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VOL. XLIV—NO. 16

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1961

4) Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1961

PRICE 20 CENTS



President Explains_Nat’l

President McBride in her lec-;
ture, Education, A New Frontier,
discussed the program for Federal
aid to Education, and revealed
“hidden reefs” in its structure. The
tenets of the bill as printed below
in the New York Times concern a
5.6 billion dollar plan with three
principal proposals:

(1) A three-year program to provide
$2.3 billion in grants to states for public
elementary and secondary school educa-
tion, The money could be used for con-
struction or teachers’ salaries or both.

(2) A_ five-year program to provide
$2.7 billion in loans to colleges for con-
struction. About half the loans would
be for academic facilities and the rest
for housing.

(3) A five-year program to provide
$576 million in grants for college schol-
arships. The states would award the
scholarships on a basis of academic abil-
ity and financial need; the maximum
award would be $1000 a year.

President McBride discussed in

- detail the housing program, the

revision and extension of the Na-
tional Defense Act and the schol-
arship program. She found definite
advantages in these ” proposals.
‘However, President McBride also
found four difficulties which she
termed “reefs.”

The first _problem in the schol-
arship program concerned religion
and the constitutional right to
give Federal air solely to public
schools and not to parochial and
private schools, The second prob-
lem is the problem of race, Should
segregated schools be given Fed-
eral aid in spite of the Hannah
Committee’s statement that segre-
gated schools could not. receive
aid?

The two problems of race and
religion ‘were “‘reefs” in that they
were evident difficulties. The two
other problems seen by President
‘McBride in the National Defense
Education Act are, she feels, less
noted at present. The third “reef”

Public Responds
With Great Vigor
To Youth Abroad

' Tmmediately on the heels of the
News’s March 1 editorial entitled
Proposal”
came an Executive Order from
President Kennedy formally estab-
lishing the agency with R, Sargent
Shriver as director. The Presi-
dent’s description of the Peace
Corps answered many of the ques-
tions posed ‘by the News, and
agreed with us that selection must
be painstaking, that training must
be thorough and include study of
language and customs, and that
non-college graduates have a place
in the program,

On March 6 The New York Times



mF reported in an article on youth re-

action to the program that six
Bryn Mawrters had already offer-
ed to volunteer for the program.
The Times included a quotation of
cautious enthusiasm from the
News’s editorial.

Reaction at colleges and univer-
sities throughout the United States
has been enthusiastic, and has led
the National Student Association
to plan a National Conference on
Youth Service Abroad, to be held
March 28 through 31 in Washing-

“ton, D. C., with the American” Uni-

versity as host’ Says James C.
Scott, International Affairs Vice

- Education Aid Proposals

is the possible inadequacy of the
program itself. Even if the prob-
lems of race and religion are re-
solved, the ultimate adequacy of
the program still remains to be
tested. With certain adjustments,
the program may work success-

fully. It has been termed “not a
erash program, but a cautious
start.”

The fourth difficulty seen by
President McBride is the question
of freedom from federal control.
In former years many colleges and
schools were wary of federal grants
for improving teachers’ salaries;
they have always looked to the
government for research and build-
ing grants because these are rel-
atively ffee of any danger of con-
trol. With the grants. for research
and building, the government could
posibly gain a certain degree of
control over education. Is this
legitimate? Would the government
instead understand what the needs
of the colleges are wtih regard to
the nation? ‘Will the government
ever truly understand the fears of
the educaional community ?

[President McBride ended by say-
ing that the mounting needs for
higher education financing can not
‘be met without some sort of fed-
eral aid, Perhaps with a close
understanding between educator
and (Congress, these needs could be
met with benefits for all concerned.

College Elections

Present Top Jobs
To Johnson, Paul

The first college elections under
the new system have resulted in.
victory for Sue Johnson as presi-
dent of Self-Gov and Barbara Paul.
as. president of -Undergrad,

Att the outset, a total of six-

teen girls were nominated for. the;
presidency of Self-Gov. Twelve of
these declined. Twenty-four differ-
ent names were suggested for the:
Undergrad presidency; nineteen.
girls declined the nomination.

In the primary to determine the
Undergrad slate (the Self-Gov one
was cut down to four names by ''
declinations) five halls registered.
a voting turnout over 80%: Den-!
bigh, Pem West, Radnor, Rocke-)
feller, and Wyndham. In Pem/|
West, however, 45% of the ballots’
were abstentions.

A ballot for yesterday’s final!
election for required of each ipso
facto member of the two major as-'
sociations. Figures for the Self-
Gov election are not yet available;
outsanding statistics in the Under-
grad contest are: nine ballots miss-
ing in Merion, fourteen in Pem
‘Hast, seven in Pem West, ten in
Rhoads, and eight votes not cast in
Rockefeller. Wyndham, iby .a_mis-
take in the date, turned in no bal-
lots, and only five were received
from non-residents.

‘Henry Cadbury, chairman of the
Bryn Mawr Board of Directors and
former Bryn Mawr and Haver-
ford professor, emphasized in his
Interfaith lecture Tuesday night
the distinctive features of Quaker-
ism in historical and contemporary
perspective, Noting that Bryn
‘Mawr had once had a yearly Qua-
kerism lecture, Mr, Cadbury sug-
gested that students now as then
tome to such lectures because of
a curiosity about the “rock whence
we ‘were hewn and the pit whence



Columnist, Author Lerner
Treats “Creative America”

On Tuesday, March 21, Max Ler-
ner, noted lecturer and author, will
speak on “Creative America”. He
is the Distinguished Speaker at
Bryn Mawr this year, sponsored

|by the Speakers Fund administer-

ed by Undergrad.

(Mr, Lerner was born in Minsk,
Russia in 1902, and he came to the
United States in 1907. He gradu-
ated from Yale in 1928 and did
graduate work at Washington Uni-
versity in St. Louis, getting his
Ph.D. from the Robert Brookings
School of Economics and Govern-
ment in ‘Washington, D.C.

Mr. Lerner- has taught political
science and government at Sarah
Lawrence, Wellesley, Harvard, and

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The Woodrow Wilson National
Fellowship Foundation named Mon-
day 1,383 students from 381 col-
leges and universities in the Unit-
ed States and Canada as Woodrow
Wilson Fellows for 1961-62, the
largest number ever elected by the
Foundation in its 15-year search
for prospective college teachers.
Eleven Bryn Mawr seniors were
named; Elizabeth Anagnostakis
(Classics); Robin Berman (Slavic
Languages); Nancy Beyer (His-
tory); Karen Black (Linguistics) ;
Grace Booth (History); Melinda
Flory (Physics); Jean Hebb (Phys-
ics); Elizabeth Levering (Political
Science); Jane Parry (English);
Lois Potter (English); and Kath-
erine Tiernan (Russian Studies).

The fellowships cover the first
year of graduate study and are
meant to encourage newly-elected
fellows to consider college teach-
ing as a possible career. Nomina-
tions for these highly-competitive
awards are made by the students’
professors. Screening of the can-
didates is done by fifteen regional
committees drawn from the aca-
demic profession.

Winners were chosen from 10,453
nominees, representing a twenty-
one per cent increase over last
year and a five-fold increase since
the program was expanded in 1957
by a $24,500,000 grant from the
Ford Foundation. More than twen-
ty-three fields of study, nearly all
in the humanities and social sci-
ences, are represented by this
year’s winners. Those in mathe-
matics and natural sciences repre-
sent 15.9 per cent of the total, The
winners, of whom 28.2 per cent are
women, will be enrolled in ninety
different graduate schools in this
country and Canada. ?

! ~The Foundation accorded Honor-|
able Mention to 1614 others. Those
at Bryn Mawr receiving Honorable



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&

Mention are Arleen Beeberman,

Benita Bendon, Catherine Clarke,
Deanna Crispin, Jane Lovelace Da-
vis, Lana Deviak, Betsy Frantz,
(Marcia Fullard, Jacquelyn Goad,
Irene Kwitter, Kathleen Livezey,
Elizabeth Lynes, Mrs. B. S.. G. No-
bel, Linda Schreiber, Barbara
Toan, and Carole Watts Parsons.

In addition to the awards for
first year graduate study, the
Foundation annually makes subven-

$2,000,000 to the various grad
schools where Woodrow Wilson





Fellows enroll. Three-fourths of

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2 pints

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Eleven Bryn Mawr Seniors Receive Wilson Grants;
Foundation Notices Five-Fold Expansion Since 1957



Woodrow Wilson winners, left to. right: top row—Jean
Hebb, Melinda Flory, Eliabeth Anagostakis, Gracemary Booth;
second row—Robin Berman, Karen Black, Katherine Tiernan,
Betsy Levering; front row—Nancy Beyer, Lois Potter, Jane Parry.

the funds must bbe used for second-

year awards to graduate students
regardless of whether they are
Wilson Fellows: The remainder
may be used at the discretion of
the grad schools to improve library
facilities, raise faculty salaries,
provide counselling services, or
otherwise to improve their pro-
gram of study. Since the Fellow-
ship program began, the Founda-

fellows, The total value of this
year’s awards has been estimated
at $3,000,000.

| Leighton explored the

Cadbury Considers Quakers,
Notes Nativity in Negativity ©

we were ‘digged.” On March 14,
1661, the last of four Quakers was
killed in Boston,” Mr. Cadbury
commented. “That, however,” he
said,. “didn’t scare me off.”

iMr, Cadbury stated that Quaker-
ism was born in a period of relig-
ious ferment, caused by a new
translation of the Bible. The found-
ers of Quakerism deploring theo-
logical hair-splitting, and feeling
that religion should “be a first
hand -experience,” at this time
broke off from the Church of Eng-
land, “God for them was in direct
contact with man,” Mr, Cadbury
said. -In order to come into closer
contact with. God,- Quakers aban-
doned all creeds, clergy, liturgy,
and ecclesiastical trappings. This
unorthodoxy soon spread to social
customs. The Quakers, whose “ra-
tivity was in negativity” opposed
all bowing, scraping, oath-taking,,
war-making, slavery, cruel treat-
ment of criminals and the’ insane,
use of the state to enforce’ relig-
jous practice, and the inferior po-
sition of women.

Quakers were unique in that
their negativity was: “the by-pro-
duct” of a positive commitment.
George Fox, for example, declined
a military position because he felt

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Israeli Policy in
Nazi Case ‘Bad’,
Lecturer Declares

“The Rule of Law and Adolph
Eichmann” was the topic of a lec-
ture given by Miss Gertrude C. K.
Leighton, of the Political Science
Department, on March 18 in the
Common Room, In her talk, spon-
sored by Current Events, Miss
case of
Eichmann who was kidnapped last
May in Argentina by volunteer
Israelis to stand trial this April
for Nazi war crimes in which he
was involved during the Second
World War. Concerned with the
legal aspect of his case, Miss
Leighton spoke on the idea of the
rule of law, both domestic and
continental, as well as internation-
al, and the relation of that rule to
the action which Israe] has under-
taken in her attempt to prosecute
the former exterminator of Ger-
man nationals, . ,

Answerable to Charges

‘As Miss Leighton noted, during
World War II Eichmann headed
that section of the Nazi Secret Po-
lice which was responsbile for the
annihilation of Jewish and other
minority groups of German citi-

_|zens.° This position makes him

now. answerable to. charges of war
crimes and crimes against human-
ity. Although he was not among
the twenty-two major defendants
prosecuted at Nuremberg, he was
tried later during the period of
post-war occupation. Having es-
caped to Argentina, probably by
way of Egypt, Eichmann was still
presumably high on the list of
those sought by the Central Office
of Investigation of Nazi War Crim-
inals. . nak

In May of 1960 Israeli volunters
apprehended him, indicting, him
under an Israeli statute of 1950

of Israel itself was formed, by
which war crimes against the Jew-



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