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ConnCensus Vol. 46 No. 11

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This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1960-1961 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author. Appearance of Opera Soprano Tuesday Night Roberta Peters, coloratura so- prano star of the Metropolitan (onn Census Opera, will appear in Palmer Auditorium on Tuesday, January 17, at 8:00 p.m. American-born and completely trained in Amer- Vol. 46--No. II New London, Connecticut, Thursday, January 12, 1961 Price 10 Cents ica, Miss Peters has been widely hailed both here and abroad, as the foremost coloratura soprano Foote, Pomeroy of our time. Robert Fulton Logan Etchings Born in New York City, the so- And McGilvra prano was privately educated Featured in Show at Library from her thirteenth year in order On Quiz Show that her voice be properly train- A display of etchings by Mr. tions of the British Museum, ed and her background in music, languages, and allied fields might Connecticut College has been Robert Fulton Logan will be Cambridge University, and sev- invited to participate in the pro- eral European museums. enhance it. While in her shown in the library for the next teens, she won a Metropolitan gram "International Quiz," to be month. He was elected director of the Opera contract, and when barely televised on Wednesday, January twenty she was confronted with Being a member of the Con- School of Art Society of Hart- 18, on WCBS at 10:00 p.m. Spon- ford. He published many etch- one of those opportunities that necticut College faculty for twen- sored by WeBS, this quiz show ings and painted portraits of come rarely in any lifetime. A ty years and head of the Art De- features U. S. college girls and many outstanding persons. Met prima donna fell ill only a partment for eighteen of these, few hours before curtain time. In British students in this country. Mr. Logan was curator of the desperation the director turned Mr. Logan is remembered by Lyman Allyn Museum from 1950 The three Connecticut College to Miss Peters, who had never many of his friends in the New to 1954 and served on its council. before appeared professionally, participants will be: Sally Foote London area and present mem- He was an incorporator, founder, and was to make her debut in an- '61, of Haddonfield, New Jersey; bers of the faculty as being a and trustee of the Pequot-sepos other role later in the season. Leslie Pomeroy '61 of Stamford, great story-teller, as well as re- Wildlife Sanctuary of Mystic, a Filling the role of Zerlina in trustee of the Mitchell Woods Connecticut; and Melanie McGil- nowned artist. As a hobby he en- "Don Giovanni," she was given Foundation, and member of the vra '61 of Princeton, New Jersey. joyed bird-watching and other as- an ovation by the audience and pects of ornithology, assisting following organizations: College proclaimed a star by the critics. A brief description of each col- Art Association; Society of for several years in the Chr-ist- lege will be given. The American American Etchers; Paris Salon mas census. He made sketches of (Nationale Des Beaux Arts), Par- students will be questioned by birds, although he is best known the BBC master of ceremonies, for his painting and etchings of is; Societe Gravure Original En architecture. He made etchings Nair, Paris; Mystic Art Associa- and the British girls by the tion; Connecticut Academy of of several of the buildings on American master of ceremonies. Fine Arts; American Artists Pro- campus for Connecticut College The Program Director, Gene plates. fessional League; American Or- King, describes the questions as nithologists Union; and the standing committee on artists' oil of 'a high academic level stressing Born in Manitoba, Canada, March 25, 1889, Mr. Logan first paints, Bureau of Standards, De- the humanities. came to Connecticu t in 1934 as partment of Commerce, Wash- ington. Apparently it is not possible in an assistant professor of art. Two years later he was made this area to see the televised pro- During his lifetime he had head of the department, the posi- work displayed in more than gram, but it may be heard over tion which he held until his re- twenty art museums, Including radio, WCBS, 880, at the same tirement in 1954. Luxembourg, Paris; British Mu- time. Before com i n g to Connect- seum; FitzWilliam Memorial Art ------icut Mr. Logan attended the Mu- Museum, Cambridge; Metropoli- Nelson White to seum of Fine Arts in , tan Museum, New York; Nation- studying under Frank W. Ben· al Gallery, Washington; Open New Exhibit son, Edward C. Tarbell, Philip Art Institute; New York Public ROBERTA PE'j.'ERS Hale,and Bela Pratt. After this Library; Brooklyn Museum; Bos- Of Abbott Thayer he attended. the Chicago Art In- ton Museum of Fine Arts; Yale stitute. In 1909 he worked in Art Gallery; Avery Memorial, The soprano has consolidated A lecture by Nelson C. White France as the assistant director Hartford; Lyman Allyn Museum; her success in the operas "Lu- at Lyman Allyn Museum, Janu- of the Bellevue Art Training Detroit Art Institute; Boston cia," "Rigoletto," "Romea and ary 15, at 3 p.m., will mark the Center of the A.E.F. in the Ate- Public Library; Library of Con- Juliet," "The Barber of Seville," opening of an exhibition of the lier of Painting. In 1922 he lec- gress; Smithsonian Institution; "Don Giovanni," and "Fleder- and the Rockland, Maine, Muse- maus." She has learned the col- works of Abbot Thayer. Mr. tured at the Musee de Louvre in Paris. While abroad his work um of Art. oratura roles in such rarely per- White is an artist, writer, and was placed in permanent collee- formed operas as "Puritani," collector who resides in Water- He won the Logan Medal for "Fra Diavalo," "Somnambula," ford. He is the author of Abbott Etching, Chicago Art Institute, "Dtnorah," and "Hamlet"-all of Thayer, Painter and Naturalist. and the Josephine Hancock Med- which contain coloratura parts VESPERS al for Etching. He also painted a of extreme difficulty, created for Abbott Thayer, an American portrait of Ambassador Eustis the fabled coloraturas of the painter of figures, landscapes The Vespers speaker this for the American Embassy in Sunday evening, January 15, past. Several new productions at and animals, was a prominent Paris. will be Father Gerard Roo- the Met have been built around artist at the turn of the century. ney of Union City, New Jer- her, and among her most import- Although his works are display- Mr. Logan died December 9, sey. He is Associate Editor ant operatic roles are "Lucia di ed at museums throughout the 1959. of The Sign, a national Cath- Lammermoor," Rosina, in "Bar- country, this is the first major olic magazine. The St. The etchings that will be on ber of Seville," Susanna, in exhibition of his works since Mary's Church choir will display in the library are from "The Marriage of Figaro," 1922. This exhibition includes sing under the direction of the . Sophie in "Der Rosenkavalier." paintings and drawings, and will John J. McCarthy. Twenty of them will be shown, Sir Thomas Beecham took her to be at the Museum from January of which prints may be purchas- London to star in his Festival of 15 through February 15. ed. See 4'Roberta Peters"-Page 6 Thursday, January 12, 1961 Page Two ConnCensus

not go away? Why suffer in an you go separately and bow your been assailed, I have been sub- December 14 alien environment? The life of regret at your rudeness to the jected to rules I did not make. Dear Editor: Anyone who leaves his universi- the mind is not everyone's dish, I have found 'Free Speech' this Head of House at the high table; ty accustomed to think that only and need not be. Those eagerly autumn thoroughly shocking and 'adult freedom' chiefly means those necessities need be met waiting for the vacated places disillusioning. that you've been allowed to ma- whose validity he is convinced of might take fire from the kind of One comes back home expec- triculate as a Member of the Uni- because he has shared in setting fiame we are supposed to gener- tantly, from places where stu- versity, and [if you are in your them, will receive rude surprises ate in a collegium. dents are wont to express their gown) are allowed to sit and from the nature of life itself. Yours faithfully, concern with public affairs of read in its cold library [books do This is known, in some compart- Rosemond Tuve moment. intellectual dilemmas, not circulate, and there are no ment of the same mind that feels or artistic experiment, to (or so duplicates) and may attend its To the Editor: denigrated, just as in some com- it seems) a community of 'stu- lectures without a beadle turning The House Committee on Un- partment there is a knowledge of dents' whose mental temperature you away-Leo you are Free to American Activities was created child psychology. It would be sur- rises to boiling point, and over, learn something there if you can, in 1938. In the first twelve years ttctent to recognize the nature of only when some social privilege and thankful you are you've of its existence, this Committee this resentment at the fact that is in question, some world-shak- made it), (If it is preferable to spent 11,6million dollars and pro- there should be any authority ing matter like numbers of consider other foreign countries, duced two bins, one of which with more wisdom, and thence nights, or men in their bedrooms, though the system differs far was unconatitutional. more from ours, consider adding properly more power, than the or who arranges the sign-out Last May the HUAC, under the rules. Defending my countrymen to the freedoms which raise such fluctuating group which comes and goes, a community's junior chairmanship of Representative to other young men and women, momentous dust here, those of cooking your own food in your members, who did not come here Francis Walters of Pennsylvania, against the charge of American descended on the San Francisco misdefinitions of 'freedcm'e-> dormitory kitchen, latchkeys-but to experiment with time-taking to comfortless rooms, no service, minutiae of self-government but area searching for "Communist which seem supported by tragic sympathizers." Man college stu errors they sum up as 'Little no public rooms, and icy cold as to learn. Conditions for learning you stack your locked bicycle are properly set by those who dents picketed the hearings Rocks,' or comedies' of errors which were open only to invited like our enslavement to plush ad- against the crowd of others; also are in authority because their the freedom of no help whatso- authority derives from their ex- guests. Apprehensive San Fran- vertisements or pretentious finny cisco police turned fire hoses on cars-I can only be glad I did it ever from professors, no right perience and competence touch- to have an essay read until the ing the raison d'etre of the place. the orderly student demonstrat- in ignorance of what trivial loss- ors and arrested those whom es of freedom would turn out to one whose 'Pass' or 'Fail' spells And although it is also suitable they did not hose. The HUAC cause most uproar among those your doom, and no advisers). that rulings should be executed Some weeks there seems to be and varied as to details through subpoenaed the newsreels and cut I was defending. and spliced them beyond recogni- (If there is a temptation to an- a string of gimme-gimme-gimme a system which depends on per- tion. The quiet protest was con- swer that these students of other letters; it is inconvenient when sonal honour instead of beadles verted to a "Communist riot." countries, with their maturer pre- such and such a door is not kept and police, it is idle to think that occupations, of course think and open (wages no object), why a society which has withdrawn The Committee, made notori- talk like intellectuals because need I get up half an hour early from ordinary society to devote ous during the era of Joseph Mc- they have long since been ac- to return a 'book so that one itself to scholarly purposes would Carthy, has jeopardized the ca- corded these 'freedoms' which more student can use it (it is on be best run if rulings were con- reers of citizens ranging from seem here to compose the defini- reserve because we can procure sistently made by those whose Robert Oppenheimer to cafe en- tion of being treated like adults, or can afford only one copy and devotion is most recent and tertainer Susan Reed. consider Oxford, as good an ex- 300-odd have use for it), why whose experience is least wide. By a simple motion in the ample as any: colleges, both can't we have a seminar room The insolent tone and the fer- House of Representatives, your men's and women's, are behind (count the departments who can- vour displayed, the moment Congressman can introduce a '. walls with locked gates, porters not), why can't we have cars, some loss of the 'right' to live proposal for abolishing the allow entrance to members of have phones; my comfort, my just as one pleases is in question, House Committee on Un-Ameri- College; absences during term convenience, my wants, my ap- are as disheartening as the nai- can Activities. He will be encour- are a matter of London dentist- purtenances, Me. vete of some arguments is hu- aged to make-or support-such appointments or deaths in the Other weeks the great theme morous. The ignorance of prob- a proposal if you, his constitu- family; if you are late to a meal appears to be: my dignity has lems faced by modern governors ent, write and ask him to do so. of sizeable communities of young There are many reasons why we persons would surely disqualify feel this Committee is worthy some writers on these subjects; only of abolition. Conn Census and though innocence in a pas- Congressional investigations sion has usually a certain en- are usually conducted in order to Established 1916 dearing aspect, presumptious- supply Congress with informa- Published by the students ot connectreut College every ThursdaJ' ness and 'bad manners detract tion essential to the intelligent ~~~o~~~~~l~~~.ecollegeyear trom September to June, except during mtd-year s much from the charm even of exercise of its Constitutional Second class entry authorIzed at New London, Connecticut. the sincerest forms of unsophisti- powers: that is, the enactment of cation. laws. It is, however, apparently That these things are all mat- easy for Committee members to ~l!r"_ .. ,:nIi.O PO" ",""CNAL ..."VUITIBINeJ BV ter for argument, and suscepti- stray from this goal during an NationalAdv tisingSe,vice,lnr.. Aseociated Collegiate Pr ..iU! ble of difference of opinion, is investigation. Members of the r.."~~..,'''"R"j"eJ'~I"""r clear to anyone-c-but what is one HUAC have been all too willing 18 East 50 St. New York, N. Y. Intercollegiate Press to think of a group of supposed to expose persons for the sake CKICASO • IOITOIl - UI. AIlHl~' - Ull rUllCllCO adherents of the intellectual life of exposure, while making little to whom these concerns are the or no attempt to demonstrate EDITOBlAL STAR chief ones rousing passionate par- that these persons have been en- tisanship? gaged in acts of a "subversive" Editor-in-Chief: Naomi Sllver '61 l\'lana~ng EdItor: Jane Mills '51 Two things are riddles to me. nature. Associate Editor: Suzy Tucker '61 Feature Editor: LIz Margold '62 One that my own students in my It is treasonable to participate News EdJtor: Bobbl Diarnondstetn '63 own classes seem so different in in activities aiming to overthrow Copy Editor: Midge Stimmel '62 Assistant Copy EdItor: Jo Ann Patnode '63 maturity and manners from the government by violent or Exchange Editor. Margie Flocks '62 these sizzling individuals met in forceful means. Persons are sub- A.A. Representative: Ann Neville '63 Advertising Manager: Mary wortord '61 the college press. The other, that ject to prosecution regardless of Circulation Manager: LInn Whitelaw '61 if these restraints and privations the existence of the HUAC Business Manager: Hetty Hetlebush '61 F8(lulty Adviser: James Batrd such as have always character- which serves only to stifle the Reporters: Sue Applin '62, Carolyn Carey '62, Betsy Carter '62, Sue Bernstein ized lives lived for deeper pur- peaceful expression of political '63, Gail Dohany '63, June Cancell '63, Aby Gross '63, Terry Rachlele '63 poses, are so galling to those who opinion and to thwart the ac- Joan Snyder '63, Lois Sutton '63, Marie Birnbaum '64, Allison McGrath See "Free Speech"-Page 3 '64, Sally Spencer '64. fill the columns with them, why Thursday, January 12, 1961 ConnCensus Page Three

you will be joining us and thous- riots which broke out last May Mr. Grieder Discusses Free Speech ands of active, patriotic Ameri- when HUAC held hearings in (Continued rrom Page Two) cans who desire a truly free San Francisco. Art 01 Ancient Maya at America. If you are interested in "Operation Abolition," a con- Lyman Allyn Museum tivities of the FBI by forcing obtaining further information, troversial film depicting the the Communist organization un- please contact any of the under- Communist-directed riots, is be- If one is able to "find time" derground. signed. ing shown across the country to during Reading Week there is a The Un-American Activities Flora Barth '64 civic, church, and school groups. lecture to be held Thursday, Jan- Lucy Bermont '46 Committee has done much to en- He said the new organization uary 19, at 8 p.m., in Lyman Al· courage the delusion that we Susan Epstein '64 plans to sponsor the film when- lyn Museum that should not be need only throw American Com- Ellen Gold '64 ever possible and accompany it munists out of their jobs in or- Karen Lukinson '64 with a background commentary. missed. Mr. Terence Grieder, del' to safeguard our comfortable Leslie Miner '64 When available, reports from the newest member of the Art De- way of life and to defeat inter- Editor's Not-e: House committee and in the In- partment, will relate some of his national Communism. Programs ternal Security Subcommittee, experiences gained in the study such as those encouraged by this The following arrlcle was sent counterpart group in the Sen- Committee, which call for a to the Conn census office, in ate also under frequent attack, of ancient Maya art. check on the political activities order that they might inform the will be nationally distributed by While in Guatemala on a gov- of millions of Americans, create student body of a national organ- the S.C.C.A. ernment grant and later in North- an atmosphere of suspicion that lzaation of college students de- The committee already has stu- fending Congress' investigatory ern Yucatan, he made inquiries does more harm than could be dent representatives on 30 col- into this topic and took a great done by Communists who hold power. lege campuses, including Har- non-sensitive positions. The Students' Committee for vard, Yale, Antioch, Holy Cross, deal of slides which he will show We maintain that the Commit- Congressional Autonomy, which Chicago, Indiana, Northwestern, to illustrate the lecture. Mr. tee proceedings encourage a pro- will direct its initial efforts at Wisconsin, Tulane, Kansas, Ari- Grieder will discuss the archttec- gram of punishment by public countering the Communist-led zona, and Stanford. ture, painting and sculpture of identification and ex p 0 sur e drive to abolish the House Un- "The central issue has now the great Maya cities, which against all witnesses who rerus- American Activities Committee become whether or not Congress have only been discovered in the ed, on Constitutional grounds, to (HUACl. will be headed by two will continue to investigate mat- last century. These towns came answer the Committee's ques- brothers attending Northwestern ters free of the arbitrary con- into existence around 200 AD tions. The Committee improperly University. trols with which its opponents and had disappeared, for some seeks to try, convict, and punish In a letter to all members of seek to shackle it," said John unknown reason, by 900 AD. suspects by abridging the free- Congress released today, the Kolbe, 20, a member of North- Some of them are quite large in dams granted them in the First brothers ask Senators and Rep- western's Student Senate, in a area, and one in particular, the Amendment. resentatives to "join in this fight statement here. "It is no longer 'I'ikal National Park, has an area In brief, we object to this Com- to protect the autonomous right an attack on one or two commit- of 81 square miles. mittee becauses 1) the definition of Congress to inform itself and tees. They have declared war on Mr. Grieder has been particu- of "Uri-American Activities" is the American public of the per- both the Congressional preroga- larly interested in the art of this vague and can be applied too sons and practices which would tive to inform itself and on the culture and has spent much time broadly 2) the Committee tends corrupt or destroy our way of people's 'right to know.' By prop- in exploring all t hat is presently to wander far afield of its legis- life." They point to the long tra- erly serving a public educative known on the subject. He is cov- lative function, 3) the activities dition behind the legislative in- function, we hope to bring an ering this material in a thesis to of this Committee are detrimen- vestigating power dating back end to that war." be presented for his Ph.D. which tal to our reputation overseas, to the parliamentary inquiries of The committee uses as its mot- he hopes to attain this June, and and 4) the activities of this com- the 16th century. to a statement made by Supreme is considered by many to be an mittee have dangerously narrow- They charge the numerous or- Court Justice Hugo Black in authority on ancient art of the ed our traditional freedoms of ganizations which oppose many 1936, as a Senator: Maya culture. The lecture will be thought, expression and associa- Congressional investigations with "There is no power on earth that extremely worthwhile, for its tion. "weakening the investigatory can tear away the veil behind subject matter is of a nature If you agree with any of the power by corrupting the condi- which powerful and audacious which is not often heard in this above statements, we urge you tions which are essential to its and unscrupulous groups oper- locality. Art majors, especially, to write immediately to your effective and responsible use." ate, save the sovereign legisla- should find Mr. Grieder's talk Congressman, requesting that he These opposing groups are ac- tive power armed with the right quite enlightening. sponsor, or support, the above- cused of "severely distorting cer- of subpoena and search." B.C. mentioned proposal. By doing so, tain provisions of the Constitu- tion and totally ignoring the necessity for Congress to search out facts" in order to justify Flick Out their opposition. CAPITOL The two youths assert that Communists and "many anti- Fri., Jan. rs-rues., Jan. 17 American individuals and organ- Flaming Star izations" would gain the most Elvis Presley from the weakening of the in- Secret of the Purple Reef vestigatory power, because Con- Wed., Jan. IS-Sat., Jan. 21 gressional committees "have Blueprint for Robbery been so successful in uncovering Foxhole the true nature of their opera- Jay Bryan tions." Sherwood Price The brothers conclude the let- Sun., Jan. 22·Tnes., Jan. 24 ter by stating that Congress The Plunderers cannot pass intelligent laws Jeff Chandler when its investigations are hin- Wed., Jan. zs-rues., Jan. 31 dered by "such sniper tactics." Swiss Family Robinson The letter is timed to coincide John Mills with the opening of Congress, Wed., Feb. L.Tues., Feb. 7 when Rep. James Roosevelt (D.- Where the Boys Are Calif) is expected to call for the GARDE abolishment of the Un- American Fri., Jan. l3·Thurs., Jan. 19 Activities Committee. The Sundowners James Kolbe, 18, formerly a Robert Mitchum page in the United States Senate, Deborah Kerr said that the students' commit- Frt., Jan. 20-Thurs., Jan. 26 tee will seek to organize support The Grass Is Greener for HUAC wherever it holds its Cary Grant hearings. This is a direct coun- Deborah Kerr terattack to displays such as the Page Four Conn Census Thursday, Jauuary 12, 1961 What Price Education?

Editor's Note: The following raises. Some reassurance is af- Although we do have a genuine by providing opportunities for article is an abridged version of forded this dramatic tuition rise measure of local educational con- savings in activities subject to economies of scale. an essay submitted by Elizabeth by the datum that, while private trol, the local units have always The future strength of the lib- colleges have increased their tui- worked within the framework of Kestner '61, for Economics 11-12. eral arts college lies in quality. It concerns the future of liberal tion fees by an average of nearly state and federal laws. A second If it is to maintain itself in com- arts colleges with regard to fed- 250 per cent since 1939, the me- barrier is the idea that federal petition with tax-supported insti- eral aid, and discusses those dian income of families with col- aid must bring with it federal tutions, it must be able to offer problems which face such insti- lege-age children has risen 380 control. Although the National this distinctive feature. Those tutions today. per cent in the same time. Yet, it Defense Education Act has many who have spent four years in a The strategic part which edu- is rising much more rapidly than elements of control within its liberal arts college such as Con- cation plays in the welfare of our is public college tuition. Conse- structure, and is designed to aid necticut realize that a liberal arts nation is receiving wide-spread quently, top private colleges are specific rather than general pro- college as described must neces- acknowledgement. At all levels getting tuition money and push- grame, we have a long history sarily become more attractive to our educational system is being ing clientele more than before of federal aid with few strings students and faculty. We are in evaluated, and attempts are be- toward a financial and social attached. An example is the Mor- a position to realize, too, its es- ing made to solve the critical elite, thus leaving a wide gap rill Act which clearly established sential value to society and to problems of accommodating an between prestige private colleges that the federal government has the welfare of our nation. It is ever-increasing student popula- and other private colleges. a definite concern with the prog- hoped that other states will fol- tion, finding a means of increas- In addition to student fees ress of higher education and low the precedent of New York ing teachers' salaries, and pro- there are three other major should contribute to its support. and uphold the integrity of such viding adequate facilities. Added sources of income for our edu- The evidence is clear that par- institutions, and that the federal to these economic problems is cational institutions today, 5 ticipation by the federal govern- government, too, will realize that the necessity of maintaining and per cent of the income for cur- ment in financing higher educa- it stands to gain in aiding liberal improving our educational stand- rent educational and general pur- tion through the land grant col- arts colleges under a program ards while we are expanding. poses is derived from endow- leges has in no way interfered which minimizes the possibility The critical question behind ments. In 1955-6, gifts and grants with "states' rights" or with the of federal control. these problems is: Where will from private individuals, organi- autonomy and academic freedom the money come from? And, for zations, and commercial corpora- of individual institutions. an answer to this question, we tions produced 8.5 per cent of A third "myth" is the belief are tending more and more to this total income. The third ma- that private goods and services Petrov's Film Version of look to the federal government. jor source is the local, state and are always to be preferred to "The Inspector General" Although federal aid to educa- federal governments. There is public goods and services. When tion has, for the most part, been small prospect of any general in- the reasonableness of these Saturday Campus Movie given to public institutions, these crease in the support provided thoughts has been realized, then Gogol, the author of the play, by local governments. Those same problems must be met by it will be possible to make cer- The Inspector General, is one of the small private liberal arts col- sources are at present under tain necessary policy decisions. Russia's most famous satirist. As lege. And, whether or not they pressure to mee the needs of pub- A fourth important decision is receive outright government aid, lic elementary and high schools. that federal participation in proof of his skill, The Inspector the decisions made at the federal At the same time that the states financing schools and colleges General has been translated and level with regard to educational are being called upon to give will be for general and not spe- produced all over the world as an aid have a far-reaching effect on further aid to education, they are cific purposes. Lastly, it has been unsparing and realistic commen- these small institutions. The di- being forced to bear an increased suggested that operating decis- tary on the political situation of lemma of the private liberal arts burden in other services, such as ions for educational institutions college can best be understood by public welfare and highways. be kept as near home as possi- the 1880's in Russia. examining the present educa- In New York State a twenty- ble, in order to keep the respons- When the play was first pre- tional situation, and seeing the five year plan to revamp and ex- ibility for actual operation at the sented to the Tsar, is proved so financial positions of the local, pand higher education has just local and state level. In the end, unpopular that Gogol was forced state and federal governments. recently been proposed be a the case for such policies must to leave Russia. Despite his tem- Then, we shall examine some three-man Committee on Higher be made by influential lay read- porary exile, Gogol never re- forward-looking solutions which Education appointed e Ieve n ers. gretted having written the play have been proposed. months ago by Governor Rocke- While the importance of edu- for he believed it his duty to The present educational situa- feller. The plan suggests that di- cation increases with its cost, it "gather into a heap all that was tion reveals why many are pessi- rect state aid totaling $10,000,000 is hoped that, as the federal gov- wrong inside Russia, all injustice mistic about the future of the annually be given to private col- ernment begins to take a larger committed in those places and private liberal arts college. To- leges and universities and that a part in educational support, the in those cases where more than day, our elementary and second- $300 tuition fee be charged at feasibility of support to the pri- anywhere justic is demanded." ary schools are over crowded, all public institutions, including vate liberal arts college will be The film version of The In- and our colleges and universities those which are currently tui- realized. In order to survive, the spector General will be present- are receiving more applications tion-free. State aid to private' in- liberal arts college must be ed in Palmer Auditorium on Sat- than they can handle. It is clear, stitutions is an unprecedented worth the cost its survival en- urday, January 14, at eight also, that in the decade ahead we gesture. In the public colleges, tails. These institutions must of- o'clock. The actors are members shall have substantially more automatic rebates will be given fer something distinctive. We of the Moscow Art Theater. Vla- children and young people to be to all students with an average need to make an intensive study dimir Petrov is their director. served by educational institu- of "C" or better who come from of the learning process at the tions at all levels. families with incomes of less college level and put the data un- The capital outlay require- than $5,000 a year. It is gratify- covered into application, elimi- ments to meet the needs of ex- ing to think that if the New York nating many attitudes, tech- Radio panding enrollments and Im- plan is successfully put into oper- niques, and materials that are proved quality in higher educa- ation, perhaps other able states suited to the secondary school, WICR 1310 tion are tremendous. The educa- will follow suit and come to the and emphasizing autonomous Sunday, 8:30 p.m. tional budgets of most colleges aid of the private colleges. and independent learning on the International Science and have doubled since World War If aid is to come from the fed- part of the student. Co-operation Technology Review with II, and the fact that professors' eral government, some policy de- between liberal arts colleges can Professor Oliver Brown. salaries have increased by an cisions must be made by the contribute to their economic feas- average of only 60 per cent American people. And, before ibility in three important ways: WNLC 1490 shows the effect which current these decisions can be made, 1. by assisting member colleges Connecticut College or- overhead has had on college some serious obstructions in our in their efforts to improve the chestra. playing music by budgets. thinking must be cleared away. quality of their educational pro- Bela Bartok and Handel; As a result, private colleges The first of these is that school grams, 2. by permitting them a Betty Ostendarp an- have turned to frequent tuition policy-making is local in nature. degree of specialization, and 3. nouncing. Thursday, January 12, 1961 Conn Census Page Five Student Criticizes L. Ferlinghetti'« Programs for Studies Abroad Album of Poetry There has been a growing trend English. The program includes are German programs in Berlin, for students to spend their sum- The Theory of Comparative Lit- Vienna, and Tubingen; French mers studying at universities Today, practically the only peo- erature, Trends of European programs in Grenoble, Besancon, ple who are able to examine the abroad. Students may now receive and Pau; and Spanish programs state of our society and still credit for COurses studied as at Thought since 1918, and the Euro- in Madrid and Santander. In this reach a large audience are the summer schools here in this coun- pean Common Market, its Politics program private classes of 8 to so-called New Comedians, who do try. and Economics. 12 students are taught by native so through their night club and The director of the Salzburg In- professors for 7 weeks, three to television appearances and rec- Sarah Lawrence College holds ternational Summer School for five hours daily. ord releases. We are given an op- German language and philology a summer session in Florence, portunity to laugh at our weak- has announced five Austrian Gov- Italy at the Torre di Bellosguardo, nesses, but are rarely moved to ernment Travel Grants for this a Sixteenth Century villa over- action; this is due not only to the summer in conjunction with the looking the city. The session lasts quickness of their delivery and fourth annual Salzburg Seminar EUROPE their split-second timing, but also and Festival Tour of Europe, from the middle of June to the THIS SUMMER by the less serious anecdotes 1961. Candidates unable to meet end of July. The courses are SPECIAL CONDUCTED which they intermingle with the prerequisite (a working taught in English by members of STUDENT TOURS their discussion of vital issues. knowledge of German) are still the Sarah Lawrence faculty. The One new recording bya serious entitled to enroll in the intensive program includes a series of lec- Only poet transcends these drawbacks; courses at the University of Salz- tures on modern Italy by disin- 15 Countries we are able to grasp the import- burg. Up to six units of transfer guished Italian writers, artists 58 Days $998 ance of the issues which are pre- credit is available. The itinerary and political leaders. The fee is sented as well as greatly appre- may be found in Dean Noyes' of- laeludes Round Trip, Air-Steamer $500 for room and board, tuition, Fare, Hotel Rms., Meals, Sightsee- ciate the skill of their author. fice. and daily transportation from the ing, Tranfers, etc. LUlie N. Y. July 7 - Return Sut. % The album is verbosely entitled The University of Oslo Inter- villa to Florence. Tours _ Inland. Seotrand. England. Holland. Belgium. frann. Luxembourg. Tentative Description of a Din- national Summer School, Oslo, Italy. Germany. SWitlerland. Spain. The University of Geneva, in Auatrla. Lleehtensteln. San Marino. ner to Promote the Impeachment Norway, offers a six weeks ses- Canada. of President Eisenhower and sion, July 2 to August 12 of the Switzerland, is holding its 70th Summer Course in the French Other European Other Poems by Lawrence Fer- International Teacher's Institute. Tours Available: linghetti. The reading of the Programs offered at the Univer- Language and tenth Seminars on International Institutions which 1%Countrle.....66 OaYII-June 29---$1175 poetry by its author aids greatly sity include art, history, music, 14 Countries-66 OaYII-June 20--$1%10 in comprehension and apprecia- language and literature of Nor- includes lectures and discussions '18 Counlrles__72 Oayll-June 29-$1735 with leading officials of such in- • "neludes, Turkey. GrIMe. and Scan. tion. Ferlinghetti is not, as it is way, international relations and danavla ternational institutions as The generally believed, a member of social problems. All lectures are IndiYidual ArrangementS' World Health Organization, Eu- the Beat Generation; he says, conducted in English. 50 011,)" In Europe ineludu: RoUnd_Irip, ropean Headquarters of the U.N. Sin mer fara. Automobila with 5CHJO "All the tall droopy corn about The Georgetown-Fribourg Sum- mile. 01 driving, ete. - from $580 the Beat Generation and its be- mer School in Fribourg, Switzer- and the International Labour Or- ganization. For All Your T,avel Needs Call, ing "Existentialist" is as phoney land offers coeducational courses W,ite 0' Visit Us Now! as a four-dollar piece of lettuce. for college credit in French and Classrooms Abroad in Europe is A.T.e. Tours InC'. Because Jean-Paul Sartre cares German Languages and Litera- AMERICAN TRAVEL COMPANY a summer program of intensive II W4%ndSI .. N.Y.36. N.Y. and has always hollered that the ture, Con t e m p 0 r a r y Soviet language and area study. There T.I-Wliconiln 7-541!t-7·5486 writer especially should be com- Thought and History of Contem- mitted . . . He would give a porary European Government and horse laugh to the idea of Disen- Economics. The courses will be • gagement and the Art of the conducted according to American Beat Generation. Me too ... Only college requirements from July In Southeastern the dead are disengaged. And the 17th to August 25th. Tours will be wiggy nihilism of the Beat hip- arranged by the University. Connecticut its See "Record Review"-Page 6 New York University, with the aid of the Netherlands Universi- ties Foundation for International Co-operation announces the sec- Professor at Yale ond Summer session at the Uni- versity of Leiden, July 10 through Heads Conference August 18. This session is open Religious Fellowship has an- to juniors and seniors. The facul- nounced that students of Con- ty is both American and Europe- necticut College will be among an and the classes are held in CANDIES the 150 delegates from New Eng- land colleges and universities 'at- G13·7395 tending a week end conference in February, to study and discuss OTTO AIMETTI "Dehumanization in Art and So- ciety." Ladie&' and Gentlemen' 6 Cu.lom Tailoring Leadership for the week end will include professors and chap- 86 State St. JAMES DRUG COM'PANY lains from over 20 New England schools. Dr. James Gustafson, Professor of Social Ethics at I.llk It. at rH' H.wLolI_ Yale Divinity School, the Plat- form speaker, will deliver three GI 2-8575 addresses. Dr. Gustafson is a spe- cialist in the area, the Church IfifiiBA 24 Hour Phone Service and Our Future. Small student --• Reservations b, plane! By boat •..• seminars will discuss the ad- •· By train! Kaplan', represent an- • dresses with faculty and staff : the lin.es•.. We issue your actual : • 'idet. Never a service charge. 3 • members from various New Eng- • convenient offices. • Six Deliveries to College Daily land colleges. • Persons who desire additional · -• conference information may con- • • • ••• Charge Accounts Welcomed tact Liz Kestner through campus •.I ---i mail or at Windham. ••••• m ••••••••••• • Page Six ConnCensus Thursday, January 12, 1961

take action against the menace tive language, fanned from mun- ing the timelessness of seduction of nuclear warfare and atomic dane objects, in such a way as to attempt; the title "Truth Is Not Record Review fallout. This President wears obtain the most powerful impact. the Secret of a Few" is followed (Centinued from Pa«e Five) special atomic earplugs and does The poems sound simple at first, by the observation that "you no t heed the cry of Albert but it is only because of the con- would maybe think so the way Schweitzer and 9,235 other scien- versational tone of their deliv- some libraries and cultural am- ster, if carried to its natural con- tists concerning spastic gravity ery; the poet seems to parody bassadors and especially museum clusion, actually means the death and blind, boneless babies. He himself, as if to make the listen- d ire c tor s act." Ferlinghetti of the creative artist 'himself. does not hear the underprivileg- er aware of the fact that his knows America well, but his is While 'non-commitment' of the ed nations of the world shout ideas are not so startling, 50 rad- not an exclusive vision. We have artist is itself a suicidal and de- "No contamination without rep- ical, that they should not be all at some time become aware of luded variation of this same nilil- resentation!" He speaks of the shared by all. the subjects which he treats; it ism." With such an attitude we land of prosperity and God Bless There are three poems which is only the true artist who can may be prepared to see that he America, oblivious to contami- contain his impressions of paint- endow them with universality of is deeply involved in society and nated food and irradiated dolls. ers, or specific paintings, two of meaning and uniqueness of ex. is exceptionally aware of its He practices and encourages na- which apply the objects or ideas pression. What makes this rec- shortcomings. tionalism, not realizing that na- represented to America. His de- ord 'first so entertaining, then so The title poem is not directed tionalism itself is the idiotic su- scription of Goya, who seems to frightening, is the fact that Fer- at Eisenhower personally but at perstition which will blow up the depict "the people of the world Jinghetti is not merely dealing The President, the shining Amer- world. And all the while the exactly at the moment when they with words, but with the future ican image, and his failure to strange rain continues, the rain first attained the title of 'suffer- of the world. M.S. from which there is no escape ing humanity' " is especially except peace. Upon first hearing good. "The Poet's Eye" and "The the poem, one may be amused 'by Poet as an Acrobat" deal with its images, but careful examina- the role of the poet in society; Roherta Peters tion of the thoughts expressed the latter pictures him as "con- (Continued from Page One) 1 ~~~RU~~~~~ l leaves no room for laughter. One stantly risking absurdity and IIO State sr., New London! becomes almost numb with a death whenever he performs sense of shock and anger; the above the heads of his audience." Britain production of "The Bo- GIbson 2-4461 poet's purpose is thereby fully Two poems treat American triv- hemian Girl" at the Royal Opera I I realized. ialities, the things that are en- House Convent Garden; RCA Vic- The choice of shorter poems is tor has four times flown her to DAlLY FREE DELIVERY! larged out of proportion to their I outstanding; no attempt will be function or real meaning. In Rome to record operas. made to treat them critically Married to hotel executive Bert Cosmetics Checks Cashed "The World Is a Beautiful Place," I here, but a few words on the Ferlinghetti repeats the title line Fields, Miss Peters is the mother Photo Dept. Charge Accountsl author's style are in order. One and follows it with a series of of a son, Paul Adam, born in sees that Ferlinghetti's power startling images, as "if you don't April, 1957, and spends all avail. +:-I -,----:. lies in his ability to use figura- mind some people dying all the able moments with her family at time, or only starving some of their home in Westchester Coun- the time, as long as it isn't you." ty, north of Manhattan. A "Dog" regards the American Well-known to audiences out- FAR EAST HOUSE scene as a place in which one side opera and concert halls for - ORIENTAL GIFTS- sees "the fatal shorn-up frag- her appearances on such televis- 22 Green Street ments of the immigrant's dream ion programs as "Voice of Fire- stone" and the "Ed Sullivan New London, Conn. come too true and mislaid among the sunbathers." "William But- Show," Miss Peters is currently ler Yeats on the Third Avenue on her annual Concert tour of the United States and Canada. j""'"''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''El EI" describes not Yeats' poetry but the circumstances under Included in the program for the which Ferlinghetti first discover- Connecticut College Concert Se- ed it; when he thinks of Yeats ries are "Sweet Bird" (from he imagines not Arcady, but "un- "L'Allegro 11 Penserso"), by dershirted men" and "gone faces George Handel; "Susse Stille," ;~~~eNQJ. GORRA & BRO. Lf~~~,getting off at midtown places"; also by Handel; "Ei, wie schmeckt the poem is intensely personal der Kaffee suase" (from the Cof- and contains a moving rhythm. fee Cantata), by Johann Bach' !'See It Was Like This" is a me- ;;B~l1at.a,': by Ottorino Respighi; dieval fa'ble in bop talk, 5how- PlOggla,' by Respighi; "Con. 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