The VOL. XLVII, NO. 11 ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1951 Copyright, Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1950 PRICE 15 CENTS W.P. Conference Discusses Policy Of U.S. in Kast Problems and Objectives Important for Future Specially contributed by Betty Goldblatt, °51 When the second Student Con- ference on United States Affairs was being planned last Spring, no- body could have known how ex- - ceedingly timely it would turn out to be. From December 6 through 9, 150 seniors from 5i1 colleges and the Military and Naval Academies assembled to discuss “The Far Eastern Policy of the United States: Problems and Objectives of the 1950's.” Because last year’s forerunner conference showed that the eco- nomic, political, and strategic fac- tors in the formation of a foreign policy cannot. be considered inde- pendently of one another, this time we were divided instead according to geographical areas: Japan and Korea, China and Formosa, South- east Asia, and India and Pakistan. Nancy Blackwood, the other Bryn Mawr delegate, was on the China and Formosa panel, and I was on Japan and Korea. We were im- pressed with the factual informa- tion at the fingertips of the other delegates; with the unmilitaristic viewpoint of most of the cadets and midshipmen; with the unani- The News takes great pleas- ure in announcing the following elections: | Editor ........ Jane Augustine, ’52 Copy Editor } Julie Ann Johnson, ’52 Co4Make-Up Editor Margie Cohn, ’52 | Board: Helen Katz, ’53 Sheila Atkinson, ’53 Claire Robinson, °64 mous awareness that whatever happened in the Far East in the near future would greatly deter- mine the future of our generation. Experts spoke to us, and served as chairman of the panels and as ‘advisers; we listened but did not feel obliged to agree. Because it was the week of the Atlee-Truman conference, Philip Jessup, the Am- bassador-at-large, could not ap- pear, and instead Dr. Edward Earle, Chairman of the School of International Relations at Prince- ton discussed the economic and po- litical facts of our Far Eastern policy; General Alfred Gruenther, Deputy Chief of Staff, gave us an estimate of the relative strengths of the Soviet and United States military power, on which to base discussion of strategic aspects of the area. Dr. John Masland of the National War College told us about the apparatus of the State De- partment for the formation of for- eign policy; Dr. George Millikan, consultant to the House Foreign Affairs Committee discussed the same problem with relation to Con- gress; Najeeb Halaby of the E.C.A. described the function of such au- Continued on Page 3, Col 2 All Source Reading f Causes Confusion Papers Need Only Cigarettes, Quotes A paper must have a beginning, a middle and an end. The beginning and the end can contain the same material stated in different ways, but the middle must contain “new” material. A few quotes will suffice plus the definitions of the many unfamiliar words found in the Nuclear Energy Progress Shown To Science Club On Thursday, January 11, the Science Club presented a lecture by Dr. Robert A. Patterson, Assist- ant Director of the Brookhaven National Laboratory. Dr. Patter- son, who did research on X-rays at Yale, took his Ph.D. there, and was head of the Department of Physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti- tute from 1940-1946, worked as a staff member at the Radiation Lab- oratory, Cambridge. The topic of his lecture in Dalton was “Nuclear Energy at Brookhaven Labora- tory.” Brookhaven Laboratory was built on the site of Camp Upton, on Long Island, to satisfy the wish- es of University scientists for the production of radioactive mater- ials by nuclear reactors, which were too costly and too secret to be built on every one of the cam- puses wanting them. A number of universities banded together to form “Universities Inc.,” the non- profit organization which operates Brookhaven. The laboratory _is supported by government funds, and is dedicated to the develop- ment and utilization of atomic en- ergy. -Dr.. Patterson explained what is Continued on Page 6, Col. 4 Wootton to Talk For The Alliance The next Alliance assembly will be held on January 19, 1951 at 12:30 p. m. in Goodhart Hall. The speaker for the assembly will be Professor Barbara’ Wootton, who is well-known on both sides of the Atlantic as a writer and radio commentator on social legislation. Her topic of discussion will be Britain in the World Crisis, in which she will point out Britain’s obligations in the world today. Professor Wootton is a woman of many enterprises. She is Pro- fessor at London University as Chairman of the Department of Social ‘Sciences, Governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation, and Member of Royal Commission on the Press. She is also the au- chor of many books—Freedom Un- der Planning seems to be the most popular in the United States. It is also interesting to note that she was visiting Professor at Bryn Mawr College in 1987, and at Bar- nard and Columbia University in New York in 1949. She knows the United States well for she has lec- tured here before. All students are urged to attend what promises to be a:most intéresting lecture in the light of the international situation today. ~ uote. A thesaurus and a diction- -y (if you are not adept at defin- 1g) are sufficient references for ay paper. A few philosophic yvords of wisdom derived from ‘other’s warnings are an asset, or the professor will assume the _ student has a mature mind. For example: “The student has a mat- ure mind.” A student is one who learns. From this it can be deduct- ed that all students have wisdom; i.e. are wise. A student has a “ma- ture mind.” Mature is derived from the Latin “maturus” which means ripe. Ripe fruit is spicy. Therefore, a mature mind is spicy. In that case, a student is spicy. However, the student cannot in- ject spice into a paper for he can- not assume the professor has the same sort of spice that he possess. Professors do not always have the same sort of knowledge as stu- dents. From this, it is evident that students cannot please professors. Students are spicer than profess- ors, and therefore smarter. A per- son who is less smart cannot com Continued on Page 2, Col. 4 ole °. 2 97 Infinite Classes Theory Revealed se : Oe oe By Mathematician At the meeting of the Bryn Mawr Chapted of Sigma Xi, held in Park on Tuesday evening, Jan- ‘uary 16, Dr. Lindley J. Burton, As- ‘sistant Professor of Mathematics ‘at Bryn Mawr, discussed “Infinite | Classes.” After remarking that ‘there are class divisions. in all fields of study, Mr. Burton began his discussion of mathematical classifications. There is a one-one correspond- ence between the two classes A and B_ if to each element of A there corresponds exactly one ele- ment of B, and if to each element of B therecorresponds exactly one element of A. If A is equivalent to A, the correspondence is refiex- ive; if A is equivalent to B. and therefore B is equivalent to A, the correspondence is symmetric; and if A is equivalent to B, B is equivalent to C, and therefore A is equivalent to C, the correspond- ence is transitive. - A cardinal number is associated with each class in such a way that two cardinal numbers are the same if and only if the two classes are equivalent. A finite class is never Continued on Page 2, Col. 5 CALENDAR Thursday, January 18 Friday, January 19 ' The vast majority of semester papers will be read for, written, and typed Various smokers, 7:00 p. m. to 7:00 a. m. Friday, January 19 Third in the series of Alliance Assemblies, Barbara Wootton, “Britain and the World Crisis”, Goodhart, 12:30 p. m. ‘Last day of lectures of semes- ter one. Sunday, January 21 Bryn Mawr Music Club Con- ‘eert, Gotham Brass Ensemble, the Deanery, 5:00 p. m. NSA Distributes Discount Cards To BMC Students Specially contributed by Ronnie Gottlieb, ’53 The National Student Associa- tion Student Discount.- Service Cards soon will be sold to Bryn Mawr students for five cents apiece. All money collected will go tovthe D. P. scholarship fund. These cards were ordered from the NSA by the Undergraduate Council to serve a dual purpose. They are to be used as Bryn Mawr student identification cards, for instance, in theatres: and: ho- ‘tels, and they are, at the same time, to obtain nation-wide dis- counts on student purchases in all NSIA contracted stores. In the near future, individual catalogues listing these stores will be distributed to cardholders. Thus, not only will card holders obtain benefits for which the Penn- sylvania NSA has arranged in this area, but while visiting in any city or college community any place in America, they may con- tinue to buy more economically. For instance, if you live in New York, you can use your card in stores there during all vacations; while you..are.here, the Philadel- phia stores are open to you. The NSA Student Discount Ser- vice is the substitute for the old NSA Purchase Card _ system, which had certain features objec- tionable to Bryn Mawr, and many other schools. It exists as anoth- er example of students working together on a national level to im- prove their conditions. NSA in the preamble to its constitution states its desire “to guarantee to all people, because of their inher- ent dignity as individuals, equal rights and possibilities for prim- ary, secondary, and higher educa- tion, regardless of sex, race, relig- Continued on Page 5, Col. 3 Dean’s Eye View Tallies Torments According to Mrs. Marshall, there are three ways to take an examination. Speaking at the Wednesday morning assembly on January 10, she said that students may (1) study, take the exam nat- urally, and leave; (2) join the “They Must See How I Suffer” school, characterized by dirty hair, no lipstick, and gloom; (8). join the “Gaily I Shall Rise Above It” school. This last group will be recognized by three battle cries: “Who wants to play bridge?” “I haven’t opened a book!” “Anybody for the movies?” Students wishing to join these last two groups had better do 30 before exam time, be- cause they take up a good deal of one’s time. (More seriously, Mrs. Marshall recommended that students decide on the main point of the profes- sors’ courses before they go into the exam rooms. Once there, they should read the questions with ex- treme care, and ration the time. She also suggested fresh air, food, and most important, sleep, as a panacea for exam worries. Vining Tutors Crown Prince In Democracy Defeated Japan Needs Manufactures Market Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining, '23, spoke in the Dorothy Vernon Room of the Deanery on January ninth. Mrs. Vining, a member of the Board of Directors of the college, had just returned from a four year job tutoring the Crown Prince of Japan. First Mrs. Vining anticipated our questions and teld how she got the job, following a visit to Japan by the American Educational Mission. The Emperor had asked Dr. Stod- dard for an American tutor for the Crown Prince, and suggested that it be a woman (the specified age of fifty was ignored by the mission) who was a Christian but not a fan- atic, and who spoke no Japanese. In making this request the Emper- or broke tradition, for the Crown Prince’s education had always been: in the hands of a group of cham- berlains. Mrs. Vining was then working for the Friends’ Service Committee, and planning to write a book, and agreed to take the job only if she were sought out. Of the: names suggested, however, hers: was one of the two sent to the Jap- anese, who were to make the final decision. The military occupation was at first doubtful, but Mrs. Vin- ing insists that. the Emperor.was sincere in his desire for the Crown Prince to learn English and West- ern customs. This brought her to the question: “What do you think of the Crown Prince?” “He is a very nice boy,” she assured us. When she first met him, he was not quite thirteen, little, chubby, and childish. He has since grown slender, very poised, and charming. “His mind is matur- ing delightfully” and he is “intel- lectually honest.” He doesn’t pre- tend to understand anything that is not clear to him, which was a great help when he learned English by the all-English method. His in- terests, chiefly in marine biology, have widened to include archaeol- ogy and history, languages, and poetry, as well as athletics. At first Mrs. Vining had an hour of private lessons each week, but this was extended to three regular hours and informal meetings. One hour, devoted to English, was chap- eroned at first, but the Prince made greater progress after the chamb- erlains left. During another hour the Prince, and later a few friends, went to Mrs. Vining’s house to study and have tea. Mrs. Vining also taught the Prince’s class at the Peers School, which is now like any private school except that the children of the Imperial Family still attend it. The Crown Prince was at his best with other boys, she said, and got along well with them. For the first time in history, when they were staying at a mountain resort, he spent a night in the home of a friend with none of his retinue ex- cept a bodyguard. At other times they went on picnics with boys Continued on Page 4, Col. 3