es TH 2-616 EL OLLEGE NEWS VOL. XXVIII, No. 25 BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., MAY Copyright, 13, 1942 Bryn Mawr Trustees of Trustese ef. PRICE 10-CENTS Bondfield Notes Desire in Britain For Coordination Outlines Change Effected, | Status of Labor Party In the War Deanery, May 10.—‘‘There is a desire to coordinate throughout the whole country,” stated the Right Honorable Margaret Bondfield in her speech on The British Labor Party in the War. After giving a brief outline of the history of the party, she discussed its present status in the government and the structural changes in the regula- tion of industry which have been brought about by the war. Under the Ministry of Labor, the organization first in importance for the controlling of industry is the Council of Industry. The mem- bership is composed of fifty per cent of the organized employers and fifty per cent labor unionists who are appointed by the Labor Conference. They have to deal with the problems of the exchange of employees, the system of draft- ing labor, and the training of| women. Another organization is the Advisory Committee on pro- duction, which investigates all in- dustries for more opportunities of economy and speed. The best example of this desire to cooperate is shown in the coal industry, long decentralized. The first recognition of national control has been in the institution of a national board consisting of repre- sentatives of owners, of the gov- ernment and of the trade union. An agreement between workers and owners that non-union miners do not get increase bonuses has Continued on Page Five Women’s Engineering Courses Are Offered Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, is offer- ing three to six months’ full time college level courses in engineer- ing in order to train college women for work in War Industries. These courses are part of the govern- ment sponsored program of Engi- neering Science and Management Defense Training. Continued on Page Five - \ Princeton and Beer Add Gaiety to First Bryn Mawr Horseshow Specially Contributed by Virginia Ray, ’43 Sunday, May 10.—Radnor Ride) was the scene today of the first Bryn Mawr College Horseshow. The consensus is that it was a great success. Good horsemanship was demonstrated, and the gallery was swelled by the presence of a number of Princeton men. Ice cream and soft drinks were sold for the benefit of the Bryn Mawr College Scholarship Fund, and many members of the gallery participated in a beer picnic, which added to the friendly informality of the afternoon. The beer was kept in the spring house to cool. The show was judged by Mr. Albert Sullivan, a pupil of Colonel Boswell. The results were: Intermediate Equitation SHOAUE Grebe Poee hb eh ecbcei res First TU es eke cece lahid es co) oe Second PE OOr 0 so es be occa Sse eh wel es Third PoOOMINOIA , 6 <57 bh thes sci ee ks Fourth Hamilton Advanced Equitation and Figure Eight WOGUROLOOM occ cli bees chee ci saa cues First MOCO Nev cos c cce heh ba chee osc ee es Second TPMINMIOO. Fs ci15ss choise seres iit Third MTC. fo dacs came eee tre ceveek ees, Fourth Hersey, Scribner, Glossbrenner, Wal- ker, Nicholson, Miles Outside Jumping (Hunt Style) GIOSBDYGUNG? hiki ss cee) Gis 050 28 First Estabrook Dent Continued on Page Three First Aid Classes Prepared for Amateur Hangings; Dirty Dish Water is Anticipated By Ruth Alice Davis, ’44 And then there was the Bryn Mawr girl who prescribed artificial respiration for the victim who was having trouble breathing and also had the minor affliction of a broken Tih 33 The Standard First Aid Exams revealed any number of just such budding genii, ready, willing, and we wonder how able to administer “First Aid in divers crises.” It _ appears that they intend to make the patient do her own work—for treatment of a broken back, it was prescribed that “the victim. should lie on his stomach, and very care- fully put on a stretcher.” Another proposed, in. explaining how to treat a broken arm, “. . . and next, I would split the fractured fore- arm.” Consider also those bril- liants who came to the conclusion that a “break in the spine” indi- cated a broken back.” Another de- cided that “if the victim has been in a bad automobile accident, and is bleeding in the leg, head injuries should be looked for. . .” | @ program of two monologues and Seesh¥i aud ects tsee ues Second) citing performance as it is the Tree Planting Secret Even to the Seniors Who Can Only Guess Senior Tree Planting took place in the conventional required sec- recy on Monday night, promptly at! 11 P. M. Nothing was spoiled by| the fact that none of the Seniors apparently know what the tree is. “A great tall tree, with leaves that look like an aspen but really aren’t.” The whole affair is tinged with deception. Whatever variety this tree may be, it has been before the Deanery for at least two months. Worse still, it was not even aes for by the class but by the Grounds Committee. The Seniors hasten to add that this is not because th® treasury is bankrupt.. To support this, they point out that to the best of anyone’s knowledge no pennies} have yet been stolen. Players Club to Give Writing Club Works The class in play writing, taught by Mr. John Gassner, will present three one-act plays on Saturday in the Theater Work Shop. It prom- ises to be an interesting and ex- culmination of the first year’s work in this new course. Emphasis has been placed on writing and criticism rather than on staging. The program has been divided into three groups—folk and domestic drama and that having There were those whose forte was snakebite, who recognized the marks of “phangs” as a prominent. symptom, or else a “two-point, bite.” Some morbid souls hit their | high on poisons in general—like , the individual who stressed giving: dirty dish water to the victim who | had taken poison by. the mouth. We wonder just what this jolly First | Aider would do at a time like this, if no dishes had been washed re-_ cently. One prospective Ellery, Queen, when asked to give various cases for artificial respiration, re- plied dramatically‘ amateur ‘hang-. ing.” The question still remains, | just where is the fine line between amateur and professional in such| a pursuit? Perhaps the best answer in a number of cases would have been that given in an informative tome entitled “The Weekend Book in Two Volumes.” Referring to brandy as a remedy for shock, it Continued on Page Six universal appeal. The first group begins with a monologue of an Irish drunk by Edgar Emery. It is followed by a psychological tragedy about the isolated life of fishermen and is titled, “Child of the Wind,” written by IsabelMartin. Lynn Hadyn has directed it and Doris Benn plays the leading role. ? “Tea for Ten,’ a monologue written and presented by Dorcas ' Dunklee, begins the second group. The attempts of two children to apply their meager knowledge of ' psychology to their..cook’s. marital. problems make the following play, “Psychology Did It” by Sylvia Maynard a light and provocative comedy’ * The third play is called “Death At Fredricksburg” and was writ- ten and directed by Edgar Emery. It “is the. powerful and. moving tragedy of a deserter. | These efforts are entirely experi- mental and there has been no at- tempt at the professional. 4 Mathematics Relate Symmetry Concepts To Different Fields Dalton, May 6.—The mathemati- cal concept of symmetry has many applications to physics, philosophy, biology and art, said Dr. Weyl in his lecture on Symmetry. Every- one, he stated, is familiar with ordinary bilateral symmetry. which is stressed especially in any ar- chaic art. Confining attention to the plane with a fixed center, he said that the symmetry of a figure can be de- scribed by the group of transforma- tions which leave it invariant. These consist of rotations and their combinations with reflections, as was discovered by Leonardo da Vinci. In Architecture, this sym- metry is fourfold; the great Gothic cathedrals are the most splendid examples of this kind of symmetry. In organic structures five is the prevalent number, although strangely enough, this number is not found in inorganic nature. The regular solids played a large part in the whole of antiquity and dominated Plato’s conception of the universe, Dr. Weyl asserted. Including translations the prob- lem becomes that of a two-dimen- sional ornament. The possible ro- tational symmetries of a two di- mensional pattern are those of one, two, three, four, six. Experiments with the symmetries of any other Continued on Page Four ‘Patience’ Leads Skillfully Pldyed In Performance Joint Production Proves Disappointing in Lack Of Enthusiasm By Barbara Kauffman, °43 Last Saturday night’s. perform- ance of Patience by the combined Haverford and \Bryn Mawr Glee Clubs was disappointing. Although the leading roles were well played, the fresh stimulus which Haver- ford’s participation should have afforded was not there. There was an obvious improvement on last year’s all-Bryn Mawr performance, but in former years Bryn Mawr alone has done better. It was not Havefford’s fault, but: the same lack of\ enthusiasm which marked last year’s Gilbert and Sullivan performance was evi- dent.. We had hoped that the addi- tion of new blood might give the operetta a fresh start, but appar- ently something more is needed. Individual roles showed excep- tions. Mary Rambo, as Patience, had a part which affords the great- est possibility for personal expres- sion in a typé of play which has by now become highly stylized. She made the best of the oppor- tunity and played with delightful freshness and gaiety. Although her high notes were somewhat un- certain, for the rest her technique was relievingly effortless. Nancy Sapp, as the faithful Lady Jane, far outdid the others in singing and Margot Dethier as Lady An- gela showed perhaps the most tal- ent in combined acting and sing- ing. She brought personality and life into a part which affords but little opportunity for it. Edgar Emery as Bunthorne and Richard Bauer as Grosvenor were very good as far as they went. Although Edgar Emery sang poor- ly at moments, the clarity of his diction completely redeemed him. Both he and Richard Bauer played well, but neither brought anything to his role. What the parts asked of them they performed excellent- ly, but they added nothing. The real trouble lay, however, in the choruses and in the diction of practically everyone. The girls’ chorus was lifeless, too frequently flat in more ways than one. The dragoons sang much better and Continued on Page Five Collection of Curious and Ancient Herbals - To Conclude Exhibitions in Rare Book Room Specially Contributed by Mary Louise Terrien The Rare Book Room Committee has chosen herbals for its last exhibition of the year. Since this college has no herbals of its own, if one excepts an Aldine Theo- phrastus of 1497, the writer has had to beg from our more fortu- nate neighbors. They have re- sponded most generously and the room may now really be called a treasure foom, for it holds many noteworthy examples -of» books .on. this sixteenth century by-product of botany, agriculture and medi- cine. A great number of rare vol- umes and prints have come from the libraries of Mrs. Isaac La Boiteaux, Mr. S. J. Herben, Mrs. Alba Johnson, andthe —Misses- Mary and Margaret Peirce. From' his large and magnificent collec- tion of herbals, Mr. Richard eet of Haverford, has lent five to rete 'was a physician.” Mawr. Of these, the most im- portant is the “Grete Herball” printed by Peter Treveris in 1529. It is the most faméus of the earlier English herbals and is an trans- lation of ‘Le Grant Herbier,” which in turn was a version of the fifteen century “Circa instans’”’ now in the Biblioteca Estense at Modena. From the modern point of view it contains much that is \decidedly odd with regard to medi- cal .subjects. The remedies, or “vértues”. as they. are called, for various ailments, strike one as. curious and drastic and would seem -to be possible only for an abnormally robust people. Probably the most interesting from a literary point of view is a “baby” Fuchs printed in Basel in 1545, which has been lent by Miss Edith Finch. Leonarhard Fuchs, like the majority of the -herbalists, In 1529 he ac- Continuea on Page Five Page Two THE COLLEGE NEWS THE COLLEGE NEWS (Founded in 1914) Published weekly during the College Year (excepting during Thanks- . giving, ‘Christmas and Easter Holidays, and during examination weeks) n the interest of Bryn Mawr College at the Maguire Building, Wayne, Pa., and Bryn Mawr College. The College News is fully protected by copyright. Nothing that appears in it may be reprinted either wholly or in part without written permission of the Editor-in-Chief. Editorial Board NANCY Evarts, ’43, Editor-in-Chief SALLY JACOB, ’43, 48, News ANNE DENNY, 743 LENORE O’BOYLE, ’43 ALICE ISEMAN, ’43, Copy MARY BARBARA KAUFFMAN, BARBARA HULL, ’44, News Editorial Staff 4 SALLY MATTESON, ’43 ALICE WEIL, 743 RutTH ALice DAvis, ’44 ANNE HEYNIGER, ’44 ELIZABETH WATKINS, 744 ANN COULSON, ’44 JESSIE STONE, ’44 ELIZABETH BOUDREAU, 745 MARY VIRGINIA More, 45 ALLISON MERRILL, ’45 Music Sports Cartoons Posy KENT, ’45 JACQUIE BALLARD, 743 KATHRYN ANN KEO ENGLAND, 45 EDWARDS, ’45 Business Board LovuIse Horwoop, ’44—Manager DIANA Lucas, ’44—Advertising ANN FITZGIBBONS, 745 ELIZABETH ANN MERCER, 745 JEANNE-MARIE LEE, 745 NINA MONTGOMERY, ’45 Subscription Board GRACE WEIGLE, ’43, Manager AUDREY SIMs, ’44 CONSTANCE BRISTOL, ’43 NANCY SCRIBNER, 744 RONNY RaAvVITCH, 44 SUBSCRIPTION, $2:50 MAILING PRICE, $3:00 a SUBSCRIPTIONS MAY BEGIN AT ANY TIME C iriail Cetenls | Speaking at a meeting of the Current Events group, Miss Reid rent Events group, Miss Reid talked on international law during the present war. Miss Reid said that problems in already international law have arisen in many cases of the war. There are questions of the British Entered as second-class matter at the Wayne, Pa., Post Office New Courses The new courses show a definite effort to adapt the curricu- Despite the loss of several of the faculty, an unusual number of new courses were announced. No one has ever complained that the faculty had too little to do. The fact is that this year several departments are already disorganized, and it is certain that more of the teaching staff will go. That the College has made the effort to plan new courses at this time is appreciated by the students. In these courses, a general movement toward specialization is notable. The Geology Department is offering a course in map making, to answer the need of a War Department project. The French Department is offering a course in the technique of inter- pretation and analysis of propaganda and periodical literature. Even courses which are not so immediately practical, like those in Post-War Reconstfuction and in the Theory and Practice of Democracy, are evidences of this trend. At the same time, we are glad to see the growing number of survey courses. For all students the number of courses it is pos- sible to take outside their major is very limited. This is particu- larly true of science majors, and it is to be expected that their number will grow in the next few years. Now it will be possible for them to take a general survey course in History of Art, for example, where before the First Year course was. an intensive study of one period. The success of the interdepartmental method has been shown in the Eighteenth Century course. Next winter three more co- operative courses are offered. For those who lack time to do specialized work in more than one field, they offer an opportunity to gain a coordinated picture-of several fields. From the stand- point of time alone, they should be invaluable. This type of course is no easy road to knowledge, but it does answer a need. Bryn Mawr is considered by many to be the last stronghold of academic conservatism. We have not yet devoted ourselves exclusively to the hundred best books. It is gratifying to see that the College still manages to provide the necessary thing at the appropriate moment, lum to present-day needs. College Inn The Inn situation has been considered and action is being taken. As a result of the letter from the Inn Committee request- ing a meeting with the Editor of the News and other undergradu- ates, ‘“‘problems of the Inn and the wishes of the students” were discussed. The prices, with a few notable exceptions, are little, if at all, higher than those of most tea rooms. remedied if food costs permit. No one makes a profit on the Inn. Money in excess of expenses goes toward paying off the 60,000 dollars remaining from an original 90,000 dollar debt. Several suggestions for improvement were made. It was suggested that a hostess, possibly a student, be in charge during rush hours. She would see that customers were being taken care of, would receive complaints, and generally supervise the dining room. The present variety of foods may be reduced to save space and time. It was proposed that planned meals, with limited or no choice, be served-at-luncheon-and at-dinner on certain days. At these times no 4 la carte orders would be taken. A minimum of 25 or 30 cents charged on one bill would|” eliminate time and costs of bookkeeping. An ice cream cooler in a corner of the dining room might remedy some of the confusion The few exceptions will be: prize courts, contraband,. diplo- mati¢ relations between govern- ments, and recognition of govern- She also discussed ments in exile. the treatment of prisoners of war and hostages, the rights of neutral | nations, and, referring to Mada- gascar and Martinique, the legal grounds for protective occupation of a dependency of a conquered nation threatened by a_ hostile power. ‘Miss Reid spoke of the British prize courts. They must decide whether a nation like Denmark, in- vaded without a struggle, is neu- tral with regard to the confiscation | of ships or not. That is the ques- tion of whether its ships are to be | confiscated or merely requisitioned ‘for the duration. The treatment of prisoners of war, said Miss Reid, is generally good except when one side has a preponderance; such a condition now exists. However, fear of re- taliation prevents serious ill-treat- ment. The question of hostages is quite another thing; hostages are not to be held personally respon- sible for hostile acts of those whose behavior they guarantee, at least not to the extent of execution. ages en masse. An additional problem of inter- national law in this war is the recognition of governments in exile; the legal grounds for protec- tive occupation of Martinique and Madagascar. This last has been legalized by a pact of the United Nations to that effect, besides the existing law of self-defense. Miss Reid’s lecture is the last of this year’s series of talks-on-cur- rent events. Germany has been executing host-, mr ¢ i> et MY FRIENOS Northfield Conference Invites College Groups At tea in the Common Room on Friday, plans will be made for a! Bryn Mawr delegation to the Northfield religious conference in ‘June. For the first time, “college” courses will be included in the con- ference’s curriculum. The week of June 15-22 will find a few hundred girls playing ten- nis, hiking through the Massachu- setts woods and singing hymns on the “Round Top” overlooking the Connecticut River Valley. The conference is famous for providing faculty - student baseball games, general hilarity, and stimulating discussion with some of the most; well-known ministers in the East. ‘Lantern’ Criticized. for Undue Amount of Technical Failure, Derivation in Material b By Lenore O’Boyle, ’43 The most noticeable feature of the spring issue of The Lantern is the undue amount of derivation that its contributions show. It is perhaps inevitable that college work should suffer from this fail- ing. Few students have the neces- sary experience or technique to avoid it completely. Yet it must be possible to achieve a more natural and original expression than is found here. This criticism is best illustrated by the poetry. The poems of both Hester Corner and Doris Benn are smothered under the weight of other poets. Hester Corner’s rhythm is usually skillful, but there are parts of Natural Theology that capture the very cadence of T. S. Eliot. Perhaps this would not be such a failing if the poets chosen for imitation had been of a period in which poetry tended to be less esoteric than it is today. As it is, while the central meaning of the are often quite meaningless. springs. from a commendable effort; to. gain compression and sugges- poems is clear, individual passages! This: tiveness, and it is, a pity that it Kitty Rand’s Banbury Cross, on the other hand, is an unpretentious poem that is readable and pointed, more successful in achieving what it set, out to do. Interview is frequently amusing. Presumably it is a satire, but curi- ously enough it is often so close to what it is satirizing that it is not as effective as it might have been. The prose is more successful, both stories succeeding in catching and holding the reader’s attention. Margaret Hunter’s The Lighthouse is sound psychology, marred slightly by somewhat inadequate dialogue. There is a-nice quality about Helena Hersey’s The Mary B. At the risk of sounding repeti- tious, it may be said thatvher style succeeds better than most in avoid- ing undue imitation, though the mannered naturalness of Heming- way is quite obvious. As a whole, this issue of The Lantern does not succeed in being very interesting reading. If The Lantern is to be read, it’s material must be at once more forthright and more pointed. and energy. aye made, in the already too-crowded kitchen. might be removed so that only the number of guests who can be handled at one time will expect to be served. The limitation of guests other than students and faculty could solve many of the Inn problems, althqugh this might not be necessary if the other suggested steps were taken to conserve time ‘Another meeting of the Inn Committee with a group of under- graduates has been planned for next fall, when more concrete pee Some of the terrace tables | should have so often miscarried. Nuts and Bolts By Ann Heyniger, ’44 What shifts in college positions in response to -war needs have actually been made? How has the war effected the academic emphasis for the next few years? How has this-been—reeeived_by—the-—various student bodies? Service and Culture Yale divides its changes into two fields: 1) from the standpoint of practical service obvious con- tributions through newly created courses and 2) from the standpoint of self-enhancement through “com- petent administration and main- tenance of the present teaching | standard” through the summer ses- sion of the acceleration program. The former include practical courses; the latter is viewed from the standpoint of helping students to form, in this relatively unhar- ried part of their lives, certain convictions which will not be for- gotten after they have emerged from the war arena, College Versus Jobs . Pfésident Blunt, of Connecticut, dealt with this question more gen- erally, in a speech, saying: “What will you have in mind as you choose your courses? Look ahead, not just at next year. Your job should not be the only criterion in picking courses. Of course you want to do your part in winning the war, and that.runs into jobs. Although you have heard of the great need for chemists, physicists, teachers and economists, the great- est need is for well-trained minds.” The students’ reaction to the war demands on them as individuals deal for the most part with college versus immediate jobs. Value of Education Not Forgotten Temple University decries leav- ing in the middle of college train- ing to reap the benefits of fat and relatively éasily obtained pay checks. An editorial in their news- paper not only warns of the tran- sciency of these immediate tempta- tions but also defends the positiop of the present college students whe | must “stick to their job of making themselves soldiers for a bigger | fight when the army cannot be con- scripted ‘because there will be so few prepared to fight it.” “"V. M. I. reports on a speech by Mr. Robert F. Moore, secretary of appointments, at Columbia Uni- versity. The speech dealt with the confusion raised today in the minds of college graduates because of the Continued on Page Five \ i ! pet THE COLLEGE NEWS Page Three PENN POINTS By Jessie Stone, ’44° Last week both the CIO and AFL held their state conventions, the former at Pittsburgh, the latter at Scranton... They were important events, important for labor, for the| country and for the war. The CIO, convention focused, as it were, a| great national labor. question. For'| it. is in Pennsylvania - that the| United Mine Workers, John L. Lewis’ stronghold, is most power- ful; consequently the Lewis faction | met its test at Pittsburgh. | Philip Murray’s opening address, supported..President Roosevelt’s 1 point economic program. He de-! nounced the “back-stabbing” poli-| cies of Lewis adherents and de-| manded co-operation-with-the CIO’s | leadership “in only one war, the| war to beat the Axis.” A series of | speakers, among whom were na-| tional leaders of the United Mine| Workers, voiced support for Mur-; ray’s position. Thursday, however, when a large number of delegates from the Steel Workers Organizing Committee | were absent, the Lewis forces were able to defeat a resolution which called for the exposure of “disrup- tors of the labor movement as agents of the Axis powers.” The} Lewis men called the resolution a) direct attack on Lewis and a sud-; denly organized stampede momen- tarily threw the convention into disorder. After several votes, the! Lewis followers emerged success-| fully from this particular issue. | However, the next day the sup- porters of Murray were able to claim a victory in the unanimous adoption of the report of the com- mittee on officers, The report’s significant portion was as follows: “Under his leadership (Murray’s) the CIO has given brilliant guid-| ance to the working people of America in furthering the victory drive of President Roosevelt and our government in a war to destroy Hitlerism and Japanese aggression and in exposing to public view the saboteurs who would destroy Amer- ican labor and our own beloved nation.” One encouraging and interesting event was the enthusiastic recep- tion by the AFL convention of a' wire from the National Maritime| Union, CIO. The greeting follows: “The Pittsburgh Branch of the Continued on Page Six Book Drive The Victory Book Cam- paign sponsored by the U. S. O. is being continued. When * you houseclean ‘at* the end of this year, see whether you can’t find at least one book that might be read by mem- bers of the armed forces for either pleasure or profit. If you do, bring it to the Book- shop which is still acting as collection center, Garden Party is a-commin’! To JEANNETT’S you'll then be runnin’! dent Park. Budapest ||. String Quartet.- Goodhart, $16.P. M. If Senior friends you want |} to please, Be quick and put your or- der in, FOR YOUR FAMILY THE DEANERY Entertain Y our—Friends at Lunch, Tea, or Dinner § FOR YOUR -GUESTS | Calendar Friday, May 15 Last Day of Classes. Sen- ior Speeches, 12.45. Saturday, May 16 One-Act Plays, Theatre Workshop, 8.00 P. M. Monday, May 18 Final Examinations begin. Saturday, May 30 Final Examinations end. Junior Prom, Gymnasium, 9.00 P. M. Sunday, May 31 Baccalaureate Service. The Reverend Vivian T. Pom- eroy, of Milton, Mass. Goodhart, 8.30 P. M. Monday, June 1 Garden Party, Wyndham Garden, 4.00 P. M. Concert in Honor of Presi- Tuesday, June 2 Conferring of Degrees at the Close of the Fifty-Sev- enth Academic, Year. President Park, Goodhart. Princeton and Beer Add Gaiety’ to Horseshow Continued from Page One COG oii Cea eas Fourth Walker, Miles, Hersey, Nicholson Pair Class Hergey and Bloomfield .......... First Glogsbrenner and Estabrook ...Second PIA ONG PLUCRICN oe evecesve ses Third Walker and Cecil Musical Chairs (in which four Princeton men participated) Ha Stanner; Princeton 6 i068 bs First Dunklee ......., oe sesveccececs Second PYInCeton: MAN 0. See ieee sees Third oi) CU eee rere re re aren era Er Fourth Walker, Dent, Hutzler, Platt, Wallace Estabrook, DON’T BE A PANDA! ® CuTeE... but short on practical usefulness. Today, more than ever, business needs trained college wo- men. Never enough Gibbs- trained secretaries to fill fe the demand, Send today f for placement record— “Gress GirLs AT WORK.” ; KATHARINE GIBBS scnooz 90 MARLBOROUGH STREET 230 ParRK AvEeNud Boston New York ‘made up, and on stage in time. F lashing Swords and Backstage Confusion - Mark Colorful Performance of ‘Patience’ By Barbara Gumbel, ’44 The swords were drawn in a bright salute, then were sheathed; that is, all but for one they wete. What happened to that poor\lone one? Was it subsequently \and slyly admitted to its seabbard or did it quietly seek refuge behind | the scenery? Nobody knows, but| that is not what keeps us awake| these beautiful, cold May nights.| Rather it is this question that| pounds at our brain: why were | Grosvenor and Bunthorne in step | for their first encore when they, | shall we say, used opposite feet | both before and after this notable | event. Trivial trivialities backstage: | “Love-Sick Maidens in their} groups,” cried Mr. Alwyne, but! one of the maidens was at that || moment cavorting at Haverford. | A few tense minutes passed, finally | the delinquent arrived, and a wild, rush was on to get her dressed, | Speaking of dressing, the afore-| said Grosvenor executed a thirty second change during the last act with much dexterity, For his bene- fit a screen had been set up back- stage, a screen that, we regret to say, gave every sign of toppling over at any minute. There was trouble too, with the scenery de-| partment: Envisage Lady Jane! age in leather as yet, we hope that a certain Haverford dragoon will have no trouble in procuring patches. This stage work is cer- tainly hard on those too big for their breeches! ; . After the performance we found Patience tearing around, that is, tearing off all mustaches and beards that adorned the manly members of the Cap nd Bells. Oh’s and ah’s of recognition, sur- prised gasps and so-that’s-who-it- was’s rose from all sides. As grand finale, Spencer Stuart, a blond Haverford stage follower, guided a piece of stage apparatus up—all the way. Yes, there he hung about fifteen feet above the stage, saved from looking like one of our anthropoidic ancestors by a lovely spring suit. Ah spring! TUITION A SUMMER BUSINESS COURSE IN BRYN MAWR July 6th Through August 28th (nine a. m. to twelve noon) Typing, Filing, Switchboard, Office Procedure Business Machines, Business Correspondence APPLY TO THE SHIPLEY SCHOOL --__ $60.00 | grasping at one of the synthetic) trees to keep from falling during | her exit in chase of Bunthorne, a stage-hand behind the scene des-| . perately holding, it up. Question: who had to go and wax that one|. spot on the stage? After all, my| lady slipped on it after her encore too! 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Then your telephone will be ready to ring on the next call that comes your way. If you fail to “hang up” the line shows “busy” and an important call may be delayed. ‘ Good Telephone Habits Are a Business and Social Asset — t Ee many ee ee —— si Page Four THE COLLEGE NEWS e . Spanish Club Movie Asks for Effective Good Neighbor Policy Common Room, May 11.—Ameri- cans All, the Spanish Club’s movie, made a plea for further communi- cation with Latin America. The Good Neighbor policy is no longer a phrase; it has become a fact. Its depends in both successful continuation upon American youth, North and South. With fine shots of South Amer- \ca and its life, the high Andes, the Aztec ruins, the rich soil, the browned faces, the movie, arranged by the Office of the Co-ordination of International Affairs, deplored the fact that we know little about our fifty million young American neighbors. Settled 450 years ago, Latin America broke the chains of slavery tying it to Spain and Por- tugal in the early nineteenth cen- tury, and still later broke the com-|: mercial bonds and high tariffs still tying it to Europe. With the help of United States planes and mod- ern methods of communication, the twenty South American republics have become united. Its youth now strives to make a new world, fighting illiteracy and disease, making fullest use of their rich resources. In this effort North American youth must lend its aid. Civvies, Not Uniforms, Attract Bryn Mawr Gymnasium, May 9.—Following the performance of Patience, the gym Saturday night was the scene of Bryn Mawr’s annual Spring Dance. The University of Penn< sylvania—Orehestra played in full force, and during the intermission everyone had the great satisfac- tion of hearing the Main Line Singers present a program of spir- ituals. Specially to be noticed were the decorations. The walls were hung with pine boughs and white lan- terns, contrasting effectively with the dark gauze ceiling. At the same time the smell of purple lilacs on the fringing tables filled the whole room. Noticeable among the dancers were the representatives of the Navy in their “dress whites.” Here and there an army uniform could be seen, but on the whole civilians and Haverford. predominated. Although mild confusion reigned each time it came to be a question of finding one’s next dance part- ner, the dance was on the whole conceded to be a great success. Mathematics Relate Symmetry Concepts Continued from Page One number proved unsuccessful. Egyp- tian craftsmen knew 17 inequiva- lent automorphisms of a lattice, but only in 1926 was it proved that those 17 exhausted all possibilities. The proof can be attacked in two ways. Starting with a given metric fixes the choice of constants of linear combinations of the trans- formations. In the other more common method, one starts with the requirement of an invariant lat- tice, and so the metric is deter- mined; in either case the number of possibilities is reduced to 17. Dr. Weyl asserted in the three- dimensional case a similar pro- Junior Prom The Junior Prom will be held May 30, in-the-gymna- sium. Continuous music will be supplied’by Herbie Woods with his orchestra of twelve men and a girl voealist. The dance will last from nine to two o’clock and is in honor of the Senior Class. All under- graduates including Garden Party girls and freshmun and sophomore choir mem- bers are invited to attend. There will be twelve card dances with continuous cut- fing. Admission is three dollars per couple regardless of the number of stags a girl brings. Tickets will be on sale soon with hall* dance representatives. Smith Only Scorer In Series of Games Bryn Mawr, May 8.—The Bryn Mawr tennis team faced experi- enced opponents in a meet in which Cynwyd triumphed by taking six It was by no means a _ walk-over, as each Bryn Mawrter, spurred on by the sharp competition, fought her hard- est for each point. The only winning match was well played by Jane Smith. Her hard drives were placed accurately, and she rallied to take the last two sets after a first set defeat. Left - handed Chelly Chester played a left-handed adversary. The play was cautious, and the two were well matched. Julia Fleet was outpointed by — place- ments, but made several beautiful ili shots. Na Norton and Frances Mat- thai, both excellent singles ‘players, combined their talents to form an exceptionally smooth working dou- bles team. But they were over- powered by the hard overhead shots of Miss Bowes, national women’s squash champion, and the place- ments of her partner. Cecile Bowes beat Frances Matthai 6-1, 4-6,.6-0. Sue Peterson beat Nancy Norton 6-4, 6-3. Mrs. E. I. Beatty beat Julia Fleet 4-6, 6-2, -6-3. Mrs. Kay W. Chester 6-1, 6-4. Jane Smith beat Hawkes 2-6, 6-4, 6-3. BoweS and Hackett beat Matthai and Norton 6-2, 6-2. Beatty and Peterson beat Chester and Fleet. out of seven matches. Hackett beat Marion Mrs. William cedure is adopted and 230 possible symmetries were found. Three- dimensional symmetry has its most important application in the inves- tigation of crystal structure. By means of X-ray diffraction, the lat- tice structure of crystals was con- firmed. | Symmetry is of fundamental im- portance in the theory of Relativity and Quantum mechanics, the for- mer considering the automor- phisms of space itself, the latter the arrangement of electrons in, atoms. Symmetry, Dr. Weyl maintained, also plays a great role in Algebra itself where it is closely related to the problems of the roots of. an al- gebraic equation in a complex field. EXCELLENT FOOD REFRESHMENTS LUNCHES—35c and 40c DINNERS—60c and 70c Tasty Grilled Sandwiches THE GREEK’S “Always at Your Service” Faculty Shows Fight And Beats Students Bryn Mawr, May 10.—An as- sorted faculty baseball team of Princeton men, Bryn Mawr girls, and five professors made its second successful appearance, whipping the students’ team 15-13. The game was an exhibition of baseball oddities. The faculty handed over their left fielder to pitch for the students, and there- after she strit@k out ten of her former teammates. The Owls la- bored overtime in the fifth inning the most Ripleyesque situation oc- curred when three professors up in one inning struck out and yet were dancing around .the basepaths a minute later. Miss Yeager’s fast ball was so hot it even burned the catcher’s fingers; her inability to hold a third strike resulted in three men reaching first base. Phyl White started on the mound for the Owls. It was only after nine runners had trotted over the plate that by a freak the third out was made. Much to Phyl’s relief, Mr. Gates painlessly ended the in- ning by batting out of order. The close score was the result of a marathon around the bases. ~In the last of the fifth Mr. Nahm muffed a pop fly, Mr. Faris rolled over and over on the ground, trap- ping an easy grounder, and made the throw to first too late. A re- alistic portrayal of a tumbling act permitted eight..runners to score. But by mistake Mr. Faris handled a roller and threw to first in time to retire the side. The proverbially myopic umpire was noticeably absent. The sub- stituté who was yanked out of the stands at the last moment to serve in this capacity proved not only keen of eyesight, but also sharp of tongue. 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