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College news, February 27, 1963
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
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1963-02-27
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North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 49, No. 14
College news (Bryn Mawr College : 1914)--
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BMC-News-vol49-no14
Page S$ ix: THE COLLEGE NEWS Wednesday; February 27, 1963
NEWS Reporter Amasses The Smith SOPHIAN Opposes Interim;
Variety of Deanery Lore ~ Enthusiasm Keynotes Student Views.
WE PIERCE EARS ~.
Perfectly and Paintessly
~. SAM KRAMER
by Joan Cavallaro
Haye you-ever stopped to wonder
. why the Bryn Mawr Alumnae:House
is called the Deanery? The answer
is that the “Deanery” was for many
years the home and office of the first
Dean (and later President)’ of Bryn
Mawr College, M. Carey Thomas.
It was made the headquarters of
“the Alumnae Association in 1933 ih
accordance with the wishes of Miss
Thomas, who strongly felt the need
of an Alumnae Center. Before Miss
Thomas had occupied the building,
it had been used for housing male
professors ‘and, along with the two
other houses which stood next to it
—Yarrow and Kelserhof—made up
the original “faculty row.”
‘After Miss Thomas took up resi-
dence there, the house was nicknam-
ed the “Deanery,” whence Kelserhof
-- was called the “Greenery,” and Yar-
row, which stood in the middle of
the two, was quickly dubbed the
“Betweenery.”
However, Carey Thomas added’
tonite thru Monday
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~greatly benefit the college .. .
‘more to the Deanery than its
name. It was she who was respon-
sible for the strange, striking and
elegant furniture which now deco-
rates the Deanery. She collected
the furniture on her many trips both
to Eugope and to the Orient, and, as
one mby easily tell, it represents a _
“wide rangé of tastes and nationali-
ties:
The most interesting part. of Miss
Thomas’ artistic | . inclinations was
the» once famous Deanery garden,
which occupied the land where
Rhoads South now stands. Complete *
_with fountain pool,
figurines, and
an assqrtment of trees, flowers, and
shrybbery, it was a decorative asset
to campus. The garden, like the
Deanery, was. the object of Miss
Thomas’ artistic embellishments,
from statuary to furniture, and at
one time was dimly lit at night with
‘exotic lanterns she had brought
from China.,
The Deanery in its present shape
has been remodeled and added to
several times. it is presently the
~-office’ for the Alumnae. Association,
and is open to alumnae, their fam-
ilies and friends, members of the
faculty, administration, and graduate
school, and to Seniors. Though its
range of hospitality has been great-
ly widened, the Deanery still fulfills
the intentions of Miss’ Thomas; as
she herself expressed: “T. hope .and
believe that the Trustees of Bryn
* Mawr*College will feel as I do that
an Alumnae center. of dignity and
beauty such as here provided will
ets |
by Constance Rosenblum
The ‘period of Interim at Smith
‘College—a three-week break — be-
.tween semesters when students are
given “an opportunity for indepen-
dent study, discussion, and investi+
gation of topics of: their choice”—
-has recently been the subject of
much: < debate -~and-~ -considération:
among Smith students.
On the one hand, there are cer-
tain disadvantages, Is Interim worth |
the pressures of'a shortened and
cramped first. semester? Is it. nec-
essary to. lay. aside three weeks to:
develop an independence which
might be learned. during the..rest
of the year? Is learning how to ice
skate, to drive a car, or knit faster
(some of the activities students. pur-
sue during Interim) Smith’s dis-
tinctive contribution to a woman’s
education? *
An editorial in a recent issue of
' the Smith Sophian stated that ‘In-
. terim is a Waste of time for ‘too
many people. By providing the op-.
portunity for more independence in
the regular semester, Smith can pro-
duce well-educated graduates, com-
petent to develop and pursue their
interests.throughout. their lives.” _.
On the other hand, a number of
individual students have . expressed
great enthusiasm for the. Interim
period. In one girl’s words:
“Interim is the most essential
‘part of our education here—even ©
» when -we use it. unwisely—and_in-
-dispensable if. Smith hopes to de-
velop thoughtful, sensitive ... and:
creative women. It. is -a .horrible
realization [to, find] that you don’t
really haye interests that could oc-
cupy you for three whole weeks. It
is frightening to realize that you
‘are bored with yourself.
“The person who has been told all
her ‘life that she has a good mind
and is destined. to be a member of.
the ‘intellectual elite’ -has never
_ been made to discover that. within _
her own being ‘she has not ever
awakened her native curiosity. _
“We liked Initerim because, for
once, we had the time to wander
through the whole wide spectrum of
fields for analysis ..
and consideration, without be-
ing bludgeoned by a syllabus...
When all roads were open for dis-
‘covery, it gave us a chance to learn
what pleases us...and at what
bridge hand our laziness: begins to
shade off into boredom.
“We are not too strictly scholarly,
and we resent the: administration
‘premise that we should devote our
‘time-to losing ourselves in dispas-
sionate intellectual ingestion. Though
- ‘self-expression’ has strange conno-
tations ; both “presumptuous and
_somehow culturally amoral, ‘self-dis-
covery’ is a goal clouded only by the
fear . . . that whatever’ we discover
may disrupt: the ordé¥: of our own.
little universe . .. We may not learn
to live with books, but since our lives
will not be built: wholly of books, we
profit just as much if we can learn
even to live with boredom.”
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