i | i “VOL: KVL I “Now 19. . balance z- Z-615 , - THE COLLEGE NEWS “BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA,, ‘WEDNESDAY, “APRIL 17, 1940" = 5 ee a ee wr College, 1940 ‘Trustees’ of 8 “PRICE 10° CENTS. Sino-Japanese War Reviewed By 0. Lattimore Goodhart Hall, April 15.—Mr. Owen Lattimore, in his lecture on the future of China, defined Amer- ica’s stake in a free China as the establishment of a constructive peace ‘which has the power to spread jand strengthen of itself.” Although the national and terri- torial integrity of China must be reaffirmed, Japan must not be de- stroyed. A free China means the open- ing up of markets. Reconstruc- tion during the war has led to a|' maximum promotion in China of the democratic technique. This development means a trend ‘toward a constructive economy rather than toward shrinking markets, compe- tition, and the low standard of labor that exists in Japan. China is no» more immune or prone to Bolshevism than any other society. By helping to carry on : Continued on Page Eight Mass-Meeting Held For Inaugurations Goodhart, Monday, April 15.— Before a mass-meeting of the col- lege, the out-going presidents of college “organizations presented their reports of the accomplish- ments of the past year. The newly- elected presidents were inaugu- rated; and .the treasurers of the organizations gave their accounts, all of which showed healthy- bal- ances. Louise Sharp, ’40, President of Self-Government, reported several changes in the Constitution, pro- viding for the incorporation of the Association’s members in the Ex- ecutive Board, and changing elec- tion provisions to make more con- sideration of the candidates for president and vice-president. Mary Paige, ’42, treasurer, reported a of ,$1562.81; and Virginia Nichols, ol was inaugurated as president. Anne Louise Axon, ’40, President of the Undergraduate Association, stressed the tendency toward inno- _vation in campus activities during the past year. The new system of all-college assemblies has been most helpful in formulatin® and “expressing opinion on many ques- tions, especially those of May Day and the Entertainment Committee. The combination of all campaigns “Continued on Page Four Need for or _—Student Link Cited The sain wae meetings of the Alumnae Council, held this year at Bryn Mawr, were devoted to the various activities in which the Alumnae Association takes part. The general aim behind these ac- tivities. is the‘ dove-tailing of the Alumnae Association and the un- dergraduate body. The business session, held on Friday at the Deanery, was devoted to the reports of the committees. Mrs. William .C. Byers, chairman of the Scholarships and Loan. Fund Committee, reported the part the Alumnae Association plays in awarding 129 named _schol- arships, regional scholarships and grants. This year there are 46 regional scholarships, an increase of five over last year. Money given from the Alumnae Fund is also used to supplement the Rhoads Scholarships, professors’ salaries and the money needed to run the Deanery. In the report of the Academic Committee, it was stated that’ the committee this year will study the problem of music as a major field. The Academic Committee of the Continued on Page Six Dr. Vaillant To Give. Lecture On Mexico Dr. George Vaillant will give an illustrated lecture on The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards as Seen Through Indian Eyes, in the Common Room on Friday night, April 19, at 7.30 p. m. This lec- ture is sponsored by the Depart- ments of Social Economy and So- cial Research, and _ Classical Archeology. Dr. Vaillant is the associate curator of Mexican Archeology of the American Mu- seum of Natural History. Congratulations! The News wishes to con- gratulate Mr. and Mrs. Da- vid on the birth of a _ son, Charles Newbold, on April 7, and Mr. and Mrs. Anderson on the birth of a son, Doug- las Ross, April 17. Mysterious Entertainment With Prizes To be Given Undergraduates and Faculty By M. Bogatko, ’41°' On Thursday, April 25, at eight o’clock, in the Deanery, the under- graduate body will be presented with the most unique opportunity in college history. Faculty and students will mingle gaily in what is_known._as-a-game-_party_or-van- ishing bridge supplemented by di- vertissement of a deeply mysterious nature. There just doesn't seem to be any telling what might hap- pen. . Besides. bridge, the...games | that may be indulged in are slap _ jack, rummy, roulette, jacks and Chinese checkers. A particularly strong lure lies in the door prizes of which there ewill be twenty,or thirty. _ These prizes are fabulous. The list is not com- plete yet, but up to date it includes such items as a next year’s season , ticket for the top balcony of the Philadelphia Orchestra, a ham, a series ticket for the Philadelphia Forum, another ham, a_ potted plant, another ham, ° and orders, varying in worth from ten dollars down, from Best’s, Strawbridge & Clothier, and many other shops. And this is by no means the whole story. There will be per- formances' by members of the fa- culty which, it is rumored, will in- clude.take-offs on undergraduates. To be auctioned off are two origi- nal Wyncie King posters. “There will also be Wyncie King carica-’ tures of Professors Watson and Sereeno traditions the holder of the winning number may claim the prize only if he or she is in attend- ance at the party. Coffee and sandwiches will be served toward the end of the evening. ' The tickets which will be one dolar may be put on pay day. The Directors, Faculty and Alumnae Honor Miss Park by Dinner | Philadelphia Museum, April 12. —The meeting of the Alumnae Council on campus provided Bryn Mawr Directors and Alumnae with the perfect opportunity to honor President Park by a gala dinner. To add to-the grandeur of the night, Mr. Stokes, trustee and di- rector of Bryn Mawr, arranged for as a banquet hall. ‘Tribute to the President was of- fered by Mr., Rhoads, chairman of the directors’ board and toastmas- ter for the night, by Mrs. Darrow, president of the Alumnae Council, and by Miss Comstock, president of Radcliffe, Dr. Rufus Jones, of Haverford, and Mr. Gray, profes- sor of History at Bryn Mawr. An- other speaker inserted herself into the program. Miss Park “felt that she too had a few words to say Continued on Page Eight Student Officials To Hold Six-College Conference Saturday The Six-College Conference being held this datucday?ett be attend- ed by delegates from Smith, Vas- sar, Wellesley, Mt. Holyoke, Rad- cliffe, and possibly, Barnard. These delegates are the old and new officers of the chief student bodies. The conference will start early this coming Saturday, fin- ishing with supper in Rifoads for the-delegates. —Sunday morning they will meet for breakfast in the Deanery. On eka afternoon Miss Mary Jean McKay will speak on the National Student Federa- tion. Enea »Qbntinued on Page Five Calendar Thursday, April 18.— Dr. Philip. C. Jessup, America’s Contribution to World Peace, Peace Assem- bly, Goodhart, 11.00. Philosophy Club, Dr, Brand Blanshard, The Coherence Theory of ,Truth, Common Room, 8.00: Friday, April 19.— Dr. George Vaillant, The Conquest of Mexico by The Spaniards as Seen Through Indian “ Eyes, Goodhart, 7.30. Six-College Conferences. Saturday, April 20.— Denbigh Hall Dance. Six-College Conferences. Sunday, April 21.— Dr. Alexander Zabriskie, Chapel, Music Room, 7.30. Six-College Conferences. Monday, April 22.— Mr. Alwyne, Piano cital, Goodhart, 8.30. Re- e Theodore: * Speriter,.. || re Present- State of Poetry, Deanery, 4.30. Miss Reid, Current Events, Common Room, 7.30, International Relations Club, Arbitration of the raffle tickets for the caricature are twenty-five cents each. The money is to go towards helping to pay off the debt on the New Science Building. aia Pesaran ste Altmark Case,. Common Room, 8.15. “Wednesday, April 24.— Dr.- Fleming, » Industrial Group Supper, Common Room, 6.30. the Philadelphia Museum to serve Dryden which. are.to be raffled. Inj}. seine, April 23.— } ‘the: true Bank Nite, Bingo, and{} yee Council Holds- Annual Meetings On F inances, Policies College iad Mbaiixe Councils Held Jointly For the first time in several years the College and Alumnae Councils met together. The pur- pose of this joint meeting was to give the Alumnae a chance to un- derstand the College Council by seeing it in action. The Council revealed itself by the minutes of the last meeting and by five min- ute reports from each of its mem- bers. The speakers were the old members of the Council, the newly elected being allowed to listen and be silent. Miss Park, before introducing the College Council members, ex- plained that no attempt would be made to imitate a typical meeting, for any pre-arranged debate could only be artificial and would repre- sent a false picture of the work- ing organization. Miss Park told briefly the his- tory of the Council and its in- Continued on Page Two Gala Event Planned In Honor of Seniors ‘Of&Saturday night, June 1, Bryn Mawr Will hold its Junior Promen- ade, one of the largest’ and most exciting events of the whole year. The dance will be in honor of the senior class- and: will-- last from ‘nine until two o’clock in the gym- nasium. It will open formally at nine. forty-five with a promenade. All undergraduate students on campus at that time are cordially invited to attend, including gar-| den party girls and the freshmen and sophomore members \of the choir. The committee is very proud to say that Alex Bartha of the Steel Pier in Atlantic City and his band of twelve men including a vocalist will supply continuous music. The order of the evening will be twelve card dances with one hour open for exchanging and free cut- ting although regular cutting will take place . all evening after each number. Admission is three dollars per couple regardless of how many extra men any one ~irl’ wishes to bring. The commit- tee is very anxious to have a male stag line if possible as no girl stags are to be admitted. Tickets will be on sale with all dance rep- resentatives' at the beginning of next wéek. Mr. Cope Receives Guggenheim Award Mr. Arthur Cope, professor of Chemistry, has just received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on the phenomena of tautom- 'erism—and_ the chemistry of tau- tomeric systems. In an iiiterview, Mr. Cope emphasized the element of chance in chemical work. This was. modést but misleading as the ;-Gyegenheim,Fellows.are chosen, on.|}, the bagis-of the nature ofthe prob: | lem_on.which they are working and their fitness to do their work. Mr. Coupe has done most of his experimental work in the field of tautomerism: at Bryn Mawr, as- sisted by the graduate students and the chemistry majors. Next year he_will take a sabbatical_and_will visit the laboratories at Harvard, Columbia, Wisconsin, Minnesota, the University of California, and the California Institute of Tech- nology. , 1940 Honors For Graduates Cited by Schenk Goodhart Hall, March 28.—Dean Schenk opened the assembly the awarding of the fellowships in the graduate school. She an- nounced that certain departmental fellowships would not be awarded because of the war in Europe. These were the Anna Ottendorfer Memorial Research fellowship and the. Ella Reigel fellowship. The Helen Schaeffer Huff Me- morial Scholarship was granted to Miss Helen Jupnik, a student of “independence. and ___ originality,” who received her B. A. at the Uni- versity of Wisconsin and is a can- didate for a Ph.D. this year at the University of Rochester. The Emmy Neuther Fellowship for re- search in mathematics was award- ed to Miss Dorothy Maharam, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a grad- uate of the Carnegie Institute of Technology The Mary E. Garrett- Graduate European Fellowship, the oldest in the college, instituted in 1855, was won by Miss Grace Hennigan. Miss Hennigan received both her B. A. and M. A. degrees at Mount Holyoke College and was a fellow in history at Bryn Mawr in 1938-9. The research for her thesis on the Administration of Chichester in the Jacobean Islands will be done at the Huntington library in Cali- fornia. The Fanny Bullock Work- man Fellowship was awarded to Continued on Page Six H. Resor to State Peace Council Aims; Jessup to Speak At the Peace Day Assembly on Thursday, April 18, at 11 A. M., Philip C. Jessup will speak on America’s Contribution to Peace. Mr. Jessup is professor of Inter- national Law at Columbia. Helen Resor, president of the. Peace Council, will introduce Mr. Jessup. In observing Peace Day the Council is not indulging in false optimism, but rather is try- ing to emphasize the importance of clarity of thought in the midst of world chaos. Players’ Club Elections The Players Club takes great pleasure in announcing the election of Fifi Garbat, 41, as president; of Pennell Crosby, ’41, as vice-president and senior member of the Playreading Committee; of Jocelyn Fleming, ’42, as busi- ness manager; of Madge Daly and Vivi French, both ‘42, as members of the Play- Teading Committee. The following members were also | cleeted: ‘For land, Ann Patsy McKnew degraff, ’42, Wright, ’41.° : Fof lighting : acting: Peggy . Cope- 742, Natalie Bell, °43, Ruth Goldberg, °41, , 43, Ann Up- and Phyllis Frances x ‘higeenee Sah 8 re % iN For crew work: Freda Franklin, ’42, Maisie Har- denberg, ’43, Eleanor Beatty, 43, Edith Vorhaus, ’42, Janet Reggio, ’43, Barbara Lucas, ‘42, Ruth’ Finger, °42, “and Katherine” Dewey, 42. For costumes: Katherine amilton, ’41, Mary Helen Hardin, ’42. For set designing: Eliza- beth Frazier, °42. , Page Two THE COLLEGE NEWS . a] \ ? = Miss Park Returns From Tropical ‘Trip Travels Through Guaanalen - Wilds by-Air, -W. ‘ater, Land On Vacation President Park has just re- turned from a three weeks’ trip in Guatemala, planned for her by her archaeology friends. She ac- complished in that time more than the most enterprising of Cook tourists ever planned. _— * sanding at Puerto Barros, there followed a trip of eight hours up- ward on a small train puffing its way precariously along a single track. Methods of travel are not in /a very advanced stage. She said that general predictions seemed to be that Guatemala, South American countries, will skip the automobile era, and to those of air travel. Besides fly- ing, Miss Park had-hér share of river and: lake travel: The-river, she said, was. at first a bitter disil- lusionment, with no added tropical attractions, but she found her ' spontaneous decision was not justi- fied—for a few bends in the river revealed an abundance of monkeys, alligators and tremendous butter- flies. Besides the more aesthetic as- pect of Guatemala, Miss Park was an eye-witness of its industrial productivity. She visited banana and coffee plantations until her. in- defatigable energy was finally checked by natural barriers. The northernmost province where there are large quantities of chickle and lumber is an impenetrable jungle. Unfortunately, many of the most interesting of the Mayan ruins are in this part of the country. Others are at Quiragna, and these Miss Park was fortunate enough to see. But it was not only the remains of past civiliza- tions that interested her. The In- dians, by far the largest part of the population, are a fascinating race. Intrigued by their costumes, iss Park brought some back with ‘her. K. Hamilton Speaks At Art Club Tea Common Room, April 14.—Kath- erine Hamilton, ’41, was. the speaker at the Art Club tea which opened the present exhibition of Rembrandt reproductions. She noted the unusual relation to mod- ern psychology to be found in the artist’s study of man, and the simplicity with which Rembrandt treats his subjects. @ n i attributed the mystery of bYandt’s effects to the fact that he does not attempt to explain his subjects, or pretend to know them: he merely suggests them to the observer’s own imagination. Rembrandt’s pictures are felt rather than. seen, because. they ap- peal not to the intellect, but to the emotions. , The, tendency to romanticism be- came more marked in Rembrandt’s work as he developed; his early technique is clear and bright, but the shadows grow thick and dark in his later style. Gloomy effects like that in the Man with the Gold Helmet aid the imagination of the spectator to concentrate on the ‘glowing, contemplative face. The soft browns and yellows. of Rembrandt’s. restricted range of color help him to suggest the spiritual as well as’the physical man, and the infinite universe in which he is submerged. Among the pictures reproduced in the exhibit are the famous Hun- dred Guilder Print, the Three Crosses, both etchings; a beautiful portrait of the artist’s son as a young boy, reading;~and- two self, portraits. The exhibit will be on view for several weeks. The editor weleomes letters of like many, College and Alumnae Councils Held Jointly Continued from Page One creased activity. in recent years. The turning -point--of -its-:cafreer came, she said, when food wis added to the routine of the meet- ings. Before this innovation, Miss Park would ask each member if she had any business to bring up and each one carefully ‘replied, “No, Miss Park.” Now the Coun- cil is a very active discussive body. The minutes of the last meet- ing were read and illustrated the Council’s method of _ referring problems. to respective organiza- tions along with the Council’s sug- gestions. After this came the re- port of the Undergraduate Asso- ciation by Anne Louise Axon, ’40. She emphasized the experimental and cooperative nature of this year’s activities, pointing to the Living Newspaper play, the Activi- ties Drive, and the all-college as- semblies. Louise Sharp, *40, reported on the Self Government Association and stressed the liberal nature and the general problems of Bryn Mawr’s system. Of particular im- portance at present, according to the report, is the difficulty of mak- ing the campus realize that the rules * are made, enforced, and changed by the students them- selves. Jane G. Royle, representing the Graduate’ Club, and Rebecca Rob- bins, ’42, the Non-Residents, told of their attempts and difficulties in organizing ‘entertainments and general activities. Miss Royle an- nounced gladly that the social fe of the ‘“puad” had greatly’ /im- proved and that the record-bfeak- ing number of 58 couples \ had turned up for the Radnor dance. League activities were outlined by Louise Morley, ’40. Dividing the field into child welfare work and adult education,..she told —in five minutes the accomplishments of each division. One of the major problems to bé solved by the League is coordination; the re- ligious and vocational conferences were both held this year with this in mind. Helen—Link,—°40,_reported—_the Athletic Association’s activities and emphasized the gradual shift from organized team games to more individual sports such as tennis, ice skating, horseback rid- ing and badminton. She also men- tioned the beautiful drafts for the few building which she had been shown last year for the first and last time. ly The seniors, the last of the small classes, were described by their president, Marion Gill, ’40. Al- though they have acted as a group in the usual things such as rais- ing money for the theatre work- shop, they are known chiefly as in- dividuals. Emily Cheney, ’40, Ginphasived the attempt of the News to stir un campus interest as well were port speakers. To do thi cture write-ups have been less stressed and such features as those on Bryn Mawr politics have been instituted. Editorials likewise have broken away from impartial expositions and purely campus problems... The general editorial policy has been to take definite stands, whether or no the arguments were always concluded. Miss Cheney also re- ported” briefly’ on the Lantern, whose main effort she designated as “maintaining a high level of writing and the interest of the campus at large.” Zabriskie To Speak On Sunday Evening The Reverend Alexander C. Za- briskie of the Theological Semi- nary at Alexandria, Virginia, will Leenduct the Su evening Chapel Service on April/21. Mr. Zabris- kie was here in /the fall and was ‘very enthusiastically received. He discussed the paradox, “Teach me aa ieee Political Poll Shows Campus Republican Suggestions for President of U. §.—-Include Nichols, Gracie, E: Roosevelt The results of the Campus Po- litical Poll announced by: Dr. Wells showed that the students are pre- dominantly Republican, while a majority of the faculty and staff}: are New Deal Democrats. In this poll, in which 70 per cent of the studénts and 50 per’ cent of. the faculty took part; there was a total of 159 Republicans, 97 New Deal Democrats, 25 Anti-New Deal Democrats, and 61 people of other party affiliations. Among these, five were Socialists and two Communists. The poll also showed that the Seniors tend less to copy their parents’ party affiliation. Only 16 per cent of the three lower classes differed in their political party from that of their parents. Of the Seniors, 27 per cent had dif- ferent views. — Only 29 of the students said that members of their immediate family held party or public office. One of the 318 students who re- ported that their family held no office, wrote “None; thank heaven!” Over 50 per cent of the students and faculty voted against a presi- dential third term. Of the re- mainder, many voted uncondition- ally for a third term, but others said that “it depends.” The question on the choice of presidential candidate for the next election found the opinion of the students and faculty very varied. For the Democrats (totaling first, second and third choices), Hull led Roosevelt by 93 to 88 votes. Taft won among,the Republicans with 94 votes to Dewey’s 89. Van- denburg was a poor third with 42 votes. Many other candidates received scattered votes. Favorites among these were Santa Claus, Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky, Coughlin and Lindbergh. Three American women. were suggested as possible candidates: Mrs. Eleanor Roose- velt, Gracie Allen and Virginia Nichols. In spite of all these sug- gestions, several voters could find no adequate candidate, and merely wrote their comments. Some said, “Neither Taft nor Dewey,” or “Anyone to beat Roosevelt,’ or “I’m looking for a miracle.” Two others wanted, “Some dark horse who would placate business,” or ““A Republican dark horse.” And one bewildered student wrote, “God knows!” Earl Schenck Gives Polynesian Lecture \Pusic Room, April 11.—The sub- gett of the talk given by Earl chenck was the origin. of the Tahition people. His lecture was accompanied by colored movies and Polynesian music. Since the Tahitians live mostly out of doors and share everything with each other, houses mean little to them. Since the French domina- tion, land ownership has been intro- duced, and only married men can leave property to their descend- ants.’ Therefore, nowadays when -ants.... Therefore, nowadays,-when are near. 60 they have a great family feast and get married. Celebrations afe an art in Tahiti. Originally the dances told historical ‘talgs of the Polynesian people in pantomime, but they are tionalized. The himenes, or fam- ily history chants, however, are kept intact, and sung at big sing- ing coriventions of people from all ‘the ‘nearby islands. According to the old chants the first discoverers, whose very names are remembered, came from Asia, crossed the ocean in long canoes, and settled down at last on the coral islands to the easy life Which has lulled their once to hold by letting go.” high civilization to sleep. t sae Pn now much shortened ~and~ conven= Original Comedy May Win Stanford Drama Award The Dramatist’s Alliance of Stanford Univergity is offering the inal comedy submitted before May 1, 1940, to the Proctor for Drama Awards, English Department, Stanford University, Calif. The award consists of 200 dollars and presentation of the play during the Dramatist’s Assembly at the University. All the plays must be original, but there is no. re- striction on length or comic mood, Competition is open to all writ- ers. Miss Lynn Fontanne will be among the final judges. Model League Votes To Strengthen Ties The Model League Assembly to which Bryn -Mawr, representing Brazil, sent a delegation of eight, was held at Hobart and William Smith, Colleges, Geneva, N. Y. The delegations of the twenty-four col- leges represented were as members of the community of nations, meet- ing to draw up plans for a durable peace. In addition to this serious pursuit an unusually good time’was had, particularly. at the dance Friday night which, wonder of wonders, was predominantly male. On the Thursday before vacation the Brazilian delegates leapt out of bed to catch the 7.18 train. -One member forgot her funds, another judicially overslept.. Even though there were other delegations aboard the same train, diplomatic inter- course somehow yielded to bridge playing, and only a few persistent souls exchanged views on federal- ism, régionalism and other prob- lems that were to be faced. On Thursday evening there were a few short speeches of formal welcome, then a very enlightening discussion of recent history by Vera Micheles Dean, head of the research staff of the Foreign Pol- i¢y Association. The plenary session of the League Assembly under the presi- dency of Louise Morley speedily converted itself into a World Peace Conference with the aim of draw- ing up plans for some form of in- ternational organization leading to a durable peace. The various dele- gations, sitting around tables bear- | J ing the banners of their nation- pages hurried about the floor trans- mitting notes; some were explana- tions of policy, or suggestions of compromise, others couched invi- tations to the evening’s dance in diplomatic terms. On Saturday afternoon, the final plenary session met to vote as a ous day by the three commissions on constitutional, political and eco- nomic questions, They adopted a two-third voting rule in place of the unanimity requirement which has hampered so many interna- tional conventions. In spite of all the discussion of federalism,. they decided to strengthen and improve the exist- ing organs of international co- operation, to maintain the League, the World Court, and the Interna- tional Labor Office. They advised the gradual lowering of trade re- strictions within large economic areas with the ultimate aim of their world-wide abolishment, and that within these regions there should be a mandatory “most favored na- tion” treatment. Come ‘snow in April or | sleet in May, Flowers are always in. season t xg at Jeannett’s Bryn Mawr Etherege-Award.for the.best. orig-|- ality, listened to the speeches while }, whole on the work done the previ~| Interregional af- || \fairs were to be directed by some Chaos To Disappear In Sherwood’s s Reign New Committee + Head Pictured as the Answer To a Campus Prayer Virginia Sherwood fills an im- portant position for next year as Head of the Entertainment Com- mittee. , Rising like a _ phoenix from the ashes of the past, the new committee has a complicated function. It will attempt’ to co- ordinate campus activities, to plan the Series: and other entertain- ments on the basis of campus opinion, and to create order out of the present scheduling chaos... To fulfil its function the commit- tee has been organized to be ac- cessible to the clubs, to the faculty and to the students themselves. If the proper advantage is taken of this accessibility, the committee will undoubtedly succeed. The time is more than at hand for: action. The burden of making the com- mittee as workable in effect as in’ idea will fall upon Virginia Sher- wood, who as Head of the com- mittee and ambassador» of good’ will, will be established as liason officer between this and that. She has been prepared for her task by eleven years at the same schol and three years at the same col- lege. She fled from France last fall practically into the arms of the entertainment ideologists who this spring elected her to her present position and who see in her and her committee the heav- enly solution of our entertainment problems. — form of World Economic Organiza- tion and an international bank with regional units was to be set up. The: great problems of: peaceful change and the guarantee of na- tional security were dealt with by the political commission to the end that permanent fact-finding com- missions should be set up to inves- tigate and conciliate disputes be- tween states. The general feeling was that a good job had been done in combining a realistic. view of national policies with the idealism necessary for considering world reorganization. Suggestion ! Meet at Tab oe an NEW YORK «>, _The Shelton for years has been the New York headquarters for college women ... for the Shelton provides the club . atmosphere to which discerning college women are: accustomed. Here you can enjoy “extra facilities” at no extra cost, such as the beautiful swimming pool, the gym, solarium, roof terrace, library. The Shelton’s convenient location . right in the Grand Central Zone makes all of New York's amusement and cul- tural places readily accessible. Two popular priced restaurants. Dancing during dinner and supper. SPECIAL RATES TO COLLEGE WOMEN ONLY. . -° $2.00 “S860 $4.00 Rooms without bath Rooms with tub and showe~_ Rooms witb-bath for two Separate floor facilities for women. Ask for Mrs.. Wade, Hostess. ‘SHELTON HOTEL LEXINGTON AVE., at 49th ST. NEW YORK es ¢ THE COLLEGE NEWS Page Three He knew what they’d find in that old cowhide trunk UNG HEIRS MIGHT BE SURPRISED—but he knew the fortune that was paid the Hawkinses when the railroad came through in ’78 and how they never spent or banked a cent of it. The old-time country editor was like that. He knew his county like the back of his hand, from the secret thoughts of the supervisors to the last thank- you-marm on a dead-end road. He knew every man, woman, and child and their Great-Aunt Nellie who ran off with the lightning- rod agent. He knew the story of every yellow old record in the courthouse—and what the boys were laughing at in the livery stable last Sunday. He knew what chance the town had of getting that button factory, and why the parsonage would have a new tenant soon. > The people he wrote for were just as much an open book to him as the news he wrote for them. He wasn’t being quaint when he put the results of the school spelldown on page one, or filled five pages with country correspondence. That was meat and drink to the folks out on the R.F.D. routes— far more important than the Boer War or even silver at 16 to 1—and he knew it. > That old-time country editor had grasp ...com- plete, integrated understanding of all the news of his locality, and the whole of the mind for which it was written. And his formula, “the nearer the news, the bigger,” was essentially the formula of all old-time journalism—in the big cities, as well as in the county seats. But when Dewey entered Manila Bay and boys in bicycle shops began tinkering with the front énds of buggies, the old order began to pass away. The great, complex world forced itself into the affairs and thoughts of easy-going, turn-of-century America. Economics, world politics, finance, industrial man- agement, material resources, labor, social theory— they all began to matter somehow. They got you into wars and strikes and hard times. Science be- gan to matter when diphtheria and t.b-werefound not to be acts of God. Art began to matter when your daughter came back from Paris or Peoria call- ing you a Philistine. > America’s mind, stretching, pushing out its ho- rizons, called for more news...more kinds of news...news from beyond.the railroad: depot. And the news poured in—from the just-hatched wire services, from specialists of all kinds, from the syndicates, the feature writers, the correspondents. Soon the old one-man grasp was gone. The tor- rent of news was too great and too swift, its sources too many and too remote, for any one man to han- dle and absorb it all. And if the editor was swamped, the reader was drowned. In self-defense, he learned to pick his way about his newspaper, snatching a bit here and a bit there, mostly according to the ingenuity of. the headline-writer. Often he missed: news of impor- tance; often he failed to see-what a series of day-by- day stories added up to in the end. > There was a crying need for a new experiment in journalism. A need for some- body with a national view- point—free from the pres- sure of daily and hourly deadlines—to bring the news together so that the intelli- gent reader could get its es- sentials, grasp them, make them his ewan. * > That somebody turned out to be The Weekly Newsmagazine. With its advantage of time for re- flection and discussion, the Newsmagazine made this task its single-minded purpose. It set out to do the country editor’s job with a world-wide scope and on a national scale. ...To take all the week’s news and make the pic- ture make sense to the average intelligent Amer- ican. To set it against a fully comprehended back- ground. To write it vividly, compactly, forcefully ... with full appreciation of the mind for whichit is intended... with the touch of human under- standing that brings people and events to moving, breathing life. The Newsmagazine is written by experts, but never for experts. No story in TIME can go gallop- ing off on a hobby; it must be paced firmly and smoothly to the brisk stride of the whole magazine, whether the subject is world affairs or politics, or business or finance, or medicine, religion, or the | arts. > That is why TIME seems to be written by one man, who knows TIME readers as the old-time coun- try editor knew the folks in his county. That is why the average TIME reader starts at the begin- ning and goes through to the end, feeling that every line gives him something that he wants and needs and can use. This is one of a series of advertisements in : which the Editors of TIME hope to give College Students a clearer picture of the world of news- gathering, news-writing, and news-reading—and the part TIME plays in helping you to grasp, measure, and use the history of your lifetime as you live the story of your life. ‘ —= THE COLLEGE NEWS 7 \ \ fa DS ‘age Four —_— il THE COLLEGE NEWS (Founded in 1914) Pa., and Bryn Mawr College. Published cathe during the College Year (excepting during Thanks- ng, Christmas and Easter Holidays, and during examination weeks) fa ‘the’ Ve a of Roary ® Mawr College at the Maguire Building, Wayne, * The College News is fully appears in it may be reprinte permission of the Editor-in-Chief. rotected by co either wholly or in part without written pyright. 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The result is that undergradu- ates find themselves being protected; not far off is the next step of limiting the young innocents to specified ideas and theories, lest they develop the dangerous power of thinking for themselves. t Last week a still more glaring incidence of university censorship | occurred. A columnist on the newspaper of Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., opposed, in a news story, the administration’s choice of a commencement speaker. The reporter and the editor were summoned before the college president and from now on the paper is to be subject to the approval of college authorities. ; In these two cases, and there are many more, the principle of repression is justified on the grounds that undergraduates are not trusted with freedom of thought. in the hot house and fed on a carefullysselected diet. Instead the student is to be kept Yet by gradua- tion day the seniors generally have assumed full responsibility of voting citizens who must make their decision on facts drawn from newspapers and books supposedly uncensored. If the undergraduate is allowed freedom, undoubtedly mistakes will occur and time will be spent in rectifying errors that might not} have happened if his thinking had been systematized by experience. Without previous training in the use of freedom, however, how can the seniors as citizens approach national problems with anything but immature and extremely biased attitudes? For a democracy to func- tion, the freedom of its universities is imperative. ~~ The Sensitive Plant Undergraduates are apt to think of themselves-.as owners of the college and to forget two other important groups, the alumnae and the graduates. Awareness of the alumnae’s part on the campus has been increased lately by such meetings as those of last spring and the joint council meeting last Saturday. Only at the graduate assembly, however, are we made to realize the part played by the graduates in campus life. Most of the time ‘we realize that Radnor exists, but closer coor- dination is rare. Work in the League, the political groups, the A. S. U. and perhaps even the Players’ Club would be of interest to gradu- ates. Certainly we stand to gain much from their addition. Our own activities, problems and work have been allowed to crowd out the fact that the graduate school about equals.the junior. or senior class in size and is of. major importance to-the college curriculum. as the larger group to take the initiative. It is up to us This might be done by the voluntary efforts of individuals or by the attempts of clubs to obtain graduate representatives and to encourage graduate members. Another possible way of stirring up general interest would be for the Undergraduate Association to hold an assembly in conjunction with the graduates. ‘Here the difficulties and possibilities of closer cooperation could be debated. Such an assembly might at least rouse the undergraduate from the comfortable idea that they are the sole group the college serves and give them some perspective of their rela- tive position on campus. SUBURBAN. MOVIES ARDMORE: Thursday: Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet, with Ed. ward G. Robinson. Friday through Tuesday: Northwest Passage. Wednesday: 1 Take ‘This Woman, | wi with Spencer Tracy and Hedy La- marr . SEVILLE: Thursday and Fri- day: Wallace Beery .and Dolores Del Rio in Man From Dahgta. Saturday: Music in My Heart, with Tony Martin _and Rita Hay-|7T ie ee ee ee ee een) FORUM Position of Balkans Highly Important in Today’s War ~ Says Miller This new column is for specially contributed articles on topics sug- gested by the “news” to some mem- ber of the faculty or student body. The. Balkan states are a cultural unit though divided among nine- teen varieties of peoples,. with five religions. Geographically and his- ‘torically Czechoslovakia and Hun- gary belong to the Balkans, but they have shared in European civ- ilization and are generally consid- ered as outside the Balkans, though they have many common interests. Poverty, illiteracy and attach- ment to their traditions and habi- tat’ are characteristic of all the Balkan people. With the exception of Roumania, most of the land is mountainous, and the independence of the mountaineers differentiates them from peasants who are more docile and easily exploited. They have all been conquered but never assimilated. The Turks converted many. to Islam but they remained what they were. The greatest Ser- bian holiday is in commemoration. of their bitter defeat by the Turks at Kossovo in 1389. This experience in being con- quered but still surviving is impor- tant at the present moment: It. is so characteristic that a recent. ex- cellent book on the Balkans is en- titled ‘World Without End” to in- dicate the persistence of the people. There is no possibility ‘of a people with no discontented, poor Mass-Meeting Held For Inaugurations Continued from Page One in the Activities Drive, also an in- novation, was completely success- ful. Christine Waples, ’42, treas: urer, reported a_ balance of $1047.50 on hand; and Charlotte Hutchins, ’41, was inaugurated as next year’s president. t Louise Morley, ’40, as head of the Bryn Mawr League, reported its activities during the past year, citing particularly the Camp carry- over work done with the Main Line children, the new Better 'Babies’ Clinic work, the Religious Conference, and the great success of the maids’ and porters’ Porgy and Bess. Nancy Howard, %1, treasurer, showed a_ balance of $131.29, and was then inaugurated as next year’s League president. In the Common, Room, after the meeting, Elizabeth Kerr, ’42, was elected secretary..and-treasurer for next year; and Virginia Mark- ham and Polly Coan were re-elected as head and assistant of the Chapel Committee. Helen Link, ’40, President of the Athletic Association, gave its re- port for the last year, mentioning particularly the innovation of golf, ice skating, archery and riding as credit sports. Peggy Squibb, ’41, was inaugurated as President of the Association for 1940-41. worth. Sunday’ Double feature, Mexican Spitfire and Saint’s Dou- ble Trouble. Monday and Tues- dan in Castle on the Hudson. SUBURBAN: Thursday:- The Secret Four, based on Edgar Wal; lace’s-Four Just Men. Friday and Saturday: Charlie Chan in Pana- ma. Sunday and Monday: Laur- ence Olivier, Vivien. Leigh and Raymond Massey in Fire Over England. Tuesday and Wednes- day: Henry Fonda and Jane Dar- well in The Grapes of Wrath. _ WAYNE: Thursday: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and It Happened One Night. Friday and Saturday: Fred .Astaiz‘é and Eleanor Powell in Broadway Melody of 1940. Sun- day and Monday: Freddie Bar- tholomew in Swiss Family Robin- son. Tuesday and Wednesday: day: John Garfield and Ann Sheri-| Weiss Relates God With Man, Universe Mr. Weiss, at the meeting of the Philosophy Club on Wednesday, {gave an outline of The Nature of the World. He showed that the one principle, in terms of which all phenomena in the world might be related, was that of “reaching out.” Mr. Weiss first spoke of the value of this fundamental of “need” in relating the animate with the inanimate in the world. When we view things not as iso- lated entities, but as having con- cern for other things, we can see that the inanimate things reach out and never grasp. Animate things, on the other hand, grasp and assimilate and their move- ments are, consequently, unpredit- table. Acting upon this principle, how- ever, “we find difficulty in ac- knowledging that God exists.”’ The question of God and the world raises immediate difficulties. If we start with the world, we cannot get out of it and above it. If we change our approach and start with God, “we run the risk of talking about things ‘beyond the reach of man.’ ” Each thing desires other things in terms of itself. But there is a significant -sense in which one re- spects others, recognizes them as oneself in another guise. In that sense one wants, not to have others, but to be one with them. Love for men is an indispensable condi- tion in the search for God. middle class being converted to Nazi ideology. There are no middle classes, only . poor, peasants and herdsmen, and government officials who take the place of capitalists as exploiters. The kings of Roumania and Jugoslavia have much larger incomes than. the King of England. Only Roumania has large nat- ural resources. The others are im- portant’ for their locations. Rou- mania, whose government tradition is one of corruption, is in the most dangerous position. Through Rou- mania-by way of’the, Blaek Sea is: the only approach possible by the Allies, and Roumania is threatened by Russia and hated by Hungary. No one can have any assurance of the course Roumania will follow. The Jugoslavs and_ Bulgarians know that they know how to fight and they will be difficult to conquer. The assets of the Balkans are their mountains and their independent character. Their liabilities are po- litical inexperience, inability to unite, and backwardness. As the Scandanavian. peninsula has achieved the highest civilization in Europe, the Balkan Penisula rep- resents the most retarded. At this moment both face the same condi- tions of invasion. The very retar- dation may be of peculiar value in resisting the uncivilized facts of war. HERBERT A. MILLER, Professor of Social Economy. Consequences of German War Moves Into Scandinavia Weighed by'Gray English statesmen declare that the German occupation of Norway is a strategic blunder comparable lwith Napoleon’s occupation of Spain. Without doubt, it is the most important event of the War since the conquest of Poland. What, then, are its seeming advantages and disadvantages from the /Ger- man point of view? To take the latter first. The step is reminiscent of the German passage through Belgium in the last war.” Now as then the action was definitely planned; for, what- ever justification may be sought in the English laying of mines in Norwegian territorial | waters (Churchill tells how reluctantly his government did this), the scope of the German preparation \and- the phraseology of the justifying docu- ment reveal antecedent German ..-{planning,... The immedjate effect: on nation. WIT’S END Let’s Get Out of This Firetrap If Spring comes, can we be far behind? Thanks, we are a little far behind in our work. And you, Lily, are you happy, too? Children dear, was it yesterday? Quizzes behind us, vacation in front.:.)'« And now is life worth living, say, Vacation behind, exams in front? Thirty days hath September... And April and March seem to have quite a lot of days, too. With all different numbers on them: -One’s the first, and one’s the second, and then your crew develops scurvy and you have to learn how to eat oranges. Spring cometh not uncalled-for. Although why anybody should have called for this one, goodness knows. Nor does goodness know, I’ll warrant, where it will all end. Goodnight. ° the conscience of the neutral world is likewise the same as in 1914— indignation at the flouting of the independence and neutrality of a small and comparatively helpless The German justification is that Germany had incontrovert- able evidence that the Allies were themselves preparing to make a landing in Scandinavia. The world will await somewhat skeptically the publication of this evidence, now promised. A second disadvantage is the difficulty of maintaining a far- flung line of defense. Narvik, for instance, has..proved too isolated to..be defensible. Many soldiers will have to be withdrawn from Germany, but it is possible that abundant man-power permits of this. If Germany is pressed to maintain communications she may have to demand the use of the rail- ways of Sweden and then _ risk bringing that nation into war against her. Are there advantages compen- sating to these risks? There are at least two, if the occupation of Norway can be maintained. One is the securing of the supply of Swedish iron ore and the diversion to Germany of timber and other produce. The other is the possi- bility of using Norwegian ports as bases for submarine and air at- tacks on England and her fleet. Although the first German an- nouncement disclaimed such an aim “so long as not forced through acts of England or France,” it is now said that the English attack has freed Germany from her prom- ise. While, therefore, the disadvan- tages to Germany of the occupa- tion are largely moral, the mate- rial advantages may be not incon- siderable if the operation proves successful. Is it likely sp to prove? To effect an extensive landing of Allied troops in a Norwegian port is a hazardous task. Narvik does not offer a satisfactory gateway to the south. To dispossess the Ger- mans generally there must be an ‘leffective blockade both by sea and by air. Two hundred German air- planes are:said to be landing 400 troops a day, while others bring supplies. A test of the efficacy of sea power is being made before our eyes. Hitherto sea power has been effective under\ circumstances like these, though threatened in the last war by the submarine. To- day it has to reckon with aircraft, both transport and bombing. It is possible that a decisive moment in naval history is at hand. Howarp L. Gray, Professor of History. Play Postponed The Players’ Club produc- tion of Bartholomew Fair has been postponed tenta- tively until the afternoon of April 31. ‘ LEIS EE . abies ~ THE COLLEGE NEWS Page Five 4 af Spencer Believes Modern Poets Need A New Social Unity Deanery, April 16.—In modern American poetry, the shepherd’s pipe is right beside the barbaric yawk,” said Mr. Theodore Spencer, in the second of his three lectures on The Present State of Poetry. These two elements, continued Mr. Spencer, are’ combined in_ the poetry of Walt Whitman, whose influence is still dominating. our poets. Whitman’s poetry is essentially democratic and natively American, because in an exciting, exhilirating manner he does away with all dis- tinctions. The great difficulty with American poetry today is Ahat each poet is an indivfthaalist writ- ing for a comparatively uncritical audience that does not consider poetry an integral part of its life. The common aim of poets today, said Mr. Spencer, should be to -find a. new social unity which _ would be satisfactory, both intel- ‘Lee Masters in his Spoon River lectually and spiritually. Edgar \iee Mat has aimed at a national --unity through the symbol of one community, and in’ U.S.]., Muriel Ruckeiser adopted a similar . method. Carl Sandburg’s The People, Yes is the most ambitious effort of our time to represent the people as a whole, but it lacks unity, because the ‘poet has substi- tuted local color for moral values. Mr. Spencer believes that any ambitious poem must be a reflec- . tion of national feeling, but that it will be successful only if the in- dividual problem comes first. ~The natural tendency of American ‘ poetry seems to be lyrical and per- ‘ sonal; the poems of Whitman which we remember most are those like “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rock- ing.” Archibald MacLeish has ‘ worked in this tradition, but he doesn’t stop. with lyrics, he wants also to be a poet of the people. ‘Though he is sentimental and lacks the feeling for the dramatic which is necessary to a poem like, The Conquistador, he has had an un- deniable_ influence on our poetry. .Edna St. Vincent Millay is a wholly lyric and personal poet, but it is a _lyricism of second-hand expres- sions of second-hand emotions. Her poetry is vague and unfocussed; it cannot stand up, as all good poetry must, under intellectual analysis. Mr. Spencer suggested six stand- ards as a criterion for judging modern poetry: competent crafts- manship, a conviction of genuine experience, a certainty that every word has been chosen carefully, an individual rhythm, an intellec- tual and emotional discussion of the question, and something more than the poet’s immediate response to his experience. Edwin Arling- ton Robinson and Robert Frost are serious craftsmen who have each expressed some aspect of American. individualism. Robinson’s _ rela- tionship toward the younger poets is that of a grandmother—he is admired, but is not very helpful. From Frost, poets may learn the value of a precise image expressed in precise language and of a con- centration of one’s talents. There are two younger poets who seem to Mr. Spencer to pos- sess these requirements of good poetry. Both John Crowe Ran- som and Wallace Stevens have written in an individual idiom. Mr. Ransom’s poetry is purely lyrical, but he is .a master of metrical counterpoint—the rhythm of speech always comes out above the metre. He uses both his brain and emo- tion, ‘and sometimes as in The Equilibrists an unexpected phrase, an. intellectual or verbal surprise becomes the essence of the poem. Wallace Stevens is less intellectual, more dependent on verbal impres- sions. His success is due to a fan- ciful_originality .and—a-—surprising juxta-position of words and ideas. The editor welcomes letters of constructive criticism. Alwyne to Present Recital in Goodhart Mr. Horace Alwyne, Director of the Music Department, will give a pianoforte recital in Goodhart, Monday, April 22, at 8:30.° The program will be as follows: Bach: Fantasia in C minor Haydn: Andante con Variazioni in F minor Chopin-Liszt: 6 Chants polonais Debussy: Poissons d’or Des pas sur la neige Feux d’artifice Ravel:- Sonatine Modéré Mouvement de Menuet Animé ; Moussorgsky: Pictures at an Ex- hibition. T. Spencer Suggests 17th Century Works As Model for Today Theodore Spencer gave the first of his three lectures on The Pres- ent State of Poetry sponsored by a committee. of friends which in- cludes Miss Gertrude Ely, Mrs. George Roberts and Mrs. Kenneth Day. He said that today poetry is the most unpopular of the arts. “The reading of Eliot and Yeats is not a social act because they lack snob appeal.” The cause of this situation, Mr. Spencer believes, is that poetry, particularly modern poetry, is not sufficiently remote from everyday experiences. The most vigorous poetry was written in the seven- teenth century and modern poetry should try to recreate their fusion of imagination, reality, and emo- tional intensity. Before 1910 poetry was over- shadowed by prose. Even after the technical reforms of the second decade of the ‘twentieth century, poetry still seemed inevitably to revert to “beautiful language.” It was the Imagists who revolted against this “rancid romanticism.” Observation of concrete detail and experiences of daily life were the characteristic features of the poetry of Ezra Pound and Ford Mattox Ford. This movement away from superficiality lasted four or five years. * Eliot, Joyce, and Yeats were representatives of the next period. Eliot found his pattern in the tradition of ancient Christianity and used it in Family Reunion which, though written with the new ideals, is somewhat obscure. Ash- Wednesday shows his efforts to- ward simple style, but is over- weighted with abstractions. | Joyce faced the same artistic problem froma different angle. ‘He looked at the world from a su- pernatural point of view (Finni- gan’s Wake) while Yeats and Eliot were interested in the more per- sonal, human _ outlook. His symbol is the individual—the es- sential reality. By 1920 the poetry of Yeats seemed to be “thinning out.” Al- ready an acknowledged master of lyrics, he now seemed to be hiding behind a veil of private mysticism. However, this proved to be only a stage in his development which gave added powgr to his later work. In The Vision in Sailing to Byzantium; one of his~best poems, he turns to the country of intellect and pure art, from which he can look back on the sensuous world. In the last period the poets face the same problem, but reach still RELAX and CHAT at the | ‘BRYN’ MAWR COLLEGE INN Breakfast Lunch Government Conference Continued from Page One Undergraduate interest in Self- Government and the financing of undergraduat® associations and charity drives have been offered by several colleges as subjects for discussion. Also suggested was the planning of events and their publicity through’ chapels, mass meetings, and bulletin boards. The structure, function, and activities of peace and political groups will be discussed, as well as such sub- jects as freshman - orientation, refugee students, and college pub- lications. ‘ cd F anks Miss Reid Common Room, Goodhart, Tues- day, April 16.—Germany’s aim in attacking Scandinavia was two- fold. She wished, first, to gain strategic positions, and, second, to intimidate the remaining neutral) nations. into complete passivity. But the neutrals now see that Ger- man policy leaves them no hope. Their attitude has, therefore, stiff- ened. Neither has Germany gained much/stkategically. She holds Nar- vik, but England is blockading it, and the shipments of iron ore from Sweden will not proceed. What will be the effect of this new aggression upon other coun- tries? Iceland has declared her in- dependence of Denmark. Her tie with Denmark has long been only a personal one, through King Haa- kon, and she has been practically autonomous for years. Greenland, however, is another question. Four hundred and fifty miles from the United States, on the direct Berlin- New York route, she is a perfect territory in which to establish an air-base. In the first World War, when we bought the Danish West Indies to save them from German occupation, we renounced all claims to Greenland; but German power there would bea serious menace to us. Italy has ,been doing some sabre rattling lately. She has a good bargaining technique, and may be building up to a compromise with the Allies. She may, however, want war—for the sake of the Jugo-Slav coast, or for Egypt, which she has long coveted. Spain is another danger spot. It is rumored that Franco has been under pressure to repay his Ger- man obligations by allowing the es- tablishment of German air bases within Spain. another solution. Characteristic jectivity and democratic “ feeling. At the present time Day-Lewis is |\fading in importance, while Auden is becoming labored in an effort to gain Simplicity. Spender’s treat- ment. is ‘sometimes unreal while Dylan Thomas’ poetry has the “at- mosphere of a hothouse.” Mac Neice alone has a natural colloquial style. : In conclusion, Mr. Spencer ad-+ mitted’ it was uncertain whether “the ‘dilemma of English poetry” was due to its. degeneration or whether to its being in a formative state gathering force for a pxomis- ing future. .. The effects of the second world war cannot be_ seen yet, but, Mr. Spencer believes, “the tragedy may be too universal for poetry.” Dinner Tea Six Colleges Hold. Self | of these young poets is theif ob-| | Opinion Changes in Rules Suggested To Promote Stricter Law Observation To the Editor of the College News: We believe that in the last four years the Self Government Asso- ciation has ceased to be an effective organ. During this time we have seen many instances of the follow- ing infringements, most of which have gone unpunished and punish- ments, when inflicted, have been so mild as to be useless and ridicu- lous: ‘1. Exits and entrances after 10.30 through windows in Rhoads, the fire door in Pembroke, the fire escapes in Merion. 2. Deliberately incorrect sign- 4. ing-out. 8. Smoking in the rooms—not only an infringement of the rules, but a fire hazard. 4. Walking to the village and going to classes in trousers. 5. Smoking in the Main Line Station. We suggest the following cor- rections: Anonymous reporting of in- fringements. Every student as a member of the Self Government Association has the responsibility for the enforcement of its rules. In the matter of signing out, then, permission-givers are unnecessary. The student should be allowed to exercise her own judgment as to where to go after 10.30 p. m., Restrictions on time will be ac- cording to type of place, not specific place. For example: 2.00 for dancing where there is an orchestra. i 12.15 Main Line, escorted. 11.80 Main Line, unescorted. Since we believe that we will be better able to live by these rules, penalties for their infringement should be accordingly more severe. Since the scholastic policy of the college is one which encour- BADMINTON MEETS A GREAT SUCCESS The Bryn Mawr badminton squad has batted its way this year from an insignificant past to var- sity fame. In 1939 the team-played and lost one match to Swarthmore; in 1940 Bryn Mawr defeated three college teams and lost pnly to the experienced Merion C. C. sextet. The members of the Varsity are chosen from their positions on the Ladder. The three singles berths were usually filled by Martin, ’42 (capbain), Matthai, ’43, and Boal, ’42, respectively. First doubles: Resor, ’42;-Thompson, ’41 (Thomp- son is second on the Ladder). Sec- ond doubles: Perry, ’42; Gumbart, 42; Murphy, ’42; Perkins, ’42, -al- | though a member of the team, was out of college. Harriet Martin gratulated for garnering two championships at the Eastern Women’s Intercollegiate Badmin- ton Tournament, recently held in New York City. Martin won the singles title: and, paired with Thompson, the women’s doubles. As this was the first year of the women’s tournament, the list of entrants Was small. However, as each player represented a differ- ent college, the chances are good that the tournament will be larger next year. is to be con- Michelangelo Lecture ‘ Edgar Wind, editor of the Jour- nal of the Warburg Library, will give a lecture on The Sistine Ceil- ing by Michelangelo—A New In- terpretation, tomorrow’ evening, April 18, at 8.15, at the Haverford Union. Mr. Wind’s interpretation is based on the startling discovery of Michelangelo’s source. ages independent judgment, we, therefore, feel that it is only ¢on- sistent to extend this policy to in- clude all phases of the students’ conduct while in residence. Sincerely yours, BARBARA GROBEN, ’40, SALLY Norris, ’40, DoroTHY Voicr?, ’40, Betty WILSON, ’40. It’s something Coca-Cola gives that millions have liked for more than fifty years,—a plete refreshment that adds to your enjoyment of ice-cold Coca-Cola. No wonder people the world over say: get a Coca-Cola, and get the feel of refreshment. happy after-sense of com- ff THE PAUSE THAT REFR® Bontled under authority of The Coca-Cola Co. by THE PHILADELPHIA COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. —_S rs _ ooner com — - ‘ x “— ~ them. committee of a psychological and Page Six ~ THB COLLEGE NEWS \ Alumnae Council Meets On Bryn Mawr Campus Continued from Page One Alumnae Association, which works to some degree as a link between the Association and the student body, takes a problem which seems of interest to the students, studies it, and reports on it at the annial meeting of the Association in the spring. . The recommendations of the Association on the problem are then sent to the college, and the collegé may or may’ not act upon Miss Marjorie Thompson, editor of the Alumnae Bulletin, described such recent innovations as the sig- nificant articles on college activi- ties, which help to link the inter- ests-of the faculty, alumnae and undergraduates. These articles are published as another means of keeping the alumnae close to col- lege interests. a Graduates and) Alumnae In the special: report for the Committee on Graduate Members, Miss Schenck said that the gradu- ate students, who are interested members of the Alumnae Asso- iation, want to establish, with the help of the alumnae, a fund for ¢ndowed fellowships and schol- ips. The fellowships are now - by college funds. Dr. Mary L. James, chairman of the Committee on Health and Physical Education, presented the question proposed for study by the physical survey of an arbitrary group of undergraduates to fur- ther the science of “psycho-so- matic” medicine, the study of the relationship of physical ailments and emotional causes. The meeting on Sunday morning at the Deanery was devoted to the reports of the District »Coun- cillors, which pointed out the problems of particular districts. The main activities of the Coun- cillors consist in finding scholar- ship girls and in keeping alumnae in contact with each other and with the college. The reports of the Councillors emphasized the same point which was brought out in the discussion following the talk of Dr. Lee, the Senior Alumnae Director, the previous afternoon— that the alumnae directors, to un- derstand college problems as they actually exist, must come in more direct contact with the campus, either through their presence here or through speakers acting as traveling representatives of the campus. Phases of the College At the Saturday meeting of the Council and the Delaware Alum- nae at the home of Mrs. Pierre S. duPont in Kennett Square, Phases of the College were presented in talks by Anne C. Toll, ’39; Anne Louise Axon, 40; Dean Schenck, Miss Frederica deLaguna a Dr. Mary Alden Morgan Lée, Senior Alumnae Director. Anne C. Toll, reporting on the present activities of last year’s graduating class, suggested that a course in typing would be a valu- ‘able addition to the Bryn Mawr curriculum. In presenting The U ndergradu- ate Point of View Regarding. the Alumnae Association, Anne Louise Axon said that her assumed premise was that the “Alumnae Association exists primarily to help the college” and that the present undergraduate generation was made “acutely conscious of the generosity of the alumnae” which made possible the recent “building boom” on campus and EL ES |Orchestra. Lost in Snowdrifts; Strauss Waltzes Hold Guests; No Refunds Asked The A.S.U. had announced a square dance for Friday for the benefit of its peace fund. Posters wefe up, Haverford was tipped off, and a two-piece orchestra complete with Caller had been engaged. No one could have predicted the snow. No one could be blamed when the orchestra got lost in the snow. The Bryn Mawr girls sat, be- ginghamed, in the gym and told snow-covered Haverford boys one by one, that the cloakroom was downstairs. They collected 25 cents apiece from the ones that couldn’t slip by,..wdhich they promised to refund in full if the orchestra failed to show up. Search parties scoured Rhoadsy and telephoned around, inquiring after people with instruments. The Bryn Mawr girls told each other stories about bliz- zards and St. Bernard dogs, and finally a victrola was produced and everybody started to waltz to Strauss. By the, time the waltzing had reached {ts full momentum, an ur- ban looking gentleman accompanied by a bewildered lad with a suit- case, entered the gym, stamped hesitatingly at the doormat, finally approached someone and said with a trace of contempt, “Is this EDI- FICE Bryn Mawr College?” “Cloakroom downstairs,” the girl said, in’ confirmation. The gentleman looked inside: at the waltzing couples and then said, “Did you. engage—an orchestra?” and he introduced the lad with himy who was struggling undér] the weight of what turned out to be an accordian. All the searching parties were recalled and someone put the Strauss records behind the piano. w The gentleman called. Virginia Reels, Pop Goes the Weasel and the Little Brown Jug. Bess Lomax, ’41, and Ann Robins, ’40, provided a guitar accompaniment to the spirited accordion, and _ people started opening windows and con- suming’ grapejuice. It did turn out | to a square dance, after all. | Whitaker and the Quartet ar- rived through the snow and sang Stop That Band and Them There Eyes, and It Ain’t Necessarily So. When Carl got started at the piano, Whitaker sang A Red Headed Woman and as Carl ‘said, “went into his dance.” Whitaker called it “a bit o’ soft-shoe,” and was en- thusiastically applauded. The final proof of the party’s success was that several boys who had crashed paid ~as_ they left. And we only had to eat five of the remaining doughnuts. We sold the rest in. Rhoads and Denbigh. the resulting expansion of the col-| lege. Dean Schenck. reported -on The Graduate School. She spoke of the rotating joint research plan, and the proposed undertaking of Dr. Torres-Rioseco and Miss Meigs to effect the translation and publica- tion of South American novels for distribution in North America. She also discussed the activities of the graduates and of the European Fellows. Activities of the Faculty In her talk on The Faculty, Miss deLaguna spoke of the new Science Club for faculty and graduate stu- dents in the science departments. Informal laboratory teas have been introduced and have made the laboratories “centers of social intellectual life.” The Club also plans for informal meetings between the science de- partments. The first of these meetings was held in February in the Deanery, where Miss Jane Oppenheimer discussed the studies the Dalton biologists are making on the central nervous systems of the salamander and fish embryos. The plans for Anthropology next year include the Anna How- ard Shaw Lectures, which will be given by Dr. Ruth Benedict, of Columbia University. Dr. Bene- dict, during her six weeks’ stay here, will give a half a dozen public lectures, meet the under- graduate class in Anthropology, and take charge of a pila hf seminar on The Individual and Society. This seminar will be led jointly by Miss deLaguna and Mr. MacKinnon, and the Mary Paul Collins Scholarship for a foreign woman and two special scholarships in Sociology and An- thropology are to be awarded to students who wish to participate in the seminar. A_ special re- search project in some topic cov- ered by the main field of the semi- nar will also be offered. An Undergraduate course in American Archaeology has been decided upon for next year, al- though the money for it is still to be raised. After such a course as preliminary training, a selected group of students would go next summer to Flagstaff, Arizona, for a dig, with the help of the Mu- seum of Northern Arizona. The site of the excavation would be an unexplored ruin called Grape- vine, presumably inhabited about 1300-1400 A. D. by a group of Indians about whom very little is known. TYPICAL NIGHT AND SUNDAY RATES FROM BRYN MAWR> For 3-Minute Station-to-Station Calls NEW YORK SCRANTON ‘NEW HAVEN ALBANY CITY, N.Y... PA, CONN. N. Y. 35¢ | 35¢ 45¢ 55¢ * ALTOONA BOSTON PITTSBURGH ROANOKE PA. MASS. ’ PA. VA. 45¢ 60° 60<¢ 70¢ BURLINGTON HUNTINGTON DETROIT CHARLOTTE vt. W. VA. MICH. NC. 75¢ 80c 85*¢ | 90¢ _ These reduced long distance rates are’ in effect “every night after 7 and all day Sunday. Take ad- vantage of them to get in touch with the folks back home and with out-of-town friends. THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF PENNSYLVANIA te} Dr. F. Keppel Speaks At Graduate Assembly Cont‘nued from Page One Miss Grazia Avitabile, of Rome, Italy, A..B. Smith College 1937 and M. A. 1988. She has been scholar and part-time instructor at Bryn Mawr during the last two and, according to Dean sehen shown an_ almost alarming capacity for work. A complete list of the awards includes 16 resident fellows, 30 resident scholars, 9 special schol- ars and 4 traveling fellowships. The students will come to Bryn Mawr next fall from 18 states and 4 foreign countries. ' When the awards had been made Dr. Frederick Keppel addressed the assembly. His subject was The Relationship Between En- dowed Foundations and the Ad- vancement of Learning, appropri- ate because of the recent award of 150,000 dollars to Bryn Mawr College by the Carnegie Corpora- tion. The earliest endowed institutions were in the time of Ptolemy, while the first in Europe was the Cath- olic Church. In the beginning or- ganizations were dedicated to the relief of suffering. Encourage- ment to research was a later de- velopment. The first substantial foundation in America, Dr. Keppel said, was the Simthsonian Institute. Recent years have seen a startling growth in the movement. In the last fif- teen. years Yale, Harvard, Chi- cago and Columbia have _ seen their collective endowments in- crease from less than 20 to more than 80 million dollars. In the 1920’s funds were given to colleges to be distributed at their own discretion, but more re- cently the grants have been for special research. However, Dr. Keppel believes there are indica- tions that we will return to the former system by which the in- stitution receiving the grant de- termines for itself the best use for the funds. The result might be that over-stimulation in certain fields could be checked. To date endowed institutions in America are: in a fortunate posi- tion. They have more funds at their disposal than similar organi-4 zations in other countries have, or have had at any time. “This,” Dr. Keppel said, “is quantitatively impressive, but qualitatively not proven.” These sometimes unre- warding grants are widely circu- Dead End Kids Are Queens for a Night On Friday night, in the midst tive blizzard, 14 undergraduates found themselves guésts at the Park: Clad in dignified evening clothes, they trooped, starry-eyed, into the Art Museum and tried to keep their glass slippers from pinching their feet. Milling graciously into the XVI Century Florentine Room (com- mandeered for the dispensation of cocktails), our girls found them- selves in a fabulous welter, of frag- mentary tables and Priceless Old China. In silent awe they gazed at the 300-odd distinguished guests and wished that they had learned to do a court curtsy or something. Presently they flowed along un- obtrusively with, the glittering company to gaze with incredulous eyes, upon the dim interior of an Egyptian pyramid. They saw a vast and fantastic. room, bounded on three’ sides by a balcony filled with tables and cut down the mid- dle by a magnificent marble stair- case; they saw a stupendous statue built ‘along the line of the Empire State Building and poised grace- fully, if precariously, upon one toe. After partaking of an ambrosial dinner and _ listening to the speeches, the little group floated once more down staircases and through echoing corridors and at approximately the stroke of twelve were whisked back to college in their ice-covered coaches. As they faced once more the sordid reality of their halls and leafed drearily through signing-out books, the glamor of fairyland faded slowly and irrevocably from their sight. Shivering slightly, they found that their ball gowns had turned back into rags. lated. They are used to encour- age retired scholars, refugees, and to steer people into insufficiently explored fields. There are also grants to non-institutionalized per- sons. Relations between the endowed institutions and the advancement of learning become strained only hander one condition—when, learn- ing does not advance. This con- dition results from the encourage- ment of mediocrity—but, Dr. Kep- pel concluded, one brilliant suc- cess wipes out the unintentional sins of all the rest. HOW 10 girls in school here. Yet people AND INFLUENCE STAG-LINES By Dalea Dorothy Clix ————J Dear Miss Clix: I just received the intercollegiate grand prize — for sculpture for my allegorical figure called “Womanhood”, and the newspapers say I am the most “promising” sculptress of any college woman today. I love my work, of course, and spend a great deal of time with my hands dipped in modeling clay, but oh, Miss Clix, the men just pass me by for the other I do to make nice men notice me? 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At cosmetic counters everywhere! *S, / of an unseasonable and unattrac- . Alumnae dinner in honor of Miss ee Oe Sage ‘ THE COLLEGE NEWS G. Avitabile Reveals Past, Future Plans Grazia Avitabile, winner of the Fanny Bullock Workman Fellow- ship, summed up her private life in a few poignant words: “I eat, I; sleep, and I take showers occa- sionally.”» Naively asked: whether it was true she did a “startling amount. of studying,’ as -Dean Schenk said, she replied, “If that’s the opinion of the authorities, I think it’s fine.” Miss Avitabile is chiefly known to the undergraduates in three di- vergent capacities: as manager of the Italian table, as substitute warden of Rock, and as instructor of the course in Baby Italian. Her propagandizing for the supremacy of Rock as a hall was unconcealed. “Rockefeller Hall is an ideal hall,” she said—“but, for the information of Miss Howe, it’s always cold, no Gay Faculty Speakers at Fellowship Dinner, “In-Between Courses” Calendar Skitted “That was ‘really something!” exclaimed a Grad student fervently when asked about the Fellowship Dinner held at Rhoads on March 28. Grazia. Avitabile and Grace Henningan* were the guests of honor, and several of talented fa- culty members were present? Ques- tions by the earthy interviewer concerning the menu were gently repulsed, but the list and sub- stance of the speeches was. relayed in detail and with delight, show- ing a commendable tendency to- wards mind over matter. The programs for the evening were psuedo college calendars ers the list of speeches headed “In-Be- tween Courses” and titles which corresponded to registered college courses. Dorothy Nepper, toastmistress, interpreting from the catalogue, announced the lectures with paro- dies on the various courses. No- table-among the evening speakers was Miss Robbins who offered a piece of research work on The Mi-| gration of Birds in Flight in which she ably discussed our different types of migratory birds. In the first category entitled “Faculty Birds in Flight” special importance was given to the Gray Bird. The Visiting Lecturer Birds, the Rad- ¥, noy Birds, and the Fenwick Bird, ich was wisely given a sub-di- Vision all to itself, completed her treatise, which was applauded with deep appreciation. . matter how successfully one stuffs oneself into the fireplace, and we could use a bell that. merely. tin-5 kles.” As for .the Baby Italian class, “it is a fine upstanding class, but it doesn’t wear itself out with work.” Born, unromantically enough, in Yonkers, Miss Avitabile. has lived most of her life in Italy. In 1936 she entered Smith as an-un- dergraduate. She lived, in her sen- ior year, across from Dean Nichol- son, who made the famous remark that “the light never went off in Miss Avitabile’s window.” “Miss Nicholson’s light never went off before mine either,” thé new fellow asserted. “The only difference was that her shades were pulled down and _ mine weren’t.” Miss Avitabile ig going to work} be called a romanticist. : | next summer at Harvard Univer- sity and next winter at the Uni- versity of Michigan on her thesis, The Romanticism of Vincenzo Monti. This information was given in partial answer to the question which, she claims, every undergraduate, as she opens. the Rock door at night, asks her, “What did yoy get and where are you going?” Obligingly,Miss Avi- tabile added some details of the subject of her study. Monti, who lived in. the latter part of the eighteenth century and the begin- ning of the nineteenth, is a liter- ary figure marking the transition from a period of great political and literary decadence to one. of great activity in these fields. Her task is to prove that Monti, usu- ally termed a classicist, can really Miss Hennigan Says She’s Not the Type The first thing Grace Hennigan asked about said when she was winning the Mary E. Garrett Graduate European Fellowship was that it was a complete sur- prise té-her.~**You-see; I’m not the type to win fellowships.” Whether or not she is the type, she is very pleased about it, especially since illness has kept her from her work most of this semester. She is a little confused about where her home is. Originally she came from Boston, has lived in Forest Hills, Long Island, for, the last ten years, but as her parents now live in Arizona, she concluded: that the only address she could give was Bryn Mawr College. She graduated from. Mt. Holyoke ih 19386, and was asked to stay as Page Seven ment. For the next two years she divided her time between the History Department and her own work and.as a result did not get her M.A. till 1938. Then she came to Bryn Mawr. Irish history is her field, “much to everyone’s amazement,” particu- larly Ireland during the Jacobjzesame - period. She denies emphatically that she was influenced by her name, despite what her friends say; her study of English history led her into it. . Next year, since she cannot go to the Record Library in London as she wished, she plans to visit the Huntingdon - Library in Pasedena, where there are some documents she can use, the Yale ‘| Library in New Haven, and ,the Congressional Library in Wash- ington. “A man named Chi- chester,’”” whom we discovered later to be a deputy lieutenant in Ireland from 1605 to 1616, will engage most of her attention. » assistant in the History Depart- _.YALE UNIVERSITY School of Nursing A Profession. for the College Woman ; An intensive and basic ex- perience in the various branches of nursing ‘is off- ered during the thirty-two months’ course which leads to the degree of MASTER OF NURSING s]. A Bachelor’s degree in arts, science or philosophy from a college of approved standing is required for ad- mission. For catalogue and -information address THE DEAN YALE SCHOOL OF NURSING New Haven, Connecticut Bouncer picks his racing cars for speed — his cigarettes for slow Slower-Burning Camels Give the Extras burning $ SPEED’S MY DISH IN A RACING CAR— BUT | WANT MY SLOW-BURNING, i" CAMEL CIGARETTES BURN GIVE THE SMOKING PLEASURE WITH BOB SWANSON, it’s always a slow-burning Camel. “That slower burning makes a big difference,” says Bob. “Camels are milder—easier on my And they never tire my smoking, too.” Yes, speed have learned that in cigarettes the throat. They don’t bother my nerves. taste. They give an extra amount of is fine in the right place, but millions coveted extras of coolness, / Inildness, and full, rich flavor go with slow-burning Camels. Copyright, 1940, R. J. Reynolds Tobseto Co., Winston-Salem, N.C. ON THE SLOW SIDE — HERE THEY COME in a hurricane of flying dirt and squirting oil. You can almost hear the high whine of the motors and the shriek of brakes and burning tires as they streak into the sharp unbanked curves. They may call ’em "midget racers,” but there’s speed to burn under- neath those toy-like hoods. Leading the pack in the picture above is Bob Swanson, Pacific 0 $i CIGARETTE ‘EXTRAS’ IN e. Steen eae . ee aes Coast champ. In a split second these racers may be climbing each other's hoods, hurdling, somer- saulting, flying through fences. Bob Swanson likes a slower pace in his off-time. Fishes a lot. Smokes Camels a lot. He explains: “I don’t like overheating in my cigarette any more than I like it in a racing motor. I stick to Camels. I know they’re slower-burning...milder and cooler.” In recent laboratory tests, Camels burned 25% slower than the average of the 15 other of the largest-selling brands tested — slower than any of them. That means, _ on the average, a smoking “plus equal to 5 EXTRA SMOKES PER PACK! MORE PLEASURE PER PUFF,..MORE PUFFS PER PACK! - ~ . ne -. 20 wane A Vi E | the cigarette of costlier tobaccos 7 > Matitain Elucidates -. special moment to this continent,” _there are great possibilities for Page Eight _ . ihe - THE COLLEGE NEWS _ Contemplative Life. As Christian Dogma| Deanery, April 16.—“The prbb- lem and contemplation is one of declared Jacques Maritain, Profes- sor of philosophy at the Institute Catholique of Paris, in a. lecture sponsored by the French Depart-' ment. M. Maritain discussed the Eastern and Western attitudes to- wards this problem and showed in what respect the advent of Chris- tianity has changed its signifi- cance. . The\greatest woe of western civ- ilization, according to M. Maritan is the rejection of contemplation and the dethronement of wisdom. America is represented as a coun- try proud of its pragmatism. M. Maritan, nevertheless, believes that contemplative life here, since our activism fesults from hidden con- templative aspirations. “Action and contemplation may be considered as transitive and im- manent activity,” stated M. Mari- tain. Transitive activity in this sense is that which one being exer- cises on another wherein the agent depends upon the patient. The agent is seeking his own good, hence the egotism of the activity. The agent of an immanent activ- ity, however, has the possibilities of perfection within himself, and is above time. -The Greeks, who also believed in the superiority of the immanent activity, believed the in- telligence to be superior. to the act of will, and therefore they realized that contemplation in itself was higher than action. Unfortunately, this belief led them to the miscon- ception that man lives for the sake of a few individuals. Politicians were conceived by them to be in- ferior to philosophers, and manual labor was held in contempt. With the coming of Christianity this idea was changed. St. Thomas Aquinas affirmed that although in- telligence is superior to will, it is better fo love that which is supe- rior to the mind, as the concept of God, than to attempt to know it. Christianity also changed the no- tion of contemplation, preferring the contemplation of the saints to that of the philosophers. This ac- tion was not to be reduced to tran- sitive action but was designed to be useful to.men. And, contempla- tion was no longer relegated to the chosen few. Contemplation is’ a supernatural function, beyond the energies of human nature in its ontological meaning it may be found in eras and countries which are not Chris- tian, and in this respect was rea- —_—_—_—_————— = WIDER HORIZONS © College women with Katharine Gibbs secretarial training look out upon broad horizons. Many a Gibbs- trained secretary, starting as an understudy. has steadily advanced to an ex- ecutive position of her own. “@ Special Course for Col- lege Women opens in New al Alumnae, Faculty, Board Honor President Park Continued from Page One about President Park.” Miss Comstock, the first speaker of the dinner, reviewed briefly the problems facing the presidents of women’s colleges from 1920-1940." Before 1920, Miss Comstock said, those working for women’s educa- tion were inspired by a missionary spirit and strove to establish the right of women’s colleges to exist. Presidents since~~-1920, however, have had to tackle the problem of proving that women’s education is worthwhile as well as_ possible. This task has meant facing “not opposition and antagonism as much as indifference and inertia.” Miss Park’s “broad vision and strength of a detached idealistic perceptive mind,” said Miss Comstock, “de- scribes the needs of the last 20 years.” Miss Park’s contribution, to the public welfare and projects for so- cial service were the points of her administration especially praised by Dr. Rufus Jones. He mentioned her service as trustee of the Com- munity Fund of Philadelphia and vicinity and as a member ofthe Emergency Relations Board and of the National Reemployment Serv- ice. of Montgomery County. Her work for the Citizens’ Committee and the Examining Board for em- ployment in the Pennsylvania De- partment of Public Assistance were also commended. “President Park’s lized by the sages of ancient Greece and followers of the Indian religion. In striving for this con- templation by formulas and other artificial means, the Eastern phil- osophers are really exhibiting a subtle pragmatism. “Anti-mytical tendencies are generated by fear,” said M. Mari- tain. “Books of spirituality in the hands of weak people are judged to be dangerous, but if these anti- mystical tendencies were systema- tized, Christianity would be re- duced to a mere moral system.” All men are called to the perfec- tion of love, continued Dr. Mari- tain, but this love can not be at- tained without mystical insight. Each man is called to contempla- tion if only in a remote manner, but this is not esoteric or limited to specialists. THE NEW YORK’S MOST EXCLUSIVE HOTEL RESIDENCE FOR YOUNG WOMEN ‘\ y A ome of College Clubs in- New York The Barbizon is the home of college ° clubs in New York:-Why? Perhaps it's because the Barbi offers so many more of the smartnteresting things that appeal to college Girls: Daily it presents a harmonious med- ley of cultural and physical activi- ties ... musicales. .< art lectures ... dramatics . ,“. a‘fine library... swimming pool «..sun deck... squash courts. Another reason why college girl¢- prefer living in The Barbizon-Manner is its location... . Owen Lattimore States Stake of U. S. in China Continued from Page One the Wattwhich destroys the factors administration,” ‘conciuded Dr. Jones, “has been one of those things which has been exactly the way it ought to be.” Mr. Gray, speaking for the Bryn Mawr faculty, praised Miss Park’s good craftsmanship, tactfulness and direction. The first he defined as being a combination of medieval and modern methods to achieve “an intense and speedy craftsman- ship, with close attention to de- tails.” Tact, continued Dr. Gray, has been paramount all through Miss Park’s régime and rests in her ability to adapt herself to an- other’s point of view. The third characteristic arises from the im- portance of graduate school and the duel function required of the faculty at Bryn Mawr. Using as an excuse the ticket admitting “Miss Park to the din- ner given in honor of President Park,” Miss Park resolved to say a few words about her official self. She emphasized her aim as presi- dent “to keep ground and atmos- phere clear so that other voices may be heard.” Frequently, Miss Park admitted, non-interference has been difficult for her to main- tain; but no praise can be more pleasing, she says, than to have ideas’ “borne of many minds” put into effect by the community action 2 United States enables Japan to create those conditions which: lead to Bolshevism. Japan, because of its combina- tion of a double standard, is one of the most inefficient countries in the world. Side by side with a twen- tieth century standard of indus- trial output, there exists a peasant population living according to fif- teenth century standards. With its peasant population un- able to consume the country’s in- dustrial products, these products must be sold to other countries, or, if necessary, dumped on the. out- side market. ‘ The westernization of China be- gan about 100 years ago. The real modernization of China, which is not to be measured in terms of ma- terial achievements but in the ac- quisition of a new outlook, was carried on underground. Though these underground forces may have burst up anyway, Mr. Lattimore said, the onslaught of Japan from the west broke the surface and these qualities were brought to light. Outward mani- festations of these forces prior to. the war—increasing political abil- ity and economic stability, with a growth in the fundamental heavy industries which create the modern technique—pointed to the begin- ning of a new unity in China. Ja- pan attacked when she did, said Mr. Lattimore, to prevent the unity of the whole college. in China resisting revolution, the claimed her purpose was, to unify China, - { The war has continued the proc- ess of unification of China and its coagulation into a connected whole. The capture of such industrial points as Shanghai and Hankow, instead of wrecking China, as many Americans thought it would, caused the-- Chinese industrial plants -to be moved away from their’ false environment. in the treaty ports to their functional en- vironment in the hinterland. Together with the readjustment of industries, the necessity of deal- ing under emergency conditions , with large populations whose tra- ditions and associations with the western world have been upset by the war reveals the situation in China to be not a struggle between Ghina resisting nationally a for- eign invader. In so far as much of the popula- tion is refugee and there is a lack of trained men, reconstruction in the form of cooperatives has led to the maximum promotion of the democratic technique. This devel- opment is the more important, in view of the fact that in Japan the stress of war has led to an increase in hard dictatorial methods. 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