| ' Yieane. TH 3), COLLEGE NEWS VOL. XL, NO. 26 ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1944 Cor yright, Trust: ca of Bryn Mawr College, 1944 PRICE 10 CENTS War Bond Drive Launched to Pay Debt on Wyndham Home Built by Quakeress : Purchased by College During 1925 In 1796, Patience Morgan, “a thrifty Quakeress,” built Wynd- ham. Years later, Dr. Joseph Taylor, looking for suitable sur- roundings and an advantageous site for the new Bryn Mawr Col- lege, chose the hilltops and slopes to the west. There Bryn Mawr has grown up for fifty-nine years with two generations of students taking the gracious old place across the way for granted. Suddenly, in the summer of 1925, Wyndham was offered for sale. The Directors were faced with the prospect of having the place fall into the hands of a real estate developer who had rather wild ideas for the property, including something which sounds rather like a housing development to lure people away from the streets of Philadelphia. Rows and rows of little houses would have faced Pembroke and Rockefeller, with cars, screaming children, garbage trucks, and broken toys adding to the melee. Gone would have been the dance club produc- tions, the Senior garden party, the picnics and the numerous teas in the pleasant setting of Wynd- ham Garden; gone, too, would have been the ideal home for the French House. This was not all. Enterprising real estate developers had other ideas. They proposed to build a restaurant. where the _ college greenhouse _ now stands, and, worse, an open-air movie house near it, and what might have ac- Continued on page 3 New Literary Effort Proves Creative Art Not Dead on Campus Specially Contributed by as Virginia Grace, 44 This coming week will record the launching of a new’ Bryn Mawr magazine. It has been in- cubating in the minds of five -un- daunted Freshmen, who will tell you vehemently, and now we must believe them, that creative art on campus is not dead. A. sceptical student body has. been reading a sober but somewhat perfunctory funeral service over the flickering Lantern, but it may now be in- formed that the challenge it threw out for a new and representative periodical has found its mark. If every healthy display of discon- tent could produce such prompt and unequivocal results, any Signs of ferment. would be heartily wel- comed. The new magazine bears on its cover the words The Title, sig- nifying that the space is reserved for a permanent name_ to be chosen by its circulating public. Mr. W. H. Auden has sent his own ammunition in the form of a poem entitled In War Time, com- posed especially for The Title’s maiden issue. Mr. Lattimore’s superb translation of two Aeschy- lean speeches brings the beauty of ancient literature into the range of modern study. Hester Corner contributes a provocative piece entitled Monu- ments and Memorials of Balti- more, a poem showing an amazing facility of expression. Mr. Huf- fington, by Jocelyn Kingsbury, is a masterful sketch of the quiet sort of crisis that lingers longest in one’s memory. It is written with an easy assurance and with acute sensitivity to dramatic tim- ing as well as to mood and sound. “Passage to India” carries out Continued on Page 7 Mademoiselle, Vogue Pass by Bryn Moron’s Originality in the Designing of College Fashions Life has its features on high school fashions. Mademoiselle and Vogue talk lovingly of the newest things in college clothes—but they’ve all passed us by. And now is the time for us to assert our- selves: What the well-dressed Bryn Moron is wearing, or, how to get dressed so they’ll let you into the dining room without your being uncomfortable. To begin with, originality may be the keynote of some campuses, but we manage to remain individ- ual by being monotonous. ‘The popularity of the Maids’ Bureau pinafores has reached such propor- tions that no longer do two owners of the same creation slink behind the nearest cherry tree rather than meet each other jumper to jumper. Whole bevies of identi- cally dressed classmates trail up to Taylor arm in arm—but, in the words of Mr. Patterson, the mass of material varies as the densities of the owners. The latest costume for labside wear consists of blue jeans, cut off at the knees, the after-effects of such an operation being truly sig- nificant in relation to character study.. All types of half-hitch britches. result, from those volum- inous pleated affairs that billow in the breeze, to the rather snug ones that couldn’t ripple in a hur- With them, in all cases, are featured thigh-length men’s shirts—a-pre-war fashion which, rather than being lessened by the war-time material conservation act, has been increased as we rob our soldier’s civilian werdrobe. Moccasins, which have long since ‘taken the place of dirty saddle shoes, are worn with ingenious patriotic patches of white adhesive tape or with open toes and bow- tied bandages to diminish the flap- itty disembodied soles. The infl of the Good. Neighbor policy is evident with the appear- ance of non-rationed espadrilles and huaraches, worn with Mexican. skirts and blouses. Even Tahitian and Hawaiian touches appear, blazing forth in irregular bursts of color, with blouses tied in a midriff knot above the waist for greater sun exposure. L85 skirts, on the other hand, may be designed for pencil-slim hips, but we manage a charming bulging effect by wearing them over shorts or rolled slacks. And if you’ve noticed a strip-tease ses- sion in the halls in the evening, it merely means ghat dinner’s over, and: we can uncover the uniforms of a strictly utilitarian and com- fortable life. We are neater now, though. Sweaters are not quite the man- sized editions of a few years ago, even if none of us| are the Lana Turner type. Or maybe it’s just that we’d rather-wear the shirts— thigh-length. oF Eleanor Borden, ’46 as Louise, and Esterlee Hutzler, ’45 as Rodrigo, dancing in one of the opening scenes of the play. Expressive Character Interpretations Mark Dance Portrayal of ‘Rodrigo’ Close Brazilian Ties Seen by Paul Jones el Common Room, May 14. Paul Jones, chief advisor to Nelson Rockefeller, Coordinator of Inter- American Affairs, spoke on the present situation in Latin Amer- ica, dwelling chiefly on Bolivia and the Argentine. Argentina, the most advanced of the Latin American countries in economic, political, and social development, presents a “compli- cated situation.” United States’ public opinion usually dismisses Argentina as a fascist nation in- tent on extending ‘the rule of Hit- ler, but Mr. Jones attributed this to a misapprehension built on a difference of political objectives in the two countries. The present isolationist policy of Argentina does not necessarily indicate sym- pathy with the Axis. Aside from Great Britain and the United States, popular sympathy is with Argentina, based on the concept that Argentina is the defender of Latin American sovereignty. On the surface, our Good Neighbor Policy has been valid. On the other hand, we have intervened by furthering the sort of government we want in certain countries by the recognition of certain ones and the refusal to recognize oth- ers. “The case in Bolivia is even more complicated,” according to Mr. Jones. It is a very poor nation and its economic sufficiency is al- most entirely dependent on the export of tin to the United States. Because of this situation, Bolivia is almost completely at the mercy of America. The situation is far different from what it was two years ago. At that time we were dependent on those Latin American coun- tries for their products. ‘When Wwe «were comparatively weak, Latin \ Ameria was sympathetic toward uS,;"but now “we are losing sympathy because we have gained strength,” said Mr. Jones, Alumnae Issue This. special issue has been prepared by the College News | Board in conjunction with the Alumnae Asgociation. It goes to 5,500 alumnae in an attempt to compensate for alumnae re- unions which will not be held this year. Hutzler, Harriman, Borden Show Individual Talent In Dances By April Oursler, ’46 Wyndham Garden, May 11.— Careful character interpretation in combination with spontaneously graceful dancing gave the Dance Club’s performance of the dance- play, Rodrigo,an effectiveness and charm distinguishing it from last year’s prodiction. The music and _ the story, a Chinese fairy-tale, both written by Hans Schumann, the club’s accom- panist, lent themselves extremely well to the pantomimic tenor of the dancing. Rodrigo, a gentleman bandit, who has been tempted to robbery by the devil, is in love with Louise, who knows nothing of his evil ways. Her discovery of this, and the curse of a tooth- ache laid on Rodrigo by the angry gods, form the climax of the story. The long tragic ending, almost operatic in pattern, is concerned with the Village Idiot’s jealous at- tack on Rodrigo, Louise’s death Continued on Page 8 Jobs Using Spanish Discussed by James Common Room, May 12. Concha Romero James, chief of the divi- sion of intellectual cooperation of the Pan-American Union, spoke concerning Vocations Using Span- ish on Friday. She discussed po- sitions from two points of view, those in-which the language is the main. requisite, and those in which it is an accessory tool. With Spanish as a main requis- ite, many positions, particularly teaching, necessitate graduate work. Inthe fields of interpreting and translating, opportunities are scarce, although college graduates can do work in the abstracting of reports and other material. With the language as a tool, par- ticularly as a strong minor to a more useful major, prospects are more encouraging. Economics ma- jors can find work dealing with documents and reports in the de- partments of Commerce, Agricul- ture, and State. There are many opportunities in the Department of Public. Health, Sra. James said, for those knowing any science, and there is work in the social service line with the racial minorities here. Red Cross Gives Authority to BM For Campus Unit First College Unit Offers Variety of Activities To Students Specially contributed by Mary Kay Snyder, °46 Chairman of the Bryn Mawr Red Cross Unit Bryn Mawr College has receiv- ed a charter from the National Red Cross which authorizes the establishment of a. Red Cross Unit on campus, directly subor- dinate to the Ardmore Branch. A War Alliance Committee headed by Mary Kay Snyder, ’46, with Helen Gilbert, °46, as Secretary and Doris Emerson, ’46, as Pub- licity Manager, is now plannng the Unit’s organization. The existence of the Unit will be a challenge to the entire stud- ent body. For it will be success- ful only if next year every stu- dent conscientiously pledges a definite number of hours per week to one of the war-essential activi- ties offered, and faithfully con- tinues in the training or service she has selected. The program of activities train- ing to be instituted next October is still tentative, but will certain- ly be varied and vital enough to claim a share of everyone’s time. Anne Borum, ’46, will arrange classes for those who wish to be- come Nurses’ Aides. There will be theoretical study on campus under a qualified instructor fol- lowed by the practical training and service in Philadelphia hos- pitals (and Bryn Mawr Hospital possibly). It is probable that many who will not feel suited to Nurses’ Aide work will wish to help in bringing entertainment and comfort to convalescents —reading, writing letters, and receiving visitors,— in the role of “Junior Grey Lad- ies”. The short period of requir- ed training for this Hospital and Receration service can be com- pleted in part of the first semes- ter, and thereafter the trained girls will be assigned to positions of service in Philadelphia and on the Main Line. Plans for’ the Canteen Course, the prerequisite for assistants in hospital or can- teen kitchens will be supervised by Gwendolyn Leege,”’46. It. is important to realize that positions of service in hospitals are not open to us—under ordinary con- Continued on page 6 Harvard, Bryn Mawr To Join for Concert The Bryn Mawr College Choir, in its first concert since 1940, with any college other than Haverford, will present a’ joint recital with Harvard in Goodhart, the evening of June third. The recently enlarged choir, un- der the direction of Miss Lorna Cooke, and the Harvard Glee Club, under Mr. G. Wallace Wood- worth, will include both religious and secular music in what is hoped to be the first in an annual series of joint programs. Devoting the first half of the evening to religious music, the combined groups will sing two Baroque duets, ‘three motets and Continued on Page 8