College news, March 19, 1958

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VOL. XLIlI, NO. 16

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1958

© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1958

PRICE 20 CENTS



BMC, Haverford
Theatre Attempts
“Winter” Comedy

by Betsy Levering

The Dark Is Light Enough, Brit-
ish Playwright Christopher Fry’s
most recent comedy, will go on
Goodhart’s boards at 8:30 Friday
and Saturday nights. The play is
a production of the Drama Club
and College Theatre, and is direct-
ed by Robert Butman.

Dark is the fourth member of an
illustrious quartet—Fry’s “comed-
ies of season.” The concept that
a play might take its mood from
a time of year is not a new one,
but Fry has confirmed the tech-
nique, brought it up to date and
given it significance in the vocab-

' ularly of the modern theatre. Dark



is annotated “A Winter Comedy”;
A Phoenix Too Frequent, produced
here last fall, is the summer com-
edy; Venus Observed, the autumn;
and the celebrated The Lady’s Not
For Burning, assumes the time
and tempo of spring.
In Elizabethan Poetic Line

The Dark Is Light Enough is a
verse play, whose poetic line is
essentially Elizabethan. It is
underscoring the obvious to note
the importance of Fry and Eliot
(and perhaps Archibald MacLeish
with his just-published poetic
drama, J.B.) in somewhat resur-
recting, somewhat recreating,
poetry for the dramatic medium.
Once asked why poetry, Fry re-
plied, “Well, if we have to be
born into a world so wildly un-
prosaic as this one is, what else
can be done if we mean to be
realistic?”

In keeping, perhaps, with the
season, the poetic language of
Dark is not nearly as finely floral
as in others of the comedies and
some of the religious festival
plays. Bareness of diction is not
a trait usually ascribed to Fry,
but in Dark this restraint has
achieved an appropriate sense of
winter’s bleakness and of a result-
ant introspection.

Countess in Hungarian Revolution

The plot, which seems more to
circle quietly a remarkable Aus-
trian Countess than to move from
point to point, deals with an imag-
inary incident in the 1848-49 Hun-
garian revolution against the Em-
pire. Unlike Fry’s more outspoken
A Sleep of Prisoners, the war sit-
uation does not evoke a cry of
pacifistic protest from the author;
rather, war and pacifism are here
at a remove, and both get a com-
edic treatment.

Director Bob Butman comments

that The Dark Is Light Enough is

“in many ways much the most
difficult play we’ve attempted. It
calls for subtle emotional acting
by all characters.” With The Beg-

~gar’s Opera, ~and—spring’s-—-The,

Comedy of Errors, this is an am-
bitious season for the local theatre
and one with as much promise as.
past reward.

Cast List

The full cast in order of appear-
ance:

Jakob, Eric Schoonovor; Kassel,
Charles Adams; Belman, Gerald
Goodman; Stefan, Timothy Sheld-
on; Bella; Barbara Northrop;
Willi, E. B. White; Gelda, Pamela
Wylie; Richard Gettner, Kenneth
Geist; Countess Rosmarin Osten-|

_ burg, Janet bo wi Colonel Janik,



Zichy, David Morgan: Rusti, Rob-
ert Crist; Beppi, Eric Koskoff; 3rd
soldier, Hugh Wilkerson.

Cale

‘Wednesday, March 19: French
Club films, 8:30, Common Room.

Thursday, March 20; League pre-
sents Raymond Pace Alexander:
“Is Integration the Answer?” 8:30,
Common Room.

Friday, March 21 and Saturday,
March 22: College Theatre presents
“The Dark Is Light Enough” by
Christopher Fry. 8:30, Goodhart
Auditorium.

Sunday, March 23: Chapel Serv-
ice. Rev. Dr. Joseph Bishop, Cho-
rus, 7:30, Music ‘Room.

Monday, March 24: Alliance pre-
sents Irving Howe, “The Left

ndar

Wing Intellectuals of the Thirties”,
12:30, Goodhart Auditorium. Class-
es will begin at 8:30 a.m.

Monday, March 24: Arts Forum,
73:15, Common Room.

Tuesday, March 25: Carlos De
Azevedo, Curator of the National
Museum of Contemporary Art in
Lisbon will give the Class of 1901
Lecture on “Portuguese Painting
of the 15th and 16th Centuries”,
8:30 p.m., Goddhart Auditorium.

Tuesday, March 25: Curriculum
Committee Tea for sophomores.
Archaeology, Anthropology and
Latin, 4:00 pm., Common Room.





Geology

by Liz Rennolds

“There’s just no way of estimat-
ing the value of a collection such
as this one,” says Dr. Edward H.
Watson, chairman of the Depart-
ment of Geology. “It is probably
one of the finest private mineral
collections still in existence.”

He was speaking of the George



Prize For Poets

To Be Awarded

Bryn Mawr is one of the twenty
‘Gmportant” colleges and univer-
sities at which the Academy of
American Poets awards an annual
prize of $100. These prizes, es-
tablished several years ago, are
part of the Academy’s effort to
discover and encourage new poets.

The Academy was organized in
1934, with the object of fostering
the production of American poet-
ry. Its major activity is to re-
ward “poets of proven merit” with
Fellowship awards or $5,000 prizes
paid from the income of a perman-
ent trust fund. Each year, in addi-
tion, the Academy conducts a com-
petition for the publication of a
book of poetry.

Past Fellowship winners include
Edwin Markham, Edgar Lee
Masters, E. E, Cumntings, Robert

Frost, William Carlos Williams,
and Conrad Aiken.

Among the sponsors of the
Academy are men and women
from diverse fields—William C.
Beebe, John Mason Brown, Mrs.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jascha
Heifetz, Herbert Hoover, Generals
MacArthur and Marshall, Carl
Sandburg and Karl Shapiro, Card-
inal Spellman, Gene Tunney,
Lowell Thomas.

Notice

“THE TIME>-April-10th—

THE PLACE: The kinunas
Office

That is ‘the ‘date on which the
competition for the Katharine
Fullerton Gerould $50 Prize will
close. Any undergraduate may
submit one or more entries in the
categories of short and/or long
narrative, poetry and informal
essay. Such original work shall
have been written since June 1957,
clean copy, double-spaced and un-
signed. It may be work done in
connection with an English course
or — ‘in a student publica-
Htions=== rans Sas

Senne ncn nso ren cow eS



Dept. Acq
Gold In Vaux Mineral Collection

uires Uranium,

Vaux, Jr. Mineral Collection
which was recently given to the
College by Mr. Vaux. The collec-
tion, made up of approximately
10,000 specimens of more than 850
chemical compounds or mineral
types was just recently moved on-
to: campus from the nearby Vaux
home. The greatest problem now
seems to be where to put it, in
order that it may be seen and
appreciated. to the fullest extent.

Dr. Watson went on to explain

|that the Vaux family has long

been associated with the college
and the Bryn Mawr-Haverford
community; and thus Mr. Vaux
recently decided to give us this.
valuable collection.

It clearly represents years of
expeditions, purchases, gifts, and
honest. devotion. George Vaux,
Sr. and his. brother William S.
Vaux are primarily responsible for
the collection which now occupies
at least ten or twenty large cab-
inets (not to. mention numerous
packing boxes) in Park. “Of
course, as in any collection of this
type,’ says Dr. Watson, “you'll
find lots of impressive ‘largest’
and ‘most’ this or that.” But
among the truly amazing speci-
mens is the already displayed
largest crystal flake of biotite in
the world (“said to be...”).

It is certainly worth a walk to
Park Hall to see the gold, dia-
monds, silver deposits, aquamar-
ines, and much more of a precious
nature. This reporter held a gold
nugget worth 100 dollars. “It
seems a shame for such a collec-
tion to go unappreciated, particu-
larly\at‘Bryn Mawr where first year
geology is so popular,” remarked
a former student. However, as
soon as the new section of Park
is completed, the collection will
be displayed to its best advantage.
There will be a formal acceptance
ceremony in the fall.

Another fascinating specimen
was a piece of meteorite, about two
feet by six inches in size. Its edges
showed signs of having ‘melted|,
from the heat as the chip hurled|°

position of the mass itself now
seemed’ as hard as steel. There
were trays upon trays of calcite
crystals — large, small, unusual,
even gold ones. “He apparently had
a passion for all varieties of cal-
cite,” remarked Dr. Watson, as he
opened and closed drawers exclaim-
ing and explaining. “So much of
this I haven’t had a chance to
examine myself. There’s just no
way of evaluating it.”

There are numerous varieties of
beryl, beautiful azurite, and real-
gar, to cite some of the outstand-

ieces. The realgar, Dr, Wat-



“Announcement-of- the award ‘will
be made at the May Day Assem-
bly.



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Workings Of A

Small College

Discussed By Dean Marshall

The topic of Dean Dorothy N.
Marshall’s speech for Current
Events, “What You Don’t Know
About Bryn Mawr”, was a fake ac-
cording to Dean Marshall, and one
geared to provoke audience enthus-
iasm, Dean Marshall assured the
audience in the Common Room,
Monday night, that they would not
be hearing any “hideous exposés”.
Wihat was heard instead was a talk
on the workings of a small college
as seen from an outlook which is
not the undergraduate’s.

In deciding on a point of view
from which to discuss Bryn Mawr,
Mrs. Marshall suggested as pos-
sibilities either a small town or
a large non-profit business operat-
ing on $2,000,000 a year. To those
who might doubt the former class-
ification, Mrs. Marshall convinced
the listener with the accumulated
information that we have our own
post office, hospital, shop, restau-
rant, hotel,- road system, as well

Wales Will Be
Panélist On TV

On Sunday, March 238, from
12:00 to 12:30 on Channel 5 there
will be a New York Times Youth
Forum. The topic under discussion
will be “Should We Increase Our
Foreign Economic Aid?” The
panel will consist of a guest
speaker, Lincoln Gordon (Profes-
sor of International Economic Re-
lations at Harvard University
Graduate Business School), and
several college studerits. Bryn
Mawr has been asked to send a
panel member and Lucy - Wales
has been selected.





Notice

The following people have
been elected Hall Presidents:
Denbigh—Susan Breese ’59.
Merion—Nancy Cline ’59.
Pem East—Harriet Halpin ’59.
em West—Gail Bertholf ’59.
Radnor—Janet Wolf ’59.
Rhoads—Patricia Cain ’59.
‘Rockefeller—Emily Meyer ’60.







as our own plumbers, electricians,
and other specialists.

A third choice for a point of
view would be that of the faculty.
However, Mrs. Marshall, without
stating it, looked at Bryn Mawr
education and education in gen-
eral from an administrator’s. point
of view. : —

The hysteria caused by the so-
called critical state of education is
unwarranted, Mrs. Marshall went
on to say that high school stu-
dents shouldn’t become panicked
about being admitted to college.
There is a college for every stu-
dent even though it might not
be his first choice. She also stated
that the surveys used to prove the

ifficulty of gaining admittance
are based on qualified facts, of
which the qualifications are not
stated. Bryn Mawr, not wanting
to contribute to this distortion,
does not release the number of
people submitting applications to
the college. The college’s reasons,
according to the dean, are:
1. Many who apply only do so for
the sake of applying somewhere,
even though they know their rec-
ords are not up to the standards
for admittance. 2. There are those
who have applied to other such
schools, of which another college
is their first choice. -

Turning her talk to the college
in particular, Dean Marshall said
that we as a small school enjoyed
our “own little blessings.” Number
one among these is the size of the
faculty in comparison with the
student body. The majority of the
classes, eighty - eight to be exact,
have fifteen or less students re-
gistered. In relation to this fact
a question was asked, in the dis-
cussion period which followed,
about the facilities of the college
available for its eventual expan-
sion to 750 students. Mrs, Marshall
feels that the college can be ex-
panded to that size without losing
the advantages we now enjoy.

An interesting possible inno-
vation revealed in answer to a.
question was the use of a sopho-
more tutorial system. The student
would be tutored in a subject
under her probable major.





Dr.

Sloane Discusses Chenavard: His

Life, His Plan For ‘Great Modern Epic’

“Chevanard represented an ex-
traordinary attitude toward his-
tory, art, and great men, found
nowhere else,” began Dr. Sloane in
a lecture sponsored by Arts For-
um Tuesday night entitled “Chev-
anard—History and the Worship
of Great Men.” “He’s a bad paint-

r,” he added.

(Dr. Sloane admitted that he is

Paul Chevanard, and is completing
a book on the 19th century French
painter.

(Chevanard was born in 1807 or
1808 in Leon, a city known for ec-
centric free-Masonry and the cloudy
thoughts of its citizens. Chevan-
ard, who later in the life earned
the title “grand decouragateur”,
came to Paris in his twenties to
paint. .He was recognized as a
pudding romantic until sidetracked
by contact with a group of German
painters intent on resurrecting

|15th century religious feeling as|



son explained, is so sensitive to
light that it loses its red lustre
Continued on Page 6, Col. 3





expressed in [tali
with the German philosopher ‘Hee



el. He began to conceive of art as

o

one of two living authorities on}



a means of teaching people, more
particularly of teaching them his-
tory. This concentration on sub-
ject matter caused him to use only
black and white, and his painting
in general dried up, became bleak
and cold.

(Preoccupation with the nature of
history was in vogue in late 18th
and early 19th aenairy France,

was entertained by many, with the
usual stipulation that the circle
was regenerative, or spiral. Chev-
anard, however, conceived of his-
tory as a closed circle, beginning
with Adam and Eve in 4200 B.C.
and ending in 4200 A.D. In his
pie-chart-like plan, he divided his-
tory into four quarters, each 2100
years in length. The first quar-
ter, he postulated, was character-
ized by embryonic society and a
primitive language. This ended
with. the Tower of Babel which ef-
tented a diversity of languages;



during this querters~The birth of



~ Continued on Page 6, Col. 2




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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, March 19,~1958



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“The recent excavations carried out during the season
of 6957-6958 in the area apparently once termed Boston by
its ancient inhabitants have uncovered an extremely interest-
ing pile of bricks, with an inscription found in situ revealing
that this was once Faneuil Hall, famed as the “Cradle of Lib-
erty” of the country whose existence long ago has lately
aroused such interest. .

“Archaeologists are rightly excited about the importance
of their find, for this structure is undoubtedly one of the best
known and most revered in ancient America. But a perplex-
ing question remains to be answered: why was the building
destroyed? A, barbarian invasion, the usual conclusion in
such circumstances, cannot be admitted as a possibility, for
no other destruction has been noted in the area. There are
no traces of fire, nor do the remains indicate that Faneuil
Hall was in poor condition. Yet certainly the Americans would
never have considered tearing down a building of such prom-
inence in their history (to which they constantly refer with
the greatest pride), so well known from all extant school
texte.”

A committee has been set up to discuss the future of
Faneuil Hall, which has innocently remained in its old loca-
tion, while the Boston produce market has moved away. No
vital project, such as a new highway or parking lot, is plan--
ned to occupy the structure’s area; the only reason for con-
sidering its demolition is that it has outlived its usefulness
as a market, meeting hall, and armory. Is there then no jus-
tification for allowing Faneuil Hall to endure as a beautiful
example of Georgian architecture and as one of the most im-
portant monuments in American history ?

‘Doubtless if Sam Adams were alive, he would lead the
Boston rabble against the committee with poised pitchforks
—we can only say, ‘May the spirit that saved the Olympia
save Faneuil Hall!’

2



Mysterious Scribe Writes to News;

Editorials Provoke Outburst of Poctry

To Golias :

Alas, sir, my Latinity, fails me in this hour

As it and I have failed before originals to devour.

Despite my poor translated view

I cannot but agree with you—

Pleasanter it is when the sunlight’s beckoning.

Large-leaved bool® to leave and damn the mid-May reckoning.

But tty lads in dalliance
B tes in dalliance
wo Aged s in dalliance

Somehow wouldn’t dally.

“ (Drink, good clerk, I’ve never liked, so I cannot match ye

Whiskey makes me wildly ill, gin will quick dispatch me.
Cigarettes, cigars and pipes, I’ve tried, but I’ve no gumption

ee ——~~~=,AlLof.them reduce me to worse coughs than your consumption.









When I walk down-the-primrose path
Inevitably I stumble. :
Your Dian’s lamp is dim with warth?
True, unlike you, I grumble. _ aa
You would expire, or so I’ve read, in tattered cloak and taverns
I’d like to but, this scarcely suits, my era’s neoned caverns.
Your patron spoke, or so I’ve read, with priestly elocution
Try, I dare writing odes, to a government institution.
Even liquor couldn’t stir p
Even a snicker couldn’t stir
Even a bicker couldn’t stir
; | bet, your inspiration.
remains to justify my place within your company?
ed eye; society has done for me, -
- oo-mortal Ver e amid th ind’s cold ffeting
I, warmed by the welfare state, must suffer by not suffer

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-\two chicks, the other a result of

Dorlock

SPRING FEVER

In acknowledgement of the fact
that the spring training season is
about over, and the big push ready
to begin, we have asked Zerelda
(Zickey) Owsley, our special cor-
respondent, brain coach, and all-
college scholar scout, to tell us
what she thinks of the local team’s
chances in the coming season.
Zickey (Hoot) Owsley is known
to you all as a Phd—(’37), a CPA,
a WABPOE (Womens Auxiliary),
and currently a member of Psi Phi
Phi, national comp coaches’ honor-
ary. In her playing days she put
together some not-likely-to-be-
soon-surpassed records, that stand
her squarely at the top of the heap
on our books (quite a feat of co-
ordination in itself), and leaves
her head and shoulders above the
crowd. Hoot (Ows the House)
was the iron woman of — the
camp, and her marathon record of
no classes cut over a four-year
period (a period involving twenty
separate courses and conferences,
with an average weekly playing
time of three hours), leaves her
with the only 1400-hour streak in
college.

Ows (Iron Woman) Owsley
was also known, during her career,
for her unparalleled sliding, fly
catching, and line drives; as well
for her ability to confuse her op-
ponents, out think her students,
and throw sand in the eyes of even
the most slit-eyed competitor. Her
kid glove work was always impec-
cable, her pinch-knitting a miracle



of loose limbed coordination and

Portfolio

by Gretchen Jessup
| speed, and afield her record is wide

of all other marks, especially in
English comp, though, as the close-
mouthed Miss Owsley once said,
‘You never know yet.”

A well-balanced individual, she
was equally good at tight rope
walking, tiddlelywinks, jacks and
average-computation. She has
never been rivaled in her dazzling
grasp of the last. But perhaps Iron
Woman’s (or muskrat, as she’s
been tagged by her friends) most
remarkable talent shows up in her
slogging average, — af miraculous
750 (75% of her Aime, devoted
to werk, multiplied by ten semes-
ters spent, minus two for good
behavior, keeping, however, the
decimal point and the zero, and
adding one place for Muskrat her-
self). No one has ever approached
this. No one, it is safe to say, ever
will,

Elusive, confident, hard to put
out, Muskrat (Zickey) Owsley has
stayed on at the college ever since
those active playing years were
concluded in ’37. Her career as a
comp coach has certainly lived up
to her earlier promise, and she re-
mains an unforgettable figure to
generations of undergraduates, re-
mains in fact as more of legend
than a woman.

But we feel Zickey’s achieve-
ments’ speak for themselves and
there is no need to stress them
here, while no one can SPEAK for
Zickey but Zickey. Zickey, tell us,
what’s your opinion of the coming
season?

Continued on Page 3, Col. 5







Monsters there have been but
unnoticed. Still, those that have
been tried and failed were not
local, and, mercifully, not cloist-
ered. Perhaps more interest could
be aroused by home-grown gro-
tesques, which exist in numbers,
and which, besides being of im-
mediate interest, are found in
various shapes. and, further, are
more amenable to applied symbol-
ism since they do not, like the
kelpy, have identity outside single
representation, In the cloisters of
the library there are 28 corbels
carved in extravagant shapes with
a high degree of difference in
mood and expression between
them. For example on one wall
(West, if Pem West is) there are
two griffins in the left hand corn-
er, fighting or courting. If fight-
ing, they surely represent the con-
flict of good and evil, or that of
ignorance and _ knowledge. Of
course, if they are engaged in
friendly encounter, the group
would represent what is jestingly
known as faculty-student relations.
Next in order comes an owl, which
would be a painfully obvious sym-
bol if only it weren’t so stupid look-
ing. Another mixed griffin follows,
chewing an ivy leaf and gazing at
a grazing swan. It finds the ivy

In case one thinks that Art is
here neglected, the next figure
(the 5th) is covered with a beauti-
fully textured spray of foilage.
To the right of this one finds an
engaging beast that winks if seen
from a % view. There are genial
rolls of fat around his belly. Now
come two contrasting pieces; one
shows a loving bird feeding her

the misalliance of a hippopotamus







Unnoticed, Cloistered Monsters
Now Receiving Careful Scrutiny

meticulously involuted. What can
this show but the sluggish mind
which cannot use its wings (lofty
thoughts) and sneers because it
is too tangled to do anything else?
The finish of this series is a group
of two more fighting monsters,
really fighting, demonstrating the
outward show of some deep inner
woe.

There is a fairly representative
series even though it leaves out
some favorites like the silk sloth
and the evil bat. Still, only a long
and intimate knowledge of these
cloister figures can result in the
rich and meaningful experience so
necessary to a true appreciation

Letter to the Editor

WBMC Lacks Interest,
Influence, Says Reader

To the Editor of the News:

Much consideration has been
given by the staff of late to the
present state of WBMC. We be-
lieve that our radio station should
exert as great an influence on the
affairs of the student body as does
the News. But a steadily declining
interest in the expansion of the
station, an evident absence of
technical ability among the staff
members, and an increasing sense
of futility has led to a station
which possesses no voice whatso-
ever in college affairs.

There are undoubtedly two ma-
jor blocks to the success of
‘WBMC; the fact that it is received
in only three halls (Merion, Den-
bigh, and Pembroke East) of the
seven on campus, and the extra-
ordinary’ absence of publicity
given to the station even in those
halls.

.$75 was lent to WBMC by the
Undergraduate Association for the
purpose of construction for the
station of a college-wide trans-
mitter. Although such a transmit-
ter was devised with the help of
several Haverford students, be-
cause of. technical difficulties in-
volved it was never constructed.

WBMC appears to be caught in
a whirlpool of its own making:
disinterest has produced a lack of
quality, which has _ regenerated
disinterest. Many of us _ believe
that the problem is not lack of
external interest, but rather a
lack of initiative in the student
body.



Sincerely yours,
Ginny ORoak ’61

Portuguese Art
Topic of Lecture

(Carlos de Azevedo, Curator of
the National Museum of Contem-
porary Art in Lisbon, will give the
Class of 1901 Lecture on “Portu-
guese Painting of the 15th and
16th Centuries”, next Tuesday in
Goodhart Auditorium at 8:30.

Senor Azavedo has been a lec-
turer in Portuguese at Oxford
University, where he was also a
member of Wadham College; he is
a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Arts, a corresponding member of
L’Academie International de la
Ceramique, and a cultural repre-
sentative of “The Connoisseur” in



Portugal.



of their mystic quality.

The spring of 1918 was a heroic
epoch in the history eof Bryn
Mawr. There was a war in Europe,
and everyone on campus seemed to
feel personally obliged to help
fight it. In order to raise money
for ‘the yar fund and Liberty
Loan, the seniors gave up their
yearbook, students resolved to
avoid eating between meals, and
there was even a proposal (de-
feated). to close school early. Even
the advertisements in the News
echoed the general sentiment:
“Certainly you will wear silks,”
declares a silk manufacturer, “be-
cause Patriotism demands Silks to
conserve Wool.”

One member of the class of 719
christened a torpedo boat destroy-
er, An Alumna wrote to the News
about openings for women in war
work overseas: “Send only the
strongest, and nobody with the
slightest tendency to flirtation...”
Chapel speakers were likely to be
chaplains reporting on experi-
ences “at the front.” About 1000
books were donated by students
for the use of soldiers and sailors,
the two- most often duplicated



thing for a soldier to curl up with





being. Self Cultivation. in - English.



@ee :
at night, after a long, hard day.
But the two biggest projects
were the Red Cross room and the
Bryn Mawr farm. “A collector of
old toothpaste tubes for the Surg-
ical Dressing Committee has been
appointed in each hall,” the News
reports. Sandwiched in between a
letter to the editor deploring the
manners of the freshman class and
an indignant editorial on the dif-
ficulty of finding books in the Re-
serve Room (one feels a strange
bond with the class of 1918), are
announcements appealing to the
patriotism of the students. Volun-
teers are needed for spring plant-
ing on the Bryn Mawr farm, says
one, adding eloquently, “Why. wait
for summer to take up the hoe?”
“An experienced canner is needed
on the Bryn Mawr farm to take
charge of the cannery July 1st.”
A long succession of editorials
and letters to the editor urged
students to get busy on the farm,
and the last issues of the paper
announced that next year nine
hours war work per week would
be required of each student. In
spite of this strong social pres-
ire, & mi the students









when asked their plans, for the
summer, replied “farming.” —








Wednesday, March 19, 1958

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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three



Philosopher, And Dean Deplore Pressure, Advocate Change In Schedule



Science Major Considers “New Deal,”
With Pros, Cons Of Reading Periods

by Sue Myers, °58

Since I have been asked to dis-
cuss the possible changes in the
schedule of the college year from
the point of view of a science ma-
jor, I shall treat only those
changes which seem to have a
bearing on the aspects of a science
student’s life concerned with her
science courses, eliminating such
problems as travel time for va-
cations as not being included in
this area. Due to lack of space I
shall not discuss the monitor sys-
tem.

The central core of the discus-
sion is the proposal to lengthen
the college year. From the results
of the junior class poll, I gather

that at least a majority and per-
haps almost all of those favoring
a longer year also would like the
addition of a reading period. To
me this seems sensible since I
doubt that a longer year with the
same amount, of work spread out
a bit would be possible. The addi-
tion of more class time would
simply present the temptation to
cram that little bit which can’t
quite be covered now into every
course.

This brings me to the question
of the reading period. As has been
indicated by the comments ac-
companying the junior class poll,

~ there are several ways in which

a reading period could be used.
Review is, of course, an obvious
one. The:student would be able to
go through all phases of the
course material in the light of
the entire course. This is now done
during exam period, but often the
student does not have time to do
a good job, and therefore usually
reviews for the specific exam, but
does not. relate the material to
other. courses- and make it a part
of herself. :

Most courses suggest to a "stu
dent one’ or two ideas which she
would like to pursue further. In
the humanities, the paper for the
course may take care of that
problem,’ at least partially. In
some science courses, the content
of the lab work is not completely
rigid, anid therefore study of a
specific interest: may be work-
ed in, but this is the exception
rather than the rule. The student
would welcome the opportunity to
pursue an idea which she had
found interesting either by read-
ing about it if it were that kind
of thing, or by being allowed to
do an extra experiment. A real
project would not be possible as
even a reading period would not
allow enough time for that.

On the other side of the ques-
tion, I must admit that the addi-
tion of a reading period would in-
vite the tempetation of leaving
regular work to do during that
time. I think, however, that fight-
ing this is good for all of us, and
if a student gets interested enough
in an idea, she will make sure of
having the time to investigate it.
The problem of procrastination
does bring up the question of when
all work should be due. Would it
be the last day of classes or the
last day of the reading period? In
the casé of problem sets and other
work of that type, having a due
date at the end of the reading
period would, I suppose, be giving
in to laziness. Labs, however, are
a problem unique in itself. It
sometimes happens that something
goes wrong in the lab putting one
or two students way behind in
their lab work, often through no
fault of their own. Putting in the
time necessary to catch up can
be devastating to the student’s



problem of lab books, Writing up
that last long, lab of the last
Thursday of classes to hand in on
Friday often means either work-
ing into the wee hours of the morn-
ing or doing a halfway job, es-
pecially if that lab is the conclu-
sion of an experiment extending
over several weeks. The only al-
ternative is for the professor to
let the due date for the lab books
slide over into exam time, which
is not good, either. A reading
period could be the solution to
that problem.

I do think that if a vale
period were the included in the
schedule, the individual student
should be allowed to use it as she
herself sees fit, in any one of the
various ways I have mentioned
above, or in any other way—I have
probably failed to think of some.
I do not believe that the assign-
ment of new work as a part of the
course, to be covered by the stu-
dent alone during a reading per-
iod, is a good idea.

Finally, the question of Satur-
day classes has come up. I don’t

know any science major who
doesn’t do some work on week-
ends. Nevertheless, I can not

imagine many of them being
happy with Saturday classes. Be-
cause of the large amount of time
spent in labs and classes during
the week, Saturday can be a day
for work uninterrupted by sched-
uled hours, work perhaps includ-
ing the reading for that one non-
science course. It would be a
shame to have that time also cut
into blocks by scheduled classes.
Considering 8:00 classes as an al-
ternative, they would make an
awfully long day for those having
labs until 6:00. I am not sure
which is the lesser of the two
evils.

To explore further the issues
of the college schedule both
within and without the . ques-
tions raised in the recently pub-
lished Junior Class Poll, the
NEWS has asked two seniors,—
‘one science and one humanities
major,—to express their opin-
ions in the light of their major
subjects and their four years’
experience..T' he third article is’ a
clarification of Mrs. Marshall’s
views.

by Helene Valabrague ’58

Very few Bryn Mawr students
would agree that the scheduling
of the. academic year as it now
stands is ideal. But not many more
would agree as to exactly what
should be done to improve it. The
biggest bone of contention seems



to be the question of shortening



The Bryn Mawr schedule is
based on a short year, freedom
from Saturday classes, and the ex-
pectation that people will work
hard. This program, Dean Mar-
shall feels, when combined with
the heavy load of extra-curricular
interests that many students and
faculty members carry, often be-
comes too much, This is most not-
able in the case of the people with
the broadest interests.“For quite
a while, therefore, Mrs. Marshall
has been considering the possibil-
ity of “letting in a little fresh
air.”

The perennial problem is elon-
gating the schedule is that, unless
there is some system of safe-
guarding the time added, it be-
comes the proverbial hole in the
sand and fills up faster than it is
created, with new lectures, acti-
vities and assignments.

Although much of the end of the
semester pressure may be owing
to the fact that no one makes an
active effort at organization early
in the semester, it still remains a
fact that people go home for

Christmas with semester papers
and reading, and return too ex-
hausted to the two weeks after
exams. The period is mainly an
academic waste; little good learn-



ing goes on and little isy accom-

Re-scheduling Is Designed To Alleviate
Pressures That Crush Research, Interest

plished except tying the loose
ends of the semester’s work.

If the year were to be organ-
ized so that one term ended be-
fore the Christmas vacation, Mrs.
Marshall noted, another would be
finished before spring, making
each a valid vacation and leaving
one last period to,be used in “a
variety of ways” depending on
the courses involved. At Yale there
is a combination of reading period,
independent research, and review
to tidy up the year as best suits
the individual. In some cases, this
would involve revision of the
course’s content, but this would be
a matter for instructors and de-
partments, after a final plan for
the number of weeks in the semes-
ter had been formulated.

The faculty naturally feels that
time is precious, and regard all
changes in this light. Already, the
‘revisions for the next year’s cal-
endar disrupt the laboratory
schedule somewhat; and sections
which meet on the beginning days
of Vacations are soon behind those
which meet earlier in the week.
With a new internal schedule,
these difficulties might be. resolved.
Up to now, space available has
been one limit on the time when
classes meet, but the new science
building should smooth some re-



visions in the year calendar.



by Alex van Wessem

(Penn University was the site for
the Annual Student Conference,
sponsored by the Citizenship Clear-

nia, the purpose of which is to “put
outstanding young college men and
women in touch with opoprtunities
for participation in politics ...”
On March 14 and 15, then, three
politics-conscious Bryn Mawr stu-
dents, Cynthia Secor, Nancy Far-
well, both political science majors,
and I visited different panel dis-
cussions, heard two United States
Senators speak, and in general had
a very good and stimulating week-
end.

After a delicious dinner in
Houston Hall, we attended our re-
spective pane] discussions, while
waiting for Senator Case, of New
Jersey, to arrive. My panel, head-
ed by Mr. Scott of Haverford, dis-
cussed “The Student and the Po-
litical Organizaion in Campaigns.”

Most of the students on the pan-
el had had experience in campaign
work, ranging from licking stamps
to driving a sound truck, and were
thus able to make very interesting
and fruitful comments. It was
agreed that in general the “out”
party ‘was more receptive to stu-
dent participation than the “in”
one. But in any case, it was stress-
ed that students should expect to
give a great deal without getting
much in return—except, of course,
a great deal of experience with hu-
man nature as well as with the
technical aspects of campaign
work.

It is clear that the student is up
against great drawbacks. Discour-
agement meets him in the form of
parents, surrounding apathy, and



other ‘work..Holding.a makeup. lab
during the reading period would



be a great help. There is also the

his services, However, if he really



ing House for Eastern Pennsylva-.

the organization to which he offers

persists, he will find that his own
views have broadened, and that he
has gained immeasurably in as-
surance and discipline.

Then we returned to the Audi-
torium to hear the Honorable Clif-
ford P. Case, Senator from New
Jersey, speak on “The Challenge
to America.” Senator Case felt
that “we have never dealt from
strength, but from weakness” (in
our foreign policy). Though he
recognized everyone’s extreme re-
luctance to use weapons, he did
believe that we must maintain our
strong military position. In addi-
tion, he said, America must con-
tinue to offer aid to underdeveloped
nations, both in the forms of cap-
ital and “sympathetic know-how.”
His final area of emphasis was on
American education. Senator Case
believed very strongly that there
was still not enough stress placed
on science in the modern curricu-
lum. Furthermore, the Senator
thought that, though direct control
of education by the federal govern-
ment would be undesirable (note:
the power to regulate education
has been specifically left to the in-
dividual states in the U. S. consti-
tution) the government should en-
-courage education through grants,
the School Construction Bill, ete.
He was very pleased with the in-
creasing awareness in America of
the need for better education; final-
ly, the Senator concluded by say-
ing that “we must not be scared
to be strong.”

On Saturday morning, we return-
ed for more panel discussions. Mr.
Harper, of Dickinson College, led
our topic, “The Role of the Inde-
pendent in Politics.” Here, it is
a question of degree: some are
'simply not affiliated with any one|



party; some vacillate from one

Bryn Mawrters Attend A Conference On Students
Political Activities, Hear Senators Chase And Clark

party to another; some vote on the
issue rather than the candidate.
There is also the problem of the
voter who will vote a straight tic-
ket on the same party year after
year, so that a considerable up-
heaval is needed to shake him out
of his voting routine. How does
independence within the party or-
ganization affect the effectiveness
of that organization? The general
consensus of opinion was that
thoughtful independence and fol-
lowing one’s conscience is much
less upsetting than unflinching par-
ty loyalty.

The undisputed high point of the
conference was the talk given by
Senator Joseph S. Clark, of Penn-
sylvania, on “Pennsylvania Poli-
tics in an Election Year.” The
Senator’s brusk wit and charm
alone were enough to win his de-
lighted audience.

The Senator explained his choice
of subject by stating that, before
understanding politics on a large
scale, one must first be familiar
with practical politics on a state
level. There are 67 county chair-
men, and 67 state committee-men
and women in each party. They
represent a cross-section,. held to-
gether bya common “interest “in
politics rather than any one politi-
cal philosophy. ‘They try to pre-
sent candidates who will win and
not disgrace the party, at the same
time having an interest in local
problems.

Prior to the first of January,
party leaders eagerly seek the
opinions of committee-men as well
as those of other sources, such as
newspaper editorials, With the

tension mounting, the party. lead-
ers come together to draw up. 6



Continued on Page 6, Col. 2



Valabrague Welcomes Marshall Plan;
Lauds Post-Semester Xmas Vacations

our now “longer than anyone
else’s”’ summer vacation. The
staunch minority against this step,
including faculty, have good rea-
sons behind tthem, but it is, I
think, an essential step to any real
amelioration of the schedule.

On the whole, I would fully en-
dorse the ‘Marshall Plan.” The
advantages of a three-week Christ-
mas vacation, with exams and
papers out of the way before the
vacation would more than compen-
sate for the loss of a week during
the summer. Those who need extra
money would have the three weeks
in which extra help is most vital-
ly needed completely free to work.
Those who now carry home piles
of books over the vacation and
carry them right back to school,
unopened, and a little heavier for
the addition of a slightly guilty
conscience to the load, would be
spared the initial bother. As. for
those who would really prefer to
write their papers at home, if they
could be granted extensions,
everyone would profit. Most of all,
we would all benefit by that mir-
aculous privilege, which now only
very few enjoy, at the expense
of four exams in almost as few
days, a “rest between semesters.”

As for a reading period before
exams, I’m all for it. I personally
have always had a fairly good
exam schedule, but have _ seen
“four exams in five days” suffer-
ers, and it’s a sorry sight. Study-
ing for an exam should play an
important part in the assimilation
and integration of the semester’s
material. It should not have to
be .(although some will always
choose to make it so) a miserable,
one-night siege of cramming. A
reading period of more than a
week would, however, favor the
procrastionatory tendencies inher-
ent in all of us.

A longer spring vacation would
be extra frosting on the cake, but
to have it come later in the year,
at ‘the end of second semester,
would be a dubious blessing, as
the stretch between January and
April is the longest time of the
year.

Lastly, a few personal erndest:
afternoon classes the day before
any vacation, especially Thanks-
giving, a vacation whose whole
point resides in getting home in
time to enjoy Thanksgiving Day—
papers assigned for the day of
return from Christmas or Spring
vacation—the possibility of Satur-
day classes—even eight o’clocks
would be better—also the possibil-
ity of two exams in one day—edu-
cation, above all, should not be
an instrument of torture!

French Club Brings
Two Brief Art Films

Thanks to the efforts of the
French Club, there will be some
free culture available in the form
of two French films, one on Braque,
the other on Utrillo, two French
painters, on Wednesday at 8:30 in
the Common Room.

The films, both short, will not
take more than an hour,and every-
one interested in French, art, or
both, is-urged to attend.

Porlock
Portfolio

Continued from Page 2
“The college, as a junior mem-

ber of the senior loop, the Atlantic

‘Small Seven’, has shown much
promise in recent seasons. We all

know percentages. It’s a hard lea-
gue to break into, and it’s even
harder to break into our schedule.
We have a few doubtful starters
and a short season but.. .”

Woo














Page Four

THE COLLEGE NEWS

~ Wednesday, March 19, 1958



Radclitfe Girls Less Than Enthusiastic
Toward Invitation BMC Received Too

e e ca
Events in Philadelphia
Theatre
Back to Methuselah—Arnold Moss’ condensation of George Bernard
Shaw’s play, with Tyrone Power, Faye Emerson and Arthur

The Radcliffe News _ recently
published an article which is of
great interest to Bryn Mawr.

It seems that Radcliffe has re-
ceived two letters, one from some
boys at the University of Penn-
sylvania and another from boys
from Queens College in Canada,
all desiring dates. A portion of the
article is reprinted here,

“No replies ‘to the letters to the
editor published by the News
(Radcliffe’s) last week have been
received,” the News reported to-
day. Four boys from the. Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania who wanted
to “live fast... and never marry”
offered to escort seiected Rad-
cliffe girls to their Skimmer Week-
end. Five ‘suave, urbane, title-rid-
den, penniless students’ at Queens
College in Canada requested an
invitation to enjoy Radcliffe hos-
pitality.

The News received a letter from
a friend of the boys at Queens
College . . . He commented that
they do not correspond to their
description but are “a bunch of
goons.” They may have “mice in
their liquor and moths in the tiger
skin” but definitely do not keep
their racoon coats in the refriger-
ator.

Although the gentlemen from
Queens College offered to broaden
the horizons of any Radcliffe girl
who would consent to entertain
them, the News has received sev-
eral comments which indicate that
there is some disapproval of the
plan.

A News reporter commented
that she felt that the boys from
the University of - Pennsylvania,
who are waiting with “controlled
anxiety” for replies, included a
subtle insult to Radcliffe in their
letter. They asked that Radcliffe
girls “morally obligate’ them-
selves to include their own pic-
tures.

A Harvard man ‘commented, “I
don’t think these men have any-



more to offer then we do. As a mat-
ter of fact, they sound pretty
hard-pressed for a date.” He said
his remark was no reflection on
Cliffe charm,

Amusingly enough, the Rad-
cliffe girls are not the only group
whose company is solicited by the
ATO boys from Penn; for Bryn
Mawr received exactly the same
letter!

One Win, One Loss

For B.M. Swimmers

On Saturday, March 15,the Bryn
Mawr swimming team placed fifth
in the Women’s Intercollegiate
championship. For the tenth con-
secutive time Swarthmore took
first place, while Chestnut Hill,
Queens, and Brooklyn were the
next three highest scorers.

The meet opened with diving in
which Penn’s Marion Park defeat-
eg Sally Davis of Bryn Mawr, last
year’s winner. Bryn Mawr made
its best showing in the free-style
events, with Sandy Colt taking
second in the fifty yard freestyle
and leading the 200 yard freestyle
relay team, which placed third.

Swarthmore gained its points by
placing both its entries in the
three events, with Penny Payson
on top in two of them. Chestnut
Hill picked up credits for second
place by taking only one _ first
place, but scoring second and third
quite consistently.

The scores of the teams were
Swarthmore, 58; Chestnut Hill,
36;. Queens, .18; Brooklyn, 15;
Bryn Mawr, 15; Penn, 844; West
Chester, 7; Wilson, 414; Ursinus,
4; Temple, 2; Beaver and Drexel
did not score. Bryn Mawr’s last
meet of the season will be with
Temple, on Thursday, March 20.



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Say,
at Shubert Monday.
Musical Events
evening.

violin soloist, the Academy,

evening.
New Films

Goldman.

with Jock Mahoney. Stanton.

Treacher, opened at Locust, Monday evening.

Darling—Abe Burrows, Richard and Marion Bissell play with
music by Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Jule Styne, co-starring
David Wayne, Vivian Blaine and Johnny Desmond, began last week

No Time for Sergeants—Ira Levin’s comedy, with Myron McCormick
and James Holden, began fourth and final week at Forrest Monday.

Boston Symphony Orchestra—Charles Munch conducting concert, spon-
sored by Philadelphia Forum, at the Academy of Music, Thursday

Philadelphia Orchestra—Eugene Ormandy conducting; Isaac Stern

Friday afternoon and Saturday

Underwater Warrior—Frogmen, starring Dan Dailey, and The True
Story of Lynn Stuart — Crime drama, with Betsy Palmer.

Gunsight Ridge—Western, with Joel McCrea, and Slim Carter—satire,



Bryn Mawr was victorious in its
fourth meet of the season, that
against Ursinus on March 6th.
Only one team swam for each col-
lege and the competition was
close, especially in the breast-
stroke and butterfly. The diving
was composed to a win for Bryn
Mawr by the combined efforts of
Sally Davis, Judy Robertson, and
Evie Cardwell. A real test of the
team’s ability came on Thursday
the 13th, in the meet against
Chestnut Hill, a force that closely



Swimming

rivals the superlative-Swarthmore,
and is thus a great challenge. The
JV came close to winning 19-25.
Becky Hughes and Pat Blackmore
won the back crawl and free style
respectively. A good fight was
put forth by the Varsity but the
combination of -Chestnut Hill’s
stars: Steppacker, free style and
back crawl; and Campbell, breast
stroke, overcame our strength,
which was lessened this particular
day by the absence of our strong
free styler, Edie McKeon.



Basketball

On Thursday evening, March
138th, Bryn Mawr went. to Rose-
mont for our last games of the
season, The varsity game ended
43-21 in favor of Rosemont and
was probably the poorest game
Bryn Mawr has played this year.
Our -captain, Moira MacVeagh,
was the high-scorer with a total

|of seven points, The junior var-

sity game, however, resulted in
victory for Bryn Mawr, 33-19. Our

team led all the way and showed .

good teamwork. Debbie Smith was
the high-scorer with a total of
thirteen points.

The 1958 season now over has
resulted in two victories and four
defeats for the varsity and three
victories, two defeats, and one tie
for the junior varsity.

Engagements
Irene Ryan to George Olsen.
Martha Heath to Matthew

Wiencke.
Martha Lockwood to John
Hincks.

Sandra Soteger to John Sulli-
van. '

Nancy Barovick ex ’58 to Roy |

Raizen.

”
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Georgia Dahl to Donald Lashley.













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Wednesday, March 19, 1958

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Five



Professor Steere of

Haverford Supports

Third Year Study In African University

Expanding oportunities for a
year of study in African univer-
sities are permitting American
students to get first-hand knowl-
edge of a continent in transition,
a Quaker educator said when he
returned from Africa.

Dr. Douglas Steere, Thomas
Wistar Brown Professor of Philo-
sophy at Haverford, expressed the

hope that more American students
will take advantage of the open-
ings in Africa. He proposed that
a number of “mature” students do
their third year of college work in
one of the multi-racial African
universities.

Dr, and Mrs. Steere visited Af-
rica under the sponsorship of the
American Friends Service Com-
mittee, which periodically sends
Quaker leaders on good will miss-
ions throughout the world.

Several universities, Dr. Steere
said, are ready to accept Ameri-
can students for a year of study.

Makerere College at Kampala,
Kenya, is one of those which
would be willing to consider care-
fully screened applicants, “Not
only is the college eager for these
students, but the tuition is mod-
erate. African students would wel-
come the opportunity to have
western undergraduates living in
their excellent dormitories where



they could exchange ideas.

“One of the most heart-
ening factors in the Federation is
the progress of this new multi-
racial university that began a year
ago with 70 students.”

“The Federation,” Dr. Steere
said, “igs a most fascinating place
to be at just this time. The evolu-
tion of a new state and the ham-
mering out of a new pattern of
social relationships is going every
moment and is a process that is
completely unconcealed.”

For. students with a command
of French, the new Louvanium
University near Leopoldville in
the Belgian Congo would be worth
investigating, Dr. Steere said.

Other institutions which have
already had American students in

residence are the University of
Witwatersrand in Johannesburg
and the University of Capetown.
The .University of Ghana is. in-
terested in discussing the idea fur-
ther,

The cost of an African univer-
sity is considerably cheaper than
that of an American college.
Therefore even with the round trip
costs the expense would not be
prohibited for American students
he said.



Professor Scriven Presents Two Opposing Views
Upheld by Schools of Determinism, Indeterminism

‘As the lecture title may suggest,
Professor Michael J. Scriven, in
his lecture on March 18, presented
briefly the opposing views of the
two schools of philosophical phys-
ics, detenminism and indetermin-
ism, into which the science resolves
itself.

Referring to the classical phys-
ics of the seventeenth and eigh-
teenth century, which was largely
deterministic, Professor Scriven
then illustrated with examples of
the behavior of the electron and
other sub-nuclear particles, the
fact that the more precise’ meas-
urements which we are able to
make of fundamental physical qual-
ities such as mass and velocity
force us to admit the possibility
that the universe, and with it men’s
lives, may operate on an indeter-
ministic principle. Indeed, the
strongest angument of the indeter-
minists, led by the Copenhagen
school and Niels Bohr, rests on the
criteria of accuracy of measure-
ment,

The concept of indeterminism
contains two possibilities: either

events are basically indetermined
and therefore it is in the nature
of things that measurements must
always be somewhat inexact, or
else we cannot accurately deter-



mine quantities because by the act
of observing ttimegyghange that
which we wish to determine, exact
though the quantity may funda-
mentally be,

The Copenhagen school main-
tains the view that admission, of
this second possibility is evidence
for the truth of the first, for if you
cannot measure the quantities you
wish to determine, it is impossible
for you to know whether they are
ultimately determined or not. Pri-
mary and secondary indeterminism,
the indeterminism of human meas-
urement, merge in the factor of
physics as a basically subjective at-
tempt to systematize the variety of
phenomena which arise in the uni-
verse around us.

Opposed to th Copenhagen inde-
terminists, but likewise basing its
anguments on the concept of phys-
ical measurement, is the determin-
ist theory, which was strongly sup-
ported by Einstein. This view
maintains that the evidence of un-
certainty in measurements does
not preclude the possibility that
events may be basically determined

and that it may be possible to ar-
rive at methods of exact determin-
ation. The determinists derive
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surements of 20th century relative-
istic physics do not force us to say
there is no basic determinism; thus
both determinism and indetermin-
ism are somewhat arbitrary ways

of viewing the same factor of un-
certainty.

The quantum theory, which is
the basis of today’s sub-atomic
physics, is the meeting ground of
the two opposing’ philosophies.
The determinists theorize that on
the level of sub-nuclear particles it
is possible to determine exactly
the characteristics of these par-
ticles, which form the base on
which the macroscopic universe
builds, whereas the indeterminists
insist that the only determinism
possible in the prediction of par-
ticle behavior is because of phys-
ics’ basic indeterminism, a statis-
tical determinism.

The question of freewill proceeds
from these considerations of rigid
yersus statistical determinism, for
statistical determinism by its na-
ture allows for the indetermined
factor which the indeterminists ac-
cord necessary for the existence of
free will. On the other hand, the
determinist thought is that strict
determinism is necessary to true
free will; if a situation can be con-
trolled by will there must exist a
casual chain, i.e. determinism. But
if events are determined, the will
cannot possibly change them, for
the possibility of chance necessi-
tates an element of uncertainty.
And you have apparently reasoned
around in a disconcertingly logical
circle; such, according to Mr.
Scriven, is the impasse at which
contemporary physics, with its
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first agree. Then, they must have
it passed by the Policy and State
Committees. This, Senator Clark
explained, is an outline of the pro-
cedure in the Democratic party, a
procedure which is very similar to
the Republican one, except that the
latter system involves more groups
of people, more names for offices,
and therefore more confusion, so
that the final agreement is made
more difficult.

After discussing the advantages
and disadvantages of the open
primary system, Senator Clark
closed with some philosophical ad-
vice to the would-be politician. He
recommended that the individual
first become acquainted with the
hard facts, and sublimate but not
eliminate his idealism.

This marked the official end of
the two-day conference. However,
judging from the lively discus-
sions at and after the conference,
it would seem safe to say that it
is but the beginning, the catalyst,
of a great deal of independent and
constructive thinking on the part
of the students attending. An al-
most optimistic attitude pervaded
the group, namely, that of improve-
ment, both of self and of others.

In spite of the much-publicized
student apathy, the students at the
Penn conference proved to be ma-

jJsays Dr. Watson ...

ture, interested, and interesting.

In the words of Arthur T. Van-
derbilt, the founder of the Citizen-
ship Clearing House: “Contrary to
popular notions, no young man or
woman of intelligence and charac-
ter need fear participation in poli-
tics if he or she is prepared to give
rather than to get.” The giving
spirit certainly prevailed.

Geology Acquisiton
Continued from Page 1, Col. 3

(it looks just like a ruby) and
turns a dull gold color,

And if the reader wants sen-
sationalism ... he should inquire
about the uranium ores. “You
really shouldn’t stand in front of
that cabinet longer than an hour”
while the
Geiger counter clicks and sputters
at 100 counts or more per minute,
its top capability. “We can’t even
adequately measure the radiation
with this small machine.”

“I’d say the collection is worth
more than 10,000 dollars,” he esti-
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Christ, the zenith of history, began
the third quarter, with emphasis
on music, and with languages coal-
escing. The word “America” be-
gins the final 2100 years of soci-
ety’s existence. During this time
a universal language develops, in-
dustry triumphs, and society is de-
stroyed. ‘Analogous to the circle,

in a ratio of 100 to 1, is the life of |

the individual man: his birth, rise
to maturity, decline, and death.

‘Chevanard believed that the his-
torical importance of a man de-
pended on one great deed or work.
He therefore conceived his decora-
tion of the Pantheon in Paris, with
its great series of murals, friezes
and mosaics as being both his one
major work, and the culmination of
his art and ideas. In panels all the
way around the huge, bare building
he planned to depict the entire his-
tory of the world. Above these
panels would be friezes in which
marched a line of all history’s
great men. Mosaics would floor
the domes, the largest of these re-
stating pictorially the circte of
man’s history. This work, which
would have been the largest (in
terms of square feet) ever done by
one man, was Chevanard’s bid to
replace Dante’s Divine Comedy
with a modern pictorial epic.

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Napoleon III gave the Pantheon
back to the church, and Chevanard
and his heretical pageant of his-
tory were ousted.

‘Chevanard made a last attempt
to state his case in a painting en-
titled “The Divine Tragedy.” It
depicted the destruction of all re-
ligions, and the celestial triumph
of a hermaphrodite, the symbol of
the unification of the sexes. It was
based on the idea that religion split
man into two sexes, a catastrophe
that has created all the ills of
mankind and which can only be
remedied by the elimination of re-
ligion.

‘Chevanard’s extant work is now
largely rolled up in museum base-
ments. His ideas and their ex-
pression have had the misfortune
of not fitting.in with the temper
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