Oberlin Review (Oberlin, Ohio), 1955-12-16

              Bluebook Barrage Dims Christmas Spirit Editorial Page 2 VOLUME 84 Z57J Colleges Ford Grant Totals Over Million Largest Ohio Award The College will receive 1236600 more than any other Ohio college in two grants from the Ford Foundation it was announced Monday One of 36 institutions receiving over a million dollars out of some 615 receiving grants OberlinCollege won both an 800000 regular award and a 400000 merit award The awards to the College are part of a half billion dol Dr AllhrPV nuuc Aubrey To Keynote Jan 3 Conference Dr Edwin Ewart Aubreyprofessor of religious thought at the University of Pennsylvania will deliver the key address at the195556 College YReligious Conference on Faith and Reason Jan 8 and 9 Opening the Conference atCollege vespers 445 pm Jan 8 in Finney Chapel Dr Aubrey will speak on Personal Integrity 1 my Sunclav at 730 Dm in the Yicome used specifically to raise Lounge he will lead an open dis cussion of local church youth groups and the following after noon at 430 pm In Hall Audi torium he will close the conference with an address on Humanism and the Educated Person Dr Aubrey is the author of Re ligion and the Next Generation Present Theological Tendencies Living the Christian Faith Mans Search for Himself and Secular ism a Myth Bom in Glasgow Scotland in 1896 Dr Aubrey came to Amer ica in 1913 was naturalized in 1917 and served in the US Army Ambulance Service from 1917 to 1919 He received his education In the public schools of South Wales and at Taunton School England Dr Aubrey taught at Carleton College Miami University and Vassar College before going to the University of Chicago as Professor of Christian Theology and Ethics a post which he held from 1929 to 1344 He was president of the Crozer Theological S em i n a r y 19441949 I Hoover Considers New Yeoman Vigorous Balanced Satisfying By PROF ANDREW HOOVER The years first Yeoman comes as a welcomeChristmas present perhaps even suitable for Santa himself surely the old man should be Pleased with a persistently prontic theme in the contents mm Barbara Sherers owlish sage n the cover through the tribute 0 Thomas Mann the oppressive ther image of Wanderbird the Ubiquitous ghost of Willy Loman Merry Turshens eroded Magus and any number of poems bearing ch titles as Grey Woman To Distant Gentleman To the Romans and even Requiem for Snal Sin Despite thisconuity of autumnal mood and backward look the writing is often vigorous and the balance of crit and imaginative fare isdistinctly satisfying Appropriate he issue is appropriatelydedicated to the memory of Thomas ann and Mr Kaplans evalua of the great novelists career s thoughtful and provocative if somewhat uncompromising Hearues that Mann forced by his own nice to seek a humanisticjustiHon of his life was never I i present honestly a program eni lng the Participation of an lightened humanity This thesis A Wel1 supported as the limits 1 ue essay allow it clearly needs lar8er scope Jlar foundation grant one of the largest lump sum of gifts in the history of Dhilanthrnnv fh tion was awarded 260000000 primarily to raise teachingsalaries 200000000 went to the 3300 private nonprofit hospitals I in the United States and 90000 uuu to strengthen instruction in privately supported medical schools Education Grants For undergraduate education regular awards totaling210000000 were given to every private regionally accredited fouryear college and university in amounts roughly equal to their 195455 teaching payrolls In additionmerit awards totaling 50000000 were nardoled nut In 19R inctitntinna I which led the way in their regions in improving the status and com pensation of American college teaching Salary Needs In making the grants to thecolleges the Foundation trusteesdeclared Nowhere are the needs of the private colleges more apparent than in the matter of facultysalaries Merely to restore professors salaries to their 1939 purchasing power would require an average increase of at least 20 per cent Private and corporatephilanthropy can make no better investment than In helping to strengthen American education at its base the quality of its teaching Regular awards directly benefit professors for they must be added to endowment and the derived in teachers salaries Merit awards on the other hand equaling in each case about half of the regular award are unrestricted in use Robert Keesey College Develop nient Director indicated that the income from Oberlins merit grant would probably be used for cur rent expenses Details Not Final Mr Keesey in commenting on the Ford announcement was care ful to point out that the College had yet to receive official word of the grant and that the precise amount was not yet certain Fur thermore disbursements under the announcement will be distributed over 18 months and the College doesnt know where it fits into that schedule Mr Keesey also commented that the Ford announcement was care the Colleges two million dollar development program scheduled through June 1953 should instead aid contributions since the amount of the Foundation gift would seem further to indicate the high es Continued on Page 8 In considering it we are moved tn recall the dedicatory quotation on page one of the magazine from Manns essay The Artist anaoriptv In which Mann declares that the artist improves upon the world by endowing it wiuispiritual meanine he uses thought word and image to set down his own life and figuratively life as a whole His task is to animaie jusi that and nothing more A great artist surely animates life in more ways than that of providing a program for Humanity Mr Kaplan complains that Mann TlAUPr comDletely broke away from the examination of his own problems as an auuiur mm man He concludes One can perhaps justify oneself byJustifying mankind it does not work In reverse Perhaps not all the way in reverse but if one happens to be Thomas Mann Henry James Marcel Proust Andre GIde James Joyce then one can go a long way A lot of humanity comes out in the process So near to Christmas might not a somewhat largerconcession to Manns genius as anartist despite his limitations as an idealist be in order Skillful Flail The other critical essay in this issue is a less ambitious enterprise than Mr Kaplans though perhaps not less controversial In it Mr Davis examines most judiciously OBERLIN GS 17 Students Attend S V M Conference Seventeen College students will attend the Ecumenical Student Conference on the Christian World Mission entitled Revolutions and Reconciliation Dec 17Jan 1 at Ohio University Athens The conference is held under the auspices of the Student Volunteer Movement for Christian Missions and by the Worlds StudentChristion Federation and the United Student Christian Council Jean Anthony is a member of the SVM board of directors the planning committee for theconference and will be studentchairman for the Bible discussion group at the conference Students attending will be Miss Anthony Mary Chacko Georg Dellbruge Margaret Eaton Noriko Hosono Jose Jacinto AllenLovekin Lindsay Mahilrajin Spivey Massie Mayako Matsuki Sue Jane Mitchell Gerhard Rambow Mary Shaw Hiroshi Shiguru Martin Skala Maxine Wenzler and Don Wheeler Harvey Cox YMCA sec retary will also attend About 3000 students will attend the conference About half of these are from foreign countries and are studying in the United States Danforth Awards Applications Open The Danforth FoundationInvites applications for fellowships from college senior men andrecent graduates who plan a career of college teaching and intend to enter graduate school inSeptember 1956 for their first year of graduate study President Stevenson has named Prof David Anderson of thephysics department as liaison officer to nominate two or three candidates for the grants Applicants from all fields of specialization found In the undergraduate college are Invited to apply for the fellowships which grant a maximum of 1800 to single fellows 2400 to married fellows with an additional stipend for children In order to qualify candidates must be men of outstandingacademic ability possess a personality congenial to the classroom have integrity character faith andcommitment within the Christiantradition Danforth Fellows may carry other scholarship appointments concurrently However If theapplicant is accepted for a Rhodes Fulbright or Woodrow Wilson Fellowship the DanforthFellowship is without stipend Applications includingrecommendations must be completed by Feb 15 Further information may be obtained from ProfessorAnderson theory and practice in ArthurMillers idea of tragedy asexemplified by Death of a Salesman He finds little consistency between them He proceeds further with coeent illustration to reveal the reasons for the popularity of this play and at the same time itspainful artistic limitations Finally he offers it to the sociologists and I for one hope they take it and lock it up in their seminars Quite a few of us are weary of Willy even in essays of such solid merit as this one The horse is dead Mr Davis but it is a real pleasure to watch vnu wield the flail There are probably no collectors items in the fiction and poetry ol th fail Ypnman at the same time much of it shows considerable technical skill for example Mr Owen P Thomas short storyWanderbird The hero of this piecesuffers from creeping paralysis moral anrf nsvcholoeical brought on by living too long in the dark shad ows of a Dowerful father image Remo thirtyfive with thinning hair nutters about on the Wander hirH formerly seaworthy as his fatiWs nilot boat now moored In the vacht basin at Mys tic Connecticut He makes jazz nrran eement and flirts not serious ly with members of the summer But at nlnht they felt un comfortable Beth decides that Continued on Page 3 OHIO FRIDAY DECEMBER 16 Announces Christmas rrtwmj Tjfi 11 ifi Viyjiiiiini ig UtmpJ The dark green and glitter of the hue Christmas tree in front of Hall Auditorium provides a sharp contrast to the smooth white marble of the ultramo iern theatre EnPrize Fighter Acts As Local Saeita Claus By DICK PAGE During each Christmasseason in the Ben Franklin Store an exprize fighter plays the part of Santa Claus for most of the children in this area Cornishman JohnMacCoughlan 61 has virtually created a profession out of playing St Nick at various holiday activ ities Mac as he is known to the townspeople leads a double life for the two weeks of Christmasseason He regularly works in the American Standard Radiator Com pany in Elyria but with theadvent of the holidays he dons his red and white costume andbecomes again the annual favorite of hundreds of children Old Pastime Playing Santa Claus forchildren is an old pastime for Mac since he first created the part in a French village in 1916 where he was stationed during the first World War Discharged in 1919 Mr MacCoughlan served in the Royal Garrison Artillery inEngland and acted as St Nick for the holiday seasons of 1920 and 1921 He has been employed as Santa Claus In this area since theChristmas of 1949 When he returned to thiscountry in 1922 Mac entered the ring as a professional boxer anoccupation which carried him through 1928 After having spent two years in Canada during 192627 he came to live in Wellington There he worked in the service stationbusiness until 1940 when he moved here and took his present job Cochran Idea It was in 1938 however that John Cochran manager ofOberlins Ben Franklin store realized that many local children had not had the essential childhoodexperience of meeting and talking to Santa Claus Cochran himself played St Nick that first year and since that time there have been many actors in the part Mr McCoughlan is now in his seventh season as Santa andaccording to R P Harvey manager of the Laundrateria and amember of the Chamber of Commerce committee which sponsors Santas local activities Macs the best one yet It was Harvey who firstconceived the idea of the townactivities for Santa Mac used to come into town on the New York Central commuter from Elyria and then ride through the town on the Swedish Essay Contest Offers 400 100 Prizes Students may enter the John Ericsson essay contest for prizes of 400 and 100 The contest involves writing an essay on the Swedish inventor John Ericsson who designed the Monitor one of the first ironclad ships used in the Civil War Students of Swedish birth or ex traction are eligible to enter the contest sponsored by the John Ericsson Society Contestants should mail entries to the Amer icanScandinavian Foundation 127 73rd Street New York 21 NY be fore June 1 1956 1955 Contrast fire truck but when thecommuter was discontinued he has had to be content with just the Are truck Preview On or about Dec 10 each year Mac rides through townmeeting and talking with hundreds of children Then for the following ten days he sits nightly on a throne in the Bon Franklin and listens to the fanciful Christmas wishes of the children As a preview to each he gives a comic book and apocketful of candy Mac himself describes his job as an analysis of young minds Its wonderful to hear them talk to see their eyes light up I love it because its a study of human nature Mr MacCoughlans activities as Santa Claus extend overneighboring communities He entertains at church parties private parties and various other functions in WellinRton Wakeman KiptonLorain Elyria and Cleveland College Students Of his relationships in Oberlin Mac had this to say about the college students On the whole theyre very nice to me Ive only had two unpleasant situations arise one time a student tried to light his beard with a cigarette On the street they greet me with Hi Santa and they always come to carol Mr Cochran Macs boss speaks of his Santa Claus in this way Hes the best one weve ever had he really lives the spirit of the season Entertaining children is practically a hobby with him He doesnt know the meaning ofselfishness Macs personal appearance is of utmost importance to himbecause he is particularly annoyed by illkept Santas He is unusual in that he wears neither makeup nor a mask He told a story of one boy who was extremely skeptical of all Santas until he got a close look at Mac The astonished boy exclaimed thats real skin Hes the real McCoy Marcus Lauds Quality Questions Integration or Yeoman Artwork By MR IRVING MARCUS Tradition has it that theartwork in a literary magazine shall be clearly subordinated to the literature that it shall serve as illustration ordecoration Occasionally however a magazine appears which treats these arts coequally which serves as showcase for both of them Unfortunately the Yeoman is straddled somewhere between these two possibilities It hasnt made up its mind If the Yeoman is primarily a literary magazine then much of its artwork should be smaller meeker less monumental than it is If it is aliteratureandart magazine then itsstandbythemselves drawings should bealloted more space and centrality a Mikado Cast Ellis Beifctel Porter Mobley to Take Leads By JOE LEVIN Gilbert and Sullivan Players announced yesterday the cast for their production The Mikado April 1114 Tryouts for positions in the orchestra will be held sometime after Christmas vacation Major roles will be sung by Jim Beittel Jim Ellis Bill Hein Mel Jurisch Nat Kahn Faye Liebman Carol Mobley Boris Oblesow and Annamae Porter Fortyone chorusmembers listed later were also select ed The first full cast meeting will be held at 215 pm Jan 8 Ellis will play the part ofKoKo Lord High Executioner of the town of Titipu scene of theoperetta He sings two of Gilbert and Sullivans most popular songs the first being Ive Got A Little List a document which includes just about everyone cataloguing all the peupie wnom u executed never would be missed The second is Tit Willow the story of a bird who died for love Although engaged to KoKo YumYum portrayed by Miss Porter loves only NankiPoo son of the Mikado of Japan The Mikado who tries to make the punishment fit the crime will be played by Boris Oblesow NankiPoo Beittel plays NankiPoo who disguised as a wandringminstrel during most of the operetta is in love with YumYum while already engaged to Katisha the Mikados daughterinlaw elect an elderly unattractive court lady who is played by Miss Mobley Bill Hein is PoohBah Lord High Everything Else adescendant of a preAdamiteprotoplasmal primordial atomic globule but of distinguished pedigree As both Commissioner of Police and Lord Chief Justice Pooh Bah is a satire on those men in government who hold two positions withconflicting interests Two Little Maids Mel Jurisch and Faye Liebman will be PittiSing and PeepBo who with YumYum are the Three Little Maids from School Soprano chorus members are Andree Barthelemy Judy Bavis JoAnne Boon Peggy Eaton Sue Eubanks Pat Johnson Lyn Landreville Eleanor Mattias Nell Miller Elaine Scholz Clara Swift Laurie Swift Lily Wade Molly Wakefield Singing alto will be NancyCarroll Mary Chacko Joanne Dear dorf Jean Elliott Mary Jane Ells Joanne Hagele Marjory Harper Roz King Beth Rackley Audrey Snyder and Maxine Wenzler Selected as tenors were Lou Auld Frank Borkowski JoeClonick Mike Nimitz Dick Price Kit Reid Don Tull and Mike Weiner Members of the bass chorus are Bob Crawford George Hannauer Dick Hilt Bob Lippman Colin Moran Larry Mirel Tyler Olsen and Allan Penner FORD STUDY Mr Frank Ryder professor of German at Dartmouth College was on campus yesterday andtoday talking with students and members of the faculty and the administration about the history and various aspects of the College Mr Ryders visit was madepossible by a Ford Foundation Grant which was given him for study of factors underlying the largenumber of students statisticallyoutstanding colleges have placed in graduate school life of their own There isnt a bad piece of art in this entire issue Every example is in and of itself good at the very least Some of them are excellent But they are not always appropriate Barbara Sherers cover isappropriate It is blithe but has enough dignity to make the readeroptimistic about what will follow It is witty and pleasing Noteparticularly the sly contrast between its figures determined feet andevasive eyes Douglas Kinseys frontispiece is a remarkably personal portrait of Thomas Mann It iscreativelydesigned vital expressiveintimate and vigorous MerryTurshens etching suffers from poorreproduction but demonstrates that she is a freshman of promise Cagers Beat Fenn Case Tonight Sports Page 5 NUMBER 24 American Poetess To View Her Work Current Literature American poetess Louise Bogan will speak at the required noon as sembly Jan 5 on Tne Contempor ary Scene American Literature At 430 pm she will speak on A Poetess Looks at Her Own Work at First Church In theprogram sponsored by Forum Board she will read and discuss her own poetry Miss Bogan attended Boston University 191516 TheGuggenheim Foundation has awarded her two fellowships She has won the John Reed Memorial prize for poetry the Helen Haire Levinson Memorial prize and the Harriet Monroe Poetry Award TheLibrary of Congress granted her a Chair of Poetry A lecturer at the University of Washington the University ofChicago and the University ofArkansas her works include Body of This Death Dark Summer The Sleeping Fury Poems and New Poems and Achievements in American Poetry She hascontributed verse criticism andfiction to the New Republic the New Yorker The Nation and Poetry A Magazine of Verse Chemistry Department Receives 2500 Grant E I du Pont de Nemours and Co Inc has renewed for the third year its 2500 grant to the College chlemistry department President Stevenson announced today The grant is one of 50 toprivately supported liberal arts colleges and smaller technical schools to help them maintain the quality of their teaching In addition to this renewed grant Du Pont is giving 1500 to each of the institutions to support work in othersubjects according to the NewsBureau release The grants for chemistryteaching are to be used specifically in ways the institutions feel will most effectively advance theirinstruction of the subject and stimulate interest in it It may includepurchase of equipment or booksattendance at scientific meetings visiting lecturers student aid grants to staff members forsummer studies or other uses The additional grants are to be used similarly to support work which will strengthen the teaching of other subjects that contribute importantly to the education ofscientists and engineers again as determined by the institutions REMINDER Bureau of Appointmentsreminds all seniors who have notreturned their registration cards to the Bureau of Appointmentsoffice to do so as soon as possible Among the illustrations Martha Malicoats stand out for theiraptness They are imaginative andappealing yet manage not to vie with the literature they border Her thistle in particular seems very much in tune with John Lank fords poems I The remaining illustrations Louise Weiss Ellen Weiss and Miss Sherers are not as wellintegrated Louise Weiss drawings are strong and sensitive but are too monumetal for the space alloted them Miss Sherers and Ellen Weiss are graceful but arepresented in a style that is notconsistent with the format of themagazine A few moments contemplation of the upside down bicycle on page 30 gives the viewer a feeling of frivolity