Again Next Year - every one of us. ; motions have _blocked attempts to ——when~he--watks~into~a~ bu: Z-616 THE COLLEGE NEWS VOL. XXVII, No. 16 Pra rbd Bryn Mawr College, 1940 Trustees of ‘ PRICE 10 CENTS President Park | Will Hold Office Board of Directors, Faculty Continue Search for New President . Goodhart Auditorium, Friday, February 28.—In a meeting of all graduates and undergraduates, Mr. Thomas Broughton, professor of Latin, and chairman of the Fac- ulty Committee which has been act- ing in collaboration with the Board | of Directors, made the following! announcement: : “At the urgent request of the Board of Directors, Miss Marion E. Park has consented to remain as President of Bryn Mawr College for another year. The Committee of the Board in collaboration with the Faculty Committee will con- tinue the search for a successor to Miss Park. “It is difficult for. me to express the meed of gratitude and apprecia- tion that I feel is due to Miss Park for ~her loyalty, good spirit and sportsmanship in consenting to re- main as President for another year. We want to assure her that by her decision she has placed us héavily in her debt, and that she is doing an exceedingly great service to Bryn Mawr College and to each and “I wish to express publicly to you how greatly we of the Faculty Committee appreciate the sympa- thetic and whole-hearted way in which the Committee of the Board has brought us into full collabora- tion with them. We wish also to thank our colleagues on the faculty and the members of the student body for generous help in getting information at our call and for the truly noble self-restraint that gov- erns their attitude toward us while we deal with important and con- Continued on Page Two Intermissions If you want to leave a Hall or College Dance, you ‘ must sign out as usual and obtain the necessary permis- sions. BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1941 MIMI BOAL Benedict Discusses Socialization of Child Goodhart, March 8.—In_ the fourth lecture of the Anna How- ard Shaw series, titled Socializing the Child, Dr. Ruth Benedict con- trasted the methods of child-rear- ing in different - societies. Some methods, she said, train the child for an adult environment, while others place him in a _ separate world until he has attained adult- hood. Our own culture, empioying the latter method, forces the child to learn to act in ways which he will! There is a; later have to unlearn, complete break between the habits | which are suitable to childhood and those which are necessary to adult- hood. The resulting psychological disorganization can only be rem- edied by supplying sufficient secur- ity during the period of transition. Some tribes avoid a break be- tween the play period and, the later period by conditioning the child to adult behavior. In our séciety however the child does not partici- pate in the life and habits of the adult community which he must later join. He is shielded from re- sponsibility, and from “unpleasant facts” and is therefore subjected to what Dr. Benedict termed “the Santa Claus complex.” Play must be given up, and responsibility for which he has developed no patterns of behavior is motivated only by a sense of duty. In the primitive societies where no qualitative distinction is made between children and adults, chil- : Continued on Page Four Students Visit Bethlehem; Expose Conditions Causing Strike, Workers’ Resolve to Win By Agnes Mason, Joan Gross, ’42 We spent Friday night in Beth- lehem at the home of John Ram- Say, secretary of the local Steel Workers Organizing Committee. We went to the mass meeting at the Beth-Allen Casino. We know the Bethlehem strike isn’t settled yet. The Globe-Times, the only newspaper, sings the company tune, while’ A. P. and U. P. dis- patches are issued from its press room. But the College News brings an inside story. __ Steel workers in the Bethlehem plants. want collective bargaining. Black lists, strike breakers and de- organize, Promising 1 union leaders have been bought out by offers of soft jobs and high pay. ~ But not John Ramsay. In Beth- lehem they ».call him “The Man Bethlehem Steel Couldn’t Buy.” He doesn’t have to turn up his collar His moral conviction is the basis for his devotion to the union. “I want to make Bethlehem a better place to live in,” says Mr. Ramsay. The plants are working at full capacity in Bethlehem. The men want to strike while the iron is hot. Strike placards fill the local offices, and already unofficial stop- pages have occurred. The storm broke in Lackawanna, but all through the Bethlehem plants men are ready to walk out. Thursday. night the union office was receiv- ing reports that two truck loads of scabs were on their way from Lackawanna to Bethlehem, Friday newspapers: announced that the strike had been ‘settled. | But Bethlehem S that until the S 1 workers say Workers Or- ganizing Committee is recognized || as their bargaining agent, no set- tlement will last. The Employees Representation Plan, which has MARION CHESTER CHRIS WAPLES A. A. Puts Forward 1941-42 Candidates For-the Presidency The Athletic Association has nominated three candidates for 1941-42 President to be voted on by the college next week. They are: Mimi Boal, Chris Waples and Marion Chester. Mimi Boal Mimi Boal is a candidate for the presidency of the Athletic Associa- tion. She is the vice-president .of the association this year. She is captain of the swimming team and has been on it for three years. She is treasurer of the badminton team which she has also been on for three years. She is the second Junior member of the Self-Govern- ment Association and is president of the Catholic Club. Chris Waples Chris Waples is a candidate for president of the Athletic Associa- tion. She was Freshman represen- tative of the Association, has been on the varsity hockey team three years, the varsity basketball team three years, the varsity tennis team of which she is captain this year, three years, the varsity swimming team, Freshman and Sophomore year, and the baseball team two years. She is captain of next ear’s hockey team. Junior year y' y Continued on Page Four Calendar Thursday, March 6.— Food for the Small Democ- racies, Milton Brown, Com- - mon Room, 7.30 P. M. Friday, March 7.— Cornelius Otis Skinner, Goodhart, 8.30 P. M. Saturday, March 8.— Basketball vs. Chestnut Hill, Gym, 10 A. M. One Act Plays, Goodhart, 8.30. P. M. Wyndham Dance, Denbigh — Dance. Sunday, March 9.— Chapel, 7.30 P. M. Monday, March 10.— Anna Howard Shaw Lec- ture, Anthropology and Some Modern Alarmists,; Dr. Ruth Benedict, 8.30 P. M. Tuesday, March 11.— Basketball vs..William and Mary, Gym, 4 P. M. Round Table Discussion, Common Room, 5 P. M. Current Events, Miss Reid, Common. Room, 7.30 P. M. Annual Bridge Party, Deanery, 2 P. M. Science Club, How Far are “business man’s club, because the workers. know he won’t stay there long. No- body can beat John Ramsay, be- cause he believes in God and the c.-I. 0. A confirmed Oxford grouper, he has lectured at church ga ings and Geneva conferences. been acting as a substitute for a recognized workers’ union, failed to provide the wages, work- ing conditions, and fair employ- rment methods that are essential. Only a thin thread of union dis- cipline is keeping the men in the plants. This thread is taut. has} son, Common Room, 8.15 . Pi M. Wednesday, March 12.— “Life asa Fine Art,” Ru- fus Jones, Roberts Hall, Haverford, at 8.15 P. M. the “Stars, Dr... Wil- 7) Varied Duties Told For New President Of the Athletic Ass’n The president of the Athletic As- sociation is chairman of the ex- The executive board consists of officers the ; council meetifigs are held with the ecutive and council boards. elected by the four classes; captains and managers of all teams, ~ Supervision of the various sports and teams, ideas and plans for new sports, close cooperation with the physical education department, and control of the station wagon are some of the tasks of the A. A. president, - Besides this she is the source of permission for a night at the barn and the holder of the key to the gym. The president also is a representative for the under- graduate on the College Council and on the Quota Committee. McClellan Quiet About Past Life; Not to be Bribed Impartiality Will Keynote Her Presidency; Loves Archeology “T’m not used to this public life,” protested Kitty McClellan when in- terviewed just after her. election as president of the Self Govern- ment Association. “Besides I’m not News material, really.” She was ruthlessly ordered to say something funny for the benefit of her public. “But I’m not very funny,” she said,”—I’d love to tell you the lat- est joke I heard .*.. but I can’t remember it.” A bright idea hit us. “What school did you go to?” we asked in breathless anticipation. “The York Collegiate Institute, York County Academy — that’ll take up three lines,’ she added ' thoughtfully. “Were you head of student gov- ernment there?” we asked with Boswellian glee. “There were: only three girls in the class,” she said. Kitty is an ardent archeology major. Her spare minutes are spent as hall president, exactly, she claims, as graphieally illus- trated in the Case of Miss Bee. “Would you like to know what I eat?” she offered helpfully. We eagerly replied in the affirmative. “Whatever’s on the Denbigh menu.” We find the new president in- Continued on Page Two New Americans Relate Stories of Escape In 3000-Words-and-No-Sentences Vocabulary By Agnes Mason, Barbara Cooley, ’42 You’ve heard the Ballad for Americans; you’ve read the Decla- ration of Independence; you re- member Horace Greeley’s “Go west, young man, go west.” Put them all together with a plus sign and you have the atmosphere at 824 Buck Lane, Haverford, on Sunday, March 2, when thirty new Ameri- cans entertained at tea. “American women -are too busy; they are never satisfied. Their husbands’ buttons don’t get sewed on,” Mr. Gendellin exclaimed. “When we lived in Germany,” added his wife, “we had servants but my husband would not eat if I did not cook the food.” “American women grow old be- fore their time, they are so busy. Also they are too independent.” We protested, but the economist was adamant and alleged that un- employment conditions would be greatly alleviated if the American woman would only stay at home where she belonged. Tea cups| crashed to the floor. “Don’t be frightened. ' It is noth- ing,” said the one who had been introduced to us as the Hungarian baby. Every few minutes someone said, “Oh, but you must meet Mr. Stern,: the president. of..our Baby Club. Perhaps he will be back soon.” At last he came. “Here’s Mr. Stern,” said Mrs. Mamorck, “he does not speak English very well.” we asked. “First I learned ‘I,’” he said, “but if I had known you I would have learned ‘you’ first.” leross the border. Land.qut. between them.” Then gayly he told us with his 3000 words and no sentences the saga of his life. In Vienna he had been a poet and had written sev- eral prose plays which were pro- duced. He said he was now writ- ing one about Shakespeare’s con- flicts with the Puritans and with his wife. Mrs. Gelendin whispered, ‘He was a very eminent man in Vienna,” In 1938 he had to leave Austria. He flew to Czechoslovakia. because he would not have been allowed to When the Ger- mans entered Czechoslovakia, he went to France and there, after war was declared in ’39, he, with every other German or Austrian male, was thrown into a concen- tration camp. Last summer he managed to get out of France by climbing over the Pyrenees into Spain. When the Germans were bomb- the Paris, Mr. Stern said they aimed thousands of bombs right at him, “but I didn’t care. I ran in “Tt was too funny,” said ii Mamorck, “I was going to meet him_in the Paris station to take a train to the south. The station was full of people trying to escape with all their possessions. And then along. came Stern with a little bag in one hand and his violin in the other.” ® - “That was all I needed,” added Mr. Stern grinning. “Tt was very funny. The trains “Come over some night,” he sug- gested. “And can you bring a friend who plays the piano well? Will she be beautiful?” _“I am the All-American—baby,”|were~so-crowded Stern had to sit ~~ sie aa announced Mr. Stern, his eyes on the floor,’ remarked Mrs. ‘ twinkling. “I have 3000 words and , Mamorck. : no sentence.” “We would like to hear yqu $ “What word did you learn first?” | play,” we said.