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VOL. XLII, NO. 7
ARDMORE, and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1957
© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1957
PRICE 20 CENTS
Annual United Service Fund Will. Aid
Student and Community Organizations
by Grace _Labouchere
The United’ Service Fund is the
Bryn Mawr campus chest drive
conducted annually in order that
the college can help support sev-
eral worthwhile orgnaizations. The
drive is under the auspices of both
League and Alliance,
‘Since it is an all-college drive,
it has been the policy in the past
to support primarily several stu-
dent organizations. Such student
organizations under consideration
again this year are World Univer-
’ sity Service, International House
of Philadelphia, National Scholar-
ship and Service Fund for Negro
Students, United Negro College
Fund, Trustees of Athens College,
Greece and The Japan Internation-
‘al “Christian” ‘University, “Along”
with these, USF also supports oth-
er organizations that rely on col-
leges: American Friends Service
Committee, American-Korean Fed-
eration and Save the Children
Federation. The United Philadel-
phia Fund is the only exception,
but we have helped this organiza-
» tion in the past because of our
community responsibility,
The USF drive will begin with a
Legislature meeting on Thursday,
November 21 at 8:30 p.m. in the
Common Room of Goodhart. At
this time, representatives from
each of the above-mentioned or-
ganizations that we are consider-
ing this year will give a descrip-
tion of the work of their organi-
zations. Legislature will then vote
on the organizations the college
will support and will suggest the
percentages into which the con-
tributions should be divided among
these organizations.
The drive itself will be held De-
cember 3, 4 and 5 with solicitation
done by the League and Alliance
hall representatives. Each donor
Movement Expert
Assists at B.M.C.
An outstanding figure in the
world of dance education and
movement, Miss Betty Meredith
Jones comes to Bryn Mawr once
a week this semester to teach
freshmen classes and experiment
with the Dance Club in possibilities
of motion and artistic onganiza-
tion. She takes time out from a
busy schedule of lectures and
classes in New York where another
of her audiences is Barnard Col-
lege.
Two of her themes are “Basic
Movement—Study of human ac-
tion and its relation to all activity,”
and “Movement Dance and Sports,”
» She-has studied at the Laban school
under Rudolph Laban, a pioneer
in the study of human movement.
. Since coming to this country
from-the British Isles in 1952, Miss
Meredith-Jones has:taught on the|
west coast. She takes an interest
in groups of all physical capacities
and ages, and especially in rehabil-
- jtation research in which she is
now working at Columbia. Univer-
sity.
NOTICE
Work on Bryn Mawr’s Con-
ference April 12, “Can Democ-
racy Survive in America?”,
sponsored by the. Big Six
-onganizations is, already. under-
way. Students interested in
working on the committees for
the Conference should contact
any of the. Big Six -presidents.
may contribute according to the
percentages proposed by Legisla-
ture, or she.may “earmark” her
donation to particular organiza-
tions of her preference,
Students are reminded that this
is the only opportunity they will
have to contribute to worthwhile
organizations. It is hoped that
USF will receive the support it
has in the past.
Arts, ‘Great Books’
Subjects of Talks
In presenting the first of the
Arts Forum lectures on Monday,
December 2, the Arts Council will
initiate a series of talks and dis-
cussions on subjects of current
interest in the areas of the arts,|
humanities, and ‘Great Books.’
Forum discussions, organized along
the lines of the Current Events
lectures, will be scheduled for Mon-
day evenings at 7:15 in the Com-
mon Room. They will alternate on
a flexible basis with Current Events,
as the result of an agreement be-
tween Alliance and Arts Council.
Beth Carr is in charge of arrang-
ing for the series.
Lectures on art, music, liter-
ature and the theatre will be given
primarily by members of the Bryn
Mawr and Haverford faculties. Two
lectures wil Ibe scheduled for De-
cember, the topic of the first to
be anounced next week, and the
second one to deal with Beckett's
‘Waiting for Godot’ and to be given
on December 16, prior to Haver-
ford’s independent production of
the play. Gretchen Jessup, Chair-
man of Arts Council, stressed the
broad range of possible topics of
current interest and import for
these discussions, among which
plans are being made for talks on
‘New Criticism,’ and the ‘Angry
Young Men.’
Through its somewhat omivorous
inclusion of topics, the Forum
hopes’ to attract a participating
audience from a wide range of
Bryn Mawrtyrs. Suggestions of
topics you would like to have dis-
cussed will be warmly welcomed.
ee
Legislature
There will be an important Legis-
lature meeting on Wednesday, De-
cember 11, at 8:30. The Legisla-
ture will be asked to appropriate
part of the Undergrad surplus for
the improvement of the top floor
of Goodhart as a student center.
Hall Announcers
é
To Enjoy Meals
Rules for Hall Announcements
The Undergrad Executive and
Advisory Boards have set forth the
following rules regarding Hall
Announcenents:
1. Announcements must be
clearly written on 3 x 5 cards or
typed on paper of that size or
larger.
2. The publicity for any one
event is limited to 3 announce-
ments.
8. Commercial advertising, i.e.,
from sweater company agents on
campus is limited to one announce-
ment.
4. Announcement “writers are
urged to heed a 25-word- -limit;
announcements are most effective
when terse, clever and to the point. |
Hall Announcers have the right
to omit those announcements which
Haverford-Bryn Mawr
“The Beggar's Opera”
This year’s second Class of 1902
Lecture will be given by W. Moel-
wyn Merchant, Monday, December
2, at 8:30 p.m. in. the Common
Room. Mr. Merchant’s topic will
be “Visual Criticism of Shakes-
peare.”
Mr. Merchant is the Senior
Lecturer in English Literature at
the University College of South
Wales and Monmouthshire at
Cardiff, Wales. At this time he is
Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare
Library in Washington, D, C. and
is lecturing there and at Yale.
This is his first lecture at Bryn
Mawr, although not his first visit.
Although teaching English Lit-
erature, Mr. Merchant has special-
ized in the relation between art
and literature, and is an expert on
the pictorial illustration of Shakes-
peare, both in the sense of straight
illustration, as for texts, and of
stage decor. The Oxford Press will
Haverford to Offer
‘Waiting for Godot’
The Haverford College English
department has announced the pro-
duction of Waiting for Godat by
Saitiuel. Beckett to be given at
Roberts Hall on Saturday evening,
December 14.
The production and accompany-
ing thesis is a project for honors in
English by Kenneth Geist, Haver-
ford senior and the play’s director.
The. cast, of faculty and students
includes Robert Butman, College
Theatre director and assistant pro-
fessor of English, Kenneth Wood-
roofe, professor. of English, and
Haverford students Gerry Good-
man ’56, Harvey Phillips ’58, and
Al Paskow ’61.
The controversial play, which
has appeared twice on Broadway
in as many seasons, has been alter-
-|nately praised and damned by the
critics, but its success on the con-
tinent, among other things, attests
to its merit.
+—The—somewhat__ unusual- cast,
stage, setting and original score}
promise an ‘interesting evening in
are at variance with these rulings.
the theatre. Admission is $,50.
in the United States as a Research],
W. Merchant To Present 1902 Lecture
On “Visual Criticisms of Shakespeare”
bring out within the next few
months a sizeable — 200 illustra-
tions — book by Mr. Merchant on
this subject:
After the lecture, Mr. Merchant
will stay on and take a history
of art seminar of Dr. Bernheimer’s
Tuesday afternoon at 2:00. This
seminar will be open to all students
particularly interested in the rela-
tion between literature and paint-
ing.
Hindu And Quaker
Interfaith Speakers
The Interfaith Association’s lec-
ture series on Far Eastern Relig-
ions will be continued on Monday,
November 25,..when Swami Pavi-
trananda of the Vedanta Society of
New York City will give a talk on
Hinduism at 8:30 in the Common
Room. Swami Pavitranada is him-
self a Hindu, but he has lived many
years in the West and has an ex-
cellent understanding of Western
as well as of Eastern philosophy
and culture.
Dr. Howard Brinton, head of the
Quaker center at Pendle Hill for
many years and a former Professor
tof “History of Religions” at Bryn
Mawr, will close the series on Tues-
day, December 3 at 8:30 in the
Common Room with a lecture on
“Eastern and Western Mysticism
and Theology.” Dr. Brinton has
lectured on this subject several
times in Japan and has had the
advantage of criticism from J. sisted
ese pnomnta.
Library y Displays
Works By Poet
In token of the two hundredth
anniversary of the birth of William
Blake (November 28, 1957) the
Rare Book Room in the Library
is sponsoring an exhibition of his
works. —
The display includes recent gifts
to the college of Blake’s illum-
inated books and notably an orig-
inal water color drawing of Blake’s
| the gift of Joanna Semel Rose ’53.
~The exhibit- will last-for_approxi-
mately two weeks; one week before
Thanksgiving and one after.
Music, Acting, Directing, Set---Beggar’s Opera
Receives Enthusiastic Plaudits On All Counts
by Sue Opstad White .
It was not a first night on Broad-
way, but the air around Roberts
Hall last Saturday night was filled
with all the tension and excite-
ment of those fabled events. For
ever since the Fall of 1956 rumors
had rumbled around Haverford
and Bryn Mawr campuses, growing
louder toward Spring, and then
fading away—until the announce-
ment finally came: yes, we are go-
ing to do The Beggar’s Opera.
Saturday night was the long-await-
ed moment, toward which so much
time and effort had been directed.
And, when the house lights finally
dimmed and the curtain rose, the
magic that can only be found in
Q000 theawe toun-comumanas Lon
all those connected with the Bryn
Mawr College Theatre and the
‘| Haverford Drama Club it was a
triumphant climax-—for the audi-
ence it was an evening of pure de-
light.
It was a pleasure, as always, to
see Ken Geist on the Bryn-Mawr-
Haverford stage, as he skillfully set
the satirical tone of the production
as the Player in the Prologue. He
‘was joined by Mr. Butman’s as-
sistant director Philip Miller in a
well-played performance of John
Gay’s satirical Beggar. His char-
acterization not only proved Phil’s
talent for period low-comedy, but
also illustrated again Mr. Butman’s
extraordinary flair for directing
such roles. ‘Playing together, both
Phil and Ken displayed a fine sense
of timing in the satiric comedy of
their scenes. Phi)’s subsequent ap-
pearances were consisterit and ef-
fective.
’ Dick Kelly played a hearty Mr.
Peachum, making the most of his
opportunities for bald comedy. His
scene with Mr. Lockit were par-
ticularly good, as the little Peach-
um and big Lockit effect was car-
ried off to good advantage. Dick’s
stage movemént throughout the
performance was impressive, and
showed an experienced hand at
period comedy.
Bob Crist as Filch was delight-
ful. Although his role was minor,
Bob made it a hit by playing ef-
fectively between the audience and
the cast, and most particularly by
his fine singing. In the best tra-
dition of operative convention, he
managed to embellish his songs
both with his voice and with his
characterization.
Anne Schaefer, with her keen
sense of timing, her versatility in
a comic role, and her ability to
project a full characterization at
all times, was wonderful as Mrs.
Peachum, She delighted the audi-
ence with marvelous facial expres-
sions, scene-stealing antics, and
an over-all robust characterization.
It was Anne who paced the early
scenes, sparking the audience into
an enthusiastic recéption -of~the-
remainder of the performance. All
in all, Anne’s was a very profes-
sional job.
Diana Dismuke played a charm-
ing and spirited Polly, Her “sing-
ing was exceptionally good, but her
acting proved that it was not for
her voice alone that she was cast
for the part. She played to her
audience beautifully, was a picture
of grace on the stage, and manag-
ed to convey just the ‘right touch-.
es of innocence, -warmth, and
‘spirit in-her characterization. Her _
Continued on Page 3, Col.
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Wednesday, November 20, 1957
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Let There Be... ~
Off stage voices: (sepulchral, mysterious, laryngitical)
O light!
In the beginning was the dark...
O light?
A movement, as of many softly shuffling sneakers, is heard,
and presently On Stage voices:
No ink
No light
No think
To-night
Too hot
To sleep .
Two-watt
We weep
Chorus, full voice:
And Besides The Books Are All Stolen Anyway!
(The voice of the poets is heard through the land)
1st Poet: a
“Do not go gentle into that good night
Rage, rage...”
2nd Poet:
“AO dark dark dark. They all go into the dark,
The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant.”
(a murmur of “how unkind,” “oh, now wait” i§ heard, Sneak-
ers shuffle as in protest) .
“The captains, merchant bankers, eminent men of letters,
The generous patrons of art, the statesmen and the rulers,
Distinguished civil servants, chairmen of many committees,
Industrial lords and petty contractors, all go into the dark,
and dark the Sun and Moon, and the Almanach’ de Gotha
And the Stock Exchange Gazette, the Directory of Directors,
And cold the sense and lost the motive of action,
And we all go with...”
1st pair of Sneakers: (a younger pair)
Yes that’s very nice Mr. Eliot, and of course we had always
intended to write our long paper on you, but please can’t you
tell us why they don’t put the lights on in the library, These
nights we can only read you by day. And if it’s raining
sometimes not even then, Mr. Eliot... we
Chorus: (full sneaker shuffle) Vd
We peer \
We squint
We near
The print
The rain
The dim
The strain
No glim!
2nd Poet: (again)
“You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance
In order to possess what you do not possess”
Zu
Pair of tennis shoes: o Mr. Eliot...
Castle Guide:
Please to regard the main reading room, madam
It’s modelled on Oxford, old Wadham
College’s great hall for dining; quite
Ideal for study, especially at night
Don’t you think
Tourist tripper (female)
Think?
Oh yes.
Indeed I have always inclined
To think books the food of the mind
Don’t you guess?
An aga student minstral: (a monotone who will not be
deni
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (condensed by Addlemer Mor-
timer)
This scene we saw, this saw was seen
While strolling through the grey
Of reading room in la(f)ternoon
' Around 5:30, say;
For I never saw a girl “‘who looked
So wistfully at the day”
_As one bright scholar, who did wear
Long shorts and hours grey
Away in light unsure, at best, Ie ©
For the honors gained in May; |
~ “© carpe diem” quoth she sadly ‘
Which means enjoy the day.
2nd Poet (for the last time, softly) :
“What is the late November doing...”
Sneakers, Tennis shoes:
Mr. Eliot, oh Mr. Eliot, do you think you could explain the
symbolism, we’re in the dark you know .. .
Full Chorus of On Stage Voices: ~
- No ink
_No light
No think ‘
at hc einem atirieiceeniiaaehl
ALERTED? a PEE gory an ee
(And Besides The Books Are All Stolen Anyway)
o
>
Tis said brevity is the soul of wit.
Alas the professorial contingent
did not always subscribe to this
view. “Ah,” but you say, “it is not
the quantity .. .”
“Indeed, no, Miss Jeosophat, but
we can not judge you on 25 words
or less.”
“But sir, these aren’t just any
old 25 words. Each is carefully
chosen. i:
Mv e, Wells"
“One day sir, all language will
be limited to a meagre hundred
words or so.
“Indeed?” Then why not write
a paper on that topic. You could
deal with it quite copiously, I’m
sure.”
‘Am What Am
by Debby Ham
So she went home and wrote a
paper, but it didn’t look very long
so she rewrote it on her room-
mate’s typewriter which had larger
type. It. still didn’t look very long
so she re-typed it with two spaces
between each word and four spaces
between each sentence. That took
her a long time, and even when she
was finished it was still short. She
reset her margins and made a
thin column down the center of the
page, using long words and cross-
ing them out. When she got to the
end she wrote “end,” and there was
much matter and few words.
And from that day on, profes-
sors never asked for long papers.
Last Thursday evening Don
Americo Castro spoke in the Com-
mon Room to a large group of stu-
dents, professors and their families
and local residents. Don Americo
is considered one of the leading
figures of Spanish thought of the
20th century and one of the great
professors of literature of our time.
His topic was “El Caballero de O1-
medo”—a play by Lope de Vega,
famous Spanish playwright of the
transitional years between the 16th
and 17th centuries,
Don Americo commented early
in his lecture that the play was
constructed upon a “cantar popu-
lar” of that period, the inspiration
of the song, however, having noth-
ing to do with the happenings of
the play. Lope simply appropriated
the song already known and sung
among the people and wove the
play around it, substituting the
death of the play hero, Don Alonso,
for the death of one of the local
residents for whom the song was
originally written. This factor
brought out some thoughts of Don
Americo on the subject of literary
criticism. He felt it was easy to
become over-involved in a relation
of the work to reality at the
time it was written and overlook
the value of the work as an artis-
tic entity. He definitely felt that
\the reader should forget for a mo-
ment why this song was originally
written and whether or not the
heroines of the play were meant
to represent various lovers of the
author. Instead the reader must
enter into and participate emotion-
ally in the play itself in order to
understand and appreciate it fully.
The element of fate was men-
tioned by Don Americo as funda-
mental to the play. Dona Ines and
Don Alonso were fated by the stars
to love, and he to die. As in all
epochs, the drama makes use of
the clash between the life of the
and his adverse destiny as directed
from above. Lope does not com-
ment on the good or bad of this
adverse destiny, he merely presents
it—“que de noche le mataron!”
Lope presents the two towns of
Medina and Olmedo as symbols re-
spectively of life and death. The
constant goings and comings of
Don Alonso between Olmedo and
Medina—between life and th—
show that he is both a living per-
time. He continually speaks to us
from a world of fantasy and
dreams. How is it possible that he
‘ean be alive and dead at the same
time? “Only in art,” said Don
Americo, One must perceive this
paradox emotionally, not rationally.
In contrast to the world of death
from which Don Alonso speaks to
us ig the crude realistic world of
Fabia—iLope’s presentation of the
15th century’s Celestina. This huge
brought into a synthesis and har-
monized in the person of Dona
s from con-
character as directed by himself] |
son and a dead person at the same
| Tale of Two Cities!
scope presented by the author is|'
Reading of “El Caballero de Olmedo”
Follows Don Americo Castro’s Lecture
love ‘with Don Alonso in his very
world of fantasy and dreams. Don
Americo mentioned also that never
before had such originality ap-
peared in Spanish drama and at-
tributed it to the genius of Lope
de Vega.
The lecture was followed -by a
reading of fragments of the play
and the “romance” sung and play-
ed by students from the Graduate
Center. : :
Badminton
Last chance! Try out for the bad-
minton varsity Thursday night,
7:30-10:00 p.m. Everyone welcome:
you need not be a champion. A
wonderful game, congenial com-
pany, and a long time period to
suit your taste. Come anywhere
between those hours.
Self-Gov Initiates .
Meetings in Halls
by Nancy Dyer
On the night of November 4, the
Self-Government Advisory Board
held an open board meeting in the
Rockefeller Hall showcase. This is
the first time that Self-Gov. has.
held an open meeting in any hall;
it represents one of the chief aims
of the Board this year, which is to
involve as many people as possible
in the mechanics of its administra-
tion,
The Board feels that the experi-
ence of sitting in and contributing
to a discussion of objective Self-
Gov. problems can be exceptionally
valuable to the individual member..
One reason for this is that she:
will be dealing with situations in
which she herself is not directly
concerned. In Advisory Board
meetings the Hall president pre-
sents an anonymous case:and it is
up to the Board and any visitors
to examine the given situation and,
to arrive at a decision on the basis
of the rules and policy of the As-
sociation.
Unfortunately too many people
have never thought beyond defin-
ing their own position to a book of
rules and have consequently missed -
a conception of the system as a
‘whole; fo miss this is to miss a
‘very important aspect of life at.
(Bryn Mawr. :
Omen hall meetings are ar effort.
on the part of the Board to bring
_ | Self-Government as directly as
‘possible to the college.
It is up to
the college to decide whether our
system of Self-Government is ef-
fective, and if not, what changes
‘should be made. We feel this year
‘individual evaluation
larly
scheduled opportunity for revising
is particu-
important because of the
the constitution next semester,
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Wednesday, November 20, 1957
THE COLLEGE NEWS.
Page Three
Review of Beggar's Opera
Continued from Page 1
love scenes with Macheath were,
despite operatic convention, more
convincing than any I have seen
on the Bryn Mawr - Haverford
stage. Jim Katowitz was no less
successful as the dashing Captain
Macheath. Jim’s voice was also
exceptional, as was his ability to
put across his role as the romantic
hero. As his role demanded, Jim
dominated the stage during his
scenes. His graceful stage move-
ment, despite over-size boots, com-
bined with his voice and character-
ization to effect a most convincing
performance. Jim and Diana to-
gether were superb.
‘Mimi Gisolfi’s Mrs. Trapes was
wonderful. She certainly looked the
part of the more (than Mrs. Peach-
um) sophisticated Madame, and
her voice and manner, and particu-
larly her stage movement, were
juist as convincing. Mimi’s per-
formance had a really profession-
al polish, which, needless to say,
added greatly to the production as
a whole.
(Don Knight was superb as Mr.
Lockit. His performance left noth-
ing to be desired as, behind a won-
derful white mask with expressive
black eyebrows, he delighted the
audience with. marvelous facial
contortions. His stage movement
was particularly good—notably in
his dance with Peachum and in his
second act backwards exit from
the prison scene, Don’s was an-
other very professional perform-
ance,
(Peggy Cowles’ Lucy Lockit was
the only weakish element in an
otherwise consistent production.
Peggy’s characterization lacked
much of Lucy’s coldness, and was
often too immature to portray
Lucy as the villainess she was
meant to be. Perhaps the fault lay
in the fact that Gay’s Lucy wanted
Macheath to marry her because she
‘was pregenant, not- because she
loved him—in contrast to Polly,
Lucy would marry only out of ne-
cessity. Peggy’s lucky Lockit lack-
ed this very essential feature, and
as a result. her characterization
was confused and _ confusing.
Peggy’s performance, however, was
very good; the fact that the audi-
ence liked her—and they definitely
did—proved -that shéwas‘able to
overcome to a great extent the
defects of her interpretation.
The choruses were particularly
good—they looked wonderful, sang
exceptionally well, and. on the
whole provided a marvelous back-
ground for the production. The
short dances were all effectively
by the colorful costumes—and aj|spite flu, strep throat, etc., it was| Lise Blau ’55 to Sheward.
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timed and well-performed. In fact,
liantly illustrated
all the stage movement was first
rate. The opera’s music, charming
in itself, was an outstanding fea-
ture of this production—a welcome
surprise indeed to those who
doubted the wisdom of attempting
musical theatre. Several of the
individual voices were excellent,
and those members of the cast
whose voices were not naturally
of solo calibre were yet well able
to ‘put their songs across. The only
unfortunate note was that the dic-
tion of the soloists was quite spot-
ty. The orchestra, although not
always perfect, played creditably
throughout. It was well balanced
in itself—and effectively set-off by
the harpsichord—but it sometimes
offset the singers. This problem,
while a—difficult_ one, could have
been eliminated had the orchestra
rehearsed with the cast more often.
The make-up was exceptional,
particularly in the cases of Mrs.
Trapes, Mr. Lockit, and the chor-
uses. The costuming was always
effective and sometimes ingenious.
The play-within-a-play was bril-
by simulated
theatre boxes complete with styl-
ized manikins, black and white,
placed at either end of the pros-
cenium arch, and by a stylized in-
ner proscenium arch, black and
hung with white curtains, It was
a simple but very striking set—its
black and white effects well set off
Arthur Dudden Poses Challenges
For Practical “Humane” Education
Mr. Dudden, a member of the
history department, presented the
current events topic for this week,
“What Higher Education Owes to
the Students.” His remarks were
based on the recent technological
strides made by Russia which
dynamically reveal the shortcom-
ings of our own educational sys-
tem, :
the production. Although nothing
spectacular was needed in the way
of properties, that element was
well provided for. The lighting too
was very adequate.
Finally, Mr. Butman deserves
high praise for his brilliant job of
directing The Beggar’s Opera. He
staged the production beautifully,
leaving nothing to be desired in the’
way of movement and business.
Every effect was like an added
coat of polish, none of which was
lost on the delighted audience. It
was professionally done from start
to finish and—well—it just simply
sparkled!
A period satire is never the easi-
est type of production to attempt,
and in the case of The Beggar’s
Opera there was the added diffi-
culty of music. Many congratula-
tions to everyone connected with
Saturday’s performance—for, de-
Mr. Dudden believes that the —
purposes of higher education are
to seek a “humane life” that is
refined and cultivated in the liberal
arts and, at the same time, to ac-
quire skills which are practical in
nature for attaining, a livelihood.
The product of this kind of edu-
cation would be an integrated per-
son educated for himself and for
society.
He also proposed several chal-
lenges and criticisms against
higher education in the U. S.,
among which are the ideas that
we must ‘reject the belief that
shortcomings will be compensated
for by future developments, and
that education must serve the
‘immediate purposes of human
life” as well as the preparation for
tomorrow in a natural and social
environment,
In conclusion, Mr. Dudden out-
lined an academic program for col-
lege and pre-college levels of a
broad, unspecific nature that would
make American education “sub-
lime” with “feet of clay.”
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
Wednesday, November 20, 1957
‘Hazing Day,’ Bear
d Growing Contest
Inspire Activities at Holyoke, Temple
The November 1 issue of The
Mount Holyoke News reports that
there is considerable discussion of
eliminating the Hazing Day. The
editorial cites Bryn Mawr’s Hell
Week, and concludes with the
thought: “Hazing Day is the sen-
iors’ day and in no way should the
juniors spur the freshmen to dis-
obey or to be impudent to the sen-
iors. They can encourage their lit-
tle sisters to enter into the func-
tions with enthusiasm and good
sportsmanship.”
Temple University News boasts
of a hair-cutting linguist in the
classified advertising in the No-
vember 1 issue, “To learn a lan-
guage You have to practice speak-
ing it. I will converse with you
Bored’ with the way you
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in Spanish, Italian, or French while
cutting your hair.”
On the lighter side, the Temple
men are at present taking part in
a beard-growing contest. The con-
test, sponsored by the Alpha Phi
Omega, is “the beginning of a
drive to revolutionize the shaving
cream industry temporarily and to
permit students to let their hair
(chin hair, that is) down. Divi-
sions of the contest will be length
and style and unusualness.”
At Lehigh an upperclassman in
a Letter to the Editor complains
about the eating manners of the
freshman football team: “ ‘Feeding
Time at the Zoo’ would be an ap-
propriate caption, were you to pub-
lish a photo of the Lehigh fresh-
man football team in action at the
dinner table. It seems their repu-
tation is not made on the football
field—as is that of our outstanding
varsity—but in local restaurants,
where their screams and scratching
tend to give other patrons the feel-
ing they are in a monkey house.”
The Quill, from Russell Sage
College in Troy, New York, reports
results of an interesting poll.
“Quill regrets the fact that the
results of a recent student poll will
not be published. The question
asked ‘was, “Whom would you sug-
gest we sent to the moon on the
U.S. rocket?” The Quill board
felt that “the results of.this test
were impractical as it would be
impossible to send the entire fac-
ulty at one time.”
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College news, November 20, 1957
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