College news, October 29, 1965

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Vol. LI No. 5

BRYN MAWR, PA.

October 29, 1965

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Absurdity Prevails on Campus Bryn Mawr College Goes Co-ed, |
And ‘Without a Moment to Lose’

Why it was just then that I

« decided (in spite of all previous

resolutions) that I must burst from
that vasty, echoing chamber into
the bright, fresh outdoors or go
quite ‘berserk and break into a
Gregorian chant; why it was just
then that (frantically gulpitig the
sanity of the cool fall air) I ap-
proached the lamp post; why it was
just then that he, vacantly smiling,
should approach it from the other
side: that’s what I want to know --
not, of course, that it would make
any difference now.

It?s only that with him I never
felt myself a free agent, in con-
trol of my owndestiny. My actions,
my speech, my thoughts -- all
seemed to emanate from him.

Anyway, we went for a walk.
That seemed innocuous enough: the
campis, with its brilliant foliage,
looked about as sinister as a post
card ... I still can’t figure out
how it happened, I don’t remember
where we were going -- or who was
leading the way. a

But suddenly we were no longer
on the campus, It was getting dark
fast, and I was standing in a grove
of towering trees with straight,
dark trunks and leaves so yellow
that they seemed to shine with a
light of their own. He was there,
and there was ivy, .a foot deep,
on the ground: ivy, the Irish say, is
the plant of death. I tried to walk
but stumbled and fell inthe tangled
wet leaves. I felt something
smooth, hard and cold, I saw him
looking down at me, and I knew, we
were in a graveyard,

‘Hurry up,’”? he said, ‘It’s al-
most dark. We’ll miss the picnic.”’

Now that I think of it, I hadn’t
heard anything about a picnic. But
this didn’t even occur to me then,
Odd.

Somehow or other, though, we
were back on campus, and I began
to smell hamburgers cooking and
realized I had gotten extraordina-
rily hungry, Closer and closer to
the source of the smell we came.
Now I could see the smoke from the
charcoal oven.

Instantly the heavens burst open,
Suddenly blind, I tried to run, Great
gushes of water, gusts of wind.
beat me back. Up, up, uphill I
struggled, against gale-driven jets
of rain.

Then, as suddenly, the deluge
was no more. He stood beside me
in -a° still black fog. A tower,
disembodied and ghostly, loomed
over us. Light poured strangely
from the narrow windows of
medieval turrets. Then I remem-
bered:

‘‘My books ... the library ...
it must be closed at this hour.”

Desperately we’ pulled and beat
upon all the doors, but none yield-
ed. The massive stone structure
stood implacable in the night. I
had quite abandoned hope, when he
noticed a single window open, just
wide enough for one of us.

*twait here,’® he said. ‘‘I’ll go
get them.””

He climbed onto’ the window
ledge, slowly lowered one foot,
then the other, then dropped out of

sight inside. ©

At once there arose such a_

frightful clamor -- moanings,

_ As College Defends Traditions

groanings, howls and roars --
and such a violent shaking of the
ground that it seemed the earth
in its turn would open and belch
forth its long-hid, grisly store.
Then suddenly I understood: I
had heard it rumored that whenever

“one of Bryn Mawr’s*rules is

broken, whenever one of her tra-
ditions is violated, her stone
figures become animate and wrath-
fully work to wreak vengeance on
the offender.

Gradually, I became aware of
one sound which, in the general
“in, seemed to grow more and more

istent -- a deep boom, boom,
yoom, just above me, I looked up,
and with a sudden surge of panic,
discovered that I was lying, bound,
on my back directly beneath the
bell of, Taylor tower, which was
Slowly descending toward me ...

The clapper is immediately
above my heart,

Midnight Bubbler Stalks —
Near-Crazed Erdw



President McBride revealed to-
day the startling news that Bryn
Mawr, after more than 70 years of
celibacy, is going co-educational.

The new program will be in-

-augurated with the beginning of

second ‘semester. **We haven’t a

- moment to lose,’’? said Miss Mc-

Bride, addressing a wildly cheer-
ing throng from Taylor steps.

‘*Applications will be considered
immediately,’? added the presi-
dent, while other administrative
officials’ attempted unsuccessfully
to quiet the enthusiastic crowd,
by this time cavorting energet-
ically on the green and bursting
into snatches of ‘*To the Maypole
We Will Go.’’

‘‘Haverford, of course, will re-
ceive first consideration,’’ the
president continued, thus succeed-
ing at last in dampening somewhat
the spirit of her listeners, except

omen






Out, damned spot: out, | say.

Although most of the kinks have
been worked.out of Erdman Hall by
now, students are still complain-
ing about minor inconveniences and
night noises that interrupt study
and sleep.

Residents of C wing report clang-
ing and bubbling sounds coming
from the kitchen in the early
morning hours. ‘‘Such toil and
trouble,’’ complains one girl, “so
long before breakfast is most dis-
turbing and unnecessary.’’

Difficulties in operating the bell
desk cause students to be awakened
for non-existent telephone calls.
One irate junior found that the bell
invited her several nights inarow,
but the summons was only ahellish
nuisance ‘‘instead of a heavenly
genuine distraction.’’

Girls dropping by the pit, Erd-.

man’s downstairs smoker, com-
plain that fencing students choose
late hours to improve their form,
According to one provoked soph,
the noise is only half the trouble:
**] wouldn’t mind the handle to-
ward my hand,’? she remarked,

“but the point in my face can be a ”

pretty fatal vision.’
Many of the problems are caused

by such inconsiderate students. A
girl living down the corridor from
the laundry room has been con-
sistently awakened by someone
walking along the hall about 2.a,m.
muttering aloud about stubborn
spots on her way to the washing
machine, ‘*I wouldn’t mind so
much,’’ said the indignant senior,
**but she absolutely CURSES her
gym tunic - not a very pleasant
way to be roused.’’

A freshman, looking up fromthe ,

Faulkner novel she was reading,
offered as her pet peeve theCol-
lege Theatre neighbor who re-
hearses by candlelight for proper
atmosphere. ‘‘That candle can’t
be brief enough to suit me,’’ she
says, “because until it goes out
she struts around her room re-
citing her lines at the top,of her
voice.’’

At present a student commit-
tee is investigating the problem.
Questioned about the findings, the
chairman offers as the only solu-
tion an awareness in every girl of
her fellow residents’ comfort. “If

“that great day would only come,’’

she sighed, “and answer our hi
hopes!?? :

for a number of apparently inde-
fatigable freshmen in the back.

The president noted that al-
though her announcement may have
come as_.‘‘somewhat of..a.sur-
prise,”? it was. actually just the
result of lengthy deliberation,
originally sparked by the presence

-of men at the college folléwing

World War II.

*It is said that the general
tenor of the campus improved
considerably at that time, with
traditional Bryn Mawr apathy at
an all-time low,’’ Miss McBride
added with a smile, provoking
answering shouts of laughter from
the still agitating group before
her.

‘‘We feel that the time for con-
structive action has arrived,’’ said
the president, eliciting murmurs of
approval from her audience, punc-
tuated rather noticeably by snort-
ing sounds from some of its
lower-minded members.

‘¢Transfer applications from all
neighboring men’s schools will be
welcomed,’’ the president added,

this time evoking what appeared
to be a mixed. reaction from the
crowd,

“‘What. about Villanova?’ called
out. one wise-eyed: senior; as an
uneasy hush settled on the crowd.

‘Yeah, and how about Prince- ,
ton??? shouted another, as the hush
rose to an angry hiss,

‘*We feel,’? said the president,
with a tolerant smile, ‘‘that it is
time to bury the hatchet,’’ ignor-
ing one girl’s query, doubtless
facetious, of ‘‘in their heads?’’
and concentrating instead on the
vigorous cheers from the fresh-
men in the back row.

Concluding on the triumphant
and hopeful note of ‘‘Now is the
time for change!’’ President Mc-
Bride resisted the attempts of
the enthusiastic crowd to give
her a rousing Bryn Mawr cheer,
and returned to her office, leaving
the girls to throng toward the
Deanery, where, it was rumored,
the portrait of M, Carey Thomas
had begun to tremble violently on
the wall.

‘Princeton Tiger’s Last Stand, ’
--With Apologies to T.S. Eliot

Princeton Tiger was a college
cat who lived a social whirlpool,

In fact he was the coolest cat
that ever roamed a girls’ school.

From Bryn Mawr up to Vassar,
he carried his guitar,

And all the while consulting his
‘‘Where the Girls Are.’’

His ‘manners and appearance
simulated pedigrees;

His coat was tweed and madras,
Brooks Brothers if you please;

Whiskers were somewhat mis-
sing, no need to tell you why,

And he scowled upon our Haver-
ford from a condescending eye.

a

The college set at Bryn Mawr
-knows something of his book

Being intellectually conscious,
we had to take a look.



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. Bryn Mawr Intellectual and Princeton Tiger.

We found we disliked ‘Ivy.’
(You’d think us picayune.)

As the booklet runs along the
shore, it’s time for more lampoon.

On some nearby autumn night,
when all nature has the glooms,

And the moon is overhead, all
Bryn Mawr will mount its brooms,

And in the Halloween moonlight
with our intellectual deception,

Princeton Tiger will be disposed
of for all his misconceptions.

7 O ruthless girls, pressforward,
O trounce upon the ivy!
Princeton Tiger to his vast sur-
prise will pay for his contrivey!
With some 20 other girls’

schools he tried to evalyate us - -
At the end of all his crimes,
may he learn to appreciate us.

«Ss


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Opinions expressed in editorials do not necessarily represent
those of the entire editorial board.

Civil Disobedience

The FBI’s arrest last week of Haverford Freshman Jerry Dickin-
son for failure to register for the. draft drives home the need for an
examination of the many issues behind the incident,

Dickinson’s action is first of all not to be considered entirely
synonymous with the draft card burning that has lately assumed the
aspect of a popular sport. He acted carefully and with consideration,
first notifying his local draft board of his refusal to register last
March, when he became 185 Later, he further notified the board of his.
change of address for the summer, This month, Dickinson learned that
charges had been filed and a warrant issued for his arrest, When the
arrest finally came October 20, he went without protest through the
process of finger-printing and mug shots and a brief wait in jail
prior to his hearing, where his lawyer was ready to answer the FBI’s
questions,

Dickinson obviously carried out his activities with knowledge of,
and no resistance to, their possible consequences, Although a Quaker,
he refused to. register as a conscientious objector, telling the HAVER-
FORD NEWS that he felt such action would still recognize the govern-
ment’s right ‘to select men for the purpose of training them to
kill.’”’ Dickinson’s protest was made. unemotionally, dramatic only
in its lack of drama, and clearly based on principle,

The fact remains, however, that Dickinson broke the law and so
must face the consequences of his action. His protest raises the
prickly issue of civil disobedience, so lately become a crucial prob-
lem in this country. It seems clear to us that there is only one justi-
fication of civil disobedience for the purpose of changing a law --
when it is absolutely the last resort of the law-breaker, as was the
case in certain areas of the civil rights issue. At best, civil diso-
bedience is a potential threat to the stability of the law. When em-
ployed excessively, it results in the anarchy and chaos of the Watts
incident, a situation which can leap all too quickly to the national
level.

Dickinson acted on principle in defying a system that seemed to
. him immoral and not: to be tolerated. The reasonable way in which
his action was carried out indicates that he was attempting to be
objective. Is it objective, however, to act as he did? Were there no
legal means that he might have taken in order to oppose, and one
would assume, eventually eliminate the draft system?

The answer is a qualified no, to both questions, Dickinson’s action,
however calm, was subjective, based on a responsibility to his per-
sonal ethic, His other responsibility, one which is too often ignored
in the protest actions of today, is to his role as a conscious and
willing member of the United States, Recognition of this responsi-
bility must logically lead to a compliance with the laws of the sociéty
to which one belongs, as long as legal means exist for changing
those laws.

Especially in the question of the draft, such means do exist, It
is not a self-perpetuating institution; rather, Congress reviews it
regularly with the possibility of its elimination open, It is true that
one 18-year-old boy has little chance of effecting such a possibility
alone. But this is, after all, a democratic society of sorts, in which
the voice of the majority carries final weight. Perhaps Dickinson’s
concern, like that of many civil disobedients, is with immediate
action, Perhaps, too, he may feel that his personal integrity can not
be subverted, even temporarily, to his integrity as a member of an
orderly society, and therefore acted alone without attempting by
other means than breaking the law to arouse influential community
support for his attitude. We feel, however, that as long as such an
alternative remains open, in this or any other issue, it is the one
which must be chosen first,

Oh, No

A bit out of season, like Christmas in July, the February syndrome
has arrived.. This year, apparently, the plague moved in along with
returning students, The few half-hearted attempts to discourage it
were unsuccessful, and four months early apathy rules the campus.’

If puzzled readers find a news page missing in this issue, let
them know where to lay the blame. There is no news fit to print—
the February blankness, usually attributed to exam prostration, re-
places the normal start-of-year ambitions and projects.

Junior Show, a bright spot in an otherwise dim stretch, was followed
by an informal mixer in Goodhart, An excellent idea in theory, this
mixer failed in practice because too little food and too little space
were provided, A simple planning effort was necessary, but lacking.

This failure is symptomatic of the present mood on campus, Every-
one hoards her time, waiting for someone else to act, Finally, there is
no one left to take the buck.

In a few weeks the annual complaints of boredom will appear.
Students will find no programs, no outings, no projects of interest
to distract them from their studies. Now, while academic demands
seem far in the future, is the time to prepare for the long, cold
winter,

Vague plans are in the air, but recognizing productive ideas is
only part of the solution, Someone must provide the time and talent

to mobilize them, The energy of suggesters and gripers should be

‘used instead to create activities for the entire college. ©
Don’t watch this space for progress reports. Keep your eye on
Page One.

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applebee.



Listen ... halloween is a night
of noises ... some people think
it is orange and blackandcrisp...
flimsy smooth to the touch like
a five and dime frankenstein cos-
tume ... or the warm smell of a
grinning pumpkin

but we denizens of the night
know halloween for what itis...
the scurry of terrified leaves be-
fore the wind ... the woooosh of
a low flying witch or two ... the
monotonous. comment of a tricksy
old owl a hodge podge of
sounds no louder than the near
silence of a jack - 0 - lantern’s
flickering soul

as long as there are human
beings i suppose they will go on
trying to make halloween tangible
«+s Molding it into plastic and
wax and stamping it on party
napkins ... printing it in wobbly
scary letters ... they would have
one believe that eeriness went
out of fashion with childhood ...
but we know better ... don’t we?

spookily,
applebee

| SDS Explains Position

Within American Society

(Several students have re-
cently expressed confusion
over the purpose and aims of
Students for a Democratic So-
ciety. The Bryn Mawr chapter
of SDS has therefore offered
the following article to ex-
plain and clarify its position
on several issues -- ed.)

Students for a Democratic So-
ciety is an organization which at-
tempts to analyze American so-
ciety, study its problems, and
formulate means by which it might
be made more democratic, This
involves giving people controlover -
those institutions or decisions
which affect them personally,
whether they be a city housing
administration, a university, or
government foreign policy. The
members feel that ‘‘formal edu-
cation,’’ and work after, should
be directly concerned with these
problems, not only criticizing the
present structure, but also pro-
posing alternatives.

Projects have been set up in
a dozen northern cities with the
aim of giving a political voice to
poor people now effectively dis-
enfranchised. The projects form
tenants’ councils, organizations of

Haverford Emulates PU

by Laurie Deutsch, '68

Everyone seems to be worrying
these days about what the REAL
Bryn Mawr girl is like, And any-
one who’s Everyone goes to
the *‘small Quaker men’s college’’
down the road a piece,

Not to be outdone by their
Princeton counterparts, the hand-
some Haverfordians have put forth
their own philosophies of the Image
after much deep thought and
discussion. What they have come
up with is not exactly objective.
But, as one dashing junior com-
mented, ‘‘Where would we be with-
out our value judgments?”

Each dorm, it seems, has a
‘‘personality,” or at least an
epithet. One might térm them sense
impressions,

To wit:

1, Rhoads: socialities, long hair,
short hair, and heartbreakers,
This last term refers to those
who are ‘‘beautiful, self-
centered and dishonest with
themselves, They think they
feel something, but really
don’t.’?

2. Pem East: *‘Crazy.’’ The boys
felt this was due to the psy-
chological problems involved in
combining a grueling academic
life with sex.

3. Pem West: Sympathetic; play
bridge a lot.

4, Rock: “Lively and madrasy,
Look preppy, but don’t under-
stand men,’’

5. Radnor: “Small, quiet.’? (The
boys noted some rather vocif-
erous exceptions.)

6. Merion: bland, ‘‘except for a
few that stick out.’

7. Denbigh: ‘‘Blonde,
sweet and lovable,”

8. Erdman; This dorm seemed to
baffle even the deepest and most
sophisticated thinkers, Appar-
ently they’re still trying to

madrasy,

figure out where the people are,

now that Erdwomen (Erdmen?)

can smoke in their rooms,

From all this emerges a
frightening thought, Are you living
in the wrong dorm? For example,
if you’re a sympathetic bridge
player living in Rhoads, you are
obviously in the wrong environ-
ment, Socio-economic conditions
demand a rapid transfer to Pem
West, e’re you-go crazy midst all
the long and_ short-haired
socialites and become marked for
Pem East, Another thought: do

Denbigh girls really have more

fun? The boys refused to make a



In Assessing Maurters

value judgment,

There is more to the Mawrter
than meets the eye--or the dorm
designation, Certaintraits pervade
the entire campus, At Bryn Mawr
College, -18.5% of the girls are
Idealistic Romantics, These poor
souls have preconceived notions
of romance and what a *‘meaning-
ful relationship’? is supposed to
be. They ‘‘lack spontaneity’? and
“think they’re involved when
they’re not.” The boys agreed
that they’re ‘‘fun to go out with
as long as you know what you’re
in for’? ... just don’t expect a
Realistic Naturalist,

At least 40% ‘‘Do Not Want to
Get Involved,”? ‘*50% of these say
it while slipping into deep in-
volvements with guys who don’t
even go to Haverford!’’ (Author’s
comment: ‘‘Unbelievable.’’)

Miscellaneous facts which the
boys felt compelled to divulge:
1. There are four fashionable girls

at Bryn Mawr, (Humm, Let’s

see; there’s Kitty Ellis’ ...)

2. The Preppy element is unknown
because it’s always at. Prince-
ton,

3, The Class of °69 has more
pretty girls, but fewer beauti-
ful girls, than prior years.
The self-consciously intellec-

tual Mawrter. may not rejoice

in the preceding quotes; she may
not be overcome by Haverford
invitations to dinner, dancing and
the theater, But at least she can
revel in the fact that she is thought
enough of to be thought. about.

frenetic eee



Which are you? Sympathetic, propheti

unemployed people or welfare re-
cipients, and agencies for a con-
trolled war on poverty. The pro-
jects also try to broaden peoples’
awareness of themselvesas human
beings by setting up community
theaters or art displays.

In the area of foreign policy
SDS_ studies critical issues and
analyzes the bases on which pol-
icy decisions are made. Members
publish research papers on areas
of interest, Chapters try to stim-
ulate wide debate on these is-
sues, in order to create greater
public involvement in decision-
making.

Members work through campus “

chapters or projects. They func-
tion autonomously and initiate their
own activities. Decisions are
reached by exhaustive talking, at
chapter or project meetings or at
frequent regional and national con-
ferences, Position papers are pub-.
lished on various issues of con-
cern. This discussion serves to
maximize within SDS the demo-
cracy it seeks to bring toallareas
of life,

Several SDS publications have
been put on the SAC shelf in the
Reserve Room. Anyone interested
can attend a regional conference
at Swarthmore on November 6,

350 Guests Attend
Social Work Dept.
50th Anniversary

The 50th Anniversary Collo-
quium of the Bryn Mawr
Graduate Department of Social
Work and Social: Research, held
Saturday, October 23, stressed
the broadening scope of the so-
cial work field and the necess-
ity of additional adjustment to
social change,

About 350 guests from many
areas of social work and social
work instruction attended the six
concurrent morning sessions.

This reporter attended Bertram
S. Brown’s speech on community

mental health. Mr, “Brown em- ©

phasized the overlapping social —
forces, including government pro-
grams, in the area, He discussed
the program for community men-
tal health centers started by the
government after the president’s
report on mental health and men-
tal retardation in 1963.

Commentator Philip Lichten-
berg of the Bryn Mawr school
questioned the balance between
the medical and social work com-
ponents of the centers, asking
social workers to consider 4ll
the implications before becoming ’
involved,

The closing speech was
delivered by Alton A, Linford dur-
ing the luncheon at the Treadway
Inn, In a talk entitled ‘‘The Future
of Social Work Education,” Mr,
Linford said that some of the
current anti-poverty programs
present a -serious challenge to
traditional methods of social work.



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October 29, 1965

COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three



Summer in London Dangerous; Jr. Show Anything But Revoltin’
Anglophilia Overtakes Mawrter 45 Fun C haracterizes Production

(This is the third of a series
of articles by Bryn Mawr stu-
dents who studied abroad within
the last year. ‘The following is
by Karen Durbin, who spent six
weeks this summer at the Uni-

versity of London. -- Ed.)

DON’T apply to the British Uni-
versities Summer School pro-
gram for study in Britain, Don’t,
that is, unless you’re prepared to
run the risk of succumbing
completely to the charm of the
place.

Maybe it happened that night I
crossed the Thames northbound
on the Waterloo Bridge -- lights
glittering all along the water, the
Houses of Parliament spotlighted
dramatically on the bank, and Big
Ben gleaming out from the left.

Or then it might have been
that evening in the lounge of Com-
monwealth Hall, when someone who
looked alarmingly like Ringo Starr
nodded politely and introduced
himself as one of the tutors for
the summer school course in Vic-
torian. Lit. :

Or maybe it was the Cockney
fish-n-chips man who said ‘‘Good
show, Luv,’’ and grinned at my
orange rain hat one foggy, foggy
evening in Bloomsbury.

It’s hard to pinpoint, but some-
where along the way, I caught an
_-advanced case of anglophilia. May-
be it was just London, but then I
hear the disease crops up regu-
larly in the Edinburgh, Oxford, and
Stratford branches of the pro-
gram, too. And a few weeks’ travel
around Great Britain had fostered
the germ in me before arriving in
London,

But now for a few facts--from
July 13 until August 20, I lived

in Commonwealth Hall, a modern’

eight-story building on the edge

Bloomsbury in west central
London (twenty minutes on foot to
the Strand and ten by subway to
Piccadilly Circus).

Commonwealth houses students
from all over the world throughout
the summer, although the chiefly
American summer school made up
a large percentage of its inhabi-
_ tants this year.

Five mornings a week, I trudged
off with approximately 70 other
students and a variety of tutors
and lecturers to the School of
Pharmacy, for the 10 o’clock lec-
ture, 11 asm. morning coffee,anda
second lecture at 11:30.

Although students attending the
course ranged from_ college
“. seniors to university professors,
the lectures, especially at first,
were fairly basic and didn’t pre-
suppose more thana general ability
to spell the names of the pre-
Raphaelite painters and a vague
awareness of who Mrs, Gaskell
was.

The lectures were frequently
good, occasignally excellent, and
touched upon all facets of the Vic-
torian period, Discussion was re-
served for the tutorial sessions,
which met two hours a week in the
smokers of Commonwealth, with
five to ten students and a tutor,
usually a young British university
instructor. 5

The sessions varied enor-
mously; I was lucky enough to be
in one where the fur flew exhila-
ratingly among a Norwegian house-
wife, a French lycée instructor,

a .Venezuelan college student, an —

English university graduate, and
two Bryn Mawrters--Sue Burk-
hardt and me, Anexciting intellec-
tual experience is what they call
it in the books, I believe.

It’s only fair to note that this
was not the norm, a fact not to be
blamed on the tutors, who were
generally a challenging and en-
~ thusiastic lot.

‘Rather, the value of the tutorials
depended largely on the calibre
of the students, and this year’s

group was not exactly the best.
This was really about the only
disappointment I found; for
although I enrolled in the course
more as a way of becoming a part
of the London life than asa strictly
scholastic endeavor, I did ex-
pect most of the students to be
academically sophisticated and
concerned,

Instead, there was a startling
number of giggly American co-
eds (‘foh, aren’t the bobbies
cute?’’) and their tourist-type el-
ders (‘*who ever heard of warm
beer?’’), most of whom banded
together, fortunately, and left the
rest of us to our own devices.

Lovely devices they were, too,
such as evening pubcrawls with
the British students (mostly boys)
living in Commonwealth, and fish-
n-chips at midnight, wrapped in
newspaper and eaten on slow walks
around Bloomsbury. Then there
were the endless explorations of
London, rainy and grey, beautiful
and homely, and wonderfully in-
exhaustible.

If the city got oppressive (which
it occasionally did), there wereal-

ways weekends in the country, be-

sides the school-provided excur-
sions, and the more immediately
available’ escape to nearby
Regents Park, large enough to get
briefly lost in.

Then there were the Lon-
doners--mods and rockers, bowl-
er-topped businessmen and tweed-
clad women, and just everyday
people--almost without exception
extraordinarily courteous and
friendly to the tourists who
thronged the city.

But this is only the beginning,
with no end in sight, Suffice it to
say that, speaking idiomatically,
a summer in London can be a
bit of a lark.

“Open City” Next
In Arts Council
Five Film Series

Arts Council opened a series of
five films with ‘*Le Million” by
Rene Clair (France 1930) October
19,

Next in the series on November
2 is **Open City,’’ an Italian neo-
realist film of the 1950’s, The
photography is generally stark as
post-war Italy was. ‘‘Shanghai Ex-
press’? will be shown November
9. Cocteau’s ‘*Beauty and the
Beast” and ‘Birth of a Nation’
will be presented November 23
and December 14.

“Shanghai Express’’ stars Mar-
lene Dietrich and is directed by
Josef vonSternberg. VonSternberg
put Miss Dietrich in the ‘‘Blue
Angel’? and directed her in many
films.

‘*Beauty and the Beast’? is the
fantasy given Jean Cocteau’s style.
Cocteau also produced ‘‘Orpheus”’
and ‘Testament of Orpheus,’ one
of which will be shown at Haver-
ford.

**Birth of a Nation,” directed by
D.W. Griffith, tells the story of the
American nation, particulary the
period after the Civil War.
Labelled by some as anti-Negro,
the pictures portrays such things
as the rise of the Klu Klux Klan,

The entire series will act as
a pilot series, If enough suppo
is generated, future programs will
be forthcoming. The program is
also designed to supplement
Haverford’s series with additional
material for comparison of direc-
tors and actors, and to give the
viewer opportunities to see films
that are infrequently shown,

Tickets for the series are $1.50
or $.50 for each film. The movies
are shown in the Biology Lecture

.Room at 8:30 pem., not 8 p.m, as

printed on the tickets,

¢
re

by Hilary Henneke
Assistant to

the Director of Admissions

REVOLTIN’, the junior show
of the Class of 1967, was anything
but a ‘‘frevoltin’ development,’’
In recent years, there have been
shows with stronger plots, but
few that have provided such good,
clean fun for both, audience
and cast. The troupe was well-
rehearsed and the good time that
they were having was contagious,
Balance and proportion charac-
terized the production.

The acting talent in the show
was well above average. The
‘textras’’ were carefully re-
hearsed; they sang enthusias-
tically, danced more than ade-
quately and _ contributed greatly
to the sprightly pacing of the show
as a whole. The holders of bit-
parts, Cile Yow, Terry Newirth,
Tony Dreher, Nimet Habachy and
Kitty Taylor, managed to project
themselves as well-developed

‘characters and generally added to

the hilarity of the evening. ‘‘The
In Crowd’? had some _ great
moments and areto be particularly
commended for their timing.

Aznavour Concert
Provokes Praises
For Love Songs

by Sally Rosenberg

‘Speaking about love--there are
people who desire love. There
are others who reflect love. Some
pray for love; others refuse love.
Some ignore, some praise, some
hate love. I could die for love,
just to live a little happier.”

—Charles Aznavour ~

Charles Aznavour sings about
love. His performance at the Am-
bassador Theatre in New York
is ‘‘formidable.”? Otherwise it is
beyond description; there are no
superlatives dynamic enough in
any language.

Electricity fills the air as a
Napoleon-size man in a dark suit
and pink shirt walks on stage and
bursts forth with his first number.
Aznavour has more in common
with the ‘‘little giant’’ than his
height, for he is able to retain
complete mastery over his audi-
ence throughout the entire two
hours during which he is in the
spotlight. He sends chills up and
down one’s. spine because, no
matter where her seat is in.the
theater, she knows he is looking
at and singing to her alone,

Alternating fast with slow and
sprinkling the French with some
English, Aznavour maintains a
quick pace, His changes of tempo
balance the performance and add
to the excitement. He blends his
songs of love with songs of love
to make a pleasing repertoire of
love songs.

The most remarkable quality of
Charles Aznavour is his ability
to create a mood, to stimulate
emotion. To provide an aura of
romance, he demands an intimate
light when he sings a song to
Isabelle, a woman he loved, A
softs blue light might be intimate
for a New Yorker, but not for
this Frenchman who is satisfied
only with total darkness.

A moment later heycan make
one see a troup of itinerant actors
as he sings the part of the carni-
val barker. Whether he is singing
to a “funny faced’? tomboy, a
gypsy, or a sophisticated lover,
Aznavour makes the audience feel
the love he feels in all its inten-
sity.

Aznavour’s New York engage-
ment lasts through October 30, On
November 8 he will be appearing at
Philadelphia’s Academy of Music,
Though this may not have the
very intimate atmosphere of the ~
smaller Broadway theatre, an
Aznaveur -concert cannot help but
be a thrilling experience.

Susan Orbeton, as the agent, was
a model of the crass materialist
who feeds on fads,

It would be difficult to imagine
the four major characters being
better played, Each managed to be
a parody of himself without losing
the sympathy of the audience.
Claudia Mangum’s ‘‘Father’’ was
perhaps the least developed of
these characters, but provided the
ideal . foil for Louise Yelin’s
‘‘Mother.’? They sang well, both
together and separately, and their
dance routine with ‘Going to Pot’’
was hilarious. ‘Honeysuckle
Rosenblum’? and ‘Dylan Tante’’
were another well-matched couple.
Joan’ Zakon’s ‘‘Honey’’ was a
character straight out of NEW
YORKER cartoons of the 1920’s.
Her debutante’s slouch was unim-
peachable and her mugging, which
kidded all her pretensions, was
well-enough controlled to make her
role a parody rather than a farce.
Lynne. Moody’s characterization
of ‘Dylan’? was a slightly more
subtle variety which managed to
hold its own when confronted with
Joan’s broader style. Lynne’s re-
markable singing, her flair for
pantomime, and her mobile face

helped her to sustain several |

difficult solos andsoliloquies with-
out embarrassment or stiffness.
She had a particularly demanding
role in that’ much of the time on
stage she was responsible for
setting the mood and the pace of
the scene. Whatever other merits
these two characters had, they
were lucky enough to share what
was probably the funniest scene
in the script--that of their meet-
ing at 5:00 a.m, -- and this con-
tributed greatly to the audience’s
enthusiasm for them.

Wendy Wassyng and Alice Leib,
who wrote the nice, light script,
were able to capitalize on their
other talents. Alice did the chore-
ography for the production and
Wendy directed it. Alice’s chore-
ography ranged from the pleasant
but unobtrusive, as in some of the
musical numbers, to the excep-
tional, as in **Marriage In-Style.”’
The latter was probably the most
professional moment in the show.
It, like the play as awhole, managed
to kid itself without denying the
importance of the parodied sub-
ject. Wendy’s direction was extra-
ordinary in that it kept the pro-
duction in balance; no character,
sub-plot, divertisement ever ran
away with the show. This was no
mean feat, since the charac-
ters were strong and hungry for
applause and the musicians and
dancers were both talented and
capable. Alice and Wendy put
together a pleasant evening’s

entertainment with just enough mu-
sic and just enough action to make
one want just a little more when

the curtain went down. This is a
rare thing in such amateur efforts.

The music was well-paced and
well-placed. Generally the cast
could sing and the musical numbers
always seemed right, The mu-
sicians were-well above the norm
and Fern Hunt, an honorary mem-
ber of the Class of ’67, is a
great addition to the college’s
musical talent, She played the piano
with verve, and was successful in
both accompanying and leading the
cast as is inevitably necessary
in such _—_ productions. April
Southern is to be commended for
managing to produce music that
so complemented the script.

The settings and costumes were
imaginative and simple. They
never overwhelmed the action on
stage, but neither were they ever
inadequate.

_ The Class of 1967 is to be con-
gratulated. I couldn’t have spent
a more delightful evening. They’re
not *‘revoltin’? anymore.

Friends of Music
To Offer Concert
Here Next Week

The Monteux-Trampler Duowill
present the first concert of the
season in a series sponsored by
the Friends of Music of Bryn
Mawr College on Thursday, No-
vember 4, at 8:30 p.m

The group features Claude Mon-
teux, flutist, andWalter Trampler,
violist, Miss Gloria Agstini, harp-
ist, will assist.

Selections on the program in-
clude Bach’s Sonata in G minor
for flute and harp, Vincent Per-
sichetti’s Serenade No. 10 for
flute and harp, Hindemith’s Sonata
for viola alone, Josef Martin
Kraus’s Sonata in D major for
flute and viola, and Debussy’s
Sonata for flute, viola, and harp.

Mrs. Thomas S. Horrocks of
Haverford is chairman of the
Friends of Music. The organiza-
tion was formed in 1955 to help
develop the resources of the De-
partment of Music, while rendering
a musical service to the community
and to students of music at the
college.

The concert by the Monteux-
Trampler Duo will be given in
Goodhart Auditorium. Those in-
terested in membership in the
Friends of Music or in guest
tickets for the concert may write
to the Friends of Music, Taylor
Hall, Bryn Mawr College.



| In And Around Philadelphia



The Philadelphia Orchestra will feature Zubin Mehta as conductor
tonight, Saturday and Monday at 8:30 andFriday at 2, The performances
will include Schoenberg’s ‘‘Five Pieces for Orchestra’? and Bruckner’s

Symphony No. 9.

The October 31 concert at the Philadelphia Museum of Art will
have guest violinist Jacob Krachmalnick.

On October 30 the Haverford and Smith College Glee Clubs will
give a joint concert. in Roberts Hall at 8:30, The program will feature

Handel’s ‘*Fifth Chandos Anthem.’’

John Kenneth Galbraith will speak on A More Modern Foreign
Policy’? at the Swarthmore College Meeting House Sunday, October

31, at 8:15 p»m.

William Patterson will present ‘‘A Profile of Holmes’’ a dramati-
zation in two acts of the life of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Friday,
October 29, in Roberts Hall, Haverford.

Boito’s

‘¢Mefistofele’’ will be presented by the Philadelphia Lyric

Opera Company at the Academy of Music at 8:15 on Friday, October

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FILMS

‘*Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines’’ is on view at

the Trans-Lux,

The film version of Katherine Anne Porter’s SHIP OF FOOLS is

currently running at the Goldman.

The rival of James Bond ‘‘The Ipcress File’’ is showing at the

Arcadia.

*¢The Sound of Music’’ with lovely Julie Andrews continues at the

Midtown.

“ Winding up its run at: the Stanley on November 4 is that wonderful ©

musical ‘‘My Fair Lady.’’
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Page Five



Spelunkers at Dreibibus Cave “Exemplary Patterns in Fiction”
Find Adventures Underground Second of Kermode’s Lectures

Not even academic life on the
Main Line can be completely de-
void of adventure fof those who
seek it. A case in point is a group
of 11 Bryn Mawrters who went
caving with 13 Penn Outing Club-
bers and one Haverfordian Sunday,
October 24,

The scene was Dreibibus Cave,
about five miles from Kutztown,
Pennsylvania, Early explorations
proceeded normally, until the
cavers reached a room with a

difficult passage leading to a 30-:

foot high chamber.

The passage circled through

narrow cracks back to a point
near the main entrance, Only five
cavers .chose to take this route.
One of these was Sue Pasley from
Bryn Mawr, and her adventure
follows.

‘The passages kept getting nar-
rower and narrower, At this point
the water was about eight inches
deep, At one spot in a narrow
crack I had to push through side-
ways lying on my side,

There was a slight protrusion
in the wall over which I had to
push myself, head over heels,. to
get past. As I was attempting it,
my feet lost all hold, so that in-
stead of being able to shove myself
down and over, I sort of bowed
over and slipped down with my
hips wedging tight between the wall
and the protrusion, At first I
struggled and only stuck worse, so
that all I could move were my
arms and my head, I was being
pulled. even tighter by simple
gravity and had to use my free

Operation Match
Finds Ideal Date
In Computer Age

The computer age has achieved
another exciting break - through.
Now you can find the man of your
dreams. merely by describing him!
This is the idea behind ‘‘Operation
Match,’”? a plan to give college
students the opportunity of meeting
the types of people they enjoy dat-
ing.

The project is the brainchild of
several mixer-weary Harvard
juniors who decided that compu-
ter-matching from_ individuals’

‘ statistics could improve upon the

hit and miss system of blind dates.

How can you, participate in Op-
eration Match? First secure a copy
of the personality test, available
from Leslie Spain, Erdman, Filling
it out is half the fun.

Your own attitudes are explored
through direct questions and ‘‘sit-
uation” probléms, Almost all the
questions are two-fold: how do you

\wiew yourself and what sort of
date would- you like to view on
your doorstep.

In addition to specifying his
attitudes and appearance, you can
even specify his family income and
College Board Scores.

This is the opportunity we’ve all
been waiting for. Remember: all
applications from this area (with
$3 processing fee) must be post-
marked no later than (midnight)
November 8. Well, it IS a-con-

- test of sorts. Only you can’t really
lose; every applicant is “guaran-
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arm to hold my head up out ofa
pool of cold muddy water, There I
lay, starting to panic, I kept trying
to. move and couldn’t and finally
started to cry and call out,

Two boys in front of me and

one behind me talked to mé to keep
me calm, all the while holding me
up to keep me from slipping more.
I was literally a dead weight, un-
able to find a suitable hand or foot
hold to help support myself. The
stone alone held me up,

The boys could neither push nor
pull me out with all their effort,
and I could do little to help them
in their efforts. My hands in the
cold water were becoming numb,
as were my knees,

All three lights faded out, and
for a while we lay in darkness,
one boy in water a foot high,
underneath me, supporting my legs
and trying to talk me out of crying.

Time passed slowly as we waited
for a third boy to go back and get
fresh batteries. During the inter-
minable wait I actually began to
think I would never get out or else
have to wait for hours while they

sent to the Philadelphia Grotto .

Club for a rescue team,

With the bringing of fresh bat-
teries, hope returned, Witha great
surge and_with the two boys push-
ing and pulling, I suddenly popped
out of my trap and could move a
little in the passage. Absolutely
exhausted, I finally slid out from
underneath the protrusion, I had
been trapped for more than an
hour.

In order to get me up the last
long climb to the entrance, they
had to lash me to a line and
literally pull me out, My hands
and feet were too numb for me to
maneuver alone,

If someone had to get stuck, it
was better me than anyone else.
I’ve been caving before and ap-
proached panic soon enough as it
was. We had almost reached the
hammer and chisel point,’’



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policy has been formulated
in order to clarify the duties
of the announcers, and to
standardize the quality of
the announcements. It is
also hoped that by bringing
attention to the hall an-
nouncers, they will be given
more listening cooperation
by the students.

1. All announcements must
be typed on 3 x 5 cards;
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Can the ticking of a clock help
to explain man’s efforts to make
sense of his world? Frank Ker-
mode’s second Flexner lecture,
‘Exemplary Patterns in Fiction,”
used that simple sound to relate
the previous lecture on the fic-
tion of the apocalypse to the prob-
lem of literary fictions.

Mr. Kermode opened his talk
with an examination of the term
**fiction.”’ Fictions appear not only
in literature but also in such
disciplines as history. Nietzsche
dealt with them when he wrote
that the falseness of an opinion
is no objection to it.

Mr. Kermode described the
Nietzschean concept of asking only
if an idea were life-preserving,
but he added that such a criterion
can lead a man to energize de-
structive causes.

The patterns by which men
choose to explain the world can,
despite Nietzsche’s view, remain
unrelated to their lives, accord-

ing to Mr. Kermode, except as

men choose to relate them by act.

Mr. Kermode drew a sharp dis-
tinction between literary fic-
tion and myth, He defined a myth
as drawn in a diagram of ritual,
so that it presupposes a total ex-
planation of the world and is based
on a lost order of time. A liter-
ary fiction, however, can change
as needs do, Mr. Kermode views
it as an instrument for new dis-
coveries instead of a blanker ex-
planation.

It is similarly impossible to
identify a literary fiction with
a hypothesis, argued Mr. Ker-
mode, Each fiction is onlya means
of experimentation which is never
really accepted as true and will
eventually be abandoned in favor
of a more useful fiction.

Developing this point further,
Mr. Kermode said that since a
literary fiction is consciously
false, it is not subject to proof
or disconfirmation -- only to ne-

glect when it outlives its useful-

ness,
With a definition of ‘‘fiction’’

Skiing on Merion Green

Is Difficult Without Snow

Usually oblivious campus strol-
lers stopped in their tracks last
week at the vision of twenty girls
in front of the gym dressed in
slacks, sweaters, boots, and skis
on a very warm October day. No—
these optimistic athletes weren’t
en route to any slope more dan-
gerous than Merion Green,

Crowds gathered, some timidly
looking over their shoulders,
others frankly staring and sitting
down to watch the entire spec-
tacle, At the end of the lesson one
boy eagerly ran up to see how he
could join the class, Hewas sorely
disappointed to find that this was
to happen only once.

The whole~- production was
merely part of the sports orien-
tation program of the gym depart-
ment, The object of that day’s
class was to give girls their first
(and some thought afterwards their
only) ski lesson. One might suppose
that being on dry land made every-
thing easier, Perhaps, but at the
time it was hard to believe.

The first step’in the lesson was
the fall. Now falling down isreally
fairly simple, and the class man-
aged quite well. The next step was
more difficult. One had to get up.

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three ways of getting up. The first
method was simple but effective.
One sits on the skis, grasping the
poles on either side, and with a
rocking motion stands up, Accord-
ing to the instructor this way was
considered primitive by the ex-
perts, and noself-respecting skier
would perform it.

The methods he demonstrated
were more graceful but clearly
impossible. After a bit of tugging,
pulling, and hauling, all the girls
struggled to their feet and the les-
son proceeded,

Next came some methods of
walking, all hysterically funny to
the on-lookers, but very difficult
for the novices, and the step and
kick turns, As. the instructor
bobbed up and down in his cran-
berry stretch suit some faces
took on a glow as if they too were
longing. to skim swiftly down a
mountain side, For some this feel-
ing actually existed, but for others
the glow merely expressed their
desire to take off the silly boots
and skis,

Next week, come one, come all.
The class tries fencing. A.S.

established, Mr. Kermode next
proceeded to pose the question of
the survival of these paracigms
against the pressures of ‘iecay.
Their tenacity indicates that they
correspond to basic human needs,
supplying a comfort of some sort.
Certain patterns are universal
in acceptance, said Mr, Kermode,
choosing time as an example, At
a basic level,.all people share the
same fiction of time, simplified
by Mr. Kermode to aticking clock.
Man has humanized the sound to
*tick-tock,” providing a primitive
beginning and end -- or genesis
and apocalypse. He does so be-
cause he can perceive duration
only when it is organized, The
sound, therefore’ becomes a plot,
Mr. Kermode concluded,
According to Mr. Kermode,
every plot must defeat the tendency
of the interval between ‘‘tick’? and
‘tock’? to lose meaning. A plot’s
purpose is simply bestowing mean-
ing on an otherwise blank interval.
Mr. Kermode distinguished be-
tween two varieties of time --
chronos, or successive time, and
chairos, or seasonal time. Only

* chairos is capable of transform=

ing the past and establishing con-
cords; it is the time of ends.

Every fiction must pursue two
paths, said Mr, Kermode, While
escaping chronos in order to sat-
isfy man’s needs, it must also
continue to relate its reality to
chronos,

In Mr, Kermode’s view, the con-
flict of chronos and chairos is a
result of man’s hunger for ends.
He maintains his sense of chronic
time in the midst of this hunger
and refuses to surrender entirely
to chairos, Mr. Kermode describ-
ed ULYSSES as a blending of
the chronos of Dublin with the
chairos of the ODYSSEY in a
single literary fiction, :

To satisfy the human mind that
perceives such problems of dis-
sonance, said Mr. Kermode, con-
cord fictions establish a con-
sonance between what is true now
and what seemed to be true in the
past. -

Mr. Kermode concluded with a
discussion of the theory of com-
plementality, borrowed from Niels
Bohr and the world of physics,
which allows mantorelate a seem-
ingly outdated fiction to contem-
porary fictions, Satisfying man’s
needs implies constant changes in
fictions, he added, This will be
the topic of. Mr, Kermode’s third
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HAPPY

HALLOWEEN

Freshmen Fail Self-Gov Exams;

Permission Givers S tay on Duty

The. College News learned
W -dnesday, October 27, that only
12 freshmen passed their Self-
Gov exams which were given Mon-
day.

This is obviously going to lead
to difficulties and inconveniences.
Permission givers will have to
stay on duty until each Hall Presi-
dent works out a system for
eventually passing all the fresh-
men in her hall, The freshmen also
will have to continue yelling ‘‘Per-
‘mission giver!’ everytime they go
out after 10:30.

This startling event is attributed
to the trickiness of the exam. The
questions involved areas of Bryn
Mawr. life that are not explicitly
covered in the Freshman Hand-
book. For example, one question
was ‘‘Who was our Founding
Mother?” . Several unsuitable an-
swers were Carrie Nation, Phyllis
Diller and Martha Washington,

There were two essay questions
from which to choose. One asked
the freshmento discuss the signifi-
cance of the statement,‘‘Only our
failures marry,” in 5, 000 bitter
words or less, The other required
a more objective treatment, in
asking the question, ‘*What features
of the library cloisters are remini-
scent of a convent?”

Freshmen were also asked to
write out the words of ‘*Sophias’’
both in Attic Greek and modern
English, This was an attempt to
make Lantern Night more mean-
i. .gful for them,

Admittedly these are hard ques-
tions, But Bryn Mawr is not a gut

' ¢thool, If students are going to
reap the benefits and prestige of

Trusty Trustees
Plan to Remodel
Rhoads Smokers

The Financial Subcommittee of
ine Board.of Trustees announced
last Thursday that it intended to
appropriate a substantial sum of
money for the redecoration of the
smokers and the showcase in
Rhoads Hall.

While Mrs. Smith, spokesman
for the sub-committee, didnot dis-
close the exact amount of the
allotment, she did indicate that
it would provide for new furniture
and for the re-upholstering of
some of the larger sofas, as well
as for new draperies and rugs,

Much of the present furniture is
im tattered and dilapidated con-
dition in contrast to the furniture
im other halls and is not partic-

ularly suitable for entertaining

important guests.

The committee has not yet decid-
ed who will be in charge of the
redecoration, but Mrs. Smith indi-
cated that suggestions from the
students will be welcomed,

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being Bryn Mawrters (é.g. being
written up in TIME magazine) they
are going to have to face the fact
that a certain amount of diligent
study is required.

The officers of Self-Gov stated
that though they are disappointed
with the results, they hope this will
serve as a lesson to the entire

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Body Discovered at Midnight
Discloses Deed of Little Fiends

Another body was discovered
last night in the sub-basement
Kittycombs of Rockefeller Hall,
The rigour-mortified corpse of
Mary Nevver. (formerly class of
39), still clutching a long lost
library volume for protection, was
uncovered at midnight and in-
spected by Dr. What’s On, head of
the geology department, The isual
poison arrowhead still stuck tothe
clot-blooded heart.

This was the fourth body found
in the Kittycombs. over the past
several years. (Kittycombs, for
those who ‘have not taken arche-
aology, are like Catacombs, only
smaller.) In each case the ‘‘dead
damsel of the dastrous deed’’ has
been done in by a poisoned projec-
tile point..In each case the time
was late October,

It was clearly another act..of
the ‘Little People’? who inhabit
the lower reaches of ancient struc-
tures, Little People live off of
termits (itty termites), silver-
fishes and cockritches (itchy cock-
roaches), which they hunt at night
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Heavenly Seven Ousts B.M.C.
After N.E.A. Blasts Reputation

Word leaked out late Thursday
evening that the Seven College Con-
ference (otherwise known as the
‘(Heavenly Seven’’) has voted in
closed session to expel Bryn Mawr
College from its ranks. The de-
cision allegedly followed aninves-
tigation conducted by the National
Education Association into the aca-
demic standards of several pri-
vately owned and run institutions
throughout the United States.

According to an informed
source, the investigatory commit-
tee found that educational oppor-
tunities at Bryn Mawr were “‘prac-
tically substandard ... Bryn Mawr
offers the student little more than
minimal educational opportunities
--. Its reputation for excellence
.-. is largely a myth.”?

The announcement of the Con-
ference’s action was due to come
at the end of November, during the

Conference’s annual meeting. A
news leak, however, precipitated
much consternation and confusion
on the part of all the sister col-
leges. Miss Edna I, McLeffy,
spokesman for the Conference, ex-
pressed shock at the N,E,A, dis-
closures: ‘*‘We were all very
shocked, of course. We had no
IDEA, But of course we took im-
mediate action when we heard,’’

Dean Dorothy Marshall of Bryn
Mawr feels that a mistake has been
made: ‘‘Bryn Mawr has always
maintained the highest standards
ee. We were not informed of the
N.E.A, findings in advance (of the
Conference decision) nor were we
invited to sit in on the Conference
sessions. I believe it is all some
enormous blunder,’?

President Katharine McBride of
Bryn Mawr was not available for
immediate comment.

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may also attract Little People.
Little People have often been mis-
chievous in rock on their night
hunts by shooting their arrows at
light bulbs and down toilets to
defacilitate the dorm.

Excavations have long proven
the presence of the Little People
in Rockefeller, As one proceeds
farther and deeper into Rock base-
ment, spelunking through dingy
dirt-covered floors, over pipes,
under wires, one comes at last
to little rooms where the digging
has uncovered treasures of jaw
bones, old bottled specimens, and
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