Soc. Sci. 2 Members End Course in Farce

Professor Beer's Social Sciences 2 class ended the year with a roar yesterday. Nine members donned costumes, climbed onto the New Lecture Hall platform, and presented a musical farce which ridiculed almost every author studied in the course.

Pictured above are Charisma (Ann Bregstein '53) and the play's authors, John G. Benedict '54 (Beowulf) and Kenneth J. Reckford '54 (Durkheim).

Charisma, the heroine, wanted to get routinized and find a husband (Beowulf). The puzzled Durkheim kept running from the idealist to the Materialist polo muttering, "Oh, God. I mean, Oh, society." Weber, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Grendel's Mother also rushed about the stage spouting garbled political theories. They blew horns, ate bananas, and emerged from a trap door.

A typical musical selection was the following, by Mathies (Theodore L. Gershuny '54), a "feather from the left wing":

The tales romantics croak

Might please a number of folk,

But isn't seduction a mode of production.

A typical bourgeois joket