College news, March 20, 1957

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“for the production of Arts Night







VOL. XLII, NO. 17

-ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1957

© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1957

PRICE 20 CENTS



Arts Night Will
Display Talents

An original play, madrigals,
calypso and other unusual attrac-
tions are now being put together

on Friday, April 12, in Skinner
Workshop. The date has been
changed from March 22.

Among the many acts will be a
dance performed by Cynthia Love-
lace and Leora Luders to the “Lea-
ther-winged Bat,’ ’sung and strum-
med on the guitar by Dick Kelly.

Connie Horton’s original play,
An Obliging Love, will be present-
ed by Pam Wylie as the Traveler,
Newcomb Greenleaf as the Country
Fellow, Jim Moody as Jupiter,
Jerry Goodman as the Principal
Elder and Dan Parker and Bonnie
Bendon as. Townspeople. Connie
Horton and Patty Ferguson are
directing the play.

Bob Benjamin’s music will be
played at various times in the

‘evening by a string’ ‘qaartet com-7;

posed of Betsy Johnson, Mrs.
Cunningham, Barbara Booth and
Bob Benjamin.

~ S$tage effects promise to be un-
usual, with fluorescent ornaments
by Fritz Janschka and a Jackson
Pollard backdrop.

Maya Yardney is.director of the
“production, Bonnie Bendon is
assistant director, Tawn Stokes
and Kate Jordan are stage man-
agers and Ann Farlow is in charge

Bagnell To Speak
On Trip To Russia

Tomorrow at 5:00 in the Com-
mon Room, British Captain W. D.
A. Bagnell will speak and show
slides taken on his trip to Russia
last summer.

Aside from his many military
achievements, Captain Bagnell
(who, incidentally, is only thirty
years old) has participated active-
ly in British politics and has run
in various elections. He is:a mem-
ber of the Conservative Common-
wealth Council and the British At-
lantic Committee.

Captain Bagnell specializes in
NATO and OEEC affairs. He was
suggested to Bryn Mawr by the
English Speaking Union.

In 1956 he toured Leningrad and
Moscow in the first party of free
tourists to visit_the /Soviet Union.
He has appeared on TV and radio
programs in connection with Rus-
sian ately.

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"Hall Presidents

The following cath have
been elected Hall Presidents:

‘Denbigh—Carol Cannon ’58
Merion—Ruth Deitelbaum ’59
Pem East—Patty Page ’58
Pem West—Anne Wake ’58
Radnor—Lee Ellis ’58
Rhoads—Joan Shigekawa ’58
Rockefeller—Marti Fuller ’58



of music.







and Mrs. Shabandar.

Alliance Speakers Consider “Arab Nationalism”
As “Unrealistic” or Reflecting A “Glorious Past”

Sayegh Explains. Arab
Expectations In
Mid-East

The first of three lectures on
“Arab Nationalism and the Middle
East,” a series sponsored by the

. Bryn Mawr Alliance, was given
‘ Wednesday at noon in Goodhart
by Mr.

Fayez Sayegh, Acting
Director of the Arab States Dele-

‘ gation Office in New York. The
| topic of Mr. Sayegh’s speech was



Ghida Shabandar ’58 and her parents, Ambassador





College Theatre Faces Difficult Task,
Grasps Whole Despite Actors’ Faults



Cynthia Holley as Lavinia, Jinty Myles as Celia,

and Jon Korper as

Edward in a scene from T. S. Eliot’s

“The Cocktail Party”, presented last Friday and Satur-

day.
by Eleanor Winsor

‘This year’s third major produc-
tion by the combined Bryn Mawr-
Haverford theatre groups was T.
S. Bliot’s comedy The Cocktail
Party; given March 15 and 16 in
Goodhart Hall.

The chief difficulty which Col-
lege Theatre faced in undertaking
The Cocktail Party was not the
mere problem of interpreting con-
temporary poetic drama, but rath-
ar the fact, that. The Cocktail Party.
itself, dramatically speaking, is not
a good play. “Faulty construction,
an abundance of subtle symbolic
devices and a heavy burden of
philosophical statement that over-
shadows the action are both dif-
ficult for the actors and confusing
to the audience. To convince us
that the drama was good, the cast
woyld have had to*excel its mater-
ial. As it was they did succeed in

scurities by moments of ingenious
acting and in maintaining a fair-
ly consistent interpretation of the
comedy and its underlying mean-
ing. |
Often it might be difficult: t to de-
termine whether certain deficien-
cies in our emotional reaction re-
sulted from obscurity in the play
or from the actors’ failure to ex-
plore all possibilities of the script.
Notably the cast did: possess. one
quality: in common, and perhaps
they owed it to their director—a
fine’sense of the meaning and im-
port of their lines.

With a few exceptions they
spoke well, showing in the poetic-
philosophical passages an ability
for dramatic pause as well as a
variety in tone and gesture. Rath-
er perversely, then, the latter two
acts of » philosophic intent were
better acted and more compelling
than ‘the dramatic first act which



imparting an artistic form to the

_ob- | Continued on Page 5, Column 1



Hurewitz Examines
US and Arab East

J. C. Hurewitz, Associate Pro-
fessor of Government at Columbia
University’s Near and Middle East
Institute, was the third and last
of the speakers who participated
in the Alliance conference on “Arab
Nationalism in the Middle East”.
Mr. Hurewitz, who spoke in Good-
hart auditorium on March 14, had
as his topic “The United States
and the Arab East.”

In attempting to understand why
the charge of imperialism is so
often leveled at the United States
by the Arabs, Mr. Hurewitz review-
ed the historical record of Ameri-
can action and influence in the
area, ‘This record shows that the
United States, far from exerting
or even striving for any degree
of political, miltary or economic
control, has always been chiefly
concerned with helping the Arabs.
In fact, American-founded schools,
clinics and hospitals havé not only
made a “substantial and generally
recognized contribution”, but also
have actually spread ideas of inde-

Continued on Page 6, Column 2

‘Everyman’ Planned
For Sun., March 24

The Inter-Faith Association and
the Bryn Mawr College Theatre
will present Everyman, a medieval
morality play, on Sunday, March.
24, at 8:00 p.m. in the Music Room
of Goodhart. The play, whichis
being directed by Pat Sugrue and
Mimi Gisolfi, features Evie : Adler
as Good, and Beauty; Mimi Gi-
solfi as the Doctor, and God; Sue
Gold as Death, and Knowledge; Pat
Moran as Fellowship, and the Five
Wits; Judy Polsky as Cousin, and
the Angel; Nancy Cline as

|Strength; Anne Schaefer as Ev-

eryman; Jane Stoneman as Kin-
dred, and Discretion; Pat Sugrue

Shabandar Talks
On Iraq’s Status

As the second speaker in the
Conference on Arab Nationalism

*|sponsored by Alliance, His Excel-

lency Moussa Shabandar, Ambas-
sador of Iraq to the United States,
spoke on “Iraq in the Center of the
Middle East” last Wednesday night
in Goodhart.

His Excellency traced the history

of the Arab nations, in. particular
Iraq, from approximately 2000
years ago until the present day.
He laid emphasis upon Iraq’s posi-
tion as the center both geographic-
ally and culturally of the Middle
East, and illustrated. his resume
of the past with colorful examples
of the wealth and progress which
had formerly belonged to the
country and its capital, Baghdad.

The problems which Iraq faces
today are three-fold, and have
gained importance partially
through Iraq’s slow and laborious
struggle to recover her position
as an Arab leader, which she lost
as a-result of barbaric invasions
and the partition at the close of
World War I. ~The problems are:
1) international Communism, 2)
international Zionism, 8) colonial-
ism.

Mr. Shabandar stated that Iraq
was attempting to eradicate each
problem, and had managed to dis-
courge Communism so far. Colon-
ialism did not exist in the northern
Arab nations and_ international
Ziénism was impogisble to combat
without> friendly and peaceful co-|
operation between the Arabs and
the Israelis. The Arabs, however,
will find it difficult to cooperate
with Israel until she relinquishes
her Zionist doctrines and —
ent tendencies.

His Excellency concluded with
the hope that the United States
would consider this in an

the only benefactor of the current



situation will be the Soviet Union.

which was granted her by the

“The Current Situation
Middle East.”

Mr. Sayegh said that the subject
of Arab nationalism was a key
necessary to Americans for the
understanding of the situation in
the Middle East. This key is need-
ed for several reasons: first, many
events which seem isolated are
really interconnected hy it—events
too often being abstracted from
their historical background. The

in the

. relation between effects and their

true causes, too, is often neglect-
ed, and the sensational tends to
overshadow the essential in news-
paper reports—we are much more

'|likely to hear about shootings and

riots than about educational and
political progress.

Six important factors are in-
volved in the “Arab national
awakening,” said Mr. Sayegh. The
first three are the striving for poli-
tical, economic and social progress;
the others, of a different nature,
are the attempt at a revival of
colonialism, .on the part of the
West, the Arab-Israeli conflict and
the “East-West” conflict.

Normal Desire for Freedom

The Arab drive for freedom,
symbolized but not bounded by the
Algerian struggle, is a manifesta-
tion of a basic universal desire.
11 Arab countries have gained
their freedom, but others, such as
Algeria, are still under foreign
domination. This is due, said Mr.
Sayegh, to the refusal on the part
of certain European countries to
recognize the Arabs’ right to free-
dom.

Freedom once attained, however,
there remains the problem of the
reunification of the Arab world
which was dismembered by ° the
British in World War I. The Arab
League founded in March, 1955, is’
a step towards accord between
Arab nations in economic, social
and political areas.

The Arab national movement is
not only a drive for freedom, but
also for progress, manifested by

the discarding of the féudal sys-
tem and by industrial, agricultural
and educational d opments.

Mr. Sayegh went on to treat the
three factors opposing Arab pro-
gress. The effort at colonialism, he
said, is mainly the Franco-Eng-
lish invasion of the Suez in No-
come The Arab-Israeli conflict,
he stressed, is not one between
Arab and Jew, but between the
Arab state and the Israeli state. .
Less than 40 years ago Arabs made
up 95 per cent of Palestine’s popu-
lation. Today one million of these
Arabs are homeless and’ Israel oc-
cupies 80 per cent of the land of
Palestine, only 50 per of




The situation is worsened, stated
Mr. Sayegh, by the Israeli attempt
to occupy the remainder of Pales-
tine, and the Arabs have to cope
with the prevention of this.









Bs aa hii

as Good Deeds, and the Messenger.

Continued on Page 6, Column 4






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' js not. an academic one to be dismissed mi
Ayr It is one which bears strong relation to this coun-
's foreign policy—something about which all of us cannot

be unconcerned. That is why we care about the effect of the



The Alliance Conference

Last week’s conference “Arab Nationalism in the Middle
East” was perhaps one of the more stimulating series of
speakers presented by the Alliance.

In the final analysis, however, certain features of the
conference presented themselves in a light not as favorable as
that in which they would have appeared at their inception.
The Alliance conference last week was definitely slanted. It
was meant to be so. The point, of the conference was not to

‘deal with the Arab-Israeli conflict as such or the Western-

Arab situation in itself, but to examine as many aspects as
possible within a limited time, of Arab nationalism as a force

“~gnd influence in the’ Middie East today. These were the Ai-
_ liance’s early plans in October. |

However, between October and March 13, the political
situation in the Arab area has, to say the least, changed
somewhat. We do not feel it necessary to delve into the
preseiit Mid-East crisis here. Suffice it to say that so much
has occurred, so many high feelings aroused on the issue in
all parts of the world, and yes, even at Bryn Mawr that the
Alliance conference, coming when it did—at a time of crisis
extremely pertinent to its topic—made the relationship be-
tween issue and public a more important one than is usual on
this campus. de :

We believe it does matter what people think. Moral
pressure is a device not entirely discounted in the world
today.- Moral opinions are often used as a means; we believe
thought for thought’s sake is not without its.own import-
ance. It is in this respect that the well-intentioned “slant”
of the conference presented its dangers. The first two speak-
ers were official Arab spokesmen. They presented a biased
point of view that was wholly natural to them and which
was expected and desired from them. Acting in their official
capacities, they were obligated to present the view of their
countries. They did. ;

The third speaker, an American expert on the Mid-East,
attempted to present an objective view of the entire situation.
Yet because some of his statements, through this very same
attempted objectivity, refuted those of the Arab speakers,
he was considered by many to be speaking for “the other
side”. This is wholly false. Whatever was the success of
the last speaker’s attempts at objectivity, he was definitely
not speaking as an Israeli spokesman. He did not come here
in that capacity; he did not act init. If he truly did “let the
chips fall where they may” then facts, not bias, repudiated
some of what was said preceding him.

Thus, the conference presented two official views on one

side, and one in the middle. There was no third opposing of-
ficial view. There was not meant to be. It would have been
impossible, for many reasons, to hold an Arab-Israeli parley.
The conference did not attempt to do this. Yet the absence
of the third view in this time of crisis, be it French, British
or Israeli, made itself felt—or rather, was unfelt by too many
people. More than one student was heard to say she was
“carried away” by the first speaker. : ; :
This is all well and good, if all those present in Goodhart
could be counted upon-to recognize the bias of the view pre-
sented, to be aware that there is another point of view, to
make it their business to find out what the other point of
view is, and then make up one’s mind after having carefully
considered both sides.

Unfortunately, many Bryn Mawrters learned most of

what they know now about the Mid-East at the Alliance con-

ference. When one is not strictly familiar with any issues,
it is hard to separate fact from bias. Unfortunately again,
we noticed that too many students were content to let the
case rest where it lay—and thus accept without question

“ what they had heard. Unfortunately too, the Bryn Mawr



student habit of atte two lectures out of three,

make.

ding one or

What is important is that the issue which was discussed









--- 93n this case rould make 2 differen in- : : epintor:
on the issues of the conference. ae ndaiea ee

erely as an Alliance









Dearls Before - - -

By Patty Page





(With apologies to S, T. Coleridge)

It is a bright-eyed chatterbox

And she stoppeth one of three

“By thy long red hair and glitter-
ing eye, —

Now. wherefore stopp’st thou me?

The -classroom door is open wide

And I must go within.

The class is met ,and they’re all
set— ;

The lecture will begin.”

She holds her with her skinny
hand,

‘There were some: girls”, quoth
aaa “
“Here comes the prof, I have to

go.”
Eftsoons her hand dropt she.

She holds her with her glittering
eye.

The student, caught, stood still

And listens like a three years’
child;

The chatterbox hath her will.

“One night last week, of which I
speak, - 4

The moon was shining bright.

Six figures sat so silently

Within the pale moonlight.

“One sat upon the windowsill,
Another on the floor,

+buckily they went safely past:




Others around the table crouched,
One stood behind the door.

“They had been plotting skillfully
Some deviltry to make.

A footstep in the corridor

Had caused this silent break.

“Louder still the footsteps grew—
They paused outside the room.
The door opened, someone looked
in,

But couldn’t pierce the gloom.
“The ‘steps died
again;

Each: girl sucked in her breath.

out, returned

The silence seemed like ‘death.

“How long they waited in the
gloom,

After, they could not say;

But soon they crept forth from
the place,

And started on their way.

“Softly, swiftly, they split up,
And deftly went to work—”
The listener, hearing Taylor bell,
Started, with a jerk. ;
“No more will I talk to you,
Or listen when you speak.
I’ve cut again—I’ve missed my
class

The second time\this week!”



Ban on ‘Baby Doll’
Was Topic of Talk

Does any group have the right
to attempt to impose its own moral
convictions on ‘individuals outside
the group? In this light, the ques-
tion of censorship involves not only
morals, but also the principles of
democracy (and legal” procedure.
Last Monday night’s Current
‘Everits discussion was ledby Rob-
ert Cross, Professor of History
at Swarthmore. He cited the
censorship of Baby Doll as his
specific example of the problem.

Mr. Cross posed three questions
to the group which have evolved
as the most pertinent and contro-
versial: 1. Does a group have the
right to exert pressure on an in-
vidual presenting an idea in the
form of drama, literature or some
other medium contrary to the
group’s belief? 2. In the case of
Baby Doll, was Cardinal Spellman
legally justified -in forbidding
Catholics to see the. movie?
3. What conditions can be said to

be conducive to immorality, or|.

where must the line be drawn
between esthetic experience and
ethical dissipation ? es

These problems were narrowed
down during discussion to the
question of whether or not ‘the
Roman Catholic Church was justi-
fied in obtaining censorship by
legal means. This process might
be termed a violation of democracy
—a minority group imposing its
will on the majority. On the other
hand, the Catholic Church as a
group has as much right as any
organization to contend for legis-°
lation. Mr. Cross suggested: that
those jopposed to censorship in
theory never seem to take a firm
stand to defend the offensive ob-

ject in question. Perhaps the
“minority. group” is, after all, the
majority!

Mr. Cross felt that the censor-
ship argument was not confined to
people who opposed it and those
who supported it, but rather to

|people with different ideas of what|



should be censored. In a society
with as diverse esthetic and moral
values as ours, controversy is in-
evitable. Even a_ subject . which
might represent art to one indi-
vidual, might be an object of im-
morality to another. The confused
trend of the discussion itself fur-
ther emphasized. the vagueness of

~O7..

Hi] Inter-Faith—Giselle De Nie ’58

A regular feature of The College
News of 1917 was a little box with
the scintillating title of “Campus
Notes.” Under this nice ambigu-
ous heading we find all sorts of
exciting tid-bits from the bloomer-
and-middie-blouse set.

From March 14, 1917: “Cutting
out summer sewing will be done
every Tuesday evening in the gym-
nasium from 7:10 until 10:00.” In
other words . .. young ladies of
the time were sick and tired of
sewing their own summer clothes.
These meetings about “cutting it
out” must have been something
like the suffrage rallies of the
day. (Rebellion against Papa for
not paying for summer clothes.)
Or maybe it was just another faux
pas by the illustrious News.

More “Campus Notes”: “Every
student in the College may now
be expected to be visited by a
junk collector on Thursday nights
between 9:15 and 10 o’clock.” Well
. . absolutely no comment!!

Chorus Will a

Wesleyan’s Group
Sunday, March 24, the Bryn
Mawr College Chorus, directed by
Robert L. Goodale, will participate
in a concert with the Wesleyan
Choral Society, at Wesleyan Uni-
versity in Middletown, Connecticut.
This year the Wesleyan choral
group is under the direction of
Miss Mary Brewer.
The program, to be presented in
the Wesleyan University chapel,
will include “Psalmus Hungari-
cus”, a patriotically inspired work
by the contemporary Hungarian
composer Zoltan Kodaly. A can-
tata, “Command Thine Angel to
Appear,” by Dietrich Buxtehude
also will be performea.

The Bryn Mawr Double Octet
will sing “Litanies a la Vierge
Noire” by Francis Poulenc. —__

COLLEGE ELECTIONS
‘Presidents:
Self4Gov—iNancy Dyer ’58
Undergrad—Dodie Stimpson ’58
| Alliance—Martha. Bridge ’58
‘League—Sandy Grant ’68
A.A.—Donna Cochrane ’58



Sennen

Vice-Pres., Self-Gov. — Betsy





the censorship issue. —



_ Nelson ’58 :



Letter To The Editor

Petition Attempts
To Halt Apartheid

T6 the students of Bryn Mawr:

For the past several years, the
Nationalist Party headed by
Strijdom has been in control of the
government of the Union of South
Africa. The legislation of this
party thas been very definitely in
favor of the small group of Euro-
peans (white men) and of widen-
ing the gap between the white. and
non-European population.

Native primary and _ secondary
schools are alresly partially con-
trolled by the government, which
means that they are given an edu-
cation . unequal to that of the
Afrikaan “and English population.
They are not taught English in
their schools and therefore haye
great difficulty communicating
with anyone but other natives.
This eliminates for the Nationalist
government the fear that the Eng-
lish, who sympathize with the
African natives, colored people and
Indians in their protest against
segregation, may raise the status
of the native and make him a real
factor with which the government
would have to contend.

Last January in opening the ses-
sions of the legislature, the Lieu-
tenant-Governor of the Union of
South Africa called for “apartheid”
(a stricter segregation of races)
in the only two “open” universi-
ties in South Africa, Cape Town
and Witwatersrand. The Student
Representative Councils of these
two universities and the National
Union of South African Students
turned to universities and colleges
all over the world asking for help
in opposing this policy.

It- is important to understand
that they are not asking us to sup-
port integration, but ask rather
that we protest the closing of the
only available facilities for educa-

‘|tion of the natives beyond twelfth

grade. Originally all nine of the
South African universities were
open to students of all races. Be-
cause of the “apartheid” policy,
the government has succeeded in
closing seven of these universities
to all but Eupropean students. No
“separate but equal facilities” are
being proposed. The government
desires to cut off all higher edu-
cation for the non-white, non-Euro-
pean population.

As students we should take an
active interest in the progress and
availability of education. We can
do something concrete. Petitions
are being circulated by the Na-
tional Student Association among
colleges and universities all over
the world, Join with thousands of
other students in protesting this
retrogressive measure. Do your
part as a student by taking the
opportunity to sign the protest
when it comes around to you.

Pattie Pelton ’60

Calendar

Wednesday, March 20 ;

8:30 pm—Willard R. Trask,
writer, and translator, will give the
Class of 1902 Lecture on “The
Problem of Translation”. Common
Room, Goodhart Hall.

Thursday, March 21

5:00 p.m—Captain W. D. A.
Bagnell will show slides of his trip
to Russia. Under Alliance spon-.
sorship. Common Room. —
Sunday, March 24

8:00 p.m.—-Chapel Service. Pro-

4duction-of- Everyman. Music Room: ©

Goodhart. Hall.
Wednesday, March 27
1:30 p.m.—Meeting of the Phil-
osophy club, open to all. “Existen-
ialism in (Camus” “The Stranger”
will be discussed. Common Room.
8:30 p.m.—Meeting of the Psy-
chology club. Psychology Lab.

mee



The date of the Hygiene ex-
amination has been changed









from April 15 to April 10 8:00"










Wednesday, March 20, 1957



THE GOLLEGE NEWS

Page Three



Do-US High Schools Provide Good College Preparation?



Seience High School’s Specialty

Causes Deficiency In Languages

‘by Joanne Field ’60

At the Bronx High School of Sci-
ence, the school that I attended, the
curriculum is designed to suit two
purposes, One is to offer students
who are interested in the sciences
sufficient courses and facilities so
that they can explore and further
their interests; The other is to
give these students, who will the-
oretically all be science majors,
preparation for their college work.
Because the school has an entrance
examination and because of..-its
function as a college preparatory
school, its cpurses are generally on
a higher level than courses in the
other New York public schools in
the same subjects. Students at
the High School of Science are also
required to carry a heavier than
usual course load of five instead
of four subjects, so that the pres-
eures involved in college work are

‘not an altogether new experience.

Science Dominates

. The pattern of courses required
by the school is inflexible; every-
one takes biology, chemistry and
physics in’ addition to the usual

English, history and math. Many)

of the future non-science majors
who tolerate the emphatically
seientific curriculum for the sake
of the school’s comparatively high
standards feel, as I do, a lack of
preparation in the field of foreign
language; no one may take more
or less than three years of one for-
eign language.

The pattern of courses is rarely
modified for the individual; the stu-
dent has two openings for electives,
which must be filled by either an
advanced science or a math course.
Although I suppose that a future



scientist wouldn’t object to the in-
flexibiity of a curriculum that of-:
fers him a choice of bacteriology,
qualitative analysis:or radio phys-
ics, there are some students who
can’t see where such courses will
fit into their future plans and who
would prefer the extra year of his-
tory or French that isn’t offered.

One disadvantage of the adVanc-
ed, exploratory science electives is
that a scientist taking such cours-
es is sure to do further study in
his subject in college; meanwhile
his “advanced” high school course,
which usually won’t enable him to
get advanced standing in college,
will be duplicated in his college
work.

The drawbacks of curricular in-
flexibility ‘and of superficiality in
advanced courses are eliminated to
some extent by the program of
“eollege courses”. These courses,
outgrowths of a Ford Foundation
experimental program, prepare a
limited number of students for the
advanced-standing — of
the College Board.

Although most of the ’ High
School of Science’s “college cours-
es” are in math or the sciences,
English courses on this higher iev-
el, which are the only instance of
a compromise between the curric-
ulum and the non-science student,
provide an outlet for the human-
istically inclined.

Even when the colleges don’t all
offer advanced standing, as in the
case of the English courses, the
advanced work in high school helps
to fill in the gap between school
and college, and can compensate
for what is often inadequate prep-
aration in regular high school
courses for something like Fresh-
man Composition.



Progressive Schooling Stimulates
Creative Talent, Academic Interest

by Mary-Louise Cohen °59

During the years 1953-55, I at-
tended the Cambridge School of
Weston, a co-educational, progres-
sive school situated in Weston,
Massachusetts, about ten miles
outside of Boston. A change from
public to private school in the mid-
dle of my high school education
resulted in some serious omissions
in my academic background.
(Plenty of Cummings, but no
Beowulf!). Therefore, it is difficult
for me to ascertain in regard to
particular subjects the full value
of progressive education in respect
to college preparation. However,
the college preparatory value of a
progressive education can be
understood by considering the par-
ticular nature of progressive edu-
cation (of which Auntie Mame
does not paint an accurate picture!)

Ideally, a progressive school at-
tempts, primarily through organ-
ization of the curriculum, to
create an atmosphere in which in-
dividual achievement will be the
direct result of individual effort.
This generalization, in action, is

_reflected in the classroom where

the teachers do a minimum of
lecturing—enough to allow a rea-
sonably diligent student to pass,
and enough to stimulate a curious
individual to dedicated study. ‘The
typical complaint against many
public school systems, that “the
class moves too slowly for my

~~Janie”, is completely obliterated in|

the progressive school situation,
and Janie finally gets a chance to
see if she is worth as much as her
mother thinks she. is.

This theory of progressive edu-
cation, which can be successful only
when a student develops individual
interests for herself, personal work



habits and personal standards for
the integrity of her work, depends,
to a large extent, on the labora-
tory system. Instead of holding
each of the four courses once each
day, the courses meet only three
times a week and the two extra
hours that remain for each course
are designated as _ laboratory
periods. During these times, stu-
dents are expected to go to the
classroom at the hour that the
particular class is held and there
to ask questions on work present-
ed in class or to seek éxtra work
in a related area of study that
seems particularly interesting.

The highly efficient student gov-
ernment, in which all students
participate enthusiastically, is an-
other instance of progressive edu-
cation which demonstrates clearly
that students can and should make
important decisions in matters
that directly affect them. The
Cambridge School student govern-
ment has fully as much power as
do the legislative and executive
departments of the Bryn Mawr
student government.

Accompanying this bare outline
of the general organization of the
progressive system are the valu-
able relationships which are estab-
lished between student and teach-
er. These friendships are pleasant
socially and, in addition, often
stimulate greater interest in aca-
demic subjects.

“Because of the relative newness
of the progressive system, it is in-
clined, perhaps, to pamper the
“adolescent intellect.” In fact,
those critical of progressiv® edu-
cation insist that by sparing the
traditional drill methods of educa-
cation, the child is spoiled. Cer-
Continued on Page 4, Column 3



A New York Times article a
few months ago deplored the
lack of adequate college prepara-
tion in’ many American high
schools. Students at Bryn Mawr
“have often been heard to bemoan
the neglect-of one-particular field
in their pre-college training. On
the other hand, some find thém-
selves well prepared for the first
year of college. In this issue five
students, each coming to Bryn
Mawr from a distinct type of
high school, present ‘their views
on pre-college preparation in re-
lation to their college career.



Lack Of Counseling Observed —

In Mid-Western

by Betsy Johnson °59

The students constituting Bryn
Mawr’s undergraduate population
come from a wide variety of edu-
cational backgrounds’ upon en-
trance in their freshman year.
Only a minority of these pre-col-
lege educations represent the aver-
age U. S. public school training. I



Classical: Education Requires High
Standards, Has Academic Tradition

by Eleanor Winsor ’5

Although to the solid citizens of
Providence the. support of an ex-
clusively college preparatory
school seems “undemocratic,” the
Providence Classical High School
has survived for 114 years as a
fixture in the good New England
educational tradition. Recent pub-
licity: and cviticism of ‘its strict
policy seems only to have in-
creased its popularity until an in-
flux of students threatens to burst
its antiquated seams. _ '

No exams can be given for en-
trance to the school and therefore
it must maintain its standards by
demanding from each student a
consistently high level of work.
The requirements for graduation
will satisfy any college’s entrance,
with two years of Latin, two of a
modern language, four of English,
three of math, two of history and
one of science. For electives there
is the wide choice of more langu-
age, math or history. Emphasis is
definitely on the humanities, with
half the students taking four years
of Latin.

Academic advantages are offset
in many eyes by the physical
handicaps of a public school: lack
of space, large classes, poor facil-
ities and a building that dates
from 1896 with the official rating
of “fire trap.”

Classical might easily be named
the “Brown University” prep-
school as over one-fourth of the
graduates are accepted at Brown
or Pembroke and seem to find there
is hardly any shock in their trans-
ition to a co-ed Ivy League college.
They are not only at home socially
but seem to be assured a brill-
iant collegiate career.

Reports from other women’s or
men’s colleges vary. Generally my
classmates have found themselves
quite adequately prepared in
language and English composition
(I was able to pass the two orals
immediately upon entrance), but,
unless they are genii, rather lack-
ing in math and _ science back-
grounds.

The ten hours per week of class
work and preparation time were
also expected at Classical with the
difference that good students were
often able to slip by with far less
work. As long as we maintained
our cum laude averages no one
really questioned the amount of
individual work we did. Students
who could not do the work were
advised to leave, but remedial
work was always available after
school. Still, except in a few Eng-
lish classes, it was seldom that we
were encouraged to deal with ideas
instead-of-facts. In.college we.now
have a tendency to let our unsub-
stantiated ideas run away with us.

A discussion of academics, how-
‘ever;-hardly-- covers the experience
of four years at Classical. What
really mattered was that famil-
iar BMC catch-phrase “tradition.”
Our school spirit was different
from the hale, hearty spirit of a
gleaming modern public high
school; we knew our. teams were

defeated before the games; the



plaster owas falling overhead;
mushrooms grew on the walls;
dusty gods and goddesses adorned
the corridors. Still, we created a
pleasant and _ satisfying social
world in which we felt a kind of
common desire to keep the walls
from falling on us. Involuntarily
we absorbed an attitude, a respect
for tradition and a “conditioning
for education” that has been a
large factor in helping us to adjust
enthusiastically to college.

[Boarding School

Contains Defects

by Nancy Gaylord ’59

I went to a small (225) girls’
boarding school
Connecticut. This school’s purpose
is to get its students into good
colleges, and, by excluding almost
everything outside of the academic,
it succeeds. Here we had no con-
tact with the surrounding com-
munity, few weekends, callers only
on Saturday afternoons and limit-
ed extra-curricular activities, so
we had to spend most of our time
on school work. So I came to Bryn
Mawr well prepared to spend a
great deal of time on my studies.
Large reading assignments (es-
pecially in History of Art in which
Farmington’s library is far better
than B.M.C.’s) prepared me for
reading here, and I was also well
prepared for one oral and exams in
general.

My class had been intelligent, so
I was not surprised to learn that
there were many people here
brighter than I. However, being
well prepared academically, I made
a mistake common to the gradu-
ates of good prep schools— I made
the Dean’s List with no effort the
first term, and found myself well
behind the more conscientious pub-
lic school graduates by ‘the second
term. Although well prepared for
the more time-consuming mechan-
ics of study, I promptly realized
that I had learned to work only
in a near-vacuum, and that while
I was used to discipline I had ‘not
had much opportunity to practice
self-discipline.

Boarding school, by the simple
fact that it separates you from
your family and forces you to learn
to get on'‘by yourself with your
often very critical contemporaries,
implies a certain amount of self-
reliance, but the encouragement of
freedom of thought certainly could
not be said to be one of Farming-~

ton’s-official- policies, The student

government there had no legisla-
tive or judicial power of its own;
it merely enforced the rules creat-
ed by long tradition and the head-
master and headmistress’s personal
decisions. The school newspaper
was thoroughly censored.

The students all came from the
upper social and economic strata;
Farmington frankly makes no at-
tempt to prepare its graduates for
the greater diversity of back-
grounds found at-Bryn Mawr.

Continued on Paap 5, ‘Column 4

in Farmington, !

High School

feel. that an accurate example of
this average is a 1200 student, mid-
western high school, From person-
al experience I will discuss the
merits and demerits of such a high
school in relation to entrance to
Bryn Mawr.

‘Just under half the seniors
graduating in 1955 from Muskogee,
Oklahoma, High School continued
their education in state and_pri-
vate colleges and universities in
the area. Of the 150 college-bound
high school graduates in my class,
mine was the only application to
a Seven College Conference school.
My classmates had neither heard
of nor prepared themselves for a
college with the academic stand-

deficiency in the available mid-
western high school training? Ap-
parently not because I have found
no major inadequacies in my Mus-
kogee High foundation. Why, then,
any I here a’ sole representative,
and where is the average public
high school failing to: meet Bryn
Mawr requirements ?

Curriculum Inadequate

T feel that there is not a schol-
astic
public high. In Muskogee four
years in math, science, English,
Latin, Spanish and history are
offered by at least one competent
teacher in each subject. However,
in addition to these “solid” sub-
jects, home economics, secretarial
courses, art, , music, agriculture,
auto and radio mechanics, wood-
work and salesmanship are offer-
ed. These vocational courses are of
excellent quality as are the college
prep courses. While the faculty in-
cludes some poorly trained teachers
in both areas of study, the quality
of the material offered is good.

The fault of Muskogee High lies
in its counselling and guidance
program. I feel that this particu-
lar case is a manifestation of a
predominant trend in the U. S.—
a concern to educate the masses.
This requires that the nation’s
educational systems elevate the
less able and less inclined students
to the average in order to develop
a population having a high per-
cent of high school graduates. In

the near-delinquent student in
school until he passes the age limit
or graduates. The college poten-
tials, who cause few disciplinary
problems and therefore do not
come to the attention of the
“counsellors,” are left to make
their own choices and meet self-
made challenges. They are seldom
encouraged to exceed the accepted
norm except by a few teachers and
parents. ‘

k ‘
Enforced Conformity

The neglect of the counsellors is
accentuated by
student attitude. In order to be
liked by and to be like everyone
else, one cannot be a “brain.” Par-
ticipating and excelling in extra-
curricular activities is a far more
important achievement than any
scholastic excellence. A financial
block-looms before-many potential
college students who are not in-
formed of possible scholarship aid

faced with expectations of college
entrance, conflicting attractive
extra-curricular.activities whith...
hamper “solid” subjects, vocation-
al and college-prep courses, which
are equally weighted, and no em-
phasis .on. his scholastic wants or
needs. - Sudden realization of the
impending college requirements



Continued on Page ws Column 2

PS Se aan, VeRneee,

inadequacy in the average.

ards of Bryn Mawr. Is there a real |

Muskogee and elsewhere guidance .
efforts are exhausted in keeping

the conventional _—

plans. The active bright student is -

%

comes in the senior year when pre- -






Page ‘Four

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, March 20,

1957 ©:



Marijauna Or A Vitamin Pill, Or: Do

You Take Your Mass Media Straight?

by Rita Rubinstein
Under the title, “Art and Mass

Media,” the William J. Cooper
Foundation is sponsoring at
Swarthmore this spring seven

leaders in the fields f communi-
cation and the j,/

James Michene¥ and Oscar Ham-
merstein II were the first person-
alities to address the college; we
reprint the highlights of their
talks as reported in the Swarth-
more Phoenix.

“The mass media may be a path
’ to wider communication or it may
be ‘the marijuana of the mind,’
depending upon the artist’s ability
to preserve his intellectual integ-
rity while striving to both achieve
his purposes and satisfy these
media. His purpose is to express
artistically what hissexperience and
insight have permitted him to see,
conveying this to the audience he
seeks, while simultaneously making
a decent living ...

Aesthetics People

“The existence of the mass media
creates a particular set of problems
with which the artist has to cope.
Popular opinion, according to Mr.
Michener, seems to look down upon
them, a fact indicaéted to him by the
first question he is inevitably asked
‘concerning it, ‘Does a writer sell
his soul to the devil when dealing
with the mass media?’ This is a
possibility, since the mass media
»>is notable for its lack of depth.
‘Tt is thererére easy to become tne
man who ‘writes ons* good novel
and then goes to Héllywood.’ ‘On
the other hand,’ says Michener,
‘I hear too much about the poor
Richard having lost his soul, with-
out anyone asking if he had one
in the first place.’

“A second problem 1s censorship.
The danger here is the constantly
growing list of things about which
one may not write.

“On a more personal level, Mr.
Michener stated, ‘I have, however,
sensed a minor conflict, conse-
quently I have refused to bind my
work to any one of the mass
media.’

“That there is great potential in
the mass media Michener heartily
supports. He cites T. S. Eliot’s
The Cocktail Party as conclusive
proof of the success of one author
to reach a wider audience. And for
the authors who, like Michener,
‘never put their two fingers to
their typewriters unless they want
to hit somebody right in the heart’,
mass media represents a method of
transporting these ideas . which

may be a crutch in the hands of a
self-important hack with a hatful
of rejection slips. But it may also
be a real problem. History abounds
in examples of artists who were
ignored or scorned by their own
age, and canonized in another
(Puccinni’s Butterfly which Mr.
Hammerstein praised for the
‘raised. level’ of its music, was hiss-
ed and vegetabled off the stage at
its opening night fiasco).

“‘One cannot shrug off illustra-
tions from the past simply because
the “works are recognized by the
modern public: 1957 is no aesthetic
pinnacle. Some of the failures and
unknowns of our day will certain-
ly be extolled in years to come.
And just as certainly, many of our
current fashions will fall into
anonymity or ridicule. It is even
possible that one day there will
arise a group of Americans so sub-

versive as to be bored by
Oklahoma!’
“Hence, Mr. Hammerstein has

dealt solely with the mass media,
and fails to give us any standard
of art other than general and pre-
sent public appreciation. For him,
the mass media is no ‘marijuana
of the mind,’ but a benign vitamin
pill for the tired businessman.”

B. Johnson
Continyed from Page 3.

liminary thought and study is too
late.

The only reason I am in Bryn
Mawr with Muskogee High School
training is that a few interested
teachers and my parents pushed
me harder and more steadily than
the other students. An inadequate
guidance counsellor caused defi-
ciencies in my high school pre-
paration — nothing else since the
teachers and subjects offer ade-
quate preparation for the level of

achievement necessary at Bryn
Mawr.

Engagements

Nancy Fairbank ’569 to Peter M.
Renner.
Dorothy Roscoe ’58 to John Dean
Kyle.
Joan Batt ’60 to Kenneth Cush-
man.
Gloria Jacower ’57 to Donald A.
Rosen.

Helen Rhinelander ’56 to E. S.
Whitney Thompson.

Margaret R. Hall ’55 to Robert
B. Reeves.,

they believe in to the large dudi-|. __

ence with whom they wish to share
them.

“While Mr. Michener stated the
problem, Mr. Hammerstein refused
to acknowledge an opposition be-
tween art and the mass media; he
disparaged a formula, ie. any
quick way to success.

“Yet in its place he (Oscar
Hammerstein II) gives us only a
more up-to-date recipe: the ‘ro-
mantically agreeable,’ well-built
book, replete with sturdy, ultra-
human .. characters upon whose
shoulders rests the burden of
17 -song cues, a hoedown and a
pinch of philosophy: the girls may
arrive forty minutes late, but they
get there all the same.

“To deny the commercial form-

ula is to neglect the entire lucra-| °

tive history of Hollywood . . . Mr.
Hammerstein proposes a dramatic
desideratum of the concern with
the ‘nobility of mankind,’ so that
the audience emerges with a ‘high-
er understanding.’ Yet he tells us
that the musical comedy need not
be a ‘great contribution to’ litera-
ture or philosophy,’ success be-
comes the necessary condition for
that brand of art, which Mr. Ham-
merstein ager as highly skill-
ed labor.



5 e
Marriages —
Elizabeth R. Barker to Victor
H. Frank Jr.

Judy Sniscak ex-’58 to Herbert
W. Shaw. Jr.

At the Inter-Faith Association
board meeting Tuesday, March 12,
theré was a discussion about
formation of ‘nationally connected
religious groups on the atc Mawr
campus, ee

Mr. John “O'Hara, a graduate
student at the Bryn Mawr. School
of Social Economy, attended the
meeting to present the possibility
of forming here a Newman Club
which is a national Roman Cath-
olic organization with branches on
college and university campuses.
It is analogous to the Episcopal
Canterbury Club, the Presbyterian
Westminster Foundation and the
Jewish Hillel Club.

The board discussed the advan-
tages and possibilities of having
such groups here at Bryn Mawr.
Mrs. Walter C, Michels pointed
out that the reason these organi-
zations were not present on campus
was that the administration frown-
ed upon the formation of any
groups which had prerequisites | -

est. These would promote a divi-
siveness among the students that
is not present as the situation now

stands. She hastened to add, how-
ever, that if students were inter-
ested in forming discussion groups
(other than those already provided
for by the Association) they would
certainly be welecome—but not
groups with denominationa] ties.
Mr. O’Hara said that the New-
man Club in other schools provides
necessary counseling and nurtures
the spiritual growth of the stu-
dents, supplementing their many
academic obligations.

Sandy Grant, President of the



M. L. Cohen

Continued from Page 3

tainly there is no doubt that both
elements are desirable in a good
education.

of progressive education I arrived
at{ Bryn Mawr well-schooled in
English poetry, only respectably
educated in European history, teg-
rible in mathematics, well-pre-

‘put at least as much time into study
‘at Cambridge as I now do at Bryn
Mawr. What was more important
than these particulars, however,
was that I was not afraid to think



creatively on any subject and to
express my feelings in writing.



THEATRES

day, March 23,

Saturday, March 30.
MOVIES —

(Wendell Corey.
Goldman; The Tattered Dress with
Crain; begins Thursday.
Lane: Oedipus Rex.
-Mastbaum: Full- of ‘Life with Judy

Studio: La Strada. ~*

torio DeSica.
ACADEMY OF MUSIC.



'chestra with Mason



Events in Philadelphia

Forrest: The Joker with snee Noonan, Anne Kimbell; until Satur-

Walnut: Liza with Hugh Reilly, Anne Seymour, Rain Winslow; until

Arcadia: The Rainmaker with Katherine Hepburn, Burt Lancaster,

Jeff Chandler, Jack Carson, Jeanne

‘Holliday, hickera ¢ Conte; Sicienine
Saturday: Mister Cory with Tony Curtis, Martha Hyer.

Midtown: Around The World in 80 Days with David Niven.
Randolph: The Ten Commandments.

4

Trans-Lux: Anastasia with Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes.
Viking: Three Brave Men with Ernest Borgnine, Ray Milland.
World: Gold of Naples with Silvana Mangano, Sophia Loren, Tito, Vit-

Thursday, eck bic Bubile dik inccoiies, is,
Friday afternoon, March 22 and Saturday
pen» op Aree cio mr sun ner be rag ea a



for membership other than inter-|

As an only half-baked product |

‘pared in the sciences and probably|
especially well-trained in langu-|.
‘ages. I was not at all surprised at|
the amount or quality of the work}
that’ was expected of me since I|



Do Formation of Denominational Groups

On Campus Disputed by Inter-Faith

Inter-Faith Association, urged
those present to find out what peo-

e|ple on campus think about this

idea. She-suggested that any stu-
dents interested in the presence of
these national groups on campus,
contact her by campus mail or at-
tend a board meeting to present
their suggestions. All board meet-
ings are open.



BM Fencing Team
Victorious In Meet

On Saturday, March 16, the Bryn
Mawr fencing team defeated Barn-
ard at New York. Both varsity
and JV teams won, six to three.
Fencing varsity were Gail Disney,
Donna. Cochrane and Ann Lank.
Marisa Gori, Lucy Sherman and
Cynthia Stone made up the JV
squad.





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TME COLLEGE NEWS

Page Five



Various Interpretations of Parts, Excellent Direction

And Good Sets Characterize Eliot’s ‘Cocktail Party’

Continued from Page 1

demanded a polish, rhythm and
sophistication that was never at-
tained.

Unity was also maintained by
the quality of the acting which was
generally adequate and, in instanc-
es, exceptionally good. Although
individual performances were by
no means equal, no character by
inept acting destroyed the balance
of the characters. On the other
hand, the vital relationships be-
tween pairs of characters were
often stiff or blurred and the re-
sult was 4 minimum of emphasis
on the leading question of the
drama—that of real experience be-
tween two individuals.

In his role of a middle-aged
lawyer Jon Korper was complete-
ly convincing. At times he may
have been hesitant, at times he
was stiff, but he never lost his ap-
pearance of maturity, and he nev-
er failed to create an interesting
role, In addition he possessed a
fine, quiet humor. - His own re-
sponses to other people were sen-
sitive and well portrayed; variety
and charm supported his distin-
guished appearance.-

An opposite notion of acting
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Both actors seemed to feel secure
in the knowledge that they were
type cast, but aside from their
surface suitability the character
interpretations were flat and the
speech was bombastic.

Lavinia warmed nicely to her
quarrel scenes with Edward,
but she lacked genuine stage pres-
ence; her gestures were sharp
and nervous, Peter was even more
shallow and unsympathetic in a
role that demanded depth and sin-
cerity. His speech and over-prec-
ious diction, although quite “bo-
hemian”, set him apart from the
other characters as having no emo-
tional belief in what he said. The
sensation and appropriateness of
his appearance in the last act can-
not be denied; its pathos might be
questioned.

Most exacting of all roles, per-
haps, were the coordinating parts
of the Guardians, Julia and Alex,
ably and originally handled by
Katherine Kohlas and Andrew Mil-
ler. In their comic and serious,
in their individual and combined
functions, both performances were
delightful and significant. Obvi-
ously there were other possibili-
ties for, both comic portrayals, but.
having chosen, the two maintained
their interpretations well. Kath-
erine Kohlas did not really por-
tray Julia as an old lady; yet her
vivacity and lightness made the
Guardian seem a timeless, other-
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of the comic Guardians emphasized
their necessary change in Acts II
and III into serious Guardians and
the change was quite definite,
The libation scene and the revela-
tion of act IIL were skillful
enough to reveal the inter-relations
of the characters, the intellectual
structure of the play and the pur-
pose of the playwright.

The strength of Janet Myles’
performance as Celia lay in her
stage presence and her ability to
speak poetry. She had a charac-
ter-life of her own but not_a life
in response to other characters, as
exemplified by the fact that in Act
II she could talk movingly about
a relationship with Edward that in
Act I she had been unable to
portray convincingly. ‘Where she
succeeded as Celia, the saint, she
failed as Celia the “name in the
society column”, and yet she made
her role strong enough so that her
martyrdom in Act III could be
striking and significant.

Charles Knight as the unidenti-
fied Guest appeared marvelously
satanical and sinister; and yet he
betrayed at first an immobility of
character that increased oppress-
ively when he appeared as the
psychologist. He did not act, and
perhaps he did not have to labor
for his general impression but his
mystical, oracular voice was ‘un-
changing and unclear.

As a factor ‘in its artistic form
and success, The Cocktail Party
boasted two tasteful and well exe-
cuted sets. ‘Costumes were Wel-
chosen to complement the set and
to balance each other. The play
did create its dramatic world—
credible and complete—and it did
challenge the audience, intellectual-
ly and emotionally, to respond.

The role of the director, Robert
Butman, was in this case self evi-
dent. Such a play as The Cocktail
Party could yot, and in fact would
not, have been attempted by stu-
dents without professional guid-
ance. Casting, staging, dramatic
integration showed the same excel-
lence that has recently character-
ized College Theatre productions.

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Last Friday evening in Park
Hall, W. F. Libby, Atomic Energy
Commissioner, spoke to Sigma Xi
members and students on “Cosmic
Ray and Bomb Test Tritium .in
Meteorology and Hydrology.”

Tritium, which is one of the
radioactive isotopes of hydrogen
is found primarily in the atmos-
phere. Through rainfall, it reaches
the earth. Hence one can determine
the tritium content in rain water.
Mr. Libby has found that rain
water which fell over land contain-
ed more tritium than that which
felk over the ocean. This results
from tite fact that rain which falls
over jthe ocean has its tritium
content greatly diluted while the
rain water falling over the land
can eventually evaporate and make
a second trip back’ into the atmos-
phere to obtain more tritium. This
procedure can be repeated innum-
erable times. It was further found
that the tritium content of waters
varied as one went from the West
to the East Coast. The waters in
New York City showed a tritium

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me incapable of handling the
broader dimensions of college life;
I think it only ‘made me appreciate
them more fully. I have welcomed
the new responsibilities. of an
honor system and greater academic
freedom. I will admit that after
three years of rigid restrictions
I adjusted rather tardily to Bryn
Mawr’s more liberal social atti-
tudes (ie.: men), but, after all,
social decisions are, something one
ultimately. has to make for one-
self anyway.

| Life and thought at Farmington
weer indeed decidedly narrow, but
all that Miss Porter’s school prom-
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to a good college, and its prepara-
tion was sufficient to make good
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W. F. Libby Talks On Uses Of Tritium
To Determine Facts About Rain Water

content four times as great as the
waters of California.

One of the more amusing epi-
sodes in the collection of experi-
mental data occurred when it was
found necessary to measure the
tritium content in water from a
given locality and of known age.
The only water which ‘met—these
two requirements were vintage
wines which were promptly bought
from the old European vineyards.
The alcoholic contents were distill-
ed and burned ‘so that only water
was left. It was found that the
tritium content fell at the anti-
cipated half-life rate of 12.25
years. -Further measurements
showed that the tritium content
over land rose greatly after the
hydrogen bomb tests of March,
1954. As an example, the following
data was presented by Mr. Libby:

Date Tritium Content
2/20/54 4.2%
8/2/54 21%
3/19/54 885%
10/9/54 34%

Other measurements showed that
the increase in tritium in rivers was
much greater than in rain water.
River water reflects rain water
which has been diluted while rain
water reflects the per cent of
ocean water vapor brought in by
the winds. From measuring the
‘tritium content in both river and‘
rain water, it was possible to cal- ’
culate the fraction of rain water
which is ocean water. This has
never been done before except by
other more complicated procedu-
ures: It was’ found’ that one-third
of the rain water is ocean water,
and two thirds is water which has
been re-evaporated or has pre-
viously fallen as rain. :

Mr. Libby’s lecture ended with
the important fact that tritium is
produced in the solar corona and
is then introduced onto the planets
from the sun. Mr, Libby felt that
this might be an indication that
there are other radioactive isotopes
produced in the sun’s corona which
may be brought on to the earth
through rain. Hence, we may be
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“The Chances of Children in Our
Time and Their Problems” was dis-
cussed last night by Mr. Mark
McCloskey under the auspices of
the League.

Chairman of the New York
State Youth Commisison, Mr. Mc-
Closkey noted that because of ma-
terial progress children had a
good chance today, even in con-
forming modern society. But, he
went on, many children are “get-
ting lost”’—a loss which is expen-
sive even in terms of personal
tragedy and waste.

To alleviate present problems
Mr. McCloskey suggested smaller
institutions, a need for the British
approach, more individual work
with the “ill-constructed child,”
more dedicated social work with
“hard-core families,” firmer—but
not punitive-schools and more help
given to the children’s courts.
Moreover, there exists a need to
bring up the “quality of taste” in
society, and to incorporate fully
into modern thought the intellectu-
al revolution brought about by
Freud;

‘Institutions, many aspects of
which Mr. McCloskey criticized,
should be a last resort; and in
addition, he stated, the entire na-
ture of punishment. today is mis-
understood and: should be re-evalu-
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pendence and nationalism by trans-
lating and teaching such philoso-
phies in the Arabic tongue.

Moreover, the United States had
no part in any of the secret trea-
ties made after World War I, pro-
viding for contro] of the area by
the European powers. American
foreign policy has always advocat-
ed freedom for.the Arabian coun-
tries, and American technical and
economic aid has been considerable
and willingly given.

Having shown that history fails
to reveal a basis for the Arabic ac-
cusation of American imperialism,
Mr. Hurewitz suggested /that one

nt to
such a characterizati of the
United States is our connection
with NATO, which creates guilt by
association by linking us with ad-
mittedly imperialist nations like
Britain and France. However, Mr.
Hurewitz pointed out that the
United States has consistently
served as mediator in questions re-
lating to the Middle East, and has
ultimately sided with the Arabs,

against our own allies, in every

dispute, as, for example, the Anglo-
Egyptian conflicts over control of
thé Sudan and the Suez Canal.

Secondly, Mr. Hurewitz mention-
ed our relations with Israel-as evi-
dence in Arab eyes of American
imperialistic tendencies. In ans-
wer, the speaker recalled that the
American position with regard to
the. creation of the state of Israel
wavered, even, in theUnited--Na*
tions,

The Arab nationalists, said Mr.
Hurewitz, are living in the past

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and the future, rather than in the
present, as far as ‘their political
claims are concerned: past images
both of the glory of early Islam
and of more’ recent subjugation,
and future ones of a reestablish-
‘ment of Arab unity.

Americans cannot ignore the cry
of imperialist directed at them, nor
can they continué to avoid the is-
sue or rely on their allies to ans-
wer for thefh. As a means of
ameliorating Arabian-American re-
lations, Mr. Hurewitz offered a
twofold policy including thorough
examination of our vital and sub-
stantial interests in the area and
careful explanation of our attitude
and actions to the Arabs.

Sayegh
Continued from Page 1

As to the East-West conflict, the
Arabs’ position today is a dilemma.
Cujturally and ideologically he be-
longs to the West—Communist ma-
terialism and amalgamation are
entirely opposed to Arab emphasis
on the spiritual and to Arab na-
tionalism. But there is a concrete
political conflict between the Arab
world and. the West: England and
France have attempted to revive
colonialism, and the United States

ment. There are two schools of
thought among Arabs today. One
is that the Arabs should maintain
their political, economic and mili-
tary alliance with the West. The
other, the “neutralist,”. advises
staying out of the East-West con-
flict entirely. The answer to the
dilemma, said Mr. Sayegh, lies not
in the hands of the Arabs alone,
but largely in Western attitude,
and especially depends upon the
Western recognition of Arab de-

mands for freedom and fair play.



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