ciate, el, 7 of the American Friends’ THE COLLEGE NEWS VOL. XLI, NO. 11 Sayre Will Examine Diplomatic Problems And Plans for UNRRA The Honorable Francis B. Sayre, diplomatic adviser to the United Relief and Rehabilitation Admin- istration, will speak on Plans and Problems of the UNRRA in, Good- hart at 7:30, December 8th: The speech was presented earlier this year before the Foreign Policy Association. Mr. Sayre was graduated from Williams College, and later taught there and, at the Harvard Law School. He served for several years as an adviser in foreign af- fairs to the Siamese government, playing an important part in the negotiation of several Siamese treaties with European nations. He was appointed Assistant Sec- retary of State by President Roosevelt in 1938, a position he held until 1939, when he was ap- pointed U. S. High Commissioner jin the Philippines. He escaped from Corregidor with MacArthur. _ Jessup and Blaisdell Discuss Peace Plans, Relief, Rehabilitation Goodhart; November 29. Lois Kellog Jessup (Bryn Mawr 1920) Service Committee and Dorothea Cham- bers Blaisdell (Bryn Mawr 1919) of the Foreign Economic Adminis- tration were the speakers at the first Vocational Conference. (Mrs: Jessup gave a general res- ume of the founding and works of the A. F. S.C. The committee was formed in 1917 by a large body of English and American Quakers who wished to alleviate the suffering of both allies and en- emies in Europe. The committee is not primarily a social service Continued on page 3 Mr. Soltau Considers Politics in Near East Common Room, December 4. The problem of Arab nationalism was discussed by Mr. Soltau in a lec- ture entitled “Politics in the Near East” in a meeting of the Journal Club. Dr. Soltau discussed primarily Syria and Lebanon, since Egypt and Iran have achieved legal inde- ' pendence, and Palestine is compli- cated by the Zionist problem. Syria and Lebanon are relatively free cial minorities, although Lebanon has a minority Christian population, the Maronites. The mandate system of the Ver- sailles peace settlement was a compromise necessitated by the conflicting interests of England and France, and achieved very lit- tle success, as it was an impractical idea in a world of self-interested nations with many national con- flicts. The central idea was that a nation given a mandate would expend its efforts to make the mandate self-sufficient economical- ly and to build up a political tradi- tion which would carry over into national independence making the mandate unnecessary, and no com-| pensation necessary for the man- datory power. This being obvious- ly impossible, the French made little effort to improve the econ- omic circumstances or the political institutions of their mandates. “When the French took over the is | Cantinuet on page 4 ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1944. ue “ Ladies in Retirement Non-plussed Conductors, Musical Gobs, Add Note of Hilarity | to Chosr’s Princeton Trip { By April Oursler °46 When fifty females make a trip, it’s either for vacation or a hockey vania Railroad, The Bryn Mawr Choir, en rgute to Princeton for last Sunday’s concert, was defin- itely nonplussed when: the Paoli local conductor roared disapprov- ingly, “No hockey team was ever that big, even with two cheering sections,” then added belligerent- ‘ly, “And what’s more :you can’t tell me it’s vacation already!” Undaunted, the choir with card- board lunch boxes, academic gowns and white collars gathered indis- criminately in their arms, settled themselves into the Local to find their “reserved car” already occu- pied by five men. Three of them, sailors, welcomed the group with more than metaphorically open arms, spending) half the time vari- ously trying to convince’ the con- ductor that their bass voices were merely altos with colds, and that their sailor suits perfectly combin- ed the demure darkness of our gowns with a collar at least striped in white. The other two were Hav- erford men. \Princeton,. finally reached, was cold. The vibrato in tone which the audience later remarked on as being “angelically expressive of emotion,” was unfortunately due to thoroughly earthly and prosaic seizures of shivering. The more energetic of the choir members, however, braved the cold, remem- bering the tales of the time when Princeton was the proverbial hea- ven of weekends. A group, taking themselves on a tour of the cam- pus, returned to report that they had found a most interesting road. A sign at its entrance read “Pri- vate. Proceed at your own risk.” They added that a whole detach- Calendar Friday, December 8 The Honorable Francis B. Sayre, Plans and Problems of the UNRRA, Goodhart, 7:30. German Christmas Play, Com- mon Room, 8:00. Saturday, December 9 French Christmas Play, Wynd- ham, 8:30. Sunday, December 10 Christmas Vesper Service, com- bined Choirs of Bryn Mawr College and Princeton Univer- sity, speaker, Reverend An- drew Mutch, Goodhart, 7:45. Wednesday, December 13 Christmas Vacation Begins, 12:45 P. M. Thursday, December 14 (Main Line Forum.’ Burton K. Wheeler, Our | T Heritage. Thursday, Ja : i _ Christmas tion Ends at 2 P.M. \ { game, according to the Pennsyl-|. Metropolitan ment of Military Governors had lined the path, waiting silently for them to proceed. The Princeton Music Depart- ment, however, outdid themselves in the preparation of a magnificent setting for the program. In addi- tion to the freezing and inspiring chapel, a contingent of bona fide Orchestra\ players had been imported to accompany the Bach Cantata. The music was truly grand, but the players had a strange habit of appearing in, the girls’ dressing room (where, inci- dentally, at least five Bryn Mawr- ites were asleep just before the concert, recovering from Satur- day’s dance) and offering to tell any female in sight the full work- ings of an oboe or a flute, and any- thing else they were given time to work up to. The concert over, the Choir, seg- Continued on Page 4 Weiss’ Proof of God Lays Stress on Value Common Room, December 6. Con- tinuing his talk on Philosophy and Theology before the Philosophy Club, Mr. Weiss offered a proof of God differing from the three classical proofs in its recognition of religious experience. The mis- takes in the traditional arguments were, he said, the use of wrong evidence and the fact that the proofs were dealt with separately. Considering the theological ar- gument, Mr. Weiss explained that the consciousness of the suffering and tragedy rather than the order in’ the universe formed the basis of religion. The recognition of the negative significance of Man im- plied a certain recognition of a higher being. Reversing the position of the cosmological argument, Mr. Weiss continued his proof with the con- tingency of non-existent things, i. e. the past, asking: What kind of a being the past can have. He declared that tragedy in life re- sults from a sense of the, loss.of values, such as love for those who have died, in, which part of one’s being is contained. In a sense then, part of one’s self is lost although personal existence persists. This leads one to believe that the val- ues lost are yet retained. Combining this part of the proof with the ontological argument, Mr. Weiss suggested that God is the great preserver of values, in whom the past remains. Through belief in God and through religious ex- perience, Man retains his self iden- oe i GR ieee ney ye ues. Christmas Vacation (Christmas vacation begins at 12:45 P. M. Wednesday, De- cember 13. The last meal served in the halls will be lunch on Wednesday. - Christmas vacation ends on Thursday, January 4 at 2 P. M. Students may return to their halls the preceding Wednesday evening. The first meal served will be breakfast on Thursday morning. - Students who are spending Christmas vacation or part of | it in Bryn Mawr or its vicinity and are not staying in their homes are expected to obtain approval for their arrange- ments iti the Dean’s Office. If students have difficulty get- ting reservations to correspond with the opening and closing of the halls of residence, they are asked to notify the Dean’s Of- fice and an arrangement will be made to provide accommoda- tions while the halls of resi- dence are closed. Lt. Charles G. Bolte To Talk on Veterans At Alliance Assembly Lt. Charles G. Bolte, Chairman of the American Veterans Com- mittee, will talk at the next War Alliance Assembly to be held on January 10 at 12:30 in Goodhart. His speech will be on “Servicemen in War and Peace.” a series in the Nation entitled The War Fronts, as well as several ar- ticles concerning post-war plans. Earlier in the war, after graduat- ing from Dartmouth in ’41, he was with the King’s Royal Rifles, Sev- enth Armored Division, Eighth Army. He is at present the edit- or of the monthly Bulletin, the publication of the American Vet- erans Committee. The organiza- tion was conceived in '48 when Bolte and several other servicemen started exchanging letters on the subject of the attitude of veterans after the war. The form of the A.V. C. has pur- posely been kept tentative. It has no definite plans as to whether it will function independently or de- cide to join forces with the Amer- ican Legion or the Veterans of * Continued on Page 4 ag comzriaht, Trustees of Bryn Mawr Sails e, 1944 Varsity Play, Hampered by Direction, Shows Individual Skill in Main Parts Recently, Lt. Bolte has written| PRICE 10 CENTS Kate Rand, Jessica Levy, Give Outstanding Performance In Melodrama by April Oursler, '46 The Varsity Players produc- tion of Ladies in. Retirement was unusually well equipped for suc- cess, being endowed with. a‘‘consi- derable amount of good individual action, and an exceptional back- ground of setting and lights. From the point of view of the students involved, the evening represented a notable achievement. But its di- ’ rection was poor, and no college play saddled with such a lack of understanding of the necessary dramatic technique can succeed. Pace The problem of pace was entirely up to the actors them- selves, and as a consequence the first act seemed to die with the death of what had appeared to be the star, Kate Rand, ’45, in’ the role of Leonora Fiske. Her vivac- ity, combined with her “knowledge of the elements of acting, kept the play moving, in spite of the fact that the other characters seemed completely effaced by’ her _ bril- liance, so as to give the false im- pression that she was over-acting. The main fault in her interpreta- tion lay in her failure to convey the feeling of age in either her movement or voice. It was again unfortunate that the director did not take the available opportuni- ites to’ emphasize Jessica Levy’s role as Ellen during the first act in order to give the rest of the production more of a feeling of credibility and continuity. _ Timing As the first act was carried al- most entirely by Kate Rand, so the rest of the play rested on Jessica Levy’s shoulders. She managed an overwhelming feeling of tense- ness in her every movement and speech, strangely compelling at- tention without resorting to dra- matic tricks. A truly extraordin- ary ability to express emotion characterized her whole perform-: ance, and this, combined with an innate sense of timing was _ res- ponsible for what intenseness of mood the play possessed. Carol McGovern, ’48, played the role of Louisa with competence of stage technique, but with too ster- eotyped an_ interpretation, even for a melodrama. She did, how- ever, inject the proper comic relief Continued on Page 4 left First Burst of Holiday Mood Invades B. M. With Dance in-Snow-flaked Decorated Gym by Patricia Platt, 45 oo Decked in snow flakes, theeGym witnessed the first outburst of hol- iday mood on campus witp. the college dance on Saturday night. Lasting longer than any on. record, the orchestra kept playing until two A.M. when the. party finally broke up. Althougs ‘a trimmed Christmas tree opposite the Gym door provided a hazard for jitter- bugs, everything went off remark- ably smoothly. The most distinguishing seater of this year’s dance was the com- parative scarcity female stags. However, an appreciative gallery made up for the 1 “rushing” of presentable males. The dignity pongaed =! lent by this unusual state of af- fairs was balanced by the orches- tra’s pace. Almost everyone had a work-out. Instead of occasion- al slow numbers, the band warm- ed up to a series of athletic cre- scendos with a conga chain and the polka. The decoration was simple, but effective. Large paper’ snow flakes, of the geometric variety seen on ‘Goodhart, dotted the rad s sky-blue walls, while the e fir tree was hung with red ve silver balls. Convenient sigts, bearing the names of the halls, loomed from below the bal- cony railing to guide any strays back to their dates. hments consisted of punch and cookies. PORE eg L.A taebedetoahte!