Support The Campus Chest • • Tht No.9 ;_-- TRINITY COLLEGE, HARTFORD, CONN., DECEMBER 2, 1959 VOL LVIII -------- - I Loyalty Oath Provision Three Charities Share Campus Of Loan Act Under Fire By EDWARD WAGGO ER Chest Benefits The Student Loan Program of the 1958 National Defense The Annual Campus Chest Education Act has been the object of increasing controversy over Drive commenced yesterday, De­ the past few weeks. The loan has a $1000-per-year limit payable cember J and will run through over ten years after graduation. A three per cent interest, com­ Thursday, December 10 .. T~e pounded annuall y, is carried on the unpaid balance. Graduates Campus Chest, which was msb­ 11 ho enter secondary school teaching for five years need make only tuted s veral years ago, elim­ five payments and are forgiven half of their debt. inates the solicitation of Trinity Two requirement , as set undergraduates by numerous Princeton Professor forth in Sectio.n 1001 (f) of the local charities, whne stiJl afford­ Act, have received strong oppo- ing students the opportunity to Talks on Aeschylus sition from numerous colleges meet Lheir obligation to society across the nation. by contributing to worthy charities. In Thursday ·L ecture Before accepting a loan, a stu- The Campus Chest goal this year is Dr. Robert D. Murray Jr. of Prince­ dent must sign an oath declar­ 10,000 dollar , or approximately ten ing that he will "bear true faith and ton University will deliver this year's Campus Chest Candidates: For Charity, Cheesecake dollars per student. all egiance to the United States of Moore Greek Lecture tomorrow at America against all its enemies, for­ Three impo1tant charities which :15 in the Chemistry Auditorium. eign and domestic." will rec ive contributions through the The lecture, titled "The Dramatic The other, and more widely dis­ Clothing Certificate, Cake Sale Campus Chest have been announced Technique of Aeschylus," will treat puted provision, is the signing of an by Chest Chairman Charles S. Burger. primarily the Greek dramatist's use affidavit declaring that the individual The three charities chosen are the of ancient myths. do es not "believe in, and (is) not a Highlight Campus Chest Finale American Friends Service Committee, According to Professor James No­ member of and (does) not support Final plans are being made for the Campus Chest Finale to the National Scholarship Service and topoulos of the classics department, any organization that believes in or Fund for Negro Students, and the the approach which Dr. Murray de­ be held Thursday, December 10, in the Chemistry Auditorium. teaches, the overthrow of the United The entertainment committee, headed by Bill Fisher and Bob Hartford Cerebral Palsy campaign. veloped for studying Greek drama States Government by force or vio­ The American Friends Service Com­ involves a study of multiple associa­ Woodward, has a varied program planned as a fitting climax to lence or by any illegal or unconstitu­ this year's drive. mittee tries to bring together those tions in the words and images of the tional methods." people in ne d of help abroad in ways plays-how they relate to the tradi­ A com mon objection to the oath A new feature of the Finale which go b yon I r elief - to a lasting tional myths, the political and his­ and affidavit stems from their use of wm be the drawing for a $25 AdvancedPlacement reconstruction_ Much of the work is torical situation at the time of writ­ somewhat elusive terms. What one All en Collins Gift Certificate. n . b A l d with refug es whos continuing situ­ ing, and the particular poetic conflict Any student contributing ten .rO 1 need do to "support" an organization zcy to e fere ation requires rehabililation as well as in the play. dollars or more to the drive will be is not at all clear to many students. The faculty at a recent meeting relief. Such an emphasis is e pecially Dr. Murray, whom Mr. Notopoulos The subversive organizations that a eligible to win the certificate, gener­ voted to extend the Trinity advanced ously donated by Allen Collins, a re­ timely this year, proclaimed World calls one of the top undergraduate person may not "believe in" or be "a placement policy to include granting Refugee Year by some sixty nations. lecturers at Princeton, has illustrated cently-opened men's shop in West quantitative as well as qualitative member of" are not specificall y out­ Project are to provide ocational his techniques of dramatic criticism Hartford. Canvassers will submit the credit for college-level courses taken lined. To some educators and stu­ training for teen age refugees in in several books, including The lo dents, this vagueness seems to inter­ names of those who donate ten dollars in secondary school. Hong Kong, to give as istance to Al­ ~1yt h. He is also an authority on fere with freedom of thought and to the Campus Chest, and the winner's The Advanced Placement Program gerian refugees, and to bring aid to Greek lyric poetry and the pre-Soc­ forces the receiver of the loan to name will be drawn from a treasure is a project of the College Entrance Tib tan r fugees in India. In Austria, ratic philosophers. judge his future actions in terms of chest by Miss Hartford Junior Examination Board which provides .for a counseling service and a loan fund An assistant professor of Classics inconclusive generali ties rather than Chamber of Commerce at the Finale. the teaching of a few college-] vel help refugees, including Hungarians, at Princeton, Dr. Murray received his concrete, ea ily-understood regulations Another feature of the Finale will courses to qualified high school stu­ towaTd self-sufficiency in their new A.B. degree in 1941 and his Ph.D. in (or more favorable to the objectors, be the annual Faculty Wives Cake dents. Through the Advanced Place­ homeland. 1949 from Princeton, and taught at no regulations at all). Sale. Various pastries contributed by ment Program, both the schools and Oberlin before joining the Princeton The disclaimer affidavit as such is wives of Trinity faculty wi ll be auc­ the colleges are able to judge the The ASFC tries to build av nues of faculty in 1953. He is a member of e pecially under fire. To the Ameri- tioned. student's progress, and the student per onal exchange among peoples the American Philological Associa­ can Association of niversity Profes- After the crowning of the Trinity can be placed in properly advanced with different backgrounds. Quaker tion, the Classical Association of the sors, the affidavit is inescapably "in-~ Ugly Man, there will be an all-college courses when he begins college. international ent rs around the Atlantic tates and Phi Beta Kappa. vidious". They hold that the .D.E.A., smoker in Hamlin Hall, complete with The actual placement into courses world are focal centers for discussion The Moore Greek Lecture is pre­ (Continued on page 3) ample supply of suds and music. in coli ge is clone on the basis of on creative solutions to conflict. In sented each year in connection with standard xaminations given each programs of social and t chnical aid, the Phi Beta Kappa initiation, and year in May_ Grades of 5(highest ASFC appointe s and skilled co­ is endowed through th bequest of honors), 4(honors), 3(creditable), workers build condition for improYed Dr. Charles E. Moore '76. 2(pass), and 1(fail) are assigned to health, nutrition, sanitation, and food ihe examination papers, ·which are production. Programs are designed to both objective and subjective_ r ach the roots of poverty, illiteracy, Cambridge, Trinity Trinity's newly-adopt d policy will and hopelessness. Oth r progTams are be to grant both qualitative and quan­ being carried on by A FC around the Match Forensic Wits titative credit for students pa ing world; for example, in Italy, 1exico, Last night was the second time that the examinations with a 5, 4 or 3. A Paki tan, and Yugoslavia. Trinity debators have matched wits (Continued on page 6) and arguments against English op­ (Continu d on page 6) ponents in a formal debate. The title of last night's contest was "Resolved: that the American high school is the graveyard of American greatness." · RCA, duPont Give Five Awards Representing Trinity were David duPont Awa,-ds hip for the academic y ar 1959-60 i Leof '60 and Will iam Sullivan '61 who Four Trinity College student , all Donald L. Plank of Rockvill , Conn_ ~poke against the resolution. Defend­ · t' A t L A d' W'th 1 ' chemistry maJ·ors, have r-eceJ·ved Ing the proposition were the Hon. ____A....;... pprec1a _________________ 1ve r eague u 1ence: 1 a trowe,__.: __ Irony:.._ ___ awards through lh auspice of the Plank i a enior and a dean' list iudent. Julian Grenfell of Kin g's College, E.I. duPont de emours Co., it was The scholar hip wa given by R.C.A. ~a~~ridge, and Roger W. Evans of am~ounced r.ecently by Dr. t rling B. rlnlty College, ambridge. P & J Packs Hamlin Hall to Trinity with the und r tanding that Hamlin Dining Hall was packed Thursday, November 19, for Trinity's Sm1th, Chan·man of the Chemi try Mr. Grenfell has studied modern Department. the election of a r ecipient was to be languages and law, while his col­ first jazz and poetry session, sponsored by the Art League. Thirteen poems ba ed not only on hi academic record, ~ague holds a B.A.