College news, March 23, 1960

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VOL XLV—NO. 18

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1960

© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1960

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Too Much “Tradition” Causes
Deficiency in Music Of Church

“The problem. of church music
is the very problem of the church
itself, If it can regenerate itself
from its own essence, there will be
a new Palestrina, a new Schutz,
and a new Bach.” ‘With these
words, Mr. Paul Henry Lang con-
cluded the last of his series of six
lectures on “Music and Christian
Worship.”

The present standstill in church
music dates back to its virtual
stagnation in the latter part of the
19th century when Romanticism,
the “fate which destroys because
it carries its devotees beyond the
boundaries of life,’ engulfed the
great composers. Berlioz, Liszt,
and Wagner. “Church music and
art music had definitely parted
company.” The oratorios no long-
er had anything in common with
the church, They were performed
in concert halls. “The Protestants
and Catholics vied with each other
in purifying church music until
it became lily-white and unpalat-
able.” The only decent music was
written by a converted Jew, Felix

Challenge Excites

Prompt Responses

The Challenge meeting on
Southern integration covered in
last ;week’s issue of the News has
resulted in “a wave of concern...
finding immediate, active expres-
sion... on campus after campus
in the North,” according to a front
page report in Sunday’s New York
Times.

“Informal organizations have
sprung up in the last ten days at
a score of colleges and universities

.. Many of these have gone into
action within forty-eight hours.”

This action, to demonstrate sup-
port and sympathy for Negroes
protesting segregation by means
of sit-ins at chain-store lunch



counters in the South, has taken,

the form of rallies, fund-raising
campaigns, and picket-lines.

Student. movements at Vassar,
Smith, and Bennington have
sprung up as a direct result of the
Yale meeting. Girls from all three
schools, each unaware of the oth-
er institutions’ plans, marched with
signs of protest in the area of
their local Woolworth stores on
Thursday afternoon and evening.

At the Challenge
Paul DuBrul of the N.S.A. and
Allard Lowenstein, a New York
lawyer: just back from Alabama,
explained the issues and urged ac-
tion. Immediately after, the 15
Vassar girls who had attended
arranged a civil rights rally at
which Herbert Hill, labor secre-
tary of the N.A.A.C.P. and Mr.
DuBrul spoke. Of the 150 girls
present at the rally “practically
the entire audience” agreed to
picket.

Signs of protest read “Don’t
Buy from Woolworth—it discrim-
imates in the South.” The girls
also passed out. 1200 leaflets in a
period of about four hours on

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NOTICE
The News would like to note
its appreciation and thanks to.
Undergrad ‘ which — subsidized
~} the junket to “the Yale~Chal-~
lenge Colloquium covered in last
week’s issue.





Mendelssohn, whose music, influ-
enced (by (Palestrina, was ' “excep-
tionally fine.” . The organ music
composed for the church was mis-
erable, With the notable exception
of Brahms.

The Sicilian movement toward
archaic, remote, international
church music was taken up by
Catholics and Protestants all over
the world. Its devotees, however,
failed to. realize that all past
church music had been in the fore-
front of musical development, and
that national characteristics had
not been excluded.

Today’s divine service is based
on a respect for tradition, rather
than a respect for God. The church
music has become “music at a
divine service rather than music
of a divine service.’ We cannot
go back to the Gregorian chant.
“We have lost all sense and feeling
for pure melody unaccompanied by
harmony.” ‘Contemporary church
music should have a self-evident
attitude which is -only possible
when the composer. is of his time
and of his environment. An Amer-
ican composer should put his own
personality, belief, and honesty in
his compositions, and keep a re-
gard for liturgical requirements in
order to produce good church mu-
sic, Objectivity in church music
is, then, a contradiction in terms.

There are hopeful stirrings no-
ticeable in Protestant and Catholic
fecireles such as Pope Pius XII’s
statement expressly permitting
church music which is _nationally-

Continued on Page 4, Col. 3

Trypanis Explains
Oedipus’ Reaction
To “Dark Powers”

An analysis of Sophocles’ last
play, Oedipus at Colonus, was giv-
en at 8:30 p.m. on March 16 in
the Ely Room of Wyndham by Mr.
Constantine Trypanis of Oxford
University, now at the’ Institute
for Advanced Study. In the course
of his lecture, Mr. Trypanis read
several selections from the work
itself,

Oedipus at Colonus, written in
Sophocles’ eightieth year, provides
a personal and intimate look at
the relationship between Oedipus
and his sons, The plot itself,
which had always interested Soph-
ocles as evidenced by the earlier
Oedipus Rex, was taken from a
local myth. In the hands of this
great tragedian, it ‘became a
“drama of emotions through which
the central hero must pass, through
which he fulfills his-destiny, and
fulfills himself.”

Sophocles has rejected the tra-
ditional theme of Greek drama,
the ideals of justifying the gods,
and has shifted the emphasis of
the play from the universal to the
individual, in particular to the in-

of Oedipus. The agony of a Soph-
oclean character is essential, and
Oedipus is the greatest of Soph-
ocles’ heroes.

It was a traditional belief in
Greek religion and Greek tragedy
that the evil powers can lead a
man unwittingly to violate the
world order and punish him for
that violation. Whereas Euripides



criticizes_this__traditional_concept
Continued on Page 5, Col. 4

evitability of suffering in the life]. .

by Maria-Vittoria Sebastiani

If I had to write a journalistic
report on this night with Robert
Frost, I would certainly point out
that the audience was extremely
as one would expect
from such an audience to such an
event. But/I don’t really have to

attentive,

everybody in and

around Bryn Mawr College was

there tonight. Anyway, these are
the facts: Goodhart was full, and
everybody seemed really pleased.
Why? Oh, well . .., we saw a
poet in flesh and blood, and a real
poet, by general agreement. But,
besides that, I think we liked the
performance of a witty man, who
was willing to make us enjoy his
wittiness. It may be something
we miss in this overmechanized
and oversophisticated world: the
straight, simple exhibit of a hu-
man mind.

His _ talking is-so--casual—did
you notice his introducing any an-
ecdote with “Someone said to me
. and I said... .”, or “I happen-
ed to think recently .. .” and yet
so extremely thought over. He
repeated some of his points, and
some’ of them several times, evi-
dently because he thought they
were crucial, and so it happened
that they really stuck in our
minds, Everyone of us will prob-
ably keep for himself the ones
which impressed him most: we

practically



will keep them among the “senten-
tiae”’ which accompany our lives;





discussion |

go through their paces.

by Kristine Gilmartin
- There certainly is no business
like show business, and the Maids
and Porters with the aid of the
sophomores magnificently proved
this in Irving Berlin’s Annie Get
Your Gun, presented March 19 in
Goodhart, The tremendous han-
dicaps inherent in an ambitious
show given after only a week of
rehearsals onstage were quite
successfully overcome by a “Let’s
go on with the show” feeling.

Fine music well performed un-
der the direction of Marita—Vigli-
_one-and-Anna—Kimbrough, good}
and occasioally unexpected com-
edy, combined with a perfectly





adequate set—complete with a



George a Darwin Goodel, Rosemary McKnight, Arthur Spady, and Patsy Renwick

third post-intermission cow—de-
signed and constructed by Anne
Rassiga, Abbie Trafford and Jean
Porter, and good ‘costumes ‘created
by Brina Saklad and her commit-
tee made Annie Get Your Gun an
extremely enjoyable evening’s en-
tertainment. Eleanor Levinson,
director, and her assistant, Bonnie
Kevles, must be highly commend-
ed for their fine work. ~
Rosemary McKnight (Annie)
and Arthur Spady (Frank Butler)
who in true show business fashion
saved the show by replacing Aloy-
-sius-Mackey- who became ill, gave}
excellent performances. Miss Mc-
Knight’s “Doin’ What ‘Comes Nat-

Like Show Business.”



urally” and “You Can’t Get A Man

“Show Business”--No Business Like It,
Prove Maids and Porters on Saturday

With A Gun” were full of spirit
and revealed her fine voice. Mr,
Spady’s “The Girl That I Marry”
and the two’s duet, “They Say It’s
‘Wonderful”.,were equally fine.
George Bryan as Charlie Daven-
port and Robert Holloman as
Buffalo ‘BiH, «with Annie and
Frank, set the tone for the eve-
ning with “There’s No Business
These two
also made important contributions
to the comedy of the show. Dollie

and Winnie Tate, played by Patsy ||

Renwick. and Margaret Randall,

take the role of a reporter since | as



‘Britain and America,

Robert Frost Reads his Poetry;
Listeners Relish Wit, Wisdom

but none of us will ever forget
how that particular idea came out,
that night, and then it will make
much more sense when connected
with Frost’s own personality. His
“sententiae” are universal in so
far as they are individual.

This is the feeling I got in read-
ing his poems, and the “great
lines” so frequently quoted such
“Good fences make good neigh-
bors,” or “Earth’s the right place
for love,” or “The fact is-. the
sweetest dream that labour
knows.”

And tonight my feeleing was
confirmed: tonight again, (“again”
after his poetry) he actually ex-
pressed his thoughts and his dis-
coveries of values in life as a very
personal, immediate outpouring of
his mind.

His staying on both sides of the
wall is not a very clever way of
answering a queer question, but

Continued on Page 4, Col. 3

Expert Interprets
Language History

Philology, the study of compar-
ative linguistics, is now in a per-
iod of eclipse, stated Mr. Henry
M. Hoenigswald im the Class of
1902 Lecture “Speakers, Analysts,
and Antiquarians,” given on
Thursday evening in the Ely
Room. (Mr. Hoenigswald is Profes-
sor of Linguistics. at the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania and author
of the recent
Change and Linguistic Reconstruc-
tion,

Comparative linguistics is only
a little more than 150 years old.
It was begun in the Germanic
countries and is even younger in
The term
itself was coined by Schlegel but
does not have the same connota-
tion that the “comparative” in

'“comparative anatomy” does. The

early philologists did not work
with the desire to find out more
about languages. They rather
wanted. to delve more deeeply into
a language with a view to tracing
its past history.

The discovery of Sanskrit in
the last decades of the 18th cen-
tury led to the use of. languages
as a key to ancient civilizations.

4 This was the field of study of the

19th century philologists. Their
field was, in fact, limited to Indq-
European languages, to the discov-
ery of the true relationships of
languages. such as Latin and
Greek and to the reconstruction
of languages from which present
day tongues are descended. In
America today, the linguists have
formed a fortunate bond with the
anthropologists.

The philologists try to base
their conclusions wherever poss-
ible on speech because as the great
Indian scholars believed, “writing
is an abuse of language.” Even
more preferable is an idiolect, the

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NOTICE
Meeting to discuss the cur-



were very fine, and “Miss (Randall |

in her duets with James Short dis-
play a lovely voice and good



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tegration -and-possibly to organ-_
ize action, tonight, Wednesday,





March 28, Pem East Showcase.



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THE COLLEGE NEWS

. Wednesday, March 23, 1960



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Integration: A Call For Action

The day before spring vacation and the loudest hum
on campus comes from the snapping of suitcases—it might
be hard to tell from looking around. that America is in a
state of revolution. In fact, a glance at a newspaper is need-
ed for word of the uprising which suddenly, quietly, irrevo-
sably has swept the nation.

Spearheaded by nine Negro students sitting-in at “an
Alabama lunch counter, the revolution for integration and
equal rights has been country and in a short time has gained astonishing momen-
tum. In,Northampton, New Haven, Cambridge and Pough-
keepsie it is being waged with unflagging enthusiasm; in
Nashville, Montgomery, and Raleigh with quiet, unshakable
courage.

The revolution sprang out of an old awareness of the
evils and inexpediences of segregation and the new realiza-
tion that its elimination is as much the responsibility of the
Northern student as the Southern governor. The under-
standing that. segregation is not only morally wrong but also
a threat to national security is neither new nor revolution-
ary; the understanding that integration is our problem and
aciton to effect it is our responsibility is both.

We have entered a new phase in dealing wtih an old
problem, and, whether we like it or not, there is no turning
back; the emphasis has been shifted from sympathy to
active support. No longer may we simply admire the tenacity
and courage of Negroes sitting-in at lunch counters, boycot-
ting buses, and attempting to get seats in decent schools.
Instead we must be prepared to take positive action, to cease
admiring and start emulating. This shift is not an easy
one to which to adjust: nonetheless, it has been irrevocably
made and, if we wish to consider ourselves either liberal or
just, we must be prepared to accept its implications. We
must be prepared to take action.

The sort of action taken and advocated by Northern
student movements ranges from group picket-lines. around
local Woolworths to indication by word of personal disap-
proval of restaurant discrimination. It may be writing let-
ters of support to students in southern colleges or contribut-
ing funds for subsidizing their often-necessary bail; a detail-
ed list of possibilities is given in the letter below.

Evidence of the rapidity with which students have re-
sponded to this shift to action prevents editorial comments
of this sort from being dismissed as mere arm-waving. Last
week a group of Philadelphia students picketeda Woolworth ;
this Thursday groups at Vassar, Smith, and Bennington did
the same (see page one for story). It is, of course, possible
and likely that strikes are not the most efficient means of
channeling collective energy for ending segregation: with a
little thinking a better one may very likely appear.

Tomorrow is spring vacation; the revolution is not op-
portune. Nonetheless, though any collective action is for
another two weeks impossible, individual projects (like the
ones described in the open letter below) are not. Besides,
we have good imaginations. The pause of spring vacation
may be all we need to come up with a means even more effect-
ive than the picket for communicating our state of mind and
helping to hasten the long overdue process of integration.

Chorus Seems “Tentative”

by Alison Baker mirable perfection, particularly in
Verdi’s Stabat Mater and Te! the men’s voices. The women’s

Deum are dramatic often to the voices tended to blend a little less

point of sensationalism. No mat- :
ter what reservations I may have smoothly than did the men’s, but

about the music, however, my main| they too held their pitch very well.
criticism of the Tri-College Chorus} My more specific criticism is a
performance with the Philadelphia| usual one since the bane of most
Orchestra was that they seemed|choruses, aside frdm precision
somewhat tentative in bringing out] and closely connected with it, is
the lush Italianate quality of the| dynamics. The Verdi pieces de-

pieces. . mand a tremendous range of con-



si ialaial tial

Frost Displays New England Versatility

“Well, let’s get to the heart of
the matter—whatever the matter
is,” began Robert Frost, informal- |
ly answering questions Monday,
evening at the Deanery. “I’m one
of those fellows you can ask any

question you want. Like a color-
ed servant, named Sam. His mas-
ter said ‘to the Devil; if you can |}
ask him anything he doesn’t know,
you can have him. The devil ask-
ed, ‘Do you like friend eggs?’ and :
Sam answered ‘Yes.’ Then, about ||
thirty years later, the Devil came
up to Sam when he was plowing in
the field, and asked him, ‘How?’
Sam said, ‘Fried.’

*You know it’s just’ come over
me I used to hear it said that there
is no such thing as an atheist.
Lately I’ve been running into lots |)
of them. Ome was under the
ground. He had a good tomb-|
stone, and it said, ‘humorist, jour-
nalist, atheist.’ I was talking to
five or six Russians who had.-al-
ready forgotten there was a God.
You see in me someone who’s seen
a lot of atheists. They believe too,
that there isn’t a God, just as i
believe there is a God.

“It came over me the other day
that I’ve been around a lot of peo-
ple who know poetry. I can always

lucky,

tell the difference between people ticle in the Saturday Review Mr.
Frost said, “I haven’t. read it;|They tear the bark off birches.

but I heard all about it. I don’t} Another of their defects is to come
care how many meanings they take| home with a travelogue,

who have been educated in poetry
and those who have been brought
up in it.

there’s some in as well.
“I heard a definition of a vigil Bepninns dh I thought the direc-

dent which said,
college graduate; he can only tell someone was showing off for me,
you what he knows in the order and he landed on his head. I said
in which he learned it.
said he’s lucky to know it any-|from someone else in the hospital.
way. That’s not true; he’s not/The big white birches are too brit-
It’s wit that makes good tle. I made a mistake in not tell-
conversation, not just wisdom.”

Asked about John Ciardi’s ar-| that are best.





| that from the poem if you read it

you can tell ations were specific enough, Once

Someone | to swing feet first. I had a letter

ing the kind. It is the silver birch

“You can always tell a tourist.

That’s

“I think the first poem I noticed |°Ut of a poem, as long as they | the worst kind of log.”

was “Three Blind Mice.” Rhyming | !eave me one in.
and singsong took over me very

In another question, Mr. Frost

“When I wrote ‘But I Have! was asked if he got the characters

early; it’s always hard for me to| Promises to Keep’ I just meant it|for his poems from reality. “If
care for free verse. I’m an insti-|like when you’re having a good|there’s something witty you meant
tutionalist; I like the institution| time, but you have a nine o’clock|to say and forgot, what do you do

of verse.

The weight of poetry | class. tomorrow. One critic said it| with it?

Put it in a novel. Char-

may be outside, but I’m interested | meant that life is lovely and dark,|acter is a composite composition.

in verse.

upbringing in poetry ought to in-|a free swinger.

clude—some education, ibut those|a little absurd, a litle wrong, but|movels or movies.
who are only taught set my teéth|-it~ doesn’t matter
There’s more learning} doing something new~in-a_mom-

on edge.

outside education, more wisdom | ent.”
outside philosophy, more religion



outside the church; but I hope! Mr. Frost answered, “You can get

_ |but I have to be getting to Heaven. | You know if you met the person
“As for poetry being taught, an| That’s stretching it a bit, but he’s|/you’d be a little disappointed.

‘Sometimes he’s} That’s why I don’t like illustrated
They ruin a
because | he’s| book,

“Don’t you eVer have an after-
image? When you spend a. whole

Asked how you swing birches,| day fishing or picking blueberries,



Continued on Page 4, Col. 4



Letters to the Editor: On Action for Integration





_ difficulties.



tm it-will_be.exactly in tune.

If music is as blatantly Roman-
tic as Verdi makes it, nothing is
left to the performer but to throw
himself wholeheartedly fimto its
quasi-operatic emotionalism,

Ormandy has no trouble in this,
and the orchestra, as usual, was
faultless in carrying out what he
initiated. The chorus, however,
seemed slightly academic and
shaky in its approach. It may be
that it is downright ungrateful of
me, sitting smugly as a listener,
to criticize the performance of a
piece which involves considerable

The Te Deum particularly, with
its double chorus and exposed cho-
rus and part solos, poses the deli-
cate problem of not losing pitch,

trasting dynamics, some of which
is written into the music itself by
thinning or thickening the instru-
mental and choral texture, but
much of which depends on the
chorus for fulfillment.

In the forte passages, usually
competing with full or almost full
orchestra, the Tri-College Chorus
was impressive enough to make the
listener believe that it really might
boast the 380 voices claimed for it
in the program. The contrastingly
soft passages tended either not to
be soft enough, or else to be soft
but badly blended and with impre-
cise entrances amd cutoffs. This
had some notable exceptions, .par-
ticularly in the opening chorus of
men in the Te Deum. :

Open Letter - EPIC

To the students of all American colleges:

The sit-downs of Negro students in southern
lunch counters have aroused lange-scale sympathy
movements, particularly among students, in many
parts of the country. We in Boston EPIC (Emer-
gency Public Integration Committee) are coordin-
ating the activities of campus committees at Har-
vard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston
University, and Brandeis University, plus non-cam-
pus groups opposed to discrimination, such as
NAACP and CORE. Since F. W. Woolworth is the
biggest chain store involved in the Southern sit-
downs, we are picketing Woolworth outlets. While
adhering to a strictly non-violent discipline on our
picket lines, we are asking people not to buy in
northern Woolworths’ until southern Woolworths
integrate.

This Saturday, we are expecting to place 400
pickets, most of them students, before ten stores.
Since the policies of southern Woolworth can be
changed by the national office in New York, we
know we have a chance of success. We intend to
continue and’ expand our picketing until Woolworth
changes its: policies. Then we will picket other stores
whose southern branches segregate.

Non-picketing activities on Boston campuses
include the circulation of petitions and the sale by
ad hoe student committees of postcards addressed
to New York Woolworth. The petitions, stating
that the signers will not patronize Woolworth until
it integrates in the South, have collected 7,000 sig-~
natures to date, Among the signers are Eleanor
Roosevelt, Arthur. Schlesinger, Oscar Handlin and
H. Stuart Hughes. In addition, Boston area students
have sent close to 1,000 postcirds to Woolworth.

We urge you to support the southern student
movement by:
1) Following the lead of Harvard University’s

student council in sending resolutions of sup-
port to Negro schools in the southern move-
ment; (the following is an incomplete list:
Hampton Inst., Hampton, Va.; Agric. and
Tech. College, Greensboro, N.C.; Shaw
_. University, Raleigh, N.C.; Fisk University,
Nashville, Tenn.; Alabama State College for
Negroes, Montgomery, Ala,; North Caro- :

bi



so th hen the orchestra co:



On the whole the necessary carve



the whole this succeeded with ad-

.was present in the chorus, but it
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lina College; Durham, N.C.; Tuskegee Insti-
tute; Tuskegee, Ala.; Johnson C. Smith Uni-



versity, Charlotte, N.G.; Winston-Salem

ee

Teachers College, Winston-Salem, N.C.
2) Picketing your local Woolworth, if you have
one,
8) Sending postcards, letters, and petitions to:
Mr. E. F. Harrigan, vice-president
F. W. Woolworth and Co,
238 Broadway
New York, New York
Thank you for your cooperation,
Harvey Pressman, chairman, EPIC
333 Harvard Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Action in Bryn Mawr

To the Editor:
Everybody talks about segregation, but nobody ©

thinks about it! At Bryn Mawr, the emphasis is on

individuality, but somewhere we have lost sight of
the force of each individual. Every citizen is faced
with the problem of the present situation in the
South. This is particulary applicable to us because
it involves our fellow-students in Southern univer-
sities. Expelled, ostracized, physically humiliated,
ti.ey have stood up for their ideals with quiet
strength. We cannot stand with them—we do not
suffer, we are not praised. But if we raise our
voice it will be heard. Let’s stop our passive atti-
tude to this vital problem.

Mac Schoellkopf

Carol Duddy

s Kathe Livezey

Dear Editor:

While our fellow citizens in the South are mis-
treated for trying to defend their natural rights ‘as
human beings and citizens of the United States,
we at Bryn Mawr meander through our booky lives
unaware of and not caring about their struggle. In ~
seeking to be valued as individuals and not as mem-
bers of a minority race, these students are testing
the foundations of the democratic system. The
future of our country, and of free peoples every-
where depends upon the right of every individual
to vote, find employment and be accepted according
to his ability. ;

The very least that we here can do is raise our
heads from our books and look beyond our cloister-
ed lives to recognize the tremendot i

ich— are coping and to commend
them for their valor as they quietly but firmly fight
to secure their legitimate ends.

Bannon Marbut





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Page Three



Member of Berlin City Legislature

Talks of German

In an open meeting of Political |
Seience 303b, “France and Ger-
many,” Mrs. Annadora Leber spoke

to an audience on “Contemporary
German Attitudes toward the
Hitler Regime.” » Mrs. Leber, a

citizen of West Berlin, is also 4
member: of the city legislature,
the German UNESCO commission
and the screening committee for
higher military personnel. She
and her husband, Dr. Julius Leber,
were active ~in the resistance
movement; her husband was killed
by the Nazis.

(While im prison in 1944, Mrs.
Leber resolved to leave Germany
forever, but she remained there
and has experienced some unex-
pected changes for the better. As
an “eyewitness of many years’
standing” she attempted to give
a “candid picture” of the political
and emotional state of her coun-
try.

Fall for “Mad Doctrines”

‘The Neo-Nazi incidents remind-
ed the speaker of how her ‘“coun-
try fell for the mad doctrines of
Hitler.” The Neo-Nazism and anti-
Semitic outbreak was expressed
in the words and acts of individu-
als; in the defacement of Jewish
graves and in the boycott of Jew-
ish innkeepers.

As a nation involved in a com-
mon crime, they had to bear a
common guilt, The Nazi dictator-
ship left a confusion of the sense
of values and emotion. There was
a wish to cover up and to forget
the past, The problem of new out-
bursts “necessitates a confronta-
tion of the past.” Of the reap-
pearance of the Swastika Mrs. Le-
ber said, “It was as if a devil’s
band had been given a _ holiday
from hell to plague us. Germans
must-—now -be-severe ‘with the
threats of anti-Semitism and Neo-
Nazism.”

Everywhere meetings and en-



NOTICE

The Friends of Music of
BMC will present the last in
their series of concerts and
workshops on April 6. The
program features Eugene List
at the piano and Carroll Glenn,
violin. The workshop is from
4:10to 5:30 in the Music Room.
The evening concert will be at
8:30 im Goodhart. Unreserved
seats may be obtained from the

Views on Nazis

lightenment campaigns of adult
education are contributing to a igen-
eral awakening. “For the first
time the whole, Nazi complex is
being dis¢ussed in wide circles...
parents ‘sit up who were formerly
against letting the new generation
know about the crimes of the Hit-
ler regime.”

It is not easy for adults to ans-
wer the question of a child:
“Where did you stand at this
time?” The elders agree with the
Berlin (Minister of Education that
one must either teach the children
the whole truth or give up one’s
job. Mrs. Leber recalled the in-
nocent and unprejudiced question
of a boy whose father was a mem-
ber of the infamous SS, Was she
to tell the boy the truth and there-
by destroy his image of his father

Continued on Page 4, Col. 2





Panel Discusses
Mediocre Quality
Of Public Media

by Alison Baker

“Is mass media mass or is it
public? If it is mass, then what
the majority wants should go, but
if it’s public, then government
control becomes highly relevant.”

The moderator answered rather
impatiently, “Yes, that’s just what
we’re trying to find out.”

All this arose in a coffee sem-
inar during the Challenge collo-
quium treating the subject of mass
media. By the time I had asked
directions at every turn and final-
ly arrived at the seminar, our ex-
pert, a sponsor from CBISS radio
network, was already well launch-
ed-on his-exposition of the present
state and problems of mass media
in the United States.

Little of this exposition touched
on anything new or interesting.
One statistic which rather fascin-
ated me, however, was that the
average American spends more
time in front of his TV than in
any other activity, in some cases
including sleep.

First we explored the root of
the mediocrity which seems to
exist in the content of mass media,
It lies in the fact that every TV

tremendous investment of capital,
and thereby needs advertising,







Office of Public Information.



Continued on Page 6, Col. 1

or radio program represents a|

Mr. Guggenheim
Probes The Fate
Of Fifth Republic

Comments on the present status
and the future fate of France’s
Fifth Republic comprised the text
of Mr. Guggenheim’s lecture, “Oud
Va la Cinquiéme République?”,
presented (Monday evening in the
Common (Room.

‘Mr, Guggenheim compared the
present regime with those of the
past. He proposed to consider: the
questions of why the Fourth Re-
public fell, why the Fifth was cre-
ated, whether the crises respons-
ible for the change could. recur,

is very different from the Fourth.

The Fourth French Republie had
two main weaknesses—a basic in-
stability and an inability to decide
upon courses of action. Because
of these problems the administra-

tions changed frequently.

France does not have a_two-
party system as do the United
States and Great Britain. Instead
there is a multiplicity of parties
which are forced to compromise
in weak coalitions in order to ob-
tain adequate power to take over
the administration. Because of
the fragility of these compromises
it is hard for the parties to co-
operate once they are in (power.

Yet these same _ shortcomings
existed under the Third Republic
which lasted for many years.

Since the death of Louis XIV no
regime has been completely ap-
proved iby the public. It is the
government itself rather than the
particular administration in power
that is attacked, Political insta-
bility causes a serious Weakness,
but a real crisis is necessary to
cause the fall of an entire govern-
ment.

The insurrections of 1958 mark-
ed the culmination of a series of
crises which the government «was
unable to solve because the coali-
tion couldn’t agree upon a solu-
tion. The government had ac-
cepted the responsibility for ac-
tions in the past which it had not
authorized. These served to 'weak-
en it considerably,

The coalition which brought
General deGaulle into power and
established the Fifth Republic was
composed of four groups. Two of
these, the citizens of Algiers
(European ‘Algerians fearing Mos-
lem control of the government),
and parts of the French army

one from Indochina and the one



Continued on Page 6, Col. 3

and whether the Fifth Republic’.

(fearing Algerian retreat like the

Setlow Talks On

Action Spectra;

Explains Light's Destructive Effect

“A problem that is rather diffi-
cult -to answer, but a problem
which I nevertheless feel we have
the solution to—the physical state
of DNA,” was.the subject of the
Bryn Mawr Sigma Xi lecture “Ac-
tion ‘Spectra and the Physical State
of DNA in Vivo,” given last Wed-
nesday in the biology lecture room
by the assistant director of bio-
physics at Yale, Mr. Richard B.
Setlow.

DNIA, or deoxyribonucleic acid,
is believed to be the material car-
rying the: genetic characteristics.
It is an attractive structure phys-
ically as well as biologically, ap-
pearing to occur as two strands

intertwined to form a helix. These
strands have a_ sugar-phosphate
backbone, but their importance to
genetics stems from the fact that
they have four purine and prymi-

Student Questions
Validity Of Letter
Rebutting Pauling

by Suzy Spain

The anniversary edition of the
Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin found
its way into the home of a young
New York lawyer, husband of a
Bryn Mawr graduate, and prompt-
ed an immediate response. His
letter was, said Mrs. Isota Epes,
editor of the Bulletin, the only one
of the many letters received to
be at all negatively critical.

The writer, a graduate of Yale
and Harvard Law School, argued
that the publication of the article



advocating world-wide disarma-'
ment, “Why We Must Have
Peace;”’-by~- Linus Pauling, was

worth “to the cause of Commun-
ism, hundreds of entreaties by
Khrushchey . .. The Alumnae Bul-
letin (did) the West a disservice
by its tacit legitimization of Paul-
ing.”

Pauling, professor of Chemistry
at California Institute of Tech-
nology, seems to have been legit-
imatized several times before the
Bulletin ever got a hold of him;
he acts as a consultant to govern-
ment agencies, was honored by
Princeton, Chicago, Yale, Cam-
bridge, London, Oxford and Paris
Universities, as well as having
received a Nobel Prize in chem-



istry. A vigorous advocate of im-
Continued on Page 4, Col. 5

backbone.

It is thought that genetic infor-
mation is contained in the arrange-
ment of these bases, adenine, thy-
mine, guanine, and cytosine. No
one knows how these DNA poly-
mers are duplicated. They may
duplicate as they untwine or they
‘may split first and then duplicate.
If they do split, the questions are:
when? and how? To answer this
it is necessary to observe DNA in
a living cell.

Absorbtion and Action

Mr. Setlow’s technique for stud-
ying DNA involved two different
kinds of spectrascopy, absorption
eg action. An examination of
the behavior of compounds at vari-
ous wave lengths can be used. The
usefulness of absorption spectra
lies in its representation of all of
the. particles involved.

Action spectra, on the other
hand, shows what is happening.
The biological and chemical effects
of light can be either beneficial or
destructive. Action spectra is
concerned with the destructive as-
pects, For example, in exposing
bacteria to various radiations it is
found that the longer the radia-
tion the more bacteria were de-
stroyed.

Enzymes Studied

As an example of action spectra,
certain enzymes were studied.
These enzymes, like DNA, have a
three-dimensional structure involv-
ing a helix held together by two
sulfur molecules, or a di-sulfide.
When this di-sulfide bond is brok-
en, the action spectrum changes,
enabling us to correlate a change
of enzyme activity with a change
in the-action-spectrum.

Similarly, DNA structure can be
studied by measuring action spec-
tra. It was found that two of the
bases in DNA, thymine and cyto-
sine, are more affected by certain
wave lengths used in action spec-
tra than are the other two bases.
If the-action spectrum of a single
strand of DNA is measured, the
resulting, spectrum will approxim-
ate that of just thymine and cyto-
sine. However, in the double
stranded form of ,DNA, the bases
of. the t ins are close to-
gether and the action spectra are
then complicated by the interac-
tion between all four bases, pro-
ducing a different result.



Thus, Mr. Setlow has been able
Continued on Page 5, Col. 3



Strong Contingent Fights To Keep Student Loyalty

In an informal question and
answer period during last week-
end’s Challenge Colloquium at
Yale, a student asked Senator
Barry Goldwater if letters to con-
gressmen would help ‘in having
the Disclaimer Affidavit of the Na-
tional Defense Education Act re-
voked. “Sure,” replied the Senat-
or—a Republican and staunch con-
servative, “but as a matter of fact
I’ve received more letters in favor
of keeping the affidavit than of
having it repealed...”

“Senator,” interjected somebody
from the floor, “I’d say it’s hardly
likely that someone in favor of re-

~-peal of the.affidavit would address



his letter to you.” Goldwater, an
avowed dissenter to the proposed
repeal, smiled, “Well, if not,
they’re barking up the wrong
tree—there’s not much point in
writing to Kennedy. or Clark about
the repeal——they’re already in fa-
or of it ... It’s the ones opposed
that you’ve got to work on... ”

Earlier that morning a small
but vociferous contingent of stu-
dent conservatives (members of
which _ had_peppered_previous.lec-|
tures with hoots of approval at
the mention of MeCarthyism, “the
profit - motive and withdrawal

stood in doorways handing out
mimeographed sheets entitled The
Non-Subversive Affidavit Must
Stay. Closely typed on the leaflet
were refutations of the popular
arguments against the affidavit,
all of which led to the upper-cased,
underlined, and double-spaced con-
clusion that “ . .. non-subversive
affidavits are a necessary and time-
proven part of the American her-
itage.” The paper ended with
the plea that those wishing to “re-
fute the careless emotional cries of
certain ‘liberal’ educators” sign a
-petition of the National Student
Committee for the Loyalty Oath,

to a suggested list of senators,
The affidavit, inserted on the
precedent set in the National |\t
Science Foundation Act of 1950,
demands that the student receiv-
ing aid “does not ieve in, and
is not a membk and does not
support any orgmnization that be-
lieves in or teaches the overthrow
of the United: States Govern-
ment...” A loyalty oath, about

ane se :

The subject of contention ever
since it was attached by Repub-
lican Senator H. Alexander Smith,



of recognitiom from Soviet Russia)

the affidavit will probably be

and, “before time funs out,” write)

which there has been little contro-| i
ide te“PEIe-60

brought up for repeal next month
in a bill sponsored by Senators
Kennedy, Clark, and Javitts. Ex-
pected to join Senator Goldwater
in spearheading the opposition
are Senators Dirksen, Prouty, and
Mundt, and, if a New York Times
headline can be believed, a “hot
fight” is likely to ensue.

Because Bryn Mawr’s opposition
to the affidavit was so prompt and
its stand so clear, the issue has
‘ong been regarded as an old and
closed one on campus though, as
te above facts show, it is obvious-
y neither. The arguments in fa-
vor of withdrawal from the pro-
gram were articulated so early
(Bryn Mawr was among the first
group of six colleges to withdraw)
that the arguments opposed have
barely been given consideration,
and the agitation to have the affi-
davit repealed, present on many
campuses, has ben replaced by an
untroubled complacency that it
will be.
| The arguments against repeal
f the Disclaimer Affidavit have,

if| Senator Goldwater’ s _constitu-

ing to the aforementioned mim-
eod sheet, the arguments are
these:

1. “The contention that ‘free-
dom of belief’? is being violated
does not stand under close scrut-
-ny, for... not the student per se,
cout only those seeking financial
help” are subject to the affidavit.

2. “N.D.E.A. was-passed...
as a defense measure... loyal cit-
izens siould not be taxed to help
an unloyal student. through college
as a defense measure.”

8. “Many times the only way
to prosecute a Communist is by
means-of a perjury indictment—
witness A'’ger Hiss and William
Remington.”

4. “More than 12,000 appli-
cants have signed an affidavit iden-
tical to the one in the N.D.E.A.
to qualify for fellowships under
the “National “Science Foundation
Act, and “no educator has ques-
tioned the affidavit.”

5. “The ‘liberals’ say that the
affidavit singles out students for
suspicion . .. but the first Act
of ‘Congress was a loyalty oath,

Octh

Arguments in favor of the re-
peal are familiar enough (or ob-
vious enough from their “refuta-
tions”) not to bear repetition;
what must be repeated is that
negative arguments, such as they
are, do exist and do have consider-
able support.

The first organized student
movement to effect the repeal was
started this winter at Harvard
ind rapidly taken up by other
schools, including Wellesley and
Swarthmore. The object of the
m>vement ‘is* to have students
write to their congressman (on
“oldwater’s. advice not. to. Ken-
nedy, Clark, or Javitts) asking
for the repeal. :

Wellesley’s intensive campaign
to encourage students to -write
personal letters to their congress-
men was started in mid-February;
Ttincluded the setting up of infor- _
mation centers at which students —
might find out the names of their
representatives and their positions
on the bill.

According to

the Wellesley’

College News, the Harvard com-

dine bases extending from this

a



any indication, a considerably larg-
er degree of student support than
e Bryn Mawr student body





might suppose; basically, accord-



signed ‘Dy President Washington,
and loyalty oaths have been an
integral part of the American se-



curity system throughout our en-
tire history.” ;

mittee for the repeal feels that
since the chances for the Kennedy
Bill are- about even, every vote
and, therefore, every letter are
important.

or rp et




Page Four\;

THE COLLEGE NEWS

"Wednesday, March 23, 1960°



Author Discusses Democracy
In Relation to Ethical Values

“What is the role of moral pur-
pose in our Foreign Policy?” Mr.
Kenneth Thompson, author of
Ethics and the Dilemmas of For-
eign Policy and a member of the
Rockefeller Foundation discussed
this problem at the lecture culmin-
ating the Interfaith series on
Tuesday, March 15, in the Common
Room.

Mr. Thompsop began by saying
that the series of events between
the two world wars called for a
re-evaluation of our international
goals. Action was realized in two

respects, namely the world organ-

ization of. the UN and a world
court of law. But he went on to
say that “we are now facing a
new aspect of American respon-
sibility.’ (We must form a clear,
effective image of our role and
what our: aims must be;.we must
not only understand our national

values and goals but find our po-
sition in a world where there is no
set of values, The United States
has been less successful in realiz-
ing particular punposes than in
setting large goals; as a result
we are criticized for the large gap
between what we say and what we
do. “We must now mark our eth-
ical guidelines and moral purposes
that we actively attempt to real-
ize in our foreign policy,” Mr.

Thompson said.

America is superficially sensi-
tive to ethical purposes, but its
ethical doctrines are premature
and insufficient. There are no
means to ends, or else the means
are misplaced. Thisis—the—heart
of the question of whether our
means further or corrupt our in-
tended ends.

Another aspect of ethical poli-
cies is that the taint of. self-inter-
est is always present. A nation
is a collective interest, a great
aggregate, with big business, la-
bor, etc., and in such a society. the
individual channels his frustrated
ambitions into a collectivism to
secure his identity with the nation-
al group. So-he accepts the prop-
osition that his community is
morally autonomous, and _ that
whatever is good for his state is
morally right.

Objectively the formers of for-
eign policy must face certain real-
ities.. Moral judgments here are



Frost Reading
Continued from Page 1, Col. 5

it is a really valuable approach to
life, it is a magnanimity as dis-
tinguished from tolerance, and we
feel his personality even beyond
his ambiguity. “It is from hav-
ing stood contrasted / That good
and bad so long have lasted.”

Now that I have heard him say-
ing that poetry for him is based
on feats of association, I go back
to his poems and find confirmed
that impression of dynamics that
I got at first readimg it.

The conception of the ~Poet
whose poems I had read and that
of the (Man I heard talking fit very
well into each other, and the same

integrity“ and —sincerity- which I

think a basic quality in his poetry
struck me tonight as a human
quality of the person Frost.
“There’s more poetry outside of
the institution of verse, than there
is inside.” He repeated this sen-
tence several times. A doubt
comes to my mind: Did I like him
because he gave me an opportun-
ity to be something of a poet, al-
though definitely “outside of the
institution?” . . swell, it may even
be so,.I don’t know, but certainly

complicated by three aspects that
Mr. Thompson called process,
problem, and dimensions. First
is the inevitable complexity of
the machinery of democracy. There
is the massive diffusion of policy
and action, influenced by the tides
of. public opinion, personalities in
the government and the legisla-
ture. These complications »make
a firm judgment almost imposs-
ible.

Then there are the problems,
the issues themselves. Decisions
must be made quickly and the is-
sues are often specific practical
ones far removed from moral ques-
tions.

At this time it is vital to make
a rediscovery of our moral pur-
pose. Mr. Thompson defined four
spheres im which ethics have a
role to play. First is the domain
of the individual. More and more
we are victims of national confor-
mity. Human qualities: such as
courage, leadership, professional-
ism, and resourcefulness must be
revitalized, Secondly, ethics must
be more fully enforced in the do-
main of national life, in our com-
bined society of liberal democratic
traditions and Judeo-Christian
principles.

A third area where ethics must
be rediscovered is in our national
attitude, and our sense of reality
concerning international politics.
There must be a point of congru-
ence betwen political realism and
a sense of moral commitment.
Finally, there must be a respon-
sible evaluation of our destiny in
world politics. The ‘burden of
moral judgment must be felt by
individuals, who must act more
strongly wpon the state,._For—in
reality the state can act only as
individuals influence it and prompt

2

Continued from Page 2, Col. 5

you see wonderful things that don’t
exist on earth—double berries,
triple berries. These dreams aren’t
reworked at all; they’re wonder-
fully complete.

“You can’t trust poets mwhen
they tell how much they rework
their poems. Some of them want
to look as though‘ they worked
hard, and others like to'seem spon-
taneous. Maybe an average of
lies will give you the truth.

“In my poem, ‘The mountain,’
there’s not a word re-written. And
then there is such a thing as pull-
ing, hauling, and fussing around.
What a wonderful thing it is to
see a complicated stanza struck
out. You’d think it would. scare
the poet from anything further.
You need inspiration; I call it
‘animus.’

“Writing a poem is an adven-
ture, I deny that I know the end.
There is a certain logic of the
spirit, not of the mind, and you
must ring it off at the end, like a
bell. What do you go to the North
Pole for? To see if you can get



Flexner Lecture
Continued from Page 1, Col. 2

colored.

There is no comaiial pean
between sacred and secular music.
It is the intention with which it is
created and used that makes the
difference,

The greatest single problem of
the present music is traditional-
ism: first, the slovenly, shallow-
traditionalism of out-dated Victor-
ians; and second, the light-minded
attempt at restoration. The entire
reform and restoration of music
suffers from the same malady. We
have failed-to educate the pastor
and the congregation so that the
church musician cannot safely ex-



it to.

periment with new ideas.



German

Continued from Page 3, Col. 1
or not?

In the recent outbreak “for the
first time the past stood up of its
own accord in the light of: Neo-
Nazism and anti-Semitic incidents
and the German people, confronted
with the past, recognized the dis-
play of the Swastika as a punish-
able offense.

“Things have gotten better than
we could have expected in 1945.”
The German people have accepted
democracy “as a fine confirmation
of the new state and political feel-
ing.”

From the beginning the Weimar
Republic was under siege from
the right and the left, the Nazis
and the Communists. There was
competition for dictatorial power
of Germany that spelled the ruin
of the first German republic.

After the war the threat of
Communist dictatorship. eclipsed
the memory of Hitler. Some peo-
ple said “Hitler saw the Commun-
ist dangers before the others” and
they blamed the Allies for not}
stopping the Communists’ expan-
sion. In a condemnation of Com-
munist totalitarianism, they for-
got Hitler’s variation of it.

Today there is a totally differ-
ent situation. “Defeat in the war
was total and apparent. Absolute-

ly no one dreams of a second re-| a
a democracy, “it is pretty confus-|

turn match., The Germans have
had enough of totalitarianism.
Democracy has been accepted by
the German people, perhaps not
with complete understanding, but
without controversy. The new
eleven-year-old republic has prof-
ited from the lessons of Weimar.”

Election participation shows the
interest of the German in his gov-
ernment: in 1949, 60% voted for
the two big parties (the govern-
ment and the opposition); in 1958,
more than 70%; and in 1957, 82%.



I was happy for a very special
reason; for am intellectual emo-
tion which I felt and believe I

was‘ not the only one to feel...



Almost 88% of the people vote. |
~The democratic ~ consolidation
was helped by the economic pros-

"
Attitudes

the materialistic attitude of the
new generation has driven Mrs.
‘Leber to despair, she realized that
economic success had: some educa-
tional values; it killed the idea
that “only the strong arm of a
strong man could rid the people of
economic bondage.”

There is an approach to sober
political wisdom. The people must
arm themselves against the threat
of Communism, against the Com-
munists of East Germany who at
one point “masquerade as anti-
Nazis and call for reunification”
and at another point for the op-
posite.

“The people have developed an
instinctive solidarity for the
Western world which contributes
to the soundness of our own dem-
ocracy.” The development of. po-
litical consciousness is in recog-
nition of the resistance movement
which offers a —, basis for
a new start.” .

The major problem. in ‘Gevnany
today is that of the “new genera-
tion.” The youth looks at poli-
tics with skepticism and indiffer-
ence; their elders neglected their

-in the recent past.

Because in the past half century
Germany had lived under a mon-
archy, a republic, a dictatorship,
provisional occupation, and now

ing. Many seek a firm hold in
life in technical knowledge and
technical careers rather than in
politics. The youths have a mis-
trust of their elders who made
an unholy mess of things. But
politica] abstinence does mot pre-
clude political judgment.

“Even the skepticism of our
allied friends will prove a useful
spurt to us in dealing with our
Problems.” Expressing her grati-
“tude as a citizen of Berlin, Mrs.

Coffee with Frost .

back, What do you go into a poem
for? To see if you can get out.

“Yeats always said that writing
was a terrible torture for him,
cost him sweat and blood. I don’t
believe that. He just liked the
agony pose. Some of my Freudian
friends won’t believe that any-
thing is written except in misery.
That’s not true. It’s not facility,
but felicity. You’re a thinking
man, with many thoughts scatter-
ed around. They. come together
like a kaleidescope.”

Asked which of his poems were

his favorites, Mr. Frost said, “I
don’t have favorites. All that are
in the anthology have my approv-
al, The one I like best is the one
that has been excessively praised
most recently. I hear about it,
and think, well, that must be a
pretty good poem,
* “Other criticism that tears my
poetry apart, may cost the critic
about five minutes to write, but it
costs me a lifetime of agony. No
criticism has ever changed my
writing or done me any good.

“Someone once asked me if I
was interested in language. Yes,
in a queer, distant way. I never
knew any word out of the diction-
any; I’ve always learned it in con-
text.”

In the next question, Mr. Frost
was asked if he thought the sum-
mit conferences would get anyone
anywhere. “All that talk. The
one thing it might do is shake

*¥down all the spirit until everyone

is so tired they don’t want to
scratch each other any mure.
Bombs will go on the shelf the
way germ warfare has, They are
too dangerous; we'll go back to
punching each other on the jaw.”

Asked whether the poet should
be a social critic; whether he had
any responsibility to his own age,
Mr. Frost said it was a hard ques-
tion, “They pick you out for cer-
tain things you’ve said. One an-
thologist does it, and all the oth-
ers follow after.

“I wasn’t going to be one of
those poets who make a virtue of



political and historical education:

having no one read them. I’ve
never written or read any blurbs
or reviews. I evaluate, but not on
the platform. If you’re around
me you'll know what poets I value.
I was almost forty before I knew
a single writer. Now I’ve gotten
so I’m relieved when I get mad
with someone so I don’t have to
like his poetny any more.

“You want songs like the ones
they had in the Spartan army to
chop people with. You want the
poor babied until they’re no good.
A thread of sentiment is about as
near as you get. The poet is a
master of sentiment. The post of
poetry is on the brink of spiritual
disaster. (We are all living there;

Alumnae Bulletin
Continued from Page 3, Col. 4

mediate disarmament, Mr. Paul-
ing believes “that any rational
human being who knows the facts
about the present world situation
with respect to the nature of war
must draw the conclusion that war
has to be given up, and that dis-
putes between nations must now
be decided by international agree-
ments and an effective system of

as to do justice to the nations and
the people involved,” /

The writer, ever, has added
this broadly defined plan of Mr.
Pauling’s to the list of his former
statements and replied, “Surely
the consistency with which Paul-
ing’s views coincide with those of
International Communism must
disqualify him as a legitimate ex-
ponent of a political point of view.”

There are many _ questions
prompted by this opinion. One
might query on what basis a man’s
communist sidings disqualify him
from holding a politica] point of
view. Is Mr. Pauling advocating
the violent overthrow of the gov-
ernment of the United States to
fulfill his initiation rites to the
Communist party? Would the
writer label Gandhi, Schweitzer,
Russell, the Quakers, Amish and
other religious sects and people
Communists merely because they
advocate disarmament, passive
resistance and so forth?

One might also query why, even
if Mr. Pauling’s stand calling for
disarmament on. a recognition of
the immorality of war were at all
Communistic, the Bulletin or any
other publication of an institution
which openly does not represent in
theory or fact any specific political
loyalties, should not print any
article it chooses, and especially
one~calling forthe preservation
of human life and civilization.



not political but spiritual.”

In closing, Mr, Frost remarked
that a lot had been left unsaid.
“There are lots of loose ends. It’s
like in the newspapers, where there
are always loose ends. You try
the weeklies to see if they finish
things up, but they’re not any
better.”



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Poll Taken on New Dorm

Do you want a sink in your
room, or a public room where non-
smokers may study? Many people
do, according to the poll recently
taken by undergrad. It is difficult
to measure in terms of exact
numbers just what the campus
feeling is on controversial sub-
jects such as. quantity of singles
as opposed to doubles, due to the
fact that some dorms handed the
individual baHots in while others
tallied their own. It is also hard to
ascertain the opinion about details,
as people might have remarked
on particulars such as window
seats had they thought of them.

Some definite student feeling
was manifested, however. People
are in favor of retaining Gothic
architecture. (Many want some
degree of built-in furniture, at
least bookcases. Almost every-
one remarked on the maid service,
and many were in favor of de-
creasing it, though few wanted

meals served cafeteria style. An-'

room on the first floor so that it
can be used for dances, but most
favor the second floor. High ceil-
ings are still desired. People also
want smokers on the second floor
and more smoker space in general.
Some favor convertible smokers,
while others want livable show-
cases,

There were many _ miscellane-
ous suggestions which were not
general considerations. One per-
son suggested vacuum cleaners
for student tse, another suggest-
ed more rugs om which to use
them. Somene else suggested that

basins have one faucet for mixed |

hot and cold water. One person
wants a freight elevator for lug-
gage, while another suggests
omitting fluorescent lighting.

Many people are in favor of hav-
ing five or six singles opening
onto a large living room, and many
want more low-priced suites and
more triples.

The result of the poll will be

international law, in such a way _



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other thing frequently commented
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8

Wednesday; -March -23; -1960

THE: COLLEGE NEWS

Page Five



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Segregation
‘Continued from Page 1, Col. 1

Thursday night. The effect of the
picketing on the business of the
store was negligible and the reac-
tion of (Poughkeepsie residents
“was one of indifference.” A meet-
ing will be held next Wednesday
night to decide on methods of
further protest.

At Smith action began on the
two chartered buses which brought
the Northampton contingent back
from the Challenge Weekend. At
meetings on Monday and Tuesday
and “coffee sessions every night
through the week” the plans for
the march were solidified. As did

th minis, the Smith group
ried signs d circulated ex-
planatory pampllets,

Informal groups for action on
integration have also been organ-
ized at Harvard, Yale, Brown, City
College of New York, Antioch,
Oberlin, Wilberforce, Harpur, and
the Universities of Chicago, Wis-
consin, and Colorado.



“Annie Get Your Gun”

Continued from Page 1, Col: 4 | via’ Potter-Porter.

stage presence.

Special highlights of Annie Get
Your Gun were Barbara Downes
as Minnie and her little brothers
and sisters, played by Victor and
Vincent Young, Bobby and Steven
Holloman, and Deborah Downes.
Miss Downes’ “Moonshine Lulla-
by” was a show-stopper; her
voice, phrasing, and smile endear-
ed her to the audience at once.
Young Master Young’s yawn was
also extremely well done.

(Chief Sitting Bull, played by
Louis /White, deserves special
mention, (His Indian-like impass-
ivity and guttural “How!” made
“Papa Bull” a real and very amus-
ing character. Jonathan Stevens
as Foster Wilson and Pawnee Bill,
and Edythe Simmons as the Wild
Horse who danced the Indian
Dance, were also noteworthy. Har-
old Ford handled his three minor
roles well, and Evaline Johnson
was a proper socialite as Miss Syl-



. Every year the Maids’ and Por-
ters’ Show seems difficult to pro-

duce, an almost impossible endea-
vor. There are suggestions. that
it should be allowed to lapse. How-
ever, once. a performance like
Saturday night’s is. over, every-
one suddenly realizes that it real-
ly. has been fun. JI -think that
Annie Get Your Gun proved that
show business and show people are
not only unpredictable and per-
haps risky, but also worthwhile
and delightful.

Action Spectra
Continued from Page 3, Col. 5

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seeme to have narrowly missed
being co-ordinated into a precise
and expressive whole. This is to
judge from Friday afternoon, when
the singers-might reasonably have
claimed exhaustion and somewhat
restricted rehearsal time as. the
basis for any difficulties in per-
formance.

The rest of the program was
predominantly light in content, and
quite delightful. It consisted of
a Prelude and Fugue for String
Orchestra, by Roy Harris, in its
first performance of the revised
version in Philadelphia (anything
for a first), Rachmaninoff’s Sym-
Phonic Dances, which provided a
welcome showground for the Phil-
adelphia winds, and Dukas’ The
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Continued from Page 1, Col. 5

speech of one particular person.
Mr. Hoenigswald spoke of sounds
and sound laws, For instance,
certain sounds are interchange-
able in one language but may be
clearly distinguished in another.
This can, of course, only be detect-
ed by the analyst in speech,

Mr. Hoenigswald attributes the
present day decline in the field of
linguistics to “the imability to
preach effectively what, on the
whole, was being practiced well.”
People still know little about lan-
guage in the abstract sense, but
think that because they speak its
words, they are experts on the
subject. It is, however, “behind
words that we seek and find what
is truly important.”

Oedipus Lecture
Continued from Page 1, Col. 3

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hero reacting to them. Oedipus
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according to the post-Sophist, sub-
jective conception of guilt. He as-
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Sophocles has no religious
message like that of Aeschylus.
He rather offers a balanced pas- ’
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of personal experience which have
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THE COLLEGE NEWS

-Wednesday, March 23, 1960



Mediocre Mass Media

Continued from Page 3, Col. 2
which by its very nature demands
a wide audience.

The mediocrity in mass media
is self-perpetuating, in that the
public gets Westerns and by that
very fact is.conditioned to want
more of them, Education was ad-
vanced as the panacea to break
this vicious circle. Whether this
education itself could be at. least
partially effected through ‘mass
media was discussed, but on the
whole rather dubiously.

Of course the question came up
of value judgment in aesthetics.
Who am I, or more commonly who
are you to say that your taste is
any more valid than another per-
son’s?

For a moment the argument was
batted back and forth in the camps
‘of Beethoven’s Ninth versus Elvis
Presley, but our moderator cut it
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from Suez), were not very hostile
toward the Fourth Republic. The
other two factions, .however, the
Gaullists ‘(who ‘wanted (General
deGaulle in power at the Head of
a strong regime) and the organ-
ized (Fascists (who favored an au-
thoritative regime like that of
Italy or of Germany), were vio-
lently opposed to the Fourth Re-
public.

The recent insurrection of Jan-
uary 24, 1960 is similar to that of
May, 1958 in many ways. Yet it
did not cause the fall of the gov-
ernment. This is due in large part
to the sheer power, personality,
and popularity of President de-





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