The College News, 1949-03-23, Vol. 35, No. 19 (Bryn Mawr, PA: Bryn Mawr College, 1949)
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Bryn Mawr College Scholarship, Research, and Creative Work at Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr College Publications, Special Bryn Mawr College News Collections, Digitized Books 1949 The olC lege News, 1949-03-23, Vol. 35, No. 19 Students of Bryn Mawr College Let us know how access to this document benefits ouy . Follow this and additional works at: http://repository.brynmawr.edu/bmc_collegenews Custom Citation Students of Bryn Mawr College, The College News, 1949-03-23, Vol. 35, No. 19 (Bryn Mawr, PA: Bryn Mawr College, 1949). This paper is posted at Scholarship, Research, and Creative Work at Bryn Mawr College. http://repository.brynmawr.edu/bmc_collegenews/743 For more information, please contact [email protected]. • • \ VOL. XLV, NO_ . "f 19 ARDMORE BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1949 (lolllJ"rl.hl. TriO-I.... PRICE CENTS and Dr),. �I .... r ColI ...e.lI11 15 Variety of Style and Material Park Calls Dean I Excellent Acting and Setting . Make "Counterpoint" Absorbing ., E y Lmking Apostle by mil Tow ..e.d '50 , �n ••zi •• ,Iro ••• r Iho. I he mlu- Give Lif to\�'Foolish . The sprmg Issue ot Counlerpomt elve Title ever was. e Notion" · is a fine magazine. The eighteen The non-undergraduate contribu- £e contributions, both prose and po- lions are a welcome Ceature in the CO ege LI etry. are without exception good, new issue. ,Mr. RichmOnd LatU- �orkInanAlvard ()f II sensitive work, and the whole se· more's T'ree Poems 8\,! excellent: Administrative Position leetion and makeup haa been intel- remarkable for controlle£! intricacy To Aid Research Re'luires Tact, Iigently handled. In thie Issue at of Image and .sensitivity to the least, with over forty page. of quality ot words. "The Meaning of Maturity commendable writing, the wisdom .Myth" is perhaps the best. with Of Habib, Martin of combining with Haverford can- its complez shilt of !Marion Edwards Park, President reference and not be questioned: the calibre is color of expression; '"The Brink". In the Graduate Assembly on Emeritul of �ryn Mawr. spoke on higher, the range wider, the whole ulthough reminiscent of Pound's Friday, March 18, MilS McBride "Graduate Work in Administra Canto is a more compact and : ' d that the Fanny Bullock: tion" at the Graduate Fellowship 1I, �; ;��: affinnative treatment of the same � Travelling Fellowship Assembly in oGoodhart, Friday. Kohler Lectures material. Mrs. Hilda Foss' illus been awarded to two graduate March 18th. Followil)ol the an I trations of seenes from The Broth- lIludenta: Wadad Habib of Cairo, nouncement by ,Miss McBride of ' era Karamazov have a curioul Egypt. and Denise Martin of New the Fanny !}3ullock IWorkman Trav· On Perspective, woodcut quality and produce .n in York City.This award is not made eling Fellowhip which Is a.warded Continued on Page every year, but only when an out this year to two Bryn .MaWI' grad· 4 Optical Illusions standing graduate student worthy uate students, Wadad Habib, nt of such an honor can be found. Cairo, Egypt, and lDeni'le Martin, Dr. Wolfgang Kohler, last night Miss Habib. president of the of New York Glty. Miss il'ark de- in Dalton at the Science Club lec F acuIty Endorses Graduate Club, received her A.B. acribed the lunction and method of ture, explained lOme relevant and at the American Univenity in academic administration, the qual- important facts which have come New Requirement; Cairo and her M.A. at Bryn Mawr 1fications necessary for this kind rrom his research at Swarthmore in 1948. In her major field, phllos� of work, and its importance in College; that certa.in phenomena ophy. ahe is studyinr the Theory modern education. previously considered errors of 1953 Will Benefit of Value and plans to attend Har �udgment are real. The organizer'l job, "a steady , Several changes in the curricu- vard Univenity, where .he will ision, he exp ained. is govern and persistent attempt to make the V ! � 'Ium were voted by the faculty at "examine ... a theory of value. I ed not by the retma but by the cor- Iramework of education fltron�r", a meeting On March 16th. The -------------- : discussing the most significant tex, so disproving the prevalent il a particul&rly essential one chanies were proposed after In Low, Cooper Interpret theories that have. been given as h ry tb. the third dim ns on is d�y because of the confusion andto-I t � ! . � � vestigatlon by the faculty Curri. answers to this problem since a learned plane. Smce It un- Roles With Humor, dISorder of our educational sy.tem. IS culum Committee and the Com Plato and Aristotle on to modern likely that there are two separat Any democracy is extremely de- � mittee on Post-War Curriculum. Imagil1ation contributions ... but more par m hanisms for perception and our pendent on ill sy.atem of education, ec They will be effective for the clalS ticularly with reference to C. I. be 19 by Gwynne William a 'SO to develop the !Tight thinking or memory of it. there must a cor- of 53. Lewis' reeently published book, relation between emory and g The Bryn l\fawr.JHaverford pro the individual for Intelligent man- m H - A requirement in social science An Analysis Knowledge and ural afler-effects. duction of "FooU,h Notion," di of .acement of his own life and for 81- !Be explained or history is to be introduced. The ConUnued on pale ... rected by Mr.Thon, Saturday night ConUnued on Page 4. that certain visual phenomena requirement is to be met by a first was excellent; have lbut one COnt such as the Muller-Lyer illusion, year course in economics. history, 1 plaint, the usual one-the play the apparent difference in distance politics, or sociology, with the later is not worthy "luch beautilul act· McBride Speaks between arrowheads facing in opo. possibility of a first year co1Jrse 01 ing and direction. However, Bryn polite directiora, is a fact of per. developed jointly by two or more Kennedy Explains Mawr and Haverford have a unique ception rather th�n the supposed of thele departments. The place At S. Gov. Clinic capacity for "saving" plays, �nd error of' judgment. uf psychology in relation to this 3lthoueh "Foolish Notion" haa its The Student Government Clinic Chinese Problems Figural after·effect, those phan- requirement is to be po�tponed for share of very foolish dialoeue, of the NSA, which is headed by omena by which the .ubject, hav- ror discussion next year. Rhoadl Showcase, March 22. It is not, like "An Inapector Calls", Ann Seldeman, Is holding a panel ing lfixated a line curved to the The requirements in English Speaking at an informal discus plot si clever and sus- discussion on "'Student Govern Composition, Philosophy, Litera- hopeless: ill Continued on lIion after lunch instead of ad 2 penaeful, and It I charactera aTe ment: Relation to the !College pale ture, and Science are to be contin Ita dressing the college as originally aufficiently 'unformed' to give act- Community", in Goodhart on the ued. All "substitute requiremenll planned, Dr. Georre Kennedy of ors opportunity to interpret them evening of Wednesday. March 28. are to be aboliahed: that is, the Yale University answered quel Dr. R. Wittkower '" they wtah. There will be thTee short speeches "readlng course" for science tions about: the situation In China. The two outstandine perform- followed ,by & discu_ion period. majors, the unit substituted for The Chinue people, be said, tbink anees were Marjorie Low's u So· The speakers the evening will To Speak on Art first year philosophy by philoso- of that anything would be better than phie, and Brooks Cooper's al Hor- be MilS MciBrkle: Mr. William Nel Continued on Pare • what they have been getting in Dr. Rudolf Wittkower. of the aUo Wing. Marirle brought out all son WQt, a trustee at lHavedord; "the way of government from the University of London. will give the the comic implicatloDS of tbi. play and IIr.Ralph Du�aD, an und�r Chiang administration. and there next 'Art Seriei Lecture in Good. Fr. Club to Stage in her .ubtle. delicioul way. TM graduate at St. JOl6ph's. Each will fore support the Communlats.One hart on Wednesday, April 13, at "Oh the dear .boy shouldn't have" .peak on the point at view towat'd -of the listener. pointed out that 8:80, on "Bernini at the Court of moment with the roses, the "teU Student Government Inculcated iJ, the Chinese Communists have dil Louis XlIV'·. A Reader in the His· Modern 'Antigone' his Excellency just one ....ord, 'Dis- his or her particular 'POIition. terent political ideals from the tory of the Cla.ssical Tradition In cretion'" and a'bove all the crad!- The Student Government prell. AnUrone. a modern tragedy Soviet .Communists. in that the Art in the Wallburg Institute, Uni ing of the 'broIlIe urn of 'her 'late' dent.a of twenty-ilve coUege. ha.. by Jean Anouilh, will be given by former want only the basic in versity of London, Dr.Witbkowftr hu.band'. uhes was done rwlth au� ben invited. alonr with their vari the French Club this spring: in the dustries to be nation&Uzed, and the has written on Michaelanrelo snd perb comic delicacy. Brooks Coo- oua campus officers, and one hun. Skinner Worklhop on AlIrU 8, and TeSt left to private control.It has Bernini and. In his mOlt rec.nt per.is a delight on any atage; his dred and &fty delerale' to the l .. t in Philadelphia on April 13. been the United State.' .upport work, on "British Art and the Med . ContJnued on pa,e • NSA convention.