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VOL. XLIV—NO. 17 °

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1961

®) Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1961

PRICE 20 CENTS



Miss Rodgers Selects Twelfth Night
Acting Highlights,

by Catherine Rodgers

I went to the opening night of
the College Theatre’s Twelfth
Night. Their performance of
Shakespeare’s comedy was notable
for its fine casting and nice pace.
Here I offer only a sampling of the
many good things I saw and heard
last Friday.

Andy Miller, who shaped Feste
in this play, makes wonderful fac-
es. Faces are a _ responsibility.
Once you start making them, you
have to keep them up and this
Mr. Miller did with both energy
and tact. The device worked par-
ticularly well in the Sir Topas
scene and also helped to make
some of Feste’s complicated puns
and jokes really funny. Mr. Mil-
ler sang, too, not impeccably, but
with a simplicity that seemed
right. Jane Parry’s Olivia was a
triumph. Her looks were dazzling,
her costume elegant and her move-

~ ments most graceful. Ardent and

yet not at all immodest, her woo-
ing of Viola4Sebastian was well
thought out and constantly cred-
ible. Sebastian deserved her. Peter
Lary is one of the few Sebastians
I have seen who by his bearing
and his speech made it seem pos-
sible that he could command the
love of both Olivia and the eA
Antonio.

Other Delights

- I am not a Leveller: I did like
these three best. Yet there were
plenty of other delights, Ted
Hauri, as Sir Toby, timed his
belches most delicately, and laugh-
ed and stormed well, Cisca Duran-
Reynal’s Maria was indeed a Pen-
thesilea, dainty and yet energetic.
Her pleasure in Malvolio’s confu-
sion came across very nicely. Linn
Allen played Sir Andrew Ague-

_ cheek with the right degree of un-

gainly enthusiasm for the jokes
he could not understand;-and Dan-
ny Turner’s Fabian with his side-
burns and genial smile comple-
mented neatly the windmill motion
of Sir Andrew and the drunken
dignity of Sir Toby. The singing
and laughing of these characters
brightened everything.

I tend to be partial to the high

life of the less stately estate, yet.

the Duke and Viola had great. vi-
tality, too, on Friday. Rob Colby
as Viola “and Andreas Lehner as
Orsino were at their best when
their roles demanded intensity of
feeling. ‘Miss Colby was fascinat-
ing fn her concentration, and her
willow-cabin speech moved me
very much. Peter Garrett played
Malvolio with galvanic energy.
The ecstasy with which he caper-
ed before Olivia in his yellow
stockings made that scene one of
the high points of the performance.

Smaller Parts

The actors of the smaller parts
had the same sort of eagerness
that seemed to prompt Mr. Gar-
rett’s lavish expense of energy.
Jeffry Larson in the role of An-
tonio portrayed the honesty of
that character with vigor. Chris
Shillock as the priest sprouted a
wonderful and opportune smile—
quite a change from ‘the sobriety
of his captain in Act One.. Curio
and Valentine, played by Robert
Elmer and Stephen Ward, were
properly sturdy and Olivia’s ladies,
Moyra Byrne, Julie Metz, Sue Ste-
venson and Natasha Zvegintzov,
sufficiently feminine, The comings
and going of the music-makers,

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Finds Set Dismal

John Davidson and Marian Davis
were accomplished easily and with
dispatch,

Permit me to carp for a few
moments. I read what the College
News had to say about the color
scheme last week, and I heard a
friend praise the blues, greens,
greys and blacks of the costumes
and set very highly. Neverthe-
less, I found them depressing on
the whole, and it seemed to me
that the interpretations of the lov-
ers took on the same colors: where
I wanted them to be a little pleas-
ed and amused by their passion,
they were too consistently soulful.

Continued on Page 4, Col. 1

Besicovitch Gives
Definitive Solution

For Kakeya Query

On Thursday, March 16, at
8:30 pm., A. S. Besicovitelt lectur-
ed on the Kakeya problem. under
the auspices of the Math depart-
ment in the Biology lecture room.
Professor Besicovitch, formerly
of Trinity College, Cambridge, is
Professor of Mathematics at the
University of Pennsylvania.

The problem, proposed by the
Japanese mathematician Kakeya
in 1917, is to find the smallest area
in which a needle of length one
can be rotated through 360 de-
grees in the plane. : Similar in
wording to the problems involving
maxima and minima which begin-
ning calculus students tackle, the
Kakeya problem is, according to
Mr. Besicovitch, one of those sim-
ple problems which defy solution.

The most obvious solutions are
a circle of diameter one and a tyi-
angle of height one. A more so-
phisticated possibility is a hypo-
cycloid with three cusps, drawn
within a circle of diameter 1%,
and for many years this was
thought to be the correct answer.
Mr. Besicovitch, however, has
been able to show that the prob-
lem has no minimum, and that the

rotated, while remaining positive,
may be made as small as wished.
Principle Shown

The principle by which the area
is reduced is that, if an angle rep-
resenting part of the total rota-
tion is considered as the vertex of
a triangle of height one, then the
needle may be swung within the
triangle through that angle, But
the area of the triangle may be
reduced by dividing it into many
small triangles and allowing them
to overlap by sliding them along
the common base. The discontin-
uity which is thus introduced is
corrected by sliding the needle
away from the triangles on a
straight line (which has no area)
until only a very small ation
will bring it almost to its next
position. If this overlapping,
which proceeds by pairs of tri-
angles, is repeated often enough,
the area saved will be much great-
er than that used in the small ro-
tations necessary to make the path
of the needle continuous. The en-
tire process may be repeated
enough times to take the needle
through 360 degrees.

The strange path described by
the needle in each portion of the
process resembles a tree, called





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BMC Economist

Treats Kennedy's
Financial Policy

Mildred Northrop, Acting Chair-
man. of the Bryn Mawr Economics
Department, lectured on “Ken-
nedy’s Economic Policy and Unit-
ed States Balance of Payments,”
‘Monday evening.

The problem at hand was the
deficit in the U.S. balance sheet,
which has been in excess of three
billion dollars since 1957, This is
a special problem for the United
States as economic leader of the
western world, Since the Amer-
ican dollar is the key currency,
it is important that it remain sta-
‘ble and that the U.S. reach a bal-
ance.

In an explanation of how money
is leaving the United States, Miss
Northrop enumerated transactions
on curent accounts, imports, ex-
ports and U.S. tourists abroad.
However, she-stated that the big-
gest drain involves military and
diplomatic expenditures abroad,
and economic and military aid to
foreign countries.

‘ Gold Equivalent

Miss Northrop stressed that be-
cause the U.S. dollar is the gold

equivalent for the western world,
any disturbance in the dollar is
a threat to Western stability. The
proper course of action in regard
to domestic policy.would be to low-
er interest rates in short term
capital investments and thereby
get more foreign investment.

After analyzing various propos-
als Which have been offered, Miss
Northrop ended on an optimistic
note by saying that she thought
the Kennedy administration under-
stands the problems involved and
is attempting to solve them.

by Marion Coen

Max Lerner, speaking in Good-
hart Tuesday night under the aus-
pices of Undergrad’s Distinguish-
ed Speakers Fund, called the fos-
tering of creativity for the direc-
tion of powerful social forces “the
purpose and task of education”,
and to this end, proposed a replace-
ment of the traditional three R’s
with a new pedagogical trio—‘the
three knows”,

“Know your country, culture,
and world”, he advised . “Recog-
nize the forces in them. . . Know
your field—with precision and mas-
tery ... and finally, know your-
self—learn of the contours of your
own being”.

The forces loose in the world
today can be reduced to four: the
arms race, revolutionary nation-
alism, the Soviet “grand design”,
and the incipient growth of a world
order.

The realization that these forc-
es, outside of the control of the in-



Famous Historian,

Toynbee To Speak

Arnold J, Toynbee, famed Brit-
ish historian and presently Visit-
ing Lecturer at the University of
Pennsylvania will speak in Good-
hart Auditorium at 8:30 on Tues-
day, April 4. The topic for the
address has not. yet been decided.

‘Mr. Toynbee has lectured from
the Goodhart stage before. In
1947 he gave the Flexner Lectures
on the broad subject of “Encoun-
ters Between Civilizations.”

The last volumes of his now
famous ten-volume Study ‘of His-
tory appeared in 1954. Since then,
Mr. Toynbee has also written An
Historian’s Approach to Religion,
East and West and Hellenism.

Recently, in conjunction with his
appointment at Penn, Mr. Toynbee
has been meeting Haverford sen-



iors at informal discussion groups.



Clarence Pickett Points To SANE
History, Peace Policies and Plans

Clarence Pickett, former execu-
tive secretary of the American
Friends Service Committee, Nobel
Peace Prize winner, and current
co-chairman of the Committee for
a Sane Nuclear Policy, spoke about
Sane’s origins and aims in his
Monday evening lecture in the
Common Room.

Organized in 1959 to encourage
arms-control negotiators to agree
to stop nuclear testing, Sane
branches soon sprang up in major
cities across the nation. Although
Sane was organized to “do an ad
hoc job,” (ane’s ultimate goal
now is to achieve toeer disarma-
ment.

Immediate Objective

Sane’s immediate objective is to
encourage successful negotiations
at the current Geneva conference
for nuclear disarmament. Since
seventeen out of the original twen-
ty-four points under discussion
were favorably completed, Mr.
Pickett feels that this is grounds
for hope that: further agreement
between the United States and the
Soviet Union is possible, although
the Russians are “cooler to having
an agreement, settled now because
France, who possesses a bomb is
not included in the negotiations

and China objects to an agreement



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Earlier, however, Mr. Pickett
thought that the Russians were
more enthusiastic about’ reaching
agreement than we were.
Must Disarm

Mr. Pickett, in reply to a ques-
tion as to whether the whole strug-
gle for disarmament is but a fight
against symptoms rather than
causes and thus futile, stated that
this is the case, but that be-
cause we “live in real danger we
must have nuclear disarmament if
the human race is to continue.”
Economic and political problems
must eventually be brought under
control, but disarmaments must be
reduced while we build this peace-

.|ful structure,

Communist Bloc

Asked whether the aim of the
Communist bloc was world con-
quest, Mr. Pickett replied that
some Communist coutries ‘“main-
tain that myth, but that from my
own experience in the Soviet
Union, I found that the predomin-
ate motive in Russia is to improve
her own standard of living.” He
felt that the Soviet Union does
not want to conquer the world, but
rather to settle her own problems.
This he did not find to be true in
other communist countries, how-
ever. Communist China, for in-
stance, still retains world domina-

Lerner Looks To Creative
Minority As Future’s Key

dividual, “can pick up ‘a private
universe and crush it like an egg-
shell”, the understanding that “we
are living at the edge of an abyss
and have no idea how long we
have” make this the best of all
known eras in which to be born;
for these realizations provide a
challenge, “a kind of edge or tang
to the whole enterprise”.

We of this generation will have
a chance to do something with
these forces, “but”, noted Mr. Ler-
ner, “we will need mastery and
precision in our work. Mastery
here must include creativeness—
the innovating capacity which
masters and transcends tradition.”

America already has a revolu-
tionary culture, “a silent revolu-
tionary tradition accepted even by
conservatives as part of our land-
scape. Our problem now is to di-
rect these creative - revolutionary
forces rationally”.

The feeling is that in Washing-
ton with the beginning of the Ken-
nedy administration this purpose-
ful, rational mustering of forces
already has begun. America is re-
turning to its intellectual heri-
tage; abandoned temporarily at
the beginning of the Western
movement, picked up at the start
of the twentieth century, lost sight

al respect for “‘the life of the mind”
is again emerging as a_ positive
national force, It is manifest in
Kennedy’s appointment of men of
intellect to positions of power and

Nations,

America’s creativity should not
ibe judged on the basis of the
hpmogenity of-its mass culture, a
necessary concommittant of a high
production society; creativity lies
not in the mass but-in the minor-
ity culture which springs from it.
In every historical movement there
is a creative minority that is able
to transcend tradition, and the key
to the Creativeness of culture in
America must now lie in the pre-
cision of her creative minority.

It is this group, rather than
from the power elite (with which
it may sometimes intersect) that a
national élan may spring. Elan
is a sense of purpose, but more
than that; it is a contagious spirit,
the kind that was present during
the Revolution, the Civil War and
the Jeffersonian and Jacksonian
eras. ~-The -reaction-of-college stu-
dent to the Peace Corps is a. sign
of the rebirth of this. élan.

We now have a chance for de-
Continued on Page 4, Col. 1

Orientalists Confer Here,

The American Oriental Society,
which will hold its 171st gathering
March 28, 29, and 30, will be
the guests of Bryn Mawr College
on the afternoon of the 29th. The
visitors will have lunch in the

‘Deanery and then hold-a~ session

in Goodhart, The rest of the meet-
ings will be held at the Univermty
of Pennsylvania,

Athough the orientalists will
come and go during vacation,
they will leave’ behind them an
exhibit in the Rare Book Room.
It will be there for a week after
the close of the meeting and will
include Egyptian artifacts, pot-
tery from Tarsus and cylinder
seals. Some of these items are



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Page Two

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, March 22, 1961



“amr a letter teehi; friend Bishop Fisher, Erasmus wrote,
in 1524, “I know how busy yoy
your Paradise.” As mid-semesters mount up in their pre-
vacation wave, we, too, are busy in our library, but its resem-
blance to the celestial realm nééds some clarification. (We
may note that the main reading room, in temperature, sug-
gests more the nether regions, but this is an irritation of
trifling degree.)

Complaints about the accessibility, scarcity, and type
of books are frequent and often carelessly inaccurate and

and well-founded. The field roughly termed the social sciences
1s expanding daily as more and more books appear on the
vital issues of today. But there seems to be a lack of.recent
works on political science, economics, sociology, etc. in our
library. An added problem is that the new books we do get
are almost always seized upon by faculty members or gradu-
ate students who may kéep them for an indefinite length
of time. ;

This disappearance into remote
befalls the too few volumes of new fiction arriving at the
library. But ge feel sometimes as a minor poet Quincy
Kilby expressed it: “Here in my library I sit, / Amid rare

professors’ offices also

authors everywhere renowned. / Tonight their words seem

flat and stale, / Their weakness fills me with disgust, / I want’
that crude, hard-fisted tale, / Where ‘seven more redskins
bit the dust.’” In fact, frivolous, non-required reading,
whether it be a western, a mystery, or a novel, is a need the
library fulfills to a large extent in the Quita Woodward Room.
Yet very few best sellers are available at the height of their
popularity.

Perhaps a rental library of such books could be organ-

ized. The money charged per day would pay for the. books
if some did not seem to the library good, long-term invest-
ments. Also, the mounting costs would stimulate readers,
both faculty and students, to return quickly books in such
great demand.
The library is in many ways outstanding: in number of
books per student, in availability of periodicals, in art books,
in a special room for leisure reading. A spring day in the
cloisters is as close to Paradise as we could wish. - But those
tantalizing “Do not touch” books might be gone through to
weed out thoge which are not duplicates and get them on the
shelves, and some thought might might be given to the
possibility of rental fiction. “Perhaps it would be wise not
to carp or criticize, but it’s very evident our attention is
well meant.”

Round Two: Freshman Comp—For

Even fierce critics of Freshman Comp frequently agree
that, in all but exceptional cases, some English course should
be required during the college career in order to expose the
student to challenging and varied reading, to give her prac-
tice in communicating her ideas, and to help develop her pow-
ers of critical analysis. The problem, then, is to adjust the
nature of the course so as to maximize the benefit to the stu-
dents.

One debatable aspect of Freshman Comp is the disparity
among the students in each section; it is sometimes said that
more competent students mark time, while less able or exper-
ienced ones are lost. But in this disparity are rooted some
of the most exciting potentialities of Freshman Comp: on
the one hand, the surprised awakening of some students to
the literary symbolism stressed by their fellows; on the other
hand, the due concern with fact and content which is urged
by the more literal-minded of the class ; and, for all, the won-
derfully varied and complementary ideas which are contrib-
uted by students who offer educational backgrounds as di-
verse-as “primarily scientific, literary, or traditional liberal.”
Furthermore, even if some sort of division by ability were
assumed desirable, any system of sectioning would necessar-
ily have such grave faults as to largely negate the supposed
advantage, for even a combination of tests and school records
cannot adequately measure the. factors of ability, training,
and potential. ;

. Essentially, the question of the success of Freshman
Comp depends upon the success of the inter-action between
teacher and student. But this is true of any course, and is

be taken by students who bring to it no special interest in
the subject, the problem is somewhat harder. But the solu-
tion certainly does not lie in standardization of method ; indi-
viduality.in presentation can be symptomatic of that spark
which is the most important element in firing the will to
Even when the relationship between studént’ and teach-
er is only mildly stimulating, and often when it seems devoid
of mutual understanding, it is not unfuitful. A great deal is
inevitably learned sirnply from wrestling with a new specific
problem every week. And a surprising number of bitter
critics suddenly realize, at the end of their freshman year
or one or two or more years later, that Freshman. Comp has
been responsible for some advance in their critical or appre-
ciative or expressive powers. : ace
- Of course, Freshman Comp is always open to improve-
ment in the sense of change which will adapt it to current
needs. It is perhaps in this area that criticism is most justly
applied, for the attitude of upperclassmen who would forget
the course as soon as their struggle with it is over is indeed
deplorable. Because the student Curriculum Committee _is
composed of men, it must make a special effort to
remain open to discussion of Freshman Comp. Experience
eo, oe welcoming attitude will lead freshmen to



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by Lois Potter, ’61

“> I predict that of the hun-
dred or more women’s colleges
now in existence no more than ten
will be functioning in the year
2061.”

To those of us who live in the
enlightened year 2080, these words,
spoken by Vassar’s president, Miss
Sarah .Gibson— Blanding, may not,
seem strange. We all know that;
as she said in 1961, small indepen-
dent colleges had no hope for sur-
vival. They wasted space, they
wasted stydents’ time, they wasted
faculty time, they wasted—worst
of all—money,

Bryn Mawr was doomed—but it
put up a good fight. It saved
space by holding two classes sim-
ultaneously in the same room
(1970); saved students’ time by al-
lowing them to graduate as soon
as they had passed the hygiene
exam (1975); and saved valuable
time for the faculty by eliminating

Vall faculty committees.

Alas! Too late it was discovered
that by eliminating the committee
on admissions, which it did in

ated its next year’s freshman
class. Another brilliant economy
measure, by which all Philosophy
101 students were to hear the same
lecture broadcast on their radios,
had to be. abandoned, as. every
electric fuse in the college blew
out under the strain. .
In 1998, the effort to turn Tay-
lor into a national monument (ad-
mission 50¢) also fizzled out. The
college budget was shattered. In
2061, fulfillmg Miss Blanding’s as-
tute prediction, the only surviving
woman’s college in the country was
obliged to amalgamate with Hav-

new university.

jama-ed Swavermawr professors
from bed to classroom for their
3:00 a.m. classes: the field of learn-
ing is never left fallow now. Stu-
dents, also in pyjamas, survey one
another without interest. Co-edu-
cation has resulted in such mutual
boredom that it was necesary to
pass a law in 2075 requiring each
unmarried boy to date a girl at
least. once a month, on pain of a
fine. “ '

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by Nicole Schupf, ’64

The beauty of Dance as an :art
lies) in the use of one instrument,
thé body, to express with a subtle-
ty not found in any other art form
a tremendous range of human emo-
tion and experience, This beauty
was ably demonstrated Monday
night at the Dance Recital, under
the direction of Anne Carter Ma-
son, given at Roberts Hall by the
‘Bryn Mawr Dance Club and the
Double Octet,

“An Evening of Dance” began
with two dances to peasant themes
iby, Bartok danced by Kasha Gula,
Nicole Schupf, Geeti Sen, and
‘Charlene Sutin, The dancers tried
to be consistent with the earthy
mood of the songs, sung by the
Double Octet, while still retaining
the interna] stylization of the mu-
sic.

This was followed by a “Pas de
Deux” to the music of Stravinsky
danced by Barbara Hein and Mina
Jahan. This dance captured with
clarity and distinction the apstract
forms expressed by Stravinsky.
The next part of the program
consisted of a series of emotional
and abstract mood studies danced
by members of the club. These
were mainly experimental and suf-



not halted even for sleep and
meals (No being cheaper substitutes for mat-
tresses and stewed tomatoes), it
is now possible to graduate from
Swavermawr in only one year. But
this does not mean that students
are thrust (literally thrust, for
the graduation ceremony is now
performed by a machine) out into
the world too early. High school |
now lasts six -years, to teach stu- |
dents to adjust. to: college,



Variety of Emotions Find Expression
Monday Evening’s Dance Recital

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fered from ner of conceptual
definition so that they were often
vague and fumbling.

These were followed by “The
Builder,” written by Mary John-
son and danced by Mary: Johnson,
Leslie Hartley, Christine , Black,
Mina Jahan, and Senta Driver.
The dance expressed five different
attitudes toward the creative pro-
cess but, titled “a symbolic dance
mime”, it suffered froma slight
confusion between the dance and
the mime forms. However, it was
beautifully executed and very ar-
resting.

The next two parts of the pro-
gram, “Spectrum”, a jazz suite,
and “Lyric Couplet”, danced by
Frank Bowles, Julia Cardozo, Sen-
ta Driver, Judith Frankle, Mina
Jahan, Leslie Hartley, Lisa Moore,
and Laura Neilson, were choreo-
graphed in a more conventional
and explicit style and were. per-
haps the most satisfying part of
the program because they utilized
this form without recourse to the
usual movement clichés and pseu-
do-sophisticated soul searchings.
In particular, the “Lyric Couplet”,
danced by Frank Bowles and Laura
Neilson, was moving in the sim-
plicity, intensity and sincerity of
tne dancers.

The program ended with “The
Evolution of the Soul”, danced by
Christine Black, Julia Cardozo,
Leslie Hartley, Cornelia Spring,
and Ann Whitman. The dancers
all carried lines of elastic which
symbolized the extension and con-
duction of their life energy. The
dance itself characterized the ten-
or of the whole program, one of
complex conceptualization without
atrectation and clarity and beauty
of form and dancing.





week, will return after vacation
and loose College News and the

troversy.

at 8:30 in the Common Room.

* recently knighted



Hail 0. 0.

Sir Oswald’ O, Murphy*, whose “smashing” lecture, “Evi-
dences of Post-Pre Humanoid Art” was given here early last

RE) to debate the Sir Francis Bacon-William Shakespeare con-
(This issue has caused a minor civil war between the:
above-named campus groups.) Sir Oswald will speak April ‘10,

Along the Avon will be published March 28.

at the joint request of the fast
staid College Theatre (note the

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i have discovered something.
peacefully, i was dozing

on athena’s shoulder

when, suddenly,

a lyric floated up the hall
and quivered

in a sunbeam spot,

then athena nudged me

and i saw a professor pass.
the lyric followed.

athena said,

‘there’s talent here that
lectures hide. in the old days
there was a faculty show—
why not now?’

‘it was a good thing,’

i said, remembering

profs in the pudding of 55.
(that was the last .

faculty show)

‘the faculty should have
another one.

remember

mr. leblanc as ‘big louie’

who looked at the girls

in the kick chorus?’

‘oh, yes,’ ‘athena said, _
‘remember “churchy la femme—
dryden,” and then —

lewis carroll bertoff’s .
poem?’

‘we need another

faculty show,’

athena said to me, ,‘let’s

ask for one

and start some pressure.’
‘yes, let’s’, i said. —

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Students Cite Criticism,
Personal Participation
Chief Functions

‘by Janice Copen

In preperation for the April 8
conference’ on “The Role of the In-
tellectual in American Society,”
sponsored by Alliance, League and
Interfaith, the News has been ask-
ing for some student opinion on
the topic. Most of the girls ques-
tioned felt that the intellectual has
an important function in society
and an obligation to fulfill his role.

(Marion Coen, a junior and for-
mer editor-in-chief of the News,

believes that “the intellectual has:

an obligation to jump right into
society and to be one of the forces
that make it move. His energies
should be a motive force of change
and growth in his community—in
its architecture, education, enter-
tainment and government—as well
as in the fine arts, the sciences
and foreign affairs. This is not
to say that every intellectual
should be professionally involved
or that every intellectual should
be. involved in activities which
seem to have social significance;
onthe contrary, the theorist has a
distinct calling whose successful
practice may depend on an aloof-
ness from practical policy making
and the limitations it imposes.”
Like Artist

A freshman, Beverly Carter,
links the intellectual with the art-
ist because “both are intimately
involved in finding out just what
it is that we are all about. Com-
munication is implicit in both of
their callings. It is true that the
more abstract forms employed by
the artist or the intellectual lack
immediate ethical implication, but

certainly one of their prime func-.

tions, literature, is criticism of ex-
isting values and forms and the
creation of new ones,

“One can be particularly hopeful
about the role that artists and in-
tellectuals are assuming now in the
United States. Intellectuals enjoy
greater prominence in the present
administration than they did in
the previous one.”

Angel (chrode, a sophomore,
based her answer to the roving
reporter’s question on a quotation
from Thoreau: “I know of no more
encouraging fact than the unques-
tionable ability of man to elevate
his life by a conscious endeavor...
You conquer fate through thought.”
Angel comments: “I believe that
the intellectual is capable and re-
sponsible through conscious en-
deavor to elevate, to exalt his own
existence and that of others less en-
dowed.

Strive for Peace

“The American intellectual must
also bear in mind his more specific
responsibility concerning world
conflict. Some people consider
war and even poverty and disease
to be expected, part of man’s fate,
they call it. The intellectual in
America should be aware of his re-
sponsibility to the preservation
of individual and collective liberty
by using his intelligent ‘thought’
to ward off this piece of stupidity
which is called war.”

(Furthermore, Angel feels that
the intellectual “must have faith in
himself and remember that it is
not only what man does which ele-
vates him, but also what he would
like to do.” ,

Betsy Frantz, a senior and for-
_ mer President of Undergrad, sum-
med up the feelings of most of the
girls interviewed when she defined
the role of the intellectual, in. con-
temporary society as two-fold:
“critical and creative. On the one
hand,” says Betsy, “he should of-
fer critical analysis of existing
institutions, values and cultural
achievements, Concommitantly, the
intellectual should present con-
structive alternatives, an dcreative
contributions to our ideology and
culture.”

A fuller discussion of the many

p————gapeets of the topic: will take place |~

on April 8 at the Conference.



‘Conference to Consider
Three Points of View
Of Noted Speakers

Intellectuals must do more than
increase their wisdom. They must
play a human role as well. But
what kind of human role should
the intellectual play? Should he
be a beatnik, or a social critic, or
a Presidential advisor? What is
the role of the intellectual in con-
temporary American society?

This question will be discussed
in an all-day conference on April
8 by three distinguished speakers,
Russell Lynes, Elmer Hutchisson
and Germaine Brée, representing
three different areas in the intel-
lectual community.

The conference will begin at
9:30 on Saturday morning with a
coffee hour, During this time there
will be registration for visiting
students from the 180 invited col-
leges, and the speakers will be in-
troduced to Bryn Mawr students
and visiting students. At 10:30 in
Goodhart, the conference will be-
gin with an introduction by Rus-
sell Lynes, (Mr. Lynes is known
to the public as the Managing Ed-
itor of Harper’s Magazine and
author of Highbrow, Lowbrow,
and Middlebrow. Mr. Lynes repre-
sents the “Generalist” in the in-
tellectual community.

Elmer Hutchisson will follow
with a “Scientist’s” discussion of
the question. Mr. Hutchisson is
the Director of the American In-
stitute of Physics and has come
to Bryn Mawr mainly through the
influence of Mr. Michels,

The conference will stop for
luncheon in the halls at one o’clock.
The speakers will be entertained in
three halls, giving further oppor-
tunity for students to meet them.

Returning to Goodhart at 2:15,
Germaine: Brée will discuss the
question from the “Humanist”
point of view, ‘Miss Brée, Re-
search ‘Professor for the Institute
for Research in the Humanities, is
teaching at the University of Wis-
consin for this semester, and is
the author of Camus: A Definitive
Biography. She is especially well
known at Bryn Mawr where she
was once a Professor of French.

At 38:30 following Miss Brée’s
talk there will be a panel discus-
sion in the Deanery where the
question will be given a final con-
sideration, and tea will be served
to student and faculty participants.

The conference, sponsored by
the combined forces of Alliance,

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on Wednesday, March.13 in the
Biology lecture room. He lectured
on his experience hunting “tigres”
in the Matto Grosso of Brazil, The
“tigre americano” is actually a lo-
cal name for the jaguar or South
American leopard which preys on
the cattle of large plantations in
Brazil, Mr. Siemel explained. the
method of tigre-hunting which he
uses and which he learned from a
Brazilian tribesman. seven-foot spear with a one-foot
steel blade is used to down these
three hundred and fifty pound ani-
mals. The spear is especially suc-
cessful because the tigre does not
know the difference between wood
and steel, and is not afraid of the
spear. Instead of shying away
from the blade, he pays no atten-
tion to it, but heads for the man
behind it; the animal is literally
committing suicide by impaling
himself on the blade of the spear.

While Mr, Siemel demonstrated
to the audience the technique of
approaching, spearing, and throw-
ing the tigre, he explained that
the only danger to the hunter is
panic. As long as the hunter faces
the tigre with his spear, he is safe.
But if he panies and tries to turn
and run, the animal is sure to get
him from behind.

After this explanation of spear-
hunting, Mr, Siemel showed mov-
ies of the Matto Grosso cattle
country, Ant-eaters, armadillos,
crocodiles, deer, cattle, and all
sorts of birds abounded in the col-
orful pictures of Brazilian marsh-
es, rivers and jungles. Ina second
film, Mr. Siemel told the story of
one of his hunting episodes in
which he tracked and hunted down
'a three hundred pound tigre with
the aid of hunting dogs.

After the movies, there was a
question period during which Mr.
Siemel told how he had become an
adventurer, He ran away from
home at the age of sixteen “to
heip Buffalo Bill fight the Indians.”
After. working in Chicago, he de-
cided that he wanted to go to Bra-
zil-for adventure. He took a job
with a. boat which was heading for
Brazil and jumped ship at Buenos
Aires. At the beginning of World
War I, he left for Matto Grosso.
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to acquire food, but when he saw
that the local Indians did it for
sport, he decided that he had
found a new calling, Later he be-
gan to film his hunting experi-
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Mr. Skip Geller,’ who describes
himself as an “interested layman,”
addressed the Discussion Club
March 16 on current conditions in
Cuba. Basing’ his remarks chiefly
on his personal obesrvations in
Cuba, Mr. Geller urged that con-

ditions there are not as the Amer-

ican press represents them and
that we must “wake up to the true
aspirations of the Cuban people.”

Mr. Geller said that nearly
everyone he talked to there seem-
ed sincerely in favor of the revo-
lution but that those few who op-
posed it were uninhibited. in -their
criticism.

“There was no deification of
Castro,” he said, “but the people
are grateful to him for giving
them land and jobs. Although
there are many local elections of
town officials and factory foremen,
the Cubans have no desire for a
national election. They all. said,





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MX Geller described many per-
sonal .experiences which impress-
ed upon him the friendliness of
the Cuban people and their willing-
ness to befriend Americans who
do not have closed minds about
their revolution. He .stated.that
Russia’s influence on Cuba is pure-
ly economic and cited Cuba’s stand
on the Congo as evidence of her
political independence.

“The speaker reasoned that Cuba
is not a communist country be-
cause people can leave the coun-
try freely, can own small business-
es privately, can’ send their chil-
dren to private schools and can
worship as they please.

Mr. Geller concluded by urging
that we do not close our minds to
the possibility of friendship with
Cuba and that we give Castro’s
activities and policies fairer. cov-
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Wednesday, March 22, 1961



Lerner
Continued from Page Pa Col. 5

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pecan ene erat” aah
the creative minortiy to foster and
direct it. But, noted Mr. Lerner,
“the carriers of American prog-
ress—the aristocracy of virtue and
talent—are seen in the most unlike-
ly places and, as a nation we're
going to have to pay a double price
for their deyelopment”; the price
of federal aid to education and the
price of equal educational oppor-
tunities.

‘Passing on to the third of his
required educational “knows”, Mr.
Lerner spoke of the importance of
knowing oneself, “discovering your
identity and values in’relation to
your country and your culture”.
There is, he feels, a new set of
values takiYfig shape among the
younger generation, replacing the
materialistic “what’s the advan-
tage creed of an earlier era. With
the emergence of this new kind of
ethos; with the devolvement of the
creative elite, and with the foster-
ing of the emerging élan, Amer-
ica, says Mr. Lerner, may well suc-
ceed in mastering the multiple
forces which —_— upon her.

Twelfth N Night

Continued from Page g Col. 2

Why were all the conspirators so
widely dispersed when they listen-
ed to Malvolio read the forged let-
ter? Fabian had to yell his
“Peace, peace” from his ‘bush in
the depths of the stage in order to
make Toby hear him in his bush

outside the proscenium. Maybe

this device was meant to empha-

size Malvolio’s' blindness or deaf-
ness, but it only dissipated the
fun ‘as far as I was concerned. Nor
did I enjoy it when the lovers de-
claimed from the top of that stile,
that stile which at other times
provided such quick and decorous
transitions. John Davidson’s mu-
sic helped here, too, although again
I-found- myself wishing for more
gaiety.

‘Well, this parade of opinions has
gone on long enough. I do want
to say thank you to the College
Theatre and Mr. Butman. I wish
I could have gone to their per-

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a series of biology lectures broad-
cast by the Voice of America,
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Mr. Watson of the Geology Dep’t will
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program. Concept-in—Color. to discuss—““A
Geological History of the Philadelphia
Area.”

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and Development,: will speak on
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Common Room,

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