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- VOL, XLIV—NO. 16
undergraduates have supported at
‘scholarship and award it to a’
8
ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH. 11, 1959
© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1959
Second Of Three Greek Comedy Talks
Delivered Monday By!
Miss A. M. Dale (who also ex-
ists as Mrs. T .B, L. Webster),
Reader in Classics at the Univer-
sity of London, gave the second
of the Horace White Memorial
Lectures on Monday evening. Her
topie was “Old Comedy: .Aristo-
phanes’ Acharnians.”
Of Old Comedy, a form of drama
unique to fifth century Athens,
only nine specimens survive; all
of these were composed by Aris-
tophanes, and their dates range
from approximately 425 to 405 B.C.
The characteristics of Old Comedy
are clearly outlined by the extant
plays, and of them the Acharnians
is probably the most typical, since
Aristophanes wrote it when he
was only twenty (thus, presum+
ably, his style was more influenced
by the conventions of the drama-
tic form and less by his own de-
velopment).
(he time of Old Comedy is al-
ways the present, The scene, since
there is no scenery, may be any-
where (or nowhere in particular)
and may change at an actor’s word.
The object is simply to entertain,
usually by satirizing some aspect
of Athenian life, while the vehicle
of the action is a comic. Idea (in
the Acharnians it is Dikaiopolis’
attempt, as a single man, to make
peace with Sparta), treated with
Wellesley’s Booth
Reads His Poems
“Every poem is essentially a
love poem” commented Philip
Booth, winner of the Lamont Po-
etry Award, in reading selections
from his work Tuesday afternoon
in the Ely Room, Wyndham, Mr.
Booth, whose Bryn Mawr reading
‘was made possible through the
gitf of Mr. Theodore Spenser, is
assistant professor of musica
assistant professor of English at
Wellesley College and a Guggen-
heim Fellow.
Though termed “love poems
Mr. Booth’s works, many of which
take their imagery from the Pen-
obseot Bay area where the poet
grew up, are not essentially ro-
mantic. Several pieces, apostro-
phically addressed “Girl” and di-
rected to his young daughters,
are actually, though metaphorical-
ly disguised, paternal advice on
love.
Others, though also poemslove
Others, though also “love poems”,
might possibly be called elergies,
Continued on Page 5, Col. 1
Vote To Be Taken
On Aid Donations
Since World War II Bryn Mawr
least one foreign student a year.
The scholarship, which is admin-
istered by Undergrad, covers tui-
tion, room, board, and a monthly
allowance. It~is usually financed
by Common Treasury dues and by
an assessment of one dollar on
each of the last four Paydays.
Since the present holder of the
award graduates this June, an all-
college vote must be taken to de-
cide whether or not to continue the |
eign student who could therm enter
next year’s freshman class. The
wote will be taken following dis-
cussion, in hall meetings:
to declaim poetry.
Miss A. M. Dale
sober conviction.
Though comic actors wore gro-
tesque costumes and masks, they
needed far more ability to ‘act’ in
the modern sense than the tragic
actor, whose business was rather
In particular,
subtle delivery was necessary to
effect a take-off on tragedy in
every speech, Comic verse was
more often spoken than. sung -or
chanted, but it is completely differ-
ent from prose in re and
composition.
Continued on Page 4, Col. 2
project. Mr. Leighton, the brother
work with the Navajo Indians and
books, Governing of Men, has been
logy department.
Miss Amelia White of the class
“NEW COMEDY: MENANDER’S ‘ARCHARNIANS’ ”—
of the Horace White Memorial Lectures on Greek Comedy, to be
delivered by Professor T. B. L. Webster, on Monday, March 16, at
8:30 p.m. in the Lecture Room, Biology Building. The Horace White
Memorial Lecture Fund, which underwrote this series, was the gift of
Lectu res In Prospect
“STUDY IN THE PREVALENCE OF MENTAL ILLNESS”—Dr.
Alexander Leighton, professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Cor-
‘|nell University, spent ten years studying mental illness in a Canadian
community of both French and English-speaking peoples. His lecture,
to be presented in the Biology Lecture Room by the Psychology depart-
ment on Friday, March 18 at 8:30 p.m., will be based on findings of this
of Miss Gertrude Leighton, Assoc-
iate Professor of Political Science at Bryn Mawr, has also done field
the Alaskan Eskimos. ‘One of his
used ag a basic text in the Psycho-
The last
of 1901. Lectures in classics and
archaeology have been given through this grant since 1926.
Aeschylus’ “Oresteia” Jointly Presented
In Lattimore’s Translation of Old Greek
pee 2c
Miss Cam Lectures On ‘London Eyre,
Discusses King’s Court Session, 1321
“The Eyre is the King’s supreme court, . .
eling and inquiringfinto a county’s administration and behavior and
incidentally prepared to do justice
Helen Maud Cam, Professor
”,| sity and the first woman appointed
Miss Cam, who is editing the records of the Longon Eyre of 1321
for the Selden Society, delivered her lecture before am enlarged Journal
Club Monday afternoon.
The institution of the Eyre began as early as 1166 with the first
directives to the justices. This
itinerant court moved from county
to county, hearing civil] and crim-
inal pleas and covering the whole
administration of the“shire. Pri-
marily, their job was to serve-the
King’s interest and no source of
revenue was overlooked.
By 1821, although a session had
been held in Kent in 1318, the Eyre
was falling into disuse, and the
return. of the Eyre to London after
a 45-year interval was occasioned
more by the political situation than
by custom. Under the weak King
Edward II, the Norman barons
moved to reassert their power
against the crown, and, led by
Thomas of Lancaster, forced the
passage of the Ordinances of 1311,
designed to weaken the power and
correct the abuses of the King.
While this struggle continued, a
faction in favor of popular govern-
ment came into administrative
power in London; although it
seemed that a “good time was about
to begin”, the liaison between the
city and the “Lord’s Ordainers”—
visit the Eyre upon the Londoners.
It was a “smack in the face” for
eritus of History at Harvard Univer-
. the King’s justices trav-
between man and man,” said Miss
to the faculty of Harvard.
the Londoners a lesson,” said Miss
Cam.
The Eyre opened in January of
1321 in the Tower of London amid
elaborate attempts by the court to
“caltch out” the hapless city offic-
ials, who for their part fell into
procedural blunders. A number
of quo veranto cases challenged
the ancient rights and customs of
the city, and for a time the very
mayor of London was replaced by
a King’s lieutenant. But the mar-
shalling of the baronial forces to
the North and trouble on the
Welsh march forced Edward to
bring the Eyre to an abrupt end].
on July 4.
During the proceedings of the
court, young law students sat in
a special place called the “crib”,
taking notes. It is these reports—
or rather—“reports of reports of
reports” since they were edited
and re-edited—that Miss Cam is
Continued on Page 5, Col. 4
Notice
The “Self-Government Assoc
ation announces the election of
Sue Harris, ’60 to the presi-
Next week’s News will feature
an article by Mr. Richmond Lat-
timore, Professor of Greek, giving
a background for the Orestia.
—Ed.
Aeschylus’ Orestea, in Mr. Latti-
more’s translation, will be perform-
ed by Bryn Mawr and Haverford
on the evenings of March 20 and
21. Mr. Robert Butman, who is
directing the production, has as’ his
assistant director Nina Broekhuy-
sen. The cast is as follows:
Orestes Paul Hodge
Electra Sue Gold
Agamemnon Charles Knight
Clytaemestra Jinty Myles
Aegisthus Ned Wolf
Cassandra Rob Colby
Oilissa Jane Parry
Apollo Dave Morgan
Athene Harriett Higgens
Watchman and Herald Lee Yearly
Pylades John Hayter
First Chorus—Kathy Knight
Alison Baker
Lynne Hollander °
Peter Garrett
Scott Morgan
Alexander Sharp
Second Chorus—Dee Wheelwright
Moyra Byrne
Mike Kohn
George Fife
Eumenides—Arleen Beberman
Betty Ferber
Barbara Kaye
Tickets will be on sale in Good-
hart box office from 1:30 to 3:00
pm. on Friday, March 18 and the
week of March 16, at $1.00 for
students and $1.50 for the others.
Sardis Excavation
And Its Problems
‘Told by Hanfmann
As Professor G. M. A. Hanfmann
of Haryard University pointed out
at the beginning of his lecture, the
fifteenth century, and has contin-
ued up until the recent investiga-
tions by Princeton University.
These expeditions were interested
in the Byzantine, Roman, and Per-
sian forms of the city, as well as
in the earlier Lydian form. Not
much trace of the early city of
Croesus (“as rich as... ”) had
ben found and the oldest large re-
mains of ancient times were the
one thousand burial mounds of the
kings from one thousand reigns,
and the Hellenistic temple of Ar-
temis-Cybele.
Geography of Region
Sardis is situated in Asia Minor,
on a plain with a river valley on
one side and the main acropolis on
the other. Since there were no
traces of the Lydian city, it was
difficult to decide where to begin
excavations, Some scholars ad-
vocated beginning near the river
bed, since Herodotus had reported
that the river flowed through the
town. Others suggested beginning
near the Byzantine acropolis.
Lydian Relics Found
The first important finds were
under the Temple of Artemis—
layers of earth containing relics of
Lydian times. These artifacts
could not be used to ascertain the
they had been washed down ky th
river from their original site. Coins
discovered here show that if the
Lydians did not invent this form
of exchange, they at least used
it very early. Another object dis-
covered was an old die, which sup-
ports Herodotus’ story that the
Lydians invented games. During
an eighteen-year siege food be-
came so scarce that they. ate every
other day and played games on
alternating days. fFinally, they
got tired of it all and went out
and conquered the Etruscans.
The expedition then proceeded
to a stone edifice which looked as
if it might be the city gate to the
Continued on Page 4, Col. 1
The possibilties of a co-operative
house at Bryn Mawr were discuss-
ed by Miss Howe, Mrs. Marshall
and interested students om Monday
in the Common Room.
Miss Howe recently attended a
conference of representatives of
the Seven Colleges where co-oper-
ative houses now operating on oth-
ercampuseswere explained. Figures
vary with colleges but on the aver-
age students save $200 a year by
living in these houses, and colleges
tend to lose money on them, due
to cost of layout, except at Vassar,
which is endowed. The 15 to 25
successful number for co-operative
house living) spend six to eight
hours a week at housework. At
popular government. “It seems
\that the Eyre was meant to teach
dency.
Panel, Possible Tenants
Consider Co-op Housing
time but on the whole students
enjoy living in a small co-op house.
In reference to Bryn Mawr in
particular, Mrs, Marshall pointed
out, first, that, since room for- stu-
dents is already limited, a house
must be acquired or a kitchen in-
stalled in Bast House. Secondly,
the money would have to come
from the scholarship fund. “Which
is more valuable, to subsidize a
house or aid the scholarship pro-
gram?” There is also the ques-
tion of who should be allowed to
is— based—
standing. Mrs. Marshall asked for
a show of hands "trom students.
Radcliffe pressure is felt at exam
me!
misma aes Ta pao a ena DESMA BSD nena Rae oar antenna
and 17 girls showed enthusiasm.
excavation of Sardis is not a new |
thing. It started as early as the —
location of the ancient city, aaa
seriously interested in co-op living
live in a co-op. At Smith choice _ ee
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Wednesday, March 11, 1959
THE COLLEGE NEWS
FOUNDED IN 1914
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Thanksgiving, Cnrissmas and Easter noliaays, and during examina-
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The College News is fuliy protested by copyright. Nothing that appears
in it may ve reprintes wholly or in cart witnout permission of the &ditor-in-Chiet.
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Evaluating the Re-evaluation
The report of the Re-evaluation Committee is a respon-
sible but incomplete and superficial document. Embodied in
the report are three strong recommendations: that the myth
of ipso facto membership in all the Big Six be abolished; that
a “co-ordinator” of sorts be created; and the Arts Council
be given a: formal status commensurate with the interest its
activities command. These are the proverbial steps in the
right direction. However, these suggestions are not elabor-
ated, nor have their consequences been completely thought
through; the structural changes which they seem to involve
are not, at this stage, changes at all.
Ipso facto membership in League, Alliance, A.A. and
Interfaith (Arts Council would be added to this list) touches
the campus as a whole only when elections are held.’ There
is therefore no point in abolishing ipso facto membership if
college-wide elections are to remain. If ipso facto member-:
ship is repudiated, the rationale for. college-wide elections is
gone. Adding Arts Council to the elections schedule would
only further complicate and elongate an already incredibly
long and complex procedure. We suggest that these five or-
ganizations be recognized as the specialized interest groups
they are and properly should be and that board elections of
all officers be adopted.
The job of “co-ordinator” as it stands is an extremely
nebulous one. It may be true that the number of chores ac-
cruing to the position of president of Undergrad (and poss-
ibly of Self-Gov. also) needs to be reduced, if future scholars
are going to be willing to accept the job. This might be ac-
complished by a better distribution of responsibility within
the organization, rather than by the transference of a few
tasks to a supernumerary. If a co-ordinator per se is
needed—and if she would do anything other than chair Co-
ordinating Council, hardly an onorous task—then we are up
against the question of a student body president. ‘“Co-ordin-
ating” can include nothing or everything; a great many large
and small matters might congregate around such a position,
or its holder might be nothing but a figurehead. What train-
ing would be necessary for a “non-partisan” co-ordinator?
Would she come from the ranks of any one of the major or-
ganizations or. from no organization at all? Would the po-
sition require experience in all areas of activity? It is obvi-
ous that clear definition of such a position is essential. We
think it is worth working on. °
The most important recommendation of the Committee
is that re-evaluation be continued. But please, no more com-
mittees until some serious discussion in hall meetings indi- |
cates the range of opinion. Otherwise we may have com-
mittee after committee in an infinite regress.
“Letters To The Editor
No Faculty Show
responsive wives.
No Faculty Show. The reasons
To the Editor:
The Bryn Mawr groundhog has
seen its shadow; no Faculty Show
is to burgeon this spring. We've
tried, and although we have not
gone-so far as to start a revolu-
tion; we have gone so far as to
keep one from starting. We've spot-
ted a date on the very bottom of
Mrs. Paul’s careful calendar, and
“even though there is no later date,
Gk GAD toe noon for the faculty.
Students have been interested
enough to talk individually to pro-
fessors, to invite their wives to a
coffee hour in the Deanery, to make
their mark on Taylor walls and
are many. Some are obvious, some |
desperate, and all quite reason-
able. Those who have led it in the
past find themselves with added
responsibilities at the college, with
added responsibilities at other
colleges, or away from Bryn Mawr
altogether, Those. who have not
led it in the past also have reasons,
some obvious, some desperate,
all reasonable. A professor’s lot
is not altogether. a. happy one.
We may not have won ourselves a
Show, but we hope we’ve not made
enemies. We're sorry about. the
Re-evaluation Committee
Janet Wolf — Chairman
Pat Cain
‘Mimi Gisolfi
Marty Faust
Susan Schapiro
Roberta Holder
Lucy Beebe
Sue Safier ’58
Last year’s Co-ordinating Coun-
cil formed a committee to study the
organization of our student gov-
ipes, the presidents of ‘the .Big. Six,|-
Re-evaluation Committee’s Report
organizations “(Interfaith became
one of the Big Six in ’56) seems to
indicate an increase in the variety
of extra-curricular interests at
Bryn Mawr and the need for a new
arrangement to accommodate them.
2. The Committee therefore sug-
gested that the Undergrad Consti-
tution be amended to provide ipso
facto membership for only the two
organizations that represent and
concern all members of the college
_. The Report of the Re-evaluation
Committe will . undoubtedly raise
problems of definition in the minds
of most people who read it. The
members of College Council, which
meets once a month and which is
chaired by the President of the
College and the President of Un-
dergrad, are listed in the Finding
List. ss
Co-ordinating Council consists
of the Presidents of the four class-
-ernment—i.e:-—the—structural—rela=
tionships of the different groups
on campus. The members of the
committee talked to the presidents
of the Big Six, canvassed opinions,
and held many meetings. The out-
come of their year’s work is print-
ed elsewhere in this paper. The
“| report is not conclusive; the first
recommendation is that its work
be continued,
The present report contains val-
uable observations and sugges-
tions, We are sure that new sug-
gestions, alternatives, and criti-
cisms will occur to all those who
read it. If there is widespread
enough interest a new committee
where the old one left off, and to
draw up a plan sufficiently detailed
to be voted upon.
The problems involved here are
not unique to the Bryn Mawr cam-
pus. After a crisis precipitated by
a lack of candidates for major of-
fices, Vassar has recently handed
its student government back to
the Administration; Smith, also
disturbed by a general lack of re-
sponsibility, is seeking some sort
of centralization in hopes that this
will give new life to its myriad
committees. The question now
to be raised is whether there is a
lack of responsibility inherent in
our generation of students, or
whether the fault lies in the com-
iplexities of the student organiza-
tions themselves. It is this prob-
lem which perhaps gives the Re-
evaluation Committee its greatest
importance,
1. It is recommended that this
committee be continued and that
|the suggestions in this report be
given further consideration.
II. In general, the committee con-
cluded that the present structure
should be modified to admit new
organizations and to distinguish be-
tween activities of general college
interest and those of individual
selection. After discussing the opin-
ions of the Big Six presidents
(1957-58), the committee decided
that two definite changes should be
made in the present arrangement
and that these changes necessitated
some reorganization of the entire
structure.
A. Changes.
should be formed, to take over|—
‘more unwieldly than it is at pres-|
1. It was felt that the chairman-
3. It was also ‘suggested that the
office of Co-ordinator be ¢reated
as an independent and non-partisan
position. The duties of such a Co-
ordinator would include chairing
the Co-ordinating Council (com-
posed of the presidents of Self-Gov.,
Undergrad, Alliance, League, Inter-
faith, AA and Arts Council—and
class presidents) and initiating
and co-ordinating inter-club activ-
ities. It was hoped that the
(Co-ordinator would be a person
familiar with the organizations,
who could foresee problems that
might arise among them. She would
also be expected to plan and co-
ordinate projects in which all
groups would participate.
4. In addition, since organiza-
tions like Alliance and League no
longer had ipso facto membership,
the present plan of Common Treas-
ury dues would have to be replaced
by'a College Activities fee charged
with tuition assessments. The treas-
urer would. be responsible to the
Co-ordinating Council.
5. By this change the Under-
graduate Association would be able
to concentrate entirely on “Social
and Tradition” affairs. It was
recommended that the Undergrad
president assume responsiblity for
co-ordinating clubs and committees
under the Association while the
vice-president would manage so-
cial. activities.
6. The other organizations would
continue to have their presidents
college-elected and would remain
autonomous groups, i.e., their ex-
ecutive boards would continue to
legislate for their organization.
7. The Committee could not
agree on the number of offices that
should bé all-college elected. Some
members maintained that only two
((‘Self-Goy and Undergrad) and the
Co-ordinator ‘retain this privilege. -
In the face of strong opposition
from the presidents of the other
organizations they agreed to the
present system.
Senne einen:
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Notice
Students interested in a spec-
ial group membership in. the
Museum of Modern Art should
consult the Art Department
promptly. If twenty apply, the:
group can be formed.
the Editor of the College News,
and ‘the NSA Co-ordinator. NSA
is the National Students’ Associa-
tion to which Bryn Mawr belongs.
Arts Council is at present under
Undergrad; the chairman sits on
the Executive Board; it is financ-
ed by Common Treasury. College
Elected-—offices-are: the Presidents
of AA, League, Alliance, and In-
terfaith; Self-Gov President, Vice-
President, Secretary, and - First
Sophomore; Undergrad President,
Vice-President, and Secretary. Oth-
‘er questions can be answered by
referring to a Freshman Handbook
or to members of the Re-evalua-
tion Committee, who would. be
glad ‘to talk to interested persons.
ship of the Co-ordinating Council
be assigned to someone other than
the president of the Undergraduate
Association. The difficulties imposed
on the Undergrad president through
the necessity that she has to work
on two different administrative
levels (as one of the Big Six and as
Chairman of Co-ordinating Council)
seem to warant this change. The
Committee did, however, recognize
that the interpretation of the Un-
dergrad presidency would vary with
che personality of the individual
holding office. On the other hand,
the Committee agreed that the
management of activities which
involved all organizations (e.g.,
Spring Conference ’58 and NSA)
required someone who wasn’t as-
sociated with any other organiza-
ion, i.e., a co-ordinator,
2. Judging from the scope of its
projects and the enthusiasm of the
student body, the Committee recom-
mended that Arts Council be given
recognition and, at least, elevated
to the status of groups such as
League and Alliance. During the
term 1957-58 Arts Council spon-
sored a program of activities as
varied and apparently as interest-
ing to the campus as projects of
the other Big Six.
B.. Reorganization.
1.. The Committee discussed the
possibility of making Arts Council
a “Big Seventh” but decided that
the result would be a structure even
ent. The tendency to tack on new
Pursuit Of a
by Carole Watts
In September 1957 I “retired”
from college for a year. Since I live
in the Washington, D. C. area I
had been working during the sum-
mer for a small White House group
—the President’s Committee on Sci-
entists and Engineers—and my de-
cision to temporarily forsake aca-
demic pursuits was influenced
greatly by the secretarial ‘position
that the Committee offered me, for
the rest of the year if I wished.
President Eisenhower had estab-
lished the Committee in 1956 as an
“action” rather than a study group,
which he charged to “enlist the aid
of citizens and citizens’ groups in
stimulating interest in science and
mathematics education” at the ele-
mentary and secondary school levels
in order to alleviate current tech-
nological manpower’ shortages.
Consequently, its 21 members were
|sations such as the U. S. Chamber
of Commerce, the AFL-CIO, the
American Council of Learned Soci-
+ etiee and. the National Education
ce
Phlegmatic President’s Committee
Association. Only: the Committee
Chairman, Dr. Howard Bevis, Presi-
dent Emeritus of Ohio State, had
an office in. Washington. The other
members. convened once every two
months to make decisions and
recommendations on programs)
formulated by a permanent staff
‘which was made up of writers, pub-
lic relations consultants, economists
and ironically, in an engineering
group, political scientists. .
I was the assistant to the ad-
ministrative assistant to the Execu-
tive Director who co-ordinated all
the Committee’s activities. My day
began about 8:15 every morning
and for the most part was taken
up with transcribing and typing
Ist, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th drafts.
and then multilith plates of the
pamphlets, notices and statistical
information that were mailed to
the press and to high school and
college teachers and students each:
reprited four times.
In February, in cooperation with
the William Benton Foundation, the
Committee sponsored a conference
‘at Yale on “America’s Human Re-
rsources to Meet the Scientific Chal-
lenge” which brought together a
group of 250 leaders in the-natural
and social sciences, politicians and
executives and representatives of
the mass communications media.
My main recollection of the meet-
ing is.the four sleepless nights in
New Haven that I spent pounding
out press releases. The conferees’
recommendations were incorporated
in a book published last month
which the Committee hopes will be
an aid in formulating America’s
future educational policy. Perhaps
the most signfiicant observation
made at the Conference was that
even if the Soviet threat should dis-
appear tomorrow, our problems re-
—namely Self-Gov and Undergrad.
‘month. Twice a day we received 150
to 200 requests for our publications
lated to scjence and education would.
not change, especially our serious:
on career opportunities in science. need for a greater understanding of
One of the pamphlets; “Guide to|science and technology on the part’
|Information’-on, Scholarships” was; Continued’ on: Page 4, ‘Col: 5: >
ONES ae eRe IPERS PS
Wednesday, March 11, 1959
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Page Three
Tips to Aspiring Authors
Given by Writér, Alumna
Esther Wagner (Mrs. Jobn
Wagner) is a Bryn.Mawr gradu-
ate and former teacher here, and
won first prize among the Atlantic
“Firsts” in 1958. Her short-story,
“The Slip,” in the’ March 1959
Atlantic prompted .the. News to
write to her asking about writing
in general and hers in particular.
Here is a slightly briefer version
and accidental way from Miss Cor-
nelia Meigs, in a fabulous course
called Freshman Composition. If
you want to know what, at Bryn
Mawr, contributed most to my
future as a writer, I should have
some very ‘weird answers indeed.
Among them would be: a course I
took with Mrs. Michaels, then Miss
Lake, in Latin Sight Reading; the
“Of her enthusiastic reply:
March 2, 1959
Dear College News,
I’m answering so promptly not
because that is the way I do things,
but because any letter from a stu-
dent seems to me important and
interesting—I make this rather
plop remark right away because I
think it will show you immediate-
ly something rather central about
me, namely that I am still more
teacher than writer.
Q. Do I prefer writing short
stories to writing novels—do I fall
in with the line that most fiction-
writers are novelists, marking time
or making money with short stor-
ies?
YES I prefer short stories and
NO I’m not in this line. I think
novel-writing is horrible work,
very fascinating and I have to do
it; plan to write two more after
the present one (on which I collab-
orate with my husband, else I just
couldn’t face it, for as many of my
former teachers could probably tell
you I am a great hedonist and not
one to knock herself out if it’s to
be avoided). These aren’t to be
avoided. When I shall have writ-
ten my three great ghastly things
T’ll have coped with the three worst
problems I can think of, and I
shal] then relax and write nothing
but short stories and letters to
the News,
Q. Did I acquire a bushel of re-
jection slips before I was accept-
ed, etc.
Now brace yourself, for the ans-
wer to this question contains a
fact which renders me almost use-
less as an example to your writing
community, though I aspire to
have some words for them never-
theless. The fact is this: I never
wrote a word of fiction before two
years ago, at the age of 39. I did
no writing to speak of at college:
the glamour of scholarship was on
me, and I was a French major. I
reading of Horace with a Mrs.
Holland; Miss Berthe Marti’s sec-
tion on Mediaeval Latin for the
Comprehensives changed my en-
tire writing life, as I see it now
(!); all my studies with the late
and loved Miss Margaret Gilman;
a section in the introductory course
in Puropean History, in —which-
Dean Helen Taft Manning was
talking about Anne of Brittany;
later she was talking about some
other damn thing, Nice or Savoy
or something, and there it was
again. Well, I think you get the
point. If I were all of you, I’d
just assume that everything you
learn at BMC, up to and including
footnotes and bibliographies, will
be of immense and irreplaceable
help to you as a writer some day.
I was very stupid im geology and
had to take the course twice, and
don’t know beans about it to this
day, but I learned some of my
best words from jt and they are in
all my stories, “triassic” and “gas-
tropod” and stuff like that. If I'd
done more imaginative writing
there it might have helped; but I
didn’t. If I were all of you, I’d
have as much as possible to do
with Miss Bettina Linn, whose
student I never was, but: whose
admirer I am.
Publishers are on. this mad
search for writers, no matter what
you all may think. Write some-
thing possible, let alone good, and
they’ll be after you like mad. I
haven’t had much trouble with re-
jections, though in three cases the
magazines which took my stories
did so after they had been rejected
elsewhere, When your stories get
professional enough—and here I
can be of no great help, it’s just
something that happens all of a
sudden—editors, usually junior
ones, write you very careful let-
ters about them and you learn a
lot. I am continually in a state
of amazement over the idealism,
sensitivity, catholicity of taste,
learned a great deal in an oblique
(Continued on Page 4, Col. 3)
Frontiers of Knowledge
Department:
Bette Haney Reports On
With Parthenogenesis In
Scientists were highly skeptical
when Dr. Marlow W. Olsen, a
poultry physiologist with the De-
partment of Agriculture’s Research
Service in Beltsville, Maryland, re-
hens were developing into apparent-
ly normal embryos. I was one of the
most skeptical when I went to
work with Dr. Olsen. two summers
ago. I carefully investigated the
locks on his individual. cages where
he kept these amazing hens: and
asked him many, many questions,
Grandfatherless Turkey
suspecting there must be some
accident somewhere that would ex-
plain these strange happenings, It
was in these long discussion ses-
sions during which we hoped to get
some idea about what was causing
this growth known as_ partheno-
genesis (from the Greek partheons
— maiden, genesis — origination,
meaning the development of an egg
without fertilization) that I learned
the story of the “fatherless tur-
keys.”
The problem first arose when Dr.
Olsen was trying to obtain virgin
turkey hens for a fertility experi-
ment he was conducting. Usually
this is done by isolating the hens
from the male turkeys and within
a short time the hens cease laying
fertile eggs. However, isolated hens
‘continued laying fertile eggs for a
very long period of time even
though they were isolated from the
Bitterness Found in H’ford Class Night;
Honors To Seniors And Kaback
by Barbara Broome and
Alison Baker .
The book of Job, The Catcher in
the Rye, and The Music Man all
made contributions to the usual
Haverford Class Night. ‘fun last
Thursday and Friday but instead
of the genuine laugh-provoking
humor generally found in these
productions, the result was often
that of bitterness. The shows in
spite of this, however, had many
uproariously funny moments.
Orientation Week, 1958, present-
ed by the freshman class, had a
distinct advantage in being the
first play on the program because
the audience had not yet tired of
the typical Haverford jokes and
caricatures. Phil Krone as Pres-
ident Borton with his “uh-very hu-
morous joke a Japanese friend told
me” was greeted with gales of
laughter as was John Williams
playing the athletic director with
sports for “those who are and
also for those ‘who aren’t interest-
ed.” Ted Havri as “the Al. Ca-
pone of Eastern Pennsylvania” and
the three “lovelies”
‘Sedwick, Teles George) also de-
serve mention for their clever and
humorous portrayals.
The highlight of Orientation,
from the}
strictly biased point of view) was
the takeoff on the traditional Bryn
Mawr freshman show kick chorus
complete with 1962 on the bloom-
ers. This was a very refreshing
moment in the show and should
have ended it. The narrator’s cur-
tain line proved to be anti-climac-
tic and left the audience with a
taste of bitterness,
. The class of 1961’s A Host of
Rebel Angels was at a distinct dis-
‘advantage. It had many of the
‘same characters as the preceding
play and one felt as if one were
seeing a continuation of Orienta-
tion. Thé theme, that Haverford
was more like Hell than Hell it-
self, was very cleverly treated
with some excellent acting on the
part of Bo Schambelan who played
Satan. The other characters were
less satisfactory, however, with
the exception of Eric Hoffman as
the spirit of Bryn Mawr (complete
with hatchet and the offer of
“guiltless love, fearless sex and
eternal impropriety”) and Jim
Pendleton as her boy friend.
One remark, made by the comp-
troller. to the devils, remains with.
us: “My methods are modern—
but man, you gotta atmosphere!”
‘And, atmosphere they had .
and shovel!
The highlight of: the evening,
however, was the class of 1960’s
Joe: A Play Not in Verse, Based
on the tribulation of the Biblical
Job (complete with “scripture”-
reading “preacher” Art Wright),
the play. had many of the qualities
which made their production Peter
Rabbit in Western Civilization
such a success last year. It pre-
sented the Haverford situation in
a refreshing and original way and
the humor was such that it could
be appreciated even by those not
closely familiar with Haverford.
The setting was carefully planned,
and the dialogue clever and in
keeping with the theme. The bit-
terness which seemed to pervade
the plays, however, was also pres-
ent—if to a lesser extent. (In all
of Joe’s tribulations the authors
seemed to forget that God eventu-
ally did restore everything to Job).
The acting was one of the high
points of the show. Special men-
tion must be made of Werner Mul-
ler as Joe, Truman Bullard as. Mr.
Ashmead and Keith Bradley ag the
\psychiatrist. In the case of Greg
Original Experiments
Higher Animals
In the spring of 1957, Dr. Op-
penbeimer of the biology’ depart-
ment suggested that Bette see a Dr.
Fraps at the Beltsville, Md., ex-
perimental station about a suinmer
4 ported—eggs—laid—by~virgin turkey |job. Enroute to—talk—with~Dr.
Fraps, Bette wandered through
the fatherelss turkey section and
never got any further. S ith Dr
that summer and the next
M. W. Olsen on the pei em
scribed below.
An article on the experiments and
conclusions of this work has been).
accepted for publication by the
Journal of Experimental Zoology,
and should appear shortly. Bette and
Dr. Olsen share the authorship.
—Ed.
males, Out of curiosity Dr. Olsen
isolated some hens shortly after
pirth, kept them in separate, locked
cages and examined their incubated
éggs macroscopically (cracked open
the eggs and looked to see if there
were any signs of developing em-
bryo or membrane -growth). He
reported in 1953 that 22.2% of
these eggs from hens which had
never been mated developed par-
‘thenogenetically upon incubation.
He has successfull raised several
‘of these fatherless individuals to
maturity (see picture). They are
very weak and susceptible to dis-
ease and must be pampered if they
are to survive. However, there are.
several healthy active individuals
alive, one of which has just this
past month sired a healthy brood
of young turkeys. They are there-
fore able to sire young with normal
turkey hens, giving rise to “grand-
fatheérless individuals” (see pic-
ture).
My project involved microscopic
examination of eggs developing
within the body of the hens which
had been shown to produce a large
incidence of parthenogenetically de-
veloping eggs. By this study we
hoped to determine if the partheno-
genetically developing eggs were
behaving differently in their early
development and cell cheavage from
normally fertilized eggs. Hens were
forced to lay eggs prematurely by
injecting them with pituitary ex-
tract. The blastodises (area on top
of yolk where turkey develops)
were removed from the egg and
prepared for sectioning and stain-
ing. Hens were operated on to ob-
tain eggs higher in the oviduct. The
results of my examinations showed
many more eggs were beginning to
cleave than had been detected in
examining the newly laid eggs.
Thirty-eight of the 89 eggs I ex-
amined microscopically showed
some degree of development. Only
38% -of the eggs from these same
hens which have been examined
macroscopically showed develop-
ment. The second conclusion we
could draw was that development
is initiated at the same time, but
proceeds at a much reduced rate as
compared to development of norm-
Notices
The Bryn Mawr-Haverford Or-
chestra will give a recital on Sat-
urday, March 14, at 8:30 p.m. in
Roberts Hall, Haverford. Admis-
sion is free. Mr. Charles Luding-
ton of Haverford will comduct the
following program:
Mozart: Overture to “Ia Clem-
enza di Tito”: Organ Sonatas K
244, 245, 278.
Handel: Overture to “Esther”.
Haydn: Symphony No. 48, Maria
Theresa”.
' Spring is sprung, but the grass
Alexander as William Bacon
Evans, one can only comment that
ajit was not difficult to see why he
received the Best Actor Award
is not yet riz. Ergo, every member
of the campus, responsible and|
otherwise, student and faculty, is
invited to Join in the Joy of Germi-
‘simple setting but a very sftective
however, (and this comes from a
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(Continued on Page 4, Col. 2)
The Generations of the Fatherless
ally fertilized eggs.
Parthogenesis is certainly not a
new phenomenen. It is the usual
type of reproduction among some of
the colonial algae, the rotifers,
some crustaceans and some insects
(male bees develop from unfertil-
ized eggs). For some ‘time scien-
tists have been able to induce par- ._—
thenogenesis by mechanical and
chemical means in a wide range of
animal species. The work on tur-
keys-at-Beltsville-and-the confirma-
tory experiment. by Dr. Kosin from
Seattle, Washington, are the first
instance in the scientific literature
where parthenogenetic development
is “just happening” without being
scientifically induced.
What “is causing this develop-
ment? What agent is having ‘the
same triggering effect as the
sperm? The action of the virus
which is used to protect the turkeys
against fowl pox may be significant,
but this is only a postulate and the
truth is that no one yet really
knows. We do know all the father-
less individuals are male, which is
a check to prove that they are truly
fatherless since the chromosomal
set up in birds would only allow
males to be produced when the
female chromosomes alone are in-
Fatherless Turkey
volved in development. We also
know that the tendency for turkeys
and also chickens to undergo. par-
thenogenetic development seems to
be more prevalent in some strains
than in others; in other words, it
seems to be an inherited tendentcy.
As is evident by this brief sum-
mary there are many factors still
to be investigated in the mystery
of the fatherless turkeys. The New
York Times last Saturday reported
the new grandfatherless turkey
brood. and included a comment by
Dr. Harry L. Shapiro, chairman of
the Department of Anthropology at
the American Museum of Natural
History and a leading geneticist.
Although he was skeptical of the
whole idea he concluded all that any
(Continued on Page 4, Col. 5)
Doubt To Be Topic
Of Chapel Sevice
by Helen Ullrich
The chapel sermon this Sunday
evening will be delivered by Rev-
erend Edmund A. Steimle, a Luth-
eran minister. His topic is “The
(Constructive Uses of Doubt.”
The Reverend Steimle has been
well received at many colleges’and
universities. He has been the pas-
tor for the Lutherans of Welles-
ley, Harvard, Radcliffe, and M.I.T.
At present Dr. Steimle is a pro-
fessor of practical theology (ho-
miletics) at the Lutheran Theolog-
ical Seminary in Philadelphia. His
preparation for such a t con-
sists of undergraduate work at
Princeton and graduate rk at
both the University of Pennsyl-
vania and the Lutheran Theolog-
ical Seminary im Philadelphia.
Dr. Steimle’s activities include
four years of preaching over the
radio and publishing numerous re-
ligious articles including the
nation, i.e., Keep Off the Grass—
Walkin between, Not on the green.
Are You Looking for God. |
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Page Four
Discovery Made for Music Lovers,
Radnor High Offers Concert Series
by Alison Baker
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Wednesday,. “March- 11, - 1959
If you go into Philadelphia for the orchestra, or even if you don’t,
consider setting your sights in the opposite direction and taking in
one of the Chamber or solo concerts in Wayne. .
Guimar Novaes (piano) and Tossy Spivakovsky (violin) ‘are’ the
two biggest names in this year’s concert series at the Radnor High
School, but the other less known
musicians who complete the list
are probably equally interesting to
music lovers of Bryn Mawr.
These concerts, sponsored by
the. Tri-County Concerts Associa-
tion, charge no admission, although
contributions ‘are welcome, and
require only a short ride on the
Paoli Local to get there. It is a
great opportunity, providing good
music close at hand, but one nev-
ertheless of which many remain
abysmally unaware.
Although many of the names on
posters advertising the concerts
may not be familiar to the aver-
age concert~goer, the, series main-
tain a reputable standard of ex-
cellence, and have even made a
good number of “discoveries”, giv-
ing performers their first boost
towards a soaring musical career.
Last Friday evening, Isabel
(Mourao, an excellent Brazilian pi-
anist, presented a. powerful se-
quence of Bach, Mozart, Schumann
and Chopin. Next on the program
are two concerts during Bryn
Mawr’s spring vacation—an oppor-
tunity for those remaining at col-
lege.
eerie iriy fe
Friday, ‘April 3. “Tt will be made
up of David Madison, the acting
concertmaster of the Philadelphia
orchestra, Vladimir Sokoloff, a
well-known Philadelphia pianist,
and Mason Jones, a French hom
player in the Philadelphia orches-
tra, whom many at Bryn Mawr
know through his explanations and
performances in the brass ensem-
ble workshop which took place at
the college earlier this year. The
Brahms Horn Trio is the only
part of their program yet adver-
tised, ‘but that in itself would
merit a trip to the contert.
The next performance is intend-
ed largely for children, on the
afternoon of Sunday, April 5.
William Smith, the assistant con-
ductor of the Philadelphia Orches-
tra, will conduct forty of its mem-
bers. The program isn’t yet post-
ed,
Plans for after vacation are
not in circulation as yet, but it
would pay Bryn Mawrters to care-
fully scan posters around the col-
lege, and perhaps even to stop for
a glimpse when passing through
(Continued from Janis 3, Col. 1)
last year.
The fourth play of the evening,
1959’s Seek and Ye Shail..., had
the abstraction and sophisticated
Sheldonlike quality usually found
in productions given by the class.
The setting, highly modernistic,
was certainly the most outstand-
ing and original of the evening.
The dialogue, although sometimes
crude and in poor taste, often con-
tained some truly beautiful. poetry. |
As the hobo, Mickey Kalback, ;
winning the Best Actor’s Award, |
did an excellent job and he had good
support from the other members
of the cast, Especially memorable
were Thayer Willis as the think-
ing man, Richard Lederer and
Hugh Ogden as the liberal arts
representatives, and Tim Sheldon
as “Bob Manbut”, the College
Theatre director.
Clever Lyrics
In the Freshman and Sophomore
productions what music there ‘was
stemmed from musical shows or
college songs, and in either case
its virtue lay in clever lyrics, spir-
it, and characterization in perform-
ance, rather than in tunefulness.
The Juniors, on the other hand,
with a good backing of saxophone
and piano, presented a series of
catchy tunes written by Truman
Bullard, which, besides being en-
joyable on their own account, fit-.
ted in very well with the charac-
ters and action. Particularly ef-
fective was the drumbeat and” in-
strumental motive accompanying
each new. manifestation of Joe’s
downfall.
In the Senior show, George
Brewster’s music was used lange-
ly for background, and its effect-
iveness as such can be measured
by the fact that it blended, almost
to the point of being unnoticeable,
with the dialogue and action on
the stage. Thus, what it attempt-
ed it accomplished very success-
fully.
In the awarding of prizes on
Friday night, Seek and Ye Shall
won first place, and Joe: A play
the ville.
not in Verse” was second.
Sardis Excavations
Continued from Page 1, Col. 5)
eastern road. They began digging
—and the building got larger and
larger. It was a huge stone pile
of complex arches and tunnels.
(Many of these had been blocked by
the Byzantines to prevent a flood
from rushing through the valley.
Objects of interest in the building
an ascertainable Lydian structure
had been found. Professor Hanf-
mann believes that this pottery
shop was in business about 600
B.C,
Now the Harvard group has a
definite discovery wpon which. to
base further expeditions. Next
year they plan to look for the resi-
dence of Croesus, which Profes-
sor Hanfmann hopes might be on
the hill above the Lydia shop.
not ‘willing to commit himself as
to whether the skull had been used
on a new site
two halls. They
into a large Ro-
this time they con-
tinued to dig below it and there,
Notice
Two young professional actors
from New York City will present
readings from contemporary re-
ligious drama at the Sunday after-
noon meeting of the Student
‘Christian Movement,
Selections will be taken from
The Firstborn, Murder in the Ca-
thedral, and J. B., and will be built
around the question “Why must
tthe necessity of God feed on hu-
Hford Review
|All here stuff you hear sheut oe
‘Wagner Letter
and willingness to take infinite
pains, of the editorial staffs of
our good magazines.
agent to get started; I certainly
didn’t. I just sent my stuff out,
addressing it to the Editors, At-
dantic Monthly, etc. wae sn:
nobody reads it unless you know
somebody or have an agent is clap-
trap. They do read it. I know.
I now have good friends on four
editorial staffs; I had none when
I began and I made them through
my work. The work is the only
thing that counts and the sooner
you all face that the better.
Immature Authors
Q. What about. young pegple
‘vious appeal, but style must be
sending out their youthful work?
‘Lord, yes! I am a freak, not you
people. Most of the best people
(began publishing when far from
mature. Certainly there are cer-
tain publications which deliberate-
ly cater to young writers: The
Atlantic does that in the Atlantic |
First section, an old tradition. Mlle.
hag a fine tradition of this sort of
thing. I tell you, they’re dedicat-
ed people who WANT to print
stuff and WIANT to encourage be-
(Continued. from Page 3, Col. 2).
I don’t think anyone needs an|-
Faculty Ventures
Far Transmitting
Knowledge et al
by: Marion Coen oa
‘Between the morith’ of January
and May, Bryn Mawr’ professors
will have traveled approximately
2700 miles spreading learning from
Kalamazoo to ‘Atlantic City ° on
| topics~ranging from “college en- |
trance through the metabolism of
mice,
The busiest of the peregrinating
professors: will be Miss Lehr who,
as a lecturer for the Mathematical
Association of America, will leave:
March 15 for a tour of Ohio, Michi-
gan, Minnesota, and; Iowa where
she will speak at ten different col-
leges and universities. On April
1st, her talk, “On the Eve of Space
Travel—Kepler, 1609,” at Carlton
College in Minnesota will be tele-
vised as a feature of the Minne-
sota Private College Hour.
Speaking at an Atlantic City
meeting of the Eastern Psychologi-
cal Association on April 8rd- 4th
will be both Dr..Bitterman and Dr.
Brown. Dr. Bitterman will deliver
his paper, “Toward a Comparative
Psychology of Learning: Some Ex-
periments with Fish and Other
Animals,” while Dr. Brown will
speak on “Personality and Ideal
Performance in College.”
Dr. Brown’s report, the result of
his work done as a Research Fellow
of the Mellon Fund, will be deliv-
ered again on May 28rd at the Uni-
ginners. Have faith in their enor-
mous good will, even if you permit
yourself to doubt their good judg-
ment sometimes.
Startling Style?
Q. Does one have to use some
startling style or appeal to some
established vogue to succeed? NO
NO NO NO. Again, look at your
correspondent! Who could be less
beat? Naturally I think it helps
to have a subject which has an ob-
your. own, and the feeling for the
subject must be your own: itis
death to chances of success, let
alone to proper self-development
as a writer, to try for vogues. A
generation ago, good writers miss-
ed their chance by pattering after
Hemingway. This chase ends in
one place: Monkey Hill. You may
sell a story or a book—many have
—hbut it just won’t be much of a
start in life.
Gives Advice to Youth
(You didn’t ask me this one, but
I’m pretending you did). What’s
my pet advice for the young?
Don’t hang around with other
young people too much, Hang
around older people! Listen to
what the old girls and buzzards
say in class. Read the books.
Make some friends outside your
generation. Look at grown-ups.
Listen to grown-ups. Youth is
something we are put into this
‘world to rise above, to paraphrase
a celebrated thought. It is some-
thing not to be exploited—it is
something to be outgrown as RAP-
IDLY as possible. It is better to
hang around with people a lot
younger than yourself—10, 14, etc.
—than with people in your own
age group. You all arrest each
other’s development. — si
One more thing: if you’re writ-
ing something; ask yourself all the
time, not is this ME, or is this
truly sensitive, or well expressed
or anything—just ask yourself, is
it interesting. All the time, is it
interesting—get your friends, pref-
erably older ones of course, to
read your ms, and write just two
words in the margin at all appro-
priate spots—‘“interesting” and
“dull.” These are key words I
think. If quite a few people think
something you have written is in-
versity of Buffalo.
“A New Approach to Teaching.
Secondary Schoo] Physics” was the
topic discussed by Dr. Michaels at
a meeting of the National Associa-
tion of Principals of Schools for
Girls held in Boston on March 2nd-
4th. At the same meeting Mrs.
Broughton participated in a panel
discussion of the Early Admissions
Plan reporting on the 24 women’s
colleges which have adopted it. She
spoke again on this same subject
at an Eastern Regional Meeting of
the College Entrance Board at the
University of Pennsylvania on Feb-
ruary 27th.
The sole itinerant Biologist, Dr.
Berry, spoke at the Buffalo. School
of Medicine, The Army Chemical
Center in Edgewood, Maryland, and
Hahnemann Medical College in
Philadelphia during January, Feb-
ruary, and March. His topics were
“Carbohydrate Metabolism in Nor-
mal and Altitude Exposed Mice
Following Arsenic Poisoning,” “Tihe
Effect of Heat Metabolism on Sus-
ceptibility to Infection,” and “Ef-
fects of Bacterial Endotoxins and
Cortisons on Carbohydrate Levels
in Mice.”
The Jeast likely of travel vistas
was chosen by Mme. Jambor, who
will be visiting Kalamazoo, Michi-
‘gan. Mme. Jambor will participate
in a Bach Festival at Kalamazoo ||
College on March 15. :
Cotton knit sport separates
are chic and comfortable.
There's a large selection of
them at Joyce Lewis, Bryn
Mawr.
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(Continued from Page 3, Col: 3)
fof us can conclude at ‘this ‘stage
of investigation:
“It rungs counter to whit we
would expect, but then it ‘must
-be_remembered that many things
do." &
-Paraatit —
(Continued Seam ‘Pare 2, ere 5)
of the general public.
The. President’s Committee dis-
appeared from the Washington
seene December 31, 1958, due in
part to lack of funds (the money
available was never adequate ‘to
accomplish the task originally en-
visioned): and partially..due to frus-
tration. It seems. that America’s
concern over our cultural back-
wardness has died as rapidly as
Sputnik I created it. And too, gov-
ernmental “red tape’. is a real
thing. It is interesting to note that
the only time that Dr. Bevis talked
with the President during the Com-
mittee’s entire 2-year tenure, was
the day the group was established.
Most of our inter-office correspon-
dence with the White House would
come back signed or initialed
“Sherman Adams.” This has. led
some people. to believe that the
Committee on Scientists and Engi-
neers as well as the President’s
Committee on Weather Control,
which operated during the same
period, was merely a_ stop-gap
measure used by the present ad-
ministration to evade a pressing
problem. Naturally any political
rationale, if one existed, was not
made known. However, with regard
to the distinguished scientists who
gathered the personnel and set the
President’s Committee on Scien-
tists and Engineers up, it is only
fair to mention that they had the
best of intentions and foresaw with
enthusiasm the important job which
could have been accomplished had
the necessary support been forth-
coming from the White House.
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“THE COLLEGE NEwWs
Page Five
Acharnians Topic Of Leerare .
(Continued..from .Page 1, Col. 1)
The comic chorus, as a compo-
site person passionately interested
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in the action, is more active than
its tragic counterpart; it may be
used, as in the Acharnians, to ex-
press what the author anticipates
the audience’s reaction will be to
an unpopular point. The chorus’
decline in tragedy is paralleled in
Miss Cam: On “London Kyre”
Continued from Page 1, Col. 2
putting in order for publication.
She has eight separate manu-
scripts, no two the same. Though
these students were chiefly inter-
ested in the legal arguments of the
lawyers and justices. and neglected
the pleas of the crowd, from one
“untidy manuscript”... “cases
often boil over from the page and
come at you.” “One gets to know
the chief justice,” Miss Cam said,
Booth’s Poetry
Continued from Page 1, Col. 1
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