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Thomas States
Religious Needs. ~. |

The place of religion in the mod-
ern world was the topic of a dis-
cussion October 18th presented by

 

Mr. George F. omas, Professor
of religious thought at Princeton
University.

Mr. Thomas traced the _ role

which religion has played in the
past and in modern times and cited
. the increasing need for it in the
future. Until the time of the Re-
formation religion was the princi-
pal centralization force of the
world, an integral part of every
phase of life. Gradually, however,
every field has declared its inde-
pendence, so that today religion
is essentially peripheral in char-
acter. It is impossible to foretell |
what form religion will take in the
future, but if it is to continue to
exist at all, it must lose some of
this peripheral nature.

The results of a religious revival
Mr. Thomas pointed out, would be
threefold. The intellectual stagna-
tion which is enveloping the world
would be brought to a halt’ by the
stimulating influences of a new
religious inspiration. Coinciding
with this would come a moral re-
generation of mankind. The mod-
ern world falsely believes that it
ean live by intellectual standards
alone, but the experiences of this
century have proved-that-these are
not sufficient. Finally this new
force would counteract the mass
and individual egotism which has
caused man to lose sight of fra-
ternity in his search for liberty and
equality.

Exhibit Illustrates
History Of Books

By Louise Gorham °47
The History of the Book is the
subject of the current Rare Book
Room exhibit. ‘Here the develop-

 

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PAT EDWARDS

2nd. Frosh Chairman

 

Current Events

 

The principal causes of the fail-
ure of the London Council of For-
eign. Ministers were traced by Miss
McKown jn'her discussion at Cur-

_ | rent Events to the Potsdam Dec-

laration, by which the Council was
instituted.

The first Potsdam factor influen-
cing the ‘London failure was the
pressure of wartime conditions
which molded the first conference
and not the second. Potsdam was
hurriedly and-badly drafted, and
the resultant confusion in London
contributed to the (virtual break-
down of negotiations.

Haste

Similar haste, as shown by the

 

Jobs, Marriage

Occupy Alumnae

 

Graduate study, teaching, mar-
riage, and wage-earning
the majority of the class of
after graduation last June.

Returning to Bryn Mawr this
fall as graduate students are Betty
and
Marguerite Hutchins. In Cambridge
Gina More, Ann Fitzgibbons, Han-
nah Kaufman and Jean Alice Pot-
ter are doing: graduate work at
Harvard. Edith Brunt and Helen
while
Katherine Pike is studying at the

Blommers, Coleen Grimm,

Einhorn are at Columbia,

University of Minnesota.

Julie Turner is studying art in
? is
continuing her work in dancing by
studying in New York. Yvonne
Townsend and Betty Updegraff are
medical students, and Mary Sax
is studying Hemotology at Wash-

Chicago, and Esterlee Hutzler

ington and Jefferson Medica

School in St. Louis.

Alison Merrill is continuing her
journalistic career as a copy girl

claimed
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brief time the Council was given
to start meeting, led to the lack
of adequate preparation by the
deputies in London, notably in the
case of the non-existent agenda.
Further, Miss McKown pointed out,
‘the Potsdam agreement included
‘for the principals a certain area
of verbal arrangement, while the
subsequent conference was com-
pelled to restrict itself to the let-
ter of the written agreement.

Groundwork

The chief point of disagreement
arose over the American draft of
the Roumanian peace treaty in

of a democratic regime signing the
peace was explicitly demanded.
The American contention that the
present government of Roumania
is undemocratic brought up the
whole question of the Russian, as
against the Anglo-American, con-
ception of democratic government.

 

This was the chief “substantive”
conflict, which, Miss McKown em-
phasized, should not be confused
with procedural points more readily
settled in preparatory negotiations.
Miss McKown pointed out, how-
ever, that a considerable amount
of groundwork was laid for future
discussions,

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which the Potsdam requirement |

Ingenuity and Poetic Grandeur

Revealed by Self-Gov. Exams

 

‘by Rosina Bateson, 747

’49 seems to be serious in its
conception of the responsibility’ of
members of the Self-Government
Association. With Tennysonian
grandeur one Freshman wrote “I
am a part of Self-Government with
an amount of responsibility equal
to that of all other members, If I
fail, Self Government fails. (meta-
phor).” On the other hand, there
is the cynic who stated that a
council will scold you if you don’t
watch out,

Some people look at life the
hard way. According to a budding
pessimist, “no beverages are al-
lowed at college’. Could that. ex-
plain the recent lack of milk at
lunch? She was rather confused
too about smoking: “allowed * on
the college grounds until the beau-
ty or usage of it was destroyed.”

Several Freshmen aren’t quite
sure whether Washington and New
York are in the vicinity of Phila-
delphia. Those who did_know, how-
ever, were firm about signing out
to a-eertain Miss Forbes’ house in
Washington to return by car, per-
mission 2:00. Horror bristling

from her pen, and obviously an-
noyed at such a foolish question,
one Freshman wrote “tsk tsk! Re-
turning by car after 10:30 from a
distance greater—than—Prineceton?

“Never! She should go by train. (or
helicopter).”

Last, but not least
deluge of opinion and - concern
about halters. “Neyer wear them,
so don’t haye~to bothéx.about the
rule,” meanghea one independent
soul.

Then there were the upper class-
men who to show off asked what
the exam was like. When they
were told in no uncertain terms
they found that they too got con-
fused. With a good deal of cha-
grin one senior who couldn’t figure
out the funny business of why she
wasn’t able to pop into the Greeks
on the way. home from a concert
in Philadelphia at 12:30, was heard
to remark, “It all depends on the
route you take back from. the
train!”

came the

 

 

 

 

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Hamburgers that.
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poetry
THE LAST STRAW

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ment of books is traced from their
earliest type to the modern form.
It is the first time that such a
resume has been attempted, and
_ the Library is proud of possessing
all the exhibits, with the exception
of the Babylonian tablets and pa-
pyrus examples ‘for which it is
' greatly indebted to the University
of Pennsylvana, and _ without
which the display would have been
impossible.

The oldest type of books known

today are: the cuneiform tablets
- from before 4000 B. C., two frag-
ments of which can be seen. The
samples of hierogliphics traced on
papyrus rolls with a pen or brush
represent a later development, or-
iginally along the Nile Valley. In
the western world, parchment was
used until the advent of paper
from China. There are several vol-
umes of these artistically done
manuscripts in book form, one
dating from the twelfth century.

The exhibit includes representa-
tive books from all these periods,
closing with a modern copy of T.
S. Eliot.

 

MEET AT THE GREEKS

Tasty Sandwiches
Refreshments

Lunches — Dinners
Bryn Mawr

 

on the New York Herald Tribune.
Margaret Browder, former presi-
dent of the radio club, has a posi-
tion in the advertising and promo-
tion division of NBC. The ability
to speak Spanish gave Bobby Eg-
gert an opportunity for promotion
at Young and Rubicam advertising
agency when an emergency arose.
She is now being trained to repre-
sent the company in Mexico.

In New York, Betty Gunderson
is working for the Norwegian ship-
ping and trade mission, and Lucy
Hall is at the French Colonial
Trade Mission. Lydia Gifford ‘ is
working on McCall’s. At the
American Machine and Foundry

h-

Assistant Director of Public Re-

lations. Nina Montgomery is work-

‘ing in a Brooklyfh Museum. ©
Continued next Week

In conclusion Mrs. Manning drew.
attention to the extreme import-
ance of the Anglo-American loan
not only in settling the patterf for
Anglo-American relations with the
world but as absolutely fundamen-
tal to the revival of world trade.

 

 

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