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Brachet Explains
Value of Embryo -

For Experiments

“The embryo is the most reveal-
ing stage of fe at which to study
physiological and cellular proh-
lems, since the life-processes are
at tneir most active stage during
that pnase,” said M. Jean Brachet
at vaiton Hall on the evening of
Thursday, March 6. M. Brachet is
a proiessor at the University of
Brusseis, and is now Visiting at
the University of Pennsyivania.
His lecture was on “New Trends
in Mmoryology.”

‘ne vaiue of embryology as a
field of stuay, both anatomical and
chemical, lies in its rapid growth
and ciarity of difterentiation as

- weil as its function as a “closed

system,” uninnuenced by its en-
vironment except tor the exchange
of gases. M. brachet pointed out
that this “closed system” makes
the embryo a valuaple test-field
from the experimenter’s point of
view; the dimerentaation of embry-
onic cells is a fundamentally im-
portant problem in Biology, and
in the embryo the change of the
undiserentiated cells to ceils of the
heart or intestine or brain may be
studied best for its own intrinsic
interest, and for the understand-
ing of such problems as the “an-
archial growth” of cancer.

Chemical Embryology

Chemical embryology, Mr. Bra-
chet’s special field, would never
have been possible without the ef-
forts of men like William Harvey
(who first. formulated the belief
that all animals originate from
fertilized egg cells); Leuwenhoek
and Pasteur (who combatted the
theory»of spontaneous generation);
Spalianzani (the first true experi-
mental embryologist); and the
German biologists of the last cen-
tury who studied localization in
the embryo, and the action of the

- organizer. The organizer is the

area which later develops into the
muscles and cords; it intiuences the
upper half of the embryo to form
the nervous system; otherwise the
cells would form skin.

Technical Advances

Great technical advances, M.
Brachet pointed out, have speeded
Chemical Embryology along in the
past ten years. Meters have been
developed, delicate enough to mea-
sure the life actions of small em-
bryonic areas and the exchange of
gases. He explained that three
new theories have been put for-
ward about egg-fertilization: that
of Lillie, that the egg gives out a
substance to stimulate and attract
the sperm; of Loeb that the egg
goes through a destructive phase,
immediately after fertilization and
then reverses; and Bataillu that
the egg is there before fertiliza-
tion because of intoxication, but
the advent of the sperm releases
the toxic substances. Chemical
embryologists have partially and
tentatively identified the stimulat-
ing substance of the organism that
leads the cell-differentiation, as
nucleic acid.

M. Brachet expects rapid ad-
vances in Chemical Embryology in
the near future, and insists on the
indebtedness of this work in the
past to the embryological studies
that preceded it,

 

|B. M. Victorious

Over Swarthmore

Gym, March 8. Bryn Mawr car-
ried off the victory from Swarth-
more in the next to the last bas-
ketball game of the season. The
first team triumphed 28-14, while
the second team tied at 18-18.

the day was shown by Ning Hitch-
cock, first team forward, who made
17 points. Swarthmore moved well
as a team, but seldom pulled off the
brilliant interceptions or long shots
of Bryn Mawr.

The second teams were evenly
matched, though Swarthmore set
the pace during the first half, and
Bryn Mawr rooters were in a crit-
ical condition by the end of the
game.

The last game of the season will
be on Wednesday, March 12 with
Rosemont, at Bryn Mawr.

Adams’ Play Proves
Entertaining, Skillful
Continued from Page 3

stage. Herbert Cheyette did as
much as possible with the part al-
lotted to him, and succeeded in con-
vineing his audience anew of Chris-
tine’s powers. Perhaps he was
necessary as fill-in during the in-
terval between Drake’s telephone
conversation with Bruno Staunch-
ion and the producer’s arrival at
the Drake home. Don Shoffstall, a
late comer to the cast of Faithfully
Yours, was excellent as the burly
producer for whom “domestic tran-
quility has been violated.” His en-
trance was poor; indeed one felt
that he was a trifle uncertain as
to precisely how he got there, but
once on stage his portrayal of the
Pagliacci of comedy was commend-
able. His disillusionment and ser-
ious observations on life were just
what was needed from a man who
intended to bring his wife back
home by writing a movie about
her, one who felt above all that “a
man cannot live by humor alone!”
Of the smaller parts in Faith-
fully Yours that of Hattie Arling-
ton was by far the best portrayed.
Ellen Harriman fitted perfectly
into her role as the pleasantly
tough, deep voiced *movie actress,

‘|married to a prominent producer.

Her deep voice was used to the
fullest advantage, and her costume
completed the picture of the one
type needed to complete the “movie
set.” The eclat with which she
hurled such epithets as “That
Scrod!”—applied to her husband
—brought down the house. We were
sorry that her part was not more
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Speakers Analyze
Industrial Strikes

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the whim of a company,” said Mr.
Harris is presenting Labor’s point
of view in the discussion. Pointing
out that one man could always
threaten to quit but “so what?” he
continued. “The important freedom
is the right to quit work collective-
ly.” Mr. Harris also expressed the
opinion that the main problem fac-
ing management and labor alike is
that the public doesn’t know the
facts of each case.

Mentioning a few instances in
which management would not ac-
cept Government findings for an
increase in wage rates, Mr. Harris
pointed out that in these cases
there was-certainly..a justifiable
reason to strike, but that the pub-

lic never had the opportunity to

learn the whole story in such cas-
es. Mr. Harris concluded that the
problem of curtailing strikes rests
first on industry, because they
must change their attitude and re-
alize that unions are here to stay,
and secondly, on the public to de-
termine fairly who is responsible
for each strike. s

‘“Tf you bargain and have noth-
ing to lose by not bargaining—
there is no incentive to bargain,”
pointed out Mr. Bachrach. “There
must be a pitfall of economic loss
and suffering on both sides,” he
continued in pointing out the need
for the right to strike. Further-
more, he pointed out that there
must be an equalization of pres-
sure groups, citing the situation
in England as an example. “If you
attempt to break down labor you
can’t do it by passing laws because
labor immediately moves to the
political field.”

As solutions to the problem Mr.
Bachrach mentioned three courses
he believes necessary. ‘First, the
strengthening of collective bargain-
ing, in which he stated that the role
of Government was to defeat all
legislation curtailing the rights or
abuses of labor and second the
strengthening of the Labor move-
ment in this country with more dis-

cipline-and_realization of -responsi=-|+

bilities. Finally, there must be
sound economic planning and a
carrying through of the Employ-
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Part of B. M. Chorus Plans Trip
To Poughkeepsie for Song fest

by Barbara Bettman ’49

Juniors and seniors of the col-
lege chorus, plus those few select
sophomores who are members. of
the double octet, will journey to
| Vassar Saturday, Murch 15, to sing

with Vassar, Radcliffe and Smith
on Sunday afternoon. Bryn Mawr’s
group of forty-five will be shelter-
ed by the potential Daisy Chainers
Saturday night, after dining en
masse in New York (Remarks
“Cookie,” “It’ll be nicer than eat-
ing’ alone.”), and will be fed on
Sunday. Similar guest-friendship

twill. be extended to the . Radcliffe

and Smith contingents, each sixty
strong, the+Poughl:eepsie citadel
being apparently as infinitely ex-
pandable as Barnum and Bailey’s
Chevrolet.

Mendelssohn and Bach

Probably under tae direction of
E. Harold Geer, Vassar’s director,
the combined choruses will sing
Mendelssohn’s “Laudate Pueri”
and “In Dulce Jubilo,” an old
Christmas carol arranged by Bach
and conducted to Bryn Mawr ears
by way of the Haverford chorus
which sang it here at Christmas.

Six Familiar Songs

The Bryn Mawr chorus, directed
by “Cookie,” will sing six songs,

all of which are familiar to the’

 

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tener: and/or .chapel-goer. These
include: “Awake Thou Wintry
Earth,” “Suscepit Israel,” “My

Soul There is a Country,” “Bloom-
ing on the Hilltop,” “Cancao,” and
Irving Fine’s “Alleluia.”

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Gilmartin Attends
Science Meeting

Rosemary Gilmartin, ’47, repre-
sented Bryn Mawr at the recent
Eastern Colleges Science Confer-
ence on. Science, Philosophy and
Society, which was held-at Vassar
College. The purpose of the meet-
ing was to show the integration of
these three fields.

The program of the conference
included student papers in various
scientific fields as well as speeches
and papers by eminent scientists
and philosophers from many col-
leges. All the formal sessions were
followed by smaller meetings for
discussion.

Exhibits and ‘temonstrations de-
signed to illustrate the processes
of scientific study in a representa-
tive undergraduate college had
been prepared by students at Vas-
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