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Wednesday, January 16, 1952

THE COLLEGE

NEWS

Page Three



Movie Illustrates
Hypnotic Effects

Tuesday evening, January 8, the
Science Club showed a movie in
the Common Room on Unconscious
Motivation. A companion film on
Hypnctic Behavior was also sched-
uled to be shown, but a mixup in
film resulted in the substitution of
a movie entitled The Streamlined
Donkey Goes North.

Dr. Brown of the Psychology
department gave a short intro-
ductory talk on the history of
hypnotism. An interest in hypno-
tism can be traced back as far as
the Sixteenth century. In_ its
early stages it was frequently as-
sociated with the use of magnets.

Mesmer, an eighteenth century
Viennese physician, found that he
cculd cure certain illnesses first
by the use of magnets, and later
by so-called “animal magnetism”
which did away with the actual
use of magnets. Mesmer estab-
lished a clinic in Paris but was
judged to be a charlatan and final-
ly exiled to Switzerland.

Hypnotism has also been used
as an anesthesia, but that use was
soon abandoned in favor of chem-
ical agents. Today, hypnotism is
valuable to the psychologist chief-
ly as an experimental technique to
study unconscious. motivation. un-
der laboratory conditions.

The movie Unconscious Motiva-
tion was filmed by Dr. Beck of
the University of Oregon, with the
cooperation of two of his stu-
dents. Completely unrehearsed, it
showed the boy and girl going into
a hypnotic trance. While hypno-
tized, they were told of an ex-
perience in which the boy was sup-
posed to have found some money,
used it to buy gum, and concealed
his guilt from his mother. When
Dr. Beck brought the couple out
of the trance, they did not remem-
ber what had happened but they
both felt nervous and uncomfort-
able. Through questioning and
and several testsinvolving ink-
blots and word association they
were able to reconstruct the orig-
inal experience and were thereby
relieved of their feelings of guilt.

After the film, Dr. Brown an-
swered questions. Punch and
cookies were served.

Alumnae To Offer
$50 Gerould Prize

Undergraduates are at this time
reminded that again this spring
the Alumnae offer the Katharine
Fullerton Gerould Memorial Prize
of $50 for an original piece of
English Composition, not neces-
sarily a-class assignment in writ-
ing courses. Student may submit
a narrative, short or long, an in-
formal essay, a play or some
verse. Multiple entries are not
excluded, especially if individual
entries are very short; but formal
essays are excluded since they are
in the field covered by the M.
Carey Thomas prize.

All entries are to be fresh work,
completed or especially revised
since Commencement 1951, clean
copy, typed double space and with-
out the author’s name. Entries
submitted in former years are not
cligible, but the prize is open to
all undergraduates.

Manuscripts are to be left at
the Alumnae Office in the Deanery
where each contestant will be giv-
en a number to identify her entry.
The deadline is 4:00 P. M., Tues-
cay, April 8th.

The readers this year are Pro-
fessor Laurence Stapleton, Miss
Cornelia Meigs, 1907, and Eleanor
F. Rambo, 1908, Chairman.

Inquiries are welcome.



Panel Discussion
Debates on Oath

On Monday evening, January 7,
in the Common Room, a student
panel discussion on loyalty oaths
was held. The panel was debated
in conjunction with §S.D.A.’s_ Op-
eration Free Thought Week. Speak-
ing in favor of the oaths were
Judy Waldrop and Kay Sherman,
and speaking against were Patsy
Price and Barbara Fischer.

Patsy Price spoke of the danger
of loyalty oaths as a means of
forcing convention and orthodoxy
upon our thinking. A person ac-
cused of disloyalty is often unable
to obtain any other job, though
he may be completely texonérated.
It was also pointéd out that a
communist would probably lie as
to his affiliations, so that the oaths
actually do not accomplish their
purported task.

Kay Sherman spoke on _ the
Government Loyalty Review pro-
gram and Judy Waldrop on loyal-
ty in relation to academic free-
dom. They both pointed out the
dangerously insidious methods of
the Communists, and the need for
protecting young people against
such propaganda. It was further
said that the government program
was a check-up measure necessary
in such a critical situation.

The views expressed by the
speakers were not _ necessarily
their own.

NSA Participates
In World Meetings

American students will be rep-
resented this month by the U. S.
National Student Association
(NSA) at two world student con-
ferences. The student meetings in
Edinburgh, Scotland and Rio de
Janiero, Brazil will be attended by
officers of the NSA.

At the first meeting in Edin-
burgh, Jan. 3-8, USNSA president
William T. Dentzer, and NSA
vice-president of international af-
fairs, Avrea Ingram, will urge the
establishment of an international
secretariat, limited strictly to ad-
ministrative implementation and
coordination of the activities of
national student unions for the ex-
change of information and student
personnel.

Dentzer said that NSA is “es-
pecially interested in setting up a
body that will coordinate the ac-
tivities of the Students Mutual
Assistance Program (SMAP).”
The SMAP program each year
arranges for the sending of stu-
dents in technical studies in
America and Europe to South

‘East Asia, Africa, and the Middle

Hast.

The second International Stu-
dents conference at Edinburgh
will be sponsored by the National
Union of Students of Canada and
Scotland.

The National Student Associa-
tion is the official voice of Amer-
ican students throughout the
world. More than 250 American
colleges and universities and 700,-
000 students are members of the
NSA.

The NSA president and inter-
national vice-president will also
be present at the meeting of the
British National Union of Students
at Nottingham, England. They
will present the views of Amer-
ican students as voted last sum-
mer at the fourth National Stu-
dent congress in Minn., Minn.





A. L. Fabens, Bryn Mawr,
1951, who is now at Somerville
College in Oxford, has had a
short story published in the
“Cherwell”, Michaelmas Term
issue. The title of the story is,
“A Novel Acquaintance”.











French Club Picks
Future Production

The French Club has announced
its selection of the play Andro-
maque to be presented on March
25 in the Otis Skinner Workshop.
The play by the celebrated 17th
century author Racine is an ex-
cellent example of classic tragedy.
Andromaque’s story is that of a
beautiful queen, Hector’s wife,
who is prisoner of Hector’s mur-
derer Pyrrhus. Pyrrhus, who
wants to marry her, is betrothed
to Hermione, whose former lover
Oreste has just arrived on the
scene. From this complicated be-
ginning the tragedy develops
along familiar classical lines. Ed-
ward Morris will direct the pro-
duction.

Paula Donnelly, newly-elected
president of French Club, has an-
nounced tryouts held on January
14, 15, and 16. These are open,
as are all French Club meetings,
to any and all interested students,
whether or not they are taking
any courses in the French depart-
ment,

S.D.A. Sets Week
For Free Thought :

‘The week of January seventh
vo January eleventh was devoted
vo a campaign for “Free Thought”,
sponsored by the Students for
vemocratic Action of Bryn Mawr
Loliege. The aim of the Free
‘nought Week, as stated by Alice
Hartman, ’54, of S.D.A., was to
reawaken and preserve freedom of
thought concerning civil liberties.
Many people have the same feel-
ing which the Students for Demo-
cratic Action have, that freedom
and individuality of thought, par-
ticularly in political affairs, tend
to disappear in times of crises
such as these.

To stimulate the general declin-
ing sense of responsibility of
thought, the S.D.A. has sponsored
several . activities. The first of
these, Monday night, January 7,
was a panel discussion on Loyalty
Oaths, a subject of vital poli-
tical importance today, held in the
Common Room. Patsy Price, ’54,
Judy Waldrop, ’53, Kay Sherman,
64, and Barbara Fischer, ’55, de-
bated. Thursday evening, the
eleventh, Peter Bachrach, former-
ly of the Department of Political
Science at Bryn Mawr, (now on
leave of absence at Harvard Uni-
versity) spoke on the subject, “Is
the Classic Justification of Free

Expression Valid Under Mod-
ern Conditions?”, A discussion
period followed Dr. Bachrach’s

lecture.

The third activity, sponsored
jointly by the Students for Demo-
cratic Action and the Bryn Mawr
Alliance for Political Affairs, was
to have the Alliance Hall Repre-
sentatives give each girl in her hall
a list of her senators and also her
representatives, if possible. The
object of this is to facilitate writ-
ing letters to senators, giving
them the students’ point of view,
particularly in matters which con-
cern us as directly as do Loyalty
Oaths. As a further incentive, the
Alliance will furnish stamps,
gratis, to anyone who takes the
trouble to write to her congress-
man.

Alliance Promotes
Student Activities

Have you received a slip of
‘paper with your Congressman’s
name? Write to him whenever
you wish to express yourself on a
congressional bill. , Congressmen
must consider their electorate’s
opinion when they vote, and your
letters will influence them. Give
your letters to your hall Alliance
representative; she will see that
your letters are stamped and

Bachrach Discusses

Free Speech

In Adjunct With SDA Campaign

Is the Classical Justification of
Free Expression Valid under Mod-
ern Conditions? This is the title
of the speech and the primary
question which Mr, Peter Bach-
rach offered for consideration in
his lecture in connection with the
S.D.A. and its campaign, Opera-
tion Free Thought, in the Com-
mon Room on Thursday evening.

At the onset Mr. Bachrach cited
the case of the Supreme Court’:
upholding of Communist leaders
under the Smith Act for conspi:
ing to teach and advocate thr
overthrow”of the United State
Government by force. There wa
agreement that mere advocacy o
overthrow does not contradic: ¢’
first amendment and “can only b
squared with the requirements o.
this amendment when a clear anc

Flexner Lectures
To Begin Feb. 11

The Mary Flexner Lectures foi
1952 are to be given by Isaia
Berlin, Research Fellow at Ai.
Souls’ College and University Lec
turer in Philosophy at Oxfor.
University. His topic will be Pr
litical Ideas in the Romantic Age,
1760-1830.

There will be six lectures on
Monday evenings from February
11th to March 17th. The _ sched-
ule is as follows:

1. February 11th

The Concept of Nature and the

Science of Politics (Helvetius

and Holbach)

II. February 18th



Political Liberty and the Ethical

Imperative (Kant and _ Rous-
seau)
III. February 25th

Liberalism and the Romantic
Movement (Fichte and J. 38.

Mill)
IV. March 3rd
Individual Freedom and _ the

March of History (Herder and
Hegel)

V. March 10th
The Organization of Society and
the Golden Age (St. Simon and
his successors)

VI. March 17th
The Counter-Revolution (Mais-
tre and Gorres)

present danger existed.” In. ex-
pressing the view of the tradi-
‘tional “clear and present danger”
doctrine, Mr. Bachrach reviewed
Brandeis’ belief that “unless
danger is very imminent, any ad-
vocacy of law _ breaking only
heightens it.”

A second test, one of balance,
was defined by Judge Hand as a
test weighing the evil of the sup-
pression of free speech against
the gravity and probability of its
occurrance. Under such a policy,
free speeca would be safeguarded
unless specific circumstances
wureacenea, Mr. Bachrach dis-
agrees and believes this Handian
viewpoint challenges the funda-
mental and traditional concept
that “truth awaits to be discover-
ed by full and free discussion”.
Botn Justices Black and Douglas
uphold this philosophy, which had
its roots in Locke, Jefferson,
Holmes and Mill. But the dom-
Nant view is still Handian. Why
wait for the truth to be discussed
when powerful conspiracy may be
active in a country in our presen
sndustrial and financial straits.

Mr. Bachrach called upon the
iiberal to examine his preconcep-
vions on the issue and consider
che evidence against a Mill-
| Holmes philosophy. Two points
were presented for examination:
“whether truth can be revealed by
full and free discussion of op-
posing ideas; and is the common
man sufficiently rational to recog-
nize truth among competing ideas
in the market place?”

McCarthy and his cohorts re-



ject the first proposition on the
premise that the truth is known
and they have a corner on it. Mr.
; Bachrach pointed out that it is
| here that any deviation from
ja..y line is considered disloyalty
‘and he agreed that the position
| was logical, for if one has faith
-n_a_ premise, that faith is ex-
pressed in laws confiscating any
opposition. Therefore, in permit-
ting opposition to free speech, the
power of speech is weakened
Here again Mr. Bachrach agreed
with Justice Holmes that the best
truth is that which can survive
free speech and competition in the
market. The Justices who ques-



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COUNTERPOINT takes great pleasure in announcing the fol-
lowing elections: DIANA FORBES, Editor-in-Chief; BOBBYANN

ROESEN, Business Editor.

Former associates who have moved up

to the Editorial Staff are HELEN KATZ and NAOMI ELLEN-
BOGEN. Former Business Editor, VIRGINIA HOLBECK, has join-
ed the staff again. Remaining members of the Staff are LEATRICE
HOARD, LUCY TURNBULL, and ANNE PHIPPS.

Associates will be determined by tryouts and elected before

the first meeting for the spring issue.

Tryouts are due by Wednes-

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1) Two or three samples of recent creative writing.

2) A criticism of the Winter Counterpoint.

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in Taylor.

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Ths

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It also

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