College news, November 18, 1959

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ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1959

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Arts Night Offers
Madrigals, ‘Cello,
Dance, ‘No’ Piay

‘Because of the large audience
which Arts Night has drawn. in
previous years, Arlene Beberman,
general director of Arts Night,
announced ‘happily, this year’s
spectators will be allowed to at-
tend its dress rehearsal on Frdiay,
December 4, as well as the per-
formance the following night. Both
will take place at 8:30 in Skinner
Workshop.

The program will be, Arlene
says, “extremely diversified —
ranging from madrigals to a Jap-
anese No play.” The musical part
of the program, under the direc-
tion of Alison Baker, will include
pianists, bassoon players, record-

ers, madrigals, folk-songs, the cel-|m

lo, and an operatic aria. There
will also be Indian dancing and
probably modern dancing as well.
In addition, student art will be on
exhibit around the walls of Skin-
ner. Drawings, paintings, etc. for
the display should be submitted
to Lucy Beebe in Rhoads.

Highlighting the evening will be
the Japanese play, Satoba Koma-
chi, “one of the best ever written.”
Sue \Chaffee is directing, and Mr.
Robert Butman advising, with ac-
companying music to be provided
by a flute, drum, and probably a
triangle and wooden blocks, The
performance will be very stylized,
according to tradition; not accord-
ing to tradition is the presence of
women in the cast. , Enthusiastic
about the experimental nature of
the play, Arlene admitted one dif-
ficulty: “We are having problems
finding out what a “stupa” is. We
need it for the set—it seems to be
some holy object.”

Sets for Arts Night are to be
“very delicate and lightsome, to

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~The Bryn Mawr Student Ensem-
ble Group, directed by Mme. Agi
Jambor, will give a concert of
chamber music on Sunday, Novem-
ber 22, at 3:00 in the Goodhart
Music Room.

The program will consist of So-
nata #3 for ’cello and piano by
Antonio Vivaldi, played by Robert
Martin ’61 and Jane Hess ’62; So-
nata Op. 120 #2 for viola and
piano by Johannes Brahms, play-
ed by Marcia Leigh ’61 and David
Hemingway 62; Suite Modale
(1956) for flute and piano by Er-
nest Bloch, played by’ Katherine
Hoover g. s. and Jane Hess ’62;
Fantasy Pieces for ’cello and piano
by Robert Schumann, played by
Robert Martin ’61 and Jane Hess

by Lois Potter

The Caucasion Chalk Circle,
psychological parable by Bertholt
Brecht, will (be presented: in Rob-
erts Hall at Haverford on Friday
evening, November 20, at 8:30 p.m.,
and on Saturday evening, Novem-
ber 21, at 7:30. ‘This is the first
of three annual joint productions
of the Bryn Mawr College Theatre
and the Haverford College Drama
Club.

Brecht is probably best known
to American audiences as author
of the Threepenny Opera, first
produced in 1928, which has been
running in New York longer than
My Fair Lady. Mother Courage,
another play, is to be given there
this season, and one of East Ger-
any’s latest operas is adapted
from his first play The Trial of
Lucullus. In other words, this is a
good year for Brecht.

Chalk Circle, like Brecht’s other
works, produces a variety of sen-
sations with a variety of means:
there are funny scenes, pathetic
scenes, satiric scenes, bits of poet-

Business Gives
Education Boost

Representing the forty - three
Pennsylvania ‘institutions belong-
ing to the Foundation for Indepen-
dent Cdlleges, Miss McBride, with
the President of another member
institution, has recently completed
a series of visits to leaders of
business and industry in quest of
funds for current college operat-
ing expenses.

The Foundation for which she
served as spokesman is one of forty
such state or regional groups of
independent colleges organized to
make a joint plea to industry. Not
one of the first of its type, the
Pennsylvania group of college
presidents has been in existence
only seven years. In this brief
period, however, —it--has increased |
its intake by 806% and last year
received close to $500,000.

40 Colleges Share



These funds, which comprise an
addition to the budget for operat-
ing expenses rather than an in-
crease in capital, are divided among
the forty member colleges by a
distribution formula contrived by
their representing presidents. Sixty
percent of the sum is divided equal-
ly, and 40 percent in proportion to
full time college enrollment. Ac-
cording to this ‘allotment Bryn
Mawr last year received $8,000.00.

In regard to the importance of
the foundation Miss McBride,..re-
cently elected a member of the
executive committee for next year,
noted that although the sums it



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Lectures | in Prospect —
“WORK IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY” is the topic of a talk

to be given by Eugene Schneider
“Thursday November 19, 1959. (Mr.
Mawr Sociology department and
League.

in the Common Room at 8:30 on
Schneider is the head of the Bryn
his lecture will be sponsored by

“BLIZABETHAN POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT”’—Lecture by
‘Dr. ‘Wallace T. MacCafifrey, professor of history, Haverford College,

to be held on Thursday, November

Founders Hall, Haverford.
CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN

master of the Friends’ Secondary



19 at 8:15 in the Common Room,

PROBLEMS— Allen Bradley, head- | J
School, Kamusenga, Kenya, East

Arica, will speak at the Chapel Service, Sunday, November 22, and
fox Current Events on Monday, November 23 at 4:15 in the Common
Room. Mr. Brdaley will be on campus Sunday and Monday; Monday,

he will have dinner in Rhoads and
coffee in the Rhoads Showcase.

will meet students afterwards for

ry, bawdy songs (College Theatre

a|has expurgated only where abso-

lutely' necessary), and, all through
the play, Brecht’s deep sympathy
with the poor.

Story Is Variation

His story is a variation on the
mother-versus-mother case so ef-
fectively solved by Solomon. Gru-
sha, the young peasant heroine of
the play, rescues the child of an
executed governor, when its real
mother forgets it, being too busy
salvaging as much of her ward-
robe as possible. After many vi-
cissitudes, of which matrimony is
the worst, Grusha is able to pro-
vide a home for herself and the
child, only to have him snatched
from her at the end of the war,
when the governor’s wife, return-
ing, needs him to prove her claims
to the estate. This is where the
chalk circle comes in: Azdak, a
strange, shy, yet surprisingly acute
judge, makes use of it to deter-
mine the boy’s real mother.

The sets are to be simple, white-

Chorales, Hymns
Highlight Program
Of Maids, Porters

The maids and porters of: Bryn
Mawr College, under the direction
of Louise Weingarten, offered a
variety of selections last Saturday
evening in Goodhart auditorium.
The program ranged from such
popular hits as “Unchained Mel-
ody”, sung by Mabel Mitchell, and
show tunes such as “Bali Hai” and
“Summertime”, sung by Margaret
Randall, to spirituals and full cho-
rus pieces.

There were several soloists and
solo parts. Dorothy Mapp, Augus-
tine Moses and Miss Randall sang
“You'll Never Walk Alone”, and
Miss Randall and Lauramer Rowley
did a duet of “Somewhere Owver the
Rainbow”. ‘The program opened
with the chorus singing “Cheru-
bim Song (No. 7)” by Dortnian-
sky followed by Patsy Renwick
singing “How Lovely Are They
‘Dwelling’. The chorus then sang
“Listen to the Lambs”, the solo
part sung by Miss Mitchell. The
first half of the program closed
with a choral selection, “God of
Our Fathers”, which includes a
trumpet acompaniment played by
George Freeman '62 of Haverford.

D. Backus Solos

Dorothy Backus, who, in the
first half of the concert, sang
“City Called Heaven”, did the solo
for “Ride the Chariot”, a spiritual
by Henry Smith. This selection
was so well received by the audi-
ence that the ending was repeated
again. The finale to the concert
was a “Tribute to Romberg” in
which Miss Randall was featured
as soloist. As an encore to the
performance (Miss Backus led the
choir in a rendition of “My Lord,
What a Morning”.

Others singing in the chorus
were: Mary Bell, Jean Collins,
Sarah Collins, Faye Foster, and
Edyth Sime sopranos; Evelyn



or; and Carl gyno and Aloy-
sius.Mackey, bass. The choir was
accompanied by Shirley Daniels
and Sarah Shapley. A reception’
for the participants followed the



concert.





College Theatre Ventures Brecht Werke,
Work of Many Sensations

and Nuances

washed with tones of black and
grey. Most of the numerous scenes
‘where the action takes place (for
example, the rotten bridge which
Grusha crosses with the child) will
be suggested by signs or left to
the imagination. Costumes will
chiefly be peasant style; shawls
and aprons for the women, baggy
pants for the men, and iron shirts
for the “ironshirts”, The problem
of getting a head (without attach-
ed’ body) onstage has been solved
by pasteboard; also pasteboard are
the child and little boy, Very
little, however, will be left to the
imagination in the scene (surely
something new in College Theatre
history) where Grusha’s husband,
in a real, high, wooden bathtub,
gets his back scrubbed by Grusha.
For this alone, the play should be
worth seeing.

Psychology Dep't.

Recruits Witnesses

The credibility of witnesses iden-
tification of suspects has long been
a source of argument and question
in the courtroom. Currently, Pro-
fessor Bitterman is directing in-
tensive research on this problem
for the Institute for Legal Re-
search of the University of Penn-
sylvania. Students at Bryn Mawr
and Haverford Colleges and adult
organization-members are serving
as subjects for these experiments.

During the coming week, Vir-
ginia Gavian Rivers, a graduate
student in psychology, will be ex-
plaining the current project at hall
meetings. She needs 400 subjects,
and hopes that students will be
interested enough in the project to
trek over to Dalton and give 8 to
10 minutes of time. Subjects will
act as “‘witnesses” who see the
photograph of a suspect in the first
session, taking 5 minutes at: most.

| Later,.they:pick-this suspect’s pho-

tograph from the pictures of sev-
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Mid-term Concert
Pleases Reviewer

Curtis, Haverford Artists
Perform in Ely Room

by Kristine Gilmartin

A pleasant antidote for mid-
semesters was offered by pianist
Ruth Meckler, of Curtis Institute,
cellist Robert Martin, of Curtis
and Haverford, and pianist David
Hemingway, of Haverford, at the
Ely Room in Wyndham last ‘Wed-
nesday evening. ;

Miss Meckler opened the pro-

gram wtih two preludes and fugues
from Bach’s Well Tempered Clav-
ier (D minor and E major). She
succeeded admirably in clearly
enunviating and interlocking chains
of melody and started the evening
off in fine, classical style.

Beethoven: Highlight

Beethoven’s Sonata-in D minor
(Op. 31, No, 2), “The Tempest”,
was the highlight of the program.
Similar to the Pastoral Symphony
in its attempt to describe the forc-
es of nature, this sonata is famil-
iar, but especially lovely. The con-
trasting heavy and delicate. sec-
tion were very vivid, and though
it is conventional to think that a
male pianist because of greater
physica] strength can give a more
striking performance, Miss Mec-
kler demonstrated in the single
quiet notes—so much harder to
play than a loud, rapid passage—
an admirable control. That ex-
quisite phrase of the second move-
ment constricted the heart, and the
long rippling cadences of the final
section were a delight.

The Bach sonata, originally
written for viola da gamba and
clavier, played by Mr. Martin and
Mr. Hemingway, was impressive
in musical interpretation, though
occasionally uncertain. The two
musicians complemented each oth-
er, and the work emerged with a

(Miss Meckler concluded the pro-



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Declaring that there is not so
much frustration of human need
by society as Freud thought, Dr.
Leonard Blumberg, chairman of
Temple University’s Sociology-An-
thropology Department, began this
year’s series of League lectures
with a talk on “Common Human
Needs in Society Today”.

What are social problems and
how do they arise? The immedi-
ate social problems are poverty,
crime, alcoholism, drug addiction
and so on, The underlying prob-
lems of society—racial, religious
and ethnic discrimination and dif-
ferential. class privileges—breed
the immediate problems. Problems
arise because of rapid technological
changes which upset the tradition-
al norms and values.

In other words, all societies have
means towards ends. ‘With chang-
ing technology, norms change; val-
ues are retained. It has been found
that new means don’t lead to the
old values. This gives society a
-problem..Technology advances s0-
ciety; in doing so it breaks it off
from the past; it mixes popula-
tions; it stratifies society because
populations are too large for every-
one to know everyone else; and fin-



rally, it sets up barriers between

League Sponsors Series on Society;
Blumberg Speaks on Human Needs

generations, All this is because
groups with divergent norms, val-
ues and interests have been mixed
together in a technological age.
They are all needed, but they are
not understood by and do not un-
derstand others. This frustrates
human needs.

Dr. Blumberg then cited human
needs. The basic assumptions in
all societies are: it is desirable to
live; man has certain physical lim-
itations in what he can do; every-
body must live’ with someone else;
and there are positions of power
and authority everywhere,

American society has more than
a dozen additonal characteristics
of human need. These are based
on principles derived from obsolete
religious systems. These needs,
Blumberg cited as free will, sac-.
redness. of the individual, diffu-—
sion of power, productivity in life
rather than idleness, organization,
participation in allocation of re-
wards, progress, the belief in un-
limited natural resources, a mini-
mum of “I am my brother’s keep-
er,” personal achievement meas-
ured by financial success, material
comfort, the democratic way, apa-
thy in scientific imterest and an



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Editorial Continuum

What with the Pennsylvania sales tax up equal with our
tuition over a four-year period, and the closely correlated
encouraging sprouting of coke machines in various dorms
where bottle-caps were planted and hopefully watered years
ago—with the advent of these expensive signs of progress
we find ourselves badly in need of a deluxe edition of the
Self-Gov Rules bound in rhinocerous hide with a special lum-
inous carrying case for those who feel the urge to ramble,
stroll, saunter, prowl, sneak and prowl through, across,
around, betwixt, over and (more power to them) under the
Bryn Mawr campus, which campus is showing eager reluctant
signs of trying to use up all the fall and spring weather at
once this year to save money on calendar pages in the future,
a future which is all too uncertain, with no one ever knowing
for sure in their heart of hearts for certain whether the
swimming team is really a swimming team or just a cover
for a very clever advertising agency who saw possibilities
in the hall announcements, because you can’t hardly trust
these advertisers no-how what with that nice Friendly Young
Professor crushed, all of which leads us straight up the wind-
ing path of scholasticism in the Beau and Belle which has
by now successfully tied so many Beaux and rung so many
Belles that it is willing to take on (phew) Intellectuals from
that college across from Shipley, which goes to show that
even the ultrasonic blinding speed of the College Inn which

we will never: forget except for occasional over-night sign-
outs to wait for a cheeseburger is being challenged by non-

eleemosynary institutions which don’t. make money, hardly
ever make a profit except in terms of cash and dollars and
cents, and never think about Big Mayday which would be
rolling around soon except that Mayday seems to have shrunk
permanently—too much rain probably, but that would never
affect an equally obliterating institution to be known as Big
Payday to be held once every four years to collect donut
money unpaid over that period of time.and tuition would
drop unless they let in 84 extra freshmen who have to sleep
in Taylor tower to run the hands of the four clocks manual-
ly to give it that personal touch, which is an absolutely nec-
essary mandatory essential here where the personal touch
means your classes are so small you can’t possibly cut with-
out being noticed and a signature on a reserve-book card is
a dead give-away for the fine even without the sacred initial,
whch is the initial step to becoming a-deep meaningful use-
less individual uniquely lost in the mass of other individuals
who wear either trench coats or camel-hair coats depending
on what season autumn has decided to be today, or perhaps
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Special Editor: Sue Szekely

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Letters from Alumnae—Il



Letter from London: Children’s Author

Dear College News: °

First about routine, discipline, and drudgery.
The main drudgery in my life is more apt to be
housework than deskwork so I do the minimum of
the former and the maximum of the latter. There
are, of course, always distractions to lure you from
intellectual effort. One has to keep a firm grip on
oneself and usually I make myself put in a couple
of hours at the desk before I allow myself to go
shopping or call round at a neighbour’s or something
like that. If I do things the other way round, some-
how or other I never get to my desk and as a result
I am irritable, because in fact I really wanted to
do the intellectual work. I suppose that this may
be the price one pays for having an education; I
don’t mind paying it myself. I would find existence
unutterably dreary if I didn’t make my brain func-
‘tion, and I keep to regular hours. Most writers of
my acquaintance do the same. What is rather amus-
ing is that my working habits are still those that I
acquired at BM(C—There too I set myself stints to
be accomplished before I went to the Smoking Room
or the College Inn. There too I did any really diffi-
cult jobs in the morning and either read or typed
other people’s papers at night.

How did I get started writing for young people?
In my case it was destiny, I feel, and not design.
At college the last career I had in mind for myself
was a literary one. I had been told too many times
that as the daughter of an author I was sure to fol-
low in his footsteps. By the time I reached Bryn
Mawr I had so many inhibitions about putting pen
to paper that it is only thanks to Miss Stapleton’s
patience and forbearance that I survived Freshman
English. I never attempted anything in the Crea-
tive Writing line. My passion was Politics and my
greatest interest International Law. These I could
write about, if I didn’t thimk too much about the
writing. —

I was graduated in 1940 and had my first job in a
student organization, running conferences on inter-
national affairs. From this I went to London where
4~served on the staff of the United States Informa-
tion Service (then O/W.I.). My job was to provide
information on America for. young people.

Most of my work took the form of visits to
schools and youth organizations to give talks, but
I had to write articles occasionally and still found _it
difficult....I-had -a-very—nice boss, however, who
taught me a great deal. And working for the Am-
bassador, Mr. Winant, was inspiring. I remember
being sent for one day and then asked to take on

|some piece of work for which I didn’t think I had

the necessary . qualifications. “I haven’t had the





training,” I said, a bit hesitantly. I can still see



Mr, Winant looking down at me; he was a very tall
man and he was standing at the time. He furrow-
ed his black, bushy eyebrows. “You went to Bryn
Mawr, didn’t yo?” he asked. WBnough said. I
blushed, and I did what he asked.

I was married in 1948, and after the war I gave
up my Embassy job to start a family. Then after
a time I decided to take a job again. I went to
the BBC to direct Current Affairs broadcasts to
school audiences (age range 11-15), I did this for’
three years. It was exacting and challenging work
at all times—simplifying facts, producing accurate
and unbiased programs at short notice. There wasn’t
time to think about whether one had ability to write
or not. The important thing was that every word
that went down on paper should sound right when it
was heard in a school room. When the ti came
for me reluctantly to give up an office outing fr
part-time work at home I found I could write easily
and naturally because I could hear every word as
it went down on paper. I had also had nearly ten
years of experience with children, little ones and
teenagers.For seven or eight years now I’ve been
writing at home,

So far I have written only on commission. This
means that I write only when I know that the fin-
ished product is likely to be accepted, and that I
am writing according to the demands of the pub-
lisher or a radio or television producer. Occasion-
ally I submit an idea of my own and get that com-
missioned. Jalopy, The Taxicab Cat, the first of my
children’s books. to be published in the U.S. as well
as Britain, came into that category. But before the
m/s went into print, I had worked it over any num-

ber of times to make it fit exactly into a prearrang-

ed format. I knew how many pages the book would
have, which would have colored illustrations, which

black and white, what was to be illustrated, how

and where the words would be on the pages. All

these things are very important in children’s books.

Continued on Page 4, Col. 5



Notice

Influenza vaccine will be offered to Students,
Faculty, Staff and respective spouses at $1.00
per person, Students may charge this to Pay
Day. - Shots--wiilbe_administered-at the Dispen-
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Thursday, Nov. 19, 8:30-10:00 a.m.

Letters to the Editor From Katherine E.
McBride, President of the College, and Enid





Greenberg, ’63, are to be found on page four.










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Wednesday, November 18, 1959 ‘THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three

residential Hopefuls, Kennedy and Stevenson, Considered —



Stevenson Should Run Again;
America Needs ‘Eggheads’

Not Execs, Says

by Marion. Coen

There are many people who find
something distasteful in the notion
of a two-time loser returning for
another try: that Adlai Stevenson
probably shares this distaste is
evidenced by his current reluctance
to declare himself a contender for
nomination. Generally accepted in
the United States, this negative at-
titude toward the perennial hope-
ful probably stems from an inher-
ent American distrust of ambition
mingled with a vague embarrass-
ment for the thrice-defeated. That
it is an irrational attitude can
hardly be denied; nevertheless, pol-
itics being a basically irrational
business, it is at the same time an
apparently irreducible and highly
potent force. :

Faced with the presumed capa-

bility of such a force to determine |:

the course of an election, Demo-
cratic leaders ask themselves if
despite his alleged handicap, Stev-
enson should be given the 1960
nomination, The answer to this
question must, I think, be an unre-
served yes,

Three years ago in the 1952
campaign \Stevenson was labeled
as an “Egghead”: and dismissed.
Now that a period of Sputniks and
Quiz Shows have succeeded in rais-
ing popular opinion of the ‘intel-
lect” this very moniker “might
serve as a decided campaign ad-
vantage. Whether or not this is
so is, however irrelevant, for, no
matter how effective (or undermin-
ing) in a campaign, there can be
small doubt that intellect and edu-
cation are necessary and desirable
in the presidency.

At’ one time it may have been
considered more important for the
top executive to have been an able
and efficient administrator than a
thinker, to be more endowed with
' “eommon-sense” and a firm hand-
shake than the habit of handling
abstract problems or thinking cre-
atively. This is no longer so. The
purely administrative functions of
‘the executive have been relegated
to a host of staff members. The
“doing” jobs can be done by the
many; it is the “thinking” that
is up to the president.

It--is -doubtful--that-any~ ofthe
current aspirants for the presi-
dency would be better able to han-
dle its new functions than Steven-
son. iAmidst a flock of ghost-
mouthed politicians he stands out

Writer

as a man who writes his own
speeches and has convictions which,
even in non-election years he has
publicly-articulated (i.e. his ex-
aminations of political morality
and the Soviet threat in Saturday
Review, February 7, 59, and New
York Times Magaziné, March 1,
69, respectively.) He is a thinking
person who has grappled: with ab-
stract considerations of political
philosophy and morality and who
has departed from the _politician’s
customary province of immediate
problems and policies to examine
basic issues and ideas.

Today, too, the presidency re-
quires one who can do more than
temporarily placate other world
leaders with a disarming smile.
The president must be an individ-
ual with a sense of history, one
who understands to a fine degree
the basic. needs and wants of oth-
er nations. ° Stvenson. appears to
be such a man. UHe has not only
learned about Soviet-American re-
lations, he has thought about them.
His several trips abroad have been
taken neither as politician nor smil-
ing diplomat, but as*observer and
student:

That he is also an able adminis-

trator is evidenced by his record
as Governor of Illinois, but this
qualification becomes almost insig-
nificant in the light of those others
he might bring to office. Clearly,
the question is not so much if Sev-
enson would make a good president
as a good candidate.
' The query reminds one of the
situation of the television produc-
er who decries the quality of his
own wares but maintains that “it’s
what the public wants”. If it is
annoying to be limited to low-grade
programing because it is assumed
to be what we desire, how much
more horrifying to accept a sec-
ondary candidate because of the
professional assumption that our
reaction to a three-time contender
will be one of distaste. The prac-
tice of pandering to supposed pub-
lic desires rather than appealing
to their highest element is becom-
ing a national habit. That it san
be overcome with directed effort is
likely; that it should be is -unde-
niables—

Stevenson would make a good
president; probably a better one
than any contender for either nom-
ination; that he would make a



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lvision commentaries ?

Personality

by Carole Watts

A continuing debate rages among
political theorists about the elec-
toral motivations and habits sus-
tained by the majority. of Amer-
ican voters. [Do we decide blindly
according to party affiliation, do
we really understand and base our
judgments on issues of national
and international import, or do we
choose an amiable, photogenic
personality as we have been’ accus-
ed of doing in 1952 and 1958?

Hopefully, I am not insulting
several hundred thousand fellow
students when J ask if we should
go to the polls tomorrow and vote
for Senator Kennedy (or any oth-
er candidate for that matter), how
many of us could honestly say that
our decision was not langely col-
ored by an image of the hand-
some, youthful, cranberry-eating
Senator ‘that appears daily~ in
newspapers, magazines, and tele-
Fortunate-
ly, or unfortunately, depending on
the critic, we have become more
and more dependent upon this type
of information, pre-wrapped in a
glossy, celluloid package. But
what is inside? In Senator Ken-
nedy’s case, what does he repre-
sent as a popular representative
who formulates and shapes nation-
al and international policies ?

It is perhaps a gross understate-
ment to mention our familiarity
with recent congressional labor
legislation, notably the Griffin-
Landrum bill, a somewhat watered-
down version of the original Ken-
nedy-Erwin bill designed to curb
unscrupulous practices among union
managers. But one might note
that before that bill was passed,
Kennedy, acting as conference
committee chairman, successfully
reconciled diverse House and Sen-
ate groups which were thus able
to execute an effective piece of
legislation—a feat of compromise
that the New York Times termed
“one of the most formidable in
Congressional history.”

‘On the Civil Rights question we
are similarly acquainted with Ken-
nedy’s frequent invocation of the
1954 Supreme Court decision on
segregation which he feels should

~ Tbe respected by the South and

North alike. But it is often over-
looked that Civil Rights issues ex-
ist apart from the 15th Amend-
ment. Senator Kennedy has work-



ed incessantly for revision of vot-

ing methods to allow adequate rep-
resentation of populous urban cen-
ters at both the state and national
level. He has vigorously support-
ed public housing programs but
has maintained that adequate work
in this area cannot be accomplish-
ed without corrective measures to
dampen the opposition of over-
represented rural blocs.

Simultaneously, in other less
publicized fields of social legisla-
tion; he initiated the first bill to
raise the minimum wage to $1 per
hour (now law) followed more
recently by a similar proposal to
increase that figure to $1.25. In
1958 the Kennedy-Douglas-Ives
Bill provided for “full disclosure
and accounting of all employee
pension and welfare funds.” And
the recent Congressional expan-
sion of unemployment. compensa-
tion ‘was sparked by.Kennedy’s
proposal aimed at extension of un-
employment compensation to 389
weeks, augmented payments and
standardization of the program on
a national basis.

As a member of the Senate La-
bor and Public Welfare Committee
he has advocated and been instru-
mental in increased Federal aid to
education, particularly for college
building projects, While recogniz-
ing the dearth of scientific talent
in America, he has frequently’ cau-
tioned against overemphasis in
the sciences to the detriment of
the liberal arts and views with ex-
treme disfavour the loyalty oath
provisions of the National Defense
Education Act. It is his intent
that the-latter issue will be re-
solved in the next session of Con-
gress by its deletion from the Act.

Perhaps Kennedy’s most prolific
though least publicized efforts
have been put forth in foreign pol-
icy improvements usually within
the context of his membership on
the Senate Foreign Relations Com-
mittee. It is his work in this area
that particularly recommends him
to the Democratic nomination in
1960.

His statements and positions on
the multitudinous issues of the
past decade are far too numerous

to enumerate. here_but they—seem

attributable to a few basic assump-
tions, namely: (1) a need for in-
creased flexibility in America’s
foreign policy based on a long-
range plan to promote world peace



by harnessing the energies of mod-

Aside, Who Is John Kennedy? :
Poli-Sci Student Analyses His Policies,
Achievements, Presidential Potentialities

ern nationalism for productive
“domestic modernization” in ‘un-
derdeveloped areas; (2) implemen-
tation of this effort in cooperation
with other nations of the free
world (e.g. Britain, Canada, Ger-
many and Japan); (3) reorienta-
tion of our strategic military de-
velopment programs with empha-
sis on preparedness for limited
rather than’ total war.

In this respect, Jast year, in
collaboration. with Senators Ful-
bright and Humphrey, Kennedy
sponsored a 5-year Development
Loan Program which was incor-
porated in the Mutual Security
Act. In a Senate speech introduc-
ing this program, he advocated
further increases in the lending
limits of the World Bank and en-
largement of the reserves of the
International Monetary Fund. De-
spité opposition from New. Eng-
land colleagues he has continually
insisited that lower tariffs and eas-
ed Export-Import Bank restric-
tions are a necessity if our foreign
aid program is to be successful.
His goal is an “international” econ-
omy moving away from the classic
concept of an East-West bloc
alignment.

Realizing that the United States
neither should nor can shoulder
the full responsibility in underde-
veloped areas, he has proposed an
international “donors club” under
the sponsorship of the World
Bank which, for example, “would
canvass India’s requirements and
make recommendations to partici-
pating nations regarding joint
means by which they can more
effectively support India’s econ-
omic development. efforts.”

Furthermore, he strongly favors
an amendment to the Battle Act
that would allow the U.S. to aid
Communist satellite nations (e.g.
Poland, Hungary) at once contrib-
uting to their welfare, creating an
understanding of the free world
and undermining the solidity of
the Soviet bloc. This proposal is,
of course, based on the assumption
that democratic sympathies and a
high standard of living go hand in
hand, an assumption for which

found in West Germany, Poland
and Yugoslavia. Finally, he has
adopted a critical yet realistic at-
titude toward our current military
preparations which he feels over-



Continued on Page 4, Col. 4



“The Covering of Stone” Fails To

by Kate Jablonsky °62
and Elaine Cottler, ’62

The Covering of Stone, a “con-
cert for voices”, by Jonathan Z.
Smith; was presented at Haverford
November 13. Although well, al-
most reverentially, received by an
audience come prepared to praise
rather than to bury, the play must
be considered as a failure in its

‘own. terms, as “a play of education
. a description of growth and
increasing artistic maturity.”

Mr. Smith, who is algo the ed-
itor of the Haverford Revue, add-
ed a page of explanation to the
- ‘program, which, although inter-
esting in its own right, served
mainly to emphasize the gap be-
tween the concept and the actual-
ity of the drama.

‘The play’s main failure is its
Jack of unity. The concert never
becomes a symphony; the voices
remain separate instruments. As
the author quite rightly states, if
is not a play in the traditional or
conventional sense; but the form
of a concent for voices has been ar-
tificially imposed on the poetry;
the characters have no relation to

- the poetie substance. -This artific-

©



ial form is one more distinction in
an already confusing collection of
poems. For it is a collection; the
changes of style and thought, ob-
vious in the production, are even
more marked in the reading. It is
divided into three parts, each, ac-
cording. to. Mr. Smith, representa-
tive of a stage in the poet’s de-
velopment, but these distinctions
are within, not between, the pdtts.
A sense of progression is lacking.

The imagery is extremely un-
even, rich at some points and re-
duced to chiche at others. It shows
a lack of judgment in content: ob-
vious points are labored, while dif-
ficult passages are left unexplain-
ed. Generally, the imagery is
complex without being subtle. .
__An-example of the author’s ten-
dency to overwork a thought may
be seen in the following lines;

I too have heard that faint quiv-
ering call, It hangs in the scent
of aspen at a catkinned Spring
day. It slinks through the ten-
tacles of river slime at midsum-
mer ... It throbs through the
whitehed bloodroot and the leath-
ern trillium at marsh green dawn.

And whistles with the red-rough- | as

ened hawk. It lures to the height
of a windy moon-etched cliff where
I must conquer the irresistable
urge to fly.

Or, he may force an image to
the point of absurdity, as “You,
like a delicate instrument,
wound yourself around my theme

that we were scored inseparable.”

These are lines as jarring as “when
I first diminutively entered your
sphere,” as as hackneyed as “Inno-
cence, where two hands can gently
meet across a scarred oak table.”
There may be an injustice to the
author taking these lines out of
context, but they are equally out
of context in the body of the poet-
Ty.

The repetition of several of the
many images does not increase
their clarity, for example, “guilt’s
insatiable thorn,” “the thorn of
first love,” “the actual thorns,” (as
opposed to “the formal roses”),
“thorns of remembrance” and the
thorny wind.

‘When the author, however,
speaks of his real subject; which
is poetry, he is meaningful and
consistent. He thinks of poetry



“a dynasty of loss redeemed by

. A

80°

» ious,



‘Play of Education’

new birth,” “an absence, a move-
ment in never more heard than
felt.” In these moments, the theme
of achieving poetic vision emerg-
es, but too often the author jumps
back into the morass, and leaves
his audience bewildered.

‘Because the play is far from su-
perficial, the very depth of the
symbolism precludes a complete
or a fair analysis of its philosoph-
ical content in so short a space,
but our attitude toward the play
must necessarily be that of the
audience for which it was intend-
ed. In gpite of its references to
audience participation in its mean-
ing, The Covering of Stone is
largely an individual experience on
the part of the author which he
falis to communicate. Obscurity
is not necessarily the mark of a
bad work, but neither is it always
the mark of a good one.

Technically, the production, like
the play, was self-consciously ser-
The reading was generally
excellent, although at times the
actors tended to superimpose their
own impressions of poetry on the
play. Put Barber, in the part of
David the Poet, read simply and



honestly, and kept within the
meaning of the poetry. As the
Narrator, Donald Knight possess-
ed by far the best voice of the
readers, but his impressiveness
was impeded by a fault in direc-
tion which compelled him to signal
the characters before they spoke,
a superficial attempt to emphasize
the concert form. The other mem-
bers of the cast were Karen Chris-
tenfeld, Adam Spiegel, Chris Shill-
ock, and Joan Paddock.

The music, written by Alan Pe-
traske, which was intended as “a
generalized re-statement” of the
play, was an interruption rather
than a support. In its disorgani-
zation and formlessness it failed
to create any sense of harmony
with the poetry, and it become an
aimless and monotonous back-
ground.

In the main fault of The Cover-
ing of Stone as a play, a lack of
unity, lies its main virtue as a col-
lection of poetry: variety of style
and poetic language; but like all
anthologies, the quality of the po-
etry is not uniform.

sone historical” “justification is ~








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_ political structure in Advise and
‘Consent.

_ meaningful

Page Four

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, November 18, 1959



A. Drary Examines US Senate Politics

by Jady Stuart

“There is in this system the
enormous vitality of free men,
running their own government in
their own way”: I think this must
be Allen Drury’s principle as he
looks at the Senate of the United
States, and its relation to our whole

(Mr. Drury’s newly pub-
lished novel, now at the top of the
best seller list, is an amazing book,
as up to date as tomorrow’s head-
lines and as timeless as The Dec-
laration of Independence.

Advise and Consent is the story
of a President’s nomination of a
“controversial” man named Leff-
ingwell to be Secretary of State.
(It is an interesting- coincidence
that the novel came out after the
Senate’s struggle over the Presi-
dent’s nomination of Strauss for
Secretary of Commerce). The
plot essentially concerns the con-
siderations and pressures that each
man involved is under as the Sen-
ate must decide to approve or dis-
approve this appointee.

Mr. Drury’s book is fictiomal,
there are no real names used, but
individuals in such dynamic posi-
tions cannot help but bring some
strong leaders to mind. Not even
parties are mentioned and are call-
ed only the Majority and the Min-
ortiy,

The main impression given by
this book is that government is
never any better or worse than
the men who make it. The dom-
inating characters in this book are
real people who come alive to you
with their own personalities, which
are often turbulent and imperfect.
These are conscientious men rack-
ed by the problem of what is best
for the country and how to go
about achieving what they think is
best, limited only by their range
of knowledge and insight, their

convictions. They are driven by
the question, where to compromise,
where to hold firm, to give the re-
sult that will be best for the people
who elected them and whom they
try not only to represent but to
defend against any who would
challenge their freedom or integ-
ity ity,, On this basis they must at-
tempt to solve the world’s prob-
lems in the most peaceful manner.

One insight that Drury astutely
makes is the laxity of the two par-
ty system and its ineffectvieness
in the actual functioning of the
Senate. (No dominant policy of

on any issue, but each elected of-
ficial assumes as much independ-
ence ,as_ possible, only restrained
by his voters back home.

‘One failure of Drury’s, I think,
is that he sometimes by necessity
makes issues almost too simple.
The problem. of foreign policy and
meeting with ambassadors is
handled rather glibly and personal
feelings seem to play an over-im-
portant role. But it would take
more than one novel to portray
the complexities of every problem
the Senate must face, It is enough
to have a small insight into the
tremendous problems and seem-
ingly unresolvable conflicts that
are before conscientious men in the
government today.

One of the most charming as-
pects of this book is the capturing
of the strange and fascinating at-
mosphere of the nation’s capital.
Drury has caught the high tenor
of Washington which is, as he says,
the Main Street of all Main Streets
—a city that glows under the fer-
vor of the activity and importance
that buzzes through it constantly
as it goes about the business of
government.

The final reaction to this book
must first be amazement that men,
who must be limited by their per-



personal feelings and their moral

sonal feeling and, I think, by their



Student Interpreter Tells of Russians

by Loretta Stern

The saddest part of the visit of
twelve young people from the So-
viet Union is that everyone did
not get a chance to know them.
Four girls were staying with Miss
de Graaff. for the six days of their
Philadelphia visit, four boys lived
in one of the dorms at Haverford

- and four other boys were at the
~ University of Pennsylvania. The

only glimpse Bryn Mawr got of
them was on the evening they ar-
rived, Wed., November 11, at an
informal party at Applebee Barn .

Some of the members of their
delegation are undergrad students,
some youth leaders, two are musi-
cians, one is an actress and one a
journalist for a youth newspaper.
Despite their diversified back-
grounds and interests, the group
was united by great spirit and
enthusiasm for their own nation
and equally strong enthusiasm for
communication with
American youth, with the hope of
destroying the distrust between our
nations and building instead a
strong peace and fellowship.

I spent most of the past six days
with either some or all of them
and I have not’ been so excited nor
encouraged in a long time. I was
excited both by their attitude of
friendship and by the spirit with
which many Philadelphians accept-
ed them. .

Within their crowded schedule
they had opportunities to get to
know many students from all of
the schools in the area. The gay-
est times of all were when they
sang folk songs and danced togeth-

-er with the people who live in

Powelton Village, an interracial,
cooperative housing development
and again at the Center for Inter-
national Visitors with people from
Fellowship House and with many
of the friends they had made in
Philadelphia.

‘We had an: especially alaemat
time when the visitors had dinner





at the homes of some Philadelphia
union officials. Two of the Soviet
guests and I went to the home of
a city employee who is a represen-
tative of the Municipal Workers

Union. He has a small house in
Kensington where his family re-
ceived and entertained us with
warm hospitaltiy that was even
all .the more heartening because
the Soviet guests -were treated as
if they were visitors from no more
alien a country than N. Y.

The most disheartening features
of their visits were the sometimes
negative and insulting articles
which appeared in the press, es-
pecially in some of the college
newspapers. What is noticed is
lack of respect for the visitors and
in the reporting several untruths
which angered both the Soviet
delegation and some of the Amer-
icans who were there.

‘What no one in the group want-
ed to talk about was hate. An in-
cident at Haverford which devel-
oped from a student’s accusing
questions and ended in an angu-
ment was, they said, the first such
experience they had in the U. S.
and was everything they did not
want. They did not hesitate to
express their dislike for certain
things they found unpleasant here,
such as the disrespect they saw
in the public schools of students
for t rs, disregard people had

‘\for where cigarette butts are

thrown and some uninformed ques-
tions like, even, “(Do you have air-
planes in the Soviet Union?” They
also did not hesitate to express
enthusiasm for what they liked:
friendly, hopeful young people,
good music, museums, medicine.
The climax of their Philadelphia
visit occurred on the last evening
when an agreement between the
students of both countries was
signed by two \N.S.A. representa-
tives proposing further contact be-
tween our youth. The signing was
greeted by applause and toasts



from both sides.

s

either side emenges very clearly |

sues, can turm out any variety of
stable government at all. The
whole system seems too antiquat-
ed and inefficient ever to legislate
any sound policy, Yet Drury re-
assures us in the end by a feeling
that he has faith both in the ideals
of democracy ghd in the basically
high intentions of the men to
whom ve entrust them. Advise
and Consent is in my opinion, a
memorable book both on its mer-
its as a novel of literary worth
and as a chronicle of our times.

[lack of knowledge on so many is-



Evaluation of Kennedy _—_. *

Continued from Page 3, Col. 5

emphasize the possibility of total
war while overlooking the possibil-
ities and problems that would arise
in the event of another Korea or
Indo-China.

But what does all this mean in
terms of the Democratic nomina-
tion and perhaps the presidency?
What kind of a ‘president would
the Massachusetts Senator be?
His record in domestic politics is
well-known and we have no reason
to expect any drastic revisions in
his present attitudes. On the other

hand, Senator Kennedy Mas! erith-
cized the present administration
on several occasions for.-laek of
leadership, particularly in foreign
affairs where he feels that the in-
itiative “must come from the Ex-
ecutive Branch” and not Congress,
which would seem to indicate that
if elected he would assume the ma-
jor responsibility for our appear-
ance abroad, supported in large
part, incidentally, by a career For-
eign Service which he feels would
be of great service in revamping
our foreign policy.





Letters to the Editor



Miss McBride States Reserve Room Policy

November 16, 1959
To THE COLLEGE NEWS,

The president of the Undergraduate Association,
the president of the Self4Government Association
and the chairman of the Library Committee have
asked me if I would comment on the Reserve Room,
its system of operation and some of the difficulties
which occur when students take books without sign-
ing for them.

Students and faculty both depend on a Reserve
Room where books can be conveniently found, and
invariably found, In the last few years there has
been much discussion of the Reserve Room, not be-
cause a large number of books has been missing,
but because even a few missing books seriously in-
terfere with the necessary work for a course or
several courses.

According to a poll last spring, undergraduate
students by a slight majority favored the introduc-
tion of a teller system. 1 think perhaps the evident
advantage of such a system in safeguarding books
was uppermost in students’ minds, but there are dis-
advantages which to me make a teller system un-
satisfactory.

Students by and large sign books out accurately
and return them promptly. ‘We shouldn’t think of



spending College money to pay the salaries of people
to sign out books for them or watch them; Even
more important is the principle involved. We don’t
expect in this connection or in any other that stu-
dents need to be watched.

The problem is both the careless student and the
student who doesn’t care. Fines that are intended
to serve as a warning are on the whole effective for
the {first but not for the second.

- When fines do not serve ‘as a warning, when a
student is not reliable in signing out-books,-we-have
under the present system only one recourse, The
student is warned by Miss Agnew or by me that the
situation is critical and that the person who cannot
work in an- open-stack, open-reserve system should
not expect to continue work at Bryn Mawr.

Fortunately. the student who is so unreliable
about books as to be in this critica] situation is rare.
With better recognition of the problem by everyone
concerned—students, faculty, College officers—we
should be able to help the careless improve their
ways and bring the issue clearly before even the
student who has not thought it. necessary.to- use
the Library properly.

Katharine E. McBride



More on Night-walkers
To the Editor:

Students of Bryn Mawr College, an opportunity
and an obligation to prove that we are worthy of
running our own government now confronts us.
Within the next few weeks, we must prevent any
change in the walking rules.

The rules are being re-examined because they
have lbeen broken. ‘The indifference of a few stu-
dents toward their own safety now threatens the
safety of the entire campus, for many people find
infringement of rules justification for change.

Certainly, infringement justifies reconsidera-
tion, for it is possible that broken rules are faulty.
The present rules states that girls must walk in
groups of three or more after dark when wandering
on campus or walknig off campus away from the
Ville. The number three was selected because it
seemed the minimum amount to assure safety. Be-
cause girls have found three people inconvenient to

procure and a hindrance to personal conversation, —

they have broken this rule. But no one has sudden-
ly proven that three is superfluous and two sufficient
for safety. Proper lighting, the answer to the prob-
lem, has not yet been installed. Therefore, recon-
sideration of the rule should cease at this point,
for the rule is not faulty and three girls are still
needed to assure safety.

But the Advisory and Executive Boards have not

dropped the matter... Through fear of their ability
to enforce the rule in the face of many infringe-
ments and of the subsequent ineffectiveness of Self-
Gov, they have decided to submit the matter to our
campus.

‘Now it is up to us to elect the right alternative.
Although four choices are offered, only retention of
the present rule cam be accepted. Many of the stu-
dents claim that such a matter as walking after dark
should be left to the discrtion of the individual.
After all, are not the sudents of Bryn Mawr intelli-
gent enough to look after their own safety? These
students do not realize that their egoistic attitude
toward their own independence is prompting such
an opinion. The sudents of Bryn Mawr are also
intelligent enough to read, but would we leave guns
around with the sign, “Loaded Guns, Do Not Touch,”
and trust the discretion of the individual ?

No! We must assume responsibility for those
of our classmates who do not care about their own
safety. Any of us who vote to make the rules more
lenient may pay for our action with the life or
welfare of a friend. (Millions of dollars are spent
to save people trapped in caves. How much cheap-
er is one slightly inconvenient rule to save our
classmates,

Fellow students, now more than ever must we
show that the freedom to choose our own rules will
not result in anarchy, (Let us have the maturity to
refuse absolute freedom when it beckons. The
strength of democracy rests in the ability of citi-
zens to govern themselves, not to destroy govern-
ment. We must accept our ir responsibility and retain
the present rule. -—-

Pe ented





Enid Greenberg, ’63 -

Alumna Letter: II
Continued from Page 2, Col. 5
As you have probably been told, I have written
a number of scripts for children’s television in

| England. Here again, the author must keep a great

many limitations in mind, even for the simplest type
of story. Rag, Tag and Bobtail are three little ani-
mals who appear on the BBC Watch with Mother
series for the Under Fives every week. All the
stories have been filmied now, but when I was writ-
ing them I had to keep a terrific number of factors
in mind, Glove puppets can only hold things with
their front paws, and not very skillfully. They
move slowly. Our set was a permanent one about -
eight feet long so the puppets could only move four
feet to the right or four feet to the left. We were
only allowed a limited quota of film; we had one
camera. At the same time the story had to be one
that would neither frighten nor overexcite a young
child and the narration had to have a pace which
was-suitable-both.for_puppets and child audience.

Obviously there has to be the best possible rela-
tionship between author, puppeteers, designers, cam-
eramen, etc. in this type of writing. I used to take
my typewriter with me to the studio and change the
script each time a problem arose—“The words are
the easiest things to change im television” was my
motto. It is perfectly true—but a lot of writers
don’t look at it in quite that way.

‘Another form of: writing which I enjoy is the
Career Novel, written mostly for girls of about
thirteen and fourteen. For one of these I first col-
lect all the necessary facts and background, then I
evolve a story about a heroime in the given career.
The story must give all the data accurately but in
an interesting and readable form. I started on this
work by chance when Chatto and Windus couldn’t
find an author to tackle Social Work: Since. then
I have done three others—my latest is on Elec-
tronics and to do my research I spent quite a lot of
time investigating all the latest in computers, etc.
I don’t know any more about it than any good jour-
nalist but the book has been checked carefully for
me and it was great fun to do.

How does my professional career compare with
a similar one in the U.S.? That I cannot say.
Most of my professional life has been lived in Eng-
land. I think it is probably easier for me to find
domestic help and pay for it out of my literary earn-
ings than it is for my friends at home.

I am really not distinguished enough to be offering
“pearls of wisdom”. I can only say that my Bryr
Mawr education means more to me than any old
pearls, diamonds, or rubies that might have come my
way. As an inheritance I’d rather my daughters had
the same than all the money in the world. So enjoy
every minute of it while you’re still there and then
come and join the ranks of those who still enjoy it
all in retrospect.

With best wishes to you all, especially my num-
erous friends who are. actively connected with the
College.

‘Yours most sincerely,

Louise Cochrane ih










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preparing for the season ahead. Of
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the largest number of prospective
players. A record 40 applicants
thronged the courts at the tryouts.
Sally Davis, captain of the team,
was pleased to note that the hope-
fuls possess not only quantity but
quality ‘as well. “Although we will
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especially the guards,” she remark-
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The basketball team will start
playing games after Christmas va-
cation. ° Each game will be an-
nounced on the day it is to be play-
ed and transportation will be avail-
able for spectators at “away”
games,

The swimming team also had a
good number of tryouts to bolster
its complement of what Sandy
Colt, captain, calls “terribly. en-
thusiastic upperclassmen.” Last
year the swimming team did very
well and gave the inter-collegiate

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A program of reading and dis-
cussion of modern poetry will be
presented at 8:30 p.m. November
19 in the Philadelphia Art Alliance

Auditorium, 251 S. 18th St. Ad-
sission is free.

It will be presented under the
title, “Three Modern Poets.” Par-
ticipating: will be Daniel G. Hoff-
man, member of the Department
of English Literature at Swarth-
more College; Richard Lattimore,
professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr
College, and Richard O’Connell,
instructor in English at ‘Temple

champion, Swarthmore, a great
deal of competition, so Sandy
hopes that this year may bring
Bryn Mawr victory.

Interested swimmers are still in-
vited to try out for the team and
spectators are welcome at the
meets, There is usually an inter-
lude of synchronized swimming at
the meets for the benefit of spec-
tators.

University._Professor Ernest-Ear-
nest, chairman of the Department
of English at Temple, will be the
moderator.

Hoffman’s book of poems, “An
Armada of Thirty Whales,” won
the Yale series of Younger Poets
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Thursday night at 7:00. Accord-
ing to Margie McHenry, captain,
there are many openings for both
singles and dub players. Fresh-

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Curtis Concert

Continued from Page 1, Col. 5
gram with four Chopin etudes: the
“Revolutionary,” always a good
way to let off steam; “Butterfly,”
charming and gay; “Cello,” with
its singing, string-like melody,
and “Winterwind,” a riot of swirl-
ing, rushing storm. ‘This concert,
presented by Arts Council, was a
lovely program creditably played
and a distinct pleasure.

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Last year he served as a poetry

judge for the National Book
Awards,
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“Poems,” contributor of verse to
numerous magazines, author of
“The Poetry of Greek Tragedy”
and many articles and reviews of
Greek literature, and translator
of “The Iliad,” the “Odes” of Pin-
dar, “Greek Lyrics,” and the works
of Hesiod. With David Grene he
has translated “The Complete
Greek Tragedies.” His transla-
tion of “The Frogs”, by Aristoph-
anes, is scheduled to be published

soon.

O’Connell is the author of three
books, “Four New Poets,” “Best
Poems of 1957” and “Poesia Amer-
icana Del Dopoguerra.” His play,
“The System,” was produced -by
the Patricia Nowell Players at
Hedgerow Theatre in August 1958.
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Psychology Dept.
Continued from Page 1, Col. 4

eral suspects. The second session
takes about two minutes.

The length of the delay between
the exposure of the suspect and
later identification is an experi-
mental variable. One;third of the
witnesses will be tested for mem-
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two weeks have elapsed.

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Business “Aid”

Continued from Page 1, Col. 2

procures are not large, the group
serves to acquaint people with the
need of funds for higher education.
“We are just as interested,” she
said, “im getting a better under-

. standing as we are in the funds.”

The response of businessmen to
the group has been good. “At first,”
said Miss McBride, “when the idea
was new there was a great deal
of spade work to be done—by now
the idea of support has become so
widely accepted. that most presi-

dents of firms know the program
as well as we do... At present
there is nothing like the money to
be had next year and the year
after and the year after... ”.



Stevenson in ‘60?
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good candidate is dubitable. Nev-
ertheless, to deny him the candi-
dacy on the basis of a hypothet-
ica] political irrationality, to hold
that “we like Stevenson, but they
won’t so we'd. better not nominate
him” would be succumbing to a
currently evolving pattern of low-
grade policy. Here I’ll borrow
from James Reston in the Times
of November 8 who, following a
similar line, noted that despite our
penchant for Madison Avenue and
Hollywood,
the Constitution that says we have

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inherent racial, religious and eth-
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seriousness and levels of difficulty
in resolution.. Dr. Blumberg advis-
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problems as individuals, not as

specimens of a type, adding that
our values need reworking and that
collective action is imperative. He
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