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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, January 17, 1951

 

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Entered as second class matter at the Ardmore, Pa., Post Office
Under Act of Congress August 24, 1912

Schedule Change

This year, as we all know, Christmas vacation began on
December 22, and classes did not resume until January 8. Be-
causes classes end January 19, the students have less than
two weeks in which to write papers, study for senior quizzes,
and do the necessary reading. Although some work may be
done during vacation, we cannot be expected to spend all our
time studying; and even the most conscientious of students
have a certain amount of work to accomplish before the end
of the semester. Because the length of time between the be-
ginning and the end of classes is short, the unfortunate pres-
sure that always exists at the end of the semester is brought
to a much greater intensity than usual.

Besides the academic reasons, there are other arguments
to combat a schedule similar to the one of 1950-51. This year,
there was very little time for Christmas shopping, for one
day can hardly be considered as sufficient, nor for the cus-
tomary pre-Christmas festivities. Furthermore, most of our
contemporaries at home returned to college long before we
left.

The schedule for next year, as it now stands, is practi-
cally identical to the one we are experiencing. It can be
changed, however, by a petition signed by enough students

‘gand submitted to the scheduling committee of the faculty.
‘This would have to be done soon, before the plan for next
year is irrevocably decided. If a satisfactory schedule could
be agreed upon, submitted, and passed, much of the incon-
venience which we are at present undergoing could be avoid-

ed.
Mrs. Slade

Mrs. Caroline McCormick Slade, vice-chairman of the
board of directors of Bryn Mawr College since 1935, died on
January 12. Born in Paris, Mrs. Slade devoted her major ac-
tivities to-the fields of social and civic welfare. Besides her
position at Bryn Mawr, she was also president of the Nation-
al American Women’s Suffrage Association, a member of the
Hoover European Relief Council, a vice-chairman of the Unit-
ed Service Organizations, and founder of the National Lea-
gue of Women Voters.

At Bryn Mawr, Mrs. Slade was chairman of a great many
fund raising campaigns the college has conducted since 1902.
In 1949, the Caroline McCormick Slade Department of Po-
litical Science was established at Bryn Mawr in her honor.

: We are proud of her achievements.

 

 

 

 

|tional unity which it had to a

Current Events

Common Room, ” Monday, Janu-
ary 15, 7:15 p. m. Mrs. Manning’s
topic was the President’s State of
the Union Message which, a little
late this year, was not delivered
until January 8.

The aim of the Presidential mes-
sage was to portray the present
peril of communism and to call for
national cooperation to meet the
danger. This calls for national
unity and the elimination of par-
tisanship.

Using this as a starting point,
Mrs.- Manning went on to consider
and analyze the situation of the
United States politically and dip-
lomatically as it is affected by the

levents of the world today.

In the first and second World
Wars the United States owed .a
great part of its strength to na-

greater degree than any other
country except Germany. Consid-
ering the diversity of nationalities
and interests in the country this

Bard’s Eye View

ARE EXAMS OUT-DATED?
by Helen Katz, ’53.

A rash, no cash, the Christmas
dash

‘And now I sit flipping ash—

Es.

Philosophy I mash,

Greek will always bear the gash;

Things grow awfully tense;—

Marlowe makes no sense;

Psych I treat with abhorrence;

O! For Sarah Lawrence!

News Gives Timely Tips
To Tired Paper Writers
Continued from Page 1

prehend the spice of an intellect-
ual.

When writing papers, one should
always remember one fundamental
rule-——keep the mind clear. Fuddl-
ing the brain with prolific reading
on philosophy, literature, or his-
tory is most undesirable, and only
necessitates wasting time with
footnotes. Rather one should ‘clear
one’s mind by a brisk walk of a
short duration. One in the direc-

 

unity was “something of a mir-
acle.”’

- At the beginning. of the second
World War, on the other hand,
Roosevelt was considerably more
interested in, world affairs than
| Wilson; had been, but. the political
,feelings of the country obliged
| him to hold “his rand. If it had not
/been for Pearl Harbor, he probably
| never would have overcome the op-
position to war.

Even today, the country as a
whole is united in the desire to
stop communist aggression. There
are, in spite of the great fuss be-
ing made, remarkably few com-
munists in the country. _Until the
outburst in Korea there. was not
much organized opposition (aside
from the Chicago Tribune) to Tru-
man’s Asiatic policy. The real
source of disunity comes from dis-
agreement as to means, not the
end of stopping communist ag-
gression.

The danger of the present sit-
uation lies-in the return to isola-
tion. ‘Europe may, in remember-
ing our desertion of the League of
Nations in 1920 and our precipita-
tion of a world wide economic de-
cline by the depression of 1929, be
inclined to fear our return to iso-
lation.

It is necessary to realize that
the present dilemma is a result of
failure of our Korean policy. How-
ever, we should not be as concern-
ed about the Asiatic situation as
about the European one, the dan-
ger of which is far greater. Should
the Russian army, which we have
reason to believe is already fully
trained, gain control of western
Germany, it would also gain con-
trol of the valuable and essential
industry of the Ruhr. This would
endanger our industrial suprem-
acy. Yet, if we arm the Germans
to defend the Ruhr, Russia has
threatened to strike at once.

The crux of the problem now is
to try to read the minds of the
men in the Kremlin. The present
division of opinions is based to
some extent on a different inter-
pretation of Russian policy. One
group, of whom Winston Churchill
is perhaps the most vocal, main-
tains that only fear of the Atom
bomb has prevented Russia from
striking at Europe in the last five
years. The alternate theory, with
which Mrs. Manning agrees, is
that the Russians would prefer not
to go to war because they believe
that communism will conquer the
world through revolution. There is
no real reason why the situation in
China or Korea should have chang-
ed the Russian policy, since com-

 

tion of the ville, stopping in +o
catch the latest or oldest movie, is
an, excellent way to fulfill this ‘re-

quirement. Not only does the stroll |

do one good, but observations on
writing technique gleaned from
the dialogue would be most help-
ful. Fluency in writing is needed
especially when one considers the
nature of the paper, which is con-
tinuity for quotes. When one refers
to another’s work, one should not

Gotham Ensemble

Planned for Jan.

The Bryn Mawr Music Club will
present the Gotham Brass Ensem-
ble, directed by David Simon, on
Sunday, January 21, at 5 o’clock,
in the Deanery. The program is
as follows:

B PICCES. iiccscosics -Adriano Banchieri
{a) Fantasy
(b) Fantasy in echo
(c) Symfonia
Funeral Music .......... ‘Henry Purcell
EES SO I ae eee Anonymous

Sonata Pian e forte /Gabrielli
(for double brass choir in
antiphonal effect)

20 AY sis cicdencndiae John Adson
ROGRMUA © diissisdetces Benedictus Grep

Ceremonial and Flourish
Richard Arnel

Music for Brasses
(in 3 movements)
Maurice Whitney
Tall Tale «Henry Cowell
Music for a Brass Ensemble
' Myer Kupferman
POOUIGE sesisissisisiian. ‘Willson Osborne
Overture to the Mikado ....Sullivan
(transcribed for Brass by
Robert King)

Number Classifications
Outlined By Dr. Burton

Continued from Page 1

equivalent to any proper subclass;
an infinite class is always equiv-
alent to some proper subclass.

 

The union of a finite number or
of a countable number of disjoint

say, “Have you finished your pap-| (non-intersecting) countable class-
er?” but, “Have you finished writ- °S 18 countable, but the continuum
ing up your quotes?” This is at °f 4 line, such as that between zero
once an accurate and practical #74 one, is not countable. Mr. Bur-
question. Who’s fooling whom *°” offered proof of this through

around here?

By all means, punctuate the com-
position of your paper with fre-
quent cigarettes after you have
“smoked a hearty breakfast’.
This brings us to the equipment
needed for writing a paper; a Do
Not Disturb Sign that everyone
ignores, rotten apple cores, and
half-eaten cheese sandwiches. All
these should be present in the
writer’s room, while the occupant

ing herself into oblivion.
Most important to remember

herself is in the nearest bar, drink-’

decimal expansion.

According to the Shroeder-Bern-
stein Theorem, the cardinal num-
bers can be ordered according to
size.

The class of points in a closed
square has the cardinal number of
the continuum; the square is
therefore equivalent to the subset
of the continuum. An infinite class
always contains a countable class,
so that the cardinal number of
positive integers is the smallest in-
finite cardinal number. In discuss-

 

ing the class of all subclasses of a

when writing a paper is the nec- class, Mr. Burton demonstrated
essary sleep requirements. Two or that such a class of subclasses is
three hours of rest -is disastrous. @lways greater than the class it-

.Rather one should go without sleep
all together. This gives one the nec-
-essary time to look up information
in the index, fix one’s. typewriter,
and catch up on the latest bridge
hands. Besides, ignoring sleep
makes one eligible for entering in-
to the Stay Awake Marathon. Any-
one beating the seventy-two hour
record automatically gets an ‘‘A,”
on her paper.

A few last reminders. Always
use a typewriter with large print,
(it takes up more space) and al-
aways end the paper with a quo
tation.

“O sleep that knits the raveled
sleve of care... .”*.

}. Talu Bankhead, The Big Show,
January 14, 1951.

*, Bill Shakespeare, Macbeth, Le-
ipzig, 104 B. C.

“Journal” Offers

Editorial Careers .

The Ladies’ Home Journal has a
limited number of jobs available
for editorial apprentices. The
qualifications for these jobs are

 

 

Continued on p. 4, col. 5

‘self,

The continuum hypothesis states
that there is no infinite cardinal
between the cardinal number of
positive integers and the cardinal
number of the continuum; this hy-
pothesis has been contested, but
can not be disproved. You can not
cancel or subtract with infinite
cardinals; Mr. Burton remarked
that if you could, all mathematics
would blow up. The sum or prod-
uct of two infinite cardinal num-
bers is simply the maximum of
the two.

Mr. Burton conclued with the
explanation that the theory of in-
finite cardinal numbers is an ex-
pansion of the theory of finite
numbers. it illustrates the pro-
cess of generalization now going
on in mathematics, a generaliza-
tion from simple to more compli-
cated mathematical notions.

 

iety of topics. Then, if your ideas
are good over a period of time,
and if you can prove that you have
the ability to carry them through,
you will hold an interesting job on
the editorial staff of a nation-wide
magazine. The suggested topics in-
clude: religious -education, poetry,

| Communist youth: groups in the

| United States, higher education for