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November 5, 1965 25 Cents

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89% of Bryn Mawr ‘Unprepared’

Says ‘Family Circle’ Book List

According to **Family Circle’?
magazine’s standards, 89% of Bryn
Mawr’s students don’t really be-
long in college.

In the October 22 issue of the
New York Times a full-page .ad
flourished the words: ‘If your
child hasn’t read at least 20 of
these books, ‘Family Circle’ says
he’s not ready for college.”’

The COLLEGE .NEWS took the
cue and polled the campus: this
week. with the magazine’s rather
arbitrary list of 55 books. The
survey suggested that an un-
fortunate number of Bryn
Mawrters have suffered an
intellectual deficiency in their col-
lege preparatory years: very
obviously their mothers did not
subscribe to the knowledgable
‘Family Circle’? magazine.

The implications of the poll,
for the edification and delight of
the campus, are as follows:

89% of the student body doesn’t .

belong here now, and 93% shouldn’t
have been admitted in the first
place, That is, of the 11% who
have read more than 20 of the
designated books, only 7% read
them prior to college. :

The average Bryn Mawrter read
13 1/2 of ‘Family Circle’s’’
choices, and before college en-
trance the average would have
been 11, intimatingthat Bryn Mawr
people were a little better than
half-prepared for college.

23% of the poll sheets
listed nine or fewer of the books
had been read. An economics major
read only one. Surprisingly enough,
political. science and English
majors had the highest representa-
tion in the low group, and science
majors were at.a minimum.

Among the 11% who read more
than 20, one Mawrter responded
with 40, English, history and po-
jlitical science majors, in that
order, ranked highest. Again,
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minimum,

These results, of course, are
hardly to be taken seriously. The
“NEWS conducted the survey with
its usual farce-sightedness, and
the statistics were compiled from
only 354 responses, which just
goes to show how half-prepared the
student body is, »

But “Family Circle,’ struggling
to hold its own in. the literary
circle with ‘‘Saturday Review’’
and ‘Atlantic Monthly,’”? has un-
knowingly challenged this institu-
tion’s intellectual background.
Bryn Mawr’s comments in re-
taliation:

Why didn’t the list include any
Shakespeare, any drama, any
poetry other than epic, or any
of the Bible?

If the list was trying to test

Vietnam War Problem Shown

From Pacifists’

A truly pacifistic viewpoint was
presented: by Mrs. Howard Scho-
mer at the Wednesday night Al-
liance lecture, She said the situa-
tion in Vietnam is now beyond a
discussion of who is right and
who is to blame; the only consid-
eration is to stop the war. Al-
though the lecture was primarily
concerned with what she had seen
and heard during one week in July
when she was in Vietnam, she also
presented what was, to her, the
key problem in the US domes-
tic handling of the situation.

Peace workers, she said, must
attempt to form a positive rela-
tionship with the government. They
must present workable plans in-
stead of continual negative and
unconstructive criticism. A source
of this kind of criticism was ex-
emplified by a student in the au-
dience who, with facts, figures and
quotations, informed Mrs, ‘Scho-
mer of, among other things, atro-
cities committed by US Marines
and lies told by the USIA,

This lively discussion, however,
was extemporaneous and followed

Mrs. Schomer’s first hand report

on Vietnam, She was there with
13 other peace workers and clergy-

Point of View

men (she is with the Chicago branch
of the Women’s International
League for Peace and Freedom),

talking to intellectuals, priestsand |

anyone else they could find, She
came back feeling that boththe war
and the Communist infiltrationitis
trying to prevent are equally bad.
She said that, in one conversa-
tion, a statement was made by a
Buddhist priest which “‘still haunts
me.”’ He said, ‘*When people don’t
know their own destiny and think
they can do. nothing about shaping
it, it’s painful,’

The war is hurting the people.
To a large degree, it is a power
struggle, she said, between the US
and Communism. Since so many
people view it in only these terms,
the human element is forgotten and
ultimately will be destroyed.

She also made several factual
points which were not unknown to
most of the audience. One, that an
immediate ceasing of the bombing
would be about the most effective
thing the US could do to stop the
war. And two, that the Viet Cong,
in any negotiations, must be con-

sidered as the National Liberation

Front and not merely as a tool
of the Communist North.

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depth of reading (‘‘Notes from
the Underground’’ instead of
“Crime and Punishment,’’ or
“Benito Cereno’’ instead of ‘Moby
Dick’’), why then did it include
**Lord Jim’? instead of ‘*Victory’’
and ‘*Of Human Bondage”? instead
of ‘Cakes and Ale???

Why so many Greek writers and
no Roman? Why represent all Ger-
man literature with Mann’s
**Joseph Tetralogy?’’ and so on.

**Family Circle’? has convinced
one resigned Bryn Mawrter that
she’s really prepared for eighth
grade. What, indeed, is ‘*Family
Circle’”’ prepared for?

Just wait, Next week we’re poll-
ing the faculty. N.H.

Personal Phones for Erdman
Okayed at Undergrad Meeting

Monday night’s undergrad meet-
ing revealed that students in Erd-
man are now permitted to have
personal telephones in_ their
rooms, since the dorm is already
wired for them,

If technical details can be worked
out by the telephone company,
probably within two weeks, per-
sonal telephones may be installed
in other dormitories.

Popie Johns, Undergrad Presi-
dent, presented the terms under
which students may. have phones.
There will be an initial deposit of
$50, which will be returned to the
student at the end of the school
year. In addition, she must pay a
$6 installation charge. In dormi-
tories whose rooms lack jacks
there will be an extra fee of $9.
Only Erdman rooms are at present
equipped with jacks.

Once this initial outlay has F2en
met, she will be charged a flat
rate of $6.30 per month which will
cover 50 message units. Calls can
be made to eight exchanges includ-
ing MIdway, LAwrence, MOhawk,
GReenwood, MUrray, TRinity, and
IVyridge. 5

The costis probably too steep for
an individual student to have a
phone. A group however, could get
together and split the costs.

In dormitories, notably Erdman,
where it is virtually impossible to
use “the free phone, und where the
incoming lines are almost always °
busy, individual phones are a fea-
sible solution to the communica-
tions problem.

The regular bell system in the
halls will, of course, continue. The
phones to be installed are purely
personal,

Undergrad plans to issue a
registry of students with tele-
phones on campus, Girls who
plan to have phones in their rooms
should give their names to Sarah

Weekend Meal Program
Planned With Havertord

The existing meal exchange pro-
gram which allows Bryn Mawr
students to eat lunch on weekdays
at Haverford and Haverford men

, at Bryn Mawr may soon include

mealexchanges for dates for Fri-
day supper, Saturday lunch and Sat-
urday supper also. Not only would
the addition tothe program permit
couples to eat together on week-
ends, but it would eliminate
problems which have resulted from
the present system as well, In-
equalities -due to, the fact that
more Haverford men take ad-
vantage of the weekday lunch ex-
changes than do Bryn Mavr girls
would under the new program be
balanced,

If the new program is approved,
it will go into effect within the
next two weeks.

Following is the procedure out-
lined for the proposed weekend
meal exchanges: On the Wednesday
preceding the weekend on which he
and his date would like to eat
together, a Haverford man will
apply for an exchange for Friday
or Saturday.dinner or Saturday
lunch, On the application, he may

indicate at which school he would.

prefer. to. eat. Of all those who
apply, a number of couples suf-

ficient to balance the number of
Bryn Mawr’s losses on weekday
lunches will be assigned to eat at
Haverford. Balancing the Bryn
Mawr losses will not be accom-
plished on a one lunch for one
Haverford weekend meal basis,
however.. The schools must ‘first
agree on a conversion coefficient;
that is, they must set up a standard
whereby X lunches will equal Y
suppers.

Of the couples remaining after
Bryn Mawr’s lunch losses, have
been balanced, half will eat at
Haverford and half at Bryn Mawr.
After the number of couples which
will eat at each school has been
determined, students involved will
be issued printed meal tickets good
only for the meal stampedonthem.
If one student should change his
plans so that he will not need his
ticket, however, that same ticket
may be used by some other couple.

Under such a procedure, the
meal exchange system would con-
tinuously balance inequalities in
the weekday lunch program and any
that should occur on the weekends.
The meal exchange co-ordinator
will’eliminate any deviations in the
weekend program. by including
them in the equation for the follow-
ing week. :

Matthews, Rhoads North, If several
girls will be using the same
telephone, each should be regis-
tered.

Whether or not the service works
depends upon student cooperation.
‘¢Students must pay their bills on
time,’’ commented Popie Johns,
‘sor else the phones will be elim-
inated.’’

In other developments at Monday
night’s meeting, Exchange Com-
mittee Chairman Kitty Taylor
requested funds for a possible ex-
change with Antioch College during
Thanksgiving Vacation, Xnyone in-
terested in going on such an ex-
change should get in touch with
either Kitty Taylor in Denbigh or
Tatty Gresham in Wyndham,

Hungry students who want anal-

.ternative, to the food offered by

the dorms or the Inn are remind-
ed that a free kitchen is provided
on the second floor of the College
Inn in which they can practice their
culinary talents with complete
abandon,

The meeting closed with a dis-
cussion and vote on the Undergrad
Eminent Speaker, Out of seventeen
suggestions, six were chosen, The
first choice was Richard Hofstad-
ter, followed in order by James
Reston, John Cage, Jacques Bar-
zun, James Rorimer, and Margaret
Doubler,

Committee Seeks
Calendar Change,
Asks Reading Pd.

The possibility of having a
“reading period’? before mid-year
exams w4s the topic of conversa-
tion at the open curriculum com-

. mittee meeting last Tuesday night.

Such a period between classes
and exams, many felt, would give
the student time to tie together
all the material of the course and
to see all its parts in perspective.
This would in turn make the exam
more valuable to the student,

Others felt unsatisfied by the
one-day pre-exam recapitulation
of enough facts or argument pro-
gressions to be able to ‘‘write an
essay’”’ on any of several sections
instead of having time to develop
themes and interrelated content
inherent in the course. Another
pointed out that she often missed
the organization put into a course
simply because she did not have
enough time at the end to see it
thematically in full perspective.

A reading period in January,
furthermore, would eliminate the
so-called *‘lame duck’? period be-
tween Christmas yacation and
exams. It would probably mean
beginning a week earlier in the
fall, with classes ending before
Christmas vacation, and reading
period and exams following im-
mediately thereafter, It was also
hoped that more time would be
allowed for Intersession.

The idea of having special topic,
paper, or discussion groups during
this time was also discussed.
Several felt they would like to
have extra time to read books of
interest related to their courses,
or related to a chosen topic. It
was generally’ agreed, however, |

“that a pre-exam period would be

most preferably used to get full
benefit from the courses, —
 

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Reading Period

Recent. months haves seen radical improvements in Bryn Mawr’s
academic and social life, The revised curriculum and the changes in
Self-Gov rules have marked major steps in the college’s adjustment
to today’s educational standards aiid policies, Unfortunately, one im-
portant aspect of college life has remained unimproved during the
reorganization; the academic calendar, In fact, not only has the calendar
not been improved, this year saw what is perhaps the worst calendar
in the history of the college, The failure to coordinate our academic
year with Haverford’s resulted in great inconvenience for students and
administration alike.

Now at last, however, it seems that an attempt may be made to revise
the calendar to make it more in step with reason and with the other
changes recently effected in the college.

The student Curriculum Committee, in an open meeting on Tuesday,
proposed an extensive revision of the calendar to include a reading
period before final exams, The proposed plan, although it would re-
quire opening college a week earlier in the fall, contains provisions
which would’greatly benefit all students, Under the plan, first semester
classes would end before Christmas vacation, eliminating the two-week
‘*lame duck’? session in January. The first two weeks in January, im-
mediately preceding examinations, would instead be used as a reading
period, allowing students extra time, now unavailable, to look at the
semester as a whole, and to consolidate the knowledge gained in 14
weeks of classes and reading.

The benefits of the plan appear obvious. Technical difficulties should
be ironed out with a minimum of travail, as we already have the ex-
perience and. example of numerous other colleges and universities
which now have a reading period to help us put the plan into effect.

We hope, therefore, that the Curriculum Committee’s proposal will
be approved, and that details can be worked out soon enough for a read-
ing period to be included in next year’s academic calendar.

Number, Please

The _new Undergrad decision to_ permit personal telephones in
dormitories is a welcome renovation to the roster of rules and privi-
leges, as well as an answer to a long-felt campus need,

Everyone is aware of the obstacles involved in reaching a girl -- and
in being reached -- especially on critical nights. The ratio of phone
lines to expectant students is scarcely adequate in the larger dorms,

For the student attempting to place acallfrom her.dorm, the problem
has been equally nerve-wracking. Now inter-dorm communications will
be facilitated, and students can make more efficient contact with the
world beyond the towers,

The granting of this privilege touches upon the perennial issue of
change at Bryn Mawr. Certain rules become ingrained in the system,
as much a part of the college as signout books and skirts at classes.

Not all regulations should necessarily be frozen in place. When the
response to a freshman query becomes ‘‘Why, it’s always been that way
-- it’s just Bryn Mawr,” defrosting is obviously a service beneficial
to the community.

Recent months have seen revisions of such sacred cows as the 12:30
unescorted signout, men in the rooms, skirts at dinner, and smoking
in fireproof student rooms. This most recent addition, though not a
major’ issue, is a happy indication of a progressive approach receptive
to constructive change.

Are You Ready?

Who -- the Bryn Mawr students or the ‘‘Family Circle’’ literati --
are the real booboisie (no kidding, check a dictionary)?

That horrifying book poll, the magazine’s criterion for preparation
for college, is responsible for an epidemic of inferiority complexes

spreading through nine-tenths of the campus, Never fear - the COLLEGE
NEWS wishes to re-test the erudition of the underachievers, If the
Bryn Mawr student hasn’t read at least two of these books, she doesn’t
belong in KINDERGARTEN:

1, The House at Pooh Corner -- Milne

2. From Russia with Love -- Fleming

8. Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase

4, John Lennon; In His Own Write

5. Caravans -- Mitchner

6. God and Man at Yale -- Buckley p

ste ss 8, Abraham Lincoln -- Sandburg (4 vol.) pireuteel,
Wasi oie ~~9. Kama Sutra ae eae Papers. nate i ro eS

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November 5, 1965

 

 

: Popular Sport?

To the Editor:

The opinions expressed in last
week’s editorial on ‘‘Civil Diso-
bedience’”’ contain so much faulty
logic that it is hard to know where
to start a reply. I object to many
specific comments in the editorial
as well as to the major point ex-

' pressed therein,

Initially, you dismiss draft-card
burning as ‘‘a popular sport’’ and
say that Jerry Dickinson’s actions
are not *‘entirely synonymous with
the draft card burning’’; this im-
plies that his action is very close
to the *‘sport’’? of which you wrote.
Burning of draft cards is merely
an’ attempt to dramatize and pub=-
licize opposition to American in-
volvement in South Vietnam, It
is not taken lightly since it entails
a serious legal penalty which will
probably be meted out considering
the present intolerance toward
persons opposed to the war,

In any case, Jerry Dickinson’s
actions are very different because
he is opposing the whole system of
the draft, rather than this or any
other war. He has made it clear
that he understands the probability.
of receiving a jail sentence and is
willing to go to jail,

The COLLEGE NEWS dismisses
opposition to the war in Vietnam
and Dickinson’s position without
any argument, It cavalierly refuses
to say whether such actions are
for a just cause, Certainly, that
determination seriously affects the
validity of these kinds of protests.

The editorial poses this issue

as part of the larger question of
‘the validity of civil disobedience
and confuses this tactic with riot-
ing in Los Angeles, The connection
between the two is an unreal one,
since the nature of 2 riot is one
of chaotic leaderless unsophisti-
cated protest by persons who see
no means of possible redress for
their problems. The use of civil
disobedience in this country is.
found under very different circum-
stances, :

The United States government
has enunciated the doctrine of a
citizen’s responsibility to disobey
the orders of his government when
those orders are felt tobe morally
repugnant; this was the rationale
for the Nuremburg trials immedi-
ately after World War I, This
is known as the doctrine of a
‘higher law.’’ If Jerry Dickinson
believes the draft is morally
wrong, and if draft card burners
and other protestors against the
war in Vietnam feel the same way
about U.S, policies in Southeast
Asia, it is then their responsi-
bility to disobey the government
which tries to make them do what
is morally repulsive to them.

 

 

 

applebee |

 

i heard a deep dark secret
divulged between just two

both of whom remain nameless
(i?m sure it wasn’t you)

. 4 know’? said=the first ‘i don’t

fit in’
for here’s the simple truth:

my early years were all misspent
i frittered away my youth.

while other kids read war and peace
and absorbed all sorts oftrivias

of all these finer things of life
i was quite oblivious.’’

her friend asked if she hadn’t read
at least a book or two

*toh yes”? said she “‘the rig veda
and six volumes of nancy
drew ...”’

oh anomalous miss anonymous

whatever can you do

why what if family circle found out

or worse ... if princeton knew?
: consciously poetical,

 

_ LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Admittedly, civil disobedience is
not to be done when other more
normal avenues of protest remain,
However, for some those avenues
are closed, When Jerry Dickinson
became eighteen and had to make
the decision about whether or not
to register for the draft, his choice
was simple: Should he do some-
thing which he was morally oppos-
ed to? He decided not to, He had
no other choice, despite what the
COLLEGE NEWS says, if hewas to
be faithful to his beliefs,

When drafted, opponents of the
Vietnamese war also have a choice:
Shall. they participate in a war
which is morally repugnant to
them? At that time, they too must
make a choice,

I have little respect.for the ed-
itors if they think that Jerry Dick-
inson should have ignored his
moral beliefs, It is their right to
disagree with his logic, but the

editorial never discussed the
merits of his position, Jerry Dick-

inson should be admired for the -

willingness to ge to jail rather
than compromise his beliefs.

The, choices many of us. must
make in regard to the draft are
very real; they may appear very
different to the editors of a paper
in a girls’ school since the draft
does not extend to them. Jerry
Dickinson could have takenthe easy
way out of becoming a C.O,; few
people will show the courage which
he did, and which people who burn
their draft cards because of oppos-
ition to the Vietnamese war also
show.

Alan Raphael,

Managing Editor
HAVERFORD NEWS

No Choice

To the Editor:

I was very disappointed to read
your recent editorial about civil
disobedience. In addition to sev-
eral incorrect premises which you
mention, you have missed the ra-
tionale of Jerry Dickinson’s be-
havior.

Dickinson’s actions can in no
way be considered synonymous
with the recent draft card burn-
ings. These protests, often
motivated by a political dissatis-
faction with the government’s pre-
sent policies, are primarily de-
signed to arouse public awareness
of conditions by focusing publicity
on the protestor’s act, In this way,
it is hoped, more young men of
draft age can learn of the situa-
tion in which they will soon find
themselves and will act according
to their conscience. Incidentally,
it is very difficult to classify this
as a ‘‘popular sport?’ when the
penalties involved are so great.
Dickinson acted out of no such con-
cern in interesting others to follow
his course of action. He was mo-
tivated by a personal moral stand-
ard, which has no immediate ap-
plication to others,

Another serious misconception
which you express is that civil
disobedience leads directly to ‘‘an-
archy and chaos,” as seen in the
Watts riots. Civil disobedience,
by its very definition, cannot re-
sult in riots, It is a nonviolent
philosophy, sometimes a tactic,
of passive resistance. Once adem-
onstration has passed this point,
it is no longer correct to label
it civil disobedience. Proponents
of this belief hold that its strength
lies in its avoidance of violence,
which you state that it leads to.

Your basic error, however, is
the assumption that Dickinson had
another choice, When he reached
18, he had two choices before
him: refuse to register, or regis-

ter and thus co-operate with a

system which he found morally
wrong. You state that he should
have attempted to change the law
before acting as he did, As Henry
David Thoreau, the.first advocate
of civil disobedience, points out,
“Must the citizen ever for a

resign his conscience to the legis-

»

lator? It is- not desirable to cul-
tivate a respect. for the law, so
much as for the right.’’ The draft
will not be re-examined by
Congress until 1967, DidDickinson
actually have another choice open
to “him on his birthday? Obviously
he could not have remained silently
registered for two years. The
Nuremberg trials ruled that an
individual is responsible for his
actions, even when acting on orders
from his superior, It is generally
accepted that a basic foundation
of the State is the right of the in-
dividual to dissent. Dickinson took
the only course open to him by
refusing to cooperate at all with
the draft.
David H, Millstone
Associate Editor
HAVERFORD NEWS

“lve Had It!”

To the Editor:

ve had it, I have heard Bryn
Mawr girls make snide remarks
about Haverford for three years,
and I’m fed up with it. The letter
sent to THE DAILY PRINCE-
TONIAN, obviously designed as a
come-on, was the last straw. How
can any girls, whosignthemselves
‘Friends of Bryn Mawr,” dare to
make a statement such as: ‘‘Hav-
erford, just down the road, doesn’t
rate this kind of attention (i.e.,
careful preparation for a date), A
Bryn. Mawter’s social status is
determined not by how many Hav-
erford dates she has, but by how
many she turned down in favor
of Princeton or Yale,”’

They are right: Haverford does
NOT deserve this kind of atten-
tion, It’s time they were given
a decent break, If Bryn Mawr
girls would stop sneering, they
would recognize a pretty good
thing.

Disgustedly,
Patty Bauer, ’66

Privileges

To the Editor:

The Bryn Mawr College Library
has the following regulations con-
cerning undergraduate students
from other institutions who wish
to use the library. Such stu-
dents may use the books in the
building from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
provided they bring a letter’ of
introduction from their library.
Haverford, Swarthmore , and the
University of Pennsylvania stu.
dents may borrow books under
these conditions, and may also
study in the Reading Room between.
10 and 12 p.m. with the proper
identification cards, Due to the
reciprocal arrangements between
Bryn r and the other three
institutions, it is necessary for
those students who may be taking
courses at Bryn Mawr to have
more liberal privileges in order
to get their class work done, The
librarians of our neighboring in-
stitutions were reminded of these
regulations several years ago by
letter from this library.

Pamela G, Reilly
Circulation Librarian

Asian Studies

To the Editor:

ww

¢ There is a definite need for a

program of Far Asian. studies at
Bryn Mawr College. Such a pro-
gram might best function by the
development of new courses within
and/or among the existing depart-
ments of philosophy, religion, his-
tory, history of art, political sci-
ence, economics, and sociology.
Provision for the study of the
languages and literatures of East-.
ern Asia would be essential. The
current lack of an Asian studies
program is deplorable in view of
the overwhelming need for un-
derstanding and appreciation as
a foundation for creative resolu-
tion of the traditional
-East and West, —
Lucinda Vandervort,’68

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Page Four

COLLEGE NEWS

November 5, 1965

 

Society Hill’s Glass Menagerie

 

Good Despite Technical Flaws

by Marcia Ringel

Despite occasional flaws, the
production of ‘*The Glass Mena-
gerie’’? now playing at the Society
Hill Playhouse West in Philadel-
phic, successfully conveys the
pow2rful, poignant family story
which, according .to the playbill,
“firmly established (Tennessee)
Williams in the literary world.’’

A chart of Williams’ life on
the playbili intimates that the play
is autobicgraphical. St. Louis’
‘turban ugliness (had) ... harsh
effect on boy and slightly crippled
sister; apparent development of
certain neuroses in Williams,”’
At 22, Williams ‘‘worked in ware-
house, of shoe company and wrote
at night; suffered nervous break-
down from, this routine.’’

Such are the facts of the play.
Its tale, more specifically, is of
a fiercely dominant mother and
her two harried children. Amanda
has been raised in.the Southern
tradition of. ‘‘gentleman callers,’’
a phrase which assumes deeper
Significance as the play pro-
gresses. At her insistence, Tom
brings home an acquaintance from
the warehouse. “Laura meets the
‘‘pentleman caller’? in one of the
most moving scenes of the Ameri-
can theater.

For the most part, the acting
works. Ruth Burrison, most con-
vincing in her angry moods,
handles Amanda’s Southern ac-
cent with intermittent accuracy.
On the other hand, John Ray-
mond’s oldish Tom remains 'won-
derfully droll throughout. Susan
Turlish, too, maintains an even
and .credible Laura, as fragile
as her collection of glass animals

“The ‘In’ Crowd”
To Characterize

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Philly Gang Lite

Gang life in South Philadelphia
is the subject of ‘The ‘In’ Crowd”’
scheduled for Saturday at 8:30 p.m.
at Media High School. Information
on tickets ($2.00) and rides is
available from Bev Peterson in
Erdman,

he Billy AHen Players of St.
Martha’s Settlement House will
present the play under the auspices
of the Media Area Fair Housing
Council.

Billy Allen was an 18-year-old
~outh slain in a knife fight in 1962.
Te was a.popular and respected
leader; his death was a shock to
his community. It is the next
generation of street oriented teen-
agers who have become the Billy
Allen Players. Gang activity re-
portedly died down after work be-
gan on ‘‘The ‘In’ Crowd’’ about a
year ago.

The first script for the playwas
the work of two high school drop-
outs, who have enrolledina college
preparatory high school.

After the cast portrays in front
of the footlights the inner life of
their gang, the member of the cast
who represents the Area Youth
Worker will moderate a discussion
with the audience.

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from which the play’s title is de-
rived. Her slow limp across the
stage to open the door to Jim,
the gentleman caller, merits par-
ticular attention. Frank Freda is
Jim, all the time. Needless to
say, the Laura-Jim scene is very
good indeed.

As director, Herman Osterneck
should have eliminated distracting
technical errors. Tom's liné
*‘fiddle in the wings’’ elicits Cho-
pin’s ‘17th prelude on flute and
piano; Jim shouts, ‘‘Hey, awaltz!”’
at Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No. 1;
Amanda proffers ‘‘liquid refresh-
ment’? with ‘fa cherry in each
glass’” in empty glasses. Robert
Donner’s set, a‘ cut-out parlor
and dining room with the city
peeping over the back wall, hardly
calls for avant-garde props that
might explain the slipups.

“The Glass Menagerie’? will
run Friday and Saturday eve-
nings through November 27 at
the Society Hill Playhouse West
on 22nd Street, first opened this
season to supplement the Society
Hill Playhouse on South Eighth
Street. Lorraine Hansberry’s ‘‘A
Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window’’
opens at SHP-W December 30.

Paterson’s A Profile of Holmes
Brings Wisdom of Another Time

by Eleanor von Auw

A sonorous voice that seemed
to speak from another world filled
Robert’s Hall Friday, October 29,
as part of Haverford’s Art Series,

The voice was that of William
Paterson, Assistant Director of
the Cleveland Play House, now on
leave for a coast to coast tour; the
words were (mainly) those of the
late Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.,
Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court, arranged, with the addition
of some. transitional passages, by
Mr. Paterson to form the script of
his ‘A Profile of Holmes.’’

This ‘*dramatic biography’’ of
Holmes took the form of a mono-
logue, played on a stage bare but
for a desk and a chair, in which

the jurist spoke as an old man .

just ‘‘turned the -corner of
eighty,’’ a lonely widower strain-
ing desperately to feel once more

.the poetry of life, sustainedfor him

through fifty years of marriage by
his beloved Fanny.

The presentation had two acts,
the first --entitled ‘‘Our hearts
were touched with fire’’-- con-
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The Philadelphia Orchestra will present Haydn’s Symphony No, 7 and
Mahler’s Symphony No. 10 at the Academy of Music Friday, Nov. 5,
2 p.m., and Saturday, Nov. 6, and Monday, Nov. 15, at 8:30 p.m. A
program of Brahms will be featured Friday, Nov. 12, at 2 p.m., and
Saturday, Nov. 13, at 8:30 p.m. Yehudi Menuhin will be guest violinist.

The Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra will make its Philadelphia
debut on Thursday, Nov. 4, at 8:30 at the Academy of Music with Igor

Oistrakh, violinist.

The 1965 Philadelphia Bach Festival will take place November 5 and
6 in the Church of the Holy Trinity. Included in the many events will be
Madam Agi Jambor in piano recital at 11 a.m. on the 6th.

Pianist Sylvia Glickman and the Amado String Quartet will present a
Concert of Alfred Swan’s Music at Haverford College’s Common Room

Sunday, Nov, 7, at 8 p.m.

The Russian violinist David Oistrakh is coming to the Academy of

Music Tuesday, Nov. 9; at 8:30.

Dorothy Kirsten in ‘‘La Traviata’? by Verdi will be presented by the
_Philadelphia Lyric Opera Company on Friday, Nov. 5, at 8:15 at ‘the

Academy of Music.

The popular French singer Charles

Aznavour will appear at the

Academy of Music on Monday, Nov. 8, at 8:30.

PLAYS

O’Neill’s autobiographical drama ‘‘A Long Day’s Journey into Night’’
will be presented at the Moorestown Theater, Moorestown, N.J.,

November 9 through 21.

Ionesco’s *‘The Lesson’’ and Beckett’s ‘*‘Act Without Words’ begin
at the Hedgerow Theater on November 11.
‘¢Kismet?? starring Alfred Drake will run for two-weeks at the Forest

Theater starting Nov. 1.

“The Yearling’? a musical with David Wayne will open at the Shubert
on November 9 and run for two and a half weeks.

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perience as a young officer in the
second--*‘To know
is not less than ‘to feel’’ -- dealing
with his career on the Massachu-
setts and United States Supreme
Courts and with his life after his
retirement.

Throughout, Paterson’s Holmes
expressed the strange view of
a relativist who would have men
devote their lives to the service of
an idea. What is essential is that
you **go somewhither as hard as
ever you can,’? he told his listen-
ers.

Holmes apparently felt that it
was through complete dedication to
a cause that a man could achieve
the most perfect realization of his
human potential, that it was by
putting himself in conflict with his
fellow humans for the sake of an
abstract ideal that he could be most
wholly absorbed with them into the
universal brotherhood of men.

That it is the dogmatic asser-
tions of men and of epochs that most
effectively isolate them, he seems
not to have noticed -- perhaps
because his principal idea was
that all ideas are of equal worth,
that the ‘*foundations don’t
change.’’ He valued ‘‘enthusiasm
and faith’’; what might be their ob-
ject, he did not much care.

This attitude was most evident
in his discussion of the Civil War:
the soldiers, he was at pains to
point out, felt ‘‘less personal ani-
mosity than those not in peril.’’
Holmes’ brotherhood is that of men
engaged in mortal combat,

There was. something oddly
pointed, oddly topical about his
stern exhortation, ‘‘I think a man
should share the actions and
passions of his time (by
fighting its wars), at pain of being
judged not to have lived at all.’’

But there was something
strangely meaningless, strangely
incomprehensible, too, about these
words spoken froma time when men
might actually have thought to be
purged by the trial of fire andiron,
when war might still be viewed
as something other than chaos’ tri-
umphant shout.

What William Paterson showed
his rather bemused and faintly
uneasy audience was the spectacle,
at once deeply sympathetic andin-

escapably alien, of one weary,
yet staunchly enduring, having out-
lived his time, one who might
well remind us of the words of
Yeats: ‘“‘Their eyes mid many
wrinkles, their eyes, their ancient,
glittering eyes, are gay.’’

It .was ultimately his steadfast
relativism that gave Holmes the
courage, as one of the young gen-
eration, to defy the old gods, and
the grace, as one of the dying
generation, to submit to the new
heirs, We see an upsurge of doc-
trinaire idealism in the pained
disapproval of his comment on
the young writers of his later
years; ‘‘I do not care for the com-
plexities of the ignoble.’’

We see a gallant old man, for
whom life and death are equally
hard, endeavor to come to terms
with both, to escape the awful
narrowness of his particular des-
tiny through a dream of the greater
end of the “unimaginable whole.”’
For ‘‘man may have cosmic
destinies that he does not under-
stand,’’

|Campus Events|

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8
Frank Kermode will give the
fourth Mary. Flexner Lecture on
‘The Modern Apocalypse’’ in
Goodhart Hall at 8:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10
Armand Hoog, Pyne Professor
of Romance Languages, Princeton
University, will give the first llay
Egan Stokes Lecture, under the
auspices of the French Depart-
ment, The lecture, which will be
given in French at 8:30 p.m. in
the Ely Room, Wyndham, is en-
titled “Le Romanisme Frangais.
et les Mysteres de 1’Ohio.”’
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
NOVEMBER 12 AND 13
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COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three

 

Kermode Talk Applies Theory Italy

To Spenser and Shakespeare

Frank Kermode devoted his third
Flexner lecture to the problem
the author faces when he puts his
creation into a time scheme, Spen-
ser and Shakespeare were the
poets used to illustrate the dif-
ficulty.

Although we like simple begin-
nings and ends, said Mr. Kermode,
we distrust them. Nevertheless,
the poet must answer this question
of time in his works.

When people believed in a def-
inite beginning of the world, the
result was rigid fiction, Mr. Ker-
mode described a correspondence
between the complexity of our
fictions and what we consider to
be the true state of the world,

If faith’s account of genesis and
apocalypse were distrusted by rea-
son two changes in our fic-
tions would occur, Mr, Kermode
defined these as the appearance
of fictions of concord and changes
in our fictive accounts of the world.

As an illustration of such a sit-
uation, Mr. Kermode selected the
thirteenth century rediscovery of
the philosophy of Aristotle, Chris-
tian philosophy was presented with
the Aristotelian view that nothing
can come out of nothing. This im-
plies that the world is eternal, a
position denied by the church,

St. Augustine’s theory held that
the world was formless matter, in
a state between nothing and some-
thing, with the potentiality of form.

’ This capacity to receive form is
mutability, which for Augustine
is the same as creation, Time is
the mode ofthis mutability-- crea-
tion,

This doctrine lasted until the
thirteenth century, when the dis-
covery of Aristotelian works dis-

rupted it. In considering the ques-
tion, St. Thomas Aquinas declared
that we must believe in creation
from nothing, not by means of
reason, but simply through revela-
tion.

Aquinas, said Mr, Kermode, thus
saved the Christian account of
origins, but substituted Aristotle

for Augustine in the view of prime |

matter,

Another aspect of this contro-
versy was the necessity for a new
definition of angels, Either they
contained some matter or a third
category was demanded,

Aquinas chose to create another
category. His angels are capable
of change by acts of will and in-
tellect. They are neither eternal
nor temporal, god nor man, and
therefore exist in a third duration
of time,

Aquinas’ time fiction is called
the aevum, It is between time and
eternity. Although invented to
clarify the philosophy of angels,
aevum also proved useful in dis-
cussing human activities, par-
ticularly men’s sense of par-
ticipating in time beyond the
normal time of man,

Earlier, St. Augustine dis-
covered the relation between books
and. the aevum, Expanding this
point, Mr. Kermode called the
aevum away of talking about time in
novels. The characters are free
from the time of succession, but the
novelist can put them into suc-
cessive situations when he
chooses.

The aevum then, argued Mr,
Kermode, is a conceptual tool that
facilitates thought. It explains the
paradox that though, according to

(Continued on page 6)

Low-Back Rock Chairs
Take A Walk to Pem

A minor riot took place in Rocke-
feller Hall at breakfast Monday
morning.

Those who had come to: break-
fast at Rockefeller noticed that
their new low-backed chairs had
been replaced by the old high
carved chairs they had had last
year, At the same time residents
of Pembroke noticed that exactly
that number of old chairs was
missing from their dining room,
and had been replaced by the new
ones. Disturbed by this, they in-
vaded Rockefeller, led by their
warden, Pat McPherson. The

valiant Rockefeller citizens at-—

tempted a sit-in, but wound up
battling tooth and nail for what
they had been sitting on, while
the new chairs were neatly but
inconsiderately arranged around
two trees in front of Pembroke.

At this point it is difficult to
evaluate the real causes of the
violence: most observers are
agreed that the true reasons lie
in events of the night before --
Halloween -- which are difficult
to reconstruct. The theory which,
seems to fit best with the facts
assumes a raid by a group from
Rockefeller Hall itself, the most
likely route being over the con-
necting roof.

The speed -- two hours and five
minutes for over 160 chairs (surely
a record of some sort)and relative
Silence with which the operation
was carried out imply a large
degree of organization and ef-
ficiency on the part of Rockefeller.

A small number of Pembroke
inmates were awakened that night
and actually met the chair-
Switchers face to face, but the
expected opposition never mater-
ialized. One girl noticed a line of
strangers proceeding down the hall
carrying chairs but did not report
the situation. (‘‘Nobody will be-
lieve me.’’) Another saw the oper-
‘ation and offered help (‘‘maybe
later’’);. still another arrived in
the dining room just as the last

chair was being put into place

and asked to borrow a dime.

Following the hostilities of the
morning, however, the injured
Rockefeller residents (who had to
eat lunch standing up) resorted to
more orderly. means of protest,
advancing in a body on Pembroke,
wearing academic robes and sing-
ing ‘‘Onward Christian Soldiers?’
as they bore a petition directed
to “the wardens and inmates of
the Halls Pembroke’? and an un-
precedented ‘Whirlwind of the
Year’? award for Miss McPher-
son. The petition read in part:

‘*We the citizens of Rockefeller
Hall do solemnly request you...
to return the chairs tendered unto
you by us ... when we procured
the debatable objects we did not
succumb to any violence, loss
of control, or primitive instincts,
but rather we maintained our roles
with utmost dignity, finesse, and
tactful ingenuity.’’

The terms set forth in this
document were infact, immediate-
ly complied with, Miss McPherson
leading the group returning the
chairs,

 

Pembroke gitls retrieve their dining room chairs, but one of Rock's is left up a tree.

Is F ascinating and Exciting

To Junior Year Abroad Student

by Jane Zucker, '66

Siena was swarming with
tourists by the time we arrived,
eight Italian-Junior-Year- Abroad
-Smithies dragged from the beach,
summer jobs, and boredom, to at-
tend intensive courses for the
month of September in language,
art, history, and adjustment,

Miss Talluri covered the fall of
Rome to the rise of Fascism. She
was one of those wide Italian women

College Theatre's

‘Richard Il’ Due
Friday at H’ford

by Margaret Edwards, '67

The Bryn Mawr-Haverford Col-
lege Theater will present Shake-
speare’s RICHARD II on November
12th and 13th, The production will
begin. at 8 p.m. in Roberts Hall
at Haverford.

Since the first week-of rehears-
als, the work on this play has been
feverish and excited, Robert But-
man, Director of College Theatre,
has concentrate on bringing out

*the tremendous poetic structure

of the play which underlies the
character portrayals in:each part.
He is presenting this play entirely
uncut, even though it is usually
modified somewhat for modern
audiences, Mr. Butman believes
that by working with the play as
a whole, the cast will have a chance
to find out why Shakespeare wrote
it the way he did, and then, hope-
fully, they will be able to present
the complete work withits original
intent. "

One rehearsal exposed the actors
and actresses to the magic of
David Lowry’s puppets. He gave a
short puppet show to illustrate the
need for audience participation
in any experience of drama. Other
rehearsals have included vocal
exercises and line-by-line in-
terpretations which have deepened
the cast’s understanding of the
play.

The stage crew has designed a
multi-level stage which is one of
the most ambitious and successful
sets that has ever been devised for
a Shakespearean production here,
Costumes will be in Gothic lines,
made of rich textured cloth with
many folds.

Steve Bennet and Munson Hicks

, will play the roles of Richard II

fand Bolingbroke. Bryn Mawr girls
chosen for the female parts are
Tezi Currie as Richard’s Queen,
Margaret Edwards as the Duchess
of Gloucester, Lynne Meadow as
the Duchess of York, and Jane
Taylor and Robin Johnson as the

two ladies attendant on the Queen.

with blunt features and frenetic
gestures. As the barbarian hordes

\ swept down from the North, her

hands rotated madly about each
other. The death of Mussolini call-
ed for a swift karate cut at the
table. which nearly sent the corner
flying off across the roum:

Her counterpart in the Art de-
partment, a meek little man who
looked as if his feet has been bound
at birth, brought to life a world
of pointed arches and fragile, ele-
gant Madonnas, the legacy of *‘tre-
cento’”? Siennese artists. Some-
times he gestured out the window
to illustrate a lecture; sometimes
we walked with him through the
streets and into the churches and
public buildings. Saturdays, an-
chovy-like in Fiats, we explored the
Tuscan walled and towered towns,
their dark Romanesque churches,
their ancient villas,

Our third course was a scourge.
If we had arrived with any confi-
dence in our knowledge of the
language, it was stripped from us
in phonetics, grammar and text
regurgitations.

Out of the classroom and on the
streets we adjusted, If we had ever
thought that roads were merely
ways to arrive at places on foot, we
were in for a rough shock. To

pwalk on one alone was like going

to a very large cocktail party
at which you knew nobody. The
women appraise you for your
clothes: the men just appraise
you: and everybody uses elbow
like third hands,

The teaching of my Italian family
was even more enlightening, Their
philosophy came straight out of
**?ve Got Plenty of Nothing.’’ Use
what is free or inexpensive: pasta,
emotions (especially love), wine.
And what costs a lot is bad for
you anyway: Hot water hurts the
skin, electric light harms the eyes,
and milk damages the liver.

So broadened we left for
Florence, on the second of Oc-
tober. We had acquired a rudimen-
tary appreciation of Italy and could
say ‘get lost’’ five different ways
rauging from the polite to the
obscene.

Florence is a magnificent city.
You can wander there for months
and never run out of things/te see.
It is first a Renaissance capital,
with small cobbled streets leading
into large piazzas, Massive elegant
**quattrocento’”® palaces, built
for the ruling families of that

Interfaith

The Interfaith lecture sched-
uled for Wednesday, Novem-
ber 10, at 7:30 p.m. in the
Common Room, has. been can-
celled. Stella Kramrisch, who
was scheduled to speak on
“The Hindu Aspects of An-
cient Indian Art,’’ will be un-
able to come.

 

 

 

 

 

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time, stand along the larger ave-
nues, The best Renaissance art-
ists decorated their churches and
baptistries. The most renowned
architects designed their villas.
Modern refinements include a coke
machine on the top of Duomo, a
few discotheques, a lot of fresh
pigeons, and Emilio Pucci: but
essentially it remains a city of
the past.

It is Florence itself which makes
‘the Junior Year a success. The
merit of the Smith program is that
it gets you there,

Our four Smith courses, taught
by the University professors es-
pecially for us, ranged from dull
(17th and 18th century literature)
to interesting (Renaissance art and

modern history) to incompre- ©

hensible (modern literature.)

Our professor for the latter had
the virtues of looking like he had
just stepped off a Roman coin and
talking as if he had recently start-
ed writing for the NEW YORKER
-- Italian style. We, therefore,
watched .him a lot and understood
little,

We hoped to get more out of the

one regular University course, But _

between student strikes (called for
political reasons everytime good
skiing conditions prevailed ) holi-
days, teacher apathy, and.conflict-
ing vacations, we were lucky to
have attended half of the classes.

A lot depended on the families
we were assigned. Some lived in
damp, dark rooms, ate mainly
eggs and rice, and were afraid to
make a telephone call after ten
o’clock. Others’only communica-
tion with the family was through
the dog. I was lucky. Not only

“did I get breakfast in bed, eat

five-course meals twice a day,
discuss comparative politics, sex,
and religion, but I also lived on
the street with the most attractive
males per block in allof Florence.

Just !ecause they lived on the
block did not mean that you went
out with them. To be sure, they
followed you. They were known to
chase you on the sidewalk with
their scooters. But to actually
date you was something else again,
Years of occupation by foreign stu-
dents had made the naturally
haughty Florentines blase. The
girls were so afraid of losing
another eligible mate to the oc-
cupying army that they would rare-
ly introduce you to anyone.,- Of
course, you could meet people in
the bars and on the street. But to
meet a “proper Florentine,” as
my Italian mother would say, was
difficult.

Somehow we overcame the ob-
stacles, The people were fun -- my
accent. improved -- the year was
grand -- I can hardly wait to go
back again,

(This is the fourth in a
series of articles by students
who studied abroad within the
past year: -- ed.)

 

 

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COLL EGE NEWS

Page Five

 

Royal Ballet Company Superb Freshman Begins African Series
Despite Poor Program Choice

by Marianne Emerson, '68

Nothing can really spoil the
Beatles, the BBC, or the Royal
Ballet. It’s a good thing too, for
there are several disappointing
details about *‘An Evening with the
Royal Ballet.”

Only three. of the principal
dancers are given other than the
most meager credit for their work.
The selection of the four dances
and the order in which they are
performed shows only an eye for
the American’ box office and no
taste. Most irritating of all, the
despicable conduct of the average
moviegoer. who prattles straight
through the entire show is in-

furiating.
Nevertheless the dancing of Eng-
land’s foremost company is

superb. The evening begins with a
plotless waltz, ‘‘La Valse,” in
which the characters are ladies
and gentlemen on a dance floor
in the late’ nineteenth century.
The music does not entirely fit
the occasion, but it allows the
dancers a wide variety of lively
steps.

“‘Les Sylphides’? can be com-
pared to “The Eve of Saint Agnes’”’
a small work of incomparable
beauty and lyricism. Chopin wrote
the waltz and one of the greatest
choreographers, Michael Fokine,
worked out the original steps. The
scene is the ruins of an ancient
palace at midnight where the
nymphs (sylphs) dance with the
poet, the only male present. The
corps_was at its best, perfectly
synchronized yet individual and the
three principals perform their
variations with fitting delicacy and
grace,

This is a feat for Nureyev, who
came to the West with an awfully
small sense of appropriateness
and control in any ballet which
is not just a chance to show
off his skillful strength. His ar-
tistic temperament peeks through,
though, inthat his costumeis minus
the traditional huge white satin
bow. .

Nureyev: has to have his chance
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though in a quieter way, as when
she delicately hops across the
stage on the tip of one toe,

To switch from that to the third
act of ‘‘ Aurora’s Wedding’’ is also
difficult. This ballet, the story
of Sleeping Beauty, was created
for Dame Margot by Sir Fred-
rick Ashton to music by Tchaikov-
‘sky. It is performed every time
the Royal Ballet tours America
because it is ‘‘our’’ traditional
favorite. Yet it belongs separate
and whole, not as just the third
act as is done in the film. David
Blair, Dame Margot’s principal
partner after Michael Somes and
before Nureyev,
as his follower,

is not as gifted
and it shows,

“My Cultural Heritage” — Nigeria

The following is the first in
a series of articles by Dora
Chizea, '69, on her cultural
heritage. Dora comes to Bryn
Mawr from Nigeria -- ed.

‘*The county is Nigeria, ...’

**Wait a moment, What’s that you
say? Nigeria? What about it?”

That’s the point, ‘*What
about it???

I am going to give accounts which
represent the views and opinions of
simple = me. Don’t you feel I
should do so? Well, remember the
Smokers are always open for de-
bates. If you disagree with me, let
us go right there! Or perhaps you

Princetonian to Expand.

 

Girlwatching Territories

That cause celebre, WHERE THE
GIRLS ARE, is now being published
by the Dial Press.

The book, an ‘‘insider’s’? guide,
which was front page news in THE
NEW YORK TIMES and which at-
tracted spectacular attention in
other media (ahem), was written
and originally published by the staff
members of the DAILY PRINCE-
TONIAN.

Princeton has made the most of
its opportunity. A Dial editor de-
scribed the transaction this way:
*fOur professional curiosity was
aroused, when the news stories
broke, and so we got on the phone
and called Howard Smith at the
PRINCETONIAN, We asked him if
the PRINCETONIAN would like to
consider our publishing the book
for them; they said yes, and were
in our offices that very day. We
had a short meeting before they
arrived, decided we’d go easy on
them and make then what we con-
sidered a very favorable offer.
Apparently, the PRINCETONIAN

hadn’t decided to go easy on us --
the final arrangements were ex-
tremely favorable to the Princeton
people.” serail

Dial has already distributed all
remaining stock from the first
printing of the book, and is now
back on press with a run of 25,000
copies. Orders are.reported to be
pouring in, television networks
have approached the PRINCETON-
IAN, movies have expressed in-
terest, and magazines are planning
to run news stories on the book
and the boys who wrote it.

There is one further .develop-
ment, Dial has contracted with the
staff of the PRINCETONIAN to
publish an expanded, all-inclusive
edition of WHERE THE GIRLS
ARE, The new book, slated for fall
publication to coincide with the
beginning of the academic year,
will cover all major women’s and
co-educational universities in the
country.

.Good grief, Charlie Brown!

don’t really know if you disagree
with me, but you feel like you want
to disagree with me, then - “‘right
there, right there; in the
Smokers!’ is my answer,

This series of articles, on my
cultural ‘heritage, is aimed at
bringing to the attention ofthe stu-
dents of this college certain facts
and misconceptions about Africa at
large and Nigeria in particular.
It is really impossible to talk of
Nigeria and give a comprehensive
account of every section of it. To
think of talking about Africa as a
whole this way is nonsense, So, put
that out.

The general topic for a Kennedy
Essay Competition in Nigeria this
year was “Unity in Diversity.”
It is almost incredible to imagine
the amount of diversity in this
single country, Nigeria, a country
of about 55 million people, has 204
linguistic groups. (I suggest you
make up your mind to visit Nigeria.
I should advise that you stay for a
couple ‘of years as a PeaceCorps
Volunteer, Result: you satisfy your
curiosity and we gain more skilled
hands to work, Fine bargain, isn’t
it?)

Every single linguistic group has
its own traditions and customs,
It-ts not the diversity and varia-
tion that counts but the basic sim-
ilarities, One of the greatest things
in common to all the people of
Nigeria is the gift of rhythm,

The ‘*Music of Our Land” is.a
god in itself which runs in the veins
of these peace-loving people. In
the music of the people is found all
types of expression. We sing when
we are happy, and when we are sad,
Stories of noble acts and shameful
deeds are told in music. Warnings,
praises, and greetings are made in
music,

Girls from Rockefelier might
have noticed that I yell out the

**Music of Our Land’? usually at
meal-times! Yes, I tell of hunger
in music and when I feel very sat-
isfied I croak more happy songs.
Perhaps it is now automatic but I
claim that the “god of rhythm”
keeps running through my veins
and I cannot control it,

A tap at the door makes me
start - Oh, I thought it was the sign
of the drum - another tap puts me
in motion, Is it music? The **Am-
akekwu”’ of the Ibos, and the ‘*Ap-
ala’? and “ Juju’? of the Yorubas
and the ‘Highlife’ of the young-
sters make one feel+that Nigeria
is nothing but ‘noisy’ sounds from
‘wretched’ taut skins and ‘hollow-
ed’ dried woods, But you only need
a short while to feel the pulse and
you join the chorus!

The breath-taking vigorous
dances of the Ibos, the gentle,
graceful dances of the Itsekiris,
the slow-motion showy dance of the
Yorubas, and the demonstrative
horse-back dances of the Hausas,
show but a few of the diversities.
The point is that they all start
quaking at..the sound of rhythm,

By the way, I expect my op-
timistic view that you are up to
date in regional geography is up-
held. Or, are you thinking that you
have forgotten or that you didn’t
quite remember the position of
Nigeria? Certainly, it could not be
that you never knew where Ni-
geria is located.

Ah ha, the Library has some
atlases! Then I am sure that you
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COLLEGE NEWS

November 5, 1965

 

Hockey Team Finishes Season “Beginnings and Ends” Is Subject
Chestnut Hill beteated 4-1, 10- 0 For Kermode’s Monday Lecture

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J.V. healle Eleanor Colby, '69, defends the B. M. C. net ieainet: a
Chestnut Hill attack in Tosaday® $ game.

Bryn Mawr’s Hockey Team
finished up a winning season Tues-
day, November 2, by defeating
Chestnut Hill 4-1 in the Varsity
game and 10-0 in the J.V. game.

The Varsity played a good game
with many well-placed passes, giv-
ing Cile Yow, Martha Taft, and
Sally Boy (Sally scored twice)
the opportunity to score, The game
was actually won in the first half,
since’ there was no scoring by
either side in the “second half.

Bryn Mawr’s varsity ‘ended the
season with 3 games won, 1 tied,
and 1 lost, while the J.V. won
4 and lost 1, Games scores were:
Rosemont: Varsity 3-1; J.V. 5-1.
Drexel: Varsity 1-1; J.V. 2-0,
Swarthmore: Varsity 1-0; J.V. 1-
2. U. of Penn: Varsity 0-3; J.V.
2-0.

THE COLLEGE NEWS erron-
eously stated previously that the
Varsity bested Penn 3-0 in their
firs’ game of the season. Popie
Johus, team captain, said, ‘‘May-
be the error boosted our spirit.
At .east we never lost a game
after that.”’

Along with spirit, the Bryn Mawr
team has used the following play
effectively. A husky defense
smashed the.ball out to the wings,
who take it up the sidelines. This
has the effect of pulling the oppon-
ents out from the goal, giving
Bryu Mawr a hole through which
to score,

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Miss Janet Yeager, team coach,
commented that the team was a
fine, hardworking group. She also
stressed that next year should be
even better, since only three Var-
sity players will be graduating,

Next Tuesday at.4 the J.V,
will challenge the Varsity. Per-
haps they will prove Miss Yeager’s
statement,

(Continued from page 3)
the church, the world is not eternal,
there is some sort of sempiternity
to certain aspects of human life,

To demonstrate the effect of this
kind of fiction on English litera-
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by Spénser and Shakespeare.

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poems a poetic generalization that
will reconcile such opposites as
heavenly and earthly cities, light
and dark, This reconciliation is a
fiction of complementality.

Discussing the FAERY QUEENE,
Mr. Kermode used the section set
in the Garden of Adonis as his
first illustration,

Time rules the garden, and its
reign is shown as disastrous,
Sexual bliss is merely the agent of
a limited brand of immortality,
said Mr, Kermode,

Adonis represents the biologi-
cal cycle existing in the aevum.
The boar is death, whose advances
are defeated by the cycle,

In such a perspective, Spenser
is taking account of the evidence
of an eternal world and combining
it with the Christian denial of eter-
nity.

Proceeding to the mutability
cantos of the FAERY QUEENE,
Mr. Kermode __completed-—_his
presentation of Spenser’s view.

The cantos. end in a_ plea for

change as_ the agent of the
world are associated with mu-
tability, which is celebrated by
the poet.

It is in the nature of things to
change, and change is the agent of
perpetuity. Created things affirm
their own perpetuity, concluded

Mr. Kermode, by the cyclical gen-
eration of species.

Shakespeare, the second poet
considered, wrote plots which, al-
though not expressly philosophical,
still dealt with questions of time.

In KING LEAR, the entire plot
tends to a conclusion that does not
occur, The world goes forward in
the hands of what Mr, Kermode
calls the ‘“‘exhausted survivors,’’

Mr. Kermode characterized
MACBETH as a play of prophecy
in which man desires to feel the
future in an instant,

Macbeth himself examines what
may be willed by men and what is
determined. He is denied the relief
of knowing that time is successive.
He has selected an aspect of the
future, making it . perpetual
present, This is the source of the
conflict, since only angels choose
in non-successive time.

Both MACBETH and KING LEAR
display the falseness of human end-
ings. Nevertheless, Mr. Kermode
said, we need endings in an age
without an apocalypse because we
need patterns that defy time.

Fictions of complementality try
to close the gap between our world
and eternity. Mr. Kermode’s next
lecture will consider the ways
in which modern authors have at-
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