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Saturday, October 1, 1960

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Five














When their raft’s mooring line
parts, two “muskie” fishermen
desperately fight the current to
reach the shore of the river...

(WE'LL NEVER MAKE, wow!






WHAT A 1:



“25- tb. cost’ means the line
itself-will stand 25 pounds of
pull, but with the aid of the
“spring” in the pole, it will
hold much more.












THE RIGHT TASTE BECAUSE
















© 1960, BROWN & WILLIAMSON TOBACCO CORP.











Tea Pot, Sterling or Tin-plate, Proves
Bonanza, Both Academic and Social

At Bryn Mawy the tea set is virtu-
allyan_institution. Its long usage
and manifest utility have entrench-
ed its status as standard operating
equipment and made its presence
on mantle or coffee table as de rig-
eur as the Harvard pennant in a
Bates bedspread ad.

Despite its ubiquity the tea set
has no standard form; it may be
a sterling silver heirloom, a sou-
venior from. Chinatown, a long-dis-
carded family samovar, or Wool-
worth’s 79-cent special pre-college
purchase. Generally considered by
sub-freshmen a rather anomolous
inclusion to a list of college basics,
it invariably becomes, in its four
years on and off the mantle, irre-
trievably bound up- with life, both
extra-curricular and academic, at
Bryn Mawr.

Through long nights of two-fin-
gered typing and take-home quiz-
zes the contents of a tea pot (be it
instant coffee or onion soup) usual-



ly proves the difference between

triumphal completion of task or
pre-dawn collapse. On the other
hand, for a p.m. study ‘break,.a
surprise birthday party, or an in-
formal téte & téte with a favorite
professor, the set and the brew it
holds become the means of enter-
taining and the ostensible raison
détre of the party.

Happily enough, a pot of tea is
an automatic excuse for a gather-
ing and generally the inspiration

for good conversation When feel-|.

ings are low there is no better
balm for the spirit than a full ket-
tle and the company it attracts;
when spirits are high nothing is
quite as fitting as to call in half
the dorm to celebrate over tea,
cookies, donuts, and/or crackers.
By the end of this year even the
most ardent supporters of Coca-
Cola will indubitably have become
veteran tea drinkers and will have
learned to wield with aplomb hot
kettle, china pot and tea strainer;



they will be able to detect at a sip

the differences between Darjeeling
and Jasmine, Lapsang Souclfong
and Formosa Oolong, Lipton and
Salada. Lastly, and most surpris-
ing to themselves, they will find
that pouring a cup of tea comes to
mind immediately as standard op-
erating procedure in the face of
virtually every contingency.



B. M.C. Joins Other Colleges
For New Experimental Tests

The Experimental Division _of
the Educational Testing Services
which administers the Standard
College” Board Examinations has
asked Bryn ‘Mawr for its cooper-

ation in a new project. The aim
of the experimental program is to



‘Fine’ Tradition Finds Quorum Missing

To the person unfamiliar with
the most controversial of all Bryn
Mawr traditions, the required and
fined meeting, an explanation there-
of may be in order. Just as its
etymological derivation suggests,
the required and fined meeting de-
notes the method which has proved
reasonably successful in bringing
Bryn Mawrters out en masse to
class meetings The frequency with
which these meetings are held is
said to have made it virtually un-
necessary to accomplish anything



Social life at Bryn Mawr differs
from that of many other residential
colleges because it is located with-
in a half hour’s ride from a
good-sized city. Students, not
dependent on college-sponsored ac-
tivities, can easily avail themselves
iof the entertainment opportunities
of Philadelphia.

A primary duty of every fresh-
man is to reserve a couple of free
. Saturdays for an unguided tour of
~ the city. It is easy to navigate in
Philadelphia because the streets are
numbered. Take the local into
town and get off either at 30th
street or Suburban station, which
is at 16th street. From there take
a Market Street bus down to 4th
St .and Independence Hall; be sure
to see the Betsy Ross house and
other local landmarks. (Musts ‘in-
clude the Franklin Institute at
19th St., which houses, among oth-
er things, a planetarium and Ame-
lia Earhart’s plane; the Rodin Mu-
seum, and the Philadelphia Art Mu-
seum,

Two important feabures of Phil-
adelphia culture are the concerts
by the Orchestra and the openings
‘of pre-Broadway plays. The Orch-
estra offers two series of concerts,
the Monday night and the weekend.
The latter are Friday afternoon at
2 and Saturday night at 8:30. Rep-
resentatives from the Academy of
Music come to school to take orders
for season tickets.

Plays open in town all year. Op-
enings Jast year included such hits
as. Fiorello! and The Tenth Man.
Even if you don’t always pick a
hit it can be fun to see the oft
times disastrous conjunction of
good actors with bad play or vice-
versa. .

Schedules of the Orchestra’s pro-
grams _and_of the plays. .appear||
“weekly in the News. All theaters
and the Academy are within easy
hr distance of Suburban Sta-





Pree vion.

ta “addition ‘to the~regular~pro=)T
grams, touring .companies bring

iladelphia Belies

pected this year are the ballet and
the Kingston Trio.

Movie houses and restaurants
also abound. Movies are shown
immediately after their Hollywood:
release; restaurants range from the
elegant to the reasonable A great



favorite of the latter variéty is the

Muth of ‘Tower

Flaming Angus across from the bus
station where you can get a steak
dinner for $1.45

More information than this is up
to you to find. When you find new
‘possibilities for amusement, please
let us know. Start now, and good
hunting.



PLAYS

opens October 10,
MUSIC

Number 3 by Saint-Saens.
1 and 3 at 8:80.

the Academy at 4:00.

"I'RI-COUNTY CONICERT AT-RADNOR JUNIOR HIGH: The Curtis
String Quartet on Friday, October 7, at 8:30.

MOVIES

students.
The Ardmore .Theatre presents

ART '

Openin Alp

Events In Philadelphia

(WALNUT: Face of a Hero, starring Jack Lemmon; matinees on Wed-
nesday and Saturday; through October 1.

FORREST: The Wall, from a novel by John Hersey, starring George
C. Seott and Yvonne Mitchell; through October 1,

SCHUBERT: The Unsinkable Molly Brown, a new musical comedy

starring Tammy Grimes; music by Meredith Wilson.

good reviews in Philadelphia papers.

LOCUST: The 49th Cousin, with Betty Field and Manasha Skulnik

ACADEMY OF MUSIC: Concert conducted by Eugene Ormandy and.
starring organist Paul (Callaway; program includes Barber’s Toc-

cata Festival, Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony,
September 30, at 2:00 and on October

On Sunday, October 9, a free organ recital will be presented at

‘Neighborhood movie schedules can be found in the local Philadel-
phia paper, and most of the new movies are playing downtown.
An especially good one is Serge Hisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible, {~~
Parts I and II at the Art Theatre in Overbrook; reduced rates for

October 4, and The Barber of Seville by Rossini on October 11.

The Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Art Alliance invites
you to an Open House to meet the artists whose works make up the
season ’s opening exhibitions. Friday, October 7, from 8 to 10 p.m.

Events On Campus




Received

and Symphony

at any one meeting.

A sophomore who has hopes of
becoming a Calculus major has an-
nounced that if 175 students are
absent from each meeting the soph-
omore class collects roughly eighty-
eight dollars (at 50 cents per head)
per meeting “With money like
this,” she declared, “we won’t need
to fear excessive tuition rises. We’ll
just establish a fund.”

The primary discussion topic of
each meeting is, generally, whether
or not those present can vote them-
selves a quorum. Since this ques-
tion has never been successfully
resolved, meetings for the purpose
of voting on whether or not re-
quired and fined meetings should
be continued have been continually
postponed. The prospect for this
year, according to informed sourc-
es, is that in the twenty minutes
between 1:30 and 1:50 they will still
abound, taking precedence over
bridge and pounce (two Bryn Mawr
sports) and offering a pleasant in-
terim for organized confusion and
letter writing.



help develop a more successful
and useful aptitude test for pre-
freshmen.

The weakness of the present
testing system is not that it does
not divid@students among the ap-
propriate universities but that it
does not discriminate very accur-
ately among students in the high-
est 100 or 150 points range, It
is, therefore, not a good test of
how students will produce after
they get to college. For example,
Miss Geffcken pointed out, stu-
dents who receive scores in the
high 700s on the S.A.T.’s often
graduate in the middle of their
class. Predictions of how well a

student actually will perform can
in no way ibe made from the en-
trance exams.

The first step in the experiment
was the special aptitude test ad-
ministered to all freshmen on Sat-
urday morning, October 1, for two
and a half hours. The same test
will be given at eight other col-
leges also chosen to participate in
this program. The names of the
other schools have not been disclos-
ed but they are all resentative
institutions of a similar nature
and academic level as Bryn Mawr.
The test itself is a general apti-
tude test similar to the present
exam.

“A follow-up program will con-
tinue for at least the first year.
The Dean’s office plans to send in
reports of how each _ individual
student is doing through June, —
Further steps in the study are still
undetermined,





got a sweet tooth?

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FOUNTAIN

Hours Will Be Announced

If interested in waitressing
see Linda Bryson or Julie
Tarachow in Pem East.







Welcome to:
The Class ‘of ‘64
from ;
DINAH FROST

Come see our selection of
yarns and greeting cards

Lancaster Ave.
Bryn Mawr, Pa.







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