a iy: VOL. XLIV—NO. 17 ° ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1961 ®) Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1961 PRICE 20 CENTS Miss Rodgers Selects Twelfth Night Acting Highlights, by Catherine Rodgers I went to the opening night of the College Theatre’s Twelfth Night. Their performance of Shakespeare’s comedy was notable for its fine casting and nice pace. Here I offer only a sampling of the many good things I saw and heard last Friday. Andy Miller, who shaped Feste in this play, makes wonderful fac- es. Faces are a _ responsibility. Once you start making them, you have to keep them up and this Mr. Miller did with both energy and tact. The device worked par- ticularly well in the Sir Topas scene and also helped to make some of Feste’s complicated puns and jokes really funny. Mr. Mil- ler sang, too, not impeccably, but with a simplicity that seemed right. Jane Parry’s Olivia was a triumph. Her looks were dazzling, her costume elegant and her move- ~ ments most graceful. Ardent and yet not at all immodest, her woo- ing of Viola4Sebastian was well thought out and constantly cred- ible. Sebastian deserved her. Peter Lary is one of the few Sebastians I have seen who by his bearing and his speech made it seem pos- sible that he could command the love of both Olivia and the eA Antonio. Other Delights - I am not a Leveller: I did like these three best. Yet there were plenty of other delights, Ted Hauri, as Sir Toby, timed his belches most delicately, and laugh- ed and stormed well, Cisca Duran- Reynal’s Maria was indeed a Pen- thesilea, dainty and yet energetic. Her pleasure in Malvolio’s confu- sion came across very nicely. Linn Allen played Sir Andrew Ague- _ cheek with the right degree of un- gainly enthusiasm for the jokes he could not understand;-and Dan- ny Turner’s Fabian with his side- burns and genial smile comple- mented neatly the windmill motion of Sir Andrew and the drunken dignity of Sir Toby. The singing and laughing of these characters brightened everything. I tend to be partial to the high life of the less stately estate, yet. the Duke and Viola had great. vi- tality, too, on Friday. Rob Colby as Viola “and Andreas Lehner as Orsino were at their best when their roles demanded intensity of feeling. ‘Miss Colby was fascinat- ing fn her concentration, and her willow-cabin speech moved me very much. Peter Garrett played Malvolio with galvanic energy. The ecstasy with which he caper- ed before Olivia in his yellow stockings made that scene one of the high points of the performance. Smaller Parts The actors of the smaller parts had the same sort of eagerness that seemed to prompt Mr. Gar- rett’s lavish expense of energy. Jeffry Larson in the role of An- tonio portrayed the honesty of that character with vigor. Chris Shillock as the priest sprouted a wonderful and opportune smile— quite a change from ‘the sobriety of his captain in Act One.. Curio and Valentine, played by Robert Elmer and Stephen Ward, were properly sturdy and Olivia’s ladies, Moyra Byrne, Julie Metz, Sue Ste- venson and Natasha Zvegintzov, sufficiently feminine, The comings and going of the music-makers, ~“:Alison-~-Baker;-Sally~~Bienemann;} ee a ee Pode i te aa Ag Sh ei ee area in which the needle can be Finds Set Dismal John Davidson and Marian Davis were accomplished easily and with dispatch, Permit me to carp for a few moments. I read what the College News had to say about the color scheme last week, and I heard a friend praise the blues, greens, greys and blacks of the costumes and set very highly. Neverthe- less, I found them depressing on the whole, and it seemed to me that the interpretations of the lov- ers took on the same colors: where I wanted them to be a little pleas- ed and amused by their passion, they were too consistently soulful. Continued on Page 4, Col. 1 Besicovitch Gives Definitive Solution For Kakeya Query On Thursday, March 16, at 8:30 pm., A. S. Besicovitelt lectur- ed on the Kakeya problem. under the auspices of the Math depart- ment in the Biology lecture room. Professor Besicovitch, formerly of Trinity College, Cambridge, is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania. The problem, proposed by the Japanese mathematician Kakeya in 1917, is to find the smallest area in which a needle of length one can be rotated through 360 de- grees in the plane. : Similar in wording to the problems involving maxima and minima which begin- ning calculus students tackle, the Kakeya problem is, according to Mr. Besicovitch, one of those sim- ple problems which defy solution. The most obvious solutions are a circle of diameter one and a tyi- angle of height one. A more so- phisticated possibility is a hypo- cycloid with three cusps, drawn within a circle of diameter 1%, and for many years this was thought to be the correct answer. Mr. Besicovitch, however, has been able to show that the prob- lem has no minimum, and that the rotated, while remaining positive, may be made as small as wished. Principle Shown The principle by which the area is reduced is that, if an angle rep- resenting part of the total rota- tion is considered as the vertex of a triangle of height one, then the needle may be swung within the triangle through that angle, But the area of the triangle may be reduced by dividing it into many small triangles and allowing them to overlap by sliding them along the common base. The discontin- uity which is thus introduced is corrected by sliding the needle away from the triangles on a straight line (which has no area) until only a very small ation will bring it almost to its next position. If this overlapping, which proceeds by pairs of tri- angles, is repeated often enough, the area saved will be much great- er than that used in the small ro- tations necessary to make the path of the needle continuous. The en- tire process may be repeated enough times to take the needle through 360 degrees. The strange path described by the needle in each portion of the process resembles a tree, called eed Es: BB cain => Ghee eee ==}limiting—-nuclear--disarmament.””| BMC Economist Treats Kennedy's Financial Policy Mildred Northrop, Acting Chair- man. of the Bryn Mawr Economics Department, lectured on “Ken- nedy’s Economic Policy and Unit- ed States Balance of Payments,” ‘Monday evening. The problem at hand was the deficit in the U.S. balance sheet, which has been in excess of three billion dollars since 1957, This is a special problem for the United States as economic leader of the western world, Since the Amer- ican dollar is the key currency, it is important that it remain sta- ‘ble and that the U.S. reach a bal- ance. In an explanation of how money is leaving the United States, Miss Northrop enumerated transactions on curent accounts, imports, ex- ports and U.S. tourists abroad. However, she-stated that the big- gest drain involves military and diplomatic expenditures abroad, and economic and military aid to foreign countries. ‘ Gold Equivalent Miss Northrop stressed that be- cause the U.S. dollar is the gold equivalent for the western world, any disturbance in the dollar is a threat to Western stability. The proper course of action in regard to domestic policy.would be to low- er interest rates in short term capital investments and thereby get more foreign investment. After analyzing various propos- als Which have been offered, Miss Northrop ended on an optimistic note by saying that she thought the Kennedy administration under- stands the problems involved and is attempting to solve them. by Marion Coen Max Lerner, speaking in Good- hart Tuesday night under the aus- pices of Undergrad’s Distinguish- ed Speakers Fund, called the fos- tering of creativity for the direc- tion of powerful social forces “the purpose and task of education”, and to this end, proposed a replace- ment of the traditional three R’s with a new pedagogical trio—‘the three knows”, “Know your country, culture, and world”, he advised . “Recog- nize the forces in them. . . Know your field—with precision and mas- tery ... and finally, know your- self—learn of the contours of your own being”. The forces loose in the world today can be reduced to four: the arms race, revolutionary nation- alism, the Soviet “grand design”, and the incipient growth of a world order. The realization that these forc- es, outside of the control of the in- Famous Historian, Toynbee To Speak Arnold J, Toynbee, famed Brit- ish historian and presently Visit- ing Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania will speak in Good- hart Auditorium at 8:30 on Tues- day, April 4. The topic for the address has not. yet been decided. ‘Mr. Toynbee has lectured from the Goodhart stage before. In 1947 he gave the Flexner Lectures on the broad subject of “Encoun- ters Between Civilizations.” The last volumes of his now famous ten-volume Study ‘of His- tory appeared in 1954. Since then, Mr. Toynbee has also written An Historian’s Approach to Religion, East and West and Hellenism. Recently, in conjunction with his appointment at Penn, Mr. Toynbee has been meeting Haverford sen- iors at informal discussion groups. Clarence Pickett Points To SANE History, Peace Policies and Plans Clarence Pickett, former execu- tive secretary of the American Friends Service Committee, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and current co-chairman of the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, spoke about Sane’s origins and aims in his Monday evening lecture in the Common Room. Organized in 1959 to encourage arms-control negotiators to agree to stop nuclear testing, Sane branches soon sprang up in major cities across the nation. Although Sane was organized to “do an ad hoc job,” (ane’s ultimate goal now is to achieve toeer disarma- ment. Immediate Objective Sane’s immediate objective is to encourage successful negotiations at the current Geneva conference for nuclear disarmament. Since seventeen out of the original twen- ty-four points under discussion were favorably completed, Mr. Pickett feels that this is grounds for hope that: further agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union is possible, although the Russians are “cooler to having an agreement, settled now because France, who possesses a bomb is not included in the negotiations and China objects to an agreement ates Earlier, however, Mr. Pickett thought that the Russians were more enthusiastic about’ reaching agreement than we were. Must Disarm Mr. Pickett, in reply to a ques- tion as to whether the whole strug- gle for disarmament is but a fight against symptoms rather than causes and thus futile, stated that this is the case, but that be- cause we “live in real danger we must have nuclear disarmament if the human race is to continue.” Economic and political problems must eventually be brought under control, but disarmaments must be reduced while we build this peace- .|ful structure, Communist Bloc Asked whether the aim of the Communist bloc was world con- quest, Mr. Pickett replied that some Communist coutries ‘“main- tain that myth, but that from my own experience in the Soviet Union, I found that the predomin- ate motive in Russia is to improve her own standard of living.” He felt that the Soviet Union does not want to conquer the world, but rather to settle her own problems. This he did not find to be true in other communist countries, how- ever. Communist China, for in- stance, still retains world domina- Lerner Looks To Creative Minority As Future’s Key dividual, “can pick up ‘a private universe and crush it like an egg- shell”, the understanding that “we are living at the edge of an abyss and have no idea how long we have” make this the best of all known eras in which to be born; for these realizations provide a challenge, “a kind of edge or tang to the whole enterprise”. We of this generation will have a chance to do something with these forces, “but”, noted Mr. Ler- ner, “we will need mastery and precision in our work. Mastery here must include creativeness— the innovating capacity which masters and transcends tradition.” America already has a revolu- tionary culture, “a silent revolu- tionary tradition accepted even by conservatives as part of our land- scape. Our problem now is to di- rect these creative - revolutionary forces rationally”. The feeling is that in Washing- ton with the beginning of the Ken- nedy administration this purpose- ful, rational mustering of forces already has begun. America is re- turning to its intellectual heri- tage; abandoned temporarily at the beginning of the Western movement, picked up at the start of the twentieth century, lost sight al respect for “‘the life of the mind” is again emerging as a_ positive national force, It is manifest in Kennedy’s appointment of men of intellect to positions of power and Nations, America’s creativity should not ibe judged on the basis of the hpmogenity of-its mass culture, a necessary concommittant of a high production society; creativity lies not in the mass but-in the minor- ity culture which springs from it. In every historical movement there is a creative minority that is able to transcend tradition, and the key to the Creativeness of culture in America must now lie in the pre- cision of her creative minority. It is this group, rather than from the power elite (with which it may sometimes intersect) that a national élan may spring. Elan is a sense of purpose, but more than that; it is a contagious spirit, the kind that was present during the Revolution, the Civil War and the Jeffersonian and Jacksonian eras. ~-The -reaction-of-college stu- dent to the Peace Corps is a. sign of the rebirth of this. élan. We now have a chance for de- Continued on Page 4, Col. 1 Orientalists Confer Here, The American Oriental Society, which will hold its 171st gathering March 28, 29, and 30, will be the guests of Bryn Mawr College on the afternoon of the 29th. The visitors will have lunch in the ‘Deanery and then hold-a~ session in Goodhart, The rest of the meet- ings will be held at the Univermty of Pennsylvania, Athough the orientalists will come and go during vacation, they will leave’ behind them an exhibit in the Rare Book Room. It will be there for a week after the close of the meeting and will include Egyptian artifacts, pot- tery from Tarsus and cylinder seals. Some of these items are | private collections in the area.“ of in the ’20’s and 50’s, our nation- in Stevenson’s role in the United - LibraryExhibits Artifacts . from our own museum, some from ' enn ett Sas Qe Paradise Lost ““tnfair. . However, some. demands and protests are legitimate ~~ yolumés richly bound, / A mine of cleverness and wit, / From -theereason for the constant search for teachers of high qual- ‘ity and with human qualities. Because Freshman Comp must Page Two THE COLLEGE NEWS Wednesday, March 22, 1961 “amr a letter teehi; friend Bishop Fisher, Erasmus wrote, in 1524, “I know how busy yoy your Paradise.” As mid-semesters mount up in their pre- vacation wave, we, too, are busy in our library, but its resem- blance to the celestial realm nééds some clarification. (We may note that the main reading room, in temperature, sug- gests more the nether regions, but this is an irritation of trifling degree.) Complaints about the accessibility, scarcity, and type of books are frequent and often carelessly inaccurate and and well-founded. The field roughly termed the social sciences 1s expanding daily as more and more books appear on the vital issues of today. But there seems to be a lack of.recent works on political science, economics, sociology, etc. in our library. An added problem is that the new books we do get are almost always seized upon by faculty members or gradu- ate students who may kéep them for an indefinite length of time. ; This disappearance into remote befalls the too few volumes of new fiction arriving at the library. But ge feel sometimes as a minor poet Quincy Kilby expressed it: “Here in my library I sit, / Amid rare professors’ offices also authors everywhere renowned. / Tonight their words seem flat and stale, / Their weakness fills me with disgust, / I want’ that crude, hard-fisted tale, / Where ‘seven more redskins bit the dust.’” In fact, frivolous, non-required reading, whether it be a western, a mystery, or a novel, is a need the library fulfills to a large extent in the Quita Woodward Room. Yet very few best sellers are available at the height of their popularity. Perhaps a rental library of such books could be organ- ized. The money charged per day would pay for the. books if some did not seem to the library good, long-term invest- ments. Also, the mounting costs would stimulate readers, both faculty and students, to return quickly books in such great demand. The library is in many ways outstanding: in number of books per student, in availability of periodicals, in art books, in a special room for leisure reading. A spring day in the cloisters is as close to Paradise as we could wish. - But those tantalizing “Do not touch” books might be gone through to weed out thoge which are not duplicates and get them on the shelves, and some thought might might be given to the possibility of rental fiction. “Perhaps it would be wise not to carp or criticize, but it’s very evident our attention is well meant.” Round Two: Freshman Comp—For Even fierce critics of Freshman Comp frequently agree that, in all but exceptional cases, some English course should be required during the college career in order to expose the student to challenging and varied reading, to give her prac- tice in communicating her ideas, and to help develop her pow- ers of critical analysis. The problem, then, is to adjust the nature of the course so as to maximize the benefit to the stu- dents. One debatable aspect of Freshman Comp is the disparity among the students in each section; it is sometimes said that more competent students mark time, while less able or exper- ienced ones are lost. But in this disparity are rooted some of the most exciting potentialities of Freshman Comp: on the one hand, the surprised awakening of some students to the literary symbolism stressed by their fellows; on the other hand, the due concern with fact and content which is urged by the more literal-minded of the class ; and, for all, the won- derfully varied and complementary ideas which are contrib- uted by students who offer educational backgrounds as di- verse-as “primarily scientific, literary, or traditional liberal.” Furthermore, even if some sort of division by ability were assumed desirable, any system of sectioning would necessar- ily have such grave faults as to largely negate the supposed advantage, for even a combination of tests and school records cannot adequately measure the. factors of ability, training, and potential. ; . Essentially, the question of the success of Freshman Comp depends upon the success of the inter-action between teacher and student. But this is true of any course, and is be taken by students who bring to it no special interest in the subject, the problem is somewhat harder. But the solu- tion certainly does not lie in standardization of method ; indi- viduality.in presentation can be symptomatic of that spark which is the most important element in firing the will to Even when the relationship between studént’ and teach- er is only mildly stimulating, and often when it seems devoid of mutual understanding, it is not unfuitful. A great deal is inevitably learned sirnply from wrestling with a new specific problem every week. And a surprising number of bitter critics suddenly realize, at the end of their freshman year or one or two or more years later, that Freshman. Comp has been responsible for some advance in their critical or appre- ciative or expressive powers. : ace - Of course, Freshman Comp is always open to improve- ment in the sense of change which will adapt it to current needs. It is perhaps in this area that criticism is most justly applied, for the attitude of upperclassmen who would forget the course as soon as their struggle with it is over is indeed deplorable. Because the student Curriculum Committee _is composed of men, it must make a special effort to remain open to discussion of Freshman Comp. Experience eo, oe welcoming attitude will lead freshmen to sy you are if your library, which is” oA her . View sFrom 2061-— Ts Bhar by Lois Potter, ’61 “> I predict that of the hun- dred or more women’s colleges now in existence no more than ten will be functioning in the year 2061.” To those of us who live in the enlightened year 2080, these words, spoken by Vassar’s president, Miss Sarah .Gibson— Blanding, may not, seem strange. We all know that; as she said in 1961, small indepen- dent colleges had no hope for sur- vival. They wasted space, they wasted stydents’ time, they wasted faculty time, they wasted—worst of all—money, Bryn Mawr was doomed—but it put up a good fight. It saved space by holding two classes sim- ultaneously in the same room (1970); saved students’ time by al- lowing them to graduate as soon as they had passed the hygiene exam (1975); and saved valuable time for the faculty by eliminating Vall faculty committees. Alas! Too late it was discovered that by eliminating the committee on admissions, which it did in ated its next year’s freshman class. Another brilliant economy measure, by which all Philosophy 101 students were to hear the same lecture broadcast on their radios, had to be. abandoned, as. every electric fuse in the college blew out under the strain. . In 1998, the effort to turn Tay- lor into a national monument (ad- mission 50¢) also fizzled out. The college budget was shattered. In 2061, fulfillmg Miss Blanding’s as- tute prediction, the only surviving woman’s college in the country was obliged to amalgamate with Hav- new university. jama-ed Swavermawr professors from bed to classroom for their 3:00 a.m. classes: the field of learn- ing is never left fallow now. Stu- dents, also in pyjamas, survey one another without interest. Co-edu- cation has resulted in such mutual boredom that it was necesary to pass a law in 2075 requiring each unmarried boy to date a girl at least. once a month, on pain of a fine. “ ' . As the processs of learning is at ie 1984, Bryn Mawr had also elimin-- erford_and Swarthmore to form a |. Giant cranes now transport py- { In . Soa os. by Nicole Schupf, ’64 The beauty of Dance as an :art lies) in the use of one instrument, thé body, to express with a subtle- ty not found in any other art form a tremendous range of human emo- tion and experience, This beauty was ably demonstrated Monday night at the Dance Recital, under the direction of Anne Carter Ma- son, given at Roberts Hall by the ‘Bryn Mawr Dance Club and the Double Octet, “An Evening of Dance” began with two dances to peasant themes iby, Bartok danced by Kasha Gula, Nicole Schupf, Geeti Sen, and ‘Charlene Sutin, The dancers tried to be consistent with the earthy mood of the songs, sung by the Double Octet, while still retaining the interna] stylization of the mu- sic. This was followed by a “Pas de Deux” to the music of Stravinsky danced by Barbara Hein and Mina Jahan. This dance captured with clarity and distinction the apstract forms expressed by Stravinsky. The next part of the program consisted of a series of emotional and abstract mood studies danced by members of the club. These were mainly experimental and suf- not halted even for sleep and meals (No