es tee ‘Smith Wins Study Grant ‘Gathers Data From Mice $ Harbor, Maine, under a grant of ‘“Miss Dro8ophila” (Drosophila is _alysis of this. disease aside from * among the causes of death, the rec- » 98% at 11 to 12 months. . her own. fruit flies presented a variety of a © “Wednesday, March 3, 1954 THE COLLEGE NEWS Page -Five Continued from Page 1 $1200 from the American Cancer Society. ° Every summer this laboratory admits twenty-five- outstanding high school scientists from all over the’ country. They attend lectures where they are taught the latest research techniques, It is here that Joan was called the class name of the fruit fly) be- cause of, her avid defence of the ANSWERS TO LIBRARY QUIZ 1. Wait until 9:50 and then if no.one else wants the books, you overnight. 2.-Go to the main stacks and get written permission from the. libra- ian there. 3. Get written permission from the professor for whose course the book is on reserve and show it to the librarian at the main stacks serve. 4..Go to Miss Agnew or Miss Geist at once and they will stop all fines and give you time to look fruit fly’s place in research as op- opposed to mice. Joan spent three months study— ing the renal disease’in A strain mice. These particular animals were known to be very susceptible to lung tumors a were. being used in cancer research. However, they also had a renal disease which had been’ disregarded before. There was a need for a gross an- the lung tumors to determine ex- actly what effect the renal disease had on the animal’s death. If it were impossible to differentiate ords of the results of tumor trans- plants in the mice would be inac- ‘curate, ia In dissecting 192 animals she discovered that the degeneration was 68.58% at 8 to 10 months and It had been thought previously that the age for degeneration was 20 months. Joan’s introduction to research was quite unusual. As a _ sopho- more in high school she becanie in- terested in science and decided to spend some. time on a project of Someone told her that possibilities so she ordéred some. However,. they came before she was prepared and she had to rush over to the library to find out what to do with them. There, instead of finding .standard .experiments ‘such as Mendelian crosses, she discov- for it before charging you. 5. In the two tower rooms off the Reserve Room and the Refer- ence Room. Concert Program Offers may take out as many as you need | who will take the book off re-| Incongruities Show Epic Includes Several Poems * Continued from Page 1 says nothing important, he once must have been indispensable at the telling of Telemachus’ story. If he were, for example, Odysseus disguised ,there would be a just reason to attach so much import- ance to his presence. This’ ‘brings us to the second problem, which is the fact that sometimes Odysseus is transformed by Athene so as to be unrecogniz- able, and sometimes is merely al- tered by time and suffering. In Book 13 he is transformed ‘into an emaciated old man and. remains that way until ‘Book 16. Then it is necessary for Athene to restore his «{jreal form so that Telemachus may recognize his father, Odysseus is immediately retransformed, how- Some Additional Works*®ver. Continued from Page 1 . ton Glee Club and one of the three foremost. organists..in the world: Included in the other. selections kwhich will be sung by the Bryn Mawr chorus are “The Vittoria”, “Ave Maria”, “Gaudent in Caelis”, Handel’s “Oh, Lovely Peace”, and William Byrd’s “Sacerdotes”. The ballet group will present several numbers, and the Prince- ‘ton Glee Club will sing Brahms’ “Liebeslieder” waltzes, ‘to which the ballet group will dance, intricate theories. Using the school doctor’s X-ray machine she radiated the flies and found that the incidence of tumors increased from 3% to 32%. En- couraged by these results she gave colchicine to the flies and subjected them to 2,000 Roentgen Units, studying the mitotic rates in the ventral ganglia of the brain. This project was interrupted when she went to Maine, Joan is planning to work this summer at the Institute of .Can- cer- Research in: Philadelphia, do- ing experiments in chemistry and ered books elaborating on modern, cyto-chemistry. From here on the Odyssey as- sumes no transformation of Odys- seus, merely alteration by time and circumstances. This is strange, since the poet originally states that he is using the transformation idea. This idea is unwieldy, how- ever, since it necessitates the ap- pearance of Athene at every trans- formation. This would tend to ruin the story,. giving Odysseus too muc ntage over his oppon- ents and destroying the suspense. | Apparently later authors realized this and switched methods. The third problem is that there are two different plans for the re- moval of the armor from the ban- quet hall by Odysseus and Tele- machus. In Book 16 Odysseus +telld Telemachus to go to the dining hall and remove the weapons except some for themselves. He even gives Telemachus an explanation to pre+ sent to the suitors if they noticé the digappearance of the weaponsi ook 18, however, the poet is apparently unaware of this plan, for Odysseus and Telemachus re} move the weapons at night and none are left for themselves; th¢ suitors never notice the disappear+ ance of the weapons. From this we ean infer that there was some other poem ‘in- which the action proceeded according to the original plan and that the two stories were mixed at some point. From a study of the middle por- tion of the Odyssey,it-4s logical to conclude that the poem in its pres- ent form represents the work of more than one author and is a compilation -of . several poems, Those responsible for this are prob- ably either the professional recit- ‘ers or the person or persons who originally put the text into writing, or a combination of the two. The poem could have been chang- ed during the many times it was recited, ore two poems could have] unwittinglp been: mixed together. The original text was, undoubtedly compiled from the versions of con- temporary reciters. There were no written copies of the Odyssey be- fore the 6th century .B. C. and these differed from place to place. We may therefore assume, accord- ing to Mr. Page, that this section of the Odyssey is the work of no} single poet of high quality. Ewer to Work Towards New Campus Efficiency Continued from Page 1 major college office this week. The fact that she doesn’t live on campus makes her great interest - and active participation in college activities even more impressive. A’ political science major, the new Undergrad leader hopes to get a job connected with the Govern- ment or in some capacity where she-can use her degree after..grad- uation. Beg Wendy’s hobbies are sports and painting. She’s taken lessons for illustration and advertising work, but since entering Bryn Mawr, her brush has been devoted to poster painting. In answer to why her interest lay in Undergrad, Wendy said that it covered a wide range of small activities plus the college dances and May Day, etc., in general, the things that mean Bryn Mawr to her. —=$——_—________ Come and See Our Gray, Hand-Woven Belts for Spring Mexican Shop Cakes, Buns, Cookies, Toast The very best the Inn can boast Come to tea and you'll agree The College Inn's the place for me. Gold Charms and Jewelry at Stockton’‘s How the stars got — Started....... says: local bands. 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