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“Mass Meeting
: Week-end Leaves
roll its own hockey fields, plant
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
2-618
VOL. XXVII, No. 9
Held. to Discuss
Permission ‘for Overnight
Visits Suggested by
Self-Gov
Goodhart _ Auditorium, Wednes-
day, November 20.—A mass meet-
ing of the Self-Government Asso-|
ciation conducted by Virginia Nich-
ols was held to discuss the question
of weekend permissions. A resolu-
tion was passed to the effect that
the Self-Government Board would
draw up a paragraph of interpre-
tation of the word “chaperon” and
apply it to the rules concerning
permission as they now stand, ‘and
that next year the present rules
would be altered to read that per-
mission must be gotten for any un- |
chaperoned visits. The halls will ,
vote separately concerning this res-
olution.
The discussion concerned the
Self-government board’s suggestion
that the new rule read: A student
must have special permission for
any over night absence from col-
lege unles} she is staying with a
member of) her family. Virginia
Nichols stressed the fact that the
main purpose of this rule would be
to make the person think twice
about the suitability of the ar-
rangements, and in the event that
Continued on Page Four
Swing Your Partner
On Saturday evening, from
eight until eleven, there will
be a Square Dance in the
Gym, for the benefit of the
Bryn Mawr Summer Camp.
Haverford has. been invited
and Allen Stokes will call the
figures. ~ Music will be sup-
plied by Chris Sanderson, his
fiddle, and his upcountry or-
chestra. Tickets are 35 cents.
a
_ BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1940
Copyright, Trustees of
aes Board Smashes Ghost Writer Racket;
Trial Paper Receives Below Average Mark
In the interests of. standards, the
NEWS conducted an experiment; it
was a little expensive, but it was
worth it. .
We commissioned a member. of
Mr. Weiss’ first year philosophy
class, who was writing a paper on
A Comparison of Parmenides and
Heracleitus, to act as the. control
element, stripped her of her biblio-
graphy and mailed it off to Student
Services, Ltd., with an order for a
paper on the same subject. The
victim with a paper due spent a
week quailing at the prospect of
competition from Phd.’s, L. L. D.’s
and doctors of Arts of Tearing off
Themes.
Other agents of ours were, mean-
while, carrying on a secretive cor-
respondence with Services Ltd.
First we wrote and explained that
it was “very important that this
paper receive a good mark.” Their
reply jacked the price with “We
should like to point out that the
charge for a paper requiring re-
search material is higher than that
for a paper consisting of mere
opinion.” A_ post-seript added,
“You may be assured that. such a
paper would receive the very best
criticisms, an excellent mark.”
After the necessary confirma-
tions by telegram, the manuscript
arrived special delivery and _ post-
marked two-thirty A. M. The_re-
cipient, receiving the obvious envel-
ope at the breakfast table, suffered
acute embarrasment. The paper
was accompanied by the following
note: “May I urge you to read the
piece over and to acquaint yourself
with the ideas expressed therein.
If possible look at some of the
books mentioned. Will you kindly
Continued on Page Four
Drive Distributions
To Date Announced
The Activities Drive has collected
and distributed the money brought
in by the first payday. Out of the
4951 dollars pledged this means
that 1279 dollars has been received
and has been paid out in the fol-
lowing way: to the Bryn Mawr
League, 545 dollars of which 400
dollars went to the Hudson Shore
Labor School, 50 dollars to the In-
dustrial Group, 25 dollars to the
Haverford Community Center, 10
dollars to the Better Baby Clinic,
and 60 dollars for running ex-
penses. To the Players’ Club went
400 dollars which takes care of
this organization’s yearly budget.
The Peace Council received—250
dollars .as well as 170 dollars for
the ambulance fund. Newly estab-
lished as part of the Drive this
year is the Refugee Scholarship
fund which received from the first
Continued on Page Five
B. M. Students. Although Knitting Arduously,
Seem More Intellectual Than in Last War
“By Ann Denny, ’43
World War I made Bryn Mawr
potatoes, set its thermostats at 65
degrees, and tighten its _ belts
around Tuesday’s meatless’ meals.
The classes of 1914-18 made chol-
era bands, nightshirts and bed
jackets, and rolled bandages en-
thusiastically, while 1940-41 reel
out quantities of “sea boots” and
particularly lean toward scarfs of
fabulous length.
The Red Cross drive; “packages
for France” dfive; there was even
an ambulance drive, and more than
that, two. hospital beds bore’ the
name of Bryn Mawr College over
the sea. “Packages for France”
cunlike’“Bundles for Britain,” ask-
ed especially for a personal letter
to each soldier, so that many a
French “poilu” had a Bryn Mawr
“marraine.” A few professors had
leave of absence for military serv-
ice. The girls also worried about
the possibility of brothers and other
male interests going off for mili-
tary training. First aid courses
boasted large enrollment, and the
importance of women, a much ‘more
radical thought in those days, was
stressed. Poor Big May Day had
a similar death struggle, and 1916
as well as 1940 graduated without
seeing it.
Later on, of course, as the United
States entered the war, the squeez-
ing became even tighter. An emer-
a fee was added to the tuition |
‘progressed a. ittle-f.
and board—50 dollars a head. Sug-
gestions were made for planting
potatoes on college ground .(a men-
tion of onions was not so well met)
and after long discussion a farm in
West Chester was given over to
Bryn Mawr vegetables.
of students took up the shovel and
the hoe and spent many a long
weekend in the potato patch. Coal
ran low; light and heat had to be
conserved; and a great deal of
hard work occupied students who
had to keep up their studies and be
patriotic at the same time.
On the intellectual side we have
-theatti-
tude of World “\:1k.2" Less inter-
ested in the ideals of democracy,
those other Bryn Mawr girls read
exciting letters telling of escape.
from Berlin, of horrors, and more
horrors, with passionate pleas for
aid to the Belgians.
But the amazing thing about it
all is this: even in those times,
more unsettled than the present,
Bryn Mawr had more college acti-
vities than we have now—that is,|
more plays and more sports. It is}
a question whether they believed, |
as they professed, that their duty |
lay at college’ ‘or whether we ex-|
ceed them in ‘contact with the out-
side world. One thing is sure: in
spite of our fifty-six inch scarfs.
tend to-
ca moat ii eben | peaivers Events, Miss Reid,
progress while 1914 had many more’ Snes Room, 20 =:
m [eonractie:-enfariehings: _——
A. group |
Circus Atmosphere
And Carnival Gaiety
‘ Promised for Dance
The annual college Dance held
on Saturday, December 7, follow-
ing the Bryn Mawr - Haverford
production of Our Town, will be a
gala event. The Gym will be dec-
orated to represent a circus tent,
with a ‘band-wagon for the orches-
tra. A canopy overhead, and pos-
ters by Bert Graves,
Tom Garside and his Ambassa-
dors} who played at the June dance,
will again furnish the rhythm. The
dance will be a program affair,
with girls stag; and the gentlemen
will meet their appointed. partners
under signs, according to halls, as
they did last -spring.
The dance will begin at eleven
and end at two. Tickets are one
dollar and seventy-five cents stag
and two dollars a couple, and can
be acquired in every hall.
Calendar
Thursday, Nov. 28.—
Thanksgiving Vacation.
Saturday, Nov. 30.—
B. M. Second Hockey Team
vs. Haverford First Foot-
ball Team, Hockey Field,
2.30 p. m.
Tea, Common Room, 3.45-
6.00 p. m.
Square Dance, Gym., 8-11
p. m.
Sunday, Dec. 1.—
College Tea,
Room, 4-6 p. m.
Monday, Dec. 2.—
History of Science Lecture.
Mr. Michels, Dalton, 7.30
p. m.
Tuesday, Dec. 3.—
Current Events, Miss Reid,
“Common Room, 7.30 p. m.
Thursday, Dec. 5.—.
French Lecture, M.. De
*Lanux, Deanery, 4.00 p. m
Friday, Dec. 6.—
Spanish Club Tea, Common
Room, 4.00 p.m.
_. Our. To Haverford.
Saturday, Dec. 7:i—
Tea Dance, Rhoads.
Our Town, Goodhart, 8.30 —
Common
.
Cebowe ‘Dance, Gam 11-2
| Bisadey, Dec. 9.—
{ History of Science Lecture, |
| Mr. Weiss, Dalton, 7.30 “4
cae "ae
~ ‘Fuesday, Dec. 10. =
t
_P.m,_ |
jer and a story written in a-humor-
See tek Senet of eens
Reheatsals Prosies
Excellent ‘Our Town’
Rapid Actors’ Shuttle Needed
Between B. M. and Haver-
ford for Rehearsing Cast
A tiptop performance of Our
Town seems imminent at Haverford
and Bryn Mawr on December 6
and 7, at least as far as’rehearsals
are going. :
The cast dashes busily back and
forth between colleges in buses,
cars, and anything that happens to
be handy. ‘Since there are no
props, no props need to be carted
around, making things a_ lot
simpler. But a tremendous cast is
no help at all,
The pantomiming is a lot of fun
and will probably be quite effective
when it is polished up. Sound ef-
fects are creeping in, often at the
right time, believe it or not. The
acting is going well, despite the
fact. that lines still are fringed
around the edges, but that happens
to any play, so we don’t have to
worry.
Bryn Mawr and _ Haverford
should look forward to a really
good performance of Thornton
Wilder’s play, produced on Broad-
way only two seasons ago. Get
your handkerchiefs ready, and pre-
pare your face for a smile or two
or three.
Free Tea Draws Mob
To War Benefit Sale
Effective posters, the unflagging
efforts of the three sponsors, Doro-
thy Counselman, Peggy Shortlidge
and Virginia Sherwood, and the in-
ducement of free tea with every
two dollar purchase, accounted for
the great. success of the Bundles
for Britain and British War Re-
lief sale given in the Deanery on
Monday and Tuesday. The sale,
‘Which included Christmas cards,
pins, compacts and playing cards,
grossed over 300 dollars. Added
attractions were an exhibit of some
of the goods knitted by the stu-
dents and chances for Queen Vic-
toria’s handkerchief and a plaid
suit from Bonwit Teller.
The suit was won by
Continued on Page =e
Peggy
Bryn Mawr ae a
PRICE 10 CENTS
Enthusiastic
Audience Hear
Traubel Recital
Soprano Renders Variety
Of Compositions With
Skill and Feeling
By Portia Miller, ’43
}--On-Tuesday evening, November
26, the second event on the Enter-
tainment Series was an outstand-
ing recital by Helen Traubel, prima
donna soprano of the Metropolitan
Opera Association. It is hardly
possible to praise Miss Traubel
highly enough, for it is a rare
privilege to hear a voice of such
extraordinary power and _ reson-
ance, combining technical skill with
a deep feeling for dramatic ex-
pression,
Miss Traubel’s mastery of the
soprano range was such that her
high notes were equally as warm
and clear as her low notes, and
every tone was full of beauty.
Only an artist of unique ability
could render an_ intellectual and
emotional interpretation of such di-
verse composers in Miss Traubel’s
inspiring fashion. The soprano
sang difficult excerpts from Wag-
ner with the same ease that she
displayed in simple Folk-Songs
such as Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.
The first selections on the pro-
gram were three songs by Beet-
hoven. The pomp of Gottes Macht
und Versehung, effected by the
massive tones, was contrasted by
the more gentle and quiet charac-
ter of Wonne der Wehmuth and
Continued on Page Six ©
Art News
Mr. J. C. Sloan, associate
| professor of History of Art,
has been appointed a member
of the board of. the College
Art Association.
Dr. Edgar Wind will lec-
ture at the Haverford Union,
December 5, at 8.30 p. m..on
A New. Interpretation of
Raphael’s School of Athens.
Dr. Wind gave a lecture at
Haverford last year on
Michelangelo’s Sistine Ceil-
ing. ~
~~
Declares Charge
M. Meigs Reviews Fall Issue of Lantern:.
of Decadence Obsolete
Especially contributed by
Miss Mary Meigs
Since the fall issue of the Lan-
tern emerged from its chrysalis
last week, one or two literati con-
nected with it have asked anxiously
whether I thought it was decadent.
If it is any comfort to them, I
might say that the Lantern stop-
ped being decadent at least a year
ago; that one can no longer dis-
miss it with a single satisfying ad-
jective. What we used to mean by
ealling it decadent, I hardly know;
most of the stories in 1938 and
1939 had a pessimistic ethical out-
look, some of the poetry was sinis-
ter in its obscurity. At any rate,
the Lantern was one-sided; it had
a morbid bias towards gloom.
Olivia Kahn in her editorial
seems to feel that the Lantern is
still one-sided. Humorous writing
hhas been ‘neglected, she says. As I
grope about in the mists of mem-
ory, I can remember reviewing the
last Lantern (Commencement,
1940), so I have a good basis for
odious comparisons. There was a
humorous story in it by Isota Tuck-
ous style by Florence Newman.
them; they were, in short, true to
life. Hence, they disproved to
some extent Miss Kahn’s rigid
classification of Lantern material
in “the serious mode.” What great
novelist ever wrote entirely in the
serious mode? If the Lantern was
one-sided it was not merely because
it failed to balance its serious bill
of fare with humorous entrées, but
because its editors thought in cate-
gori
morous.
If Miss Kahn really means, let’s
have a few satires, she ought to
come right out and say so, and then
ing- humor up in a neat “Separate
package. Instead she implies that
the reader must in every case
either smile or weep, forgetting
‘that in a single case, he can smile
and weep alternately, or weep
through his laughter or — smile
through his tears. But I .chiefly
disagree with Miss Kahn’s state-
ment that it is “harder to force the
reader to smile than to weep.” The
reader who smiles at the New
Yorker is not going to be tricked
‘into weeping over “portions. of
True Story or Cosmepolitan;” if
Continues on Page Thres
terms of serious. vs.—hu--
she would be better justified in ty-
ae
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“MacDonald and Nelson Eddy.
—The—Great« MeGinty,—
Mae West and W. C. Fields. Mon
iad Wednesdny. Duley, Ann: Sothern.
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Middle
Ways
It has beef said that only two views are possible with regard
to America’s position in world affairs today. We maintain that a
middle position is tenable, although: in this editorial we are not
advocating a particular stand.
Those in the middle position
that nothing justifies war.
do not agree with the Pacifists
They also question the assumptions
made by those who believe in the immediate necessity of an official
state of war.
The dubious assumptions include the following: the
ability of the United States to provide today armed forces at such
a place as will be useful to the British, the only defense line of the
United States to _be England; the certain disaster of the American
way of life in case of a German
victory; the value of a British
victory when weighed against the cost of war and the questionable
results of English peace terms.
If we believe in the validity
of these assumptions, then we
are ready to declare war today ; if we do not, then we are not ready
to take such action.
lieve, we will decide at different moments to go into the war.
Depending on which assumption we do be-
What
is important to realize is that these statements are assumptions
and the facts supporting them are obscure.
This does not mean
that Americans as a whole can never act because we hold different
opinions.
We can act, but we hope we can be at peace. or at war
and still see that various shades of opinion as well as the black and
white are tenable.
ever our decision is, we try to use
It is, of course, equally important that what-
reason and do not put off facing
the situation until the mythical tomorrow comes.
In Philadelphia
MOVIES |
In Town
STANLEY: Arizona, Jean Ar-
thur.
STANTON: Too Many Girls,
Lucille Ball.
BOYD: The Letter, Bette Davis.
FOX: Tin Pan Alley, Betty
Grable.
ALDINE: The Great Dictator,
Charlie Chaplin. Beginning De-
cember 4, The Long Voyage Home,
‘Thomas Mitchell.
BOYD: Bitter ait _Jeannette
KARLTON: Escape, Robert Tay-
lor and Norma Shearer.
Local
_. SEVILLE: Thursday: and Fri-
day, City for Conquest, James Cag-| -
ney and Ann Sheridan. Saturday,
levy. Sunday, Sky Murder, Walter
n and My Little Chickadee,
day and Tuesday, Boys from Syra-
cuse, Allen Jones and Martha Raye.
SUBURBAN: Thursday-Satur-| —
day, Public Deb No, 1, Elsa Max-
-well.- Sunday-Tuesday, . Seatter=
brain, Judy Canova and Alan Mow-7
Betty Grable.
Free-for-All
To cheer up the Bryn
Mawr leftovers on Thanks-
giving weekend, -Haverford’s
Football Team is tackling the
_ girls’ Second Hockey squad
on Saturday afternoon.
Watchers and players are all
to join for “hot” tea in the
Common Room at four.
=|Gable; Claudette “Coibert,
land Rosalind Russell.
| eee tt peststin 1:
Sy
_ bray. Wednesday-Saturday, ‘Down le
m “Amnedhe? and)
WAYNE: Wednesday and Thurs-
day, It’s a Date, ‘Deanna Durbin.
Friday and Saturday, Duley, Ann
Sothern. Sunday and Monday,
City for Conquest. Tuesday and
Wednesday,Public Deb’ No: 1:
EGYPTIAN: Wednesday and
Thursday, Kit Carson, Jon Hall
and Lynn Bari. Friday, Boys of
the City, Dead End Kids. Satur-
|day, The Great Profile, John Bar-
rymore.
NARBERTH: Wednesday ve
Thursday, Boom Town, Clark
Hedy
LaMarr and Spencer Tracy. Fri-
day and Saturday, Dr. Kildare
Goes Home, Lew Ayres and Lionel
Barrymore. Sunday-Tuesday, No
Time for Comedy, James Stewart
ARDMORE: Thursday-Sunday,
Knute- Rockne, All meee Pat
O”Brien. * .
' Theatre
, Milne. December 5, Major
. te
8, 4: Mr Pain Pasees |
4th; Part ie Shakespeare.
WIT’S END
. Honestly, things are getting
pretty terrible around here. People
go around with their shirts out and
then it starts hailing, and papers,
7 ‘vigeiows< — -.'s going to
Sia are many remedies for
things wrong with you, but ours is
probably the grandest ever. We
have examined it keenly, search-
ingly, with our steely grey eyes)
and our wheat-kissed hair and we
know you'll love it.
(1) Sleep later in the morning.
This is easily accomplished by get-
ting up at your usual hour, setting
the alarm clock two hours ahead
and jumping happily back to bed.
Easy as pié, wasn’t it? When the
alarm rings again, throw it briskly
out of the window and your day
stretches gloriously before you, to.
do with as you will.
(2) If you find yourself unable
to attend your classes either be-
cause of the movies or books by
Hemingway, don’t let it worry you
for a minute. It and you will all
come out in the end. Ha, ha.
After three days of this treat-
ment, applied gradually, look grad-
ually at yourself in a mirror.
Oh, well, maybe we’d do better
to drop the whole thing.
NUTS and BOLTS
Bryn Mawr had better get busy,
because besides taking lots of men,
Vassar is also taking lots of sum-
mer jobs. In a recent survey done
on the campus, of the number who
reported, 50% had summer jobs—
an increase of 9% over last year.
Two hundred sixty-three girls
reported employment, and 142 of
them had paying jobs, earning all
together $9,932.98. Many of these
girls had positions in college shops,
offices and camps. Some got room
and board free; others had travel-
ing expenses paid.
Forty of the girls took positions
in camps and earned a total of
$1,705.80 plus maintenance. They
held councilors positions, trained
children in swimming, canoeing
and dramatics. :
All the girls said they received
valuable experience, not forgetting
that pocket money comes in handy
sometimes.
* * *
Here’s an interesting little bit
that might help to make you eligi-
ble for Information Please.
On the Harvard campus there is
a statue on the base of which is
written: John Harvard, founder,
1638. This would be all right if it
weren’t for the fact that John Har-
vard did not found the college; it
was founded in 1636; it is not a
statue of John Harvard because
nobody knows what he looked like.
Free Tea Draws Mob
To War Benefit Sale
Continuea from Page One
Shortlidge, but will probably not
appear on campus because it is a
The lucky
siz and Peggy isn’t.
winner df the handkerchief will not
-+be-annournced until December since
chances are being sold for it by all
British War Relief agencies. Short-
lidge and Sherwood, Inc., and
Counselman, Ltd., wish-to announce
that the articles and the Christ-
mas cards will still be sold through-
out December, but that no tea -will
be served. However, no one will
want to miss the “sight of their
professional way of making out
sales slips, looking for all the
world, as one of the partners wryly|
put it “like sales girls.from Macy’ s
basement. ”
atbara,’ ‘Shaw. , December 6, 7
(Mat.), Once Upon a Time, Dugan.
| December 7 (Eve:), King Henry
Decem-.|
ber 10, The ‘Old: Homestead, Thomp-|{li
'son;~ -December-tt; Anna Christie;
‘O'Neill.
J
Opinion
Isolated Grandeur of Ulysses
Explained and Vindicated:
.. First Edition Stolen
Dear News (you old Eyes and
‘Ears):
I would/tike to correct an im-
pression which C. T. must have had
twhen she wrote to the NEWS to
protest “the locking away of Ulys-
ses.” . I say impression advisedly
as C. T. did not relate her com-
mendable attack on puritanism in
our age to fact.
By help of the Librarians, the
Library reference rooms, cata-
logue, etc., and without use of
thick keys or mirrors, I have un-
events. In 1935, when Ulysses, by
James Joyce, was first published in
a French edition, the Bryn Mawr
Library acquired a copy with some
difficulty’ and in defiance of the
United States mails. This copy
was placed on the shelves. The
storms aroused by Ulysses were
such that the book had an unholy
fascination for intellectuals as well
as the curious, and the book was
stolen off the shelves, returned
once, stolen again, returned, stolen
for a third time and gone.. The Li-
brary replaced the valuable. first
edition with an American edition,
and, in order to keep a copy in the
Library, kept it on the shelf with
the first editions in what was the
New Book Room. This shelf was
a cupboard which was kept locked,
out of respect to the first editions.
After two years, the French edi-
tion came wandering. back, and as
a valuable first edition was clapped
into the cupboard with. the other
first editions. The second copy
which the Library had bought was
left with it and anyone* could” see
either of them by looking at them
through the glass—and even read
them by asking Miss Terrien for
the magic key.
Now a cheap edition of Ulysses
is being published which the Li-
brary will put on the shelves as an
experiment in please-look-but-do-
not-touch or would-you-mind-the-
ecard. This ought to make every-
thing all right for, C. T. unless she
has. had her stack privileges - sus-
pended.
Yr’s respectfully,
Vi GuNi “4h,
Mass Meeting on Week-Ends
Causes Storm and Turmoil
In One Senior Heart °
Dear COLLEGE NEWS:
Last week in a mass meeting of
the Self - Government” Association
it was decided that to obtain per-
mission for weekends away from
College would be a bad idea. . In
fact I guess as an idea it stank, |
because the opposition was ‘practi-
cally unanimous.
plans of the. Executive Board rub |
nearly everyone the wrong way?
It couldn’t have been laziness be-
cause it is perfectly easy to get
weekend permission because you
can_usually.getitahead--of time
when you happen to be talking cas-
ually to a permission giver. I hope
it wasn’t rudeness to the executive
board although that is what it
looked like. The executive board
had put some thought.in on the
question I’m sure and, as they said,
their plan was to find a way where-
-by~they were-taking the responsi-
bility for the students who were
away on weekends. If you got per-
mission to stay in a brothel you
covered the following sequence of}.
Now why did the |
could bieme - it. (anything that |
M. Walker, British
_ Fellow Interviewed;
Tells of Ph.D.Work
When we have a lot of very in-
teresting young women
in our
it seems a shame to be completely
uninformed about them. We have,
therefore, decided to interview some
of the graduate students and to-
day we began on Miss Marjorie
-Walters, the holder of. the Rose
Sidgwick Memorial Fellowship.
This Fellowship is awarded by the
British Association of University
Women and administered by the
American Association with the pur-
pose of promoting Anglo-American
friendship.
Miss Walters came to this coun-
try at the end of August on a con-
;voy ship “ which was carrying
about 300 refugee children.~ She is
writing a series of articles on
Francis Bacon, based on work she
did while obtaining her M.A. and
Ph.D., at Oxford. The books
which Bacon read were the subject
of her M. A. thesis and the sub-
ject of her Ph.D. thesis, the books
on rhetoric which he read. “I am
trying to footnote Bacon.” She
feels that the best way to get a
perception of a man or a period
is to find out what material there
was to work with at the time.
When asked how she went about
finding out what Bacon read, Miss
Walters said that at first she just
sat down and read all the books
she could lay her hands on that
she knew could have been available
to him. And finally “you get very
cunning at tracing quotations baek
from his own works to other
books.”” ° Mr. Bacon, himself, did
not footnote at all. Miss Walters
is at Bryn Mawr. for the first
semester doing most of her work at
the Shakespeare Folger Library in
Washington, and will be at Rad-
cliffe the last half of the year, us-
ing the facilities of the Harvard
library.
Miss Walters feels sure that
Great Britain will win the war—
‘although it may be a long one.
Although she sympathizes very
strongly with the French, she feels
that the Hoover plan to feed unoc-
cupied France would work to Eng-
land’s disadvantage: She also be-
lieves that it would be impossible
for America to get along with a
Europe dominated by Hitler, al-
though she thinks that America
might be able to isolate herself
entirely from Europe in that event.
Miss Walters likes America very
much, particularly so, boonies
“women are the dominant sex”
here,
with your mother.
The other reason for not even
| trying to pass the rule is that un-
der-graduates are terribly afraid:
‘that something will be put over on
ithem. It must be the age we live
> (in. Anyhow at the mention of a
imass meeting the fur begins to
stand up in ridges and we all go
down to Goodhart to block . that
kick and the captains of the teams
stand up and each one tells how
her way is the best way to do it,
and it all makes me sick to my
stomach when I think of it so that
I’m very glad that we don’t have
mass nieetings every year. And I
don’t think this letter is any more.
half-cocked than some “of the ideas
midst doing very interesting thingy, >.
that came out: in Wednesday’s dis-~
cussion. M. S. 41.
Suburban Alumnae.
Fifi Garbat, °41, spoke on
might happen to you) on self-g0v=
better that way. From now on the
executive board will be fortunate
‘enough to know on Monday where
you have “spent the weekend. and,
a oe
der about whether your host-
s would have gotten on \well
a
ernment, if the proposition sounds |
«Monday to a group of Bryn”
_Mawr alumnae at the home {+
of Mrs. Lowenstein, Scars- }
dale, N. Y.«: The ‘alumnae, |}
1892 to the class of 1932, are -
. thinking of forming a Bryn f
“Mawr Club for’ suburban~ |
who range from the class of f -
New Forks ee nah
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
Page Three
Excerpts from Exile
J. Meyer Tells of Women’s
Military Training Course "
At McGill
OS Tee
NEwWs:
SUL THE ae
At the risk of annoying college '
authorities, I have to admit that
spending your junior year “else-
where” is a wonderful idea—par-
ticularly if you spend it at McGill.
Although fundamentally not very
different from the alma mater,
there are certain superficial dis-
tinctions. One minor detail is the
fact that “in toto” McGill numbers
3500. But at the moment the war
has, of cours€, caused certain in-
novations which you wouldn’t find
at Bryn Mawr.
Not knowing what Canadian un-
dergraduate life is like in time of
peace, it is hard to make a very
accurate contrast. However, there
are certain obvious changes. The
boys have six hours compulsory
military training a week. Because
of this, “for the duration” all in-
tercollegiate sports have been can-
celled. For us of the fairer sex
. there is a somewhat similar ar-
rangement. We have two hours of
first aid a week in which we learn
how. to apply various intricate
bandages. The award for our la-
bors is a St. John’s Ambulance
Corps certificate. Besides this we
learn how to march. I guess that’s
Button, Button, Who's Got the Button? Or
What Nice People Won’t Do for the ‘News’
What was the delight of the Cor-
LEGE NEWS when it received, by
courtesy of the United States
mails, a_ small,’ square, surprise |,
package from New York! With
what eager hands and sparkling
eyes. the Editorial Board unwrap-
ped the little packet right down to
its white cardboard first covering!
“Off with the lid,” came Susie’s
executive voice, and the Board
obeyed. There couched cosily in
celestial blue tissue paper was a
round red apple’ (non-edible) with
an &@ppealing green stem. “Qh,
gracious,” gurgled the Board, and
lifted it gently from its nest. Pull-
ing the Apple carefully apa apart 3 swith:
referencé to the line éf demarea-|"
tion, it was discovered that the con-
siderate present was a Dorothy
Gray Ripe Cherries Make-Up set
containing 1 Lipstick, 1 Cream
Rouge, 1. Box Transparent Face
Powder, Glo-Rachel, 1 Bottle Nail
Polish. The contents have since
been stolen.
Mary Meigs Reviews
Fall Issue of ‘Lantern’
Continued from Page One
he’s the man I think he is and not
a sentimentalist he will demand as
good writing to rouse emotion Z as
emotion A.
I suppose this issue of the Lan-
As it
happened, I was forced to smile
several times, but not to weep. Not
a tear did I shed, not even when
Stephen hanged himself in Trans-
gression. Perhaps it was because
suicide seemed so shockingly un-
likely, because the tragedy of Ste-
phen’s life was complete without it.
Miss Lewis writes so well that she
has almost made her ending inevit-
able. But this particular kind of
tern:is in the serious ‘mode.
to satisfy our natural instinct to
imitate the male. The official ex-
planation is that women must be
physically fit to face any emer-
gency. Incidentally, McGill is the
first Canadian University to inau-
gurate a Women’s Military Train-
ing course. To fit in with this
rather broad and_ time-involving
plan for both sexes, wé (the wom-,
en) have been officially requested |
to restrain our fascinating parece
alities so that the men won’t be!
distracted from their military du- |
ties.
There is one other factor that
unsettles our ‘placid college life.
The campus football field is used .
quite regularly by the Black Watch
for drilling. Usually they do their |
kilt-swinging at night, but I have
come out of class sometimes and
been unable to get by the marching
troops. Sunday is real parade day
and on special occasions this in-
cludes tanks, camouflaged trucks,
__ete..—but there are always _bag-
pipes in the band.’
There has been one time when I
really wished I was “in the States.”
Of course I mean during Willkie’s
“crusade.” However, I had plenty
of opportunity to put in my two
cents up here. I’ve been fighting
for Willkie in solitary glory, be-
cause Canadians are unanimously
for Roosevelt. The feeling is that,
though Willkie is a good man, at
this crisis in world history we
should not change horses, particu-
larly as Roosevelt has shown him-
self to be so decidedly pro-British.
They confess that their reasons are
purely selfish, but they feel that
the two months between election
day and the inauguration would be
invaluable time lost. Also the
probable disruption. in diplomatic
relations resulting from a change
of administration has weighed
heavily in Roosevelt’s favor. Well,
it’s all over, and at least some-
body’s happy.
‘Sincerely,
-+______Janet- Moyer, "42,
‘suicide is extraordinary for such a
small boy. Up to the end, all Ste-
phen’s— reactions -are -psychologi-+
cally sound, simple and childish,
and then there is sudden complex-
ity which I think is inconsistent.
Otherwise, the story is beautifully
handled, the details are chosen as
meticulously as they would be in a
well-directed play.
Of the stories, Miss Lewis’ cer-
tainly is the most finished. The
ptaria Theresa Dollar by Joanne
| Loewe, moving along at a restrain-
‘ed narrative tempo, fails to reach
a dramatic climax in spite of Miss
| Loewe’s excellent descriptions of
picturesque Jibuti. For some rea-
son, neither Messy nor Mansard
‘nor the American business men
‘seem like real people and the suc-
cess of Messy, at the expense of
the business men, seems merely to
be an interesting economic phe-
nomenon without any profound hu-
man significance. On the. other
hand, Nostalgia for Italy, without
having any fictional pretensions,
has local color and human signifi-
cance, too. , In the simplest lan-
guage, Ruth Ffesel revives the
sweetly humorous memories that
are typical of childhood, yet hap-
pen here to stand in ironic contrast
to the present.
If I consider the three other
stories in somewhat less detail, it is
simply because they offer less
grounds for controversy. Passing
Red is vaguely reminiscent of
Steinbeck in its realistic detail,
though it is not Margaret Hunter’s
fault that a jackrabbit ran in front
of the Joad’s car, too. Steinbeck
hasn’t got a monopoly on jackrab-
bits, or on realistic detail either,
and some of Miss Hunter’s details
are remarkably good and quite ori-
ginal. ‘I can’t say the same for
And the Dreams Were Gone For-
ever by Dorcas Dunklee, who seems
to have placed her heroine on the
horns of a rather time-worn dilem-
ma. As another member of the
English department said after
reading this story, “Oh, dear, why
do they always have to look at
themselves in the mirror?” (And
by the way, Du, Dubon, Dubonnet,
Mrs. Martin Helder!) The third
story, by Carlotta Taylor, is, brief-
ly, delightfully ingenuous, and hu-
morous without straining at all
after humor.
As usual I have left the poetry
till the end because it is so difficult
to criticize. Dorothy Counselman’s
two poems have a pervading emo-
tional intensity that is little short
of disturbing. In the Lyric to a
Most Lovely Lady.there is a bit too
much of the saccharine passion of
Tristan for the bourgeois likes_of
me. Yet it is not until the last
verse that I feel Miss Counselman’s
metaphor has swallowed her emo-
tion, as Donne’s never does. In her
Poem, the metaphors are more suc-
cessful and the poem as a whole
rings true. As poets, Miss Coun-
selman and Virginia Nichols could
hardly be in more decided contrast,
the one rhythmic and lyrical, and
the other dry and matter-of-fact.
Captains is a good character study
of a certain familiar type of asser-
tive man. Some of her effect she
has achieved by personifying inani-
mate things: the lonely ceilings,
the authoritative water. The fact
of the matter is that both Miss
Counselman and Miss Nichols know
how to choose words, though they
use them in completely different
ways. Unfortunately, Gloria In-
gram does not have this happy fac-
ulty. If I were feeling captious, I
would call The Coming just plain
bad; as it is, I’ll content myself
with hoping that for Miss Ingram’s
sake her poem isn’t strictly autobi-
ographical. The other Love Lyric,
by Frances Lewis, is clever, but! not
quite up to the-standards she: set
in her story. ,
* The editorial board, I see, has
pretty much kept out of this issue,
as it did in the last, which means
that the campus isn’t as unproduc-
tive as it used to be in the good old
decadent days. Then it was that
one would look vainly in the index
for extra-editorial board material.
Without being too personal, may I
be permitted to say that I miss the
poetry of Hester Corner and Mar-
tha Kent. The Lantern had better
start exploiting its own personnel
again.
the life of Reilly. One of our more
rarduous tasks has been:to climb a
glacier (slight exaggeration only)
and gingerly hammer’ at the lime-
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Broadway Offers Many Plays
To Entertain Thanksgiving
Theatre-Goer
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al o By Cine Kahn, "4 “
This. year three of Py best re-
ceived Broadway shows are re-
vivals, Charley’s Aunt, Twelfth
Night and Kind Lady. The first is
a rowdy comedy of some years
back; see it if you enjoy slapstick
and its reception by a New York
audience. The
comedy is directed by Margaret
Webster ‘who staged Maurice
cast is headed by Helen Hayes and
‘Mr. Evans who are supported by
a host of lesser stars. You should
have a good time at this one even
if you feel that Miss Webster’s in-
terpretation of the Bard is faulty.
Kind Lady opened several weeks
ago and was acclaimed as a hair
If Ladies in Re-
tirement warmed the cockles of
your heart, this is very possibly
your meat, and even if that excel-
lent melodrama left you feeling a
bit shaky you might be interested
in seeing the fine job Grace George
as the kind lady is said to be
doing.
Life With Father and The Man
Who Came. To Dinner are moving
into their second year. By this
time everyone must have heard a
good deal about both of these plays.
They are certainly amusing, and
Life With. Father has the added
advantage of some dramatic struc-
ture. ‘Pebacco Road, also, is still
‘with us, though aged considerably.
New presentations include
Johnny Belinda, with Helen Craig,
a three star show, according to
Burns Mantle, and one that might
well be worth seeing, and Kaufman
and Hart’s George Washington
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Kaufman and Hart quips held to-
gether limply behind the foot-
lights.
Musical comédies are more prom-
ising.
Merman, two of the brightest stars
on the vocal stage, ate back. in
Cabin in the Sky and Panama Hat-
tie. Miss Waters can. almost al-
ways be counted on for a good
performance and the critics ap-
parently like her new show.
Panama Hattie appears to be a
continuation of Dubarry, again
with music by Cole Porter, and
promises lively entertainment.
Louisiana Purchase, the Irving
Berlin show of last year starring
Victor Moore, Zorina, and William
Gaxton, is still here, and Al Jol-
son has returned to Broadway in
Hold On to Your Hats.
By next weekend The Corn Is
Green, a play by Emlyn Williams
starring Ethel ;
have opened. It should be good or
at any rate interesting.
For those interested in other
kinds of entertainment there are
the controversial Fantasia by Dis-
ney and Stokowski and Charlie
Chaplin’s The Great Dictator, The
51 Street Theatre houses. the
Original, as they call themselves,
Ballet Russe. This company is
presenting several ballets created
before the split in the ballet com-
pany and not performed by the
Massine division which: was in
New York earlier this fall. David
Lichine, the leading male dancer
of the company, has again turned
his hand to choreography and re-
putedly with more success than
three or four years ago. . Best
news of all to the balletomaine is
that the “baby” ballerinas, Mlles.
Toumanova, Baronova and Ria-
bouchinska are all back with the
ballet again.
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
c
Writer of Anonymous Letter and Follow-Up
Reveals Confused Character in Key Word
Last Tuesday night, an anony-
mous letter To the Editor of the
College “News” was placed on the
Editor’s door, with a note saying
that if the News did not print the
fetta? ’ ED ‘storpret
that action as corhplete agreement
by the News with the sentiments
expressed therein.
Now, it is a hard and fast rule of
the News—and of every other pa-
per we have ever heard of—that no
anonymous letters can be pub-
lished. It is not necessary, however,
that the writer’s name appear in
print. It will suffice if the editor
knows the writer’s identity. We
put a notice to that effect in last
Wednesday’s paper. A follow-up
note came the next day:
“Sorry, but I won’t tell you who
I am. I like me more than my
opinions and don’t care to be stoned
off ‘the campus. So, I’m afraid
that there’s no use your keeping
»that letter, if your curiosity com-
pels you to know the writer before
printing it. Frankly, I ‘think
you’re being undemocratic . . . ”
It is this last sentence that con-
tains the key to the drama of char-
acter in the story, for this is the
anonymous letter, in part:
“The lower class is, no matter
how sentimental we want to be-
come about it, still the lower class.
Its duty is to serve the upper, so
that the latter may progress. We
have fed labour with ideas of lib-
erty which it neither understands
nor deserves . . . It should merely
be kept quiet and contented so that
it may be of sgreatest use to the
aristocracy. And it will be con-
tented as long as we don’t pity it
or fill it with ideas of rights, privi-
leges and equality. If there is a
genius in this class, who arises by
his own merit, the aristocracy will
be willing to accept him . . . The
duty of the upper class is to keep
the lower contented and then to
progress in its own way unhind-
ered by social problems. If we fol-
low such a plan, there will be no
unrest, no discontentment on the
one hand, and no labour problems
on the other.”
In the note quoted above, the
author says there is no use in our
keeping the letter. We would like
to return it, if we knew where.
Ist Team Deadlocks
P. C. C. in Neat Game
Tuesday, November 2. es
Mawr deadlocked with the Phila-
delphia Cricket Club Reds at 3-3.
_The scoring was more exciting
than any this season, going first in
favor of one team and then the
other. Bryn Mawr’s defense suc-
ceeded well in keeping up with the
P. C. C.’s fast forwards, but the
more experienced players snapped
three goals through them. The
Bryn Mavr line clicked extremely
well and the game was open and
fair with very little muddling.
Coming up from the Second Team
Scribner, Rambo, Lazo and. Murna-
ghan showed a great deal of ability
and spirit. The score did not re-
cord the neatness of the Bryn Mawr
playing or the speed of the oppo-
nents, in this very exciting finish
to the Varsity’s season.
BRYN MAWR P. C. C, REDS
Weadock ..... P.W:. wise. Fehr
Rambo vis... r.i. .... Newhall
BtOKGS ssi00s. c. f. Schellenberger
Murnaghan .. 1i. ..... Johnson|}
Scribner ..... low. ... Vanneman
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Substitutions: C. Lazo for Ram-
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Swimming Squad
A tentative swimming
squad has been chosen for
this year as follows:
tour -purchase-(nameless) in to Mr.
Boal, '42 Bell, ’43
Wells, '43 Rambo, ’43
McClellan, °42 Leyndecker, ’44
Jones, P., '43 Kaufman, J., '44
Morley, '44 Heckman, '44
Hedge, '44 Sayers, '42
-, Jacobs, °41 Schmid, E., ’44
Butler, ’42 Coan, C., 43
Davis, ’44 Goodin, "44
Kelton, '43
Diving:
Butler, '42 Jacobs, *41
*44 Brown, P., '44 .
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Ghost Writers Can’t
Compete With B. M.
Continued from Page One
remit payment ($5) as soon as pos-
sible? Thank you.”
The victim handed her paper and
Weiss. She handled it very gin-
gerly, for fear of later accusations
of plagiarism. For a long time we
all waited.
The purchase came back with a
73. The reader, confronted with a
series of forced generalizations,
marked it very tolerantly, and for
her unknowing contribution to this
venture,.we are gratful. For in-
stance, Ghostwriter: “Parmenides
ended up with a philosophy which
does violence to the scientific meth-
od and forces us to drag motion in
from the outside again through the
back door.”
And Reader (judiciously crossing
out dragging motion through the
back door): “forces us to reexam-
ine our assumptions”
Mr. Weiss read the paper after
an explanation and roared. He
said he would have lowered the
job, and that he would have been
suspicious of the style. We can’t.
decide if this was. self-protection.
And here is the crowning glory.
Our victim got an 85. Thirteen
members of the class got below 73,
15 above, four the same mark. On
this evidence, may the standards of
Bryn Mawr be hereby vindicated,
and may the faculty rest in full
assurance that ‘anyone who reads
the News will hereafter trust the
|stacks rather than Student Serv-
ices, Ltd. Very limited.
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French Relief
A letter from the British
Embassy has been broyght
to our attention, confirming
free passage through the
‘British blockade for medical
supplies and packages, not
exceeding five pounds, de-
stined for France and travel-
ing. from. Lisbon. to.the. free
port of Marseilles. The per-
mission of the United States
Government is still to be se-
cured.
The William Allen White
Committee, in their statement
of policy dated October 25,
urge that advantage be taken
of. British leniency in the
blockade. The Friends’ Serv-
ice Committee is the chief
agency dealing for the ad-
ministration of relief in
France. ©
Mass Meeting Held
On Week-End Leaves
Continued from Page One
she were doubtful the permission
giver would be able to help. Since
the Self-Government Association is
responsible for the credit of the col-
lege, the Board feels that some
transfer of responsibility must be
made.
Among the points made in dis-
cussing this question, were the dif-
ficulty of deciding what is adequate
chaperonage and the impossibility
of stopping those students who in-
tend to do as they wish regardless
of any rule. It was claimed how-
ever that the majority of mistakes
that come up are from a lack of
thought, that the asking of per-
giving, and that asking for per-
mission is not removing any free-
dom. Elizabeth Alexander sug-
gested that as much responsibility
as possible should remain with the
individual; and on this principle
the new rule was formulated. It
was accepted for vote by halls with
the qualification that the Self-
Government Board would put in an
explanatory rule stating what it
means by ehaperonage and how
the members are expected to con-
strue the word.
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Last Year I Was a Freshman; This Year
I Became a Sophomore: I Like Men Now
*
By Sally Jacob, ’43
I’m a Sophomore now. Last year
year I wasa Freshman. Last year
when I was a Freshman I was very
bashful. I never went to any of
the square dances for Freshmen
cepted any blind dates. I never
went stag to the Hall dances. I
never looked up any relations or
ifriends of friends with young sons
who live in. this part of the coun-
try. I had a good time with the
girls,
Yet I did enjoy the week-ends
when I could see on all sides the
Bryn Mawr stride competing with
a real masculine stride. It was
rather novel then to walk into the
Hall and embarrass a Senior out of
an embrace with her one and only
(who, after all, was rather used to
the interruption having come here
for two or three years now). One
could always intelligently discuss
the merits and defects of somebody
else’s man.
Last year, when I was a Fresh-
Planetarium: Offers
Christmas Program
During the month of December,
the Fels Planetarium of the Frank-
lin Institute is giving a special
Chrismas program. The first half
of it will be a discussion of signs
and portents which have been con-
sidered omens of good or evil for
thousands of years. This part of
the program will include denun-
ciation of the superstitions con-
cerning halos, rainbows, comets,
and eclipses which have aroused
terror in the minds of people. in
ages past. The second part of the
holiday.program will be a dramatic
portrayal of the stéry of Christmas
with appropriate music and brilli-
ant lighting effects,
with Haverford boys. T nev@tdage!
man, a ‘tremendous thing happened
one Sunday afternoon, A man
came to see me. I, of course, was
not home. As a matter of fact I
was studying in the lib as I usually ©
did on a Sunday afternoon my
~) eat year. So he came over
to look for me and I, peeking
around the corner, of a stall, saw
him—but he did not recognize me
and I was afraid to accost him. I
was. wearing blue jeans, a work-
shirt and sneakers, and I had been
out in the inevitable Bryn Mawr
rain, so that my hair vaguely bent
at the ends in an unsuccessful at-
tempt to curl. Anyway I found a
note on my door in the Hall.
But I’m a Sophomore this year
and I’ve changed. I’ve had a man
on campus. I strolled nonchalant-
ly with him on Merion green, down
Senior row and around the hockey
field (where we had a cigarette, of
course). In fact I showed him the
whole campus.
And now how different things
are! I walk into the Cloisters and
I remember him flipping a cigar-
ette into the fountain. I walk into
the gym and I remember his quiz-
zieal look at the draperies. The
hockey field seems a particularly
hallowed spot. ;
Yes, I’m all for it—whether mine
or somebody else’s, let’s have men
on the campus!
ik,
Again the Unusual!
Puerta de Mexico
69 St. James Place
Ardmore, Pa.
Bright Chairs and Pottery
for Your Room!
Feather Necklaces
for Yourself!
Peasant Blouses @ Gifts
Autumn Huaraches
Christmas Suggestions
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THE COLLEGE NEWS 3 Page Five
|\'Mathematic’s Growth | Drive Distributions -
rrent 1 ee : | To Date Announced | Blood ponerse ee
| “ Traced by Miss Lehr | The American Red Cross, To Speak on French
Southeastern Pennsylvania
: Chapter, Main Line Branch
Interaction Between Natural payday 500 dollars out of its total|]| No. 1, is asking for Volun-
Sciences and Mathematics | 1300 dollars. In a meeting of the|j/ teer Blood Donors as part of
Continuea trom Page One _
Tuesdby, November ‘ba!
spite the fact that Congress has
had to change ‘quarters,” said Miss
M. Pierre De Lanux, author, war
correspondent and historian,’ will
speak at four o’clock in the Dean-
: Reid at Current Events, “the Sen- Described by Lehr presidents of. all college organiza. as rosie ac oa esa |lery December, 5 on Les Frangais.. ee ee
= Re hea oa ‘he Walter-Logan Dal N cea if tions this fund was decide upd fe iterated eo ssn. De TM. De banux was co-fbiitder*oEe ~~”
ill, 27-25.” She pointed out won alton, November —In the y * ||Nouvelle Revue Frangais 1909. He Q
jand later. the Undergraduate As- Leary who will make the nec-
although this is not a large enough! sixth Science Club lecture, Miss ae <4 ;
sociation Board decided that since essary arrangements.
majority to override a probable); ehr discussed the development of
Presidential veto, it was by no Pp one of these German refugee schol-
means a full roll of the Senate. maphemintics to Sn, exact MROGRED | avs has been ill, the money raised
Miss Reid believes that the recent | Science and described the give and: for her would be saved until she is
Greek conquest of Koritza seems to| take ‘between the natural sciences able,to return to Bryn Mawr. This
indicate not only Greek victory but'!and the abstract science of mathe-| Student, Toni Stern, known to most) turn ie —— - oe =a The Young People’s Forum,
that Britain has given more aid) matics. Words change their mean-| °* UR ne WEEE ete Ne ee ialawne le aulled trem Ui sponsored by. Bryn Mawr College,
than was supposed. Germany’s ! — letter: Haverford, and the Ardmore Y.
; ; : i h tural sci eee : Z
diplomatic move of enlarging the| ings se tie napural sciences become iof Mars’ orbit. ' I wish I could tell you in person| y. ¢, A., is giving a series of panel
axis to a six-power alliance will!
abstract and_Miss Lehr described In Greek geometry a line-had al-| what it means to me to have Bryn| discussions on the U. S. in the
prove useful in the future in case; how the name geometry in contrast ways been uséd as a finite segment| Mawr ‘saved.’ I read your letter present war. The first one will be,
the central European countries|to the Greek interpretation has between two points. At the begin-| over and over, because it did not|“The position of the U. S. after
should rebel. Miss Reid also stated| heen given to some mathematical ning of the 17th century, Descartes | Seem possible that all of you really] she joins the war,” by Mr. Charles
was war correspondent to the Bal-
kans in 1912.
Undergraduate Association thanlf-
ing it for making possible her“fre-
Young | Peoples’ Forum
that Bulgaria’s refusal to.join in-| science because “it was good on applied algebraic symbols to geo-| want to have me back. Miller, of the Bryn Mawr History
dicates strong Russian backing and! emotional grounds to a sufficient metric problems. Descartes needed| “This must mean that from now| Department, on Thursday, Decem-
coercion. Because Bulgaria failed! gmount of competent people.” lcnly two symbols—z, y for un-|on Tl get well very fast, because per 5, at 8 p. m., at the Y. M. C. A.
to cooperate with Der Fuhrer, Ger-, gixteenth century mathemati- knowns — to form an equation|it seems impossible to keep away
ions was wegen step down int0| cians made use of many Greek representing a geometric curve injfrom Bryn. Mawr any longer. It
reece to aid Italy. theorems about space. In observing the plane.. Using equations like|sounds so nice and comforting that 1d Ge »
Miss Reid concluded by com- | physical space, coe saw that rr ax + by — ce to describe the line,|I have friends who ask for me. After the Ball 1S Over €
menting on the appointment of Ad-} un and planets seemed to move he broke away from the limited “It was wonderful to hear
miral Leahy, as ambassador to the! spout the earth and they tried to line segment and using more com-|you talk about what is going on “THE GREEKS”
Vichy Government to replace Bul- Facacribe these motions by circles plicated equations he had new|-- - I was very much interested in
litt. around the earth. Copernicus later curves. what the Peace Council is doing.”
suggested the sun as center of Newton used the knowledge he | WUCHseeeieCouisenesesiCOUstNeNeNNPCOUNGEAAELANDOCONNNAAAEAAAGOCONALAONOANACONNANNONEECOULNEN NER: ™
these circles. had garnered from a study of
From these early observations| astronomy in trying to *explain
hed Kepler in: the 17th century tried} Kepler’s law of orbits and, in 1664,
. (ORD to figure out the orbits encircling|he developed pure mathematical
\Y the sun. Up* to 1609 it had on concepts, discovering differential SUNDAY MORNING REVIVAL cl
{been supposed that use could be/calculus and _ integral | calculus.
'made of conic sections—the ellipse,| From the 17th century on more
the parabola, and the hyperbola;|and more geometry was expressed
but at this time Kepler applied|algebraically. In 1843 Cayley made
BOOKS GIFTS these sections to astronomy demon-|the language of n—dimensional
STATIONERY strating their ability. Using the| geometry for equations in-a num-
sun as a foci, he computed an el-|ber of variables no longer limited
lipse that checked the observations; to three.
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Page Six
THE COLLEGE NEWS
a Wal
Helen Traubel Sings *
With Skill and Ease
’ Continued from
Ich liebe dich.
Miss Traubel’s rendition of El-
sa’s Traum from Lohengrin
brought out the true Wagnerian
qualities of her voice. The great
volume achieved .in the climaxes
was excitingly anticipated by the
lower and softer notes.
In the singing. of three of Schu-
bert’s compositions, Aufenthalt,
Wiegenlied and Seligkeit, the ar-
tist distinguished each mood with
sincerity and depth of feeling. The
Wiegenlied particularly enthralled
the audience. The delicate texture
of the pianissimi and the restraint
of shading throughout, emphasized
the tender simplicity of the piece.
After ably interpreting two
songs by Richard Strauss, Ruhe
meine Seele and Caecelie, Miss
Traubel was called back for two
encores, Devotion, by Richard
Strauss, and a 17th century folk-
song.
Miss Traubel continued the reci-
tal with Mascagni’s Voi lo sapete
from Cavelleria Rusticana. Her
powerful projection was accentu-
ated by her dramatic expression,
and in this as well as in all the
other pieces, her surenéss of tone
was impeccable.
The program was concluded with
two Negro Spirituals and three
short songs. In Deep River the ar-
tist again attained subtle contrast
of coloring and a clear, pure pitch.
Both the Sea Shell, by Carl Engel
and A Memory, by Blair Fairchild
Page One
The ‘News’ will not be
published next week because
of the Thanksgiving vaca-
tion.
Twenty Years Ago
Twenty years ago this very night
a Bryn Mawr COLLEGE NEWS ap-
peared containing the terse .an-|
nouhcenient Ras” SST Ho
issue of the News next week on
account of Thanksgiving vacation.”
In 20 years Thanksgiving vacation
has dwindled to a shadow of its
former glory but the. COLLEGE
NEWS has remained much the same.
During the week of November!
20, 1920, in Taylor Hall Dr. Joseph
Ames was explaining Einstein’s
Theory of Relativity (1 year old)
to -baffed undergraduates. The!
| sophomores gave an elaborate pro- |
duction of Shaw’s Caesar and Cleo-
patra, in which “most of the scenes
had about them the phantasy of
the Orient with its rich color and
languorous light,” and a red banner
flashed from the gym in proud an-
nouncement of a senior victory in
the hockey finals.
In chapel that week, Mr. Samuel
Higginbottom of Allahabad was
discoursing upon his work with
lepers in India. The junk commit-
tee sent off three boxes of woolen
garments to Dr. Grenfell and the
“Reeling and Writhing Club pub-
Mr. Bos proved himself a capa-
ble accompanist, and after. the in-
termission he played an Elegie by
Rachmaninoff and a Song Without
Words, by Mendelssohn, with an
were charming in their simplicity.
The last selection, Blow, Blow,|
Thou Winter Wind, by McNair Il-]
genfritz ended with one of Miss
Traubel’s superb dramatic cli-
maxes,
As encores Miss Traubel sang
Tris, by Daniel Wolf, Sieglinde’s
Song of Love from the Walkiire
and A Song of Love, by Frank La-
forge. Even then she showed na
signs of fatigue and her voice re-
tained the qualities of beautiful
sound throughout the entire pro-
gram.
exact. and forceful touch.
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Madame Eugene Houdry
Tells of French Relief
On Thursday, November 21st,
Madame Eugene Houdry spoke in-
formally in the French House on
the French Quand Meme Relief
Committee. She explained that the
prot” 5 wee; Which is af-
lated with the Chapter of Refu-
gees of England, Inc., is to take
care of French refugees in Eng-
land and to help the French soldi-
ers fighting -under--General de
Gaulle. Madame Houdry empha-
sized the care that the committee
employs to comply with all restric-
tions and regulations levied on
equipment sent abroad. She also
indicated the ways that students
might be helpful: by writing to the
Cadets of Saint Cyr, now studying
in England, who will later join
General de Gaulle; by knitting and
by helping to prepare Christmas
bundles for the French Refugees
in England.
lication” Humble Voyagers went on
sale ‘ir! several New York book
stores. Last but not least in Meri-
on Hall was born that week the
new association. of Chloroplasts.
“Membership is limited to 25, all
of whom must live in Merion. The
duty of bringing the Protoplasm
to cell wall from the Food vacuoles
every night, and consigning the
refuse tothe Nucleus, belongs to
the two Spongy Mesophylls.”
Reserves Outskidded
By Varsity in Game
~ Of Mudwater Hockey!
Tuesday, November 26.—Hockey
in the sleet is the newest Bryn
Mawr sport. The Varsity out-slid
the .Second.dgam in the ‘wettest
game of the year, The Varsity’s
two goals to the Reserves’ one re-
sulted from the First Team’s su-
perior judgment in the length of a
skid. Those yellow and_ blue,
hardly visible shapes spent ‘most of
the first half near the Second
Team’s goal, but, when it finally
came down to threaten the Varsity,
the ball was ‘so hidden in a maze
of legs and mud, that it sneaked,
unobserved, into the goal.
Outstanding for the Second
Team were Baker, 44, who some-
how or other succeeded in finding
the ball and in standing up long| Resor....... R. B.
enough to make several good stops, '
and Scribner, ’44, who contributed;
Chapel
Chapel this Sunday will be
conducted ‘by Reverend John
S. Stephenson, Curate of the
Church of St.-Martin’s-in-the-
Fields, Chestnut Hill, Phila-
delphia. Mr. Stephenson has
worked a great deal with
young people and his adress’
will contali Waehghiiie per _
tinent ‘to these times.
version of our traditional Geek
cheer before it struggled up the
nill to its, bathtub.
VARSITY SECOND TEAM’
NoODOdY......% Ri OW 45 4a a Lazo
JONES «i=... |e oes asta eae Rambo
Wenguek 5550, Be yc Woolsey
Hardenbergh I, I. ..Murnaghan
rLowaerd ...... Geo Ws cs cees Scribner
| CRIED. cas R. H. ... Wilkinson
Matthai..... OM te Reggio
Berwelteer... te. Bi ick Bell
aah Thomas
Tuckerman . L. B: .. Dark Shape
to the spirit of the thing although | ,Perooooooorossossesoeey
the force of gravity hindered her
considerably.
A high spot in the middle of the
half time was a bedraggled meeting
in the middle of the field to decide
to contribute to an ambulance sent
abroad by the women’s hockey
players of America. The afternoon
successfully demonstrated that the
women’s hoekey players of Amer-| ,
ica are a hardy race. The eleven
streaming heads of the noble 1940
Varsity even managed a funeral
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College news, November 27, 1940
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
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