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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, December 7, 1955



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Dilemna

At-the-recent discussion on “What’s Wrong with the
Chapel Committee?”, reported elsewhere in the News, one
complaint which arose was that chapel services are too sec-
tarian. Students felt that the use of a sectarian hymnal,
the benediction, and other details of the service alienated
those who could not agree with them, and that in order to
appeal to more of the campus the Committee ought to hold
chapel services that are truly non-sectarian. .
On the other hand, a number of students feel that the
Chapel Committee would be more effective if it held “more
sectarian” rather than “less sectarian” services. In other
words, if the nature of the service depended upon the Chapel
speaker for that week: a Methodist minister conducting a
basically Methodist service, a Rabbi holding a Jewish service,
and so on.

When questioned on this second suggestion, the Head of
Chapel Committee replied that it would at the present be
very difficult to accomplish such a program. The first prob-
lem is the eternal one of a lack of money to buy the required
hymnals, prayer books, and so forth. A second problem is
that many ministers themselvs have expressed the belief
that due to lack of facilities it is impossible to duplicate very
closely their actual religious services.

The Chapel Committee obviously faces a problem in try-°
ing to meet, through one organization, the religious needs of
students who represent many religious faiths and hold many
differing convictions. The Committee has said that it is will-

ing to consider all suggestions for solving any conflicts.
We feel that one point to keep in mind is that students
generally attend Chapel not for the religious service itself,
but rather to hear the speaker of the week. Perhaps the
_ success of the Chapel Committee should not be considered
primarily from the standpoint of the form of the service.
We also feel that despite the problems existing in one
central religious organization on campus, it is greatly prefer-
able to the alternative of dividing the campus into a number
of sectarian groups. ;







The College wishes to extend its sympathy to Miss
McBride on the death of her father on November 23.





~ EVENTS IN PHILLY

THEATRES Simmons, Vivian Blaine.
Locust—The Bad Seed, Nancy| OTHER EVENTS
Kelly.
a hehiebict ns King and I, Pa- Philadelphia Museum of Art—
__tricia Morison. ____| Comprehensive exhibit of the works
Hedgerow—The Cherry Orchard. | of Toulouse Lautrec, through De-
MOVIES: lee

| lenn Ford and/ on. Dec. 12—Max Lerner, The
| Near East, Powder Keg of World
War IIL.” ‘Y’, 401 South Broad
Street.





The freshman class is happy
to announce the election of
Freshman Show officials. Mimi
Gisolfi will be director; Sandy
Scott, Stage Manager; Whitney











by Carol



From The Balcony

Hansen







Chekov’s “Cherry Orchard,” pro-
duced by the Hedgerow Theatre, is
one of the most elaborate produc-
tions ever staged by the group.
There is very little else to recom-
mend it.

The author meant the play,
which tells the story of the decay
of an aristocratic family, to be-a
comedy. Yet it could just as well
be done in a completely tragic
vein. It is not quite certain just
what Rose Schulman had in mind
when. she directed Hedgerow’s ver-
sion. The characters are too stuffy
to be truly tragic, too conscientious
to be comical.

It is obvious that a lot of pains-
taking effort went into producing
“The Cherry Orchard.” There are
four acts with three different sets,
the nursery, the lawn of the estate,
and a sitting room. All were ele-
gantly done by Michael de Beauus-
set, a man with an amazing eye
for color. The authentic period
costumes, too, were lavish, yet
charming and quite natural.

Thus, it is not to the discredit
of the background that the actors
as a whole did not act like profes-
sionals. Miriam Phillips plays
Lyubov Andreyevna Ranevskaya,
owner of the cherry orchard and
matriarch of the household. One
cannot help but wonder that, given |
support, she could‘have been quite,



The Cherry Orchard By Anton Chekov

effective in her role. As it was,
although she carried herself well,
her personality was not forceful
enough to give her the central po-
sition she deserved.

One of the persons who failed to
support her adequately was her
brother Leonid played by Ronald
Bishop who acted his comical part
with only inappropriate embar-
rassment. The other was the stu-
dent Petya Trophimof, Morgan
Smedley. He failed to define his
character at all and changed his
temperament from act to act.

By any standard, the most out-
standing actor in the‘ play was
Firs, the old valet, done by. Sher-
man Lloyd. Deaf, blind, and half-
mad, Mr. Lloyd acted every mo-
ment that he was on the stage,
even while sitting in a corner. He
talked of the “good old days when
the old master was alive” with a
voice literally trembling with emo-|
tion. He was both captivating and
heartbreaking.

Other characters were Bernice
Izes and Audrey Ward, the daugh-
ter and adopted daughter respec-
tively of Lyubov; a merchant and
house, Ralph
Roseman; a governess, Helen
Alexander; a maid, Kathryn Mid-
dleton; and a young servant, Rich-

ard Brewer.



purchaser of the













Off The Bookshelf

“sy Molly Epstein







The purpose of The Moral Deci-
sion is to examine ideas of right
and wrong, i.e., moral ideas, in the
light of American ideas of justice
and injustice, i.e., legal ideas.. Mr.
Cahn believes that notions of what
is good tend to become abstract or
vague, irresolute or utopian. He
feels that these defects may be at,
least partially corrected by exam-

ling concrete legal situations and

drawing moral implications from
them.

His belief that it is possible to
draw parallels between ethics and
law presupposes the view that the
materials of the two disciplines are
similar and that it is only their re-
spective methods which are diver-
gent. And the ability to treat mor-
als as a legal order leads to an
ethical theofy in which ethics, like
law, is focused more upon man and
his specific acts than upon concepts
and formal ‘processes.

While it is essential to consider
ethics and law in their manifesta-
tions in particular situations,
neither is subjective although, it
may-be argued, neither is universal-
ly valid either. But there is a
standard, the “moral constitution,”
which persists despite changing
conditions, and to which it is our
duty to make ethical and legal pre-
cepts conform.

The “moral constitution” is uni-
versal in that it is a psychological
condition imputed to all men. We
all. tend to dramatize. ourselves to
ourselves; we all tend to identify
ourselves with other human be-
ings; and we all possess a semi-
rational, semi-emotional, semi-bio-
logical sense of what is wrong.

Mr. Cahn’s focus on the notion

The Moral Decision By Edmund Cahn

though in all probability we will
be unable to choose what is right
in many particular situations. How
do we know this?

However obscure our sense of
right may be, we are reminded
that it is, by our reaction to per-
ceiving it violated. We may not
know what is right or just, but we
do know what is wrong or unjust:
“Our reaction to an act of moral
wrong is a blend of reason that
recognizes, of emotion that evalu-
ates, and of glands that pump
physical preparations for action.”

The “sense of wrong” in the
moral sphere is the “sense of in-
justice” of the legal situation. And
in The Moral Decision :the latter is
called upon to clarify the former.

The possibility of morality pre-
supposes society but individual mo-
rality is not simply derived from
group mores. Morality presup-
poses not merely society but an in-
teraction between the society and
each of its members. The process
by which morals evolve is three-
fold: the group command is im-
pressed-upon the individual; he_re-
works it in terms of his character
and intellect so that it will have
meaning for, him; and in using it,
‘he communicates it back to the so-
ciety from which he took it, in a
modified form. Hence, we are all
moral legislators and all moral
subjects.

Mr. Cahn’s method of drawing
moral implications from particular
legal cases makes fascinating read-
ing and avoids the accusation of
presumptuousness because it lays
no claim to being all-inclusive. It
is in a sense haphazard as all em-
pirical “derivations” of principles



of wrong is probably his most in-













Powers,










must be. It certainly does not pre-
teresting comment on both law and tend to

Current Events

Possibility Of Outer
Space Satellite
Discussed

To many Bryn Mawrters the
term “satellite” may suggest the .
Iron Curtain and_ international
problems, but the satellite discuss-
ed by Dr. Walter C. Michels, chair-
man of the Department of Phys-
ics at,the Monday Current Events
lecture was instead related to sci-
ence and outer space. :

For many years scientists have
wished to shoot a rocket beyond
the limits of the earth’s atmos-
phere. From this would be launth-
ed a satellite body which would
circle the earth in the same man-
ner as does the moon, which is the
vrototype for any projected satel-
lite.

-— Pull of Gravity

The problems involved in this
plan are numerous, and chief
among them is the atmosphere it-
self. In order to overcome the pull
of the earth’s gravity the satellite
must reach a height of three hun-
dred miles, almost seven times the
distance that has:been already at-
tained, and to do this it must be
shot forth from the ground at the
speed of 2 miles per second. No
rocket yet made, among our rock-
ets. which are copied from thos

used by the Nazis in World Wér

II, can travel at this rate. Fu
the force of gravity will drastically
reduce the speed of arly ’ object
seeeking to escape the atmosphere.
To overcome this problem the first
rocket will be equipped with a
smaller rocket, which will be shot
out from the_main rocket as its
speed begins to slacken. This will
continue to the desired height —
about 300 miles. There it will
launch a satellite which will begin
to revolve about the earth in a
time of about 90 minutes. i

The satellite will be a small ball
about the size of a_ basketball
which will contain instruments for
measuring such conditions as tem-
perature and cosmic rays. Since it
will never return to earth, but spi-
raling slowly downward as it loses
the speed necessary to resist grav-
ity, will be consumed by the fric-
tional heat of the atmosphere, all
this data will be transmitted to
stations on earth by short wave.

The information will be avail-
able to scientists of all nations, for
the project is not to be limited to
one country but will be part of a
co-operative effort on the part of
all nations to study our planet, the
National Geo-Physical Year. Not —
only the west but also Russia and
her satellite nations are.to partici-
pate in this and therefore all over
the globe radar stations will be
tracing the course of the satellite.

But the vast cost of this project
is too much for a mere observa-
tional experiment. It is hoped that
ultimately a satellite capable of
sustaining a group of men in space
will be realized. From this men
will be able to observe with the
aid of telescopes the actions of
men on the earth’s surface. Which-
ever nation first achieves this will.
have not only a tremendous mili-
tary advantage but also a great
propaganda advantage in the pres-
tige of their strategic position.
They will pass within 750 miles of
every point on earth once a day
offering a controlling prospect of
both earth, space and all the ac-
tions of men that now are the se-
crets of the nations.



ty abstractions.

For example, an examination of
the Supreme Court’s ruling in the
turntable case (Railway Company
vs. Stout) shows us that the right
of property is not always an in-
alienable one. Sometimes, in. fact,

| a. property owner is responsible for

the ‘injuries which may | befall a
trespasser. A child was forbidden
by the railroad company to enter
its premises; yet he did so and was



sven |clears the air of a good many mus-

Fmee, ti

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