a Yee, = ~ E oe epee THE COLLEGE NEWS” ~ ® a 4 “VOL. XLI, NO. 8 ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 115, 1944 Copyright, Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1944 PRICE 10 CENTS Burns Discusses Health Situation ‘In United States Primary Problem is\Lack Of Care and Supplies, Says Burns Goodhart, November 13. In the fifth of the Anna Howard Shaw series on Social Security in an Ex- panding Economy, Dr. Eveline M. Burns continued her lecture of last week on Planning for Health Serv- ices. She explained. why health conditions in the United States are unsatisfactory even though this country has the highest standard in the world. Stating that the primary prob- lém is the inability of income re- ceivers to purchase medical sup- plies and care, Mrs. Burns elabor- ‘ated on ways of counteracting this situation. The method that doctors now use of charging patients’ ac- cording to their ability to pay is unsatisfactory because of the re- luctance of the public to accept charity. Private Insurance The development of voluntary private insurance has made great strides in solving the problem. The semi-profit making device of pri- vate insurance companies usually covers group insurance, offering protection to certain groups against specified risks. In the non-profit private insur- ance group, the Blue Cross Hospi- . Continued on Page 3 Undergrad Assembly To Honor Resistance Of Foreign Students ents’ Day, Novemler 17, the Un- dergraduate Assogiation will pre- sent Miss Christina Swiniarska, who will speak on Polish Students During Wartime, and Miss Yelana Albana, Yugoslay student. To observe ‘mr Stud- A native Pole, Miss Swiniarski was graduated from Barnard Col- lege in 1941. At present, she works for the Polish Information Service Center and attends Colum- bia Graduate School. Miss Albana is at present attending Barnard. The assembly will commemorate the 19389 Prague massacre of Czechoslovak students and teach- ers by the Nazi Gestapo. All the free countries of the world partic- ipate in the observance of this day. Events following the German occupation foretold the fate of Czech educational institutions. Censorship destroyed freedom of speech, press. radio, wireless, the- atre and cinema; schools were strictly controlled; on intellectual intercourse with the outside world was permitted. Czech universities, visible sym- bols of the nation’s cultural sov- ereignty, were the first real vic- tims of. German brutality.” On| November 16 and 17, 156 students were massacred in their beds and 1,200 were taken under conditions of unbelievable hardship to con- centration camps, where they were unmercifully tortured. Educational institutions in other parts of the nation received the Continued on Page 3 Weekly Invasions of Sightseeing Veterans Stir Anthropological Interest in Students _ By Patricia Platt °45 Bryn Mawr may not have joined the ranks of the Seven Wonders of the World, \but it has become the object of weekly sight-seeing tours. For the last three Wednes- days we have been honored by the visit of groups of about forty overseas veterans, many of them pilots, from a rest.camp at Atlan- tic City. Aiming at Valley Forge, they drop in on us, seeing a little more each week, and _ gradually raising the campus to its toes. The first invasion was a bit of a shock to students of anthropol- ogy, lounging with a between-hour cigarette upon the steps of Taylor. They had just been puzzling about what became of Neanderthal man when a more modern version drove him from Europe. Suddenly, as if in answer to a prayer, the first wave of veterans came strolling through Pem arch, and the anthro- pologists, not daring to believe their eyes, fled back to intellectual safety. There was no cause for alarm, however, for the veterans ‘only went as far as Senior Row, about-faced, and meandered. back to the elongated buses in which they came. A week later; while the anthro- pologists were again wracking ‘their brains, this time about what had become of Cro-magnon man, they had yet another shock. By then Bryn Mawr was. red, and while not armed with velvet _ carpet, could at least supply two guides who showed the soldiers around campus, and even took them into some of the halls. ~ The glad word began to get around, and by the third visit about .ten eager guides from Pem- broke assembled and took over. There ensued a search for some- thing to drink that led the group into the Library, Goodhart, and Rhoads, but unearthed only water. It seems that the travel-weary veterans wanted to find the bar. teries of the Rhoads water-cooler, but left as thirsty as ever. Back to heart, opened the hall bookshop, and produced what _ every ‘ ship- wrecked mariner hankers for— dry crackers. The only expedient left was to dash to the Pem water cooler, which has_ subsequently suffered a drought. To the eyes of some soldiers, tier-deep in service ribbons, Bryn Mawr is a little anachronistic. One took a look around and wanted to know whether ours was a physical education college. Another asked what kind of a business college this was, while a third, after tak- ing in the sights, announced the decision that he would like to be a professor here. Just returned from Roumania, one veteran commented that our attire was strikingly sim- ilar to that he had just left be- hind. In the future. Bryn Mawr plans to extend further hospitality to its weekly invaders. So far the vet- erans have failed to locate the bar or entice students into crap or poker games, but they have smok- ed and shouted in the library, and added vastly to the scenery. A plan is afoot to entertain them jwith tea (something liquid like coke) in different halls every week. They were initiated into the mys-| in Pem, the guides, taking failure | | with a percentage Players Club Offers ‘Ladies in Retirement’ ) As Winter Production On Friday and Saturday nights, December 2 and 38, The Varsity Players Club and The Haverford Cap and Bells will present Ladies in Retirement by Edward Percy and Reginald Denham. The play is being directed by Mrs. Wein- berg who majored in dramatics at Carnegie Tech, and has_ been very active in the - Footlights Club and The Plays and Players Club of Philadelphia. » The play, recently so popular on Broadway, is the story of three dld sisters, one of whom does away with her bénefactress. It is well suited for Bryn Mawr _be- cause the characters are sharply defined, with a ratio of six women’s parts to one man. It is, however, in the nature of an experiment, as the characters are old people in a mystery melodrama. The plot, full of suspense, depends on the psychological development of the elder sister. The sisters will be played by Jessica Levy ’48 as Ellen Creed, Carol McGovern ’48, as Louisa Creed and Martha Gross ’47 as Emily Creed. Kate Rand ’45 will take the part of Leonora Fiske; Lucy .Gilham; John Stone of Al- bert Feather, and Nanette Emery ’47 of Sister Theresa. |Campus Cooperates In War Chest Drive Tie United War Chest Drive which include#-contributions from everyone connected with the col- lege, is progressing fairly well. The totals are not yet complete, as the donations are still coming into the office of the chairman of the Drive. The Drive will close on November 17. $30.05 has been given thus far by the Maids and Porters. Rock- efeller was the first hall in which the Maids and Porters registered a 100% contribution, with the sum of $14.00. From the Main- tenance Staff, 86% of the pledges hve been collected, totalling $42.00. 83% of the Deanery residents have pledged and paid $54.00 to the Drive. The graduate students, of 58, have given $57.00. 51% of the faculty have pledged $1001.00, of which $753.00 has been paid. From undergraduate students, $4037.50 has been collected, a 94% record. This makes a total, up to date, of $5235.55, which will go to the United: War Chest. (lub Plans to Show Satiric French Film Rene Clair, known to the Amer- ican public as director of The Ghost Goes West, produces the film A Nous la_ Liberte, which the French Club is presenting in the Music Room, on Friday, Novem- ber 17. © The picture is a satiric‘fable of the liberties not permitted by the modern world either to its failures or to its successes. Two men find out that money and consider- Continued on page 3 Katharine —Southerland—’48,— of} Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Day fall on No- vember 23 this year. All stud- ents are expected to attend classes, although they will not have to register as in’ previous years. Monitoring will proceed as usual. Classes at twelve o’clock will be excused for an assembly ad- dress by Vera: Michaels Dean of the Foreign Policy Associa- tion on The Threshold of World Order. Thanksgiving dinner will be served at 6:30. Dr. Karo Will Deliver Illustrated Lecture With Crete as Topic The Department of Archaeology has invited Professor George Karo to give an informal lecture on Thursday evening, November 16, in the Deanery. This talk, entitled Crete and Mycenae, will begin at 8:15 and will be illustrated by lantern slides. Mr. Karo is a very well known eal circles, particularly in Italy, Greece, and Germany. He is a brilliant linguist, and is complete- |ly at home writing or speaking five different languages, Famous as a cosmopolitan gen- published the best® of the great works on Mycenae, including such treatises in English*as An Attic Cemetery: Excavation in the Kera- meikos of Athens under Gustav Oberlander and the Oberlander Trust, and, in German, Fuehrer durch Tiryns. figure_in_internationalarechaeologi-} tleman and scholar, Mr. Karo has Junior Class Nominates Candidates For Secretary of Self-Government Qulahan, Dame, Ward, Barton Presented for Office By Juniors The.Junior class offers the fol- lowing candidates for the Office of Secretary of the Self-Government Association: Susan Oulahan, Diana Dame, Jane Ward, and Mary Bar- ton. The election comes at this” time due to the fact that the pres- ent secretary is leaving college. The duties of the Secretary are to, keep the minutes of the’ Assoc- iation and of the Advisory Board, to post the notices of the meetings, and to attend to the correspond- ence of the Association. Susan Oulahan ‘Susan was the Sophomore rep- resentative to the Self-Government Association, and is now its first Junior member. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the News and was assistant. stage manager of the Denbigh Freshman play her Freshman year. Diana Dame Diana is Junior hall representa- tive for the Alliance, and is on the Cut Committee. She has been an engineer for the Radio Club since the beginning of her -Sophomore year. Jane-Ward Jane is Features Manager of the Radio Club, and has been a re- serve bookroom librarian for two years, She was one of the stage crew for her Freshman hall play, and will be in the German Christ- mas. play this year. / Mary Barton ‘Mary has been a permission giv- er since the middle of her Sopho- more year. She is hall representa- tive for Chapel Services. She was on the hockey squad her Freshman year, and belongs to the Science Club. To weary crammers for mid- semesters and to those suffering from the usual week-end martyr complexes the appearance of steak at last Sunday’s dinner had. all the ear-marks of a mirage. To Miss Bacheller, the College Die- tician, the steak signified the re- sult of long and hitherto fruitless efforts. Planning all year to shock the student body out of their favorite Calendar Thursday, Nov. 16 Professor George Karo. Crete and Mycenae, Deanery, 8:15. Friday, Nov. 17 © International Students Assem- bly, Goodhart, 12:00. French Club Movie. A Nous La Liberte, Music Room, 8:00. Tri-County Concerts Associa- tion. William Kincaid, Sam- el Lifschey, Edna Phillips. adnor High School, 8:30. Saturday, Nov. 18 Intercollegiate Hockey Try- outs. Swarthmore, 9:00. Monday,-. Nov. 20 Shaw Lecture. Dr. Eveline M. . Burns. Planning for Human Welfare: The Broader Issues. Goodhart, 8:30. Tuesday, November 21 Sigma Xi meeting. Deanery, 8:00. Wednesday, Nov. 22 Record Concert, Common Room, 7:30. Philosophy Club. Mr. Weiss. Theology and Philosophy, Com- mon Room, 8:30. Bible Discussion. John Buch- anan. Goodhart, 8:00. Bacheller Surprises Campus With Steak As Meat-Procuring Problem Gets Worse topic of attempting to define the meat, Miss’ Bacheller weekly phoned the five wholesale meat dealers who provide the protein requirement for 500 females but only last week did they have a sufficient amount of beef, and even then, Miss Bacheller la- ments, all the steaks were not filets. Happily, the steak requir- ed no points, being utility beef, a fact which will relieve those who prophecied hash for the next three weeks. To Miss Bacheller, with her 22 years of service as a dietician in schools and colleges, the _ pros- pects in the food line fo 1945 are distinctly dubious. Last year was the most difficult year-from the point of view of procuring food; - this fall was worse, and the win- ter promises to top them all, with the college allowed fewer points than ever and the previous re- serve depleted’ As yet, even tur- keys cannot be promised to make . a Thanksgiving of classes and™ labs more ‘bearable. ‘The hungry undergraduate may look forward to plenty of eggs, to a preponderance of lamb patties, veal and utility beef, and-to a dis- tinct lack of peaches, pears and pineapples. Since the _ unbeliev- able sum of 3200 points a week are spent on butter, no points are left for beef, in addition to the fact that ration books turned in by undergraduates are sadly lack- ing in points. 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Nething that appears without permission of the Editorial Board ALISON MERRILL, °45, Editor-in-Chief Mary -Vireinia More, 45, Copy Patricia Piatt, 45, News APRIL OURSLER, *46 SUSAN OURAHAN, 46, News Editorial Staff Naney MorenHouse, *47 PATRICIA BEHRENS, 746 MarGaARET Rupp, °47 LANIER DuNN, °47 THELMA BALDASSARR<, *47 Darst Hyatt, 47 RosaMOND Brooks, *46 MonnNIE BELLow, '47 Marcia DemMBow, *47 Rostna BATESON,’ ’47 Cecitia ROSENBLUM, °47 EmiLy Evarts, ’47 EizaBETH Day, °47 Laura Dimonp, ’47 Sports Cartoons Carou BALLARD, *45 : CynTuHI1A Haynes, *48 Photographer HANNAH KAUFMANN, 746 .Business Board Mica AsHopIAN, '46, Business Manager Barsara WIiLiiaMs, '46, Advertising Manager SARAH G. BECKWITH, "46 ANNE Kincssury, ’47 ANN WERNER, °47 Subscription Board MarGareET Loup, °46, Manager CHARLOTTE BINGER, °45 EisE KraFt, °46 Lovina BRENDLINGER, °46 ELIZABETH MANNING, °46 BaRBARA COTINS, °47 NANcy STRICKLER, ’47 HELEN GILBERT, °46 BARBARA YOUNG, °47 Entered as second class matter at-the Ardmore, Pa., Post Office Under Act of Congress August 24, 1912 A Second Flaw Last week came the first indication that the Undergrad- uate Volunteer Activities Program is not wholly successful, as a News editorial revealed a lamentable situation in regard to Farming. This week comes a second and more serious in- dication. From the attendance figures taken at the Surgical Dressings unit, it is evident that large numbers of students are disregarding any registering done in the first flush of enthusiasm. 151 students registered for Surgical Dressings work. Of these, 64 actually attended during the month of October, putting in a total of 153 hours for the month. Broken down in terms of halls, the figures reveal the non-attendance as an all-campus ailment. In Merion, 25 girls registered for Sur- gical Dressings, 10 attended, giving a total of 25 hours, while in Denbigh 23 registered, 11 attended and 33 hours were put in. Of the Pembrokes, West had 14 registrants, nine of whom attended, giving 27 hours of work, and East had 20 volun- _ teers, with seven of these giving a total of 1114 hours. Of the two larger halls, 17 of Rhoads’ 36 registrants gave a total oi 38 hours, and four of Rock’s 18 registrants did seven hours of work. In Radnor, of the four who signed up two attended, giving seven hours of work, and in Wyndham seven people signed up and no one attended. Of the Non-Reses two of the four’signed up contributed five and a half hours of work. There cannot be, as in the case of Farming, an explan- ation offered for thé scant attendance. Hours were arranged to suit the convenience of the greatest number of the volun- teers; October is a relatively free month from an academic point of view. Obviously, it is not merely a case of finding three hours a week too much time to devote to war work, since 87 students simply did not appear for the Surgical Dressings work. -There remains only the supposition that many of those who registered in the opening days of college have no intention of fulfilling even partially that pledge. Throughout the college, a survey is now being made of the war work done diring one week by each undergraduate. If the conditions present in Farming and Surgical Dressings are symptomatic of the state of the coordinated volunteer program as a whole, it becomes obvious that the high hopes of the Undergraduate Council in presenting the U. ’V. A. P. program to the college are far from being realized. The chal- lenge given to the undergraduates to redeem the half- attempts of Bryn Mawr at war work in the past two years is then not being met. Time and opportunities remain where- by it may be‘met. €an it be done? Modern Plays Mr. Sprague presides over a student committee specially charged with keeping the li- brary’s drama shelves complete and up-to-date. The committee welcomes suggestions for plays to be purchased and asks that ideas be brought to Mary Vir- ginia More ’45, April Oursler ’46, or Antoinette “Boel ’47. Smoking As of today, a room for smoking and typing is open to students in the Library. Look for the door marked Depart- ment of Education, near the Non-Res Room—if you can find that. ’ . G, é r s nn Students Condemn Violations Of Reserve Book Rules As Discourteous Dear Editor: It is high time that the student body realize the situation which exists in regard to reserve books. Many people séem to have forgot- ten their obligations to the student body as a whole; and- infringe- ments of the library rules have become an everyday affair. Often a student carries two or more reading courses requiring reserve books. She _ generally finds it necessary to reserve her books in advance. What is she “to do when a book which she has reserved is not to be found for several days, nor is there any record as to its whereabouts? | It is sheer lack of considera- tion for one’s fellow students to keep out an overnight book after nine” o’tlock or to abscond with library books and so withdraw them from general- circulation. No student has the right to de- prive another of library facilities which are essential to her college progress. If Bryn Mawr is still an aca- demic institution and if its center in academic matters is still the library, its _xregulations should be enforced as stringently as_ the Student Government - enforces regulations in regard to _ social matters. Coyistance Rothschild Catherine Clark ’47 s coiaaical c vents Common Room, November 13. Stalin’s speech, delivered on No- vember 6, the 27th Anniversary of the Soviet Revolution, was his most important address of the war both from our point of view and that of the Russians, stated Miss Robbins .at ‘Current Events on Monday night. Extremely important is Stalin’s stand against Japan. Stressing the fact that Japan, as an aggres- sive nation, proved more prepared for war than Great Britain or the United States, Stalin advocated a World Security Organization to preserve peace and prevent further wars, "47 Red Army Giving a blow by blow descrip- tion of the operations of the Red Army during the last war, Stalin pointed out how it achieved the “expulsion of German troops from the Soviet Union, France, Belgium. and middle Italy,” thus bringing Germany to the verge of “inevit- able catagfrophe.” Stalin paid great tribute to the industrial workers of Russia, for their contribution to the tremen- dous economic victory over Ger- many, and gave special mention also to the. heroism of. the .women and children. Particular tribute was paid to the farm group which thas done so much already to re- store Russian agriculture and is producing an unceasing supply of food. Stalin furthermore attributes a large amount of credit to the pow- erful organization of the second front, which is holding Germany in a vice. To continue to hold Ger- many in this vice is to hold the “key to victory,” said Stalin. From here he went on to discuss victory in the light of intertnation- al politics, We are fighting Fas- cist ideology, he declared, and the Hitlerites are suffering a moral and political defeat as well as a Continued on Page 4 IN PRINT Steig’s Drawings Satirize Phobias and Failings -« Of Moderns ° by April Oursler 746 So much that is unnecessarily redundant and uselessly axiomatic has .béen published in the broad field of psychological ‘analysis in the last years that it is both a re- lief and a shock to run_ into something like William Steig’s books: The Lonely Ones, All Em- barrassed and About People. Technically, they are collec- tions of cartoons, but they seem rather to be the development of a new form of satirical analysis, both psychological and __ socioligi- cal. They ‘tannot be classified more definitely than as critiques of man’s mental attitudes, his pretenses and his hopeless self- obsession. Drawn with a caustic economy of line, they are charged with sarcasm and a kind of deri- sive understanding. Their frank- ness and cruelty are frightening. Although each book limits _ it- self according to its title, they could all be called About People. Titles of pictures such as “My Troubles are Purely Psychic,” “I’m Blameless”, “Man Who Wants to ibe Pitied”, and “Man ‘Being Kidded”, figure along with drawings of the conscious and. unconscious states of fear, nerves, amnesia, hypochondria and embar- rassment. The drawing are of recognizable human figures, but the technique is that of the X- Ray and the microscope combined, and the minute details of every falseness and fault are . brought out. Mr. Steig refuses to take any of these mental \states with the seriousness their owners and per- Continued on Page 4 18 Years Ago > The News of 1926 instituted a gossip and comment test, “The Pillar of Salt” and sign- ed by “Lot’s Wife.” Enthusiasm in the contest was great, judging by the variety of names offered: The Bryn Mawron, All the News it Gives us Fits to Print, Shall We Join the Ladies, etc., but interest may have been stimulated by the prizes offered: an assortment of musical instruments (harmonicas, “sweet patooties,” etc.), a sub- | scription to The Christian Science Monitor, and a_ sample. Colgate’s weekend ‘kit; containing tooth paste, soap, talcum powder. and shaving soap (awarded to the girl who suggested “Bryn Mawron.’”). * * * (Peter-piperism, according to a News editorial, which gets its in- formation from the New York Times, is rapidly replacing cross- word puzzles as the avocation of the idle. The idea is to devise an alliterative sentence of not less than 8 words and not more than twelve, thus (suggests the News): “Ghastly girls grinding gruesome German grammars generate ghost- ly gloom.” The .News shudders to think of the results on the scholarly mind, and finds little solace in the argu- ment of an increased vocabulary. Instead we cross the page and read an enthusiastic eulogy of St. Fran- cis—such sweet sorrow soothes our system, sadly sighing o’er the spirit of Str Francis (of Assisi.) * * Jaeckel, Fifth Aveput, is adver tising fur coats wnder the slogan (accompanied by cut): “Sitting out a dance may be accomplished in any sort of filmy frock, but sitting out a little misunderstanding in some snowbound nook in a fur coat helps to take the chill off the at- mosphere,” : “Colyum’’) called, as the result of a title con- | Cinema Film Version, of ‘Our Hearts” Lacks Credibility, Continuity Throughout By April Oursler °46 Our Hearts Were Young and' Gay made its debut on campus after a, tremendous build-up in front of a capacity, and on the whole enthus- iastic audience. But for-those ré- garding it with any sort of critic eye, the movie did not live up tq the expectations aroused by the. book and by the studio publicity. . It was mainly a lack of credibil-. ity and continuity that made the- movie unsatisfactory. To begin. with, the material is more easily developed to its fullest potential-- ities in prose than in the pictorial presentation where it suffers with- out the delicate satirical touch of Miss Skinner and Miss Kimbrough.. Somehow, for example, the ac-- tual appearance of the enormous. white coats in. the movie could never rival the effectiveness of the. tall-tale hyperbole of their descrip-. tion in the book. Nor could Cor-. nelia’s case of measles have the: same suspense involved in it im the movie as in the expert under-. writing of the book. Perhaps the picture as a whole: would have been more effective if: the audience had not had such a. thorough knowldege of the book: itself. Yet even those incidents specially written for the film were so unreal as to fail to achieve even the level of good farce. It was charming to imagine with the girls in the book the horrors of being: locked out on the tower of Notre Dame; but we cannot accept. the premise, of its actually happening even though to find it truly comic. As for the innocent purse- snatching which began and ended their trip, it was so artificially contrived, and so irapossible in its recurrence, that it took away from the more natural humor surround-. ing it. Lack of continuity was in a large: Continued on Page 4 WITS END O to be erudite while the soil erodes, and winter nestles down upon the eggs to hatch the viper brood of quisling quizzes! They asked me how I knew that I was turning blue, andI of course replied that Chaucer had just swallowed my tapeworm, and that in 1215 Napoleon peeled a banana down in, the bullrushes to escape the advances of Beatrice, hydrochloric acid, and senile psy- choses. I clamped the lid that shut my trap, then, spitting out a gum drop to please the eskimos, I ran around the corridor with Plato who had me ina grip, and we crashed and thrashed until it was evident that it was, better to do the whole thing quiet- ly, and sit playing tit-tat-toe un- til the bell rang. Slowly dumping the waste pa- discovered that * chemical equa- tions cannot be equations because they obviously do not equal any- thing, which is why my soul is immortal and the rest of me is in its present state. In this I find the heartening desolation that has beset pure minds ever since I rdrowned in the freshman « swim- ming test. That perpetual moan- ing at the bars is but the swal- lows swallowing the bitter pill be- fore turning over a_ new leaf. Alas, that, too, wobbles and the woolley rhinosceros stampeding in premordial time is also gone _| with the tornado! scissor - per basket into a blue book, I°* one THE 5H LLEGE NEWS $4). i Ge Page Three ‘- INCIDENTALLY Pickpockets Shouldn’t Take Biology The First Year Biology class watched attentively the other day as Miss Gardiner, obviously reach- ing a climax in her lecture, lifted the cover off a glass dish on the desk. She stood looking at it in complete silence for a while, then calmly began searching amon the papers and ‘books beside it on the desk, and finally after - feeling quietly in her pockets, turned’ to the class with an _ unperturbed smile and said: “I fear there is an earthworm at large in the room” —and continued to feel hopefully’ into the recesses of her jacket poc- kets. Study in Obsession The election may be over, but the effects of the campaign linger on, at least in the minds of the Psy- chology Department. Mr. Helson, lecturing on the desirability of ob- taining emotional happiness in the present, emphasized the fact that there was no point in dreaming of it in the future “as, for instance, when Roosevelt is no. longer Pres- jident.” Again, proving that neu- rologists are not equipped to test mental standards accurately, Mr. Helson demolished the nerve ‘spec- ialists’ methods by remarking that it required no intelligence to ans- wer the question “Who is Presi- Bryn Mawr Defeats - Rosemont Team 1-0 Bryn Mawr, November 14. Play- ing a ‘completely offensive game, -the Bryn Mawr hockey team se- -eured a 1-0 victory over Rosemont. Backed up by an invulnerable. de- fense, the forward: line: bore ‘the’ brunt of the match, — In the first five minutes of play, Marge Richardson ’46, moved in to score the Owls’ only goal, follow- ed’ by forty-five minutes of unin- spiring free hits, corners, roll-ins, and billies.. Almost the entire game was fought around the Rose- mont circle. .. Alice Hedge ’46, and Ellen Cary "47, did a superb job of carrying the ball within shooting distance of the Rosemont goal, and it was not their fault that the Owls did not win by a larger margin. The rose team played a purely defen- sive game, crowding into the circle when’ their goal was threatened, and never getting a shot at the Owls’ goal. Less inhibited about piling up.a respectable score, the Bryn Mawr Reserve team trounced the Rose- mont J. V.’s 10-0.’ Betsy Day .’47, was responsible for half the goals, while Posy Kent ’45, as substitute. left wing, scored twice, and Helen Poland .’47, Hope Kaufmann "48, and Winnie Cadbury ’48, boasted a. goal apiece. Not only the for- wards, but the entire Green team played a united and effective game of hockey. : fd (750 on your dial) Undergrad Assembly Will Honor Students Continued. from page 1 same fate as Prague. A year after the attack on the universities, the Germans completed their work by destroying all higher intellectual life. Even the secondary schools could not escape the Germans. The few that are left are rigidly controlled. Reports from the country show that persecutions _ still go on methodically. American participation in the commemoration of this event is directed by the American Youth for a Free World. This organiza- tion was formed in 1942 to corre- late the endeavors of all American Youth organizations and those of} other countries. dent?” no matter how long you j had had amnesia. Star Spangled Banter a Even more bitter was the song raised in mournful tones by the Rock Freshmen last Wednesday morning. Constituting a revision of the Star Spangled Banner, the words rang out: “The radio’s red blare, the Democrats leaping in air, gave proof through the night that Roosevelt was still there.” Penn: Defeats Owls. In Saturday’s Game Bryn Mawr, November 11. Bryn Mawr’s hockey team, in their third game of the season, suffered a 3-1 defeat at the hands of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania team. The Owl backs played an excel- lent defensive game and Darst ‘Hyatt ’47 executed more than one seemingly impossible save, at one point batting the ball down with her hand. Penn, however, had an unbeatable forward line combina- tion.. Their passing was superior; they made each stroke count, never wasting them in what they might hope would be tricky plays. Nancy Niles ’47 did the only scoring for the Owls. In the open- ing minutes of the first half, with both sides bunched around Penn’s goal, she drove the ball through almost from the edge of the circle. But the Owls did not hold their ,advantage for long. By the half, Fernley, the maroon team’s center half, had tied the score. In the second period, Penn was in con- trol, scoring two more goals before the final. whistle. The Owls were up against four Intercollegiate All-Star players on Penn’s team, two of whom, McKin- ney and Gager,. contributed mater- ially to Penn’s victory. The Reserves, trailing Penn’s second team, were unable to re- coup .their losses and_ finished their game with a 2-1 loss. Penn First Team. Bryn Mawr McKinney LW Cary McPhillimy LI Gifford Fernley CF Foster Gager RI Walker Boyd RW Richardson Hess LH Hedge Craemer CH.: Niles Crothers RH. « Bagley Mink LB. , Rebmann Burton RB’ Kalthenthaler Sargent G Hyatt Reserves Cunningham, M LW Horn Lovman — LI - Turner Hough CF Gilmartin McConnell RI Poland Eby RW Kaufmann ‘Miller LH Bierwirth Brey CH Cadbury Peele RH Young Quittner LB Frank Bishop RB Manning Page G Cushing WHAV-WBMC SCHEDULE Wednesday, Nov. 15 8:30 Opera 9:55 Bryn Mawr Campus News 10:00 International Students Day Program 10:15 Popular Music Thursday, Nov. 16 | 8:30 Classical Hour 9:30 News Analysis 9:55 Haverford Activities 10:00 Popular, Music Monday, Nov. 20 8:30 Classical Hour 9:30 Humor? 9:55 Haverford News 10:00 Popular Music Tuesday, Nov. 21 8:30 Classical Hour 9:30 Something Special 9:55 Bryn Mawr Campus News 10:00 Popular Music Wednesday, Nov. 22 8:15 Main Line Forum 9:15 Classical Hour -9:55 Bryn Mawr Campus News ‘10:00 French Club Program 10:15 Popular Music Spanish Club Chooses Play by Garcia Lorca For Xmas Production The Spanish Club will present La Zapatera Prodigiosa by Garcia Lerca as its Christmas Play, on Tuesday, December 5th in the gym. Miss Nepper will direct the production, and the costumes will be designed by Mr. Zulueta. Chloe Walker, ’45, plays the part of the shoemaker and Mar- guerite Frost ’46;.is Zapatera. Mickey Malaret ’46, portrayse a child, the only person in the‘en- tire play who receives any ki ness from Zapatera. The Alcalde is acted by Amanda Eggert, ’45 and Lois Post, ’45, is Don Mirlo, a wealthy old man of the village. Lograsso Prophecies Effect of ASTP Plan “Whether we like it or not, the Area and Language project of the ASTP will have left its impact on foreign language teaching in the United States”, declared Miss An- geline Lograsso, professor of Italian at Bryn Mawr, in a* talk before the twenty-sixth Annual Convention of the Delaware State Educational Association, The pro- gram, she felt, has destroyed the myth that Americans can not or need not speak foreign languages, and has firmly established the im- portance of a speaking as well as.a reading knowledge. Stresses Culture Miss Lograsso stressed under- standing of the culture, history, and geography of the people stud- ied as a factor ‘in giving language courses real vitality and purpose. She approved the elimination of text books for the first few weeks of the course. She also suggested laboratory periods for languages similar to those in the science courses, as well as either a sum- mer or Junior year at college spent abroad. In the hands ® of competent instructors, she _ felt, such work will be of the highest academic level. and worth. Club Plans to Show Satiric French Film ~~ Continued from Page 1 ation do not deserve to be procur- ed at the price of the abandon- ment these imply of all liberty. Although the events contribute in imposing on the actors their con- ception of life, one knows _ that each has formed for himself a philosophy after his od a ex- perience. Pantomime Pantomine a la Chaplin is fea- tured. Rene Clair shows him- self able to put over the éternal demand of man who wants .to have the right to dream of the impossible rather than to act on the feasible. A faultless technique, scenes ad- mirably photographed, well got- ten-up, and sustained by pointedly appropriate music (that of George Auric) make this picture an ex- cellent example of pure motion picture art. _ | subsidiz Engagements Barbara: Rubin °47 to Pfe. Howard Burnstein, AUS. Burns Discusses Health Situation Continued from page 1 talization Plan is among the most prominent. This plan now has an enrollment of 17,000,000. Offering hospital benefits under certain, con- ditions, this means is important, but’ not all-inclusive. Also-includ- ed in the non-profit private insur- ance group is the Farm Security Administration, which is partly by the Federal Govern- nent. Uluder this plan, farmers pay regulation sums to the associ- ation in return for provision for certain medical services. Limitations Among the objections to com- pulsory public insurance is the re- striction to specified population groups and the limitation to cer- tain illnesses. In the Wagner- Murray-Dingle Bill,- for example, there is no provision for tubercu- losis, mental illness, or dental care. A comprehensive compul- sory insurance could be all-inclus- ive, however, as the new health program in Great Britain shows. Providing public medical care in the armed services may result in a spread of such services in the post-war period. satisfaction is the failure to de- velop and apply already known and accepted measures of health control, said Mrs. Burns. Although methods of malaria, plague and tuberculosis control are known, they are not applied in many cases. The need for health education is partly responsible for this, but even with this education there is a question as to whether public apathy and financial disability are not great enough to make applica- tion difficult. Insufficiency The insufficiency of medical care and supplies in many regions offers a third—major—problem. In rural districts there is a decided lack.of physicians and hospitals. Among the obstacles to equal distribution are licensing laws and desire of physicians to practice where there is a wider range and better facili- ties. Advancing knowledge and tech- nique calls for reorganization of health services. This, then, is the last of the major problems. A careful coordination of different in- stitutions is one method suggest- ed for improving the situation. In order to assure em health service, the general practitioner must have services available. There is a great social waste because of the period of waiting which young doctors must undergo before their practices start functioning. —_—m Puerta De Mexico / Margaret. Paul '69 St. James Place, Ardmore Lots of Christmas Presents | from 50¢ to $5.00 The second major source of dis- |’ WHAT TO DO | Probably fewer companies will be recruiting this year for next year’s' jobs. Don’t miss:the oppor- tunity of seeing those who come. Curtiss Wright Corporation: Wants. students who can draw, : photographers, economists, and P majors) in science and mathemat- ics. Betty Wells, Bryn Mawr 1943, of the petacinel department, is coming for interviews Puesday, November 31. Please make ap- pointments through the Bureau of Recommendations. See hall bulle- tin boards for further details. International Business Machines: Would like to talk to Seniors and graduate students about positions in the Systems Service department —training dffice staffs in the use of IBM machines—mostly for gov- ernment agencies and high prior- ity industries. The work is varied and interesting and the positions are-permanent. Anyone interested please notify the Bureau of Rec- ommendations. Regent Stocking Repair Service: Campus agent wanted. 20 per cent* commission. See Miss Bowman, Room H, Taylor Hall. Colleges Will Contend Hockey Championship The Intercollegiate hockey try- outs are scheduled for Saturday, November 18 ‘at Swarthmore, 9:00 A. M. -The intercollegiate teams will be chosen from the var- sities of ten collegess Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore, Rosemont, Penn, Wil- son, Chestnut Hill, Drexel, Tem- ple, Beaver, and Ursinus. In last year’s tournament, one Bryn Mawr player, Betsy Kalten- thaler ’47, was chosen as a substi- tute, while Penn and Ursinus filled up the majority. of positions on the first team. Bryn Mawr will be represented iby Lydia Gifford, Ellen Cary, Mimi Foster, Chloe Walker, Margery Richardson, Alice Hedge, Nancy Niles, Elizabeth Bagley, Betsy Kaltenthaler, Barbara Rebmann, Darst Hyatt, Julie Turner, and Nancy Bierwirth. ee er ee ee ee Delicious Teas Community Kitchen LANCASTER AVENUE Open Every Week-day NANCY BROWN New Blouses $3.95-$7.95 At Bryn Mawr Station \eEReEcEreEa ay Flowers | make every Hl room more | inviting from JEANNETT’S |, Lancaster Ave. Bryn Mawr [es rt Prore Invisible. Mending Shop Reweaving - and Hose Repairing 41 W. Lancaster Ave. ARDMORE, PA. ll Formerly of Suburban aids - Se omeuon the extra ‘walk, is worth the tea you'll find the cottage tea house offers you good food of every kind. the exercise Page Four THEE co LLEGE NEWS Frestimen Dance in Gayly Decorated Gym While Upperclassmen Kibitz from Balcony By Marcia Dembow ’47 “Veni, ‘vidi, whoopee!” might well be the war al on the respect- ive campuses ea Freshman rid 4 poset ds night in the Villanova, a ; ate Freshman bitte which has become traditional, commenced in the all-too-usual Manner with a Paul Jones and continued with a number of interesting sets enabl- ing everyone to become acquainted. The most successful device con- sisted of each girl removing one of her shoes and placing it in the middle of the floor with other va- rieties of punips and sandals for the eager men to Yuentify. The re- sult was a Cinderellaish affair, with each boy trying to fit the shoe over his lady’s metatarsal. Some ambitious youths gathered up arm- fuls, and had to spend the evening trying to ‘dispose of them. Others gave up, ‘and tossed the © slipper onto the balcony, thereby enliven- , ing the evening for the large gal- lery of - upperclassmen. ' \& broom dance and a multiplica- tion dance also helped the evening along. The former compelled the couple left holding two brooms to execute an exhibition dance. Mean- while, staglines, both male and female, accumulated. The gym was cleverly decorat- ed by. Jocelyn Kingsbury ’45, who painted murals of the Bryn Mawr girl throughout the decades from 1898 to 1948. These seven pictures, B. M., Haverford Join In}jWeekly Discussion To stimulate interest in the Bi- ble, several Bryn Mawr _ under- graduates have joined with Hav- erford students in an _ informal discussion group. which meets each Wednesday night in the Common Rooim at 8:30. Outside Speakers On alternating weeks outside speakers address the group. The remaining time is devoted to a discussion of a chapter of the Bi- ble. At present the Gospel ac- cording to St. Mark is the subject. The next two. speakers are John Buchanan, chief accountant for the Philadelphia Bulletin who will speak on How Much Am I Worth? and Dr. Alan McCrae, president of Faith Theological Seminary. Dr. McCrea’s topic is Spiritual Honesty. Chartered Club Catherine Clarke ’47, Amy Campbell ’48 and Lewis Coffin of Haverford initiated the movement. Plans are underway to make the discussion group a chartered club. MEET AT THE GREEK’S Tasty Sandwiches Refreshments Lunches - Dinner Pavertora and | i done in black and ricated of white and covered the yellow, were fab- wrapping paper, walls up to the | balcony. Robin Beboks ’46, headed the committee that organized the dance, and procured records, and refreshments consisting of apple cider and doughnuts. Current Events Continued from Page 2 military one. Attributing this to Soviet patriotism and th®unity of the Allies, Stalin cited the Teheran Conference and Dumbarton Oaks as clear indication of the’ stable front of the United Nations against Germany. " Optimistic The tone of Stalin’s speech is very optimistic, Miss Robbins stated, and offers a striking con- trast to Hitler’s most recent talk, in which fhe blamed everything that is wrong with Europe on the decadence. of democracy, and ex- hibited a deadly determination to fight to the last ditch. Especially significant, noted Miss Robbins, is the fact that Hitler’s address, two days late to start with, was deliv- ered by Heinrich Himmler, and that the Fuehrer himself has not spoken in person since July 20. Steig Books Satirize Man’s Mental States Continued from Page 2 petuators demand, and only those not too closely allied with your own personality alone inspire real laughter. The others hurt. Their only saving grace lies in the strange understanding which Steig is able to give them—the only sympathy evident anywhere in the three books. And the criticisms implied in every line of his drawings are valid ones for comfort. They are the graphic proof of the overwork- ed saying that a sense of humor is the sense of proportion neces- sary for the cure of most of men’s difficulties arising from too much introspection. Genius Mr. Steig is truly a genius. But it is not’in art that he is great. Rather, it is from his understand- ing of people and his unquenched passion for truth and: honesty even in the smallest detail of life that he derives his real magnifi- cence. None of his readers can fail to be both destroyed and _ re- created by his work. ‘Inter-American Affairs Schenck, Nahm Talk In Philadelphia, Dony Speaks at Princeton * This week,,three members of the Bryn Mawr faculty—Miss Schenck, Madame Dony and Mr. Nahm—have —travelled to points beyond the campus to give lectures. With unpublished material of Gustav Flaubert as the main item of interest, Miss Schenck address- ed the French group of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania Interna- tional House tonight on My Last Trip to Normandy. The material, discovered on Miss Schenck’s- trip to Normandy: in 1987, will ‘be pub- lished along with other material in her book. Mr. Nahm will speak this Thurs- day morning at the Conference on concern- Racial Origins of Inter-American Culture. The conference, spon- sored by the University of Penn- sylvania and the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, is being held on. Thursday and Friday at the University Museum. The Inter- American culture. will be treated from a_ sociological, historical, anthropological, artistic and phil- osophie point of view. Mr. Nahm will act as chairman of a group of three professor's who will discuss the Philosophical Aspects of Inter- American Culture. . Madame Francoise Dony, In- structor in French, spoke on The Plight of European Youth on Mon- day evening at the United Nations Center. in Princeton. The. meeting was held under the auspices of the Belgian Government Information Center. — Madame Dony summarized the European educational system, es- pecially as it Appears: in Belgium. The elementary and _ secondary schools are state institutions, while in Belgium the universities are equally divided between private and state support. One of the private universities, the Free Uni- versity of Brussels, where Madame Dony held a professorship, was the first to be closed by the Germans. The material damage and de- struction of the educational system in Belgium has been very great, Madame Dony said, particularly in the effect of low food supplies on the children. In spite of libera- tion, the situation is expected to become worse for the time being. The first efforts to help will be taken by UNRRA as a state ag- ency, with the assistance 6f the F} 1) Blood: Donating Nancy Scott, ’47, in charge of blood donating for the Red (C¥oss, announces that 100 stud- ents gave their blood last week at the Ardmore Red Cross. Film ‘Our Hearts’’ Lacking in Continuity Continued trom Page: degree responsible\ for the im- In the book the art of humorous prose caffied proWability of it all. one over the great gaps between the main incidents. In the movie one could only be confused by the seemingly unregulated jumps _ in scene and situation. Obviously it is impossible to ex- pect a high literary or dramatic standard from what is only a piece of escapist entertainment. As such it was good, and provided an aee- quately pleasant evening. It was only that. we had heard so much about it, and had been led to ex- pect the usual sparkle of the auth- ors’ sense of humor. Or perhaps it was just because we had been told about the faithful reproduc- tions of Bryn Mawr which had to be cut out of the film before we We admit we laughed, but we could have laughed harder. saw it. Belgian section of the National War Fund. Post-war educational ancien in Europe is expected to include sev- eral exchange plans. In the past, the Belgian-American Foundation has taken charge of the exchange of 600 students. Ardmore 5833 JOSEPH’S HAIR DRESSING Memorial Book Gift Donated to Library ial gift of books has been given to the library in the name of Mar- garet Prussing Le Vino, an ac- the volumes are tress, by her friends and by class. of 1911. The collected plays of thaj/time, with acting editions of earlier plays, in- cluding many of | Shakespeare’s. Bound in brown leather, the set of twenty books contains many fine engraved illustrations of ac- tors and actresses. ’ Portraits Among the portraits of some of the more famous. players are those of Mr. Kean, as Hamlet, and again as Sir Giles Overreach, in A New Way to Pay Old Debts, by Massinger. Actors Another welltkindwn actor, Mr. | Cooke, is shown as the villainous Richard III. Charles Kemble, in the role of Romeo, takes on a completely different character when portrayed as Faulconbridge in Shakespeare’s King John. Mrs. Siddons, one of the greatest wo- men actresses, is seen as Queen Catharine, in Henry VIII. The books will be kept in the Rare Book Room, as they are of value to collectors as well as of great use and interest to students. ’ FINE FOODS Luncheon Teas Dinners} 11 A.M. to 9 P.M. : Closed Wednesday | Orders taken for TEA SANDWICHES PIES and CAKES Parker House, Inc. 849 Lancaster Avenue 25 COULTER AVE. . BRYN MAWR i ARDMORE ttl (Next to Fldrentine Shop) J + Midsemesters here so soon? Come to the IN N in the afternoon. | | Going—Going— | Our stock of Christmas. cards is getting very low. Better | | eome in soon and make | your selection! | BRYN MAWR | | Richard Stockton Ps For the next football game— White all-fur mittens—$3.99° ‘Fur back mittens, red or green—$2.99 All-wool. scarves—$1.95 up THE TRES CHIC SHOPPE SEVILLE THEATRE ARCADE BRYN MAWR neighbors just as they do here ...or getting along in Guatemala Music and Coca-Cola spell friendship among our Latin-American ‘tation of welcome as quickly Georgia. In many lands around the globe, Coca-Cola has become the same symbol of friendliness that it is in your own living room. BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY PHILADELPHIA COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPAR { Have a “Coke”= iAdelante con la musica! sell IN THE GROOVE!) at home. Have a “‘Coke’”’ is an invi- understood in Guatemala as in MC glot bal © 1944 The C-C Co, nh-sign “Coke” = Coca-Cola co a fet ral ar previa \) Coca-Cole called Meteo An unusually beautiful memor-— t