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THE COLLEGE NEWS—

 

 

VOL. XXVIII, No. 7

BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1941

Bryn Mawr College, 1941
opyright, Trustees of

PRICE 10 CENTS

 

 

Forum Analyzes Pressure Groups;
Describes Special Interest Lobby

 

Farm, Industry and Labor
Organizations Outlined
And Evaluated

 

 

Common Room, November 6.—
The Farm Bloc, manufacturers’ |
groups and Organized Labor are |
potential or active pressure groups. |
This was the theme of the first
Forum of the year.

Rosalind Wright, chairman of
the meeting, emphasized the im-
portance’ of organized lobbying.
The majority of groups maintain
effices in Washington, present their
demands ‘and the number of votes
they can rely on, when asking sup-
port in Congress.

Farm Bloc

In the 1920’s the Farm Bloc
showed its influence, said Nancy
Evarts, by effective efforts to al-
leviate conditions due to agricul-
tural depression. Because of the
need for action, the Bloc was bi-
partisan.

After 1924 the Bloc ceased to
function completely as a group, but
three large organizations today
work for the interests of the
farmer: the National Grange, the
Farmers’ Educational and Co-op-
erative Union of America, and the
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion. These were instrumental in |
the passage of the Agricultural Ad-
justment Act.

Although these groups are now
split on the question of national
policy, united action by the Bloc
is a potential force.

Industry
Business and fiance.have carried
Continued on Page Five

 

Victory

The Undergraduate Asso-
ciation announces that the
Activities Drive has reached
the goal of $4,400. The
board of hall representatives
will meet soon to decide the
allocation of the $1,000 fund
for foreign and domestic re-

lief. The Bryn Mawr
League, the Hudson Shore
Labor School, the Summer

Camp, the Players’ Club, and
the Refugee Scholarship
Fund are the other benefici-
aries of the drive.

lciation to pay the Parade Night

tthts

The Undergraduate Association
dues have been sét at $3.50 because
of a deficit of $50 with which it
began the fall term. Since the
Association had no money - this
fall, it was forced to borrow $50

from the Self-Government Asso-

band.

Because certain items, such as |
the Forum,. undergraduate assem- |
blies and the sending of delegates |
to intercollegiate conferences, are
expanding indefinitely, it is impos-
sible to estimate an accurate bud-
get for the coming year.

The Undergraduate Board de-
termined ‘on the amount of the
dues from the budget of the per-
iod’ April 19, 1940, to April 19,

 

1941:
. RECEIPTS

Balance forward .......%. $1082.15
WOO fo eae 1501.50
From the college for Pay

Day Mistresses and

INIONILOES <ases oss 6 ces 290.00
From second-hand caps

ANd QOWNE 44 vaya ees 90.45
Loan from Self-Gov:..... 150.00

League and Self-
Continued on Page Six i

From

Richter Summarizes
Archaic Greek Arts

In Flexner Lecture

 

 

Goodhart, November 10.—In her
fifth lecture, Miss Richter returned
again to the art of the Greek main-
land, to discuss its development in
the last quarter of the sixth cen-
tury and the first quarter of the
fifth century, B. C. It was during
period that Persia, having
crushed the great Ionian revolt of
499 B. C., turned westward. Greece
was devastated by wars for over
thirty years before the Persian
forees were turned back, never
again to menace western civiliza-
tion,

In Athens, soon after the death
of Peisistratos in 527, a tyrannical
form of government was replaced
by tKe first known democracy. The
victory at Marathon in 490 proved
the strength of the new regime.
Art also did not suffer. A group of
kore from the Acropolis show that
Attic art in the late sixth century

 

 

 

 

Continued on Page Three

 

Theater Workshop Equipment Completed;

Players Delighted

With New Improvements

 

By Alice Weil, ’43

The Theater Workshop is finally
A week ago Monday,
curtains and lighting facilities
were installed; and the stage is no
longer just a barren hole in the
wall.

After months of expectation, we

were not disappointed. Not one
inch of the ceiling and sides of the

equipped.

stage can now be seen from any |

part of the auditorium. They are
successfully masked by grey rep
stage draperies, which are an inno-
vation in stage decoration. — Their
neutral coloring makes them more

_adaptible to lighting than the tan

or brown ones previously used. A
royal- blue-front curtain-is doubly
effective because of a slight blue
tinge in the grey curtains on stage.

The one overworked light on the
stage can at last be relieved. Eight

merely by the removal of the filter.

Screens will be used instead of
flats. Since they can be used on
both sides, they will simplify set
construction, and furnish another
example of the adaptibility of the
new equipment.

The credit for the installation of
equipment. goes to Mr. Sondheimer
and Mr. Bowditch of the New
School of Social Research in New|

'York City, who accomplished the
job in an amazingly short period
of time. It must be admitted that
most of the innovations were
adopted at their suggestion.

» The members of the cast of
“Stage Door,’ who .use the. stage
for rehearsals, when asked-for their.
yeactions, exhaled tremendous sighs
of relief. In fact, the only dis-
gruntled observers seem to be the
cast of one of the Freshmen plays.
Arriving at their allotted time at

 

Birdseye lights, the latest thing in
lighting equipment, have been in-

' stalled. These amazing tiny lights

can be changed from spots to floods

the Workshop that weekend, they
were sent home again minus a re-
hearsal. Even. they, however,

f the

 

Calendar
Wednesday, November 12
Meeting of the College [
Council, College Inn, 6.30.
Thursday, November 13
Group Leadership Lecture,
Common Room, 7.30.
Saturday, November 15
Dr. Fieser. Cancer Pro- ||
_ ducing Hydrocarbons. Ten-
nent Memorial Lecture,
Dalton, Room 208, 8.15.
Tuesday, November 18
Virginia Cowles. Behind
Scenes Europe.
Goodhart, 8.380.
Thursday, November 20

Thanksgiving Vacation.

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Northrop Indicates
Surplus of Incomes.

Should Be Absorbed

Industrial Group Stresses
Importance of Emergency

For Labor

 

 

Common Room, November 5.
Miss Northrop, at the year’s first
Industrial Group meeting, spoke of
the necessity for intelligent absorp-
tion of the surplus income created
by our shift to war-time economy.
The importance for Labor of the
present emergency was pointed out
members’ of the Industrial
Group of the Germantown Y.

by

To avoid inflation, prices must be
controlled. A ceiling for wages has
been discussed in Congress. Miss
Northrop said that the «control of
wages would onlyytie Labor’s hands
by doing away with ‘individual
bargaining.

She discussed two: methods to
counteract surplus ineome. | The
first consists of a great increase in
taxation, while the second and
more satisfactory plan is that of
forced saving. Forced saving can
be brought about by an extension
of social security, or by the partial

Continued on Page Four

 

 

Eighteenth Century
Ideas of Acting
Combined by Garrick

Roberts Hall, Haverford, Novem-
1941.—“The eighteenth cen-
tury had two conflicting ideas con-
cerning Shakespeare,” said Dr.
Edgar Wind, of the Warburg In-
stitute, who has spoken at Haver-
ford in other years on the Sistine
Ceiling and Raphael’s School of
Athens. “Some upheld him as a
child of nature, while others in-
sisted on the melancholy nobility of
his genius.” These two ideas: were
united in the actor, David Garrick.

A painting of the infant Shake-
speare between the muses of
Tragedy and Comedy and watched
over by a, white robed Nature done
by Romney toward the end of the
century, typifies the attitude of the
child-of-nature school. They tried
to make him intimate and familiar;
-they-made pious attempts to paint
him as a rough unshaven peasant.

Mrs. Siddons, brought to fame by
Reynolds’ portrait of her as The
Tragic Muse, began a school of act-
ing composed of grandiloquent and
noble gestures and poses. She and
Kemble “anticipated modérn ham
‘acting which relies on ~ posture,
noble diction, and action for all its
effects,” said Dr. Wind. This type
of acting had to be supported by
elaborate stage scenery such as
wind blown on the stage to ruffle
the hair. They idolized Shake-
speare until the church felt it

necessary to exhibit a painting of
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ber 7,

 

 

seeméd to feel it was worth it.

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Foreign Students

al Bryn Mawr

Present Assembly on Education

 

News Correspondent
To Describe Travels

Virginia Cowles, European. .Cor-
respondent for two London news-
papers, will speak November 18, at
8.30 in Goodhart Hall, on her ex-
periences as a roving reporter.

Miss Cowles began her career as
a foreign correspondent during the
Spanish Civil War. She was in the
Sudeten Land at the time of the
Nazi Anschluss, and in Paris the
day it was invaded... She has also
interviewed most of the war lead-
ers including Churchill, Mussolini
and Eden.

The proceeds of the lecture will
go to the Bryn Mawr Hospital.

Self-Gov. Proposes

Changing Permissions

 

A mass meeting of the Self-
Government Association was held
Monday evening at 7.15 in the
gymnasium to discuss abolishing
special permission for playing vic-
trolas in private rooms, eating’ in
the village, parties in other halls,
and the need for a 12.15 special
permission for eating in Philadel-
phia if escorted.

The board proposed that Sec-
tion 12, B. 2, which reads, “Special
permission to play a victrola in
private rooms may be given at the
discretion of the Hall President,”
be incorporated with 3 of B, Sec-
tion 12, to read: “Students may
have radios and victrolas in their
rooms provided that they cannot
be heard outside of the rooms dur-
ing quiet hours.” It was also pro-
posed that special permissions be
eliminated for parties in other
halls and for eating in the village
until 11.30.

A new regulation, allowing stu-
dents to obtain special permission
until 12.15 for eating in Philadel-
phia if escorted, was proposed.

There will be voting on thesc
resolutions Thursday evening at
hall meetings.

Aims and Achievements
Of Foreign Schools
Are Evaluated

 

Goodhart, November 11.—Knowl-
edge creates a responsibility both
in those who impart it and in those
who receive it. This was the chief
conclusion of the college assembly
on edueation, presented— by Bryn
Mawr foreign students. The eight
speakers, each from a, different
country, were representatives of a
larger group, which for the last
two weeks has been discussing in-
ternational educational problems:

Refugee. Tradition

As. chairman of the assembly;
Mme. Dony, warden of Wyndham,
explained that America, with the
recent influx of scholars from all
;over the world, has inherited: the
“refugee tradition” and become the
center, of, learning. Refugees feel
responsible for the high standards
of this tradition.

European Unawareness

Most of the speakers felt that
the intellectuals of their countries
had been unaware of the impending
catastrophe in Europe and of its
effects upon free education. In
Germany, Ruth Fiesel said, the in-
tellectuals, the faculties. of uni-
versities, if they had been fully

Continued on Page Six

Arthur Menken Will
. Speak November 24

| Mr. Arthur Menken, Paramount
|News and March of Time pho-
| torrapher, will speak on The Bat-
tle for the Pacific Monday, No-

 

 

 

| vember 24, in Goodhart Hall, at

8.30 P.M.

Mr. Menken has covered the
Spanish Civil War, the capture of
Nanking, the Russian invasion of
Finland, for these organizations,
and was at Dover during the at-
tempted invasions in September of
1940.

The lecture is under the spon-
sorship of the College Entertain-
ment Committee.

 

 

Learning Shines at Radnor, 120-Watt Strong,
And Standard of Living is Well Above Par

 

By Janet Meyer, ’42

The graduate students live at
Radnor and they do live. When. the
question is studied rationally, the
conelusion that they are human is
not -dffieult- to-reach. ~ There are
two gitls within their ranks who
have only reached the delicate age
of nineteen. The average for the
whole group is between twenty and
twenty-one. Why, they might be
you—or ‘me—or just anybody. They
spend their idle hours at the mov-
ies, buried in mystery stories (just
like those in the Pem East smok-
ing-room), and play bridge, This

| game—ofbridge_is_a—vital part—of

their lives. They play “inspira-
tional,” “chop-suey,” or
bridge, as the occasion demands.
So do we. I can stretch that
graduate - undergraduate analogy
even further. Dinner conversation?
It’s not the “will the Russians win”
type. at all.

However, there are certain im-
portant differences between the
two. Sloppiness and unwashed _ hair
are more characteristic of the un-
dergraduates, Radnor believes.

To the indecisive undergraduate
there is certain general information
which must be divulged. Entering
graduate school does not neces-

“vile” }

sarily imply that you are doomed
to be an old maid. Don’t wince,
but these sage authorities claim
that the modern B.A. is equivalent
,to the high-school certificate so far
“as” employment possibilities” are”
concerned. Furthermore, as an un-
dergraduate, little specialized
knowledge is acquired, and- mere
intellectual curiosity should inspire
, more work than a flimsy B.A. re-
‘quires. However, it is a fallacy to
believe that the biologist necessar-
\ily wants to end in a test-tube, the
geologist in an anti-cline, and the
sociologist in a slum. Graduate
students—just—want—jobs—and-not-
behind a counter.

As to the idea of, cementing
graduate-undergraduate relations,
they approve. They believe that
the work on this week’s assembly
Shows the fruits of co-operation,
-and would eneourage further work
| along these lines. But establishing —
friendly relationships is all they ~
aim at. :

A. conclusion is. now in_ order:
the light of true learning indeed
shines at Radnor—with a hundred
and twenty watt bulb; but only for
about six hours of the day, they
| claim. Any other idea is a mis-
conception.

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