Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 4-26-1961 The aB tes Student - volume 87 number 23 - April 26, 1961 Bates College Follow this and additional works at: http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 87 number 23 - April 26, 1961" (1961). The Bates Student. 1373. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/1373 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at SCARAB. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aB tes Student by an authorized administrator of SCARAB. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ■ "Bates Student Vol. LXXXVII, No. 23 BATES COLLEGE, LEWISTON, MAINE. APRIL 26, 1961 By Subscription Mary Morton Presents Bates College Hosts Organ Recital, Friday On Sunday evening, April 30, at 8:00 p. m. in the Chapel, N. Zealand Debaters Mary Morton will present an organ recital. Since there are no music majors here at Bates College, this will be a rather This past Tuesday night at unusual feature. Mary has studied organ during her four 8:00 p. m. Bates College played years here and has shown her capabilities as an accompanist host for the second time to a de- by appearing with the Choral*— bate team from Victoria Univer- sity. This international debate Society in the fall Chapel pro- was the third in a series which gram, in the Christmas program, and in two concerts given in Bates and Victoria University Portland. Sunday she will appear have presented, two at Bates as the soloist playing a concert and ohe in 1928 at New of music written especially for Zealand. the organ. The program will in- The topic for this debate, Re- clude Passacaglia by Dietrich solved: America Needs More Buxtehude, Pastorale in F Major Men Like Robinson Crusoe, was and Toccata and Fugue in D supported by Miss Marjorie San- Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach, born of Laconia. N. H., and Mr. Suite Gothique by L. Boellman, Hector Charles MacNeil of New and Carillon by Leo Sowerby. Zealand. Supporting the negative Assisted by Quartet side of the question was Mr. Assisting Mary in her recital Neil Newman of Brighton, Mass. will be a brass quartet composed and Mr. James Hugh Larson of of Charles Davis and William New Zealand. As the first speak- Holt, trumpet, James Curtis, er, Miss Sanborn pointed out Dean Zerby introduces Hector MacNeil, Marjorie Sanborn, trombone, and Dennis Akerman, "the basic needs in American baritone. Dr. Raver will conduct men. They should think for Hugh Larson, and Neil Newman in Robinson Crusoe debate. the quartet as it plays three themselves, do things for them- son Crusoe possessed, using his pieces written for quartet and Mary Morion selves and see opportunity where slaves. He was a man with no organ: Psalm Nineteen by Ben- little seems to exist." She then "ingenuity and materials which new ideas and so much a con- nature offered him, and this is edetto Marcello, Toccata by Au- tasy on "Christ the Lord Has went on to point out that these formist that perhaps the symbol why we believe that America relio Boneiy, and Chorale-Fan- Risen" by Flor Peeters. are the qualities which Robin- of Robinson Crusoe is the sym- needs more men like Robinson boy of conformity — the goat- Crusoe." skin umbrella." Presents Negative Side Mr. MacNeil, for the affirma- Freshmen Tied Goldat Reports Progress Mr. Larson was the first speak- tive, pointed out that "his estate er for the negative,' and he of was kept up for the twenty-eight With MIT Team course took the other side of the years of his absence, and this Take Fifth Win On College Bowl Contest picture. "It is important not only surely shows the personal mag- to America, but also to the rest netism and friendly nature ot The Bates College freshman of the world that American men this man." In reference to some debate team of Robert Ahem, be of the finest type. It is pre- of his failures, as pointed out by Norman Bowie, Susan Stanley, posterous, therefore, that you Mr. Larson, Mr. MacNeil said1 and Thomas Hall copped their model yourselves after a man that this showed him to be a true fifth championship at the Twen- like Crusoe." He then went on man who records his failures as ty-First Novice Debating Tour; to paint a picture of "a seven- well as his successes. "He could nament at Dartmouth College teenth century bucaneer or, have been a lackey of the court, last weekend, April 21-22. Wind- mercantile adventurer, who had but instead he struck out on his ing up a very successful season set out to make a fortune in (Continued on page three) in this activity, the Bates fresh- men won over nine out of the ten schools they debated, giving Bates two legs on the champion- Friday Chapel Hears Talk ship cup, the first leg of which was won in 1953. Now Bates is On TheHistory Of Science tied with the Massachusetts In- Speaking in chapel on Friday, April 21, was Dr. Goldat, stitute of Technology in competi- tion for permanent possession of assistant professor of Cultural Heritage. Dr. Goldat has writ- the Dartmouth cup. ten several articles in the field of the philosophy and The Affirmative team of Susan history of science. His doctor's thesis includes three articles Stanley and Thomas Hall won on the early medieval tradition of Euclid's elements, another from Dartmouth, West Point, Professor Brooks Quimby fires questions at panels of faculty paper examines old literature on herbals with their supposed The University of Southern Con- necticut, St. Lawrence Univer- and students who competed in last Wednesday's mock effect on cancer and another is on the reconstruction of nat- sity, and lost to the University College Bowl in the New Little Theatre. ural law. of Maine. On accumulated points, As Dr. Goldat began, his intro- science to man's view of reality; another shows the status and es- this team was rated first in the duction was momentarily halted sential traits of scientific views tourney, with Dartmouth second The eight College Bowl semi- Four of these will appear on the by a calm, helmet clad student, by showing the internal lines of and MIT third. finalists are now entering the fi- show; of the two remaining, one gliding serenely across the front scientific ideas. A third approach nal phase of their training. Dur- of the chapel on a bicycle. Dr. Negative Places Second will act as an alternate. illustrates the connection with Goldat made an appropriate re- The Negative team from Bates, ing the next month they will be Go To New York science and technology by show- covery and continued to speak. Norman Bowie and Robert subjected to intensive drill and ing that their interplay has They will go to New York He said that the study of the his- Ahern, went undefeated, winning practice, being matched against (Continued on page two) from Brandeis, Brooklyn, Emer- sometime during the week of tory of science shows the human son College, St. Anselms, and the each other under conditions sim- May 29 to film the show which mind as related to reality, makes University of Rhode Island. On ilar to those they will actually will be presented June 4, on the sense of the idea of progress and GRANNY CONTEST "shows the victory and defeat of points they placed second, with encounter on the College Bowl C.B.S. television network. The The WR JR GRANNY the human spirit." St. Anselms and Dartmouth Col- program. Dr. George Goldat, eight remaining contestants are CONTEST will be extended leges placing first and third re- coach of the team, hopes to ar- John C. Adams '61, John Curry Cites Several Approaches to this Friday. April 28th. spectively. range more contests between the '61, George Drury '61, Judith There are, said Dr. Goldat, sev- Winners will be announced On speaker ratings, the Bates Hollenbach '62, Casimir Kolaski eral approaches to this subject, on "The Record Room" candidates and the faculty. With- team also excelled. Thomas Hall '64, Alan Schwartz '61, Freda A very general one may be ob- Tuesday, May 2. and in placed second of the Affirmative in the next few weeks the num- Shepherd '61, and Steven Ward- tained by courses on different The STUDENT, Wednesday. (Continued on page four) ber of finalists will be cut to six. well '61. lines showing the relevance of May 3. TWO BATES STUDENT, APRIL 26, 1961 Stu-G Holds Dinner WAA Reports Awards Banquet; For Old-New Board Spring Season Now Underway CAToShowMovieOn On Wednesday, April 12, the The WAA will hold its Annual Ault '62, dining hall arrange- Women's Student Government Awards Night Banquet in Fiske ments; and Marion Day '64 and 'Communist' Students Dining Hall on Monday at 6:00 held the Old - New Board Ban- Carolyn Weber '62, decorations. The highly controversial "Operation Abolition" will be p. m. All girls who have been quet in the Women's Union. The spring season of the WAA shown tonight, 8:30 in the Filene Room. The 45-minute film, active in WAA activities are in- is now underway featuring arch- Gretchen Shorter '61, the outgo- vited to the steak dinner. The ery, tennis, and badminton. When produced by the House Un-American Activities Committee, ing president, cited the accom- main purpose of the banquet is weather permits, soft ball and purports to show Communist infiltration of the San Francis- plishments of the Old Board and to present awards to those girls lacrosse are played.