% Wednesday, May’ 20, 1959 THE COLLEGE NEW s Page Three Panel of Pundits Indorse Modern Place of Women . Those Bryn Mawrters now in the: throes of horrendous reading as- 'signments or panicked by the pros- pect of impending exams may be ‘somewhat comforted to know the general conclusions of Edward R. Murrow’s CBS symposium on the possibilities and purposes of “The Educated Woman”, Though of various backgrounds (i.e., Indiana University and Sarah Lawrence) and various points of view, the panelists were pretty well agreed on the basic isues; e.g., the Amer- ican woman is not intellectually deficient, she is capable and wor- thy. of higher education, her edu- cation will exert considerable in- fluence upon the success of her family, community, nation, etc. Examination .of Her Role The scope of the discussion as outlined by Murrow was an exam- ination of the woman’s role in} modern society, the impact of this role upon her education, and the effect of her education upon her life. The questions comprise, said Murrow, “one of the most contro- versial topics of our day”, and to discuss it he had gathered an im- pressive array of rather important and representative personages. ‘Present and prepared to defend the female intellect were Archi- bald MacLeish, poet and Harvard- Radcliffe professor; Harry Gide- onese, president of Brooklyn Col- lege; Diana Trilling, writer and Radcliffe graduate; psychoanalyst Dr. Sarah Shreiner; Dr, Lynn White, former president of Mills College; Presidents McIntosh of Barnard, Gettle of Holyoke, and Taylor of Sarah Lawrence; Admir- al Rickover; and, last but not least, writer E. B. White, hus- band of a Bryw Mawr graduate and the school’s most ardent and articulate enthusiast. Most Views “Flattering” Few of the views were radical, some were surprising, most were highly flattering. Said.MacLeish, “The sensibility of women makes them more susceptible-to the kind of education which our time most deeply needs”. He was referring to that sensibility © ‘which distin- guished Sappho, Entily Dickenson, “Marianne Moore, and went om to explain that it is “the education of the emotions, of the power to feel” which is the most vital need of the time, The question of working, or even intellectual, wives was de- Continued on Page 5, Col. 1 Chorus Previews ‘1959-60 Program by Marian Willner President of Chorus Here is a preview of the coming attractions in choir next year. There will be two. concerts with Princeton, one here and one at (Princeton, and two —-ocntcteirwhs Colgate with the esame_arranige- ment. For Bryn Mawr’s 75th an- niversary celebration in Philadel- phia we will be singing a piece written at our request by: Hans Gal. Verdi’s Te“Deum and Stabat Mater will be performed ‘with the Philadelphia Orchestra. In addi- tion to these. highlights. we will have our usual Christmas Concert with Haverford. We would be de- lighted to have a lot of upper-. classmen in the choir, both those who were im it this year and those who have been in before. If the excellent and varied program is not enough to lure you, remember | be lots of Princeton Don’t be bash- that there : n. mee BMC Contributes to Ancient, Primitive Art Show From May 8 through September 6 the University Museum in Phil- adelphia will present a show of more than two hundred pieces from twenty-five public and priv- ate collections in the Philadelphia area. There will be ancient works which trace the development of art from early Egyptian through Ro- man times, as well as examples of primitive art. In addition to early Chinese bronzes and a small Wei Dynasty stone figure, which are the most Italo-Corinthian Plate ancient pieces on exhibit, there will ibe stone sculptures,'some aprticu- larly fine small Greek bronzes, and primitive works from the is- lands of the Pacific and from Af- rica, including some charming masks from the Ivory Coast. Bryn Mawr--is—sending fifteen pieces. to this exhibition from the Ella Riegel Museum of ‘Clasical Archaeology and sixteen: from the Herben and Robbins Collection. Among those works selected for showing by the museum upon the advice of Miss Mellink are a fourth- century B.C. Etruscan mirror with four mythological figures engraved in the back; a third century B.C. Etruscan terra cotta head; from the Deanery, a marble head which be- longed to Miss Thomas; and two pairs of gold Hellenistic earrings from the third or fourth century B.C. On the pair are pendent doves and on the other, rings end- ing in bulls’ heads, a motif com- mon at that time. Aegean Sea and a terra cotta horseman, both gifts of Miss Swin- dler, are also included as well as the two pieces illustrated here; a painted Italo-Corinthian plate, and the handle of a bronze water jar from Greece, probably from Attica. Outstanding among Bryn Mawr’s from Sparta, and two of the best pieces of Athenian pottery on ex- hibit—a drinking cup and a water jar. Dr. Herben and Miss Robbins, are sixteen African wood carvings. Among these pieces, now on dis- play, are seven figurines, three masks, a wooden cup ,a box, a bench and an “ibegi”. The most valuable carving is an Yoruba female figure holding a bowl. This figure is distinguished by eyes looking in different direc- Hford Brun Mawr Students See Civic Spots in Sociology Course by Joan Bernstein I sat, with a group from Hav- erford and Bryn Mawr, in the dep- uty warden’s office in Eastern State Penitentiary. We were talk- ing to a group of prisoners, among them two murderers. One old man was serving a life sentence; he spoke bitterly of the probability that he will be paroled someday. From reading criminology texts, I knew that no employer is likely to hire him, an ex-convict in his six- ties. Where is this old man, fam- ilyless, going to get money for food and shelter? Would it be kinder to him and safer to society to keep him_in_prison_til]_he-dies?—I--sat there, like the other students, con- cerned, trying to find answers. Penitentiary Visited We were visiting the penitentiary: as part of a course, Haverford’s Sociology 38b, “Urban Problems”, given in cooperation with the Friends Order Committee, and run by Haverford’s Dr. Ira Reid and work camp leader David Ritchie. On six weekends this semester, we lived at South Philadelphia’s Western Community House, cook- ing, eating, and discussing as a group. “Phillie” Classroom — Our classroom was Philadelphia, our subject its problems and how authorities, groups, and individuals are attenmpting to deal with them. The course is based on the idea that, after doing background read- ing, students can perhaps best un- derstand the subject by actually seeing and participating in the varied activities of a large com- munity. Each weekend was devoted to a different area: painting rooms in the slums, labor-management relations and unemployment, hou- sing;~-mental..health, crime and punishment, and politics. We took an active part in a union meeting, asking questions of rank and file ‘members who ordinarily let the of- ficials do the talking. One morn- ing, we went to the Sunday Break- phia’s unemployed can get a free breakfast after sitting through a religious service. We attended the service; we ate breakfast with the men and talked with them. One Saturday night we spent several hours in a very busy de- tective division, wherewe were free to talk to the men brought in for interrogation. There was a murderer who first confessed and then offered six different Continued on Page 5, Col. 4 A prehistoric marble figurine |} from the Cycladic Islands in the |} contributions are a Jaconian cup |! On loan from the collection of || tions. This optic irregularity or squint characterizes a number of figurines whose maker is known to experts as the “master of the uneven eyes.” This twist of a trademark has been considered a touch of artistic genius, according to Miss Robbins. A piece that is useful as well as Handle of a Greek Bronze Water Jar decorative is a bench with an ani- mal’s head carved on each end, from the French Congo, Miss Robbins has tagged it “the Herben throne”, as it gets use in the mak- ing of fireplace fires. Other figures include a tatooed female figure possibly from Baga; a Dutch New Guinea Korowaar figure, which represents a woman and is adorned with real hair; two painted Yoruba figurines, a male and female; a female figure, per- haps from Banule; and a Sierra Le- one figure with a twisted neck. The three masks are from Bobo- fing (?), Ngere, and Yoruba. The last is a spirit mask. Also from Yoruba is an “ibegi’, and from Bushongo comes a wooden cup. The Herbens acquired all of these pieces in London, although they have visited North Africa. Most of them were brought back from Africa by British missionar- ies, and, from among their effects, found their way into London shops. “Mille.” Chooses As Guest Editor R. Rubinstein ’59 Rita Rubenstein of the class of 1959 has been named a Guest Ed- ° itor of Mademoiselle magazine. She is one of twenty winners ameng 784 undergraduate mem- bers of _Mademoiselle’s national College Board at colleges and uni- versities across the country who competed for this year’s Guest Ed- itorships. Mademoiselle will bring the twenty Guest Editors to New York City for four weeks, from June 1 through June 30, to work on the magzine’s annual August College issue. Guest Editors will receive salaries and round-trip transpor- tation from their colleges or home cities, . Itinerary in NYC While in New York each Guest Editor will be assigned to the mag- azine job which most. fits her in-s terests and training. She will in- terview a celebrity im her chosen field and will take field trips to fashion, radio and photographic studios, to newspaper offices, de- partment stores and manufactur- ing and design houses, and will take part in many parties that Mademoiselle has planned for them. . The twenty Guest Editors won their appointments on the basis of three assignments they com- pleted for Mademoiselle during the school year. These included re- ports on campus fashions, the arts, classroom studies and extracurric- ular activities, Campus Activities Rita has had experience on the staff and editorial board of the News (she was managing editor last year). Among her other on- campus .activities, she has served as second junior to Undergrad and is. now secretary of the Senior Class. After getting her masters’ de- gree from Columbia, Rita, who is a history major, plans.- to. teach. This year she has done some prac- tice teaching in Lower Merion ele- mentary school. Miss McBride addressed a Sen- ate Education Committee, April 28, 1959, on the subject of the Nation- al Defense Education Act. Her dis- cussion was devoted to an explana- tion of Bryn Mawr’s stand as re- gards the Mundt Loyalty Oath. This oath is required of any col- lege applying for Federal funds. “The oath required in this sec- tion is not a test of loyalty, for the disloyal would not hesitate to take it; but it does present a dan- ger to the freedom of thought and inquiry essential in a democratic society.” . First Reason Cited | As the first of her two reasons for eliminating the oath, Miss McBride gave the opinion that “With the oath the Act is less likely to achieve its important ob- jective of extending educational opportunity. We know that some of the most intelligent, perceptive and conscientious students and professors will not participate in programs the Act is designed to provide. They make this decision not—as I am sure the Committee knows—from. any. lack.of loyalty.” “The principle that thought and inquiry must be free .. . hag suf- fered both direct attack and more subtle erosion. I believe, as do many others, that to leave the foath-in-the-Act-would be to create) this bulwark of frée mnonent and inquiry.” Distrust Implied “The second reason for elimin- ating the requirement of the oath which I should like to present also has implications far beyond the particular programs the Act is designed to aid. The Act implies that Congress distrusts this par- ticular group (students), and a special test of loyalty must be re- quired of its members.” Turning to Bryn Mawr’s specific position as illustrative of the dif- faculties faced by institutions in re- lation to the Act, Miss McBride emphasized that “Our relationship with our students is one of trust. The relationship is basic to the quality of education at the col- lege. Oath: Lack of Trust “To establish a loan program, with an oath and affidavit required of each applicant, would in our opinion indicate a lack of trust of students. The loan fund is a fund within the institution, operated by the institution, established nine- tenths by federal funds and one- tenth by institutional funds. The responsibility for it cannot be turned back to the federal govern- ment. The institution itself is res- Miss McBride Talks To Senate Committee; ; Discusses B.M.C. Opinion’of Loyalty Oath for aid to graduate study under the Act, limited by the same loyal- ty oath requirements. This Miss McBride explained as follows: “Our basis for these two applications was that the programs involved could be more restricted, affecting certain departments only, and of course within those departments only those individuals willing to take the oath. We may have been wrong of course, but in these two applications we put the possible benefits of the program above the handicap of the oath.” Miss McBride concluded her statement with “the strong con- viction that an oath required for ‘any part of the program is a hand- icap to the objectives the Act is designed to accomplish and that it ig a serious new danger to the freedom of thought and inquiry that we are as a nation commit- ted to support.” Notice The special Graduation Issue of the News, which will appear on Tuesday, June 2, will be free to regular subscribers and available ne a new and dangerous erosion of . Bryn Mawr, however, did apply