« « é ” q« THE COLLEGE NEWS — Z-61 VOL. XXVI, No. 2 BRYN MAWR and WA¥NE, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1939 s PRICE 10 CENTS Council Meets ‘To Consider Recent Plans Freshman Week Discussed With Group Insurance And May Day The first meeting of the college council this year was held at: Miss} Park’s house on October 12. Mem- bers of the council include: heads of the four big tollege organiza- tions and the News,—class—presi- dents, representatives of the alum- nae and faculty, and Miss Park, Mrs. Manning, Miss Ward, Mrs: Collins, and Miss Petts. cil is purely a discussion committee The coun- and-has no actual powers. « _ The bearing of the European war on big May Day was discussed by Miss Park. Other topics considered the week, the group funds for the new athletic building, were: success of freshman insurance plan, and, plans of the alumnae associa- tion. | : Miss Park explained that further student discussion of May Day would have to wait until after the meeting, on October 19, of the board of directors; who underwrite the expenses. The action of the board is always linked wp--with their interpretation of student opinion, and they also consider the probable effect of outside factors on May Day’s financial success. All discussion, Miss Park contin- ued, should be purely on a college basis, for exaggerated war-con- sciousness must be avoided at all costs. Whether the college can spare the time_and-whether the en- terprise will succeed financially are the relevant considerations. In the discussion of freshman week, the council agreed that the Continued on Page Four Junior Elections The Junior Class announces , the election of the following * officers for 1989-40:, Helen MacIntosh, » president; ‘ Char- lotte Hutchins, vice-president, and Nancy Howard, secre- tary. College Plans Gala — Visit for Alumnae Program Includes Conferences| With Faculty and Review Of College Life The alumnae arriving for the fourth Alumnae oe baa on Oc- tober 20, will find a program prepared, not only for their enter; tainment, but also to, revive their interest in the academic side of college. As a special innovation this year the conferences. with the faculty have been arranged so that special panels composed of holders of higher degrees, and other special- ists in the subject, will lead and clarify the discussions. More frivolous entertainments provide opportunities for alumnae to foregather with old friends; to meet the members of the faculty in general, the senior class, and the graduate students. Besides special entertainments in their honor.the alumnae have a chance to revitw as large a section of ordinary college life as can be included in one short week-end. They are invited to visit classes and laboratories on Friday and Monday, Sunday night chapel is a regular feature, and Lantern Continued on Page Three A.S.U. Plans Recast of Neutrality Aims Common Room, Oct. 12.—At an open meeting to discuss American neutrality, the Bryn Mawr chapter of the A. S. U. voted to support the general provisions of the Ad- ministrative Committee’s national peace policy, but to recast them in a more specific form. The present policy urges “the strengthening of American de- mocracy .athome”..as_the surest means to avoid war. It favors the President’s proposals to revise the Neutrality Act, closer collabora- ion with the Latin American de- mocracies, aid to the victims of war, and the cessation of. “Ameri- can participation in Japanese ag- gression.” _ The actual wording of the policy was considered vague and unsatis- factory and it was decided that the Peace Committee should re- write the provisions and present them as resolutions to be voted on it a future meeting. Barbara Bradfield, ‘Athenia’ Survivor, | Sees ‘Submarine Patrol’ in Ireland aq Pa “Seventy people.i in a lifeboat, and seventy of them seasick.” That was the way Barbara Bradfield, graduate student in Modern Eu- ropean History, described her eight hours in a lifeboat from the tor- pedoed Athenia. She arrived at Bryn Mawr after the opening of college, . Shé ‘and two friends had sperit the summer bicycling in Belgium, France, Germany, and Holland. They reached London on the 22nd of August and, after-the Caledonia had been commandeered, secured passage on.the Athenia, sailing from Glasgow on September Ist. War was declared on the 3rd at 11.15 a.:m., London time, and at 7.40 that evening the Athenia was struck. “Immediately there was a terrific list to port,” said Brad- field, who was on her way to her cabin at the time of the imipact. At this. historic moment, - walked to a,porthole, illegally open, to see what was going on. Then ‘she did nothing for a couple of --minutes. A woman saw her and, Cre ny « “she By Elizabeth Crozier, 41 thrusting an infant into her arms, cried, “Hold my baby!” and ran off. Pretty soon she came back, shrieked at Bradfield, “There’s my baby!” and grabbed it. Someone else rushing by to get on deck _ shouted, stairs!” and tore on.’ So Bradfield watched the stairs. The lights had gone out, and.there was danger of people’s falling. To everyone who came along she said, “The boiler’s burst—get up on deck.” She thought she ought to get there her- self pretty soon. Finally three Canadian boys came along with flashlights and told her to get her lifebelt while they watched the stairs... After meeting her two companions en route, she went to|. Describing the|} scene on deck, Bradfield said, her.. boat station. “Everybedy behaved very decently and very gallantly. No mémber of the crgw had to be shot.” . She got into her lifeboat (built for 35 and filled to double that} capacity) by way of a ropeladder. - Continued on Page wo “Watch they ANDERSON, FENWICK CITE TWOSIDES OF NEUTRALI TY! Mr. Anderson, Common Room, ‘Oct. 17.—“It is impossible, by any legislation, to insulate a country against the dam- iing efects of a war abroad,” said Mr. Anderson, speaking on the eco- nemic ‘aspects of neutrality. War lisrupts domestic ‘industry, caus- ing abnormal expansion, inflation und erecit Jazards; its eventual esult is one of waste and depres- ion which no legal measures can woid. . Concerning the neutrality debate, Mr. Anderson said that the eco- nomic phases of the various amend- mo2nts now before the senate were not of as great importance as the political effects of the proposed neutrality laws. Economically, the diference between these suggested forms of legislation is practically ezligible. Should we retain the present em- bargo, expansion of our munitions Continued on Page Four “* Mr. Fenwick Common Room, Oct. 17.—Dr. Fenwick, speaking at the meeting of the . International Relations Club, gave a summary of points in the debate on neutrality legisla- tion. He stressed the necessity for legislation providing both for the repeal of the present arms. em-|: dvargo and for adoption of the cash- and-ecarry clause. International law prescribes cer- tain rights and duties which define the position of neutral powers in wartime. These rights and: duties are unchangeable, but any gov- einment may, in its own interest, vlace further restrictiohs upon its ritizens, Tlis the United States proposes to do, the better to in- sure neutrality. Amendment of the present law will include provisions preventing the participation of American ships in belligerent trade, and_ the Continued on Page Four Student Committee Plans 7 Programs Menuhin and Iturbi Featured In Entertainment Series; : Prices Low The Student Entertainmeiit Com- mittee under the chairmanship of Anne Louise Axon, has announced the seven events which have been selected for this year’s Entertain- ment Series to be- presented in Goodhart Hall. By dint of much labor on the part of the committee and Mrs. Chadwick-Collins the _|prices of +he series tickets have been kept down as low as possible. They range from $6%50 in the bal- cony to $10.50 for the best—seats on, the main floor. The program is as follows: Thurs., Oct. 26......Angna Enters Tues., Nov. 21 Humphrey-Weidman Dance Group Wed., Dec, 20 ..... Yehudi Menuhin Wed. Jan; 10 3.235 Schuyler Ladd ‘DAUYS(\,. HOD. 28. vcs ccs José Iturbi Wed., March 6 ..,,.Carroll Glenn Mon., March 25...... Robert Frost Angna Enters is appearing again at Bryn Mawr after an absence of several years during, which time she has become known as one of America’s most famous. dance- mimes. A fine actress, she uses pantomime and dance to satirize humanity’s foibles in her, humorous and dramatic skits. The Hum- phrey-Weidman Dance Group is al- ready popular on the campus. Yehudi “Menuhin’s genius is world-famous. He takes his place ag’ an equal to the greatest violin- ists of our time and, although young enough to be only at the be- ginning of his career, he has achieved a_ perfection which is Continued on Page Three COLLEGE CALENDAR Friday, October 20, to Sun- day, October 22.—Alumnae Week-end. (See article, page 1, top of column 2, for pro- gram.) Friday, October 20.—Lan- tern Night, Library Cloisters, 8 p. m. nv Sunday, . October 22. —. Chapel, Dr.” Howard Thur- man, “Music Room, 7.30 “p. m. Monday, October 23. — | _ Vogue Prix de Paris Contest ~~ and tea, Deanery, 5 Pp rs Pasokty, Ontober 24.-——Cur- rent Events; Common Room, 7.30 e m. Transfers Remark -On Lenient. Rules Eleven From Other Colleges Come to Bryn Mawr; Few Reasons. Given The unusually large number of transfers this year come from Eng- land and from a widely scattered area in the United States. The students are: Davidson, ’42, Gouch- ere Davis, “42, Elmira: and Eitingon, ’42, E\niia ; Erickson, ’41, Stanford; Hinman, ’42, Ben- nett; Jones, ’41, Radcliffe; Lerner, 42, University of London;- Stew- art, 42, University of North Caro- lina; Suarias* Murias, ’42, Johns Hopkins; Timmons, ’42, Hollins; Serales, 42, Sweetbriar. ‘When questioned, most of the transfers stated that the leniency of .the rules was what impressed Continued on Page Four Miss Ruth Schindler Heads Modern Dance For the coming year, the Modern Dance Group has secured the serv- ices of Miss Ruth Schindler, who has studied and performed with Mikhail- Mordkhin, Humphrey and Weidman, Louis Horst and Martha Graham. While in New York at the Neighborhood Playhouse, Miss Schindler directed group dances and taught the relationship of movement to acting. She is now secretary of the Philadelphia Danc- ers’ Assotiation and chairman of the Dance Center of Philadelphia. Reviews in the Philadelphia news- papers have often commended Miss Schindler’s ability. The Philadel- phia Evening Bulletin writes, “Possessed of an excellent tech- nique and a fine sense of composi- tion and style. ... Breadth of her background and understanding is large. . . . Her dance to Raskin’s American Dream was fresh, point- ed, and admirably defined. . . Her versatility and range o con- tributed further to an excellent performance.” The plans for the year will con- sist of informal dance demonstra-| tions with visiting dancers, and the group will work towards the| performance of a ballet written by}} Schima Kaufman, well-known mu- sician in the Philadelphia ‘Or- chestra. If any of the dancers are interested -enough there will be extra work and a recital similar to the one year before Jast under Ethel Mann, 1943 Proves Normal Class But for Size Average Freshman is 17, Of American Descent, Local Origin: Miss Julia Ward, Director of Ad- missions and Assistant to the Dean, reports that this year’s freshman class seems just about the same as any other, except for its immensity (it out-numbers the seniors two to one). Of its 164 members, includ- ing 12 transfer students, six are from foreign, countries: three from Canada, one from China, one from England, and one from France. The average freshman is a month older than her immediate predeces- sor, and was very likely rated first in her senior class at school. The increase of population this year is not wholly due to the size of the freshman class. The plan of ‘|the Board of Directors to increase the undergraduate body by 25 stu- dents each year for four years has been changed by various circum- stances. The language houses made it possible to increase the enroll- ment by 16 in 1937. Last year’s large class helped to fill Rhoads South. Now Rhoads North is en- tirely occupied but for 16 spaces, instead of béing only half full. Finally, Miss Ward explains, “the upperclassmen who had expected to 2 study abroad have returned to Bryn Mawr and they as well as the unusually large freshman class have again swelled the numbers of resident students.” The largest percentage of the class of 1943 comes as usual from “the long thin home, rectangle,” bounded by. New York City and-its suburbs—on—the north, Washington on the south, and Paoli on the west, Last year 46 per ba aa from this area: 42 per cent represent it this year. Outside this rectangle the percentages are as follows, with a noted increase in the numbers from the west; Pennsylvania, 7 pér” cent; New York, 7 per cent; New England, 15 -per cent; the Middle West, 15 per cent; the Far West, 5 per cent; the South, 5 per cent. The statistics on racial stock show that 56 per cent are of. the third generation to be born in Continued on Page Three Publicity Policy As a result of conferences with President Park and with the Director of the Bu- reau of Recommendations, « Mrs. Crenshaw, the Publicity Secretary, wishes:'to make the following. amplification of the current statement in~ the student Handbook (p. 28), regarding the use by the stu- dents of the name of Bryn Mawr College. The. policy here stated is similar to that already in force in other women’s colleges. The at- tached regulation applies to all students, whether gradu- ate or undergraduate: No student is privileged to authorize the use of her own name, picture or endorsement linked with the name of the college for .the purpose’ of . advertising. or promoting any ‘business venture, social or sports event which is not con- nected with. the recognized activities of the college. 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TIME Entered as second-class matter at the Wayne, Pa., Post Office Anarchy, Democracy—And the Activities’ Drive The logic of the Activities Drive lies in the assurance that each one of the projects covered will finally receive a larger sum than if each went out and solicited for itself. In the interests of efficient, organized action, the individual sacrifices the satisfaction of personal donation to a particular project. More important, -» ghe practically surrenders the right—or duty—to investigate each project and decide which is most worthy of her contribution. This holds specifically for outside charities, since money is alloted to them at the discretion of the Peace Council. To the argument that this centralized adipfhistration is “undemocratic,” we answer, that anarehy, Not demyeracy, is char- asthe thy the determination of each individual to go her ways by herself. Democracy is characterized by the orgarttzation of individuals into groups, on the, theory that the wishes of the majority will thus be more effectively asserted. As in the case of the Activities Byive, this has-always meant that the-individual ordinarily gives less direct thought to problems confronting the group (the relatiye worthiness of different charities}, and that some minority axes do not get ground (a little known charity may get no support). ‘ We are all in favor of these sacrifices for general efficiency. But the efficiency argument should never be pressed to the point of eliminating the possibility of minority action—which leads us to disagree in one point with the drive eommittee. Campaigns by small independent charities should not be banned. Theythave a right to seek out the few students who may be directly interested in~their project. ~The aim of the single drive—to relieve sia never-ending series of pledge cards—is not really destroyed, for those who have already given the full amount they ean afford to be distributed at the discretion of the Peace Council, should feel absolutely no responsibility to- wards these minor drives. But, by allowing these organizations to continue soliciting, a channel is reserved for the minority who vided against the day when the Peace Council might override a project for which the majority wished to assert direct support. War and May Day : Arguments about Big May Day have again been stirred up on campus. We do not wish to argue out the opposing opinions that “we should not play while England burns” or that. “we must keep up our own morale and carry on as usual.” These views are based chiefly upon emotions, and emotions cannot be changed by argument. sca What we. do feel very strongly is that. the enthusiasm on and off campus this year is bound tobe less, and for ah event| requiring all the cooperation May Day dees;the undivided atten- ‘tion and enthusiasm of the campus is needed. Off campus, those | who: do. not. have daughters.-at Bryn Mawr, or some other close -eonnection with the college ‘will be apt to’ ask why: they should ~~and other more immediate éxpéiises. “spend money seeing May Day in ‘a year so fall’ of uncertainties, Thus, from a materialistic} point of view, we believe that it will be mote difficult than ever for the college to break even. Enthusiasm of audience and actors is a very large part of Big’ May Day. Consider whether the European War may not _ dampen this spirit, and: whether or not’ the college ¢ can give t to = THE COLLEGE NEWS - Tree, — S pare That Woodman eon Durning, lofty ex- © ident o. the junior class, on iderably shaken last Sund.y after a low-hanging ' branch felled her and cuta . gash on her head. She was smitten while walking through the leafy haven in front of the library. E ce: s neo. the very few students in college who might have had such an ac- ci ent, partly because of her height and also because, of ‘ her ability to dissociate her- self completely from her sur- roundings. She has probably passed under the tree many~ ‘imes. before without giving it a second thought until na- yture, irked at this. neglect, has finally revenged herself. Eileen predicts that the tree will drip blood sannually to celebrace its victory. * Barbara Brad field Sees ‘Submarine Patrol’ Continued from Page One The second officez,. with an aviator’s cap upon heen, was in charge. Bradfield d-that “he cussed every minute for the next eight hours. He did it so hard he couldn’t éven whisper the next day. He had to breathe his words out.” : Of the 70 people, 12 were: chil- dren under five. They had the time of their lives. As one of them put it, “We love to go boating on the ocean,” ‘And,’ Bradfield kept reiterating, ‘‘everybody was seasick! Including the officers. Even if you could stand the mo- tion of the boat, the sight of every- one else was guaranteed to fix you up completely.” We asked Bradfield if she saw any enemy submarines. “I saw nothing,” she said. “No enemy ships, no submarines, no peri- scopes, no, nothing.” They were picked up’ at 3.30 the next morning by t reighter Knute Nelson, af- terfeight hours in the lifeboat. The Knute-reached Galway a day and a half after it had picked up the survivors. Their welcome was wonderful. . “It was like being visiting royalty. They gave us the keys of the city. People stood ten-deep to watch us go up the street. The children were let out of school and watched us with the tears falling down their faces. We were taken to parties and teas and given free hotel accommodations, free food. ‘They wouldn’t even take our fare on: the buses. Tues- day night we went to the tiovies— and saw Submarine Patrol.” Saturday they sailed for Glas- gow on the Irish Sea boat Royal Scot. “The boat was, completely blacked out. We.had six convoys, and we zigzagged. How we zig- zagged! You could feel évery turn, rail. We heard a splash. We all jumped as if we had been hit. ‘Well, if you must know,’ a sailor said, ‘it was a pail of slops.’” They reached Glasgow and sailed for America the 18th of September on the Orizaba, which docked in New York on the 27th. “We were on a corridor with 62 other women and had boat drill every morning at 10. Great signs allover the place said, ‘When Bell Rings Ap- pear on Deck.’ Sunday morning the alarm went off at 6.30—from a short circuit—but three women saw U-boats, and another fainted. The thalf of the sengers who were not Athenia Survivors were hysterical: The crew wa hysteri- cal.” But Bradfield and ‘her friénds |had been through. all this .before | i and were half asleep anyway. One of them said, “Hell, this time I’m going to get dressed.” And Brad- field hersel? yawnel, “This again. I can’t stand it. But I’m not going to. be saved_.in_that black skirt a _And_s-e reached for her kilt. _ cat produetion ‘what Big May Per. $ demands. ° (|has arranged four programs ‘to be In Philadelphia Curtis String Quartet The famous Curtis String Quar- tet will make its first public ap- pearance in Philadelphia in five years at a series of chamber music svenings: in the*#Foyer of». the Acedem,; of Musir.. The ensemble given on Wednesdays, October 18th and 25th and November -1st and 8th, and a special student section has been reserved for those * with limited concert budgets. ap Reservations .at the student rate of $.57 per single ticket, or sub- scriptions for the series at $2.06, may be sent to the office of the Curtis String Quartet, 1019 Key- stone sic Upper Darby, Pa. AW? oe 4 Forum Series The Philadelphia Forum has an- nounced its program for 1939-40, and has, at’the same time, offered the college special reduction rates. for the season tickets. This will be the nineteenth year that the Forum has brought to Philadelphia men and women distinguished in every field of the arts and sciences. There will be. approximately 40 events on the program, the out- standing nature of which is best. suggested by listing a few of the titles — Kirsten Flagstad, the Bos- ton Symphony Orchestra, Argen- tinita and her. Spanish ensemble, the Jogss Ballet, William Bullitt, Jan Masaryk, Elissa Landi, Stuart Chase, William Lyon Phelps, America’s Town Meeting of the Air, and many of the best plays starting with Maurice Evans’ Hamlet. The prices quoted to the college for the series are $20 for the fam- ily circle, $27.50 for the balcony, $30 for the orchestra pit, and $35 for the orchestra. These are a re- duction of from $5.00 to $10.00 as compared with the ordinary rates, which in themselves are very inex- pensive when one considers the cost of each event if separately pro- duced. The tickets may be put on Pay Day and are to be ordered through the Publications Office on the second floor of Taylor Hall. Art Esquire’s art director Eric Lund- gren, is proving the main attrac- tion at the Art Alliance, 251 South 18 Street, despite the fact that Hari Kidd is the exhibitor featured on the bills outside. Reducing, a series of four pictures showing a fat lady ‘in her corset doing three kinds of painful exercises, and then lying down to eat chocolates, shows particularly well the merciless, sa- tirical quality of the artist’s work. Only a few of his prints escape it. The most effective of these is the Blind Man, feeling his way through darkness with uplifted face and outstretched hand, the target on all sides of bodiless empty white eyes. -On the other hand, all the best of the Hari Kidd paintings in the ex- hibition arouse a primitive emotion of horror. His small paintings of heads are as conventionalized as Nolde masks. The eyes roll vio- lently into the corners. There is a Newsboy calling extras, a8 red“and dried as a mummy, and a_ head called Lost, only half illuminated, with irridegcent eye. It is a~relief to find gay Vera White water colors hung in the next’ room: British red, white and blue, and French blue, white and fred. drench her paper in color. Trouping the Colors on the King’s Birthday is a series of pictures of the red and blue Coldstream guards lined up against the deep greenery of a London Park. The other series equally festive. One of the loveli- est is Boulevard at Night, a blaz- ‘ng tent of flags hung over a Pari- sian street against the night. sky. Altogether the most healthy view of life represented at the Art Alli- tance is Walt Luderback’s. ‘He han-| Rise of Dictators Feared by Miller Three Years’ nono in Spent In Field of the American Revolution John Chester Miller, new asso- ciate professor of. American His- having been: awarded his He after Ph.D. at Harvard this year. was awarded a Frederick Sheldon Scholarship, which he used to travel in Europe and the southern Algiers and Tunisia. In 1932, after receiving his M.A., he was made one of the first members of the Society of Harvard Fellows. The three years of this Fellowship were spent in. work on Mr. Miller’s special field, the Amer- ican Revolution, and particularly the life of Samuel Adams. The di- rect result of these studies was Mr. Miller’s first book, Sam Adams, Pioneer in Propaganda. European Fellow of the Societ¥in 1937, Mr. Miller then returned to Harvard to prepare for his Ph.D. He ad- mits that interest in his study of the American Revolution is hard to maintain in the face of news from Europe. The European War will be won, almost certainly, he thinks, by a. totalitarian force. Germany has only to break England’s North Sea blockade for British - collapse to set in, and then “all the ‘dis- contented powers, Russia, Italy, and Japan, will jump on the German bandwagon.” A post- war depression is to be feared by the United States above all things, Mr. Miller belleyes, For a time we would prosper, “rising on the ruins of Europe, bat when Europe begins to rebuild, ‘our eco- nomic system will suffer a serious if not- fatal shock.” In such times, when a people is forced to sacrifice spiritual for material security, dic- tatorships arise. We will be for- tunate if we can come through the next decades, of war and of peace, with our ideals of individual liberty unconquered. criminals,-and— picnicking negroes! Spain, the circus business and the fishing industry all with the same understanding. y . Movies Aldine: Eternally Yours, a gay comedy with Louretta Young and David Niven. Boyd: Babes in Arms, with Mie- key Rooney and Judy Garland. Keith’s: Leslie Howard in Inter- mezzo. Palace; Fifth Avenue Girl, with Ginger Rogers. Stanley: Thunder Afloat, with Wallace Beery. . Geste. - Victoria; Dust Be My Destiny, with Priscilla Lane and John Gar- field. Suburban Movies Seville: Wednesday and Thurs- day: Lew Ayres and Anita Louise in These Glamour Girls. Friday and Saturday: The Lady of the Tropics with Hedy Lamarr and Robert Taylor. Sunday and Mon- day: The Wizard of Oz. Tuesday and Wednesday: Stanley and Liv- ingstone. Thursday: Angels Wash Their [day and Saturday: The technicolor | picture Four Feathers. Sunday and Monday: Charlie Chan At turn ‘engagement of Maxwell An- |derson’s Winterset. Suburban: - Wednesday > to Fri- day: Stanley and Livingstone. Sat- urday, Sunday and Monday: .Char- lie Chan At Treasure Island, intri- gue at the inks Fair. __ Ardmore: Witoswiey Wh morrow Comes ay, ot rans and Pie cy i Mae rida dles tourists in France, —— ’ tory, came directly to Bryn Mawr. received his B.A. there in 1930, ant, part of the Mediterranean: Egypt, ° Stanton: Gary Cooper in Beau sy Anthony Wayne: Wednesday and ’ Faces starring Ann Sheridan. Fri- ~ Treasure Island. Tuesday :. ‘A re- - 3 THE COLLEGE NEWS ‘ Page | Three = Soper Sees America As Refuge for Art U.S. Has Assumed Importance As Haven for Paintings oo Far, East “America has takef the lead over Europe in collecting Chinese art,” said Alexander Soper, newly appointed associate professor of. History of Art. - Mr. Soper has lately returned from the Far East where he did research work: in old Chinese painting. It is this country’s task to fill the gap in the study of Chinese art left by the European. War, Mr. Soper pointed out. We have the money and the enthusiasm to main- tain large art collections. China herself is far more interested in studying western civilization than her own artistic past. Mr. Soper went to Peking to _ carry on his art research, as it is one of the few places ‘in China where learning still flourishes. The present Japanese-controlled:govern- ment in Peking is hostile to the university, but is powerless to close its doors because the university | président is an American and Japan does not want to antagonize. the United States. The Chinese them- selves, however, feel it is shameful to study in comiort and ease whilg]} their friends are being bombed in another part of the country. Many of them would like to transfer the personnel of the university to the south as a patriotic gesture. It is difficult to examine Chinese art in its native country, Mr. Soper declared, because most of the art pieces have disappeared since the outbreak of the Chino-Japanese War. The books in the National Library have been -removed and the paintings in the old Imperial Collection which were sent to Nan- king are now in an unknown lo- cality. The art student may study only ancient architecture or tomb excavations, a practice to which the superstitious Chinese are opposed. Buddhist. figures cut out from the sides of caves are taken from the tombs. to—art-markeis._Unserupu- lous dealers sometimes smash the statues because they can get more money from the sale of separate pieces than from selling the figure as a whole. Fortunately, there are ample opportunities for study- ing Chinese culture in Japan where Chinese works of art have been presérved in temple and priv- ate collections since the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. , Mr. Soper refused to comment on his first impressions of the Bryn Mawr campus, saying he hasn’t been allowed enough time to form any definite opinions. He has no- ticed that Bryn Mawr students put their feet up on the desks in class less than students at Princeton (his alma mater), and that’ al- though Princeton men often walk around their campus barefoot, most Bryn Mawr girls keep their shoes on. . League Publishes Provisional Budget If the Activities Drive succeeds in raising the $2900 needed by the Bryn Mawr : League, the money will be budgeted as follows: Hudson Shore Labor School «- EXPRESS AGENCY, INC. __ + aan RAIL-AIR SERVICE _ dustries. a oe industry. “Hither yot Sn tenn trl Page Four THE COLLEGE NEWS ANDERSON, FENWICK CITE TWO SIDES OF NEUTRALITY Mr. Anderson Continued from Page One industries would be curtailed, but the eect upon the Allies would be slight. If England manu!actured arms at home and also imported them from the United States, she would have to export domestic payment for her American purchases. This would involvé diverting .a portion of her war resources into peace-time in- She would, therefore, be forced to increase her domestic produciion at the expense of her products in make your own planes,” said Mr. Anderson, “or you make something else to buy them, with.” If the United States retains the embargo, England will regulate her economy with less emphasis on peace-time industry. Should the cash-and-carry method be adopted, curtailment’ of Ameri- can shipping ‘would prove a draw- back to the Allies. however, minimized the importance of long-term American credit‘loans. ‘He pointed out, that, contrary to ‘tthe situation in 1918, British fi- nance is now on a sound basis. Ac- cord:ng to the figures of the Na- tional City Bank, the total assets ‘Held by Britain and France in American securities and bank ac- counts amount to eight billion, one hundred eighty thousand dol- lars, 500 million dollars more than in 1918. Britain would probably prefer to borrow in London mar- kets, to float loans and buy up American securities ‘at home, rather than borrow here. The. effect of the cash-and-carry amendment: on. American shipping would be less drastic than admitted by those who favor restriction of American ships. from -war zones only. A large portion of the total nine million tpns of American merchant sips are engaged in coastal traffic, Latin-Ametican and Oriental trade. The remainder Will probably take advantage of the fact..that the concentration of bel- ligerent shipping on war activi- ties “open a wide avenue down which American ships could sail peacefully and profitably.” Mr. Anderson saw: no danger in the 90-day credit ‘clause, since American responsibility would be transferred to the foreign shipper with the bill of lading. Dr. Thurman to S peak Dr. Howard Thurman, col- ored Dean of the Chapel of Howard University, Wash- ington, D. C., will speak at the evening service this Sun- day, October 22. Dr. Thur- man has been an extremely . popular leader at Northfield and many .other religious conferences. His talk here, under thé auspices ofthe Bryn, Mawr League, will be held in the Music Room, Goodhart Hall, at 7,80 p. m. Mr. Anderson, }: Mr. Mesailicke Continued from Page One transportation of American goods and citizens in belligerents’ ships. The incorporation of the cash-and- carry allowance is strongly recom- mended by the Senate Foreign Re- lations Committee. But a second course has been suggested to Con- zress and to the American public, by ex-President Hoover and by Charles ‘Lindbergh, apostles of the “make war as polite as possible” creed. Mr. Hoover suggests that we de- clare an embargo only on war eoods of an offensive character. Colonel Lindbergh seconds this proposal, which would allow our industries’ to continue the manu- facture and éxport of purely de- fensive machinery., This plan is impractical and is recognized as such, With a vote of 65 in the Senate already assared, the new legis- ‘ation, repealing the embargo and incorporating the cash-and-carry agreement, is almost certain to be passed by Congress. Transfers Remark On Lenient Rules Continued from Page One them most and afforded the great- est contrast with their former col- leges. The University of London is the only one in which students have more independence. As there is no campus at the London school and no dormitory life, students are free to come and go as they please. In most respects Bryn Mawr does not seem to differ much from other American ‘colleges, (although one zirl stated that/we have more tra- lition and college spirit. Another, from the University of North Sarolina, finds it very difficult to inderstand Ahe northern accents, specially Ahose of the professors. The reasons given for transfer- ‘ing were generally vague. Some rirls wanted more campus and so- sial life while others were in search f., higher scholastic standing. Me, Foe SMC LIJGV0L Cc “ 3 OF CALLING ALL COLLEGE GIRLS: It is delightfully reassuring to know that when you come to New York The Barbizon offers you an environment in keeping with your customary mode of | 4 living. Home of college clubs. Daily recitals.and lectures, art and music studios, library, gym- nasium, swimming pool, squash courts. Seven hundred rooms each with a radio. Smart resi- os dential neighborhood. 6 Tariff: From $2.80 per day — $12 per week Write for descriptive booklet C.”’ | RICHARD STOCKTON BRYN MAWR — aap Picture Framing oo Gifts ‘Stationery ier > B. M. Varsity Routs Hockey. Prospects for Yellow And White Soar as Score 5-0 Victory w The Yellow and White Varsity won 5-0 from Germantown Cricket Club to score its first victory of Bryn Mawvr’s first game, the prospects for the future are bright. Al- though there were numerous fouls, the season. As this was they resulted from the _ offensive playing by both teams. Stokes, 41, accounted. for three of the tallies, While Rambo, ’48, and Matthai, ’43, flicked in the other two. Germantown forwards pushed hard into Bryn Mawr backfield, but Captain Ligon, ’40, and Resor, ’42, as fullbacks, proved too much for them. : B. M. First G. C. C. Weadock.... R. W. MeM0G. ess Ree ee, Thomas StOROR oss i CoB iat Cox Matthai..... Doe ee a Gk Carson PLUCCDIE se oe Wee ees Wurts HH? to SOS ent EE «bona eisai Doak Waples 07.3. C..H.. ....Reichner Gicanis’. 0. LRH ois Clark OBONS ens es Ri coe et Heist TAQONG Nie vs cs Boy Randall BOC airu vis bes Be Lewis ‘ey, Woolsey to left inner, Howard for Hutchins, Matthai for Woolsey. Germantown. Teain| College Coumel Beets Continued from Page One week had gone off most successfully this year. It was suggested that non-residents who live in the vicin- ity should come on Thursday with the rest of the class, instead of on Tuesday as they did this year. Other suggestions on freshman week were: to: give up the Thurs- the meeting after the Wyndham picnic by omitting the official an- nouncements by Miss Petts, Miss Cary and Dr. Leary. Mrs. Manning reported that the Connecticut Life Insurance Com- pany will supply hospitalization in- surance to the college if 50 per cent of the students are willing to subscribe. A description of the plan will be attached: to the second semester bills, and students will be To Discuss New Plans‘. day night assembly, and to shorten’ Not in the Drive The. Activities..Drive...does not: include the _ Building Fund, to which the upper classes have already contrib- uted. The freshmen will be asked to make their dona- tions later in the year. parents during Christmas vacation. Mrs. Darrow reported that plans had been made for Alumnae Week- end, and that by the alumnae- senior dinner, the association hoped to bring the two groups closer to- gether. The association this year will also incorporate the holders of graduate degrees from Bryn Mawr, who, Mrs. Darrow believes,. have been much neglectod in the past. Privileges of associate members— those who leave college before graduation—are to be increased. 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