mo .. Way. : oad . ; SAGA 2 y xy x ‘ ‘ » T H E Co i PDD OW Tyre LLEG ey Wo VOL. XLIII, NO. N \*v ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1947 ~Copyright Trustees of Bryn’ Mawr College, PRICE 10 CENTS 1945 Present System ()f Library Rules To be Enforced The Books on Reserve Must Be Used In Library Student complaints concerning the inerenay carelessness in the use of reserved books resulted in a meeting with the Undergradu-. ate Council and college authorities to determine whether the existing library rules were adequate or whether stricter measures were called for. The meeting decided that the present system, if coop- erated with and enforced, would fulfill the needs of the college. The Undergraduate Council has decided to use student channels such as the College News and hall meetings to call attention to the library rules. The College author- ities are prepared to enforce these rules and will continue to publicize them as they see fit, since the lib- rary is not under student jurisdic- tion but merely supported by stud- ent organizations. Reserve books are to be used in the Reading Room unless special permission is given to take them elsewhere. If books from the re- serve shelves are to be taken any- where else in the library a note on the slip stating its whereabouts must be attached so that it may be located at any time. Books are not to\be taken from the library except en signed out for over- night use. In a meeting with the college au- thorities and the Undergraduate Council it was pointed out that Bryn Mawr is one of the few col- leges to have open stack privileges so that the students may make their own selection of books they wish to use. Rather than have books handed out over a desk by librarians, which would tause con- siderable delay in receiving # de- sired book, and confusion, crowd- ing and limiting ‘individual rights where the reserved books are con- cerned, students must not only co- operate with the present rules as they now stand, but must also re-. alize that the authorities plan to enforce these rules. Shorted Breaks Blacken College Hamburg Hearth: NEWS Head- quarters during Current _Emerg- ency. Tuesday, January 14, 9:30 Py a. “T fell flat on my back in a coma thinking I had gone blind,” re- marked Miss Marietta Taylor when asked for her reactions to the re- cent campus blackout. The lights they glared and then they flared and then they slowly died. (imbic!). \ The News was even more upset when it learned that one (1) gen- tleman was asleep and/or dead in the Undergrad Room. Several more intrepid members ventured into an adjoining corridor—but to no avail, under cover of darkness the body had escaped. Many of the students did not no- tice the lights were out; they have been in the dark all semester any- =n For the information of the in- terested, the recent misfortune which plunged the campus into ob- livion was caused by two breaks due to a ground. (For further elu- presentation of original cidation please see Greek 502 b). Arts Night To Be Held March 7th For BMC Fund The date for Arts’ Night has been tentatively set for Friday, March 7. (In-order to avoid inter- ference with the Yale “prom” the following evening, this will be the only performance). The program is a summary of creative expres- sion on campus in all the arts. Par- ticipating will be: the art group; | the double octet; the modern dance group; the orchestra; Varsity Players; and the playwriting class, which will provide original scripts. Each group will operate indepen- dently and be responsible for its own part of the program. dition, a collaborative project may be experimented with this year, possibly a “verse drama’ perform- ed by dancers. This year the program is at- tempting to be self-supporting. The Undergraduate Association has set the general admission at $.75, with proceeds to go to the: Alum- nae Drive after expenses have been paid. An undergraduate produc- tion manager has been appointed, Elizabeth Dowling ’47, to handle‘ publicity, programs, tickets, and especially to advise on and unify the program. Louise Belknap ’49, has been chosen stage manager and will be in charge of the entire’ performance. backstage of the (These two chairmen were select- ed by Undergrad and the Stage Guild respectively, with the ap- proval. of Mr. Thon). The participants in Arts’ Night are represented by the heads of their respective groups, who meet to organize the evening asa whole. They include: Margaret Stephens, double oc- tet; Ann Field, orchestra; Mary Elizabeth Mueller, modern dance- drama; Joan Hitchcock, art; Jean Swittendick, Varsity Players; Ann Chase, Alumnae Drive. One of the important contribu- tions of Arts’ Night will be the one-act Continued on Page 2 Seniors Offered Fashion Awards Three fashion _ fellowships, awarded annually by Tobe-Coburn School for Fashion Careers, will be available to college seniors in a nationwide competition.) The fel- lowships, valued at $850 each, are offered to senior women graduat- ing before August 27 who wish to train for executive positions in fashion co-ordination, buying, ad- vertising, styling, personnel work. The One Year Course at the Tobe-Coburn School, for which the Fellowships. cover full tuition, em- phasizes actual contact with the industry through lectures by lead- ing fashion figures; visits to man- ufacturers, department _ stores, fashion shows, museums; and pe- riodic working experience in stores and other fashion organizations. Winners of previous Fashion Fel- lowships now hold- such varied po- sitions as associate editor of a jun- ior fashion magazine, promotion director of a textile corporation, and sub-deb director for a depart- ment, store. Registration blanks for the Fashion Fellowship competition “oSigptgday- be obtained fram,Mis< P~ts* in Boom H, Taylor, or from the Fashion fellowship Secretary of the Tobe-Coburn School at One West 57th Street, New York 19. Registration must be made before January 31. In ad-7 Vivid Technique -|Of Robert Shaw Inspires Chorus by Helen Anderton ’49 It would be almost impossible to write an adequate account of Mr. Robert Shaw, director of the Col- legiate Chorus, and the evening he devoted to the direction of the Haverford, Swarthmore, and Bryn Mawr choruses. Despite his youth he is unquestionably one of the fin- est musicians of our day. If one were to see him just conduct, and listen attentively to the results he brings, there would be enough grounds for this statement. But when one is given the opportunity Pfo watch him impart his under- standing of music to those he is directing, then one.can fully real- ize his remarkable gifts. He point- ed out, during the course of the evening, that when a person sings | he is not merely emitting a series of sounds, he is enjoying a unique ,experience, in that every note sounded is an experience in itself. | Surely the truth of his words hits ' home, for as soon as he said it the _effectiveness-of-the- chorus increas- 'ed tremendously. It was almost as |if each member were giving every ‘sound the special consideration Mr. 'Shaw deemed worthy. Exactly how does Robert Shaw ‘achieve his results? In the first place he is such a dynamic figure that one’s attention is never al- lowed to stray very far. He is the type of person that commands at- tention, and gets it. He can make a hilariously funny joke, and the ;next instant become so intense in Continued on Page 3 Carol McGovern Reports on Conf. Carol McGovern 748, Bryn Mawr’s delegate, was among the five hun- dred students representing three United States who assembled at the University of Chicago on De- ecember 28-30 to form the general plan for a National Student Or- ganization The idea for such an organization was formed by the American delegates who attended the Prague Conference of Students, which in turn formed an Interna- tional Union of Students (IUS). Stressing the importance of in- ternational co-operation among students, the basic aims of the NSO will be the promotion of stud- ent government in colleges, inter- national exchange and travel, and the. granting of student scholar- ship aid. The Chicago Conference set up a National Continuations Commit- tee (NCC) which would, on the suggestions of the conference, pro- mote the general aims of the NSO and draft a constitution. This con- stitution will be voted on in the June Constitutional Convention. The delegates, first meeting in a mass plenary session, divided into féur panels. Carol attended the Continued on Page 3 CALENDAR Friday, January 17 Undergrad Record Concert, Common Room, 8:00. Sunday, January'19 3. ~ Chapel.” Rev. Robert: H.:G Music Room,-7:°° 5 ye Monday, January 20 Current Events, Room, 7:15. a Wednesday, January 22 Common hundred colleges throughout the |, “i tier M. A. in Intet.w > junable to come to America. She Princeton Wins Military Training Debate Wtih B. M. - The Bryn Mawr Debating Club held its first debate on Thursday evening, January 9th, in the Com- mon Room. The debate, Resolved: The United States Shall Have Per- manent Peacetime Militaty Train- ing, was with Princeton Univer- sity. Jean Ford and Nancy Schwartz made up the Bryn Mawr team which took the affirmative side of the question. Geoffry War- ren and Al Rothwell spoke for the negative side. It was interesting to note that both members of the Princeton team wore discharge buttons. Jean Ford opened the debate, stating the case for the affirma- tive. She said that the U. N. did not offer enough security for peace, as it had no provisien for an inter- national peace force. The affirma- tive side felt that a volunteer army is an insufficient protection. Geoffry Warren began the argu- ment for’ the negative side, empha- sizing thatthe plan was “perma- nent” and not just for. a-ten-year emergency period. The Princeton team felt that a regular army of 500,000 would be adequate to man our bases. Our present army has 800,000 -men. The negative side advocated a government financed scientific program with technical training in the,school systems to | provide security in the present type of scientific warfare, and to be a good training for peace. The next speaker for the affirm- ative was Nancy Schwartz, who called attention to the danger of political action outside of the U. N. She said that the United States needed a larger’ military force to command the respect of the other nations, and also so that it should not be helpless should the U. N. break down. Peacetime conscription would not cause dis- Toynbee to Give Flexner Lecture Series in 1947 Lectures Will Describe Clashes Between Civilizations Professor Arnold J. Toynbee, author of A Study of History, will present the Mary Flexner Lectures in 1947. The six Jectures, which will begin February 10, will later be published in further volumes of the Study of History. The series is entitled “Encounters Between Civilizations.” “Professor Arnold Toynbee,” writes Mrs. Manning, “is a unique, even a lonely figure in the histor- ical world today.. If the Survey of International Affairs beginning in 1920 and coming down to 1938 were his only contribution to scholarship he would rank as one of the half dozen really great scholars of contemporary history, the greatest probably because of the breadth. of his knowledge. and the penetration of his historical judgments... If he had written only the Study of History, he would stand almost alone among living historians in having attempted to discover a pattern in human affairs which can explain and illuminate the development of all civilizations since the first recorded events on the banks of the Nile and the Eu- phrates.” “His fundamental thesis in ex- plaining the origin and develop- ment of civilizations—the principle which he has labelled Challenge- and-Response—is remarkably sim- ple and concrete. That there must be an equilibrium between the dif- ficulties facing a community of human beings and their equipment in physical strength and mastered techniques before there can be Continued on Page 3° Ht Continued on Page 4 by Emily Townsend 50 Soona Sehicki Kili, a junior now living in Low Buildings, arrived in New York from Turkey in the mid- dle of December. The fifteen-day voyage was rough and stormy: “We slept in the crew’s hammocks; they swung around all night, and the smell of the cafeteria was most unpleasant to me as I lay there be- ing sick. Mediterranean storms ‘are not much fun.” On board were thirty Egyptian and Turkish Students, bound for American universities; their fam- ilies had saved and sacrifieed for years to pay for an American ed- ucation. The rate of exchange is 4infavorable, (three Turkish dol- lars to one ‘American dollar), and only a small proportion of the stu- dents who dream of coming to the United States ever get here. Soona herself has wanted to come for ‘eight years, since she was first jn high school. “We look to the Unit- ed States as our model now, in th way we used to look toward France. An American education will be of great benefit for anyone who hess to help Turkey.” =oSeena plans to help .Tuxkes hv Majorihg in politics, and taking when her education is completed, she will go back and share it with those of her countrymen who were ‘Last Day of Lectures. Student Arrives From Turkey To Complete Study of Politics she would like an assistant-pro- fessorship in international law at the University of Istanbul (“I think we respect professors more than you do,” said Soona with a smile); to enter the diplomatic service, where she can use her knowledge of ‘German, French, and English; or to take an active part in Tur- kish politics, on which she is clear- ly much better-informed than the average Bryn Mawr student about our own. ' Soona’s room in Low Buildings is tastefully decorated with mosaic vases, excellent pictures of Istan- bul, the Bosphorus, and the Amer- ican college she attended in Tur- “key; and hand-made cloths. She was moved by the reception she got on arrival: “The students did not look at me like a stranger be- cause I come from Turkey; they are interested in what I say, and they ask me intelligent questions. I find the whole Bryn Mawr at- mosphere so intellectual I am al- most afraid to talk at all, but everyone is so helpful that I’ am much happier than I thought I could be. Your country is so friend- ly, and all is. so big here. Tall. Sidings; long. ‘tréins) a toa’T.” a 4 4 E development. of -this fundamental Page Four THE COLLEGE NEWS ” Mu A, J. Toynbee to Hold Flexner Lectureship Continued From Page 1 progress is a proposition which laymen as well as historians can understand and’ apply.” “Toynbee, in his application and thesis, in his many descriptions of the environments in which human nature has risen to unexampled heights, in his tracing of the paths by which the torch of progress has been handed on from one civiliza- tion to another, and his his inter- pretations of human psychology along the way has far transcended the implications of his ‘original thesis. Again it is the universality of his knowledge, the accuracy and' ‘maginative. insight of his histor- ical writing which make the Study 6f History a masterpiece.” ~< There was at Bryn Mawr a Bryn Mawrtyr Who to Send Valentines Thought she oughter. 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We have suits with lots of dash Gabardine (and all-wool, too )— They’re sure to make a hit with you. $39.95 and up Jun‘or Prom The junior class takes pleasure : in announcing the election of TRES CHIC SHOPPE Sherry Bordorf as Junior Prom : chairman. The Prom will be held sometime late in April. Rumpus Room Opening Undergrad announces that the grand opening of the Rumpus Room will be held Thursday evening, Jan. 16 from 8 to 11:30. , Lancaster Avenue Bryn Mawr YE SMOKING PLEASURE wv WITH THE TOP STARS OF HOLLYWOOD, CHESTERFIELD IS BY FAR THE FAVORITE CIGARETTE FEATURED IN i atl NEW TECHNICOLOR PRODUCTION “DOWN TO EARTH.” om YOU'RE COOKING WITH _ GAS, ADELE, WHEN YOU SAY