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VOL. XLVI—NO. 5
ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1960
© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1960
PRICE 20 CENTS
Mr. Schneider Discusses
American Urban Situation
Of the major social challenges to twentieth-century’ America, the
situation of our cities elicits the least concern, according to Mr, Schnei-
der, of Bryn-Mawr’s Sociology Department, at a League lecture Thurs-
day night. He attributed this lack of concern to various public super-
stitions and rationalizations.
The most common error of the first cat-
egory is the idea that private enterprise can solve the problem, since
government intervention and planning are an unqualified evil.
Committee Studies Campus Election,
Aims At Revision Of Present System
second category, the “things-are-
much-worse-other-places” theory is
the most prevalent, and can lead
to complete apathy about city
problems.
Illustrative of these problems is
the state of city traffic. A decline
in urban transport systems has
created the need for cars. An ab-
undance of cars necessitates big-
ger and better highways which
tear up the downtown areas, and
and so
more suburbs open up. The sub-
unbs, in turn, perpetuate the need
for cars,
Detroit Culpable
The source of the traffic prob-
lems, according to Mr. Schneider,
is the automobile industry, one of
the mainstays of the American
economy. Appealing to the status-
seeking element in the consumer,
and reinforced by advertising, the
automobile companies manage to
produce and sell great numbers
of cars to a society unable to cope
with those it already has.
Perhaps the most serious city
problem is housing. It has been
estimated that 150 million Ameri-
cans live in rat-infested slums.
“The cost of bringing these slums
up to a decent standard is figured
at around two trillion dollars,”
said Mr. Schneider.
At the source of the trouble is
the lack of planning and education
for the cities’ new inhabitants.
Aside from the racial and national
differences, what distinguishes an
immigrant from a native is a dif-
ferent rural-urban orientation. Be-
cause of these differences, our so-
ciety has deemed it fitting and
proper to confine the strangers in
ghettos, rather than attempting
to educate them.
No Escape
A charge commonly » leveled
against immigrants and ‘Negroes
is that they lack initiative, that
they could better their condition
if they tried. “While it is true
that the inhabitants create the
slums, we must realize that there
is no real escape while our social
structure places them where it
does,” said Mr. Schneider.
There is an understandable re-
luctance on the part of private
enterprise to move into a slum
area. The large corporation, fair-
ly secure in its position, does this
more frequently than small busi-
nesses, which can’t take the risk.
“Also, the amount of money requir-
ed to rehabilitate a slum can only
come from a prosperous corpora-
tion.
Entrepreneur Breeding
Slum areas have bred not only
crime and disease, but also partic-
ularly low breeds of entrepreneurs.
The small scale slum speculator
has become a fixture in our cities.
He buys old houses on the peri-
phery of slums, bribes the inspect-
-ors, and -rents-the houses for prices.
which will return his investment
im about two years. This kind of
_business is hard to combat, because
the speculator is- within the law,
and because our society sanctions
_ “individual enterprise”.
Government programs for reha-
Of the
Breakdown Of Vote Reveals Split;
Campus Leans To Kennedy Ticket
A campus presidential poll sponsored by the Alliance for Political Affairs shows 58% of the entire
Of the 762 votes cast, 443 were for Kennedy-
and 34 were either undecided or for write-in candidates.
college community supporting the
Johnson, 285 favored Nixon-Lodge,
Kennedy-Johnson ticket.
poll held i in ’56, 52144% of the campus supported Eisenhower.
The election committee, set up
by the Undergraduate Association
to recommend a program for re-
organizing campus elections, held
its first meeting Wednesday, Oc-
tober 6.
Dissatisfaction
Chairman Mag Parlin- explained
the reasons for the committee’s
establishment by saying: “Many
students in the past have been dis-
satisfied with the processes invol-
ved in elections, that is, the straw
ballot and preferential voting. We
have also found that there is no
provision for write-in candidates
and that vice presidential aspir-
ants do not get enough publicity.”|
As the system works now, the
Brendan Behan, Irish play-
wright, and author of The Hos-
tage, is coming to Bryn Mawr.
The Arts Council will sponsor
a lecture by Mr. Behan on Fri-
day, Nov. 11, at 8:30 pm. in
Goodhart \Hall. (Students wish-
ing to attend the lecture may
obtain tickets on Monday, Nov.
7;-Tuesday; Nov. -8,-and-Wed-
nesday, Nov. 9 between 1:80
and 2:00 p.m. in Room C, Tay-
lor. :
bilitation have been very small,
but have never even been carried
out to their full limits. Slum clear-
ance is time-consuming and dis-
couraging because of all the po-
litical and business pressures which
must be dealt with. Five years is
an optimistic estimate for a typ-
ical slum project.
Most cities have planning agen-
cies, but they are more or less
powerless against city machines
-and business” communities, “The}
city planner’s role in society is
no accident,” said Mr. Schneider,
“for the impetus for improvement
can only come from the commun-
ity, not the expert.” :
junior class chooses the candidates
for President of Undergrad and
Self Gov on the nominating ballot.
Voting is by preferential order, To
win ‘an election a candidate must
receive a clear majority (one more
vote than the sum of the votes of
the other candidates), __
The élection committee hopes to
reorganize this system, possibly
along the lines of election proced-
ures adopted at other colleges of
similar size. The group plans to|
consult the National Students’ As-
sociation, as well as individual
colleges, for suggestions.
Advisory Position
anne tshaintmaitet
Chairman Parlin ‘and Recording
Secretary Carolyn Franco both
Election Committee members eyeing camera: G. Wernecke,
B. Frantz, S. Shapiro, M. Aikens, M. Parlin—Chairman, C. Fran-
co—secretary, L. Dobbin, L. Beebe and A. Levy.
stressed the fact that the commit-
tee serves in a purely advisory
capacity, and that any recommen-
dations it may make will have to
receive the approval of the Legis-
lature. The deadline for a new
plan is the beginning of Christmas
vacation, but the officers say they
may only submit a temporary sys-
tem then in order to give the group}
more time to think out a thorough
program.
“We want to establish. a system
which will be effective and. per-
manent,” said Carolyn. “It must
have no loopholes and no possi-
bilities of emergencies. which can-
not be dealt with.”
Urgings
The committee will meet week-
ly until it has finished its work.
The meetings, which will probably
be on Thursday evenings, will be
open to all.
“We urge everyone who is in-
terested to attend,” declared Car-|
olyn. “We’re particularly eager to
see freshmen and sophomores. We
hope, however, that before coming
to a meeting, students will find
out how far our work has pro-
- Only a general social consensus
Continued on Page 6, Col. 1
gressed and read the election rules
as they stand now.” —
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Undergraduate Students:
Class of 1961
Class of 1962
Class of 1968
Class of 1964
Totals
Graduate Students:
71% for Kennedy; 25%-for
F aculty:
Administration and Staff (includes
Taylor) 55 Votes
or other
Maids and Porters: 59 Votes
*%*
Independents and Switch-Overs:
dents.
Nixon.
crats for Nixon.
College Orchestra
Features Flautist
On Coming Friday
This Friday evening, November
4, the Bryn Mawr-Haverford Or-
chestra will present its first con-
cert at Bryn Mawr in three years.
The program, under the direction
of Chairman William Reese of the
Haverford Music Department, in-
cludes the overture Didone, by
Niccolo Piccini, Symphonia, by
Johann Christus Bach, Water Mu-
sic Suite, by Handel, and Rouman-
ian Folk Dances, by Bartok. A
special feature will be the second
movement of the Symphony by
Johm Davison, of the Haverford
Music Department.
In addition, a Bryn Mawr grad-
uate student, Kitty Hoover, will
be featured in the Vivaldi Con-
certo for flute and orchestra. Com-
ments Ellen Greenbeng, co-presi-
dent of the orchestra with Kenneth
MacLeod of Haverford, “Kitty is a
student of William Kincaid’s, so
even if we can’t hear Kinéaid
Wednesday night, we will hear his
| pupil on Friday!”
The orchestra, which welcomes
faculty members and community
residents as well as Bryn Mawr
and Haverford students, has this
year reached a long-standing goal
of fifty members, and boasts com-
plete brass and woodwind sections.
plans concerts in February and
April at Haverford and a presen-
tation of Haydn’s “Creation” with
the Smith Chorus in April, also at
Haverford. It also looks forward
year in local preparatory —
/The re-invigorated organization |
all
A break-down of the ’60 balloting follows:
Other &
Kennedy Nixon Undecided
55% © 42% 2%
55% 37% 8%
53% 44% 3%
54% 38% 8%
54% 40% 5%
Nixon;-4% undecided
41 or 98% for Kennedy; 3 or 7% for Nixon
Library, Bookshop, Business Office,
18 or 38% for Kennedy; 35 or 64% for Nixon; 2 or 3% undecided
53 or 90% for Kennedy; 6 or 10%. for-Nixon
Buildings and Grounds Staff: 2 Votes
1 or 50% for Kennedy; 1 or 50% for Nixon
Of those undergraduates who indicated their eligibility to vote in
the 1960 Presidential Election, a total of 42 or 55% supports Ken-
nedy and 35 or 45% favors Nixon.
Of all those polled who are eligible to vote, 162 or 66% is for
Kennedy and 84 or.34% for Nixon.
168 or 22% of the respondents considered themselves Indepen-
Of the Independents, 113 supported Kennedy to 55 for
There were 34 Republicans for Kennedy and 11 Demo-
Break-down by Halls
Batten House and Graduate Center
Freshmen:
42% for Kennedy; 42% for Nix-
on; 10% undecided or other
College Inn, East House, Infirm-
ary: :
50% for Kennedy; 40% for Nix-
on; 10% undecided or other
Denbigh:
65% for Kennedy; 32% for Nix-
on; 8% for other (Stevenson)
Merion:
60% for Kennedy; 38% for Nix-
on; 2% for other (Goldwater-
Lodge)
Pembroke East:
40% for Kennedy; 57% for Nix-
on; 8% for other (1 Lodge-
Nixon—1 Stevenson-Bowles)
Pembroke West:
36% for Kennedy; 52% for Nix-
on; 12% for other: (5 Stevenson;
1 Rockefeller; 1 Norman Thom-
as)
Radnor:
51% for Kennedy; 45% for Nix-
on; 4% undecided or other
(Goldwater)
Rhoads:
56% for Kennedy; 40% for Nix-
on; 4% undecided or other (2
Stevenson)
Rockefeller :
63% for Kennedy; 40% for Nix-
~~on; 3% undecided or other
Wyndham:
77% for Kennedy; 8% for Nix-
on; 15% for other
Non-Res:
to performances throughout. the!
69% for Kennedy; 23% for Nix-
on; 8% undecided or other
In a similar .
Ow
Page Two THE COLLEGE NEWS
Wednesday, November 2, 1960
THE COLLEGE NEWS
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EDITORIAL BOARD
Letters to Editor:
M.R. A. Rechided;
i | |Kury Corrects Us;
disguise, rather than to reaveal, Editorial D ef en d e d
their emotions. On the whole,
_ |Garland Goes to Flowers of Founders,
Special Bouquet Offered Andy Miller
by Elaine Cottler ’62
The Flowers of Flounders, a
To the Editor:
Nii iaiscececsesepiauscisest renee Marion Coen, ‘62 | program of poetry written and| ‘heir work showed less originality;
Copy iliot oocccssseeeeesvessscsssieccsseesseees Kelaing Glin “68 | read by Haverford students Fri-/0F rather, more obvious influences, | In the Getober 19 edition of The
. NN Ve UGC T RK WIGS Uvsas voviip sentatives Suzy Spain, 63 |day, October 28, was a surprising|®"¢ often seemed strained and| College News you have quoted me
News os la cycubide BOC OHO RRR URES: Pe eo a and encouraging event; surprising forced. as saying, “the Democratic Party
EDITORIAL STAFF for its serious and professional Intellectual Discipline has stood for a great conglomera-
Janice Copen, ‘63; Helen Angelo, ‘63; Berna Landsman, ‘63; Judith Bailey, ‘63; quality, in spite of the facetious tino of interests, while the Ri E
Lin Allen’s five poems suffered
from their extreme compiexity,
which did not come across well in
reading. His use of alliteration,
Wanda Bershen, ‘64; Ellen Beidler, ‘64; Caren Goretsky, ‘64; Helen Levering,
"64; Rosabeth Moss, ‘64; Ellen Rothenberg, ‘64; Sally Schapiro, ‘64; Arlene
Sherman, ‘64; Jo-Anne Wilson, ‘64. :
‘ BUSINESS BOARD
title; and encouraging because
most of the poetry read was of a
level well above the average.
licans have always represented big
business; therefore, (he said), the
Republicans are eager to place
greater power in the hands of big
Judith Jacobs, ‘62
Associate Business Manager ..........--:-seesseeeceees Nancy Culley, ‘63 : ; ca :
Staff Photographers ........... ‘5... Jean Porter, ‘62; Charlotte Brodkey, ‘62 Impressive . . . Simple eran aryene, and other poétic wiclincns.. isk Seah in ie Manned
% iii cis piebvicssnepececceapsccneses Margaret Williams, ‘61 Andy Miller, who began thé.pro- devices was interesting, but a lit- vette Dette
Manager ccc cece se ctr eneneeneseeneecs Robin Nichols, “62 ‘ tle tight and self-conscious. The the federal government.” (ed:
gram, was so immediately \im-
pressive poetically and dramati-
Susan Klempay, ‘63
eee eee eee eee eeesreeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
controlled form and intellectual |WTite-up of Alliance-sponsored de-
awa ibe te be whe Bel discipline in his poetry needs print | bate). This is a misquotation.
ie a i - oer nay na © *o'-|for its impact. Among the other |What I actually said was that the
owed him were at a disadvantage | poets, Al Petraske was especially Republican Party has historically
before they began. His work, as notable for the wittily satiric sex- ‘ hed intanneh tee bast
he stated in-a brief introduction, |al imagery which he employed |"°PTS#emed one mnverest, whe Dus”
was concerned with “simple, spe-|Very effectively in four poems. ness community, and it has done so
often ‘to the exclusion of other in-
. cific, important things.” Written
Reflections on Being Galluped in free verse, his poems were sin- terests. My criticism of the Re-
Bernie Lederberg, Dave Mitchell} publican Party is not that it rep-
A A P ° : direct and unpretentious
There is definitely something to be:said for being polled, |°°"” Di
counted, and categorized. Without sacrificing the thrill re with an aap Ronerey sen pra rane geet ee
the game (adages about the prescience of Maine definitely | #5 unusual in the program, Mul- ; Soo ness should be represented in the
not referring to that Line on. which we dwell) we gain the|!er’s imagery tended to be based |cnentized by Leighton Soult of) ils of Tate il
infinite comfort of knowing for certain that come what may |°" adjectives rather than nouns, the Haverford Arts Council, who |Counchs 0° Goverimene
we're definitely in favor of somebody. With a simple ‘‘X”|but the faults in form which this |*erved as a poised chairman. cupi_ia- that tha Repumiican Testy.
on the ballot we’re transformed from mere confused and | @djectival-structure seemed to| It is disappointing that so few |has represented only business, and
x questioning mortals to real and completely irrefutable sta-| cause were balanced by the con-|people from Haverford and Bryn|has often confused the welfare of
tistics. We now not only know just whom we like, how| sistency with which each image |Mawr cared to attend this reading. | Genera] Motors with the welfare
but also and even more extraordinary, we can now be used|neatness of the word play (“new|om the two campuses which the in- oe
as evidence to predict questions of national scope and great friend, unsort my catologue / This | frequent publication of:the Revues The Democratic Party has tra-
‘ $ $4 care of appellations overthrow”; |does not tap; the opportunity to ditionally represented a wide range
import. Therefore, despite the minor shock of those who|
and the horror of those discovering their personal and caleu-|!e4sh / To lead to you my tender: work being done by students should |jgaders of the large urban areas,
lated vote to be part of an impersonal and predictable scheme, |®¢ heart) which characterized |not be ignored. It would be very | 14 the-farmers-of the South and
we must register here our praise of the ballot and our cheers |™="Y of his poems, Prefacing each [easy for The Bryn Mawr Arts the West, Thii‘le why the Demo-
BUSINESS STAFF
Anne Davis, ‘61; Ann Levy, ‘61; Nency Wolfe, ‘61; Nancy Culley, ‘63; Martha
Learsaon, ‘63; Sharon Mossman, ‘63.
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Hearers Wanted
resents big business, because busi-
for the balloteers (in this case Alliance) for the complete-
ness, thoroughness and interest of their campus Gallup.
Election Day Rally
» . On election day we are being called upon to join a rally
for the support of Negro voting rights. We should all give
our attention to this effort.. We are accustomed to thinking
_ of the right to vote as limited only by disinterest on the
part of the voters themselves, or by transgressions on the
part of crooked political organizations. But in the South the
problem goes deeper than this; it is an obstruction of a basic
political freedom.
There are three major factors which discourage South-
ern Negro voters. The first of these is the literacy test re-
quired for registration. Many are illiterate, and many are
classed as such by bigoted election officials. Another problem
is the force applied to keep Negroes out of the polls on elec-
tion day: some are easily discouraged, others. are driven
away by violence. The third problem is that many Negroes
are influenced in their political feelings by their employers.
This is especially true in the case of domestic servants. Some-
times this is unintentional; other times it is accompanied by
threats of job loss...
The reason that Negroes are prevented from voting is
not sheer bigotry. It is not that white people object to let-
ting Negroes take part in our democracy; it is that they fear
that other Negroes will be voted into office, not in recognition
of their ability, but on account of their color. -This is espec-
ially true in districts where Negroes hold large majorities.
This is a complex problem; not one to be dismissed in a
few words. If we are willing to poll-watch to see that people
vote legitimately, we ought to do our part in contributing
toward the more basic right of voting at all. The demonstra-
tion in question can do two things: it can give Negroes the
needed encouragement to vote, to stand up for their rights
and not be turned away easily; and it can prevent Federal
intervention in the stronghold of States’ Rights. Southern-
ers must realize that it is better for them to cease voluntarily
poem with a few sentences about
the episode or idea which had sug-
gested it, Miller read his work
well, with sensitivity and flexibil-
ity.
In contrast to Miller the other
Council to organize a similiar pro-
gram here, and it is to be hoped
than an audience for such a pro-
gram could be found on a campus
which .purports to be interested
in many forms of creative expres-
cratic Party has produced ‘strong”
candidates; Cleveland,
dad Truman.
The Republican Party has tradi-
poets seemed to have written to sion.
Continued’ on Page 5, Col. 3
by Sue Freiman
Chairman, Bryn Mawr Students for Kenned
The Democratic party as a whole is often charg-
ed with responsibility for the Southern attitude on
civil rights. I intend to show this is a poorly in-
formed view at best. or
First, let’s look at the past record, Under Tru-
man’s last administration, the armed forces were
racially integrated, and the first committee to en-
force non-discrimination in Government contracts
print on which subsequent civil rights advances
have rested. In 1957, the Democratic 85th Congress,
ander the leadership of Lyndon Johnson, enacted
the first major civil rights law in 82 years. This
bill provided: 1) a Federal Civil Rights Commission,
with subpoena powers, to investigate violations of
voting rights; 2) a new Civil Rights Division of the
Justice Department, headed by a new Assistant
Attorney-General; 3) affirmation of the right of a
citizen to go to court for injunctions to protect his
voting right, with the Attorney-General empowered
to seek Federal Court injunctions to protect these
cights. And don’t forget the bill passed this year,
—-their-unconstitutionalaction— than forthe government .to.|also-by.a Democratic Congress, which bolstered the
. intervene. They must make this decision themselves, and
we must help them.
Voting—Some Local Queries
flections are elections are elections—but not necessar-
ily so. Those of a purely local variety abound with issues
which won’t be settled in Dye Reeder or ballot-box; therein
lies not only the proverb
esting campus project.
Bryn
Mawr’s election queries, at least in their present | facilitate compliance.
1957 civil rights law by providimg for court-appoint-
ed Federal referees to assure Negroes the right to
vote. % nl
Let’s take a look at where the two parties stand
on the issue today. The Democratic Platform is
forthright; “The.time has come’to assure equal ac-
cess for all Americans to all areas of community
life, including voting booths, schoolrooms, jobs,
1 difference but also the ingredi-|ho pee te facilities.” It panies Ma
ients of what may turn out to be the semester’s most inter- ane: Sa ate promises to give
technical and financial assistance to school districts
facing special problems of transition, in order to
It recognizes that, for the
form, can be traced directly to the small storm of last spring | protection of all Constitutional rights of Americans,
when it was discovered, much to everyone’s horror, that the |the Attorney-General should be empowered and di-
constitutions of Self-Gov and Undergrad make no provisions | rected to file civil injunction suits in Federal courts
for write-in ballots; a committee was forthwith establish-|to prevent the denial of any civil rights on grounds
ed to investigate and revise voting procedures, and this sem-|of race, creed, or color. . It supports Federal legis-
ester that committee has begun its deliberations.
lation establishing a Fair Employment Practices
means that a large portion of the student | pledged to use its full executive powers to terminate
the final policy decision, and that many |racial segregation .on all Government contracts.
nd the p! involved. The| 1 think we are all agreed that it’s high time
its to students who
was established and brought forth the historic blue- .
to- Commission to secure the right.to equal opportunity
will be submitted for approval to the entire |for employment. The Democratic Administration is
Party Machinery Grips Bryn Mawr Campus;
Student Leaders Examine Civil-Right Stands
by Nan Jamieson
Chairman of Bryn Mawr Youth for Nixon-Lodge
Richard M. Nixon is the candidate of a party
which was founded over 100 years ago for the pur-
pose of securing equal rights for all men in the
United States, The Republican party today has
shown that it remains true to the ideals which in-
spired its founders. During the present adminis-
tration the first civil rights legislation in 80 years
was passed by Congress. This legislation included
the establishment of a bipartisan Commission of
Civil Rights with power to investigate abuses of vot-
ing rights. The Republican party realizes that the
question of civil rights is broader than just voting
rights and school integration, although these are
areas of prime importance at present.
Mr. Nixon strongly supports these Republican
goals and has outlined a positive program for reach-
ing them. Nixon feels that the government should:
1. Take effective action to deal with persons who
use force or threats to obstruct the integration of
schools. 2. Make full use of its investigative pow-
ers in cases of crime involving the destruction or
damage of schools or places of worship. 3. Require
fair and equitable job treatment for all citizens on
Committee on Government Contracts should be giv-
en added stature through legislation which would
give it Congressional recognition. 4. Establish ef-
fective, equal oppo: ity in all Government, subsi-
dized or supported housing. 6. Enforce non-dis-
crimination rulings in all government departments
and branches. This program would do much to
improve the position of minority groups.
Mr, Nixon, in a speech given at New York Uni-
versity, emphasized the importance to the nation
of giving equal opportunities to all our citizens.
He said: “To mobilize all our human resources, we
must make equality of opportunity a living reality
groups. Tremendous untapped: resources for the
economy can be released by eliminating: the barriers
of racial discrimination that now deny these citizens
full opportunity to develop and use their talents.”
the party; Democratic leadership has recognized
the necessity of breaking free of the handicap of
responsibility to its reactionary element in this area.
On the basis of its past records and its policies for
the future, I judge it to be the party best suited to
\
all Federal contracts, To this erid: the President’s .
for our Negro citizens and those of other minority
Wednesday, November 2, 1960
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Page Three
“Summer Grants Support Experiments;
Students Plunge Into Research Work
Sandy Chook, Linda Schreiber,
Barbara Meyer and Sue McCord
received National Science Founda-
tion grants for summer work in
biology. (‘Sandy and Linda studied
biochemistry under Mr, Conner.
Their research concerned steroid
transformations in Tetrahymena, a
theory that the syndrom is caused
by the presence of endotoxin in a
woman’s blood.
the
amount of endotoxin which can be
detected in a patient’s blood. Hav-
ing established the sensitivity of
Mr,
Sue’s first job was to determine
measure of the smallest
Berry’s test, she spent the
by members of the Bryn Mawr
LiteraryProfessors|B, M.C. Alumna Publishes
Sensitive Study Of Wolfe
Publish Fine Crop
Of Learned Books
Nine books have been published
faculty this year. /{~
In the field of anthropology two
new books have appeared :Selected
Papers from the American Anthro-
(ed: Clara Perkins, a freshman
in Rhoads South, is the daughter
of the late Elizabeth Nowell,
writer of the recently published
biography of Thomas Wolfe.
Here Clara tells of the prepara-
tion of the best-selling and high-
ly acclaimed work.)
protozoan.
Linda explained that
fungus and*molds can: metabolize
steroids into cortisone, but that
- . and Lee and Fletcher, poems of
relatively little is known about
the ability of protozoa: to produce
the drug. Biochemists are trying
to discover what controls oxida-
tion in different protozoans.
Dinitrophenol . ..
Sandy used a Warburg respir-
- ometer to measure the oxygen con-
sumption and the respiratory quo-
tient of Tetrahymena. She com-
mented that a sound knowledge
of chemistry is necessary for any
biological research. She had to
study “the effects of dinitrophenol
and cholesterolacetate and_ their
possible interaction on the respira-
. tion of Tetrahymena.” The prob-
lem of steroid transformation was
not solved, but Mr. Conner and his
two assistants made substantial
progress, Both Sandy and Linda
are using their summer experi-
ments as beginnings for their sen-
ior honors projects.
Barbara Meyer, working with
Miss. Gardiner,. used a Warburg
respirometer to study respiration
jn onion root tips. The onion seeds
were extracted, and the root tips
were grown in varying concentra-
tions of glucose and sucrose. Bar-
-bara observed the ways in which
the different culture media affect-
ed respiration.
Obstetrical Research
Sandy, Linda, and Barbara lived
in a rented house in Rosemont.
They explored the countryside by
car, discovering what lies beyond
the view from the Paoli Local.
Sue McCord, in cooperation with
Mr, Berry, studied endotoxin, a
- substance found in the walls of
bacteria. Every year a few wom-
en die in late pregnancy of a syn-
drom, or combination of physio-
logical effects. An obstetrician
from the University of Pennsyl-
vania asked Mr. Berry to test the
Rare Book Show
Collects Writings,
Represents Period
The current exhibit in the Rare
Book Rooms, “The Restoration,”
celebrates the three-hundredth an-
niversary of the rule of Charles
the Second. On display are assort-
ed literary works of that period.
In the first room are various
books, documents,
dealing with the period’s political
conditions and controversies.
Among them are The World’s
Mistake in Oliver Cromwell; The
Historian’s Guide to London, 1676;
A Panegyric to Charles the Sec-
ond; and excerpts from the un-
published parliamentary diary of|ed the universality of the race
Sir Edward Dering of the House
of. Commons... This last exhibit, as
well as a number of others, was
loaned to the library by Miss Rob-
bins of the History Department
from her private collection.
The library has placed all exhi-
bits of literary and scientific in-
terést in the second room. There
are editions of plays of Dryden
Waller, Milton’s Paradise Lost, and
many others.
Also on display are a number
_of scientific works of the period,| The various .nationalities fear’
including tracts by Boyle, Newton,
Hooke, and Haley. Most of these
men were members of the newly-
founded Royal Society, and in a
_ case in the center of the room is
a book dealing with the history of
‘this society.
ary nitrogen; but the blocking’ dose
were glad to ibe able to work in the
pers presenting the data they Had
and papers|Which he attempted to present con-
language causes lively debate in
rest of the summer experimenting
with endotoxin in mice. ACTH
and endotoxin were injected inter-
venously into the animals. The
ACTIH caused an increase in urin-
of endotoxin counteracted the nit-
rogen increase. Sue discovered the
smallest blocking dosé capable of
lowering the urinary nitrogen.
The mice’s sensitivity to- endo-
toxin was increased greatly by the
injection of profferin. At the mo-
ment, Sue i$ working on another
substance which will\gensitize mice
to an even greater degree.
All four girls were enthusiastic
about-their-experiences.as_research
workers, They became complete-
ly.-involved.in.their projects, and
laboratory for long periods of
time, uninterrupted by trips to
classes in Taylor. Naturally, they
spent many hours familiarizing
themselves with laboratory equip-
ment and learning research tech-
niques. At the end of the ten-
week session they handed in pa-
pologist 1888-1920, and The Story
of a Tlingit Community, by Miss
Frederica de Laguna, professor of
Anthropology and Sociology.
The Philosophy Department is
also represented iby two new books
this year. One is Philosophy To-
day by Jose Ferrater-Mora. .Two
chapters in the book Creative Mind
and Method, “Man the Creator” and
As the daughter of the late
Elizabeth Nowell (Mrs. E. H. Per-
kins in private life), I watched as
she spent over four years writing
Thomas Wolfe, a Biography, a de-
tailed, sensitive and authoritative
study of the man, his life, his over-
whelming agonies and ecstacies.
Miss Nowell started actually
writing the biography soon after
completing a collection of Wolfe’s
letters, and the work she had done
“The Conditions for Creativity,”|for this first book was of great
were written by Mr.. (Milton C.
Nahn, in collaboration with Lyman
Bryson, Reinhold Niebuhr, and
Louis Finkelstein for the first sec-
tion and with Lyman Bryson, Mar-
garet Mead, and Rudolph Arnheim
for the latter.
The English Department can
boast of Mr. Warner Berthoff’s.
American Literature: Traditions
and Talents and K. Lawrence Sta-
pleton’s H. D. Thoreau: A Writer’s
Journal.
Hetha Krauss, associate profes-
sor in the Graduate Department
of Social Work and Social Research
wrote International Cooperation
for Social Welfare—A New Real-
ity.
Miss Mabel Lang published The
Athenian Citizen. Professor of
History of Art, Charles Mitchell,
published. Archaeology and Ro-
mance jin. the Italian Renaissance
Studies; Francisco Ayala, a Span-
ish professor, wrote two books,
Trotado de Socialogia and Techno-
biography. But several
after the original operation,
malignancy spread quite rapidly
help in the second. Research alone
on Wolfe was difficult, involving
writing letters to his many ac-
quaintances, reading through piles
and piles of his letters, most. of
them written in his huge scrawl.
In addition, many letters-had been
lost or destroyed or, when they
were given to colleges, had been
separated so that she sometimes
found page one on the west coast
and page two on the east.
letters were finally completed and
published by Scribners in 1957.
The
Work Into The Night
Just before: this, Miss Nowell
had had a cancer operation. Now,
-From.theGreek_department, withthe effectiveness of the opera-|
tion still uncertain, she began the
months
the
until, in the last five or six mon-
ths of writing, Miss Nowell was
in considerable pain.
After her
death, a neighbor said that she had
logia. y Libertad.
Also published this year was a
musical composition by Robert
gathered.
Goodale of the Music Department,
Magnificat for Women’s Voices.
Dudden Enjoys Scandinavian Tour
Notes Character Traits In Peoples
by Helen Levering
Professor Arthur Dudden of
Bryn Mawr’s History Department
spent his last year’s sabbatical
leave in Copenhagen on a Fulbright
grant doing research on the trans-
fer of American business and in-
dustrial techniques to Scandinavia.
Since the Fulbright group organ-
izes inter-country travel, Mr, Dud-
den was able to spend time lectur-
ing to educational and business
groups in Finland, Norway, Swe-
den, Denmark, Holland, and Ger-
many. Some of these were single
lectures; others were series in
cise but complete sketches of Unit-
ed States history.
‘Ethnophies
On these tours Mr. Dudden found
the race question to be the one in
which the audiences were most in-
terested, (Mir. Dudden also realiz-
problem, when he learned of the
discrimination ‘practiced against
the Laplanders, and of the Danish-
Greenland race problem.
Though Mr. Dudden found cer-
tain characteristics inherently
Scandinavian, he found the basic
differences more pronounced. He
found most Scandinavians enter-
prising, skillful, provincial, and
fond of the pleasures of the’ table.
However, differences ‘In history,
language, and orientation divide
them into distinct national groups.
different enemies. The. Finns and
Swedes fear the Russians; the
Danes and Norwegians still fear
the Germans. Each country has a
different burning issue. Mention
of the adoption of a single official
Norway; a Swedish argument of-
ten involves the pros and cons of
Sweden’s possible manufacture of
its own atomic weapons.
often looked over at the house
around two or three a.m. and seen
the lights still burning.
All this time the biography
continued. Often I would receive
letters from her asking me to type
out part of the manuscript or cop-
ies of research material. These
would be sent to her, for she was
afraid that the original would be
damaged if it were continually
mailed back and forth across the
country. Then she would return
parts she had revised or written,
and I would type these and add
them .to the manuscript.
When
Social customs also vary. Swe-
den is a man’s land. The social
life is almost exclusively for the
men, in walking ‘clubs, herring-
eating clubs, or jazz record listen-
ing clubs, A Swedish wife joins
her husband socially perhaps once
a year.
Concept Of America
The Scandinavian’s concept of
America has changed greatly in
the last century. America was
once more real than his neighbor-
ing country in Europe. It was the
golden ideal, vividly described by
Scandinavian emigrants. Now the
image is one gleaned from Amer-
ican movies, tourists, and sensa-
tional newspapers.
The American’s concept of the
Scandinavian is equally distorted.
Each _ views the _ other through
“surrealist eyes.” Mr. Dudden
spoke with a Norwegian. girl who
had never before spoken ‘with an
American. Yearly, from the head
of her ‘Norwegian fiord, she watch-
ed an American tourist ship come
into harbor and saw the glamorous
Americans stare with seeming
aloofness at her friends in their
native costumes. Nobody spoke;
everybody judged.
Though numerous differences
International Club
Informs Of. Plans
For UN Excursion
The Bryn Mawr International
Relations Club, with the promo-
tion of awareness of world affairs
as its primary purpose, will pre-
sent its first program Friday at
4:30 in the Common Room when a
UN movie will be
group is affiliated with the Amer-
ican IRC, but chairman Sue Gum-
pert stressed, “There is no formal
membership. The club is a service
for anyone who is interested in
learning about other countries.”
shown. The
Between November 10. and 28
and‘during December the elub will
take students to visit the United
Nations. To round out the pro-
grams for the year; Marcy Tench,
60, now working in the UIN office
of Public Relations, will obtain
special speakers. In December
there will be a program at Prince-
ton with a lecturer on the African
situation and a discussion after-
ward,
“An interest in international af-
exist within the individual Scan-|fairs can lead to careers in this
images mar complete understand-
ing of the rest of the world, an
underlying hope exists within the
Scandinavian heart. This is the
desire for a warm and secure fu-
ture based on a rational 4 n_ of
— organization. = 4
field,” Sue pointed out .
is providing transportation
she was at home, she could sit
up and write, but typing tired her,
and so I helped by typing out
about the last half of the manu-
script. This job was nearly com-
pletedwhen Miss Nowell died, in
August of 1958, just after she
had finished the writing and all
of the important revisions.
Book Club Selection
Within a few weeks, the entire
manuscript was sent to Ed Aswell,
editor of Doubleday. He had known
Wolfe and Miss Nowell and had
kept in touch with us throughout
the entire writing and illness. For-
tunately, he cleared the final per-
missions for use of the letters,
material or’ names, and he kept
a paternal eye on the book’s
gress. But within some months he
too died. By then, though, every-
thing was smoothing out, and there
was little left. to do but just wait.
Finally, in 1960, the biography
was chosen as a Book of the Month
Club Selection, and so its actual
release was delayed until July. By
the end of that month or the start
of the next, it had reached the
for several weeks. In the meantime,
all of Miss Nowell’s material was
sold to Harvard University and is
now, I believe, in their Wolfe col-
lection.
As many critics have noted, the
vignettes, and these must arise at
least in part from Miss Nowell’s
devotion to and first hand know-
ledge of Wolfe. After she gradua-
ted from Bryn Mawr in the class
of ’26, she took an intensive writing
course at Columbia. She then got a
job in the Seribner book shop.
From here, she moved into the art
department and finally to the ed-
itorial department, where she ser-
ved also as proofreader and secre-
tary to the editor.
It was here that she met Wolfe
when he came in to see the cover
for Look Homeward, Angel. Dur-
ing her five years at Scribner’s,
Miss Nowell became good friends
with the author, and, when she left
to work at Maxim Lieber’s agency,
this friendship continued, for Lie-
ber was at this time Wolfe’s agent.
But when Miss Nowell started her
own agency, Wolfe followed her
and became “number one” at the
agency although it also handled
such authors as Nancy Hale and
Vardis Fisher. Though Wolfe al-
ways addressed her formally as
“Miss Nowell,” she soon became
not only an agent but sort of nurse
for him.
Once Wolfe hhad contracted to do
a story, but asithe deadline ap-
proached he continued to procrat-
inate. Finally Miss Nowell could
wait no longer and searched all his
favorite haunts until she found
where she made him sit down and
write that story.
No Insipidity
Always believing in Wolfe’s
greatness, Miss Nowell remained
his friend and his agent from 1933
until his death in 1938. Of course
it was Maxwell Perkins of Scrib-
ner’s who worked with Wolfe on
his massive novels, but Miss Nowell
took care of his shorter things,
cutting and shaping them until
they were in a readable form.
_ Miss Nowell also wrote an ar-
ticle on Wolfe for a national mag-
azine. When the magazine, sug-
gested that parts of this be cut,
Miss Nowell thinking that their
The club
the
International Careers ce
to be held in Wanamaker’s on No-
vember 10 from 3 to 5. Interested
students should see Sue in Pem
East .or the Bureau of Recommen- |
dations. ©
parts of the article were too
strong for the editors, rejected the
offer and said that she refused to
make Wolfe an insipid character.
She had little difficulty in selling
the article, unchanged, to another
been published.
best seller list where it remained -
book is. filled -with unforgettable.
him in a barber shop and took him, .
half-shaved, to his appartment
suggestion had arisen because
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Senator Kennedy Speaks Of Decline
In U.S. Prestige At Democratic Rally
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Page Four
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Wednesday, November 2,.1960
Senator John F. Kennedy, Dem-
ocratic presidential candidate, ad-
dressed a group of his supporters
at a rally October 30, sponsored by
the Marple Township Democratic
Association at Lawrence Park
Shopping Center.
The candidate spoke first of the
diverse roles played by the Presi-
dent of the United States which
range. from (Commander-in-Chief
of the Armed Forces to the person-
ification of the ideals of the Amer-
ican people to the world,
That Word: Prestige
spoke of the decline in pres-
tige that this country has suffered,
and ‘defined prestige not as popu-
larity but as the degree of confi-
dence inspired by the United States
in other countries. ‘Referring to
the loss of prestige, he stressed the
importance of informing the pub-
lic of existing conditions and de-
plored the campaign techniques of
Mr. Richard Nixon in which h
presents a “rosy picture.”
In conclusion, Mr. Kennedy call-
ed the election not a battle between
individuel candidates ‘but between
“the comfortable and the concern-
ed,” : ‘
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Preceding Senator Kennedy, Sen-
ator Joseph Clark spoke of the
pugilistic nature of Nixon’s advice
as exemplified by the U-2 and
Quemoy-Matsu incidents,
Steve Miller, chairman of Demo-
erats for Kennedy at Haverford,
outlined the ways in which stu-
dents could wield their influence
politically. One of his suggestions
was to write letters home. An-
other Haverford rooter wielded a
placard saying, “Haverford’s for
thee, Jack.”
Julie Tarachow, a Bryn Mawr
College student, led the crowd in
cheers spelling out the names of
Mr. Kennedy, “Jackie” Kennedy,
and Mr. Johnson. “Not Lady-
Bird,” pleaded someone standing
near the microphone,
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club active on the Bryn Mawr
campus, We would like to con-
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the interest of jazz, but their
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to us,
Would you be kind enough to
provide us with the names and
addresses of the club’s officers
so that we may correspond with
them directly.
Thank you for your coopera-
tion.
Cordially yours,
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For its fall production, Bryn
'Mawr’s College Theater with the
Haverford Drama Club will pre-
sent three student-directed one-
|act plays: Bachner’s Woyzeck, John
Mortimer’s The Dock Brief and
‘Moliere’!s Le Mariage Forcé, This
varied program will be given in
Goodhart on the evenings of Nov-
ember 18 and. 19.
Amateur Premier
Ginny O’Roak is- directing The
Dock Brief, which she describes
as a “comedy about comedy.” This
production is especially exciting
for it will be the amateur premier
of Mr. Mortimer’s play in America.
The Dock Brief, the young Eng-
lish playwright’s first play, was
originally written for radio, then
ewritten for television and finally
for the stage. It has never been
produced as a stage play in the
United States before. Jasper Dee-
ter, Hedgerow Theater’s director of
dramatic classes, will advise Miss
O’Roak.
A “First”,
Andy Lehner is directing Marcel
iere’s Le Mariage Force-~so this
production is also a ‘first’. This
drama of an old man’s attempts
to get justification from his friends
for his marriage to a very young
girl, Mr. Lehner says is “in the
commedia del arte tradition.” The
|Stage set, designed by Mary John-
Gutwirth’s new translation of Mol-}
BMC-Haverford Drama Season Opener
son, will be non-representational
and suggestive, but the costumes
will be as authentic as possible.
Buchner’s Woyzeck is being. dir-
ected by Peter Garett. This play,
he feels, has more significance
than a typical one-act drama. Cer-
tainly, it is larger in content, since
it was formerly an incomplete 26-
scene work. Mr. Garett considers
Woyzeck a great play, and also
“a three-act tragedy in shorthand.”
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is week at the Walnut Theatre ‘ion ney Beebe| HNGlish to Eager Koreans.
Six Characters in Search of an Author by Italian Nobel Prize Winner,
Luigi Pirandello, will be presented by the Neighborhood Players
at the 22nd St. below Walnut St. Playhouse. It will run on week-
end nights until Nov. 27.
The Boy Friend, after two years On Broadway and three years Off, has
opened at the Abbey Stage Door, 6615 Rising Sun Avenue. It
will play November 5, 12, 18, 19, 25, and 26th.
Lullaby, tale of a mother on a honeymoon (not her own), playing at
the Abbey. Playhouse, November 5, 11, 12, and 19th.
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The Art Director’s Club will hold its 25th anniversary exhibition at the
Philadelphia Art Alliance, 251 S, 18th St. from Nov. Sto Nov. 26.
The exhibit will include work from 29 companies and advertising
agencies, 26 free-lance artists, and 16 studios:
MOVIES
Sunrise &t Campobello, starring Ralph Bellamy in his original Broad-
way role, is now at the Stanley.
From the Terrace is at the Bryn Mawr Theatre tonight and tomorrow.
Friday Pollyanna will begin.
It Started in Naples is at the Suburban Theatre in Ardmore.
movie stars Sophia Loren and Clark Gable.
The Living Stone, etc., prize~winning experimental and art films from
‘Canada will be screened Sunday, November 13 at Commercial Mu-
seum, free to the public. Two performances will be offered: at
2 patand-4-p.m._Features will be a sociological documentary on
Eskimo life and arts, “The Living Stone’? Also, a nature docu-
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mentary much honored at European film festivals, “The Back};;—
Breaking Leaf.” Premiere of an experimental scientific adventure,
“The Universe,” will round out the program with a short film
poem, “La Merle”, All four films are first-runs for Philadelphia.
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of science fiction writers, editors, and readers, will take place at
the Sheraton Hotel, 1:80 to 6 p.m., Saturday, November 5, Lester
Del Ray, science fiction and science writer will speak on “Coloniz-
ing the Planets”. Discussions, film showings,\and other events of
interest to science fiction “fans” will also be featured.
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Letters to Editor
Continued from Page 2, Col. 5
(ed: This is the first of two ar-
ticles on contemporary Korea
by Pat, Ranard ’64, Pat, daugh-
ter of an American Foreign Ser-
vice officer, has lived in several
Far Rastern cities and spent last
summer in Seoul, Korea).
by Patricia Renard ’64
Seoul is a city much like other
Oriental. cities, dirty, laced. with
narrow, twisting streets, brim-.
ming over with people, In the
alive and animal] -heat of Korean
summer, the poorer people and the
children live in the streets, where
they cook, eat, gossip, play and
sleep.
Vendors Clang, Chant
In the streets walk the candy
vendors pushing their carts before
them, clanging their loosely-bolted |
tionally produced “weak” candi-
dates: Grant, Hayes, Harrison,
McKinley, Taft, Harding, Hoover
and Eisenhower.
Sincerely yours,
Franklin L. Kury
To the Editor:
I was very glad that Professors
Kennedy and Berthoff wrote letters
to the editor about your editorial
on MRA. I had intended to do so,
myself, but had not gotten around
to it,
One reference I might add to
what they suggested: Hadley Can-
tril’s book, The Psychology of
Social Movements published in
1941. You will find it in the lib-
rary, and it has a very enlighten-
ing section om MRA.
Sincerely yours,
Milnor Alexander
To the Editor:
We think, at this time, that a
reexamination of the problem dis-
cussed in the October 12th editor-
ial of\ the News, that of a “new
kind of rearmament”,-is urgently:
needed. \'The importance of a dem-
ocratic ideology for each Ameri-
can, with which he can answer the
Communist’s ideology, was em-
phasized in this editorial, and a
possible solution, that of Moral
Rearmament, was suggested, But
because of the questionable nature
of the original leaders and punpos-
es of the Movement for Moral Re-
armament, the News has been at-
tacked ~as the perpetrator of a
“college hoax”. We recognize that
a thorough study of the historical
und of such an organiza-
tion is necessary, before embracing
it for ourselves. We think it is
unfortunate, however, that as a
result of the ‘above attacks, the
real issue has been overshadowed.
The problem of finding a personal
democratic faith is being ignored;
the suggested solutions of “hon-
esty, purity, umselfishness, and
shears to the accompaniment of a
sort of rhythmic chant, In the
streets drive Seoul’s gaily-colored
buses, streetcars and the jeeps
which are its police, government,
press cars and taxis. There are
almost no privately-owned Korean
cars in Seoul.
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But above the dirt and noise and | |
heat and crowd that is Seoul in
summer its mountains rise, tall
and strong and starkly beautiful.
And in the north, at Pan Mun Jon,
where the Military Armistice Com-
mission meets, and where there
has been no gunfire since the treaty
was signed seven years ago, the
land is young-rice green, and aibun-
dant with wild-life, and the air
smells of flowers and the sea.
Taught English
Because its people are the es-
sence of any country, last summer
evolved, for me, into a kind of “in-
stant Korea.” When I arrived in
Seoul to visit my parents, I de-
cided to begin teaching English,
both as a source of occupation and
as a source of information. The
demand for private tutors in Eng-
lish conversation was so great that
I soon found myself teaching Eng-
lish to five groups of Koreans al-
most eight hours a day. My stu-
dents included all sorts and sizes
of Koreans, from the small chil-
dren of a wealthy Korean business-
man to housewives with children,
from businessmen on lunch” hours
to university students on vacation.
Unwilling Pied Piper
The Koreans are quite different
from any other Eastern peoples I
have ever known. Physically, they
are taller and stronger-boned than
either the Japanese or the Chin-
ese. Their eyes are large and
dark; the women have thick black
hair which they wear wound exot-
ically around their heads,
generally very.
- dropping-over.to.the dorm. and
downing a sparkling Coke or two with
the boys. The man who’s for Coke
is the man for us.
BE REALLY REFRESHED
Bottled under evtharity of The Coca-Cola Company by
in the light of their intrinsic worth.
their association with the Moral
Rearmament organization. In-
stead, it is our duty to objectively
examine those solutions offered
Sincerely yours,
Marcia Hoffman '63
The. Koreans are
friendly towards and interested in
Americans. For some of the poor-
er people, observing Americans is
almost a spector sport. Three
evenings a week I walked to the
home of. a Korean girl, where I
ve a lesson to her and her
BRS EG erie raptig ro ferns
"| friends. As I walked, I generally
felt like a sort of unwilling Pied
Piper; the people, unaccustomed to
seeing Americans walk about, rath-
er than drive, stared unabashedly,
and the children ran after me,
clutching at my skirts and shriek-
ing “HULLO, HULLO” at the tops
lof their voices.
Sense of Humor
But what amazed me most about
the Korean people as a whole was
their sense of humor. In spite of
years of Japanese domination, in
spite of a war which left in its
wake almost total destruction of
the cities and villages, in spite of
years of slow, painful economic
and social reconstruction, of
thwarted attempts for unification
and admission to the United Na-
tions—and;—finally, inspite of a
Revolution which last April caus-
ed the fall of the First Rhee-dom-
inated Republic, the Korean people
have managed to retain,.as a peo-
ple, a charmingly spontaneous
sense of humor, and an almost
child-like (not “childish”) delight
in living.
Fair Lady
I remember once, while teaching
a group of assorted students of
poorer backgrounds at the Inter-
national Language Institute in
Seoul, tryifig, like a poor man’s
Henry~ Higgins, to get a housewife
called Mrs. Suh to pronounce ‘if’
as ‘ihf’, rather than. ‘eef’ I said,
clearly, distinctly and earnestly
‘if’, and she said ‘eef’; I said pa-
tiently ‘if’, and she said patiently
‘eef’; I repeated ‘if? and she repeat-
ed ‘eef’. In a swift and detached
moment I realized the comedy of
the situation, and burst out laugh-
ing, only to be joined by Mrs. Suh.
and the whole class. We had a
good laugh together, and barely
had I recovered my teacher’s dig-
nity, when the unlucky Mrs. Suh
pronounced ‘child’ ‘chilled’; and off
we went again,
‘Education Serious Business
' As students of English, I found
the Koreans earnest, eager and
hard-working. There are several
universities in Seoul; the largest
women’s university in the world
‘stands on some hills outside the
city, —
For. the alanis the difficulty
lies not in acceptance to the uni-
versities, but rather in procuring
good work—both financially and
intellectually — after graduation
Getting an education is therefore
a serious business for the Korean
student. Many, perhaps even most,
regard studying in the United
'States_as_.a—kind .of-miraculous.._--
door-opener to a ‘better life’; un-
fortunately, this becomes a reality
for only a few. However, a pro-
ficiency in English is a pre-requi-
site to studying in the United
States, and so they often spend
their free time_ stabring:: and
speaking Smet. bae-
as
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THE COLLEGE paws
Wednesday, November 2, 1960
Beatnik, Clowns
Delight at Rhoads
On Halloween Day
Last Monday afternoon Rhoads
Hall was invaded by a variety of
ghosts, witches and assorted liter-.
“ary characters accompanied by
their familiar—and uncostumed—
parents. The occasion was the ah-
nual Rhoads Hall Hallowe’en Par-
ty for faculty children,
The professori al offspring show-
ed great ingenuity in disguising
themselves, Although everyone
thought that Joan Bitterman’s long
blonde hair, glasses, guitar, and
crew neck sweaters symoblized
the typical Bryn Mawrter, she
firmly insisted she was only a
beatnik. The political atmosphere
that has dominated the campus
for the last few weeks was mirror-
ed in the Kennedy for President
stickers attached to the bottoms
of two young Mallory clowns.
Mr. Koch’s two tiny orange
clowns were identically charming,
while Mr. Le Bilanc’s academic
gown made a perfect pinned-up
small witch. The Pierce ‘Double
Devils’ twisted their tails around
everyone and the progression of
five costumed little Herlihys seem-
ed everywhere.
Schneider
Continued from Page 1, Col. 2
for slum clearance, and federal ac-
ceptance of responsibility for the
program will guarantee solution.
‘One candidate keeps talking about
slum clearance, while the other one
just keeps talking,” said Mr.
Schneider. To believe that the so-
“lution of our cities’ problems is
feasible without federal interven-
tion is unrealistic. As for the
capital required for the extensive
program needed, Mr. Schmeider
feels it has to come from “the sec-
tions of the population that can af-
ford to pay. I’m afraid that means
v8".
Challenge Reveals
Discussion Topics
On Colleges’ Role
This year Challenge—will explore
the topic “America’s Role in a
Revolutionary World.” Through de-
bates, speeches and informal dis-
cussions ‘the organization, founded
last year by a group of Yale un-
dergraduates, hopes to define the
role of the University, the Nation
and the Revolutionary World.
The culmination of several smal]
meetirigs, both formal and infor-
mal, will be an intercollege collo-
quium on April 21-28, The major
questions involved will be: does
the traditional concept of the uni-
versity as an intellectual training
ground justify its comparative iso-
lation; does the enjoyment of ma-
terial success necessarily imply a
betrayal of our ideals; and what
tions with developing countries.
Last year, Challenge was able
to get many prominent people and
1400 students from over fifty col-
leges to discuss and debate the
broad topics of Nuclear Age and
‘American Democracy.
are, and what should be, our rela-.
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Haverford beats B.M.C. Hockey Varsity
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‘This Sunday, one faculty child made the following observation
while contemplating events on the
“Those boys play a rough game, don’t they ?
two Bryn Mawr hockey fields .. .
I wouldn’t play with
them.” The “boys” referred to were none other than the Bryn Mawr
faculty, playing touch football on one field, and the Haverford soccer
team challenging the BMIC varsity hockey team on the other. The fol- |.
lowing distinction must, however, ibe made,
The faculty were fairly
gentle in their treatment of the eleven courageous girls who made up
the Bryn Mawr team; the Haverford soccer team was rough—though
no rougher, than their Bryn Mawr opponents!
Several weeks ago an attempt
was made to have a student-fac-
ulty volleyball game. The turn-
out was poor, but this did not stifle
the spirit of the Athletic Associa-
tion, which turned then to the idea
of a. touch football game.. It was
learned Sunday that several mem-
bers of our faculty are aces on the
football field. Commendations must
be made to Mr. Berthoff for his
spectacular interceptions, Mr. Gon-
zales for his speed, Mr. Wallace
for his diverse strategy, and Mr.
Avery for his unfailing sense of
humor.
Like the faculty, Haverford will
again be challenged by the Bryn
Mawr stalwarts, In previous. years
Haverford has defeated the BMC
team ~unmefcifully. The victory
score, 241, this year, was slight.
Perhaps this is due im large part
to the fact that Bryn Mawr decid-‘
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the outstanding defense work of
Mrs. Sprague, who was recruited
for a goalie. Our tactics included
striking below the shins, tripping
whenever possible in a polite man-
ner, and parking ourselves in the
opponents’ goal cage. Given time,
these tactics will be perfected.
Given another chance, that unend-
ing desire of the Bryn Mawr hoc-
key team shall also be fulfilletl
. . » Haverford will be defeated!
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