% ——~conclusfons. 28 616 ip Menai NG “THe COLLEGE NEWS “VOL. XXVI, No. 17 Copyright, Bryn Mawr College, 1940 Trustees of PRICE 10 CENTS BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH. 20, 1940 College Elects Hutchins as *41 Under Grad Head “Oh, dear,” said Steve soon after she was informed that she had been elected President of Under- grad, “now I won’t be able to wear these old sweaters anymore. It wouldn’t look right.” The. chief duties of the President of Under- grad axe.to see that al] the undér- graduate smoothly, to act as a member of the College Council, and to act as a representative of college activities. One_ of the--important—aims—of next year is to make the college curriculum committee and enter- tainment committee conscious, and to keep these organizations effici- ent_and_ effective... Until this year it has been the job of the Presi- dent to go to all the committee meetings, but with her other duties this proved too much and the job has been relayed to the Vice-presi- dent. The Undergrad Association takes care of the money collected for the Activities Drive, the Thea- _ tre Workshop and similar projects, and pays the various monitors. Steve was treasurer of the Associ- ation her sophomore vear and sec- retary this year. She says that all she has done is write other colleges to the effect that ‘““We-don’t- have a debate council.” It seems that all colleges except Bryn Mawr go on debating tours. When interviewed Steve had just received her official Continued on Page Three Political Poll The Republican and Demo- cratic clubs announce a poll to be held this week to find out the political affiliations of students and faculty. The forms will ask the party ties of each student, and of their parents, and also who they favor for presidential candi- dates. The object of the poll is to arouse interest in the coming election and to try to see that all students who are eligible vote next year. organizations run By Olivia Kahn, *4 Goodhart, March 16.—It has al- ways seemed strange that the maids and porters who sing so beautifully every Christmas should content themselves with such sec- productions. proven what most of us have sus- pected, that they. have some of the ablest_ performers on campus, and that given the proper script and a good director they can turn out an astounding production. The, late George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess provided them with a powerful springboard but the beauty and strength of the production last Saturday night grew out of the co- operation and talent of those who adapted it for Bryn Mawr. To Fifi Garbat, ’41, should go first mention because it was Miss Garbat who had sufficient insight to realize that Porgy was not be- yond the maids and porters, and who untiringly rehearsed them for several months. Partly ‘because of her direction and partly because of the skill of the players, Porgy and Bess achieved dramatic dignity ond rate material in their stage} This year they have}. “Porgy and Bess” gives Maids, Porters yee! to show Dramatic Skill Virginia Nichol rarely found on the Bryn Mawr stage.’ Players’ Club had best look to its laurels. The unity and suggestiveness of the original was firmly caught, es- pecially in such difficult scenes as the one in. which Crown comes back to reclaim Bess, and that in which she is persuaded to go to New York by Sporting Life. The group scenes were effectively han- dled, both the variegated crowd in| Catfish row and the more stylized swaying of hands and bodies in Serena’s room. Carl--Smith,--notedfor his -ap- pearances in the quartet, was a magnificent Sporting -bife, swag- gering with complete ease out on the stage and carrying himself with professional aplomb. His It Ain’t Necessarily So won him an encore, but there were those.in the audience, myself among them, who Continued on Page Three League to Offer Student Talent, Tea For Activities Drive On Sunday afternoon. at 4.30, March 24, the Bryn Mawr League will present a musical program in the Music Room. Tea will be served at four o’clock. The League wishes to consider this as their the Activities so no admission will be contribution to Drive, follows: Bach: Suite in D Major.;....... Ensemble Air Gavotte Bounée Gigue Gluck: Gavotte from “Tphiginia in Aulis’......... 4 Sprague Chopin: Fantasie Impromptu...R. Sprague Bach: Sonatina from Cantata Number 106.......... Ensemble Duet from The Messiah Louise Allen and A. Updegraff Handel: Third Flute Sonata..... A. Jacobs Hayden: ‘ Ouartes, =. 20, Number 4..... Quartet Aliegro di Molto Adagio Minuetto Lattimore Comments on ‘Lantern’ Issue; _ Poems Interesting, Contents Balanced ‘ By Richmond Lattimore Assistant Professor of Greek In the editorial which opens this issue of The Lantern, the empha- sis is laid on world affairs. This is natural; and nobody can object to the editor’s contention that writ- ing is a significant mirror of con- temporary thought, though one may object to the corollary, so often implied, that all significant writing tends to be political. Actu- ally, this number is well” balanced. There aré two articles, three seri- ous stories, two (I hope) stories that are not serious, four lyrics and two drawings. ; - Helen Cobb’s . article on collec- » tive security and ‘Finland — con- siders an issue which died vio- lently a few days ago; it is still interesting as the expression of al point of view, and it is neatly ': stated. There is no space here to dispute particular “Miss Cobb offers none but negative ~Her arguments im- “ply that our present duty is to do exactly nothing at all about Eu- rope until the war is over, and perhaps then to soa in and build 4 x contentions; . granting their truth in this case, any other positive conclusion is drawn and the article is the less trenchant for its appearance of balking before the final issue. Bess Lomax on. the American Youth Congress presents a well- written, if somewhat _ tendencious, summary. Her reporting of the President’s speech shows that it was objectionable in manner rather than. in matter; the last para- graph, on what was done and dis- covered by the delegates, is the most interesting, and makes one wish for more at greater length. .. Barbara Sage’s story of a Ger- man refugee teacher in service is wetl. done, but perhaps overloaded with exposition for such an ex- tremely brief sketch. Isota Tuck- er’s story of a child’s escape from a house is well conceived and at Htimes sensitively told; but it is marred by patches of unnatural struct the attempted resolution in- to a child’s simplicity. Joan Gross tells her story well and easily ex- cept for what appears: to be an at- be. cusses on Page Four charged. . The program will be as for the future; but neither this nor, stiffness, which contradict and ob-|}. Proletarian Novel Is Topic of Torres Flexner Lecturer Describes Abusive Social Conditions Of Latin-Americans Music Room, March 18.—In the last of the Flexner lectures, Dr Arturo Torres- Rioseco described the Latin American novels-of the soil and their beginnings. Literature, Dr. Torres said, has the same predominant part in Lat- in American culture that industry and economics have in North America. The novelists today are a great force for social reform. No longer held to aristocratic and! bourgeois -subjects they expose the abuses of the lowest strata of soci- ety and draw realistic pictures of the sufferings of Indians, rubber workers, peasants and plantation workers, poor fishermen along the coast, and prostitutes, - jailbirds, and factory workers in the cities. Their realism is a far cry from that of Blest Gana, the “American/}+ Balzac” in the last century, be- cause they are completely original and American. Moreover, what little European influence is found in Latin American literature today comes no longer from France but from~Russia and, ‘Marxism. - The first stirring*’social novels caused a sensation.from one end of America to the other. Santa, a Mexican story depicting the suf- ferings of women in prostitution, was such a one. Many new walks of life were explored—meat pack- ing houses, jails and sailors’ homes. The new field of.-social subjects was broadened even further, in the early twentieth century, by~ the North American menace. The sight of the United States Paateas Continued on Page:Six , The Cinema! Movies come to Bryn Mawr, opening with Crime and Punishment, presented by the A.’S. U. in Goodhart, Thursday night at 8 p. m. The film is the French ver- sion, with subtitles, of Dos- toevsky’s novel. Admission is 40 cents and may be put on. payday. "| Mareh 28, at which Graduate Fel- Frederick Keppel To Address College On Educational Issue Dr. Frederick P. Keppel, the president of the Carnegie Cor- poration, is to be the speaker for the college assembly Thursday, lowships are to be.. announced. His subject is American Philanthropy and the Advancement of Learning. The Carnegie Corporation, es- tablished in 1911, seeks to accom- plish the advancement of knowl- edge in the United States by giv- ing financial aid to various educa- tional institutions. It supplied funds to Bryn Mawr for a project | in the joint teaching of science which went into effect upon the opening of the New Science Build- ing and the remodelling of Dalton. Dr. Keppel’s speech upon this |-eeasion is expected to be of par- | icular interest in connection with his recent statement made in an annual report on the Carnegie Cor- poration of which he has_ been president since 1923. Dr. Keppel, Continued on Page Five A. Howard Unveiled As Head of League “] don't knew what my plat- form will be,” declared Nannie Howard, new president of the Bryn Mawr League. “I wasn’t elected until three o’clock this afternoon.” Nannie, however, volunteered some imperishable truths about herself. She describes herself as looking “kind of obvious,” set off from the common herd by “two big eyes and a mass. of fuzz on top.” In ad- dition she points out her false tooth -which swas missing during the first part of this year. “Tt’s| nice to have it home again,” asserted. - Although Nannie describes her college career as uninteresting, she is renowned as a champion of la- crosse and managed the sophomore swimming team last year. She passes this off lightly with “you know how bad the junior class is at that ‘kind of thing.” Nannie intends to devote much of next year to work with the maids andthe development of the Better Self-soy Head for 1941 to be Virginia Nichols, president-elect of Self-Gov., was prepared for all emergencies by eleven years at the Brearley School in New York. Her | college career so far has involved three years on the Self-Govern- ment board, the presidency of the- Peace Council, participation in the Activities Drive Committee and Sophomore vice-president. Last spring -she was awarded the Jeanne Hislop Memorial Scholar- ship. Her childhood seems to have been an unruffled one, save for an inopportune attack of measles in Constantinople at an age when she was too young to know any better. She is majoring in biology and whiles away many a pleasant af- ternoon over frogs’ legs-in Dalton and bromides in the New Science Building. She is a stalwart fencer and is gently pleased at the pros- pect of receiving a triple Bryn Mawr owl for having fought on the team. Her roommate is quoted as say- ing that Ginny is coolly efficient at double-drowning rescues in Life saving. Recently she had the mis- fortune to appear in the Sunday Times, surrounded by a glamorous welter of snow and skis, and is still trying to live it down. She may be found at any time during the com- ing spring assembling costumes for Iolanthe and adding a pleasing and mellifluous voice to the peers’ chorus. Reading of Poetry By Frost Scheduled A-talk-by-Robert-F rost, the fa- mous American poet, Monday night, March 25, is to complete the Entertainment Series. Winner of thé Pulitzer prize for poetry in 1924, 1930 and 1937, Mr. Frost is considered one of the foremost poets of the day. Among his books of poetry are A Boy’s Will, North of Boston, Mountain Interval, West-running Brook, A. Lone Striker, A Further Range, and From Snow to Snow. Mrs. King of the English De- partment, when: asked- about Mr. Frost, said, “Robert Frost has re- mained a ‘modern poet’ in spite of all that has happened in the poetic world since the publication of his great book, North of Boston. Theo- ries and ‘schools’ have not touched his fame, although in the passing years many of his contemporaries have been ‘dated’ and forgotten. Both the symbolist and imagist schools have washed over him and left him unchanged in his method of work and in the opinion of his readers. “Robert Frost is always contem- Continued on Page Five set College Calendar | Thursday, March 21.— French movie, Crime and Punishment, presented by the A. S. U. Goodhart, 8 p. m. Sunday, March 24.—League "Musicale, Music Room, 4.30. .} Monday, March 25.—Voca- tional tea for seniors, Wini- fred McCully speaking. Com- mon Room, 4.30. Entertain- ment Series, Robert Frost. Goodhart, 8.30. Tuesday, March 26 —Cur- _rent Events, Miss Reid. Com- mon Room, 7.30. Interna- tional Club meeting, Penn- Tulane debate on Isolation Baby Clinic in Bryn Mawr. | policy. Common Room, 8.00. “I Bitty Lee Bett, *41 sa BocaTxKo, °41 B. Cooxery, *42 - Page Two THE COLLEGE NEWS ms THE COLLEGE NEWS> (Founded in 1914) c— Pavhaiee Weekly during the Col giving, Christmas and Easter = epteret [') Pa., and Bryn Mawr College. 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Rossins, °42 VirGINIA SHERWOOD, °41 Dora THOMPSON, *41 Music Correspondent Terry Ferrer, ‘40 Advertisin Manager RutH Mc OVERN, °41 Betty Mariz Jones, °42 MARGUERITE Howarp, ,” 41 Vircinia NIcHOLs, *41 SUBSCRIPTION, $2.50 SUBSCRIPTIONS MAY MAILING PRICE, $3.00 BEGIN AT ANY TIME Entered as second-class matter at the Wayne, Pa., Post Office Columns Ahead » No college weekly and few dailies that we know of have com- pletely solved the elemental proble a field of material that its readers would not. lege events—léctures, dances and things are already known to most m of all news publfcations: to find want.to hear about but otherwise Grafting a super-journalistic technique on everyday col- so on——is not the answer, as these of those interested. Partly the solution lies in a continual search for both news and editorial subjects outside the campus which are, pointed presentation can be made, or by cleverly of college interest. Partly also the sheer fact of change and experimentation is one of the main revitaliz- ing forces. If the News went on from year to year in exactly the same form, both editors and college would get bored with it. In editorials particularly, a set policy from year to year,—and sometimes even within one year, is more tiresome than vigorous, for there are few clearly drawn issues about the college. This does not mean that the editors should sit down and detail, in a theoretically “impartial” way, all possible sides of a question. The process is rather one of beating up a question out of the usual cover of inactivity, and following it until opposing opinions are raised so that something approaching a clear issue can be drawn. wT Whatever they do, or refuse to do, good luck to the News board for next year! In Philadelphia THEATRES ERLANGER: Tobacco Road, with John Barton and Mary Perry. LOCUST ST.: Margin For Er- ror, with Doris —. and ss don Leonard. MOVIES ALDINE: George Raft and Joan Bennett in The House Across the Bay. ARCADIA: Remember the Night, with Fred MacMurray and Bar- bara Stanwyck. BOYD: Mickey Rooney in Young Tom Edison. EARLE: Gone With the Wind. FOX: Spencer Tracy and Hedy Lamarr in I Take This Woman. KARLTON: The Story of Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet, with Ed- ward G. Robinson and Ruth Gor- don. ‘ KEITH’S: Nosthwotsit. Passion, with Spencer__Tracy and Robert Young. NEWS: The Princess Comes Across, with Carole Lenoberd and _. Fred MatMurray. ~ PALACE: De cedwan Melody - 1940, with Eleanor Powell and Fred Astaire. STANLEY: Strange Cargo, with’ Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Ian Hunter and Peter Lorre. __ STANTON: -Thomas-—— Mitchell and Priscilla Lane in Three Cheers for the Irish. STUDIO: Peter Lorre in The! Mae, Who Knew Too Much, and MAIN LINE MOVIES ARDMORE: Thursday: Topper Takes a T?ip, with Constance Ben- nett and Roland Young. Friday and Saturday: Ann Sothern in Congo Maisie. Sunday, Monday and Tuesday: James Cagney, Pat O’Brién and George Brent in The Fighting 69th. Wednesday: Vigil in the Night, with Carole Lom- ‘|bard and Brian Aherne. NARBERTH: Thursday: Destry Rides Again. Friday and Satur- day: Balalaika. SEVILLE: Thursday: A Child ald and Jeffrey Lynn. Friday and Saturday: Priscilla Lane and Wayne Morris in Brother Rat and a Baby. Sunday: Double feature, Nick Carter, Private Detective and Escape To Paradise. Monday and Tuesday: Nelson Eddy and Ilona Massey in Balalaika. Wednesday: The Great Victor Herbert, with Allan Jones, Mary - Martin and Walter Connolly. SUBURBAN: Thursday through Saturday: Rudyard Kipling’s. The} Light That Failed, with Ronald Colman and Ida Lupino. Sunday through Wednesday: Cary Grant and Rosalind. Russell in Hie oh | Friday: sind, Se pict Saturday: The Light That Failed. Sunday and Monday: Brother Rat and a Baby. Tuesday and Wednes- day: Shop Around the Corner, with James Stewart and-Margaret Sullavan. eS |S Some woodcuts from the marvel- ous collection of 6, prints and j drawings roca Jyh the Penn- Rt a See os is Born, with Geraldine Fitzger-|; WAYNE: Thursday, Friday and. City Lights By Rebecca Robbins, "42 In 1937, a Democratic legisla- tuye passed a Ripper Bill, designed to tear out completely the Philadel- phia” Municipal Court... The bill, to be effective immediately upon passage, them-the positions of eleven judges and the jobs of several hundred court employees. The’ Municipal Court has for long comfortable years been a vital cog in a Repub- lican patronage machine. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court~-(Republican) declared the bill unconstitutional. At the same time it threw out the bill for the Family Court that had been pro- posed to take over a part of the functions of the Municipal Court. But—the act establishing two ex- tra Common Pleas Courts, designed to take over the remaining func- tions of the Municipal Court, was left unsullied. Result: Philadelphia retains the old, corrupt’ Municipal Court, with its confusion of functions, and has besides two unnecessary Common Pleas Courts. These courts are ridiculously expensive. And who do you think pays for them? The Municipal -Court4was cre- ated in 1918;after a subdued citi- zen clamor for it. It was given exclusive jurisdiction over delin- pulled out from under quent children, women and ado-|. lescents,. concurrent legislation on adoption proceedings, “and small civil claims. . The set-up has become extremely complex. There are five court di- visions in which the judges - sit alternately: civil, criminal, ju- venile, domestic relations and mis- demeanors. The work, of the court is supplemented by an ex- tensive network of departments and divisions for social workers of probation cases, for doctors and psychiatrists, for the compilation of social statistics, for houses of detention and even for employment service—under the head of direct rehabilitation for the unfortunate, we suppose. Ideally, the court is a tool for social welfare’ arid so- cial justice that should delight a sociologist. Actually, it is a lounge for incompetents. The Family Court was to have taken over the social-justice func- tions of the Municipal Court. The adoptions were to go to the Or- phans’ Court, where they seemed to belong; the small claims to the Common Pleas (remember?) which already had all the other civil cases. It was hoped that a Family Court with a more specific func- tion, might be more efficient. The stirring of the muddy wa- ters that marked «1937--at least shows consciousness of the prob- lem—which, we might say brightly —is the first step towards a cure. But the concern with the Muni- cipal Court did not hit what seems to us the primary problem. Which is: ‘The Magistrate’s Courts. There was, in fact, a Magis- trates” reform bill passed in 1937. Quixotically, the Supreme Court ruled out part of it, and left the other part (sullied). The result is the alleviation of certain bail- and-bond abuses. of the type cal- culated to give joy to a Lincoln Steffens (of The Shame of —the Cities fame). But such reforms are merely incidental to the real fault in the}: system: T ‘magistrates, the men as de over the courts deal- ing with petty claims and offenses, the judges through whom the aver- eg Cea a ae - DS ain tunes sylvania Academy of Fine Arts, seldom if ever ¢xhibited, are to be on view until the first of April. Mr. Bernheimér, of the History of Art: Department, who has had ac- cess to the collection says that | among its items are listed many un- known works of great masters. The present exhibit will comprise the 16th to 18th century woodcuts from Germany, Italy, England, Perses and the _Nethediands. 2 “WHOOPIE REQUIRED CHAPEL!” Infirmary and Bells Make Racket in Lib. The solemn stillness of the Lib. was startled at 2.381 p. m. Tues- day, by an official voice, apparently announcing “Don’t worry. They’ve taken her to the infirmary,” then something further that was swal- lowed up in the echoing vault. - At 2.83 p. m. the echoes were awakened again by a _ persistent, brazen-tongued bell. One obedient inmate walked calmly and quietly to the nearest exit. But the bell kept on, and on, and there was no fire. At 38 p.m. Taylor boomed forth in its usual comforting tones. And the library bell rudely an- swered. Let us close with Hymn number 372: “The Bells of Hell go Ring-a-ling- a-ling For you but not for me «. We’re going home. ”? age man will meet “justice,” not even lawyers. The Reform Bills that boil forth every now and then talk nobly about keeping magistrates out of politics and about making them keep their accounts straight. But they never get to the point of re- quiring anything more than ig- norance under an age limit for the magistracy. We can’t give any reason for that; we can’t even imagine any, because it is citizens’ commissions that draft the reform bills. Of course, we can understand why the party doesn’t demand some legal ability, and after all, you can hardly blame them: it’s hardly fair to give a man who works like. the devil to get votes, probably as a ward-leader, only a 2000-dollar a year job—and 5Q00- dollar jobs are scarce. And Magistrates are paid 5000 dollars a year. It is the quality of the judges that makes the court, and though a good set-up can be abused, it certainly seems a priori to have at least a good set-up. And thus it seems to us that the problem of the Magistrates’ ‘Courts is a prim- ary problem for Philadelphia. Vy- are ‘ing with it for top honors is the secondary -problem of allocation of judicial functions. At present there is duplication and confusion: some functions of the Magistrates’ Court overlap some Municipal Court functions, which overlap some Orphans’ Court functions as well as some Common Pleas func- tions. The Orphans’ “Court deals with the administration of estates, and has six judges. The sea labs de ie Sama A PRC eI! Common. Pleas Court deals with | civil cases, Cui A inhi Miss Helen Reid The key incident last week, was the peace of Moscow, important be- cause it was the end of the Finnish war and because of its far-reach- ing implications. By the peace the Finns lost the Karelian Isthmus and some terri- tory on their northeast frontier. Besides this they were forced to lease. Hanko to the Russians. By this acquisition Russia is now able to control the gulf of Finland. The peace was hailed in Germany as a great triumph, for* Russian control in the north can temporarily allie- viate her fears'of allied aid to Scandinavia. There are two aspects of this re- {cent development, Miss Reid said, which have probably been over- looked by many, but which are nevertheless important. One is the delegation from Finland to Russia for the settlement of a trade treaty. The implications of this move cannot yet be foreseen. The other interesting move was made by Brazil. She has opened her immigration quota to the Finns, providing that they may utilize the quota unfilled by other countries for the next five years. While Finland and Russia con- fer, Hitler and Mussolini have met \for a discussion of their respective situations, present and future, in the European conflict. The fact that the meeting was held on Ital- ian soil, the Brenner Pass, shows that Hitler seeks what Musso- - lini perhaps is reluctant to give. The object of this visit is unknown, but a prospective Russian, German and Italian alliance is suggested. SENIORS TO HEAR WINIFRED McCULLY Miss Winifred McCully, of the Bureau of Occupations, New York City, will be at the college on Mon- day and Tuesday, March 25 and 26. She will interview seniors and graduate ‘students. and advise them about positions other than teache ing. A list of appointments will be posted on the bulletin board outside the Dean’s office. . There will be a tea to meet Miss McCully at four-thirty on Mon- day, March 25, in the Common Room, after which | ‘Miss Bc will speak. and in the Court of Oyer and Ter- miner and of Quarter Sessions dealing with criminal cases sit parts of Common Pleas Court, which has too many judges. j 4 THE COLLEGE NEWS ——————— aver Hamilton Discusses . Industrial Diseases Common Room, March 14.—Cer- tain trades are classified as dan. gerous because of the presence of injurious dusts in the air breathed by the worker, of poisonous chemi- cals in the material he works with, or because of the fatigue produced by the work he does, said Dr. Alice Hamilton, speaking to the Indus- trial Group Thursday night, on In- dustrial Dts€ases. Dr. Hamilton, now Medical Consultant of the Na- tional Bureau of Labor Standards, and formerly Assistant Professor of Industrial Medicine at Harvard Medical School, prefaced her dis- cussion of specific diseases with a summary of the aims of the United States Department of Labor, of which the bureau is a part... § The Department of Labor recog- nizes that it must serve as a model to state departments. An investi- gator may take a thorough exam- ination of an industrial plant and never discover the causes of the most serious diseases unless he knows what to look for. The method now accepted for_reform- ing dangerous conditions is not the removal of the man from the job at which he may be earning high wages to a lower wage job less dangerous for him, but the remov- al of the condition itself. Illinois in 1914 and Pennsylva- nia last year were the first and last states -respectively to pass compensation laws requiring that the employer compensate victims if the conditions in his plant ‘do not measure up to certain standards. The Pennsylvania law has now been modified to cover only cases of complete. incapacity. C. Hutchins Elected Undergrad President Continued from Page One whistle for blowing people off the grass. Despite failing three quizzes the first semester of her freshman year, Steve is majoring in Math. Every night as her head touches her pillow she Says to herself, “What can a person do with Math?” and every night. she comes to the conclusion that she will have to teach. Steve describes herself as a “bicyclist enthusiast.” She, was manager of the baseball team last year and manager and guard on the Varsity basketball team this year. On the hockey field she has been called “speedy Steve,” and she also skis. Maids and Porters Give ‘Porgy and Bess’ Continuea from Page One were wistfully hoping ‘for several more. From the minute she swept on stage in a wonderful scarlet satin dress, Hilda Green’s Bess held the attention of the audience. At times she seemed a little unsure of her- self but her scenes with Crown on Kittiwah Island and latér with Porgy were excellent. John Whit- taker was a gigantic, impressive Crown, rolling out his deep, rich voice in such melodic favorites as Red Headed Woman Can Make a Train Jump Off the Track. Rich- ard Blackwell, as Porgy, caught the feeling of a cripple remarkably well and held the audience spel]- bound as he pulled himself across Ty oh tah eemmenetcm ee Te —-s “Porgy and Bess’ The maids And porters who took part in Porgy and Bess wish to express their sincere thanks to the Faculty, Stu- dent body, and others for flowers, telegrams and other expressions of “good luck” received on the nights of the performances. If the play was a success, you played a very important part due to the exhilarating spirit your Well-wishes . put us _ into. Many, many thanks. the stage to keep the buzzard from settling over his door. One of the most delightful per- formances was that given by Car- ey Crunkleton as Maria. She showed — the poise which marked: Sporting Life’s perform- ance, and added to it a superb sense of humor. Pipe facie she strode through four S.enliven- ing the spirit of the play, and get- ting more approving murmurs and laughs than any of the other’ ac- tors. Since it would take far too long to enumerate all the other mem- bers of the’cast who were notably good, suffice it to say that the prin- Same Wadsworth, ’41, coached the sing- ing extremely well and almost all Summertime, sung by Anne White, and sets enhanced the production and the lighting also was well han- dled. Now that the maids and por- ters have established their reputa- tion we expect continued large scale productions from them. of the voices were full and clear. | was particularly lovely. Costumes’. Go Pe | | Former Bryn Mawr Student | Publishes First Novel, | A Stricken Field | | A STRICKEN. FIELD by Martha Gellhorn | By Barbara B. Cooley, ’42 “Be careful,” Mary Douglas told herself, “you’re’ only a working | - | journalist. It is, better not to see too ' much, if no one will listen to you.” All the things she could not put in- to her newspaper articles about the ‘invasion of Czechoslavakia, all the | things she saw which had meaning for her but which she knew no one would listen to, Martha .Gelthorn has made the basis of this, her first novel. The thing which troubled her most was the fate of the Ger- man Czechoslavakians who had fought against Germany and so were exiled from their homes by | both Germans and Czechs. “I do not have an address,’ one old man said. He was sixty-two years old 'and he had always had a home, and people had said to him on the Street, ‘Guten morgen, Herr | cipals were ably supported. Meg) Brecht,’ as should be said to a man t | who owned property and paid taxes and was always daintily dressed | and sober. Now he slept in the Street and knew he was dirty.” Miss Gellhorn, the Mary Doug- las of A Stricken Field, went to Bryn Mawr from 1926 to 1929 and has since worked for the United Press in Paris,/the New Republic and the FERA in the position of relief investigator at large. From a Page Three | this experience came a book of four long short Stories, The Trouble I’ve Seen, which was published in 1936. Although Mary Douglas is a defi- nel autobiographical character, [it is Rita, the German refugee, | who is really the heroine of the |novel. Her efforts to escape , the Prague police and to help in un- derground anti-Nazi work culmi- nate in the brutal torture scene, which, is, artistically and emotion- ally, one of the finest achievements of the novel. Miss Gellhorn’s style is clear, vivid, often emotional, and always very modern. There are descrip- tions as. sharp and forceful as an etching: of the blank/ faces of the men and women waiting and fear- ful as to what was to happen to them; of a quick decay in a hither- to busy ity. “She remembered it as a pleasant, bustling street, and the people on it had always seemed contented, attending respectably to their business. But when she had gone down into the street, and was walking along the curb-against the stream of people, she knew it was another city, and unlike any place she had ever seen before. The crowds moved slowly, as if they too were strangers, uncertain of direc- tions and having nowhere to go. She could not find one face to re- member.” Mary Douglas once said to her fellow war correspondents, “I do not write news like you gents. I write history.” It is a history of people—of the unlucky ones, the ones with no privileges, no pass- ports, no jobs, no love. It is vital and troubling for us, who can “just buy a ticket and take a plane and leave.” SSre onumcomanaicis ee scenucaiasiimeimmmmad f ———__ ‘ Page Four q THE. COLLEGE NEWS a j Lattimore Reviews Mid-Winter ‘Lantern’ Continued from Page One, ' tempt at symbolism in the descrip- tion of the dam. Symbolical or not, the two elements fail to cohere. Of the lighter efforts, I rather enjoyed Olivia Kahn’s brief biog- raphy (agreeably illustrated by Elisabeth Frazier) and -yet I was disappointed. A snail in. a.tea-cup ‘should be full of attractive possi- bilities, only one ‘of which here materializes. The adventure of Pinkle the Pixie as told by Fran- ces Lynd must go down as a fail- ure, except for those who appreci- ate the whimsical approach to whimsey. All four lyrics are definitely in- teresting. Martha Kent’s first poem shows thoughtfulness and real poetic imagination, but does not quite come off, not so much because the thought is incoherent as because the imagery lacks pre- cision and strength. Her second, less ambitious, is a success; it comes all in a piece, and the free verse here is no longer loose or “limp, but firmly turned. Priscilla Schaff in eight lines creates a dig- nified picture weakened by flat phrasing in one or two places. Hester Corner’s poem may be a little too long; once or twice it wanders, or fails to be concrete; the ‘whole (deliberately) Aacks color. -But Miss. Corner knows what she is about; nothing is stale or forced, and the imagery mostly incisive, and once stunning. Finally, there is a drawing by Alice Crowder, amusing and spir- ited; some of its significance may be lost on. me. On the whole, this is a definitely good number. Not everything is successful, but there is little fionsense, and very little pretentious, stupid, or utterly mis- guided writing. There is certainly a place “for the college literary magazine; I wish The Lantern the luck it deserves. is », * Opinion | Department of Philosophy Supports Appointment of N. Y. Professor Tothe Editor of the College News: Members of the college commu- nity have undoubtedly been read- ifg the newspaper accounts of the controversy which has arisen in New York over‘the appointment of the distinguished English mathe- matician arid “ philosopher, Ber- trand Russell, as professor of phil- osophy in the College of the City of New York. The issue involved in the demand for the revocation of his’ appointment is so important and concerns so deeply the students your readers should know of the action being taken by members of the American Philosophical Asso- ciation and of the earnest support of this action by us, the teachers of philosophy at Bryn Mawr. The following letter, which ex- plains itself, was sent last week to the Board -of Higher Education of New York City, after having been widely circulated for endorsement by teachers of philosophy through- out the country. GRACE A. DE LAGUNA PAUL WEISS “MILTON C. NAHM D. VELTMAN “To the Honorable Board of High- er Education, College of the City of New York, “Ladies and Gentlemen: ‘We, members of the American Philosophical Association and these vieWs in no way disqualify and teachers in all. higher institu- tions of learning, that we think | teachers of Philosophy in ‘Ameri-| Rosemont Chicas can educational institutions, regard | Professor Bertrand Russell ‘of the outstanding philosopKers of Ss one jour time, and while not all of us share his. personal views on theism and (marriage, we consider that him from teaching college students. Indeed, any revocation of his ap- pointment because of his personal / opinions would be a calamitous set- back to that freedom of thought and discussion which has been the basis of ‘democratic education. — It would lead to the institution of an inquisition by laymen into all sorts of personal views on the part of a prospective teacher instead of the considered judgment of his profes- sional colleagues who are better qualified to. know his: competence. “College students are not infants to be protected against all contact with unorthodox ideas. They are! very near the age when they begin | ‘to exercise their duties as voting citizens. They read current peri- odicals and literature and _ they , take part in the general life of the community, so that they are as familiar with unorthodox ideas as is the rest of the population. Parti- cularly is it true that college au- thorities should not presume to act in loco parentis to students who live at home. Nor should a teacher in a college supported by public funds be subject to the same tests as those appropriate for theologic seminaries or parochial schools. It would indeed be a tragic reversion to an outworn past if college teach-! ers were dismissed because, like Huxley, they did not accept theism ot, like George Eliot, they did not entirely accept the conventional views as to the marriage relation. Many estimable citizens have been Bryn Mawr Record .. With 25-23 Victory Saturday, March 15.—After six undefeated games, the Bryn Mawr Varsity lost the fast of a glorious season to Rosemont by the score of 25-23. Rosemont took the: lead at the start and for the first time this winter Bryn Mawr trailed at the half. Disaster lay for the most part, not in defective functioning of the home team, but in superb shooting of Rosemont’s forwards. Waples, 42, seriousiy hampered by an injured shoulder, was re- placed by Squibb, ’41, in the sec- ond half. The veteran skill of Ligon, ’40, and Norris, ’40, now appreciably augmented and stabil- ized, decisively mont’s lead, and the tide might have been turned if the Varsity forwards had made more of the numerous free throws proffered. The Varsity guards played a con- tinuously. effective game. BRYN MAWR ROSEMONT the BAN hs be Me Ne es Reilly WTS fa aciv ca Ss . Goglia (¢.) yragice ee La ¢ acai EA nA merce J, Mattin (c.) .... .. Burlington REUNIONS. oo. creas g. vewneee Daly OPO ee ake Boe Bachofer Substitutions iryn Mawr: Squibb, f. Rosemont: Giltinan, f. Points Scored Bryn Mawr: Ligon, 8; ‘Norris, 11; Squibb, 4. Rosemont: Reilly, 16; Goglia, 5; Reeves, 2% Giltipan, 2 divorced according to the laws of New York State, and there is no reason for dismissing any teacher on that ground.” All of her events. threatened RoseX. ltl ltl lel call lll ll ll lt lll alll ail altel alll a tll alte atl. ll allt alti atl sale Varsity Loses Meet To Penn Swimmers | Tuesday, March 12.—The Var- sity swimmers fought desperately hard to win over the University of Pennsylvania, but lost 41-42 in the opponent’s_pool.._The meet was a breath-taker as first one team and then the other led by narrow mar- gins. Link, ’40, captured first in As a matter of record, in the four years of her Varsity swimming, Link has gar- nered 23 out of* 28 possible firsts and the rest have been seconds for a total of 129 points out of 140. Fifty-Yard Free-Style: 1. Evans; 2. Da ger; 3, Paige, ’42. Time 29:00, Fifty-Yard Breast-Stroke; 1. 42; 2. Allison ; McClellan, °42. Fifty-Yard Back Crawl: 1. ble, ’42; 3. Woodward. Medley Relay: L; Paige. Time 49:6, Free-Style Relay: 1. Rambo, Reggio, Gamble. Crawl Form: 1. Link, 37 Williams, °42. Boal, Time 40:7, Allison; Gam Time 36:2. Penn; 2. Gamble, Boal, Penn; 22: lime 56:6. "40; 2. Barney; Paige, . Link; 2. ‘Garvin; - Karchen; 3. Crazer » McQlellan, °42, Divmyg: 1. Link, °40—44.3.° ,2. Butler, 2—-43.9, 3. Cleaver—32.1, Seconds Nose Out Rosemont. Reserves ~ Saturday, March 16.—The Sec- ond Team said goodbye to the 1940 season by beating the undefeated Rosemont Reserves with a seore of 14-12. The score belies the speed of the game, for the ball moved smoothly .and quickly. Neither team had many chances to shoot and Rosemont let many of them slip by, although they made nearly every try count. 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THE COLLEGE NEWS Keppel to Address College on Education Continued from Page One a Bachelor of Arts, twice a doc- tor of letters, and six times a doc- tor of law said that an index of the confusion in education today is the plethora of current degrees, that many of the diplomas award- ed by our institutions of higher learning today “may mean liter- ally nothing.” At this time Dr. Keppel said, “All over the coun- try, teaching and other vacancies are being filled by degrees, not by men and women, the appointing bodies accepting the diploma as a substitute for the tiresome process of really finding out something as to -the professional and personal qualifications of the individual hu- man __being®”’ This raised a storm of comment among educators. statement Omniscient Mr. Livingstone re- ports 14 literary magazines in this vicinity named The Lantern. pln Reading of Poetry: By Frost Scheduled Continued from Page One porary. Even those ‘moderns’ who insist on form and the ‘oblique ap- proach’ admit in the case of so gifted and genuine a writer as Frost that the poet is superior to the theorist, and that the poetry Page Five stands alone. With him clarity in- cluded intuition and realism, the ‘better seeing’ that is‘always the mark of the true poet.” Cocker Spaniel PUPPIES $35 MRS. KINNE THE DEANERY BRYN MAWR 1525 They also Serve who only - Stand and Wait FE THE WEEK BEFORE NEW YEAR’S, 1940, Istanbul was quiet as Wall Street on a Sunday. Robert Canuti, the AP’s English-educated Turkish correspondent, hadn’t had a first-class story for almost three months—not since the Turko-British treaty handed the Kremlin a short and snappy answer. > But while man was dozing, Nature woke. Be- neath the surface of ancient Asia Minor, subter- ranean ledges lost their age-long balance, slipped and skidded sideways. The first totals of homeless, dead, and injured— usually exaggerated in such disasters—were not ex- aggerated this time. Pictures that came by “slow camel” added to the terrible tale. It was the biggest earthquake story since Yokohama. And Robert Canuti, his months of waiting ended, had it on the wires to the western world before it was known in the streets of Istanbul. At once, the machinery of international relief began to whir, and help was on the way. » Most people think of Press Association men as daring young acrobats of the newspaper world, always somersaulting from one hot story to another ... now in Tokio, next in Singapore—now in Buch- arest, soon at Brussels. But the complete, the almost miraculous, world- coverage jof the great Press Services comes from -men who mostly stand and wait. Correspondents like Robert Canuti in the quieter capitals—and the thousands 6f “stringers,” in the world’s little towns and villages, so-called because they paste their infre- quent dispatches into a string and measure their payment by the inch. Men like these form the nerve ends of the wire services—indispensable divisions of journalism’s army of 300,000 men. > The development of these world-wide Press Serv- -, ices, accurate, unbiased, and unsubsidized, is an’ American achievement. It is an outstanding exam- ple of American organizing genius—and it has all happened within the lifetime of most news-readers now living. More than that, the Press Services are the standard bearers, throughout the world, of the 20th century American tradition of accuracy and fair play in news-reporting. Something new under the sun. : > It wasn’t until the 1890s that the dream of the modern Associated Press began to take form. A few courageous pioneers—Victor Lawson, Frank B. Noyes, Melville Stone, and Adolph Ochs—worked zealously for it, and in time press associations began pointing eager fingers at the map of the world and © putting new correspondents wherever a fat dot showed an important city. By the time an emperor with a withered arm unleashed the hounds of war in 1914, U. S. Press Services had spun their webs around the globe. AP’s now seasgned network was being kept on its mettle bya thet eeaaneamigiealtoe an independent service called United Press, fathered in 1907 by E. W. Scripps. Due chiefly to the vision of these pioneers, the U. S., in less than half‘a century, has shed its news provincialism. Today. . . let a flood sweep down the Yangtze, a strike begin in ‘Melbourne, a regiment revolt in Addis Ababa, and in a matter of minutes: or hours the teletypes in the U.S. be- gin to chatter. > FLASH—calls the foreign ca- ble, and begins gasping out its own curt, staccato lan- guage ...SMORNING FRENCH CRUISER AIR-BOMBED IN ENG- LISH CHANNEL. “Flash,” calls the New York operator. “French cruiser bombed.” A x as rewrite man works frantically, and soon the fingers of another operator start the electric current flow- ing. Operators in Philadelphia, Chicago, and al- most a score of other U. S. cities stand up crying “Flash.” Ina few seconds, every cranny of the U. S. will have the news. c From 50,000 news sources all over the globe, this river of news flows day and night. For while Amer- ica sleeps, one half the world is wide-awake, busy getting into’and out of trouble, busy making that vivid, perishable stuff called news. F > To every self-respecting mewspaper, Press Asso- ciation news is the breath of life. A paper pays for as much of it as it can afford and use. A country weekly can have as little as $18 worth a week, a metropolitan daily as much a$ $2,500. But whether a paper gets “pony” or multiple wire service, it counts its Press Association service as perhaps its most valuable asset. s > Press Association news is just as indispensable to The Weekly Newsmagazine as to a daily newspaper. To be sure, TIME has its own special correspondents, too—its own force of 500 news-scouts—its own check-and-query system. But the stories from the daring acrobats and the quiet watchers of the Press Associations supply a ! basic pattern of the world’s news... the vital pat- tern, which in the Newsmagazine becomes the con- . tinuing narrative history of our times, followed every week by 700,000 cover-to-cover readers. This is one of a sefies of advertisements in which the Editors of TIME hope to give College Students.a-clearer picture of the world of news- gathering, news-writing, and news-reading—and the part TIME plays in helping you to grasp, measure, and use the history of your lifetime as you live the story of your life. — a ae ge - rubber. % a, Page Six THE COLLEGE NEWS = Novelists Concern Flexner Lecturer Continued from Page One ‘bing large amounts of land bebién: | ing to Spanish-speaking countries | inspired a fear, not only of con-| | | } | quest but of spiritual domination, | which was voiced by many novel- ists. Latin American literature was more enriched in ideas than in form in the early 20th century, when realism was more valued than style. The whole tropical for- est, with its trees that talk and move as though with magic life, its painful leeches, and its swamps bs fever and insanity breed, first opened to the novelist weal, in this century, white men penetrated the forest in‘ search of lived in the jungles for centuries were enslaved by the white men to work the trees, or hunted down and killed, unless they drank the juice of the rubber tree and killed them- selves first. In The Vortex, José Eustacio Rivera describes, the horrors of the exploitation of rubber trees and rubber workers. One of the char- acters says, “Iam a rubber worker, I have been a rubber worker, and what my hand has done to trees, it can also do to men.” He tells a prisoner that the jailor who tor-|. tures him is not as cruel as the forest avenging its lacerations. Azuela’s The Underdogs, dealing with a revolutionary leader who is finally killed by a rival. band, is not Marxian although it covers so- cial and political questions. It is rather against the Mexican revolu- tion. But there are many Latin Indian tribes who had | Earl Tolloller............. MIND Dib cess recs okie Queen of the Fairies. ...... Iolanthe Phyllis ANNOUNCEMENT! The Glee Club takes pleasure in announcing the following cast for its forthcoming production of “Iolanthe”: The Lord Chancellor... ..... Earl of Mountararat........ ... Virginia Sherwood, Private Willis............. ea »,,..Carla Adelt, Een? Margot Dethier, cevwed Ann Updegraff, ee 1940 1940 1941 1940 1943 1942 1942 1942 ‘sh Ope Terry Ferrer, eng Mary Newberry, 044 ats Eleanor Emery, i Louise Allen, American novels, like The Upris- ing and The Red City written by avowed radicals. These too tell of the failure of socialist revolts and ’' the assassination’ of rebel “leaders and give no solution to the chaotic confusion. In Peru the largest tictoe’' in the population is the four million In- dians, but through the conquest, the colonial era, and the republic they have been oppressed and tor- tured, Among the rubber workers a complete Indian tribe was anni- hilated in the bloodiest massacre of the twentieth century. The novel- ists who denounced these cruelties RICHARD STOCKTON . EASTER GIFTS BOOKS NOVELTIES Iced Tea and sun are here again, Come out of your gloomy winter den. RELAX and CHAT at THE COLLEGE INN 1 HE whole college is talking about them § Sample One-Way Shingles fader Bette pnd OF Fares . oe ve “wonder, with me‘ nt eas almost ready to begin! You can travel the New York. ... $1.75" Greyhound way—in Super-Coach comfort Chicago ..... 13.95 —at only 1/3 the cost of driving, at far Boston. ...... 5.15 See en teenal sap no naar Cleveland .... 6.00 morrow aryway — about schedules = Washington 5 savings fcr your trip homel. 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Ratchford Unearths “a Bronte Manuscripts i ‘Deanery, March 14.—The dream '| world of the Brontés and its devel- opment into their novels was de- scribed in a talk by Miss Fannie Ratchford, librarian of the Wrenn Library of the University of Texas. Miss Ratchford’s research in vari- ous libraries disclosed the existence of a large number of isolated man- uscripts written by the Bronté chil- dren. Their importance was over- looked until Miss Ratchford dis- covered that they were serial. sto- ries explained and connected -by a single motif, originating in games played with Branwell’s toy sol- diers. The History of the Young Men, by: Branwell Bronté, provided the clue to the. literary game. The “young men” were the soldiers, first endowed with human person- alities, later associated with the children themselves. ‘Under the in- fluence of the Arabian Nights, the chief heroes among the soldiers settled in an imaginary land. Here Captain Bud (Branwell) and Cap- tain Tree (Charlotte) began writ- ing books of toy soldier propor- tions, in microscopic handwriting. These manuscripts were modelled on Blackwood’s magazine, and _ re- ferred to the people and places of the new dream world; A short story of this period, The Silver Cup, includes a sketch of a disagreeable family, the origi- nal of the Reed family in Jane Eyre. Later, inspired by Scott and By- ron, Charlotte invented a new. set of characters. These. were “resus- citated or made alive” at will, to participate in an endless..series of romances. Zenobria_ Elrington, one of the most “immortal” char- acters, was the prototype of Rochester’s mad wife in Jane Eyre. And in the imaginary society of “Angria”’ originated the story of Villette. sa ietiaaiiacaiae . A. 5. T. E. R. aster time is the season of flowers, . . 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