College news, November 1, 1961

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VOL. XLVII—NO. 6

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1961

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Service Exper

In. connection with the growing
emphasis on service work in Africa,
representatives from two foreign ser-
vice organizations participated in a
lecture-discussion Thursday evening, |
October 26, in the Common Room
in Goodhart. The program was spon-
sored by the Bryn Mawr League, as
part of their concern this year with
service work abroad.

The speakers included Mr. Leo
Sam of the Crossroads Africa and
Miss Helen Steere, a staff member
of the AFSC-sponsored Voluntary In-
ternational Service Assignments pro-
gram. Dean Marshall acted as mod-
erator,

The basic question facing partici-
pants in this. sort of program is:
how useful can young people be and
how much can they actually do? Both
speakers stressed the actual rather
than the theoretical gains of their
programs and pointed with pride to
the mutual benefits that derive from
them.

VISA is geared primarily to col-
lege graduates, since applicants must
be at least 21 years of age. It deals
with problems of community develop-
ment in Tanganyika, India, Pakistan,
Morocco, Turkey, Guatamala and the
U. §S. (on Indian reservations and
working with Negro job placement).
Fifty people are now participating,



ChaplainGalloway
Relates Our Errors
In Cuban Troubles

VISA and Crossroads Offer

iences Abroad

althodek VISA is anticipating rapid
growth.

The assignment program is a two-
year one with a two-fold purpose.
Students not only have the opportun-
ity to do some concrete service work,
but, in-addition, they receive an edu-
cation (not formalized, however) in
the country in which they are work-
ing.

The cost per student is $6000 (of
which the student pays as much as
he is able). What is most important
in an applicant? Attitude, mostly,
then brawn and manual skills.

Person to Person

Crossroads Africa, founded in 1958
by Dr. James Robinson of New York
City, was established for the purpose
of forming pers6n-to-person contacts,
by sending American college students
to Africa for the summer months.
The program, originally including
only ten countries, has been expanded
to seventeen within the two years of
its existence,

The program consists of six weeks
of work camp projects, engaged in
building projects with other Africans,
and two weeks of traveling through
parts of Africa. The returning Cross-
roader is expected to kindle enthus-
iasm by a series of speeches and dis-
cussions regarding the project.

What sort of problems do the stu-
dents face? In adapting to a néw
environment, there is apt to be a
rather severe “culture-shock,” which
has led to the re-assignment or re-
turn of some participants. In addi-
tion, girls are often reluctant “to dirty
their hands” and are loath to tackle
certain manual tasks, but in such in-



The Young Conservative Club of
Bryn Mawr sponsored a talk,«“‘Cuba
and the State Department,” given by
the Reverend Norman Galloway, for-
mer chaplain at Villanova University,
Havana, Cuba, on Monday evening
in the Common Room.

Father Galloway, who escaped
from Havana on May 18, 1961, said
that he believed the Cuban situation
to be the product of the “apathy of
many and the audacity of a few.”

__In the. last... sixteen years, he: said,

the Communists have taken control
of 600 million people. Father Gal-
loway gave evidence to indicate that
Fidel Castro had been a Communist
for the Jast seventeen years, conclud-
ing with the comparison that when a
rabbit looks like’a rabbit, acts like a
rabbit, it is natural to. assume that
it is a rabbit.

In the light of this, Father Gallo-
way could not find justification for
the State Department’s recognition
of Castro’s government four days
after. the revolution nor for its ra-
tionalization in the recently issued
White Paper that Castro was not a
Communist from the beginning of his
regime,’ His conclusion was that
only the top men in the State De-
partment had a working. knowledge
of Communism and that certain of
the top officials had ignored indica-
tions of Communism in Castro’s
movement. Father Galloway said
that former Ambassador to Cuba
Gardner had told ‘State Department
officials that the Castro movement
was Communist, and yet he was ig-
nored and shortly thereafter recalled.

Father Galloway saw the tragedy

_ of the Cuban crisis to be that the

United States is still blundering in
Cuba. In support of this, he dis-
cussed the U. S.-backed Cuban in-
vasion, the method in which Amer-
icans living in Cuba are-treated and
the fact that the-U. S. is -still trad-

ing with the Castro regime. .In con-.|

clusion, he gave the -quotation, “To
Continued on Page 6, Col. 4



stances they are often given more
domestic work, hospital service and
contact with the women of the vil-
lages.

The age of the applicant poses lit-
tle problem, but attitude, as in VISA,
is of prime importance. The candi-
date must be “very stable, dedicated,
and not looking for-a joy-ride.” _

Another significant aspect of the
Crossroads program is the cross-sec-
tion of Americans that is sent to

a mixed group presents adjustment
problems for students who have been
accustomed to less diversified associa-
tions, it is generally acknowledged
that such heterogeneous sample of
Americans presents a truer picture
of America abroad than would be
possible with a more limited group.
In view of the present concern
about the “American image abroad,”
the speakers were asked whether eith-
er oftheir programs presented a
“widespread image,” and if there
were any concrete gratifications.
Both Mr. Sam and Miss Steere
agreed that there is a tendency to
lump people .together. -Since Cross
roads, however, is a more person-to-
person program, the instance of one
American being.a representative of
his entire country is not as frequent,
since the Crossroader works as an in-
dividual, rather than as an American.
The success of this program has been
illustrated by the concrete fact that

back to the countries where they
Continued on Page 6, Col. 2



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Open Meeting
Faculty members, graduates and
undergraduate students and all
others interested are invited to at-
tend a discussion with Miss Mc-
Bride on the Maids and Porters
system on Monday, November 6
at °4:00 p.m. in the Common







Africa,—- Altheugh—occasienally -such-

Crossroad workers have been asked



pom. Goodhart. -



Theologian Lauds
Williams’ Drama;
Notes Evangelism

The Student Christian Movement
holds weekly lectures in the Parish
House of the Church of the Redeem-
er on Sundays at 3:45. The after-
noon begins with a short worship ser-
vice followed by the lecture and dis-
cussion. This week’s speaker, Mr.
David Morris of the Theologica.
School of Drew University, discussed
the theological implications. of Ten-
nessee Williams with special refer-
ence to Sweet Bird of Youth.

Morality Plays

Mr. Morris. deplores the lack of
connection today between the Church
and the theater. He feels that the
Church must once again use drama
to show its relevance to the needs
of modern man, This Williams does.
His plays are morality plays, and Mr.
Morris considers him a “secular evan-
gelist.”

The major theme in Williams’
drama is man’s corruption of man-
kind. He presents the metaphysical
problem that, ontologically consider-
ed, man’s destiny is death. Time is
the great destroyer of all. Unless it
becomes possible to remove oneself
from time, there is no hope. This is
exactly ‘what the Church feels that
Christ has done—removed the ele-
ment of time.

Absence of God

Yet, there is always a feeling in
Williams of the distance between
God and man, The heckler in Sweet
Bird complains of the “long, long
silence of God.” Thus the lamenting
ery for redemption is unanswered. In
fact, Sweet Bird of Youth is “Easter
upside down.” It begins on Easter
morning and goes “from resurrection
to crucifixion.”

If there is an answer to Williams’
portrayal of human misery, human
decadence, human ambiguity and the
constant searching for escape which
inevitably ends tragically, it. must
come from:Protestant theology. Mr.
Morris, indeed, calls for a resymbol-
ization of the Gospel.

Bryn Mawr and Haverford colleges
announced plans for a joint computer
center to be used by students and
faculty of both institutions. Opera-
tion of the center, which will be set
up on the Haverford.campus, is ex-



Bryn Mawr Hosts
Leading Biologists
In Weekend Visit

Leading biologists from across the
country attended a national Confer-
ence on Endotoxins sponsored by Mr.
Berry of the Biology department and
Dr. Maurice Landy of the National
Institute of Health. The three-day
conference took place on the Bryn
Mawr campus,

The main benefit of such a con-
ference is to give educators and re-
searchers in such a rapidly expand-
ing field a chance to exchange their
ideas and become acquainted with the
work of others. Publication of re-
search is too slow a process, there-
fore it is necessary for those active
in the field to meet if they wish to
keep up-to-date. Two years ago a
similar conference was held at the
international level in Freiburg, Ger-
many.

Among those attending the confer-
ence, which took place at Bryn Mawr
because of its quiet, rural atmosphere
which is conducive to-conferences of
this type, were representatives from
Yale, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Johns
Hopkins, U. of North Carolina,
Merck, Sharp’and Dohme Laborato-
ries, Princeton, U. of Maryland, U. of
Michigan, Harvard Medical School,
the National Institute of Health,
N.Y. U., Washington U., Beth’ Is-
rael Hospital, Boston, the -Rockefeller
Institute, and the University of Min-



nesota.



“Immorality and Civil Defense”
was the title of the talk given by
Dave McReynolds to same 25 Haver-
ford- and Bryn- Mawr College stud-
ents under the auspices of the Stud-
ent Peace Union in Taylor Hall last
Wednesday night. The purpose of
Mr. McReynolds’ speech was to op-
pose the United States’ Civil Defense
program, and he based his opposition
upon-two theories whichyhe then pro-
ceeded to explain: that Civil Defense
won’t work and that Civil Defense is
immoral. :

The reason that Civil Defense won’t
work, Mr. McReynolds explained, is
that the effect of the bomb is going
to be a lot worse than anyone will
admit. He refuted the Time-Life
assertion that, through cooperation
with the Civil Defense program, we
would have a 97% human survival
cate after a nuclear attack and be
able to appear above ground from
the security of our shelters after a re-
treat of only two weeks. He quoted
sources which did not share Time-
Life’s optimism. For those “fortun-
ate” enough to have survived the in-
itial attack in the security of their
shelters (andAh
below 97) there would be a required
two-week shelter sojourn at the end
of which it would be safe to appear
above ground—for one hour a week:
| Under conditions such as these, death



°

Speaker Attacks Civil Defense Plan
As Immoral; Deplores Lack of Reality

e percentage was well |i



by radiation would be replaced in the
shelter by death by starvation and
disease. Because no one today can
comprehend what the effects of a
nuclear war would actually be,. it is
impossible either to accept or reject
one person’s set of facts on this sub-
ject. That the effects of a nuclear
attack today would be hideously un-
like any destruction man has ever
witnessed or wrought upon earth is
what we must keep in mind while
working to insure peace.

Mr. McReynolds continued his at-
tack on the Civil Defense. program
by describing the current shelter
craze as “callous.” Since only. the
rich can afford to build shelters, he
called it a program built on the the-
ory of: “Let the poor die.” The re-
cent concern of the Nevadans to es-
tablish a means of keeping Califor-
nians out of their state should a nu-
clear attack result in a mass exodus
of California, and the advocacy, even
by several members of the clergy, of
the idea that it is moral for a man to
shoot to death his neighbor and all of
his neighbor’s family should those
agg attempt to force their way
into the .protection of the former’s
shelter are trains of thought which are
less than human and which bring the
moral question of the Civil Defense
program into such sharp focus. Can
there be any moral jusitfication in

Two: College Computer Center
Will Aid Studies Of Statistics

pected to begin the week of Novem-
ber 18.

This is the only such center in the
United States to be owned and oper-
ated by two separate colleges on a
joint-use basis.

The center will be located in the
Hilles Engineering Laboratory at
Haverford. Estimated cost of the
equipment, main featute of which

will be an IBM 1620 computer, is
$140,000.

The 1BM 1620 computer will be
used to help solve complex problems
encountered in the fields of the nat-
ural and social sciences, particularly
in astronomy, chemistry, physics and
mathematics, and in economies, soc-
iology and psychology. Some use of
the center is also planned by students
and faculty in the humanities.

Miss Katharine E. McBride, pres-
ident of Bryn Mawr, and Hugh Bor-
ton, president of Haverford, said that
the computer will reduce the time re-
quired for lengthy computations and
make it possible for students and fac-
ulty to undertake new types of work
which in the past would have been
impossible to do because of lack of
time.

Term Papers —

Students, for example, will be able
to use the computer to analyze statis-
tical data for term papers and to
carry out projects for which they
would otherwise not have time. Mem-
bers of the two faculties will find it
an additionalaid-to their research
work, enabling them to explore whole
ranges of new solutions to problems
for which they were previously lim-
ited to a single answer.

In addition, student use of the IBM
1620 computer will give them an in-
sigh into the numerous different ways
in which some computers are already
being employed, such as the analysis
of foreign languages, and allow them
to gain some feeling for the wide
range of possible future uses of such
machines.

Tha “National Science Foundation

has granted $40,000 for the equip-.
ment and the International Business
Machines Corporation has followed
its usual practice of providing a sub-
stantial allowance on computers for
educational purposes. The two col-
leges will share the remainder of the
cost.



creating something as frightful as
nuclear warfare and refusing to take
some responsibility for-guaranteeing
that a nuclear holocaust will, not oc-
cur? . : é;

Mr. McReynolds concluded his talk
with the statement that in our society
as it.is today we may find the roots
of war. He feels that we are at
present headed towards war and that
the Civil Defense program is doing
nothing to change our path. He urged
support for organizations working
for disarmament on the grounds that
only in the absence of the fear of nucle-
ar war can we make any meaningful
progress in our relations with the
other countries of the world. He ad-
mits the difficulty of restructuring the
economy of our nation which is so
dependent upon the production of
arms for its wealth, but feels that
this sort of economic suffering is
what‘ individuals must be prepared to
undergo for the good of their coun-
try. We must work for “the cause
of peace with freedom,” not run and
hide in hope that through the efforts
of others there will be something left



for us if and when the danger is past.








Page Two

THE COLLEGE einen

Wednesday, November 1, 1961



Blue Tropics

Bryn Mawr suffers because of its geographis location.

Liberalism .ends at Merion Avenue.

Beyond the narrow

boundaries of our campus looms: the puritanical world of

censorship and blue laws.

In spite of recent appearance in the Bryn Mawr Book
Shop and its general acceptance throughout the country,
Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer has been banned in Mont-
gomery County. We deplore this intrusion upon our individ-
ual rights. We demand the privilege of personal discretion.
It is frightening to think how narrow the line between moral
censorship and political censorship can be.

The Outer World denies not only our minds but our bod-
ies as well. Have you ever felt hungry (or thirsty) late Sat-
urday night-or Sunday and then been turned away from every:

door ?
Christian ethic.

if so, you have met Pennsylvania’s version of the

_ Blue laws were first instituted in theocratic colonies,
but they have survived three centuries, a revolution, a Con-
stitution and the separation of Church and State. What may
have once been a sincere religious principle is now only an

excuse for the economic interests of a few.

excuse is not valid. The first

But even the
amendment guarantees every

citizen the freedom of his own religious beliefs or lack of

them.
It is unnecesary to point

out. that there are some citi-

zens who suffer economic losses because their shops are clos-
ed twice a week—once for their own religious observance
and once because of a government imposed anachonism. If
Sunday is to be a family day, perhaps the only one the whole
family can spend together, they should have the right to
spend it as they please—by resting, shopping, or working.

The fundamental principle of

free enterprise must not be

limited because of the vested interest of some city business-
men who oppose highway discount houses.
If we truly believe in our liberalism, let us extend it

beyond the confines of our campus.



Brun Mawr Boys Acquire Miss Ely,
(lub and a Rumer Godden History

by Pixie Schieffelin

“Hoping to add a bit of beauty to
a rather stark, unimaginative town,
and against the dire prediction of the
Bryn Mawr Businessmen’s Associa-
tion that it was no use putting up a
community Christmas tree because
the boys would steal all the trim-
mings, ‘we’ decided to have a com-
munity Christmas and defy the
gloomy predictions of the business-
men.”

The “we” of the above statement
“which should read “I” (“me and my
conscience make we, though”) is Miss
Gertrude Ely, instigator and perpe-
trator of the Bryn Mawr Boys’ Club
(among other things).

That the businessmen refused to
make an effort to have a tree without
anything stolen, annoyed Miss Ely.
With the cooperation of some people
in the village, she bought a spruce
and planted it in front of the com-
munity center, Memorial Hall. Three |-
years ago at Christmastime local boys

-and-the fire department helped dec- 5

orate the spruce to make it “a sur-
prisingly beautiful tree with goldfish
bulbs all the same color.” (This was
not just any old tree).

“Within a twelfth night, though,
three-quarters of the tree was dark.”
Since none of the bulbs had been re-
sold, people figured the bulbs had
been stolen for mischievous reasons.

In an effort to find out who had
stolen them and why, Miss Ely de-
cided to ask the boys themselves, So
she went into a candy store and ask-
ed the girl behind the counter where
she could find a boy of 14. “What’s
the matter with my brother?” the
girl asked. “Nothing.” It was a

sunny afternoon and Miss Ely
couldn’t believe that a boy of 14
would be at home on such a day. A
nice-looking boy “with combed back
hair” answered her knock. She in-
troduced herself and said, “I’d like
to ask you something about the boys
in the village.’ The boy had been
lying on a sofa opposite a TV set
which was too close to the sofa. She
asked why the boys had taken the
bulbs. He answered, “Because there
is nothing to do around here.” (This
is the answer given all over the coun-
try as a major reason for delin-
quency.)

When asked what he wanted ‘es do
the boys said, “Lift. weights, wrestle
and play ball.” Miss Ely was de-
lighted with the simplicity of the
demand ... providing weights could
not be too difficult forany commun-
ity. She said, “What do you think
we need.” He said, “A Boys’ Club”

. “So,” as Miss Ely says today,
type, have a Boys’ Club.”

In order to find the ‘boys who might
make up the club without persuasion
or exclusiveness, Miss Ely asked the
Home News and the Main Line Times
to print an application blank’ saying:
Bryn Mawr Boys’ Club, I want to
join, age 11-14, signature and par-
ents’ signature, cut out and mail to
box 202, Forty-five boys applied.
“They must have wanted a club.’

The club acquired the gym of the
Bryn Mawr Elementary School for
weekly meetings. Small individual
contributions for the weights
and a basketball. careful in-
quiry, Mr. Albert Mandes, who has



organized athletics at the Mother of
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Reviewer Doubts
Salinger’s Growth
In Newest Effort

by Pauline Dubkin

As a formerly admiring and even
loving reader of J. D. Salinger, I
found his latest book; Franny and
Zooey, most disappointing. Perhaps
I would not feel this way if a) I were
sixteen years old, or b) I hadn’t read
Catcher in the Rye and Nine Stories,
but neither of the above is true, and,
at the risk of being beaten to death
with a bananafish, I can say that I
found Franny and Zooey limited and
somewhat tiresome; certainly it did
not indicate to me any progression
or maturing process from Salinger’s
former works.

Some Credits

To its credit, the book is more than
competently written, and Salinger has
managed as usual to duplicate mag-
nificently the speech of the young,
the troubled, and the “phonies” of
the world, as well as that of Bessie
Glass, Franny and Zooey’s mother.
The celebrated descriptions of the
contents of the Glass’ medicine cab-
inet, and of Bessie’s housecoat, are
truly a delight for lovers of obser-
vant and precise prose, and Lane
Coutell, Franny’s boyfriend, is a
frighteningly real character, as are,

jjat times, Franny and Zooey them-

selves. I could write another review
this size on what I liked about the
book; but I feel it has been sufficient-
ly celebrated, and there are aspects
of it that troubled me much more
than any of it pleased me.

In The Catcher in the Rye Salinger
portrayed, and very well, a sensitive
and confused adolescent totally vul-
nerable to the cruelty and squalor of
the world, who hated pretentiousness
and “phonies” above all. In Nine
Stories his characters were still
struggling to extract meaning out of
a world they had not made, but the
ways in which they approached this
problem, as well as the characters
themselves, were more varied, rich-
er, and one felt that here was a writ-
er who was exploring not only the
problem of certain interesting indi-
viduals, but also at least the rudi-
ments. of the ways they were learn-
ing to deal with these problems. Of
course, no author can be expected to
offer a solution to the problem of the
moral and sensitive being faced with
two hostile and confusing worlds,
that of external and internal reality
(which is Salinger’s only theme);
but in Franny and Zooey he does
nothing, in my opinion, to offer even
an individual:solution, or even to de-

as he did in Catcher. Franny, Zooey
and Holden are all tired of the pho-
nies of the world; and by such con-
stant repetition of this fact, the for-
mer two at least put themselves in
the same uncomfortable’ position as
do the beatniks trying to defy con-
formity by their own special brand
of same.

Superficial

The end of the book, in which Zooey
tells Franny that the “fat lady”
whom they used to imagine listening
to them when they were on a quiz-
kid-type radio program, is everybody,
even and especially Jesus Christ, and
so brings her release from the re-
ligiously-oriented crisis from which
she suffers during most of the book,
gets to the core of Franny’s problem
only in the most superficial way.
True, the heart of the book is reli-
gious; but this “solution” (which is,
one suspects, comforting to Franny
mainly because it is as much the so-
lution of Seymour, the dead and dei-
fied older brother, as of Zooey), is
no more profound or helpful to Fran-
ny than is the Jesus prayer which
has formerly attracted her. As
Granville Hicks believes, the parable
of the Fat. Lady may have brought
Franny a “vision”, but if so, the res-
olution of her problem is outside of

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clarity."

Letters to

Writers Refute Idea
‘Better Dead Than Red’

To the Editor:

We commend the College News for
its recent editorials on fallout shel-
ters. We think that the discussion
which they have provoked on this
campus, so oblivious to the world
outside its walls, is an encouraging
sign. Your first editorial seemed to
us extremely cogent and to the point,
but we strongly disagree. with the
second.

This editorial is typical of the
propaganda being spread by the Civil
Defense Commission and the manu-

facturers of commercial] fallout shel-
ters. The statistics cited from Life

of survival and are deceptive in their
assurance. In an area of direct at-
Continued on Page 3, Col. 4

NuclearThreat Demands
Bilateral Disarmament

To the Editor:

The remotest thought of nuclear
war precipitates a horror-stricken re-
action on the part of the American
Public. However justified this re-
spect for the potential of nuclear en-
ergies, it should not result in a panic-
stricken escapism.

’ The nuclear-policy goals for Amer-
ica, and indeed the world, should be
two: first, a mature and realistic ac-
knowledgement of the facts of nuclear
energy; second, the formulation of a
policy which is based on these facts
and which is directed toward disar-
mament. But no matter. how desir-
able the second goal may be, we can-
not hope to ‘achieve it without having
attained the first,

The overwhelming fact of the nu-
clear age is ignorance, We can only
guess at the effect and duration of
fall-out; we can only hope that bomb-
shelters serve a purpose; we can only
pray that an accident does not start
a nuclear struggle; we can only trust
that the Soviets are as adverse to
becoming involved in a nuclear strug-
gle as we; we can only assume that
somewhere there lies a solution.

When the awareness of this ignor-
ance is combined with the abstract

| realization of the superlative meaning

of nuclear power, we can neither be
complacent nor unconcerned.

Man-Made Menaces

~ What is the best way of coping
with, this man-made..menace?—-The
most reasonable alternative is to es-
tablish a strong defensive network.
A network which is consistently as
invulnerable and as formidable as
possible could be the strongest single
deterrent to nuclear war. Granted,
accidents can happen, and misunder-
standings can occur, but in the face
of incomplete victory, what nation
will risk nearly total destruction?

If we unilaterally disarm (even
temporarily as an experiment) we
automatically indicate an optimism
which is too naive and unrealistic to
be valid. I know of no lasting and
universally respected piece of nego-
tiation which is not made meaningful
by force. I know of no reason to
believe that man will act morally
when assured of gain through im-
morality.

The creed in a universal morality
is perhaps the finest creed of all, but
it is too tenuous to be a just and
solid basis for international action.

Disarmament must be bi-lateral.
Disarmament must be the product of
an honest and mutual realization that
nuclear war is a dead-end street. Dis-
armament on any other grounds
would be political suicide.

Ellen Corcoran, ’62



PEACE CORPS

Ms. Marise _ Ross, Regional
Peace Corps Representative, will
be at the College on November
8. She will lunch in the Deanery
with faculty and administrative
representatives and will be avail-
able to. speak to interested stu-









dents.







are only one estimate of the chance’

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the Editor

Reader States Necessity :
For Fallout Protection

October 26, 1961
Dear Editor:

Whoever wrote the first of your
two editorials on Bomb Shelters in
the October 25, 1961 issue I should
like to charge with being poorly in-
formed on the subject of fall-out pro-
tection and its importance,

First, your synonymous use of
“bomb shelter” and “fall-out shelter”
is shattering. There is a great dis-
tinction between the two. Bomb
shelters merely protect one from the
blast or the initial shock wave of the
explosion. It is a fall-out shelter
that protects one from ionizing radi-
ations. Of course shelters are being
built providing both protections but
these are extremly expensive and are
not being planned extensively for the
public. Are you sure you are correct
when you say “Wellesley College is
building bomb shelters”?+ I am not.
And what type of shelter do you be-
lieve Rockefeller is proposing?

Soviet Shelters

Another indication of your lack of
information is your statement “This
concern is typically American in that
it attacks the problem from a dis-
torted perspective.” This is not “typ-
ically American”. Don’t you know
that the Soviet Union is constructing

mass fall-out shelters for its people?
Let me refer you to -an article by
Alton Blakeslee, AP science writer,
a copy of which can be found in the
Kalamazoo Gazette, September 13,
1961. There he quotes Dr. Edward
Teller, University of California phy-
sicist:

I believe the Russians will be
more likely 'to attack if we are ndt-
prepared. It is quite clear the Rus-

sians are doing more than we are
in creating a defense. I have heard
they have good shelters for at least
a fraction of their population, They
are not in fine shape but they are
ahead of us. With a system of de-
fense and organization we could win
a war. By showing we are pre-
pared we could avoid it.

Shotgun? Yes!

I find it interesting to recall at this

time your statement “Freedom from

fear cannot be achieved by digging
up and facing the issue”.

I must strongly agree when you
say our concern should be “to pre-
vent the bomb from being dropped”
and I will fight as hard as the rest
of you to achieve world peace but
what if our efforts fail? Then we
should be prepared. When Conelrad
says “take cover,” it is too late. Prep-
arations must be made now! In ans-
wer to your questions:

1) “Who will decide which of us will
survive?”

Each of us decides for ourselves.
Those of us who prepare fall-out
shelters very likely will survive
and those of us who do not pre-
pare very likely will not survive,
at least not survive unharmed.
Any amount of radiation increas-
es the chances for genetic muta-
tions. Such mutations are almost
always disadvantageous and so are
a menace to our future genera-
tions.

“Will it be done by shot gun?”
Yes in many cases it will be nec-
essary. and_ it will be done.

3) “By lot?” No. By foresight.

As to what we will find when we
“emerge” no one can answer ‘you
precisely. But this is where I have a
certain amount of faith. I want to
be one of those who survives no mat-
ter how “barren” the land. For to
use that over-worked cliché “Where
there is life, there is hope.”

_ You say “We do not want survival _
of the fittest and the fewest but sur-
vival of us all.” I, too, want sur-

2)

|vival of us all, but if nuclear war

does come, I should consider “sur-.
vival of the fittest and fewest” pref-



erable to annihilation of us all.

J

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. Wednesday, November 1,.1961



Liturgy and the Lights





God and Gideon

by. Josie Donovan

One may be delighted; one may be
annoyed; one may be confused (many
are the reactions), but one doesn’t
remain indifferent to “Gideon,” a new
play by Paddy Chayefsky, currently
playing at the New’ Locust Theater
in Philadelphia. For this reason it
may well be a hit on Broadway.

It is a puzzlingly farcical adapta-
tion of the Biblical story where only
costumes and setting still smack of
the Old Testament. God, unforget-
ably played by Frederic March, and
the reluctant Gideon, wistfully por-
trayed by Douglas Campbell are sin-
gularly un-Biblical. They are molded
by the Chayefnyan colloquial dialogue
into characters one would expect to
meet at—say, your neighborhood gro-
cery. One is shocked and/or delight-
ed by the “humaness” of God and
amused by Gideon, who becomes a
hopelessly ridiculous buffoon.

Yet when Act I is finally done
(after one and one-half hours) one
finds oneself wondering just what
the point really is.

Man’s Impotence

The theme, thus far, seems to have
to do with the woeful impotence of
man when not infused with “passion”
by the breath of God. Gideon is a
cloddish peasant limited to his own
inadequate world . . . until God de-
cides that he will rise and become a
“charismatic” leader. He will drive
the Midianites miraculously from Is-
rael. But God has to huff and puff
quite a bit to fan the spark of passion
in Gideon’s breast. At last, however,
he convinces our reluctant hero and
selects (by an ingenious method)
three hundred poltroons. to accom-
pany him on his divine mission. Need-
less to say, the god-less Midianites
are defeated.

Gideon is the savior—who remains
admirably “human” through it all.
But he is still controlled by divine
caprice. The Revolt is yet to come.

The tone in Act II suddenly es
comes serious: Gideon, obeying a
whim of this vengeful God, graphi-
cally slaughters two enemies. This
nauseates our timid hero, and he hes-

~~ jtates- to -eornttinue-the blondy. task.

While he is: hesitating, “Little Egypt”
interjects a little fun—so we can all
relax before the Big Decision.

Death and Timelessness

But Gideon just can’t bring himself
to kill more fellow men. In a mem-
orable scene God chides him for
thinking death so significant. Death
doesn’t mean anything to the time-
less, eternal-mind of God... “I give
and I take away at will” . ibd’
are like particles dangling in a voi
blinded by a foolish “illusion of pur-
_ pose.” Be that as it may, Gideon
‘finds he cannot keep loving, God.
“Why, you have to be a god to love
one,” he sputters.

Thus does Gideon disohey God, af-
firming the value of things human
(and especially of “Little Egypt”).
He is perfectly content to remain in
his world—free from any bothersome
calls to greatness.

One cannot help being struck ‘by | te
Gideon’s utter lack of traits noble or
heroic. In Act I he is quite unlike
the Biblical Gideon, who at least re-
tains a certain air of fierceness and
resoluteness (perhaps by dint of the
Biblical style)—not to say courage.



} SALE!

The Bryn Mawr College Book
Shop will hold its Annual Autumn
Sale beginning Thursday morning,
November 2. Beautiful new books
will be offered at bargain prices.
“Remainders” will be sold at $1
to $9.95. A choice of fascinating
titles is assured.

First come, best served. -

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THE® COLLEGE: NEWS

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New.Unorthodox Comedy Dortrays

In Modern Guise

By making Gideon a run-of-the-mill
“good Joe” is Chayefsky suggesting
that a modern “Gideon” would have
neither the courage nor the vision to
love God, to transcend: things hu-
man? _

On the~ether hand, Gideon’s “re+
volt” in Act IT-is. singularly unlike
the “modern” revolt. This_is no ex-
istential hero—erying out against the
injustice of God, deliberately choos-
ing and accepting the human realm
(as Sartre’s Orestes) —fully conscious
of the awful responsibility implicit in
his act. Our Gideon lacks such no-
bility.

The: play. remains enigmatic “and
unsatisfying in its present form; it
cannot be brushed off as a farce, yet
the slapstick tone renders the would-
be tragic moments strangely pathetic
—yes, almost grotesque,

Rev. King’s Talk
Kindles Idealism

The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther
King, well-known integrationist lead-
er, spoke at the Philadelphia Academy
of Fine Arts to a capacity crowd,
Tuesday evening, October 24.

After thanking the Philadelphia
Fellowship House for allowing him
to make a four-day visit, and after
mentioning. that he can now return
to the South with renewed courage
for his work, Dr. King quoted Prime
Minister MacMillan as saying, “The
wind of change is blowing in Africa.”
Dr. King extended this remark to in-
clude the whole world. The old or-
der of colonialism and segregation is
giving way to the new order of free-
dom, justice and dignity, he con-
tended.

In Africa, twenty-five years ago,
there were three independent coun-
tries; today, there are twenty-eight.
And, in the United States, after the
Supreme Court decision of 1954, “We
have left the Egypt of slavery; we
are coming out of the desert of seg-
regation, and we stand at the edge
of the Promised Land of integration,”
said Dr. King.

This new order in ‘the world im

plies ‘new responsibilities, Dr, King
went on. Citing the fact that mil-
lions are starving in India, while the
grain storehouses of the U. S. are
full,-he remarked that our shrinking
world “ .ds a neighborhood, but
not a brotherhood. Hf

Moving on to the topic of discrim-
ination against Negroes, Dr. King
said that “we must get rid of the
idea that there are superior and in-
ferior races.” Discrimination still
exists today, in both North and
South, but, despite its horrible un-
fairness, Negroes must fight the prob-
lem with non-violence and love, he
continued.

The principle of non-violence is
workable, he asserted, and, as evi-
dence, he cited the fact that over 100
Southern cities have integrated their
lunch-counters, as a result of non-Vio-
lent sit-ins.

Dr. King further recommended that
the President sign a second Eman-
cipation Proclamation. and that he
issue an executive order saying that
the government will not support seg-
regated housing projects. He con-

tended that continued discrimination

‘hurts our foreign prestige; he men-

tioned the fact that a non-English-
speaking man in Beirut managed to
get across only two words to him,

“Little... Rock... Little...
Rock.”
However, we should solve this

problem ‘not merely to “look good
abroad,” but because its solution is
“morally compelling,” Dr. King warn-
ed. y ‘

Dr, King’s delivery was dramatic
and powerful and had great emotion-
al appeal to his audience. Althougn
his simplification of the surplus grain
problem to “right versus wrong”
seemed an exaggeration to this re-
porter, the same technique’ applied to
the segregation issue seemed com-





pletely justifiable.



Governor's Battle
Creates Paradox
For New Jersey

by Marion Coen

The gubernatorial election is some-
thing of a paradox in our democratic
process. The candidates are too re-
mote. to be judged on the basis of
local prejudice and too local to be
evaluated on the basis of national’in-
terest, too removed to be known per-
sonally and too in-state to be known
via mass media, The difficulties which
this paradox presents to intelligent
voting are, of course, multiplied man-
ifold when one is away at college and
out of the range of hometown papers
and local clubwomen.

All of which is leading to a re-
minder that New Jersey is electing
a governor on November 7, and that
all those who come from New Jersey
and are over 21 ought somehow to
have decided by then whether they
prefer James P. Mitchell to Richard
J. Hughes, or, to simplify it some-
what, Dwight Eisenhower to John
Kennedy and- Republicans to Demo-
crats, or vice-versa down the line.
The simplification is made possible
by the fact that the Republicans, hav-
ing concluded that a vote for Mit-
chell will indicate dissatisfaction with
the Kennedy administration and a
probable Republican coup in ’64, have
brought both Rockefeller and Eisen-
hower into the fray, and the Dem-
ocrats, to retaliate, have imported
Ted Kennedy, Secretary Goldberg,
Senator Humphrey and now even
President Kennedy (who at first de-
murred), to speak in defense of Dem-
ocrats, the Kennedy administration
and, of course, candidate Hughes.

Aside from the matter of disen-
chantment with the New Frontier,
the campaign issues have not been
too clearly defined. Mr. Mitchell,
former Secretary of Labor, has tout-
ed his abilities to heal rifts between
labor and management to keep in-
dustry in New Jersey. He is, inci-
dentally, a good friend of Eisenhow-
er, and though, like another well-
known Republican candidate, he was
impeded in his campaign by a leg
injury incurred at the outset, he ap-
pears by most counts to be running
ahead of Hughes.

Hughes, a former Superior Court
judge, has been defending the Mey-
ner administration. He Totes
eliminate the party caucus and has
denied Republican charges of heath
campaign spending and _ bossism
Though less well-known than Mitchell
at théoutset. Hughes, the younger of
the two ‘candidates, seems” to™
conducted the more vigorous cam-
paign. Incidentally again, he has
nine children.

All of which is rather a superficial
survey written by one who has been

Continued on Page 4, Col. 1



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Page Three:






Unique

“A college without graduate stu-
dents ... never occurred to us,” said
M. Carey Thomas some thirty years
after Bryn Mawr’s founding. Strange-
ly enough, a women’s college with
graduate students. never occurred
to anyone else; even today only Bryn
Mawr and Radcliffe among all Amer-
ican -women’s colleges have regular
programs leading to the Ph.D.

The graduate school was establish-
ed in accordance with a clause in Dr.
Taylor’s will stipulating that the col-
lege should “educate teachers of a
high order” and was ‘designed to pro-
vide an almost entirely lacking oppor-
tunity for graduate study among
women. From the very first the
school offered fellowships (the first
for women in this country) and in-
vestigated prospective faculty mem-
bers for their ability to teach in both
schools. The award of the first ad-
vanced degrees occurred in the Col-
lege’s second year,

Dead or Red?

Continued from Page 2, Col. 4

tack, no shelter system could save
97% of the people, and as for the
survivors, what will they eat, where
will they get food and water, and
how will they combat disease? Our
transportation and communication
networks will be destroyed as well
as most public facilities. Moreover,
we are not reassured by the soothing
words of Edward Teller, for’ we must
remember that he is a government
employee. The 20 kiloton bomb which
obliterated Hiroshima is still having
its horrifying radiation effects; to-
day’s bombs, 10 to 50 megatons or
more, are 500 to 2500 times more
powerful. No one knows with cer-
tainty what the effects of an actual
nuclear attack would be, but we feel
we are being fed easy reassurances
which do not correspond to the ter-
rifying reality of the situation.

The destructive capabilities of to-
day’s nuclear weapons oeeeat World





We have

evitability of such a war.
to abandon the negative thinking im-
plicit in the shelter program, and

posit constructive alternatives to
the arms race/ “Better dead than
Red” is not oly a misleading slogan
\because it discourages formulation of
thicd_a]ternative, but it is also im-
moral because it asslimes the prerog-
ative of making this choice not only
for our whole nation, but for the
whole of humanity.
Jo Rosenthal
Rachel Brown









What Does This Indicate?





[Editor's Note The. followina was found
in the Editor's mail box.]

On a certain language oral, admin-
istered recently, there was a short
passage dealing with Shakespeare’s
influence on Goethe.‘ The students
were supposed to read and under-
stand the passage and then answer,
in English, questions pertaining to
the passage. The following state-

ments, reprinted verbatim, were
among the answers students wrote in
response to questions based on the
the passage:

The two men knew each other and
had personal discussions.

Goethe had the German spirit of
Shakespeare.

After discussing with Shalesnoure
Goethe did not doubt for a moment
that the Classic French Theater was
to be rejected.

It was the first time in history of
writing that the German soul had
a shoulder to shoulder encounter with
Shakespeare.

Goethe and Shakespeare new “(sie)”
each other and their conversations
weré the basis ig their different in-

Goethe recognized the genius of
the man and the fact that his work
captured the true German spirit in
writing.

Shakespeare helped him live and
breathe the drama with which he
was working,

Although Goethe’ s eyes were blind,
he had a keener sense of life.

Goethe’s eyes had been opened and
he felt his unending existance (sic):

The influence which Shakespeare
exerted over the young Goethe, and
which was worthwhile and enlighten-
ing for the young author, was mani-
fest in discussion between the two
men.

The Shakespeare
Goethe remains unique.

Shakespeare was so impressed with
the spirit of the German writer.

Goethe placed a personal recogni-
tion no Shakespeare over this affect.

It was the first time that the Ger-
man spirit had a prose-writer meet-
Ling and discussing his equal.

Shakespeare was impressed with
Goethe’s play Goetz von Berlichingen.

likeness of







fluences.

They knew each other!

’s Graduate School
Women’s Colleges

When the graduate schools of the
American universities” opened their
doors to women iri a liberalization
which eventually extended to all but
Princeton, question arose as to the
value of Bryn Mawr’s program. The
alumnae of the mid-20’s had little
conception of the activities of the
graduate school; many felt that the
cost and the demands on the faculty’s
time were excessive.

Grads Benefit School

In 1927, however, the report of the
Academic Committee of the Alumnae
Association, to which Eunice Morgan
Schenck, 07, made the most signifi-
cant contributions, made quite clear
the desirability of maintaining the
program. Not only does the graduate
school have an advantage over many
others in the excellent quality of its
faculty and in its small classes and
frequent consultations; it also bene-
fits the undergraduate school by at-
tracting, stimulating and_ holding
high-quality faculty members.

In 1929 the graduate school was
given an organizational structure of
its own. Its first dean was Eunice
Schenck, who continued as head of
the French Department at the same
time. Another change was the aban-
donment of M. Carey Thomas’ sys-
tem of “little republics of letters,”
under which graduate and undergra-
duate students lived together in_the
residence halls. Says Cornelia Meigs,
07, “Such an arrangement might
have been possible abroad in connec-
tion with the formal old universities,
but here in exuberant and uninhibited
America it had no practicality at all.”

The benefits of close personal in-
teraction between the schools disap-
peared along with complaints from
graduate students about undergrad-
uate noisemakers and resentment
among undergraduates of graduate
partypoopers.. Radnor was set aside
for the use of the graduate students;
for a few years their dean occupied
an apartment there too.

A liberalization of graduate school
requirements took place under Dean
Schenck with the assistance of a stu-
dent advisory committee which in-
cluded Katharine McBride: Greater
flexibility, more stress on indepen-
dent, first-hand research and study,
and less emphasis on established
courses were the results of the study.

When Dean Schenck resigned to
devote herself to the improvement of.
war-time Franco-American relations
her place was taken by Lily Ross
Taylor, head of the Latin department.
Today’s Dean, Eleanor A. Bliss, a
hacteriologist, also performs _ profes-
sorial as well as deanly duties.

In 1947 the building on the other
side of Roberts Road. which had for-
merly housed the Wright School was
put on the market and was purchas-
ed with College money as an income-
bearing investment rather than with
a special fund. The graduate stu-
dents moved the following: autumn
into the building, still hidden by the
scaffolding which symbolizes repair;
their place in Radnor was quickly
filled by undergraduates in qa move
which greatly relieved the current
campus overcrowding.

Franny and Zooey

Continued from Page 2, Col. 3
the range of ordinary experience,
and I think Salinger would be the
last to want to bring-such considera-
tions into his work. If we want to
know that Jesus Christ is every-
where we can find it out from lesser
writers than Salinger, as well as
greater.

I don’t know where Salinger will
go from here in his exploration of
the Glass family; but I hope he will
go beyond a simple statement of the
situation of the moral and confused
young person, which is all Franny
and Zooey essentially is.

Repetition of one problem to the
exclusion of others will eventually kill
even the best of writers; the genera-
tion that “dug” Salinger because he
spoke to them will grow up, and I
think _he is too fine a craftsman to



be left without an audience.
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Apathetics Accept Discussion;

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, November 1, 1961



Poll Analyzes Class Etiquette

by Sheila Bunker

At different times-we have all been
both stimulated and annoyed by open
discussion in class. When we have
been stimulated, we have become sud-
denly interested in the subject con-
cerned; when we have been annoyed,
we have been filled, temporarily, with
a certain disgust toward that subject.

No one could deny the beneficial
aspects of general class discussions;
yet few would. approve unqualifiedly.

What do Bryn Mawr students feel
about class discussions? Do they ap-
prove, disapprove, not care, or offer
solutions? They do all four, we dis-
covered in a recent survey of opin-
ions,

When asked for their view on the
subject, many students looked puz-
zled and alarmed. They seemed re-
luctant to pronounce officially what
they have often whispered in, out of
and between classes.

Several students voiced indignation
at what they felt to be an infringe-
ment of their chosen state of apathy.
“Ridiculous” they termed an at-
tempt too investigate their sen-
timents on the subject of class dis-
cussion. ‘“We’re tired of issues,”
they stated. “You only want to stir
things up.”

We asked them if they did not
think it a good idea for students to
openly express their views, as some-
one might be able to offer criticisms
and suggestions helpful to the whole
College. They did not think so.

“We are happy to be apathetic,” |.

they assured us. “Students have no
business,” they feel, “to stick their
noses into what is the concern of the
faculty and of the administration.”
They asserted that it is the right of
every professor to run his class as
he wants—with or without discussion
amongst the class members.

We asked this group what they
thought about possible means of do-
ing away with some of the problems
of open discussion such as the ego-
tism of loquacious students and the
irrelevant trend of general comments.
We suggested extra hours for dis-
cussion, the tutorial system and un-
dergraduate seminars, The apathet-
ics, however, became even more ada-
mant, stating that open discussions
on an undergraduate level will always
cause problems; that there is nothing
that can be done; that if anyone is to
institute anything, .it must ‘be the
faculty who are, after all, the direc-
tors of their own classes.

Others whom we asked did not
claim apathy. They vehemently ex-
pressed approval of class discussion.
One spokesman of this group stated:
“Discussion, or” exchange. of. ideas, in
class is one of the most important
parts of college. Ten years from now
we won’t remember formulae; it is
important now to learn to listen to
and communicate with others.” They
cited the importance of “evaluation”
and “appreciation of different
thoughts and interpretations.”

Even those strongly in favor of
class discussions, however, qualified
their approval. They noted the need
of spontaneity, limitation and a good
leader for effective discussion.

Those registering disapproval stat-
ed that they would rather listen to a
qualified teacher than to a fellow
student, no matter how great the
heuristic value of her ignorant re-
marks.

The dissenters further feel that “it
is very wrong for a professor to
grade his students on class discus-
sion because of the inability of some

Gubernatorial



far the range of New Jersey
clubwomen local newspapers and
leading only to a reminder that even



students to assert themselves in rau-
cous competition and because of the
insincerity fostered by fear of dis-
agreeing with a professor.”

In essence, Bryn Mawr students
fee] that there is no real need to dis-
cuss the question of discussion. They
feel that the great problem in open
class discussions—that of the student
who-wants to assert herself for the
sake of asserting herself—is a prob-
lem of etiquette. They feel that the
rudeness of students who try to di-
vert a class by irrelevant observa-
tions is a human foible that cannot
be corrected by changing present class
routines.

In summation, we suggest that
each’ student analyze her own class-
room etiquette.

Por the sake of the happy apa-
thetics we will not make etiquette

Departments Gain
Photographer Who
Makes Art Slides

The departments of History of Art
and classical archaeology have ac-
quired a photographic unit by means
of a gift from the Catherwood Foun-
dation of Bryn Mawr, it was an-
nounced this week. The new unit
will serve to build up the lantern
slide collections of the two depart-
ments.

Mr. Karl Dimler, a new staff mem-
ber, trained in photography at the
Museum College of Art in Philadel-
phia, will use a photographic studio
in an alcove on the third floor of the
library and a dark room on the sec-
ond floor.

According to Mr. James : Fowle,

istory of art chairman, the photog-
rapher will greatly facilitate the
work of professors and graduate stu-
lents because he will be able to pro-
ide them with requested visual ma-
terials on very short’ notice.





Minutiae



Mindful of its responsibilities as



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Exhausted



an organ of information-in an institu-

issue . of .the

Bookshop Birds Frequent
College Feeding Stations

(Ed. note: the following article will appear in the winter
“Ornithologist’s Quarterly.”

Since the

authors of this article made their observations at the

College, however, the News has been

to print it now:)

Observations of a

granted the right

College Rookery

by Joan Jane Audubon
Ronda-Terry. Peterson °° =

A short time ago, we were as-
signed to the Bryn Mawr College
campus to observe the birds that
frequent certain unique — feeding
Stations (known locally as_ hall
book shops.) We arrived at the
campus before dawn to establish
our blind near one such station.

To our consternation,. we saw
only a few species at a distance
(the Harried Book-Chaser, the
Frazzled Clock-Watcher, the Red-
Eyed Paper-Producer) and heard
only indistinct calls during the day.
By mid-afternoon, we were thor-
oughly discouraged. As we discuss-
ed moving our blind, we were
startled by the arrival of a Ruffled
Book Shopper. Its booming call
(sounding very much like “book-
shop open”) instantly aroused
great activity around the feeder,
80 we gave up the idea of chang-
ing our location. In reply to the
call of the Bookshopper, several
Bulge-Bottomed Face-Stuffers and
a pair of Red-Spotted Chocolate-
Munchers descended on the feeder.
Seconds later, a Tight-Fisted Free-
loader flew up and began moving
systematically from bird to bird,



picking up choice morsels.

With satisfied “urps,” (the char-
acteristic call of their species),
three Addicted Coke-Swiggers
perched contentedly in a corner.
They were joined by a “flock of
vigorous Red-Cheeked Juice-Sippers.

With glazed eyes and a feeble
chirp, a Panic-Stricken Pill-Gob-
bler flapped ‘over to the Ruffled
Bookshopper. After a §moment’s
consultation, the Gobbler flew
away with a beak -full of pills.
Scarcely had it disappeared when
the Bookshopper was assailed by
a flock of Full-Throated Fault-
Finders and_ nearsighted over-
lookers. The Bookshoppers return-
ed angry answers and a few sharp
pecks to their cries of “you don’t
have any... ,” “why don’t you
get ...,” “why do you bother with
... and “where is the...”

As a Short-Billed Dieter began
singing “thin, thinner, thinnest”
in a near-by thicket, a Strong-
Willed By-Passer winged derisive-
ly by without a sideward look. In
its wake, a Long-Billed Weed-

Continued on Page 5, Col. 3





Campus Events

Thursday, November 2—Ernest Nagel, Professor of Philosophy
Columbia U., will present an “Explanation in Evolutionary
Theories,” Biology Lecture Room, 8:30.

_ Friday, November 3—A. A. will sponsor a folk dance for BMC,
Haverford and Swarthmore in the gym; admission 50¢;
8:00; followed by a guitar sing in Applee Barn.
Saturday, November 4—The Bryn Mawr-Haverford Civil Rights
Committee is sponsoring a discussion with Tom Hayden,
chairman of the Southern Sutdents Non-Violent Coordin-





tion devoted to the pursuit of scholarship, the News is pleased to reprint the
following from Esoterica: The Bulletin of the Proceedings of the Interna-
tional School for the Exhaustion of Minutiae (vol. LX XII, no. 27, pp. 27-72):

The prints above and below were purchased at an auction, in a lot marked
“fire sale.”1 Undoubtedly, they are from the hand of Euriditia McThomasina,
the unscholarly aspersions of Professor von Schlemiel notwithstanding.2
Here I would like to venture (painting myself into a corner of the limb,

ating Committee. He will discuss the current situation in
the South, with particular reference to student activity in
sit-ins and freedom rides. Roost, 4:30.

The Wesleyan University Glee Club and the Bryn Mawr Col-
lege Chorus will present a choral concert under the direction
of Richard K. Winslow and Robert L. Goodale.

Goodhart Hall, 8:30



as it were) the tentative hypothesis that-these represent_two in her un-
paralleled series of self-portraits. Above, an example of the Puerile, or
pre-Bryn Mawr, ‘phase (the treatment of the patella and the metacarpals
particularly is unmistakeable.)3 Below, an especially fine specimen. of. the
Senile, or post-Bryn Mawr period. (Note the rendering of the lachrymal
duct and the enveloping drapery.)4 No words of mine are needed here;
the pictures speak for themselves.’ Quite apart from the phenomenal de-
velopment of linear perspective and the elimination of extraneous details
with. the concommitant growth in technical mastery necessarily implied
thereby, these’ small pictures represent a veritable metamorphosis of the
naive “unlicked cub” into the sophisticated intellectual. “Ignorance,” I
might title them, and“Self-Knowledge.” |

1. From the so-called “Dry Cleaner” collection, named for an obscure reference to ||

some contemporary “tailor” (“toller’? A bell is plainly suggested.)

2. Von Schlemiel (E:BPISEM, vol. LXXI, no. 26, pp. 26-71). Had my. learned col-
league bothered to consult Haffenbacker’s or Roussopoulos’-articles-in The Journal
of the Decay of Ideals, he could scarcely have indulged in such gross misreading.

3. My article in The Naked Truth, (April 1, 1957), covers McThomasina’s anatomical
development adequately.

4, Ibid. pp. 1066-1485. :

5. My four volume study of these prints should appear some time next year.

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Sunday, November 5=="T he Reformation and-the-Modern-Mind,”
an SCM presentation by Harry W. Jellema, Haverford
Visiting Professor of Philosophy in which the impact of the
Reformation upon our culture will be investigated; Parish

‘House, Church of the Redeemer; 3:45
Meeting for Worship under the auspices of the Interfaith
Association; Music Room, 7:15

Monday, November 6—Edward L. Nash, former Republican
Candidate for City Council, New York will speak under the
auspices of Alliance on “The Tide Has Turned;”

Common Room, 7:15
. Tuesday, November 7—Sources of Art in Religion, a series of three
lectures sponsored by-Futerfuith and Arts Cowncil:T be ‘first
lecture, “Sources of Art.in Religious Experience,” will be
given by Martin Foss, Professor of Philosophy, Haverford;
Common Room, 8:30
Thursday, November 9—Harry F. Harlow, Professor of Psycho-
logy at the U. of Wisconsin and Director of the Wisconsin
Primate Laboratory will give a 1902 lecture on “The
Nature of Maternal Affection in Monkeys,” Bio Lecture
Room, 8:30 ae









ln and Around Philadelphia

THEATER 4
Gideon, Paddy Chayefsky’s comedy with Frederic March, will play at
the Locust through November 3.

Toys in the Attic, Lillian Hellman’s drama on a misfit Southern young

man, his childish wife and his two devoted sisters, stars Constance
Bennett and Scott McKay at the Walnut.

Daughter of Silence by Morris L. West stars Emlyn Williams and Rip
Torn at the Erlanger. *

LECTURES

General Carlos P. Romulo will speak on “America’s Stake in Asia” on
November 2 at the Harriton High School, Ithan Avenue, Rosemont.

MOVIES

The Trapp Family is playing at the Suburban Theater.

Sir Laurence Olivier stars in The Entertainer at the Bryn Mawr
Theater.

The Ardmore Theater presents The Young Doctors.

CON

| Mahalia Jackson, hailed as “the World’s greatest gospel singer,” will

appear here at the Philadelphia Academy of Music at 8:30 p.m.
Friday evehing, November 8. Her program will be composed of



gospel music.

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Wednesday, November 1, 1961

T

HE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Five



Here We Come, Harriton



Andes Bulge Out Into Classroom

From New Maps Of History Dept.

“History is, to a large extent,
determined by geography,” said
Mr. Dudden recently, “and geog-
raphy is the worst taught, worst
understood subject, both in the schools
and in the colleges.” Accordingly, the
History department profited from
the Taylor fire in being able to
purchase “dramatic” maps.

The new acquisitions differ
greatly from their crumbly pre-
decessors — especially after the
latter were burned and soaked, be-
came stuck together, faded and
runny and then _ disintegrated.
They are physical relief maps in
bright colors. Mr. Dudden sug-
gested that if a student were bored
with a’ lécture in Room D where
four of the new maps are located,
she might at least learn some
geography. The exaggeration of
the relief is such that,in looking
at the fifth map, hung in Room
G where Mrs. Marshall’s course on
Latin America meets, the geogra-
phical barrier formed by the
Andes suddenly seems to leap out
at the onlooker, and one becomes
aware of the division and virtual
lack of communication between
East and West on the South
American continent.

Pride

The History department is very
proud of its new possessions. It



no longer feels so inferior to the

la spay

new high schools that open up re-
plete with fancy globes and brand
new maps. Mr. Dudden felt that
no one likes using an old, falling-
apart, musty relic ~with faded
boundaries. The new maps, in ad-
dition to their providing the map
gazer with clarity of boundary
and brightness and perhaps a new
sense of history have special qual-
ities — they are strong. (their
advertisement shows a man stand-
ing on the world) and they. are
washable (a route can be traced
on them and washed off) and they
are expensive ($49.95 each).

Rookery
Contnued from Page 4, Col. 5

Dragger swept up to the feeder.
Several others of the same species
flew in singing “filter, flavor, flip-

top box” and “remember how
Croat |, 4.
Shortly thereafter, the Book-

shopper reasoned with a Single-
Splurge Nest-Liner who seemed
to want to take off with all the
food in the feeder. This bird was
immediately followed by a Yel-
low-Bellied , Penny-Spender who
carefully selected one small seed
and rapidly flew away.

‘By this time, most of the birds,
even the Bulge-Bottomed’ Face-



New Techniques Aid Hockey Teams;

A, A. To Sponsor Folk Dance Friday

by Ann Cross

“At the start of the season the
B.M.C. hockey team played good hoc-
. Teamwork and skills were good;
In the



varia group. In the next game with
Swarthmore, the B.M.C. varsity was
win ling in the first half 2-0; how-
ever, in the second half, Swarthmore
made “a brilliant recovery” by scor-
ing\two goals to tie the score.

The teamwork, skills and spirit of
the team were at a peak October 25
when B.M.C, beat Rosemont 5-0. The

two outstanding goals were a long
hard} shot from the edge of the strik-

ing jcircle by Betty Ames and one,

made by Lynn .Thomas on a long
drive from Roeian Fleck. A new
technique for taking corners was tried
in the game. Instead of having the
inner stop the pass from the wing
and shoot for the goal, the halfback

stopped the ball with her hand for |

rae

the inner who then drove | it.

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So far the B.M.C. Junior Varsity
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The A.A. is sponsoring a folk
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Come stag. The price is only 50¢—
that includes cider and cookies! After-
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Applebee Barn.

'|bird-life observed

Boys’ Club
Continued from Page 2, Col. 2

Good Counsel School, was made the
director of the club.

The emphasis has been to provide
activities for the boys, In addition
to the athletic program, there is an
arts and crafts group run by Bryn
Mawr students and a music group,
directed--by Chup. Kaufman, a Hay-
erford student.

According to Gertrude Ely, the ob-
jectve is to turn the, boys’ attention
to their own community to sée how
they might participate toward reduc-
ing bad behavior. The next Christmas
(1959) was the test. The fire com-



FROM THE INFIRMARY

In spite of the shortage of influenza
vaccine available to the general pub-
lic, there its still a supply in the Col-
lege dispensary. Those who failed to
report for vaccine earlier are urged to
be immunized before the Thanksgiving
recess,

Vaccine will be given between 8:30
and 10 a.m. and 2 to 4 p.m. for the
rest of the week. Cost per immuniza-
tion, $1.00. Resident students may
charge it to payday.





pany and the boys trimmed the tree.
(The businessmen did not realize the
aesthetic quality of the tree .
“businessmen are limited”). The boys
were appealed to to protect the tree
and prevent the stealing of bulbs.
When it was announced at a club
meeting that only eight bulbs had
been stolen, the entire club applaud-
ed, Miss Ely admits, (“Who they
were applauding we don’t know!”
The following Christmas, no bulbs
were stolen.

Over the past three years the busi-
nessmen have come to realize the po-
sition of the boys in the club. Re-
cently they asked that they be loan-
ed to clean up after the Bryn Mawr
Hospital Day, held on the green in
front of the community center, The
boys had to carry garbage cans from
the Center down the Pike to Stock-
ton’s store. The businessmen wrote
to the club saying they had never
had any job so well done.

The Civic Association has asked
the help of the Boys’ Club to water
and tend the newly-planted trees on
the Pike.

Another public-spirited project is
the collection of pennies, nickels and
dimes on Hallowe’en for UNICEF.



Although several people thought. it
unwise to let the boys collect money,

.| there were no incidents. Last year

the club collected $26.80. This year,
on mischief night from 6-8 o’clock,
twenty-five boys collected $87.00.

The jingling coins in the UNICEF
Hallowe’en boxes and the glittering
“goldfish bulbs” on the spruce tree
at Christmastime are the symbols of
a remarkable achievement. It would
appear that this achievement was
largely,the result of the efforts of
one person.’ But this is not true;
there were two elements involved:
“my conscience and me”’—Gertrude
Ely.

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Stuffers, had left the feeder, The
Bookshopper seemed to be ready
to leave after them. Suddenly, a
Last-Minute Stock-Snatcher ap-
peared from nowhere, shrieking,
“are you closed—are you closed.”
When even the Stock-Snatcher
was satisfied, the Ruffled Book-
shopper winged away with a chirp
of relief. Quiet descended on the
feeder.

Overwhelmed by the variety of
in this short
period, we silently folded our
blind and stole away to calculate
our data.



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ate Sari @ : H lective action on the part of the Or-
ie, wi Give Me Liberty Or Gimme League Panel view pals Cuba ganization of American States. He
: Continued from Page 1, Col. 2 acne sree Page ty kon 2 did not condone actual fighting

..The following is a reprint from The | on their own two feet without ex- ; : os : .
Scheliadiaiee, puldiebed. wy the Conser- pecting government handouts. 1 have worked, as well as to other wanes a crime in silence is_to com-against Cuba, but felt that the United .
. countries. Although the long term mit it. “~ States could take an active role by

_ vative Club of Grove City College. ae :
am opposed to all socialistic trends, | impact is difficult to ascertain, the im-| Father Galloway’s viewpoint was





Anonymous ; trying ‘to bring Cuba to its k -

and I demand a return to the prin- |mediate and personal gratification is |further elucidated in the question and silt 1 : f = a: ang
“It seems a young man lived with] ciples of our Constitution.” very apparent. answer period following his lecture. |... esol ur . gs ean ey

his parents in a public housing devel- He stated that he believed the ideal |" tage with Cuba, ny Goennae OF



opment, He attended public school, ' solution of the Cuban crisis to be col-

i rode the free schoo] bus, and partici- :
j pated in the free lunch program. He
entered the Army and upon his dis-
charge kept his national life insur-
ance. He then enrolled in the state
university, working part time in the
state capitol to supplement his GI
check.
_ Upon graduation he married a pub-
lic héalth nurse and bought a farm
with an FHA loan and then obtained
a small Business Administration loan
to go into business. A baby was born
in the county hospital. He bought a
ranch ‘with the aid of a GI loan and
obtained emergency feed from the
government.

Later he put part of his land in
the soil bank, and the payments help-
ed pay off his debt. His parents liv-
ed comfortably on the ranch with
their social security and old-age as-
sistance checks, REA lines supplied
electricity. The government helped
clear the land. The county agent
showed him how to terrace it, then
the government paid part of the cost
of a pond and stocked it with fish.
The government guaranteed him a
sale for his farm products.

He signed a petition seeking Fed-
eral assistance in developing an in-
dustrial project to help the economy
of his area. He was a leader in ob-
taining the new Federal building and
new post office and went to Washing-
ton with a group to ask Congress to
build a great dam costing millions so
that the area could get cheap elec-
tricity. $

Then, one day, he wrote to his
Congressman:

“I wish to protest excessive
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