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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, October 26, 1960



THE COLLEGE NEWS

i “FOUNDED IN 1914
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EDITORIAL BOARD

Peon eevercceerscosesccessssansoreeccees Marion Coen, ‘62
TU NE e650 irs CK ei occ e cee biaeccacurenecs Kristine Gilmartin, ‘63
SE Gah Civ k ee cis ess ivibalcccccksnbsseusnive Isa Brannon, ‘62
I vee sec acvnsscectnsreteesesschscisases SuzySpain, ‘63
News Editor ........ beeebes eee Ee eee eee ee Judy Stuart, ‘62
ND aici heist catecdewticcscccsreecdeses Alison Baker, ‘62

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On Letters Received

-.Most people like getting letters, and so do most news-
papers. Letters mean interest, and interest is what news-
papers are around to create; letters also mean information,
and information is what newspapers hope to convey. The
News, then, is pleased on two counts with what has come in
in this week’s mail—the letters from students registering
approval of our last week’s challenge and those from the

faculty protesting one of the methods proposed for meeting

it. (See Letters to Editor).

On the basis of the interest indicated in the first men-
tioned missives (re: foster child) and the information offer-
ed in the second (on Moral Re-armament) we can only con-
clude that problems are (alack) a lot easier to spot than so-
lutions. We, therefore, restate the predicament—that is,
the desperate need for communication of world-awareness—
and add our hope that if a more satisfactory nostrum is not
forthcoming, perhaps recognition of the problem will be a
solution in itself.

A Pileable Panacea

With the constant cropping up of issues on campus the
News has grown weary trying to treat each one individu-
ally. We have, therefore, found it necessary to formulate
a composite solution to all conceivable issues which might
arise within the next decade. Leaves, we believe, properly
employed can solve anything. One great pile of them in
front of the library, set up sun-dial-like, might make it poss-
ible for one to tell time by the shadow of a strategically-
- placed black elm leaf, because (Issue 1) hour-glasses and
clocks located in the library or Taylor do always offer some
_ time, but not always The time. é :

Then, too, as one hobbles out of Taylor, enraged by in-
humanities of professors or contorted beyond repair through
having had to temporarily sacrifice the customary position
of one’s spine or right arm to an ill-placed desk-leg, or (this
is Issue 2) a writing surface which is aimed at an angle per-
pendicular to the: floor, one may pounce fiercely on the pile
to rid one’s self of hostilities or return one’s bones to their
proper ent. —

Considering, moreover, ‘our forced isolation (Issue 3)
which is caused by a two-month busy-signal delay of phone

calls, it would appear valuable to establish the area of leaves
~ as @ place for meeting people, installing phone booths; or-at
t, holding seances.

Just before the commonly accepted time for snow, the
pile could be burned. The light resulting from this blaze
could be bottled, bottles placed strategically in the library to
provide proper lighting (Issue 4). The money saved from
not having to purchase lighting facilities could be appropri-
ated for. pianos (Issue 5), the present. popularity of. such
miniscule picayune things as ocarinas and harmonicas among
the musically inclined being directly attributed to the present
paucity of pianos for practice. |

Issues then being issues and abounding in number, it
seems upon due consideration that we certainly do need a
pile of leaves. |







tion weeks) in tne interest of Bryn Mawr College at the Ardmore -







(Characterization of Haverford in Life magazine: “Grand
]_ school—a place only for brainy students with exceptionally strong

ee isine: Ps

An abundance of spit and polish” “An introvert would not be

Student Conclave
Discusses Action,
Aids Civil Rights

by Judy Bailey

mittee for Civil Rights last week
end, The conference, held at Hous-
ton Hall, University of Pennsyl-
vania, included representatives
from loca] student, labor, religious
and civic’ groups concerned with
Civil Rights action. :
After registration Friday night,
Professor Thomas O’Toole, Vice
Dean of the Villanova Law School,
addressed the group. Professor
O’Toole outlined the legal ramifi-
cation of Civil Rights, and suggest-
ed that further efforts be concen-
trated on the cultivation of com-
munity conscience and fair poli-
tical processes. He challenged the

‘|group by saying that the applica-

tion of pressure upon the legal in-

_|stitutions may undermine justice

by forcing law and the courts to
render moral, rather than legal
judgments.

The next speaker, Professor
Robert Nelson of the Princeton
Theological Seminary, former Dean
of Vanderbilt Divinity School,
spoke about the James Lawson
case at Vanderbilt which took place
last March, and which prompted

Continued on Page 4, Col, 1

Community problems, the South-
ern situation, and the future of
Civil Right3 action were the topics
for discussion at the Education for
Freedom Conference, sponsored by
the Philadelphia Coordinating Com-

Letter to the Editor

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Blast News’

To the Editor:

I have just seen your editorial on.

and hasten to add my reaction to
the considerable response that it
will no doubt be eliciting.

I am astonished, net to say
shocked, to encounter this senti-
ment in the Bryn Mawr student
paper, of. all places. Let me com-
mend most. earnestly to the staff
—in its own words— a “thorough
examination on all levels of its
(Moral Re-armament) precepts
and purposes,” an examination
to include, I would suggest, its
leadership, its prevailing con-
cepts of man and society, the na-
ture of its support, and its record
of past performance. This investi-
gation, needless to say, will carry
you well beyond the movement’s
own handbook.

Sincerely yours,
M. T. Kennedy, Jr.

To the Editor:

It is difficult to believe that the
free. advertising for the “Moral
Re-armament” movement in recent
issues of the News is not part of
some new undergraduate hoax. One
may hope so. On the other hand
there may be those at Bryn Mawr
who are not acquainted with this
curious movement and its history,

















by Suzy Spain

Since class colors are decided on
by the predominance of a partic-
ular color showing up in the sub-
freshman interviews, there must
needs bbe a certain way in which
this majority preference of an as-
sembled group of people may be
expressed, jand the group itself
identified from other groups, pre-
viously admitted BMC ones, Hav-
erford, Villanova or from the
spreading ivies and chestnuts, and
lastly, the next sub-freshman group
arriving in mother-of-pearl-orange.

But one cannot just assign to a
group of 187 people a magenta
tint which is to mark them from
the rest of the world for eternity.

:|There must be a ceremony. Hence

.. Lantern Night.
Lantern Night is both the sym-
bolic acquisition of magenta or
baby blue and the first time of
actual spiritual communio hse)
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God Of Goats Witnesses
Service To Cloister Grass



hook

or trampling. The latter choice
eliminates the possibility of having
Hell Week freshmen clear away
snow to trim with tweezers the
Cloister grass.

The rhythmic jerk and bob of
the lanterns is an appeal by the
freezing, charley-horsed signalers
to the lagging participants, the

live in the pond; it is the Genii
who communicate with their breth-
ren up aboye the color the deans’
office has based its acceptance
upon, f

After the ceremony, all retire
|to Taylor steps, exhausted by de-
votional metaphysical rigors and
sing lyric songs, significance of
which will be discussed at a later
date. :

Oh—one more point. At the
moment when the sophomores set
their lanterns at the feet of the
Freshmen, the ow] fights her tradi-
tional symbolic joust with the plat-



been reported to the resident psy-
by those who have had to sew a
or an eye on their gowns and





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“A New Kind of Re-Armament” |

god of goats and to the Genii who}

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MRA Stand

Foster Child Viewpoint Cheered

and it is to them that this commun-
ication is addressed.

I should think “Moral Re-arma-
|ment” might best de described as a
kind of white-collar, or: gutless,
fascism. In the thirty years since
it was launched as the “First-Cen-
tury Christian Fellowship” it has
been one of the more remarkable
pheonomena in the intellectual un-
derworld of our times. Its powers
of endurance are probably rooted
in its exceptional powers of self-
publicity, which are only a little
less sophisticated than its powers
of self-congratulation. (It is mas-
terful in eliciting testimonials from
non-English-speaking foreign
statesmen.) As the News editorial-
ist observed, it has not lacked sup-
porters—who, like the supporters
of the 27% “per cent tax exemption
granted the oil industry—are of

‘|theygort that has little difficulty

in paying for full-page ads in The
New York Times and for the dis-
tribution of 177. million booklets
across the world.
Originally a harmless evangelical

movement which was once labeled,
rather flatteringly, ‘a Salvation
Army for the middle classes”, it
turned sometime in the late 1930's
into the more profitable pastures
of Anti-communism. One can say
of it that it has shown a peculiar
tolerance in choosing allies. Thus
in 1936 its leader, Dr. Buchman,
wrote: “I thank heaven for a man
like Adolf Hitler, who built a front
line_of.defence-against~ the anti-
Christ of Communism.” “Think,”
he went on, “what it would mean
to the world if Hitler surrendered
to the control of God. Through
such a man God could control a

|nation overnight and solve every

last bewildering problem.” (Two
years later, in 1938, according to
the newest version of Dr. Buch-
man’s periodically reconstructed
contribution to Who’s Who, he was
sponsoring the self-styled “Nordic
Assembly for MRA”.)

If this inconvenient historical
data seems to impute a degree of
guilt-by-association, it will have
served its purpose.

Those interested in the public
history and present reputation of
“Moral . Re-armament” are refer-
red to two articles in the British
press earier this year. One is in the
New Statesman for June 4, 1960,
and I have put it on reserve at
the main circulation desk in the
library. The other is in The Econ-
omist for May, 1960, but unfortun-.
ately is just now at the bindery.
It should be back in the library
shortly.

Sincerely yours,

W. B. Berthoff

Re: Foster Child

To the Editor:

iMy heartiest congratulations on
your editorial re: foster child. The
type of reasoning used by the
dorm in question is prevalent
throughout this campus and I ad-
mire and stand firmly behind your
position, “It is certainly in the
personal interest of every individ-
ual on this or any other U. S, cam-
pus to make an effort to aid peo-
ple in the more depressed areas,
especially in the Far East.
(Keep up the good editorials be-
‘cause this college needs them.
‘Sincerely,

Melanie Yaggy ’62

ns

To the Editor:

| Cheers to the College News for

its editorial. The appalling err-
ors in people’s sense of values
should not go unchallenged.

you for awakening their



A Tee eet MT,



Janice Richman ’62 —