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College news, May 13, 1959
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
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Vol. 45, No. 24
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BMC-News-vol45-no24
VOL. XLIV—NO. 24
ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1959
© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1959
PRICE 20 CENTS
Seventy-fifth Approaches, Brings Fetes,
Big College Procession in Full Regalia
Bryn Mawr’s 75th academic year
will be inaugurated formally at a
special public convocation to be
held in Goodhart Hall from 4:00 to
5:00 p.m., September 28: The
asembly will be attended by all
undergradugtes, graduate students,
fellows, scholars, faculty members,
alumnae representatives, and the
Board of ‘Trustees.
Mr. John R. Pruett, chairman of
the 75th Anniversary Committee,
explained that, since this convoca-
tion. is to be the one public event
of the ‘year, an effort has been
made to plan the cellebration in ac-
cordance with the desires of the
student body. Thus, the commit-
tee has met with student represen-
tatives, and the present program
is the result of agreement between
them and the faculty.
Music Added
The convocation itself will be
accompanied with music—a _ pro-
cessional and recessional march.
It will open with an invocation by
Mr. Henry J. Cadbury and a short
address by President Katherine
McBride, returned from her sab-
batical. The opening address will
ibe delivered by Mr. John Gardner,
head of the Carnegie Corporation
and chairman of the Committee
on Education under the Rockefel-
- Jer Brothers Grant, Following the
Convocation, Miss McBride will
give a reception on Merion Green,
to which all participants are invit-
ed.
Procession Highlight
Probably the most striking fea-
ture of the Convocation will be the
procession to and from Goodhart,
in which the entire campus will
participate—this, Mr. Pruett add-
ed, at the request of the students
themselves . Marching in the pro-
cessional is mandatory for stu-
dents as well as faculty. Over the
summer, each student will be sent
a card and asked to indicate wheth-
er she intends to take part. Per-
mission to be absent must ‘be-ob-
tained in advance from the Pres-
ident or from Miss Biba.
Rule ‘Necessary’
Such a rule is necessary, says
‘Mr, Pruett, who has had experi-
ence with graduation processions,
because of the limited seating ca-
pacity of: Goodhart. The seats
allotted to each class must be fill-
ed, so as to avoid either an awk-
‘ward gap in the audience or, after
the music has stopped, the last-
minute interspersal of non-gowned
visitors among capped and gowned
students, which would detract
from the formality of the occa-
sion. Moreover, since the upper-
classmen do not return to the col-
lege until the day before the con-
vocation, and the seating plan will
e
Seniors Compete
| ee. e
For Writing Prize
(Manuscripts to be considered for
the M. Carey Thomas Prize must
ibe entered not later than 5:00 p.m.
Monday, May 18, im the Dean’s of-
fice,
The prize is awarded annually
to a member of the Senior Class
for distinction in writing. The en-
tries ar ejudged by the Department
~~of English, which offers the prize. |
The work. offered may be either
of a critical or creative nature, or
a combination. Stories, essays, a
long paper are all equally accept-
able.
have to be made up in advance,
it is essential that the number of
participants be calculated exactly.
In case of rain, the freshman,
sophomoré, and junior classes will
be excused from marching, but che
procession itself will take place
regardless of weather, It will
probably extend as far as Senior
Row, since the number of persons
marching will be much larger than
at Commencement time. The stu-
dents will be the first to enter
and the last to leave Goodhart,
and this arrangement, as Mr. Pru-
ett pointed out, means that they
will have a ringside seat for the
rest .of the procession which—
since the professors will be in full
academic regalia—should be a
very colorful one.
Exams, Alumnae
Mark End of ‘59
The 74th conferring of degrees
at Bryn Mawr will take place in
Goodhart Hall Tuesday, June 2
End-of-the-year festivities begin
on Friday, May 29 with the end
of exams and the arrival of the
class of 1909 and other interested
alumnae.
Sunday night is the Baccalaure-
ate service in Goodhart with Mr.
Krister Stendhal, the John H. Mor-
rison Professor New Testament
Studjias at Harvard Divinity School,
as speaker, This year the whole
chorus is staying to provide the
music which will include numbers
from Brahms and Schutz.
Garden Party is Monday aifter-
noon at 4:30 on Wyndham Green.
The next morning at 11:00 Com-
maencement takes place, beginning
wil_the Seniors and - Faculty
marching down from the library.
(Mr. Harnwell will deliver the
degrees this year will be conferred
iby Mrs,Marshall and Miss Lang,
first to the Ph.D. and M.A. candi-
dates, thn to the undergraduates.
Commencement address and the
Gaylord Harnwell
Will Be Speaker
For Class of ‘59
Dr. Gaylord Harnwell, Com-
mencement speaker for the class
of ’59, is a Haverford graduate
and the first physicist to head the
University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Harnwell, who, after gradu-
ation from Haverford, worked in
Cambridge University’s Cavendish
Laboratory, Princeton, and Califor-
nia Institute of Technology, was
responsible for research leading to
discoveries in the fields of mass
spectroscopy, underwater sound,
nuclear physics, and molecular -col-
lisions im rare gases.
During World War II he worked
as Director of the University of
California’s U. S. Navy Radio and
Sound Laboratory, and in that ca-
pacity made discoveries of prin-
ciples-of undenwater sound which
led to the development of sonar
and earned for him the Medal of
Merit,
Background Traced
Before his election to the presi-
dency of the University of Penn-
sylvania, Dr. Harnwell served as
Chairman of its department of
physics and professor of —radio-
logical physics. He is presently a
member of the National Research
Council, the U. S. Navy Ordnance
Laboratory,
‘Managers of the Franklin Insti-
tute, as well as chairman of the
Ordnance Committee of Research
and Development Board of the De-
partment of Defense and editor of
the Review of Scientific Instru-
ments. He is the author of Exper-
imental Atomic Physics, Electricity
and Magnetism, and Atomic Phys-
ics.
The Baccalaureate speaker, Mr.
Krister . Stendahl, i is Swedish-
born ‘clergyman and _ edueator,
presently the John H. Morrison
Professor of New Testament Stud-
ies at the Harvard Divinity School.
He was a theological candidate at
the University of Ulppsala in Siwe-
Continued on Page 5, Col. 5
and the Board of
by Harriet Higgens
It was well worth while making
th trip to Haverford to see last
week-end’s production of Heart-
break House in’Roberts Hall. The
play is late Shaw and was brought
to life in Robert Butman’s produc-
tion to a far greater extent than
one would have thought possible
from recollected reading.
‘It is“a confusing play and one
Students, Faculty
Win Many Grants
In addition to the Wilson, Gug-
genheim, and Fulbright grants,
given to members of the faculty
and the student body of Bryn
Mawr, which were announced in
the past issue of the News, many
other scholarships have been
awarded ‘for graduate studies:
Fellowships awarded to profes-
sors:
Dr. Davidon—NIMH Special Re-
search Fellowship.
(Miss Kenney—American Philo-
sophical Society Grant.
Miss Oppenheimer—Senior Post
‘Doctoral Fellowship at Yale Uni-
versity.
Fellowships awarded to gradu-
ate students:
‘Bryn.Mawr Fellowships:
Mary Louise: Lloyd—Education.
Anne Garson—History of Art.
Betsy Ringler—Latin.
Btety Jean Crossley—Music.
iMadoline Stone—Philosophy.
Sandra Milstein—Psychology. _
Elizabeth* C. Howell — Social
Work.
Nansi Swayze—Sociology and
Anthropology.
‘Lee C. Bennett, Jr.; Donald Mar-
tin Hoskin; Charles William Leltz
—Coordination of the Sciences Fel-
lowships.
Continued on Page 6, Col. 4
by E. Anne Eberle
Much to the chagrin of upper-
classmen who survived their geo-
logy experience with cold, soggy,
rainy field trips, ours was blessed
with good weather. Since every al-
lusion to “field trip” this year was
‘accompanied by some snort or wail
about last year’s three days of rain,
this was no mean accomplishment.
We assembled in the seeming
pre-dawn (8:15) Friday morning
and boarded some rickety buses
which took us all the way to Over-
brook to fake out some transporta-
tion legality. There we boarded two
luxurious buses, which looked far
less luxurious when we got off
them Sunday.
Northward Trek
We started northward from
Philadelphia and had just settled
down to naps and other foolish
bustime amusements when we sud-
denly became aware (subtly, of
larly efficient sound system in-
stalled in each bus; there ended
amusements and commenced things
geological.
For the first few stops, every-.
a
petition by several tons of mach-
one eagerly grabbed sacks, picks,
maps, cameras, notebooks and as-
sorted other paraphernalia; we
soon discovered that one either had
hands for the equipment or for the
functions they were supposed to
perform, so more and more things
were left behind until at the end of
the trip the geologists themselves
(basic equipment to say the least)
barely dragged hemselves from tht
bus.
Friday’s Attractions
Two main attractions on Friday
were a slate quarry and lunch
(stated in dutiful if not preferen-
tial order.) Lunch was an invasion
of a perfectly innocent unsuspect-
ing motel-lunch-stand-type of place,
which found its food fairly un-
requested, as we had brought our
own delicious, tasty, wholesome,
tempting, and by now sat-on lunch,
but soft drinks were most popular.
The slate quarry had dirt; im-
many other attractive features,
such as workmen. Drs. Watson
and Dryden soon gave up the lec-
ture technique in the face of com-
Sunny Days, Fossil Picking, Trilobites:
Ach! The Joys of Geology Field Trips
inery, and the curious young stu-
dents were allowed to wander in
their search for knowledge; they
wandered to a mammoth pile of
factory rejects and played tic-tac-
toe on the slate slabs; they wan-
dered into the cutting shed and
did their best to say uncut; they
wandered up to a man punching
holes in the slate for roofing, and
one asked the operator, “Do you
do this all day? Just this?”; they
wandered over to where the slabs
were being loaded on trucks and
asked, “What’re they for?”
- “Oh, patios—that kind of thing.”
“Gosh, just think of all the pat-
ios in the world.” :
< Karly Arising
About 5:30 we raised a few eye-
brows in the sleepy Penn-Stroud
Hotel as we arrived in Stroudsburg
in all our geologie glory, i. e. dun-
gareed, uncombed and bearing half
the remnants of Upper Pennsyl-
| vania-embedded ‘in us... _- _~
Show Is ‘Brought to Life’,
‘Lack of Action’ Overcome
“‘Heartbreak House,”’ Social Dirge by Shaw
Wins Plaudits for Acting, Atmosphere
very much needs to realize in what _
context Shaw was writing, to un-
derstand what the play is talking
about, though not to enjoy it. He
took his example from Checkov,
whose gentle social satire applied
not only to his own country. As
Shaw says in his preface, “Heart-
break House is not merely the
name of this play... it is cultur-
ed and leisured Europe before the
war.”
W WI Jolt
The “tremendous jolt” of the
First World War was necessary to
shake these leftovers from the
nineteenth century out of. their
complacence. The play was begun
before the war, but even then he
could see that the responsibility
for the country lay with the more
educated people, who were wast-
ing their education for selfish ends,
and with the more intelligent peo-
ple who preferred not to work and
in particular not to assume any
practical interest in politics. They
preferred to pay men equipped
neither by profession, nor morally,
to do the job for them.
When one realizes the connota-
tion that “practical businessmen”
had for England at’this time, when
several had been tried out in pub-
lie office and had only succeeded in
doing harm, one understands the
diatribe aside, as it were, on Man-
gan the politician, and why he
and the burglar are the men. who
must be destroyed at the end even
though with Hesione we have be-
come almost fond of Alfred. .
Shaw’s Characters
Meanwhile Shaw has been creat-
ing the people he is criticizing,
and it is interesting to see how
they almost ran away from him.
He seems.to—let-each—character
have his opportunity—the women
in Act I, the Captain, Randall, and
Hector in Act II; and it is certain
that we are more fascinated by
Hesione and her father than by
anything Shaw makes them say.
In his other plays Shaw combines
his message with his characters;
Andfew Undershaft in Major
Barbara takes part in the action,
whereas Mangan is a subject of
discussion more than anything.
By making Hesione bewitching
and :the Captain very old, Shaw is
able to put straight philosophising
and moralizing into their mouths
im a way unlike his early plays
where he usually has an example
of what he is attacking far more
involved. There is a great deal
of statement rather than demon-
stration of character, in contrast,
for instance, to Man and Super-
man. This is partly facilitated by “
the atmosphere he takes such
pleasure in creating, of a house
where nothing is what you expect
it to be; and where therefore it is
the most natural thing in the
world for everyone to enter into a
discussion of Mangan’s money
and Ellie’s marriage.
The main contributor to the feel-
ing of the sea was the captain
himself. In an authoritative per-
formance. Thayer Willis was a.
Saturday was Fossil-Picking
Day at the ranch. This is a quaint
geologic custom which develops
character and competition in a
‘Continued on Page 4, Col. 2
and play, magnificent in voice and
beard; achieving both the age and
the strength of the captain. His
Continued: on Page 6, Col. 1
weatherbeaten backbone for house —
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