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VOL. XLIV, NO. 3

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1958

© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1958

PRICE 20 CENTS



Arts Night To Rise In Fall;

Council Announces Try-outs

Arts Council has scheduled Arts
Night on November 8 this year,
instead. of in .the spring. This
change was in favor of a Faculty
Show, of greater senior participa-
tion, and of a_less-hurried-more-
fun-time for all.

Although the Deans’ Office rul-
ing which does not permit fresh-
men to act in College Theatre pro-
ductions in the first semester, must
apply to the one-act play in Arts
Night, freshmen are encouraged
to try out their individual talents.
The existence of a Dance Club de-
pends on the interest of freshmen,
for example.

Tryouts Scheduled

The one-act play, to be directed
by Sue Gold (Merion), will prob-
ably be one written last year by
a student of the play-writing class.
The play will be announced be-
fore its tryouts in Skinner, these
to be-on Monday, October 20.

The tryouts for the rest of the
program—for those who sing
arias or unusual folksongs, who
play instruments, who dance the

Golliwogs’ Cake Walk or the Rock,

’n’? Roll—will be in the Roost on
Friday afternoon, October 17.
Those interested in trying out, but
unable to do so at that time,
should contact Anne Farlow, direc-
tor of: Arts Night, in Pem West.
All tryouts are open to Haverford
as well as to Bryn Mawr.
Hall Representatives

Instead of appointing members
when time and circumstances dic-
tate, Arts Council has found it-
self embarking on projects ambi-
tious enough, and of general
enough interest, to warrant a rep-
resentative from each hall. The
reasons for and the duties of such
representatives will be explained
here and at hall meetings.

Arts Council in its second year
finds itself enthusiastically sup-
ported less by: the already exist-
ing, independent organizations on
campus, devoted to acting, writing,
singing, than by. those individuals
at Bryn Mawr and at Haverford
interested in furthering the avail-
ability of the arts to the individual
student.

Haverford To Cooperate

The Haverford interest in our
Arts Council is a new one, and at
a meeting here last week, they sug-
gested that much mutual benefit
to each college could be produced
by our working together. Haver-
ford referred to the art exhibits
held at Haverford and at Bryn
Mawr last spring—each virtually
unknown to the other, and neither
well attended. They referred to
talent on their campus, unused
because unsponsored.

‘Varied. Sunday Afternoons

Haverfordians will take part in
Arts Night and help produce it.
They will help us negotiate for
tickets at the Academy, and Bryn
Mawr and Haverford students will
attend concerts and plays in Phil-
adelphia and the vicinity together.
The playreading group on Sunda
afternoons last year dwindled per-
ceptibly; Haverford this year will
be invited too. Our immediate
project is a varied program for
Sunday afternoons — folksinging,
playreading, Chamber Music con-
certs—to be publicized on both

ized soon. Publicity on both
campuses is most important. The
advantage to Bryn Mawr is obvi-
ous. Bryn Mawrters: may meet
Haverfordians on a basis of mu-
tual interest, Each campus may
benefit from a mutual awareness
of activities, and from the sharing
of them.
Reps To Choose Projects ¢
All this is beyond the exertions
of the present Arts Council, con-
sisting of seniors busy heading in-
dependent organizations. The
Ticket Agency, the decorating of
the Roost with student art, the
procuring of movies, and go on,
must remain “‘projects” until there
are enough girls to achieve them.
Each representative will choose
her particular “project”. She need
not have a specific creative talent,
but must enjoy responsibility and
be adventurous enough to explore
new and ever-expanding ideas.

Juniors To Present

Show Inside Out

Escape the horrors of the Re-
serve Room and the. incarceration
of the lab! Enjoy the diversions of
Junior Weekend (at least until the
hopelessness of Monday morning!)
Friday evening at 8:30 the class
of 1960 presents (appropriately)
Inside Out! Following the play
Pembrokes East and West are
holding a joint Open House, to
which stags as well as_ those
claimed for the evening are in-
vited.

Dance In Gym

Following the play on Saturday
evening, also begining at 8:30, a
formal dance willbe held in the
gym from 10 P.M. until 2 A.M.;
music by Ray Carr and his orches-
tra. After the dance the Roost will
be open until 3:30 A.M.

For Rhoads only, there will be
a coffee hour on Sunday afternoon,
in~ Rhoads.

Sloane To Deliver

Talk for Interfaith

Next Tuesday evening in the
Art Lecture Room, Dr. Joseph C.
Sloane will deliver a lecture on
“The Visual Form of. Divinity.”

The lecture, to be held October
21, will be sponsored by the Bryn
Mawr Interfaith Association.

Dr. Sloane, for many years
chairman of the Department of
History of Art, will no longer be
at Bryn Mawr after this semester.
He has accepted a position at the
University’ of North Carolina.
While here he has ‘conducted
courses in Italian Art, Modern
Art, and American Art.

———
Notice

On Wednesday, November 12,

a bus will leave Pem Arch at 7:00

pm. for a trip to the Health

Museum. Two films: Endocrine
Glands, How They Affect You—
and Human Heredity will be
shown.

. Following this, there will be a
tour of the museum. While this
is primarily for the hygiene class,
any others are welcome, students
or faculty. Cost of the bus will be



Haverford is anithustastic. “They
have enough interested students
wanting to work with us that

~-Mmany of these ideas may be real-

divided_among those, using it and| _

Pem East Effort
’| By W. B. Yeats
Most Outstanding

by Jana Varvleys

Honors for the most outstanding
play this year
went to Pem East for its presen-
tation of W. B. Yeats’ The Land
directed by
An unusual and

Freshman Hall

of Heart’s Desire,
Agnes Moncy.
difficult play to perform, it was
effectively staged, transporting
the audience into Yeats’ world of
the mystic and supernatural.

Sara Schlesinger caught the
wistful, dreamy quality of the
young bride Maire, who longs to
escape the drudgery and dullness
of the Irish peasant’s life, and is
“weary of the four tongues” of
parents-in-law, husband, and par-
ish priest who dominate her home.
Sara’s diction was excellent, but
her interpretation.was perhaps too
narrow, lacking something of the
lightness and. frivolity demanded
by the role.

Moyra Byrne was an excellent
choice for Maire’s husband Shawn,
the “kind tongue too full of
drowsy love / Of drowsy love and
(Maire’s) captivity.” Shawn’s par-
ents, Bridget (Cecily Martin) and
Maurteen (Stephanie Tashjian),
formed a good contrast to one an-

that is more bitter than the tide”,
the latter with the “tongue that
igs too crafty and too wise”.

Father Hart, the “tongue that
is too godly and too grave,” was

+played by Abbie Brill. Her portray-

al was sufficiently “godly” and
“rave,” but lacked warmth and
force.

The lithe figure, pyxie features,
and melodious voice of Allison
Baker suited the role of the Fairy
Child perfectly. She cast a spell
of enchantment over both stage
and audience, capturing the spirit
of vitality and ‘the lyricism of
Yeats’ verse.

The offstage fairy voices con-
tributed a great deal to the mood
of- the play. Fortunately, no at-
tempt was made to imitate an
Irish accent, as it probably would
have detracted, rather than added
to the beauty of the poetry, which
was for the greater part well
spoken.

other, the former with the “tongue| .

A Convocatidn preceding the
férmal opening of the recently
completed Biology Building in the
Science Center will be held in
Goodhart Hall on Saturday, Octo-
ber 18, at- 2:30.

The program, the theme of
which is “Demands of Modern Bi-

Calendar

Wednesday, October 15:

7:30 — Common Room,
Lecture.

7:30 — Biology Building, Hygiene
Lecture.

Thursday, ‘October 16:

4:30— Common Réom, Interclub
Tea given by Undergrad for
freshmen and sophomores.

Friday, October 17: .

8:30—Goodhart, Junior Show, “In-
side Out.”

Friday, October 17:

Open House Pembroke East and
West.

Saturday, October 18:
2:30—Goodhart Auditorium, UCon-
vocation preceding the opening
of the new Biology Building.
speakers, President McBride,
Dr. James A. Shannon, Director
of the National Institutes of
Health and Dr. Wallace O. Fenn,
President of the American. Insti-
tute of Biological ‘Sciences.
After the’ convocation the
Philadelphia Alumnae will be
hostesses at a tea in the Biology
Building and student majors in
Biology will be available to con-
duct tours of the building.
Saturday, October 18:
8:30—Goodhart, the junior class
presents “Inside Out.”
Saturday, October 18:
10:00—Gym, ~ Undergrad Dance
Shangri-La, following the show.
|Sunday, October 19:
4:30—Common Room, Arts Coun-
cil sponsors Folk- Singing.
Sunday, October 19: —
7:30—Music Room, Chapel, Dr.
' Edward Brubaker of the Taber-
nacle Presbyterian Church, Phil-
adelphia.
Monday, October 20:
7:15—Common Room, Arts Forum.



Marriage





Fhe class which enters Bryn
Mawr next fall will be the first
to enjoy a lessening of the un-
certainties and tension with re-
gard to college admissions which

nimity of many high school: sen-
iors. The change is owing to the
Early Decision Plan soon to be
employed by Bryn Mawr, Barnard,
Mount Holyoke, Radcliff Smith,
Vassar and Wellesley.

Briefly, the plan provides for
the organization of college admis-
sions machinery in such a way
that each college participating in
it will be able to notify, early in
their senior year, scholastically

promising students who have
chosen a particular college
whether or not they are assured of
a place in the particular college.
Salient points of the plan provide
that:



should be well under $1.00.
All persons wishing :to mike the
trip must sign up in the dispen-



sary by Thursday, October 30,

March of the junior year the
Scholastic Apevade Test of the



have seriously disrupted the equa-|—

1. Students wishing to attend a ‘
particular college should take “in| the college,.she is required to give; next day pairs take paint, ladders,

Seven Women’s Colleges To Adopt
Early Decision Plan As Of Next Fall

2. After receiving the results of

this test the student’s college
counselor should advise her as to
the suitability of applying to only
the one college.
38. If a favorable verdict — is
forthcoming, the student should
apply to the college, and in Many
of the junior year should take
three Achievement Tests of the
CEEB.

4, Students ‘who hare submit-
ted an application and tests to the
chosen college by certain dates are
notified in December whether they
are assured admission the following
autumn, with the reservation that
they do not deteriorate scholastic-
ally during their senior year, or
whether they should transfer their
application to the regular admis-
sion group, or should withdraw
altogether from applying to that
particular college.

5. If a student is accepted by

assurance by February that she
will attend that college.



CEEB.

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“Demands of Modern Biolegy”
Will Be Convocation’s Theme

ology,” will include addresses by
Dr. Katharine E. McBride; by Dr.

James of the National Institutes of
Health, Department of Health,

Education, and Welfare; Dr. Wal-
lace O. Fenn, Professor at the
School of Medicine and Dentistry
of the University of Rochester,
and President of the American In-
stitute of Biological Sciences.

Research and Perspectives

Dr. Shannon will take as _ his
topic ‘Medical Research — 1958.”
“Perspectives in the Biological
Sciences” will be the subject of
Dr. Fenn’s address.

Following the Convocation,
there will be a reception at the
Biology Building, at which Miss
McBride and members of the biol-
ogy department will meet guests.
Biology students will act as guides
through the Building, and tea will

of Philadelphia.
College Encourages Science

The opening of the Biology
Building marks another step in
Bryn Mawr College’s long history
of devotion to and encouragement
of the sciences and mathematics.

Bryn Mawr is one of the few
colleges ‘which from its inception
has taught these subjects on both
the graduate and the undergrad-
uate level. Its first faculty, in 1885,
included professors in three nat-
ural sciences and mathematics,
whose teaching extended from the
freshman year to the doctorate.

Labs In Taylor

In the beginnings, laboratories
were in Taylor Hall, the college’s
only academic building, until the
construction, .in 1893, of Dalton
Hall, a then modern building for
scientific teaching and research.
In 1988 came the inauguration of
the program of coordination in the
sciences, with the building of
the nucleus of a new science
-center, Marion Edwards Park Hall.

Physics and Math Unit

At present, plans are being
drawn up for a physics and mathe-
matics unit, the construction of
which will fulfill the objective of
establishing under one roof all of
Bryn Mawr’s scientific and mathe-
matical studies, both graduate and
undergraduate.

League Sponsors
Workeamp Movie

Camp Committee, brought a movie
and speaker to the Common Room
Monday night. Troy Chapman,
leader of one of the Friends’ week-
end workcamps in Philadelphia,
supplemented the movie, “This
Way Out,” with comment and ex-
planation.

The film was conceived, directed,
and produced by Haverford and
Swarthmore students, who also
did all the acting. A Swarthmore
boy composed music especially for
the film.

“This Way Out” dealt with the
progress of the usual week end
eamp: the students arrive in a

is located (usually in a church);
they cook their own meals, clean
up, mend clothing for relief. The.

plaster, perhaps wall-paper to a:



home where the family is ready to
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low-rent district where the camp _

be served by the Bryn Mawr Club

League, together with its Work