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‘VOL. XLIV—NO. 14

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1961

%) Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1961

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PRICE 20 CENTS



Two Colleges Join

In Performance

Featuring Excellent Davison Music

by Kristine Gilmartin

‘Roberts Hall, Haverford was the
scene of the Bryn Mawr-Haverford
College Orchestra’s second concert
this season, under the direction of
William Reese, and assisted this
time iby the; Haverford College
Glee Club, on February 24. The
whole program was good music
well played, but the first perform-
ance of John Davison’s Triptych
made the evening outstanding,

Beethoven’s Overture to “The
Men of Prometheus” made a pow-
erful opening number. The intro-
duction, though played somewhat
slower than usual perhaps, captur-
ed the audience, The main, faster
section, in which staying together
is both necessary and difficult, the
orchestra was very good—an amaz-
ingly fine rendition, in fact.

The Rumanian Folk Dances by
Bartok were terrific. Their strong
rhythms were well brought out
and the solo work by Nina Green-
berg, «clarinet, Barbara Dancis,
violin, and Katherine Hoover, pic-



Speaker Believes
Myth An Attempt
For Cosmic Order

Jonathan Z. Smith, Haverford
College 60, and at present a stu-
dent of philosophy at Yale Divin-
ity School, gave a lecture sponsor-
ed by the Arts Forum, February
24, entitled “The Mystery of the
Birth of Athene” or “The Aesthe-
tik of Myth.”

Beginning with the origin of
the word myth, Mr. Smith traced
the evolution of attitudes associ-
ated ‘with the Greek “mythos.” My-
thos was synonomous | with “logos,”

—whith means “word” in Greek, and

implies truth and rationality. The
tendency was to deny the true con-’
tents of myth and to make the word
the anttonym rather than the syn-
onym of logos. -

Mr, Smith, however, continues
to see truth in the pattern of the
parallel myths of different cul-
tures. He conceives of the myths
as a “serious attempt to give or-

_ der to the cosmos.”

(Myth, he said, deals with the
enmity or indifference between the
realm of the sacred and powerful
and that of the profane, the noth-
ingness of man’s world. Myth
claims that there was once a mer-
ger between these two; the func-
tion of myth is to reunite them.

. “Myth attempts to reintegrate man

and the cosmos.”

Mr. Smith’s lecture dealt pri-
marily twith Hesiod, a Greek poet
of pastoral background, who claim-
ed divine inspiration for his dis-
coveries of the relationships be-
tween the gods (Theogony) gods
and heroes (Catalogue of Women),
and gods and man as well as man
and man (Works and Days).

Not only did Greek myth have
structure, but its’ structure was
similar to the Greek philosophy
contemporaneous with it. He used
both aesthetic principles in the
Theogony, that of Heraclitus and
that of Plato, to explain the gap
between the divine and the human
Heraclitus claimed that it is
nature of things to be in opposi-
tion. Plato claimed in the second

colo, was especially noteworthy.
‘Neatly done throughout, the danc-
es were if anything even better
than in the previous concert, nad
are certainly an outstanding part
of the orchestra’s repertoire.

The fine performance of Bach’s
Suite Number One in C Major, in-
frequently heard, more than ex-
plained its inclusion. The long
characteristic baroque overture
displayed the fine tone of the whole
orchestra, especially the reeds,
though outnumbered by their string
compatriots. Its slow, majestic
passage was very pleasing, Then
came a series of dances, frequent-
ly in pairs, Im the Courante the
harpsichord, played by Professor
Frederic Cunningham, created an
extremely nice effect.

To conclude the suite two Passe-
pieds and then a return to the first
one were well-employed. The sec-
ond Passepied was slower and es-
pecially enjoyable in the viola and
reed passage, and thus the return
to the main theme was a fitting
resolution to.a very fine perform-
ance in which sensibility and good
musicianship were the-keynotes.

Rustic Contrast

A rustic contrast was Holst’s
Brook Green Suite. The Prelude
had a neat pizzacato section which
was very well done, and in gen-
eral, had a nice lilt. The Air was
rich and yet somewhat haunting

effect. A hearty, country Dance
with refreshing, dotted rhythm
rounded out this delightful suite.

John Davison’s Triptych using
three canticles from the Book of
Common Prayer was magnificent.
The orchestra and the Haverford
College Glee Club complemented
each other excellently: in doing full

to them and to Mr, Reese. , The
first, “Blessed art Thou, re) alivnd
God of our Fathers,” was rich and
powerful with interesting orches-
tration. The voices were equally
good in the hushed “Blessed” as in
the sweeping sections. The “Amen”
was sharp and strong.

Second Canticle

The second canticle was the fa-
miliar Nunc Dimittis, “Lord now
lettest Thou Thy servant depart
in peace”. The voices echoed each
other in rising strains. The mel-
ody was solemn and beautiful. The
“Amen” this time was softer and
gentler.

“0 tbe joyful im the Lord, all ye
lands” completed the Triptych with
overwhelming intensity in synco-
pated voice work and a vigorous
orchestral accompaniment with
noteworthy work 'by the bass viols.
The “Amen” was pure triumph.

This’ work of Mr. Davison’s is

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in quality with a sweetly swinging | '

justice to the fine music dedicated.



Charpier Accents
Epic, Objectivity
Of ‘Hidden’ Poet

In a brief hour Monday night
M. Jacques Charpier, visiting lec-
turer in French for Semester II,
attempted -to explain “St. John
Perse, Le Poéte Caché.”. Born
Alexis ‘Leger on a small island in
the ‘Antilles, the poet entered the
diplomatic service in the French
Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Dur-
ing the second World War, he liv-
ed in exile in Washington, D.C.
and worked in the Library of Con-
gress. St. John Perse’s name came
to world wide prominence last year
when he received the Nobel Prize.

Material World

Even the mysterious pseudonym
is an example of the poet’s desire
to hide. In direct contradiction to
the famous Romantique movement
of the early 19th century, St. John
Perse reflects a great solitude and
taciturnity, and never speaks of
himself. He presents the reader
to the material world almost with-
out an intermediary. St. John
Perse is concerned with the entire
objective ‘world, There is little
that is emotional in his poetry but,
on the contrary, it is often full of
enumerations,

Work as an Epic

There are but few examples of
epic im French poetry. Even the
attempts of such great writers as
Ronsard, Voltaire, and Hugo failed.
The entire ‘work of St. John Perse,
on the other hand, is in a sense
(though not the classical one) an
epic.
prove its success.



Literary Prize

The Katherine Fullerton Ge-
rould Memorial Prize for ex-
cellence in writing, a prize open
to all undergraduates, is offered
by the Alumnae Association in
memory of a member of the
English Department, Under-
graduates are urged to submit
entries in any of the following
categories: narrative, informal
essay, verse and drama. A con-
testant may submit more than
one entry. The prize carries a
financial award of $50. Entries
may be left in the Alumnae Office
in the Deanery any time up to
4:30 ipm., April 5. Manuscripts
must be typed on one side of
the paper and must not be sign-
ed. Announcement of the award

will be made at May Day.







His popularity._.seems—to|—

Russell Meiggs

With the two commands: to speak
more than 65 minutes, and not to
talk down ‘to his audience, Russell
Meiggs donned a microphone (“I
feel like a dog with a muzzle”)
and proceeded to tell and show
much about “Roman Ostia.” The
lecture twas given in Goodhart
Thursday evening, February 23.
Rather than give a general talk
about the port city, he explored
the question of whether there was

an Ostia at the time of the’ early
kings of Rome, as well as survey-
ing the Imperial City of the sec-
ond century A.D. He suggested
that ‘this ‘selective’ method was a
euphemism for “strictly incoher-
ent.”

About earliest Ostia, Livy has a
circumstantial account of its found-
ing by Ancus Marcius, the fourth
of the kings, but this tradition is
consigned to the wastebasket by
most historians. The fort found
in the center of the town, dating
from the fourth century, is still
the oldest evidente discovered and
two-thirds of the site has been ex-
cavated. Mr. ‘Meiggs feels the tra-
dition is broadly right, and was
delighted to discover a passage in
Livy talking of men banished to
Ostia in the fifth century B.C,

Properous Port

The city was. fifteen miles from
Rome, and especially after the
building of harbor
became a busy and prosperous port.
However, its exact location in ear-
ier times is confused-by the mean-
dering and changeable course of
the Tiber. In fact, it seems that
the “wretched river ran right
across the road from Rome to
Ostia!”

4h. Tt,
the Imperial

The harbor “works * were envis-
ioned by Caesar, who did not have
time to make the dream reality.
Claudius built them but “like most
public works of his, they didn’t
work out quite right.” Trajan’s
harbor, constructed later, is love-
ly.

Mr. Meiggs then considered the
“mystery of the lighthouse.” Using
slides he showed representations
of this impressive three - story
structure on coins and reliefs. Lit-
erary evidence says that it was on
an island and ‘Mr. Meiggs inclines
to this opinion but some scholars
place it at the end of the harbor
mole.

Reliefs depicting harbor scenes
are revealing, Customs officials,
rowing {boats used as the modern
tug to guide larger ships in the
harbor, and kinds of cargo carried
can be seen.

Ostia, because of its busy har-
bor, became a populous, prosper-



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Self-Government Slate
Faith Halfter ’62

Sue Johnson ’62
Ruta Krastins ’62
Abby Wootton ’62

Undergrad Slate
Ellen Corcoran ’62
, Barbara Paul ’62



the conflicts would synthesize to
yield a third—the resolution of

ae velson
Virginia Sitz ’62



tension.



Slates for Campus Oraanization Blections

. Interfaith Slate
Starkante Condon ’62
Nancy Culley ’63
Marjorie Hibbard ’63
Carolyn Smith ’62

League Slate
Bonnie Brice ’64
Julie Heilman ’63

__Anne Rassiga_’62

Alliance for Political
Affairs Slate
Marion Coen ’62
Linda Davis ’62_ .
Mary Beth Schaub ’63

Athletic Association Slate
Liz Reed ’62

British Scholars Present
Lectures In 1902 Series

J. B. Trapp

The position of poet laureate
has had its historical ups and
downs as Mr. J. B. Trapp’s lecture
in the Common Room, February 28
engagingly and vividly showed. In
the past English holders of the
office ranked only just above the
court rat-killer.

Petrarch’s laureation revived the
ancient custom in 1341, and the
speech he made from the Capitol
on that occasion ‘was an act of
faith in the poet’s calling and has
been called “the first manifesto of
the rebirth of learning.” The cer-
emony gave him the right to teach .
and guaranteed approval of all his
works, past, present and future.

The Holy Roman Emperors es-
pecially exercised their rights of
honoring poets, for the age rever-
enced the ancient customs. “The
‘Caesars and the poets are working
toward the same goal and need
each other’s help,” the poets
stressed, ;

‘Mr. Trapp gave some pertinent
sidelights on greenery used to
wreath the: poets. Petrarch de-
manded bay because of its sacred
and incorruptibe nature. However,
Pope considered the wreath of vine,
cabbage and ivy most suitable:
the first because vine was part of

4 the English poet laureate’s pay,

cabbage to help him sober up, and
ivy especially because, like poets,
it is “creeping, dirty, and dang-
ling.”

Maximilian and other German
Emperors found in laureation a
way to enlist the support of hum-
anism for the imperial ‘side, In
fact there was ‘a time when “there
were aS many crowned poets in
Germany as real poets in the rest
it the world.”

new status and an insignia which
has survived. All poets seek im-
mortality, but it is.a sad fact that
the crowh of laurel has never made
a bad poet or a good one. Ideally
“true, ‘brave, and solemn” songs
are called for from the laureate
to triumph over time, oe

Dean’s Office Notice

(February 28, 1961

Temporary Safety Regulations

and Provisions

Carol Goldmark as President of
the Self-Government Association
announced today that because of
recent campus disturbances no stu-
dent should walk alone on campus
after wark, She must at all times
be accompanied by another indi-
vidual.

Acting Dean Lang announced
that extra watchmen have been |
provided for the benefit of stud-
ents who are unaccompanied: one
watchman will be at Rock Arch to
conduct students, who have been
escorted to that point from the
station, across campus to their
halls; he will make such trips at
7:30, 8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30, 12:30
and 1:30; any other students who
need escort, such as residents of
Batten House or the Graduate
Center who have evening classes
in the gymnasium, should go with
‘Rockefeller students to the Arch

in order_to join one of the watch-
man’s trjps. Another watchman
will be at the Library at 10 p.m.

to escort students who are unac-
companied to their halls.







Cornelia Spring ’63
Louise Weingarten ’62

~ Amy Chapin ’63 °°

Barbara Shoemaker ’62





Both the Self-Government Asso-
ciation and the admiistration hope,
and expect, that the students will
cooperate for their own safety.



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Page Two.

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, March 1, 1961



The Status Quo of Spring |

Spring seems to have come to Bryn Mawr a little early Pelt. Ue Rae
this year iit atte: -ci ne sum wealifer and, the spans ‘Kre Gries KOUTS

‘has come the annual: problem of unwanted visitors. The
actual,occurrences sof the past week ‘and the resultant pre-
ventative measures have brought the situation to the atten-
tion of the campuS as‘a whole more vividly, than in recent

_ years and, therefore, make this a propitious moment for dis-
cussing the causes and the solutions available.

There is, admittedly, no possible way to prevent free
access to the campus ‘andall its vrounds, but it certainly is
possible to increase the safety of the student. There is no
reason why the day at Bryn Mawr neééd ‘end with the setting
of the sun, yet evén the short walk from Rhoads to'Goodlrart
is a treacherous journey down an unlit road lined with trees
and hedges. ee

The lights on the paths throughout the.campus are spac-
ed at. too wide intervals and even in their immediate area
do not shed enough light. The extension of-the campus to
include such residence facilities as the Graduate Center and
Batten House necessitates consideration of the areas between
these buildings and the center of campus. Additional and
improved lighting does present a financial problem, but the
College is responsible for the physical safety of its students
and their security far outweighs the cost involved.

Another responsibility of the College is to inform the
students of the existence of the problem and of such places
as the Lantern Man’s headquarters in Merion basement. The
silent treatment given such occurrences in the past results
in a general lack of awareness of the danger and a consequent
neglect of precautionary measures. ;

The problem of our safety cannot be solved by a tempor-
ary addition of police protection or extra Lantern Men or by
an emergency Self-Gov rule as impossible to fulfill as the one
in effect last week. These may alleviate the problem momen-
tarily, but:more long range answers must be found. Now is the
time to act to prevent repetition of the same ineffective emer-
gency measures next Spring. The incident should not have
to precede the solution.. We can do our best to accept the
rigorous demands of the Self-Goy rulings, but the responsi-
bility for our physical safety lies: also in the hands of the
Administration. |

We are but transient residents in this community. Even
in four years it is difficult for students to know the extenuat-
ing circumstances of the environment. The Administration,
happily celebrating its 76th year, has had a greater oppor-
tunity to become aware of the problem and: have had ample
time to find the proper solutions. Te :

Youth Peace Corps Proposal

Currently in the process of formulation is the Youth
Peace Corps program, one which received widespread pub-
licity by President Kennedy previous to his inauguration.
The proposal, ‘to be presented to Congress in the near future,
is being drawn up by the Colorado State University Research
‘Foundation. Under the Youth Peace Corps program, groups
of college graduates would’ be sponsored ‘by the federal gov-
ernment to go abroad for a period of two years to those “un-
derdeveloped” countries requesting assistance in the form
of technical, educational and non-technical or unskilled work.

Sponsored as a means to increase world understanding
and to promote economic activity in the “underdeveloped”
countries, the program, if perfected, would present immeas-
urable profit to the United States, the foreign countries
involved and the Peace Corps participants. But the proposal
as reported in recent newspaper articles and evidenced in
~pri . ys-of exchange groups has many questionable

aspects. First, there is the essential nature of the program |

—what or whom is it for? To present to the people in “un-
derdeveloped countrise” the. smiling American college grad?
To help the countries? To foster the “image” and “prestige”
of the United States? Second, the foreign countries are to
make specific requests for the type of workers they desire.
What will the nature of the employment be? How skilled is
_ a person with a bachelor’s degree? Or how unskilled is he
to be able to agree to digging an irrigation path in Eastern
Asia if that is all that is needed in Eastern Asia? Third,
there is no provision for people who have not gone to college.
Does this mean that the program formulators consider any
college graduate better than all those people who have not
gone to or been graduated from college? If members of the
Youth Peace Corps are to contribute economically and social-
ly to their country, might not a person holding a bachelor’s
degree have had as much or more practical experience in
working and in working with people? ;

Fourth, the means for selection of Youth Peace Corps
participants must be as near to perfection as possible in order
to insure the choice of people with suitable personalities.
What methods of selection are to be used? Fifth, mutual
understanding is essential to the success of the program; a
thorough knowledge of language and customs would contrib-
ute to this condition. Will the proposed program include
training in these as well as technical areas? .

If the Youth Peace Corps is not properly administered
in all its facets it could be exceedingly harmful to the United
States and the countries it proposes to help, But,-if all its
ambiguities can be resolved, the program willbe an excellent
opportunity for “college graduates” to serve ‘as junior am-
bassadors and will be a means of exhibiting Ar

_are doing work with no overt political Purpose. \

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Letter Question:

Choked at BMC?
To whom it-may concern:

What is the place of grass root
discussion in (Legislature as it now
stands ?

* Undergrad defines Legislature in
Article VI of its constitution. It

is an entity which may be called
for the purpose of constitutional
revision, reorganization, and for
coordination and expression of
campus-wide opinion. In regard to
the last purpose, how is this opin-
ion to be expressed . . . in man-
dates, memorandums, or minutes
that accumulate somewhere as
cryptic unreadable motes?

So Legislature as defined does
not have an “inherent worth”, but
at least it may be called for a va-
riety of reasons. The campus’
consists of two ipso facto associa-
tions. It is assumed that all clubs,
elites, and rumbles are eventually
recognized and represented under
the wing of one of these two asso-
ciations. Ideally, the legislative
power of these two associations
should be exercised by the entire
campus sitting-as a legislative body
... « two-thirds of whose members
shall constitute a quorum.

Scheduling Difficult

But in the cold light of practical
experience it is virtually impossible
to. coerce the necessary “warm
bodies” into a suitable place at a
suitable time, Scheduling is in-
nately against the possibility of
mass turnouts; with the notable
exceptions of classes on the last
day, and commencement, If obvi-
ous conflicts (like classes) would
not be enough to keep the neces-
sary quorum of the campus away
then, in a pinch . . . even a study
date at Haverford could be ration-
alized as unavoidable.

‘What happens? No quorum. A
dilemma. And Legislature emerg-
es as an answer, It is the delega-
tion of authority by the entire as-
sociation to certain chosen repre-
sentatives. These representatives
meet and act in the name of the
entire campus,

‘What kind of animals are these
two Associations who just recent-
ly sent their elected representa-
Hives-out-into—the-grey,—iced,_unlit
evening to face the experience of
checking in with the Chair?

Undergrad Purpose

On the one hand, Undergrad says
that its purpose is. to provide for
the reception and representation of
undergraduate feeling and opinion.
Does this mean that elected repre-
sentatives are under an obligation
to define, or at least be aware, of
every gurgle in every smoker? Or
are these non office-holding ipso
facto currents expected to meet a
minimum organization standard
before they can be officially heard?

On the other hand, Self-Gov
states that its purpose shall be the
government of the undergraduate
student body. If you have, for ex-
ample, an opinion on the driving
rule in your grubby paw, do you
go to Undergrad or Self-Gov? Or
do you wait for them to decide the
question of proper province and
come to you?

Not only is every girl an ipso
facto.member of each association,
but this is a membership which
she- may .not relinquish. Presum-
ably this hold on the course of a
person’s life is not absolute, but a
contract rendered ineffectual upon
reception of a diploma from the
trustees.

Obviously every girl should have
an interest in this contract. But
what she should do and-what she
does are often at odds. Undergrad
recognized this “inattention” in a
stipulation that amendments to
The constitution may be proposed

by..a two-thirds major-
ity of the combined executive-activ-|









ities boards. Yet people who at-

by J. H. Broderick ‘

If you’re looking forward to.your
next party, the February issue of
The Bryn Mawr Review will dis-
abuse you. Parties figure in four
of the five prose pieces, and they
are no fun For instance, in “A
Cocktail Party” by. Alison Baker,
a languid seductress succeeds only
in confusing the hero and sending
him home. At the garden party in
Jane Goldstone’s “Heaven Itself,”
a close friend of the debutante
trips and drowns himself in a
swimming pool “floating with flow-
ers.” In “The Birthday,” a play
by Toni Seymour,-a mother and

Staff Writer Finds
Interesting Tidbits
About Bryn Mawr

Number 46, Libnary isa little-
known store of treasure, wherein
the demands of both research and
curiosity may be satisfied. ‘Called
the Bryn Mawriana Room, it hous-
es an up-to-date and vastly varied
collection of material about the
college.

Here are books by and about
faculty and alumnae, including
Susie, the naughty little bat, by
Isabel Whittier, Fatigue and Efii-
ciency, by Josephine Goldmark,
Modern Analytic Geometry, by
Charlotte A. Scott, Party Politics
in the Age of Caesar, by Lily Ross
Taylor, and Fenn McGrew’s Taste
of Death. Here are volumes on
education in general and on wom-
en’s education in particular, Ph.D.
dissertations from the Graduate
School, college calendars, finding
lists and handbooks from past
years. Newspapers, literary pub-
lications and yearbooks date back
to the beginning of the century.

Old Self-Gov Rules -

The collection of Self-Gov rules

does not extend so far back, .but
the rule-book for 1929-1930 con-
tains several interesting items:
Resolved: That bridge may be
played in the hall sitting rooms
except on Sunday.
Resolved: That students may
lunch and take tea (not dine) with
men unchaperoned at any téa
room, boarding house or hotel with-
in the twenty-five mile limit.

Particularly interesting is the
folder which reveals what others
have said about Bryn Mamr. For-
tune (June 1935) noted the fiftieth
anniversary with an article and
several photographs. Calling the
college the “most intensive cita-
del of female intellectuality in the
United States,” the magazine men-
tions Bryn Mawr’s intellectual at-
mosphere, liberal teaching, and en-
viable secret which causes the al-
umnae to remain excited about
the intellectual life of their alma
mater. The, pictures.include one
of a body mechanics class practic-
ing Greek rhythms and-one of a
young lady “following the Bryn
Mawr custom, if not tradition, of
taking spinach with her tea.”

“Men vs. Literature

Fortune’s article tries to take us
back to the days of M. Carey
Thomas, too: “You have to imag-
ine ,.. excited chatter about Soph-
ocles and ‘Wordsworth and Renais-
sance frescoes, and long arguments
about ... whether after all it might
not be rash for any girl to assume
that she ‘was a potential intellec-
tual giant. Maybe there were oth-
er things in life like Men and
Homes and Children—never so
baldly stated—and maybe a girl
could be intended primarily for
them.” : cee

Those who are interested in dip-
ping into Bryn Mawr’s past or in
jexamining the literary output of





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rher mentors and-daughters~may_|
obtain the key for Number 46 at

|Broderick Views Review;
Finds Talént and ‘Training



father prepare a stark celebration
‘for their sixteen-year-old daugh-
ter and decide once again to deny
her her grandparents’ gift. And
even when a couple escape a “gig-
gling and pawing” party in E.
Anne Eberle’s story “The Porch,”
their walk through the rainy city
reveals a dimension .of madness
and distrust in their relationship.

Although these writers glumly
agree that parties and their after-
math hold faw charms, their works
are otherwise quite individual; and
the range of styles in these pieces
is impressive. Alison Baker adopts
an appropriately mannered prose
for “A Cocktail Party”, her verbs
for one thing are from Madison
Avenue; the hero “joggles” his
drink “in an arc through the air”
trying to roll with a push from be-
hind; a girl “sprouts” from a pair
of very high heels; Delia’s hair
“swung in glossy limpness when
she bent”, “the smooth line of
her back flexed as she reached
down for her glass”; and so on.
This sheeny prose has its obvious
dangers, but Miss Baker usually
avoids them, This reader, how-
ever, is left not quite sure about
her attitude toward the uncomfort-
able hero and his languorous an-
tagonist, upon whom the story .
turns.

Through Maid’s Eyes

The death which interrupts the
party. in “Heaven Itself” recalls
Katherine Mansfield’s handling of
a somewhat similar situation in
her story, “A Garden Party.” But
whereas Miss Mansfield’s objective
narrator focused our attention on
the sensitive heroine’s reactions,
(Miss Goldstone chooses the family
maid as the narrator of her story.
This choice means that Miss Gold-
stone must render the maid’s own
peculiar speech patterns, a difficult
task in whieh she is only partly
successful; and itymeans also that
the maid’s interest in situation
rather than character dominates
the story.- Goldstone thus
concentrates on an ironic revela-
tion of the maid’s views rather
than sympathy for the partici-
pants. (Within these restrictions
Miss Goldstone works efficiently to
hold our interest.

Miss Seymour’s play might have
raised problems —of—“ear”—and-
“pace” in the dialogue that Miss
Goldstone met-in “Heaven Itself.”
But “The Birthday” is not conven-
tional in form and seems to follow
the example of Albee and Ionesco,
who present nearly abstract figures
speaking generalized ¢lichés, epi-
grams and nonsense. (Miss Sey-
mour, to be sure, doesn’t indulge
in much verbal nonsense.) If the
dialogue of “The Birthday” doesn’t
always come off, neither does the
dialogue of its models; but Miss
Seymour’s dialogue is quite suc-
cessful at times, Amd her novél
play does make its point about the
indecisive selfishness and eternal
domination of parents as parents.

Miss

Unhappy Marriage

The protagonists of E. Anne
Eberle’s story; “The Porch,” are
similarly selfish; but the style 6f
this revelation of an unhappy mar-
riage is flexible and far from the
artificiality Miss Seymour ‘chose.
Miss Eberle’s sentence paragraphs
and sensitive elaborations recall
Virginia Woolf and perhaps John
Updike. Although she occasionally
lacks the decorum of both those
writers, Miss Eberle is a very tal- .
ented writer who can render scene
after scene with authority and
tact; she makes us hear and feel
and see. The story of Miss Eberle
tells here is very ambitious, and
it is presented from the point of
view of a warped and sensitive
husband, deaf from early child-
hood. Through -his recollections
and present responses we discover

issat on and
corruption in his marriage. The



Continued on Page 4, Col. 1




Wednesday, March 1, 1961

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three



Norman Cousins Otte
ae As Hope For Future Pek

Marnen Cousins, one of those
rafe Americans who are trying to
suggest an answer to current world
dilemmas imstead of complaining
about.them, addressed the World
Affairs Council of Philadelphia,
February 24, on the topic “The
Future of America.” ‘Mr. Cousins,
editor of The Saturday Review of
Literature and honorary president
of the United World Federalists,
sees hope for the world in a more
powerful United Nations and a
well-informed, free public, “Some-
day,” he said, “national society
will be subordinate to human s0-
ciety.”

Mr. ‘Cousins began his talk by
warning the American public of
belittling the danger of nuclear
war. “Even if we had a defense
which could intercept nuclear mis-
siles miles in the air, the explosion



News Notes
1. This issue of the News is
what is known as an econ-
omy issue. Note lack of pic-
tures, droodles, filler, an-
nouncements, and other good
parts of the News.)

2. Headline in The New York
Times, Saturday, Feb. 25:
Premature Birth Linked
To Smoking Cigarettes.
(Fumey wombs!)
8. Submitted reasons for want-
“ing to review The Frog
Pond:
“The article was so entic-
ing.”
“T- can’t break into print-any
other way; I’m a frustrated
News staff member—I only
get to. review Interfaith
things.”
“I wanted to see the picture’
on the cover of the book.”
“I was attracted by elements
strikingly similar to my own
lively existence and...”







otronger UN
eace, Freedom

resulting from the interception
would create fire storms for hun-
dreds of miles ‘on the earth below.”

He termed the axiom of stabil-
ized deterrents resulting from
Vequal weapons=-on...either side in
the cold war ‘academic nonsense.
The danger of war by miscalcu-
lation, he explained, is too great
to allow us to feel secure.

International Law

(Mr. Cousins stated that our only
defense is - peace. with freedom
and suggested that the world’s fu-
ture hope lies in international law
and government. He sees the

possible realization of this ideal
in a United Nations equipped with
the power of ag the
peace,

“The speaker went on to describe

.|the present defects of the United

Nations, He criticized the veto
in the Security Council, the fact
that the UN has no regular police
force and the fact that decisions

to the foreign policy of individual
nations,

UN Role

“T see the U'N as the custodian
of human destiny,” he said, “but
it cannot play its part unless we
give to it. We must be willing to
debate our problems on its floor.
If we advocate a great idea we are
secure. We need not always have
perfect agreements on issues, but
‘we must have great debates.”

Later, when asked how college
students can help to further the
importance ofthe UN and world
law, Mr. Cousins urged students to
participate in and form chapters
of the. World Federalists move-
ment. He also hoped that students
would debate the world issues at
hand in an effort to learn as much
as possible about the problems
they will face the nation’s new
generation.



Open Letter
Continued from Page 2, Chl. 3
tend ‘weekly meetings more than
once have a tendency to become
inbred in their opinions. For a
substantive issue such as election
revision the beneficial values of

throwing-it-open.to potential broad

discussion afforded by Legislature
seem apparent. -

Where were the flowers in dis-
guise when the coffee was being
passed out, compliments of Self-
Gov and the Senior class? They
had come and gone long before;
i. e, the grass roots had come and
gone on the committee that formu-
lated ‘the.agenda. Aside from class
-hall-reps, itrwas a repetitious cross-
section of weekly goers to respect-
ive boards that came to vote.

Where in the minutes are the
opinions of those seven people who
‘consistently voted “no” on the
agenda?

Legislature as it now stands is
a specialized body, which could be
good; but the core of its current
specialization lies in a repetition
of representation. There is no ef-
fective: degree of diversity. If there





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were, then the minutes could have
shown more thought out and di-
verse feelings of substantive is-
sues. :

Somewhere in the dim past, each
one of us elected to attend Bryn
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member of the college, every girl}

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that the average American family
has five children,‘ three dogs, one
cat and one bird. The average

means of mee distance trate: TV
is the most popular form of enter-
tainment in the American home,
with movies a very close second.
Out of 200 million families in the
United States, 190 million have
Blue Cross or Blue Shield, and 180

million belong to a country club.
60% of the parents in American
homes drink and smoke and 40%
chew snuff. The main occupation
of the fathers in the American
home is advertising. However,
one-fourth of the fathers are em-
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companies. (With this interesting
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4 at 8:30 in Goodhart:

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Academy of Music on Thursday, March 9.

Van Cliburn will play at the Academy of Music, Thursday, .March.2.

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Odetta will make a concert appearance at Town Hall on March 8.

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Continued from Page 2, Col. 5

* test of Miss Bberle’s prose is that

she makes us believe where we do
not always understand.
Appropriately enough, the only
story in this issue which avoids
parties and other people, “Goose”
by Lana Lewenthal, is cheerful
and vigorous, even aggresive, This
tale of a young girl’s bout with a

“goose that “interferes with “her

farm chores suffers in places from
a stiffness when the author seeks
to provide the reader with infor-
mation relevant to his understand-
ing of the scene she unfolds. Un-
like Miss Seymour and Miss Eb-
erle, Miss Lewenthal gives her
story a conventional form in the
manner of early Steinbeck; and
she gives life and spirit to her tell-
ing by her sense of a specific place
and situation.

Poems Specific

The poems in this issue gener-
ally share with “Goose” a direct
rendering of a specific en'viron-
ment, and they are less gloomy
than the stories. “Crows” and

Continued from Page 1, Col. 4

ous place. Its theater and the
gardens behind attest to this,
though most of the statues in them
have “lost their noses.”

Around the colonnade were the
Offices of the merchant companies
whose activity made the city what
it was. Mosaics representng ele-
phants, men_measuring_corn,_and.
lwild beasts signify the ivory and
corn dealers, and the wild animal
seller.

To house the increased popula-
tion most of the old-fashioned
houses, one-story, square, and spa-
cious were torn down. Surprising-
ly modern apartment buildings
with as many as five stories were
put up. Shops took up the ground
floor because they paid higher
rents. These buildings were plan-
ned from the ‘inside out, but they
are very lovely from the outside:
the brick of the period is especial-
ly fine, of a beautiful color and
texture.



The most imposing architectural
sight in Ostia was the temple to

Meiggs Seteativ~'.:'/iews ‘Roman.!

old gods. Augustus’s shrine was
smaller. Though Imperial Rome
was invaded by many eastern cults
—worship of Cybele, (Mithras, etc.
—which had great appeal, yet Mr.
Meiggs feels the old religion did

not lose out as completely as some
people think. The fact that. the
largest temple in Ostia, a cosmo-

}politan, port city, was to the tra-|

ditional gods strongly suggests
they held their power.

An unusual, free-standing group
sculpture of (Mithras was found in
the Baths of Ostia, It was made
by a Greek but in Italy, however
indications are that the fathers of

| Ostia bought it second-hand. Mr.

Meiggs concluded his illustrated
lecture with his favorite piece
from Ostia, a mosaic of Neptune
from the Baths. A large, crowd-
ed composition, full of vigor, this
pictures the god driving his horses
surrounded by swimming monsters.
It is typical of Ostia’s great per-
iod of prosperity.








For an Excellent

‘Mr. Henry Pitney Van Dusen,
guest of Interfaith, will speak in
the Common Room, March 5, at

and Faith.”

A Presbyterian minister and a
‘Princeton graduate, Mr. Van Du-
sen is ‘President and a Professor
of Christian Theology at the Union

He is ‘the author of World Christ-
ianity, Yesterday, Today, and To-
morrow, published iby the Student
Christian (Movement . Press, and
God in Education, as well as sev-
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8 o'clock. His subject is “Truth |

Theological Seminary in New
York.” —— PEDERI ERE ESTEE TTY STRIFE EP TEESE ~ a

eNO.

Continued from Page 1, ‘Col. 2

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er image” of horror ‘and despair.
Rob Colby’s poems are, by con-
trast, more exuberant and person-
al; but ther genuine lyric gift is
oceasionally vitiated by arbitrary
and vague diction. Unlike her
“Conscientious Worker and Task-
master,” she enjoys “the footloose
rhyme of dreams.” In painting a
landscape in “Three P.M. in Tus-
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TT asa Oman

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sult is less satisfactory, Her wry
and spare “Off-Season at Bona-
venture,” despite a bad first line
in the third stanza and despite the
limitations of its genre, is the most
successful poem in.the issue.

.All of the poems and stories in
this issue of The Bryn Mawr Re-
view are commendable, in fact,
for their simple and sophisticated
sense of where they’re going. Their
authors reveal both talent and
training. ~t-am~disappointed only
by the relative timidity of the
poets.

(The REVIEW is scheduled to appear
within the next week.)

Rating Radcliffe

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