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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, January 18, 1961



Reflections on Impending Bluebooks

The end of the semester is generally the time for ans-

_wers. For the next two weeks blue-books full of them will be

turned out-at-an.alarming rate and with them the solid satis-
faction which comes only~of-tieing.up a course in asterick-
studded, and Occasionally incoherent, but at least temporar-
ily definitive “answers,” For the exiting News Board, how-
ever, semester’s end promises no such solid satisfaction—at
least not where News queries are concerned. The end of a
full-seméster of campus scanning has left us with basic cam-
pus questions whose solutions even now elude ‘the finality of
-blue-book_summation._

How, for example, we wondered and are wondering still,
does the library-type study necessary for attaining the skill
and understanding that make an active adult citizen valuable.
to hi8 community compare as a social virtue with the kind of
political activity (picketing, petitioning, etc.) which makes a)

‘gtudent feel himself a valuable citizen?—-Which should get

the priority, preparing for greater social responsibilities or
accepting immediate ones?

How should a campus of individuals be expected to re-
act to a project or program which depends on group backing,
or, on a broader scale, how should an independent campus,
which is proud of its uniqueness and independence, react to
a sweeping inter-campus movement?

How, if independence is retained, can the indifference
and ineffectiveness it seems to imply be justified in face of
inequalities to be righted and problems to be solved? Or,
if it can’t, how can the group or movement to be support-
ed in the fight against these injustices be intelligently and
independently selected?

How can decisions about the integrity of a movement’s |
leadership and value of its cause-be made on the basis of lit-
erature and evidence supplied by that movement? How, in
short, can we be effective and useful citizens outside of organ-
ized student groups, and, if we can’t, how can we continue
to make decisions independently, and act creatively and indi-
vidually, while cooperating with others for effective action.

These are not easy questions, but they are basic. They
must, of course, be answered by individuais rather than for
the campus as_a whole, and in respect to degree rather than
affirmation or negation of principles. They are questions
which rightly should be tied up blue-book ‘style as political
activity becomes increasingly important on campus, but,
knowing this, we are, nonetheless, delighted that we won’t
be handed any such cerulean tomes as we leave office.

Some Heartening Statistics

Some interesting and rather heartening statistics have
been unearthed by the Bureau of Recommendations about
the now historical Class of 1960. Today, six months after
graduation, 46% of the.class is engaged in graduate study,
and of the 47% who are already working, 16 are in the teach-
ing profession. Compared with similar figures for the Class
of 1951, 23% of whom were in graduate study and 5 work-
ing as teachers, 60’s percentage of the academically-immers-
ed is doubly encouraging. The trend toward more graduate.
study which it indicates may be the result of more available
financial aid, the increasing demand for students with ad-
vanced degrees, or simply a rising level of interest; at any
rate, it says something significant about intellectual excite-
ment at the undergraduate level in Bryn Mawr and some-
thing hopeful for society as a whole. The increase in the

number of teachers is also worth noting. The shortage of |:

qualified students entering the field of education has been
long and loudly bemoaned; it is delightful to see, even in a
spot tally such as:this, a definite trend among Bryn Mawr stu-
dents toward setting right this too-long decried deficiency.



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Interfaith Features
Psychiatric Theme
At Feb. 7 Lecture

The Satenfaith Association’ will

present Dr. Abraham N. Franz-
blau speaking on “Psychiatry and
Religion, Are They Compatible?”
in the Common Room on Feb. 7
at-8:30 P.M. —

Dr Fratmzblau has served as pro-
fessor of psychology and religious
education at the Hebrew Union
College and later became Professor
of Pastoral Psychology there. He
is a pioneer in the application of
psychiatry to the ministry, and has
lectured widely at Jewish and
Christian theological seminaries.

Dr. Franzblau is Associate At-
tending Psychiatrist and Chief of
the (Medicine-Psychiatry Liaison
Service at Mount Sinai Hospital
in New York, He is the author of
Reform Judaism in the Large Cit-
ies, and Religious Belief and Char-
acter, as well as texts, monographs,
research studies, and “articles in
professional journals.



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Critic Shivers at’

Ingmar Bergman’s The Magician
represents a search for universal
truths about life ih relation to the
Mr. Bergman, who
is responsible for the screen play,
photography and direction of the
film, embarks upon this search
himself with no more positive an
idea of what he will find at the end
of it than his audience has. Be-
cause of thns the,film becomes a
real and wonderful adventure,

Various Levels

supernatural.

The Magician, now playing at
the Wayne Avenue Playhouse in
Germantown, may be viewed on
various levels. Essentially it is
the story of a troupe of so-called
magicians, who must perform their
tricks before a skeptical chief of
police, docto rand official in a city
in Sweden. The central figure of
the group is “Dr.”. Vogler, who,
after having been ridiculed by his
viewers, gets. even with them by
making the doctor think that he,
the magician, is dead and then by
coming back to life after the post-
mortem, The story ends happily
when the magician, about to leave
the city as a disgraced pauper, is
ordered to the royal court in Stock-
holm to perform for the king.

Mood Created

The film is as powerful in creat-
ing a mood as it is in presenting
a plot. It begins in a lonely wood
where the magician and his com-
panions have paused to rest. The
first few scenes are rendered mys-
terious by the use of angled light-



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Kennedy’s Advisory Group Suggestions
Would Aid BMC Foreign Student Plan

by Sally Schapiro

According, to The New... York tivity. This interest has manifest-

ed itself in a relatively large num-

Times of January 10, a task force
appointed by President-elect Ken-
nedy has made a number of rec-
ommendations in the field of cul-
tural exchange, One of the com-
mittee’s plans would, if effected,
channel Government funds to
American institutions to ‘help in
the education of foreign students.

The reaction at Bryn Mawr to
this tentative program has been
favorable. Miss Lang suggests
that funds which may be uncondi-
tionally administered bby the col-
lege would be welcome, and. stated
a preference for a program which
would expand exchange opportun-
ities over one which would reim-
burse colleges for work they have
shown themselves capable of doing

BMC Ahead

Bryn Mawr has long been out-
standing in this field. According
to Mrs. Martha M. Diez, Adviser
to Foreign Students, the unusual-
ly great proportion of foreign stu-







now

ratio in the Graduate

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about 6% %, with the great-







ent political emphasis on such ac-

ber of scholarships, including one
complete scholarship offered by
the student body.

Foreign Reputation

The Graduate School, the pos-
session of which makes Bryn Mawr
unique among women’s colleges,
has also contributed greatly to our
international reputation, It makes
possible a high-caliber faculty
whose members do research of
world-wide interest, and it produc-
es _PhJD.-holders.. who teach...in
many nations. As a result, Bryn
Mawr is better known abroad than
in the United States. :

Problem Solver

The.fascinatingly varied tasks
which Mrs. Diez performs each
day are evidence of the special
problems which arise when a stu-
dent takes up life in a strange en-
vironment. Bryn Mawr is fortun-
ate, however, in having had a
great deal of. experience with such

Magician Exploresthe Supernatural:

Bergman's Movie

ing, the emphasis upon the mys-
terious quiet of the woods and the
striking of slow, individual notes
on a guitar.

Thereafter the preservation of
the mood rests with Dr. Vogler.
When he wears his false beard and
make-up and is the mute, tortured
magician, the film is full of the
puzzling conflict inside him. When
ne acts as nimself the tone of the
movie is much more real.

Tne contrast between the two
moods is clearly seen at the end.
Dr. Vogler, as tne magician, comes
back to life atter “dying” ‘ind, in
a harrowing scene, haunts the doc-
tor, who is trapped’ in the attic.
A moment later Vogler appears
witnout nis magician’s guise and
begs the doctor and his friends for
money for tne performance.

Query Into Supernatural

The Magicjan, however, is neith-
er a mood nor a story; it is an in-
vestigation of' man’s ibelief in the
supernatural. When Dr, Vogler
acts his role of magician, all those
around thim, especially he himself,
beiieve in nis power and feel the
presence of mysterious forces. The
film seems to suggest that man
readily credits powers beyond his
control because he wants to. He
enjoys the fear of the supernat-
ural and the sense of security
which proceeds from a belief in the
existence of forces greater than
himself. The servants and the
hostess in the house where the
magicians perform are all eager to
believe that Dr. Vogler can pro-
vide them with love potions or, in
the case of the hostess, explain the
divine meaning behind a child’s
death,

Laughing at Mankind

Perhaps, having discovered how
susceptible man is to superstition,
Bergman is laughing at mankind
in his film, for his changes from
the mysterious to the everyday are
so abrupt that the audience almost
feels ashamed for the ‘horror they
experieced a few moments ago.
However, Bergman is certainly
concerned with supernatural him-
self as is suggested by his show-
ing the death of a drunken actor
whom the magicians have taken
in. As he dies, the actor suddenly
starts in terror, presumably of
what he sees ahead. He says; “We
move deeper and deeper into the
darkness, The movement is the
only truth,” and this suggests what
Sérgman seems to consider a more
realistic view of life; nran may, he
says, complicate his life with ideas

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B. M.C. Receives
Stipend for Books
On African Affairs

The American Library Associa-
tion recently announced loans to
sixty colleges and university lib-
raries totalling $46,010. These
grants, averaging $750, were made
only to libraries of institutions
which are not supported by taxes.

Bryn. Mawr _received..$500.. for
books on Africa, Swarthmore $500
for assorted books and periodicals.

| Grants, ranged from $1500 for Reed

College to a $250 donation for
Center College Library in Pella,
Iowa. Grants were for: various
types of library equipment: refer-
ence books, film, map collections,
scientific journals, and microfilm.

Donors to the fund are the Unit-
ed States Steel Foundation, the
International Business Machines
Corporation, the Koppers Founda-



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Micro’ Photo, Inc., the National
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