Colleges Provide Cultural Opportunity Editor: The Herald, Nearly everyone will agree that Piince Edward's two institutions of higher learning, Hampden-Syd ney College and Long-wood Col lege are a great asset to this com munity, Not only do the students, faculties, and staffs provide addi tional trade for our businessmen; but they offer educational and cultural opportunities, such as hearing noted speakers and listen ing to concerts, which would or dinarily not be available in a com munity of this size. This week end the Longwood Players and Hampden - Sydney Jongleurs are combining their tal ents to present Arthur Miller's poignant drama, "The Crucible." Based upon the Salem witchcraft trials of 1962, the play tells the story of what happens when a community is seized by an epi demic of hysteria, terror, and superstition and innocent persons are condemned to the gallows. "The Crucible" deals directly and forcibly with the problem of free dom of conscience and warns, against the dangers of enforcing j conformity of beliefs upon a com munity or, for that matter, a na- \ tion. This is not, in its strictest! sense, a pleasant play: but neither is the situation which it attempts to treat.

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