College news, February 17, 1960

VOL ‘SEV. 130

zi Dr. Lang’ s Lecture on Culture

—of-religious thought.”—







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© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College,

1960



Begins Flexner

“Church music is denomination-

al. It stands for dogma and doc-
trine,” said Mr. Paul Henry Lang
in the first of the 19th series of
Flexner lectures, Monday night in
Goodhart Auditorium. Miss Mc-
Bride, im her introduction, remind-
ed the audience that the last Flex-
ner series on music ‘was given by
the late Ralph, Vaughn Williams.
Other notables who have contrib-
uted to the series are James
Breasted and Alfred North White-
head.

Mr. Lang began in his lecture
entitled “Culture and Cult—Cult
and Music” by saying that he wish-
ed to talk, not as a musician, but
as an historian. He lamented the

' state of modern music which, he

says, is being taken over by the
mathematicians. (More specifical-
ly, in the case of church music, the
Catholic church in trying to retain
its old traditions has forgotten one
of its most sacred legacies, that of
music. By the same token, in the
Protestant religions, melodies dat-
ing from the Reformation are rare-
ly found, In their place we have
“Victorian ditties”. This is because
music can possess conceptual
meaning by association only. “The
principal cause of the deteriora-
tion of music is. the: deterioration

Music Series

atrophy for the last 100 years. The
prevalence of this feeling is due
to the fact that music calls for a
specialized approach. Many peod-
ple feel that since “music might be
called a physiological, nervous re-
action,” and since it is known-that
even animals can respond to music,
you can “relax. and listen your
way to musical knowledge.” In-
tellect is not brought to bear on
the subject.

Therefore the implications be-

Continued on Page 5, Col. 5

Lang Discusses
Music Criticism

On Wednesday, February 10,
Paul Henry Lang discussed applied
musical aesthetics in the first of
his six lectures to the Seminar in
Criticism.

The knowledge or understand-
ing of art, Mr. Lang began, de-
pends on. a rational analysis of
which composers are often incap-
able. This knowledge, then, is the
concern: of the critic. The critic
of music must ask himself three
questions:

What were the composer’s in-

tentions, and what his means of|



The reasons for this “gestive are
not merely religious; they are also
social. Amelioration and change
in style are opposed because some
people.feel that variation contains

jn it something of the profane.

This attitude has caused musical



carrying them out?

How well did he succeed?

How worthwhile were the in-
tentions, the aim?

The first two questions are es-
sential to the third which, however,

Continued on Page 5, Col. 4

Unamuno’s Prose,
Verse, Philosophy
Probed By Panel

Since Unamuno, the great Span-
ish literary giant, could not ex-
press his philosophy in the sys-
tematic form of the nineteenth cen-
tury, and was extremely gifted
verbally as well as a philosopher

of language,” he created in a di-
versity of forms a oneness of
thought. He was the most out-
standing member of the “genera-
ion of ’98”, a modern Spanish Ren-
aissance which aimed to fill Spain
with a new spirit.

Reviewer Praises Originality;
Freshmen Spread Happiness

A panel discussion of this liter- |

ary philosopher was sponsored by
the Spanish and Philosophy clubs
in the Common Room, Tuesday,
February 16, with Mr. Ferrater-
Mora, Professor of Philosophy,
Mrs. Willard King, Lecturer in
Spanish, and Mr. Claudio Guillen,,
Assistant Professor’ of Modern
Languages at (Princeton, as speak-
ers, and ‘Mrs. Dorothy Marshall,
Dean of tthe college, as moderator.

Unamuno’s. philosophy, which
rejects all familiar definitions of
man as a creature of God, for ex-
ample, considers conflict the basic
fact of nature. In the struggles
within each man, between mind and
heart, reason and faith, neither
ever gains the victory, neither ever



rests in peace, for Umamuno denies
the conciliatory type of thinking.
(Mrs. King spoke of Unamuno as
a novelist. For him novels were
“living philosophy” and confes-
sions and in them his sense of |
humor, self-awareness, and fear-



Continued on Page 5, Col 3

ly, of course, every class aims to



Intelligence, Responsibility Wanted In Voting

Election Rules

by Elizabeth Emerson
College. elections this year will be somewhat
simpler due to the completed reorganization plan.

—Undergraduates-are-now-ipso-facto- members-only

of. the Undergraduate Association and the Self-Gov-
ernment .Association. Therefore the major officers
of these two organization only are college elected.

* Arts Council and the smaller four of the erstwhile

“Big Six” organizations are now incorporated into
the: Undergraduate Association, and although ipso
facto membership in these no longer exists, voting
for their presidents is open to any person with even
a passing interest in them.

Slates for the various college-elected officers
will be drawn up as usual by straw-balloting. Slates
for the other five presidencies will come from sug-
gestions from’ the sophomore and junior classes,
narrowed down in the board meetings of the respec-
ive onganizations. The candidates will be having
dinner in the various halls during the week before
elections. These dinners are planned to give every-
one: a chance to get to know the candidates and
to vote more intelligently, This is an opportunity
not to be neglected!

The college-elected officers and hall presidents
will'all be selected within the first week of elections.
The ballot boxes will be in the halls as usual. Vot-
ing. for the other five presidents will be in Goodhart
on the second Tuesday, from 9:00 a.m, to 2:00 p.m.
The ballot boxes will be in separate rooms, along
the corridor leading to the: Common Rogm. The
voting is open for five hours to give every student
time to vote, and you are enthusiastically welcome
to do so. Preferential order on all ballots is nec-
essary in case of ties, and no ballot is valid which
does not include the full slate of candidates.

The number of election meetings per class has

been reduced by the reorganization plan. Certain

officers elected last year by the classes, will be elect-

ed: within the organizations from -suggestions by

members of the various classes. Lists for sugges-

tions: will be posted and elections for these other

officers: will take place in opem board meetings to
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Voting Schedule

Monday, Feb. 15—5:00 p.m.—Jr. meeting to Straw-
ballot for President of. U..G. and S.G. Sopho-
more and Jrs. meet to suggest candidates for
~Presidents of AA, League, Alliance, Interfaith.

Tuesday, Feb. 16—Hall reps. collect strawballots
by 1:30, U.G. executive board tabulates

Tuesday, Feb. 28—Dinners start

Monday, Feb. 29—Freshmen strawballot for 1st
Sophomore to S.'G.

Tuesday, March 1—Juniors strawhballot for V. P. of
S.G. and U.G.

Wednesday, March 2—Sophomores sicaebalik for
Sec. of Ss. iG. and U. G,

Monday, March 7—Election of \S.G. President

Tuesday, March 8—Election of U.G. President.
5:00 p.m. all four classes in Taylor to meet can-
didates for V.P. and Sec. of S.G. and U.G. Ist
Sophomore to S.G.

Wednesday, March 9—Election of V.P. and Sec.
of S.G. and U.G.

Thursday, March 10—Elecion of 1st Soph. to S.G.
and Hall Presidents

Monday, March 14—Election of Hall V. P.’s. Junior
meeting to elect 1st Senior to S. 1G.

Tuesday, March 15—Election of Presidents of AA,
League, Alliance, Interfaith, Arts Council in
Goodhart, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Wednesday, March 16—Freshman meeting to elect
2nd Soph. to S..G. 1st and 2nd Sophs, to U.G.
Sophomore meeting to elect common treasurer
and ist and 2nd Jrs. to S.G.

Thursday, March 17—Sophomore meeting to elect
Ist and 2nd Jrs. to U.G. .

Voting for other officers of AA, Alliance etc., here-

fore elected in class meetings, will take place in open

board metings, using slates drawn from sugges-
ions from the Junior and Sophomre classes, final
slate to be determined by the board.

Dinner Schedule for Candidates for President of

U.G., SuG., Leagtie, AA, Alliance and Interfaith,

-, Continued on Page 4, Col. 3.

|ful, but even if it had been a fail-



Scientists and Cocktail Drinkers

by Lois Potter

Did it ever occur to the fresh-
|men, I wonder, what a dangerous
thing originality is? =



do something original. But not
;Teally, One seeks originality with-
in the limits of six or seven estab-
lished—traditions, elements which
the audience expects to find in a
Class Show, and which distinguish
it from a real show. To offer the
audience something truly original
is, essentially, to disappoint its ex-
pectations; and thus originality is
a great gamble which is bound to
be rewarded with correspondingly
great failure or success, By now,
it is evident that The Happiness
Germ was triumphantly success-
ure the class of ’63 would have ev-
ery reason to be proud of their
show, and of their own courage in
producing it.

Traditional features of a class
show are catchy tunes, particular-
ly a drinking song; a full-blown
kick chorus; and a few good comic
character parts. One also awaits,
though not with enthusiasm, some
topical jokes,’ a feeble attempt at
love interest (usually involving
the ubiquitous Bryn Mawr Girl),
and an air of cynical sophistication.

From the start it was obvious
that The Happiness Germ would
have none of this. Even its post-
ers with their cheerful flower de-
signs promised something out of
the ordinary. The same happy
feeling was echoed in the set for
the first scene, the most beautiful
one I’ve seen in a class show. The
overture, too, was no tinny: piano
pot-pourri of tunes, but a genuine
orchestral introduction. And then
the heroine (if there was a heroine)
turned out to be a child, while the
thero” was “ten times older than
you, m’ love”.

That, The Happiness Germ was
so contagious was due chiefly to
its. direction. Mary Johnson’s
delicate touch could be sensed in|
all sorts: of wonderful details—the
varicolored butterfly nets of the
scientists, the individuality achiev-
ed within the different groups of
characters (each scientist, each

‘persecution,

the balance between neutrality and’
out-and-out scene-stealing in the
minor characters—in~ short, it
‘was the grace and polish of the

production which kept The Happi- == =

ness Germ from being a didactic
bore and turned it into a fantasy
so light and airy it almost defies
criticism.

The music of Sarah Shapley and
Shirley Daniel was unusual and
very effective—especially when it
formed a background to the action,
as in the dance of the schoolchil-
dren pursuing humming butterflies.
There were funny mock-classical
touches, such as the scientists’ ela-
borate “x, x, x, x, x” and the fugue
of cocktail laughs, though this was
too short to make its point. The
songs were unusually well-adapted
to the persons singing them—thus,
the children sang a sing-song tune,
while the Little Man (through
Karen Christenfeld’s haunting
voice) created a vaguely melan-

Continued on whinadshensel 6, Col. 1

Speakers Di Discuss
OrganizedReligion

Walter Kaufmann, writer on ex-
istentialism and Associate Profes-
sor of Philosophy at Princeton
University, asserted in his lecture
on religion and morality the fail-
ure of organized religion as a ba-
sis for morality.

He began his talk with a discus-
sion of the contemporary religious
revival and maintained.it is unim-
portant on the grounds that a true
religious revival cannot ibe meas-
ured by increased church or tem-
ple attendance, but by the intens-
ity of devotion. He postulated that
religion tends to wane in times of
prosperity and to flourish under
Four-fifths of the:
people polled in conjunction with
the religious revival considered the
Bible the revealed word of God,
not merely great literature. The
majority of the people, however,
were unable to name one of the
four Gospels. Kaufmann thinks
that this same four-fifths would
hold that morality is inexorably





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More Words On Election:

‘ With yesterday’s straw ballot for the presidential candi-
dates of Self-Gov and Undergrad we have once again entered
the period of campus elections and, as is always true at these
times (despite the fact that they recur annually with unfail-
ing regularity), a few editorial words seem appropriate.

College elections, by their emphasis on the organization-
al aspects of campus life, are often thought to bridge a gap
between the “real” world of politics and social problems and
he ivory-tower existence of the university. The fact that
this feeling exists is indicative of a misconception com-
mon to American college students, and responsible for the
attitude which observers of the academic scene have cap-
itously termed ‘apathy’ as well as the equally ‘severe self-
criticism of the reflective student considering his role as a
member of the “real” world.

Because the American student is not conditioned by his
community experience to react violently to distasteful polit-
ical situations, he often considers himself politically imma-
ture or passive beside his riot-oriented Latin American or
East-European counterparts. His self-condemnation is gener-
ally reaffirmed by his elders, though they themselves would
hardly condone riot as a means of political action and are



“probably somewhat uncertain as to jist how youth should

direct its political energies. Attempts at making the student
part of the “real” world are made continuously. Most not-



able among the ‘recent projects of this type is Yale’s Chal-
lenge program, in which important speakers confront the
student body with vital contemporary issues, but examples
on a smaller scale are numerous.

- Though these student movements are indubitably desir-
able,-they are often motivated by a basic error, the recog-
nition of which might lead to a solution far more satisfactory
than any to be effected by elaborate programs to Challenge,
inspire, or excite. The error is simply the unquestioned
assumption of the premise, that there is a difference in
the degree of the “reality” of the life of the college and that
of the outside world. .

The business of studying is, however, very much a part
of this “real” world and the student engaged in creatively
working out an abstract problem is-contributing as actively
to community life.as one collecting signatures for a petition
on Civil Rights. Recognition of this fundamental concept
should more satisfactorily produce an attitude leading to
desirable action than any Challenge by illustrious speakers
to exchange scholarly texts for the New. York Times or foot-
ball rallies for their political equivalents. The difficulty of
the second is its,implication that the two sets of activities
exclude one another; the beauty of the first is its recognition
that scholarly preoccupation is not only compatible with
responsible citizenship, but complementary to it.

The student by being a student and devoting his time to
studies is no less a patriot than the steel worker who spends
his work hours forging the national muscle or the senator
codifying its temperament. Recognition and acceptance of
this attitude implies recognition and acceptance of its ‘nec-
essary consequence, that while the student’s work is no less

“real” than anybody else’s neither is his civic responsibility.

All of which brings us back to the perhaps seemingly
irrelevant observation that we are once again beginning
campus elections. Recognition ef the suggested attitude is
recognition of the fact that as members of the “real” world | of
we are also members of a college community and, having
dispelled the myth of the ivory tower, our activity in this
capacity becomes in no way less real than activity in our
capacity as citizens of a larger political group. Campus
‘political’ activities are not mere contrivances designed to

provide practice in the essentials of citizenship; they are
Soltvitles serving real ends and performing real] functions.
We are students, but we are at the same time citizens of the
college as well as the national community; this dual identity
should at no time be forgotten, but its recognition during the
period of elections is particularly essential.

NOTICE

Undergrad and Self-Gov are pleased to announce their candi-:
dates for the office of president: ;





but~encompassed—byneither, Al-
though courses relevant to this
sort of preparation are offered by
the college, she may. find them so
distributed among the various de-
partments of the social sciences
that the requirements of a major
in one field prevent her from tak-
ing advantage of those related ond
pertinent courses arbitrarily des-
ignated to another.

Programs of study in these
broad fields, whose relevant aspects
are at Bryn Mawr treated by var-
ious courses’ in the departments of
Political Science, Psychology, Soci-
ology, Economics and History, have
been devised at many colleges and
universities since the war, Har-
vard’s Department of Social Re-
lations is, perhaps, the best known
of these, but major-work in de-
partments known variously as Po-
litical Behavior, Human Relations,
or American Studies can be done
at many universities.

Professors Concur

The need for some method of
more satisfactorily integrating
courses in the various social sci-
ences at Bryn (Mawr has been ac-
knowledged by faculty members in
these fields, Questioned on this
subject, Professors ‘Bachrach,
Brown, and Schneider (of Political
Science, Psychology, and Sociology
respectively) generally agreed that
as the curriculum is_now set up it
does not allow students to take
advantage of course offerings in

\the related fields to the extent

| the student-fit-a-fairly lange num-

lems which might be preferred by
students professionally interested
in what Schneider calls a “human-
istic approach to social science.”
as well as those others not plan-
ning further study or oe and

the range of duciniinas ene on
social problems than in a thorough
grounding in the methods and
techniques of one. Not only must

ber of requirements into a sched-
ule of four courses a year, but the
introductory courses of the social
sciences (except for political . sci-
ence) are two semesters each, and
many of the advanced courses de-
mand prerequisites. Thus, “trap-
ped into a lot of specialized cours-
es she doesn’t want,” as Schneider
put it, the student may find it im-
possible to squeeze into her pro-
gram courses directly related to
her interests.

Methods Sought

Though none would favor the
creation fo a new inter-department-
al department of the type estab-
lished at Harvard, Bachrach,
Brown, and Schneider are not to-
tally in accord as to what would
be the best method of dealing with
the need for integration.

“What I’m interested in experi-
menting with,” says Mr. Bach-
rach, “is problem-oriented teach-
ing in the social sciences . . . that
is, rather than have the student
proficient in the method, approach,
and content of one area of social
science she would be exposed to
the complexities:and difficulties of
solving problems within the con-
text of the real world .. .”

Thesis Suggested
“This -would~itivolve- having the
departments flexible enough to al-
low an inter-disciplinary approach
realized in the student’s senior

er or not this is called a ‘Social
science major’ is incidental, All
of the advantages of the plan could
be had with a major in one depart-

ment, courses in the others, and -

an inter-disciplinary thesis.”

humanistic non-specialized ap-
proach to a wide variety of social-
relational problems,” Mr. Schnei-
der is “definitely in favor of inter-
disciplinary thesis work where it
seems appropriate” but~—does—not-
consider it_absolutely necessary to
an integrated program. More im-
portant, he feels, is a greater co-
ordination of the resources of the
various departments for an inter-
disciplinary approach \to a thesis
in one field.

“A student doing work in econ-
omics, for example, should have
the opportunity to consult with
members of other departments on
the sociological, political, or psy-
chological aspects of her project.
Discussions with faculty members
in_ related ifields .about methods and
source material could be of great
assistance in avoiding mistakes
and saving time. This cooperation
could be brought about bby the for-
mal setting up of a ‘Social Science
Section’ whose punpose it would be
to take better advantage of the
resources of the member depart-
ments.”

Shortcomings Cited

“An integrated program with a
selection of courses from the Po-
litical Science, Anthropology, Econ-
omics, History, and Psychology
Departments could be set up by
having departments waive certain
prerequisites and requirements in
specialized methodological cours-
es...” Mir. Schneider acknowl-
edges that such a program would
have definite shortcomings in that
it would indubitably weaken the

major and might lower the stan- |



that it ought.
The course structure as it now
stands presents several barriers to

year with an interdepartmental
thesis founded on knowledge from
courses in different departments,”

dards of those courses in which
some students would not have the
prerequisites,

the general approach to social prob-



Mr. Bachrach continued.



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New Undergrad President
To Meet Many Problems

by Marcy Tench
On Saturday evening at Freshman Show I over-
heard a freshman trying to explain our tradi-

explanation: they are something which have always
existed and are enforced, run, and financed by the
administration. Somewhere this year. we have fail-
ed to explain the meaning and functions of the Un-
dergraduate Association,

This misunderstanding, which I fear is campus-
wide, provoked some thought as to what type of
person should head the Undergraduate Association.
This year the final steps were taken in the plan for
Reorganization and the new system has been in
effect for a month. All of us working on this proj-
ect became aware of a real and pressing problem:
communications. The person whom you select to be
your next president of the Undergraduate Associa-
tion must have the concern and capabilities to com-
municate to every student the meaning, purpose,
and varied functions of Undergrad. ‘With Under-
grad’s Executive Board encompassing so many new
interest groups, the president must have broad
pre ir of all the organizations and not merely

Undergrad; there will be more to communicate.

To me the above is the most immediate problem
for the coming year. Aside, therefore, from the
ability to put herself and her organization across
to the students, the president must be acutely aware
of and receptive to all student ideas. Interest and
patience are qualities which must be had at all times.
Then there are those that apply to any president;
organization, tact, and an ability to communicate
easily and clearly with the administration, faculty,
graduates, and undergraduates,

It has never been the policy of the Undergradu-
ate Association to make recommendations, but I
advise strongly that the president be very familiar
with Undergrad and its workings, which means that
she should have been on the Board for at least one

jof her three years.

In many ways it is an cseisiiians and trying
job, but in retrospect it is a position full of rewards

tions to her date. She came up with the following |

Recommendations on Elections

“Virtue, Wisdom, Courage”
Demanded for Presidency

by Sue Harris
Each year the President of Self-Gov makes a
short speech to the junior class prior to the straw-

balloting, in which she describes the nature of the

office she holds, This year I have submitted the
speech which I made before the juniors on Monday,
February 15 to the College News in the hopes that

the rest of the college might also have an idea of

the demands of the office before the March elections
have come and gone.

It has been said that the office of the president -

of Self-Gov is limitless. This is quite true, I think.
She is obviously checked both constitutionally and
by custom in her position as president. But what
limits there are do not prevent her from feeling out
the nature of her job and, to a large extent, deter-
mining the boundaries of her job for herself. From
the point of view of mental energy and the hours
spent with people ‘on both sides of the law’, she
must.fix her own limits.

The president has at least three ant meetings a
week, and two other meetings when necessary.
These meetings include chairing the Advisory and
(Executive Boards of SelfGov, and sitting on the
Executive Board of Undergrad, the Academic Honor
Board, and College Council. She is thus involved
in many different aspects of the community, all of
which aré valuable to her in observing and under-
standing the way of life at Bryn Mawr; consequent-
ly, she is often called upon to give both her opinion
and that of Self4Gov when an idea is up for discus-
sion,

There are a number of “seasonal” duties to which
the president must attend, such as measuring’ the
snowfall with her trusty ruler before breakfast.
But on the whole one cannot say exactly what the
president will encounter during her term of office.
Her duties might range from helping the hall pres-
idents decide on Christmas Dinner speakers to dis-

cussing a possible expulsion; or from helping to

set up a new residence hall to correcting freshman
Self4Gov exams; or from speaking to several hun-
dred people on the theory and practice of Self-Gov





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it shall be the same for your next president.

to explaining a mistake to an individual student.

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Wednésday, February a7, 1960

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three



BMC in Group

of Colleges

To Receive Nigerian Students

Bryn. Mawr will participate with
20 other American colleges and
universities im sponsoring a pro-
gram. 40. fit students, from other
lands - into . the American college
scene,

offering approximately 25 schol-
arships for qualified undergradu-
ate men and women students from
Nigeria, as a test of their plan.
The Nigerian students will be nom-

~—inatedby—a-joint-Nigerian-Ameri-|

can Scholarship Board of educat-
ors and public servants who. will
meet in Nigeria. The Board will
be established in collaboration with
the African-American Institute.

Awards Renewable
Stipends for the Nigerian stu-
dents will be set according to indi-
vidual need, and may total more
than $50,000 for the academic year
1960-61. The colleges and univer-
sities. will provide, if needed, tui-

tion, board, room, fees and other

basic...expenses, but. not. trans-
portation. Awards will be renew-
able for the completion of a nor-
mal Bachelor’s degree program,
subject to the colleges’ usual regu-
lations governing financial aid.

- If the plan proves effective dur-
ing 1960-61 in assisting students
from Nigeria, it may be continued
another year or. extended to in-
clude other countries and other
American colleges.

Answers. Problems
The cooperative plan seeks new
answers to several difficult prob-
lems which have developed with
the growth of study in America by
students: from many lands _ since

World ‘War II.

“The colleges. are hoping, on

their ‘own initiative, to suggest
new ways of dealing with a situa-
tion which has concerned Ameri-
can deans and admissions ‘officers
for some time,” explains David
D.. Henry, Director of Admissions
at Harvard and secretary of the
| cooperating: -coleges’-steering com-.
mittee for the plan.:
colleges find it difficult, and some-
times impossible, to assess school
records and reports from abroad
in terms of the standards we apply
to American students. We believe
a joint effort, involving direct co-
operation between educators here
and abroad, may offer a fresh ap-
proach to some long-standing prob-
lems in international student ex-
change.” (For. the students, in ad-
dition to the problem of improved
scholastic evaluation, there is meed
of careful planning for effective
job placement on their return to
their homelands.
Why Nigeria?

The 21 colleges and universities
hope ‘to initiate their limited pilot
project in Nigeria this spring, to
admit students for the academic
year 1960-61.

The cooperation of Nigerian ed-
ucators was sought in the pilot
project with several considerations
in mind. Nigeria will become an
independent nation in October,
1960. Its 85,000,000 people have
a special eagerness at this moment
to obtain the best education for
their youth. Interest in American
institutions is keen and widespread
in Nigeria, and English is the lan-
guage of instruction in its schools.
Many Nigerian students have at-
tended American colleges and uni-
versities since the end of World



War II.



by Bonnie Miller ’63

Two hundred and one Bryn

Mawr freshmen, having just recup-
erated from the rigors of exams,
were forced to descend once again
to the depths of Hell. In this case,
Hell’s fiery furnaces were stoked
by smug, conniving sophomores.
* Anyone who happened to be up
at 7:30 Friday morning could see
the vestal vingins of Denbigh, clad
in white sheets, topped with
‘wreaths of leaves. ‘They were of-
fering sacrifices to the sophomores.
- At the same unearthly hour
Merion freshmen, dressed as neo-
phyte witches, were practicing fly-
ing on broomsticks, Their course
(three times around Taylor Hall)
was well guarded by sophomore
sorceresses. One neophyte had
trouble getting off the ground and
had to hex her broom several times
before she could get it out of neu-
tral and into drive. One of Den-
bigh’s, vestal virgins was heard to
remark that it would be better to
bea witch than a virgin.

; Pembroke Auction _
~The Pembrokes came up with an
answer on.how to solve the prob-
lem of overcrowding in the dorms.
They auctioned off several fresh-
men at Haverford. To them, it
seems that. Haverford and Hell are
synonymous.

Radnor’s freshmen, led by Sam
Cyclops, took a descent into the
Hades of old and each was a char-|:
acter from mythology. ‘The lan-
guage of Hell is universal.

’ ‘The vile vehicles of Rhoads
marked the first..time automobiles
were allowed to be in the posses-
sion of resident students. The
traffic problem in Taylor was acute.

5 > 1984 At Rock
(Rockefeller projected Hell into
the year 1984. Anti-Sex leagues
epitomized this type of Hell. In-

- tellectual pursuits characterize all
of Bryn Mawr’s traditions—Hell

Week. notwithstanding. The fresh-

__ men spent several hours removing |

Lolksinging :

The Philadelphia Folks
ciety is finding a growing: fene
on the Bryn Mawr campus. The
Society, started only -three years
ago, is-now -the: center of. “folk
singing in Philadelphia. :

‘The group’s program: includes
regular. -meetings: on the second
Sunday: of: each: month at the ‘In-
ternational: House. at 15th and
Cherry. \At these meetings there

“We in the ‘is vither a professional performer,

or a scholar who lectures on inter-
esting subjects in folksinging and
folklore. After the shows there is
a jam session for everyone. Any-
where—from between 50 tp 100
people participate, and instruments
range -from—-duleimersto——lutes,
with many guitars, banjos and a
few mandolins. The meetings are
open to guests for a charge of $.75
while membership is $4.00 annual-
ly. ;
Varied Group

One of the most interesting
things about this group is its mem-
bership which varies from middle-
aged school teachers and doctors
to teen—agers. The president,
George Britten, is a professional
folksinger from Philadelphia while
his vice president, Louis Loeb, is
a pre-med student. The majority
of the members are from colleges
in the wicinity. but membership
spreads as far as New York.

Folksong Library

The Society also has a growing
library of folksinging information
and traditions and will soon pub-
lish a book. It collects folklore
from all over the city and the coun-
try. A newsletter listing all the
folksinging events taking place in
Philadelphia is sent to members
each month. The group also spon-
sors two big programs each year
with well-known artists or mem-
bers of the society. They are pre-
sented in the University of Penn-
sylvania museum auditorium.

On February 24 the Society will
sponsor a folk dance at the Inter-

Critic Pans New Drama,
‘There Was a Little Girl’

by Allison Baker

In a spurt. of daring, banking
perhaps on the name of Logan
(producer and director), I went
to‘a play now running in Philadel-
phia—There Was A Little Girl . ..
The first message, before you stop
reading, is important. Don’t go!
Take a shot in the dark by all

Means, but just avoid hitting this,

There ‘Was A Litle Girl .
written by Daniel Taradash, stars
Jane Fonda, daughter of Henry.
The happenings revolve around the

title, if-you-can-finish-the-nursery

rhyme out of your childhood mem-
ories. If you can’t, Mr. Newton,
the girl’s father, in a passage par-
ticularly pregnant with meaning,
recites the jingle, suddenly chok-
ing to a stop at its last line, at
which ‘we realize that this is the
theme, his meaning, ete.

Trusting love, brought to sordid
confusion and plagued by misun-
derstanding, in the process of
growing up; that is the essence of
the play. It relies on a dialogue
shot through with Freudian sym-
bols, apparent even to my untu-
tored ear, and a plot subsisting
largely on the problems of to bed
or not to bed, and with whom.
Some young men preparing a re-
cording of Hank Cinq for Olivier
are bundled into the story for
comic relief.

In spite of all this, the play
does achieve a sort of poor man’s

critical eye.

| been set down in the living room

of some. people whom you didn’t
particularly like, and were forced
to spend a week in their house, on
horribly intimate terms. This’ re-
alism, if largely repugnant, «is. not
something which. can. ibe. encoun-
tered with an entirely. aloof, .and
is excellent, ‘and the ‘production
very slick,

There was A Little Girl . . .
is, unintentionally, a caricature
of much in modern American thea-



ter:—This-is~shown in its pseudo-
symbolism, which tries to present
a script that can be appreciated on
two levels, each contributing to the
meaning of the other. The empha-
sis on problems of an adolescent
in love and the misunderstanding
society which ‘surrounds her is
also a familiar theme.

_ More broadly, however, the play
may objectivize the present trend
of American theatre. Every year
on Broadway there is an increas-
ing shortage of good-scripts,; and
an increasing surplus of good act-
ors. (Creative ability, except on
the secondary level of acting, is.a
rare commodity. in the. American
theatre today. There Was A. Lit-
tle Girl . . . carries this trend to
its ulitaaate nadir; or. perhaps . qn
second thought it doesn’t. Think
of the scripts which must have
been rejected in the struggles to-
wards production, if this has got-



catharsis. It is as though you had

ten as far as a Philadelphia stage,



Speakers at College Dinner
Delve Into Political Parties

The regional dinner of the Citi-
zenship Clearing House, a national
organization whose aim is to in-
terest students in practical politics,

tary College, Lincoln ‘and Bryn
Mawr were represented at the
meeting.







_ Hell Invades Bryn Maur |

all reference to sex in Shakes-
peare’s Romeo and Juliet.

The Scurvy ‘Scullery Scallion
Squat Squad of Batten House were
required to wash dishes in one of
the stores in the ville.

Any freshmen who have been
under the impression that our alma
mater is a veritable paradise may
have had some doubts last week.

Haverford Class Night

To Omit Cynical Quality
by David Gwatkin

On Thursday night, March 3, the
Haverford Students’ Council will
once again present its annual Class
Night performance at eight o’clock
in Roberts Hall on the Haverford.
campus. The proceeds of this
presentation, originally used, ac-
cording to legend, to pay for dam-
ages on the Swarthmore campus
inflicted by overenthusiastic Hav-
erford supporters, now go to the
War Memorial Scholarship Fund.

The program consists. of four
separate plays of approximately
thirty minutes, written and pre-
sented by each of the four classes.
Although the subject-matter usu-
ally remains secret until the ac-
tual performance, most plays in
the past have dealt with Haver-
ford and Bryn Mawr life, and have
often viewed these subjects very
humorously, if somewhat unkind-
ly. According to rumor, this
year’s Class Night, while retain-
ing all its humor, will tend to cut
down on the cold cruelty and piti-
less heartbreak often associated
with it.

Tickets for the presentation,
chargeable to Pay Day, will be
made available soon to all Bryn
Mawr students interested in at-
tending at a price of seventy-five
cents apiece. This price will in-
clude not only admission to the
show, but also transportation to

rand | stom. 4he- Sawtites’-aauupue.(. CHAE Orman Roger H. Wells, Professor of Political | jenc
Science at Bryn Mawr, will be the chapel speaker om Sunday, February
21, at 7;30 in the Music Room, Goodhart. His subject will be Medita-

Posters in each hall will announce
the name of the girl in charge of



ticket sales in the various dorms. —

national House for members to
become better acquainted.’ The
next program will feature Karl
Gottesman on March 14. Also
pending is a tentative folk-sing at
Bryn Mawr if sufficient interest is
shown.



met at Bryn Mawr in the Common
Room under the joint auspices of
the -Political Science Department
and the Bryn Mawr Alliance last
Thursday night. Rosemont, Villa-
nova, Swarthmore, Haverford, the
University of Pennsylvania Mili-



Mr. Goodale and /Walter Nollner.

Sunday, February 21.

in the (Middle Ages. ”

Room.

for the refugee camps.

needed legal protection.

in the Common. Room.



tion on a Passage from St, Paul.

Events in Prospect

EXCHANGE VISITS WITH PRINCETON. The Princeton Glee
Club will join the Bryn Mawr Chorus to present a concert in Goodhart
Saturday, February 20 at 8:30 p.m.

Deum and Brahms’ Nenia (Opus 82, set to a poem by Schiller). A
small group will perform Bach’s Palm Sunday Cantata; soloists will be
Lester Freed ’62, tenor; Thomas Donnelly ’61, bass; and Marian Will-
ner 61, contralto. This performance will be repeated at Princeton on

RELIGIOUS MUSIC. Paul Henry Lang will deliver the second
of the six Flexner Lectures in Goodhart Monday, February 22 at 8:30.
The subject of the lecture will be “The ae of Religious Music

seminee FILMS. In recognition of ‘World Refugee Year, League
is presenting three short films on February 23 at 8:30 in the Common
(One of the films, We Very Much Regret, depicts the bleakness
and frustration of the daily life of a refugee family living in a camp
in northern Germany. Out—The Story of the Hungarian Refugees,
written by John Hersey, shows the flight of fatherless family to Aus-
tria during the 1956 revolution. The thir
concerned with the Arab refugees in the Near East.

The World Refugee Year was proclaimed by the United Nations
to last from July 1959 to June 1960, in order to focus attention on the
refugee probem. About two million refugees are currently supported
by the UIN. In various countries national committees have beem form-
ed for raising funds to provide food, shelter, education and sanitation

The aims of World Refugee Year are to clear the European camps
by relocating the families, to secure jobs for refugees and thereby
make them self-sufficient, to. assist in immigration, and_ to. —

JUNIOR YEAR ABROAD. A student panel will discuss the Jun-
ior Year Abroad program on Thursday evening, February 8 at 8:30

ART LECTURE. Ernst Bushbeck, former Curator of the Kunst
‘Historisches Museum in Vienna, will give an illustrated lecture under
the sponsorship of Bryn Mawr and Haverford in the Art Lecture Room
in the Library on February 24 at 5:00.

The concert will be conducted iby
The chorus will sing Haydn’s Te

ovie, Sands of Sorrow, is

—Dr.—-Roger— H:—Wells- —s —_
Mawr intreduced the first two
speakers, [Democratic Congressman
Herman Toll of the 6th District of
Pennsylvania ((Germantown-Chest-
nut Hill), and W. Tatcher Long-
streth, Republican candidate for
Mayor of Philadelphia against Dil-
worth in 1952, The topic of their
talks was “The Issues which Should
be Important in the 1960° Presi-
dential Campaign.” Mr. Toll stress-
ed three main issues which he con-
sidered to be the most important.

He placed most emphasis on the °

need for greater defense and secur-
ity spending, underlining —the
“keeping up with the Russians”
attitude. He accused the Repub-
lican party of complacency on this
vital issue. (Secondly he stressed
the need for growth in education.
The necessity for the expansion of
education, he explained, was for
the sake of training engineers and
scientists. in order to keep mili-
tarily prepared in the face of the
cold war. ‘Mr. Toll’s final main
area of concern was in the field of
civil rights. ‘He said that strong
civil rights legislation must be
‘passed, and he blamed the Republi-
can party and the Administration
for not taking effective steps in
pushing through such measures.
Mr. Longstreth attempted to
give an image of the modern Re-
publican party through its history.
He said that the Democrats try to,

propagate the idea that the\Dem-_

ocratic party is the party of the
common man while the Republican’
party is directed towards big busi-
ness or the rich. He refuted this
premise by citing the examples of
prominent Democratic politicians
such as Harriman, Stevenson,
Clark and Dilworth who are all
millionaires im their own right.
He also expressed his feeling that
‘Nixon is the most qualified to take

of his eight years o1

ience. :

The last two speakers for the
evening were Elkins Wetherill,



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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednésday, February. 17,:1960



Renoir’s ‘Intense Cinema’
Dramatizes Futility of War

by Ginny Copen

An. excellent. example of the,

“intense cinema” of France was
offered to Bryn Mawr last Wed-
nesday when the French and His-
tory departments sponsored the
showing of Jean Renoir’s La



The film, which was | produced

*in the 1980’s, is concerned with

the emotional reactions of captur-
ed French officers in a German

_____lof movie.which at-its introduction

rector for leaving out the bloody
‘battle scenes,

Those who came for the prime
purpose of hearing some good
French spoken were not disap-
pointed but may have been sur-
prised at the occasional unexpect-
ed lines in German and English.

Taken as an example of a type

was novel and deeply meaningful,
La Grande Illusion is a _ very
good film. The originality of the
thirty-year-old production, how-
ever, cannot be fully appreciated:



— -—_—prlsoniercofewer-cemp: throughs in

cidents in the leves of three par-
ticular and very different charac-
ters, Renoir shows us the depth

and variety of feeling of which
the human being is capable.

War As Tilusion

He leaves us with the distinct
impression that var is so horrible
it can only: be an illusion. The
irony of the situation, as Mr. Betts
pointed ‘out in his introduction, is
that Renoir concluded, after World
War I, that the brotherhood of
man and a new order of democ-
racy would triumph. |

Both Fresnay, w. gives the
heroic Count de Boeldieu, and
Jean Gabin, who portrays the
young lieutenant Marechal, give
vitality to the somewhat stereo-
typed parts they play. The dual
position of the crippled German
career officer, Count) Rauffenstein,
who is forced to shoot and kill his
prisoner and friend,| de, Boeldieu,
is especially well protrayed by von
Stroheim. fe

|
Good Acting, Directing

Although the characters are, to
an extent, stereotypes, the good
acting and directing give the in-
tended impression, and the audi-
ence could certainly |thank the di-

by a modern audience to whom the
plot-and methods seem somewhat
nackneyed and to whom the con-
clusion is overshadowed by the
historical facts.

Events In
Philadelphia

PLAYS

The Visit, by Friedrich Duren-
matt, opens this week at the For-
rest. The drama. stars Alfred
Lunt and Lynne .Fontanne.

Semi-Detached, a play by Pa-
tricia Joudry, opens Saturday at
the Locust.

Greenwillow continues at the
Shubert, and There Was A Little
Girl . .. at the Walnut.

MUSIC

Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist,
plays in a recital Thursday eve-
ning.

The Ghicage. Opera Ballet will|
be in town Friday night.

The Philadelphia Orchestra will
be conducted by William Smith
Friday aifternoon and Saturday
evening. The program features
Byron Janis as soloist in Tschai-
kovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1.

All musical events are at the
Academy.





ee ntegration in Social Sciences

Continued from Page 2, Col. 5

“This brings up the question,”
he notes, “of what relation the
needs of the students should have
to the curriculum. | Bryn Mawr
has traditionally been dedicated to
the strong major. A glance at the
catalogues of her sister colleges
shows that none has as rigid re-
quirements for a sociology major.
In the case of Wellesley, for in-
stance, the system is so lax that
required courses aren’t even listed
in the catlogue! The question is;
do we have an obligation to the stu-
dent who wants a general course,
or is our obligation to the princi-
ples of the college? . .. It seems
to me there are no definite ans-
wers and so it might be good to
keep changing, even if just for the
sake of change. Requirements
tend to become routinized... I’m
in favor of occasionally shaking
things up, talking about, and ex-
ploring new possibilities.”

That greater flexibility in pro-
gramming and exposure to a wid-

er area of study justifies weaken-|...

ing the major program is disputed
by (Mr. Brown who feels that “the
only way one becomes educated is
by intensive delving into one sub-
ject matter .. .” “The techniques of
thought and empirical facts neces-
sary to creatively resolve prob-
lems can’t be achieved when you
only skim the surface of a lot of
things . . . the mind is best devel-
oped by delving deeply into one
field . . . once one is well grounded
in the techniques of one field he
can easily pick up knowledge of
the others.”

“The desirability of a strong ma-
jor,” Mr. Brown continued, “is a
complex question related to the
goals of the faculty, the ideology
of the college, and the aims of the

. particularly at a women’s college

«

—who do not desire an intensive
education in preparation for grtdu-
ate work. Mr. Brown would advo-
cate “an organization of the se-
quence of courses so that they can
major in one field and take cours-
es and comps in related others.
The mechanism for this has been
available for a long time—it is
simply a matter of easing the cur-
riculum so the proper courses can
fit in. This might be done by

changing introductory courses to
one semester so students could go
on to advanced courses in their
freshman year.”

Another means of adding scope
without weakening the majors
would be senior seminars on topics
cutting across several fields. “Sev-
eral of these,” Mr. Brown said, “like
Minorities in American Life and
Myths in Public Life were drawn
up at the request of the adminis-
tration, but the money to give
them—expected from the (Carnegie
Foundatiom—never came through
The difficulty with a pngoram
such as this is that the faculty are
committed to scholarly work in
their own fieldS-and simply don’t
have time to become expert in
three others . . . the faculty here
are chosen (because they’re spec-
ialists . . . When you’re teaching
graduates in a narrow specialty,
work in a general field is done at
great cost.”

The salient questions, then, seem
to be what is the best means of
integrating closely allied social
science courses, and whether a
broad exposure to various fields
will imply and/or justify a lack
of depth in any of them. Elimin-
ating the possibility of a “Social
Relations Department” because of
the superficiality it- may tend to

The Philadelphia Museum of Art
offers for its Spring season a pro-
gram of painting and sculpture
classes, concerts, and lectures.

Lectures. on the history of art,
a survey of architecture, painting,
and sculpture of*fe great historic
periods are to be given by Frank
Graham and Carolyn Pitts. The
lectures are on Tuesdays begin-
ning February 23. The first two
lectures are devoted to prehistory,

16. ‘Mr. Pittman’s lectures, the
only ones that are not free, will be
on the following topics: The Art-
ist’s Vision, Influences in Art, Por-
traiture and Figure Painting, Still
Life, Landscape, and Contempor-
ary Painting.

Another series of free lectures
to be given on consecutive Sundays
will be “Art for the Traveller (and
for the Stay-at-Homes.”’) These lec-

tures given by various university |



‘the following ones to antiquity,
medieval art, renaissance and fin-
ally modern art.

Hobson Pittman will lecture on
“Appreciation of Painting” Wed-

professors, museum curators, arch-
itects, and city planning commis-
sioners will cover Sicily, Past and



Present; Roman Towns; English
| Country Houses, Caribbean Arch-

Art Museum Offers Tempting Spring Program

Urban Spaces; and Historic Places
and the National Trust.

Classes im painting and sculp-
ture, Life, and Chinese Technique
will meet ‘weekly beginning March
16. Sculpture classes meet Mon-
days or Thursdays; painting, Tues-
days, Wednesdays, or Saturdays;
Life, Thursdays; and Chinese
‘Yechnique, Tuesdays. Tuition’ in
all but the Life series is $32.60;

There are there concerts planned,
to be given on February 2i, April
10, and April 17. The program for



the first concert will be performed
by the Artemus Woodwind Quintet



nesdays at 2:30 beginning March litecture; European Squares and | and the Keystone Brass Ensemble.



Continued from Page 1,

the head of the list, ete.

Voting Schedule

from Tuesday, Feb. 23, through Thursday, March
3. The candidates rotate in the same order during
the week, thus on Wednesday the blank will be at

Col. 2

Radnor Self-Govt. Self-Gov
Merion Undergrad Undergrad
Denbigh Alliance Alliance Self-control (or
Pembroke Athletic Assn. Athletic Assn.
Rock League League
Rhoads Interfaith Interfaith
Batten House
(Grad. Center) trous.

e e
Responsible Voting
Continued from Page 1, Col. 1
which all those interested are invited.

The burden of elections has been
new system.

the people you choose.

your best to vote responsibly.

Sue Harris’ Letter
Continued from Page 2, Ool. 4

the unexpected.
There is a certain amount of

she works into the job.

If she has had direct experience with either of
the Self-Gov Boards before, this experience will be
of great value to her in building her own philosophy

and in understanding Self-Gov’s

would like to stress that if a student has’ worked
on Self-Gov, she has an invaluable advantage. 1
hope that those girls who are lucky enough to be
in this position, and who are nominated, will dem-
onstrate a sense of duty to Self-Gov and to the col-
lege by accepting the nominations and running for
the presidency. The challenging experience of the
campaign week and the honor of being nominated
should prevent the answer of “DECLINE!” which
in itself unavoidably presents a wrong picture of

the presidency.

Voting can be more intelligent if done
by those really interested, The people you elect will
be in charge of undergraduate activities next year.
It is important that you know the capabilities of
Every opportunity is pro-
vided for you to know the candidates.

which the president must become familiar, particu-
larly in relation to Self-Gov’s judicial aspect, She
also must have a comprehensive knowledge of the
rules and the reasons for the rules, and a thorough

tire system. This she cannot help but develop as

lightened by the

meetings (or the

Please do
age.”

procedure with

philosophy. 1 | Shot and beaten

ident does learn



over.

sioned with the ways of men and women.

It is difficult to pin down the qualities which
help in the make-up of the president. In
oneself, to SelfsGov and the college should rank
before-all others; and by this I mean to imply as
well a recognition of the working value of ideals
‘and a demonstrative sense of commitment to both
individual and community. Imagination comes a
close second, or the ability to put oneself in anoth-
er’s shoes no matter how tight or how loose the fit.

tegrity to

an effective poker face) is vital,

for the president is often faced with a situation-in
which her personal views must play a decidedly
secondary role, and where an excess of emotion or
the loss of control over her temper could be disas-
At this point a sense of humor (or the abil-
ity to get to sleep at night) becomes a life-saver,
profiting both herself and the college.
Organizational ability, or getting things done on
time, is mandatory, as are the ability to express
oneself (or being able to make the same point ina
variety of ways) and a facility in moderating

ability to get a unanimous decision

out of several opposing views without compromising
individual or Self-Gov principles).
the president should be of sound mind and body,
possessing “virtue, wisdom, temperance and cour-
Any of these attributes helps,

An Impossible Job?

It has been said that the office of President of
Self-Gov is an impossible job.._This-isn’t-true,The
president’s marks do not necessarily drop. The
president does have enough time to: write an honors
paper and go out on a date. The president doesn’t
lose all of her friends.
many fascinating people, in and out of college. The
president does learn a great deal about the work-
understanding of the theory-which-supports-the-en-—|-ings-of-the-eollege-community,-and-she-does begin ——
to develop a more comprehensive view of life at
Bryn Mawr. The president, I would venture to say,
does find the job stimulating, educational in the
broadest sense, satisfying and tremendously reward-
ing. The president does not come out of the job:a

Theoretically,

The president does meet

wreck of her former self, dissilu-
The pres-
something extra and in the most

vivid way about an equilibrium in living, about the
variety and depth of people, about the value of an
education at Bryn Mawr. And beyond the grin and
sigh of relief as her term ends, deep down inside,
chances are that the president would say that she
has enjoyed herself, with no qualifications attached.
Chances are that the president is sorry her year is



(The Alumnae Bulletin may now
be purchased for $.50 in the Cam-
pus Bookshop).

by Judy Stewart

An amazing collection of con-
tributions by alumnae, faculty
members, eminent scholars and
friends of the college make up the
75th Anniversary Alumnae Bulle-
tin published this week. Though
these articles cover a broad range
of fields, the editor remarks that
“It is remarkable how the ideas
expressed in them dovetail with
one another, how understanding in
one field enlarges understanding
in another.”

Articles cover a broad range of
human and cultural affaits. The
necessity for world peace in the
face of the fantastic power of
modern super weapons is pleaded
by Dr. (Linus Paulings, while Pro-
fessor Charles Fenwich stresses
the need for dynamic: internation-
al law to meet the challenge of
the atomic age. Pearl S. Buck’s
tribute to Emily Balch illustrates

omic integration of Western Eur-

Eleanor Roosvelt writes on the
role of increased general education
in the gradually rising standards
of living throughout the world,
emphasizing the woman’s part in
this essential problem. Arnold
Toynbee critically questions the
values in the progress of educa-
tion, while Judge Learned Hand,
deploring the complete conform-
ity in all facets of American life,
attempts to give an answer to how
each individual can discover for
himself “what it is all about.”

Articles about Bryn Mawr in-
clude a discussion of the faculty
by Cornelia Meigs, “The Graduate
School” by Lily Ross Taylor, and
interesting candid notes on Miss
Thomas and Miss Park by Helen‘
Taft Manning. Dr. Wells con-
siders a new scheme to make more
efficient use of both the facilities
and faculties of Bryn Mawr through
the use of a three semester year-

Reviewer Outlines, Applauds Alumnae Bulletin

the relativity of moral standards
examines the question “Are there
universal moral standards, apart
from those standards that are only
relative to a particular cultural
situation?” Professor Swindler
tells of new hbreak-throughs in
archeology while Miss Lehr pre-
sents a lively defense for the study
of mathematics, Miss Stapletor
discusses the “growth of the char-
acter” of the Scottish poet Edwin
Muir, and Miss Linn argues for a
respect for the novelist’s use of co-
incidence in plot. Dr. Nahm’s
concluding article is a “Fragment
of Aesthetic Criticism.”

Most impressive are some de-
lightful selections from the diary
of Bernard Berenson, written
just before his death and pub-
lished ‘here in England for the
first time. Poems include Rich-
mond Lattimore’s new “The Watch-
ers” and Marianne Moore’s “The
Arctic Ox.” (May Sarton is rep-
resented by “Mud Time” and H..D.
by “The Shell.”





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ness of [their] “proposals” and re-
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how much a single woman’s efforts
can contribute -to international
peace while the economist. Michele
Heilperin considers the problems







new possibilities.”

of peace in relation to the econ-



round schedule.

The Bryn Mawr faculty has con-
tributed. an impressive collection
of scholarly discussions. Professor

deLaguna’s thoughtful article on



After reading this magazine one
must agree with Mr. Berthoff’s
comment, “It. is rather more than
a commemorative issue; it is a lib-
eral education.”



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° Wednesday, February 17, 1960

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Five



Speakers Probe Organized Religion, Morality

Kaufmann
Continued from Page 1, Col. 5

bound to religion.

He felt that there were three
failures of organized religion: the
emotional, the intellectual, and the
moral, Among the educated, re-
ligion is no longer a source of in-

_tense emotional experience._—The-}

scholarly derive this experience
from literature, music, or the thea-
tre instead.

The intellectual failure of or-
ganized religion is a kind of moral

of honesty._(Religious beliefs tak-
en literally are intellectually un-
satisfactory. Nor can they be
taken symbolically as Niebuhr and
Tillich propose, because’ three
questions would remain unanswer-
ed. |What is meant by the sym-
bol? Zs the gymbolical meaning
warranted? ids it more warranted
than an indefinite number of other
possible intenpretations?’ There-
fore, Kaufmann feels that in. be-
lieving things without knowing,
one is being..less than honest with
oneself.

Examining the motivation for
adherence to a religious morality,
Kaufmann referred to Kant and
William Paley. Kant pointed out
that if obedience to the will of God
is extorted by fear of divine ret-
ribution then morality is reduced
to prudential behavior. Kaufmann
suggested the substitution of love
of God for fear or hope of gain as
a solution to this problem. This
still leaves the problem which he
regards as insoluble: how do we
know what is moral, or, in a relig-
ious context, how do we know. what

__is-God’s will?

Kaufmann presented his own
positive alternative—a morality of
openness. A flexible moral code is
derived from exposing oneself to

“involves a lack}



the study of many different moral-
ities, (However, one cannot prove

Reverend Stra

Reverend Straughan Gettier,
chapel speaker last Sunday night,
considered the question “Is Ongan-
ized Religion necessary?” Rever-
end Gettier is the minister of the
Unitarian Church in Princeton,
New Jersey.

Mr. (Gettier began ' his talk by.
‘stating the arguments against or-
ganized religion. The first case
that defenders of organized relig-
ion put forth is that it has been
around for a long time and has mer-
it as_a continuing institution, This.
argument is_ irrelevant, said the
speaker, because one could say
that the institution of war has
been around an ‘even longer time
and it is probably better and more
organized today than it has ever
been, yet certainly war is not a
worthwhile instituion.

The two main anguments against
organized religion are first that it
is artificial and second that it is
“bad”, continued Mr. Gettier. In
support of the first point he stat-
ed that organized religion is a con-
trivance, developed culturally rath-
er than instinctively. “A child on
a desert island, raised by a moth-
erly wolf would never conceive
of Christian concepts of religion.”

Organized religion is “bad” for
three reasons. First, it is narrow
or promotes narrowness. History
illustrates that sectarian ideas
have had vicious effects. Secondly,
it is outmoded. The theology of
organized religion answers all
questions. and so seems to solve



his way is right and must leave it
open for adaptation to different
situations. The .invariables _ in
Kaufmann’s code are. humility,
love, courage without hope, and
honesty especially, but not only,
to oneself. Kaufmann concluded
with a quotation from Nietzsche’s
Thus Spake Zarathustra, “This is
my way, what is yours?”



ughan Gettier

man’s problems, went on (Mr. Get-
tier. “You recite a creed with
magnificent language elipsis. In ef-
fect it is just theology translated
to the nervous system.” He added
that man can’t give allegiance to
thoughts he himself hasn’t exam-
lined. _Thirdly,—organized religion |
is oppressive. This is a result of
the organization of the religious
body itself. It must have the pow-
er to enforce its creed or historic-
al tradition.

Twenty years ago it was.predicted
that the twilight period of Christ-
ianity had come, but all statistics
show religion to be even more
powerful and popular now than at
any other period in history. But
does this organized zeal mean any-
thing?” questioned Mr. Gettier.
“Is there a need for organized re-
ligion or rather for reorganized
religion?” The objectives of re-
ligion are the same as they have
always been, he explained. Essen-
tially they are to help people to
have a concept of order, to main-
tain a community and to justify
authority in our social organiza-
tions.

The Christian church uses three
sources for its power: the sword,
the scriptures, and the Christian
theme of life and history. It is
now challanged in all of these as-
pects. The sword or political pow-
er of the church is separated
from government in the United
States by the Constitution and the
support of Supreme Court deci-
sions. The Bible has come under
scholarly criticism. The tenets of
the Christian tradition are desir-
able but it is not necessary to at-
tain them through the Christian
religion. ‘We should look at all
religious organizations with a
fresh eye and see what things we
want them to do,” summarized Mr.
Gettier. “The punpose of religion
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_|from the word itself, the creative

Continued from Page 1, Col. 3
lessness as an innovator are evi-
dent, Although the mortality rate
of his characters is high they, ex-
pressing their author’s deep feel-
ing, cannot. resign themselves to
the finality of death and desire a
material immortality.

Unamuno also wrote poetry,
self-dialogues which seek truth

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of his metaphorical power which
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is the only one that really involves
judgment, comparisons, and values,

Trying to verbalize music is the
main problem that faces the music
critic. This art has no vocabulary
of its own. The critic must make
use of similes and metaphors, bor-
rowing them from other fields of
sense perception (weight, color,

The. greatest single danger in
music appreciation is the confu-
sion of the objectively valuable
with the subjectively pleasurable.
The appreciation of music must not
be reduced to the mere worship of
pleasurable sensation, with the
listener permitting himself to be-
come immersed in an “aural tone-
bath” in which he luxuriates “with
half-closed eyes and fully closed
mind.” (Mozart’s work exemplifies
the perfect balance between beau-
ty and profundity.

Elements Of Sound

The sound of music, Mr. Lang
went on to say, is artificial. Noth-
ing like it is to be found in nature.
It can tbe analyzed into three gen-
eral component parts, which are
duration or tempo, pitch, and in-
tensity (of loudness), A possible
fourth element is “tone-color”, or
what makes the same note differ-
‘ent when played on different in-
struments or sung by different
voices. This, however, is really
only the mingling of the same
note with subsidiary sound-waves
that alter it slightly, and thus
falls under the heading of pitch.

In actual fact, however, this
three-sided tone scheme (duration,
pitch, intensity) is only a rough
and inadequate sketch. It is based
largely on the Pythagorean theory
that music is purely mathematical.
In opposition to this idea is that
developed by Hugo Riemann, who
lived in the late seventeenth and
early eighteenth centuries.

According to Riemann, the core
of “musical. logic” is an artistic
thought process virtually inde-
_| pendent. of the ‘natural sciences._To}
discuss music in terms of physics
or mathematics is pointless. To
illustrate this, ‘Mr. Lang consider-
ed duration, or musical time, from
this new angle,

‘Duration has neither a mathe-
matical nor a cosmic nature, but
comes directly from within man.
The fact that musical time used
to ibe reckoned by the beat of the
pulse until the much more prac-
tical metronome was introduced
accords with this.

The essence of musical time con-
tinuity is its flexibility. Although
of course it must relate to the mu-
sical context, duration as a com-
ponent part of music also has an
“organic vitality”. Music does not

fing with religious music,

Lang's Criticism Lecture

deal with absolutes; everything is
relative because everything can be
reinterpreted in terms of another
kind of time.

In a sense, every composition
does have a correct tempo, but this
is determined by human and per-
sonal factors rather than by ab-
solute principles or pure disci-
pline. Many considerations, such



as the qualities 0f @ singers Voice

or the acoustics of the room, must
be taken into account. It is up
to the sensitivity of the performer
to assess these influences.’ Some-
times the composer puts down the

former-can feel this and correct it.

Mr. Lang will lecture again to
the Seminar on- five successive
Wednesdays from February 17
to March 16.

Flexner Lecture

Continued from Page 1, Col. 1
hind the statement that in relig-
ious music the “leading role is
and was in the hands of the lay-
man, that is, layman where music
is concerned,” can be easily under-
stood. ‘Luther, in deciding to re-
tain music in the liturgy: of his
church, fathered Bach, Buxtehude
and Schutz, while in Calvinist
countries church music ‘was virtu-
ally unknown.

Mr. Lang went on to say that
not only has there been a deterior-
ation of music, there has also been
a confusion of what religious mu-
sic is. Just because the texts are
religious, it does not follow that
the music must be the same. For
example, Handel and Purcell sec-
ularized music. “To us, Handel’s
Messiah is the very essence of
sacred music.” In the composer’s
day, however, it was considered
entertainment. ‘Much of this type
of music was concerned with ap-
pearance and morals but not with
religion,

These are some of the many
problems to be coped with in deal-

wrong. tempo, and- the—godd per- ane

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symbols are exemplified in Luth-
er’s insistence that the lines of
Christ be set forth in sturdy to-
nality. Symbolism, however, is not
the, only aesthetic criterion. Per-
fection in tune is also desired.

“Music is like a mirror.” It
reflects the feelings of a whole va-
riety of cults, especially the Christ-
ian ones. It has become, however,
no more than a vehicle; it supports
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Director Johnson’s Creative

Continued from. Page 1, Col. 5
choly mood in both lyrics and mu-
sic of his songs.

Even more outstanding was the
choreography, usually a rather
weak point in a class show. Joan
Chapin’s work was by far the most
creative I’ve seen here. Especial-
ly attractive were the schoolchil-
dren, who managed to work in a

few kicks without high-stepping |

out of character—and Fester Fan-
tom’s Frivolities, as danced*by the

Cocktail Set, and Abby Thomas’

beatnik dance, had to be seen to
be believed.-
A Allegorical Types

Because of the allegorical na-
ture of the show, there were few
strong character parts, but a great
many types. This perhaps ex-
plains the consistently high qual-
ity of the acting. The Happiness
Germ ‘was not an actors’ show, but
individual ,talents stood out, and
made one. regret that more hadn’t
been done with such characters as
the Little Man (he had such a
charming smile), the — scientists
(Ann Kneeland and Cynthia Gard-
ner, in particular, began to be
quite interesting as individuals in
the last act, quite apart from their
excellent stylized performances up
to that point), and some of the
socialites and beatniks.

Small Parts Built Up

Ann Witman was an engaging
Polly, and one would have liked to
have heard more of. her singing.
Actors who built small parts into
large ones by skillful use of ges-
ture and byplay were Joan Chapin,
Geeti Sen, Roberta Downs, Mimi
Orr, Lana Lewenthal, and Virginia
McShane.

In the case of Angela Schrode
(Teline), stylization made no dif-
ference—nothing could have held
her down. One seldom understood
what she was saying, but that
didn’t matter. Her timing of lines
and/or hiccups was flawless, and







she got most of the laughs in the
penthouse scene and, in fact, when-
ever she was on stage.

The lack not only of character
development but of characteriza-
tion led to the expository nature
of most-of the dialogue. It was
at its best as delivered by Jo Anne
Rosenthal, Anita Polishuk, Pauline
Dubkin, Elizabeth Fox, et al., be-
cause artificiality seemed more
natural from the Beatniks, but
even so what one heard was not
dialogue but consciously clever
Thought, This scene was the most

effective one in -the-show,-in—spite|—~

of its precarious balance between
parody of beat language and gen-
uine sympathy with the charac-
ters.

Much less successful in the pent-
house scenes chiefly because it was
pointless and unintelligible, the
dialogue was worse still in the
first act. (Scientists and school-
children’ were politely télling each
other, for the benefit of the audi-
ence, things which they must have
known already: it resembled a well-
rehearsed ‘informal panel discus-
sion (“I’ll answer that, Mal’).

Moral Objectionable

Consequently, it- was fortunate
that dialogue was cut to a mini-
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Moral. There is nothing wrong,
certainly, with an implied moral—
most plays have one, if you look
hard enough for it. But The Hap-
piness Germ was not content with
implying its moral: it. subordinat-
ed everything else to it. And then,
when rwe.arrived at the point where
the Deep Inner Meaning of the
plot was to be revealed, it turned

out to be a combination of Abby >;

Van Buren and a Women’s Christ-
ian Temperance Union tract. The
Answer Song answered nothing at
all.
-More-serious—still,_the—Moral -in-
terfered even with the comic char-
acters. It seemed unfair, for in-
stance, to condemn such a wonder-
fully funny character as Teline for
being what she was, though the
success of “Teline’s Songs”—music-
ally and dramatically one of the
best things in the show—partially
justified its use.

On the other hand, it was the

“Goodhart:

moral which gave The Happiness
Germ its particular freshness and
charm. Strangely innocent beside
most of its predecessors, it show-
ed, behind the polish of its actors,
and ‘unabashed joie de vivre. It seem-
ed, then, very appropriate that ‘the
show. should’ end with the flight: of
a dozen yellow butterflies up. to
the’ gloomy vaulted ceiling of

and happy, laughed without quite
knowing why; obviously, they had
been bitten by the happiness
germ.

e,°@ A
Political Forum
Continued from Page 3, Col. 5
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