College news, September 26, 1941

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VOL. XXVIII. No. ‘

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~ BRYN "MAWR and WAYNE, PA. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26; 1941 ~

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Polls, War Relief,

Fire and Forums

Mark Year °40-’4])



Extra - Curricular Activities
Important Part of Life
Of Students

This is the story of a year, the
week-to-week headl’aes and the
threads of tangled opinion and
Olive-drab wool that was Bryn
Mawr 1940-1941. Call it a kaleido-

scope. This is to let you know,
’45, what you have got yourselves
into.

Of course, we are not intimating
that it could happen again. We
don’t see how it could.

It started with a-torchlight pa-
rade. Oren Root came to Bryn
Mawr with a Willkie button. After
stopping for a poll, 25 per cent of
the faculty and 75 per cent of the
students, including proportionately
less upperclassmen -who listened
proportionately less to their fath-
ers, were swept enthusiastically
into line, behind Mr. Root and the
village band. There were forums
in the Common Room; they started
with “facts and figures” and end-
ed with people crying ‘dictator-
ship” or “laissez faire, huh’ at each
other.

Then, on the night of Nov. 4,
the Common Room stayed open un-
til- 1.00. \Coffee. was served, and
the radio revealed, bit by bit—but
we don’t talk about that.

Suddenly there was a new slogan.



Unity. Foreign policy was the
issue of the day. Students Give
Britain Check for Ambulance.

Vineent Sheean Presents--Views on
War. Hans Kohn Speaks to Mass
Assembly Topic Selected is Under-

standing Our Time. Committee
Continued on Page Two



Quarantine!

Because of a quarantine for
Infantile Paralysis, students
are requested not to attend
movies or theatres or eating
places off campus. This rul-
ing has been made as a pre-
cautionary measure, and will
be lifted early next week.









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Village Offers Shops
For Freshmen Needs
From Yarn to Radios



What do you need? You’ll find
it in the Vill.. Sweaters and skirts
from Abercrombie and Fitch of
New York can be had at Jeanne
Betts.
at the Philip Harrison Store, and
at Kitty McLean’s. Yarn for that
sweater you’ll be# knitting in off
hours comes from Dinah Frost’s.
Gifts for yourself at Richard: Stock-
ton’s. If you want a radio, or if
you“want some new records, try
Cuff’s, or Foster Hammonds. Soft,
»'g chairs for your room you can
ret at Hobson Owens. If you want
beauty, go to René Marcel or
Maison. Adolphe. Flowers from
Jeannette’s, or Conelly’s.

If you’re feeling adventurous,
the bus will take you to Ardmore,
where you’ll find clothes at Best’s,
Lewis’s, Jane Engle’s and Dorothy

Continued on Page Two

Less expensive sportswear



New High Seen Ahead

Tennis. Tournament

in Sports Activity;

Opens 1941 Fall Season



By Anne Denny, ’43 ;

A great year is coming in Bryn
Mawr sports. Material, spirit, and
good supervision — everything
points to a successful ’41-’42, Al-
ready the class of ’45 shows ambi-
tious. murmurings in the line of
tennis players, and ’44 has brought
' forth its hockey talent long ago.
The general trend of the last few
years is toward louder cheering
and more “oomph” on all sides, but
this year should be the begining of
a new high in sports activity.

The Freshman tournament starts
everything off with,a prayer for
good weather, and no matter how
the score comes out most Fresh-
men enjoy a rousing game of “Do
You Know’ with their opponents.
If the finalists are as good
as. we prophesy, the. upperclass-
men might even pull out the old
Greek cheer for the winner.

Miss Grant will snatch all ex-
cess Freshman energy for hockey
practice as soon as she can. Three
o’clock any afternoon expects to
find a good crowd of stick swing-
ers. Bryn Mawr is lucky to be near
some of the best hockey teams in
the country, well-drilled college



teams and club teams packed with
All-American players. The Var-
sity undergoes several ‘shellack-
ings’ each year but only because
brilliant play is spoiled by a fast-
disappearing lack of practice.
Whether you play Varsity hockey
or just hockey, there are plenty of
good games. The interclass games
inspire a good-natured class riv-
alry, at the end of the season.
Most popular with the watchers,

‘are the Haverford games, when the

sticks fly and it invariably rains
or snows.

Tennis goes on-.all fall _and-alJ
spring. Tryouts are held at both
seasons, and the Varsity has lately
moved into a higher bracket of
inter-club play. The matches usu-
ally include many of the “Na-
tionals” players.

Dancing enthusiasts will find
two alternatives at Bryn Mawr.
The Modern Dance Club provides
excellent instruction. Miss Schin-

Miss Petts teaches the Isadora
Duncan type of dancing. Last
year, a performance of Sleeping
Beauty flitted in front of the “Gym
Castle,” in a semi-comical version.

Continued on Page Four ,

Tea, Lunch, Dinners,
Bands, Juleps, Beer
Are Described Below

Author’s note: This
thoritative and exhaustive article



is an au-

on where to go and when which

every freshman should paste se-
curely to the lining of her new
black purse.

Local: if you sleep through
breakfast, if you’re starved at four
or if Aunt Jenny shows up unex-
pectedly at lunch or dinner you'll
go-to the College Inn. For more
elaborate teas, there are, within
walking distance, The Community
Kitchen, the Chatterbox and. the
Bit of a Shop all on Lancaster
Pike, and the. Cottage on Mont-
zoemery (also for lunch or dinner).

If you must have food before you
go to bed, try Meth’s for ice cream
and sticky buns or the Greeks for

beer and hamburgers.
Continued on Page Two

Calendar

Saturday September 27
Reading Test, Rooms F
and G, Taylor Hall. At-
tendance required of all
freshmen, 9 and 10 A. M.
Instruction about the use
of the library, 11.30 to 12
Noon.

Hockey, 3 P. M.

Tea will be served in Good-
hart Hall for freshmen and
their parents, 4 to 6 P. M.
Buffet supper at Wyrid-
ham, followed by Athletic
Association, League and
Undergraduate Association
meeting, 6 P. M.

Sunday, September 28
President’s Reception for
the entering class, at the
Deanery; 4-P.-M.

Halls of residence open to
returning students, 8 P. M.

‘Sunday evening service in
the Music Rodm 6f Good-
hart. Hall, 8 P. M.

Monday, September 29
Advanced. Standing exam-
inations in Spanish and in
Italian, Room M, 9 A. M.
Modern Dance Recital.
Self-Government Examina-
tion in’ Room F, ‘Taylor
Hall. Attendance requir-
ed, 7.30: P. M.



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Sophomores to Give
Traditional Lanterns



Cloisters to Serve as Scene of
- Ceremony for Inducting
Incoming Class



At Bryn Mawr, the third Friday

in October is appointed as a night

of solemn.ceremony. On Lantern
Night the Sophomores
welcome the

formally

incoming class in

what is perhaps the oldest and
most characteristic of all the col-
lege traditions.

Freshmen and Sophomores as-
semble in two separate groups. out-
side the library. Silent and invis-
ible in. their black,caps and gowns,
the Freshmen file into the night
blackness of the Cloisters. They
form a semi-circle, standing in the
grass with their back to the li-

| brary. As they stand, the Sopho-

mores enter; the only light is the
long muted flares from the lan-
terns that swing, one from the
hand of each Sophomore. As they
walk they sing their Greek hymn,
invoking Pallas Athene, goddess of
wisdom, to make holy the lan-
terns they bear; to change dark-
ness into light. At first the hymn
is faint, but the voices increase
and the music echoes from arch
to arch, from wall to wall.

The Sophomores form a second
semi-circle inside the first. The
song is done; each hands her. lan-
tern to the closest Freshman and
runs. Gathered in a corner they

sing their song once again. The
Continued on Page Four

Freshmen Will Cast

Decisive. Vote in New

May Day Referendum





Big May Day is an Elizabethan
pageant customarily presented by

Bryn Mawr every four years.
Big May Day is marked by
its costumes, Elizabethan plays,

white Woxen, and dances. Color
and gaiety are flung across the
campus, alumnae come back from
everywhere and Bryn Mawr goes
on parade in Elizabethan trap-
pings.

The first Big May Day was held

in 1900; the last in 1936. The
next one, to have been presented
in 194Q, was postponed because

of the financial situation resulting

from the outbreak of war. Last
Continued on Page Two

Parade Night to

Feature Bonfire,

Songs, Strugeles



Torchlights Will Flicker
_ To Mark Traditional

Procession



Parade Night,
ous bouts between Freshmen and
As
the first tradition involving rivalry
between the two classes, it ‘is the
antithesis of Lantern Night. The
rivalry is expressed in the Sopho- |

«with its boister-

Sophomores, is in the offing.

more attempt to discover and. par-
ody the Freshman song. Equally
opposed to the ceremonious ritual
of Lantern Night is its wild snake
dance around a roaring bonfire
on the hockey field, the Freshman
parade down Senior row in the
glow of sputtering red _ torches,
and the blasting of the Bryn Mawr
band in the background.

Parade Night celebrates the first
day of classes. Tuesday night
will witness the repetition.of the
tradition which has a long history
of violent song-snatchings and
rough house.

In the primeaval days, it was
celebrated with artificial materials
and showed a violence unknown
today. In 1914 the three upper
classes dressed as wierd devils,
witches, or strang beasts. Every-
one danced around a huge bonfire
on the lower hockey field while
“Freshie’ was burned in effigy.
The costumes, in the ensuing strug-
gles, were not fully appreciated,
however.

With-the aid of that old Sopho-
more stand-by: “I wasn’t at the
meeting yesterday. What is the
tune?”, the Sophomores were en-
abled to taunt the Freshmen vig-
orously:

Look at them straggling into view
Bawling for home with loud boo-
hoo



See how they shrink before the red
Falling away in reverent dread



Why all those tears
Poor little dears
Oh, they should be in bed



Your song is weak



Yotir voices squeak
Oh, 1918, oh, 1918.
Roman candles gave way to
Continued on Page Three



Many a Monday Night Did Inspire Deeply
Many a Freshman Now Gone With the Dew



With Tuesday, classes begin, and
in order not to neglect Bryn Mawr’s
scholastic aspect, The News pre-
sents a picture of the course on
every course’ slip: English Compo-

t| sition.

As will soon be discovered, this
course requires one composition

-every Tuesday morning at 9 A. M.,

written slightly before this time.
The compositions when corrected
are hidden away in an inaccessible
hole in Taylor basement to be dug
up and returned at the end of sen-
ior year. Those returned to sen-
iors last spring reveal the variety
and color concealed in the dust of
Taylor. :

One composition, The: Ficious
Circle, begins: “The first reading—
the cast lying around in the living
room—cigarette smoke dropping
wistfully. From Lee’s lipsticked
mouth saying, “It’s ever such a
lovely day, madam,’ on to the re-
hearsals with Bob, who wasn’t very
good, but he didn’t care because he
was in love ‘with Ricky.” Comment



by professor: “Be careful not to
overwork these disjointed efforts.”
“Oh God, Agnes,” breaks out some-
one from the midst of another com-
position.

The library somehow aroused a
nostalgic liking in another who
wrote a composition entitled:
“Again Glad Radiance— A Voice
Burst Forth (this. last crossed
out)”, beginning: “Down in the
depths of the library, the atmos-
phere of the stacks soothed her.”

“A crash is heard and one sees
the dignified’ but heavy principal
lying on the floor with his feet

gling in the air. The chair has
completely collapsed with éach leg
thrust. in a different direction and
the seat and the back flattened out,”
was a stage direction of the play
written by a freshman in 1938 and '
called, “The Principal’s Fall.”
“As, he is stuck, he tries to get
momentum by kicking his feet.
After a moment of complete silence,

a moan is heard from Miss Shane.
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Dear Freshmen:

We know what you’re thinking. You're sitting on the edge of
that new bed and you’re saying to yourself, What Am I Doing

Here?
Mawr?

What Will It All Come To? What Is This Place, Bryn

Finding the answer to these questions is a problem in propor-
tion. How much is college to pervade your living? How much are
your campus life, your campus friends, your campus thoughts to

fill your thinking?
Not, we hope, too much.

geared to abstract ideas, sheltered ideas, only.

Not so much that your life will be

Not so much that

college will become your intellectual ice-box where facts and theories
are shelved—for observation only.

We don’t want to overwork the statement which announces ,
the year of 1941-1942 as a crucial year. But we know this is not |
It is a time which demands participa-,

a time-of-century to watch.

tion, a time to help build and to direct.
June, 1945, is too late a date to step from the cloisters and go

forth to greet the world.

This year of 1941 asks that you live a

real and mature life now—and here at college.

So don’t forget the cities and ‘the subways.

Don’t forget the

great big beautiful humdrum world.«Link it to Bryn Mawr. Keep

the proportions.



Kaleidoscope Review

Of Bryn Mawr ’40-41

Continuea from Page One

Active in Relief of France Asks
Aid. Bundles for Britain Grows
and Grows. Bryn Mawr Knits
Arduously. And there were for-

ums. Shall we go to war. What
do you think. Why and why not.

So the News took a second poll.
286 Students Approve of Lend-
Lease Bill. 76 Opposed. 204 Be-
lieve Aid Short of; War Possible.

There was a fire in Dalton. The
Players Club, with Haverford, gave
“Our Town.” A plan for academic
cooperation with Haverford and
Swarthmore was announced. The
College News began to editorialize
for a seminar system at Bryn
Mawr. The College Council be-
gan to discuss possible changes in
the schedule, proposing substitution
of a reading period for the mid-
year examinations. Instead of mid-
semester quizzes, there would be a
December and a Spring quiz period.
The final examinations in June
would thus stress intelligent han-
dling of material more than array
of fact.

So, in March, the News took an-
other poll. Majority Approve
Change Suggested for New Sched-
ule. 85 per cent Want Reading
‘Period and Paper Plan. FR ate

The Players “Club gave’ Midsum-
mer Nightg Dream, out behind
Goodhart. The next week, the

’ Maids and Porters gave it, in a

swing version.

Well, in May, as feelers of the
democratic pulse-beat, we had an-
other poll. 72 per cent of Students

avant”



Modern Dance Club
To Present Program



The Modern Dance Club will
present a demonstration on Mon-
day morning in the gym. Miss
Ruth Schindler, who teaches mod-
ern dance, will dance.

Miss Schindler, who has directed
the Modern Dance Club on cam-
pus for several years, will discuss
her methods and technique. She
is a fine and vigorous dancer, and
has worked with both Martha Gra-
ham and Hanya Holm. Under her

numbers and expanded in scope.
All Freshmen and upperclassmen
are invited to attend the demon-
stration. :

Effie. Woolsey, ’42, is chairman
of the Modern Dance Club. Fresh-
men are invited to join the club,
which meets twice a week. Mod-
ern Dancing may be taken for re-
quired sports.



for Big May Day; Final Votes in
Fall.

And then: Faculty Forum Form-
ed to Discuss War. Rationally.
One thing leads to another: Newly
Formed Student Forum Talks about
Convoys. :

At the end of it all, we took a
senior poll, to find out. The class
of ’41 showed themselves to be a’
contented lot, in spite of the ab-

stract whining of air raid sirens|}—

and change in a changing world.
65 out of 77, if they had it to do
over again, would come to Bryn
Mawr again; 60 would have the
same major; 65 would live in the
same hall.

‘In Philadelphia |

MUSIC

The Philadelphia Orchestra, un-
der the direction of Eugene Or-

mandy, will oper “itse42nd\.season ),

with the Friday afternoon concert
on October 3. In the programs
throughout the year, Mr. Ormandy
plans to use a great deal of music
representing the Americas, includ-
ing works by South Americans
and Canadians. A symphonic poem
by the Brazilian, Heitor Villa-Lo-
bos, will be presented at an early
concert, and Canadian Robert J.
Farnon’s Symphony No. 1 will
have its first United States per-
formance here. :
Wanamaker’s plan to begin
their Grand Court. series of weekly
musical programs with a Gilbert

‘and Sullivan festival during the

month of October. The first oper-
etta will be “H. M. S. Pinafore,”
to. be given on October 1, and on
the following Wednesday, “Pirates
of Penzance” will be presented.

\“The Gondoliers” is scheduled for

October 15, and “The Mikado” will
close the festival. The soprano
lead will be sung by Margaret
Caveny, of the D’Oyley Carte
Opera Company.

The Pennsylvania W. P. A. Sym-

|phony Orchestra, Guglielmo Saba-

tini, conductor, will present its
first Sunday afternoon concert at
Irvine Auditorium on October 5.
Soloists for the first three con-
certs will be Jane Louis Dieder-
ichs, pianist; Andy Arcari, accor-
dionist, and Anna Burstein-Bieler,
pianist. ee

Season tickets for the six Con-
certs for Youth will go on sale
at noon Saturday, September 27,
at ‘the Academy of Music. The
Philadelphia Forum’s first program
will be a lecture and reading from
his own works by Alfred Noyes,
English poet, to be give on Thurs-
day, October 16. On both Forum
and Philadelphia Orchestra tickets
there will be a new 10 per cent
Federal tax which goes into ef-
fect October 1, but which can be
avoided by buying tickets before
that time.

The Philadelphia Piano ‘Orches-
tra, under its founder-conductor,
Carle-Knisley,;—will give--a~ series
of five. “Pan-American Good-Will”
concerts at the Academy of Music,
beginning October 27. Carlos Mo-
relli, Metropolitan baritone from
Chile, and Marisa Regules, Argen-
tine pianist, will both be soloists.

A new series-of inexpensive re-
cordings of classical music has
been begun by the Philadelphia
Music Appreciation Offer. Sym-
phonies played by unnamed or-
chestras will go on sale, one each
week, at 1725 Chestnut street.
Already available are Dvorak’s
Symphony No. 5, Beethoven’s No.
7 and Tschaikowsky’s Pathetique
Symphony.

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THEATRE
LOCUST: “Johnny Belinda,”

* Dani Platt, Wil-
direction the club has grown in|)... Krupska, Jean Pla i

liam Meigs, Dean Norton.

FORREST: “Best Foot For-
ward,” Rosemary Lane, Gil Strat-
ton, Jr., Maureen Cannon. Begin-
ning, September 29, “Louisiana
Purchase,” Victor Moore, William
Gaxton, Vera Zorina. '

WALNUT: “Separate Rooms,”
Lyle Talbot, Anna Sten.

HEDGEROW: October 1, “Back
to Methuselah’; October. 2, “Anna
Christie”; October 3, “‘Skaal!”;
October 4, “Bride of the Moon”;
October 6, “Skaal!”; October 7,
“Mr. Pim Passes By”; October 8,
“Tnheritors.”



Fit is the Thing!

Miss Haviland from
Wright and Ditson will be in
the gym on Monday, Septem-
ber 29 at 9 A. M. to fit ath-
letic outfits. If Freshmen are
not fitted then, there will be
quite a delay in getting uni-
forms which- may not even

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WIT’S END

Now let us tell you what to do.
Everybody else has given you help-
ful hints and kindly commands. So
now let us, the free-speaking press,
add our suggestions.
Very important:

1. Don’t walk ,out of a room

when an upperclassman walks
in unless you think there is a
chance of her speaking to you.

2. Don’t believe anyone who says
she remembers your name.

3. Don’t lose your Dean’s slip
unless it has Math. and Ger-
man on it.

4, Put all your va}dables in our
drawer.

Pretty important:












ut don’t lend stamps
one else.

3. Get into political. arguments
with the Sophomores immedi-
ately.

Slightly important:

1. Watch this column carefully
for further details, complica-
tions, disfigurements, sliced
peaches and refuse.



Teas, Lunch, Dinners

Are Described Below

Continued from Page One

After dark desires can be satis-
fied by dancing at the Covered
Wagon and the Spread Eagle in
Wayne (satisfactory dinners, too),
more drinking than dancing at the
General Wayne and Wynnewood
House in Wynnewood; dinner or
cocktails at McIntyre’s in Ardmore.
For beer and spaghetti the Cones-
toga Mill on County Line Avenue;
for mint juleps, the King of Prus-
sia Inn at King of Prussia.- If
you. must have name bands and
don’t mind sitting on the floor be-
tween dances, you may want to go
to Sunnybrook out in Pottstown.

Philadelphia: Before concerts or
in the middle of a shopping spree,
lunch at the Dairy Grill in Wana-
maker’s basement or at Whitman’s
on Chestnut Street near 17th.
Someday you might like to have
your fortune told over tea at the
Russian Inn, on Locust Street.

For dinner you will go to the
Bellevue-Stratford to dance be-
tween courses, to Kugler’s after
football games, to Bookbinder’s for
sea food, or way down on Chan-
cellor Street to Arthur’s for su-
per steaks in an old English at-
mosphere. When you’ve tried these
you_may fall back on Stouffer’s,
Broad Street,
Jimmy Duffy’s both:on Walnut near
15th. :

You will‘ dance at the Ben
Franklin or the Adelphia if you
i hotels; at the Club Bali on

road Street or the Little Raths-
keller on Broad and Spruce if you]
like floor ‘shows; and if its after
twelve you'll find all your friends
at the Embassy Club on Walnut
or at the Rendezvous, also on Wal-
nut (just like a halfsize Hickory
House).

If this doesn’t impress the dream
man from Missouri, you'll have to
take him to New York.





or Michaud’s or|



New Courses

Two courses, in addition to
those listed in the catalogue
will be offered this semester.
They are Electives in Eng-
lish; Playwriting, one unit to
be taught by Mr. Gassner
of the. N. Y. Theatre Guild
Bibliography, a study of old
and rare books to be given by
Mr. Wolf.







Freshman Conscience

Reveals Itself Early



Freshman Week is a week of
mixups and misunderstandings.
There are always Seniors taken
for Freshmen and vice versa.

But the innate conscientiousness

of ’45 is exemplified by the girl

who asked her S. A. when, and

how, she should start studying for
her comprehensives.

The physical exams bring out
more boners than any other ap-
pointment. Asked, “What do they
do to you?”, one Freshman replied
bravely, ‘Oh, they poked a hole in
my finger, but I’m all right now.”
Another angel-robed figure had the
nerve to ask if her slip was show-
ing!

Some Freshmen were distressed
when caught breaking a rule the
first day. They thought “smoking
in the shaded areas only” meant
under the trees.



Freshmen to Decide
Vote on Big May Day



Continued from Page One

spring the question was revived
and after discussion and a mass
meeting, 72 per cent of the campus
voted for Big May Day. The de-
cision is now in the hands of the
Freshmen. The necessary percent-
age voting for Big May Day be-
fore it can be given, will be up
to the head of the Undergraduate
Association and Miss Park.

The tradition, uniqueness and
centralizing nature of Big May
Day is cited in its favor. Many,
however, feel that it is inappro-
priate now and that the time and
energy could be better spent in
constructive projects for today’s
need.

The Freshmen will be shown
movies of May Day, 1936, and
there will be more discussion on
the question before a vote is taken.



Village Offers Shops
..For.Freshman Needs

“ Continued from Page One

Bullett’s (Lanz of. Salzburg).
Strawbridge and Clothier will pro-
vide anything (for a price)—from
evening gowns to chintz for cur-
tains. Puerta de Mexico for gifts.

If it’s a silk stocking day, the
‘Paoli-ocal will take you in to
Wanamaker’s, at Broad and Chest-
nut, or Bonwit Teller, at 17th.

If you want any more recommen-
dations before the first week of
your college career is over, you’re
either a spendthrift, or have a ma-
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Page Three







Hints to Freslinien
In Search of Long

Lost School Friend.



The long lost first grade-mate,
the girl who told you she was tak-
ing philosophy while passing the
time of day beside the bulletin
board, she who gurgled her name
to you under the water of the
all of these the
News has traced to rooms amid

swimming pool:

piles of appointment. sheets and
curtains which don’t fit. The re-
- sult is printed here in the hope
Non-
residents living in Rockefeller dur-

that it will lead to reunion.

ing Freshman Week are listed with
temporary campus room numbers.
‘Merion

Judith Barker-~....... 11
Margaret Bloomfield 6
Botty Daligmy oi. . 3s: 1
Shirley Helman ....... 41 A-B
Helena Hersey ....... 5
Esterlee Hutzler....... 65 A-B
Miriam Kom 6.63 41 A-B
Katherine Lutz ....... 12
Mary Louise Reese .... 47-51
Renate Sommernitz ... 46
Marguerite Van Nest .. 7
Arye Weumer ........; 47-51
Estelle Morrison ...... 25-7
Barbara Leh Kistler . 74
Charlotte Zimmerman .. 65 A-B
Denbigh
Joanne Cecelia Cecil ... 34-5
Amanda Eggert ...... 61
Lucy Letton Mary
=< OVERUON 6.0. ves ik 82
Mary Franklin Graham 80
Vane Haller 73
Anne Hamilton... 56-8
Mary Jean Hayes ..... 5-9
Alice H’Doubler ...... 56-8
Elizabeth Ann Mercer. . 70
Nina Katherine
Montgomery ........ 75
Lois. Lenoir Post... 2
Jean Isabel Preston ... 86
Josephine Small Schmidt . 67
Penelope Smith ...°.-.. 37
**Miriam Taleisnik, ’45.. 34-5
Anne Bayard Williams. 5-9
Elizabeth Hatheway ... 88
Pembroke East
Carol Cole Ballard ..... 58-60
oan Coward: .......4; 24-6
Judith Quentin Derby.. 52-4
Elizabeth Doolin ...... 65
Harriet Hildreth Dunn 48-50
Katherine Anne
MAWOrdgs oo eS 14-16
Britta Hricson .......;: 4-6
Eileen Blodgett Edwin. . 58-60
Winnefred Glankler .. 24-6
Ruth Anne Hendrickson 52-4
Marian Louise Hogue . 10-12
** Ann Davis Johrison . 23
Bleanor Jones ........ 14-16
Rosamund Mary Kent .. 33
Mary Ragon Naylor... 38-40
Jean Alice Potter ...... 82
Kate Angeline Rand .. 5
Suzanne Stevenson .... 1
Montgomery Supplee .. 18-20
Marian Elizabeth
THOMGR seis Cine 4-6
Loie- Townend «. +i... 62
Yvonne Townsend 10-12
Emily Hallam Tuck ... 48-50
Betty Updegraff ...... 3
Rebecca. Wood ........ 53
Anne Byrd Woods . 18-20
Pembroke West
Virginia Armstrong . 62-6
Ann Lindsay Aymer .. 56-60
Charlotte Binger ...... 16-20
Margaret Browder .. 8-12
Louise Bruce... ......... 45
**Ann Hagen, '45......... 73-4
Jean Franklin ......... 70.
Jean Elizabeth Hoopes 8-6

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**Catherine Bryson have been reimbursed in amounts
Tiles Wh... 13/in excess of $50.00, seven of whom
**Mary Gries, 44 ...... 41 A-B| benefitted in excess of $100.00 as
Colleen Grimm ........ 15 | follows:
Mary Langdon Hackett 20 1 at $113.00
ee 40 A 1.“ 126.00
Patricia Sayre Johnson 28 1 ™ 289.00
Nancy Parker King ... 24 1 “ 306.00
Jocelyn Felicia 1 “ 316.00
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Enid Lucille Littwin .. 31 1 “457.00
Harsimran Malik .’..... 61 :
Barbara Maynard 39' Parade Night Lighted
Katherine Elizabeth ;
ii ccs 17) By. Torches and Fire
Mary Louise Mills .... 41 A-B
Virginia Lee Nixon .... 23 Continued from Page One
Katherine rie. hanes 36 torches in ,1915, when the band
Ann Polk Santee ...... TO led Freshmen with “valiant juniors
Mary Florence Sax .... 19) at their side’ to the bonfire. On
Ann Shiaudeman eee 34 the way back to Pembroke arch,
one Wehewein i 38! the Sophomores blocked the stair-
Margaret Bivangeine ways, forcing the Freshmen to go
White, 44 ASN RRs 29 around by Rockefeller.
Cynthia Elizabeth The next year a dictaphone, de-
‘ ahi ee oe 58 tective work and bluff discovered
fe tcal Andrews ee 1920’s song. Benjamin, the porter
oe ci ee aes 52 Pembroke, who had done some
He oe i i 'work for Burns’ Detective Agency,
ear Maree eres discovered a dictaphone concealed
Bucy Sapp ee 70| in the Freshman Chairman’s room. :
“Genevieve Winston oes 00; All in the spirit of the thing, he| |
“Bucy Parrish ..... <0. 00' later helped search the gym for
"Helen Burch .3./. <. <. 16

Rhoads North a
Helen Adelaide Burnett 164 A-B
Sylvia Choate 263
Susan Norton Coleman 159 A-B

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Hadith, Dent ../... 5.6%. 164 A-B
Lydia Gifford/.,....... 260
Nanev Gross/ .i4....5. 159 A-B

Alice Case MacDonald... 264
Nona Piwosky ........ 162 A-B|
Patricia Louise Platt.. 58 A-B
Irene Spiegelberg ..... 162 A-B

Virginia Eldridge

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Jessie Marian Wallace. . 167 |
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Virginia Beal: ........ 105
Suzanne Bensinger .... 213 A-B
SViVia GIOWN ....
Mary Lyman Cox ’
Ilka Gertrude Feather. .
Elizabeth Gunderson ..

**Amne Guthrie, ’45 .... 204
**June Kathryn Hahn, ’44 308
Barbara Johnstone .... 102

Mary Alison Merrill ..
Mary Lou Miles
Roslyn Shirley Richman
Gloria Robinson
Valentine Stanford .... 209
Lilias Howland Swift .. 211 A-B
Julia Watson Turner .. 210
Cloe Tyler Walker .... 112
Carol Edna Wildermuth —*—309
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any more dratted machines. But
force followed craft when Sopho-
mores and Seniors -beseiged the
Freshmen meeting in the gym.
Peacock, ’19, was flushed from a
hot air flue by’ an indignant jani-
tress. That night the Freshmen
sang with “distinct swing and spir-
it’; even after the Sophomores’
derisive parody: “Sniff, Sniff,
Sniff.”

1925 used mass confusion as a
means of obtaining their parody.
They turned off the lights in the
gym during a Freshman song meet-
ing and snitched the words from
the resulting mess. The Sopho-
mores the next year outdid them-
selves by getting the words three
times.

Since the beginning of Parade
Night the Sophomores have the
better record of wins. 1924 was

the first “even” class to keep its
Parade Song, the third time it had
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all Non-Reses actually leave the
halls, of course. Some straggling
waifs may be found at any time
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friends as they sprawl on the smok-
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Résident . students often find
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Glimpses of Previous
Required Composition

\



Continued from Page Ors
Miss Shane (covering her face
with her hands): “Qh, my good-

ness, Dr. Field has fallen:down: and
cannot get up again.

Field: “Gracious, I think I’m
caught. Could you give me a
hand?”

Stanley (who is sitting in the
second row): “Ha, ha, ha, ha.
That is the funniest thing I’ve ever
seen.” (Slaps friend next to him
on the back amid loud guffaw and
the whole row’ begins to laugh ‘and
soon the- entire . audience. is in
stitches.)

An outline of the long English
paper was handed in’ reading, “a. I
like Willa Cather’s books. Why?”
It ended; Theoretically, I think
this would work in ‘the given cir-
cumstances. Whether it would or
not remains to be seen.”

Professor’s comment: “Theoret-
ically, yes.”

One freshman was. moved to
write a review of the classes fresh-
men show, given in February.
“Just to pick up the script of
Asleep and Better to be that Way,”
she wrote, “to read for pleasure is
a waste of time. In it no—or very
1 ttle—enjoyment can be found.
Obviously, without the assets a
stage and actors can give it, it is
flat. Enough! You have probably
already commented to yourself that
a Freshman Show is meant to be
no more than a cage in which to
place the animal. Ridiculous?
Funny? Why yes. Iadmit that.
The crux of my criticism lies in
the fact that it should be funny in





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Sophomores to Give
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Continued from Page One

Freshmen answer: “We come, oh
Goddess; we are lovers of beauty
in just measure and lovers of wis-
dom also.” They file out, singing
their song.

. The solemn ceremony is finished,

assembles in Pembroke Arch. The
four classes form a square and
each sings its athletic song, class
song, and lyric songs. The evening
is ended with “Thou Gracious In-
spiration.”
Tradition offers many, supersti-
tions about the lanterns. Inside
each lantern is an invitation to

‘tea from Sophomore to Freshman.

The girl whose candle burns the
longest and who stays awake to



a sensible way. Asleep and Better
to be That Way is not.
A priceless comment, however,

but following, a gayer gathering,
of presenting lanterns .to Fresh-

prove her claim, is fated to be-
come hall president. But the girl
who finds wax-drippings on her
gown will earn a Ph.D. ‘

Lantern Night underwent
changes and developments before
all details were as they are now.
In 1886 Dr. E. Washburn wrote a
song to the tune of “The Lone Fish
Ball,” alluding to “the only lan-
tern in Bryn Mawr.” . Romantic
imagination seized upon thé idea

men. After an impromptu skit, the
Sophomores quizzed the Freshmen,
testing their right to receive their
lanterns, and satisfied; presented
them. By 1897, the size of this af-
ternoon entertainment had grown
to a play, “As You Like It.” Giv-
ing lanterns in the afternoon. was
ludicrous, and the time was set at
night. Gradually the tone of the
ceremony changed from the farci-
cal; the commonplace, oral wishes
for good luck became written
songs, varying from year to year.

New High Seen for
Sports Year Ahead

Continued from Page One



Also in the winter session there
will be basketball, swimming and
badminton.
and intra-mural games are sched-
uled in all of these sports, and
the interclass swimming meets set
the peak of class rivalry. Faculty
efforts proved a good match for
the badminton team last year.

Spring, brings the traditional

“Pallas Athene Thea” was_ the
class of 1893’s song and was
adapted for Lantern Night in 1901.
After discarding “Over the Way to
the Sacred Shrine” (1908) as un-
inspiring, “Sophias Philai”’ was
transposed by K. Ward, ’21, and H.
Hill, ’21, from Pericles’ funeral
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