PA THE COLLEGE NEWS Z-615 VOL. XVIII, No. 3 BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1941 seein. Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1940 PRICE 10 CENTS Council Discusses Big Response To Defense Courses Decision Made to Postpone May Day Voting Until December The College Council met for the first time this year at Miss Park’s house_on- October 9. The tremen- dous response to the idea of de- fense courses was discussed, and it “was suggested that the Presbyte- rian Hospital in Philadelphia and the House Committee of the Bryn Mawr Hospital might take stu- dents to help so that they could learn the geography of a hospital. The possibilities of a joint course with Swarthmore in wartime nu- trition, and quick, brush-up courses in languages were also considered. The Council decided that we should use and develop the organi- zation we already have for fire- fighting, and emphasized the ne- cessity of students knowing how to use fire-extinguishers and sand bags. Health and exercise were also recognized as -important in preparing for defense. It was decided to postpone the voting for May Day until Decem- ber, so that the problem can be presented to the students and con- sidered. A competition of one-act plays in which only freshmen would participate was discussed, and also the necessity of increas- ing the personalization of Fresh- man Week. Junior Elections The Class of 1943 an- nounces the following elec- tions: President, Sally Matte- son; Vice-President, Teresita Sparre; Secretary; Harriet Case; Song Mistress, Portia Miller. Park Focus Reveals Interesting Culture In Arizona Project B. M. Makes Valuable Finds De Laguna and Crew Explore Early Sinaguan Civilization Near Flagstaff Twenty miles east of Flagstaff, Arizona, on the border between the Painted Desert and the pine for- ests of the Coconino Plateau; is Cinder Park, scene of the Archae- ology dig conducted this summer by Miss Frederica de Laguna. The present and former Bryn Mawr students who worked with her were Katherine McClellan, Cath- erine Coleman, Margaret Foote; Alice Geier, Betty Read and Bet- sey Dimock. Sydney Conner, two Hopi Indians and a cook completed the crew. The Museum of Northern Ari- zona, which collaborated with the expedition, has been working out a culture history of this area by means of surface collections and excavations at a number of sites. They have been particularly inter- ested in the remains of the now vanished Sinagua tribe, who were the northwesternmost relatives of a group of ancient peoples known as the Mogollon. The Mogollon territories stretched from Flag- staff into central New Mexico and lay between the lands of the Bas- ket Maker-Pueblo (Anasazi) tribes in the north and the home of the Hohokam is southern Arizona. The Sinagua seem to have developed extensive trade with both their neighbors, and their culture grad- ually took on many outside charac- teristics. About 1800 A. D. when a twenty-seven year drought caused a great population move- ment all over the Southwest, the area around Flagstaff was aban- doned and the Sinagua disap- peared forever. The middle and later Foci or stages of their his- tory have been revealed by the. re- searches of the Museum, but until the Bryn Mawr expedition dug at Cinder Park, we knew nothing of Continued on Page Six Last Supper Eaten By Oral Blunderers As Europeans Find Sausages for Ancestors By Barbara Kaufman, ’43 Did you know that “one has made too much of the growth, term besides badly definite, in the explanation of a character that de- pends on human willingness and liberty one has understood that to be human, an adventurous human . ” 2? This and many other such scholarly and hitherto un- _ known facts have been found among the results of the French Orals. Evidence of a wide reading of the New Testament is given. There seems*to be a deep interest in last stppers. “I] n’avait pu resister a _Yreceuillir leur’dernir soupir” may _ mean: “He could not resist gather- ing them together for their last prayer,” or “ . . recoiling from _their last supper,” or — as some dprder story or Borgia fan puts, — : cooking their last sup- oy (I.E. to send them to the grave),” or, more specifically, “ . poisoning their last meal.” There are some rather pathetic pictures: “The old people who were dying could not resist recalling their last supper,” or “In about five hundred pages, the little children became old maids, and he could not: resist picking up their last supper,” and _even “Having become’ old folks with the death rattle (in their throats) he covfld not resist catch- ing their last sigh.” But the real character of the person in question is finally revealed when “the little children become old devils and he could, not resist from enjoying their last moments.” The meaning of embolism, has, it seems, numerous possibilities. It can do all sorts of things to you: you can be “filled with an embo- lism to bring the poor girl to the last .15 lines;” “An embolism,” now apparently a form of vehicle, “brings the poor girl within 15 lines of the end,”, and a man can be “true to himself in an embo- lism.” This same mercurial and emboli- cal author devotes a book to a “feminine heroine,’”’ whom he keeps alive-for several hundred pages.~ Someone wisely remarked: “The Unknown, a term badly defined among others. ....” A certain author apparently teagd more and more into his initial self,” until, finally, the Greek Goddess of “Criticism herself, which had en- couraged his beginnings, began to be less enthused about him.” And a wealth of miscellaneous, but obscure and valuable, informa- Continued on Page Six Calendar Friday, October 17 Lantern Night. Library Cloisters. 8 p. m. In case of rain: The Twelve Pound Look and Rosalind, pre- sented by’ the Varsity Players. Club. Theatre Workshop 8.30. @ Saturday, October 18 In case of rain Friday night :— Lantern Night. Players Club productions. Friday, October 17 To Sunday, October 19 Alumnae Weekend. Sunday, October 19 Chapel. Canon Earp of the Bryn Mawr Episcopal Church. Music Room. 7.30 p. m. Monday, October 20 Second Flexner Lecture. Dr. Gisela Richter. The Earliest Sculpture in the Islands, East and West Greece. Goodhart Hall. 8.30 p. m. Tuesday, October 21 Current Events. 7.30. League to Sponsor Lectures Connected With Defense Work In connection with the courses for National Defense, the Bryn Mawr League will sponsor a series of lectures on nutrition and Work in the Community. The course is intended primarily for those in the League who have worked with children, but is open to anyone in- terested. It is probable that the importance of such work will in- crease with the growing effort for defense. The first lecture will be on Thursday evening, October 23, when Miss Kraus will speak on the work women can do in the commu- nity. Following this lecture, on al- ternate Thursdays, other members of the faculty and the heads of the Haverford Y. W. C. A., and Com- munity Center will speak. Every other Thursday evening, Dr. Doyle will lecture on nutrition in the Biology lecture room at 7.30. He will discuss the theoretical ba- sis of the nutritional requirements of children and adults, and the methods of estimating the value of various types of food. If enough interest is shown, he will supple- ment the course with practical Continued on Page Six Rules of Cut System Stated by Committee At the beginning of the new semester the Cut Committee wishes to bring the regulations regarding the cut system to the notice of the student body. Each student is al- lowed the same number of cuts in one semester as she has hours of class in one week. The only excep tion is in the case of labs which are counted both in calculating the number of cuts allowed, and in de- ciding the number of cuts taken, as a third of a cut per hour. The committee sends out cards each kmonth notifying students of the number of cuts taken and the number remaining. Any one who is late for-a class must report her lateness to the dean’s Office imme- diately after the class. Otherwise, any cut given her by the monitor will be counted in the number of cuts taken. Penalties consist in the subtraction of cuts from the number allowed for the succeeding semester, or, in severe cases the subtraction of credit. , Cricket Club Yellows Beaten by Owls in Oct. 15.—With the peppiest team that the Owls have Bryn Maur, had in several years, Bryn Mawr thrilling 3-0 shutout against the second team of the Philadelphia Cricket Club Yellows, scored a || bolstered by two first team mem- bers. The first game of the season for Bryn Mawr was replete with bril- liant plays. Most of the play of the first period was on the Yel- low’s half of the field. The Owls smashed down the field with an ex- ceptionally well-balanced forward line and kept the game at high pitch with their close play around the Yellow’s goal. After the Yellow’s All-American team goalee, made a clearing hit, Connie Lazo hit a hard rushing shot for the first goal. Phe few times the Yellows threatened Bryn Mawr’s goal was proof of the solid defense work of the halfbacks and fulls. With fifteen seconds left to play in the first half, the Owls were taking a corner when Fran- nie Matthai received the ball from Connie Lazo and put it cleanly into the goal, a very difficult play to make. With two goals scored against them, the Yellows were fighting hard in the second period to regain lost ground. It was then that the defense’s steadiness became appar- ent. Not only steady, but swift, the halfbacks pushed up behind the forward line and then back down the field again when the Yellow’s Continued on Page Five Catron and Resor Candidates for Self- Gov't Vice-President Since Mimi Boal did not return to college, an election will be held this week for a new Vice-President of the Self-Government Associa- tion, in accordance with Article 10 in the Constitution, which states that “should the Office of Vice- President become vacant, a new member of the Executive Board shall be first elected and. subse- quently a new Vice-President shall be elected from among the mem- bers of the Board.” The candi- dates are Jerry Catron, and Helen Resor, elected as new members of the board by the senior class. Jerry Catron is Senior represen- tative of the Self-Government As- sociation and has been first Junior Continued on Page Five Lively 3-0 Shutout} College Launches Its Third Annual Activities Drive nan Sy Canvassers Appointed Amount Pledged Optional; Standard Contribution Nine Dollars Today the third Bryn Mawr Ac- tivities Drive began. perimentally in 1939 as the big drive to end all smaller drives, it may be considered now—after two successful years—as an institution. Included this year in the drive are: the Bryn Mawr League, with all its sub-divisions, the Summer Camp, Hudson Shore Labor School, the Players’ Club, the refugee scholarship, and foreign and do- mestic welfare. The executive board of the Activities Drive is to manage this last part of the fund instead of the Peace Council, which was dissolved last spring. To be a success the Drive, which will ‘last a week, asks that every- one cooperate to the best of her ability. Nine dollars is the stand- ard contribution asked from every- one, but the actual individual amount is optional. Those who can give more are encouraged to do so, and those who feel they can- not afford the whole nine dollars are asked to give what they can, for the benefits resulting from the Drive—such as free plays, remov- al of constant soliciting and aid to charities and to League work—are common benefits. Canvassers for the Drive have been appointed, and each hall has a chairman. They are: P. Well- man, Rhoads South; J. Perry, Rhoads North; E. Vorhaus, Mer- ion; M. Calahan, Denbigh; S. Lip- pincott, Pem East; L. Lewis, Pem West; K. MacAusland, Rock; S. Matteson, German House; V. Dzung, Wyndham, and J. Shaffer, Non-Res. They and their commit- tees will hand around pledge cards to be filled out. Motor Defenders Will all those .who have signed up for the auto me- chanics Defense _ Course, please send their complete af- ternoon and evening sched- ules. to Jocelyn Fleming, Merion, together with $1.50 for course expenses before 6 P. M. Friday. High-Pressure Nose Spray Investigated; . Infirmary Pulls Color Trick On Sniffles By Alice Crowder, ’42. “They told me my tooth was dy- ing and gave me an aspirin.” This recent. manifestation. of _ intense sympathy on the part of the In- firmary is amply compensated for by a new and potent substance which goes into the nose sprayer. It is so potent that after a dose, it is said, it is impossible to see. One stumbles coughing and choking | through the gray door only to find at the gateway of liberty a white clothed figure glimmering dimly through the darkness. “I’m sorry we made you sicker,” it says. All this when one entered with a mere sniffle. The new era has definitely commenced. Victims snuffle out that the pri- mary characteristic of the spray is that it hurts. A warden testified to me fact that yes, they did all come back much worse than when they left, she had wondered why. But, unsatisfied with the evidence, we sent down a stooge to record her reactions as they occurred. The stooge camd back green. What, the nose spray? Yes, it had hurt, but that was just her nose. How- ever, she had made a scientific re- séarch into the gargle, had. asked what it was, why it was, and so forth, questions in great profusion. The answer: the same old thing with color removed. The signals did get mixed up but it is now. pos- sible to generalize on the phenom- ena.’ When we’ were children we had colored gargle pills and pleas- ant sniff sniff kind of nose spray. But now we are men. The nose spray at all events does the trick, so say the men who use it. Started ex-, ~~. Page Tne THE COLLEGE NEWS THE COLLEGE NEWS (Founded in 1914) Published weekly during the College Year (excepting during Thanks- giving, Christmas and Easter Holidays, and during examination weeks) . n the interest of Bryn Mawr College at the Maguire Building, Wayne, Pa., and Bryn Mawr College. ‘ P The College News is fully protected by copyright. Nothing that appears in it may be reprinted either wholly or in part without written permission of the Editor-in-Chief. . : Editorial Board JOAN GROSS, ’42, Editor-in-Chief ALICE CROWDER, ’42, Copy SALLY JacoB, ’43, News ANN ELLICcoTT, 742 BARBARA COOLEY, ’42 NANcyY Evarts, ’43 LENORE O’BOYLE, ’43 Editorial Staff BARBARA BECHTOLD, ’42 MitpRED MCLESKEY, ’43 ANNE DENNY, ’43 ISABEL MARTIN, ’42 BARBARA HERMAN, 743 REBECCA ROBBINS, ’42 BARBARA HULL, ’44 SALLY MATTESON, ’43 MARY BARBARA KAUFFMAN, 743 . JESSIE STONE, ’44 FRANCES LYND, 43 ra Music Sports PorRTIA MILLER, '43 CHRISTINE WAPLES, ’42 JACQUIE BALLARD, ’43 Business Board ELIZABETH GREGG, ’42, Manager CELIA MoskoviTz, ’43, Advertising BETTY MARIE JONES, ’42, Promotion. MARIE LEYENDECKER, 744 LOUISE HONWoopD, 44 MARTHA GANS, 742 ELIZABETH NICROSI, ’43 DIANA LUCAS, ’44 LUCILE WILSON, 744 Subscription Board GRACE WEIGLE, °43, Manager FLORENCE KELTON, ’43 CONSTANCE BRISTOL, ’43 WATSON PRINCE, 43 CAROLINE STRAUSS, 744 . SUBSCRIPTION, $2.50 MAILING PRICE, $3.00 SUBSCRIPTIONS MAY BEGIN AT ANY TIME Entered as second-class matter at the Wayne, Pa., Post Office We Had a Réason We're here, aren’t we? We/came for a reason and it must have been a pretty good one. Jt couldn’t be one that we'd forget in a minute. It wasn’t exactly just one reason, either. We came, really, for lots of things. “Sure, we wanted an education, better than could be gotten at mést other places. And we wanted a chance to think for ourselves,“ We came to a smaller college so we could meet and know lots of people besides our few close friends. We came here so each one of us could be an integral and essential part of the structure. We wanted to prove that the whole is more than the sum of its parts. /We thought that Bryn Mawr had more than the others and we realized as soon as we got here that we were the ones that made it so. But sometimes we forget. We forget everything except quizzes and papers. Or we forget everything except that we have unlimited weekends. We forget that we’re each of us an important part of it all and we laugh at Self-Gov. We forget that we want to make our own decisions and we just echo other people’s opinions. Somehow _it’s forgetting that we’re each an important part that’s saddest. We get sentimental about the bigger things, such as Lantern Night and May Day, but we don’t have a true sentiment for everyday Bryn Mawr. We go our own separate ways and take without ever giving. We forget that you can only take from college as much as you give. We’re handed every opportunity to be soft, and we take advantage of them all. We overlook responsibility and think: only of privilege. We don’t seem to realize then that we can be individualistic without being self-centered. So we’re not a social group—we’re just an aggregation. But sometimes we do remember. We hear a good lecture, or we find a companion where before there was only a face, or we see Taylor and the old green bell tower against the night sky, and we remember. We reniember and we’re sorry that we don’t remember all the time. Because we’re here, and we all. know why, don’t we? an and Society The essence of. rly society is not law, but the acceptance of law. A mere aggregate of people will annihilate itself unless based on a common agreement as to the extent to which self-inter- est may be carried by one individual before violating the rights of other Individuals to act in accordance with their own desires. As the word socicty implies the effective existence of such an agree-| ment, the word /aw implies its acceptance. If laws are made not by agreement, but by an individual, the right of that individual to regulate society from above must be uncontested or contested by the numerically -few.—If it were not so, half_a_nation would be | vestigate the organizations to which you contributed. You had no required to coerce the other half-—and the policemen would still be those who accepted the basis of order. The problem can be illustrated by the mechanics of the govern- ments of the world; it can be illustrated by Self Gov. The aggre-| gate in the latter case is a small group of selected individuals bound together by a common purpose in their common life, isolated from corrupting influences of the larger, less selected group outside, and|worthy. The Players Club, the Bryn Mawr Summer Camp, the‘ regulated laws over which the individuals themselves have direct control. If there are flaws in the goverriment of so ideal a com- munity, men must reconcile themselves to the fact that society in its complete sense is impossible. The flaws, however, in the college | | OPINION | 4-Day Thanksgiving Would | Be Fairer, Happier; Avoid | Past Confusion | We, the undersigned, are of the opinion that the plan for classes on ithe Friday following Thanksgiv- | 'The_original intention of this plan ing Day has not been successful. was to prevent a break in the sem- ‘ester before Christmas vacation. It lwas believed that Friday classes 'would cause more students than formerly to remain at college over ‘this holiday. However, as it now Stands, the arrangement is unsatis- |factory to éveryone. A large num- ‘ber of students still attempt to (take their Thanksgiving vacation, “put Fe. THE RUNNER: WHO WAKES UP THE RUNNER ‘returning on Friday for a class or 5 itwo, and leaving again immedi- WIT’S END | ately. This. has. resulted in un- necessary confusion, and the un- Reflections on Fortune Good and Bad | prepared lessons have meant a Talent is wonderful. |waste of time for both students !and professors. Thus, in spite of But if you’re a mute you can’t sing and if you’re a moron you’re the efforts of the college, some kind blunderful. | of a lull in classwork seems inevi- | table. | From the point of view of those students who do remain at college over Thanksgiving, the system There is the kind of talent which seems not only inefficient but un- gets nickels out!of’ a telephone fair. Many were unable to be when you’ve had a wrong with their families on this tradi- number, tional American holiday, because which is quite different from that of the distances of their homes. which enables: Ethel Mernian For these reasons we _ believe to go through a nifty little that the former four-day Thanks- song number. giving vacation should be restored ajgo different from this genius, | this year. Is the girl with highly superior H. B. | beanius, P. W. Whose paramoecium C. C. Does all those funny little things J. M. they tell you it should, without | P. R. the slightest stretch of the | ae L. imaginoecium. | . . Still, then, and if also, some people | - Ys |Can go through the harrowing ex- | perience of five meetings in Tryouts room D Taylor at one-thirty All students, except Fresh- (FINES), without saying || men, are urged to try-out for words regretted later under | the News. There will be a some lofty steeple. meeting for everyone inter- Either by the ability to write a ested on Thursday at five- thesis on Machiavelli and Pon- | thirty in the News room. If | eielli, or to. make a laundry you are unable to come then list every Monday (twelve please notify Joan Gross, pieces are allowed) Rhoads South. Tryouts. will So lets take a long get-away-from- continue for one week. ‘. ales trip to Bali— ali. of the association are not accepted as necessary by the majority, it is impossible to enforce them. Self Gov. is a way of life. Its laws must be referred to those who,made them to be enforced. They lare not imposed from above; those chosen to enforce them are not policemen, they are classmates elected only last spring. A small infraction of the rules such as going off the campus in blue jeans may seem unimportant, and its punishment even ludicrous in as much as the consequences of the act in breaking down the reputa- punishment, But small infractions, the attitude which produces these small infractions, weakens the basis upon which we live to- gether in college. The individual must bé continually aware of the origin of regulation, ~ Give—And It Won’t Hurt The class of ’42 is the last to remember the days before the Activities Drive. Those were the days in which your autumn hours iwere full of interrupted evenings, knocks on your door bringing an harassed solicitor, who begged your financial assistance for some irelief group, some college project. You had no opportunity to in- ‘assurance that your gift was- helping to constitute a well-thought lout, proportional contribution to the group for which it was ‘collected. . | The Activities Drive was initiated to solve these difficulties. It pane proved, each year, an uncontested success, All the items on its budget “have-“been® catefully.-reviewed; they are responsible and ‘Hudson Shore Labor School and relief agencies are assured their |quota of substantial contribution. Provision f8r personal choice is ‘made by blanks on which your preferences may be indicated. | The Activities Drive makes one assumption: that everybody on government can be traced to one simple cause: that the laws, once campus will support it. This year, the budget has been cut; the made, have lost their original and vital significance as agreements of the individuals involved to facilitate the operations of a har- _monious society. Self Gov. cannot police the campus. If the laws a amount of $9 per student does not seem much to ask in one inclusive ree In the name of common sense and simple efficiency we hope ‘ox Activities Drive becomes a successful yearly institution. tion of the college may have little relation to the severity of the. PENN POINTS By Jessie Stone, ’44 By order of LaGuardia, an Of- fice of Civilian Defense for the Philadelphia metropolitan area was created almost three weeks ago. To date no one has been ap- pointed to the chief office of Re- gional Co-ordinator. Despite the lack of a-@g-ordinator, Civilian De- fense in Philadelphia, jolted by critical publicity, began to take stock of itself and move ahead, Before the wake-up punch, for instance, the Air-Raid Warden Service under Assistant Superin- tendant of Police Guy E. Parsons had waited in the. police stations for people to offer their services. “Organization” now becomes tlte tactic, “To the People,” the slogan. And accordingly forty-six district zone wardens are appointed. Each zone warden enrolls ten assistants, and the citizenry is directly ap- proached. With oné zone having completed its quota and others near their goal Philadelphians may now anticipate air-raids with mod- erated fear. A step. to integrate the many Civilian Defense groups and conse- quently prevent over-lapping of function and other ills fostered-by lack of central organization has been taken by the Women’s Home Defense, Association. Composed of members of .forty-two organiza- tions the Association has changed its name to the Civilian Defense Volunteer Office for Philadelphia and asked Dr. Owen, Chairman of the Philadelphia Counéil of De- fense to supervise its. activities. The C.D.V.O.P. is now to be lim- ited to registering, training, and placement of volunteer workers in defense services’ and community agencies. For the past week Bombers from Mitchel Field have been. conducting nocturnal flights over the Philadel- , phia area. The powerful search- light. beams, the drone of the plane, the great number of rank-and-file Philadelphians already involved in the air-raid services as wardens and spotters, and the consequent news publicity have all helped to create a general awareness and in- terest in Civilian Defense. On October 11 a one-day All- Philadelphia Conference on Social Work under the general title “Im- pact of Defense Program on our Community” met at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel. The morning ses- sion was highlighted by the speech of Dr. Hubley Owen who enthusi- astically reported the plans for National Defense Week to begin December ist. Owen praised Carl Bersing, president of the CIO In- Continued on Page Four MOVIES ALDINE: Lydia, Merle Oberon, Alan Marshall and Joseph Cotten. BOYD: Hold Back the Dawn, Boyer and de Havilland. FOX:A Yank in the R. A. F., Power and Grable. STANTON: Ladies in Retire- ment, Ida Lupino and Louis Hay- ward. THE. COLLEGE we Hudson Shore School Holds 1941 Session; Helps Industrial Workers Meet Problems “T found Hudson Shore Labor School-to-be-a place where all races, creeds and nationalities can live together, face their problems and find solutions to their problems. A Alberta Hynds wrote this—a Southern Ten- ant farmer who attended the 1941 session of Hudson Shore Labor School. Hudson Shore Labor School is an outgrowth of an idea which Miss M. Carey Thomas had in the early She visualized a school helping work- worker’s dream realized.” days of Bryn Mawr College. ing girls to understand the indus- trial problems which are so great She saw the Bryn Mawr campus as-the site to a part of their lives. be utilized in this project during The idea gathered force and enthusiasts; the Bryn Mawr School for Women Workers the summers. in Industry was begun. Recently moved to its West Park, N. Y. home,.and renamed Hudson Shore Labor School, the school continues as one of the country’s leading experiments in labor educa- tion. Its work was _ pioneering work, and since its inception, the school and its teachers . have learned much. Methods and even objectives in the field of workers’ education have changed. Each session is a new experi- ment, bringing together working women from different industries and widespread geographical centers.: Recruited largely from Y. W. C.. A. and union groups, these girls) have - varied _ back- grounds, varied training. But one thing is true of all them. Their experience is wide and rich. They have worked in steel mills; clothing shops, leather factories. They have been domestic servants, beauty op- erators, restaurant workers. Their experience is the material which the teachers at Hudson Shore use in their courses in English, Dra- matics, Science and Economics. In informal daily classes the more abstract learning emerges. Jenny is a share cropper, and from what Jenny says about the price of cotton and the price of meat in Arkansas, the concepts of real wages, cost of living, standards of living are made clear and graphic. Alice works in a large steel mill. Her description of its organization is illustrative material for prac- tical teaching in up-to-the-minute economics. So much of the experience which the girls-relate in -classes.is dra- matic material that there is no need to go afield for subject matter in order to produce a play at Hud- son Shore. Helene’s adventures at the Bulova Watch Company, why. Genevieve decided to join her un- ion, are easily drawn up in drama- tic form. Dramatics is used, too, as an instrument of teaching, co- ordinating material and making visual such problems as the ma- chinery of a minimum wage board. This summer was highlighted by visits of prominent ieaders in many fields. Mark Star, director of cul- tural activities for the I. L. G. W. U.; Max Lerner, Mabel Leslie, of the New York State Labor Rela- tions Board, spent weekends at West Park. Mrs. Roosevelt invited the entire school to her Hyde Park home. She met the girls inform- lent them bathing watched them swim in her pool, served ice cream. She gathered them around her on the lawn and chatted easily with them about civilian defense, labor and the war. Bryn Mawr maintains an active interest in the Hudson Shore Labor School. Miss Park is a mémber of its Board of Directors; Miss Fair- child is on its teaching staff. Two undergraduate assistants, this year Judy Bregman and Joan Gross, joined the “undergrad” ranks of the school. With girls from Wel- lesley, Mt. Holyoke, Smith and Con- necticut College for Women, the undergrads assist the staff, learn much from the practical experience of the working girl students.The college has contributed to the sup- port of the school for many years. Your contribution through the Ac- tivities Drive will help support a co-operative educational project, which needs generous’ support ally, suits, throughout the industrial disor- ganization of the present war. Don't Hi-jack your <= week-end date Do beautity with that wonderful long-lasting, gem-hard nail polish I. S.S.— IT’S THRESHOLD By Barbara Herman, 43 The publication of the Interna- tional Student Service’s new maga- zine, Threshold, should, if it lives up to its aims, afford an interest- | ing cross section of student liter- ary activity. It has been started, states its editor, Irwin Ross, as “a non-partisan, non-religious inter- collegiate journal devoted to the publication of the best student out- Lput in the way of articles, fiction, verse, reviews.” Its major objec- tive is to “arouse these literary talents, to provide a medium. for their first trial flights” as well as to “reestablish contact between the older and the younger genera- tions.” This’ latter aim is evi- denced in this issue by, contribu- tions from Eleanor Roosevelt, Max Lerner, and Daniel Boorstin. On the whole this issue is taken up with educational problems and interests. There are articles on Bennington and Antioch colleges written by students, a criticism of big business tactics in universities, by Daniel Boorstin, and . Mrs. Roosevelt’s contribution, If I Were A Freshman. The new Junior Professional Assistant jobs in the Civil Service, the work of the Stu- dent Opinion Surveys of America, and the development and work of the work camps are also discussed in articles by recent college grad- uates. The one article on world af- fairs is an analysis of the internal disunity in China. Two stories, several poems, and two short arti- cles on books and music complete the. table of contents. On review- ing this it can be seen that out of a total of fifteen -contributions, of which there are nine full length articles, eight of the articles are on education and its _ by-products. This seems like an unfortunate leditorial choice. Dr. Charles ;Beard, in congratulating the poli- cies of. the then embryonic maga- zine said, “It is needed, for the | youngsters are trying to think and | are writing themes on great issues | of life and society.” Granting the | importance of educational prob- lems and youth’s problems, and-the value of the expressions in some of these articles concerning them, it seems to me that more of the arti- cles could have been devoted to room-mate’s heavy your tingernene DURA-GLOSS Nail Polish At All Cosmetic Counters LORR LABORATORIES ¢ Paterson, N. J. Fieslian Teanis Cup Acquired by England In Three Hard Sets Thursday, > October gruelling tennis singles 6.—A_ long, ’ final cli- maxed the first successful Fresh- man Tennis Tournament since 1930. the quarantine, Favored by good weather! efficient organiza- tion, and last but not least by the of all the the tournament was won splendid co-operation players, by Keo England. The finals were played between Keo England, Non- Resident, and Chloe Tyler Walker, Rhoads South, England winning 3-6, 6-2, 8-6 after two hours of play. Walker showed more punch and drive to win the first set with su- perior placements. England. had excellent form but her swing was not forceful, and she netted many shots. The second set found her hitting out with added confidence. Walker, however, returned the ball steadily from all parts of the court, and the rallies were long ones. But the effort must have been tiring, as England ran the score up to 4-1 in the final set be- fore Walker regained her scoring ability. Then showing amazing steadiness and pluck, she cut Eng- land’s lead down to 5-4, staved off two match points, evened the score at 5-5, and went on to lead 6-5, be- fore losing 6-8. Keo England was then presented with a cup by Chris- tine Waples, ’42, and a picture was taken of the finalists to record the event. other “great issues of life and soci- ety,” both for the sake of variety and to get an insight into student opinion and thought, which, it is to be hoped, is not completely im- mersed in its own affairs. » Station Wagon This year Betty Wells, Merion Hall, is in charge of arrangements for the use of the Station Wagon. Any student or faculty member wishing to use the wagon should contact her. Page Three Safety First Will students walking on the road from Rhoads to the Library please keep to the side and watch. out for cars. Drivers: cannot see around the corner. Chairs; Drawer-Space Given Upperclassmen In New Writing Room Rules have been formulated for the use of the writing room off-the main reading room of the Library. The’ room, equipped by the class of 1907, will be for sophomores, jun- iors, and -seniors. Students may reserve a place.at one_table in the writing room with the table draw- er corresponding to their chair and an additional cupboard along the wall. Reservations will be for a period of two weeks with a possi- ble two weeks renewal. Miss Reid, in making the reser- vations, will favor those working in -departments which have no special libraries of their own, as the science’ and art departments do. The second table will be for the use of those wishing to write. The latter may reserve places on the shelves in the side cupboard for their papers merely by placing their names on the edge of the shelf. This table should be kept free of all books and _ papers, while books may be left on the other. Freshmen may write in the room. but may. not reserve places. A supervising committee has been appointed. Vivi French, ’42, represents the Undergraduate As- sociation, Nancy Ellicott, ’42, rep- resents the English department, and Miss Vogel, the Library staff. W. G. CUFF and CO. 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On inquiry, he said he had run a race with an-| other little boy, but they both | | started in wrong directions; they collided. At church one Sunday all the children put their pennies in The Bryn Mawr Summer Camp /the holy water, believing it the col- is one 6f few camps today which| lection box. Helen Wentz, the nurse are arranged solely for very young} from the Bryn Mawr Hospital, cap- poor children. Its convenience to} tured one little boy’s heart. He tired parents, its effects on droop- | asked her to wait until he grew up ing, unsound children, :and_ its!so that he could marry her. progress in training younger chil- dren, has proved the importance of| man of the camp this summer, and such a camp. | her assistants were Helen Lichel- The children sent by the Family} berger, 43, and Ann Adams, ’43. Society of Philadelphia and The|The duties were divided equally Main Line Federation of Churches; among the counselors, rotating to! represented districts in Philadel-| ayoid their repetition. Counselors ! phia and along the Main Line. The| during the six weeks were Susan most hygienic activities are ar- Darling, ’42, Kitty Burch, ’44, ranged, those which will provide! Jerry Catron, ’42, Mary Rambo, sufficient fatigue plus the maxi-| +43, and Betty Lee Belt, ’41; for mum of sunshine and plenty of | the second week, Gertrude Caesar, rest. Although kind friends do- | 143, Ronny Ravitch, ’44, and Har- nated food, toys, one tricycle, sixty-| riet Houston, ’43, with Caro Shugg, three pairs of socks, and some lol-|’43, and Phebe Stevens, ’43, the lipops, still more toys and books | third week. for four-year olds, building-blocks, | Changes next summer will be and scales were needed. |few because of the efficiency ap- Every occupation is turned into) parent in everyone, from the B. M. an education. At meals the chil-} maids, Minnie and Anna—both of dren learn politeness and table| whom the children adored—to the manners. They learn to dress | counselors and_assistants. But next themselves, keep their clothes and) year the chairmanship will be di- rooms neat, and try to forget bad vided between Helen Ejichelberger habits. Elsa Mohr, graduate of) and Ann: Adams. Kind Friends Donated: Food, | Sixty-three Pairs of Socks, One Tricycle Margaret Perkins, ’42, was chair- Mac eighs Picn ic at Potsdam as Germany Invades Russia, Ride Troop Train to Berlin By Barbara Cooley, ’42 It started in the fall of 1939 as a -normal Junior abroad, studying in Athens, living at the consulate with her parents. By the end of the next summer with an unfinished archeology paper as an excuse, Peggy MacVeigh per- suaded her family to let her stay on. Greece entered the war. Five weeks after the German occupa- tion on June 5, 1941, the Mac- Veighs left Athens by plane for Vienna. “No one smiled on the streets of Vienna,” Peggy said. “After a while at the hotel and restaurants, people began to talk to us in English. I think they were home- sick for foreigners.” The worst part of the trip was the fifteen hour ride in a train jammed with soldiers from Vienna to Berlin. They were careful not to talk to Germans in Berlin, be- cause closing .of German and Italian consulates in the United States had greatly aroused official feeling. But there was no rancour. toward Americans among the peo- ple, . who still remembered the American distribution of food af- ter the last war. They never saw demonstrations of public sentiments. The day the Russian war broke out, the Mac- Veighs had a picnic at Potsdam. Everything was quiet; no one was reading the two-page newspapers; there was neither enthusiasm or panic apparent anywhere. Travelling was very difficult all across Europe. Trains were in- frequent and overcrowded; only officials and armies owned cars, and in Vienna there were not even buses. Bicycles are the chief means of transportation. After waiting ten days in Ber- lin for a plane, they finally ob- tained a tiny car with a German chauffeur and drove at night with- out headlights down empty high- ways through the Rhineland. At the Swiss border there was a se- vere examination by German —cus- toms before they were led to a year ” Wheelock School, taught the chil-' dren crafts, training them to work with their hands. Some weaved or made dolls out of clothes-pins, ash- trays out of clay, or collected shells to rake necklaces. Each child had his own person- RENE MARCEL French Hairdressing 853 Lancaster Avenue Special Rates to Students From early in the morning till late at night The Inn’s a place of culinary delight. When you’re weary, when you’re tired, Go to the Inn to be inspired. 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One American said, “They don’t want to rebuild University City (main battlefield of the siege of Madrid). The Spanish love to come out here for picnics on Sun- days. They like to pick up all the bones.” Finally a train to Lisbon, which if she might smoke. oul, is Peggy described it as the “listen- ing post of Europe,” now, full of Germans and English and spies. “Everyone you know in Europe is there now, or has just left, or is arriving in a few days.” On the liner Exeter, en route to New York, the only sign of war was one American submarine off the coast of Bermuda. “beautiful and full of food.’ ; Philadelphia Sets Up Its Civilian Defense Continued from Page Two dustrial Union Council as origina- tor and spirited backer of the De- fense Week idea, and said that Bersing, “pledged his entire organ- ization and every woman and child of their families to make Defense Week a huge success.” -Apparantly after much pushing and puffing Philadelphia Civilian Defense is on the way to gaining the recognized cooperation and in- terest of the people and the final complete coordination of all Civil- ian Defense Organizations. Illu- sions about the simplicity and short time required to build up an adequate system of Civilian De- ferse are being rapidly dispelled; coupled with this is the brighter realization that with energetic leadership, solid organization, and the involvement. of every citizen in the great task Civilian Defense, Organization will come into’ its own in Philadelphia. Commencement At a elass meeting on Oc- _tober 13, the class of 1942 agreed to send to the Board of Directors a letter express-' ing its desire that Miss Park be the only speaker on the Commencement program next June. Seal-dyed Mi .. youthful and - smart for date ..,. practical for campus wear Gisela Richter said tonight in open- “ing the Flexner lecture series. This ‘ @ period encompasses the progress in art from about 685 to 480 B. C., or | from naive and stylized statues, to those exhibiting developed tech- nique and naturalism. Professor Richter divided this period into six stages, or three epochs: Each lec- ture is to cover part of each epoch, The history of Greece in this period paralleled the course of her art, while the events of the day are reflected in her artists’ ideas and subjects, Miss Richter said. The first lecture concerned itself with the first half of the first epoch, Professor G. Richter THE COLLEGE NEWS Art of Old Greece Wandering Members of '42 Linked to History by ..\Praise Other Colleges, But Return Willingly to Radcliffe. Why Radcliffe was chosen still remains a question after numerous interviews. Somebody murmured something about Cambridge, Massa- chusetts, since Cambridge, Eng- land, was not available. Sheila Gamble, however, just plain did not like Radcliffe and returned second to know, and the work is not inter- esting, Sheila said. Mary Gumbart left Bryn Mawr to get away from the “clubby” atmosphere, enjoyed ;her year, and returned quite will- ingly. She has friends here any- way, Gummy is frank to admit. Weighing the pros and cons of the two colleges, she preferred the uncloistered life at- Radcliffe, but was a little confused by the prac- when Greece was beginning to as-|tically non-existent campus. Mary ba ae