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| Footnotes

 

Manpower shortages affected
Bryn Mawr dances not in the least
before the momentous year 1920.
-In fact, men never attended Bryn
Mawr dances before that year. In
the “Good Old Days”’—may they
rest in peace—undergraduates got
dressed in their newest finery, sent
each other corsages, and went off
to dance with one another.

New Regime

The Senior class in 1920, how-
ever, decided that this was a far
from perfect state of affairs. They
determined to inaugurate a new
regime and to introduce a few men
to the dance following their Gar-
den Party. According to Ann San-
ford ’20, other and braver souls
than she decided upon the follow-
ing dubiously legal plan of action.
Allowing no time for a reply pre-
vious to the gala event, they ca-
bled to President Thomas, who
was on a trip around the world,
asking for her permission to have
a mixed dance. Then they proceed-
ed to hold a dance—with men—on
Merion Green.

‘Such revolutionary action by the
class of ’20 as Seniors was heavily
foreshadowed by their behavior as
Freshmen. While still “adolescent
and new”, they were voted a fresh
Freshman class by the Seniors. Be-
ing voted a fresh class was consid-
ered the worst kind of disgrace
possible and 1920 was marked for
its college life.

Fist-Fight

This disgrace was incurred part-
ly by a fist-fight in which the
Freshmen battled the Sophomores
on Montgomery Avenue and in
which one Freshman lost her white
starched petticoat. It was also
caused by their encroachment up-
on the bathing rights of the
“Mighty Hel” Harris, then presi-
dent of the Senior class.

It seems that Helen Harris be-
gan to suspect that the offenders
who were leaving sand in her fav-
orite bathtub were all Freshmen.
For their benefit she posted above
the tub a notice reading, “Ladies
will and others must scrub the tub.”
In retaliation, Freshmen from all
over campus streamed to Rock to
take their baths in the famous
Harris tub. They left behind them
poetry as well-as sand. They cov-
ered the walls of the roomy with
insubordinate jingles, and one en-
terprising bather even designed
the “Harris coat of arms,” includ-
ing scrubbing brush and cleanser.

More legal but no less enterpris-
ing Freshman retaliation against
Senior tyranny, and it was tyran-
ny in those days when Freshmen
were required to: drop their books
and hold doors for all upperclass-
men, was manifested on Freshman
Night. On that night all bars of
reserve were let down. Morning
found the Seniors’ -toothbrushes
planted in careful rows along the
walks leading to Taylor.

Roosevelt’s Running
Preferred in Ballot

Continued from page 1

" ty affiliations who would vote for
Dewey, Norman Thomas, or Will-
kie’s ghost, and favors the “Pla-
tonic theory that pure intellects
should rule.” But saddest of. all
was the ballot across the bottom
of which “take typhoid shots”
stands out in scrawled capitals.

Bicycle
The Lower Merion Police
have held for a year an un-
claimed red bicycle with a

Schwim frame. They hope the
owner will identify it soon.

 

 

 

Merion Ghouls Beat
Rock’s Weary Team;
{de and Horn Score

 

The Merion Ghouls triumphed
2-0 over Rockefeller in the second
Sunday afternoon inter-hall hock-
ey match. The Rock defense put
up a valiant fight until the fourth
quarter when’ sheer exhaustion
prevented them from fending off
the Merion line.

Planning to conduct Rock’s fun-
eral, the Ghouls dressed in gowns
with white shirts and red bloom-
ers beneath and marched down to
the hockey field via Rock Arch
carrying a bier draped in black
on which was placed a large and
dirty rock.

The first half of the game was

characterized by. furious and
fruitless struggles in the Rock
goal circle. Whenever the ball

approached the other end of the
field, Merion’s warden and star
fullback, Miss Elly, skillfully shot
it back again. Rock’s goalie, Bet-
sy Graf ’48, remained impreg-
nable until the second half when
the weary Rock defense called in
the Army and Navy.

The game won, the Ghouls were
still eager for more, so they join-
ed forces with the referee, Betsy
Kaltenthaler ’47, and took on the
premeds of Penn for another
match. Under the direction of
Marce Gross ’47, the boys quickly
discovered that field: hockey was
nothing but a cross between foot-
ball and golf, and even the daunt-
less Ghoul team was forced to
yield them a 3-1 victory.

Schweppe Criticizes
Bell’s Lack of Facts

Continued from Page 2
campus New Dealers, is the one
twig to which the fourth-termites
have to cling.

Of course, Mr. Bell can’t manu-
facture Mr. Dewey’s opinions out
of the aether—no one should have
to! Mr. Dewey has given in his
speeches, and press conferences,
tremendous material for every-
one, especially his active; cam-
paigners, to quote as his views—
for example—‘tno secret diplo-
macy”, What is our duty to Stalin
as secretly avowed by Mr. R.?
In frequent meetings a lot has
been said: But we don’t know to
what Mr. R. has agreed, aside
from undoubtedly promising that
the Americans will “back down”
at the “right” time, as far as the
rights of Poland, Czechoslovakia,

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Speaking on The Netherlands
Today in Monday’s Current Events,
Mr. David Friedman of the Uni-
versity of Leyden and at present
with the Netherlands Information
Bureau, in New York, pointed out
that the principles of democracy,

for
are
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dominant in the Netherlands
the last four centuries and
treasured today despite Nazi
gression.

Planning for ‘the future, the
Netherlands government has de-
clared that it -will participate in a
world organization, with’ policies
guided by the principles of the
Atlantic Charter. It is ready. to
cooperate in a regional organiza-
tion with Belgium and: France or
any other country, and will return
to a planned economy in domestic
affairs. Autonomy will be granted
to the Netherlands Indies, and ter-
ritory will be demanded of Ger-
many at the peace table in compen-
sation for the damage _ inflicted
upon Dutch territory. The Neth-
erlands’ democratic principles will
be preserved under the Queen, and
together with the United States
and Britain she will continue the
war as she is now doing.

The spirit which inspired eighty
years of Dutch resistance against
the Spanish during the 16th and
17th centuries still prevails, Mr.
Friedman said, although the Neth-

Continued on Page 4

Colleges Will Discuss
National Scholarships

 

The Seven College Conference,
with Bryn Mawr as hostess col-
lege, will meet at the Cosmopoli-
tan Club in New York on Satur-
day, October 28. Representing
Bryn Mawr are Miss McBride,
Mrs. Grant and Miss Schenck.

The seven colfeges which com-

‘| pose the Conference are Vassar,

Smith, Wellesley, Radcliffe, Bar-
nard}; Mt. “Holyoke and’ Bryn
Mawr. Chief subject of the meet-
ing will be the Seven Collegé Na-
tional Scholarships, and a review
of the first year of the plan. Two
of these national scholars are in
Bryn Mawr’s Freshman class.

Various other topics will come
before the one-day Conference of
representatives from the _ seven
colleges, including a discussion of
women’s colleges in the post - war
period, with plans for curriculum
and the teaching of language in
relation to the Army language
programs. Also under discussion
will be the problems of admission
of returning service women and
faculty returning from leave, and
finally college and government

 

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Wednesday, Oct. 25
8:30 Gilbert & Sullivan.
10:00 Popular Music.

Thursday, Oct. 26

8:15 Main Line Forum,
9:15 Classical Hour.
10:00 Play Parade.

Monday, Oct. 30

8:30 Classical Hour.

9:30 German Club Program.
9:45 Bryn Mawr Activities.
10:00° Popular Music.

Tuesday, Oct. 31

8:30 Classical Hour.
9:30 Political Discussion.
10:00 Popular Music.

Wednesday, Nov. 1 .
8:30 Gilbert & Sullivan.
10:00 News Analysis.

 

 

 

Novel “Embezzled Heaven”
Lacks Vital Spark
On Stage

 

By Celia Rosenblum ’47

Ethel Barrymore stars in the
dramatization of Franz Werfel’s
novel, Embezzled Heaven. Unfor-
tunately; the performance falls !
short of what oné is under the cir-
cumstances led to expect.

The plot of the play is admit-
tedly not “rich”. It concerns the
devoutly religious old cook, Teta,
who tries to buy her way into hea-
ven by giving her nephew all her
money so that he can become an}
ordained priest. The nephew be-
comes a mountebank, and in her bit-
ter disappointment, Teta travels to
Rome, to confess her great sins in
an audience with the Pope. She is
forgiven and dies happily in the
arms of a young priest who is
everything that her nephew is not.

Miss Barrymore appears both
unconvinced and unconvincing, al-
though this is not entirely her
fault. In the novel Teta is a
scheming old woman who is not
entirely honest with her accounts.
On the stage she appears as a mis-
guided, relatively harmless _indi-
vidual for whom one is supposed
to feel sympathy in her great sor-
row. The last act,.in which we
see her before the Pope, should be
deep and moving, but the vital
spark is missing, and as the cur-
tain goes down the audience is left
unmoved.

Embezzled Heaven_reverses the
procedure followed by plays which

“Jare most often successful. The lat-

ter may start out slowly, and build
up to a climax. Conversely, in this
play, the prologue and first act
promise much, but the action and
the interpretation die a hard, slow,
death in the last two acts.

It is difficult to say who is to
blame for the disappointment. The
subject is difficult but the play-
wrights would have done better to
remain true to the novel. They
weakened the character of Teta to
such an extent that Miss Barry-
more seems to feel that she is too
old and too tiked to revive her.

 

 

 

 

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Social Security Act
Discussed by Burns

‘Continued from Page 1

sulting from temporary unemploy-
nent and consequent reductions

in demand, can be checked by the
provision of unemployment _ in-
surance which will provide those
who are temporarily unemployed
with the purchasing power to

maintain their demands, This will
be particularly important in the
reconversion —period;~.when the
number of temporarily unemploy-
ed is variously estimated at 12 to
18 million. ;

Unemployables

In addition to supporting full
employment and maintaining
purchasing’ power, social security
is needed to supplement full em-
ployment in the case of the unem-
ployables. There will be an _ in-
creasing percentage of the popu-
lation over 65 in the next gener-
ation, and these coupled with oth-
er frictionally unemployed, will
need a certain amount of public
aid . which be
through full employment.
Burns estimates that
about 2% million permanently

unemployed in the United States.

supplied
Mrs.
are

cannot

there

Expanded Economy

Finally, social security planning
expanded
of
Nonprofit services,

may serve to guide an
economy into the production
useful goods.
such as education, a more exten-
health and
are

system,
particularly

sive public
town planning
important in this ‘respeet, since
under an unrestricted profit sys-
tem they would be very much ne-

glected.

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Stag Line

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perfume in the hem of your
prom dress. That’s a quick flip
way to make your favorite per-

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