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Brecht Bases Play on Ancient Parable
Adds Political-Social-Economic Views

“The Caucasian Chalk Circle”,
a play by Bertolt Brecht. one of
Europe’s foremost modern play-
wrights, will be presented by the
Haverford College Drama Club and
the Bryn Mawr College Theatre
Friday and Saturday nights, No-
vember 20 and 21. The productions.
will take place at Haverford’s
Roberts Hall at 8:30.

The play is directed by Robert
Butman, assisted by John Berto-
let.
ing role. Also featured are Trudy
Hoffman, Kitty Hoover, and Alison
Baker of Bryn Mawr, as well as
Ted Hauri, Andy Lehner, and Don
Adams of Haverford.

Parable Base of Play

The play itself is based on a
twelfth century Asian parable of
the old Bible tale concerning King
Solomon’s decision with regard to
the two women who both claimed
the same child. Brecht’s version
however, is enhanced with the ad-
dition of his own political, social,
and economic views.

According to College Theatre
President Nina Broekhuysen, the
play is both challenging and differ-

Rob ‘Colby will act the lead-|



ent from any previously attempt-

ed by these groups. She has call-

ed it a “powerful play”.
Admission :is stag or drag and

the price of a ticket is one dollar.

The symposium on “Symmetry
in the Sciences” here last week at-
tracted a large number of scholars.
The following are summaries of
the Friday lectures. Those on

Dr. L. Blumberg ‘Saturday were thought to be more

Speaks Tomorrow

‘Dr. Leonard Blumberg of Tem-
ple University :will speak on “1Com-
mon Human Needs and_ Society
Today,” at 8:30 p.m. on Thursday,
November 12, 1959, in the Com-
mon Room,

Dr. Blumberg has taught at
Wayne University.and the Univer-
sity of Michigan (where he receiv-
ed his doctorate), and is now
Chairman of the Department of
Sociology and Anthropology at
Temple University. He has also
been Research Director: for the
Urban League of Philadelphia, and
has done work for them on Negro
migrants.

This will be the first of a series
of talks, sponsored by the Bryn
‘Mawr League, on common human
needs and their relation to contem-
porary society and social problems.



Panel of Five Debates And Doubts;
Still Unanswered: ‘What Is Religion?’

“What Is Religion?” was the
topic discussed Monday by a panel
of non-theologians moderated by
Mr. Robert Horn of Haverford’s
Department of Biblical Literature.

Faith and trust are essential to
religion, said Mr. Martin Foss of
the Department of Philosophy at
Haverford. (Faith is not knowl-
edge, but is directed towards some
objective to which we aspire. We
can understand the cosmos but we
cannot have faith in it; for this
reason cosmology and other “prim-

ibe religion either. Doubt is a ¢un-
damental feeling, and “belief or
disbelief are in a way religious ex-
periences”.

“What is my religion?” was
Haverford’s biologist Dr. Ariel
Loewy’s restatement of the topic.
““Scinece does not furnish us with
absolute answers”. “Religion” for
Mr. Loewy must be deeply humble,
non-parochial, and radical. As rit-
uals obscure basic beliefs, it must
be non-ritualistic. Finally, in or-
der to achieve and maintain these|



~ itive creeds” are not religion. Faith

must have as its object some
“trustworthy and responsive pow-
er’. There is a single religious
truth, maintained Mr. Foss. It is
“revealed to us only in a fragmen-
tary revelation”, of ‘which the
Biblical interpretations, though im-
perfect, are the most “mature”, _

Dr. Thoburn Snyder, consulting
psychiatrist at the University of
Pennsylvania Hospital, pointed out
that both religion and science help
to better people. Ethics and moral

’ principles, and the relation of man

to divinity, two aspects of religion,
are closely connected ‘with the
emotional security which is an im-
portant concern of the psycholo-
gist and sociologist. The sense of
humility, the ability to love self-
lessly, the capacity for compassion,
are gained with the shedding of
immature egocentricity. “Religion
reflects man’s inner need for guid-
ance”, and also his search for his
place in the universe.

Mr. Ferrater Mora of Bryn
Mawr’s (Philosophy department,
stated that many philosophers
concern themselves with defining
religion through a set of state-
ments about the supernatural

world and God. Nothing has been iyo 2 in D major by Bach. This

concluded because every proof of-
fered can be shown both valid and

_invalid. Religion can-also- be de-

fined as a “series of experiences
... Such as love, repentence, wor-
ship”. These experiences are “of
a personal and interpersonal char-

“be felt, they cannoot be proved to

characteristics, it must be free of
the regimentation of institutional
connections. Becuase he can find
no religion that fulfills these de-
mands, Mr. Loewy prefers to call
himself an atheist.

Concert to Feature
Pianos and "Cello

The Bryn Mawr and Haverford
Arts Councils will present a con-
cert with Ruth Meckler (piano),
Robert Martin \(’cello), and David
Hemmingway (piano). It is sched-
uled for 8:15 p.m. this ‘Wednesday
evening, (November 111, in the Ely
Room of ‘Wyndham. :

The program has been somewhat
changed, since violinist David Ser-



Meckler. will perform two pieces
from Bach’s “Well/Tempered (Cla-
vier”, a Prelude and Fugue in D
minor, and another in E major.
She will also play Beethoven’s
Sonata in D minor (Op. 31, No. 2)
called “The Tempest.”

After the intermission Bob Mar-
tin and David Hemmingway will
open the program with the Sonata

was originally written for viola da
gamba and clavier. The rest of|
the program is composed of Chopin
Etudes, played by Ruth Meckler.
These are the “Revolutionary” (Op.
10, No. 12), “Butterfly” (Op. 25,
No. 7), and “Cello” (Op. 25, No.







11).

one is no longer playing. Ruth].

technical and not of as much in-
terest to the layman.



Physicist Yang Probes
Century’s Principles
. by Jean-Hebb, ’61

Chen Ning Yang, who with
Tsung Dao Lee received the Nobel
Prize two years ago “for profound
investigations of the so-called laws
of parity,” spoke on the role of
symmetry principles in 20th cen-
tury physics . Now only 37, Yang,
who studied in (China and at the
University of Chicago, is a Pro-
fessor at the Institute for Advanc-



Russian Students
With ‘Experiment’
Visit Bryn Mawr

Four Russian exchange students,
visiting the United States under
the auspices of the Experiment in
International Living, will spend a
week at Bryn ‘Mawr observing and
speaking with students and confer-
ring with Trade Union members
from Philadelphia,

The students, all women in their
early thirties, will arrive at Bryn
Mawr today after spending some
time both at Harvard and Rad-
cliffe and at a farm in Up.
per New York State. On their
first night here they: will dine in
the halls and attend a party at
Haverford. During the subsequent
week of their stay there will be

Many opportunities _for—conversa-|-

tion and contact with the student
body. Loretta Stern, a senior Rus-
sian major, will be their main stu-
dent liaison, but several other ad-
vanced Russian students will also
serve as translators during their
stay.

On Sunday, November 15, they
will participate in a seminar at
Swarthmore (College on labor rela-
tions which will be attended by
students from all neighboring col-
leges, trade union and manage-
ment representatives, and faculty
members interested in the topic
to be discussed.

Maids and Porters
To Burst into Song

“A really great concert” will be
given by the maids and porters of
Bryn Mawr College next Saturday
evening, November 14, at 8:30 in
Goodhart. According to Anita
Dopico, chairman of Maids and
Porters, and (Louise Weingarten,
director of the concert, the $1.00
admission fee will be well spent.

Over 35 people will be singing
and the program includes such
beautiful choral pieces-as “God of
Our Fathers”, in an arrangement

by Livingston Gearhart and “Lis-
ten to the Lambs”, by Detts, as
well as a few spirituals. The high-

light of the evening will be a med-

ley of songs by Sigmund Romberg.

Both Anita and Louise are very

|7), and “Winterwind” (Op. 25, No.| enthusiastic about the voices.and |
the spirit of those singing. -



ed Study at Princeton.

Symmetry principles, although
used extensively in classical mech-
anics, have ‘become increasingly
important in quantum mechanics.
Symmetry’s “superposition princi-
ple has allowed the application of

electron orbits. The invariance
principle leads to the renowned
conservation laws.

There are light and heavy 'par-
ticles; among the light ones, the
familiar electron, positron, and
the massless gamma ray. A group
of them are, however, named
“strange particles.” These light
particles fall into two groups, those
having spins which are % integral
multiples of the quantity ~h/2 pi
(h being “Planck’s constant”) and
those having whole integral spins:
The heavy particles all have %
integral spins. There is another

of symmetry here too: every
particle» hasan antiparticle, of
equal mass but opposite charge
and energy.

Now the behaviors of these par-
ticles are governed by forces class-
ified distinctly by strengths. These
“strengths” refer, Yang explained,
to the comparison, in the electro-
magnetic-gravitatiomal case, of
the forces between two protons for
example. Our comfortable grav-
ity is here quite overshadowed, too
small for experimental study.
The interactions of particles under
this aggregate of forces usually
conform to the “macroscopic sym-
metry principles”. Yang and Lee
are famous for showing that un-
derstanding of the “weaker forces”
in atomic decay or break-up inter-
actions must be tbased on ‘recog-
nition that they are sometimes vi-
olated.

Meaning of Symmetries

What is meant by symmetries,
some of which may be “violated,”
among which new ones may be re-
vealed? They may be considered
in four classes, First are the
space-time symmetries, the rela-
tivity invariance, the principle of
equivalence of different coordinate
systems for the description of
phenomena... These processes di-
rect geometrical significance, They
have been thoroughly incorporated
in the theoretical language that
attempts to describe the elemenary
particles . A deviation from the
space-time concept may be necessi-
tated, but this possibility has re-
mained so far academic. The sec-
ond class, change conjugation, is
that principle that for every par-
ticle there exists an anti-particle.
This arose from pure theory’ in
Dirac’s prediction of the positron’s
existence, and was later experi-
mentally verified. Thirdly are the
conservation laws, the conservation
of the number of heavy particles,
of electric charge, of isotropic spin.
Finally is the class, “little under-
stood”, of relations of interactions
between particle and anti-particle.
Three main questions emerge.
The class of conservation laws
stands out as uncorrelated. What
has it to do with symmetry? A
powerful, obviously fundamental
principle, it ‘is however only an
empirical statement. “It is not
trivial, but a very complex thing
of nature, evidently an interlock-
ing system of intriguing symmet-
ries.” The progress of our under-

mathematical formalism” to the.

Science Series Features International Experts;
Friday’s Talks Boast Topics of General Interest:

relativity ‘is a notable example.
Secondly, in microscopic work
involving the weak interactions,
there are distinct violations. Yang
noted that if the microscopic world
were assymmetrical, any underly-
ing symmetries would be masked
completely. In a symmetrical world
these clear assymmetries are not-
able. The third question involves
the unexplained definity of the

weaker interactions share the same
strengths? .Is some simple struc-
tural source indicated? ‘The anss
wers must lead to a unification
and conceptional simplification of
the role of symmetry principles in
the law of nature.
tt

Biochemist Seeks Root
Of Optical Activity
by Sue McCord, ’61

Dr. George Wald spoke as repre-
sentative of the Biochemistry De-
partment.on “The Origin of Optic-
al Activity.” Dr. Wald began by
Stating that he was dealing with
the simplest kind of symmetry,
that of left and right as seen in
molecular isomers or “optical
pairs,” each a mirror image of the
other, and that a property of all
life processes is the strict distinc-
tion between this right. and left-
handednesses in molecules. Three
previous explanations of this ap-
parent selectivity by all organic en-
tities were based on the theory
that a process occurring the inor-
ganic world produced the neces-
‘sary imbalance of isomers thus
making possible .and guiding the
beginning of life.

The first explanation assumed
an assemic mixture of optical iso-
mers irradiated with circularly tpo-
larized light in such a way as to

Dr. Wald disagreed with this
theory on the basis that circularly
polarized light is extremely rare
in nature and never apepars in the

same sense over a long period of
time.

A second probable explanation is
that the source of the imbalance
is due to the adsorption of one of
the pair on the surface of optically
active, disymmetric quartz crys-
tals. This theory is insufficient on
the basis that no assymetric separ-
ation has ever been achieved and
that right and left-handed quartz
are equally distributed on the
earth.

The final theory is based on the

tion of both isomers accepted is
formed on one sense which the
mother liquor has high optical ac-
tivity in the opposite sense. Again
an unsatisfactory explanation in
that the direction of crystalliza-
tion is purely haphazard unless
the solution is seeded, in which
case crystallization occurs in the
same sense,

Dr. Wald chose to base his explan-
ation of optical activity on the in-
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Notice

~ Haverford Arts Council will
present “A Covering of Stone”,
@ concert for five voices by Jon
Smith (Haverford 60), next
Friday, November 18 at 8:30
p.m. in the Common Room,





tion-induction. Linstein’s special



Haverford.







fact that a supersaturated solu- -

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classes of forces. Why do the .

(Contrary to these three theories,






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Condoning Van Doren’s Deceptions

* he actions of Charles Van Doren and his less publicized
counterparts in recently unveiled quiz show riggings indi-

cate a widespread subversion

of the principles of honesty.

This, in an industry which is probably the greatest dissem-
inater of culture now available to the United States, is at

least an alarming discovery.

It is deplorable that television

should not only express few ideals, but actively subvert one
of the most basic of moral principles, that of honesty. There
are other facets to the issue—the inclusion of a college pro-
fessor at the center of such a fraud, and the perjury com-

mitted by approximately sixty percent of those appearing |

before the New York grand jury, all of which intensifies both
the effect and significance of the scandal.

This negation of morality

of the intellectual and cultural output of the United States |
would in itself cause us great concern.
however, that it is not primarily this which shocks us.

in such a prominent segment

The fact remains,
It is

rather the reaction to such practices among the people and

above all in the government of the United States.

The sub-

committee which investigated Van Doren agreed five to one
that he was to be commended for his strength of mind in
deciding after three years to speak the truth and confess his

part in the rigging. Only one

man in the committee of six,

Steven B. Derounian, considered the merit of such a late and
circumstantially forced confession to be doubtful.

Is the morality of truth versus taisehood such a hazy

issue?

Surely there can be no doubt about Van Doren’s
~ wrong. The fact that he finally told a long story explaining

his motives and mental torments up to the time of confes-
sion does not eradicate a record of continuously dishonest
action and speech. He first took part in the deceptive rig-
ging of a quiz show, then denied all charges of the same be-
tore a New York grand jury, and subsequently confirmed this

denial in a telegram to the subcommittee.

Finally, when

pushed into danger by Freedman’s indictment, Van Doren

decided to tell the truth.

We may conceivably sympathize with the man, and
deplore the temptation offered to him by the television net-
work management, but surely the fact remains that what he

did was dishonest and wrong.

Yet representatives of our

government and groups of private citizens have commended

Van Doren, and congratulated

him on coming out with the

truth. This condoning of Van Doren’s actions seems to us
an even more alarming indication of laxity in the moral stan-.

—dards-of-our-country-than are the actions themselves.



Miss Alexander Expresses Indignation
At Violations of Several Civil Liberties

“You hear that there are no
more people around who get indig-
nant about injustice. Well, here’s
one that’s left,” began Milnor Al-
exander in her discussion of Civil
Liberties at current events Monday
night. (Miss Alexander is an as-
sistant in the Political Science de-
partment, working especially with
Mr. Bachrach.

In her talk, Miss Alexander dis-
cussed six. general areas where.
she feels civil liberties are current-
ly being violated that fill her with
this sense of injustice.

Equality Before Law

The first concept is the idea of
equality before the law, which is
basic to our concept of due pro-



ever he does.”

Rice the

point is ies dignity’, or the
concept that every man is worth
something. This was illustrated
by the so-called Bird Man of Al-
catraz case, the story of Robert
Strauch who was convicted of mur-
der and, after killing a guard, was
sent to Alcatraz and deprived of
his pet birds, the one thing that
gave his life meaning and purpose.

Judge’s Duty: Impartiality

For a fourth point she discussed
the judge’s duty to be impartial or
at least as much as is humanly}
possible. A visit to a magistrate’s
court in Philadelphia or New York
will show that people are treated
differently in respect to their race,
economic condition, etc. Another
basis of democracy is the idea that
government should stay within
authorized areas. How far does
its authority go, as demonstrated
by the challenging of the House
of Un-American Activities ‘Com-
mittee? ~ '

The lecture concluded with a
discussion of the Rosenberg and
Sobell case of 1951, in which Miss
Alexander feels that‘ the judical



by Isa Brannon

“The -name’s LaGuardia,” and
for: this reason the new musical
Fiorello! may strike a more re-
sounding note with (New Yorkers
than out-of-towners. However, this
is a bad year for a new show to
make a-hit. There are a singular-
ly large number of plays opening
this year, and a very small number
of Broadway theatres to accommo-
date them.

It: is necessary to have excel-
lence in many things in order to
produce a hit musical comedy. First
the acting must be of superior
quality: This quality is for the
most part missing in Fiorello!

-|Characters—are—slow to pick up

their cues, and they say lines such
as “She’s dead” as if they were
determined to keep the show a
comedy no matter how the script
read. Ellen Hanley, who plays La-
Guardia’s wife, is the actress who
took over the ailing Polly Bergen’s
role in First Impressions last win-
ter. It is easy to see why ‘the
show folded so quickly. Pat Stan-

ley, with a certain ingenue quality

She plays her role as a striker in
a shirtwaist factory with the con-
fidence the part demands.

Another prerequisite of a good
musical is good costumes and scen-
ery. The clothes in this show are
well-chosen and varied. The de-
signers were fortunate in that the
play encompasses three periods of
time and therefore three styles of
clothing: pre-World War I, roar-
ing twenties, and the depression.
Pach is distinctly represented. The
scenery is appropriate, but for the
most part drab. The sets revolve
spectacularly, but the players
must learn to avoid getting caught
in them.

No matter how amusing,
plays need a message. Fiorello!
has two. One, that LaGuardia
was an admirable character, is es-
tablished at the beginning by his
followers’ singing “On The Side
of the Angels.” This leaves the

all

‘remainder of the performance to

expose graft and neglect in poli-
tics. The theme of a man being
elected to office has been treated
before, for example in Of Thee I



offsets Miss Hanley’s performance.

Sing, but this reiteration is new
and very appropriate to this elec-

“Fiorello!” Out-Mediocres Other Musicals

tion ‘year.

Unfortunately most of the funny
lines in Fiorello! are in the lyrics
of the songs, and are therefore lost
to laughs. Probably the most
amusing sequence in the show is a
song “The Little Tin Box” which
tells of the attested source of
grafters’ money, but it is difficult
to tell at the end of the song
whether the applause is for the
music or the lines, This brings us
to the fimal requirement for a suc-
cessful musical comedy: good mu-
sic. This requirement Fiorello!
fills to capacity. The biggest at-
tribute of the music is that it is
appropriate. The writers, Bock
and Harnick, have written the score
to apply to the play, not with the
usual thought of having a future
“top Forty” song. However, this
is where we may soon look for
“Till Tomorrow.”

There are very few musicals
like South Pacific and My Fair
Lady, -which can be absolutely qual-
ified hits. Most fall into a medi-
ocre status. This is where Fior-
ello! stands. Its success will de-
pend on the comparative medioc-
rity of the other new musicals.



Letter



by Polly Larson, ’60
To the Editor:

I could not believe that someone
so dedicated to beauty and truth
as Frank Lloyd Wright would: de-
sign a museum to be something
other than a place to view art: in
a way that would enhance the
works. of. art themselves. After
hearing the many dissenting com-
ments since the opening of October
21st, I began to wonder what I
would see and how I would feel
when going into the new“Solomon
R. Guggenheim (Museum. (Should
I bring Dramamine?) Since my
visits last Friday afternoon and
Saturday morning I feel very
strongly that the new museum is a
statement of faith for both non-
objective art and for museums to
house such works.

Contemporary art is different in
purpose from other art ... and
must be recognized as such to be
understood and appreciated. The
Guggenheim Museum is construct-
ed in a way to display the paint-

advantage. Frank Lloyd Wright
conceived of this new way to dis-
play art ... a continuous progres-
sion along spiral ramps, punctuat-
ed by partitions. There is not. a
maze of rooms to confuse, nor dark
corners to conceal.

That there are no frames and
that many paintings are in sus-
pension from the wall is to their
advantage. Here, at last, is a
building designed to display art
that was created to be in a gal-
lery. These works of art were not,
as most used to be, painted for
definite punposes such as churches,
individuals, and organizations, and
later collected and placed in rooms
of a museum. Frank Lloyd Wright.
has recognized this difference and
has created a building that can

art.

My own sensations at being
within the building were ones of
involvement and integration with
the structure. I took the elevator
to the top and walked down the
ramp, noting that the placement
and lighting of the paintings en-
hanced them. The slant of the
ramp was not sufficient to make
me uneasy that the paintings were
not on a level with the floor. I
was not conscious that the paint-
ings were unframed until that |

night.
I spoke to a guard about the





process ‘was unjust in a number
of significant ways. The speaker
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thought of it since he had to stand
there for hours on end. He said |‘



Searosn ecamorannicen bop

Wright Saved From ¥

ings and _sculpture- -to—their best

fulfill the needs of contemporary],

museum,,and asked him what he)



rong

to one of the girls at the desk
where postcards are sold, asking
her what she thought. She was
very happy to be working there,
and elated that the placement of
the circular desk put. her in the
scope of the lobby instead of back
in a corner, I went down to the
auditorium to see how it ‘would
fit into the scheme of the museum.

It was also circular, of soft cream-

tan, and seemed to be an excellent
room for purposes of’ lecture and
film.

Altogether the building appear-
ed to me to be a well-integrated
whole, combining the necessary
idea of a building with a place to
exhibit contemporary art. It is
new .. . it is different... and
thus is not accepted immediately
by everybody; but neither is non-
objective art. I feel that Frank
Lloyd Wright has made a great
move forward in the conception of
museums, and it is more sensible
to try to. understand the reasons
behind his ideas than to condemn

-them:—And who can say that it is

wrong for a building which houses
works of art to be a work of art
in: its own right?

Polly Larson, ’60:

Events In
Philadelphia

Plays

The Midnight Sun with Janet
Gaynor opens Mon. night at the
Locust.

Fiorello! continues at the Erlan-
ger,

Only in America, based on the
Harry (Golden book, is at the For-
‘rest.

Saratoga, with music by Johnny
(Mercer, remains at the Shubert.

Music

Jan Peerce, Met tenor, in a re-
cital Thursday evening.

The Kingston Trio Friday night
at 8:40.

Philadelphia Orchestra with Or-
mandy and Guiomar Novaes, pian-
ist, Friday anyerripen and Saturday
evening.

All musical ovorrems are at the
Academy. |

Movies

Pillow Talk with Doris Day and
Rock Hudson at the New Stanley.
A Summer Place, based on Sloan
Wisen's novel, bean “Dorothy Mc-



for a long period of time. I spoke}



Poll Tells Jobs,
Fees of Summer

To those unhappily confronting
giant paydays, it may be comfort-
ing to hear that Bryn Mawrters
earned a total of $139,480.00 dur-
ing the summer of 1959. With 90%
of the student body reporting on
their summer employment the
Summer Job Survey was consider-
ed particularly successful and re-
veals some rather interesting fig-
ures. Of 610 students, 146, or al-
most 24%, took some kind of sum-:
mer course, 69 of them combining.
study with some other kind of ac-
tivity. Though a report of travel
was not particularly requested,
84 students noted that they had

spent all or part of the summer
travelling. Relatively few students,
57, engaged in no activity and of
these 27, or almost half, were in-
coming freshmen.

62% Hold Jobs
Three hundred eighty students,

or 628%, held 401 paid jobs for —

all or part of the summer. Eighty-
five of these students engaged in
more than one activity, twenty of
them holding two or three jobs.
The summer of 1959 was the
third one in which Bryn Mawrters
earned more than one hundred
thousand dollars, the other two
being 1956 and 1957. In 1958, per-
haps owing to the recession, stu-
dent earning did not reach ninety
thousand. This past summer, how-
ever, the total reported exceeded
any totals previously reported by
$26,745. It is difficult to tell
whether the sharp rise both in
number of jobs and total amount
earned is entirely due to the in-
crease in numbers of students re-
porting, or whether an increasing
number of students are working
all or part of the summer,

Some Earns $500+

There were 120 students who
earned five hundred dollars or more
during the summer of 1959, virtu-
ally all of whom worked between
ten and seventeen weeks. There
were four girls who earned one
thousand dollars or more, all of
them working fifteen weeks or
more. The highest individual sal-
ary for the summer was $1200,
next was one of $1105.

Science Most Lucrative

The most lucrative summer work

| appears to be in the scientific field,

the average salary there being
$48.50 per week, Office work
followed close fbehind at $46.50.







| Waitressing averaged $40.55 plus
_|and camp: work $24.00. ae




Wednesday, November 11,.1959

THE COLLEGE NEWS

r Page Three



Samael Topic Of Week-end Discussions Here

Ceataned from Page 1, Col. 5

trinsic nature of living material
which necessitates the selection of
one member of an optical pair so
that formation and survival will be
possible. The prime example is
the: protein molecule seen ‘as the
model of existence’ of life,
teins are formed of helices which
in. all naturally formed molecules
spiral to the right. This is due to
the fact that practically all pro-
teins are built from right-handed
L .amino acids as opposed to the
left-handed (D amino acids which
exist’ in a small minority.

| Dr. Wald feels that in the light
of our present knowledge of the
biochemistry of proteins, the ques-
tion as to why one configuration,
is absurd. _If-it-were-not-for this
pniformity the whole living sys-
tem would be a duplicate; thus nat-
ural selection of one optical iso-
mer is due purely to chance and,
“assuming a degree of symmetry
in this situation”, life on other
planets may ibe half based on the
-(D amino acid theory and half on
the iL.



| Math Lecture Stresses
Value of Symmetry

by Diana Burgess, ’61

' “The Classification of Zonohe-
dra by Means of Projective Dia-
grams” led the procession of lec-
tures. Dr. iH. iS. M. Coxeter’s sub-
ject was a specialized geometric
éonsideration of basic group-sym-
metry principles. which were to be
discussed in other contexts through-
out the day.

, A zonohedron, said Dr, Coxeter
simply, is a polyhedron whose
faces lie in zones. A zone is ob-
tained from a polyhedron by start-
ing with one face, proceeding to
any adjacent face, across it to the

Pro-|

diametrically opposite one, across
it, and so on until returning-to the
starting point. (The only restric-
tion on the polyhedron is thus that
each face to be part of the zone
must have an even number of
sides, so that there will be a dia-
metrically ‘opposite side of the
face.) /The simplest example of a
zonohedron: is probably a cube.
Comparing it to a room, all four
walls form one zone; floor and ceil
ing ‘with two opposing walls form
another. |

Restricting his discussion to
those-zonohedra which can be made
to completely fill space if. “piled
up” on one another (called. “paral-
lelohedra”), Coxeter pointed out
the fact that these can be only
those with four or six faces in a
zone. This is simply because they
must fill up the space. (Looking
at a cross-séctional plane you can
see that the plane cannot be filled
with any but four- or six-sided
regular polygons.) - The statement
was proved by use of “projective
diagrams”, schematic representa-
tions (not. perspective drawings)
of. polyhedra by points and lines
in the plane, which thus become
the “projective plarie”. _

To continue with the simplest
example, the cube may be repre-
sented first as a “star” of lines





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Wednesday to Claude Rains, one
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emanating from one vertex and
paralleling the edge of the cube
(comparable to a three-dimension-
al Cartesian coordinate system go-

ing both directions.) These six
lines are taken in pairs, since the
faces meet one another in pairs
at any edge. On the projective di-
agram each of these pairs is rep-
resented ‘by a point. Lines drawn
through the three points and ex-
tended form a triangle and divide
the projective plane into four re-
gions. Each region therefore rep-
resents a pair of opposite vertices
of the original cube.

There can never be more than
three points of intersection on any
one line in the projective diagram
if the diagram is to represent a
parallelohedron. That is, the
plane cross-section of the parallel-
ohedron must be four-sided (giv-

‘ing two points) or six-sided (giv-

ing three points per line on the



projective diagram.) One, two,
or three lines may therefore be
added to the diagram, but no more.
The ways in which these are put
in provide a basis for identifying
and classifying the five correspond-
ing parallelohedrons, the only ones
which may be made to fill space.
All these considerations were
dependent upon the symmetry of
the figures. Each face of the zon-
ohedron was considered as a cen-
trally symmetric polygon; each
parallelohedron was additionally
symmetric in having an even num-
ber of sides. ‘This, Dr. ‘Coxeter
pointed out, is only one of the many
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