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�:.',' Tiber In a Rubber Boat." Her main .. � purpose in making the trip, she

F C L d met the waters of the ancient said. was to discover how the Sa­

. or urn au e Tiber, famed �n. the Augustan Age, bines got down to the salt-marshes when Dr. LOwse Holland of the in ancient time •. For that realon

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This Year's Freshmen

:Archa�ology Department and her Ihe was about to christen her fifty­husband rowed down to Rome lut three pound vessel "The Sabine summer. Woman," when she remembered

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SpeciaU, tontributed by Dorothy NePPfr Marshall

As the guest at the Ciailici that the Sabine women were fam­Club's tea last Thursday afternoon ous for litUe more than getting Mrs. Holland showed slides in the stolen, and named it "The Wild Common Room, and described her Oal" instead. Among those who extraordinary excunion "Down the thought the Hollands' scheme im-

For some time the faculty has practicable (to.. 8ay the least) it been reviewing the present system Ushenko Reveals was known affectionately as "that of diatinctlons at Bryn MawT CoI- thing." '/ lece. The questlon

.lI�been fully Wfruth of Law" Their frlenda and colleagues

discussed by a ��appolnted made proteats in vain about the committee, by' the Curriculum In' Art Lecture abllurdity of travelling in "that committee, and by tlIe faculty a, thing" from the head of the nber a whole. The situation wu re- to the seaport of Oatia _ the Hol-viewed ,both a. it e:zlsts at Bryn Ubnr, Lecture Room., October lands were determined. Tobey made Mawr and in comparllon with that 20. - In the fint Philosophy Club • "trial run" down one tributary of other colleges. The opinion of lecture of the year, Dr. Andrew P. 01 the river whose geological hls­the varioua groupa nporting to Usbenko diacuss� the role or tory was the same al tbe Tiber's, the faculty and of the faculty 1'- truth in art. A great work of art., and Itudied mapa of the area with self was that the number of de- he claimed, is complete in ItaeU. the greatest care. They had to gree.. granted with diltlnction wu autonomous. And yet, truth II es- locate someplace to land each eve-too high. sen�al t o it, for no wo�k .ot art I ning, and a village or farmhouse

New Requirementa can be great or endure \f It does nearby where they might get a IMany more students graduate not have truth: Just as tru�h is 1 night's lodging. Roads, railroad necessary to literature, so It Is sLations and towns, excepLing Rome trom Bryn Mawr .umma Cllm

laude, marna cum laude or cunl also to the other arts, to music Itself, were all set back lome dis­laude than from other limilar co!- and poetry, sculpture, painting, al· tance from the river, usually on a leges. In one year, for example, though i t may not ,be as apparent hill. Consequently they were lucky more than one...ball the graduating in these. to find accommodations ot any lort class received the degree with dis. It is an implicit, intuitive truth Continued on Page 6

tinction. Such a high proportiOll that art givei us, rather than the has two resultl. One is that in explicit truth, Dr. Ushenko point­�omparilon with other colleges th� ed out. A. work of art pre

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degree with diltinction at Bryn mellage, It doel not explatn It; and Mawr is less meaningful. The ita truth il not put forth in an ob­other ia that if as much BI half of I vious fashion. Keatl' Ode to a Gre­

dan Urn_is a serieB of images, "a dynamic compolition of varioul images," in Dr. Ushenko's own wordl, rather than one definite, ex· plicit imare. But the melsage of the poem is ever so much more eloquent than if it. was explicitly told.

The trut.h with which art hall to

Symyosium Held Sat. in Deanery

Learned professors and teacher� met last Saturday in the Deanery at n Ren.issance Sympoltium spon­aored by Dr. Caroline Robbins or the History department. They were addressed by Louis K. Wright, head of the Folger Lib­rar, In Washington, D. C., and

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a given class receives the degree with distinction, the importance of the ordinary degree il minimized For these reuons the faculty has voted to change the requirement� In the pallt, Itudent.s whoae aver­ages have been 90-100 received 811mma tum laude, 86�9.99 receiv­vd magna cum laude, and 80�4.{t9 C\lm laude. Under the nlJW plan th�vetlge for aumma cum laude will Temain the same. For the de­gree magna eum laude there wilt be a change to 86�9.99, and for

·cam laude 82-85.99. Theae requirp. ments will go into effect for the present freshmAn clalS.

do, said Dr. Ushenko, is t.he truth _____________ , of law, as oompared with the truth of fact. It i8 a truth that doel not refer to anything outside it.8elf, that baa no direct reference to facts. Unlike truths of fact, such al scientific truths, that can be tested by experiment, trutha or law, among whlch il the artistic truth, cannot be checked accur­ately by experiment, but only by approximation. A WOrk 01 art, Dr. Ushenko continued, enaeta what it

The way in which the new plan -will work may best be seen by elt­amining the lollowing statistics:

In 1945, (1.2% of the c1us grad­uated with diltinctlon.

CoRUnuect Oil Pare 5 Continued on Pare 4

1915 NEWS Editorial Concludes

Cramming Makes the Woman On °JanI18TY 21, 1915, wbile the

campus W88 billY with a Campaign for the Preservation of the Grasa, Mi .. Anna Pavlov .. wa. da.ncing at the Metropolitan Opera HOUle, and Mrs. Katherine Fullerton Gerould's "Vain Oblationl" waa on exhibit in thet! rare bookroom, the Bryn Mawr College News came forth with this untitled editorial of per· �nnial ;intereat:

"Crammine, is, of coune, we -aU grant it, frightfully immoral. If you have invceti,ated the sub­ject at all thorourhty, (a. we have) bowever, you malt admit that moral or unmoral, or immoral, cramming I. a fine art.. The air. who .Its in the library day after day patiently acquiring a maaa of detail is a "rrtGd". An),body can do that. Bat the rid who sit.. down

"the nlcbt WoN aJl uamJUtiOD

and masten a whole lemHter's work-in twel" houn il a true artist. Hers are the master's qual­itiel of concentration, keen analy­sis, good judgment, the faculty of grasping things in their relation, imperturbable coolnell, undilturb­ed by the thought of the stupen­dous task between her and dawn. Above all she must have unbound­ed confidence In her ability to overcome the impossible. And what is that but genius I Out In the world, they say, there are multi­tudes of people wbo faithfully ful­fill their routine duties, but the mAn who is needed and who is lel­dom found i. the man who, when neeeisity commands, can work at while: beat., can eross chasma 1m· possible to other folk, can lum­man aU lUa powera on a mOft\e.nt, the man who ean rLae to an emer­reney-the man who can enml"

CALENDAR Wednesday, Oet.ober 26

7:16 p. m. Marriage Lecture, Common Room.

Thursday. October 27 12:80 p. m. Dr:. Hanll Simons,

"Cermany as part o! the World .Problem Today", Goodhart.

Friday, October 28 81:00 !11 m. Freshman Han

plaYl, Skinner Workshop. Saturda,. October 29

8:00 p. m. Freshman Hall Plays, Skinner Workshop.

Sunda" October 30

7:15 p. m. Chapel Service, Music Room.

Monday, October 3t Current. Events, "Peiping

Under the Communists." berk Bodde trom the Univenity of PennsylVania.

8:30 p. m. Science Club Lec­ture, Dr. Conway Kirkle. "pellth of S$ience in Ruasia". Dalton.

TheMIay. November·t 8:00 p. m. t. R. C. "German

Universities Today", Common Room

8:80 p. m. Art Lecture, Mill Arnes M 0 n g a n , "Master Dra!temen", Goodhart.

Wednesday, Non.ber 2 8:45 a. m. Moming Assem·

.bly. Mrs. Marshall, "The Seven College Conference".

4:15 p. m. Movie on "Somat­Ic Consequences of Emotional Starvation in Infanta", Music Room.

8r)," Mil"'" Cen" •• ,IUI PRICE 15 CENTS

Alliance Assembly Gov't Announces To Sponsor Talk Competition for � By Hans Spoons Fulbright Grants ;

Dr. Hans Simoni, a leading po­litical figure and present Dean of the School of Politici 01 the New School for Social Research, will apeak at. the flnt Alliance Allem­bly of the year on Thursday, Octo· ber 27, in Goodhart. His subject will be "Germany as Part 01 the European Problem."

An authority on the present and ruture or Germany, EUrope and the world, Dt-. Simons has just re­turned from Germany, where he was sn official of the Allied Gov­ernment. Previously, alter the first world war, rile was on the staff of the German delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference. He helped organize the League of Nations Society of Gennany of which he wal vice president, and the Institute o! Political Science of which he was director. In 1929,

Dr. Simoni became governor in Pomerania and later in Silesia, the youngest ever appointed to this ,high office.

A. lecturer on }>otitical prob­lems, Or. Simons naa spoken ... t international conferences and col­teges and unjversltiel throughout the country.

'49 Now Works, Studies, Tea�hes

Most members o! the clalll 01 t949 are already embarked on In­tereating and varied careen. They are Icattered over Europe and America, many of them continuing with their atudiel.

Jean Ellis, Naney Martin, Karen Knsplund, and Mary Lutley are doing graduate work In England; Betty Bright Pagel Luc.ilIe Flory, and Mary Eve larael sre teaching in France. Randy Bell il doing graduate work at McGill, and

The following Prell Release haa been received from the Inltitute of Tnternational Education:

"Announcement haa re«ntly been made by the Department of State and the President', Board or Foreign Scholarships of the open· ing of competitions for U.S. Gov­ernment awards for graduate study In the United Kingdom, Belgium, Burma, Net.heTlands, Philippines. Greece, New Zealand, France, Italy, Iran and Norway tor the academic year 1950-51. The schoillrshipi offered to American graduate lIt.udenU are made available as a result of Public Law 6&4, 79th Congreas (the Fulbright Act). This ia the second year In which American graduate studenta will have the opportunity of compet­ing for these awards which pro­vide travel tuition and mainten­ance for It.OOy abroad for one ac­ademic year.

The number of opportunities in the varioua participating countrlel are listed as followl: United Kingdom ..... 156

(Great Britain and North-ern Ireland ........................ 145

British Colonial Depen· dencie. ................................... 5

Junior Social Workers in-cluding Youth Leaders ....... 2

Adult Education .................. .... 1

Workers Education ... ri .. __ ....... 8 Belgium A Luumbourg ............ 22 Burma . .. _ .......... _ ................ _ .. _....... 3 Netherla.Dds ... .. .......... . .......... 25 Philippinel ..................... .... .... ..... 6 Greece ................ ................. . .... 12

New Zealand ... .... ...... .... . .. 10

Fnonce ..... 220

In the calel of Italy, NorwAY, and Iran the exact number of the achol. arships to be offered is not avail· able at thil time, but. .. pplications are being received in these compa·

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Beverly Levin Robbins II at Penn. M T G· Generally speaking ,eighteen per ongan 0 IVe cent or the e1asa Is doing graduate work, and eleven per cent hold

"1st Art Lecture �eachlng positions.

Several of the graduatel are working in laboratories, among them Jea.n Broadfoot and Marl Beetlestone (who it a research &$. sistant at Johns Hopkins). Mari.n Harvey Is working wlt.h the Na­tional Bureau of Standal'da.

Martha Barber Montgomery i. doinr social work with the Phila· delphia County Board of Aaabt­anee, and Anne Sel�.man bas fl psyeholo..,. job in Newark. Anne Thomaa and Kathy Geib are both takin, bUllne .. courses.

Mias Agnes Monran, Curator of Drawings at the FOl'g Mu!eum of Art in Cambridge. will give the flnt of the iIluatrated Art Senel Leetures on Tuelday, Nove-mber t, at 8:80 in Goodhart. The lub­ject of ber talk will be "Muter Draftsmen."

Min Mongan, a Bryn Mawr pduate and one of the mAtest Americ:.n �onnoillaeura In her field, is co-author with Paul Sach. of a ·ltook Oft the drawinp of the ForI' Museum.

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Phi Beta KapJ?a

Current Events Common Room, October 24. In

a "double feature" presentation, Dr. Helen Taft Manning, Profea­sor of History, and Dr, Walter C. Michels, Professor of Physic3, spoke about "U. S. Policy and the A-Bomb". Mrs. Manning reviewed. the present discuasion of the value of ,strategic bombing now before the Congressional Committee and commented on the moral issues in­volved in the use of the bomb. Dr. Michels emphasized the present U. S. search tor security and sug­gested a possible plan Cor atomic control based in general on thO! Baruch Plan.

Mrs. Mannmg noted first the in­ability of the multitude for whom the decisions about the atom bomb are made to understand the issu"s. T·he answer to £his is government. by experts. Objections to this, said Mrs. Manning. are the dis­agree�ent 01 the experts and the forming of their decisions in th� light of their special knowledge without consideration of "chain­reactions" nnd with no respect for moral Issues.

Strategic Bomhing

In Lhe last two weeks there ha" been a discussion before the Con greS5ional Committee as to wheth· er the type of warfare specialized in by our air force is the best type of warfare. It has been argued on one side that strategic bombill: would deplete a country econom Ically and morally to .!Iuch an ex· tent that eventually resistanc� would become impossible. On the other hand, the Navy maintain;," that strategic bombing did not win the last war. General Omar Bradley, stating the Air Force'F point of view, refuted the Navy's arguments about the inefficacy of the 836. Bradley coruiders th,n the moral issue of the bomb itaeit is not important-it is war itself "The purpose of Phi Beta Kappa is to recognize and en- which should be considered as

courage scholarship, friendship, and �ultural interests." III morally wrong. actual practice, what would this really mean at Bryn Mawr? I Aa a Soldier

A new rivalry would exist on campus. The chance oft Mrs. Manning herself said, "As n ejection 'to Phi Beta Kappa might not affect the average I believer In humanity I deplore the

- • . Id b ' d t use of Ole bomb. but as a soldier student greatly, bu" tensIon wou e Increase among oP'1 admire it." She -believes thar students in the class. We have honor degrees and certain Congress is being guided by th� coveted prizes as it is, of course, buf in general the Bryn cheapneas ot defense. U we would

get behind the UN propositions Mawr student has always worked for her own satisfaction. and work on them, she concluded. There seems to be little need for new encouragement of there would be at least a "clearing

I h· t th t t Furthermore, if Phi of the sir." acho ars IP a . e presen momen . Many' of the arguments for '" Beta Kappa goes through, not only will there be more sl*c. large Air Force, Dr. Michels went ulation on averages and class standing, but perhaps ill-feel- on, come from salesmanship lor 11

cheap war. Our military leaden ing as well, since because of the inequality of classes, the Phi skirt around our secretaries and

Poet Revolts Against Fatal Outlook

On Future To the Editor:

Dear God, we have seen I� already, We have lived through a JiCetime

of War. If our leaden, our tenchers, be­

lieve It, Can we who are pupils ignore?

They speak of it now with com­placence,

Even in peace they cry War. While they tell us with smiles we

must loathe it -Is this how they teach us "Abhor"! We sit in the midst ot our doctors, Who expound us the taeti�!I ot

War. Dare they apeak of this hen as

the ftl�ie, � -- .

To those who have known it before 1

Then how ,hall we sit here nnd listen,

To these teachers whom we believe snge?

It is we, we alone, who can check it -

COllie NOW, to defense of our age.

Elizabeth O. Foulke, '52

Fulbright Grants Offer Grllduate Work Abrolld

Continued from Page 1 titions nonetheless.

The basic eligibility require-mentl are:

1. American citizenship 2. A college degree or ita equiv­

alent by the time the candidate takes up his award.

3. Knowledge of the language of the country sufficient to carry on his studies abroad.

Interested applicants who are prescully enrolled at a college or university should get information and application forms from the Fulbright Program Committee on their own campus. The Secretary of the Fulbright Program Com­mittee on this campu� is:

Lily Ross Taylor Graduate Office

The Library. Candidates who are not pres­

ently enrolled at a college or uni­veraity may apply directly to the Institute 01 International Educa­tion, 2 W.t 45th ,Street, New York 19. N.Y."

Bryn Mawr Committee

Wednesday, Oelober 26,1949

Recent NEWS ItelD8 "Detract from

Dignity" 28 September. 1949-

The College News Bryn Mawr Pennsyl\'ania

To the Editor:

I am writing to call your at­tention to t.he increaaing number of items appearing in the NEWS .. which I and many other others feel have no place In a paper such as this. The NEWS, in addition to being circulated among the Itud­ents a t the college, reaches many parents and alumnae, who at the present time I am sure are only confused .by auch items as 1 refer to; and .they would be greatly dis­tressed if t.hey were familiar with the circumstances t h a t have­prompted the appearllnce of these items.

The items I a m criticizing have appeared recently under such head­ings as "Incidentally", "Errata", and "Personals". In prussing, 1 might remark that there apperl1 to be clear grounds for a libel action based on one o( these com­ments.

The recent editorial In Latin, albeit a striking literary tour-de­(orce, contributes nothing that I am aware of to the- usefulness or influence of the NEWS. The piece­titled ... . . spicy brand of Italian'" belongs in the same category.

This sort of material deflnitet� has a place in the life of a college. To meet the need for it moat col­leges publish a humorouS maga­zine, and their newspapers are­straight-forward reports and com­mentaries. Since we lack luch a magazine. it il desirable that the newspaper not be too cold-blooded in ita presentation of the :Cacts� especially when the facta warrant Ii g h t treatment. Neverthelen cheap innuendoes, sly vulgarities, and journalistic stunta detract from the dignity and inftuence or the paper, and of the college as a whole.

Cordially. Edith R. Lauderdale

Drama Clubs Give Cast of "Liliom"

The Drama clubs of Bryn Mawr and Haverford have announced the cast for the November 12th pro­duction of Ferenc Molnar's "Lit­iom." It is as follows: Liliom ........................ Bill Bishop Julie ............ Eritha von der Goltz

Beta Kappa of one year might not be as good a scholar as the .lppeal to Congress directly. The

girl who just missed it the next. joint weapons evaluation group, which would give an impartinl Even after college the distinction of Phi Beta Kappa. opinion rather than military prop.

President '"l'I'IcBride has appointed Marie ............... , ........ Nancy Pearre-the following Fulbright Program Ficsur ......... .... ........ Robin Nevitt makes little difference. Employers in the professional and .aganda, is never heard lrom' dur- Committee at Bryn Mawr College: Mrs. Muskat .......... Mollie Allen-

t' ing the conferences. business fields are tending to look less at the applican 8 Dean Manlhall, Profeasors Oppen- Louise .................. ..... Joan Gale

marks and scholastic standing, more at the over-all picture of her experience and character. Though a key might help us in applying for a job, the lack of it will not prevent us from getting one. There is a certain social distinction at­tached to being a member of Phi Beta Kappa, but this too is rapidly dying out.

The establishment of a Phi neta Kappa challler would introduce the only closed society at Bryn Mawr. Though it would mean very little to eighty per cent of the students here, the ones it did alfect would reap few benefits from it.

Gaud� Ni9fts A jockey and a 1ion�hunter, a circus acrobat and a career

red�light girl. a ballet dancer and a monkey trainer, cattle judges, came) riders, donkey drivers, gold prospectors, Henry Aldrich's mother, Alger Hiss' wife, and the first doc­tor to pick up a radio program on her scapel while operating: greetings and long life to you. Bryn Mawr Alumnae I

What infinite vistas, what glorious visions, what subtle persuasions, what electric stimulations such statistics give usl Bryn Mawr opens all fields to us, it seems: with or with­out Phi Beta Kappa, not necessarily ftashing our golden key}. we too can climb the iced and goated waste. of Amnyi Machen, dive down In the unknown depths of the Sargasso

Atomic Solution heimer, Robbins, Soper, and Dean Wolf ............................ Floyd Ford Taylor, Secretary. Seniors who Mrs. Bollunder .. Didi Fleiahhacke!"

In concluaion, Dr. Michels sug- wish to apply are requested to Hollunder .... Howard Shoemaker gested as s solution to the problem see Dean Marshall about their ap- Linzman .......... ..... Roger Mowell of atomic control a modification o! pUcations. G r a d u a t e students I Doctor ............................ Tom Wood the Baruch Plan. It would inclooe should see Dean Taylor. Applica- Carpenter ............ John.. Mese.rale the inspection plan and manage- tions must be flied in the Office of Rich man ............... . ..... PiotTow ment plan as stated by Baruch the Dean of the Graduate School Policemen .............. Kunkel. Haring but would add a determination 01 not later than midnight, Novem- The play will � directed by Rich­what developments are made In bel' SOtho ard McKinley and the stage man-what country and how many Publicity 0 n t h e Fulbright ager is Betsy Swope. plants each nation had; the man- Grants is pOlted on the bulleti" apment of the plants would be -board for foreign scholarships on international, but they would b� the, second floor of . the Library, privately owned. I north corridor.

, Sea, saddle the shy okapi and urge the reluctant hippo down

the ra�rack as we flaunt our gaudy silks of yellow and white. We can join the Salvation Army or the Lost Women's Federation of Labor, we can swi� the. English Channel under water or swing from tree to tree with our long prehensile tails, we can pan our gold or gild our pans as we wish: "In you Bryn Mawr, We'll find the way" (and we quote from a justly neglected work).

A note of warning: these are good, -these are great, these ore noble thoughts in us, but shall w e not have to make a choice? "And we thy daughters would thy vestals be ... " But can we not please our mistress and. mother in more ex­citing ways? Should we not try tor a n even more gracious inspiration? There are things no vestal virgins can ever do.

L. K. Wright Addreues Renaissance Scholars

Continued from Pale. 1 fonner he&fi qt the I:funtlngton Library. The Folger LibtJry i. an exact reproduction of the Globe Theatre in London where Shakes­peare's plays were first produced. and IM!verai 01 his early Quartos are preserved there. Lut yeat" A.mhetlt reproduced Jull .. c. .. r on the Library stage in the style of the Elizabethans on the atage ot the Globe.

Betore the Wright lecture the Bryn flAawr College ChorQ' unl' leveral Renaiuanee -longs. The audience liked them so well that the Chorus may be asked down � Wuhincton to ainl' a .. ain.

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VVedneRday, Oetober26,1949 THE COLLEGE NEWS Pale Three

Between,the Leaves Latest Daly Mystery

Boasts Garden, Corpse

by Emily Townsend. '50 Elizabeth Daly, And Danlerou8

to Know, Rhinehart and Company, Inc., New York, 1949.

Mi.a Daly. an alumna of the dass of 1901 a t Bryn Mawr, has produced a new Henry Gamadge deteetive story. And OangcroWl to Know. Quietly and carefully writ­tcn 8S all of hera are, the latest Daly mystery explores tensions and t.he Bubterranean movements ot the mind more skillfully than it sketches character or builds suspense. Gamadge himself, of course, is one of the better-drawn modern deleetiveB. but the other people in And Dangerous to Know are not likely to leave any lively memory in the reader's mind.

Quiet Mystery "There arc still a few such rowl

of old brownstone houses . . ." here is the atmosphere in which Miss Daly flourishes. Well.bred gentility with at least one disturb· ing corpse, a polite and mannered cha8e, and not �oo much shock in the dtl'llouement: in this book the Daly formula is applied to the Dunbar family, Alice Dunbar waa thirty odd, sallow, and unhappy, as anyone would be in her plaee. One afternoon, after a particular­ly horrible dinner chez famille, Alice walked out, bought a red macintosh described by her inti­mates as the kind ahe wouldn't be caught dead in, and disappeared.

Garden Corpse Gamadge trails her to an odd

garden. "He said: 'The earth is sunk here a little, i8n't itt'

'Is it? [ didn't notice.' 'In a kind of oblong, ace?' " From here on in, however, the

"Calculate hoW' long it ta to get from your bed to your I«ture."

"By the time they get to college, most girls begin to undusland where babies come from."

Broom UO!�et Book Illustrates • ficissitudes of College "Types"

by Paula Strawhecker, '52 One evening a few weeks ago oil

treasure was discovered hidden be­hind the link in a Rockefeller broom closet. The treasure was �r.­titled She's orr to College or the Girl's Guide to College Life. In the interest at a full appreciation of college aetivitiea and problema, the News reprints some of the more helpful passa.ges.

The 'first day of college is most important. U you have the qual.

ilies of Rhoda Palmer you will definitely succeed. Rhoda's win­lIing persoOlllity is cleverly de­scribed in a conversation between her parents. "Mr. Palmer leanel.1 over and patted his wife'. kn�. 'Don't wony, )1abel. She'll be al! right. She's n good little 'mixel' and she has a jolly smile and shp. carries her end'." Which equips her with an invaluable asset.

"About one hundred girls ale in that sam�ing room. The wait.­resses were in black, with while­starched aprons, and most of them

Scientists Plan had heart-w.,ming Irish .mile •. " "There was a house full of girl'

Party, T -ctnrc . . . all !dendly, talented, beaut;-. U lui, and there was the faculty, hCl' .. very own professors . . • ". In a

The Science Club will I give a later paragraph, however, U1ls i.i Hallowe'en party this Friday not encouraged. night at 8:00 in the Common "The orchestra would play 0:1 Room. Members of the Science Wednesday evenings for an infor· Club and all Science faculty arc mal girls' dance, when this hous� cordially invited, as well as anyone could invite the girls from anoth­else who would be interested in er house." Wholesome activity is coming. Non-members will be 1 J;nuch a part of college life. charged a small fee. Plans in- I "Some idea of the function an:! clude games, refreshments, and Continued on Page" possibly a Chamber of Horrors, along phY8ical, chemical, and bio­logical lines, Eaton Discusses

Study in Geneva

"You must learn to c:1a88 notes quickly easily."

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... Correspondent by Elisabeth Nelido"" '51

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SIPnU by Ernmy. Cadwalad.er, '50

The Varsity and Junior Varsity hockey teams played the second match of their season against Ur­sinus on Wednesday, October 19. Both teams plaYed exceedingly well, but the final' scores were agl:linst them. The Varsity lost by a very small margin of 4·3, and the Junior Varsity lost 3-1. The goals on the Varsity were 8(!ored b�' Eaton and Blackwood, Eaton

'making two and BlackwoOd scor-ing the other. Wadsworth made the only goal on the !ccond team. This game was one of the best any Bryn Mawr VlIl'sity has ever plliY­cd. It waa II vel'Y rast gil me, lind full of quick passes- Itnd d-odges. BoLh gamcs we.re IUIU\'c!OU:i t o watch bccllusc they weren't rough,

It wall still hot in Florence at but �ood cleun, open hitting', whjch five o'dOck when we boarded the would have pleased MiJis Apple­bUI that was t o take us up to Fie- bee gl'catly if she eould huve seen SOle', in the mountainl, where we I them. were going to visit the "Cnsa di Riposo". This "C8'3a", 01' hou!le, is Freshml'n. Juniora Win a relt home for Red CI'OSS nursel • The lecond round of the Chus founded by n Florentino COIl- H<K'kcy Mutch was 1>layed on Tues­telsa in memory of her sisler wh<' day, October 18. The Freshmen died in the first World War, when beat the Seniors, 1-0, who main­both of them were Red Cros!! 1 tained Utey were onl�' outwinded nunes. As the bus climbed paill- and not outplayed. These Fresh­fully up the mountainside, we men certainly have a lot of energy looked back on Florence below us. when it ·comea to athletic!!. The The Arno curled off into t.he dis- Sophomores 10lt to the JUrUora by lance, peacefully leaving behind a score of 4.1, but thnt is rather it the destruction of war. Make- understandable as there were only shift bridges span the river, five Sophomores Ilnd ten Juniors. springing from rubble-heaps on The odds and evens te8ms will be either bank. The shop-lined Ponte chosen soon, and the scores of the Vecchio is the only bridge still class gamel will be tallied to see standing, and all too often a pil� whkh ela8ll will get the first leg of �tone is all that is left of a on the Class Athletie Cup. There once beautiful palazzo. Dominat- was a mistake made last week; Ing the city is- the DUomo, or cathe- the cup i8 for the class winning­drat with its vast dome. and be- the most in all class sports, not sidp it the Giotto bell·tower rises just .hockey. There are clus games hill'h above the low, red-tiled roofs also in Basketball and Baseball. of the surrounding houses. Pembroke Welt beat Merion HAU

story slows down, nosing genUy at alcoholic lawe8, band leaders, and Gamadge's impossibly stuffy classmate-so A-----r&ther dream}' finis!!. among painted valentines is mar­red only by a face blown off with a service revolver.

On Monday the 31st of October Dr, Conway Kirkle of the Univer­sity-of Pennsylvania will IIpeak on "Death of A Science in Russia." Applying his talk to genetics, Dr. ,Kirkle will explain what happens to scientitic integrity under totaJi· tarian government. An associate professor in the Botany Depart­ment, Dr. Kirkle was a National Research Fellow at Harvard. The lecture will be given in the biology lecture room in Dalton, and re­freshments will be served after-

As we continued up the hill- by the overwhelming score of 7-0, litle, we passed a Dominican mon- on Sunday, October 23, in the sec­a"tery, its pale yellow walls blend- ond round of the Hall Hockey ing perfcctly with the silvery olive Matches. Both teams were greatly trees and the tall, dark cypresses. strengthened by a few miscellane­Groups of men were sitting on ous males ,who seemed to belong to

Specially Contributed their doorsteps. waiting patiently some of the hall members, making by Sheila Eaton, '50 for dinner, while long-legged chit- the game quite hilarious. The rest

This is not the best 01 Miss Daly'a books, but it is on� of th� most typical of them, and for those who like quiet and comtem­plative mystery, And Dangerous to Know will make very pleasant reading. wards.

Crime Reporter Haunts Courts

On Juvenile Delinquency Beat by Hanna Bolborn, '50 As i t turned out, juvenile de·

For many summers I had Hen Iinquent reporting was neither trying to convince city editorl that \'ery simple, nor, in the usual I was 2fj years old, had a Past, anJ lense, very exciting. Much of it was fully capable of frighteninlt was routine; too much of i t was the underworld by front-page ex- merely horrifying. There were, of poses. The first city editor LO course, some "large" stories, b'Jt whom 1 fed this line graciousl:,' the great part of the work center­aet me to writing obituaries; the ed on petty and senseless actli .Heond put me to work on a baby committed nlostiy by gangs I){ column. So lilst summer I revers- teen-agers. ed my tactics; when he growled, A newlpaper in a not-too-Iarg� "And what ean you do?", I cross- city is usually regarded by ih ed my legs and said ·'Society". readers as a kind at inlormation "Fine", said he, "we need a juven. bureau-they call up at all hour3 iJe delinquent reporter for tbe of the day and night, complaining aumme.;.". Thus I entered thr about taxes, noises in their dining world ot crime. room wa1l3, or, if not quite sobel',

My friends greeted the an· about tire hydrants In their kitch­nouncement with mixed reactions enSi they have vital Information One talked gently about the prob· about Stalin's childhood, corrup­lems of readjustment and made an I lion in the sanitation department appointment tor me with • child and the third at Hialeah. Bu', P8ychiatrist; another wat remind- I mostly they ask questions-what' J ed of the time that a lady crime the weather forecast! what's the reporter on the aame newspaper Icore in the Yankee game? did ...-a. found dead and charred in t.he Truman really drop dead in Inde­furnace of a 5 and 10 cent store pendenee! eeveral months after her diaap- The worst queatlons came from pearanee. Others muttered aome- parents who knew that a son O( thing to the effect that it takea ," /daughter had been running around tIIief to catch a thief-and off they with a gang that had been caugbt went to Europe. eo.Unaed on Pare ,

One of the main advantages of, dren played around them, pausing of the games will be played off on a Junior Year abroad is the fact t.hat one is segregated more o!' less from familiar environments and Influences. This beeomes an invaluable opportunity to open your mind, and, being exposed to a diflerent way of thinking and living, to have a clearer idea uf. what you yourself ,believe.

Upon reading the article by Nancy Marlin in the Collega NEWS on the lack of commo:} spirit on Bryn Mawr campus, or rather the fact of increased in­dividualilrm, I thought it might bl' of some interest to expose th!' views of a etudent who had atudied for a year abroad. One is inclinN to regard such a problem with 9. dillerent perspective upon .return­ing home, when still unconsciously under the influence ot the pallt year.

This conflict of too much in dividualism versus communit1 ob­ligation Is a pl'Oblem by no mean .. new to OUt time or college. A question dating back to our earli· est writers, it has been analy,�d and argued by many masters. Bllt it continUe! to recur in each gen­eration, in a slightly different aspect. In keeping with tradition, I would like to conaider a small ani probably quite subjective facet of t.his question, by writing about a few of the impressions and reo actlOI1l I had while studying un­der a European sY3tem ot educa­tion. I hope in this way to ilIu:J­trate the l<rapport" which I find on returning here to Bryn Mawr, and my satisfaction at findine the sehism between the two is, after all, notrtoo profound.

AIter our eighteen yean of lamily snd sehool instruction, tho!

Coatl.aed 011 Pap I

only long enough to lllare curi- Lhe two following Sundays; 110 get ously at a passing stranger, or to your friends and a tew husky men push a stray lock of hall' out of to come cheer and play. their eyes. At last we arrived at The Third Varsity Hockey team Fie80le, stopping in the central played its firat game against Ur­piazza, or square. We crossed the sinus on Monday, Oc�r 24. Bryn piazza, and started up a cobble- Mawr fought hard, but the final Itoned road, which eventually turn- seore was 2-1 in favor of Ursinus_ ed into a gravelly path, and finally The only Bryn Mawr goal waa reached the "Casa di Riposo". This scored by Marilyn Reigle, who was

Continued on Pale' also elected captain of the team.

- THE OBSERVE!:! by Anne Greet, '50

Sunday is the best, when the house and a dog barking. Follow week's rush still mumbles in the along by the wall. Someone'a distance. The halls are quiet, the whi!ltling to the dog. Hide! Foot� library deathly. The lucky ones sLeps I:Ipproach - but there are have left; the others sit in mo- trees in between. Along and along tionless concentration s p u r r i n g Lhe rusty.spiked wall, over ditehes themselves on to the next page and through hedges - and there, with cups of instant coffee. Those where it was three years ago, who live on the lllird Ooor try to where we first found it, is the Way ignore the small field mice who In. Let no leaf rustle, watch care­between roof and ceiliog ure nois- fully, for hooded figures walk ily stocking up against a bleak through the garden in early eve· winter. Dusk closes in. The moths ning. The fountaios are atill si­creep aCrDaS the screenlell sill and lent, but someone has cut the beat their wings upon the.. lamp grail. The windows are bright In shade, scattering bron,e powder the big house. A squirrel echoes upon the bronze�cl8d Achllellns. put the colo·nnades. While statues This is too much. OfT with the gleam through the dried blossoms light and down the stairs. Out we of unpruned hydrangea bushes. It's (to into the Sunday woods where dark now - and past lupper time. milk-weed pods, clustered like The bramble. scratch, the garden­small brown birds. send forth filmy er will eome and find you oul and seeds, These Ooat out upon the chase you through the long alleys. wind, and come to �t on alder Back",p the miaty reaches ot stair, branch or wild uteI', Lights glow way and pillared porch to the through the hazy all'. Red and yel. great atone loun..,.n and, at last, low leaves turn brown as the sun the Way Out. SoC.l.!.y. Take your set •. Down the road past a hedge laat look, then across the meadow of scarlet berries, where a aingie lit by 4hboting atan up the up tree stand. Isolated In the middle the street. and under the lamps that of a great meadow. Beyond Is a Continued OIl Pale'

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P ... e FOUl T H E ,C O L L E G E N E W S Wednesday, October 26, 1949'

UC'etait La Plu8 Grande Parti�

Que Nous Evaire Attendue--Hic"

Reporter Influtigate. Cow on Roller Skatea

Last · Nighters I 'COla di Repo.a', Fie.ole-ClUJt S peU on J'ilitor

Continued from Pale a Dia]ogue, Presentation Conl.inued ftom. Pale S by C.,'nne Williams, 'ro

We went to the French Club Punch party at Mi" Ely', the oth­er day because we have always ad­mired French very much. We com­mented upon al much t.o the butler aerving the puneh. which wu groggy with peachel. Leaning againllt hi' bowl we were telling him how we love Fren'ch lor it� Own Sake and not for apeaking purpoaea when we noUced that th<: punch he was giving UI WaJ aU peach and no punch. We gave him a hurt look and drifted off into th� crowd. A gaunL gentleman with ahocka of blown hair launched u!\ into our first con\'eraation. We lent him our nervous ear lor IQme time, and then, with a heartfel .. "O�oh La," we leJt. him. It was about this time that wo happened to glide back to our butler whom we found squeezed behind his bowl with aeveral large proleuors ...... ll holding cups aloft and trying to get. into t-he rangc ot the News camera. He was still sliding peaches into cups.

Wafting out- t-hrough open French doors onto a gardened ter· race, we found a party of th03.! undergraduates who were in Pari" this summer gathered around two IImallish, dynamic profelllors. The professors were egging those un� dergraduatea who were in Paris on. (It.'s all right for those of IJS who were not. in Paris this sun]· meri we are the only ones who can love the language for ita own pke). This part.y was having ita plct-ure taken when we arrlved­peaches aloft etc., so we joined a photograph or two. When it seem� ed to have got.ten da;k and cold, we all nturned to the living room.

It was then that we noticed that ,Mias Ely'a living room haa no ceil· ing until the lIecond Roor. The hovering haze of smoke gave us n vast. feeling ot infinity . . we were rumlnat.ing upon thil feeling, gaz· ing Into the depths of our cup, when we felt t.he presence of An· other Profenllor. We glanced up and knew immediately our Inade.

Bard's Eye View by Ja.n McBride, '52

o Applel What evils canat thou propagate I t-

Small thought we give thee when thy sphere we see

Change from green to red on burgeoning tree.

'Tis only when we dare to "1iquk!ate"

Thy juicy pulp, and strive to lublimate

Thy better nature, t'hat. thou may come to be

A ,ouree of secret 8lns, and set .ils in a sea

Of wild imaglnln". 0 morbid, bli"ful slate!

Once thou couldat keep the doctor from our door,

And munching on the: c'heered a dismal place.

Now thou bringst ice paclea into constant un.

Thy salutary vlaap nevermOre Wi11 show to us ita ruddy, whole­

lOme face. o potent beverage - fermented

Apple Juicel

. At.teftt.Jonl Pa,da, Billa All Payday bills mUlt be sub·

mitted by t.he Thunday noon be­fore each Payday. Any bills sub­mitted .Later than this will be re­turned.

Payday bills must be made out In the folJowin&, manner:

(1) llit in alphabetJcal order the names of \.he people to be bill­ed· ,

(2) Ibt iDdlvidual IU� .1 weU .. total 01 lDdlYiduala bUil;

(I) Uat the name of the penon to wliom the cheek .hould be made oat 0IId the place w ..... the check _ bo _L U blDa .... ... _ oat ID IIIJs _, Ib .. will a. .. to .. ,.lQbadtted.

quacy. -Preesin, the peacbes 10 our breast we watched the lips of this profe,sor move merclleasly over the cadences and innuendoeJ of the language we admire, and liS mercilessly move into the final ca· dence of a questjoninl innuendo­at. which lull, wit.h a look of what we trust was a'hocked distreu, we shouted, "Helas, helas!" at her and leapt behind a plate of pasling peanut thins. We knew it W88 time to leave. On our way out we en­countered a mathematics profenot

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at lomething; they aaked us if we Mars Strong Theme house is a 'ovely two·story build· had any news about t'hem, and I! O£ Montlerrat

ing, with a wide terrace between io, plene not to print il Many the two wingl, roofed by a vlne� parenti arne to see us about their by Vaula Strawhec:ker, '52 covered trellis. The nurles were problems, asking what they eou1d sitting out on the terrace, knitting or should have done to prevent Montserrat profeases to be a and talking. We were introduced what. was 'happening. tragedy; it succeeds only in that all around, and after a prelimin-

News Da, Statte Early It II a tragedy of the theatre. ary awkwardne8$,. con venation re· The lite of & crime reporter on a Wit.hout a..knowledge of the French sumed.

modern newspaper is not very dra� play by Emmanuel Robles it 1'1 'The home is open to Red CrolS matie; in fact, it is rather highly impossible to argue it., original nurses ot all nationalities who organized. The typical day stane1 merit, but the Idea behind the need a nat, and many ot them in the office at a muc'h too early play Is so powerful in a t.ruc dra. come back year after year. This houri from there we visited th� matic senae that one cannot con. is not surprising, considering the police .tation, going on to the jail, sider Lillian Hellman's adaptation beauty and peace of the surround­t� morgue, and the court. Every anything but the labored degener� ings. Florence lies at your feet, now and then then would'be a big atlon of a basically superlative still rftaining its mediaeval love� a.asignment�nce we had to int.er· play. The adion laid in Venezuel!l liness. The sun was setting when. view a 16-year-old boy who had during the revolts of 18.12, eon. we arrived, and the picture waa stabbed his mother in the back be- cerns a young Spanish officer. almost indescribable. Gradually, cause he knew she had been un� Montserrat, w'ho confuse. to hav. lights began to burn t.hrough the fait.h1ul; occasionally t.he unex� ing� aided BolivaT to escape, but purplish hue of -the evening, and peeted would happen-once In refuses to reveal hil hiding place. a few pale etars appeared. You , ourt a prisoner suddenly went. Montserrat.'s colonel, bquiredo, had t.he impression that you were beraerk, grabbed a pistol from 11 knowing the young soldier would looking at a fairy cit.y, which guard� and, having ahot him die rather than betray t.he revolu. might at any minute disappear in� t.hrough the stomach, proceeded to lionary cause, presents him with l to lhe growing dusk. shoot aimlessly around the court· far worse alternative: 'he has aix As night fell, it became very room; the first and last time I citizens brought from the market cool, alld evel'yone's thoughts be­have ever been shot at, or over. and tells them that unless they gan to turn to supper. We went

Sundry Collene "Types" Once a 17·year.old boy shot bi.'! can persuade Montserrat to reveal in and sat at one long table, while

e ex-fat.her�in·lawi anot.'hcr time " I Bolivar's position, t.hey will be shot conversation rattled on. The ma-Found in Broom Closet boy ot the lame age kidnapped hi'S at the end of the hour. Thus MOnt- jority of the nurses were Italian.

Continued from Plge 3 e�.wite. This was, . of co�rse, the serrat is forced to weig'h his ideals �ut there were. also French, Swed-

use of a great. library rea.chca kllld of story whuili stimulated against six Jives. Ish, and Enghsh ones. Language them as they look at, touch, and newspaper sales; un'fortunately, it The mora strugg e of Mont- : difficulties were slight, but not handle the book., the repository . . prompted few to action. Every. serrato as opposed to the obdurate enough to bother anyone, and: of human knowledge. In the gym. one, it Iccmed, was .'hocked by the colonel offers opportunity for mag- everyone talked a mile a minute to nasium the freshman feels more at problem of juvenile delinquencYi niflclent counterpoint of characters her neighbors. AI the nurse who

home." Or will in time. but most people seemed also to and it is primarily here that Miss runs tbe home said, the nuraes be� "Maria was a senior who had take It very much for granted. We Hellman has bypalled the chanee come like aehoolgirls as soon as.

made Phi Beta Kappa in her jun� had endless interviews with people of a playwriting lifetime. The in� they get there. LaVghing, jeking,

lor year and was graduating sum- who were working on it and ar- te t f h ' talking shop, and tealing each

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ed and ahe walked along very all this seemed to be very positive. Emlyn Williams' top billing would hospitals all over Europe. quietly with an armful of books " The Lighter Side indkate, Miss Hellman's charact- After dinner we pushed back Have YGU passed in your poll' I got to know almost every po· d r I the chairs, rolled up the rug, and

!iceman in the city', a dubio •• er e lIleat on through dialogue is started to dance. One of the nursea. "Decide for promptness, then more than misleading in ita weak� calculate how long It take' to get. pleasure, at times, 'but 900/" .)f nellS. It Mont.serrat is meant to be did an Impromptu solo w'hile the from your bed to your lecture. them were Irish and answered to the protagonist and hili reeoncilia- ot.'hers sang for her, anot'her taught That much is netellSary for every. the name or Mac. They fed me tlon of conftictlng principles the us a new Italian dance step, and

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and brown sugar, one or two frieJ ated by the singing of a happy William Redfield is not the actor we discovered we would have to 'th b h ' II d drunk beyond and the rather sud- run to cak:h the last bus. Grab-

eggs WI acon, a 0 ro , an U den departu e f 0 t f h ' to portray the sensitive, tormented b' 'h' 'd ood b e

glau of milk-why, put In time r o m s 0 my os 5 lIoldier. Mr. Redfield tries very 109 our lOgS, we 1ft] g • y

for it, too!' But I miss so many in a squad car. to one and all, and fted down the �Ia.ases by going to Philadelphia. The buaineu did have its light. �arneatly, but he remains a juven. hill. The bus took us back to now-

"But st.udcnts don't mind hurry� er sides. There was, for instanc, ile of the George Abbott school, darkened Florence. but I will never the time when a horr," ,d SPCA the Billy Redfield of Snafu and h I h r h lng and rushing. In fad. many II Bare.foot Boy With Cheek. torget t e aug ter 0 t e nuraes.

like t-o be 'hurried, to have to rusf) official cilled me up with a "juven� and the spirit of the "Casa," for bout, to dallh from one clalSl to lie delinquent" story that beat The only possible justification they make it the most beautiful

the next, to prepare Latin in tho them all. A Jlix-year-oJd bey and for starring the colonel and titling memorial I know. h' ' Ie I" the play Mont8errat would be the

history clalSl, to do t'helr prepared IS SIS r, ]vmg Ollt on a farm, Spanish as a sight t.ranslation, had each been given a pair of rol- intention to create a counterpoint

ler skates Th b be' 1 of characters in confticti each a right under the professor'l eyes. . e oy, lD.g 0 an G I F T S It makes lite seem hazardous " imaginative sort, began to ponder catalyst erystalizing the mind and

Seem hatanlous ? -w'hat wOlJld happen if he shouid soul of the other. MisS Hellman's

.. 'Who's t.hat?' 'No, not t.he.. one put the roller skates on a cow and dialogue has not ereated this im­

in the red dress, the one in t'hc let her roll ? After much heaving �re88lon, �or has Mr. Redfleld's

brue.' 'Oh, she's editor�in-chlef �t and Itraining, tiI'4e roller akates mterpntat]on 0 r ,Performance.

the college paper.' The freshmsl1 went on, and sure enough, the cow St.range.Jy, as written and acted,

listens and looks and affectl a tolled. But the SPCA cried in vain' l lhe pleadings of the lix citizens blase manner to hide her secret for Bonie was no more. have little effect on Montserrat,

For AU Occasions

excitement." Walt until she comes to the try·outs. II 'Look here,' norothV said 'You're a new girl. You don't

Dr. Ushenko StreIBes "Truth of Law" In Art

know the ropes yet. It'a not done Continued from Page 1 Belides, you'll queer yourself wit� IIY8, Ind could not be represented �he boys. Have you got a date aceurately by anything elae(where­for the Hallowe'en dance?' Clar· a. truths of fact, such as those ibel expected that Harold would held in scientific experiments, can ask her, of course, but. to be truth· be repreaented by formulae, ele.). ful, he hadn't yet. 'No." 'Well, Dr. US'henko's eonclusion ia that that's what I mean. You won'� It is the vision of the artist which get an escort. I'm going with determines the way in wbich a Alex.' A silence feU between tho! truth Ihall be presented; as a poet two girls. Claribel knew Alex, thi! wrote, "Art Is but a vision of football captain. · · · Claribel reality," a vi.ion that holds more went out softly and walked down or lellS truth, anq is mon o� less the twisting stairs . .. Harold was great. talking to Elsa. Elsa who wa- ;:.=============; blonde had just come in from ten-nis and was In tennll clothes with ftushed cheeks. She stood by th'! door lauehing and nringin&' her racket apinst her ankles. 'AU

right, Harold. Love to. I'll save and qnc:e for you. October thlrty� ftrat' Claribel bea.rd the worth very plainly; the nllht of the Hal· lowe'en hop." GADI

.. . . . among the foolilh lirh there are two kinds, those who eut e1 .... and thOle who attend." Oh, I .iTe up.

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• Sweater. • Slips, Stocking. • Hand sewn Sandler Loafer.

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PIllLIP HARRISON Lancaster Avenue

Bryn I\fawr

GIVE YOUR LANTERN GIRL , THAN THE CANDLE OF WISDOM

Take her to tea at

THE COLLEGE INN ON CAMPUS

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The Saga of Violetta by Barbara J-oei8on. '52 I By a �a8hing cabal1ero,

Somewnere near the ftowing Teaching her to do the tango. Schuylkill, Russian commiSfiara don't veto

On a campus know 88 Bryn Mawr, Violett'll', coy suggestions; Dwelt a maiden: Violetta. Gennan youths forsake their frnu-

young and leins; • Freshman was she, t.rusting,

Anxious to begin her learning. In the fall she heard ot orals, But a test would never faze her; A she got in French in high 8chool, Orals? . . , She 'could always pass

them ! So instead OUI' Violetta Went to see old Yale piny

vard, H8r-

April came with 8centcd blossoms, Dreams of romance ' , . and the

orals. So one Saturday in Taylor Violetta tackled Francais, Traduise'd in smoot.hest English, Fail&! her first try at -the o1'als. Sophomore year said Violetta, "Espano) Pd rather hableI'; Rhumbas I adore alld IlIlmhns." But the little Violetta Reckoned not ..... it.h things like

tenses: Spanish went the way that French

went. Then our maiden took up German­'Just to read Its mighty authors" , (And, of COUI'SC, to PRSS the oral), But alas young Violetta Never got to Mann or GOllthe, Never passed her German oral. Junior year, not quite so hopeful, Violetta thought of Russian -"Just to be a Mata Hari, Dine on caviar and vodka", (And to pass the Russian oral) . :More chance had she lor a spy's

Iile, More chance to get drunk with

Stalin , Than to translate into English Those confounding hieroglyphics • . So Ihe failed. Then turned to Plato, Sappho, Aristophanes, and Homer; But the Greek Ihe could not con-

quer, Orals still remained the victor. Senior year, both tense and jaded, Violetta tried Italian. Sad to 3ay she knew spaghetti Better than she knew her gram-

mar. Then she found that her diploma Would not come at graduation. Would not come (to be specific) Till some day far in the future, When t.he tests were thrown from

Taylor, Hen, by chance, would reaeh the

last step. But. luck, it seemed, would never

bless her. So with heavy heart and weeping, Violetta left dear Bryn Mawr, Lett old Taylor, home of orals, Where she'd suft'ered, Spring and

Aut.umn, With the verdict: "Semper Vincta", What became of Violetta? Had her Iile been scarred forever? You may judge: Each day for

breakfaat

Italianos take her dining, Purchase for her sweet Chianti: And the "Greek's", whene'cr she

eats there, . Sing with her "Pallas Athena." Violetta's lengthy story Has, i n spite or ali, a morai. For t.hough you mny seem

detented, Thou&,h yOu fail ad infinitum, Still you never know what comfort. What advantages and plclUurcs Come,"

when languages you've toiled through,

Suddenly are really oral -Take the case of Violetta ! !

S. Eaton Finds Genev(I Stimulating, Maturing

Continued from Page 3 greater POl't or us arl'ive at col­lege .having acquired during our education n large moral, academic, !Sporting, Hnd sociul training. Only a small minority arrive ,wi�h a fully matured individual charactill" Once at college we hope to pur­sue our pel'sonal nims, all well Il5 those for the college. I f�el that there !ire actually few colleg"s w h i c h encourage emphatically these tendencies toward an ...... imli· vidual development, and among these few I would place Bl'Y:l Mawr at the top.

In studying at tbe University of Ceneva, one has the occasion tn meet a "melange" 01 students who represent almost every country to east and west. This "pot pourri" of conflicting ideas and personal;· ties i s all housed in the lmUlil, and as the Parilians <say, "provenciale" city of Ceneva. tPerhaps fortun· ately, they are not all congregated on one camllus, but are scatterell in a thousand pensionl and small hotels. T.hey come to the Uni­versity for their courses, and they go home at night, but between th� courses there are innumerable in· terludes which are long enough to take a small respite in a conv"n­ient cafe, the Univer·:'-· �'lilo 11 park.

Among these diverse student!' one could say there il very Iittl� esprit de corps, but there was at least one common aim: to learn. And so, gathered in any smaIJ room or reasonably quiet place. discussion begins. It is stimd'1at­ing and interesting to rind your­self at the same table with n Yugoslav, an Arabian, a Scandinn­lOian, and a Swiss German, Rugge1 individualism excell, and there is no need for an introductory ex-

Reviewer Finds Adaptation Disappointing; Praise. Acting ",ul Tlu!me 0/ ""fon18errat"

CumLauc/eRel/uirement Raised lor CI(lSS of '53

Continued (rom Page 1 In 1946, 34,81j� ot the class grad­

uated with distinction. In 1947. 36.5r-� or the class grad,

uated with distinction. _ In I948, 61 .7�C or the class gr3d·

uated with distinction. In 1919, 51.1�1. of the.clus Il'ad

uated WIth distinction, Und�r t.he new plan the pertent­

ages would have been as lollows: In 19.$5. 29,3r: of the class would

have graduated with distinction, In 19�6, 25,Or� of the class would

have graduated with distinction. In 1947, 27,9% of t.he class wOIII.!

hllve gradunted with distinction, In 19,18, 35.3"(, of the class would

hnve gr'aduated with distinction. In 1040, 26.7% of the class woult!

have gradUated with distinction. It is interesting thllt no changto

would have been made in the num­ber of students receiving the de gree summa cum laude and very few in the nlagns cum laudl', grnup, The principal change would have occurred in ,he number of student>! gl'..!duating cum laude.

Incidentally So this is how they teach French

at Bryn Mawr! The following are

Continued from )lege "

and for lack of tragic materiaj in Mont.serrat, the tragic situation

begins to settle around Itquiredo. ThUll Emlyn Willinms unwittingly ovcrbnlances the play, but makes it more literate by creating a di­mensiollal characler, Pel'haps Miss Hellman mennt hel' play to 'be the Il'agedy of the colonel, brought ubout by his contnct with the sen­sitive Montsetl'llt, but thill would scem to read more into the script than she hRS written ; iC this WUII her intention, she has cel,t.nin1y gone the long way rounrt nnd so obscured characters thllt they are i ncom prehens!ble,

Milss Hellman's dialogue is gen­erally poor lind especially stilted in the irrelevllnt oj)eninlt- srene.; I her epigmmmatic attempts Ul'e often Iminfu!. Relletitious, orten dull and seldom profound, :'I1i�i1 Helhllu�'S words do not illuminate her characterll, n most unfortun­ate situaLioll in a pillY of chllraclcr study.

In 1Itlditioll, Misl Hellmnn hll� staged the piny herself, thetcb), eliminating a pOllsibility ot the di­reetol" s deeller inllight which the )lillY desperately needs, The adulI­tor.dh·ector, in a final hIck of dis· cretion, has ended the play with

anticlimax, after pro\'iding heneH onc or the moat. powerful t\nd in·

genious curtain Jines in many a

)'ear, Montserrat. reruses to hetmy Bolivur, and one by one the hos­

tages R� exetuled. Montserrat again refusel to yield his SL'tri!t, believing his torture to be over.

and that death alone cnn follow. A t this moment. Jzquiredo ordcrd six more people brought from the market. It would seem that this

speech alone could redeem much . _---

of the preceeding dialogue, but �tiu _Hellmon chooses to carry the play through an exasperating and somewhat chUdi,h te"l'In.tion and Montserrat's subsequent execution as a trailor.

In one sense, Montserrat is eJt� tremely intereating to wutch. The uct.ors prove thenl5eh'CII such onl)' through their interpretations. lince they have not the aid or intelli­gent lines. Of the six who must Ilersullde, Heinhold Schul1zel and John Abbott distinguish them­selves. The former p!tIYS the pli­thetic merchant. with a moving

'Sinceril)'. )11'. Abbott hAS the fas­cinating role of n repertory actor to which he brings humor, '}luthOR and a wonderful sad dignity. The

Cftntinued on Page 6

Morning J\lUIcnlbly )11'8. )tarshall will speak at the

llext Wednesday mOl'ning uuem· bl)' ut. 8:45 in Goodhllrt. Her topic will be "The Seven College Con· ference".

NEWS El«llons The Ne\\8 takes plellsure in an·

nouncing the election to the stair of Jttdy Konowitz, '61, Pllt Mo. .. • ray, '52, Helen Katz, '53, ami Frances Shirley, '63.

Educational Filml A series of educational films will

be presented eve!')' Wednesday aftemoon in the Music Room at 4:15. The next. will be on Novem­ber 2; its title is "Somatic Conse­qUencel of Emotional Starvation in Infants". The film is being of­fered by the Psychology depart­ment.

exerpts from the scienc:e passage COMPLETE YOUR ROOM of the most recent French Oral: MEET AT THE GREEK'S with

"There are two kinds of physique3; I h .e FLAU:��SIlINGS the unduillting physique and the Tasly Sandw c U at

corpuscular physique." • ' . Refreshments Suburban Hardware gists prying into proteins by un- LUNCIIES _ DINNER

derhand methods ?" "Scientists I L=============�==:::::8�3�':::::L�'�"�'.�'�I�"�A�'�··===1 start to contl'ol matter, already I ' they have submitted to fission.' "The science of the undulatinK' body."

planation of your previous life background, but you plUnge rectiy into a n impending subjec' of conversation. As an individual you voice your opinion, and obliged to defend it in your own lIubjective manner, It is rare when these conversations generate into a mere political debacle. And so during months of study at Geneva, I grew t.o appreciate a person for wh<lt he represented as an individual

(Continued Next Week)

Un monsieur from France awaits her, 'Twaln't the charm of Cinderella

Begs her, "Venez a la Casba.h." 'then �t noon his 'Place Is. taken

Compliment.

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Hellman Adaptation Weakem "Montserrat'"

Sunday Reveries Stir FiruJl Alltllmn Ghosts

T H E C O L L E G E N E W S

II1rs. Holland Vanquishes Fjprce Sheep Dog, Row. "Wild OaJ;" in Ancient Roman Stream

Wednesday, October 26, 1949

I PeacJU!. alld Prolessors Give Club Party Pllnch

Continued (rom Pare .. "Continued from PaCf: 5 Continued from Page 3 dot the campus - home. Safety. hu been trying to lean:

I�mllindcr a( the six-have been This is it - The last time. We an! They spent one night with a large lIuntan lotion! They found it di(- French for years by having Prol,lJlt gh-en less to work with, but nlDn- feeling old these daya - never Italian family who lived l'h a cave! fieu!t to steer clear of the many read aloud to her.

Continued from Page 1 large bottle of Elinbeth Arden who

age in e,'ery CalC to create some- another autumn blowing ghollts Another night they lelt "The Wild stone piera supporting the bridgc.i I Drirting down the street, we thing (rom nothing. Because of through the nun's garden or send- and fend off small boy! with po:'- thought to oUfJlelves what a fine the stilted and Itylized manner- ing flurries of birds to wake the Ont" on the river outside Rome

I fi t th . , thing it was that Kathy Harper isms of Mr. Redfield, however, on cloisters. Cut down the laurel, and went into the city by train to ng ngers a e same limc. has done fOf, IlS we remarked to feels the)' are pillying in a vacuum. strip the bay. The name of autumn spend the night. Early the next Mrs. Holland took u great many one prOfC!I!IOf, "c'etait la plus The line of persuasion t.aken by passes, and winter bites hard, morning they got up with II cry picturc.s 01 the Tiber itself, which grande plu;tle que nous evaire Ilt­c�h citizen. knowing his life dc- leaving only the vitltl skeleton lind of "On to Rome!" and took the Is really quite beautiful when one ten due." pends on the force of his argument, Iife-colof' Seeds wander, ben·jes il on it, though not very impres- ============"" h 11'ain out of the city, got their boat, I ofl'o.rs great possibilities to 1 e brighten, tawny leaves call .to us sive from the ridges ubove. She adapLor, but she has scarcely . . . "This is it. The culminAtion and sailed triumphantly into Rome hinted at their dramatic power. . . . darkneSll (sleepy _ forgetful) Ilgain. also showed slides of the bridges

. r. '. We'll to the woods no more. and aqueduct!!, the river ferry men, Despite il.! weakneases. Mont- The expedition presented a var- the family who lived in the cave, serral is worth seeing, for tw iety of perils. Masonry which had the mouth. of some of the t-,' bu-Th ft . th Chest X-raI.s ' TeSlons. e rat is e comp - fallen out of ancient bridges cre- taries, and various other land-- th I m,·nd. and value. in Every student, gra uate and Ing erne 0 fi "Th marks. Among the p,·ctu .... w' a. ft· hi h undergraduate, MUST go and ated arti cial rapids to try e 1I10rtal con Ict, W c may be X.rayed, Wednesday, No- Wild Oats" non-canoelike propor- one ot herself, not very recogniz-

performancel onc!. the dialo ue vemoor 2. The.. X·raYI will be- tions. Mn. Holland's discomfort AI ahe showed it, Ihe sighed h ,.. I ••• away The .econd gin alter morning aaaembly in I l t d 81 �n c ea� . rom ong exposure 0 sun an and remarked, "Every time 1 see . E I W ' III ' f anee Goodhart Auditorium and will

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found hidinr behind some of e able, seated in "Th. ild oat." l

IS m yn I . ami per onn , wind was relieved by a thought- that picture I, think I really sholJld h' h k the confusion and be given only on that day. w IC ma es ful gift fro!'l Miss Taylor � a fha�v�'�h�ad�H�e�l�en�R�O�k�i�na�o�n�a�lo�n�g�! ,o:

'�=========:::=� uncertainty of the rest of the play '-::===========��;';;;';;;'��:::::���=� I considerably easier to bear. Il Mr. r

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