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Page Four

THE' COLLEGE NEWS

_ Wednesday, April 20, 1955



Waves Of Water, ioe ‘And Light —
Topic Of R. C. Hoyt’ s Demonstration

_ Demonstrations showing that
water, sound and light acted in
waves were the focus of Miss Ros-
alie C. Hoyt’s lecture on Ripples,
Waves, and Light.

Using ‘some equipment including
a T.V. set borrowed for the occa-
sion, she explained the general
principle of interference of waves
or ripples (little waves) and kept
her promise “not to write any
mathematical formulae on_ the
blackboard.”

Ripples started by a paddle in a
dish of water appeared as straight
lines on the TV screen. When the
ripples hit a brass plate with one
notch, the patterh™became a series
of -arcs like the ripples after—a
stone has been thrown into water.

A plate with two notches gave a
pattern which looked like inter-
rupted length-wise halves of figure
eights. Each notch was causing a
series of arcs and the interruptions
were flat--places -which~ resulted
when a wave from one notch met a
trough from another. This is call-
ed interference.

In other places, two waves form.
ed an extra-high wave and two
troughs formed a doubly deep
trough. This is called reinforce-
ment. Because sound and light
also exhibit reinforcement and in-

terference they are thought to

move in waves.
A high-pitched sound was beam-
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meter registered several changes
from maximum to minimum vol-
ume as the microphone was moved
in an are toward one end of the
plate.

The minima were at places
where the waves from each hole
interfered with each other. When
the holes were closer together
or when the pitch was lower there
were fewer fluctuations . During a
sound wave the air is alternately
stretched and compressed.

Two thin parallel lines down the

Those parents and students at-
, tending Mr. Arthur Colby Sprague’s
‘lecture, Playgoing in Shakespeare’s
Time, learned about the Elizabeth-
an stage, the audience, the actors
and the poets.

Playgoers in Shakespeare’s time

zens who expected the drama to
tell their own history. Contrary
to traditional opinion, Mr. Sprague
feels that the taste of these audi-
ences should not be blamed for the
things we do not like in Shakes-
peare. It should be remembered
that Puritans and professional sa-



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tirists, who did much to create a,

middle of a photograph negative. gor ogatory opinion about the 16th

formed slits which admitted wavés
from a red light. When this was
held- to the eye the light seemed.
to be a series of parallel streaks.
White light treated similarly gave
a white spot on the screen and a
spectrum on either side.

This happens because each com-
ponent of the light travels at a
different speed and the waves for
each color land at a slightly dif-
ferent part of the screen.

century audience, also said the
/same thing-about the plays. The
| plays, however, remain to uphold
| their worth. The audience does
not.

There is also evidence that hon-
est women did make up part of the
| audience.
-a bit of feminine freedom at that
time in England.

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Mr. Sprague remarked, “England
is a woman’s paradise, a servant’s
prison, and a horse’s hell or purga-
tory.”

Most of the acting took place on

| the “apron” part of the stage so

that the action remained as close
to the audience as possbile. The
action in these plays moved so
smoothly and rapidly that the ob-
server forgot about the obvious
lack of scenery. The absence of
scenery gave the poet the chance
to create atmosphere through the
lines themselves.

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Elizabethan Stage, Audience, Actors, And Poets Treated
By Arthur Sprague In “Playgoing In Shakespeare's Time”

costumes and talented actors who
speak beautiful blank verse.

As little as is known about the
Elizabethan stage, even less is
known of the actor.
know practically nothing about
these men, is indeed a poignant
fact.” However, Mr. Sprague con-
cluded in speculating that for such
great plays, there must have been
great actors. }

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