic, a Scotsman, has been
described as having “A brain with
a French gift for wide and lucid
generalization” and also “A slight-
ly, Butlerish quality of mingled wit
and shrewdness.”

In addition to his poetry Mr.
Muir has written The Structure of
the Novel, and his autobiography,
The Story and the Fable.

Eric Fromm To Be
Haverford: Speaker

Eric Fromm, who is well-known
in the fields of psychology and
psychiatry, will be a Phillips Lec-
turer at Haverford Fri., Feb. 10,
at 8:15 p.m. His topic has not yet
been announced. Transportation
will be provided.

Mr. Fromm, who will be at Hav-
erford from Feb. 9-14 under the
auspices of the psychology depart-
ment, will hold a faculty seminar
on recent developments in phycho-
analytic-thought; visit classes and
lecture in psychology classes.
Mr. Fromm is now a lecturer at

the National University of Mexico

Graduate School, and is a Fellow
of the New York Academy of Sci-
ence. He has taught at Yale, Co-
lumbia and the New School of So-
cial Research, and is a former
chairman of the faculty at the Wil-
liam Alanson White Institute of
Psychiatry.

His books include Man for Him-
self, Escape from Freedom, The —
Sane Society and Psychoanalysis







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