a -Merion’s Freshmen Keep Play Plaque — Despite Spirited Acting by Pem West THE COLLEGE NEWS) Skard Tells of Unity _first, undernourishment, not star- “The Norwegian nation VOL. XL, NO. 7 ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA.,, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1943 Bryn Mawr Copyright, Trustees of PRICE 10 CENTS College, 1943 be “Hyacinth Halvey” Praised! As Humerous, Unified Production By April Oursler, ’46 Goodhart, November 5 and 6: Merion Hall’s production of Hya- cinth Halvey, by Lady Gregory, brought the Freshman play plaque to Merion for the second consecu- tive year. According to the com- mittee, this play combined the best qualities of characterization, humor, and unification, although Pembroke West’s The Six Who Pass While the Lentils Boil won the approval of the majority of the audience. The outstanding characterization in Hyacinth: Halvey was the title role, played by. Mary Helen Bax- rett, who presented a more mascu- line suggestion in the portrayal of the country gawk than did the male roles of the other plays. The gestures and the walk of Marcia Taff as the old-maid housekeeper were particularly convincing, while all the cast gave their parts a feeling of extreme naturalness. On the whole, the play was exception- ally well-finished and unified, with the details worked out thought- fully and without exaggeration. In contrast to the more polished humor of this play, Pembroke West’s. The Six ‘Who Pass While the Lentils = had a brilliance Of Anti-Nazi Norway ~ As Shown by Children Common Room, November 15 Under the heel of the conqueror, life for the children of Norway has radically changed, said Mrs. Aase Skard, speaking to a group of students about conditions today in her'country. Mrs. Skard, a noted psychologist, is the daughter of a former Norwegian foreign min- ister. Three Factors There are three primary factors which have affected the children: vation, but that ever-present feel- ing of hunger; and second, inse- curity. The children never know when they may come home from school to find that their father has been carried off to a concentration camp, or their house has been req- uisitioned by the Nazis. But to counterbalance these forces there is present quite a different ele- ment—a new feeling of security. is now united,” Norwegians refuse to ‘be scared. Ninety-nine percent of the people are anti-Nazi, and they all join in passive resistance, in- eluding the smallest children. Nazi Efforts Naturally, the Nazis are doing their best to win over the coming generation, said Mrs. Skard, so that “even if they“lose the war, they will win anyway.” But their efforts have been singularly inef- fective, and have indeed worked in the opposite direction. For in- stance, the Nazis will specify cer- tain days on which all school children must visit the’ Hitler youth exhibits. The children then simply do not go to school on those Continued on Page 3 ' Calendar Saturday, November 13 Merion Hall Dance, 9:00 p. m. Tuesday, November 16 Current Events, Room, 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, November 17 Common International Students’ Day Assembly, Goodhart, 10:09 a.m. and sparkle high in entertainment value, falling down only in its lack of a uniform standard of perform- ance. Elizabeth Dowling’s role as the Ballad Singer was a master- piece of good showmanship, com- bining a feeling for the spirit of the play and for the audience, with excellent gestures and timing. The part of Sir Little Boy, played by Barbara Ruhin was carried through with charm in spite of being slightly uncertain about the lines. Redda Taylor, replete with a Lil’ Abner accent, played The Dreadful Headsman with’ perhaps more humor than the part was worth; but was very effective. The Butterfly showed a _ good knowledge of pantomime and a Continued on Page 2 Mr. Gillet Discusses Good Neighbor Policy Spanish House, November 4: The United States with its mater- ialism will find a complement in the aesthetic spirit of South Amer- ica, said Mr. Gillet in an informal talk-to-the- Spanish Club on-Thurs- day. Discussing the Good Neigh- bor Policy, he pointed out that though the method of union is dif- ficult, we both have much to gain by collaboration. The Good Neighbor Policy, Mr. Gillet emphasized, is not yet com- plete. Gradually changing our at- titude from one of active interven- tion in Cuba, Santa Domingo, and Nicaragua, we have repealed the Platt Amendment and have achiev- ed a collaboration of intellectuals. The political results of the last two or three years have been good, but, said Mr. Gillet, after the Eu- ropean peril is over, there will be some dissension in South America. Quoting many writers of North and of South America, Mr. Gillet rtike Brazil no color line is Strength and Unity Displayed in Concert By von Trapp Family Specially Contributed by Sue Coleman, °45 Goodhart, November 9: To the von Trapp family, the performance in Goodhart was* “more than a concert”; it marked the anniver- sary of their first appearance in this country when they arrived four years ago from their “native mountainous Austria.” To the listeners, their perform- ance was infinitely more than a concert. The Baroness Maria von Trapp’s sincere, heart - rending words before the closing “Love Song” from the Herbrides Islands expressed the meaning of music, life and human relationships which imbued every sound they imparted to a_ spellbound audience. The Baroness expressed it so well pri- marily because she spoke for a Continued on Page 3 Racial Discrimination Condemned by I. R.C. Common Room, November 3: “Race is largely a matter of atti- tude,” said Masamori Kojima of Haverford, opening the Interna- tional Relations Club discussion of racial minorities in the United States. Masamori pointed out that Americans consider certain racial groups inferior merely because they have been raised to hold such a belief. There is discrimination here against a group such as the Negroes, while in anpther country con- sciously drawn against them, National Policy “We should make it a national policy that there shall be no rac- ial discrimination,” stated Masa- mori. There should be a Congress- ional report, he continued, mak- Opportunity Knocks The Honorable Walter Judd of Minnesota, who is considered one of the most outstanding speakers of the country, will speak at a luncheon to be held by the United Nations Council of Philadelphia at 1:30 Satur- day, November 20 in the ball- room of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. Mr. Judd’s topic will be “China and Our Attitude to- ward China.” The speaker will be introduced by Earl Harrison of Philadelphia. The Council has reserved the entire balcony of the ballroom for students, and free tickets are available. Students desiring tickets should leave their ‘names on the door of Miss Robbins’ office. Moderation Pattern In Culture of China Emphasized by Chan Goodhart, November 3: The Chinese attitude toward life has always been one of moderation stressed Wing-Tsit Chan in a lec- ture on “China’s Place Between the East and West,” the last of his series on the “Spirit of Man in Chinese Culture.” To the clear- cut either-or policy of other coun- tries China has always opposed its more sagacious policy of both- and, The pattern of moderation, he continued, has never ceased _ to dominate Chinese culture. :China stands between the West “and what the West thinks of as the East.” The West thinks of the East as being all one piece, Ac- tually it is not. It can be divided into, India and the Far East; and the Far East, in turn, can be di- vided into China and Japan. There is no system, excepting Buddhism, that cuts across the East as a whole. But Buddhism, Mr. Chan stated, should not be considered ing an official national policy of non-discrimination. Masamor also advocates a Federal law out- lawing the Jim Crow car. Leila Jackson of Bryn Mawr, the next speaker, discussed prob- lems facing the Negro _ soldier. The Army has sent Negro college graduates from northern. cities like Detroit and Chicago into southern areas where they are forced into crowded Jim Crow ten- ement sections. This is hard to reconcile, Leila pointed out, with pointed out the prejudices which Continued on Page 4 Alliance Establishes New Red Cross Unit In cooperation with the Ardmore Red Cross, the War Alliance is planning a-surgical dressings unit to be held two evenings a week in the May Day Room. The classes will be only for Bryn Mawr stud- ents and from 30 to 40 girls will be néeded to work each. night. Six girls will be sent to the Red Cross for instruction in_- rolling the dressings and three of them will work on each of the nights inspecting bandages. The first two or three weeks will be spent on blood donor bandages and lat- er the volunteers will roll larger bandages.” _ The classes will begin as soon as tables and benches are set up in the May Day Room. the fact that American Negro sol- diers are very well treated in Liv- erpool and other English cities. Such discrepancy, she said, is caus- vee Continued on Page 4 ° ww _ Election The Freshman class takes pleasure in announcing the election of the following offic- ers: President, Rose Bateson Vice President, Nancy Bier- with eae Sceretary, Mary Foster Song Mistress, Alison Bar- bour The Sophomore class takes pleasure in announcing the election of the following offic- ers: President, Patricia Behrens Vice President, Doris Ann Braman Secretary, Dorothy Bruchholz Song Mistress, Margaret Hil- gartner Continued on Page 3 Significant Rise In Summer Jobs Indicated by Poll Work in Factories, Farming Shows Great Increase Over 1942 In the recent poll held by the Vocational Office to determine the type and extent of summer jobs held by undergraduates last sum- mer, it was significant that 343 out of the 391 polled held some job with the Freshmen registering the unrivalled total of 134. 218 of these workers held full-time jobs as opposed to 80 part-time -work- ers, 118 students, and 52 occasion- al volunteers. In comparison with last year’s results, there were twice as many students doing factory work in the summer of 743, and a similar in- crease in those engaged in farm- ing. Clerical work, always the most popular, showed little in- crease, while seven more people attended summer school this year than last. Among the more interesting of the summer jobs were Patricia Kyle’s newspaper column, Advice to the Lovelorn, and Barbara Baer’s experimentation in Interna- tional Living project. Others in- cluded the college advisor at Bon- wit Teller, an advertising copy writer in Providence, and an in- spector of recording and controll- ing instruments in a Waterbury factory, as well as a worker on soldering and ‘sub - assembly in Milwaukee. Last summer’s laboratory work- ers showed an increase of 14 over the previous 18, and included workers in the blood plasma de- partment of a Chicago laboratory, a lab technician in the pathology department of the New York In- firmary for Women and Children, as well as many chémical labora- tory assistants. Study Without Books, Singing and Monologues Help Make Versatile Italian Classes Lively “Eeco la signora Lograsso” is the phrase that sets the Italian class under way each morning. This “ecco” is accompanied by a wide dramatic gesture out of Tay- lor window, for Miss Lograsso maintains that gestures are nec- essary to make words more em- phatic. “It makes our Italian look more like the real thing” supple- mented one member. A few min- utes later the class of six repeats “Sono una_ studentessa a Bryn Mawr,” and runs through a morn- ing’s activities beginning with “I wake up when the alarm clock sounds. I do not get up because I am always tired, etc.” This daily Italian class has made startling progress. Having studied for a month without books, it is completely at home with the spok-) en word. Extra-class “dialogo’’ are overheard which verge on lengthy conversations. “Ecco il uomo” one begins, and they’re off. In every class'a prepared “mono- logo” or “dialogo” is given. These are built around practical or dra- matic situations such as being lost in Rome or chancing to see “il re Vittorio Emmanuele” in a restau- rant. This versatile Italian class also which may be recognized as “Frere sings . . . namely “Fra Martino” dong” changed to “din, dan, don.” Even grammar is occasionally il- lustrated with excerpts from op- era. The class’s activities merely be- gin in Taylor. It plans to visit a famous Italian costume display in Germantown and make a tour of the Italian restaurants. It has al- ready had a successful beer party with Miss Lograsso’s Haverford students. These soldiers are tak- ing their course preparatory to work with the Allied Military Gov- ernment in Italy. Although there are only six in this course of elementary Italian, they are not difficult to locate. They are always ready to break into their adopted tongue, whether on Taylor steps, at the Inn, or the village shops. These students are enthusiastic, one going so far as to add “ino” to her name tempor- arily. League Drive A surplus of $23.70 over the | goal of $3800.00 was collected | in the League Activities Drive } this year. Denbigh pledged | 10% more than -the amount asked and Radnor gave $3 more or “ti, val;~bringing — the total to $3823.70. Jacques” with the “ding, dang,