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Bondfield Notes

Desire in Britain
For Coordination



Outlines Change Effected, |
Status of Labor Party
In the War



Deanery, May 10.—‘‘There is a
desire to coordinate throughout the
whole country,” stated the Right
Honorable Margaret Bondfield in
her speech on The British Labor
Party in the War. After giving a
brief outline of the history of the
party, she discussed its present
status in the government and the
structural changes in the regula-
tion of industry which have been
brought about by the war.

Under the Ministry of Labor,
the organization first in importance
for the controlling of industry is
the Council of Industry. The mem-
bership is composed of fifty per
cent of the organized employers
and fifty per cent labor unionists
who are appointed by the Labor
Conference. They have to deal
with the problems of the exchange
of employees, the system of draft-
ing labor, and the training of|
women. Another organization is
the Advisory Committee on pro-
duction, which investigates all in-
dustries for more opportunities of
economy and speed.

The best example of this desire
to cooperate is shown in the coal
industry, long decentralized. The
first recognition of national control
has been in the institution of a
national board consisting of repre-
sentatives of owners, of the gov-
ernment and of the trade union.
An agreement between workers
and owners that non-union miners

do not get increase bonuses has
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Women’s Engineering

Courses Are Offered

Stevens Institute of Technology
in Hoboken, New Jersey, is offer-
ing three to six months’ full time
college level courses in engineer-
ing in order to train college women
for work in War Industries. These
courses are part of the govern-
ment sponsored program of Engi-
neering Science and Management

Defense Training.
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Princeton and Beer
Add Gaiety to First

Bryn Mawr Horseshow



Specially Contributed by
Virginia Ray, ’43

Sunday, May 10.—Radnor Ride)
was the scene today of the first
Bryn Mawr College Horseshow.
The consensus is that it was a
great success. Good horsemanship
was demonstrated, and the gallery
was swelled by the presence of a
number of Princeton men.

Ice cream and soft drinks were
sold for the benefit of the Bryn
Mawr College Scholarship Fund,
and many members of the gallery
participated in a beer picnic, which
added to the friendly informality
of the afternoon. The beer was
kept in the spring house to cool.

The show was judged by Mr.
Albert Sullivan, a pupil of Colonel

Boswell. The results were:
Intermediate Equitation
SHOAUE Grebe Poee hb eh ecbcei res First
TU es eke cece lahid es co) oe Second
PE OOr 0 so es be occa Sse eh wel es Third
PoOOMINOIA , 6 <57 bh thes sci ee ks Fourth

Hamilton

Advanced Equitation and
Figure Eight

WOGUROLOOM occ cli bees chee ci saa cues First
MOCO Nev cos c cce heh ba chee osc ee es Second
TPMINMIOO. Fs ci15ss choise seres iit Third
MTC. fo dacs came eee tre ceveek ees, Fourth
Hersey, Scribner, Glossbrenner, Wal-

ker, Nicholson, Miles
Outside Jumping (Hunt Style)
GIOSBDYGUNG? hiki ss cee) Gis 050 28 First
Estabrook
Dent



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First Aid Classes Prepared for Amateur
Hangings; Dirty Dish Water is Anticipated



By Ruth Alice Davis, ’44
And then there was the Bryn
Mawr girl who prescribed artificial
respiration for the victim who was
having trouble breathing and also
had the minor affliction of a broken
Tih 33

The Standard First Aid Exams
revealed any number of just such
budding genii, ready, willing, and
we wonder how able to administer
“First Aid in divers crises.” It
_ appears that they intend to make
the patient do her own work—for
treatment of a broken back, it was
prescribed that “the victim. should
lie on his stomach, and very care-
fully put on a stretcher.” Another
proposed, in. explaining how to
treat a broken arm, “. . . and next,
I would split the fractured fore-
arm.” Consider also those bril-
liants who came to the conclusion
that a “break in the spine” indi-
cated a broken back.” Another de-
cided that “if the victim has been
in a bad automobile accident, and
is bleeding in the leg, head injuries

should be looked for. . .”

| @ program of two monologues and

Seesh¥i aud ects tsee ues Second) citing performance as it is the

Tree Planting Secret
Even to the Seniors

Who Can Only Guess

Senior Tree Planting took place
in the conventional required sec-
recy on Monday night, promptly at!
11 P. M. Nothing was spoiled by|
the fact that none of the Seniors
apparently know what the tree is.
“A great tall tree, with leaves that
look like an aspen but really
aren’t.”

The whole affair is tinged with
deception. Whatever variety this
tree may be, it has been before the
Deanery for at least two months.
Worse still, it was not even aes
for by the class but by the Grounds
Committee. The Seniors hasten to
add that this is not because th®
treasury is bankrupt.. To support
this, they point out that to the best
of anyone’s knowledge no pennies}
have yet been stolen.

Players Club to Give
Writing Club Works

The class in play writing, taught
by Mr. John Gassner, will present







three one-act plays on Saturday in
the Theater Work Shop. It prom-
ises to be an interesting and ex-

culmination of the first year’s
work in this new course.
Emphasis has been placed on
writing and criticism rather than
on staging. The program has been
divided into three groups—folk and
domestic drama and that having



There were those whose forte
was snakebite, who recognized the
marks of “phangs” as a prominent.
symptom, or else a “two-point,
bite.” Some morbid souls hit their |
high on poisons in general—like ,
the individual who stressed giving:
dirty dish water to the victim who |
had taken poison by. the mouth. We
wonder just what this jolly First |
Aider would do at a time like this,
if no dishes had been washed re-_
cently. One prospective Ellery,
Queen, when asked to give various
cases for artificial respiration, re-
plied dramatically‘ amateur ‘hang-.
ing.” The question still remains, |
just where is the fine line between
amateur and professional in such|
a pursuit?

Perhaps the best answer in a
number of cases would have been
that given in an informative tome
entitled “The Weekend Book in
Two Volumes.” Referring to
brandy as a remedy for shock, it

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universal appeal.

The first group begins with a
monologue of an Irish drunk by
Edgar Emery. It is followed by
a psychological tragedy about the
isolated life of fishermen and is
titled, “Child of the Wind,” written
by IsabelMartin. Lynn Hadyn has
directed it and Doris Benn plays
the leading role. ?

“Tea for Ten,’ a monologue
written and presented by Dorcas
' Dunklee, begins the second group.
The attempts of two children to
apply their meager knowledge of
' psychology to their..cook’s. marital.
problems make the following play,
“Psychology Did It” by Sylvia
Maynard a light and provocative
comedy’ *

The third play is called “Death
At Fredricksburg” and was writ-
ten and directed by Edgar Emery.
It “is the. powerful and. moving
tragedy of a deserter. |

These efforts are entirely experi-
mental and there has been no at-



tempt at the professional.

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Mathematics Relate

Symmetry Concepts
To Different Fields

Dalton, May 6.—The mathemati-
cal concept of symmetry has many
applications to physics, philosophy,
biology and art, said Dr. Weyl in
his lecture on Symmetry. Every-
one, he stated, is familiar with
ordinary bilateral symmetry. which
is stressed especially in any ar-
chaic art.



Confining attention to the plane
with a fixed center, he said that
the symmetry of a figure can be de-
scribed by the group of transforma-
tions which leave it invariant.
These consist of rotations and their
combinations with reflections, as
was discovered by Leonardo da
Vinci. In Architecture, this sym-
metry is fourfold; the great Gothic
cathedrals are the most splendid
examples of this kind of symmetry.
In organic structures five is the
prevalent number, although
strangely enough, this number is
not found in inorganic nature.

The regular solids played a large
part in the whole of antiquity and
dominated Plato’s conception of the
universe, Dr. Weyl asserted.

Including translations the prob-
lem becomes that of a two-dimen-
sional ornament. The possible ro-
tational symmetries of a two di-
mensional pattern are those of one,
two, three, four, six. Experiments

with the symmetries of any other
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‘Patience’ Leads
Skillfully Pldyed

In Performance



Joint Production Proves
Disappointing in Lack
Of Enthusiasm



By Barbara Kauffman, °43
Last Saturday night’s. perform-

ance of Patience by the combined

Haverford and \Bryn Mawr Glee
Clubs was disappointing. Although
the leading roles were well played,
the fresh stimulus which Haver-
ford’s participation should have

afforded was not there. There was
an obvious improvement on last
year’s all-Bryn Mawr performance,

but in former years Bryn Mawr
alone has done better.
It was not Havefford’s fault,

but: the same lack of\ enthusiasm
which marked last year’s Gilbert
and Sullivan performance was evi-
dent.. We had hoped that the addi-
tion of new blood might give the
operetta a fresh start, but appar-
ently something more is needed.

Individual roles showed excep-
tions. Mary Rambo, as Patience,
had a part which affords the great-
est possibility for personal expres-
sion in a typé of play which has
by now become highly stylized.
She made the best of the oppor-
tunity and played with delightful
freshness and gaiety. Although
her high notes were somewhat un-
certain, for the rest her technique
was relievingly effortless. Nancy
Sapp, as the faithful Lady Jane,
far outdid the others in singing
and Margot Dethier as Lady An-
gela showed perhaps the most tal-
ent in combined acting and sing-
ing. She brought personality and
life into a part which affords but
little opportunity for it.

Edgar Emery as Bunthorne and
Richard Bauer as Grosvenor were
very good as far as they went.
Although Edgar Emery sang poor-
ly at moments, the clarity of his
diction completely redeemed him.
Both he and Richard Bauer played
well, but neither brought anything
to his role. What the parts asked
of them they performed excellent-
ly, but they added nothing.

The real trouble lay, however,
in the choruses and in the diction
of practically everyone. The girls’
chorus was lifeless, too frequently
flat in more ways than one. The

dragoons sang much better and
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Collection of Curious and Ancient Herbals -
To Conclude Exhibitions in Rare Book Room



Specially Contributed by
Mary Louise Terrien

The Rare Book Room Committee
has chosen herbals for its last
exhibition of the year. Since this
college has no herbals of its own,
if one excepts an Aldine Theo-
phrastus of 1497, the writer has
had to beg from our more fortu-
nate neighbors. They have re-
sponded most generously and the
room may now really be called a
treasure foom, for it holds many
noteworthy examples -of» books .on.
this sixteenth century by-product
of botany, agriculture and medi-
cine.

A great number of rare vol-
umes and prints have come from
the libraries of Mrs. Isaac La
Boiteaux, Mr. S. J. Herben, Mrs.
Alba Johnson, andthe —Misses-
Mary and Margaret Peirce. From'
his large and magnificent collec-
tion of herbals, Mr. Richard eet
of Haverford, has lent five to rete



'was a physician.”

Mawr. Of these, the most im-
portant is the “Grete Herball”
printed by Peter Treveris in 1529.
It is the most faméus of the earlier
English herbals and is an trans-
lation of ‘Le Grant Herbier,”
which in turn was a version of the
fifteen century “Circa instans’”’
now in the Biblioteca Estense at
Modena. From the modern point
of view it contains much that is

\decidedly odd with regard to medi-

cal .subjects. The remedies, or
“vértues”. as they. are called, for
various ailments, strike one as.
curious and drastic and would
seem -to be possible only for an
abnormally robust people.
Probably the most interesting
from a literary point of view is a
“baby” Fuchs printed in Basel in
1545, which has been lent by Miss
Edith Finch. Leonarhard Fuchs,
like the majority of the -herbalists,
In 1529 he ac-

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C iriail Cetenls |

Speaking at a meeting of the
Current Events group, Miss Reid
rent Events group, Miss Reid
talked on international law during
the present war.

Miss Reid said that problems in
already





international law have
arisen in many cases of the war.

There are questions of the British





Entered as second-class matter at the Wayne, Pa., Post Office



New Courses

The new courses show a definite effort to adapt the curricu-
Despite the loss of several of the
faculty, an unusual number of new courses were announced. No
one has ever complained that the faculty had too little to do. The
fact is that this year several departments are already disorganized,
and it is certain that more of the teaching staff will go. That the
College has made the effort to plan new courses at this time is
appreciated by the students.

In these courses, a general movement toward specialization is
notable. The Geology Department is offering a course in map
making, to answer the need of a War Department project. The
French Department is offering a course in the technique of inter-
pretation and analysis of propaganda and periodical literature.
Even courses which are not so immediately practical, like those in
Post-War Reconstfuction and in the Theory and Practice of
Democracy, are evidences of this trend.

At the same time, we are glad to see the growing number of
survey courses. For all students the number of courses it is pos-
sible to take outside their major is very limited. This is particu-
larly true of science majors, and it is to be expected that their
number will grow in the next few years. Now it will be possible
for them to take a general survey course in History of Art, for
example, where before the First Year course was. an intensive
study of one period.

The success of the interdepartmental method has been shown
in the Eighteenth Century course. Next winter three more co-
operative courses are offered. For those who lack time to do
specialized work in more than one field, they offer an opportunity
to gain a coordinated picture-of several fields. From the stand-
point of time alone, they should be invaluable.

This type of course is no easy road to knowledge, but it does
answer a need. Bryn Mawr is considered by many to be the last
stronghold of academic conservatism. We have not yet devoted
ourselves exclusively to the hundred best books. It is gratifying
to see that the College still manages to provide the necessary thing
at the appropriate moment,

lum to present-day needs.



College Inn

The Inn situation has been considered and action is being
taken. As a result of the letter from the Inn Committee request-
ing a meeting with the Editor of the News and other undergradu-
ates, ‘“‘problems of the Inn and the wishes of the students” were
discussed.

The prices, with a few notable exceptions, are little, if at all,
higher than those of most tea rooms.
remedied if food costs permit. No one makes a profit on the Inn.
Money in excess of expenses goes toward paying off the 60,000
dollars remaining from an original 90,000 dollar debt.

Several suggestions for improvement were made. It was
suggested that a hostess, possibly a student, be in charge during
rush hours. She would see that customers were being taken care
of, would receive complaints, and generally supervise the dining
room.

The present variety of foods may be reduced to save space
and time. It was proposed that planned meals, with limited or no
choice, be served-at-luncheon-and at-dinner on certain days. At
these times no 4 la carte orders would be taken.

A minimum of 25 or 30 cents charged on one bill would|”
eliminate time and costs of bookkeeping. An ice cream cooler in
a corner of the dining room might remedy some of the confusion



The few exceptions will be:

prize courts, contraband,. diplo-
mati¢ relations between govern-
ments, and recognition of govern-

She also discussed

ments in exile.
the treatment of prisoners of war
and hostages, the rights of neutral

| nations, and, referring to Mada-
gascar and Martinique, the legal
grounds for protective occupation
of a dependency of a conquered
nation threatened by a_ hostile
power.

‘Miss Reid spoke of the British
prize courts. They must decide
whether a nation like Denmark, in-
vaded without a struggle, is neu-
tral with regard to the confiscation
| of ships or not. That is the ques-
tion of whether its ships are to be
| confiscated or merely requisitioned
‘for the duration.

The treatment of prisoners of
war, said Miss Reid, is generally
good except when one side has a
preponderance; such a condition
now exists. However, fear of re-
taliation prevents serious ill-treat-
ment. The question of hostages is
quite another thing; hostages are
not to be held personally respon-
sible for hostile acts of those whose
behavior they guarantee, at least
not to the extent of execution.



ages en masse.

An additional problem of inter-
national law in this war is the
recognition of governments in
exile; the legal grounds for protec-
tive occupation of Martinique and
Madagascar. This last has been
legalized by a pact of the United
Nations to that effect, besides the
existing law of self-defense.

Miss Reid’s lecture is the last of
this year’s series of talks-on-cur-
rent events.

Germany has been executing host-,

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MY FRIENOS



Northfield Conference
Invites College Groups



At tea in the Common Room on
Friday, plans will be made for a!
Bryn Mawr delegation to the
Northfield religious conference in
‘June. For the first time, “college”
courses will be included in the con-
ference’s curriculum.

The week of June 15-22 will find
a few hundred girls playing ten-
nis, hiking through the Massachu-
setts woods and singing hymns on
the “Round Top” overlooking the
Connecticut River Valley. The
conference is famous for providing
faculty - student baseball games,
general hilarity, and stimulating
discussion with some of the most;
well-known ministers in the East.







‘Lantern’ Criticized. for
Undue Amount of

Technical Failure,
Derivation in Material



b

By Lenore O’Boyle, ’43
The most noticeable feature of
the spring issue of The Lantern is
the undue amount of derivation
that its contributions show. It is

perhaps inevitable that college
work should suffer from this fail-
ing. Few students have the neces-
sary experience or technique to
avoid it completely. Yet it must be
possible to achieve a more natural
and original expression than is
found here.

This criticism is best illustrated
by the poetry. The poems of both
Hester Corner and Doris Benn are
smothered under the weight of
other poets. Hester Corner’s
rhythm is usually skillful, but there
are parts of Natural Theology that
capture the very cadence of T. S.
Eliot. Perhaps this would not be
such a failing if the poets chosen
for imitation had been of a period
in which poetry tended to be less
esoteric than it is today. As it is,
while the central meaning of the

are often quite meaningless.
springs. from a commendable effort;
to. gain compression and sugges-

poems is clear, individual passages!
This:

tiveness, and it is, a pity that it

Kitty Rand’s Banbury Cross, on
the other hand, is an unpretentious
poem that is readable and pointed,
more successful in achieving what
it set, out to do.

Interview is frequently amusing.
Presumably it is a satire, but curi-
ously enough it is often so close to
what it is satirizing that it is not
as effective as it might have been.

The prose is more successful,
both stories succeeding in catching
and holding the reader’s attention.
Margaret Hunter’s The Lighthouse
is sound psychology, marred
slightly by somewhat inadequate
dialogue. There is a-nice quality
about Helena Hersey’s The Mary
B. At the risk of sounding repeti-
tious, it may be said thatvher style
succeeds better than most in avoid-
ing undue imitation, though the
mannered naturalness of Heming-
way is quite obvious.

As a whole, this issue of The
Lantern does not succeed in being
very interesting reading. If The
Lantern is to be read, it’s material
must be at once more forthright
and more pointed.





and energy.

aye made,



in the already too-crowded kitchen.
might be removed so that only the number of guests who can be
handled at one time will expect to be served.

The limitation of guests other than students and faculty could
solve many of the Inn problems, althqugh this might not be
necessary if the other suggested steps were taken to conserve time

‘Another meeting of the Inn Committee with a group of under-
graduates has been planned for next fall, when more concrete pee

Some of the terrace tables |

should have so often miscarried.





Nuts and Bolts

By Ann Heyniger, ’44

What shifts in college positions
in response to -war needs have
actually been made? How has the
war effected the academic emphasis
for the next few years? How has
this-been—reeeived_by—the-—various
student bodies?

Service and Culture

Yale divides its changes into
two fields: 1) from the standpoint
of practical service obvious con-
tributions through newly created
courses and 2) from the standpoint
of self-enhancement through “com-
petent administration and main-
tenance of the present teaching



| standard” through the summer ses-

sion of the acceleration program.

The former include practical
courses; the latter is viewed from
the standpoint of helping students
to form, in this relatively unhar-
ried part of their lives, certain
convictions which will not be for-
gotten after they have emerged
from the war arena,

College Versus Jobs

. Pfésident Blunt, of Connecticut,
dealt with this question more gen-
erally, in a speech, saying: “What
will you have in mind as you
choose your courses? Look ahead,
not just at next year. Your job
should not be the only criterion in
picking courses. Of course you
want to do your part in winning
the war, and that.runs into jobs.
Although you have heard of the
great need for chemists, physicists,
teachers and economists, the great-
est need is for well-trained minds.”

The students’ reaction to the war
demands on them as individuals
deal for the most part with college
versus immediate jobs.

Value of Education Not
Forgotten

Temple University decries leav-
ing in the middle of college train-
ing to reap the benefits of fat and
relatively éasily obtained pay
checks. An editorial in their news-
paper not only warns of the tran-
sciency of these immediate tempta-
tions but also defends the positiop
of the present college students whe

| must “stick to their job of making

themselves soldiers for a bigger
| fight when the army cannot be con-
scripted ‘because there will be so
few prepared to fight it.”

“"V. M. I. reports on a speech by
Mr. Robert F. Moore, secretary of
appointments, at Columbia Uni-
versity. The speech dealt with the
confusion raised today in the minds

of college graduates because of the
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THE COLLEGE NEWS

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PENN POINTS

By Jessie Stone, ’44°



Last week both the CIO and AFL
held their state conventions, the
former at Pittsburgh, the latter at
Scranton... They were important
events, important for labor, for the|
country and for the war. The CIO,
convention focused, as it were, a|
great national labor. question. For'|
it. is in Pennsylvania - that the|
United Mine Workers, John L.
Lewis’ stronghold, is most power-
ful; consequently the Lewis faction |

met its test at Pittsburgh. |

Philip Murray’s opening address,
supported..President Roosevelt’s 1
point economic program. He de-!

nounced the “back-stabbing” poli-|

cies of Lewis adherents and de-|
manded co-operation-with-the CIO’s |

leadership “in only one war, the|
war to beat the Axis.” A series of |



speakers, among whom were na-|
tional leaders of the United Mine|
Workers, voiced support for Mur-;
ray’s position.

Thursday, however, when a large
number of delegates from the Steel
Workers Organizing Committee |
were absent, the Lewis forces were
able to defeat a resolution which
called for the exposure of “disrup-
tors of the labor movement as
agents of the Axis powers.” The}
Lewis men called the resolution a)
direct attack on Lewis and a sud-;
denly organized stampede momen-
tarily threw the convention into
disorder. After several votes, the!
Lewis followers emerged success-|
fully from this particular issue. |

However, the next day the sup-
porters of Murray were able to
claim a victory in the unanimous
adoption of the report of the com-
mittee on officers, The report’s
significant portion was as follows:
“Under his leadership (Murray’s)
the CIO has given brilliant guid-|
ance to the working people of
America in furthering the victory
drive of President Roosevelt and
our government in a war to destroy
Hitlerism and Japanese aggression
and in exposing to public view the
saboteurs who would destroy Amer-
ican labor and our own beloved
nation.”

One encouraging and interesting
event was the enthusiastic recep-
tion by the AFL convention of a'
wire from the National Maritime|
Union, CIO. The greeting follows:
“The Pittsburgh Branch of the

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Book Drive

The Victory Book Cam-
paign sponsored by the U. S.
O. is being continued. When *
you houseclean ‘at* the end
of this year, see whether you
can’t find at least one book
that might be read by mem-
bers of the armed forces for
either pleasure or profit. If
you do, bring it to the Book-
shop which is still acting as
collection center,











Garden Party is a-commin’!

To JEANNETT’S you'll

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Friday, May 15
Last Day of Classes. Sen-
ior Speeches, 12.45.

Saturday, May 16
One-Act Plays, Theatre
Workshop, 8.00 P. M.

Monday, May 18
Final Examinations begin.

Saturday, May 30
Final Examinations end.
Junior Prom, Gymnasium,
9.00 P. M.

Sunday, May 31
Baccalaureate Service. The
Reverend Vivian T. Pom-
eroy, of Milton, Mass.
Goodhart, 8.30 P. M.

Monday, June 1
Garden Party, Wyndham
Garden, 4.00 P. M.
Concert in Honor of Presi-

Tuesday, June 2
Conferring of Degrees at
the Close of the Fifty-Sev-
enth Academic, Year.
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COG oii Cea eas Fourth

Walker, Miles, Hersey, Nicholson
Pair Class

Hergey and Bloomfield .......... First

Glogsbrenner and Estabrook ...Second

PIA ONG PLUCRICN oe evecesve ses Third

Walker and Cecil
Musical Chairs (in which four
Princeton men participated)

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F lashing Swords and Backstage Confusion -
Mark Colorful Performance of ‘Patience’



By Barbara Gumbel, ’44

The swords were drawn in a
bright salute, then were sheathed;
that is, all but for one they wete.
What happened to that poor\lone
one? Was it subsequently \and
slyly admitted to its seabbard or
did it quietly seek refuge behind |
the scenery? Nobody knows, but|
that is not what keeps us awake|
these beautiful, cold May nights.|
Rather it is this question that|
pounds at our brain: why were |
Grosvenor and Bunthorne in step |
for their first encore when they, |
shall we say, used opposite feet |
both before and after this notable |
event.

Trivial trivialities backstage: |
“Love-Sick Maidens in their}
groups,” cried Mr. Alwyne, but!
one of the maidens was at that ||
moment cavorting at Haverford. |
A few tense minutes passed, finally |
the delinquent arrived, and a wild,
rush was on to get her dressed, |





Speaking of dressing, the afore-|
said Grosvenor executed a thirty

second change during the last act

with much dexterity, For his bene-
fit a screen had been set up back-
stage, a screen that, we regret to
say, gave every sign of toppling
over at any minute. There was
trouble too, with the scenery de-|
partment: Envisage Lady Jane!



age in leather as yet, we hope that
a certain Haverford dragoon will
have no trouble in procuring
patches. This stage work is cer-
tainly hard on those too big for
their breeches! ;

. After the performance we found
Patience tearing around, that is,
tearing off all mustaches and







beards that adorned the manly
members of the Cap nd Bells.
Oh’s and ah’s of recognition, sur-
prised gasps and so-that’s-who-it-
was’s rose from all sides.

As grand finale, Spencer Stuart,
a blond Haverford stage follower,
guided a piece of stage apparatus
up—all the way. Yes, there he
hung about fifteen feet above the
stage, saved from looking like one
of our anthropoidic ancestors by a
lovely spring suit. Ah spring!





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grasping at one of the synthetic)
trees to keep from falling during |
her exit in chase of Bunthorne, a

stage-hand behind the scene des-| .

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who had to go and wax that one|.

spot on the stage? After all, my|
lady slipped on it after her encore
too!

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Spanish Club Movie
Asks for Effective
Good Neighbor Policy

Common Room, May 11.—Ameri-
cans All, the Spanish Club’s movie,
made a plea for further communi-
cation with Latin America. The
Good Neighbor policy is no longer
a phrase; it has become a fact. Its

depends
in both



successful continuation
upon American youth,
North and South.

With fine shots of South Amer-
\ca and its life, the high Andes,
the Aztec ruins, the rich soil, the
browned faces, the movie, arranged
by the Office of the Co-ordination
of International Affairs, deplored
the fact that we know little about
our fifty million young American
neighbors. Settled 450 years ago,
Latin America broke the chains of
slavery tying it to Spain and Por-
tugal in the early nineteenth cen-

tury, and still later broke the com-|:

mercial bonds and high tariffs still
tying it to Europe. With the help
of United States planes and mod-
ern methods of communication, the
twenty South American republics
have become united.

Its youth now strives to make a
new world, fighting illiteracy and
disease, making fullest use of their
rich resources. In this effort North
American youth must lend its aid.



Civvies, Not Uniforms,
Attract Bryn Mawr



Gymnasium, May 9.—Following
the performance of Patience, the
gym Saturday night was the scene
of Bryn Mawr’s annual Spring
Dance. The University of Penn<
sylvania—Orehestra played in full
force, and during the intermission
everyone had the great satisfac-
tion of hearing the Main Line
Singers present a program of spir-
ituals.

Specially to be noticed were the
decorations. The walls were hung
with pine boughs and white lan-
terns, contrasting effectively with
the dark gauze ceiling. At the
same time the smell of purple lilacs
on the fringing tables filled the
whole room.

Noticeable among the dancers
were the representatives of the
Navy in their “dress whites.” Here
and there an army uniform could
be seen, but on the whole civilians
and Haverford. predominated.

Although mild confusion reigned
each time it came to be a question
of finding one’s next dance part-
ner, the dance was on the whole
conceded to be a great success.



Mathematics Relate
Symmetry Concepts



Continued from Page One

number proved unsuccessful. Egyp-
tian craftsmen knew 17 inequiva-
lent automorphisms of a lattice, but
only in 1926 was it proved that
those 17 exhausted all possibilities.
The proof can be attacked in two
ways. Starting with a given metric
fixes the choice of constants of
linear combinations of the trans-
formations. In the other more
common method, one starts with the
requirement of an invariant lat-
tice, and so the metric is deter-
mined; in either case the number
of possibilities is reduced to 17.
Dr. Weyl asserted in the three-
dimensional case a similar pro-



Junior Prom

The Junior Prom will be
held May 30, in-the-gymna-
sium. Continuous music will
be supplied’by Herbie Woods
with his orchestra of twelve
men and a girl voealist. The
dance will last from nine to
two o’clock and is in honor of
the Senior Class. All under-
graduates including Garden
Party girls and freshmun
and sophomore choir mem-
bers are invited to attend.

There will be twelve card
dances with continuous cut-
fing. Admission is three
dollars per couple regardless
of the number of stags a girl
brings. Tickets will be on
sale soon with hall* dance
representatives.







Smith Only Scorer

In Series of Games



Bryn Mawr, May 8.—The Bryn
Mawr tennis team faced experi-
enced opponents in a meet in which
Cynwyd triumphed by taking six
It was by
no means a _ walk-over, as each

Bryn Mawrter, spurred on by the
sharp competition, fought her hard-
est for each point.

The only winning match was well
played by Jane Smith. Her hard
drives were placed accurately, and
she rallied to take the last two
sets after a first set defeat.

Left - handed Chelly Chester
played a left-handed adversary.
The play was cautious, and the
two were well matched. Julia
Fleet was outpointed by — place-
ments, but made several beautiful

ili shots.
Na Norton and Frances Mat-
thai, both excellent singles ‘players,

combined their talents to form an
exceptionally smooth working dou-
bles team. But they were over-
powered by the hard overhead shots
of Miss Bowes, national women’s
squash champion, and the place-
ments of her partner.

Cecile Bowes beat Frances Matthai
6-1, 4-6,.6-0.

Sue Peterson beat Nancy Norton
6-4, 6-3.

Mrs. E. I. Beatty beat Julia Fleet
4-6, 6-2, -6-3.

Mrs. Kay W.
Chester 6-1, 6-4.

Jane Smith beat
Hawkes 2-6, 6-4, 6-3.

BoweS and Hackett beat Matthai
and Norton 6-2, 6-2.

Beatty and Peterson beat Chester
and Fleet.

out of seven matches.

Hackett beat Marion

Mrs. William



cedure is adopted and 230 possible
symmetries were found. Three-
dimensional symmetry has its most
important application in the inves-
tigation of crystal structure. By
means of X-ray diffraction, the lat-
tice structure of crystals was con-
firmed. |

Symmetry is of fundamental im-
portance in the theory of Relativity
and Quantum mechanics, the for-
mer considering the automor-
phisms of space itself, the latter
the arrangement of electrons in,
atoms.

Symmetry, Dr. Weyl maintained,
also plays a great role in Algebra
itself where it is closely related to
the problems of the roots of. an al-
gebraic equation in a complex field.



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And Beats Students

Bryn Mawr, May 10.—An as-
sorted faculty baseball team of
Princeton men, Bryn Mawr girls,
and five professors made its second
successful appearance, whipping
the students’ team 15-13.

The game was an exhibition of
baseball oddities. The faculty
handed over their left fielder to
pitch for the students, and there-
after she strit@k out ten of her
former teammates. The Owls la-
bored overtime in the fifth inning



the most Ripleyesque situation oc-
curred when three professors up in
one inning struck out and yet were
dancing around .the basepaths a
minute later. Miss Yeager’s fast
ball was so hot it even burned the
catcher’s fingers; her inability to
hold a third strike resulted in three
men reaching first base.

Phyl White started on the mound

for the Owls. It was only after
nine runners had trotted over the
plate that by a freak the third out
was made. Much to Phyl’s relief,
Mr. Gates painlessly ended the in-
ning by batting out of order.
The close score was the result of
a marathon around the bases. ~In
the last of the fifth Mr. Nahm
muffed a pop fly, Mr. Faris rolled
over and over on the ground, trap-
ping an easy grounder, and made
the throw to first too late. A re-
alistic portrayal of a tumbling act
permitted eight..runners to score.
But by mistake Mr. Faris handled
a roller and threw to first in time
to retire the side.

The proverbially myopic umpire
was noticeably absent. The sub-
stituté who was yanked out of the
stands at the last moment to serve
in this capacity proved not only
keen of eyesight, but also sharp of

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