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Vassar

Chronicle

Volume VI

Number 19

Puughkeepsie,

N.

Y., Saturday,

March

25

1950

College

E lects

Fanning

Lynch

For

C.G.A.

Posts

Biddle

Bloedel, J ohnson,

Rockefeller

F ill

P ositions

Thursday

night marked the

culmin-

ation

of the

year s

most

important

stu-

dent

extracurricular

event.

P refaced

by

a

skit

presented

by

the

members

of

C.G.A.

Council,

the announcement

of

next

year s

C.G.A.

officers

was

made

in

Avery.

The

family

group

portrait

represented

at the

unveiling

could

well

be

indicative

of

the

closely-knit

or-

ganization

that

may

be

expected

in

C.G.A.

next

year.

C.G.A.

P resident

The

new

President

of

C.G.A.,

Jean

Fanring,

comes

from

Stewart

Manor,

Long

Island.

At

Garden

City

High

School she

was

one

of

the few girls

ever

to be

elected

president

of

the

Stu-

dent

Council.

Ever

since

her

arrival

here,

J ean

has

been

a

leader of the

class of

51;

she was its

first

presi-

dent,

and

in

her

sophomore

year

she

was

Secretary

of C.G.A.

and

Chair-

man

of the

C.G.A. Charter Commit-

tee.

This

year

she

has been

Chairman

of

the

Student

Advisory

System.

In

the

light of her va ried

experience

with C.G.A.,

J ean

has

as

her

aim

a

feeling

of

more

participation

on

the

part

of

every

student.

Chief

J ustice

The

new

Chief

J ustice

is

Lucy

Lynch

51.

an

English

major

who

hails from

New

York

City.

She

pre-

pared

at

St.

Timothy s

in

Catonsville,

Maryland. Lucy

was on

the

Dean s

List her

first

year

She

has

been class

representative

on

the

Student Court

and

secretary

of the class. P rominent

among

her

extra-curricular

positions

were

those

o f S trong House

C.G.A.

representative

and

Chairman

of

the

Budget

Committee.

Lucy

has

also

done

a

lot

of

work

at

Lincoln

Center

and

is

on

the

Board

of

the

Center.

Lucy

approves

of our

system

of

individual

student

responsibility

during

exams

and

in

all

matters

pertaining

to

integ-

rity

and

honor.

Associate

J ustice

Associate

J ustice

Sheila

Biddle

comes

from Milton,

Massachusetts.

At

Milton

Academy

she

was

editor

of the

school

publication.

She

was

the

first

president

of the

class

of

52

and

this

year

has

served

as

secretary

of

C.G.A.

She

also

participated

in II

Hall

in

her

freshman

year.

Chairman

of

Student

Advisory

System

Chairman

of

the

Student

Advisory

System

and

a

well-known

sophomore

is Canadian

Lee

Bloedel. She attended

Chatham Hall

in

Cha tham,

Virginia.

You

must

have

seen

her

dance

her

way

through Soph

Pa rty.

Lee

was

al-

so

active

in

II

and 111

Halls

last

year,

and

was an

usher at

the

J unior

Prom.

Last

term

she

was

president

of

her class.

Chairman

of

the

Cooperative System

Chairman of

the

Cooperative Sys

tem.

Ginger

J ohnson

52

a

resident

of South

Bend, Indiana, and

a

gradu-

ate

of the Madiera School

in

Vir-

ginia,

ha s been

active

in

Soph

Party,

and

has

been

a

corridor

representa-

tive

for

Strong

House.

Ginger

was

on

the Dean s

List

freshman

year.

She

hopes particularly

to

improve

the

Co-

operative System

in

Main,

and

reduce

the time

spent

on

certain jobs.

The

new

Secretary

o f C .G .A .

is

Lucy

Rockefeller,

a

native

of Green-

wich,

Connecticut,

and

a

graduate

of

Greenwich

Academy.

She

was

presi-

dent

of

her

class

A

term

this

year

and has been

very

active

in

class ac-

tivities.

T he Chron ic le congratulates the

new

officers

and

wishes

them the

best

of

luck and

a

most successful

year

at

the helm of

Vassar

College

Govern-

ment.

There

will

be

many

challenges

next

year

in

such

new

entities as

the

Cooperative

House

the Weekend Ac-

tivities Association, and the

presence

of

D.P. students

on

campus,

but we

feel confidence in

our

officers,

and

in

their

ability

to

fulfill the duties

laid

upon

them.

J ean

Fanning,

President

of

C.G.A.

Freshmen

G ive

F inal

Showing

Of

I

R emember

Mama'

Tonight

by

Keren

E llington

51

Tonight

marks

the

closing

perform-

ance

of the

all

too

short

run

of

J ohn

van

Druten s

delightful

comedy,

/

Re-

member Mama.

By

now

everyone

must

know

that / Remember

Mama

is

set

in

San Francisco

in

1910

that

nostalgic

time

when

grown-up

ladies dresses

swept

the sidewalks,

young

ladies

rarely

finished

High

School, and

every

lady

knew and

obeyed religiously

the

traditions

of

the

time.

M ama, however, is

irrepressible,

and

frequently

comes

to

grips

with

the

most

inviolate

of

the

traditions,

and

of

course, comes

off

triumphant.

Kat-

rin,

the

aspiring

young

author

of the

Hanson

family

never

will

forget

the

time

when Mama

rode in

the auto-

mobile with Uncle

Chris

housekeeper

although

the

lady s

reputation

was

mch that

the Aunts

tersely referred

to

her

as

that woman.

Neither

will

we.

And

as

with

every

fine

comedy

/

Remember

Mama has

its

moments

of

tragedy

when

only

the

indomitable

Mama

can

bring

the

family

through

smiling.

One

of

the

most

charming

aspects

of the

play

however,

is

that

her solutions

are never

contrived, but

arise

naturally

from

her

sympathetic

and

common

sensical

character.

For

example

when

the authorities

faced

Mama

with the stringent

and anti-

septic

rules

in

the

city

hospital,

a

se-

quence

ensues

which reveals Mama

at

her

most

ingenious

and

amusing

best.

It

is

true,

however,

that in

most

cases,

no

matter

how fine

the

play

it

never

achieves its

greatest

height

without the aid

and

abettance

of

the

technical

crews.

The

backstage people

for /

Remember

Mama

have created

sets and

costumes

and

arranged

light-

ing

and

make-up

to

support

the

actors

with

maximum

effectiveness.

And this

is

quite

an

accomplishment

in

a

play

which

requires

the

difficult

combina-

tion

of

realistic

sets

and

stylized light-

ing.

Susie

Neuberger,

who has

directed

the

show,

has announced that

both

last

night s

and

tonight s

performances

are

planned

for

the benefit

of

the Dis-

placed

Persons

who

will be

at

Vassar

next

year.

There

will be

a

place

to

contribute

set

up

in

the

lobby

of

Stu-

dents'.

Freshmen

in

I Remember

Mama

Dr.

Muir

Will Conduct

Vassar

Chapel

Service

Dr.

C.

Marshall

Muir will conduct

the

sen-ice in the Vassar

College

Cha-

pel

on

Sunday.

March 26

at

11

o clock.

At

present

minister

of the

First

Pres-

byterian

Church of East

Orange,

New

J ersey

Dr.

Muir

is

president

of the

Essex

County

Council

of

Churches

moderator,

of the

Presbytery

of Mor-

ris

and

Orange,

and

a

director

of the

Bloomficld

College

and

Seminary.

Dr.

Muir

has

been

pastor

of the

Bellefield

Presbyterian

Church

in

P ittsburgh

and has served

as

Protes-

tant

Chaplain

of

the

University

of

P ittsburgh

Medical

Center. For

eight

years

he

was

chairman

of

the P itts-

burgh

Round

Table of

the

National

Conference

of Christians

and

J ews.

Dr.

Muir

received

his A.B.

degree

from

Washington

and

J efferson

Col-

lege

the

S.T.B.

from

Western Theo-

logical Seminary

and

the

D.D.

degree

from

the

University

of

P ittsburgh.

Panofsky

Presents

Illustrated

Lecture;

Subject

Is Durer

by Mary

Louise

Harvey

On

Thursday

evening

at

8:30 in

Taylor,

Dr. Erwin

Panofsky

of

the

Institute for Advanced

Study

at

P rinceton

spoke

on

Durer and

Classical

Antiquity.

The lecture

was

illustrated

with slides.

Dr.

Pa-

nofsky

began

his

talk

by laying

that

some

feel

a

continuity

in

history

no

real

change

in human

attitudes.

Therefore

many

believe

that the

Renaissance

never

existed

at all.

According

to

Dr.

Panofsky,

the

Re-

naissance

did

exist,

and

Albrecht

Durer,

born

in

1471 in

Nuremburg,

lived

through

the

shift

from the

Medieval attitude

to

that

of the

Renaissance.

The Middle

Ages

The Middle

Ages

in the

North

ap-

proached

classical

antiquity

from

two

angles.

One

was

the

representa-

tion

of

classical

figures,

such

as

Ve-

nus

Apollo,

in

Ch ristian

allegor-

ies,

as

exemplified

by

the famous

Reims

Visitation,

where

a

figure

treated

in

the classical

style

rep-

resents

the

Virgin.

The

other

angle

was

the

treatment of

such

subjects

as

Pyramus

and

Thisbe

in contem-

porary

costume

and

illustrating

con-

emporary

moral

problems.

T re

Middle

Ages,

said

Dr.

Panofsky,

were

afraid of

the

integration

of

classical

form and

subject

matter,

of

representing

Venus

as

Venus,

for

example.

The

Italian Renaissance

began

this

integration*

the

14th

century

P etrarch

being

its

initiator.

Durer

began his

integration

in the

North.

He

became interested in

15th

cen-

tury

interpretation

of

classical

an-

tiquity

in

his

first

Italian

journey,

:rom

1490

to

1495

mainly

through

drawings

of such

artists as

Man-

tegna.

Members

Of

Faculty,

CGA

President

Discuss Attendance

System,

Stressing

Role

Of

Individual

Student

Responsibility

by J o an

Wha rton

President

of

CGA

Wharton

On

Attendance

B

term

was

supposed

to usher

in a

new

policy

about

going

to

classes.

The

Attendance

System agreed

upon

by

the

Sena te

and

the

Faculty,

was

to

be

explained

to

all students

to

clear

up

confusions and

misconceptions

that

had

existed in

respect

to

this

system,

but

because

we

feel that

there

are

still students who

are

not

altogether

certain about the

policy

as

it

now

stands,

a

further

discussion

seemed

a

good

idea.

Vassar

has

an

Attendance

System

as opposed

to

a

free

cut or

limited

cut

system.

The

emphasis

is

there-

fore

on

the

positive

aspect

of attend-

ing

classes.

There

is

now

no

set

num-

ber

of times

a

student

may

be

absent

from

a

class. It

is

up

to

her

to

at-

tend

as

frequently

as

possible

and the

penalty

is

on

her own

head if

her

work

falls below

par

from

too many

absences.

In other

words

the

quality

of the

work

alone

determines the

mark.

No

Se t

Penalty

There is

now

no

penalty

for

cut-

ting

an

arbitrary

number

of

times,

because

it

was

agreed

by

everyone

that

this

policy

is unfair

to

faculty

and

students

alike. It would

be

say-

ing

that

all

students

are

alike and that

it is

as

bad

for

one

to

be

absent

three

times

as

another. This

is

obviously

not the case.

One

student

may

be

able

to

cut

the class

six

times

without

af-

fecting

her

work, whi le

another

stu-

dent

should

not cut

it

at

all.

But

the

responsibility

for

absence lies

on

the

student.

She

must

make

her

decision

and be

ready

to

accept

the

conse-

quences

if

her

work

suffers

by

her b

sence.

It is well

to

remember that work

covers

active

class

participation

and

discussion

as

well

as

passive

attend-

ance at

lectures

and

doing

the

home-

work.

In other

words if

a

course

is

described

as a

discussion

class,

and

a

student

is absent several times

dur-

ing

the

term,

she has

not

done

part

of

the

class

work because

she

has

simply

not

been

there

to

discuss.

No teacher

is

supposed

to

state

an

arbitrary

number

of cuts

in direct

conflict with the

stated

policy

but

each

teacher

is

urged

to

discuss his

own

interpretation

of

the

policy

with

his

class

at

the

beginning

of

each

term

so

that

the system

is

fully

understood

and

agreed

upon

by

all.

Miss

Russell

Gives

Viewpoint

It

would

be

pleasant

to

believe that

a statement cm

attendance

at

classes

could be

devised that

would

accur-

ately

describe

practice

and

at

the

same

time

satisfy

everyone.

In

a

community

as

strongly

individuatis-

tic

as ours

tilts

seems

unlikely.

The

possibilities

for

private

interpreta-

tion

ate

inherent

in the nature of

language

itself and

hence

will

al-

ways

be

presenr

in

any

statement.

However, faculty

and students

are

essentially in

agreement,

I

think,

on

certain

basic attitudes toward

cut-

ting.

The

setting

up

of

a

mechanic-

ally operated

cut

system

is

ab-

horrent to

both.

Surely

the

freedom

to

plan

her

life

within

a

time scheme

over

which

she has

some

conrol is

one

of the

student s

most

valuable

aids

on

the

road

to

maturity.

For

this she

needs

training

that the

col-

lege

environment

should

offer

in

various

ways;

by

direct

discussion

with

the

faculty

and with

more ex-

perienced

students,

by

the

pressure

of

the

expressed

and

even

the im-

plid

attitudes

of her

contemporar-

ies. She should

come

to

realize that

each

of her

classes

represents

a un-

ique

situation in which she

is

di-

rectly involved,

both

as

recipient

and

contributor,

learning

to meet

diff-

erent

kinds of

demands

with

a

wid-

ening

use

of different

techniques.

This is

part

of

the educative

pro-

cess.

P erhaps

Hie shrewd

estimation

of

the characters of her individual

teichtts,

inevitably

a

part

of

a

more

or

less

free

system,

is also

of

edu-

i

tional

value.

(Continued

on

page

4

col.

1)

(Continued

on

page

4, col.

4)

POSTS

AND

U SHE RS F OR

THE

SENIOR

PROM

Head

Po st:

Ca therine

Hull

Posts:

Georgia

Elmes

Eunice

Holt

Molly

Rand

Betsey

Wcntworth

Ushers:

Sally Applcton

r>;irbara Decker

Phoebe E llsworth

Ka triuka

Kip

Susan McWilliams

Helen

Tasche