College news, October 21, 1959

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VOL. XLV—NO. 4

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Bachrach Examines Stranglehold

Industry Has on

“The protracted steel strike is
due to lack of power in the unions.”
This thesis was advanced by Mr.
Peter Bachrach in his current
events lecture, “Power and Trade

Unions,” Monday night in the
‘Common (Room,
Mr. Bachrach’ supported his

opinion by saying that the labor
unions were at a disadvantage in
politics, public opinions, and econ-
omics. In (Congress anti-labor bills
were being introduced in connec-
tion primarily with the teamsters’
union, ‘The President had pro-
posed a fact-finding committee,
and labor knew that in the event
of an elongated strike the Taft-
Hartley Act could be invoked. The
public felt that the trade unions
were trying to get “something
for nothing.” Reuther and Meany
were disagreeing on matters of
policy, and McDonald. was only
able to get a 1/3 vote of confidence
which he needed to put through
the measures he was proposing.

_ Economic Advantages

Economically, Industry also had
the advantage, The capacity to
produce steel was more than the
need, and they could manage for
a few months on already-produced
surplus. A strike would not en-
danger Industry’s profits because
of tax benefits. On the other hand,
the workers were just recovering
from a recession. Their quarrel
was not with their wages. These
were in keeping with Eisenhower’s
plea against inflation. (Steel had
to meet competition from foreign
markets and in fact McDonald pro-
posed that Labor agree for low-
er prices if industry would do the
same. ‘This measure was not suc-
cessful because of contrary pres-
sure on him.

Unions Fear Automation

—fThe—major ~fear~of the trade}

unions was that of automation.
This fear was especially prevalent

among the dock workers. ‘There-

.ffore the workers wanted more



Labor in U.S.A.

power: “Not bread and butter, but
principle.’ ‘The denying of this
led to the growing militance of the
labor movement.

Labor contends that the rulings
should be looked at from the hu-
man point of view, rather than
from the point of view of efficiency.
“The test of goodness has become
efficiency.”

The principle of collective bar-
gaining has been found undemo-
cratic. There are two alterna-
tives for this: compulsory arbitra-
tion and implementation. The dif-
ference between the two is that in
the former a board of “unbiased”
experts ‘would decide the issues,
while with the latter the President
would decide whether the ‘govern-
ment would take over steel pro-
duction.

The issue now seems to be not
what can be done to promote dem-
ocracy within the union, but what
can be done to insure justice from
the, outside.
ent democratic Congress has gone

Continued on Page 6, Col. 1

Nossiter to Talk
About Business

Mr. Bernard Nossiter of The
Washington Post and Times Her-
ald will speak October 26, 1959, at
8:30 in the Common Room. The
Alliance for Political Affairs is

sponsoring his talk, about unions

and business corporations, touch-
ing on some of the implications of
their bureaucratic structures.

Mr. Nossiter received his M.A.
at Harvard in economics and since
then has reported for the Worces-
ter ((Mass.), Telegram, Fortune
Magazine, Wall Street Journal and
the New York World-Telegraph
& Sun...
economics and labor reporter for
the ‘Washington Post. His articles
have appeared in The Nation, Har-
per’s and the Harvard Business
Review.

Politically, the pres-:

He is now the national.

Nomadic Exhibits
Present Artifacts
Of Ancient World

A special exhibit of Nomadic
and ancient Near Eastern Art is
on display in the rare book rooms
of Bryn Mawr College Library un-
til October 24. The exhibit was
arranged as part of the sympos-
ium on “The Nomadic Impact on
the Ancient ‘World after 1000 B.C.”
held at the College on October 12-
18, with speakers including~ Pro-
fessor R, ‘Ghirshman, head of the
French archaeological mission to
Iran; Profesor Edith Porada of
Columbia University, and Profes-
sors Rodney SS, Young and Ellen
L. Kohler of the University of
Pennsylvania.

The “Nomadic Exhibit” was se-
lected and arranged by two Bryn
Mawr alumnae, Mrs. John B. Bun-
ker and (Miss Prudence Oliver un-
der the auspices of the Department
of Classical and Near Eastern
Archaeology and with the vigor-
ous assitance of several graduate
students of Bryn Mawr College,
among whom ‘Mrs. SS. Pfeiffenber-
ger and Mrs. Anne (C. Carson de-

Continued on Page 6, Col. 2

League Discusses
Student Prejudice

For the first in a series on hu-
man understanding, League, in
combination with Interfaith, pre-
sents for student analysis the topic
—Is There Religious Prejudice at
Bryn Mawr?

TIME: 5:00 p.m. DATE: Octo-
ber 28. PLACE: Common Room.

In this field much has been con-
sidered and much is yet to be un-
covered. Here, League and Inter-
faith have a: common ground; the
one—in the nature and forms of
prejudice and tolerance; the other
—in.the role religion iad in hu-
man_relations._ 2

(Most important: ‘at ‘this Adpaieies
you have something to say on this
ever-present subject. Others would



like to hear your ideas, give their
Continued on Page 6, Col. 1

(Michel Butor. and Yves Bonne-
foy, French novelist and poet re-
spectively, who “both represent
what is best in their field” were
the subject of a lecture given by
M. ‘Mario Maurin, chairman of the
French department, Monday night
in the Common Room, The talk
was sponsored by the Arts Forum.

IM. Maurin opened his talk by
offering “several reasons for his
choice of thesé ‘particular authors.
He observed that their names form
an alliteration and also that ‘most
important people in French art
today have the initial “B”’, from
the two authors under study to
the more -widely-known screen

Self-Gov. Seeks
Students’ Letters

Sue Harris
For the Executive Board



Each year Self-Gov. receives a

large number of letters from var-
ious academic institutions. These
letters request general information
about Brym Mawr’s system of self-
government, often with specific
reference to why Bryn Mawr oper-
ates on the basis of a social and
academic Honor System.
“In the past, it has been the cus-
tom for members of the Executive
Board to answer each and every
letter. ‘We feel that, generally,
any Bryn Mawr student is equip-
ped with enough information about
Self-Gov. to write a sufficient re-
ply to these letters.

Therefore, we would like to
make it known that any student
interested in replying to a letter
for SelfsGov. is most welcome to
do so. Members of the Executive
| Board-will-be-glad-to-supply addi-
tional help or information if need-
ed. Students interested in helping
with these letters should contact
Liz LLynes in East House or Sue
Harris in Pembroke East.



Butor And Bonnefoy Discussed
In Arts-Forum-Sponsored Lecture

star who sports the initia] “B”
for both her names,

Besides this questionable dis-
tinction the two authors do have
other things in common. “They
are both approximately thirty
years old, are both French, and
both representative writers.” Ac-
cording to M. Maurin, a repre-
sentative writer is “one who does
not write like anyone else.” They
will both be here at Bryn Mawr
next semester. M. Butor will be
teaching here and M, Bonnefoy,.
who will be at Brandeis Univer-
sity, has promised to give at least
one lecture here.

M. Butor To Remain

Because (M. Butor will be spend-
ing more time here than his com-
patriot, M. Maurin said he felt jus-
tified in speaking almost exclusive-
ly on that author and his works.

M. Butor was educated in phil-
osophy and has taught in France,
Italy, Greece, and. Manchester,
England. This last city, under the
name “Blaston”, is the setting of
his second novel, “L’Empire de
Temps”, published in 1955. He
also wrote “Passage de Milan”
(1953) and “La Modification”
(1957), which won one of the three
major French prizes for literature.
A new novel, a book of essays,
and a book of verse will all. be
published before he comes here
this winter.

Works In General

Describing the author’s works
in general, Maurin said, “Butor
weaves two different threads to-
gether: a thread of very self-con-
scious symbolism together with a
thread of what has been called a
‘new realism’.” ‘To Butor the most
important thing is’ “the relation-
ship. of things,..gestures, events,
as modified by time. _
help thinking that Proust is just
behind.” However, he remarked
that Butor recalls past happenings
very consciously, while Proust is



Continued on Page 6, Col. 3



Mme. Jambor, Woodwind Quintent Perform Jointly

‘Woodwind Performance Gains by Variety, Novelty of Program
Rossetti, Bach, Onslow, Etter Topped by Poulene Sextet

The program of Tuesday night’s
concert by the Philadelphia Wood-
wind Quintet was arranged chron-
ologically and spanned the entire
literature of the wind quintet. It
turned out to be particularly ex-
citing, since not only was the play-
ers’ approach to the music they
played contagiously fresh and vit-
al, but much of the music itself

was only slightly known or else
entirely new to the audience. The
members of the quintet were: Rob-
ert F. Cole (flute), John D. deLan-
cie (oboe), Anthony Gigliotti (clar-
inet), Sol: Schoenbach (bassoon),
and (Mason Jones (horn). ‘In part
of the program Mme. Jambor play-
ed the piano.

Antonio Rosetti’s Quintet for

Winds is one of the earliest pieces

written for such a combination of
instruments, The texture of the
first (Allegro) movement is much
like that of a concerto grosso, with
alternation of solo and tutti, the



solo parts distributed latgelyemong

‘the higher winds. There was a
clear | eet between tongued

accompaniment and the fuller leg-
ato melodies. In the Andante,
controlled dynamic variety was es-
pecially evident, as it did not fol-
low naturally from the thinning
and thickening of texture as in
much of the first movement. Most
remarkable in this piece and in
the program as a whole was the
balance among instruments within
the quintet and the variety of at-
tack and style of playing as adapt-
ed to the requirements of a par-
ticular musical phrase.

The Rondo movement was de-
lightfully crisp, with. active . off-
beat accents, and a dramatic rip-
pling solo obligato in the clarinet.
They made the most of a charming
although insignificant theme,
bringing out its contours and
points of interest.

The Bach Sonata #5 in E minor
for flute and continuo was played
by Mr. Cole and Mme. Jambor.

The Adagio got off to a some-





what rocky start, in which flute’

and piano seemed to be hindering

each other’s freedom of expression |.

\Lof the breathy school, and in this

rather than collaborating for uni-
fied effect. The flute’s tone was

movement. he seemed to be running
out of breath in the long sustained
tones and phrases. The tone im-
proved in subsequent movements,
however, until in the second slow
movement (Andante), his tone, al-
though still of the breathy variety,
emerged very warm and vibrant,
and sustained without apparent
effort through long legato phrases.

The second movement, Allegro,
showed a much better blend he-
tween ‘the two instruments, and
some co-operatively worked-out
phrasing and dynamics. In some
very difficult chains of agile flute
figures, Mr. Cole still preserved
musicality of expression and a
perspective over the shape of the
phrase as a whole. Mme Jambor,
in her extremly sensitive playing,
‘was very conscious of the balance.
between the instruments, and

The tempo of the Allegro seem-

what uncomfortable rush, but once
his movement had gotten underway
its. perpetual motion became nat-
ural and left room for expression
within its framework.

(Despite his h-sounding
name, George Onslow was French.
He lived a little lated than Bee-
thoven and is classified as a pseudo-

romantic, (Most of his music is
chamber music, for strings or
‘winds.

His Quintet Opus Si, on first
hearing, is very interesting in
spots, particularly in its exploita-
tion of tone color in the various
wind instruments, but of ratler
muddy consistency in others. How-
ever, it provided the quintet with
an opportunity to demonstrate the
versatility of their various instru-
ment in attack and.tone quality.
Some of the harmonies and modu-
lations were also very effective
and surprisingly modern in sound.

‘We were told that the second
theme of the Finale reminded the
players of some theme by another







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Workshop Demonstrates
Winds’ Capacities
by Alison Baker

~The Workshop presented by the
Philadelphia Woodwind Ensemble
on Tuesday afternoon gave the
audience an intimate view of the
potentialities of flute, oboe, clar-
inet and French horn, and also of
their combined effect. Each of
the players talked about his in-
strument, explaining its history
and capabilities, played selections
to ilustrate his remarks, and then
answered any questions from the
audience. The information gained
was fascinating. It ranged from
the basic mechanics of sound ‘pro-
duced through a vibrating column
of air to the extraordinary discov-
ery that Mr. deLancie spends about
four to five hours a day making
reeds for his oboe.

The group also played three se-
lections together: the first move-
ment of Mozart’s Divertimento,
No. 14, the last movement of a
Suite for Winds by Lefeve, and an
arrangement by Mason Jones of
the Table Music from Mozart's"
opera Don Giovanni. —










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Dulce et Decorum

Picketers stand quietly outside Fort Detrick in Maryland,
Where the United States is now preparing for germ warfare,
and people pass them and mutter, “Pacifists.”

Horror. Germ warfare - - us.

What horror is the special property of germ warfare, which
hydrogen bombs and push-button killer-missiles do not know?
Embrace a bomb which only maims this generation and warps
the rest, but hate a death breathed through the skin by spray.

Horrors. Both then.

Keep collecting the killers of a civilization. Be the first in

your neighborhood to own all ten.

matches, Johnny.

Don’t play with the

Collect only in the fear that someone else in the neighborhood
will get them all first. Now stop and fear what you collect.

Horror.

With your biological playthings make Hiroshima of other
people’s lives, but call yourself Democracy and the Good and

the True.

To stop collecting now you risk everything but an Idea;
To play their gruesome game with stakes too high to tally,

you have
Us from Them.
The choice.

eady lost the Idea, which is all that separated

If you would use your great new toys for slaughter, then
you have not defended your Democracy but slain it too.
There is that which is higher than a system - - even one’s
own system - - and that is human lives, which are not ours
to shuffle and deal . . . and discard.

Once you memorized of the people by the people and for the
people, and the dignity of man, and certain inalienable rights.

Memorized or believed?

Believed. If not believed, then nothing.
The government is a pocket of officialdom with.no room to

spare. People huddle gently ‘round and breathe in morality. |



cence ocsaren

by Lois Potter

Everything is supposed to have
some ‘use, including (though I
have heard this disputed) the flea,
but nobody seems to have discov-
ered what to do with superfluous
facts, except to take them to a quiz
show. Valuable as such programs
are as means of converting the
loose pebbles in one’s brain to
solid chunks of cash, they make the
mistake of concentrating on prac-
tical questions which everyone
should know, and utterly fail to
comprehend the full extent and
fascination of the empty trivia
which seem somehow to stick most
persistently to the fly-paper of
memory.

I, for example, would be wasted
on the crass, bourgeois minds,
which think only of the essential.
What I need is a more understand-
ing type of quizmaster. Is there
another person in the whole col-
lege, I ask you, who knows what
kind of medicine Charles II took

a '> (unsuccessfully) when he was dy-

ing? “Spirit of Human Skull.”
“That’s absolutely right, Miss Pot-
ter! You win a free meal at the





On Trivial and Non-Essential

Miss Potter! You have just won
your very own private key to the.
Reserve Room!”

Now, step right up, ladies and
gentlemen, and tell me what Mar-
guerite de Valois wore on her wed-
ding day, which, as everybody
knows, was in August of 1572.
“Violet.” “Congratulations, Miss
Potter! Allow me to present these
gold-plated knitting needles, with
bells attached, guaranteed to drive
every professor in the college
stark, raving mad!”

Here’s a juicy tidbit, which I long
to discuss before a raving, cheer-
ing audience—the 18th century
meaning of the word (Macaroni,
and its influence on “Yankee Doo-
dle”. it’s too complicated to re-
veal now (write, care of the News,
enclosing self-addressed stamped
envelope, for full, lurid details),
but I shall award myself, anyway,
a membership in iCollege Theatre
and a bottle of tranquilizers.

There must be a lot of people in

the world who are secretly clutch-|:

img similar non-essential but in-
teresting bits of information. It
may be the sad news that “Boeuf.
a la Mode” is not beef topped with

_|ice cream, but only stew, or—still

|typus. Think of the wealth of

by Bob Miller,
bx Haverford, ’60

The moral man is placed in a
barely tolerable emotional dilem-
ma when dealing with our nation’s
international relations. He is, on
the one hand, a human being who
looks about him with profound
sensitivity to the tragedy, the
grandeur, the conflict of this world
of man; and he is moved to guide
it toward perfection.

But he is, too, a citizen of the
United States of America. “We”
are a state, that artificial but nec-
essary mechanism whose purpose
is to bring about the best possible
set of circumstances, according to
its society’s values. The state has
no personality of its own, being
but a tool of the men who live
within it. As long as it remains

-|extant, one of the goals toward

whch it will “strive’ must be the
preservation of its own life. That
this must ‘be a goal is neither mor-
al nor immoral; it is simply true.
It is a tautology in today’s poli-
tics: ‘without self-protection, the
state will cease to exist. :
If the nation, by its political pro-
cess, decides that there is some
value for which it is willing to sac-
rifice its state, it can do so, It is

the United States of America.

The means by which our state
preserves itself in the world popu-
lated by other sovereign nations
is the oft-calumniated process of
power politics. (No one will deny
the fact that other states, and
clearly the Soviet Union, are play-
ing the game of power politics;
and so it is obvious that if our
state does not move forward in its
drive for power it will most cer-
tainly move backward, until its
sovereignty is lost, its existence
sacrificed. The major force of our
diplomats’ actions must be, there-
fore, toward the accretion of power
for our nation. He must act with
prudence. :

Since the goal of preservation,
and therefore of power politics,
must consistently be elements in
our foreign policy, it follows that
when a “moral” impulse conflicts
with a “power”. one, the former
must give way. But it is both
fortunate and confusing that such
conflict ordinarily does not con-
front us; the moral man generally
is not placed directly in the dilem-
ma, “We are not forced continu-

ously to choose between actions we
believe are dictated clearly by our
ethics, and actions which follow
from our existence as a self-pre-



a tenable position that there is no
value for which we should sacrifice

The Moral Man And Foreign Policy: Irreconcilable

In the first place, it is no easy
task to determine in which direc-
tion-a~“moral”~state would move.
We can never be sure of the con-
sequences of anything we do on
the international scene. We can-
not find unambiguous moral mean-
ing in many items on the interna-
tional agenda: who is willing to
represent (God’s position on the
free trade~Common Market debate,
or on the relationship of controls
to disarmament?

It is, in fact, a fact of life in in-
ternational affairs, and to a lesser
extent in purely domestic ones,
that there are many “moralities”,
each claiming to hold-correct solu-
tions to human problems. The
confident assertions of Mr. Nixon
and Mr. Harriman notwithstand-
ing, Premier Khushchev could not
have “learned” new and wonderful
things about the United States by
a personal visit. He knew more
about us than we were willing to
admit; and though he may not un-
derstand us as we understand our-
selves, he simply does not want
what our system has to offer. His
values, alas, are different. ‘Who-
ever would suggest that we solve
the world’s conflicts by merely de-
bating value judgments is not a

nation.



serving state.

Continued on Page 4, Col. 3



by Betsy Levering

Should morality have any effect
on foreign policy at all? I consid-
er this a non-sensical question. As
morality deals with the relations
between man, his fellow, and his
society which are “right” by some
absolute standard, morality is
transnational by its very nature.
To say that a high standard of
living is a worthy objective for
man, but only for homo american-
us; or that “Love thy neighbor”
obtains between Frenchmen, but
not between Frenchmen and Al-
gerians, is to pervert morality.

Moreover, the apparatus of our
government is such that morality
can, through its channels, influence
foreign policy. So long as the
government continues to be semi-
responsible to public demand, and
if that demand has a moral basis,
the’ resulting policy will in all
probability have moral content.
No logical democrat can exclude
the State Department from such
popular control as exists.
__But—perhaps—it—is-“unrealistic”
to suppose that a state can respond
to moral pressures from. within,
and yet hope to survive-in an an-
archial world. In the’ internal
structure of the United States,
any measures prompted by moral-
ity become law, binding not only
those who supported them, but
also those who did not. No law
obtains among nations, if law is
considered as involving sanctions.
If the United States acts in re-
sponse to moral prodding there is
nothing but our own might to pre-
vent another nation from taking
advantage of our action. In the
extreme case, the autonomy of the
state might well be in peril.

The theorists of power politics
would say that the state, which
has an existence over and beyond
its constituent individuals, has no
right to endanger its life. Rather
all the activtiies of the state at the
international level, must be direct-
ed toward self-preservation. Self-
preservation may be achieved by
the vigilant pursuit of the “nation-
al interest”, roughly defined as
anything which constitutes an ac-
erement of power to the state.

“This is a chain of reasoning
which, if carried to its logical con-
clusion, would prescribe ‘world
domination by one state; for a
state cannot be sure of its safety
unless no other state poses a threat

or the scientific name of the pla-





knowledge that must be floating
around unused, ‘What we need is
‘a machine that would break it



»|down into energy.

‘assuming that the first interest of

eign policy: -I-would go so far as



of any kind. Power politicians
circumvent this by supposing that
if all states are intent on their
awn interest, an equilibrium will
be reached,

This “balance of power” is, of
course, a theoretical model, though
it was an axiom of foreign policy
for the major European powers
during most of the nineteenth
century. The history of that per-
iod does not, I think, give conclu-
sive evidence that the model as
policy is viable; rather it tends to
support the argument that the
equilibrium is highly unstable.

The theory of power politics is
vulnerable at several points. In

the state in re other states is self-
preservation, the advocates of this
theory interpose a mythical entity
called the State between the indi-
viduals who compose the nation
and the government. By doing so,
they snatch from the hands of the
citizenry all effective say in for-

to argue that, given democratic
machinery, should the citizenery of
a state conceive a higher value
than the preservation of the state,
the state can advance no claim for
its existence,

“Realists” of this school argue
that. power is the central fact of
international relations. This as-
sumption is apparently a priori;
Dr. Hans Morganthau, the high
priest of power politics, introduces
“empirical evidence” to prove this
postulate, but at the same time
he directs his polemic against the
alarming emphasis on “moralism”
and “legalism” in America foreign
policy in the last 50 years. If we
tuned our ears to the trends in
international relations which Dr.
Morganthau is trying to combat,
we might suspect that morality
could not be excluded, on the
basis of empirjcal evidence, from
the realm of foreign policy.

Finally, if nations vie through
authoritarian diplomacy for their
natjonal interests, and a balance
of power should be achieved
(though I find it very difficult
to see how a balance of power
could. be calculated), what then?
Each state preserves its autonomy,
but to that end? Internal im-
provements, scientific develop-
ments, stockpiling of weapons, un-
til a new power formula evolves
and the delicate art of balancing
must be practiced once more?

Has morality anything at once
positive and practicable to offer

to international relations? I think}





that jt has. But I want to avoid

_Ithe error of the “realists” in

making power the controlling
force in the interplay of nations, by
asserting that morality is not, and
prghably never will be, the dom-
inant fact jn international politics,
as it is not in internal affairs, as it

is not in the relations between in-

dividuals.

The dynamje factors of interna-
tional relations are so various and
so complex, that the moral issues,
if any, in any given situation are
obscured to a point at which a
moral judgment would be presump-
tious. Furthermore, jf morality
is tied to narrow policies, more
often than not it is used as justi-
fication, a “sugaring o’er” of
power.

However, jn the broad sweep of
foreign palicy, freedom to chose
among objectives obtains as well
as necessities of fact which limit
choice. In the scope of the. free-
dom available to poljcy-makers,

morality not only may, but must, _
+find-a places

Morality relates directly to in-
dividual persons and deals with
the values attached to human
lives. The prime value, of course,
is life itself. If the state presumes
to guarantee human life against
violent attack within a country,
does it not fall to the state to try
to guarantee jndividual lives
against the violence of war? It
is inconceivable to me that major
nations can now flirt with hundred
of millions of lives; this flirtation
gets more dangerous as the arms
race advances. I know of no policy
objective, even the continued au-
tonomy of a nation, which justifies
the. astounding rjsks are run-
ning, and the moral debilitation
involved in the threats we are
making.

Morality is responsible for the
re-examination of the concept of
human dignity in terms that states
can understand and act upon. Man
must have some idea of where he
is going; or very likely he is go-
ing nowhere.



Notice

The Russian Department
cordially invites you to a lecture
by
PROFESSOR BORIS UNBEGAUN
of

Oxford University, England
on :
RUSSIAN SURNAMES
Gertrude Ely Room

Friday, October 28, 1959
“4:00 pam.”

responsible representative of our .





i

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Wednesday, October 21, 1959

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three



Observers Probe Rituals,

Dig Roots of

by Marion Coen

There is a school of thought
which ‘would define all folklore,
legends, superstitions, and tradi-
tions in terms of universal human
emotions. To defenders of this
creed examination of rites and
ceremonies in a semi-isolated com-
munity like (Bryn Mawr should re-
veal profound truths about the ba-
sic desires and fears of the popu-
lation,

Most of the minor traditions,
derived as they are virtually from
instinct, should yield easy inter-
pretations. There can, for instance,
be little doubt that ‘Parade Night
springs from an inherent Sopho-
moric dread of Freshmen and in-
tense, if unmouthed, desire to hurl
them all into roaring fires. Fresh-
men Hall plays, somewhat more
complex in origin, may perhaps be
attributed to the combination of
Freshman desire to perform and
the equally powerful upperclass
desire to keep freshmen occupied.

Hell Week “Primitive”

Hell ‘Week must, again, be a
manifestation of primitive, Soph-
omoric resentments, while Animal
Hunt is a highly symbolic expres-
sion of their quest for lost youth.
Caps and gowns indicate subcon-
scious pursuit of the security of
anonymity and conformity, while
Step Singing is a virtually undis-
guised manifestation of social hier-
archy and the Power Principle.

This theory of social analysis,
though clearly successful in inter-
pretation of impulsive ritual, is
nevertheless somewhat inadequate
for probing the roots of a highly
complex and formalized ceremon-
ial rite like Lantern (Night. To
appreciate fully the motivation of
the Bryn Mawrters who planned
Lantern Night and the zeal of
those who perpetuate it, one must
analyze the ritual into its compon-
ent parts and examine each thor-
oughly,

Origins Obscure

The prescribed date for Lantern
Night is the fourth Friday in Oc-
tober. The origin of this desig-
nation is obscure; whether it is a
mystic eve derived by an unknown
geometric progression from the

“previous Halloween or merely an

estimate of the period in which



Tribal Rites

‘the student begins to pale from

study has not been ascertained.
The site of the ritual is more clear-
ly understood, the Library Clois-
ters being the only spot on cam-
pus equipped with bleacher facili-
ties,

Background

The emotional origin of the pre-
scribed costume, black cap and
gown, has already been derived;
the Greek lyrics of the musical
accompaniment may also be ex-
plained by the great diligence and-
sedulity of early Bryn Mawrters
who, feeling somewhat guilty about
taking an hour per day for friv-
olity, rationalized their actions by
making their song sessions prac-
tices in the classics.

The. atavistic motivation for the
use of lanterns still being obscure,
it must be assumed, at least tem-
porarily, that their use ‘was
prompted by the fact that Delco
had not yet perfected the dry cell,
and the Cloisters were rather dan-

gerously dark. The invitation of a
Lantern Girl to tea must, unfor-
Continued on Page 6, Col. 4

Under a grant from the Nation-
al Science Foundation, ten Bryn
Mawr students Were enabled to do
research in’ biology, chemistry,
physics, and psychology here this
summer. They were Roselyn Gold-
berg, 60; Jean Hebb, ’61; Jean
Hoag, 60; May Jen, ’60; Sue C.
Jones, 60; Arabelle Parmet, ’60;
Susan Schonberg, ’60; Kathy
Schueller, 60; Melodee Siegel, ’60;
and Jane Smith, ’69.

Ros Goldberg was working in
conjunction with Dr, Conner on a
project using radioactive phosphate
as a means of determining the ef-
fects of a particular steroid, Ros

says that “learning the techniques
was the main hurdle at first. Ra-
dioactive tracers are tricky things,
and we learned to be accurate and
respectful.”

She was emphatic in saying that
it was worthwhile to engage in
long original research of this kind
as soon as possible, because there
just wasn’t time for it in courses
during the year. “You plan an ex-
periment of your. own and do it to



your own satisfaction—you don’t



learn that by following direc-
tions.” Since bio-chemistry was
a new field for her, Ros had a lot
of reading to do, but she said that
as they learned more, they could
question more and think of things
to follow up what they were do-
ing.
Dangers of Generalization

One of the things Ros got out
of the summer was a feeling that
in pure research one cannot gen-
eralize too much. “You can’t say,
‘Aha! We’ve found something.
This will relieve the suffering of
the human race.’ Truth does not
have to do with human -beings.
You’ve got to go in with curiosity
and seeking knowledge, and when
you find something, it’s just a piece
of truth, and God knows what it’s
good for, but.it’s there, and if you
find it someone else doesn’t have
to do it. You have to go in with
the knowledge that what you’re do-
ing may be obscure, and you have
to reconcile yourself to that. You
have to keep repeating and repeat-
ing—we learned that it can be bor-



Christopher Fry Speaks For Himself
Without Overacting,and Fancy Scenery

by Lois Potter

The nicest thing about Hedge-
row. Theatre’s production of The
Lady’s Not for Burning is the way
it lets Fry speak for himself, This
is not meant to be a supersubtle
insinuation that the actors were
bad—on the contrary. -But a good
performance of a play often gives
a truer idea of its quality than a
great one which dazzles the eye
with scenery, costumes, and bril-
liant feats of acting, until the
author gets lost in the shuffle.

At Hedgerow, which by the way
is a charming place, you will see
costumes and scenery which are
adequate, even attractive, but not
striking, and intelligent actors who
know how to speak poetry without
mooning over it or, at the other
extreme, converting it into bad
prose. In other words, if you go
to Hedgerow, ‘nothing is going to

come between you and (Christopher,

Fry, and you will have an excellent

opportunity to decide whether or
not you like him.

‘Most playgoers probably think
of Fry as the man who swallowed
Webster’s Unabridged at one gulp,
and has been-drunk on it ever
since. And this is still the-chronic
objection against him: “Too many
words,” said someone in the audi-
ence, as the lights went on for the
first intermission.

Writing Analyzed

Fry’s writing certainly is anti-
thetical to the general trend of
modern drama, which reduces love
to a couple of inarticulate mum-
bles, hatred to a wordless bellow,
and seems to feel that, because we
talk badly, we must also write
badly. Yet, surely nothing is more
depressing than the way most peo-
ple -write of love, or, rather, don’t
write of it, Authors shirk the
difficult issue,—either -treating—it.



as a big joke, or else making the

actors do all the work, exchanging
languishing glances between lines
of the sheerest banality. I for
one find it refreshing that the char-
acters in The Lady’s Not for Burn-
ing can be lucid and poetic on the
subject of their emotions, instead
of staggering about the stage
wondering what hit them.

At Hedgerow, Niels Miller’s
skillful direction keeps the play
dancing lightly over the morass
of language into which poetic
drama can: easily fall, and it also
‘brings out something about Fry
which I had never noticed before
—the fact that he’s really a swash-
buckler at heart. It seems to me
that anyone who liked, for exam-
ple, Cyrano de Bergerac, would be
delighted by The Lady’s Not for
Burning, not only because of its
obviously romantic plot, but be-
cause of the — well — youthful
nature—of the



Continued on Page 4, Col. 4

ideals._expressed..

Grants of National Science Foundation Incite
Scientific Bryn Mawrters to Summer Research

ing, even—but anyone who wants
immediate satisfaction shouldn’t
go into pure research.”

The other biologist, Melodee
Siegel, was working on a separate
project very similar to Ros’s, also
dealing with a protozoan steroid.
The preliminary work on her prob-
lem had been done by grad stu-
dents last year, but she had to
supplement their findings. “There

are a tremendous number of vari-
able factors in the system. That’s
the nature of the work—it just
doesn’t go zip-zip-zip.” Melodee
too was doing reading on bio-chem
along with the work, and at the
end they had to write formal re-
ports on the project, which helped
consolidate the ideas. they had had
and gave practice in writing scien-
tific papers,

No Great Regimentation

Melodee said of the NSF system
that it did not give them the feel-
ing that they were just cogs in<-a
program; they were working on
official projects, yes, but they were
not overly regimented.

“It gave you a chance to feel
what it would be like to attack a
problem day after day, not like
going into lab and knowing pretty
much beforehand what you’re go-
ing to find, because your problem
has never been worked out before.
Of course it can be frustrating
besides being challenging.”

Advantages Cited

(Melodee felt that the summer
offered her a chance to work in a
department in which full-time re-
search was being earried on. Find-
ing out what other people were
working on in the field gave some
kind of perspective. “But I came
out with a strong sense of how
much more I have to do and how
fantastically much I have to learn
before I can go ahead and really
accomplish things on my own, un-
supervised.”

May Jen, in chemistry, was
working on a project with Dr. Zim-
merman trying to find the effect
of viscosity and temperature on
the isomerization of azobenzine.
Her main problem was purifying
the solvent, a mineral oil. The



Continued on Page 4, Col. 1



Ancient Land in Transition .



Complex. Cambodia—Land Of The Sampot, Bonze, and Wat

Carroll Trimble spent the past
summer in Cambodia by virtue
of being the daughter of the
American Ambassador to that

country. Eb.

by Carroll Lloyd Trimble, ’60

Cambodia is a land of brilliant
colors—intensely blue skies with
sculptured white clouds, flooded
paddies planted with rice the col-
or of spring grass—and, comple-
menting the blocks of solid color
in the landscape, are the saffron-
dyed robes of the “bonzes”, or itin-
erant priests. ‘These mendicants
are a startling but common sight
with their shaven heads and tiered
food-pails and the umbrellas which
serve both as parapluie and para-
sol. Foy the Cambodian climate
is .extremely warm, even in the
humid (April-October rainy season
when the temperature fluctuates
betwen 85-90 degrees Fahrenheit.

Primarily Agricultural

_ Naturally the hot-house atmos-
phere accounts for Cambodia’s be-
ing primarily an agricultural coun-

"try, producing, in addition to rice,|-

excellent rubber which is exported
to all parts of ‘the world. The

United States has attempted to





deialoe Cambodian trade by /build-
ing a highway link from the cap-
itol, Phnom-Penh, to the deep-
water port of Sihanoukville. In
spite of this, export and produc-
tion remain in the elementary
stages. A certain industry has,
however, grown up on a small
scale around the natively produced
silver and silk. The former is. gen-
erally fashioned into highly ornate
bowls and ornaments, occasionally
a more conservative box or cigar-
ette lighter.
Silk “Exotically Treated”

Silk is equally exotically treat-
ed, dyed and woven into bright
plaid, checked and changeant
“sampot” lengths. This native
garment, not to be confused with
the chest-high “sarong”, provides
wrap-around waist to ankle cover-
age and is favored by all women,
children, and many men. Although
the greater percentage of the sam~
pot-bearing populace is able to pro-
pel itself by hand, foot, or bicycle,
and at varying degrees of speed
without fear of unwrapping or a
sudden breeze, one frequently sees
necessary adjustments made, quite
unselfconsciously, in public.

sampot is a four metre length,
wrapped in the “King of Siam”
manner to look likebaggy

The classical and amore familiar}

Such a costume is worn only on
state occasions, either by the Roy-
al Family court, or the dancers of
the Royal Troupe, for their per-
formances at the palace. Om such
occasions Cambodian tradition is
at its most striking, as the danc-
ers, almost all girls, trained from
eight years in the intricate hand
motions and expressions, perform
for their mistress the Queen, and
the guests of the Royal Family.
The ballets are generally chanted
and pantomimed versions of Khmer
legends and, although similar to
the Thai dances, are claimed to be
more authentic.

As with most of the traditions,
the stylized ballet and legends are
traced to the stimulating culture
of the ancient Khmers. ‘This civi-
lization existed from the 9th to
the 15th centuries within an em-
pire extending from the eastern
borders of India to the southern

boundaries of China, and includ-
ing Thailand (then Siam), Burma,
and the countries which later
formed French-Indochina. Arch-
kaeologists who reclaimed the city
of Angkor Thom and the magnifi-
cent “wat”, or temple, from the|
‘choking jungle which had hidden
it for four hundred years were

astounded to find a complete pic-





ts.|ture of the way of life preserved

in the prolific carvings and bas-
reliefs. Today because of the ex-
tensive knowledge we have of these
advanced peoples, the beauty of
their art and architecture and the
mystery of their disappearance,
the Khmer civilization and Angkor
are reckoned among the wonders
of the world. The silent grey tem-
ples, half buried in jungle, draw
men from all parts of the globe to
view the remains of a people who
once ruled the greater part of
Southeast Asia.
Ancient Hostility Remains

Stemming also from pre-Ang-
korean times, however, are Cam-
bodia’s hostile relations with her
neighbors, Thailand, Viet-Nam and
Laos. The Thais, because of their
repeated attempts to invade Ang-
kor Thom, are traditionally blam-
ed for the downfall of the Khmer
Empire; however, the Vietnamese
Jack the prestige of a military riv-
alry.

In the cities it is they, the Chin-
ese and the ever-present Indians,
who comprise the merchant class.
In spite of petty rivalries, how-
ever, all of these countries have

| similar problems. ‘Laos, Viet-Nam_|

and Cambodia, until 1954, formed
French-Indochina, and their devel-
opment as independent countries
as well as buffers against Com-

munism is of primary importance
to the United States and the free
world. All claim neutral interests,
but all face the possibility ‘of infil-
tration or outright invasion if they
lean too far towards the East.
U.. S. Offers Aid

In Cambodia, United States ad-
vice and assistance is being offer-
ed in both economic and military
fields, and there has been recent
speculation as to the partial re-
pair of American prestige. In ad-
dition, Prince Norodom Sihanouk,
who abdicated in favor of his fath-
er to become Prime |Minister, visit-
ed the United States this year,
and during the past summer re-
ceived our Secretary of the Inter-
ior and Assistant Secretaries for
Far Eastern Affairs in his own
country, Our project of the Khmer-
American Friendship Highway was
completed and inaugurated in July.
In September phen a bomb threat-
ened the lives of the King and
Queen and almost precipitated
martial law in Phnom-Penh, those
in authority denied the report of
American-“?mplication. But the
government made no attempt to

press releases, and censorship,
which is normally stringent, seem-
ed to overlook inferences and to



Continued on Page 6, Col. 5.







-spectro-photometer was the im

direct the French.and Cambodian...
— \mer's work was neither more nor

. since she learned it on the job.

~ mer, not for technique, but for

~ eussed her work with Dr. Zimmer-



Page Four

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, October 21, 1959



Student Scribe ‘Reviews’
Latest BMC Publication

by E. Anne Eberle

It’s depressing, but Bryn Mawr
has gone collegiate. We have. got-
ten so gung-ho campusy rah-rah
as to produce Our Very Own Pic-
ture Book, with the clever but suc-

cinct title of “Bryn Mawr.”

The book is full of—guess what
—pictures, There is also a text,
but a ‘prospective Bryn Mawrter
ean get the spiel from any rela-
tively enthusiastic campus guide.
Many freshmen, however, arrive
without ever having been exposed
to a gray Philadelphia day with
gray Bryn Mawr buildings of gray
Tudor architecture, and it is only
fair to give them a photographic
preview.

Pictures Scattered

Therefore, there is a generous
smattering of pictures in the grand
old Gothic style, and, sneaked in
between, a shot of new biology
building when it was still nude
and devoid of shrubbery and such
beauties.

The recipient of the Picture
Book is also treated to an intro-
duction to the natives, listening
sensitively to a lecture, leering
from between caps and gowns at
Christmas-caroling time, studying
in an unnatural right-side-up pose
in the library, hugging one anoth-
er cozily at a post-show dance,
and sitting quaintly among spring
blossoms in the Quest of Knowl-
edge with a real. live folkcay. pro-

fessor,
g

Descriptive Passages

Being thusly intimate with Bryn
(Mawr life and customs, the appli-
cant may proceed to the written
accompaniment, which features a
rare combination of accurate, use-
ful information (“The theatre,
the orchestra, and the literary
magazines are all Bryn Mawr-

schmaltz (“Symbolically though,
(the Taylor Bell) has never ceased
to ring out its invitation to learn-
ing’’). q

BMC Indescribable

The problem, of course, is that
no one, but no one, can thoroughly
describe Bryn (Mawr, a declaration
of which we seem to be singular-
ly proud. On the other hand, how
go about trying to show a distant
sub-freshman what she’s really
getting into? The author of this
booklet, Anne Hobson Freeman,
56, has solved the problem as best
as possible by presenting an inter-
sprinkling of pictures, facts and
figures, anecdotes, and plain
healthy. pep talk.

The picture book is nice for
those with no urge to sip tea in a
real live college room. Pictures
are still second to the real thing—
with lots of sugar, please—but
then, that says little against it.



Notice

Those students who supplement
their school allowances with part-
time employment are reminded by
the Bureau of Recommendations
that it will this year conduct its
Winter Job Survey. The survey,
reaped every four years, is for the
purpose of assessing student income
from part-time work during the
school year. The information gain-
ed is important to both the Add-
missions Office and the Bureau of
Public Information—the former for
advising prospective students on
the possibilities for financial self-
aid, and the latter for general
statistical records.

The Bureau stresses the import-
ance of student cooperation on
the ‘project. Wage, Earners are re-
quested to keep track of their
earnings and record them on sheets
which will be distributed five times



Haverford mergers”) and pure

throughout the year.



Summer Projects Through NFS

Continued from Page 3, Col. 5
strument she used almost exclus-
ively, and she says she did not need
any previous knowledge for this,

She did, however, read. books on
photochemistry during the sum-

theory behind what was going on.
May took down data and dis-

man each week, then she was pret-
ty much on her own, though she
says if she “got stuck”, which she
did sometimes, she could always
ask questions.

Although May does plan to go
into physical chemistry for a ca-
reer, this project is not particu-
larly related to what she hopes to
do—“Physical chemistry is quite
a large field.”

Sodium Experiments

Another chemist, Arabelle Par-
met, was trying to put sodium
metal in water at 0° in a high
vacuum system and have it form
a solution. The same thing has
been done succe ly in liquid
ammonia, but this would be more
useful, “since water is the univer-
sal solvent, and besides, most peo-
ple don’t work with liquid ammo-
nia too much,” If Arabelle’s project

lated. Ghe says that it did not
work this summer, but that under
the right conditions she is sure

rb lot of glass-blowing
the project, which Ar-
especially. since all
to be ripped down
experiment and re-
the vacuum re-
-huge: equipment, almost fill-,
room, made of blown-glass

Arabelle says that the sum-

ce

?
=f

E
:

fe
it
é oF

at

less difficult than the lab chemis-
try she has done, just new. One
feature she liked was a meeting
of the chemists working at Haver-
ford, Swarthmore, and Bryn Mawr
to talk about their own projects.
The department felt that the job

could express what they were do-
ing.

As far as Arabelle was concern-
ed, the only thing wrong with the
summer was that they are com-
pletely spoiled now as far as jobs—
“we'll never get anything so in-
teresting again.”

Organic Problems

Kathy Schueller’s chemistry
project was proving that a struc-
ture that has formerly been called
an orthonitro-nitroso benzine is
really either a benzofurazan diox-
ide or the dimer of the orthonitro-
nitroso benzine linked through
nitroso groups. “We knew it wasn’t
what they’ve always thought it
was,” she says. “It finally turned
out to be the second alternative.”

Kathy and Dr. Mallory worked
together in the planning of meth-
ods, though Kathy was more on
her own at the end of the summer.
(Many of the procedures were new
to her, but she did most of her
reading on other people’s work
analogous to hers.

“I would like to teach at a col-
lege level and do independent re-
search,” she says. “This summer
made me think how great that
would be, The only disadvantage
was obvious: being here twelve
months of the year, The big ad-
vantage was working eight hours
a day, five days a week, on the
same thing, like after school.. It’s
fun seeing things fit into place;
lab work seems pretty unrelated
week to week during the year. I
never knew I liked chem so much



till this summer.”

was not complete unless they |



The Moral Man and Foreign Policy:

Continued From Page 2, Col. 5

Likewise, it is not clear what
our Own national morality is.
Should we, as our State Depart-
ment has said in the past, attempt
to win the world for our system
and for all its implications? Are
we so confident that our “solu-
tions” are universally applicable
that we are willing to impose
them on others—by the “induce-
ment” of foreign aid, or by arms?
In other words, shall we be “firm
in principle” or shall we be “mod-
est and understanding”? Which
is moral?

Complementing this difficulty in
finding “correct” moral paths is
the fact that the preservation of
our nation is an “amoral” act with
some highly moral implications.
If we are confident that this way
of life is the best for us, then we
should be willing to do something
to retain it for the generations
which follow us. If we feel that
our solutions are in some positive
way related to the human condi-
tion, then we should be strong
enough to hold—and build upon—
this nation as an example of free-
dom to the peoples of the world.
In short, simply refusing to use
“morality” as a guide in interna-
tional affairs is not tantamount to
declaring that we have no posi-



Hockey Begins;
Varsity Squad

Drops First, 4-1

by Pixie Schiefelin, ’62

In tunics the color of the gold
autumn leaves, the Bryn Mawr
hockey squad played its first match
of the sesaon against the Univer-
sity of ‘Pennsylvania on Tuesday,
October 18, on the home field. The
varstiy lost 2-0 and, the junior
varsity triumphed, 4-1.

According to Gloria Schmidt,
hockey coach, the varsity defense
did not give sufficient backing to
the forward line. In the striking
circle several opportunities to
shoot were lost because of indirect
passes from the backfield.

Solo Dashes
The ball was on the left side|
much of the time except during
the solo dashes down the field
made by Kit Mumford and Marion
Davis. The stickwork of the whole
team seemed to have benefited
from the pre-season hockey camp.
With increased individual skill, all
that is needed now is more co-
ordinated and polished teamwork.

In the junior varsity game,
Kate Niles annexed the first two
tallies before the half; during the
second half Pud Kibler and Sue
Johnson each scored once.

‘Line-Ups

The varsity line-up included
Marion Davis, left wing; Kit Mum-
ford, left inner; Edie Murphy,
center forward; Polly Merrill, right
inner; Bea Preyer, right. wing;
Connie Stuckert, left half; ‘Weecha
Buse, center half; Melanie Yaggy,
right full; and ‘Corkey (Corcoran,
goalie. Melanie Yaggy is serving
as captain of the first team.

Playing the forward line for
the Junior Varsty were Liz Reed,
Kate Niles, Pud Kibler, Sally Da-

vis “(captain), and Glenda Boyd. |:

The defense included Ellen Ober,
Mae Schuelkopf, Vicky Robbins,
Lisa Dobbin, Barbara Reid and
Joan Simpson,
_ The Varsity substitutes were
— Davis, Abby Trafford, and
Amy Chapin. ‘Replacements for
the second team were Sue John-
son, Jo Rosenthal, Betsy Stearns,
Helen Van Raits, Julie Kasius, and
Anne Dobbin.

tion which is worth maintaining.
There are still things which my
morality dictates that we can do
within the boundaries of the Unit-
ed States, a state in which the cit-
izens tacitly accept a system where
morality can and must apply.

And so the diplomat, sitting at
the conference table, charged with
the responsibility of implementing
his nation’s goals, has a standard
by which he may judge himself as
representative: will his words and
actions have a long-run positive
effect_on his nation’s power posi-
tion? This must be his guide ‘so
long as world politics are what
they now are, (His position is that
of an impersonal but skillful man-
ipulator, not a moral judge. Not
only are his goals given him, but
so, too, are his means. If humility,
patience, honesty, decency are ad-
vantageous means, he should use
them. If duplicity were in the
long-run a better technique to ac-
complish his purpose, it should be
his manner. The logic is demand-
ing. But the nature of power pol-
itics, as I conceive it, prescribes a
set of actions, and provides an
overall framework, which convinc-

es one that mower politics, like

national preservation, is “amoral”
with moral implications.

The purpose of power politics
is, by definition, to settle disputes
among nations by means short of
war. The state of the world under
a consistently pursued power pro-
cess would be an_ equilibrium

Irreconcilable

among nations, related to the com-
parative resources of the nations,
shifting as one nation increases
its power in relation to the others.
Diplomats would discuss disputed
matters, agree where they could,
and balance claims against the
power the claiming nation or na-
tions could bring to bear on the
other nation or nations involved.

If diplomats were relatively ac-
curate in their analyses of power
relafionships, and_if each side-rec-
ognized its advantage in carrying
out the-agreements it made, the
world would be without real fear
of war. And each nation would be
free to pursue its internal aims
and to increase its é6wn power by
expanding industry, developing re-
sources, spreading propaganda,
and so on—whatever its people
wish, so long as it does not direct-
ly infringe on the wishes of anoth-
er people. The role of the diplo-
mat would fe like that of a de-
fense attorney: not responsible for
achieving justice, but important
as a necessary part of the dialectic
which brings an agreed-on form
or is,

Such a proposal may well be as
utopian as any dream of peace
through international law or world
government, But it is my opinion
that this approach is more likely
to provide a real solution than
any system which does not take
into account the nature of politics
as they are, as well as the way



they should be.



Continued' from Page 3, Col. 4
The “April blindness” of the sea-
son permeates both Thomas’s mag-
nificently violent disgust with life
and Jennet’s determination to live,
and live as well as possible. The
ideals, like the poetry, get out of
hand sometimes, but on the whole
Fry turns out to have that all-
important gift of a dramatic poet,
the ability to sound well on the
stage.

Difficulties In Casting

The difficulty in a small theatre
is finding actors who look their
parts as well as they act them.
There, it must be admitted, Hedge-
row ‘was not entirely successful:
the old characters weren’t old
enough, and the young ones were
a little too old. For the most part,
their acting, made one forget this,

‘but not quite—I was never able to

think of Mitzie Ruthe’s. Alizon, for
all her high-pitched innocence, as
a fifteen-year-old girl. Margaret
(Helen Lloyd) looked about half
her supposed age, probably be-
cause she emphasized the sharper
notes of her part to the exclusion
of the placid, motherly tones. Even
Joy Dillingham’s Jennet, sensitive-
ly and gracefully played, was a
little lacking in the light and elfin
qualities which the part demands.

Men Somewhat Better

The men fared better, for some
season: it was quite easy to be-
lieve. in Richard (Byron Ringland)
as a lifelong underdog, and I liked

| Robert Stattel very much as Thom-

as, though he made one a little
too conscious of his gestures. Don-
ald Jeffries looked more like Hum-
phrey .than he acted, though this
may not be entirely his fault, since
the part doesn’t really get off the
ground until the last act, when it’s
too late to do much about charac-
terization. ‘As Tyson, a rather
stock character, Edward Lynch
started off somewhat too grotes-
quely, but he became more cred-
ible in tl the course of the evening—
or else I got used to him. ~
Joel Martin (Nicholas) and John
Benson (Tappercoom) seemed to
me completely “right” im their
parts, It was a joy to wach Tap-
percoom’s bulldog countenance
grow sadder and sadder as the
play went on. I suspect that more
could have been done with the
other-worldly Chaplain than was
done; somehow Glenn Diehl, funny



as he was, failed to convince one



Fry and His “Lady”

that he had any business being in
the play. Perhaps he hadn’t—you
see what I mean about perform-
ance throwing light on Fry’s writ-
ing. On the other hand, William
Price made old Skipps’ scene
much more effective than I would
ever have expected it to be, from
reading it.

People “Ephemeral”
All these people are a_ little

.|ephemeral, and when you get out

of the theatre they seem to float
off like soapbubbles, lovely but
somehow intangible. ‘What you
are left with words, sparkling,
multicolored words strung into
phrases: “The frenzied, ceremonial
drumming of the humdrum”, “I
sometimes, remarkably, lose eter-
nity in the passing moment”, “The
moon is only a circumambulating

aphrodisaic;~divinyel—subsidized-to __

provoke a rising hbirthrate.”

The. Lady’s Not for Burning will
be at Hedgerow until October 31.
There are no plans at the moment
for providing transportation to
future performances, because peo-
ple came pouring to the opening
night in numbers that surprised
and delighted Arts Council. Still,
if you can find your own transpor-
tation to Moylan, Pa., or persuade
Arts Council to try again, you
really ought to go. If you don’t
know, or don’t think you like Fry,
then go to Hedgerow to get better
acquainted with him. As for those
who love Fry, there’s no point in
my addressing them—they were
all there last Thursday night.

Events In
Philadelphia

Plays
‘Walnut Theatre: The Tenth Man
by Paddy (Chayefsky. Matinees



‘Academy of Music: New York
City Ballet. Thurs., Fri. nights,

‘Sat. afternoon.

Philadelphia Orchestra \Concerts
Fri. afternoon, Sat. night. Pro-
gram includes ‘Prokofiev’s “Three
Oranges.”

Movies

Goldman: Porgy and Bess.

Trans-Lux: Look Back in Anger.

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Wednesday, October 21, 1959

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Five



Haverford’s Fred Schulze Speaks
On Linguistic Jaunt Around Russia

This article is reprinted from
the Haverford News. It is a re-
port of a speech given in Haver-
ford’s regular Collection.

Fred Schulze, ’60, gave his list
of impressions of Russia and an
impressive new suggestion : for
‘world peace during his account of
his summer trip to the USSR in
Collection, Tuesday, Ocotber 13.

Schulze, who was chosen by the
Carnegie Foundation to make the
month-long trip because of excel-
lence in Russian studies at Haver-
ford, explained hat the purpose of
the jaunt and intensive summer
course in Russian which precedde





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the summer, Schulze reported, and
the trip to Russia he described as
a chief fact in the improvement.

Schulze, emphasizing that he
could convey only persona] impres-
sions of (Russia to his listeners,
not judgments, characterized the
Russians he met as “curious,
friendly, and open.”

“Most of them have never seen
an American,” said Schulze, “and
they bombarded us with questions.”
Favorite discussion topics were
given as American life in general,
the U.S. share in responsibility for
international tension, and internal
problems of the US., inclduing ra-
cial discrimination and unemploy-
ment.

The Senior Russian major re-
counted his experiences in Lenin-
grad, Moscow, Stalingrad, Rostov,
and Kiev, all cities in the western
part of the Uj He noted that
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isfied people is false,” opined
Schulze. “Most of the people
seemed content with their material
lot and were heartened by recent
improvements in this area. ‘Religi-
ous sentiment was almost absent
except among older people.”

“The Russians were amazingly
aware of ‘American culture,”
Schulze added. “They were very
familiar with the writings of
Twain, Dreiser, O’Henry and Stein-
beck; the paintings of Jackson
Pollock and the current muscial
styles in jazz.

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writer among the Russians is Er-
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would be to allow Hemingway to
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Psychologists Study Animal Learning

The Bryn Mawr College Calen-
dar lists approximately seven
hundred undergraduates engaged
in the learning process; however,
learning on cmapus is not limited
to this small select group.

These experiments, according to
Dr. Bitterman, are intended to
test Charles Darwin's widely ac-

cepted proposition—that the learn-
ing process in all animals is “es-
sentially the same.” Dr. Bitter-
man maintains that early psychol-
ogists were too eager to accept
Darwin’s postuate and as a result,
90% of the experimentation going
on is being done on the rat. Psy-
chologists neglected the other an-
imals on the phylogenic scale, as-
suming that any conclusions reach-
ed for the rat would be equally as
valid for all other animals, includ-
ing man.

Because of this unique situation,
generalizations about human be-
havior made by psychologists to-
day are often based on results of
rat experimentation. Any appre-
ciable differences between human
and rat behavior is explained, fol-
lowing Darwin, by man’s linguistic
ability.

Should Darwin’s postulate be
proven incorrect, many contempor-
ary theories, based on rat research,
would likewise be undermined, On
the more practcal side, Dr. Bitter-
mn pointed out that the results of
this series of experiments would
be of great value to a drug com-
pany which tests its new products
on rats. While the physiological
effects may be the same on both
man and rat, there is no way of
ascertaining the psychological ef-
fects on both.

Using the mammal as a starting
point, Dr. Bitterman hopes to
classify functions in order of com-
plexity. (Several species were se-
lected at key points i nthe phylo-
genic scale as representative. The
animals selected were Bermuda
land crabs, flies, earthworms, and
fish,

These representative animals
were then subjected to the same
battery of tests, with minor modi-
fications, that were used on rats.
The following is an account of one
type of test used.

A rat is place din a cage with
two round targets. When he ush-
es one of the targets he is consist-
ently rewarded with a food pellet.
He quickly learns which target is

the correct one and goes to it im-

mediately. After the animal has
formed the habit of immeditely
going to the one target, the re-
warding tanget is switched. At
first the animal will be confused,
but finally he will once again be
consistently right. Once again,
the rewarding target is reversed
and this process is continued until
the rat reaches a stage where he
will, after an unsuccessful attempt
at one target,. proceed immediate-
ly to the other. Dr. Bitterman
pointed out that the first time the
rat encounters reversal it might
take him one hundred trials to
change his habits, the next time
only seventy and finally this pro-
cess continues down to the point

where reversal is . accomplished

after the first trial.

Therefore, if Darwni’s theory is
correct, then a similar phenom-
ena should occur for the fish, Ex-
perimental data has ont, up to
this time, according to Dr. Bitter-
man, indicated this. If it takes
the fish one hundred tries after
the initial reversal, it will, in all
probability, require one “hundred
treis the second time as well. In
other words, there is not appreci-
able reduction in thé amount of
errors the fish makes in his choice
of targets. Although the fish is
just as frustrated as the rat with
the first reversal, he never suc-
ceeds in reaching the “educated
level” of the rat.

There are, moreover, further
differences between the two ani-
mals. A partially reinforced rat
(a rat which is only occasionally
given food when he is successful)
shows more hesitancy to change
his habits as the targets are chang-
ed than does a regularly reinforec-
ed rat (a rat that has been con-
sistently rewarded for successful.
efforts), Interestingly enough, the
opposite is true in the fish, accord-
ing to Dr. Bitterman.

These findings cannot, Dr. Bit-
terman warned, be conclusive, since
there are many difficulties involv-
ed. The Bermuda land crab failed
to show the same interest in food
as did the rat; it is difficult to set
up an experiment in which the re-
ward will have the same appeal
for both subjects. —

In the crab, experimenters were
interested in “developing an avoid-
ance-conditioning situation” based
on an escape from water. The
crab was placed in a box and per-
iodically a light flashed on. This
was followed a few moments later
by the filling of the compartment
with distilled water. (Distilled
water is a noxious substance for
a salt water crab, since it inter-
feres with his salt regulation). If
the crab backed up against the
white wall (three were-black) a
beam of light controlling a photo-
electric cell was broken and the
water would be drained out of the
box, If the animal reacted quick-
ly enough after the fiash of light
he would be able to avoid the wa-
ter entirely. Up to*this point, ac-
cording to Dr. Bitterman, the crab
has been succesful in his escape
behavior, but has shown little vo-

water entirely. One possible ex-
planation for this phenomena
might be that while distilled wa-
ter is a noxious substance it may
sitll not be strong enough to pro-
duce a marked enough response.

“This is just a beginning; basic
techniques are still to be worked
out... the meaning of the differ-
ences can only be explained by
further research, Dr. Bitterman
concluded.

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Wednesday, October 21, 1959



Mme. Jambor and Quintet

Continued from Page 1, Col. 4

composer, but they couldnt figure
out what. Neither could I.

Alvin Etler is a modern Amer-
ican composer, The wind group
heard of his 2nd Quintet through
“the grapevine which runs between
all woodwind players”, and subse-
quently met Mr. Etler himself.

This quintet is: altgether delight-
ful, and mixes the instruments of
the wind quintet to create vibrant
tone combinations. _The themes,
particularly in the slower move-
ments, have an impromptu spoken
quality about them. Obviously the
players themselves enjoyed -the
music tremendously, and the audi-
ence couldn’t help agreeing.

The Poulenc Sextet, in which
Mme. Jambor played the piano
part, formed a climax to the eve-
ning’s performance. Poulenc, as
a member of the revolutionary
“group of 6”, created his music
in direct relation to society rather
than isolated from it. This sextet
incorporates an extraordinary
range of musical expression, in all
of which the tangibly human ele-
ment is strong. ‘The listener is in-

~“elined to laugh, dance, sympathize,
and then suddenly be taken aback
by a mocking sneer, In spots the
feeling is almost classical, in oth-
ers the music is harsh with em-



League
Continued from Page 1, Col. 3

own in return. This is the reason
for this open student discussion—
-an—experience in self-knowledge
as well as a more profound under-
standing of society and the values
of the individual student.

Dr, Brown, Associate Professor
of Psycholgy, will initiate this stu-
dent discussion with pertinent ma-
‘terial in the field of religious prej-
udice. (He has recommended as
background reading the 1956
Journal of Social Issues. (Vol. XII,
No. 8) concerning “Religious Con-
flict in the United States.” Copies
can be gotten at the Library and
through Julie O’Neil, Rhoads.

Labor Industry

Continued from Page 1, Col. 2
against it. Now the unions are look-
ing toward the Republican party
and Meany is adopting the Gom-
pers policy of “reward your friends
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he performance of this amazing-
y rich and varied fare was if any-
thing even more lively than the
music on its own account would
necessarily ‘suggest.

Lattimore’s Greek
Tragedies Appear

An autograph party is to be
held for Mr. Richmond Lattimore
on the publication of The Com-
plete Greek Tragedies. The College
Book Store invites everyone inter-
ested to attend on Wednesday, Oc-
tober 28, from 3:00 to 5:00. Mr.
personally auto-
graph this new set that will be
on sale for the {first time at a spec-
ial introductory price.

Fhe Complete Greek Tragedies
is a four volume set containing
the complete works of Aeschylus,
Sophocles and Euripides. Publi-
cation date is October 26, 1959, by
the University of Chicago Press.
The editions are co-edited..by Da-
vid Grene and Richmond Latti-
more, (Mr. Lattimore is both a

recognized Greek translator and

a poet in his own right. He is
the chairman of the (Greek depart-
ment at Bryn Mawr (College.

Arts Forum
Continued from Page 1, Col. 5
more subtle in his rememberings.

In “L’Empire de Temps”, for
instance, the main character is the
narrator through whose eyes and
memory one sees the other five or
six important personages. One
of these is a mystery story writer
named Burton, who is supposedly
the narrator’s and therefore Bu-
tor’s double. M. (Maurin translat-
ed a passage extemporaneously
from the French, to show that the
story is based on one memory which
recalls another and yet another,
until an insight has been gained
into the character of the narrator
and the subjects of his wondering
reminiscences.

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a train from Paris to Rome, plan-

| ning to abandon his family for his

mistress who lives in the Italian
capital. On the way he undergoes
a “geographical change, a psycho-
logical change, and reaches a ‘new
awareness’ of himself.” M. Maurin
believes that, after the success of
his second and third novels, Michel
Butor’s third novel will be anxious-
ly awaited,

Nomads
Continued from Page 1, Col. 3

serve special mention.

The objects on display range
from Iran to Siberia. There is an
outstanding selection of Luristan
bronzes, which were in the center
of discussions during the sympos-
ium. Other groups of objects in-
clude pottery from Hasanlu in
Azerbeijan, various metal and bone
pieces from the treasure of Ziwiye,
Caucasian and Ordos bronzes, and
a fine gold cup of Iranian proven-
ance.

Traditions
Continued from Page 3, Col. 2
tunately, be attributed to an arti-
ficial attempt of the irrational
sophomore to subdue her previ-
ously-described innate aversion.

The most basic instincts inspir-
ing the very conception and exe-
cution of Bryn Mawr’s Lantern
Night must, however, be identical
to those behind any football game;
for, like the scrimmage, Lantern
Night evolves steam, subdues spir-

it, and makes an excellent specta-
tor sport.

Cambodia

Continued from Page 3, Col. 5

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most critical point of the incident.

(Cambodia is not just a small
South East Asian country, a “Sar-
khan,” a pin-marker to be spoon-
fed “underdevelopment - money.”
She is a nation rich in the beauty
and culture of Asia, and unique in
her own tradition. And as such
she deserves the recognition of the
world, and above all, the realiza-
tion that she alone may choose to
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