Some items in the TriCollege Libraries Digital Collections may be under copyright. Copyright information may be available in the Rights Status field listed in this item record (below). Ultimate responsibility for assessing copyright status and for securing any necessary permission rests exclusively with the user. Please see the Reproductions and Access page for more information.
College news, October 7, 1959
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
Bryn Mawr College (creator)
1959-10-07
serial
Weekly
6 pages
digitized microfilm
North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 46, No. 02
College news (Bryn Mawr College : 1914)--
https://tripod.brynmawr.edu/permalink/01TRI_INST/26mktb/alma991001620579...
Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation.
BMC-News-vol46-no2
VOL. XLV—NO. 2
ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER ,.. 1959
© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1959
PRICE 20 CENTS
Mr. Gardner At
Convocation
Lauds, Challenges B. M. C.
What are the processes involved in the rise and fall, the burgeon-
ing and decay of human institutions? This question intended to “foster
a certain amount of creative discontent,” was posed by John W. Gard-
ner at the 75th opening convocation leat Monday. Mr. Gardner, Presi-
dent of the Carnegie Corporation
of New York, was introduced by
Miss McBride.
There are, according to Mr. Gard-
ner, three major ways in which in-
stitutions lose their vitality. The
first of these is through the in-
dividuals associated with them. In
many cases the college is unable
to encourage the attendance of
worthy|persons. \Moreoftenthannot
individuals’ inadequacies are the re-
sult of a deliberate policy of the
institution. The authorities accept
colleagues who fit into their pre-
conceived notions of the ideal pro-
fessor or student. Mr. Gardner said
that he is “inclined to believe that
in the interest of vitality every
institution should diversify its
membership or clientele.”
Procedural “Trap”
Another reason for the narrow-
ing potentialities of organizations
is an “ever tightening web of rules,
lines of authority, and customs.”
The original goals of institu-
tion are lost in a maze of proce-
dure, The means become more im-
portant than the end. Energy be-
comes channeled “into all the tiny
rivulets of conformity.” People
are concerned, not with what to do,
but how to do it. Therefore the
“individual who comes out ahead
is not the individual who has a
new idea—but the one who has
an ingrained knowledge of all the
traditional ways of the institution.”
This is not the atmosphere in
which “creative minds flower.”
The climate breeds connoiseurship
rather than creativity and origi-
nality. This all comes about be-
, Continued on Page 5, Col. 3
Skinner Scene
Of Frosh Plays
French, original creations, and
simplicity are the thing in fresh-
man hall plays this year. Pem
West is part of the Frenchy em-
phasis, doing “Les Précieuses Rid-
icules,” (by Moliére—en anglais,
for the non-francophiles. Direct-
or Annette Eustis listed a cast of
seven major roles “but everyone
has a part.” She also gave a most
honorable mention to wupperclass
advisors Trudy Hoffman and Bea
Kipp, Annette says the scenery
will require “imagination, yes, but
a set.” ‘She added mysteriously
that “the costumes will be quite
unusual, but I can’t tell you why.”
Wilder In Pem E.
Over in Pem.East, the simplic-
ity theme led to Thornton Wilder,
“The Happy Journey” to he -spe-
cific. This is simplicity at its sim-
plest, with only a gray-curtain
backdrop, four chairs “and a bed
shoved in at the end.” (Sue Schro-
der is the director and Lynme Hol-
lander the upperclass advisor, with
Joan Paddock as stage manager.
Meanwhile, back in France,
Denbigh |('with the Deanery) is do-
ing (Giraudoux’s “The Apollo of
(Bellac,” directed by Lindsay Clem-
son, stage managed bby ‘Anita De-
Laguna, and advised by Barbara
‘Paul and Elaine Cotler. The play
has five main characters and is
what its director describes as “a
comedy with a ‘good ending.” ~
Continued on Page 5, Col. 4
Faculty Returning From Leave Listed:
Appointments, Resignations Reported
Extensive changes in the com-
position of the faculty have been
announced for this academic year.
Such changes are the prodict of
retirements, temporary leaves, fac-
ulty members returning from
leaves, and turnover in instructor-
ships and assistantships. In the
- listing below, the faculty member’s
occupation for the past year or
for this year follows the name.
Katherine E. McBride, Ph.D.
‘Hugues (Leblanc, Ph.D.: Guild
Fellowship. ‘Completing nal on
inductive logic.
(Manguerite ‘Lehr, Ph.D.: Visit-
ing Lecturer for the Mathemat-
ical Association of America (part-
time).
Geddes MacGregor, Ph.D.; Vis-
iting Lecturer at the University
of ‘California.
Mildred Northrop, Ph.D.: Work-
ing on underdeveloped areas;
spending some time in West Af-
rica, some in (Spain,
(Bugene |Schneider, Ph.D.
Alexander Soper, Ph.D.; Visit-
ing Lecturer..at the New York
(University (part-time).
Retirements
Myra Jessen: Professor of Ger-
Faculty on Leave, 1959-60
‘Annie Leigh Broughton:
Ttaly. fe
T. Robert. S. Broughton: Profes-
In
School at the American Academy
in Rome.
Robert Davidon: Working at
the (Medical Research Institute in
‘Cambridge, England.
(Frederica de Laguna: Visiting
‘Lecturer at the University of Cal-
ifornia for Semester I.
Arthur P. Dudden: Fulbright
/Grant for research on ‘American
| history and civilization at Univer-
sity of (Copenhagen,
Felix Gilbert: Visiting Lecturer
at the University of Cologne,
Joshua Hubbard: National Re-
search Professor of the Brookings
Institute.
Mabel Lang: Fulbright Grant for
research at the American School
of Classical Studies in Athens.
Gertrude (Leighton: Part-time
leave, Semester 1.
(Mario Maurin: Guggenheim Fel-
lowship for Semester II to work
in France.
Jane Oppenheimer: Senior post-
doctoral Fellowship of the Nation-
al Science Foundation.
‘Warner SBerthoff: Part-time
leave.
Robert \A. (Wallace: Part-time
leave.
iNew Faculty, 1959-60
Candidate for the Ph.D. at Johns
Hopkins (University—Instruetor.
Economics: Laura E. Romine,
(M.A.—Lecturer,
English: Catherine Rogers, B.A.,
sor in charge of the (Classical
Continued on Page 6, Col. 1
~
Glenway Wescott
To Present Views
On Thomas Mann
A lecture and concert commem-
orating Thomas.Miann will be held
at Haverford on Friday, October
9. The lecture, given bby Glen-
way Wescott, is entitled “Thomas
Mann: Willpower and Fiction”, Mr.
Wescott is president of the Acad-
emy of |Arts and Letters; and the
author of Harper Prize winner
“The Grandmothers” (1927), and
“Apartment in \Athens” (1945).
He will speak at 4:00, in Roberts
Hall.
The concert, at 8:45 :p.m., also in
Roberts Hall, will be presented \by
the Julliard String Quartet. Their
program includes some of Mann’s
favorite music—works by Mozart,
Mendelssohn and Beethoven. The
members of the quartet are: Rob-
ert ‘Mann, violin; Isidore Cohen,
violin; Raphael Hillyer, viola, and
Claude Adams, cello.
Alumna Sponsors
This commemorative program is
one of a series of three, sponsor-
ed by Miss Caroline Newton, an
alumna of Bryn Mawr (class of
1914). The first. of the series was
held at Bryn Mawr im 1956, when
Mark Van Doren spoke on “Joseph
Tetrology” of (Mann, followed by
a piano recital by Rudolf Serkin.
In 1962, the third such program
should take place at Swarthmore
College,
‘Miss Newton is. particularly in-
terested in (Mann, and considers
him both “a great, European and
a great writer.”
Mr. K. Complex
Asserts Kennedy
. (Mr. Kennedy, in the first cur-
rent events lecture of the year,
“traded guesses” with a crowd in
the common room on “Mr, K. and
_[ What He Means”. In_describinig.
the Russian premier, he empha-
sized the fact that Khrushchev
“came right up through the party
machinery”. ‘Thus, although un-
doubtedly impressed by much of
what he saw in the U\S., he con-
tinues to think of us as a decadent
capitalist society.
Mr. K’s Objectives
Khrushchev’s objectives in com-
ing, in so far as we can determine
them, were to “break the ice”, to
boost his own and Russia’s. pres-
tige, to observe the U.S. with an
eye to eliminating some of the
Soviet’s economic weakmesses, and
to’promote foreign trade. Perhaps
his main objective was a less, tan-
gible one—that of pushing or as-
certaining our acceptance of the
(present world situation. We .now
admit the semi-permanent division
of 'Germany and the existence of
the satellite bloc without much
hope of altering the situation to
rehabilitate the world. A few
years ago, this admission would
have been thought quite imposs-
ible.
Proposals “Unconvincing”
Khrushchev’s actual proposals
have fbeen rather unconvincing,
except perhaps as they show a
greater willingness to open nego-
tiations with the west. It is basic
the USSR to realize their belief
in the communist destiny of miy-
ing the world. Also, the Soviet
Union is still a totalitarian state,
and as such has a policy of sec-
Are Subject Of
Dr. R, Ghirshman will speak on
the toile “Les invasions des No-
mades en Zran au Début du ler
millénaire Avant J.
Goodhart. This lecture will initi-
ate a special symposium at Bryn
‘Mawr as part of the Seventy-fifth
Anniversary Celebration.
The symposium entitled “The
Nomadic Impact on the Ancient
World After 1000 B.C.” is the
first of its kind to be held here.
It will be sponsored by the De-
partments of Classical Archae-
‘Still Life’ to Offer
Songs, Stills, Life
This year’s Junior Show, Still
Life, will be (presented by the class
of 1961 on October 30 and 31. The
east in order of appearance is:
Claudia McClure (heroine)—
Cathy Lucas
Girls in the dorm—
Alice—Pauline Krips
Nancy—Bonnie Goldberg
Jane—Caro] /Watts
Carol—Amy Cheng
Louise—Sue (Szekely
‘Mailman—Jane Bullard
‘Methuselah ‘MeClure—
Judy Lefkowitz
Aunt Emma—Janet Lamborghini
‘Narcissa—Cisca Duran-Reynals
Sarabelle—Sarah Bosworth
Mary MecClure—Jackie Mars
‘Ma Thomas—Melinda Aikens
Martha McClure—Perky Cotler
Margaret McClure—Nan Sype
Ma McClure—Becky Tingle
‘Samson—Jane |Levitas
‘Clem—Gail (Lasdon
Sheriff—Bee Kipp
‘Alexander Haig (hero) —
Mag Parlin
Secretaries—
‘Annabelle—Kathy Kessler
‘Myrtle—Judy Stulbeng
-Lolita—Dee Rosenberg
Continued on Page 5, Col. 2
Nomadic Invasions In Iran.
Symposium
ology, Greek, Latin and History
of Art. The evening lecture will
be followed by a day of lectures
and discussion on October 3, at the
‘Deanery, attended by visiting
scholars and graduate students.
Educated in France, Dr; Ghirsh-
man is am archaeologist, explorer
and historian. He has worked on
digs im Iraq, \Affghanistan and
Iran and has written many works
on his finds. At present he is head
of the French Archaeological Ex-
pedition to Iran. His lecture will
be given in French and is illus-
trated with rare photographs and
objects from (private collections,
to be showed to the public for the .
first time, Everyone is imvited to
attend. |
An exhibit of Nomadic and Iran-
ian art and related objects from
private collections will be on dis-
play in the Rare Book Room for
about two weeks, This exhibtiion
has been organized by twe alum-
nae, Mrs. John Bunker and Miss .
Prudence Oliver.
The Tuesday program will be
divided into lectures and discus-
sions, the speakers being Profes-
sors 'R. S. Young, E. Kohler, and
M. J. Mellink of BMC and Profes-
sor Edith Parada, Columbia Uni-
versity. \Among the attending
scholars will be Richard N. Frye
from Harvard University.
Notice
Sunday, October 11, at 3:00 in
the Quita Woodward room, there
will be a 76th anniversary ipro-
gram marking the opening of the
Exhibition of Books by Bryn Mawr
Alumnae, It is sponsored by the
Friends of the Library, and enti-
tled “Behind the Scenes with Three
Bryn {Mawr ‘Authors”. The three
authors speaking are (Elizabeth
Gray Vining, Josephine Young
‘Case, and Patricia Castles Ache-~
son. The discussion is open to
students,
Batten House
‘According to President Kathar-
ine E. McBride, Bryn Mawr’s lat-
est acquisition, palatial Batten
(House, will be ready for oceuwpancy
after a delay of three to four
weeks, during which it will be
equipped to satisfy fire prevention
requirements and applications for
residence there will be sorted out.
"The fire prevention requirements
include two fire escapes, a smoke
barrier at the head of the stair-
way to the third floor, and a fire-
resistant ceiling over the boiler
room; the selection of occupants is
likely to be more complicated.
Lifesavers Welcome
As (previously announced, Red
Cross lifesavers are particularly
welcome to’ Batten House. in
choosing the other residents, the
administration plans to take a few
from each hall, so that no one will
suffer the abrupt loss of its entire
upperclass crust. After they have
been narrowed down to about thir-
ty, the applicants will meet for a
general draw. This, Miss. McBride |
pointed out, will give them a chance
to see who their fellow-inhabitants
may be—congeniality being espec-
ially important in so small a place.
‘Besides the lifesavers, permis-
Continued on Page 5, Col. 3
Fire-Escapes,
Inhabitants, To Be Installed
charge (both of the students in the
house and of the freshmen in the
graduate center. The hall will
have the usual officers, as ‘well as
a new functionary, the pool officer,
whose job will be taking charge
of the pool and writing er re-
ports on it.
Rooms Vary In Price
Room (prices in Batten House
(will be in the same range as in
other halls, with eight low-priced,
four medium-priced, and two top-
priced rooms. Tlwo of the rooms
will be triples, and the others will
include either two singles and
three doubles or three singles and
two doubles.
In reference to suggestions that
the new hall be turned into a co-
operative house, Miss McBride
said that the nearness of the grad-
uate center made it simpler for
students to eat there than to pre-
pare their own meals. Last spring, -
when co-operative housing was
discussed, the college thought of
-re-installing the kitchen in East.
House (taken out to make more
room), since it is felt that too
many students are being obliged
to eat at the College Inn. If any-
thing is done about
sion-givers ‘will be needed to take
Continued on Page 6, Col. 2
1