a amr EN a gp = HE CO LEGE NEWS VOL. XL, No. 1 ~ \BRYN MAWR and ARDMORE, PA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1943 Copyright, Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1943 PRICE 10 CENTS Inauguration and Alliance Lectures — Mark Year ’42-'43 Farming, Fortune and Bonds Test Students’ Interest in War This is the story of a year, the week-to-week headlines and the threads of tangled opinion and the olive-drab uniforms that were Bryn Mawr .1942-3. Call it a kal- eidoscope. This is to let you know, 747, what you have got yourself » into. Miss McBride started it, on September 30, by telling Bryn Mawr studnts something they had never been told before: that there was an urgent demand for them in the outside world. We put on our blue jeans and husked corn, picked apples, got poison ivy and called ourselves the Land Army. The Alliance intensified their war work, adopted a constitution, and a new name “The War Alliance.” Inauguration The Inn had labor troubles, much of the Faculty left for Wash- ington, rationing hit the campus, and Sylvia Brown stole the Fresh- men’s Parade Night song. Bryn Mawr girls made their own beds, served in the Deanery, and start- ed taking Russian. Pomp. and circumstance came on October 29th with President McBride’s inaugur- ation and the parade of academic dignitaries and ancient alumnae. WHAY, the Bryn Mawr-Haverford radio station, thrived behind the cloistered walls, Polls The NEWS had polls; they re- vealed that the majority of 288 undergraduates holding jobs dur- ing the summer had done secre- tarial and clerical work; they re- vealed that students favored post- war planning now and thought the Allies would win the war. . Opinion shrieked for more weekend activity on the campus, more money for baby-sitting; ar- gued about cutting out traditions. Editorials reappeared in the per- ennial fight for unlimited cuts. \ The Gym was re-decorated and Continued on Page Three [Restriction Lifted On First Semester Freshmen Activities The former restriction on Fresh- men activities during the first semester has been partially lifted this year. The administration feels that the demands of the war have increased the need for Freshmen participation. However, all Fresh- men must report their activities to Mrs. Broughton’s office, before} signing up for them. In particular, Mrs. Broughton, Acting Dean of Freshmen, recom- mended the War Courses, sponsor- ed by the Alliance, as first semes- ter opportunities for Freshmen. All of these courses: First Aid, typing and shorthand, office tech- nique, nutrition, and home mechan- ics, are open to new students, after consultation with the Freshmen and their hall warden. There are also openings in both the Bryn Mawr Public School Children’s Center and the Haver- ford Community Center, under the same conditions, but Freshmen are not allowed to take the Nurse’s Aid Course. May Hold Jobs Freshmen will also be allowed for the first time, to hold hall jobs, to work in the library, the offices, and the Deanery, after an inter- view with the Bureau of Recom- mendations and with Mrs. Brough- ton. As far as canipus activities are concerned, Freshmen may join any of the language clubs, and the In- ternational Relations Club. Al- though the tryouts for the College News are not held until February, the Board welcomes Letters to the Editor at all times, as well as spe- cially contributed articles by Fresh- men, either in the form of reports on special meetings they may have attended in Philadelphia, or in theater, book and concert reviews. Glee Club, Madrigal Club, and Choir are also open to Freshmen. _ Eligible for All Sports Freshmen may take part in any and all sports other than their re- quired ones, and both the first and second Varsity teams are open to those who excel in particular Continued on Page Four Subterranean Tunnel’ and the New Yorker Named as Perils for Freshmen in Library By April Oursler, ’45 The library is a labyrinth mass of professors’ offices carefully in- terspersed with a few books. It has long been a time-honored tra- dition that all freshmen are drag- ged through its mazes, steeped in a quick dose of Dewey- Decimal System and the Reserve Room rules, and registered as function- ing members of the library. That was our experience and one by which we most ‘certainly did not learn. ‘So herewith our personal guide to the part of the library Miss Terrien never shows you. If you carry it with you, pinned close to your dean’s slip, you might find ‘what you want. It all starts when you wander innocently down into the stacks and end up in.the Rare Book Room. Catching a glimpse of light across the~hall-you dash into the ‘Periodical room, only to be side- tracked by The New Yorker and Time. Pulling ‘yourself together again, you remember you were after a book, and brightly recall- ing your library tour, you head vaguely towards the West Wing. After accidentally bumping inte the Education Sem you find your- self unaccountably in the Quita Woodward room. The New Book Room, you gasp happily, thorough- ly prepared to surrender to the charms of The Tree That Grew in Brooklyn or Drivin’ Woman. Ten minutes later you emerge, sadder and wiser in your realization that the Woodward room is only a new room for books. Some kind person told you that the very next door on your right would land you in the West Wing stacks, so being a literal sort of being, you take your next right, and plummet down two flights of stairs to the basement. Always looking on the bright side of things, you remember that you hadn’t read the last few issues of the. New York Times, and that somewhere in these subterranean reaches.they ~~>5 othgpiawige>pos- terity and you. You set off gaily, poking your nose first into a*room with a car- pet of playing cards, and ashtrays Res’s Room, then losing véarselt in the mass of instrutor’s Dffices that loom before you in the dusk. Continued on Page Four, “