College news, October 4, 1961

VOL, XLVII—NO. 2

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1961

%) Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1961

PRICE 20 CENTS



Addresses by Miss McBride —
Set Goals, Provoke Analysis

Addressing an assembly of stu-
dents and faculty, Miss Katharine
E. McBride, President of the Col-
lege, opened the 77th Academic
Year September 26. In her speech
Miss McBride urged the student
body to keep national and inter-
national crises “at the forefront
of their thinking” ‘during the com-
ing year. ‘

The President cited n devel-
opments in the area of civil)jrights
and the current crisis at the Uni-
ted Nations as particularly worthy
of attention. She expressed the
hope that students would read the
new reports on civil rights in the
United States and the text of
President Kennedy’s speech before
the UN.

*“An awarenes of world concerns
causes our personal ones to pale
by comparison,” said Miss Mc-
Bride. “Faced with such large is-
sues, we tend to brush away the
trivial.”

The President then raised a

question as to the importance
of academic work in a _ world
confronting so many crises.

She said that each individual must
decide the importance of study for
himself, but added, ‘Academic en-
deavor is worthwhile if it makes
you become a person you would not
have been without it. It is worth-
while if you can make a greater
’ contribution to the world because
of your years of study.”

Miss McBride hoped that those
who devoted themselves to scholar-
ship would work for a world of
peace and freedom and take an
active part in what President Ken-
nedy termed the “race for peace”
which tends toward “the world of
peace and freedom that Mr. Ham-
marskjold was working for until
his tragic death.”

_ Also as part of her convocation
speech, the President noted instruc-
tors who are returning to the col-
lege this semester and welcomed
those who are newly appointed or
visiting. She extended a _ second
greeting to the freshmen, com-
menting that she had enjoyed talk-
ing with them individually during
Orientation Week.

Ambitious Juniors

Plan a Gay Farce

_ by Jane Goldstone

The class of ’63, back from its
summer tour, will open the season
here with a truly unique musical
under the direction of Sarah Shap-
ley. A ‘script committee. has been
flexing whole new sets of writing
muscles to produce Fausfal’s Fias-
co, a rather mordant comedy con-
cerning the ins and outs of realpol-
itik, or, if you prefer, a song and
dance spoof on the contemporary
political gymnasium. We bring you
more for the price of your tickct,
however, than political commen-
tary. There is the old and possibly
inevitable practice of Sin which we
highly recommend and which you
will vicariously enjoy in the con-
duct of “Golda” and to an almost
equal degree in the entire cast.
“Three ladies from Hades” as
well as other interestingly titled
individuals help the plot move
along at a good clip.

The stage crew, directed by Pen-

ny Potter, will be moving Heaven |

and Hell to fit pineapple planta-

Students’ commitments to them-
selves and their education formed
the subject of Miss Katharine E.
McBride’s talk to the freshman
class September 24. Speaking at
ner tea for the freshmen, the Presi-
dent of the College said that the stu-
dent must be the most active agent
in, her own education.

Miss McBride, noting how many
freshmen had listed reading as one
ef their favorite occupations, bée-
gan by asking four questions on
the subject: “Now that you are in
college, will you continue to read?
Will you talk about what you read?
Will the level of your conversation
be up to the level of your thought?
Will the level of your thought be
up to the level of your intellect?”

The President, after remarking
on the high level of intellect in the
Class of 1965, went on to describe
their commitment in two stages.
The first; she said, is for each stu-
dent to participate ‘actively in her
own intellectual development. She
commented, “Don’t be a learner.
Be an investigator.”

Miss McBride characterized Bryn
Mawr as “a community of schol-
ars” and urged each student to ask
herself whether she is ready to be
a part of this community.

“The second stage of your com-
mitment,” said the President, ‘‘is
to let your progress in education,
your new intellectual life be of
service to others.”

Miss McBride defined this ser-
vice in two ways. She said that
many hope to gerve by working
for the college or nearby commun-
ities through the five major cam-
pus organizations. “But,” she.said,
“think of service also in terms of
communication — talking with
others about things that matter,
getting to know people different
from those you’ve known. before,
enlarging your world and theirs by
mutual understanding.”

The President stressed the need
for students to get to know those
whose interests and outlooks are
different ‘from their own, saying
that it was too easy for people to
only see those who are most like
them. ;

Concluding her talk, Miss Mc-
Bride reminded her listeners that
they are: responsible for themselv-
es and their own affairs. She added
that if they can accept the respon-
sibility for acting as agents in
their own and others’ education
they are “the best hope the world
has.” .



ventions including babies onto the
theatre marquee; and the sets pro-
mise to be unusually artistic. Les-

ing the dance.

No doubt you will hear more
about the play via theatrical gos-
sip circles on campus. For the time
being, it is safe to predict a tri-
umphal opening night for what has
already stunned the critics.

Get Shot

Notice from the Infirmary:
The Public Health Service has
warned that an upswing in the
influenza cycle is likely to hit the
United States during this fall and
winter. Infirmary vaccine will
be given in the dispensary Fri-
day, Oct. 6 between 2 and 4 p.m.,
charge $1 per immunization. All
students are urged to be shot.





. tions, circuses and political con-







|dent Association.

lie Hartley is already choreograph-.

Undergrad Names
Rep To N.S. A.

met Monday evening and appointed
Susan. Gumpert as the Bryn Mawr
representative to the National Stu-
Susan will take
over the office vacated by former
N.S.A. rep Mary Beth ‘Schaub, who
is on leave for a year from the col-
lege to work for a year for N.S.A. In
view of what is hoped to be increased
B.M.C.-N.S.A. activity in subsequent
years, the next N.S.A. rep will be
campus-elected.

N.S.A, will have a three-fold con-
tact with the students—it will advise
and often initiate student activity; it
will bring B.M.C. into area-wide stu-
dent affairs and programs and it will
attempt to institute awareness on
campus of N.S.A.’s involvement in
national and international problems.
It is not well-known here that BMC
is a member of N.S.A. and that its
‘rep has voted in past years on the
varied and often urgent referenda
posed by N.S.A.

The Undergrad Executive Board |

The National Student Associa-
tion is an organization that Bryn
Mawr had belonged to for the last
ten years. Its Executive-Board-ap-
pointed representative has been the
parjiamentarian on Legislature; its
summer conferences have been fre-
quently attended by Undergrad and
Self-Gov presidents. This year’s de-
legation (Barbara Paul, Sue John-
son and N. S. A. rep., Mary Beth
Schaub) to the fourteenth Nation-
al Student Congress held in Aug-
ust on the University of Wiscon-
sin grounds found in N. S. A. and
its services the means for reinvi-
gorating the Bryn Mawr campus
and aiding in student government
processes. __

Last Wednesday, on the invita-
tion of the joint Undergrad Activi-
ties and Executive Boards, Tim Za-

gat, a Harvard alumnus and a na-



tional officer of N.S.A., came to



In the first of the Monday night
Current Events series Susan “Gum-
pert talked of her experiences as a
member of Operation Crossroads —
Africa, a summer exchange program
for American students interested. in
learning about Africa. Crossroads
was founded in 1958 by a Presbyter-
ian minister in New York’s Church
of the Master, Dr. James Robinson,
who after visiting Africa, decided
that there should be some way to re-

cans. To do this he set up a pri-
vately sponsored, non-profit-making
program for summer travel, work,

Freshman Talents
To Vie on Friday

The freshmen have begun to
gather up talent for their first dra-
matie venture of: the year, the
freshman hall plays, which will be
given Friday and Saturday, Oct-
ober 6 and 7 at the Cornelia Otis
Skinner Workshop. ;

East House, hoping to equal or
top last year’s winning play Un-
der Milk Wood, will put on a pro-
duction called Sand Box under the
direction of Liz Lewis. Denbigh,
led by Cathy Terzian, will pre-
sent a fairy tale by Grimm called
Godfather Death.

A story about Mexican townfolk,
The Red Velvet Goat, will be. Pem
East’s undertaking, directed by
Penny Proddow. Gail Simon and
the Rhoads freshmen will do an
adaption of Lottery, a short story
by Shirley Jackson.

A cocktail party in Antilles will
set the scene for Batten House
and the Graduate Center’s This
Music Crept by Me upon the Wa-
ter. Their director is Jane Rose.
Radnor, with Susan Lewis direct-
ing, will put on a display about
“typical city inhabitants” called L.

Merion freshmen, under the direc-





tion of Ann Allen, will present A. A.
Milne’s Wurzelfummery. :

late the livés of young Americans.
with those of young emergent Afri-:

‘Crossroader’ Visits Northern Rhodesia;
Reviews Summer Work Project, Travel)

and learning in several countries in
Africa.

This past summer over 200 Cross-
roaders_ traveled to 15 different
countries in Central, West and
East Africa: Susan was a member
of the ‘team in Central Africa,
whose destination was Kitwe, North-
ern Rhodesia.

A Crossroads summer includes
an extensive week of orientation in
the United States, followed by ten
weeks in Africa. About six of the
‘weeks are spent on a work project
—usually a school, clinic, or lib-
rary — with the remainder of the
time used for travel—both in: the
country of concentration and in
other areas dissimilar to that
country.

Until one reaches Africa, Susan
said, it’s difficult to realize what
kind of place it is—and the first
realization is that ‘Africa is not “a
place.” It is thousands of places—
each completely different in cli-
mate, in culture, in customs. Her
group visited Nigeria, the French
Congo, the French Cameroons, and
Northern and Southern Rhodesia.
The difference among each of
these countries is so vast that in
most cases it becomes impossible
to generalize about Africa,

‘Most Americans, it seems, have
a rather Tarzan image of Africa,
complete with heavy rain forest,
apes, and drums sounding through
the night. Not many Crossroaders
were able to verify this image—
although the group in the. Came-
roons who built a maternity clinic
300 miles from civilization while
they lived in the chief’s palace (a
series of mud huts) and . found
bedbugs and lice their biggest prob-
lem, may have come close. The
group in Western Nigeria found
the envisioned steamy climate—but
neither forest nor ape. They lived
near Lagos, federal capital of Ni-
geria, a bustling, colorful, definite-
ly African metropolis teaming
with over a million Nigerians. The



Continued on Page 2, Col. 4

N.S.A., Undergrad to Work Jointly
In Spurring Campus Thought, Action

Association Leader Talks
About ‘Aims and Actions

the Common Room to define N.S.A.
and describe its aims and benefits
more fully.

NSA is a political and service or-
ganization; it is “liberal” but ur-
ges the conservatives and reform-
ers to unite in meeting its chal-
lenge. It is concerned with ques-
tions that involve and. go beyond
student government functionings.
It deals with national and interna-
tional questions and has taken po-
sitions (passed referenda) on Cuba,
Civil Rights, Freedom Rides and
the House Un-American Activities
Committee.

The Association has been award-
ed two $5000 grants for conferen-
ces on the aims of education and
the meaning of academic freedom.
The need for more serious thought
among students as to what their
studies are for and what they mean
is an appeal made by the N.S.A.

Federal Aid

N.S.A. is now awaiting a
$100,000 grant for an investigation
of student opinions on federal aid.
Tim Zagat questioned his listeners
on the College’s refusal of Nation-
al Defense Education grants be-
cause of the disclaimer affadavit.
Were we aware that because of
this five to ten per cent of Bryn
Mawr students were denied aid? If
federal aid to education increases
in the near future and Bryn
Mawr’s decision of refusal remains,
will the college be able to main-
tain its standards and standing
without the aid? With its hoped-
for $100,000, N.S.A. will conduct a
poll, reaching all college students,
on the complex aspects of federal
aid.

N.S.A. steps into those interna-
tional affairs which involve or af-
fect-in some degree the students of
the particular country. It has con-
demned apartheid in the university.
system of South Africa; it has
acted on the Cuban crisis on the
justification that there has been a
denial of academic freedom’ under
the Castro regime.

Aside from making decisions and
passing referenda, N.S.A. also acts.
It has a° $60,000 grant for work in
the South and a $250 grant to go
into predominantly Negro high
schools in Philadelphia where
guidance is either poor or non-
existent and to make students
there more aware of their college
opportunities and to aid them in
applying for admission.

N.S.A. has taken action on dis-
criminatory practices which occur
in colleges and college communities.
It is one of N.S.A.’s responsibili-
ties to protect the students (and often
faculty) of academic institutions in
their exercise of the freedoms of
opinion, press and action. ;

In closing, Tim cited N.S.A.’s .
trave] services: it sponsors trips
through “Educational Travel Incor-
porated” and supplies. students
with a money-saving internation-



al identity card.




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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, October 4, 1961



Cuts and Honor

In the face of what might be an administration-imposed

five-cut-per-ciass-per-semester

limitation on our Free Cut

System or a Self-Gov initiated, student-body discussed abo-
lition of the monitoring system, the News, after hesitant con-
siderations, offers its support to the latter assault on the

status quo.

To the Undergrad Executive Board ©

On Monday night the Executive Board of the Umnder-
graduate Association passed a Resolution recommending a
change in the forms of address between students and the

Maids: and Porters.

We express disapproval of this Resolu-

tion because it is an attempt to formalize relationships which
should evolve naturally and personally. We think that the
Resolution has been undertaken without adequate investiga-
tion of those most essentially involved—the Maids and Por-

ters and the Administration.

If adequate thought had been

given to the consequences the Executive Board would have
realized that in making this a Cause they have completely
destroyed their well-meant objective—the establishment of
more mutual relationships between students and staff. —

We urge that this Undergrad Resolution be rescinded
because personal relationships are not within the realm of

organizational control.

If, however, it is found that some

other organization, i. e., the Administration, is requiring the
Maids and Porters to employ certain forms of address which
might hinder the development of mutual relationships, then
we suggest that Undegrad consult with the Administration

and proceed from there.

This Year, Frugality Reigns

Included rather posthumously on the second page of this
issue is a summary of the past year’s graduation honors and
the whereabouts. of Bryn Mawr’s yourigest alumnae. Con-
ducted with surprising energy and not suprising obnoxious-
ness was a graduation-issue-sales-campaign last May. Be-
tween the good intentions of last spring and these of this fall,
the News realized that it was experiencing a financial crisis.
With no money coming in in sight to take care of a monumen-
tal bill and the spectres of a debtors’ prison dancing around
us, the News had to suspend publication of the last issue mid-
way and rely on fleet-footed Rumor to do our work. This year,

if nothing else, we promise a final issue.

Frugality reigns,

and our heads are together mapping out the ends of rain-

bows.



Fire In Taylor Purges And Enlivens;
Workmen Display Courage, Courtesy

by Pixie Schieffelin, ’62

. Although I may appear to be
iconoclastic, I cannot help but no-
tice the advantages which have ac-
crued from the Taylor fire.

For example, it is gratifying to
see that heaps of unadulterated
_ rubbish ... old chairs with stuffing
falling out of them, cracked Vic-
torian picture frames, broken
pieces of plaster statues (all of
which have ‘undoubtedly been with
Taylor since its birth and would
have remained until its death)
have been relegated ito neat piles
for confiscation.

There is one*change particularly
welcome to history and political
science students—the chance for
movable desks in Room D. This
makes possible those intimate
semi-circular discussion groups
which are advertised in catalogues,
but become a physical impossibility
with rows of desks screwed to the
floor.

But the best thing about the
Taylor reparation is the workmen
who accomplished the feat. First
of all, it is pleasant having a few
men on campus — men who are
friendly and politely inquisitive:
“What do you girls do all day in
this building anyway?” and who
approach us with humorous toler-
ance: a plasterer smiles encourag-
ment that it’s safe to go under to

itantly on one side of a ladder.

For the mundane female student
who restricts her challenges to in-
tellectual ones, it is an extraordin-
ary sensation to watch a lithe
workman, in defiance of the laws of
nature, hound up a ladder to the
roof of Taylor. Even though the
rungs are reacting like -wet spa-
ghetti under his weight, he is to-
tally obivious to the incredible
danger he is in and proceeds casu-
ally with one hand on the ladder,
the other carrying a large roll of
tarpaper, as he cracks jokes to the
crowd of gaping students below.

‘Another workman waves good
morning while straddling the cor-
ner of the three story roof ham-
mering slabs of slate, much in the
same way we would greet a friend
while straddling the leg of a but-
terfly chair, knitting a sweater. |

.Finally, those of us who have
made valiant but ineffectual at-
tempts to paint a room or wield a
hammer and have scurried back to
the familiarity and security of the
intellectual world, have to admire
the deftness with which the crafts-
men laid the floors, plastered the
walls, wired the rooms in such a
short time. Thanks to Contractor
Robert E. Lamb for producing not
only a team of efficient workers,
but a group of friendly, interested,
| brave and good looking men, whom
we have already begun to miss as



the work nears completion.



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Letter to the Editor





On September 27, a meeting was
held in the Common Room to dis-
cuss “The Role of the N. S. A. on
the Bryn Mawr Campus.” Somehow
that was the only’ subject not
brought up there, and this writer
would be very grateful to have the
matter cleared up since it seems to
be of some moment. The National
Student Association is a worthy
organization, offering much to any
campus, but its services appear to
duplicate those already provided by
existing campus groups. It organ-
izes work camps and social service
groups like League, Civil Rights
and international affairs activity as
Alliance does, Student Government
like Self-Gov, and it promises to
provide unity to the campus as
Undergrad does already. It is. cer-
tainly valuable to know what other
campuses are doing in these fields,
but it seems we could find this out
without N.S.A. I suggested at the
meeting that perhaps N.S.A. could
act as an_ information-clearing
house between the college and the
external world, but this idea was
indignantly rejected. N.S.A. wants
its own status, but I don’t under-
stand how it can be installed on
campus the way it wants to be
without duplicating the functions
and activities of Undergrad (minus
maypoles).

Sincerely,
Miranda Marvin

Fire Ravages Taylor Hall
Brigade Rescues Records

For most of the summer the
clock in Taylor Tower thought it
was 3:29 in the afternoon of July 6.
That was the moment when the
Fire Marshal turned off the elec-
tricity after a fire had broken out
on the third floor of the west wing.

Five fire companies from the
township and_ several hundred
members of the college and neigh-
boring community rushed to help.
Early on the scene were Mr. Mi-
chels, Mr. Pruett, Mr. Watson and
Mr. Conner. A brigade was formed
to carry out valuable records and
other contents of the offices. Mean-
while, Mr. Loerke, in deep concen-
tration in the stacks in the west
wing of the library, noted nothing
but the usual enough scream of
sirens.

By 9:00 the following morning
Miss Harriet Ferguson, hall man-
ager, had readied the first floor of
Pembroke East for occupancy by
the administration. Among the
rooms occupied were the silent
smoker, which was included in the
Admissions Office, rooms 10-12,
which housed the Public Informa-
tion Office, rooms 7-9, which serv-
ed as the Dean’s Office, and rooms
14-16, where Miss McBride set up
shop. At noon the staff discovered
a coke machine which had - been
brought in and set uP by the por-
ter, Thomas Smith, :

Reconstruction i

About 20,000 books stored in the
loft were damaged. For two weeks
a staff consisting of Yildiz van
Hulsteyn, Librarian of the west
wing, Dorothy McGeorge, Order
Librarian, Elizabeth Amann, As-
sistant Cataloguer, Bernice Zeldin,
a member of the Class of ’65 who
was working in the paste room,
and Agnes K. L. Michels, Profes-
sor of Latin,worked at removing
removing the books and catalogu-
ing them in piles in the main read-
ing room. .

The firm of Robert E. Lamb, Inc.,
who rebuilt Dalton after the fire
there in the early 40’s; are now
completing this latest reconstruc-
tion. After carting away 67 truck-
loads of Taylor, as Miss McBride
put it in her Convocation address,
the firm proceeded to rebuild ac-
cording to an early plan; the
slightly altered skyline will ap-
proximate Taylor in its original
form, not as it was before the fire.





'155 Receive Degrees in ’61;

Seniors Win Grants, Honors

One hundred fifty-five Bryn
Mawr Seniors graduated on June
6, 1961 at the close of the 76th
Academic year. Miss Katharine E.
McBride, President of the College,
conferred the degrees during the
ceremony held in Goodhart. Mrs.
Dorothy Nepper Marshall, Dean of
College, gave the Commencement
Address.

Among the students receiving
the Bachelor of Arts degree a num-
ber graduated with distinction. Ma-
thilde Jeanette Hebb achived sum-
ma cum laude. Twenty-three gain-
ed magna cum laude, and sixty-
three cum laude. Forty-four earned
Honors in their major subject.

(Eleven students gained Wood-
row Wilson grants. Five received
Fulbright Scholarships: Elizabeth
Levering, Nancy Beyer, Gracemary

Booth, Lois Potter and Toby Lan-
gen. Jean Hebb received a Nation-
al Science Foundation grant and
was named Bryn Mawr’s European
Xd

Fellow; Lois Potter earned a Mar-
shall Award.

At the time of Commencement
fifty percent of the graduating
class planned to attend graduate
school, including five entering me-
dical ‘school and five law’ school.

By June, 33 percent had jobs, in-
cluding twelve teaching positions.
Of these, three are of special’ in-
terest: Corny Wadsworth is teach-
ing in a mission school in Darjee-
ling, India, Brenda Tillberg in Ni-
geria, and Elizabeth Jones in Col-
ombia.

Six graduates have U. S. Govern-
ment jobs; Elizabeth Lynes has
joined the Housing and Home Fi-
nance Agency and Hannah Woods,
the Foreign Service. Others are
working with the CIA and Nation-
al Security. Civilian jobs include
IBM and museum positions.

Eight percent of the Class of
1961 was married by the time of
graduation; ten percent plan to be



married within a year.



Radcliffe Drops Gym Requirements;
B.M.C. Department To Stand Firm

Radcliffe College has abolished the
physical education requirement. Al-
though a “wide variety of intra-
and extramural sports” will still
be available, students will no
longer have to participate in any
scheduled physical activity. Since
many Bryn Mawrters have long
felt that they get exercise enough
in sprinting from the Biology
Building to Taylor to Dalton or
have always wondered why one
can’t take “Being a Spectator” as
a fall sport, this announcement
may appear very interesting.

The physical education depart-
ment, however, remind us that it
serves many functions. Since Bryn
Mawrters are the hardest working



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Crossroads Africa

Continued from Page 1, Co. 4
Nigerian is confident, proud, and
determined to raise the standard
of living in his—as yet—poor coun-
try.

This atmosphere contrasts strik-
ingly with that of the Federation
of Rhodesia and Nyassaland, where
Susan and her group spent most of
their time. Whereas Black Govern-
ment has been easily established
in West Africa, in Central Africa,
British and South African vested
interests have thus far prevented
black government and have sought
to limit the political, economic, and
social rights of the African people

The Africans, once resigned to the
situation, have become greatly af-
fected by events of recent years in
Africa and are demanding equality
more and more. At the same time
they are aware that the Europeans
(a term used to refer to whites—-
no matter where they come from)
both control the weapons of com-
bat and have the technical and ad-
ministrative knowledge necessary
to run a country. They hesitate to
fight for their liberation because
they .could be easily wiped out by
the armed forces of the Federa-
tion“nd they do not wish the
Europeans to leave the ‘country;



students in the country (academi-
cally, that is), they need strong
physical activity as a counterbal-
ance to all that mental work. Many
girls have never had the opportun-
ity to learn the fundamentals of
sports or have suffered through
large gym classes. The individual
attention and wide range of
sports available here mean
that a girl can really acquire
factors involved in a scheduled pat-
tern of physical activity.

The general apathy from which
most Bryn Mawrters suffer extends
to the idea of physical exercises
as well. The physical education

department tries to establish a
pattern

of activity which the
student will continue even after
she has completed her requirement.
This they feel cannot be accom-
plished in a single year.

The only solution seems to be to
throw that tunic into the washing
machine and iron it carefully. It

looks as if it will still be in use

for some time to come.



that would probably lead to a chaos
similar to that in the Belgian Con-
go last year.

The European community is loath
to give up the political and econ-
omic contro] which they now hold.
They live in constant fear of an
African uprising, and this pro-
motes an attitude of hate toward the
African, and a policy of segrega-
tion more vicious than anything we
in the. United States have known.

Crossroads, with an integrated
group of thirteen Americans- and
Canadians, entered this situation.
They were met with suspicion
from the Africans, and with con-
tempt from the Europeans. They
went to learn about the-people and
problems of that area, and at the
same time to establish an image
of young America. Their work
project was an amphitheatre which
they built at the Mindolo Ecumen-
ical Centre, an institution support-
ed by Protestant Churches of all

Continued on Page 4, Col. 2



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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three



Departments Try New Courses
To Cover Latest Developments

by Missy Warfield

By instituting new courses, col-
leges adjust themselves to the dif-
ferent trends in the changing
world of politics, of science and of
scholarship. Bryn Mawr has this
year offered many new and much-
needed courses to her students in
nearly all the departments of
study.

Starting with a new course in
Politital Science. on ‘Aspects of
Latin American Politics” given by
Dean Marshall, many of the cour-
ses are highly relative to the pre-
sent world. Bryn Mawr has long
needed a course of this kind
in the light of recent developments
with Latin America. It brings home
with force the need for a better
understanding of our nearest for-
eign speaking neighbors.

Other new courses concerned not
with the political state of affairs
but with the pursuit of schol-
arship are to be found in the Ar-
chaeology and History of Art de-
partment. A completely new course
on “Anatolian and Syrian Archae-
ology,” given by Miss Mellink, will
be the contribution of a depart-
ment that usually teaches only
classical archaeology and works on
Asiatic archaeology outside the
classroom. And the Art department
is also greatly expanded with the
addition of three new and reward-
ing courses. A course given by Mr.
Mitchell on “Texts for Art Histor-
ians” requires the student to have
an. “elementary knowledge of La-
tin and a working knowledge of at
least two of the following langu-
ages: French, Latin or German.”
The course in “Medieval Problems”
given by Mr. Loerke requires a
reading knowledge of three of the
following four languages: French,
German, Italian or Latin. The
course given by Mr. Fowle in
“Twentieth Century Painting and
Sculpture” requires only a read-



ing knowledge of French; however
in spite of its low standards it
should prove to be, a most fascinat-
ing course and one that has been
sorely missedin the Art depart-
ment. Q

The many other new courses are
important additions to their de-
partments. Biology has added a
course in “Biophysics” given by
Miss Hoyt. Chemistry is offering
“Chemical Thermodynamics” and
“Applied Mathematics for Chem-
ists.” Mr. Burlin is giving a course
for the English Department on
“Studies in Middle English Litera-
ture.” Mr. Alwyne will give a
course second semester on Russian
music.

Anthropology, resolving. all
the differences and the diversities
of the new courses, complacently
putting all smugness of answering
“a hack” in the curriculum behind
it is offering with the help of Miss
Goodale a course entitled “Stone
Age Man and the Modern World.” |c



B.M.C. ‘Amazons’

Hang on the Ivy

Gay and Sage

Femininity at Bryn Mawr has fi-
nally received This
happy: event occurred in a recent
issue (December 1961) of - Es-
capade, a magazine ‘which profes-
ses to offer “pleasure for every
man.” In an article entitled “The
Eastern Girls’ Schools,” Bryn
Mawr among others holds its own
with a pool full of the latest com-
mercial innovation, Jayne Mans-
field hot-water , bottles, and other
less shrouded lovelies.

Vassar is typed as a “girls’ coun-
try club,” while Radcliffe is a
“bright middle-high-class_ girls’
school.” Wellesley offers the “all-
American” mother of tomorrow, but
it is the Bryn Mawrter that is “ev-
erything from beat to polished.”
She is pictured in the pages of Es-
capades as the “gay, young, self-
possessed erudite.”

recognition.

Physical Freedom

Th ade editors seem to
sider Bryn Mawyr’s rules and



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New Faces

on Campus

In order that the comments of where was so and so hiding all the time
or recently dug up may be quelled, the News publishes the following list:
NEW APPOINTMENTS

1961 -
Associate Professors Dept.
Rose Segal, M.S. Social Work
Assistant Professors
W. Paul Ganley, Ph.D. Physics
Richard C. Gnozales, Ph.D. Psychology
Brunilde S. Ridgway, Ph.D. Archaeology
Visiting Lecturers
Frederick S. Dunn, Ph.D. Pol. Sci.
James J. John, D.M.S. History and
i Mediaeval
Studies

Elizabeth Mongan, A.B.

Jean Potter, Ph.D. Philosophy Professor of Philosophy at Barnard -Col-
; ce lege
Lecturers
Samuel Bloom, Ph.D. Anthropology- Baylor University
Sociology
Charles Cooper, LL.B. Pol.” Sci. Harvard | University
Jane Goodale, Ph.D. Anthropology ,_ Instructor! at University of Pennsylvania’
R. Martin Harrison, M.A. Archaeology Controller of Antiquities in Cyrenaica
: and Fellow of the British Institute of
Archaeology at Ankara
Erika Schmiedbauer, Ph.D. German
Alan Silvera, M.A. History Candidate for the Ph.D. at Harvard
Jean Paul Weber, Doc. es Let. French tycee Michelet (Paris)
Instructors
Avery D. Andrews History (On joint appointment with Haverford)
Alice Emerson (Mrs.) Pol. Sci. Graduate student at Bryn Mawr
Claude William LaSalle . English Asst. Instructor at U. of P.
Patricia Miller, M.S.S. (BMC) Sécial Work Psychiatric Social Worker at St. Chris:
topher’s Hospital
Marilyn Z. Pryor (Mgs.), Ph.D. Biology Department of Zoology, University of
Tennessee
Doris Quinn (Mrs.) English
William A. Wisdorn Philosophy Scholar at Bryn Mawr
LEAVES
1961-62
Professors
Bee WL MATH oie ce ced see ces Fulbright Grant. ‘Working on a book on Lucan

Associate Professors
Robert L. Conner
David J. Herlihy

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History of Art

On a Guggenheim Grant in Italy “Studies

1962
Former position
Professor at New York Univ., 1957-59

Associate Physicist at Cornell Aeronauti-
cal Laboratory, -1960-61

Assistant Professor at Hollins College
Albert G. Millbank -Professor of Inter-
national Affairs and Director, Center of

International Studies at Princeton Univ.
Institute for Advanced Sudy, Princeton

Curator of the Rosenwald Gallery

Research at the University.of Minnesota
of the agrarian

history of Tuscany in relation to the economic crisis of
the 14th century.”

Gertrude Leighton

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Visiting Associate Research Professor in Law and Psychia-

try at the University of Pennsylvania

Isabel.G. MacCaffrey
Eugene V. Schneider
Asssitant Professors
Edward B. Harper

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time you must be aware that
the public expects journalists to
know everything about every-
thing.

I am a newcomer to the area
and desirous of meeting Bryn
Mawrians. Does your school] run
those incredible affairs known
as “mixers?” If so, when are
they given and where?

My pedigree is good (Har:
vard) and I brush twice a day
(Colgate).

Anticipating some sort of re-

ply, I am
Your workaday journalist,
Philip M. Boffey
Wilmington Morning News
831 Orange Street
Wilmington, Delaware

THEATRE

Erlanger through October 30.

ters, is at the Forrest.
ART GALLERIES

Monday through Saturday.

through October 20, -
PLACES OF INTEREST

bon, near Valley Forge.

Edgar. Alan Poe House where he wrote “The Raven”
editions are on display, is open 10:00 to 5:00 daily and 1:00,to 5:00

=
A (Cook for Mr. General, a comedy starring Bill

In and Around Philadelphia

Let It Ride, a musical based on Abram Ginnes’s Three Men on a Horse, star-
ring Sam Levene, George Gobel,

and Barbara Nichols, will be at the

— and —

y

Pissdro to Picasso offers paintings, watercolors, drawings, and graphics at
the Coleman Art Gallery, 225 South 16th Street, open 10:00 to 5:00

2)

Cornelia Forster, the Swiss artist, will have her first one-woman show in
America at the Little Gallery, 252 South 16th Street, 11:00 to
Monday through Saturday, 5:00 to 9:00 on Wednesday evenings,

5:00

Audubon Shrine and Wildlife Sanctuary is open 10:00 to 5:00 daily in Audu-

Saturdays, at 5380 North 17th Street.

Chestnut Street...
MOVIES

U.S.S. Olympia, Dewey’s flagship during the Spanish-American War, can
be boarded from 10:00 to 5:00 Monday through Saturday and from
11:00 to 6:00 Sundays and holidays.

Anchored in the Delaware at

Tunes of Glory with Alec Guiness is playing at The Suburban in Ardmore.
Gary Cooper and Deborah Kerr star in The Naked Edge at the Ardmore

long series of English comedies.

Theater. The Bryn Mawr Theater presents Upstairs and Downstairs in its



regulations of particular interest
to their readers. They describe
Bryn Mawr.as “abounding in phys-
ical freedom.” Failure of the self-
gov exam is “inconceivable” in
their eyes, “because getting per-
mission is an annoyance and per-
dis-
appear, leaving behind a strangled
girl and her helpless date.” The
editors are not so happy about the

sign-out procedure, for which the

mission-givers sometimes

“only thing lacking is a cash

deposit,” and warn of the Bryn
Mawr girl’s ease in handling the
inebriated escort. At this point she
becomes the “resilient, resourceful
amazon skillfully wending her way
home through late hour traffic, pro-
tecting herself and her sotted bur-
den from disaster.”

Well-Rounded

At last we’ Bryn Mawrters, so
long known as straight-laced schol-
ars, have emerged from our ivied
towers. While none of us~has yet
received the arue accolade, a cen-
ter-page spread in Play “Boy, we
may now rightfully term ourselves
well-rounded.

Bryn Mawr received additional,
though nowhere near as compli-
mentary, attention in two other
current magazines. The October
Harper’s has a picture of a tree-
perched Carol Schrier, Polly Jen-
kins and Susan Thom observing
Class day rites, while Time of Sept-
ember 29 notes the economy of stu-
dent and professor-swapping be-



tween BMC, Haverford and
Swarthmore. |





L. Kahn Designs
Hall of Residence

Official announcement has been
made by President Katharine E.
McBride of the building of a new
residence hall for undergraduates.
To stand on Morris Avenue across
Lombart Avenue, which on the pe-
tition of the College was vacated
during the summer, the new hall
will necessitate the destruction of

East House at the end of the Aca-

demic year.

The new building will house 125
students, relieving the present
overcrowding and providing ac-
commodations for about 55 new stu-
dents. Louis. I. Kahn, internation-
ally known Philadelphia’ architect
will design the hall, which will be
the first college building of this
type planned by Mr. Kahn,

Architect Kahn will be the first
in Undergrad’s Eminent Speakers
Series this year. His October 23
lecture is expected to provide in-
sights into the design of. the new
hall.



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THE COLLEGE NEWS.

Wednesday, October 4, 1961







Various Motives Inspire Players
To Support Of Applebee Tradition





& by Elizabeth Reed ’62

Thursday, September 21, was not
only the beginning of Freshman
Week, but also the day on which
tue dedicated members of last
year’s hockey squad returned for an
extended Hockey Weekend. It was
also a day for nabbing any like-
ly hockey players from the fresh-
man class. Under the capable in-
struction of Miss Cross and Miss
Yeager, Bryn Mawr hockey players
endured five days of strenuous
morning and afternoon practice
under a broiling sun, the heat from
which was conveniently rational-
ized as good for building stamina.
The highlight of the weekend was
the unofficial upperclassman-fresh-
man game; the upperclassmen
were encouraged not only by win-
ning, but by the spirit of the fresh-
men, and, for the first time this
season, the upperclassmen .hockey
players enthusiastically gave their

_Greek cheer for the incoming class.

For those who are _ tradition-
minded, hockey is one of Bryn
Mawr’s oldest sports. Indeed, Bryn

- Mawr, along with ,Vassar, Smith,

Wellesley and Mt. Holyoké, was
one of the original five colleges to
which Miss Applebee introduced
hockey from England. Bryn Mawr
was fortunate to have Miss Apple-
bee as head of the gym department
for many years beginning with
1905, and, in her time, every stu-
dent played hockey; there were 14
to 16 teams. This is quite a stag-
gering’ number considering that
the college was much smaller then.
Today, there are but two varsity
teams and class hockey.

There are many reasons for peo-
ple to go out for hockey, especially
hockey camp. Chief among these
might be the mutinous: thrill of
coming back to Bryn Mawr, realm
of the intellectual female denizens,
just to spend five days of living
and breathing hockey. The contrast
between books and bullies is re-
freshing. There are also the play-





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physically fit and those who have
the hockey bug nostalgically car-
ried over from p school. Then
there are those players who are
enchanted by the esthetic aspects
of the game. It is quite thrilling to
be one of a phalanx of gold tunics
running down a hockey field in the
brisk fal] air with the leaves chang-
ing colors on the bank. There is al-
so the unforgettable smell of onion
grass.

1961 HOCKEY SCHEDULE
October

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Crossroads Africa

Continued from Page 2, Col..5
the world which serves community
needs.

It is the philosophy of Cross-
roads that the work project be not
an end in itself, but rather a means
to an end—learning about young
citizens of the country; for the
workcamp experience enables one
to live and work with African, stu-
dents and give one plenty of time
to discuss issues and to discover
common interests and ideas. Sus-
an’s group worked with five Rho-
desian students—all in secondary
school—and through them came to



know better the situation of Cen-
tral Africa today.

She described: the educational
plight of the country—a crisis sit-
uation—where there are three high
schools which prepare Africans for
university training in a country of
2 million Africans. She touched
on the economic disparity of the
area. In the copper mines, for in-
stance (the economic backbone of
Northern Rhodesia), the MINI-
MUM wage for Europeans is L45
($120) per month and the MAXI-
MUM for Africans is L47 ($125)
per month.

Contrast

Susan showed movies that she
had taken of both the rural and

ithe urban areas of the Rhodesias.

Salisbury, the capital of Southern
Rhodesia reminds one of Phoenix,
Arizona; on the next reel elephants
and wart hogs ran wild in Wankie
game preserve. Such is the con-
trast to be found in the Federation
—and indeed, in most of Africa..

She, as do all Crossroaders, has
an obligation to speak at least once
a week during the coming year
about Africa and her experiences
there. This is another part of the
Crossroads philosophy—to acquaint
more Americans with Africa and
to expand the Crossroads pro-
gram—for the majority of Cross-
roaders who apply each year have
heard of Crossroads from a former
Crosroader. She will be happy to
talk with anyone interested in such
a program at any time. Just write,
call, or visit Denbigh 10-14—soon!

(Susan Gumpert also wrote this
article.)





Campus Events

‘Friday and Saturday, Oct. 6-7—Freshman \Hall plays; Skinner.

Tuesday, Oct. 10—The first of a series of seminars sponsored by
the Art Department on African sculpture will be given by |
Mr. Fagg; Common Room, 8330.









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