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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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1940-11-27
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Weekly
6 pages
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North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 27, No. 09
College news (Bryn Mawr College : 1914)--
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THE COLLEGE NEWS 3 Page Five
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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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