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VOL. XLVIII—NO. 17

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1963

€) Trustees ef Bryhn Mawr College,

1963

PRICE 20 CENTS



Miss Mead Analyzes. ‘Aspects ©
~ Of Cross-Ideological Exchange

“The human race is well worth
saving, no mater what it does. I do
not believe that the Old Stone Age
was more interesting than the pres-
ent age.” With these reassurances,
anthropologist Margaret Mead began

‘her Monday ‘evening lecture on

“Cross Ideological Communication.”

Her lecture was based primarily
‘upon the results of application
of anthropology to political af-
fairs. ‘This can be done because of
the anthropoligeal assumption of

Election Results —
1963-1964. Winners
‘Plan New Projects

If it is up to the newly-elected
candidates, there will be increased
interest in all phases of Undergrad.,
Self-Gov., N.S. A., and “Big Five”
activity.

Changing the Undergrad. room
next to the Roost into an informal

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‘music room for students, promotion

of more student exchanges, continu-
ation of the College Inn project, and
a college-wide conference were pro-
posed by Undergrad. President-elect
Dorothy Meadow, ’64, -Assisted by
Vice-president Gail Walker, 64, and
Secretary Prue, Kappes, ’65, Dorothy

hopes to elicit more student sugges- ©

tions through the. new Executive
_ Board organization, __

Ellen Gross, ’64, new Self- Gov.
President, will consider the present
of -acquainting--
freshmen with Self-Gov.- Upper-
) ¢lassmen, too, should be made more
aware of the accessibility, of the
Board. Working with her will be
Vice-president Nancy. Geiger, .’64,
Secretary Sally Harris,
First Sophomore Ying. Ying. Tsien,

966,

N.S,A. Co- -ordinator. Marj ‘Heller,
’64, is planning a student-faculty
discussion ‘of N.D.E.A. for late
April.
groups of foreign students to the
campus and to arouse . greater

_ awareness of N.S..A. by. closer liai-

gon with the College News and Un-
dergrad.

Kathy Boudin, *65;- — elected |
Alliance President, lists ‘as a’ goal
finding lectures and activities to in-
terest the politically. apathetic.

The continuation and enlargement
of the present tutorial project, pos-
sibly servicing an’ entire Phifadel-
phia School, will be one ‘of League
President Sylvia Barrus’ ambitions
for next year. 2

Ellie. Beidler, 64, plans a more
‘diversified program. for A.A., —
eluding faculty-student games,”
junior-senior recreational ‘sport si
gram, and a mixed doubles tennis
tournament.

“Mary Lee Sivess, 65, Interfaith
President, “is concerned . with ac-
quainting freshmen with the local
churches during’ Freshman Week.

Bringing young artists to Bryn -
. Mawr from the Philadelphia area,
as Well as continuing a lecture pro-.

Carter,
‘new Arts ‘Council President. :

‘Candidates’ opinions of the new.
dinner’ system ranged from “much.
improved”~and ne. good” to= Ha
waste of time.” The low percen-
tage of. the’ student body attending”
dinner discussions (Self-Gov., ‘28%,
Undergrad., 25%, A.A. 9%, Alli-
ance, 16%, Arts Connells 10%, In-
terfaith, 10%, League, 11%, and
N.S. A., 18%) also indicate the’ ne-
cessity ‘of further consideration of.
the present system.

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"65>; ant

She hopes to attract ‘more..



,the “psychic unity of mankind.” As:

suming that differences between va+
rious _people are culturally derived,
once these are delineated, we can
achieve better international ¢com-
muncations, -i. e. better diplomatic
relations. .

_.For- example, Miss Mead pointed -

‘out the differences between the Brit-
ish and American conceptions of
partnership.” ~The British view
partnership in terms of tennis eth-
ics, whereas we consider it. a busi-
ness agreement. With this kind of

‘understanding, we are able to. work

out political problems among -na-
tions more easily and even predict
the results in various instances.
~-A sheerly cultural difference that
Miss Mead discussed was the varia-
tion betweer the Soviet and U. S.
ideas of “truth.” , The, Russians are
‘utterly unconfused by the exist-
ence of facts”, and concerned rather
with truth of intention. We, how-
ever, believe that “you can take a
picture of ‘truth’ with a camera
when you’re not there.” Basically,
cultural differences have become em-
bodied in political traditions, with
resulting _ difficulties and lack of
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“Denn oh essor Applauds Acting, Directing,

by Matthew Black

" Professor-of English
University of Pennsylvania
Lovers of Shakespeare .on the
stage—who are gratifyingly nu-

combined’ dramatic clubs -of Bryn
Mawr College and Haverford Col-

lege for ‘the ‘opportunity to ‘see and-:

hear. some rarely-performed pieces
of the old drama conipetently and
even brilliantly done. Webster’s ‘The
Duchess of Malfi and Shakespeare’s
Love’s Labour’s Lost are examples

that come readily to mind. On Sat-
urday évening last our-debt was com-
pounded .by .a uniformly excellent
production of ‘the even more rarely
seen Shakespearean comedy, ‘All’s
Well, That Ends Well.

All’s Well is not easy to do. It

belongs to a period near the end of
the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, after
the dramatist’s mood had_ turned

from history ‘arid romantic comedy

to high tragedy in Julius Caesar,
then soared into the enchanting high
spirits of.As You Like It, Much Ado,
.and Twelfth Night, only to outdo



Juli Kasius converses with Senator Lodge at Alumnae
council meeting.

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Juli Kasius, ‘63.Representative, Talks
To B.M.C. Alumnae Council in. Boston

Juli Kasius,, representing the
Class of 1968, addressed delegates
of the Bryn Mawr: Alumnae Council
at their meeting in Boston on March
and 8.

Katherine D. K. Lower, Professor
of Social Work, represented’ the
= het and Marcia Vogel, Senior

esidentof ‘the -Graduate Center,
* the graduate ‘school.

George Cabot Lodge, the Cour-
cil’s guest. speaker, spoke on-the.im-

portance of «education, especially as-

related to /our. image in foreign
countries. °
should know what we, are talking
about when we go abroad.

The Alumnae Council is one part.
of the Alumnae Association, whose
President is Edith Harris West, ’26.
It meets yearly, every third year at
Bryn» Mawr,;---to—diseuss~-Alumnae-
business. ~ Among other’ things, -it
~Taises money for regional scholships;
it is now faising money forthe Ford
Grant. “I:-was. very impressed: by
their work,” said Juli.

She added that a greit deal. of
the conference was devoted to re-
ports from the district councillors,
who head the ‘regional alumnae or-

ganizati m3, on money-raising prog-

ress.
i

He stressed -that we

tugs

Instead-of the usual thermometer,

there is a jigsaw puzzle, with pieces
according to the amount of money
given. The puzzle, when colored in
by gifts; will spell Bryn Mawr. As
of last weekend, the “B” was egjer:
ed in.
Julitspoke on Self-Gov. from the
days of M.- Carey -Thomas: -to ‘the
present, as‘a part of the Mareh 8
“program entitled “Phases of the
College.” “I--went-through- the old
Self-Gov. #les of 1900 to 1920. and
tried to incorporate’ what I- found:
‘into a contemporary .outlook.” |
Juli found: that the problem‘ of
apathy existed eyen in. 1910, but,
‘“as Jong as it i$n’t.a° destructive
apathy and the system works, it’s
all right.” .+ 4
She reported that the dtuimege
were interested” in the conservative”
~movement-on campus, ‘in our attitude
to the Peace Corps, in the NSF
summer program, and said that. they
were fascinated by the Edge. ...
_ “The alumnae-did-have traces of
Bryn Mawr ‘about them,” Juli gaid.
“T turned around, and the place was
full of knitters.” ;
The Council’s meetings ended with
a dinner at which Miss McBride
spoke. . .

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‘merous’ in the Philadelphia area— —
have for years been- indebted to the .-



Andreas —Lehner’s -



Arthur Colby Sprague .

them in the world’s, esteem with the
tragic poetry of Hamlet, to which

~The Merry” Wives of Windsor was

a sort of farcical .after-piece in the
following season. -His muse then
entered the debatable ground of
“comycall satyre” in Troilus and
Cressida and went on to All’s Well,

~ which is“variously described by-crit-

ics as a “bitter” comedy, .a “prob-

__Jem’” play. (though it states rather

than solves'a problem), and.more fe-
cently and best as a, hesitant’ and
confused approach —to— the great
theme of forgiveness which runs
with increasing clarity and richness
through Measure for Measure and
Perciles, to triumph in The Winter’s

Tale, and Ihe Tempest, his last un-—

aided plays.

Problem play in. the . accepted
sense or not, then; All’s Well is a
problem. for the director, with its

- mingling of fairy-tale, realism, and

Jonsonian satire, its slow-moving
early acts, its occasional weak act-

endings, and its tricky distribution *

of interest over Shakespeare’ s “love-

- liest heroine in his unloveliest com-

edy,” her‘rebellious husband-victim,
and his slangy, boastful, overdress-

..ed—and__ cruelly deflated—témpter =

and companion-in-arms. No_ higher

-:praise can be given to the thought-

ful and. sensitive direction of Mr.

*- Robert. Butman than to say that

while giving ‘the piay. uncut and
therefore giving full value to the
three prineipals, as well as to the
dignified and lovable Countess of
Rousillon, the versatile clown, La-
vache, and the dangerously “show-

stealing” Diana, he achieved an. im-
pression of unity: ‘and--climax-which -
“brought ‘warm and” sustained ‘ap-
plause. 4 vis
'+ Miss Jane Robbins’ Helena was

perfection. She looked-.and. spoke
her complex ‘part with poise and.
naturalness. - The beautiful — poetic
passages "in which she avowed her
love for Bertram and later reproach-
ed herself for havinge driven. him
into mortal danger were convincing
and moving. . Peter Lary was‘a seri-

ous rather than-a ‘traditionally ar-—

rogant and amorous Bertram, but he

read with distinction and octasidnal —

fire, and his dignity redeemed the
well-nigh impossible final ~
tance. and acceptance of his bride.
excellent “voice
and control of comic’ posturing re-
vealed to those Who had read but
never seen the play how the “hu-
mor” Parolles could all but domi-

nate .the sshow;-.as we, learn that

eighteenth—-and nineteenth .century
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“Uniform Excellence” Of All's Well Tribute

Professor Sprague Honored

Arthur Colby Sprague,.who' will
retire in June, was honored Satur-
day by the Bryn Mawr College

__Theater-and-the-Haverford—College ~

Drama _Cluo’s performance of ‘All’s

- Well, That Ends Well.

* The first major production of All’s
Well. did not take place-in the United
States until the Stratford, Connecti-
The play has:
never been done -professionally in
Philadelphia.

__ Mr. Sprague was a member. of the
class of 1919 at Harvard College. He
took his Master’s degree at Harvard

_. in 1922 and his Ph.D. in: 1925.
__. He was an Instructor and Assis- _

tant Professor at Harvard from
1925 until 19386, and was Chairman
of the Tutorial Board,..Division of
Modern Languages.

In 1936, he came to Bryn Mawr
as an Associate Professor of Eng-
lish,

in 1950;.and in 1957 was named

. Mary. Garrett- Alumnae: Professor of

English ‘Literature.-

Mr.
turer at the Royal University of
Malta and at Cambridge University

in 1951-1952.

' He is-a member of the Players,
New York, and the Philadelphia
Shakespeare Society. His books*in-

He was appointed Professor .

Sprague was. Fulbright- Lec--.'

clude’ Shakespeare. and. the “Actors — —

and Shakespearean Players and Per-
formances.. Following his _retire-
ment, Mr.’ Sprague will lecture at
British and European universities.

President Speaks
To Bryn Mawrters
About’ Tuition Rise

‘ At~a meeting on .Monday, Miss
McBride discussed with students the
proposed raise in tuition for: 1963-
1964 from $1250 to $1550.

She explained that the raise would
be made so that the college could
continue to increase professorial -sa-
laries.*
being made’ in the belief that pro-
fessors” salaries should be on a level
with other leading professions. in
the U. S.

Because salaries have been in-
creased at a more rapid rate than

the college has increased the rate of |

incoming funds’ from. tuition ‘and
other sources, a deficit will be incur-
reg in the budget-for 1963-1964. The
deficit will be’ met by taking funds
which are now being .used as endow-
ment, but* the college cannot con-
tinue to do this.

The increase has not beer
sooner. for two reasons.
college has not~ wanted to place a

“made

. double burden on any one class. (The
Tast_increase went into effect three

years ago.) Secondly though many

economists who hdve studied ,finan-
ces. in-higher eduéation feel that stu-°

dents. should pay a higher propor-
tion of total college- expenses; Bryn
Mawr, like “many. private -institu-

Li a essen

“tions, is. reluctant to lose “prospec-

tive students to public. institutions.
which. have lower fees.

The. college plans to be able to”
“Use money from a

“Scholarship.
cushion” .fund.to help ‘some. scholar-
ship ‘students who would not other-

wise be able to meet the tuition in--

crease,

There will be no increase in room
and board’since the college has been
able to balance costs in this area.”

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