“*the United States has considered ' foreign affairs were to be disposed communism. cae senaneresororenvenrenvareneeasasare VOL: LI, NO. 13 ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1955 Lys seews Uvicge, Copyright, Trustees of __. 1964 PRICE 20 CENTS Goldman Feels Emphasis On Foreign Affairs Calls For New Political ‘Tags’ Goodhart, Feb. 7.—The old lib- eral and, conservative tags in American politics are no longer applicable ‘sinee - foreign policy has become more important than: do- mestic affairs, said Eric Goldman, Mailory Whiting Webster Memo- rial lecturer; in his speech on “The American as Liberal and Conserv- ative,” Since 1947 two groups, the rec- oncilables and the irreconcilables, have emerged with divergent views on foreign affairs. ‘The irreconciia- bles base their views on the tradi- ‘tional idea, that all people want peace and democfucy. The law of history is gradual change toward middle class democracy in the world, and history must be put back on the right track if it gets off. The irreconcilables feel that co- existence is wrong, and want more military preparation and less U.N. To them the fact that Asia, which its special project for years, has. turned toward communism is a di- rect snub, The reconcilables took a longer time to formulate their views but, said Mr. Goldman, this is not sur- ‘prising, as they have made a fun- damental break with the tradition- al view that “the business. of America was business,” and that “of quickly and completely. They doubt whether our present foreign problems can ever be com- pletely solved and fee] that in a distorted way communism is ex- pressing a real need for social and economic changes, in the world. The reconcilables advocate coexist- ence and economic aid to combat Adlai Stevenson, definitely a rec- oncilable, ‘states the position of this group in his latest book, Call to Greatness. To him, nations, like people, become middle-aged. The United States has reached that po- sition in regard to other nations of the world which are undergoing] # protound social revolutions. 1c 1s‘impossible to ‘identify either ‘Uk..nese two groups by the old eco-/ nomic; property or racial lines as- sociated witn politics. East of the Appalachians and north of the|} Mason-Dixon line. one finds more reconcilables, however. Among im- migrants and in the South and West one finds more irreconcila- ules. Uneducated people, immi- zrancs’wno want to feel American, ana people of old stock who feel insecure tend to belong to the lat- = ver group. ‘this idea of reconcilables and ir- reconcilables is not unrelated to the old ideas of liberalism and conservatism, however. Originally liberals were those who wanted more economic and social opportu- nity for the masses. They followed the position that environment makes the man. On the other hand, conserva- vives, who were mostly from the upper classes, felt that liberty was uescroyed by this.attitude and con- siuerea birch and character impor- vant. Kventually the major issue petween these two groups became orurred as conservatives were forc- ed to adopt liberal policies. Both liberals and conservatives agreed, however, on foreign ‘policy. During the Spanish-American War, and World Wars I and I-they co- operated completely. It was not until people began to see that the law of history was not taking care. of Russia properly that American thoughts began to be divided be- tween the reconcilable and irrecon- cilable attitudes. The old conservatives were faced with an upsurge from the bottom of American society, and the ir- reconcilables are faced with a change in the structure of world society. Marshall Views Birthrate Versus Present Shortages of Time, Space Goodhart, Feb. 1—Bryn Mawr has chosen a “middle of the road” policy in the “pressing and ur- gent” problem of the size of the college, said Dean Marshall in ~ speaking before the assembly gp- ening second semester. ‘This position has resulted in a survey, made by a faculty commit- tee, of the physical plant and teaching facilities of the college. Several definite facts have emerg- ed from this ‘survey: (1) “Nobody has enough of any- thing,” either time, space, or money. (2) The question has arisen as to whether Bryn Mawr’s best serv- ice is to maintain its present size and strive for quality or to in- crease its size. Dean Marshall not- ed that most smal] liberal arts col- leges have chosen the formér solu- tion. The problem facing the col- lege at present is that of deter- mining the actual value of its small size. (3) The survey has also seenaled that “each individual in Bryn Mawr has a definite opinion as to what will happen to Dalton!” _In the country as a whole, Dean| Marshall stated that by 1970 it is estimated that there will be more -~than four million college students, as compared with the more than two million of 1954. In considering the problems of the coming in- crease in students in institutions of higher learning, several factors must be taken into account. The first of these is that it is difficult to define precisely the term “higher education.”. Differ- ent facets of education will be af- fected differently. Another problem is that the edu- cational system in this country is almost entirely a free and open- one. Individual colleges determine} the important factors of size, en- trance requirements, and faculty. Probably the greatest problem in the whole area is that of deter-. mining sensible admissions poli- cies. Admissions pressure will be greatest on urban colleges and. state institutions. The urban jun-. ior colleges may necessarily ac-} quire greater prestige and play a more important part in the educa- tional system. . If junior colleges and state insti-. tutions take a larger part of the burden, they may become more se- |. or they may be forced to place, more restrictions on out of state: students. - Freshman Show Rehearsal especially contributed by Miss Lang The Faculty Show, scheduled for March 19, is to be called The Profs in the Pudding, and already the faculty is beginning to stew and simmer in.a gentle sort of way. The first.purpose of the pro- fessors in this particular pudding is to please the students, but the proof of the pudding will be seen in its contribution to the new Science Building. So the students must ipay to be pleased and, it is hoped, ‘will be pleased to pay. Ticket prices have been set with the worthy cause well in mind and Jambor to Give Music Programs Madame Agi Jambor, distin- guished concert pianist and spe- -! cialist in the music of Johann Se- | bastian Bach, will present a Sym- posium on Bach at Bryn Mawr, during the week of February 14. Her programs are in celebration of ‘the expansion of the Music De- partment. Mme. Jambor will give a series of lecture recitals for students in the Music Department. On Mon- day, Feb. 14, at 12 o’clock, she will give a general introduction to the composer’s music. At 4:30 she will be present at a tea for music stu- dents in the Common Room. A discussion of phrasing, tempo and dynamics will be presented Tuesday at 4:15, and the Bach polyphony will be the subject of her lecture recital Wednesday at 12 o’clock. | Mme. Jambor’s final lecture to music students will be on Key- board Music. All the lectures for students of the Music Department will be presented in the Music Room. _ ~ The concert Friday evening will be the culmination of the week’s lectures. At 8:30 in Goodhart au- ditorium, Mme. Jambor will pre- sent the following program: Italian Concerto: Allegro, An- dante, Presto. * Variations in the Italian Style. Toccata in D Major. Prelude and Fugue in A Minor. |. Partita in B Flat Major: _Prae-. ludium, Courante, Minuet, Alle- mande, Sarabande, Gigue. ‘Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue. Faculty Reveals Production Plans; “Profs in the Pudding” for March 19 with an eye to the fact that a quadrennial event is not an annual drain on the student pocketbook and so must make up for lost op- portunities. The law of supply and demand was also invoked. Goodhart will be divided as fol- lows: half the front section at $10 a seat; the other half at $7.50; two- thirds of the second section and the .best balcony seats at $5; the rest at $3. Although it is true that some students cannot afford the most expensive seats, it is also true that the faculty cannot afford the time to produce the show. For the stu- dents there is an easy solution: Miss Compton can provide a Va- riety of interesting and instructive jobs (from baby-sitting to typing or both at once) which pay about sixty cents an hour. The cheapest seat represents only five hours of toil; the most expensive can be had for less than seventeen. Rush now and get a job! P| Freshman Show, Director Moore Announces Results Of Tryouts For | 38's N autical Presentation, ‘Ankle’s Away’ The results of tryouts for the Ankles Away, have been announced by Nancy Moore, director. Admiral Palsey will be played by .Tawn Stokes; Captain Albert Ross, Betty Vermey; Captain Sally’ Thenics, Mary Griffith; Jenny Sais- quoi, Betsey Hilgenberg; Bill Ovid, Ellie Clymer; and Li¥ Terine, Wal- da Barnett. Cris Craft will be played by Margaret Gordon; Iris Totle, Lee Ellis; Dr. Perry Noid, Martha Bridge; Mrs. Palsey, Connie Brown; Mrs. Ross,. Tulsa. Kaiser; Seymore Spray, Angie LaVigne; Jed Sum, Sue Opstad; Ensign C. Gull, Elizabeth Hill; Ensign Gwen Steady, Bette de Sabato. Other positions filled last week were those of assistant director, Laura Rockefeller; ~ accompanist, Barbara Mitnick; and prompter, Patricia Page. Members of the singing chorus are: Marie Tyme, played by Sue Levin; Eileen Overboard, Eliza Cope; Flo Bouyant, Sandy Grant; Ivy League, Shelley Eskin; Donna Hatch, Ellen Brown; Isabelle Ring- ing, Margaret Goodman; Kitty Corner, Marjorie Armstrong; and Rhoda Dendron, Marion Perret. The part of Cary Bean will be sung by Anne Rodgers; Sammy Fore, Sylvia Jacoby; Maldemer Snerd, Leslie Kandel]; Robin Bankes, Judy Robertson; Scott Free, Grace van Hulsteyn; Morris Minor, Joan Shigekawa; Mark O’Ronie, Anne Keller; and Tiger, Susan Fox. Rhoda Becker, Nancy Dyer, Ma- rissa Gori, Linda Jett, Lynn Sykes, Julia Wilkin, Madlyn Wolfe, and Greta Wyckoff have been chosen: to dance in the traditional kick chorus. Those appearing in the Calis- thenics Dance are Rhoda Becker, Julia Wilkin, Marjorie Armstrong, Anna Kisselgoff, Llynda Hinds, Continued on Page 6, Col. 4 —s By Paula Dunaway, ’58 Freshman Show weekend this year, planned for February 11-13, promises to be a huge success. Ac- tivities and entertainment ‘will be- gin Friday evening and last till Sunday, with something to inter- est everyone. The main event, of course, will be Freshman Show. On Friday night, Radnor will start things off with an open house from nine to one; there will be in- formal dancing and general enter- tainment, with folk-singing by Maryellen Fullam. The program for Saturday is busy and varied. In the afternoon, there will be folk-singing at 3:30 inthe Common Room by Ralphs ‘Rinzler and Roger Abrams of Swarthmore. From all reports, they are two of the best in this area and should be very entertain- The Freshman Show, Ankles Away, will be presented Saturday night at eight-thirty (tickets will be on sale from 10: BO-12: xe that morning). er After the sls Saini Nall fs tie Program for Weekend Includes Show, Dance, Folk Songs and Open Houses formal Mardi’ Gras dance inthe gym, from ten till two. Music will be by the Cardinals, a group of eight from Wesleyan. This should be one of the big events of the weekend. Following this, two open houses are planned. Merion will offer cof- fee and doughnuts, with informal singing by the Cardinals. The Common Room will be open from two to three-thirty for anyone who wants to sit around a fire. The Soda Fountain will be open, too, for late snacks. Sunday afternoon there is usu- ally a Freshman Sing in the Com- mon Room, with repeats by the cast of Freshman show, and se- lections from previous shows by the other classes. ~ Those who plant to try out for the NEWS, please sign the list posted on the Newsroom bulletin board. Tryouts (one ‘news story, one “feature, one free article) are due on Febru- my 16. All Board members will =~ ‘with the conferences (most members of the Board had no _ proving that you’re not superwo - ualties during Hell Week is Page Two THE .COLLEGE NEWS . gg Wednesday, February 9, 1955 THE COLLEGE NEWS FOUNDED IN 1914°° | ™ cui Published weekly during the College Year (except during n ving, _ - Christmas and Waster holidays, and during examination weeks) in the interest of Bryn ewe Coleg at the Ardmore Printing Company, Ardmore, Pa., and B wr College. F { . The College News is fully protected by copyright. Nothing that age in it may be reprinted either wholly or in part without permission of the. : Editor-in-Chief, os i EDITORIAL BOARD bc: ee oe eck cess saksadeen ick ceed “Marcia Case, ‘57 Epsey Cooke, ‘57 Carol Hansen, ‘57 Ruth Rasch, ‘57 nebemmeaaiaene re ag ; EDITORIAL STAFF “aes Paula Dunaway, ‘58; Marcia Goldstone, ‘56; Ann@:Kisselgoff, ‘58; Joyce Mit- chell, ‘55 (League Representative); Linda Notkin, “57; Joan Parker, “57 (A. A. Representative); Helen Sagmaster, ‘58; Leah Shanks, ‘56; Catharine Stimpson, ‘58; Elizabeth Warren, ‘55 (Alliance Representative). Staff Photographers ...........+-++-0+ Ann Harris, ‘56 — Amy Heinel, ‘56 Business Manager ........5.sssseeecceee nse nt “ve eeee Margi Abrams, ‘56 | Associate Business Manager ............2+.00 ves Gloria Strohbeck, ‘57 > Business Staff; Annabelle Williams, ‘56; Virginia Gavian, ‘57; Rachel Epstein, ‘57; Christine Wallace, ‘57. Subscription Manager ......... Dee eue cere bees » Carlene Chittenden, ‘56 Subscription Board: Norma Sedgewick, ‘56; Polly Lothman,:.’56; Micky Nus- baum, ‘57; Christa-Lovise Vollmer, ‘56; Ann Anderson, ‘57; Leone Edricks, ‘57; Jennie Hagen, ‘57; Lucille Lindner, ‘57; Betsy Miller, ‘57, Nancy Starr, ‘57. Subscription, $3.50. Mailing price, $4.00. Subscriptiéhs may, any time. Entered as second class matter at the Ardmore, Pa., under the Act of March 3, 1879. : & Comprehensives | Among the editorials-that-never-got-written last. semes- ter was one which ambitiously resolved to take a “‘vehement, yet constructive”. stand on the question of comp conferences and exams. The primary reasons for shelving the topic were (a) the Board was unable to agree on one point of view, and (b) no member of the Board had any personal experience begin at ‘ost Office major at all). _ Letters to the Editor |To the Editor of the College News: I am glad to see that my letter of December 8 has evoked several replies, and that in those replies certain fallacies have been refut- Jed. It is true that the fallacies are not present in my letter; but it is good to have the refutations available in any case. There has been a considerable interest for some time in what re- jation, if any, there is between science: and religion. A good sum- mary, to about 1890, of historical conflict is given by Andrew Dick- son White in his History of the Warfare of Science and Theology ‘| (Appleton, 1897) (with most of the shooting done by the theolog- ians), however, White maintained that theology was not “true relig- ion’, A more recent statement stressing conflict or incompatibil- ity is given by Horace Kaleln in The Bertrand Russell Case (Vik- ing Press, 1941), On the other hand, there are among both scientists and theolo- gians many who maintain .that there is no .conflict and/or that there should be no conflict. (cf. Science and Man, R. N. Anshen’ (Ed.), Harcourt - Brace, 1942). Yet the system of conferences and examinations remains. an open issue and is one of the most frequently debated ones opinions and suggestions. The results of this survey appear on pages 8 and 4. : plist core The three groups of people represented are: seniors, who are currently preparing for comprehensives, alumnae’ who have recently graduated under the system, and profess-) ors, who direct the program. Realizing that comps differ. widely from department to department, we have attempted to give adequate representation to different fields: English,’ philosophy, the social sciences, the sciences and the languag-’ es. Ua ‘ ck Ved kw OS Pin eiaiee he re It is particularly interesting ‘to note that the Political Science department is experimenting with a ‘General Com- prehensive this year. Also worthy of mention is the fact that agreements and differences. do not follow departmental or “class” lines. Several articles stress the fact that.success or failure of comp conferences depend on ‘student participa-| tion. Suggestions range from ‘slight modifications’ to ‘com- plete adandonment of the whole idea, =. |... We hope that the campus. as.a.whole will be interested in this discussion and we’d like very much:to have-comments | both on the issue itself and on the-idea’ of such surveys in gen- eral. gid Ge, RW ke he Sad : . . Freshmen, J}eware! Having spent the first four and a half months taking the freshmen out of their place, Bryn Mawr upperclassmen now intend to spend the next few days putting them back into it. If you freshmen thought that Bryn Mawr was too good to be true, you were right! Instead of spreading our natural jealousy and dislike of you over eight months, we must heap it all into two days, having been forced to conceal it under friendly college traditions. The fact that you have run off with the handsomest men and the highest grades: has both- ered us for some time; but it won’t lie on our conscience after Hell Week! That you sing better than one class, look better than another, and have more energy than all of us, will be of little avail when we band ther with one aim — that of erwomen, darn it, but freshmen! We have little sympathy with whatever excuses or case _you may make for yourselves,. We Know of what you are guilty—the dreadful crime called scene-stealing. We will al- low you only one word of comfort—the rumor. that Bryn Mawr has maintained its present small size because of -cas- |. ¥ items | ‘of Grass, have been loaned: on campus. Because of this, we felt that a survey among | “those who know” would present an interesting variety of; '| unnecessary to add that one can Sometimes it is asserted, as for example by Dr. Benfey of Haver ford in a Sigma Xi lecture year before last, that the relation is one of complementarity. The problem is complicated and is by no means settled, as many think, by saying that science deals with the verifiable ‘whereas religion deals with the unverifiable or that science deals with what is where- ‘as religion deals with what ought to be or that their methods are ‘fundamentally different. (Dr. Ben- fey stresses similiarities in meth- ‘od!). . ... The distribution of religious be- liefs. among scientists is certain- ly relevant to this problem of re- lation, though of course it does not in itself provide an answer. Leuba’s 1914 and 1933 statistics are the best we have; recent though ‘limited data on religious beliefs of young scientists are given in the June, 1954, issue of Fortune. Religious beliefs, which are grounded in thought, habit, feel- ings, and intuitions, are functions of the human organism, and it is certainly not fantastic to think that what the organism studies, thinks about, as well as the habits of thinking which he develops, may have an effect upon his religious beliefs, whether there is any log- ical connection or not. For exam- ple, the study of human beings whether it be through literature, history, psychology, biology, bio- physics, or any of several other fields, may have a profound effect upon the way one thinks and feels ‘about human beings and their place in the universe, and therefore have an effect upon his religious beliefs. ‘The silence which scholars main- tain concerning religion and other philosophical matters is to some extent responsible for the contin- ued prevalence of what I so blunt- ly refered to as ignoramuses about religion and philosophy. Dr. Michels knows very well that he is not:one of the ignoramuses to whom I referred. It should be edition of Leaves of Grass, and, a 3 li-|recent gift to the library, an amus- Adams Offers Sources on Views of Scientists, | Stresses the Individual Conscience in Religion (and the expression of them) even though he has ho respect. whatever for them. In my opinion’ rattle- snake handling is a most unwor- thy form of religious ceremony, but it seems to me that restric- tions on snake handlers should be imposed only to the extent neces- sary to protect other members of the community from snakes—not ideas, | To sum up, I would say that I believe that religion should. be what Dr. Michels seems to think it al- ready is, namely, a matter for one’s own conscience. Anyone who al- lows either scientists or theologi- ans to make his philosophical de- cisions for him has probably re- ceived his cerebral cortex by mis- take. Dr. Michels would do well to direet his arrows toward the very powerful forces in our soci- ety who demonstrate both implic- itly and explicitly that they em. phatically do not want religion to be a matter of individual con- science, . : If the law passed by Congress in June, 1954, (with what I suspect is an almost matchless lack of in- tegrity, the vote being unanimous in one house and with one or two dissenters in the other), adding the ‘words “under God” to the pledge of allegiance to the flag, were to.be followed by one mak- ing church attendance compulsory, it would be exactly what a good many intellectuals roundly deserve. ‘With regard to the other faculty letter which appeared, I shall re- strain myself to the statement that while I do not wish to disturb Dr. MacGregor’s dream world, I think I.made clear, by enumerating sev- eral names ,that by “Founding Fathers” I referred to the leading statesmen at the time of the American Revolution, and that “hardly any” is not synonymous with “none.” I quote from. Beard’s The Rise p. 448, “Out of England Deism was borne to France by Voltaire, ly all the skeptics who labored at manity. From various directions the. doctrine came into America spreading widely among the intel- lectual leaders of the American Revolution and making them doub- ly dangerous characters in the eyes of the Anglican Tories. When the crisis came, Jefferson, Paine, John Continued on Page 6, Col. 1 Parents’ Day Plan Prepared for April “Weezie” Simpson has announc- ed the tentative plans for Parents’ Day, which will be held this year on April 16, from 10:30 to 6. Eight different departmental meetings are being planned for the morning, four at a time, with some extracurricular activities being in- cluded. A synchronized swimming exhibition is also. planned for some- time during the day. i It is hoped that the afternoon will be highlighted by the Prince- ton: Chorus concert with Bryn Mawr, follewed: by a tea. The Parents’ Day committee has |been augmented by three newly- elected faculty members; Miss’ Mel-|} link, Mr. Green and Mr. Michels. | The speaker in chapel next Sun- |day evening will be the Reverend) | Joseph P. Bishop from’ the Swarth- of American Civilization, Vol. 1,' where-it became the creed:of near-' the Encyclopaedia and at the new, philosophy of naturalism, and hu- | health insurance groups available Current Events - | Wells: Discusses Ike’s ’ Message To Congress : Common Room, February 7, 7:15 p.m, “National security and free private enterprise—can we have both at the.same time?” This question was the focal point for Dr. Wells’s discussion of the Pres ident’s recent messages to Con- gress, With the population continually ‘increasing, we face the question, ‘Are we increasing job opportuni- ties enough?” “In a time of international crisis we can keep the economy going, said Dr. Wells, “but I. :wonder whether Mr. Eisenhower’s budget takes sufficient account of -other | built-in stabilizers.” | Very shortly there will be a re- port on the highway commission | which will suggest a 10 year im- ‘provement plan costing 110 billion \dollars. “Is this in any way to be planned and then drawn upon or not..depending on how much stim- ulus is needed to keep the economy going?” : The last Congress made a very substantial tax reduction on the theory that more money would then be. available for development by free enterprise, The present administration be- jlieves that “the government is in itoo many kinds of business”, and ‘that it should get out of things | Which could be handled on the state | or local’ level or by.free enterprise. The Dixon-Yates contract illus- jtrates this sort of thing. Furth- more, federal business (e. g. the post-office) should be self-support- ing, and expenses for the benefit of a particular region (e. g. dredg- ing the Delaware River) should be paid for partly by the people con- cerned. | “Mr. Eisenhower is of course ‘against socialized medicine,” said ,Dr. Wells. The president, how- ,ever, proposed a federal reinsur- ance plan which would work like the bank guarantee, as the impetus for extending coverage by the va- rious groups. This proposal is not adequate because it doesn’t give anything in the way of additional capital. Dr. Wells suggested a system which would also make loans to | | at a low rate of interest. As for national security, two- thirds of the budget is earmarked for research on atomic energy, | stock-piling, ‘equipping our allies and equipping our own military forces. . Mr. Eisenhower -recommended _|an increase in funds for the Air Force and a decrease for the Army and Navy. He also suggested an | extension of selective service anda new proposal to strengthen the re- serve, Young men between 17% and 19 who volunteered for this plan would have six months of basic training and then would be in the reserve for nine and a half. years. During this time they would go to 48 drills per year and spend their summers in camp. Those who didn’t volunteer would be inducted via selective service. oe SE The annual United Service Fund drive will be held Wednes- day, February 16. Each student is asked to contribute $10, as|}. this is the only charity drive during the year: The list of or-|[ ganizations which will receive the money follows: American Friends’ Service Committee National Scholarship Fund shee eweee Near East Foundation AA nee nent ea beweeeneenee wae eeee | Chureh. | World University Service .15% ‘done in English courses. | Wedesday; February 9, 1955 a HE: COLLEGE. NEWS : Page. Three NEWS Poll on Comprehensives Evokes Varied Replies L. J. Berry: Biology Department Pleased With Results of Comps By C. Joe Berry Professor of Biology Biology is an exceedingly broad tield. While fundamental charac- teristics shared in common by all hving sysvems, must be_ learned, our coulses do not pyramid, per- haps, to the same degree as: those in certain other departments. The manner in which biologists it prepare tor the Final Examination in the Major Subject may hardly be applicable, therefore, to other sciences or disciplines. in an effort to insure a breadth ot training beyond that possible within the framework of courses, seniors are given a reading list that enables them to expand their grasp of important developments in the history of biology and to consolidate and enlarge their un- derstanding of several areas of specialization. Informal discussion sessions in which a member of the staff participates are held at fort- nightly intervals throughout the year. Each session is devoted to a specific segment of the reading. For several years the examina- tions, themselves, have been pre- set. Questions for the general ex- amination are given a week or ten days in advance while those for the two special fields are’ given a day and a half-early.. (A. number’ of our majors substitute for one of the latter an examination offered by another department in which at least two units of work have been taken, such as chemistry, philoso- tion places emphasis on ability to cope with basic problems in biol- ogy under Conditions comparable to those for the working scientist. Facts may be sought from any pri- mary or secondary source, The manner in which they are used be- eomes the chief basis for evalua- tion. These examinations tend to di- minish tension. Perhaps this is good and or bad. Crises arise throughout life and if, ‘in college, students are not confronted ‘with. “academic crises” then, in ‘my opin- ion, we as faculty are -negligent. After three and one-half years of vnis, however, there seems to be merit in presenting a -different realistic situation. by means of which intellectual achievement may be evaluated. The biology department, and I beiieve the majority of its stu- dents, have been pleased with both che procedure and the results. Con- tinuing effort is made to improve the reading lists and experience has helped us avoid some of the weaknesses of preset examina- tions. There is still room for im- provement and, in fact, there is some question as to whether or not the special area examinations should always be preset but in general the Comprehensive pro- gram’ fulfills an essential role in phy, history.) A preset examina- the departmental program. C. Rodgers Comments on Shortcomings Of Comps; Suggests They Start Sooner By Catherine Rodgers, ’55 The conferences and exams which comprise the Senior Comprehens- ives in English assist the English major in correlating the reading she has done in individual courses. This is accomplished not only by additional reading in areas where the student has already studied, but also by preparation for a com- prehensive that deals with “liter- ary criticism, literary genres, and problems of style . . . based upon the” reading of certain critical works of fundamental importance.” Criticisms The criticism that. has been, with more or less vehemence, leveled at this general comprehensive, results largely froni a feeling that the sub- ject matter appears repetitious or ig too separate from the work In the conferences where the essays are discussed, apart from the litera- ture which they encouraged, they appear a little irrelevant; on the exam where the student is sup- posed to illustrate general princi- ples: by examples from her field of concentration, she simply repeats ideas from one exam to the*vther, rather than feeling she has gained a more profound understanding of either. her field or literature in general. _ Weakness In Students ~ These criticisms suggest an un- willingness on the part of the av- erage English major to look upon the critical material or the critics as having anything in common with herself and her own experience of literature. She spends two or three pi gh sotagllamane ste to realize what they peg sg ona the process is sometimes difficult. Since she often does not feel justified in en- _ -wisaging herself as a critic, critical works are significant only inso- far as they provide information, |of literature. Unsure of her own opinions, she finds other readers’ either dogmatic or irrelevant. ; All of this merely indicates that nobody’s critical powers spring full grown from the sea; they require constant cultivation. The ‘work done in the general comprehensive might advantageously not be elim- inated, but started earlier. The reading and conferences might be assigned not as a conclusion to two or three years of courses, but as a supplement to these. Since most ‘of the time in individual courses is spent simply in achieving an ac- quaintance with the writers, the -work for the comprehensive con- ference might serve as a reminder ‘of the relationship these writers ‘have with one another and their readers at’the time that the Eng- lish major is becoming familiar with the writing itself. Start Earlier The senior year, when seniors are striving to review the reading they have done in past years, does not seem the time to initiate such proceedings. If the individual stu- dent has tried to realize herself as a critic, has tried to appreciate the general problems of style as she worked in her courses, the mater- ial covered in the general compre- hensive appears repetitious; if she has not, it is an intrusion. In study- ing for the exam. it_.is..probable. that. she will not try to relate it to her own experiences of litera- ture, but simply memorize state- ments to be scribbled into blue books along with such analogies as the pressure of the occasion may compel her to make. It seems pointless to provide another occa- ‘sion for adventitious: assemblages of facts in a comprehensive whose arrangement suggests that it be designed to éncourage instead a more informed and mature judg- ment in the reading and criticism Editor’s Note: The, NEWS has devoted two pages of this week’s sssue to the discussion by three jacuity members, two recent ‘graduates of Bryn Mawr, and -)Our seniors, of the principie, aim’, and ejfectiveness of com- prebensives. Lhe nine were se- ected as representing a variety vy sources, out with no consid- eration as to what thew views might actualy be. ‘Robbins Disappointed i in Comp Plan; >uggests Changes in Senior Program by Caroline Robbins rrotessor of History 4 supported the changes in the 4You's which incroduced, first, hon- urs, anu then tne hnai examinavion dur ail seniors, with entauslasm, 4ue good svudenc who profited by a year’s work on a long paper, was carea Ior. All students had a H. Leblanc: Systematic Philosophy Conferences Kail to Achieve Goals By Hugues Leblanc Associate Professor of Philosophy Years ago our philosophy majors talked me into holding comp con- ferences at the Inn over sticky buns and a-cup of tea. . After: two or three of these gatherings one puzzled student asked the very question you are raising today: “Do comprehensives serve any pur- pose?” 1 pondered her question, tound, I believe, some answer to it, and ordered the. group back to our philosophy seminar room. I weleome the opportunity you extend me of airing my views on comprehensivés. Mindful, however, of my own business, I shall restrict myself to the comprehensive in systematic philosophy and let my colieagues have their say on the rest of the problem. | Unified Inquiry As I see it, our comprehensive in systematic philosophy has a double aim. Our majors, during their sophomore and junior years, take separate courses in logic, eth- ics, metaphysics, aesthetics, and so on. They are reminded at the beginning of each course of the or- ganic unity of philosophy, but soon asked to concentrate exclusively on the business at hand. Upon reach- ing their senior year, however, they should have a.chance, we feel, to piece together what they learn- ed in their second and third year courses. We accordingly select one topic, say universals, causation, or). freedom, which pertains to several branches of philosophy, and use it as the theme of our comp confer- ences, hoping that students, while they learn the variations of that|’ theme in ancient and modern times, will come not only to view, but also. to feel, philosophy as a unified «inquiry into nature and man, e We have, however, a second aim wnen giving those conferences. We wish to test each May whether our majors after two or three years of anstruction. in the field have devel- oped a “knack” tor philosophy. We could do so, L suppose, in a num- ber ot ‘ways; we believe, however, that the examination which winds up the comp conferences in. sys- tematic philosophy is ‘still the best one. We accordingly ask our ma- jors at the beginning of the con- terences to make the topic pro- posed, be it universals or causation or any other, ‘their ‘philosophy problem of the year, to reformu- jate it in their. own terms, study it through readings and discussions of their own, and tentatively solve it.in their own way. We challenge them, in other words, to philosoph- ic maturity and offer them both the comp conferences and the final examination as a means of achiev- ing it. » Such is our goal. Do we reach it? That, indeed, is another ques- tion. Several factors have a part bo play in the success of such con- ferences. First comes the topic around which” the majors are ex- pected to synthesize whatever bits of philosophy we have passed onto them and through whose study ‘they are expected to make the grade as undergraduate philoso- phers. There exist such topics, but they are few in number and our comp conferences may have be- ‘come somewhat monotonous (at least for me). Next comes the instructor who ‘must sell the topic to each one of Continued on Page 5, Col. 3 Warren Allies French and Philosophy, Would Prefer Writing Senior Thesis By Liz Warren, ’55 ‘Comprehensive Conference” is a very impressive term which _| eludes definition and seems almost cheerfully ambiguous. The actual comprehensive conferences them; selves are almost as difficult to de- scribe, for there is no real simi- larity among those in which I have participated. Designed for the pur pose of “Preparation for the final examination in the major subject, oa ‘the comp conference is tailor-made to suit the particular needs and wishes of the groups of seniors who are taking it.” Personal Experience Rather than try to discuss conip conferences, and their purpose, re- sult, etc., in general, I’ll veer over to my experience with them. I’m a French major, minoring in phi- losophy; thus I have comp confer- ences in ‘two departments. All of my comp groups are small (some- times I’m the only one), since.I’m the only senior ¢ombining. eigh- .teenth century ‘French jiterature with philosophy of religion! . . In my comp conferences, the professor ‘with whom I am study- ling assigns a reading list,’ about. discuss any points which I did not understand, or found particularly interesting. Thus the comp confer- ence is real “individual work,” the student ostensibly meeting with her professor to discuss the salient points of the reading which she has done. Alas, this is not as idyl- lic as it. sounds, for the senior may show up at comp conference with- out burning issues to debate, or even without ideas; she may have misunderstood the material, . but thinks she understands it, ete. In such cases, comp conferences will deterioriate into halting remarks, and awkward (pauses, on the part of both the professor and the stu- dent. The professor obviously can- not know what. the student wants to know, or doesn’t understand, and therefore is at a loss as well. In a comp conference, the sen- iors and their professor have .a mutual responsibility to one an- other and to themselves. The. pro- fessor should plan to give some factual material to his group, «2 ‘the students should have thought, and be able to dis- cuss the work in question. Even with an ideal comp confer- ence, in which the members and cnance to turm a conerene, imve- gracea concepc OL tnew college ‘Work IN (part, Or ail o£ tue” major allu wullead Neias, ime unic of reaa- ing tame auued to tnelr inaepena- cuce anu roused a sense Of respon- subllity. Lne seneme ol examuna- Wwols Supplied a Locus OL inverest tur une UWo last years. Botn teacn- vt aaa stugent, 1 supposed, would prOiie Duvn Py More Calelul plan- uy LO INeey a TiMal tesc ana by a fe-eXAMiINalion OL pasc courses, aulurihng, 1 nad imagined, wouid culsist largely ot oluce hours When propiems troubhng stugents cuuld be considered," Thus, 1 imagined, the magulii- cent American system OL iiperai arts eaucation. witn its ellen OL aiscipline and sudjecu al couege level, Would be Comuined Wliu SOc of the intensity anu depin 0. spe- cial training Which Piesmeu Kiuot’s tree elective (1 had vlieu been told) had banisned trom un- aergraauate lite. Students were apt to dip too casualiy into the bag of courses ottered rather as one might turn the pages of an encyclopedia to proviae against any ignorance by small doses of fact, 1 had thought that the new system would soon tempt the stu- dent to as severe a self-discipline of matching dnd appropriate coursés in her work as her costume revealed of restraint and taste on her weekend excursions or on prom nights. Disappointed In the event, however, I have been disappointed. Tutoring has never eventuated. Bibliographies have become reading lists. The ex- |periencé of choosing your own books and making your own mis- takes—the most valuable training for independent work after college, has never been risked. The News once commented on the fact that Miss Robbins (pleasantly they were kind enough to add) appar- ently expected the seniors to ask their own questions instead of be- Jng directed by her! The senior conferences as they are now may not develop independence, but I would emphasize here they have resulted in some experiments in teaching and learning. I should not ‘want to see the exams abolished. Even as they stand, they serve to point up advanced work and they do ensure that study is not regard- ed as valid merely from semester to semester, course to course. Some experience of a larger discipline is possible, Further Changes I should - like some further changes. I’d lessen the require- ments by one language and the so- cial science unit. I should like honors, under perhaps a different name, made possible for more stu- dents who profit by that kind of work but whose averages do not stack up to the present. standard. On the other hand I recognize that long papers for*most students are best related to a course and that on the whole too many papers and those far too long to be well writ- _ten and composed are written by the arts students. I should like to see all students left to themselves entirely for a stated part of their final require- ment, and tested on the results of these studies by a partf the final examination. I should like to. see some further planning for at least a part of the student body in re- lated courses. What I mean would be the undergraduate equivalent of those area or period studies (like the Renaissance) so popular now among scholars, where many | —~Continued “on Page 4, Col. 5 Page Four THE COLLEGE. NEWS Wednesday, February 9, 1955 Discussion Conferences Seem. Best . Despite Chronic Drawbacks: Storch By Marcia Storch, °55 Since few students would deny the value of the help given by the faculty in preparation for compre- hensive examinations, it appears that the central question is what type of conferences are most, suit- able. The following remarks are the attempt of one student, and one student only, partially to an- swer that question, for although I. have asked and thankfully received the opinions of many of my class- “mates, the presented view is mine, ' The statement of what can and what cannot be correlated within a given field is most efficiently pre- sented by nieans of lectures. Al- though nothing can insure that the student will comprehend and learn her subject to the best of her abil- ity, the above methods appears t8 be one of the most unsuccessful in this realm. On the other hand, group discussion, a more favorable means, is very difficult to achieve. There is an absence of conversa- tion about acadengic subjects at Bryn Mawr; the reasons are many and doubtless vary with the indi-| vidual; One of the prime factors is laziness—it is much easier to read a book or scribble notes at a lecture than to try to formulate one’s own notions concerning the _ subject. Anothtr reason, to make a broad generalization, is that women, perhaps in great measure by dint of biological and social functioning are more easily con- trolled by the opinions of their contemporaries than are men. Several departments (e.g., Biol- ogy, Physics, one conterence ot the Vept..0. t’AUOSOphy and one of tne vept. ot Kngiisa—tnere may be]: others) have overcome these and vier aimeuities by assigning a parvicular area ot study for each conterence ana requiring that at che meeting the. students put ques- vions to the professor. ‘The topics mentioned are then discussed by vue entire group. When there are no more inquiries or should there be none, the conference is dismissed. ut course, this does not assure the asking of provocative and fruitful questions; the students may = re- main disinterested, but, if nothing else, the thought. of filing .compre- hensives usually‘produces some at- tempt to derive benefit from. the conferences. In some fields this method may be unsuitable. There are times, if important material has ‘not beéh covered in the read- in in past courses, these lec- tures |are necessary. Where there are mpre than ten majors in at- tendance, most students feel that, irrespective of the manner in ‘which the conferences are conduct- ed, back. A word about tea or coffee with the conferences. The students of departments which maintain this custom are in favor of the proce- dure, but many professors dislike it on the basis of noise and incon- venience. The fact remains that eating with someone has long been a sign of good fellowship. It re- moves some emphasis from the self to the teacup and, therefore, may loosen a frightened tongue. e size of the group is a draw- Von Hebel and Merrick:Contend That Conferences, Not Comps, Are Helpful By Beatrice Merrick, ’54 Gloria Von Hebel, ’54 Every spring, ‘seniors groan and moan and undergraduates nod their heads in sympathy as the prospect of comprehensive exam- inations looms ever closer. And not infrequently is heard the fer- vent wish that they be done away with entirely. ‘Many opinions are put forth in an attempt to justify the existence of comps. One rather popular no- tion is that it provides the profes- sor with a means of grading his ‘students. Frankly, in a college the size of Bryn Mawr, we don’t think that the professors feel the need of comps in order to grade us ac- curately. In our opinion the main purpose of comprehensive conferences is to aid us in integrating all of the rather isolated pieces of informa- ion to which we’ve been exposed. Too-often our courses tend to be- come encapsulated and their rela- tionship to @ach other is only vaguely realized, if at all. We do feel most emphatically that the. comprehensive exams themselves are not essential and that their real purpose is some- times a little difficult to understand for, in our opinion, the benefits are derived from the conferences, not the exams. -— It is not easy to give a fair eval- uation of the comprehensive con- ferences as they are conducted, be- cause they vary so among the de- partments and even within the de- partments from year to year. One complaint voiced very fre- quently is that too often the con- _ ference becomes a place where im- portant information neglected in previous courses is hastily impart- ed.. Granted, this is important but often takes up too much of the front” one in a particular area of study and endeavor. Many students feel that it would be good to ask them from time to time what problems are bothering them, instead of having a complete course of study made out for the year of conferences. Too often, the conferences become an opportunity for one or two students to monop- olize the time of the professor to put forth their opinions and argu:' ments, whether or not it-is impor- tant to the others. -However, : this: is a.situation that only the stu- dents can remedy. Essentially, the purpose \of com-. prehensive conferences is good and|- we have no argument with it, but. the most important thing’ isthe real interest of the students, for|| their conferences will become what they. make of them, EL GRECO RESTAURANT. |. Bryn Mawr Confectionery Co. lancaster Avenue Breakfasts Lunches Dinners Soda Fountain _|Kemp Maintains Value of Comps By Elsie Kemp, ’54 Speaking from the limited ex- perience. of one set of exams in one department, I think the com- prehensive work is an important part of college work seen as a whole, Preparation for comprehensives, 1ike an honor thesis, is related to study on: the graduate level; the student has»the responsibility for organizing a whole unit of work, and for the most part she can, fol- low the“lines of her special inter- ests within -her major subject. It is again up to the students wheth- er the comprehensive conferences are to be of value. If most of the group choosés to be prepared, then che discussions can be stimulating and take on the character of sem- mars; o keeping up with the dis- cussion‘Schedule is helpful in divid- ing the preparation for the exams into manageable units. In many schools the work of the senior year is designed as a transi- tion to the different character of college studies. The student feels that she is both finishing her work at the school level and acquiring the methods of continuing at’ the college level if she chooses. In the senior year at Bryn Mawr, com- prehensives are the.line over which a student crosses out: of the under- graduate world. - And only after the line has been crossed can the four years of work behind it be seen as a meaningful whole. By Ilse Shapiro, ’55 The Political Science Depart- ment, upon the recommendation of last year’s seniors majoring in po- litical science, has reorganized the comprehensive system. The pri- mary change is the innovation of a general comprehensive. All poli- tics majors are required to take this comprehensive, and the con- ferences are given in the first se- mester, acquainting the student with the general scope of the com- prehensive material. No one spe- cialized course of study is pursued, although many specialized books and articles are read concerning such things as the problems of un- derdeveloped countries, the rela- tionship of ethics to politics, and the relationship of politics to the natural sciences. These and other topics are then discussed in con- ference. Politics Requirements Besides the requirement of the general comprehensive, all politics majors must take at least one oth- er comp in political science. This may be in the field of Theory, In- ternational. Law and Organization, American Government, Compara= tive Government, or Theory and Practice of Democracy. Many: ma- jors take all three comps in vary- ing combinations of the above, al- though American history, econom- ics, philosophy and other fields are often substituted for a third comp in political science. The general comprehensive con- ference is the only conference in Warren Allies French and Philosophy, Would Prefer Writing Senior Thesis Continued from Page 3 their advisor are both cooperating to make the work a success, I do not. think that the system is a real- ly good one. While an examina- tion in ‘the major subject, with the comprehensive conferences to pre- pare one to-take_ it, is valuable, in that it correlates and systematizes one’s knowledge, I think that the time which is spent in doing prep- aration for this final examination might be more advantageously used otherwise. The preparation of a senior thesis, on one partic- ular phase of the major work would, I think, give the student an opportunity to explore one facet of his field, and to do some really The . | Mexican Shop, Inc. Bryn Mawr, Penna. eee ee RENAULT, CITROEN GUARANTEED REPURCHASE* ‘Per As. Low as. ma Month for : — — STUDENTS! EARN TXTRA ‘MONEY! ~ Students who want to earn a commission selling Europe by _on_the campus, contact us.” - " . cece = ‘ * : ' —__ —_—_———_—_T— TET OT oT Te Th rT or ee original thinking. The “senior the- sis” system has been in effect at several colleges, notably Princeton, and seems to have been a real suc- cess. In the case that every student might not be interested in a senior thesis, she should~ be given the choice of either a senior thesis or a final comprehensive examination. All in all, however, I think that the senior thesis would be much more “comprehensive” and com- prehensible, both for students and professors than our system of final examinations. _‘ aN oUReene an mRcine eR VALENTINES at DINAH FROST Bryn Mawr, Pa. Political Science Department Tests General Comprehensive: I. Shapiro the department that is offered in the first’semester. ‘The conferences were held once a week for an hour and Dr. Wells offered to continue them in the second semester when- ever the group wishes to discuss political problems. The conferences for the other comprehensives are given in the’second semester. Presents Salient-Points It is impossible to evaluate the general comprehensive conferences without having taken the general comp and it is equally impossible to evaluate the comprehensive con-_ ferences in the other fields when they have not yet been given, and when our courses of study in po- litical science have not been-com- pleted. It is important to realize, however, that the conferences are not designed to be a cram session, outlining the final examination, and should not be judged accord- ingly. It seems to me that the value lies in presenting the salient points with which all majors should, be familiar. With this as a touchstone, the student should then delve more deeply into these par- ticular problems and then correlate them with the more specialized knowledge she has attained through her courses of study. Robbins Supports More Experimenfs Continued from Page 3 disciplines meet and pool their in- formation and philosophies. I am against more courses. Against any one pattern of teaching. Against too much variety and too little depth. I am against any attempt to adapt one discipline to another and entirely for using one with the other. I am for almost anything which would allow the students to make mistakes and rectify them— to read the wrong books occasion- ally—I don’t like any system which ensures a safe standard of direct- ed mediocrity. And I mean this to refer to faculty and students alike. For heaven’s sake, let’s leave room for experiment and enterpr’se at all levels. 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C. in Basketball; Swimming Team Wins Practice Meet By Joan Parker, "57 On Thursday, February 3, the Bryn Mawr basketball teams play- _ed their first-games of the season against Drexel, and ‘suffered their first - defeats. --The: gamés were played at’ Drexel, which has a smaller court than the Bryn Mawr teams are accustomed to. . This factor, plus a lack of teamwork, partially explain the varsity loss, 54-31, and the J.V. loss, 30-29. Drexel definitely outplayed Bryn Mawr’s varsity, despite some nice shooting and ball handling on the part of freshman Mary Neely, who |¢ is the newly elected team captain, and who was high scorer in the game with 16 points. Sally Ken- nedy. scored 8 points, ‘while Joan ‘Parker was responsible for the re- maining 7. The varsity defense ‘was out- ‘maneuvered by the Drexel for kon hand-offs from Margo Pirie, and VALENTINE GIFTS and GARDS | at RICHARD STOCKTON’S wards, who executed some baht: ful plays. Kitty Stoddard perhaps did the best job of defense, though Patty Ferguson, Lois LaBelle, and Jane White each did her share. The J.V. contest was a closer, more évenly’ fought one, as the score indicates. Maddie de Ropp managed a number of nice lay-ups was high scorer. The Bryn Mawr swimming teams, triumphed over the Suburb- an teams in a practice meet here on Feb. 3. The Varsity final score yas Bryn Mawr 33, Suburban 24. the J.V. score was 14-7 in favor of Bryn Mawr. a“ For the varsity Ruth Youngdahl won the free style with a 29.5, Ann Dykes wo nthe back stroke with a 84.5, and Janet Hetzel was high seorer in the diving. VARSITY SCHEDULE February 14, Swimming, Drexel, Home, 4:30—2 teams. February 15, Badminton, Rosemont, Home, 4:00—2 teams, February 17, Basketball, Rosemont, Home, 4:30—2 teams, See the new line of Playtex girdles and bras at Joyce Lewis — | Systematic Philosophy ‘Comprehensives Fail To Achieve Goals, Says Leblanc Continued from Page 3 the majors, build around it a one- year long conversation on the whole of philosophy, and assist in the making of half a dozen, if not a dozen, philosophic minds. The assignment is taxing, to say the least; it is so much easier to talk about Socrates in Philosophy 101 than, to convincingly don his garb every Thursday afternoon. Finally come the students who must adopt the problem as their own, ransack .the library to learn of its past solutions, rethink it on their own, and be ready to discuss it during the conferences. This last point is the most crucial one. Comp conferences cannot be suc- cessful .unless students actively participate in them through their questions, answers, and comments. I have known excellent groups of majors who simply could not be brought’ to discuss the topic pro- posed \and hence got little out of the conferences. (One of our ma- jors, years ago, tiptoed in and out of the department without whis- pering a word and yet left behind her a record long unmatched.) Other groups of majors, though on Children Pre-Teens NANA, Inc 829 Lancaster Ave. Bryn Mawr the whole less gifted, were eager vo talk and thus carried the’ con- ferences to a most fruitful end. The odds against comp confer- ences being a success: are high, perhaps perilously high. We are accordingly ready, my colleagues and I, to look around for other ways of reaching our goal. One extra course, may I add, would not do; a course, however given, al- ways remains a course of instruc- tion. Honors work for all majors would not do either; the faculty simply cannot supervise 150 or 200 dissertations a year. I_hope that the News_ poll ‘will help to clarify the whole compre- hensives issues. Our aims are above question, but our methods need not be. No one could wel- come students’ discussion of the latter more eagerly than a comp conference giver. CALENDAR Wednesday, Feb. 9 9:00 — Legislature Hell Week Begins. Saturday, Feb. 12 Freshmen work off demerits from Hell Week. Sunday, Feb. 13 7:15—The Reverend Joseph B. Bishop will speak at Chapel. Monday, Feb. 14 7:15—Mr, Girard: will talk on “Pierre Mendes-France” at Cur- rent Events in the Common Room, Meeting. z FOR FOUR ORIGINALS : = pon’ T SHOOT ANTI-SOCIAL ie a 4 OX 951 white PLAINS, N.Y. MAT | BRING YOUR DATE IN FOR A SNACK at the HEARTH Maids and Porters Dance Under Stars A large. crowd gathered in the gym Saturday night for the an- nual dance for the Maids and Port- ers and their friends. : . Peggy King was chairman for the affair, the theme of which was “Starbound.” Decorations consist- ed of live birch trees brought in froth New Jersey and painted in various colors.’ Exotic crepe paper b.rds rested. in the trees. Music for the formal dance was provided by John Whittaker and nis Mello-Tones. The band had two very good vocalists and a quartet which performed during intermission. Guests at the dance included Miss Howe, Miss Bacheller, sev- eral of thehall managers and members of the faculty and their wives... Among the student hos- tesses were Peggy King, Sally Kennedy, Carlene-Chittenden, Mar- ianne Clark, Polly Lothman and Katy Rodgers. S. D. A. Book Drive Ends In Two Days There are only two days left to help the Bryn Mawr Students for Democratic Action achieve the goal of 100% student participation in their book drive. The drive is for the purpose of collecting lit- erary and text books for the stu- dents of the Vietnam University of Saigon, These students, in fleeing the Communists, were forced to leave behind their library at Hanoi. Un- der the terms of the Geneva Truce Convention, their books may not be moved from Hanoi to Saigon. 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Problem: Of Science-Religion 3 Continued from Page 2 Adams, Washington, Franklin Madison, and many lesser lights were to be reckoned among either the Unitarian or the Deists. It was not. Cotton Mather’s God to whom the authors of the Declara- _ tion of Independence appealed; it _.was to ‘Nature’s God’.” This state- ment is hardly either surprising or controversial to historians. _ Further, the historian, Thomas Cuming Hall, in The Religious Background of American Culture (Little, Brown, 1930) states, “In looking over the list of those who were in any way prominent in forc- ing on the war (the American Rev- olution) there are very few who took any active part, as far as can be known, in the work of any of the various denominations that were represented, and save Joh Witherspoon of Princeton, thert was no clergyman among the sign} ers of the Declaration of Indepent dence.” Further, Deism and freethinking were not limited to the upper: and | ; highly educated classes. “By the latter 1790’s copies of Paine’s Age _of Reason were to be found in practically: every. community in America, rural as well as urban. It was discussed everywhere, in _ taverns, in stage coaches, and cop- jiously in the contemporary, press]. and was a popular subject. for .dis-|. -gussion in. student ‘bull sessions’ The NEWS wishes to apologize to. Nancy Coyne, ’57 -for. omit- ting-her name at’the end-of her letter, which appeared in the is- sue of-January 12. vi —————— ‘a "Flowers and Corsages for the big week-end at JEANNETT’S | Madcaps in velvet, jersey, felt, leather jeweled or plain at Chapeaux d’Art 41 Coulter Ave. Ardmore, Pa. | MI 2-2826 Want to travel and study abroad? Take a university-sponsored tour via TWA this summer and earn full college credit while you travel Visit the countries of your choice .,. study from 2 to 6 -weeks~at @ foreign university. ‘You can do both on one trip when you arrange a university- sponsored tour via TWA. Itin- ‘ eraries include countries in . Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Special study tours available. 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(Scrib- ner’s, 1952, pp. 92-98). absurd claim that the traditional religions have not played an im- portant part in American history; I am simply pointing out that we have also had a tradition’ of free- thinking and heresy (much great- er, even, than indicated above), a tradition which the current champ- ions of various kinds of orthodoxy (religious and otherwise) and their have jnumerous fellow-travelers apparently succeeded in obscuring. , Sincerely, - Joe K, Adams |Suddenly and Fast and Furious. « « « most’ of the classes béfore me were in-| fidels, and called\each other hos I am certainly not making ‘the/ ENTERTAINMENT Bryn Mawr Wed., Feb. 9-Thurs., Feb. 10— Captain’s. Paradise and Lili. : Fri., Feb. 11-Sat., Feb. 12 — Athena, Sun., Feb. 13-Mon., Feb. 14— Tues., Feb.. 15—High and Dry. ee Ardmore Wed., -Feb.. 9-Sat., Hansel and Gretel. Sun, Feb. 13-Tues., Feb. 15 — Francis Joins the’ WAACS and: Destry. Feb. 12— Suburban Wed., Feb. 9-Sat., Three Ring Circus. Sun., Feb. 13-Tues., Feb. 15— Black Knight. Green Hill Wed.,. Feb, 9-Tues.,: Feb. ~15 — Heart of .the Matter. Wed., Feb. 16—Traveler’s Joy. Wayne Feb. 12 — ¥ x Se aoneenacenmnen Wed., Feb. 9-Sat., Feb. 12 — Three Ring. Circus. Sun., Feb. 13-Tues., Feb. 15— BRYN MAWR COLLEGE INN The Violet Men. Academy of Music, February 10, Breakfast .. . a la carte 8:30—Jascha Heifetz. sah Luncheon .. . from $,50 Afternoon tea... a/la carte Watches and Jewelry Dinner . . . from $1.65 Repaired Platter Dinners . . , from $1.05 Hs | Special Parties and Meetings Arranged Walter J. Cook . eon : Wednesday, February 9, |Results Of Tryouts For Dancers Listed Continued from Page 1 Madlyn - Wolfe, Sara White. The Sailors in the Storm Dance will be performed by Donna Coch- Susan Band, Happy Crain,.Mary Neely, and Anna Kisselgoff. The Storm Char- acters will be Leora Luders, Sara White, and Lynn Sykes. » Linda Jett as Miss Shapeu, Anne Schaeffer as the first off-stage voice-and Lt. 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