eee |= VOL. XLV—NO. 7 ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1959 © Trustees of Bryn Mawr Colleg fe," 1959 PRICE 20 CENTS UW Brecht Bases Play on Ancient Parable Adds Political-Social-Economic Views “The Caucasian Chalk Circle”, a play by Bertolt Brecht. one of Europe’s foremost modern play- wrights, will be presented by the Haverford College Drama Club and the Bryn Mawr College Theatre Friday and Saturday nights, No- vember 20 and 21. The productions. will take place at Haverford’s Roberts Hall at 8:30. The play is directed by Robert Butman, assisted by John Berto- let. ing role. Also featured are Trudy Hoffman, Kitty Hoover, and Alison Baker of Bryn Mawr, as well as Ted Hauri, Andy Lehner, and Don Adams of Haverford. Parable Base of Play The play itself is based on a twelfth century Asian parable of the old Bible tale concerning King Solomon’s decision with regard to the two women who both claimed the same child. Brecht’s version however, is enhanced with the ad- dition of his own political, social, and economic views. According to College Theatre President Nina Broekhuysen, the play is both challenging and differ- Rob ‘Colby will act the lead-| ent from any previously attempt- ed by these groups. She has call- ed it a “powerful play”. Admission :is stag or drag and the price of a ticket is one dollar. The symposium on “Symmetry in the Sciences” here last week at- tracted a large number of scholars. The following are summaries of the Friday lectures. Those on Dr. L. Blumberg ‘Saturday were thought to be more Speaks Tomorrow ‘Dr. Leonard Blumberg of Tem- ple University :will speak on “1Com- mon Human Needs and_ Society Today,” at 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, November 12, 1959, in the Com- mon Room, Dr. Blumberg has taught at Wayne University.and the Univer- sity of Michigan (where he receiv- ed his doctorate), and is now Chairman of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Temple University. He has also been Research Director: for the Urban League of Philadelphia, and has done work for them on Negro migrants. This will be the first of a series of talks, sponsored by the Bryn ‘Mawr League, on common human needs and their relation to contem- porary society and social problems. Panel of Five Debates And Doubts; Still Unanswered: ‘What Is Religion?’ “What Is Religion?” was the topic discussed Monday by a panel of non-theologians moderated by Mr. Robert Horn of Haverford’s Department of Biblical Literature. Faith and trust are essential to religion, said Mr. Martin Foss of the Department of Philosophy at Haverford. (Faith is not knowl- edge, but is directed towards some objective to which we aspire. We can understand the cosmos but we cannot have faith in it; for this reason cosmology and other “prim- ibe religion either. Doubt is a ¢un- damental feeling, and “belief or disbelief are in a way religious ex- periences”. “What is my religion?” was Haverford’s biologist Dr. Ariel Loewy’s restatement of the topic. ““Scinece does not furnish us with absolute answers”. “Religion” for Mr. Loewy must be deeply humble, non-parochial, and radical. As rit- uals obscure basic beliefs, it must be non-ritualistic. Finally, in or- der to achieve and maintain these| ~ itive creeds” are not religion. Faith must have as its object some “trustworthy and responsive pow- er’. There is a single religious truth, maintained Mr. Foss. It is “revealed to us only in a fragmen- tary revelation”, of ‘which the Biblical interpretations, though im- perfect, are the most “mature”, _ Dr. Thoburn Snyder, consulting psychiatrist at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, pointed out that both religion and science help to better people. Ethics and moral ’ principles, and the relation of man to divinity, two aspects of religion, are closely connected ‘with the emotional security which is an im- portant concern of the psycholo- gist and sociologist. The sense of humility, the ability to love self- lessly, the capacity for compassion, are gained with the shedding of immature egocentricity. “Religion reflects man’s inner need for guid- ance”, and also his search for his place in the universe. Mr. Ferrater Mora of Bryn Mawr’s (Philosophy department, stated that many philosophers concern themselves with defining religion through a set of state- ments about the supernatural world and God. Nothing has been iyo 2 in D major by Bach. This concluded because every proof of- fered can be shown both valid and _invalid. Religion can-also- be de- fined as a “series of experiences ... Such as love, repentence, wor- ship”. These experiences are “of a personal and interpersonal char- “be felt, they cannoot be proved to characteristics, it must be free of the regimentation of institutional connections. Becuase he can find no religion that fulfills these de- mands, Mr. Loewy prefers to call himself an atheist. Concert to Feature Pianos and "Cello The Bryn Mawr and Haverford Arts Councils will present a con- cert with Ruth Meckler (piano), Robert Martin \(’cello), and David Hemmingway (piano). It is sched- uled for 8:15 p.m. this ‘Wednesday evening, (November 111, in the Ely Room of ‘Wyndham. : The program has been somewhat changed, since violinist David Ser- Meckler. will perform two pieces from Bach’s “Well/Tempered (Cla- vier”, a Prelude and Fugue in D minor, and another in E major. She will also play Beethoven’s Sonata in D minor (Op. 31, No. 2) called “The Tempest.” After the intermission Bob Mar- tin and David Hemmingway will open the program with the Sonata was originally written for viola da gamba and clavier. The rest of| the program is composed of Chopin Etudes, played by Ruth Meckler. These are the “Revolutionary” (Op. 10, No. 12), “Butterfly” (Op. 25, No. 7), and “Cello” (Op. 25, No. 11). one is no longer playing. Ruth]. technical and not of as much in- terest to the layman. Physicist Yang Probes Century’s Principles . by Jean-Hebb, ’61 Chen Ning Yang, who with Tsung Dao Lee received the Nobel Prize two years ago “for profound investigations of the so-called laws of parity,” spoke on the role of symmetry principles in 20th cen- tury physics . Now only 37, Yang, who studied in (China and at the University of Chicago, is a Pro- fessor at the Institute for Advanc- Russian Students With ‘Experiment’ Visit Bryn Mawr Four Russian exchange students, visiting the United States under the auspices of the Experiment in International Living, will spend a week at Bryn ‘Mawr observing and speaking with students and confer- ring with Trade Union members from Philadelphia, The students, all women in their early thirties, will arrive at Bryn Mawr today after spending some time both at Harvard and Rad- cliffe and at a farm in Up. per New York State. On their first night here they: will dine in the halls and attend a party at Haverford. During the subsequent week of their stay there will be Many opportunities _for—conversa-|- tion and contact with the student body. Loretta Stern, a senior Rus- sian major, will be their main stu- dent liaison, but several other ad- vanced Russian students will also serve as translators during their stay. On Sunday, November 15, they will participate in a seminar at Swarthmore (College on labor rela- tions which will be attended by students from all neighboring col- leges, trade union and manage- ment representatives, and faculty members interested in the topic to be discussed. Maids and Porters To Burst into Song “A really great concert” will be given by the maids and porters of Bryn Mawr College next Saturday evening, November 14, at 8:30 in Goodhart. According to Anita Dopico, chairman of Maids and Porters, and (Louise Weingarten, director of the concert, the $1.00 admission fee will be well spent. Over 35 people will be singing and the program includes such beautiful choral pieces-as “God of Our Fathers”, in an arrangement by Livingston Gearhart and “Lis- ten to the Lambs”, by Detts, as well as a few spirituals. The high- light of the evening will be a med- ley of songs by Sigmund Romberg. Both Anita and Louise are very |7), and “Winterwind” (Op. 25, No.| enthusiastic about the voices.and | the spirit of those singing. - ed Study at Princeton. Symmetry principles, although used extensively in classical mech- anics, have ‘become increasingly important in quantum mechanics. Symmetry’s “superposition princi- ple has allowed the application of electron orbits. The invariance principle leads to the renowned conservation laws. There are light and heavy 'par- ticles; among the light ones, the familiar electron, positron, and the massless gamma ray. A group of them are, however, named “strange particles.” These light particles fall into two groups, those having spins which are % integral multiples of the quantity ~h/2 pi (h being “Planck’s constant”) and those having whole integral spins: The heavy particles all have % integral spins. There is another of symmetry here too: every particle» hasan antiparticle, of equal mass but opposite charge and energy. Now the behaviors of these par- ticles are governed by forces class- ified distinctly by strengths. These “strengths” refer, Yang explained, to the comparison, in the electro- magnetic-gravitatiomal case, of the forces between two protons for example. Our comfortable grav- ity is here quite overshadowed, too small for experimental study. The interactions of particles under this aggregate of forces usually conform to the “macroscopic sym- metry principles”. Yang and Lee are famous for showing that un- derstanding of the “weaker forces” in atomic decay or break-up inter- actions must be tbased on ‘recog- nition that they are sometimes vi- olated. Meaning of Symmetries What is meant by symmetries, some of which may be “violated,” among which new ones may be re- vealed? They may be considered in four classes, First are the space-time symmetries, the rela- tivity invariance, the principle of equivalence of different coordinate systems for the description of phenomena... These processes di- rect geometrical significance, They have been thoroughly incorporated in the theoretical language that attempts to describe the elemenary particles . A deviation from the space-time concept may be necessi- tated, but this possibility has re- mained so far academic. The sec- ond class, change conjugation, is that principle that for every par- ticle there exists an anti-particle. This arose from pure theory’ in Dirac’s prediction of the positron’s existence, and was later experi- mentally verified. Thirdly are the conservation laws, the conservation of the number of heavy particles, of electric charge, of isotropic spin. Finally is the class, “little under- stood”, of relations of interactions between particle and anti-particle. Three main questions emerge. The class of conservation laws stands out as uncorrelated. What has it to do with symmetry? A powerful, obviously fundamental principle, it ‘is however only an empirical statement. “It is not trivial, but a very complex thing of nature, evidently an interlock- ing system of intriguing symmet- ries.” The progress of our under- mathematical formalism” to the. Science Series Features International Experts; Friday’s Talks Boast Topics of General Interest: relativity ‘is a notable example. Secondly, in microscopic work involving the weak interactions, there are distinct violations. Yang noted that if the microscopic world were assymmetrical, any underly- ing symmetries would be masked completely. In a symmetrical world these clear assymmetries are not- able. The third question involves the unexplained definity of the weaker interactions share the same strengths? .Is some simple struc- tural source indicated? ‘The anss wers must lead to a unification and conceptional simplification of the role of symmetry principles in the law of nature. tt Biochemist Seeks Root Of Optical Activity by Sue McCord, ’61 Dr. George Wald spoke as repre- sentative of the Biochemistry De- partment.on “The Origin of Optic- al Activity.” Dr. Wald began by Stating that he was dealing with the simplest kind of symmetry, that of left and right as seen in molecular isomers or “optical pairs,” each a mirror image of the other, and that a property of all life processes is the strict distinc- tion between this right. and left- handednesses in molecules. Three previous explanations of this ap- parent selectivity by all organic en- tities were based on the theory that a process occurring the inor- ganic world produced the neces- ‘sary imbalance of isomers thus making possible .and guiding the beginning of life. The first explanation assumed an assemic mixture of optical iso- mers irradiated with circularly tpo- larized light in such a way as to Dr. Wald disagreed with this theory on the basis that circularly polarized light is extremely rare in nature and never apepars in the same sense over a long period of time. A second probable explanation is that the source of the imbalance is due to the adsorption of one of the pair on the surface of optically active, disymmetric quartz crys- tals. This theory is insufficient on the basis that no assymetric separ- ation has ever been achieved and that right and left-handed quartz are equally distributed on the earth. The final theory is based on the tion of both isomers accepted is formed on one sense which the mother liquor has high optical ac- tivity in the opposite sense. Again an unsatisfactory explanation in that the direction of crystalliza- tion is purely haphazard unless the solution is seeded, in which case crystallization occurs in the same sense, Dr. Wald chose to base his explan- ation of optical activity on the in- Continued-on Page ‘8, Col, 1 | Notice ~ Haverford Arts Council will present “A Covering of Stone”, @ concert for five voices by Jon Smith (Haverford 60), next Friday, November 18 at 8:30 p.m. in the Common Room, tion-induction. Linstein’s special Haverford. fact that a supersaturated solu- - v) classes of forces. Why do the . (Contrary to these three theories, \ Page Two THE COLLEGE NEWS Wedesday, November 11, 1959 THE COLLEGE NEWS FOUNDED IN 1914 Published weekly during the College Year (except during Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter holidays, and during examina- tion weeks) in the interest of Bryn. Mawr College at the Ardmore Printing Company, Ardmore, Pa., and Bryn Mawr College. : The College News is fully protected by copyright. Nothing that appears — in it may be reprinted whajly or in part without permission of the Editor-in-Chief. EDITORIAL BOARD IE 5s i eas 6 ooo 1s 00 oho 46 Cah beebiccccs Betsy Levering, ‘61 SO INE 6s is a nebo be cheb ccc seeteacneebeseecesacae Lois Potter, ‘61 PI icc chs cs hese a se eaudenscensscesceat E. Anne Eberle, ’61 Make-up Editor ............-++see0e- eeeeeee me seenges Frederica. Koller, ‘61 PO are cect iansae ice abeccvesteccevecessres Marion Coen, ‘62 dd igEe oe USC IOGLIO or Ir eerie Ne Alison Baker, ‘62 EDITORIAL STAFF Susan Szekely, ‘61; Isa Brannon, ‘62;-Susan Nelson, ‘62; Judy Stuart, ‘62; Mary , Ann Amdur, ‘63; Janice “Copen, 63; Kristirie Gilmartin, ‘63; Bonnie ‘Miller, ‘63; Suzy Spain, ‘63. Business Manager Associate Business Manager eee ewer e eee eeeee sere eseee Soeveresreeesteoces see ease eraser ereses eee eee ee eee ee OOOO Oeeeeeeeesesese ‘61 ‘61 "62 ‘61 ‘61 Tina Souretis, Irene Kwitter, Pevsner ewe eTS Dabney Gardner, Margaret Williams, Susan Szekely, ee eeereeeseeeeeeve eeeeeeeeeeeeeeese Condoning Van Doren’s Deceptions * he actions of Charles Van Doren and his less publicized counterparts in recently unveiled quiz show riggings indi- cate a widespread subversion of the principles of honesty. This, in an industry which is probably the greatest dissem- inater of culture now available to the United States, is at least an alarming discovery. It is deplorable that television should not only express few ideals, but actively subvert one of the most basic of moral principles, that of honesty. There are other facets to the issue—the inclusion of a college pro- fessor at the center of such a fraud, and the perjury com- mitted by approximately sixty percent of those appearing | before the New York grand jury, all of which intensifies both the effect and significance of the scandal. This negation of morality of the intellectual and cultural output of the United States | would in itself cause us great concern. however, that it is not primarily this which shocks us. in such a prominent segment The fact remains, It is rather the reaction to such practices among the people and above all in the government of the United States. The sub- committee which investigated Van Doren agreed five to one that he was to be commended for his strength of mind in deciding after three years to speak the truth and confess his part in the rigging. Only one man in the committee of six, Steven B. Derounian, considered the merit of such a late and circumstantially forced confession to be doubtful. Is the morality of truth versus taisehood such a hazy issue? Surely there can be no doubt about Van Doren’s ~ wrong. The fact that he finally told a long story explaining his motives and mental torments up to the time of confes- sion does not eradicate a record of continuously dishonest action and speech. He first took part in the deceptive rig- ging of a quiz show, then denied all charges of the same be- tore a New York grand jury, and subsequently confirmed this denial in a telegram to the subcommittee. Finally, when pushed into danger by Freedman’s indictment, Van Doren decided to tell the truth. We may conceivably sympathize with the man, and deplore the temptation offered to him by the television net- work management, but surely the fact remains that what he did was dishonest and wrong. Yet representatives of our government and groups of private citizens have commended Van Doren, and congratulated him on coming out with the truth. This condoning of Van Doren’s actions seems to us an even more alarming indication of laxity in the moral stan-. —dards-of-our-country-than are the actions themselves. Miss Alexander Expresses Indignation At Violations of Several Civil Liberties “You hear that there are no more people around who get indig- nant about injustice. Well, here’s one that’s left,” began Milnor Al- exander in her discussion of Civil Liberties at current events Monday night. (Miss Alexander is an as- sistant in the Political Science de- partment, working especially with Mr. Bachrach. In her talk, Miss Alexander dis- cussed six. general areas where. she feels civil liberties are current- ly being violated that fill her with this sense of injustice. Equality Before Law The first concept is the idea of equality before the law, which is basic to our concept of due pro- ever he does.” Rice the point is ies dignity’, or the concept that every man is worth something. This was illustrated by the so-called Bird Man of Al- catraz case, the story of Robert Strauch who was convicted of mur- der and, after killing a guard, was sent to Alcatraz and deprived of his pet birds, the one thing that gave his life meaning and purpose. Judge’s Duty: Impartiality For a fourth point she discussed the judge’s duty to be impartial or at least as much as is humanly} possible. A visit to a magistrate’s court in Philadelphia or New York will show that people are treated differently in respect to their race, economic condition, etc. Another basis of democracy is the idea that government should stay within authorized areas. How far does its authority go, as demonstrated by the challenging of the House of Un-American Activities ‘Com- mittee? ~ ' The lecture concluded with a discussion of the Rosenberg and Sobell case of 1951, in which Miss Alexander feels that‘ the judical by Isa Brannon “The -name’s LaGuardia,” and for: this reason the new musical Fiorello! may strike a more re- sounding note with (New Yorkers than out-of-towners. However, this is a bad year for a new show to make a-hit. There are a singular- ly large number of plays opening this year, and a very small number of Broadway theatres to accommo- date them. It: is necessary to have excel- lence in many things in order to produce a hit musical comedy. First the acting must be of superior quality: This quality is for the most part missing in Fiorello! -|Characters—are—slow to pick up their cues, and they say lines such as “She’s dead” as if they were determined to keep the show a comedy no matter how the script read. Ellen Hanley, who plays La- Guardia’s wife, is the actress who took over the ailing Polly Bergen’s role in First Impressions last win- ter. It is easy to see why ‘the show folded so quickly. Pat Stan- ley, with a certain ingenue quality She plays her role as a striker in a shirtwaist factory with the con- fidence the part demands. Another prerequisite of a good musical is good costumes and scen- ery. The clothes in this show are well-chosen and varied. The de- signers were fortunate in that the play encompasses three periods of time and therefore three styles of clothing: pre-World War I, roar- ing twenties, and the depression. Pach is distinctly represented. The scenery is appropriate, but for the most part drab. The sets revolve spectacularly, but the players must learn to avoid getting caught in them. No matter how amusing, plays need a message. Fiorello! has two. One, that LaGuardia was an admirable character, is es- tablished at the beginning by his followers’ singing “On The Side of the Angels.” This leaves the all ‘remainder of the performance to expose graft and neglect in poli- tics. The theme of a man being elected to office has been treated before, for example in Of Thee I offsets Miss Hanley’s performance. Sing, but this reiteration is new and very appropriate to this elec- “Fiorello!” Out-Mediocres Other Musicals tion ‘year. Unfortunately most of the funny lines in Fiorello! are in the lyrics of the songs, and are therefore lost to laughs. Probably the most amusing sequence in the show is a song “The Little Tin Box” which tells of the attested source of grafters’ money, but it is difficult to tell at the end of the song whether the applause is for the music or the lines, This brings us to the fimal requirement for a suc- cessful musical comedy: good mu- sic. This requirement Fiorello! fills to capacity. The biggest at- tribute of the music is that it is appropriate. The writers, Bock and Harnick, have written the score to apply to the play, not with the usual thought of having a future “top Forty” song. However, this is where we may soon look for “Till Tomorrow.” There are very few musicals like South Pacific and My Fair Lady, -which can be absolutely qual- ified hits. Most fall into a medi- ocre status. This is where Fior- ello! stands. Its success will de- pend on the comparative medioc- rity of the other new musicals. Letter by Polly Larson, ’60 To the Editor: I could not believe that someone so dedicated to beauty and truth as Frank Lloyd Wright would: de- sign a museum to be something other than a place to view art: in a way that would enhance the works. of. art themselves. After hearing the many dissenting com- ments since the opening of October 21st, I began to wonder what I would see and how I would feel when going into the new“Solomon R. Guggenheim (Museum. (Should I bring Dramamine?) Since my visits last Friday afternoon and Saturday morning I feel very strongly that the new museum is a statement of faith for both non- objective art and for museums to house such works. Contemporary art is different in purpose from other art ... and must be recognized as such to be understood and appreciated. The Guggenheim Museum is construct- ed in a way to display the paint- advantage. Frank Lloyd Wright conceived of this new way to dis- play art ... a continuous progres- sion along spiral ramps, punctuat- ed by partitions. There is not. a maze of rooms to confuse, nor dark corners to conceal. That there are no frames and that many paintings are in sus- pension from the wall is to their advantage. Here, at last, is a building designed to display art that was created to be in a gal- lery. These works of art were not, as most used to be, painted for definite punposes such as churches, individuals, and organizations, and later collected and placed in rooms of a museum. Frank Lloyd Wright. has recognized this difference and has created a building that can art. My own sensations at being within the building were ones of involvement and integration with the structure. I took the elevator to the top and walked down the ramp, noting that the placement and lighting of the paintings en- hanced them. The slant of the ramp was not sufficient to make me uneasy that the paintings were not on a level with the floor. I was not conscious that the paint- ings were unframed until that | night. I spoke to a guard about the process ‘was unjust in a number of significant ways. The speaker ee + eee of thought of it since he had to stand there for hours on end. He said |‘ Searosn ecamorannicen bop Wright Saved From ¥ ings and _sculpture- -to—their best fulfill the needs of contemporary], museum,,and asked him what he) rong to one of the girls at the desk where postcards are sold, asking her what she thought. She was very happy to be working there, and elated that the placement of the circular desk put. her in the scope of the lobby instead of back in a corner, I went down to the auditorium to see how it ‘would fit into the scheme of the museum. It was also circular, of soft cream- tan, and seemed to be an excellent room for purposes of’ lecture and film. Altogether the building appear- ed to me to be a well-integrated whole, combining the necessary idea of a building with a place to exhibit contemporary art. It is new .. . it is different... and thus is not accepted immediately by everybody; but neither is non- objective art. I feel that Frank Lloyd Wright has made a great move forward in the conception of museums, and it is more sensible to try to. understand the reasons behind his ideas than to condemn -them:—And who can say that it is wrong for a building which houses works of art to be a work of art in: its own right? Polly Larson, ’60: Events In Philadelphia Plays The Midnight Sun with Janet Gaynor opens Mon. night at the Locust. Fiorello! continues at the Erlan- ger, Only in America, based on the Harry (Golden book, is at the For- ‘rest. Saratoga, with music by Johnny (Mercer, remains at the Shubert. Music Jan Peerce, Met tenor, in a re- cital Thursday evening. The Kingston Trio Friday night at 8:40. Philadelphia Orchestra with Or- mandy and Guiomar Novaes, pian- ist, Friday anyerripen and Saturday evening. All musical ovorrems are at the Academy. | Movies Pillow Talk with Doris Day and Rock Hudson at the New Stanley. A Summer Place, based on Sloan Wisen's novel, bean “Dorothy Mc- for a long period of time. I spoke} Poll Tells Jobs, Fees of Summer To those unhappily confronting giant paydays, it may be comfort- ing to hear that Bryn Mawrters earned a total of $139,480.00 dur- ing the summer of 1959. With 90% of the student body reporting on their summer employment the Summer Job Survey was consider- ed particularly successful and re- veals some rather interesting fig- ures. Of 610 students, 146, or al- most 24%, took some kind of sum-: mer course, 69 of them combining. study with some other kind of ac- tivity. Though a report of travel was not particularly requested, 84 students noted that they had spent all or part of the summer travelling. Relatively few students, 57, engaged in no activity and of these 27, or almost half, were in- coming freshmen. 62% Hold Jobs Three hundred eighty students, or 628%, held 401 paid jobs for — all or part of the summer. Eighty- five of these students engaged in more than one activity, twenty of them holding two or three jobs. The summer of 1959 was the third one in which Bryn Mawrters earned more than one hundred thousand dollars, the other two being 1956 and 1957. In 1958, per- haps owing to the recession, stu- dent earning did not reach ninety thousand. This past summer, how- ever, the total reported exceeded any totals previously reported by $26,745. It is difficult to tell whether the sharp rise both in number of jobs and total amount earned is entirely due to the in- crease in numbers of students re- porting, or whether an increasing number of students are working all or part of the summer, Some Earns $500+ There were 120 students who earned five hundred dollars or more during the summer of 1959, virtu- ally all of whom worked between ten and seventeen weeks. There were four girls who earned one thousand dollars or more, all of them working fifteen weeks or more. The highest individual sal- ary for the summer was $1200, next was one of $1105. Science Most Lucrative The most lucrative summer work | appears to be in the scientific field, the average salary there being $48.50 per week, Office work followed close fbehind at $46.50. | Waitressing averaged $40.55 plus _|and camp: work $24.00. ae Wednesday, November 11,.1959 THE COLLEGE NEWS r Page Three Samael Topic Of Week-end Discussions Here Ceataned from Page 1, Col. 5 trinsic nature of living material which necessitates the selection of one member of an optical pair so that formation and survival will be possible. The prime example is the: protein molecule seen ‘as the model of existence’ of life, teins are formed of helices which in. all naturally formed molecules spiral to the right. This is due to the fact that practically all pro- teins are built from right-handed L .amino acids as opposed to the left-handed (D amino acids which exist’ in a small minority. | Dr. Wald feels that in the light of our present knowledge of the biochemistry of proteins, the ques- tion as to why one configuration, is absurd. _If-it-were-not-for this pniformity the whole living sys- tem would be a duplicate; thus nat- ural selection of one optical iso- mer is due purely to chance and, “assuming a degree of symmetry in this situation”, life on other planets may ibe half based on the -(D amino acid theory and half on the iL. | Math Lecture Stresses Value of Symmetry by Diana Burgess, ’61 ' “The Classification of Zonohe- dra by Means of Projective Dia- grams” led the procession of lec- tures. Dr. iH. iS. M. Coxeter’s sub- ject was a specialized geometric éonsideration of basic group-sym- metry principles. which were to be discussed in other contexts through- out the day. , A zonohedron, said Dr, Coxeter simply, is a polyhedron whose faces lie in zones. A zone is ob- tained from a polyhedron by start- ing with one face, proceeding to any adjacent face, across it to the Pro-| diametrically opposite one, across it, and so on until returning-to the starting point. (The only restric- tion on the polyhedron is thus that each face to be part of the zone must have an even number of sides, so that there will be a dia- metrically ‘opposite side of the face.) /The simplest example of a zonohedron: is probably a cube. Comparing it to a room, all four walls form one zone; floor and ceil ing ‘with two opposing walls form another. | Restricting his discussion to those-zonohedra which can be made to completely fill space if. “piled up” on one another (called. “paral- lelohedra”), Coxeter pointed out the fact that these can be only those with four or six faces in a zone. This is simply because they must fill up the space. (Looking at a cross-séctional plane you can see that the plane cannot be filled with any but four- or six-sided regular polygons.) - The statement was proved by use of “projective diagrams”, schematic representa- tions (not. perspective drawings) of. polyhedra by points and lines in the plane, which thus become the “projective plarie”. _ To continue with the simplest example, the cube may be repre- sented first as a “star” of lines The NEWS wishes to extend its best wishes to Mme. Agi Jambor_on her marriage._last Wednesday to Claude Rains, one of the nation’s most distinguish- ed actors. We are most pleased that Mr. and Mrs. Rains will make their home in this vicinity, and that Mrs. Rains—who will retain her professional name— will continue to teach at the College. i. JEANNETT’S Bryn Mawr Flower -Shop _ 823 Lancaster Avenue “Flowers For All Occasions Member Florists Telegraph. Delivery Ass’n GIVE YOURSELF A LIFT! Have your hair styled at the VANITY SHOPPE 831 Lancaster Ave. Bryn Mawr Lambda Omega Rho - Some fraternities get athletes. Some get brains. This fraternity gets virtually everybody, ‘including women. It has fanatically loyal _ members in more than 100 countries around : the world. It has no pin and its only ritual is the simple act of enjoying Coca-Cola every GG, single day of the year. Its name? LO R—Lovers of Refreshment. Join up today. s SIGN OF GOOD TASTE Bottled under authority of The Coca-Cola Company by emanating from one vertex and paralleling the edge of the cube (comparable to a three-dimension- al Cartesian coordinate system go- ing both directions.) These six lines are taken in pairs, since the faces meet one another in pairs at any edge. On the projective di- agram each of these pairs is rep- resented ‘by a point. Lines drawn through the three points and ex- tended form a triangle and divide the projective plane into four re- gions. Each region therefore rep- resents a pair of opposite vertices of the original cube. There can never be more than three points of intersection on any one line in the projective diagram if the diagram is to represent a parallelohedron. That is, the plane cross-section of the parallel- ohedron must be four-sided (giv- ‘ing two points) or six-sided (giv- ing three points per line on the projective diagram.) One, two, or three lines may therefore be added to the diagram, but no more. The ways in which these are put in provide a basis for identifying and classifying the five correspond- ing parallelohedrons, the only ones which may be made to fill space. All these considerations were dependent upon the symmetry of the figures. Each face of the zon- ohedron was considered as a cen- trally symmetric polygon; each parallelohedron was additionally symmetric in having an even num- ber of sides. ‘This, Dr. ‘Coxeter pointed out, is only one of the many uses of symmetry in the parade WINTER'S HERE! Face the cold days ahead with Sweaters from JOYCE LEWIS Bryn Mawr of mathematical thought; without symmetry the work of‘algebra and geometry would be tremendously more difficult, if not impossible. Low cost —up to 100 mpg. Safe... because its so easy te ride, Automatic transmission. Go fie fun way— ideal for school, and errands, See the TOPPER Ateeo. PHILA. HARLEY-DAVIDSON CO 857 N. 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