\ The COLLEGE NEWS. VOL. XLV, NO.9 ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1948 Copyright, Trustees of Bryn Mawr College,1945 PRICE 15 CENTS James T. Cleland To Lead Chapel; Hold Conferences Dr. James T. Cleland, Professor ‘of Homiletics and Preacher to the University at Duke University will speak in chapel Sunday night, December 5. Born in Scotland, Dr. ‘Cleland was formerly a Professor of Religion at Amherst College. Besides the regular discussion period after chapel Sunday night, Dr. Cleland will be available for appointments Monday afternoon in the Blue Room of the Deanery. Those wishing appointments should sign the list on the Chapel bulletin board in Taylor. Dr. Cleland will speak Monday evening at 8 o’clock in the Common Room. His subject is not yet known. Panel Describes Positions Abroad At Vocational Tea The first Vocational Committee ‘Tea, on Jobs -Abroad, was held ‘Thursday, November 18, in the Common Room. Mr. Joseph Hender- son, former civilian personnel offi- cer in Berlin, spoke first, discus- sing possibilities for civilian jobs abroad in military government. Though approximately 15,000 peo- ple have held such jobs since the end of the war, when the War De- partment started recruiting U.S. civilians, and a training program was set up for a time in Germany, it is almost impossible to plan a long range career since the length of time that military occupation will continue is uncertain. Mr. Henderson said that experienced people are needed; however, jobs as typists and stenographers are always available and may lead to more interesting jobs, such as ad- ministrative assistants. State Dept. Jobs The next speaker, Miss Margaret Hine, talked about the different federal agencies, such as the State Department and the Central Intel- ligence Agency, which may pro- vide jobs abroad. She explained that most embassy jobs are clerical and Stressed the disadvantage that the applicant for most of these posi- tions is not told ahead of time where the job will be, and in some cases what it will be. Chances for overseas jobs with the UN are limited, since the staff abroad is small and must have technical training. This is also true of most other international organizations. Miss Hine’s advice was to take any kind of job if one’s main interest is in getting abroad, but if your interest is in one field, to get ex- perience in. that.-field- and-look for overseas opportunities later. Agency Posts Miss Eda Jean Bolton, of the American Friends Service Com- mittee, sugges that a person looking for a jo} with an agency first ask herself what that agency stands for and how it fits in with her interests. The A.F.S.C. was started by a pacifist group at the time of the first World War and has been working on war problems and the administration of relief programs here and abroad ever since. It has divisions for relief distribution, Community Center programs (such as the ones which are now operating in the Ameri- ' n- ternational Work Camp Movement. Donation Made To Jones Chair Miss: McBride announced Mon- day that the college had received a gift of $10,000 for the Rufus Jones Chair from Mr. John D. Rockefel- ler, Jr. Mr. Rockefeller, who was a friend of Rufus Jones, has prom- ised to add another $10,000-to this sum, if the college has raised $150,000 for the Chair before De- cember 31, 1949. World Problems, Plans Discussed In UWF Assembly Specially contributed by Margie Shaw, ’50 and Priscilla Johnson, ’50 On .November 12th-14th, two Bryn Mawr Federalists took their lives in their hands and flew to Minneapolis for the United World Federalists’ Second Annual Gen- eral Assembly. The Convention got under way on Friday, November 12th with welcoming addresses by Governor Luther Youngdahl and Senator-elect Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, and was greeted by letters from President Truman and from Supreme Court Justice Wil- liam O. Douglas. In the opening Plenary Session UWF President Cord Meyer, Jr. gave a progress report in which he stated that there had been a three-fold increase in membership in the last year, as well as the election of four state governors, thirteen U.S. Senators, and forty-five representatives who are informed as to UWF’s pro- gram, and promise to take action upon it in the 81st Congress. He also announced a favorable vote of 11-1 in the Connecticut refer- endum on World Government. All in all, Mr. Meyer stated, UWF’s political influence as a result of the elections was far greater than had been hoped a year':ago. UWF has a dual approach to the achieve- ment of its goal of a _ limited World Government. The first part of this approach is to influence Continued on page 3 Speakers Explain “College Cenevol” This evening the French Club gathered at Wyndham to hear four speakers: Professor J. Van den Heuvel of the French Department; Mlle. Jeanne Theis, Warden of Wyndham; Mr. Carl Sangree, American Representative to the College Cevenol; and Richard M. Cameron, Jr., a Haverford student who spent last summer at the Col- lege Cevenol. Their subject..was Le College Cevenol, an internation- al and progressive French second- ary school, and the work camp which takes over the school in the summer. (Le Chambon differs from most French schools because it is international, it offers scholarships for French and foreign students, and it tempers the conservative preparation. for the baccalaureate offered by most schools with a more liberal and progressive pro- gram. Mr. Van den Heuvel described the school during the war when it sheltered Spanish, German and Jewish refugee children. Jeanne Theis and Dick Cameron discussed Cones, Confusion, Secrecy Mark Rehearsal of ‘An Inspector Calls’ by Jacqueline Esmerian ’51 “Ready ... Curtain... 1, 2, 3:” At Mr. Thon’s signal, the actors, as though touched by some magic wand, suddenly come to life. The opening scene is at dinner with the conservative, seemingly ordinary Birling family, whose respectabil- ity is soon revealed by their insipid conversation. There is Mr. Birling, the Victorianish, bond-holding tax- paying father, Mrs. Birling, who is the chairman of a “respectable” committee for assistance to “stray girls”, and Eric, the inebriated- looking son who is always reach- ing for “another glass of port” on the little side table. Right now they are marvelling over the engage- ment ring which Gerald has just given Sheila, the daughter. At this point, there is a convulsion in the scenery walls, a door opens and lets in a tall lanky guy who deliv- ers the maid’s lines. A few sec- onds later he reappears as the phlegmatic, enigmatic (Inspector who is to change the lives of all those present. Meanwhile, all sorts of. things are going on around the stage. In one corner, Costume Director Jac- kie Gawan is measuring the act- ors, seizing them the minute they come off scene for a brief respite. Right at the front of the stage, in the middle of a stack of papers which he flips feverishly back and forth, is the prompter. Director Frederick Thon is pacing spasmod- ically up and down the main aisle, commending one actor’s “stage walk”, advising another: “Don’t sound quite so much like a radio”; altogether, very busy directing. People come and go incessantly in the dim auditorium, bringing ice cream cones for the actors, whis- pering hurried words to Mr. Thon, all apparently on missions of prime importance. There is always an aura of secrecy surorunding the coming-bto-life of a play, which is probably the delight of those in- volved in it; it is very mystifying but fascinating for the casual on- looker. The plot on the stage was un- folding itself, meanwhile, with Continued on page 2 Food for Seven weeks of the first semester have now passed. Thought In this short period of time an average of $25 worth of goods per week has disappeared from the hall bookshops. Only two hall shops have shown no losses to date; no shop has lost money both months. mean? These are the facts. What do they Carelessness in signing for articles taken does not break cut suddenly and cease just as account for disproportionate losses. quickly, nor does forgetfulness Furthermore it seems impossible for someone outside the college community to ab- scnd with so great an amount without being noticed at any time in any of the halls affected. The logical though reluc- tant conclusion is that there must be stealing within the lim- its of the college. Unfortunately, the situation in the reserve room of the library and in the stacks provides ample warranty for such a conclusion. It is no surprise to a student to search in vain for a book and be told “it was taken without signing”. The fact that the innocent man must suffer with the guilty —in the case of bookshop losses, by being taxed to make up the deficit, in the case of the library, by not being able to read the book—is unfair. More important, however, this practice demands a review of ethical values. The answer is simply that : no student at Bryn Mawr has any valid excuse for taking what is not hers. It is time to stop these “mysterious disappearances” which are not only disheartening but just plain disgraceful! Calendar Thursday, December 2 8:30 p. m. German Club, Dr. H. Politzer, Common Room. Friday, December 3 8:30 p. m. Bryn Mawr Dra- ma Guild, Haverford Cap and Bells, “An Inspector Calls”, Roberts Hall, Haverford. Den- bigh, Merion, Haverford Dance in Rumpus Room. Saturday, December 4 ‘8:30 p. m. “An Inspector Calls”, Roberts Hall, Haver- ford. Sunday, December 5 7:30 p. m. Chapel, Dr. James T. Cleland, Music Room. Monday, December 6 4:30 p. m. History Journal Club, Dr. R. R. Palmer, “The Individual in the French Revo- lution,” Deanery. 7315 p. m. Current Events, Miss Northrop, “Progress Re- port on ERP”, Common Room. 8:00 p. m. Religious Discus- ‘gion, Dr. J. T. Cleland, Com- mon Room. Concert Series Set by Haverford The Haverford College Concert series for this year has been an- nounced. On December 5, Dr Karl Weigl tHe composer will speak, Robert Karol will play the viola, and Estelle Harrop will sing. On January 9, Dimitry Markevitch, cellist, will. play;..on..February.13 there will be a program by the Viello Trio and DuBose Robertson, tenor. A demonstration of students’ iENGAGEMENT Catherine Merritt ’51 to Ed- ward Brooke Stokes. compositions is scheduled:for March 13 and a program of choral re- ligious music with a talk by A. J. Swan, and illustrations by Wil- liam Reese and a group of Haver- ford singers on Easter Sunday (April 17). Dimitry Markevitch and the Viello Trio will play in the Common Room in Founders at 8:15! “atmosphere libre et heureuse” in the summer work camp and n on page 2 = be ‘asieae Piccinte Miner Re Continued on page 2 8:30 p. m. Undergrad Record ‘Concert, Common Room. | p.m. All other concerts will take place in the Music Room of the Haverford Union at 8:15 p.m. Thon Announces Cast for Coming J. Priestley Play The Bryn Mawr Drama Guild and the Haverford Cap and Bells Club will offer J. B. Priestley’s “An Inspector Calls”, on Friday and Saturday nights, December 3 and 4. The cast of the play is as fol- lows: Arthur Birling, William Bishop; Gerald Croft, Robert Kunkel; Sheila Birling, Sheila Tatnall; Sy- bil Birling, Anne Jane Rock; Edna, Mary Ausman; Eric Birling, Tho- mas Graff; Inspector Goole, Rich- erd McKinley. The stage manager of the show is Lee Haring; Dave Thomas is technical director, Richard McKin- ley is production manager and also designed the set; Jackie Gawan is in charge of costumes, and James Hastings of lighting. The prompter is Theodore Lewis, the publicity manager John Acton ,and the busi- ness manager Jim Thorpe. Tickets will be on sale in the Public Rela- | tions Office in Taylor through Fri- day, from 1:30 till 2:00. Quartet Will Play At Deanery Concert A string quartet will be heard in the second Deanery Concert at five o’clock on Sunday, December 5th. The members of the quartet are Joseph Silverstein, Felix Sitjar, Theodore Israel, and Leslie Parnas. The program will include Bee- thoven’s Quartet in C minor, opus 18, No. 4; Brahms’ Quartet in A minor, Opus 1, No. 2; Andante Cantabile by Tschaikovsky; and Allegro by ‘Mozart. Dr. Besicovitch Simplifies Curves At 8:30 p. m. on November 18, Dr. |A. S. Besicovitch, Professor of Mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, spoke in Dalton on “The Measure of the Asymmetry of Curves.” A closed convex curve, said Dr. Besicovitch, trying to simplify the definition, is one which never bulg- es inward. (Central symmetry is, he said, judged in reference to re- flection in a point, one half of a symmetrical figure being consid- ered the reflection of the other half beyond the axis. Régarding the re- flection of regular polygons, defined as figures which are brought to their original position by rotation through 120 degrees, Dr. Besico- vitch noted that 'the reflection of a whole figure is identical with the figure. He emphasized that bi - axial symmetry is of a higher degree than the central. The degree of asymmetry is determined by the relation of the area of an inscribed symmetrical curve within a closed convex curve to the area of the convex curve, Dr. Besicovitch said. He stated that if the area of the symmetrical curve is nearly identi- cal with that of the convex curve, the convex curve is asymmetrical; if the areas are widely differing, the curve is not asymmetrical. * after the lecture provided enjoy- able relaxation after a rather tech- nical evening.