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ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., -WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1944

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Lawrence Urges
Closer Relations
With Gt. Britain

Talk Accompanied by Films
Showing War Efforts
Of Allies



Goodhart, January 17—In the
interest of better Anglo-Ameri-
can relations, Miss Gertrude
Lawrence presented three British
Information Service films to ex-
plain the spirit of our allies—
Great Britain and Russia. In a
short introductory speech, Miss
Lawrence stressed the importance
of having more confidence in our
allies and of ridding ourselves of
prejudices that could cause an-
other war.

Emphazing the horror of this
war, Miss Lawrence said that ef-
ficiency in working together is not
enough to insure a lasting peace.
We must maintain the freedom
for which men are fighting. To
do this, we must think with our
hearts and our heads in order to
realize the sacrifices that other
nations have made and to deter-
mine that such a war will never
happen again.

Continued on Page 3



L. Granger Discusses
Inter-racial Problems



Philadelphia, January 13—“The
increased racial tension in_ this
country indicates the absolute ne-
eessity for social planning for
better adjustment in the future,”

stated Lester B. Granger, Execu-|*

tive Secretary of the National
Urban League, in a discussion of
the “Techniques of Inter-racial
Adjustment” at the Philadelphia
local chapter of the American
Association of Social Workers.
Emphasizing the part which so-
cial workers should play in al-
leviating the conditions and ten-
sions of minority groups, Mr.
Granger stressed the great res-
pnsibility of such an undertak-
ing.

The acute per tension arises,
Mr. Granger pointed out, from
the tradition of exploiting minor-
labor, one of the
natural resources. Increased
discussion of democratic
he said, have developed during
the war and have resulted in new
demands of minority groups.

Migration —.__-_-_—

Migration of Negroes from ru-
ral to urban districts and from
Southern to Northern cities has
been taking place since World
War I, Mr. Granger pointed out,
and indications show that it will
be a continuous process. The rea-
son for this, he explained, is the
regular drive to better oneself,
to migrate to areas offering em-
ployment and less discrimination,

‘The Zoot-Suiters, continued
Mr. Granger ,are an example of
the extremes to whieh minority



Calendar

Saturday, January 22
Examination Period Begins.
French Examination for Sen-
iors.

War Films, Music Room, 8:00.

Tuesday, February 1
Examination Period Er.ds.

Wednesday, February 2
Holiday.

Thursday, February 3
Work of Second Semester
Begins.
Vocational Conference, Dean-
ery, 7:30.

Saturday, February 5
War Films, Music Room, 8:00.

Monday, February 7
Henry Peyre, The Legacy of
Proust in the Contemporary
Novel, Goodhart, 8:30.
Tuesday, February 8

Gaetano Salvemini, Good-



hart, 11:00.



ideals,



a
Mr. Willoughby Ends
Long Career at B.M.
For Post in Victoria



Ernest Willoughby, Assistant
Professor of Music, has been ask-
ed to take the position of organist
and choirmaster of the Christ
Church Cathedral at Victoria, Brit-
ish Columbia. His departure next
month will mark the end of twen-
ty years in the music department
of the college. In addition to his
regular classes, he has been asso-
ciated with all musical events in-
cluding the operettas, Lantern
Night, and May Day.

In his position as choir director,

Continued on Page 3

War Film Describes
Nazis’ Rise to Power

—_—--

Gocdhart, January 14. “The
Nazis Strike,” the second of the
series of seven films produced by
the War Department Research
Council for the army, tells the his-
tory of Hitler’s rise to power
through successive bold moves,
emphasizing the conquest of Pol-
and, in September, 1939.

The military history of Germany
was reviewed, with the statements
of the ideas of Bismarck in 1863,
of Kaiser Wilhelm in 1914, and of
Hitler in 1933, all indicating their
plans for world domination. Hit-
ler’s aim is to conquer the entire
world, for which purpose his geo-
a iilelane have divided the earth
into sections which he plans to
take one by one: first the “heart
land,” (central Europe) then the

| rest_of Europe, Asia, Africa—“the

world island,” and finally the
world.
The Nazis’ bid for world su-

premacy began in Germany. They
softened their enemies in advance
by means of propaganda to divide,
confuse and terrorize. France, Bel-

~|gium and. England became ac-

quainted with National Socialism,
as they watched its working and
were besieged with its propaganda.
At home Germany was preparing
for war by rationing of food, and
absolute control of all German life
by the Nazi party, enforced by

groups have gone. It-is a Tevoltineans of secret police and concen-

on the part of Italian, Negro,
Polish and Mexican youths against
all adult standards since they,
in America, are denied democracy.
~An American towns and cities,
the Urban League Executive Sec-
retary stated, the Negro popula-
tion is a good barometer of the
conditions existing in the gener-



2l- community.

tration camps. They built a tre-
mendous army of highly trained
officers in defiance of the Versailles
Treaty.

The first step in Germany’s con-
quest was the fortification of
the Rhineland in which they built
the famous Seigfried Line. The
next move came on March 12, 1938,

Continued on Page 4



Cornelia Otis Skinner
Displays in Monologues
Poise and Versatility

By Alison Merrill, °45

Cornelia Otis Skinner presented
five of the monologues which she
has made famous on the American
stage at Haverford last Wednes-
day night. Playing to an audience
which filled the aisles and the or-
chestra. pit of Roberts Hall, Miss
Skinner admirably mastered the
difficulty of remaining-in charac-
ter and in complete control during
the prolonged bursts of uproarious
latighter which followed her every
third sentence.

It bespeaks her years of exper-
ience and her magnificent stage
presence that, without the support
of scenery and other actors or any
actual stage business, she could
earry through her characteriza-
tions, never giving evidence of any
discomfort nor communicating any
to her audience. By virtue of her
own charm and personal appeal
and by virtue of the careful struc-
ture of her monologues, as well as
her ability as an actress, she over-
came the dangers that are inher-
ent in the monologue as a drama-
tic form.

“Times Square”

Most interesting from the point
of view of displaying the range of
Miss Skinner’s talent was the
monologue titled “Times Square,”
presumably a section of Broadway
at the theatre hour. Using a long,
red chiffon scarf as the only stage
property, she presented a series
of lightning-quick changes and
contrasts in character study. She
progressed from an old Italian
woman peddling chewing gum to
a Brooklyn “babe”, a bored social-
ite whose chauffeur had not yet
appeared, an appealing ingenue, a
southern doll who thinks New
York is “cute”, a woman whose
husband is near death, a sailor’s
pickup, a drug addict, returning
finally to the peddler softly mut-
tering Italian. Making the changes
externally by a turn at one end of

the stage and a twist of her scart, |

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‘Henri Peyre as Flexner Lecturer

Will Analyze Modern French Novel



Commissioned

A recent cable received from
Rabat, Morocco, states that
Mademoiselle Germaine Bree
has been commissioned a cap-
tain in the Free French Forces,
having been transferred from
the Rochambean Ambulance
Unit to the job as Head of the
Bureau des interpretes—liaison,
armee de |’air, with tlfe rank of
captain.







Salvemini to Outline
Problems of Italians
In February Lecture



Gaetano Salvemini, a distin-
guished Italian liberal, will pre-
sent the fifth in the series of

War Alliances assemblies on cur-
rent affairs on February 8. His
lecture will concern Italy from
the Italian point of view.

A noted historian Mr. Salvemini
was for many years professor of
modern history in various Ital-
ian universities; at the Univers-
ity of Messina from 1901 to 1908,
the University of Pisa 1910-16,
the University of Florence 1916-
25. He was also a member of the
Italian cabinet from 1919 to 1921.
He left Italy in 1925 for political
reasons, and in September 1929
he was deprived of his Italian cit-
izenship, and his property was
confiscated.

Mr. Salvemini has never been
allied with any of the Italian re-
actionary groups, Fascist or Mon-
archist, here or abroad but is an
unwavering advocate of true de-
mocracy, a_ liberal idealist. In
1932 he settled in the United
States and recently became an
American citizen. A visiting pro-
fessor at Harvard in 1930 and at
Yale in 1982, he has been the



Lauro de Boss lecturer of the His-
Continued on Page 4



Blue Paint, Black Eyes of Freshman Hazing
Ended by College Council a



By April Oursler, ’46

No longer will there be suicide
leaps from the beams of Goodhart
stage, no longer will doors be un-
hinged and no more black eyes will
brighten the horizon. Freshman
hazing has undergone a _ radical
change as a result of the new ad-
ministration ruling. It is fitting
then that we write the obituary of
the past days of hazing, the days
of the battle of paint and fists in
Goodhart, and the history of haz-
ing in recent years.

It was February, 1941. Blue
paint swirled down from Goodhart
rafters, Sophomore after Sopho-
more: was-allegedly swung off the
stage to land in a frenzy of upper-
classmen, and the battle royal,
otherwise known as the rehearsal
of ’44’s Freshman Show, was un-
derway. —

Since the law then auia that
Sophomores were not allowed on
the stage, myriad squatting figures.
nonplussed the Freshmen as they
gazed into the beams directly over,
but definitely not on the stage. The
stairs to the rafters were barri-
caded, Sophomores were forced to
jump to the stage, and there was
the little question of the buckets
of water that turned out to be blue





pain, giving one hastens, one coat
and the: half-finished scenery a
slightly aquamarine hue.

Having achieved this new height
of violence, Freshman
grew steadily in atrocity, reaching
its culmination with the introduc-
tion of dogfish livers lifted from
the Biology Lab., and casually in-
serted in Freshman slippers and
mittens. One misguided soul de-
cided they were nothing but slight-
ly old bananas, and disposed of
them in her own way.

Two Freshmen, feeling their idi-
osyncrasies of careful dress in this
unfashionable campus about to be
laid bare by the cruel Sophomores,
packed their best clothes up in
suiteases, one carefully stored in
the attic, the other chained to the
washstand with a bicycle lock,
Their fears were evidently justi-
fied, for one less provident, and
equally well-dréssed Freshman re-
turned from rehearsal one day to
find all her clothes neatly stored
in her closet, the door locked and
the key gone. A wily lass, she
stealthily unhinged the door, trans-
ferred the clothes to a “fellow-
Freshmans”’ closet, _ “arid said
nothing, merely appearing hourly
in a new costume before the amaz-
ed Sophomores.

Yale Professor to Review
Works of Proust, Gide
In Talks



Henri Peyre, the Mary Flexner
lecturer for 1944, will present a
series of six lectures on the con-
temporary French novel beginning
February 7. M. Peyre, docteur
des lettres, is at present Sterling
professor of French in Yale Uni-
versity. His lectures will be giv-
en in Goodhart every Monday
night at 8:30 for six weeks start-
ing February 7. and continuing
through March 13. The lectures
will be in English.

In addition to the lecture ser-
ies, M. Peyre will conduct a sem-
inar on Fhursdays from 4 until 6
for graduate students and ad-
vanced undergraduates in the
French department. He will take
part in the advanced French nov-
el course and will hold office hours
for students.

Proust in the Contemporary Novel.
February 14—From Andre Gide
‘9 Francois Mauriac.
February 21—Tradition and Ex-

periment: Romains, Martin du
Gard, Celine.

February 28—The Younger
Generation: Julian Green and
Malraux.

March 6—The Epic Novel: Jean
Giono.

March 13—Saint Exupery.

M. Peyre was born in Paris in
1901, and he studied for his de-
grees there. His American ca-
reer started at Bryn Mawr as a
member of the French Depart-
ment from 1925 to 1928. He then
went to Yale, where he has_ re-
mained except for an interval at
the University of Cairo in Egypt.
In 1938 he became Sterling Pro-
fessor at Yale and received his

degree of A. M. from that uni-
versity in 1939.
M. Peyre has written many

books on French -classicism. His
most recent works are L’influence
des Literature antique ,sur la lit-
erature Francaise moderne, pub-
lished in 1941, and Le classicisme
Francaise, published in 1942. His
book, Shelley et La France, was
printed in Cairo in 19385. A num-
ber of volumes of classical plays

shave been edited by M. Peyre.
hazing | °

Novels on Reserve
For Peyre Lectures

In preparation for the Flexner
Lecture series to be given this
year by Henri Peyre on the mod-
ern French novel, a selection of
novels. has been put.on reserve in
the Quita Weodward Room in the
Library. ‘The novels are those
that M. Peyre intends to discuss
in his lectures, and he has recom-
mended that they be read in ad-
vance. The reserve, which in-
cludes translations of ¢he novels,
is to be used in the Library.

The selection is as follows:

DuGard ... The Thibaults, La
Consultation

Giono ... Un de Baumugnes

Gide ... La Porte Etroite

Malraux . La Condition -Hu-
maine, Man’s Fate, Man’s
Hope

Mauriac ... Le Noeudde Viperes,



Continued from Page 3

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The subjects for the Flexner
lectures are as follows:
February 7—The Legacy of
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Re-schedule Re-asserted

The strain incident to having both examinations and pa-
pers due at the end of a long, unbroken fall term was the
chief objection voiced to last week’s editorial proposing al-
terations in the college calendar. Another criticism pointed
out that, in order to make the new arrangement possible, the
first semester would have to commence earlier in September
than we had calculated. ° ae

Considering these criticisms, we would like to propose
modifications. The semester should begin two weeks earlier
than it now does, around September 15. Classes should end
December 15 for vacation. After vacation there should be a
ten day reading period without classes, in which all students
could write their papers and prepare for examinations. The
Seniors’ traditional ‘reading period’ would take place as us-
ual. ,Since papers are not usually due as close to exams in
the spring, and since the examination period is longer, no
corresponding reading period would be necessary then. The
second semester.would therefore end a week earlier.

This revision of the college calendar brings no extreme]

change of the opening and closing dates of the academic year,
but the change is sufficient to alleviate the burden of the si-
multaneous preparation for papers, exams and continued
daify work which occurs under the existing system. It also
answers the objection to our former suggestion which did
not lessen the strain of exams and papers at the close of the
first semester. To those who maintain that a fall semester
of three straight months of work is too long an interval, we
would like to state that the break now provided at Christmas
vacation comes too late to be thoroughly effective. If the

three month period is so long that-the-college feels-a—break.

is needed, the four day vacation over Thanksgiving could be
reinstated.

: An alternate plan has been proposed—college would be-
gin two weeks earlier, classes proceeding into January and
followed by exams, but students would be given a two week
period after exams in which to write reports. The plan, if
it could be modified concerning the necessity of extra lec-
tures, would solve the paper-exams problem.

Students have frequently raised objections to the pres-
ent program, but these have been more or less regarded as
the result of poorly planned work on the student’s part. How-
ever, no amount,ef planning would decrease the total number
of hours demanded for daily work, papers and examination
preparation during those two weeks. Mid-semester quizzes
have been spaced over such an extensive period that there
is little time to account for this work before Christmas va-
cation. We believe that by inserting two extra weeks into the
college calendar we shall obtain a better distribution of work
and relieve the pressure, of the present system. F







Opinion |



News Reader Presents Faults
In System of Re-scheduling
Mid-year Exams



To the Editor of the College News:

Every kitchen has a_ calendar
with recipes in it; every executive
has a calendar with blanks for
business in it; Bryn Mawr college
even calls its catalogue a calendar
so that every student may have
a calendar with dates in it; but
the News apparently has no cal-
endar ,and they alone wish to re-
form it.

Having read with some horror
the editorial advocating a _ full
semester and exams before Christ-
mas, I took my calendar and,
making rapid calculations on my
fingers, discovered that the in-
coming freshmen would hardly
have time to go home from school
graduation before coming to Bryn
Mawr on August 27, and _ that
upperclassmen could not finish
summer school before starting
classes here on September 1.
Then there would be sixteen
weeks before Christmas vacation,
relieved only by one day at
Thanksgiving. The present so-
called hysteria would have noth-
ing on the neuroses and psychos-
es even moderately normal stud-

ents would be able to work up
for Christmas _ dinner. And,
speaking of Christmas dinner,

what would happen to our pre-
Christmas festivities, lost in the
shuffle of papers, exams, and
half the college leaving after last
exams ?

“Under the present system,”
reads the editorial, “exam hys-
teria in the mid-year examina-
tion period is far greater than at
final exams in the spring.” But I
say that under the new’ system
even the exam hysteria before
Christmas vacation would be
mild compared to the frenzy in-
volved in having May Day in the
middle of exams, as the new sys-
tem requires.. Or should we move
May Day to April 1?

A Friend

Senior Says Lawrence’s Talk
Full of Foolish Propaganda,
Platitudes

To the Editor:

It was indeed unfortunate that
Miss Lawrence’s debut at Bryn
Mawr took place last night under
such unfavorable circumstances.
Dish-watery propaganda, a twen-
ty-minute stream of platitudes in
which the students were alternate-
ly referred to as children and
mothers of new generations, sound
equipment which made the Brit-
ishers’ dialogue sound like a for-
eign language and even made the
stirring British Grenadiers’ march
sound a little sick and forlorn—
none of them contributed to a bet-
ter understanding of our ally nor
to an appreciation of Miss Lawr-
ence’s very real talents.

The long movie on England
left one convinced that football
must be better than cricket, and
that English coffee is terrible.

The British Information Serv-
ice underestimates us! One good
chorus of Jenny would go a lot
further toward better understand-
ing than last night’s halting per-
formance.

A Senior



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New Plan for Mid-year Exams
Found Unfair to Freshmen
» By Turner —



Editor of The College News:
Your editorial of January 12
raised the question of examination
schedules, and suggested that the
mid-year examinations be held be-
fore the Christmas holidays. While
it is obvious that the present sys-
ter leaves much to be desired, mid-
year examinations held — before
Christmas would be unsatisfactory
for two reasons. First of all, such
a change would mean that all sem-
ester papers would be due before

papers and examinations would be
overwhelming. Secondly, most of
us are considerably exhausted by
the time Christmas arrives. The
freshmen in particular should have
time to catch their breath before
their first major examinations in
college. We have all, at the be-
ginning of December, just recov-
ered from mid-semester quizzes.
If we are tired by the strain of
constant study, we cannot do our
best work. The Christmas vaca-
tion gives us both rest and change,
making us more alert for the ex-
aminations.

Part of the difficulty might be
solved if, as is suggested by your
editorial, college were to open a
week earlier, -The extra time
could be distributed so as to allow
three days of free preparation be-
fore mid-years begin, and ~four
extra days for the examination
period. This would help avoid the
present situation where several
students have examinations on
each of the first four days.

R. Patricia Turner (46)

Reader Suggests Compromise
For Examination Schedule
Next Year



To the Editor of the College Newss

We read your editorial entitled
New Schedule in the January 12
issue of The News. We do not
agree with your suggestion that
the present semester schedule
should be altered. We looked at

‘| the college catalogue to see how

the school year, 1944-1945, was ar-
ranged. There will be quite a few
changes from this year; the most
important one allows classes. to
end on January 19 and examina-
tions do not begin until January
23. This allows more time to pre-
pare for the important examina-
tions of the first semester. The
difficulty in pushing up_ these
tests before Christmas vacation is,
that for a month after November
15 there would be an intense per-
iod of mid-semesters, papers and
mid-years. This would be an un-
necessary complication. ae

Instead we offer a compromise
between the scheduled period of
mid-years and your suggestion
that college begin one week earl-
ier. If college began one week
earlier, then it follows that mid-
semesters should bé put forward
to November 13. Then Christmas
vacation should be from December
15 until January 3. This would al-
low the students who have, to trav-
el cross-country to reach home be-
fore Christmas Day. With classes
beginning a week ahead of the
present planning it would be poss-
ible to begin a period of prepara-
\tion for examinations on January

417 until the 22nd. Examinations

would take place from January 22
to February 4 and it would be less
likely for students to have four
exams in-four days (as is happen-
ing this year). The second sem-
ester would begin on February 6
as scheduled.



Estelle Morrison, °45

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IN PRINT

Mann, Kesten Edit Anthology
Of Representative Writing
Of Europe |





Specially Contributed by
Mme. Francoise Dony

From Klaus Mann and Hermann
Kesten comes a bulky anthology
of creative writing in Europe be-
tween the two worl wars.

Considering the title chosen by
the editors, the absence of English
material comes to us as a shock:
the part of a main instrument is
lacking in this European symph-
ony. We are, however, given sev-
eral reasons for this omission, the
most convincing being that it ap-
peared inadvisable “to include one
book of original texts in a book
consisting of translations.”

Heart of Europe thus presents in
a thousand pages “a fairly repre-
sentative selection” from 141 writ-
ers belonging to 21 continental
countries. To define adequate cri-
teria for such a selection is an ar-
duous task.

First as to what to leave out.
Klaus Mann (at the present time
in the U. S. Army) has for a long
time made himself known as one
for whom political and literary in-
tegrity go hand in hand. The
preface reads. characteristically:
“We made it our policy to exclude
from this book all those writers in
whose style and ideology fascist
elements predominate.” Although
some of his conclusions might well
be taken up for discussion, Klaus
Mann by omitting such names as
Andre Maurois’ and Emil Lud-
wig’s, healthily debunks literary
nonentities. :

Secondly as to the material it-
self. Just how far a text is or is
not “representative” of its author,
just how far the author in his turn
is or is not “representative” of his
country is of course hard to tell.
We like a great deal of the Ger-
man material but strongly suspect
that we like it in as much as it is
not representative of the majority
of the German people. Again it
is difficult to maintain that Paul
Valery’s Homo Europaeus, fitting-
ly presented as the opening essay,
is “representative” of one who is
primarily a poet. All this matters
little. What matters is that we
are for the first time shown the
landscape of literary Europe as a
whole, a landscape planted with
familiar landmarks, yet fascinat-
ing by its novelty. Klaus Mann
and Hermann Kesten, with the
help of an international staff of
collaborators, bring to us certain
translations never produced before
and draw our attention to works
hitherto little known by the best
versed of readers. This is no small
praise: Heart of Europe, in doing
away with the mediocre and the
vulgar, is pioneer-work of a rare
kind.



Nuts and Bolts

Editorial comment in the col-
leges shows The Scarlet of Clark
University advocating post-war
planning in education in line with
the ideas expounded by President
Hutchins of Chicago University.
This is indicative of the increas-
ing ‘interest in the theories of the
Chicago president, caused by the
war demand for a more concen-
trated, rapidly completed educa-
tion.

One of the most important as-
pects of the new system, said the
editorial, is the encouragement of
original thinking, felt to be a ne-
necssity in a truly “liberal” ed-

ucation. The aproach of the
armistice will make post-war

planning in the colleges more ur-
gent than ever in order that they
may not be “caught flat-footed
later.”








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Council Deliberates
On Freshman Hazing

Peny Groes, January 11. Fresh-
man hazing was the main topic un-
der discussion at the meeting of
the-Gollege Council _at—Miss. Mc-
Bride’s» house last Wednesday
night. The administration feels
that hazing of the violent type
which has been prevalent during
the past five years must be stop-
ped. In the past few years fight-
ing during Freshman Show re-
hearsals has been extreme enough
to result in serious danger to the
students involved. Miss McBride
said that she will be forced to close
Goodhart and discontinue the show
if such fighting reoccurs this year.

In order to prevent fighting, the
Sophomore class is to be excluded
from the auditorium and stage
throughout the time the show is in
production. It was decided that the
Junior class could attend rehear-
sals because they will have no
reason to take part in fighting if
the Sophomores are not present.

To prevent damage to property
in the halls, the Council advised
that Sophomores refrain from dis-
arranging furniture in Freshman
rooms. “khé-Sophomores are to
avoid any hazing which will result
in violence or property damage,
confining their hazing to dining
room performances and “clever but
harmless” humor.

The Council felt that the Fresh-
men could have an animal in their
show, provided the Sophomores
were not to go to Goodhart to look
for it. Also, the Sophomores’
search for-the animal is to end
promptly at 7:30 the night of the.
show. It was hoped that this ar-
rangement would prevent any
fighting over the animal.

The calendar for next year was
also discussed. In.this connection,
the question of a different semester
system was brought up. It was
suggested that college open sev-
eral weeks earlier next fall. This
would mean that the mid-year ex-
aminations would be before Christ-
mas vacation instead of—coming
two weeks after vacation. The
main objections to this suggestion
were that Philadelphia is too hot
for serious study in early Septem-
ber and that for the sake of their
health most students need a vaca-
tion during the first semester.



War Alliance

The fourth War Loan Drive is
on, and although no special cam-
paign is being held, the Alliance



would like everyone to give a
larger amount than usual to the
February collection. The January
total was .$1,152.10—Pembrok
West had the highest donation,
$217.50, Pembroke East followed
with $164.80, and Rhoads South
was third with $153.70. However,
the—donation.totaled little more
than the usual monthly contribu-
tion, and the directors of the
drive feel that a special effort
should be made in February. In
order to make this possible, the
collection in February will be
made early in the month, so that
it~ will be possible to include the
donations in the Drive.

The blood doning campaign
sponsored by the War Alliance
was so successful that Bryn
Mawr students are again being
asked to give blood during the
week of February 8th, Monday to
Saturday inclusive. Prospective
donors are reminded. that they
ust be over 18 years of age, and
must be over 18 years of age, and
sion from their parents. Donors

must also secure permission from)

the Infirmary.

The War Alliance wishes to re-
mind students that paper is still
being collected in the halls, and
contributions are urgently needed.





Willoughby Leaves B M

For Post in Victoria
Continued from Page 1

Mr. Willoughby has been present
at every baccalaureate service and
commencement since 1928. The
regular Sunday night chapel serv-
ices have been under his direction,
as_well as the college choir per-
ormances at Christmas and com-
mencement. He directed the choir
in collaboration with Haverford
and Princeton choral groups on
several occasions, notably a per-
formance of the entire “Messiah,”
given by the college choir and the
Princeton chapel choir in 1935.
Thirty-six members of the Phila-
delphia Orchestra participated in
the presentation which Mr. Wil-
loughby considers one of the big-
gest musical events at Bryn Mawr
in recent years.

In past years, Mr. Willoughby
has been responsible for the train-
ing of the-casts.ffor the spring
productions of Gilbert and Sulli-
van, He has directed fifteen per-
formances in all, of which “Pa-
tience” and “The Pirates of Pen-
zance” were selected repeatedly.
It has been the custom of the Glee
Club, under his supervision, to
produce an operetta every year ex-
cept the years in which big May
Days are given. Mr. Willoughby
has served in various capacities
during four big May Days, and in
1936 he was Director of Music for
the entire affair.

In campus singing, he has been
called upon to train various chor-
uses, from Lantern Night to less
impressive class songs. Many of
the members of the college choir
have also sung with Mr. Willough-
by’s choir at the Church of the Re-
deemer, Bryn Mawr, where he is
organist and choir director.

In his new position, Mr. Wil-
loughby will not only be organist
and choirmaster of the Cathedral,
but will serve in other capacities:
as Director of the Victoria Choral
Society, and Supervisor of Music
in the Public Schools.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

Presents Monologues
Continued from Page 1

Miss Skinner displayed a mastery
of accent and movement. |
That Miss Skinner realized the
value of contrast was evidenced
also in the juxtaposition of her five
monologues. Following _ the-ex-
tremely amusing portrayal of a
flighty young American woman on
the night of her departure from

;| Paris came the characterization of

an old woman,on the porch of a
New England summer hotel. This
latter was at once the most diffi-
cult and the least successful of
Miss Skinner’s sketch. To portray
an opinionated and _ self-centered
old woman, she had obviously stud-
ied fitting facial expressions close-
ly and had mastered several very
good ones, much in the manner of
Edna May Oliver. She tended,
however, to overdo the use of fa-
cial expressions, and she had less
control of her voice, letting it slip
into the ironical and hafd tones
that seemed natural to it, chang-
ing several times from a _ weak,
wavering voice to the louder and
stronger intonations of a domin-
ating woman. She had more suc-
cess with her movements, although
one gesture of a grasping, bony
hand reaching far out was too ob-
vious. There was, further, a tragic
and unjust note underlying the
monologue, tending to leave the
audience dissatisfied.

Miss Skinner was most at home
in her comic, lighter sketches, do-
ing the familiar “homework” mon-
ologue of a mother helping her son
with an arithmetic problem about
“morebles” meanwhile calling him

“doorling.”

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Corwith and Kimball
To Outline Vocations
Of Advertising, Radio

Radio and advertising are the
subjects of the vocational confer-
ence to be held in the Deanery on
Thursday, February 3rd—at—7:30
o'clock. Mrs. William H. Cor-
with will speak about radio, and
Mr. Abbott Kimball will discuss
the opportunities open in the field
of advertising.

Mrs. Corwith, assistant to Dr.
James Rowland, Public Counselor
for the National Broadcasting
Company, will present the prob-
lems involved in the preparation
of radio programs and its plans
for the future. One time presi-
dent of the National Radio Com-
mittee of the New York State
Auxiliary, she is well able to des-
cribe the objectives of radio pro-
grams, the efforts made-to~-im-
prove them, and influences which
affect the listener. She is now
the official representative of N. B.
C, and in this capacity has _ pre-
sented the story of the American
radio to schools, colleges, clubs,
and civic organizations all over
the country.

Mr. Abbott Kimball, who has
his own advertising agency in
New York City, will describe the
value of commercial advertising
in magazines, newspapers, and
on the radio, as well as the work
that is now open in this field for
writers and artists of all kinds.

WHAT TO DO

Students now registered in Room
H for part-time employment
should notify Miss Bennett of any.
changes in schedule for the second
semester.

Students desiring to work dur-
ing the second semester in the
Paper Bag Factory in Bryn Mawr
may make arrangements for this
in Room H.

The American University, Wash-
ington, D. C. Announcement of
fellowships and scholarships in the
Graduate Division of the School of
Social Sciences and Public Affairs.
Also a limited number of assist-
antships. Opportunity for combin-
ation of work in a government de-
partment and graduate study. If
interested, please notify the Dean’s
Office.

West Virginia Pulp and Paper
Co:, Covington, West Virginia.
Chemists for quantitative analysis
in the research and development
laboratories. Application blanks
may be secured in the Bureau of
Recommendations.

Ansco, Division of General Ana-
line and Film Corporation, Bing-
hampton, New York. Organic
chemist for research staff. Work
with photographic materials and
equipment. A permanent, not a
duration, job.

National Travelers Aid Society.
150 units throughout the country.
Opening for case work assistants.
$1800 - $2100. Services given to
persons new to military and war
production areas, and to travelers.
Seniors and graduates with good
health and an interest in - social
service may apply.

No News
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Novels on Reserve
For Peyre Lectures

Continued from Page 1
Le Desert de L’Amour

Romains . .. Les Hommes de
Bonne Volonte, Mort de
Quelqu’un, The Proud andthe
Meek

Green .,. The Dreamer

St. Exupery ... Terre des Hom
mes

Proust ...The Past Recaptured,

Le Temps*Retrouve, Du Cote
de Chez Swann

Films on War Effort

Shown by Lawrence
Continued from Page 1

It is difficult, Miss Lawrence
pointed out, to see what this war
is doing to children in other al-
lied countries. Their growth is
stunted and their nerves shatter-
ed, and unless we overcome our
prejudices these children may lat-
er have to fight.

In England, Miss Lawrence
stated, there are ten women to
every man in service. Clothes are
‘heavily rationed and “glamour
has gone to war.” Although the
British people have maintained
their sense of humor, it is obvious
that they are not leading normal
lives since they are working un-
der such pressure.

Must Work Together
The first film entitled “Know
Your Ally Britain”, pointed out
that America and Great Britain
are a team that must work to-
gether. While the people of
these countries have different ac-
cents, amusements, traditions and
drive their own cars on different
sides of the road, they are funda-
mentally alike. Both countries
have free representative govern-
ments and freedom of speech,
press and religion. Enemy prop-
agandist have emphasized the
superficial differences between
the two peoples and have tried to
create discord. By pointing out
the likenesses of Americans and
the English, the film showed that
all prejudices are without basis
and a hindrance to cooperation.
“A Hundred Million Women,”
the second film, was made from
actual shots of Russian women in
the war effort. There were pic-
tures of parachute nurses and
women doing the work of men in
industry, on farms and in the cit-
ies.
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the role of British minesweepers
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Craighill and Hartley
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For a Medical Career

Common Room, January 12—Ma-
jor Margaret Craighill of the of-
fice of the Surgeon General,
speaking on the field of medicine
in general, and Dr. Harriet L.
Hartley discussing specifically
the branch of Public Health, em-
phasized that the primary requis-
ite for medical students is a real
love of medicine. This lecture
was one of the series of vocation-
al conferences arranged by the
vocational committee.

To succeed in medicine and to
stand up under the preparatory
training and hard work that the
profession entails, Major Craig-
hill said that a woman must have
excellent ratings in the interde-
pendent qualities of—health, men-
tal ability and personality. Any
student must have better than
average mentality to be accepted
by a medical school, but a woman
should have exceptional ability to
overcome the prejudices Pagainst
her sex.

There is no reason why a wo-
man cannot get a good internship,
she said, but a residency is very
difficult to obtain since the hos-
pitals mistakenly feel that a man
is more apt to carry on his career
of medicine than a woman. 80%
of the graduated women students
go into general practice, while
the remainder choose to be spec-
ialists in any field from psychol-
ogy to gynocology, or go. into
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Dr; Humeston Named
Temporary Physician
At College Infirmary



Dr. Elizabeth Humeston, ap-
*pointed Assistant College Physic-
ian last fall, is taking Dr. Leary’s
place until April 4, when college
reopens after spring vacation.

Dr. Humeston has acted as col-
lege physician before, in 1989 when
Dr. Leary had her first child, and
for six weeks last year when Dr.
Leary developed pneumonia im-
mediately after ithe Faculty Show.
Dr. Humeston has a private prac-
tice in pediatrics and works in two
clinics at St. Christopher Child-
ren’s Hospital.

Asked if the work at college was
dull compared to private practice,
Dr. Humeston replied that “The
interesting part is diagnosis and
treatment, which is what one gets
here.” She explained that the
work of the college physician is
more like hospital work than pri-
vate practice in this respect.

In private life Dr. Humeston is
Mrs. James M. Brittain, and has
three sons aged 8, 6, and 2, and
keeps house aside from her medi-
cal career. When she was asked
what she-did with her spare time
she laughed, “I don’t know. I have
so little!”

After graduating from Elmira
College in 1926, Dr. Humeston re-
ceived her degree from Cornell
Medical College in New York City,
in 1931. She interned at the Phil-
adelphia General Hospital from
1981 to 1933, at which time Dr.
Leary was also interning there.
Dr. Leary was one year ahead of
Dr. Humeston, but remained at
the Philadelphia General as As-
sistant Chief. Resident in 1932-38.

Dr. Humeston worked on Dr.
Tyson’s pediatric staff at Temple,
and was later Physician for Ellis
College, a school for girls, from
1938 to 1941.--She started her own
pediatrics work a year ago.

Career in Medicine
Outlined by Doctors

Continued from Page 3

Dr. Hartley feels that in many
cases the field of Public Health is
more appropriate for a woman
than general practice as it allows
her to select the hours and_ the
particular, kind of work most suit-
ed to her. Secure salaried posi-
tions are to be had in government,
community and private organiza-
tions. Public Health measures
have recently improved, and are
continuing to do so. Women, she
said, are filling both administra-
tive and research jobs in the lab-

—eratories-to-check-the--waterand
milk supplies and the disposal of
waste. Many | deficiency and com-
municable diseases have been
enormously curtailed through this
purification, as well as by routine
examinations for disease ,prenatal
and after birth care for mothers
and babies—a field in which wo-
en are particularly capable. So-
cial hygiene has become increas-
ingly: interesting and provides an
absorbing profession for women
who have studied medicine.

Salvemini to Outline
Problems of Italians

Continued from Page 1

tory of Italian Civilization at
Harvard since 1934.

As an author Mr. Salvemini is
famed-for--books..in—_both_Italian
and English. Aside from writing
articles for “The Nation’ and
“The New Republic,’ he has just
published a. book, What to Do
With Italy, written in collabora-
tion with Professor La Piana.
Among his - other works are:
“Historian and Scientist,” an es-
say on the nature of history and
social science, “The Fascist: Dicta-
torship in Italy”, “Mussolini Dip-
lomat,” “Under the Axe of Fas-
cism,” and “Italian Fascism.”

War Film Describes

Nazis Rise to Power

Continued from Page 1

when the Germans marched into
Austria. Austria submitted with-
out a fight, having been sufficient-
ly terrorized by Germany. Hitler
promised he would not take any-
thing else.

Czechoslovakia was the key to
the “heart land” as the Kaiser had
stated; it had the Skoda munitions
works that Hitler needed to con-
tinue his conquest. Unlike Aus-
tria, however, Czechoslovakia had
an army, an air force, and an al-
liance with France, who in turn
had an alliance with England. To
circumvent this, Hitler first march-
ed into the Sudetanland to “liber-
ate” the German people there. He
assured Chamberlain that he would
make no further advances and
Chamberlin prevailed upon Czecho-
slovakia to yield the Sudetanland,
for “Peace in Our Time.” Then
Hitler took Czechoslovakia by
force on March 14, 1938, as it was
helpless without the defense af-
forded by the Sudetanland. Czech-
oslovakia’s allies did not come to
her aid,

Polish border on September 1,
1939, having first made a Russo-
German pact in August to insure
no trouble from that area. By
means of a skillful pincer move-
ment and air force support, the
Polish resistance was destroyed
and the German army marched
into Warsaw on September 27.

Meanwhile France felt safe be-
hind her Maginot Line and Brit-
ain prepared for home defense with
a Home Guard.



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By this we méan a redis-
tribution of the icy air coming
through the ‘stripless "~~ windows
and the cabbage-laden tropical
breeze issuing from the registers.
Obviously the simultaneous bur-
den of icicles on the chest and
sunburn on the back is too great
for any student. Another fault
in the heating system, is that the
first semester of cold Is not equal
to the second semester of heat.
The short morning periods spent
cracking ice in the ink bottles is
much more distraught than the
afternoon spent drowsing in the
torrid. atmosphere.

Some of this heat could be al-
located to that building which
boasts running water in , every
room. Nothing is so frustrating
as to have started the first swish

heat.

‘| of the Ipana method and find the

water has just been turned off
(pipe protection). Drought strikes
other halls—going so far as to
cause a concentration of bathers
at eleven in order to beat the gun
and resulting in an overflow. to
Rhoads’ showers.

Out of the wilderness comes a
cry—heat and water when college
is in session, no heat or water
when the buildings are closed.
Feed the power house ferrous lex-
trus and obtain a gentle, regular
flow of warmth and Comfort.
Buy the thermostats new uppers
so they can click as well as whis-
tle. If such a plan is adopted
college temperature will be more
equalized, baths will be taken
more regularly, teeth will be
properly brushed and exam hys-
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By Alison Merrill, °45

Bryn Mawr has recently made
the movies and rumor hath it that
it is to make the stage cdme Feb-
ruary. Haverford, now harboring
an Army Air Force ‘Technical
Training Detachment, is present-
ing an all original, principally mu-
sical production, Stand by Your
Guns, which reportedly mentions
Bryn Mawr favorably!

In a line of twenty-one air char-
ines rivalling the Rokettes in pre-
cision if not in forms, three
pseudo-Bryn Mawr girls take their
places. They are a part of a par-
ody of life in the army and on the
Main Line, the parting shot of 42
aviation cadets before their grad-
uation. Also a target of the army’s
take-off are the Main Line girls
who habitually lend their charms
to U.S.0O. dances. Stand by Your
Guns will attire them in matching
sweaters and skirts and G. I. shoes
and socks.

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ren did the script.

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