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VOL. XXVIII, No. 25

BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., MAY

Copyright,

13, 1942 Bryn Mawr

Trustees of

Trustese ef. PRICE 10-CENTS





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
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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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