The College News, 1952-03-19, Vol. 38, No. 19 (Bryn Mawr, PA: Bryn Mawr College, 1952)
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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 1952 The olC lege News, 1952-03-19, Vol. 38, 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, 1952-03-19, Vol. 38, No. 19 (Bryn Mawr, PA: Bryn Mawr College, 1952). This paper is posted at Scholarship, Research, and Creative Work at Bryn Mawr College. http://repository.brynmawr.edu/bmc_collegenews/879 For more information, please contact [email protected]. , .' of VOL. XLVIII-NO. ARDMORE ond BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH CopJT\dlt. TI $III PRICE CENTS 19 19, 1952 Bryn Maw .. Coli... , un 20 Berlin Reviews Mock Convention CombinedChoruses Cassidy Reviews Dr. Combellack Complete Weekend • • Backs Stevenson The Middlea E st Malstre En Of Music Gaieties Contrasts Two dmg by In Late Balloting Mum'Moe-b<, '54 Ideological Strife The Bryn Mawr and Princeton Governor Adlai E. Steveoson, "We cannot solve the prolliem of combined choruses were the out. Flexner Series IUinois Democrat, woukJ. the the Middle East by a blanket pol Epic IAudiences .be Slanding portion of the concert next 'President of the United icy; then! are deep complicalioJU, States I'iven Saturday night in Goodhart the majority of the delegates to and mu.t recognize the .situa· Listeners' Intemgence Ignorant Generalities if and Sunday in MeCarter Theatre 'We the Southeastern Regional Inter- tion", declared Morley CUlSkly, Fa J8e I y Leve eI d in Princeton. Balance and pro· Opposes Readers' collegiate Conference on Govem- feature editor the PthiJadelphia slon enhanced their presentation 01 By Accusers ment their way. That wu t.he Bulletin, at the third Alliance Aa Ignorance had of Vaughn Williams' In verdict the bellot!ng at t.he mod Mau G sembly, ThursdaiY, .Mareh 13, .at Mr. lIlalah LBerlin delivered the 01 Minor and Jacob Handl's Ad Elizabeth White, when ahe en et pol tie.l nomin.ting convention 0 p. m. in Goodhart auditor last of his lectures on the politica" � lIlirable Commercium. Both Mr 12:80 dowed the Horace White Memorial � ld In Goodhart on Saturday, ium. he Lectureships in memory of her ideu or the Romantic Age i' Goodale and Mr. Forbes had ,px h Match 15. Voting' on t�e til'at Mr. Cassidy. who !has just re rather, stipulated that they be in Goodhart, Mond y evening, March: , bal- cellent dynamic control consider E bhe Jead, turned from a !Visit to the -)!Jddle lo � showed selrllower In the elassics and given by • In this cl se to the Flexner l Inc that the chorus was composed be 17. out. .of a total of votes. EMt, diaeUised the conflicting scholar or Greek. The conditions seTi ", he diacuSMld Maistre a With 61 1.28 of nearly one hundred and fifty '8 ' Stassen was runnlDg' seeond· , th ideologies of the area. Tbere i. were fulfilled on Wednesday, wben philasopher of the late eighteenth WI voices. The difficult quartet that followed by Stevenaon an unusual compound of national Frederick M. Combellack, Associ votes, lay within the earl:, nineteenth centuries. Mais 2 . Wlth� 20. !Wilham . .Douglas poll Mau in G Minor religious fervor, and ate Profelsor of Clanical t.n� tre, !because of his opposition to was admirably handled by Ronnie ism, new po O and ed 10 votes, Dutr, 10, Talt, and litical !IOCial eoncept.a. He in I'uages st the Univenity . the theories behind' the French 2, Gottlieb, sopranoi Mary Cul 01 ,,", T n, 1. Governor Warren of Lee dicated that whereas the Western ,on, SPOke on "Homer's Readera Revolution, is often Ibrushed as:de ruma ver, contralto; Harry PoweD, ten CaliroMia was nominated, but fail influences 'have generally been and Bearers; Learned Ignorance with haf8h epithets: a .upporter or; and George Newlin, they ed to receive any vote.. The MC� baaaj we have not learned ea,Uy and Illiterate Learning". of the "unholy trinity of dictator, afl'ected the necessary unity good" ond ballot showed Eisenhower oJ about Eastern culture, and have The lecture was divided tWII pope, and executioner", a fanalic 10. such a closely integrated quartet hUo ing strength, with Stassen and Ste made mistake of leadine East parts, each showill, an Dudien:c Catholic, a d&mented, eloquent re and choru•. the veMon tying for I8COnd place. ern peoples �nto democ:raey with that had fsllen unrler the spell IIf acitcnary. Mr. Berlin ,pointed out On Parallel to the et!'ec:tivenesl of the third ballot, Stevenson' clearly out ihe to implement it In Homel/s poetry, the flrat part Xaistre's beliefs, in an attempt to the Mau in was Bryn tools took the lead, with to Eisen G MiDOI' other terms, "we have oversold marking the deflcieneies or lhe dispel ignorant name-caUing and 68 Mawr's presentation of Holsl's hower's votes, StasHn trailing the word, but not the elCplans� present audience, the il'norant to show his infl�n«l on the 43 Hec:llba'a t.ment with Mary Lee tion." readers; the second speculating on Finally Stevenson H Culver singing the part of Hecu thought the nineteenth and with�. the qualities or the original audi 01 ct!ived a clear majority ba. Mary Lee evidenced an under The problem is two-fold: twentieth centuries, tparticulaflll' OIl 72 votes !aeed ence, the learned listeners. to 61 for Eisenhow6r, Stuaen standing of the emotion demanded the immediate aituation is to re on what !Mr. BerUn called the "Ro- !pOll. The modern critic leels secure ing no votes on the fourth ballot. by the work displayed a full main friendly with the lor mantic .Faeclam" of our time. and. East in his knowledge of the aneient The election of Stevenson was lind controlled voice range in the de:fenu and ;protection. Mabtre, writing after the military world, lediscovered by Sch1iemann heralded! as a since ,ev rendering of that emotion. She This is essential for our own lIe bloody, tragic .ys of Freneh aurprlee, and others, -but he is alao aware of the eral of the delegations, includinc was backed forcefully by' Ronnie curity. second, and perhap6 !Revolution, felt that revolu 'Ilhe the lack of knowledge about the the Bryn MAwr contingent, were Gottlieb, soprano soloist, Ellen more important, to create a base tion failed lbecause ita sup� ,1& Homer himself, his contempo Powell whose accompanying -was lor democracy of a real nsture, ibad pledged to .Ei8enhower. raries, and the cultural milieu portera la'bored under "a grave il· On the and thu.a have a stronghold in the second ballot. however, the Cener recital material in itself, and a lusion about human nature in geD- surrounding his work. As in the powerful dramatic chorus. Mr. East {or support the world'. al began to loae ..tr �th, �inee of csse of many ancient writers, thi. eral". They their struggle d atic nations. !based, of the del�tlona were Goodale joined these elements into emocr on a belief in the lack has been minimized, but none intrinsic .good- ;::n� a pre.entation of a work in which Mr. Cuaidy explained the ,great un vote according to the re- theless hsmaera scholarly work. ness man, a Lrust in refton as � -every �'lSi1:iili[y been well Pale of Contiltued ra,e Col. haa Col\Unued O'n 8, Col. I Was Homer re1elTing to an a rUlde to wise political adminia- on 4, 5 exploited. eleventh cent.ury, B.C., culture, or tration, and an 8Slwance Bryn Mawr opened the eariier that did he, in 700 B.C. , de&eribe a men eould beat profit under & portion of the program with Bux P. Hofer Explains 'Andromaque' Sets northern civiliutlon' No one Is c1early-daftned, free. 'Progressive tehude'. dynamic hor-t very Zion Goya Graphic Art certain, and the &cholar la go ent. Modern Movement die Waehtet Sin ... which arrest bmw vernm by a feeling that hi. underatand Mai.tre, on the other hand, ed the attention the audienee, On M.onday. Mareh Bryn A surrea1i.aUc 48t, similar to that at 24, ing of the poem. may not. of dabned that were inmnaiesl Ittention whicb was held through be men of the tradition of the Chinese Mawr will have Mr. Philip Hofer, the follest. Iy "vicious, weak, and undelend out the pro(l'&m. Tcherepnin's tbeatre, �sed in the French of Harvard Univenlty. the Another problem waa intro the u ed", that reason was -usele" in will be Praiae '1e the name Lord duced in 1796, when Friedrich Club play, Jean Racine'a "Andro of speaker for the flnt "Cla.. of followed lending a contrast in Continued Pa,e CoL maque," to presented on Tues Woll began the trend toward an· on 4, 3 be mood. .nd content. Lastly, above 1901 Lecture" series. Mr. day, March 26 at 8:30 in Skinner Art alytleal critieiam that admitted the lilting choral background of Hofer's subject, one that in� Pa,e ,no Workshop. The trqedy in five will Continued oa Mozart's Laudate Donrlnam, Ron· 7, Col. 2 Gottlieb Executes under the direction of Mr. tere.t of whether acta, nie Gottlieb carried the beautiful all 10'Ye1II art, Edwar(l Morris, will Include a vo they have ever studied art or art soprano dearly and effec "Political A.ffairs" cabulary of movement contrary to 1010 history or not, is to the "Gra tively. be League President March 17th.Special to the Bryn the official form the Comedie phic Arts Francesa Goya", 01 on Pace Col.