Page Two THE COLLEGE NEWS Wednesday, May 16, 1951 A THE COLLEGE NEWS FOUNDED IN 1914 Published weekly during the College Year (except during Thanks- giving, Christmas and Easter holidays, and during examination weeks) in the interest of Bryn Mawr College at the Ardmore Printing Company, Ardmore, Pa., and Bryn Mawr College. The College News is fully protected by copyright. Nothing that appears in it ay be reprinted either wholly or in part without permission of the Editor-in-Chief. EDITORIAL BOARD Jane Augustine, ‘52, Editor-in-chief Julie Ann Johnson, ‘52, Copy ‘Frances Shirley, ‘53, Make-up Helen Katz, ‘53 Margie Cohn, ‘52, Make-up Sheila Atkinson, ‘53 Claire Robinson, ‘54 Beth Davis, ‘54 EDITORIAL STAFF Betty-Jeannie Yorshis, ‘52 Lucy Batten, ‘54 Mary Alice Drinkle, ‘53 Louise Kennedy, ‘54 Margaret McCabe, ‘54 Anne Phipps, ‘54 Cynthia Sorrick, ‘54 STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS Sue Bramann, ‘52 Judy Leopold, ‘53 BUSINESS MANAGERS Tama Schenk, ‘52 — Sue Press, ‘53 BUSINESS BOARD : Barbara Goldman, ‘53 Evelyn Fuller, ‘53 Margi Partri e, ‘$2 Vicki. Kraver, ‘54 * SUBSCRIPTION BOARD Barbara Goldman, ‘53, Manager Lee Sedgwick, ‘53 : Jo Case, ‘54 Bobbie Olsen, ‘54 Suki Webb, ‘54 Marilyn Dew, ‘54 Molly Plunkett, ‘54 Liz Simpson, ‘54 Joy Fox, ‘54 Barbara Rasnick, ‘53 Karen Hansen, ‘54 ; Nena McBee, ‘53 . Diana Gammie, ‘53 Ann McGregor, ‘54 Mary Lou Bianchi, ‘52 Subscription, $3.00 Mailing price, $3.50 Subscriptions may begin at any time : Entered as second class matter at the Ardmore, Pa., Pust Office Under the Act of March 3, 1879 Library Hoarding The reserve room echoes with loud frustrated whispers: “T had it reserved!” “Where’s that blasted book?” “It’s due at twelve—I’ve got to get it done!” It is the last week of classes; exams start soon. We are all rushing, and trying to keep pace with stringent schedules. Nothing is more disheartening than to arrive at the library promptly on the hour and find that the book you carefully re- served is missing. “I’m sorry. Volume 463 hasn’t been seen since nine o’clock this morning. Yes, we’re trying to locate 1t,”’ The student is more than on the verge of losing her tem- per. “Who could have taken it? Who?” It is hard to imagine someone deliberately depriving those who have reserved a book that privilege, and yet that is what happens every day. Five or six students are forced to go to class unprepared and must complete the assignment at a time they have set aside for another subject—all because one girl has taken the book, card and all, from the library, and has kept it more hours than it would take a moron to memorize it completely. The reserve system is intended as an aid to students and to keep monopolizers’ greedy hands away. The two-hour limit assures each a share of the books in demand. People who break the rule are monopolizers and should not be allow- ed the privilege of further reserving books. The reserve sys- tem is a fair one, but it can operate only if each student uses the time she has reserved the book and no more. When work piles up, as it is bound to do at this time of year, proposed individual schedules must be respected. The reserve system should function justly. One cat cannot lap up all the com- munity milk and come out satiated, while her cohorts, be- hind in the race, starve. Loose Ends... Why, we wonder, is there not flourescent paint on the hands of the library and Taylor clocks? . . . Coffee served as regularly in the winter as lemonade is in the spring would be delightful . .. They would have to reduce the river bank be- hind Rhoads to a prickly stubble just before exams .. . Three cheers to Dr. Wells for smiling benignly upon the Charleston, and to the musicians who serenade the NEWS so faithfully ..- And so as the shadows deepen under the eyes of the stu- dents, we leave the grotto-light of the blotterless (sob) lib- Tary... Cancer Study Probes Compound Resistance Continued from Page 1 the chemotherapy of cancer, Dr Burchenal continued: 1) that you should know what cancer is, how an infected cell differs from a healthy cell, before chemotherapy is employed; 2) the empirical method which looks for compounds that will.work on cancer, and after that determines why they work The second is the method Sloan Kettering uses. For screening com- pounds at random, most reliance is placed on the solid tumor program. A tumor is ifjected into mice and then the micp are treated. The tu- mor is measured when the treat- ment is begun and during its pro- cess. If untreated, the mice all die about the same time. The program shows how much, if any, a com- pound can increase survival time. Supplementary tests include: 1) letting the infected mice go for eight days after the injection of the disease so that they can de- velop a high white count; then see- ing if the compound causes the white count to fall; 2) finding out how the compound works to im- prove it. -What the experimental scientist is interested in is how the com- pound will affect the human pa- tient. How can human dosage be determined? First he tries the compound on mice, rats, cats and dogs. If there is no marked dif- ference inthe reaction, it can be assumed man’s dosage is the same as that of a dog. The treatment is first applied to a very sick pa- tient about to die and then tried on cases that might be benefited by it. Only then can the scientist discover how valuable the com There are two compounds now being used in the treatment of leu- kemia: amethépterin and cortisone. Although they produce a definite survival increase, resistance to them occurs because of the random mutation of perhaps a single cell. “If we could find some way to counteract resistance,” Dr. Burch- enal continued, “we would have a treatment as good as insulin for diabetes.” There are two possible explanations for resistance: 1) an alternate metabolic pathway; 2) decreased affinity of the erzyme for amethopterin. “Our problem is manifold,” he concluded. New compounds must be found, old mechanisms perfect- ed by study of their actions, and the mechanisms of resistance stud- ied. “At the present time we are curing none,” but the lives of a few are being prolonged. If the scientists could only keep patients alive for two years, it would be a great question whether or not it would be worth it. The hope which spurs them on is that sooner or later someone will find something a lot better than they have today; that someday someone will get the benefits of their present work. The College swimming poo} will be opened during exam week from May 21st through May 30th at 11:30 to 12:30 every morning and 4 to 5 every afternoon, for those whe are not Life Savers. Defender Of Freedoms Must Uphold Position Continued from Page 1 lege. Two conditions are imposed upon the individuals who feel respons- ible in relation to basic freedoms: 1) they must acquire knowledge sufficient to judge the particular issue; 2) they must be willing to take a stand, and learn how to do so effectively. The ordinary per- son may ask whether it is worth- while to take a stand; Miss Mc- t Bride remarked that “It is danger-| Fraser Observer Reprinted from last Spring There are many ways to do it; we’ve considered almost all. One could fiing one’s self headlong on the Goodhart door or jump into the mysterious pit in the Catacombs of the library. Innumerable ways! Or one could turn in one’s paper. But this is the coward’s way out. Our paper is not illustrated; it contains no meticulous diagrams; it consists mainly of typographical errors. 'We are sorry; we have done our best. We spent at least 50 hours reading for our paper and at least ten years writing it. We are old and worn and haggard. Our professor believes we have dropped the course. He is mistak- en. It has fallen on us. : The Library detests us. We are being followed by a private inves- tigator. We admit we inadvertent- ly crushed an aspirin between the leaves of one book, but we swear that we did not cut out the frontis- piece. We repeat, our paper has no illustrations: Then today we saw them, both of them. One is sturdy and grey and hangs from the big tree in front of the library. The other is delicate and white and sways se- ductively in ‘the wind. It hangs from the cherry tree at the side of the library. They are nooses. ‘We were happy when we saw them. No, we do not mean to be morbid. ‘We feel they represent a kindred: spirit. Somewhere there is someone who understands. Poss- ibly, oh possibly, there is someone else who ‘thas not passed in her paper. Please. It sits on the floor of our room and we loathe it. It is like a hoagy —it permeates the atmosphere and the longer it stays, the more we hate it. We should pass it in. . There are so many ways to do it. One could fling one’s self head- long on the Goodhart door or jump into the mysterious pit in the catacombs of the library. In- numerable ways... PGi 8. SPORTS Bryn Mawr played four varsity sports this spring, tennis, lacrosse, softball, and golf, the latter hav- ing its first year of intercollegiate play. Top praise goes to both the JV and the varsity tennis teams and their captain, Nancy Blackwood, for winning all their matches against Rosemont, Ur- sinus, Temple, Penn, and Swarth- more. Varsity lacrosse, captained by Tuck Howell, won two and lost two of its games while the second team also came out evenly, win- ning one and losing one. The softball team, led by Mary Klein, has lost to Penn and Chestnut Hill but won its most recent game against Drexel, 17-6, with the help of Phoebe Harvey’s strike-out pitching. The new golf team, made up of Mary McGrath, Bunny Dean, Nat McCuaig, Betsy. Re- penning, and Anne Martin, has beaten Swarthmore but lost to Penn. Congratulations to this new team for their enthusiasm and growing skill. Tsuda College for Women, the Japanese sister college of B.M.C., needs books. When Leary’s comes to buy books, put your unsold ones in the box in the bookshop. ous to wait.” It is not numbers alone that will matter; a combina- tion of competence and integrity must be attached to the person about to take a stand. Jam Angstadt, ’62 to Robert Schrecker on Freedom Links Specific, Universal Continued from Page 1 specifications of the universal Freedom. Particular freedoms are inevitably associated with the pri- mordial needs and aspirations of human beings. The different prov- inces of civilization and’ the speci- fic freedoms related to them are based on these aspirations. How- ever, aspirations are bound to con- flict, and thus, in any positive civ- ilization, some freedoms must be subordinate to others. If there existed a rationally ordered hier- archy of freedoms, it would be an easy task to discover whether or not a particular civilization were a good one. However, no such standard exists. The most that can be hoped for in the attainment of a dynamical balance in which no one freedom is allowed to reach a state of hyper- trophy such that’ other freedoms are completely atrophied. If enough aspirations are frustrated long enough, revolutions result. (Such revolutions may take place in the individual as well as within civilizations). The specific’ free- doms are so dramatically interre- lated with the overall concept of freedom that such state of frustra- tion eventually impairs even the particular freedom which happens to be in the ascendency. The ideal to be attained is one in which all freedoms are compossible. Since every man has a right to civiliza- tion, punitive sanctions (i. e. ex- clusive' from civilization) should only be employed to the extent necessary to preserve it. An inter- national power is needed to rule out totalitarian regimes and to maintain an international Bill of Rights. This end is especially the task of ethics and the philosophy of history. Talent, Papism Found Incompatible In Novel Continued from Page 1 Catholics”, like Therese Desquey- roux’s ‘husband, for instance, are the characters who totally fail to win our sympathy renders Maur- iac’s Catholocism suspect. Bernanos writes from a similar point of view, but with a more ex- aggerated interest in the omni- presence of Evil. He develops the evil side of his characters to such an extent that it appears to be his only concern. He depicts these sinners as possessed by a devilish energy, which, though it leads them to commit acts of violence, appears more commendable to him than the passivity of the majority of men. In treating saintly char- acters he concentrates upon their preliminary doubts and spiritual struggles or upon the excesses in their faith which lead them to un- orthodoxy. In contrast to the Catholic belief, his “(Nouvelle His- toire de Mouchette” ends with the clear implication that the girl who has committed suicide will be sav- ed in the after life. From all of this M. Collignon concluded that there are good Catholics and there are good nov- elists, but that the twain rarely, if ever, meet. The qualities which make Mauriac and Bernanos good novelists are precisely those which endanger their positions as Cath- olics, while it is a fact that auth- or like Bourget, Bazin, and Bor- deaux, who write completely unor- thodox novels are bad _ novelists. And the paradox of the “good Catholic novel” remains unsolved. The Bryn Mawr College Theatre announces with pleas- ure the selection of Shakes- peare’s “Othello” as the first production of the fall 1951 sea- son. Mr. Frederick Thon will } «