gas, springs from the water pipe. ' leaving, one of the young, teen- . just keep your eyes on “the stars’ dents awaited, NEW IDEAS EX- Page Four THE COLLEGE NEWS Saturday, September 26, 1959 Corrosive Liquids And Noxious Gases Fail To Daut Kager-Well-Chemists by Marion Coen Now is the time when acid- etched. and burn-scarred -upper- classmen look back with mingled mirth and agony to that happy hour during Freshmen Week when they learned that the laboratory science requirement could not be satisfied with a Chemistry Appre- ciation course. No one, they found, not even the most sensitive, shel- tered, and unscientific of ‘their number could slip through the four years ‘ without exposure of more than the cerebellum to sci- entific thought and processes; not even the most devoted English or history major might substitute Scientific Method or Lives of the Chemists 103 for the more incisive (mentally, emotionally, and occa- sionally physically) experience of total submergance into laboratory work. ‘ While artfully concealing the brown-rimmed holes in a hitherto (pre-chemistry) favorite sweater the upperclasmen, made objective by ther advanced position, can happily—if somewhat nostalgically —recollect the many poignant hours spent huddled over bunsen burner and test tube rack explor- ing the (alack—too long) Un- known. .Of those experiments which left a lasting impression (on either skin, clothing, or the imagination) she recalls several worthy of mention to the scien- tifically unoriented but chemically directed freshman. The Questionable Experiment 1.) The Bending Glass Experi- ment: Noteworthy both because it comprises the neophyte’s first en- counter with the laboratory and because it provides indisputable proof of that startling similarity between hot, tissue-searing glass and its cool (and harmless) coun- terpart. 2.) Decomposition of Elements by Heat:. Permanently remember- ed for its highly graphic demon- stration of the impotence of the bunsen burner when connected to that spout which, though decep- tively like the one exuding natural | 3.) Separation of Elements from Compounds: Memorable for its seemingly indisputable, calculated proof that there are nine pounds of pure silver in the American dime. 4.) Atomic Weight of A Metal: Memorable for its demonstration of .the principle that one’s hands should be off the substance plot- form of a balance scale before re- cording vital weights. 5.) Qualitative Analysis: Mem- orable. Lest the incipient chemist League Continued from Page 3, Col. 4 small group from BMC was in- vited for a luncheon visit. Upon agers chanced to ask, “And what are you going to do after school?” One of us remarked, “Oh—may- be work in the UN. But that seems so far off and at times I don’t. think .I’d-have .a chance there.” The youthful societal of- fender promptly replied, “You —that’s the only way to live—and you'll reach up there.” There is so much that can be accomplished this year—but this must be measured by the individ- ual. Programs already set up and awaiting participation, discussions to be set up,—with topics and stu- be disheartened by these painful recollections let it be said that at least one out of ten enjoy their lab escapades sufficiently to major in chem, and, although its liquids be corrosive and its gases noxious, the department: has never lost a chemist. Geology Survivor Recalls Encouner With Rocky Crew by E. Anne Eberle A freshman bounding gaily in to negotiate with Mrs. Broughton to plot the year’s schedule is not always armed with much informa- tion about courses which look so exciting, stimulating, etc. to her eager mind searching for knowl- edge, etc. again. Perhaps a word from a recent survivor of the geol- ogy experience will serve to en- lighten this bright, eager mind before it follows its path of knowl- edge straight up a Dead-STOP- End-Street. Admittedly, geology is an excel- lent way to dabble in all the other sciences. You will find yourself running between your more en- course in chemistry so you can translate the beautiful formula you copied in your class-notes; for a run-down of elementary physics so that you will understand why a molten flow oozing down here af- fects a perfectly innocent topog- raphy over there; and for a short summary of all evolution in order to see why a gastropod that didn’t know any better happened to in- habit the green layer and not the purple layer in your weekly map quiz. The Outdoors Life One of geology’s finer points is that it is “a chance to be outdoors a lot” to quote its aficionados. This means that you learn to operate a geology pick in mittens amidst snow flurries in the fall (while studying the unit Quarries Can Be Beautiful) and there is no better way to commune with nature than scrambling up sharp bits of it on the spring field trips. Geology requires time, but con- sidering it objectively (in more | than one sense), no more than French majors spend splitting ‘pages or music majors fingering Bryn Mawr’s worn-out pianos to hammer out their eerie new com- positions. Geology, as Anyone will notice, only has Y Wiab a week, which means that you come in all week end to figure out what hap- pened at the 38-hour blitzkrieg of rock specimens which you helped degenerate into gravel. Skills and Suchlike Skills you will acquire in ga0- logy: ... :1) You will become sensitive to the deep inner meaning of each of 38 shades of colored pencils. 2) With one blow of your mighty fingernail you will learn to reduce to powder Bryn Mawr’s last re- maining specimen of a rare fos- sil. 8) You will be able to look at a colored slide in a pitch black room and simultaneously listen to the instructor, find the rock © speci- men—out of 32 in your tray— which corresponds to the picture, examine it carefully and write meaningful notes thereon before the next slide flashes on the screen. 4) You will be the first in your neighborhood to. amaze your friends by informing them that a perfectly familiar, homey hill is in the youthful, mature, or old age era of its life. 5) You will have more paper weights after the spring field trip than any six of your friends. _6) You will acquire the simple lightened friends for a small basic] Biology 101 Has Hydra, Lobsters; Requires Artistry by Barbara Broome ’60 Scene: the Biology 101 Laboratory, ' early October. A History of Art major, an English major, a Rus- sian major and a Biology major / are found seated on high stools huddled around a table. Each is ‘observing something very close- ly. “I can’t see anything! Every- thing’s all black!” (Her hand is covering the specimen). “T see some black: wavy things.” (The reflection of her eyelashes). “T just can’t believe it! It looks just the way Miss Gardiner said it would.” November “My hydra keeps curling up and all I have to draw is a lump.” “Mine won’t stay still long enough for me to draw him.” December “T’ll never be able to look at a lobster again.” February “But they told me I had a MALE dogfish!” (as the lab instructor removes the six baby dogfish). ’ “T can’t find the sub-clavian ar- tery anwhere.” (This, of course, is the long strand she just cut in half by mistake a moment before). April “My slide just doesn’t look like anyone else’s. I’ve got all sorts of jagged lines through it.” One cracked slide—$1.98). Yes, the geologist may have field trips but only the biologist has the lobster, the dogfish, the chick and the A. E. Romer’s Man and the Vertebrates besides! The lab, as one may gather from the previous comments, is the place in which the great issues of the day are solved: ie, why the hydra curled up (the window was open —he was cold) or whether the lob- ster. should be named Larry or Lloyd. Here, these particular ani- mals and the odor of formaldihyde take on ‘a new and special meaning for the student. Here, Bryn Mawr- ters who “just can’t see this” or “just can’t find that” wave their arms frantically for the aid of a lab instructor. Here, too, one quickly learns that there is a dis- tinct difference between. a lab notebook and an English composi- tion and discovers a bit too late that a good course-in-basiedraw- ing might have helped consider- ably. However, one need not be an artist nor a scientist. Fear not! Biology 101 has a great deal to offer the interested and inquiring mind—even that of the most “un- scientific” person! by Anne Rassiga The brisk, invigorating autumn season is upon us once more,-and Bryn Mawters, both new and old, Interfaith Continued from Page 3, Col. 3 a unique and questionable role. Chapel is conducted for the bene- fit of the community and faculty as well as for students of _ all faiths. Somehow we expect to wor- ship together as an_ intellectual community even while we do not share a common faith. Hearing the many answers to this dilemma, we find we must continue to seek out and redetermine the proper role of this organization, which has not rested from change since its beginnings in 1918. It promises to be an exciting year! ae Arts Council Continued from Page 3, Col. 2 iangs and their Art Council) are planned whenever enthusiasm is audible. _ Student art — exhibits (both formal and clothesline var- iety) demand: more than a ran- sacking of the college “studio”— Arts Council asks for contribu- tions. A Ticket Agency for Philadel- phia theaters enables students to purchase tickets on campus for events of particular interest at the Academy of Music and at the theaters in the area. Advertise- ments of coming events are post- ed ‘on a Taylor. bulletin board. Arts Council hopes to print in the News critical reviews by students as well. A weekly-column-is-being considered—to be written by in- dividuals on their special inter- ests—from folksinging to the bal- let. If Arts Council activities sound tentative to'‘you, they are—they await your interest and participa- tion. From Hockey To Fencing, Fall Sports Run The Gamut And Maybe The Girl again feel surging through their arteries an intense desire to in- crease their physical appreciation of fall. Here at Bryn Mawr, we are very fortunate in. having a most understanding Physical Ed- ucation department. Their aim is to satisfy this urge, and thus they allow us, actually they require (or force?) freshmen and sophomores to participate in fall sports. « The student seeking self-ex- pression can find many creative outlets. For those who have ever desired to join Robin Hood’s band or who feel that they have weak arms, I highly recommend arch- ery. Here igs a_not-to-be-missed opportunity to hurl - straight sticks at a round bundle of hay. ‘Golf is recommended: for anyone intending to run for President. (Note: beginning Golf is played in the vicinity of Merion green and constitutes a hazzard for all trying to cross said green—use ex- treme caution!) Hockey is a popular fall sport as it has both varsity and J. V. teams. A hockey player is im- mediately distinguished by her heavy leg padding or her lack of it (in which case, her legs are swollen and bruised). Tennis, too, appears to be an- other campus favorite. There are many girls who in both fall and spring seem to sprout a strange three foot long extension from their right hands. Tennis any- one? Sports for Indoor-Type But what happens to the girl who prefers to create indoors? Modern dance may be the answer to her problem. Ah! the joy of writhing ecstatically over a cold, slippery, splintery gym floor! But there is even more in store for all indoor-ites. There is also fencing—a _ graceful combination of the best points of both the dance and the art of self-defense. A knowledge of fencing may someday prove to be invaluable— after all. who knows. when some- one may walk up to you and slap you in the face with his glove. Swimming brings out the fish in all of us, and fall gives all mer- maids or would-be mermaids a chance to swim. For all advanced ‘Swimmers, the Red Cross Senior Life Saving course gives you a chance to both earn your life sav- ing card and become a Bryn Mawr Life saver with its special pool privileges. Beginning {swimming classes are also offered. Come on in—the water’s fine! Splash! bubble, gurgle glub° Preview of October's Events Sunday, September 27 7:30 p.m. Freshman Chapel Service Address by the Reverend Norman A. Baxter, Lower Merion Baptist Church, Bryn Mawr. Anthem: The College Chorus—Music Room, Goodhart Hall. Monday, September 28 4:30 p.m. Convocation marking the opening of the 75th Academic Year. Address. by Dr. John W. Gardner, President of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. _Dr..Katharine E. McBride, | President of the College, will pre- side. By invitation only. The Academic Procession forms at 4:00 p.m. at Taylor Hall—Good- hart Hall. Sunday, October 4 . 7:30 p.m. Chapel Service _ Music Room, Goodhart Hall. Friday, October 9 “‘Thoias Mann Commemorative Program . sponsored’ by Haverford, Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges. Glenway Wescott, novelist, will lecture on “Thomas Mann Will- and the Juilliard Quartet will give PECTED from YOU, CLASS OF Continued on Page 6, Col 5 ~ power and Fiction” at 4:00 p.m./ ton only—Roberts Hall, Haverford College. : Friday and Saturday, October 9-10 8:30 p.m. Freshman Hall Plays Mrs. Otis Skinner Workshop, Baldwin Campus. Sunday, October 11 3:00 p.m. Friends of the Library ‘“Behind the Scenes with Three Bryn Mawr Authors,” a 75th An- niversary Program marking the opening of the Exhibition of Books by Bryn Mawr Alumnae. By invi- tation only — Quita Woodward Memorial Room, Library. -7:30. p.m .Chapel Service Music Room, Goodhart Hall. Monday, October 12 Director de la Mission Archéolo- gique Francaise en Iran, will give an illustrated lecture on “Les in- vasions des nomades en Iran au debut du les millénaire avant J. C.” as part of the 75th Anniversary Celebration at the College. The lecture will be given in Prench-- Goodhart Hall. . Sunday, October 18 730 p.m. Chapel Service @ recital -at~8:45-pam:—-By- invita-|—- 8:30 p.m. Monsieur R. Ghirshman | 8:30 p.m. Concert by the Philadelphia Woodwind © Quintet, with Mme. Agi Jambor, under the auspices of the Friends of Music. (Workshops, for mem-— bers only, in the Music Room on October 20 and 21). For informa- tion regarding guest tickets, write Mrs. Leicester S. Lewis, Chairman, Taylor Hall, Bryn Mawr—Good- hart Hall. Friday, October 23 8:00-p.m._Lantern Night, The traditional welcoming of the Freshman Class. General ad- mission $.60; student admission $.80. In the event of rain—Satur- ‘|day, October 24, 8:00 p.m.—Library Cloisters. Sunday, October 25 7:30 p.m. Chapel Service Music Room, Goodhart Hall. Monday, October 26 8:30 p.m. Bernard Nossitor journalist, will speak under the auspices of the Bryn Mawr Student Alliance for Political Affairs— Common Room, Goodhart Hall. Saturday, October 31 8:30 p.m. Junior Show Tickets on sale at Box Office the Music Room, Goodhart Hall. Tuesday, October— 20 ‘|evening of the performance. Good-