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BRYN MAWR and ‘WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1940

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1940

PRICE 10. CENTS



VOL. XXVI, No. 15



Zest, Vigor
Characterizé
Glenn Concert



Varied Recital
By Youthful Violinist
Promises Brilliant. Future



By Terry Ferrer, ’40
Goodhart, Tuesday, March 6.—
‘Carroll Glenn, the last musician to
appear on the College Entertain-

ment Series, played to an enthusi-,

astic audience at her vioiin recital
last evening. A remarkably vigor-
ous~attack—and- full tone chuarac-
terized her style, coupled with
warm if youthful interpretation.
Miss Glenn seemed more at ease
in the second half of her program,
where she showed great talent.
The first part was extremely ‘tax-
ing, and although Miss Glenn
played well, the compositions were
too much for her. She is an excel-
lent musician, however, and has a
real feeling for her art which
stands out in her playing.

The Corelli Sonata in D Major
gave Miss. Glenn an excellent op-
portunity to show her forceful
bowing and careful phrasing. The
second movement and its cadenza
were particularly well-played, but
the long and florid work was, as a
whole, not impressive. Miss Glenn
Seemed preoccupied with technical
details, and unable to bring out
the ability she showed later in the
evening.

The second selection, Concerto in
D Major by Tschaikowsky, pre-
sented technical hazards which
Miss Glenn overcame well,
there was none of the contrast and

shading of a more mature artist.
Continued on Page Six



A pplication Date
Set for March 15

All students who wish to
apply for admittance to the
French or German _ houses
next year must make ap-
pointments to see Miss Mar-
garet Gilman or Mrs. Max
Diez before March 15.

Language majors will re-
ceive preference, but all in-.
terested are. urged to apply.
Students who are able to
speak either language at all,
but wish further training,
may apply even if they do
not intend to take any sched-
uled courses in French or
German.









but

“THEYRE CLARIFYING THEIR VIEWS ON FINLAND.



A.C.



Maid’s Opera
Reaches Final
Practice Stage

By Betty Lee Belt, ’41

Goodhart is humming with ex-
citement and activity as Porgy and
Bess, which has been brewing since
Christmas, swings into the final
weeks of rehearsal. Due to face
the world on March 15 and 16, the
production is receiving its final pol-
ishing from Fifi Garbat, ’41, who
directs and Meg Wadsworth, ’41,
who has coached the vocal part.

Dress rehearsals will go on all
next week instead of just the usual
“night before,” and every effort is
being made to present a smooth
production, since the audjence will
include, among othe George
Gershwin’s family.

The technical problems confront-
ing the various stage crews were
many. Brooksie Hollis, ’42 had to
create the sounds of thunder, wind,
a siren, heavy rain, a steamboat
whistle and church bells.

In lighting, Jerry Catron, ’42 had
to produce bright lightning and the

shadow of a buzzard. The scenery
Continued on Page Two







Pem Easters Discard Decorum, Scurry
Brazenly to Keep Leap Year Tradition



By Janet Meyer, 42:
February 29, 1940, has its own
unsubtle significance. It is women’s
day, even more so than any other
day in leap year, and leap year
comes but once in four years. Fig-

uring this out all by its collective
self Pem East leapt to the fore

and spontaneous as an “Informa-
tion Please” program. All illusions
—and they were only illusions
wpren’t they? — of college dignity
to the.
winds as’ Pem East took action.

It was 8.30 P: M. when a brazen
Pem Easter suddenly scuttled from

- the smoking room and clamped on-

to one of-tkg local slot machines.
Two nickels resulted in the appear-
ance’ of 4 Pefin’Fraternity “and a
contingent. from Haverford. Scorn-
ing female decorum’ the blessed

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as unpremeditated, “unrehearsed



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damozels received and deceived un-
til closing hours with a coy effort
at masculinity. However, during
the brief interval in which they did
entertain, the showcase rocked to
the tune of “Someday My Prince
Will Come” (from Haverford or
Penn?), and other appropriate lyr-
ies.

Miss Matteson, when she put i ina
hesitating but ‘necessary appear-
ance at 10.30, had a difficult task
to face. Behind «an impenetrable
cloud of smoke and under the in-
toxicating influence of the jazz
bands of Benny. Goodman and

‘others, were concealed innuinerable

figures—all clad in trousers or a
reasonable. facsimile thereof. Dis-
crimination was hardly necessary.
because, needless to say, the exodus
was rather all-inclusive. Faced

with ‘brute self-government the

girls gave up their claims to man-
hood and signed out “escorted.”

Nationalism

of Argentine
Indians Noted

Music Room, March 4.—Dr. Tor-
res-Rioseco, in the fourth of the
Flexner lectures, discussed the Na-
tionalist Movement in Spanish-

America as expressed in Gaucho
literature. The Gauchos, a race of
Argentine Indians, developéd an
individualistic culture, formed by
their struggle against the restric-
tions of civilization. Their Amer-
icanism was most fully reflected
in the epic poem Martin Fierro,
the novel, Don Sequando Sombra,
and the plays of Florencio Sanchez.

The Gauchos were a nomadic
people entirely dependent on the
wild cattle and horses of the Ar-
gentine desert. Because of their
primitive life, and their disregard
for law and property rights, the
urban population held them in
contempt, but nevertheless ideal-
ized their strength and courage.

Every Gaucho, Dr.” Torres-Rio-
seco said, was a singer. Although
he never memorized, he improvised
love songs and ballads for popular
dances. A class of traveling min-
strels arose. They wandered from
fiesta to fiesta, and their guitar
song was welcomed in every wine-
shop. Often Gauchos would hold
informal tournaments, or payadas,
in which one singer would chal-
lenge another to improvise on a
subject such as the origin of time
and space.

The Gaucho’s struggle to main-

tain his liberty against the laws of
Continued on Page Five

HELP DISPATCHED
TO WAR HOSPITAL

Pembroke West, Y gst, February 29.—





Th angwer-to a very urgent appeal

received- by -the French Club. and
the Bryn Mawr League, the Peace
Council has allotted 25 dollars to
the Hépital Complimentaire, in
France. . This amount has been
sent to Elizabeth .Ashwell _Ray-'
mond, ’05, who will buy and for-
ward the much_needed_ hospital
supplies.

The Peace Council has 150 dol-
lars in its present fund. It would
weleome any suggestions people
may have as to what organizations
they prefer to assist.



|Out-of-Doors . Pageant

FINNISH CAUSE CONTINUES

TO STIR CAMPUS OPINION



Faculty Collect Donations
Totaling 300 Dollars
For Finnish Fighters



-The faculty, committee for Fin-
nish defense is. continuing its ac-
tive interest in the cause. So far
it has collected something over 300
dollars from the faculty and staff

and turned this over to Miss Ger-
trude Ely who is the Pennsylvania
State Chairman of the national or-
ganization. Miss Ely reports that
this contribution is already in the
hands of the Finnish government.
Continued on Page Six

BEN JONSON PLAY
PLANNED IN APRIL





To Include Folk. Dances

Instead of presenting various
short offerings this spring, the
Players’ Club has decided to con-
centrate its energies on one big
presentation to be given April 20
on a considerably larger scale than
Time and the Conways or other
three act plays of recent years. The
club plans to present an out-of-
doors version of Ben Jonson’s
Bartholomew Fair which should to
some extent soothe the feelings of
those who wanted to have big May
Day.

The play was ae written
with about thirty speaking parts
plus many walk-ons. Players’ Club
is further widening its scope with a
galaxy of tumblers, folk dancers,
and other figures who contributed
to the spirit of Smithfield, an old
Elizabethan fairground,_The club
hopes and expects that all those on
campus who enjoy pageants of this
kind will offer their services. The
play is constructed so that. it con-
tains many small character roles
and ample opportunities for those
interested ;:in - stage production.



Scores. of costumes, for example, |

will have to be made, and the prob-
lem of arranging a suitable set mi-
nus the benefit of wings and foot-
lights will have to be solved. Fifi
Garbat, ’41, is in charge of direct-
ing the production and hopes, if the
sun comes out April 20, to put all
former Elizabethan pageants to
shame.



Stewart to Lead
League Discussion



A Bryn Mawr League weekend
conference will be held for all in-

terested next Saturday and Sun-||

day, March 9 and 10. The Rever-
end Donald Stewart, chaplain of
the University of North Carolina,
and rector of the First Presbyter-
ian’ Church at Chapel Hill, will be
the principal speaker.

On Saturday, at 4.30 in the Com-

mon Room, he will help correlate}

the League’s many activities in a
talk on the relation of the church
to the community and-to- welfare
wotk. ' The talk is intended, as. an
epilogue to the récent League ‘Con-
ference.

Private interviews will be given
by. the Reverend Stewart in the
Non-Resident Room .on Sunday
morning. Picnic supper at. the
barn is scheduled for Sunday after-
noon. A list will be posted fort all
who. wish- to go.- ~
' The weekend a Gieias will con-
elude with Sunday night chapel,
when the Reverend Stewart will
give an address, probably concern-
ing Christian ethics and the world
at war. :





Second Student Discussion
Unifies Former Views,
Provides Factual Base

PRO AND CON
DISCUSS LOAN

Common’ Room, March 1.—A
second faculty-student meeting was
held -Friday night on the question
of a United States loan to Fin-
land. The purpose of this meet-
ing-was to tie up some of the di-
vergent opinions presented in the
first and to give factual background
to these opinions. The panel of
speakers included: in favor of the
loan, Mary Gumbart, ’42, chair-
man; Madeleine Daly, ’42; Jerdie
MeCambell, ’40, and Beatrice Sachs,





.|741; against, Barbara Auchincloss,

’40, chairman; Joan Gross, ’42,
Louise Morley, °40, and Helen
Cobb, ’40.

Emily Cheney, ’40, as general
chairman, opened the meeting with
a summary of modern Finnish his-
tory up to 1937. The Pro side then
presented its principal argument,
that a loan should be made to Fin-
land as part of a moral obligation
to prevent agression. The Con side
argued that the issues are not
clearly enough defined for the
United States to take a stand on
the Finnish side. Arguments were
given by members of the two sides
on the relation of the problem ‘to
a moral obligation, to the likely
effect on the Finnish war, and to
the American neutrality law.

In discussing the government
and politics of Finland, Emily
Cheney stated that the nearest
analogy to the political situation in
Finland is that in France. With

six parties regularly represented
Continued on Page Five

CALENDAR

Wednesday, March 6.—Dr.
Erich Frank on Augustine
apd Greek Thought, Music

oom, 7.30.

“ Thursday, March 7.—Phil-
osophy Club meeting, paper
by Martha Kent on Metap)yy-
sics of the Artist, Common
Room. 4.380. A. S. U. meet-
ing Common. Room._7.30.

Friday, March 8.—German
Club movie, Emil und die De-
tektive, Music Room. 8 p. m.,
followed by waltzing in the
Common Room.

Saturday, March 9.—Bryn

»Mawr League Téa and talk
by Reverend Donald Stewart,
Common Room. 4.30. Non-
Resident Dance, Common
Room. 9 to 1 p.m.

Sunday, March 10.—Bryn

- Mawr League Religious Con-



ference, all day. Chapel,
Reverend Stewart, Music
Room. 7.30.

Monday, March 11.—Bas-
ketball. game with Beaver,
Gym, 4.00. Vocational Tea,
Dr. Theodora Able on Clinical
Psychology, Common Room.
4.30._Flexner Lecture series,
Dr. .To) Tes-Rioseco. on The
Cosmo politans-Rubén Dario’ *
and Modernism, Music Room.
8.00.

Tuesday, March 12.—Cur-
rent Events, Common Room.
7.30. Dr. Erich Frank’ on

__ Aristotle and Aquinas, Good=-
hart. 8.10. ~
__ Wednesday,-Marech 13.-—
College Council, Inn. 6.00.
Dr. Conway Zirkle on Theory
of Natural Selection Before
Darwin, biology lecture





room, Dalton. 8.15. |




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

Not Fighting Funds Now

Further aid: for Finland—Fighting Funds—should not come from
the United’States. Support for this argument stems from the exact
point where those favoring a loan begin: they state that here is a clear
example of wanton invasion of a small, neutral nation by a power-
seeking larger neighbor. The fact that England, ex-president Hoover,
and others whose beliefs we may not follow unreservedly, lead in
backing the Finns against Russia is said to be beside the point—the
point being Aggression..

The United States is legally free to give material help to Finland.
Therefore, the case runs, we are now bound to put into effect our
long-held conviction that the right of small nations to a free, un-
threatened existence must be safeguarded.

We join in the latter conviction. But no small nation in Europe
has breathed easy since, at the latest, Italy’s appropriation of Ethiopia
in 1935. Two main causes for this can be set: One, England and
France, who most safely could, proved themselves unwilling to face
the risks and sacrifices involved in a strong collective security position,
and preferred the seeming safety of alliance and rearmament. Small
nations were left to follow into allfances or keep a nervous, unpro-
tected neutrality.. Two, the policy of restricted trade and tariffs—
started on its cumulative path by the, United States—forced nations,
particularly Germany, then others like Finland, into bilateral economic
alliances to preserve their foreign trade.

We rehearse this history to show that the product of recent years



is a situation where every country must measure security according

to its military and strategic standing against that of its possible enemies.

That Russia joined the trend in 1939, after five years as the lone, force-

ful advocate of collective security, is hardly surprising. Finally, there
are indications—related by Barbara Auchincloss in the debate—that
England and Finland have had an alliance, unsigned, but perhaps
more concrete than a simple trade agreement. The specific assertion
that Russia's invasion. was completely and wantonly spontaneous
remains to be proved, or disproved.

Should the United States then contribute her sympathies and aid
to one, single, belligerent in Europe? We believe the above argument
is sufficient basis for belief that the Russo-Finnish War is part of a
larger conflict—not a pure product of some Soviet imperialism, nor
for that matter is Finland simply a pawn in.a diabolical Chamberlain
plot against Russia. The conflict arose out of forces for which the
United States, England, and France are jointly responsible. For us,
now, to rise against these forces by giving material help to one
belligerent is not the best way to retrieve past error.

Aid to the one means specific, concentrated opposition to the
other, that is, Russia. Aid to the one means cooperation with others,
that is, England and France, who are now openly helping Finland
against Russia at the same time that they declaredly fight Germany.
Once the Fighting Funds are sent, the cry that they are meant only
as a stand: against abstract Aggression cannot be maintained either
in the minds of Americans, or of the English, French, or Russians.

~ In a war between England and Russia, which is now too near for
he we do not want to see the United States linked in sd way to

the side of England.
_NoTE: acini sini does not paheepens the apiion: of the whole

Board. *











; lightly dismissed these days. Consciously or unconsciously, we occupy

Sen Muy Come, ond Men: Shay Gis ae

|The use of oo beautiful a thing as.our apare time is being far tod]

ourselves with an assortment of lectures, recitals, and other campus
with oh fae decoediectbaceiesad i

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Opinion







Required Philosophy Lacks
General Integration
Of Allied Studies .

To the Editor of The College News:
One of the few courses required
for every student in the college is
first year philosophy which she
may take in any one of her four
years. The course covers the his-
torical background of: philosophy
and serves as a foundation for
those wishing to take more philo-
sophy courses. At present it. is
taught so that it takes its place be-
side other first\year courses as a
study of theories and speculative
hypotheses arranged in chronologi-
cal order: with some analyses of the
thought processes they entail.

There is no reason why philoso-
phy should not be an active as well
as a passive part of the curriculum.
Students memorizing ontological
proofs of the existence of God al-
most invariably fail to realize the
broader implications of philosophi-
cal thought, especially as applied to
education. Those who protest that
the subject is dull have come to
consider it merely as an aggrega-
tion of ideas most of which have
been disgroven by modern thinkers
and which appear to have little ap-
plication. If philosophy wereiuied
as a means-of integrating informa-
tion received at college it would be-
come more immediate and signifi-
cant, yet it would be a mistake to
neglect the survey of great think-
ers. Conceivably the problem might
be solved to the greatest benefit of
all if every student took one semes-
ter of philosophy when entering
college in which she would be in-
troduced to five or six of the most
important philosophers, and con-
cluded her four college years with
a second semester of philosophy.
This latter course might run paral-
lel to the Man and Society course
given by Mr. Weiss this year and
could vary according to the inter-
ests of the individual. In this way
she could co-ordinate her knowl-
edge, thus enhancing its value.
The inadequacies of this course
would result from the limitations
of the student’s experience and
clearly reveal these limitations to
her.

There is no field in which clear
thinking is not essential and syn-
theses of this kind could not be ap-
plied. There is no reason why
Bryn Mawr students should not
make positive use of philosophy.

J.M.B. ’41.





Meagre Flexner Audience
Protested

To the Editor of The News:

I protest. There have been four
Flexner Lectures to date with such
a meagre attendance that you
would have thought all professors
were serving quizzes and papers on
the daily menu. But that’s not it.
This year is no different from pre-
vious years and I don’t know who is
to blame. Perhaps the college
should give the speaker more pub-
licity because somehow you can’t
stick a pin in every disinterested
freshman, uninterested sophomore,
lazy junior, and busy senior. This
year the lectures are on South
American Literature’ and there is



should be. However, there are

tunity. Members of the faculty,

no course on the subject in college}
—which by the way there certainly

thosé who~recognize their oppor-! Peer

Play Readings

There will be readings of
plays every. Wednesday night
at 7.30 in the Theatre Work-
shop. Everyone interested is
invited to come. Next Wed-
nesday will be Noel Cow- -
ard’s Design for Living.

“x







graduate students and a miscella-
neous group of other persons go—
but not the undergraduates. Yet
there could not be a more up-to-the-
minute subject, with the. growing
importance of South America in its
¥elations with the United States
and with the effort all over the
country to interest particularly stu-
dents in Latin America. We stew
over the history and literature of
Europe, Asia, the United States
and innumerable God - forsaken
spots, but hardly a spark of inter-
est arises when polite sugges-
tion is made that we limit ourselves
temporarily to a study of the liter-
ature of our closest. neighbor.
B.A.B., °42.



Bryn Mawr Hoopsters
Famous at Yale



To the Editor of The News:

This is a letter from a brother
at Yale in appreciation of the bas-
ketball team’s latest victories:

’“Inspired by Bryn Mawr’s gal-
lant victory on the Basketball court
yesterday:

Soror-extra-bella-basketballa
(Excerpt)
“O Bryn Mawr quintessent quintet,
You’ve won another game!
You bloody, fighting, foolish five,
We’re proud, proud of your Far-
lung Fame!

“O take me back to the Campus
Green
Where those
walk,
Where the slender shooters lean

And the fiery forwards stalk.

“O you rugged ranking daughters!
O you forceful, Flaying Fems!
O you Nymphs from Nile’s waters!
O Aphrodite’s gems!
* * *
“O Bryn Mawr, Bryn Mawr, Bryn
Mawr!
You source of courtsters cute!
O Bryn Mawr, sin more, sin more!
Hack their arms before they
shoot!”

Q.X.

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‘Porgy and Bess’ Faces
Final Rehearsal Stage

Continuea from Page One

crew, headed by Jocelyn Fleming,
’42 had to concoct an iron fence.
The problem of devising a quick
scenery shift was solved by letting
the scenes down from above, an in-
novation on Goodhart stage.

The group wi, ik it difficult
to procure a goat for Porgy’s cart.
Two Bryn Mawr girls on a Haver-
ford Geology Field Trip spied one
when they were delving for Wissa-
hickon Mica Shist. Mrs. Higgin-
bottom, the owner, has gladly con-
sented to let Fatima, a charming
young Nanny goat, make her the-
atrical debut at Bryn Mawr.

Costumes are being done by Kay
Hamilton, ’41, properties by Madge
Daly, ’42. Scenery was designed

by Alice Crowder, ’42.
een eenees Richard Blackwell





COW oss 54-4 *...John Whittaker
BERS .n ee ees-owveew es Hilda Greene
MR aia eh kevin Carrie Johnson
BOTEUR is inecenestins Doris Davis
SOO ev ew Cenwee cic Eddie Davis
ee or Ann White ..
At tevees cheyton “Coles +>
Sporting Life Svavntaee 1 Smith



PO rire ee Sylvan Jones



sideration will take a
common to all and





Perhaps this disinterested attitude a from inadequate part-
ticipation in the choice of such entertainments. At Present, the under-
; eae anarensre A medium through which to voice ‘an | opinion. |

“medium should be found in an Entertainment Committee with
daadiddatins of representing and acting upon student opinion.
Min se hs saliee Gal ar leat sk 18 be oes cola coe

active interest in a problem which is
is therefore ae of far more attention

gallant hoopsters|,



WIT’S END
Flow Gently, . Sweet Afton
Oh, for the days of the “Kerry
dancing, oh, for the ring of the
piper’s tune . . . the happy bleari-
ness of the indecisive, the gentle
fuzz of not knowing and not’ car-
ing. Time was when a problem
was not yours, but the next man’s.
Time is now whenXwe keep prob-
lems as we would ra its and they

are pushing’ us out of our com-

fortable chairs.

It is an ugly situation, but prob-
lem is an.ugly word. If your prob-
lem doesn’t fit under your. bed
where you have been trying to
hide it, see if. you can get an As-
sembly out of it. If you can, you -
had better be the one under the
bed. If you can’t, it’s more of -a
problem. than you think, so best
forget all about it.

Because _you.don’t-want-to-make
any trouble for anyone. Do you.
And -if you do, you are not only a
problem but. a menace. If you
don’t watch out we’ll discuss you—
‘in the Common Room.

Now look what you’ve made us
do. We’re all worked up, and
when that happens we get tired
and cross. And when we get cross
we want to cry, which isn’t fair
because all we want is to be happy.

“Do you believe in fairies? When
the first child smiled her smile
broke_into a thousand pieces and
that’s ‘how fairies. were born.”

In Philadelphia

THEATRES :
ERLANGER: James Barton in
Tobacco Road.
FORREST: No Time For Com-
edy, with Katherine Cornell and
Francis Lederer.

MOVIES
ALDINE: Edward G. Robinson
in The. Story of Dr. Ehrlich’s
Magic Bullet.

ARCADIA: Fred Astaire and
Eleanor Powell in Broadway Mel-
ody of 1940.

BOYD: Gone With The Wind.

EARLE: Gone With The Wind.

FOX: Henry Fonda in The
Grapes of Wrath.

KARLTON: Castle on the Hud-
son, with John Garfield, Pat
O’Brien and Ann Sheridan.

KEITH’S: Swiss Family Robins
son, with Thomas Mitchell and
Edna Best.

NEWS: A Star Is Born, with
Frederick March and Janet Gay-
nor.

PALACE: The Fighting Sixty-
ninth, with James Cagney, Pat
O’Brien and George Brent.

STANLEY: Spencer Tracy and
Robert Young in Northwest Pass-
age.

STANTON: Double Alibi, with
Wayne Morris and Margaret Lind-
say.

STUDIO: Goodbye Mr. Chips,
with Robert Donat and Greer Gar-

son.
SUBURBAN
ARDMORE: Thursday, Friday
and Saturday: Nelson Eddy and
Ilona Massey in Balalqika.
SEVILLE: “Thursday: The De-
mon Barber of Fleet Street and
Return of the Frog. Friday and
Saturday: Don Ameche, Andrea
Leeds and Al Jolson in Swanee
River. Sunday: Everything’s On
Ice and Television Spy. Monday
and Tuesday: Sacha Guitry’s The
Pearls of the Crown: ~ Wednesday: -
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of Chicago.















vyn Douglas and Joan Blondell ‘in
The Amazing Mr. Williams. Fri-
day and Saturday: Preston Foster,
Ellen Drew and Andy’ Devine in
Geronimo. Sunday through Wed- _ :
Lnesday:_He-Married His Wife,~
with Cesar Romero, Mary Boland
and Roland Young.



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_Page Three





Frank Talks =

On Dialectic
Idea of Plato



Absolute Truth Confined

<

To Intelligence of God’
In Platonic Theory



February 28, 1940.—“Plato never
changed his. fundamental concep-
tion of God as the transcendental
idea of the good,” said Erich
Frank, speaking on Plato’s Concep-
tion of Philosophy. In this lecture,
the second of the six philosophical
talks-scheduled for this winter, Mr.
Frank also explained Plato’s theery
of dialectic and his contribution to
philosophy and thought.

According to Plato, the true
being that the philosopher seeks
cannot be understood through “any
expressionable term at all. within
the medium of human understand-
ing, not even ‘in its highest per-
fection, the thinking of the intel-
lect.” Man can be satisfied with
appearances*in daily experience or
in science and here he can con-
sider his understanding to be a
certainty. But as soon as he seeks
the basis of all appearance, any
answer must be dialectic and easily
refutable. Thus, Plato writes,
“absolute truth is meant for the

' gods and not for men.”

To illustrate this point, Mr.
Frank used the idea of a geometric
circle. Realization of this idea in
a drawing is false for it results in
something not perfectly round.
Even the thotight -of»the perfect
circle is dialectic, for: necessarily
it is only the thought of the ob-
ject and not the object itself.
Thinking, Plato believes, is ‘‘unable
to preserve the transcendent ex-
istence as thought; it must anni-
hilate the thought to reach the
thing itself.”

To annihilate the thought, Plato
borrowed the dialectic method of
the Eleatics and applied it to ideas.
Every answer therefore to “what
is it?” must be questioned so as to
distinguish between being and non-
being, the; absolute and the finite.
Unlike the Sophists, Plato thought
the end result was positive. He
held that the final conclusion was
no longer theoretical, but was the
supreme. truth, the idea of: the
good, the ultimate origin of every
truth. This supreme idea is the
truth of the existence of the phi-
losopher himself which ‘cannot be
achieved except by a struggle for
self-knowledge.”

Before urderstanding the idea
of the good, the philosopher must
be purified. He recognizes the idea
“as just that which he himself is
not and which, he being conscious



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of his own limitations,:of his. own
non-being and ignorance, is able to
conceive.”

For Plato the ultimate wisdom
to which man may attain is that
knowledge and virtue are identical.
No one may recéive the idea of the
Good merely by learning words.
He must also live this idea in his
deeds.

The nature of the supreme being:

Plato leaves an eternal mystery,
something beyond man’s compre-
hension. The strongest reason for
its existence is the soul’s love for
it; the approach to,an understand-
ing of it is the method of dialectic.

Dialectic that ‘considers itself
the master of the logoi is sophistry
The idea inherent in. the logos can
be experienced only. as. the power}
by which our thought, love and
action are governed.” Plato in-
tended to enable the reader,
through dialectic, to produce the
truth by himself or through myths
to “quicken the philosophic eros of
the soul.” .The teaching of the ul-
timate idea can only be done indi-
rectly, by rousing the pupil to self-
action.

Since Plato speaks so much!
through other philosophers, it is
difficult, Mr. Frank pointed out, to
distinguish what his own phil-
osophy really is. The Seventh
Epistle, written a few years before
his death, answered contemporary
calumnies and false _ interpreta-



tions of his views. Even this work,
in which he speaks for himself,
still holds to his “fundamental
conception of God as the transcen-
dental idea of the Good.”

Plato brought a completely new
idea into ancient thought. Before
him, thinkers had expressed their
doctrines as absolute truths, and
philosophy as we know it today
was almost non-existent. Plato in-
troduced the idea that man. could
never know the absolute truth.
Philosophy Plato defined as belong-
ing neither to the gods nor to
fools: it was still imperfect, yet
conscious of its imperfection.



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The Male Animal Resolves
His Campus Problems
Into Season’s Hit

6
By Olivia Kahn, °41
Without question one of the









| brightest plays in New York this

year is James Thurber and Elliot
Nugent’s The Male Animal,:a top-
ranking attraction which can turn
people away from its doors night
after night. The Male Avimal de-
serves all the praise and attention
it has won. It is not only amusing
and well constructed but: it has
been staged unpretentiously.

The play, as every one probably
knows by, now, deais with a young
college professor who convinces
himsg]f that a former football hero
has returned to the campus to elope
with his wife. Certain scenes in
the play are especially memorable;
among these the drunk scene
wherein the professor and a young
campus radical finish off several
bottles and comment on the fate of
the male in all species, with em-
phasis on penguins. Other scenes
can also be singled out but actually
they do not stand out from the rest
of the play because its quality as a
whole is uniformally good. The
characters are a group of very nice
people who, being creations of Mr.
Thurber’s brain, are naturally
more charming, than average.

Elliot Nugent not only shares
writing honors with Mr. Thurber
but portrays the main character,
Tommy Turner, who teaches Eng-
lish in a mid-Western university.
Possibly because he shares in the
creation of this role, Mr. Nugent
plays it beautifully, alternating be-
tween timidity and bravado but at
all times extremely likeable. His

acting is completely effortless and
ihe has a tendency to slip in and

attract your attention when the
other members of the cast don’t
even realize he’s there.

Mr. Nugent is ably supported by
the other members of the cast. As
a whole they are very convincing
although one might expect them to
become types. Most of the tradi-
tional university people are there,

the young radical, the .over-sized

‘football player (who of course gets
along splendidly with Tommy’s
supposed rival), the pompous trus-
tee and Tommy’s sister-in-law, here
substituting for Betty Coed.



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row, he doesn’t even seem to know |’m in the room. My par-
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cosmetics, yet—in class today!—My Poet said: “Only through
artifice is the merely female transmuted into the ravishingly

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\Freshman Show Practical Jokes Result
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By Marguerite Bogatko, ’41
Came..Freshman Show and the
nicest girls, even the meek and the
sombre ones, became - violently in-
fused with the spirit of friendly

rivalry. For weeks the faces of
freshman and sophomore alike bore
an air of calculated cunning. How
sweetly they smiled at one another,
how innocent and wide their eyes
as they crept about in the dead of
night putting limburger cheese in
the ventilators, rotten orange juice
between the sheets, and sprinkling
the floors with ‘mixtures of Draino
and cracker crumbs. How every-
body laughed and laughed and
laughed. The sound of hapless vic-
tims being good sports’ rang hide-
ously through the corridors for
days. It almost drowned out the
low moans of those whose senses

{of humor had been irrepkrably de-
stroyed.

Then it was all over, until one
day last week when frequenters of
Taylor suddenly found the green-
sward heaped with piles of furni-
ture. It gave one an ominous feel-
ing. The whole thing had the air
of some particularly monstrous
practical joke. Closer inspection
of the matter proved that fears
were groundless. The dust-covered’
heaps were being silently and de-
cently carted away. No questions
asked and no explanations offered.
I just hope that no one of us, wend-
ing her weary way to bed some
night next week, comes in and finds
them, every last one of those
mournful, decrepit little chairs
piled up in a jolly little pile om her
‘pillow. How everybody would
laugh then!



POMEROY EXPLAINS |
MATURITY OF SOUL

Youth Must Outgrow
Its Shattered’ Beliefs

March: 3, 1940. — “When half
gods go, the gods arrive,” said
the Reverend Vivian T. Pomeroy
of the First Unitarian Church of
Milton, Massachusetts, in chapel,
Sunday night.





Intelligent people
analyze their disillusionments, be-
cause they realize that a small be-
lief which has been shattered paves
the way for a larger and more
permanent belief,

Happiness is an attribute which
comes when we have stopped pur-
suing it and when we have begun
to feel unworthy of it. Most peo-
ple are happy in their childhood,
Mr. Pomeroy said, because they are
sheltered from trouble and suscep-
tible to small pleasures. As soon

as they get out into the world,
they are bewildered and frustrated

because they have not grown up
spiritually. _They cling to their
childish belief that the world was
ordered for their benefit and that
In-
stead of realizing that “Religion is
growing up to one’s God,” they
take refuge in the idea that they
are atheists. Such cynicism is too
flattering to éneself to be lasting.
“Life is forever shorter than we
think,” he concluded: “It is too

short for cheap cynicism or utter
melancholy or despair.”

God exists for them alone.



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_HAMPTON SINGERS

CHANT\SPIRITUALS
IN BM. C. CONCERT

The Deanery, March 3. —On
what is apparently becoming its
annual visit to Bryn Mawr, the

Hampton Quartet from Hampton
Institute presented a program of



two brief speeches on folk-songs
and Negro education by the direc-
tor, Frederick Grinnell.

The first group of songs in-
cluded the familiar Down by the
Riverside, Jacob’s Ladder, All
God’s Chillun Got Shoes and You'd
Better Git Ready, with a new ver-
sion of ‘How I Long to See That
Day, which was distinguished by a
quick tempo and a curious bounc-

voices harmonized perfectly, though
neither the second bass .nor the
first tenor were so remarkable as
they have been in former years.
The second group of songs was
marked by an excellent rendition
of Water Boy, a solo by Jeremiah
Thomas, the second baritone,
backed by the harmonizing of the
rest of the quartet. This”section
also contained the most unusual

of primitive chant . recited to an
accompaniment, of stamping feet
and clapping hands.

Except for Keep a-inchin’ along,
the last group was more serious

in tone than the other two, includ-
ing We Are Walking in the Light,
O Lord, Keep Me From Sinking
Down, and the long, wailing Were

This year the quartet. consists of
Robert Hall, first tenor; George
Hamilton, second tenor; Jeremiah
Thomas, first bass, and William
Byre, second bass. Those who re-

member the quartet’s greatest bass,
John Wainwright, will be glad to
hear that he now has charge of a
deck on the Hudson River Line,



Negro spirituals, interspersed with| ing refrain. As usual, the singers’| piece on the program: Juba, a sort My Lord?





You There When They Crucified| and still occasionally joins the
group in the summer months.









The Clue that



Trapped

the Heirs of Huey Long

N THE MORNING OF JUNE 7, 1939, a hot

tip came in to the city desk of the New
Orleans States, evening newspaper sister of the
famous Times-Picayune.

When a truck drove up before a half-built house
in the suburbs and began unloading window sash,
the States’ photographer was hiding behind a
hedge. The picture he got touched off a string of
giant firecrackers that blew hundreds of Louisiana
politicos out of the public trough.

> For the license plate proved that the truck be-
longed to Louisiana State University—and the half-
built house belonged to the wife of a colonel on
the governor’s staff. Just a drop in the bucket of
graft that the political heirs of Huey Long had
been passing around for years. But the first case
that could be proved—libelproof, afrtight.

‘That night 64-year-old Jim Crown, the States’
fighting editor, sat down on his bed and sobbed—
reaction from months without respite in the front-
line editorial trenches. “At last we get a break!”

> With the fuse once lit, the firecrackers kept pop-
ping around the cowering Longsters. Three men
committed suicide; more than 200 faced federal
and state indictments, It had been a great spree,

- but thanks to the potions Picayune papers, it was

all over.

* * * *
They’re in the great American tradition, the dig-
nified old Times-Picayune and the rip-roaring,
rough-and-tumble New Orleans States. They have

a line behind them that reaches back to Ben:
Franklin and Sam Adams and Tom Paine.

ee otis actin amcor Ss ae, die
at the top of his leather lungs,
eons na keep step with him. Pulitzer and



‘> I’snot so easy as it sounds.

Nast pound him on the back. And through him
William Lloyd Garrison speaks again: “I am in
earnest. I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I
will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard!”

> Courage is probably, next to truth, the greatest
quality that a newspaper can have. For the world
abounds in forces, actions, events, and people be-
fore which neither man, nor newspaper, nor the
Newsmagazine, can be coldly objective. Silence,
indifference, genteel or amiable omissions are not
true impartiality—they are just what the forces of
corruption or stupidity v want, the broth in which
they thrive. +

> TIME has never believed that icy indifference or

“pure objectivity” is either possible or desirable in
news reporting. Any colorful, humanized story con-
tains something of the mental attitudes and judg-
ments of the men who wrote and edited it.

But over and_above this is the’ “igGnse of height-
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as it has other periods of crisis. These days are big
with destiny for our country and the world. And
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» paper; it has the same obli- -

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the U:S. that the best. dailies
feel toward- the people of
their cities. That obligation
means more than finding and
condemning the things that
are wrong. It also means
finding and supporting the.
things that are right.



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gray. The pepper-and-salt of ordinary human na-
ture... the protective coloration of the rascal...
the unprepossessing garments that can hide a clean
white lay

> Studying that gray crowd-picture, penetrating
its disguises, throwing a searchlight here and an
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reporters and correspondents again and - again:
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background.” TIME listens to people—all kinds of
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on the table, TIME editors still miss the last train
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and how to let the people know it.

> Judgments arrived at this way are not infallible,
for nothing human is. But they are genuinely re-
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“Varsity Outswims

Gaucho literature. ~~

THE COLLEGE NEWS

v.

~ Page Five







Fighting Mermaids
From Swarthmore



Tuesday, February 27.— Bryn) are frequent.

Mawr barely outswam Swarthmore
with a 40-39 score in the closest,
most exciting contest the Varsity
has met so far. Bryn Mawr, su-
perior in diving and carrying off
six out of nine firsts, managed to
lead by the small one-point margin
in spite of the loss of both relays.
Swarthmore won the free-style re-
lay by a matter of inches and Mc-
Guire gave Morfoot, ’43 a real race
in the forty-yard free-style, both
events creating much excitement
among the spectators as well as
exhibiting good swimming. Credit
is to be given both “teams for low

times.

Results:

9 at -Yard. Free- ted 1. Morfoot, °43;
. McGuire; 3, Line Time: 24.8.
«ae Yard Breast-Stroke: 1. Boal, °42;

2, Murch. Time: 32.6.

Medley Relay; Swarthmore,
Free- td Relay: Swarthmore.

Forty- ‘| Back Crawl: 1, Ligon, °40;
2, Tappon; Starboard. Time: 29.1.
Diving: _ Link, °’40; 2. Butler, °42;
3. Murch.

Crawl (Form): 1, Link, °40; 2. Star-
poard; 3. Pulverman.

Breast- Pay ded (Form): 1. Pulverman; 2,
Murch; Sayers. ‘

Side Stroke (Form): 1. Link, °40; 2.
Miller; 3. Tappon.



Torres - Rioseco Notes
Nationalism of Gauchos



Continudd from Page One

society was expressed in the great-
est of Spanish-American — epic
poems, Martin Fierro, by. ‘José
Hermandes. Martin Fierro was a
human hero, an outlaw and a
champion of liberty. He fought
continually against the corrupt
forces of civilization, rejoicing in
his personal freedom and solitude.
He was, in fact, an embodiment of
the national Gaucho ideal.

The popularity of Martin Fier-
ros was widespread. Those who
could read, recited it aloud until
they learned it and repeated it as
a sort of litany. In South Ameri-
can Universities, it was taught
with the Iliad, After the success
of his first epic, Hermandes wrote
a sequal called The Return of Mar-
tin Fierro, but it lacked the vigor
of the first poem, and was simply
repetitious.

Among other Gaucho: epics was
Fausto, a satire on Goethe’s work,
which reviewed the story of Faust,
but neglected its philosophic impli-
cations. Another poem, called
Santes Vega, consisted of 13,000
verses on the exploits of bandits.
Although it lacked unity and any
social significance, its countless de-
tails are now valuable as docu-
mentary records of Argentine
civilization.

The adventures of Martin Fierro
were exploited in prose and re-
duced to hair-raising novels“on.a
par with old western movies. The
plots of these books were melo-
dramatic and the conversations
fell into the corrupted slang of the
city suburbs.

Giéraldes found the’ history of
the Gauchos a rich source of ma-
terial for his mature novel, Don
Sequando Sombra. Gaucho history
had been divided into three stages,
the primitive era, the time of their
struggle with urban laws, and
lastly, their defeat .and ‘subjuga-
tion. Giéraldes’ hero grates
the effect of this culture: He is a
master..of.-himself,-a lover of lib-
erty, but.never a fanatical indi-
vidualist.

The Argentine theatre developed
from simple pantomines, reaching

its height with the plays of Flor-|

encio Sanchez. “He succeeded in

expressing the struggle between
progress and tradition which was
problem of

the . characteristic










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|Student Panel Argites

Finnish Loan Problem



Continued from Page One

in the Diet, changes in government
Political groupings
are based on an astonishing variety
of class, language, and traditional
differences.

The Lex Kallio, land reform act
of 1922, extended governmenteloans
to help tenants and laborers buy
land, thus increasing the small-
landowner group. The industriali-

zation of the last few years may}

also be expected to have consider-
able political effect by swinging
the balance away from the small-

farmer class toward the town pro- *

letariat.

The violent political action: fol-
lowing upon the depression resulted
in a one-vote victory in 1930 of
the growing Fascist group. The
election of the Fascists, supported
by the small farmers and the con-
servative elements generally be-
cause of fear of Communism, pre-
vented a revolution and inaugu-
rated a strenuous program to deal
with the crisis. In 1938, a trade
agreement with England began the
gradual diversion of Finnish com-
merce from Germany to England.
The years 1937 and 1938 saw a
favorable balance of trade reached
and relations with both Russia and
England improved.

Russia the Aggressor

“No nation that is capable of -aid-
ing a victim of aggression ha®a
moral right to stand by while it is
defeated,” said Madeleine Daly, ex-
plaining the stand of the Pro side.
“This is the only working basis on
which to insure an orderly com-
munity of nations.” Russia is
clearly the aggressor. Its demands
for a lease on Hankow, and for the

Second Team Loses
To William & Mary
In Gripping Contest





Thursday, February 29.— Bryn
Mawr’s Second Team missed its
mark by a score of 21-20. William
and: Mary’s reserves were just
enough sharper in their shooting to
push ahead in the last few seconds,
but throughout the game the score
was too close for comfort on either
side. At the start, Bryn Mawr’s
passes were clicking. As the ex-
citement increased, William and
Mary’s Lebair and Miller seemed
unable to miss. Bryn Mawr re-
sorted to a good deal of shifting of
players before they got a combina-
tion that clicked, while the visitors
made only one substitution, The
Virginia forwards were able to
drive down the center toward the
basket while their guards suc-
ceeded in forcing Bryn Mawr to the
side-lines. The two teams, how-
ever were equally matched and the
score oscillated back and forth un-
til William and Mary made the
winning goal.

BRYN. MAWR WILLIAM & MARY

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J Ue gar By ches acses vgs
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PETER si ees bin Meee REM EE C Bell
DOBLE ns si iees 4 Vein vies Armitage.

Points Saved
~ Bryn Mawr: a al 12; Matthai,
3; Finger, 2; Martin
William’ and Mary: ’ Miller, 9; eo 12.



Entertainment: Planning

The Undergraduate Asso=—|
ciation announces a morning
assembly on _ entertainment
planning, next Monday,
March 11, at 10 a. m A
student committee. has been _
appointed to lead discussion
of . various entertainment
problems, including schedul-
ing and choice of events. All
ten o’clock ‘classes will be ex-
- cused,





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Six Vanquish
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Debut of Squibb

Contributes to Glory
Of Invincible Varsity Team





Thursday, February 29.— The
Varsity romped to a 47-17 victory
over the William and Mary sextet
in .a well-played but rather one-
sided game. The visitors were no-
ticeably lighter on their feet than
opponents to date, and as a re-
sult gave the’ Varsity guards a
good work-out. However, Bryn
Mawr was much steadier both in
shooting and intercepting. The
William and Mary forwards spent
too much time passing to one an-
other in mid-court instead of either
shooting from there, or trying to
work the ball in toward the basket.
Squibb, ’41, playing with the Var-
sity for the first time this year
worked into the team superbly and
chalked up her share of points. The
Varsity did well in winning by such
a score for there is always the dan-
ger that a-favored team will do
poorly, even to the point of crack-
ing-up.

BRYN MAWR WILLIAM & MARY

Ligon GEES k: Be FOES hin cas Allen

MOUIDO See seh ease f cee beens Armitage

BELG Seek cee ses Fees asesies ces ouglas

meer (ORDt) kk Rei hea —
EE cia chsh Be ck cua kas Kyl

WAUNCHING 6. back 5 -. Mitchel (capt. 2}

Points coor
Bryn Mawr: Ligon, 17; Squibb, 10;

Waples, 20.
William and Mary: Allen; Armitage, 7;
Douglas, 8.



cession of the Aaland Islands and
parts of the Karelian Isthmus re-
fused, Russia created a border in-
cident. Claiming that this was
caused by Finland, she crossed the
border on November 29.

Part of Major War

Barbara Auchincloss, speaking
for the Con side said, “The Finnish
fight is inextricably tangled in the
major war, and we ought not take
a stand on aggression in Finland
ignoring the other implications of
the situation.” The Finnish coast
is of importance in the export of
Russian goods to Germany, By
making a loan to Finland, the
United States is lining itself up
with allies with whose motives we
may not be in agreement.

“The situation is not so simple
that it can be affected by a loan,”
said Joan Gross, speaking on the
Con side. An isolated loan is not
likely to insure a Finnish victory.
Even if the Finnish war ends, ag-
gression will not be stopped perma-
nently, and the United States will
be committed to further loans, with
a consequent piling up of war
debts.















’Phone
Bryn





Zirkle to Speak

Wednesday, March 13: Dr.
Conway Zirkle, Professor of
Botany at the University of
Pennsylvania, will speak at
8.15 P. M., in the Biology
Lecture Room, Dalton’ Hall,
on “The Theory of Natural
Selection Before Charles
Darwin.”







VARSITY TRIUMPHS

OVER VISITING SIX



M. Squibb Scores High

(Second Team Beats
| Chestnut Hill 32-13;
| Quick Passing Wins
|
|



Saturday, March 2.—The Sec-
‘ond Basketball Team cleaned up
its first victory in the game with

| Chestnut Hill’s reserves with a 32-
{13 score. The Bryn Mawr team
|shone in every respect and were
/not without competition. They
oo right into their stride and
snapped their passes quickly and
successfully, Their task was
| lightened by the fact that Chest-

To Down Chestnut Hill | nut Hill’s guards used personal



Gymnasium, Saturday, March 2.
—After taking the lead early in
Bryn Mawr’s

Varsity gained a comfortable vic-!
tory from Chestnut Hill, 28 to 16.
high-scorer for the
home*team, captured most. of her
Ligon,
"40, gave able assistance and A.
Martin, ’48, fed the other two for-
The Bryn
Mawr guards played consistently
anticipating the
changing tactics of their oppon-

the first. quarter,

Squibb, ’41,

points near, the basket.

wards from the line.
good basketball,

ents with commendable finesse.

Chestnut Hill weakened its team
play bya stream of substitutions,
hut several players displayed in-|‘
There were
-|far too many careless foul® on both
sides, Chestnut Hill losing one girl
from the game in the first quarter,

dividual brilliance.

_BRYN MAWR SRESTNUT HILL
MON WNwehvesecee Ne cecseeinns urray
Lo ee er f Fircevicnees Zintt
‘2 | i | ana RS evaseakea O’Brien
WONTGl y Ghav ties A ar Reynolds
MOCHEGE ccs cee We wiser O’Hearn
Jo DOOrt CORN) 6. Oy iaerervirds Cooper

Substitutes: Chestnut Hill—Hawks, Mc-
ginley, Young.
Points Scored

Chestnut Hill; Murray, 7; Zintt,
O’Brien, 5.

Bryn Mawr: Squibb, 14; Ligon, 10;
A. artin, 4.



On the same question of the pos-
sible influence of a United States
loan on the course of the war,
Jerdie McCambell of the Pro side
cited the advantages which will be
given to Finland by spring thaws
in the narrow, marshy fighting re-
Russia’s use of its mechan-
ized army will be made impossible.
The only way the Russians have
of transporting troops to Helsinki
from. the north is by the Leningrad-
The thaws,
by tipping the roadbed, make this
railroad incapable of use until the

gion.

Murmansk Railway.

middle of May.
Question of Neutrality

Beatrice Sachs of the Pro side
explained how the technicality of
the failure of either of the belliger-
ants to declare war makes the neu-
trality law which forbids such a
The immediacy
of Finland’s need makes the collec-
tion of private loans or the float-
ing of a Finnish bond in the United

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blocking tactics rather than the
usual zone-guarding that, is made
more universal by two-court. bas--
ketball. Effective “man-to-man”
guarding is difficult and it was
not very hard for the Bryn Mawr
forwards to pass around their op-
ponents to score. Chestnut Hill’s
strong point lay in their forwards’
shooting ability. But even “dead-
eye” Binder could not escape from
Bryn Mawr’s guards, who showed
remarkable tenacity.

BRYN MAWR PuEstNut HILL
PURPOMOUOTEN ssc Tie evivasdiia Binder
OO Pry ae f bc baeb es Thalmann
OL Be Oa wan ti ee ti eect cas by Aa §
Pieming 6.) ives g. ..Hesselbacher (c.
Auchincloss ...... ‘ Webs Bee Cummins
THROU iiccabiiake Bicetheesnive Cooper

Substivutions= Bechtold,

Chestnut Hill: Coboliere, ae iaveseeene

; McCarron, g.; Morris, g.; Way, g
oints Scored
. Mawr: mae 14; Fpcdenheces,
10; Bregman Bechtold, 3; F er,

Chestnut hill: Binder, 9; ck ica §;

Stevenson, 2,

A. S. U. Meeting

There will be a regular
membership meeting of the
American Student Union on
Thursday, March 7, at 7.30
in the Common Room. The
Bryn Mawr chapter’s plans
for the National Peace Drive
will be discussed. Votes on
the referendum on the Wis-
consin resolutions will be
taken,

The ASU meetings are
scheduled regularly for the
first. and third Thursday of
each month.









States impractical. Finland, the
only country to pay its World War
debt, can reasonably be expected to
repay this one.

y Me

Nar aL SOM.



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Common Room, March 5.— Will
Roosevelt run for a third term? It
is usual for a presidential candi-
date to declare himself in the pri-
maries, but it is doubtful whether
Roosevelt will do this. By refrain-
ing he is keeping the other candi-
dates in the background and leav-
ing a path open for his own chaice,
in the event that he does not run
himself. He will naturally want a
New Dealer, but at present there

are none on the horizon. Mr. Hull
is the favored successor.
the Attorney-General, is a possible
candidate, but is handicapped by
having held no other office.

“Great Britain is putting the
screws on Italy.” Italy, although
not a belligerent is not a neutral
and has been sending supplies to
Germany. France and Great Bri-
tain want Italy to take sides and
pressure is being brought to bear
on her by stopping her export of
coal from Germany. On the other
hand, England offers té sell coal to
Italy and to buy the goods which
are now being’ exported to Ger-
many. Italy has protested on the
principle that Great Britain is vio-
lating International Law. Great
Britain says that her action is
merely a retaliation against Ger-
many. According to Mr. Fenwick,
the justification of retaliation is
questionable but, it certainly does
not agree with International Law
when it effects neutrals.

Mr. Welles has seen Ciano, Mus-
solini, von Ribbentrop, Hitler, and
Goering. ‘Although nothing leaked
out from the Italian interviews, the
semi-official sources in Germany
have given an account of the Ger-
man attitude. According to this,
Germany is winning the war and
the terms offered are 1) an end of
the British strangle hold on inter-
national trade. 2) German hegem-
ony over Central Europe—“This is
our Monroe Doctrine.” 3) They ac-
cuse Great Britain and France of
stirring up Finland against Russia.
4) They require the “freedom of
the seas,” 5) the return of their
colonies. What Mr. Welles can get
from his foreign visit is a shrewd
impression of the men conducting
the war and thereby a chance “to
read between the lines” what terms
will be accepted. Mr. Fenwick sees
no chance of peace until the United
States “is prepared not only to as-









sist in formulating terms of a just}

peace but to maintain them when
formulated. This so far the Amer-
ican public is not prepared to do.”



Faculty Contributes
300 Dollars to Finns

Continued from Page One



The faculty committee does not
intend to conduct any canvass of
students, but they will be glad to
receive any voluntary contribu-
tions from’ students and transmit
them in the name of the college to
the national organization. Cheques
should be made payable to Fight-
ing Funds for Finland, Inc. Cash
contributions, however small, will
also be gladly received by any
member of the faculty committee:
T. Robert S. Broughton
Grace A. de Laguna
Frederica de Laguna
Richmond Lattimore
Donald W. MacKinndfi
Mildred B. Northrop
Laurence Stapleton

Jackson, |

THE COLLEGE NEWS



Greater Interest
In Political System —
Is Republican Advice

Miss O’Daniel spoke on “The Re-
publican Record,” pointing out the
fact that the Democrats were not
the first to introduce relief meas-
ures and reform legislation. Most
people, she said, seem to think that
no progressive action was taken
until Roosevelt came into office.

Miss O’Daniel stressed the im-

portance of younger people taking
an interest in party politics. The
'two main parties today have the
same objectives but different meth-
ods of pursuing them. No party
has a perfect program, but it is for
the individual to decide to follow
the party she considers 51% right.
The government of the United
States is so organized that the in-
dividual could play a much more
important part than at present,
The government and the party sys-
tem would benefit greatly if there
were more interest in local politics
and in the work of the congress-
men. Miss: O’Daniel compared the
campus to a political ward and
said that it provided a good oppor-
tunity for practicing party meth-
ods.

After Miss O’Daniel’s speech the
Young Republican Club adopted
the constitution prepared by the
steering committee and elected its
officers:

Georgia Trainer, President;
Prudy Welleman, Vice-President;
Sarah Mosser, Secretary and Bev-
erly Banks, Treasurer.









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German Movie
On Friday, March 8, the
German. movie, Emil und die
Detektive, will be shown in
the Music Room, at 8 p. m.

admission of _ twenty, - five
cents. The movie concerns
young Emil’sadventures

+ while tracking the thief of
his purse through the streets
of Berlin. After the showing,
the German Club is giving an
informal dance in the Com-
mon Room. The Haverford
German Club has been in-
vited to attend and waltzing
will be the order of the eve-
ning..



Everyone is invited with an th spirited,





ABEL TO SPEAK
AT JOB COUNCIL

‘Theodora Mead Abel, director of

research of the trade extension
classes’ in New York, will speak
6ti Monday, March 11, atthe ses-
sion on vocational counsel.

Mrs. Abel is a B.A. of Vassar,
1921. In 19238, she took a Psycho-
logical Diploma in Paris; in the
two succeeding years, at Columbia,

she took her M.A. and Ph.D.

As well as directing psychologi-
cal research, Mrs. Abel is at pres-
ent consulting psychologist at the
Chapin School. She is also an
author of many articles in Psy-
chology journals.









Zest, Vigor Characterize
| Carroll Glenn Concert



Continued from Page Ona

Miss Glenn’s interpretation was

especially in the last
\ i

movement, yet there was a feeling

of overemphasis ‘in certain pass-

ages. The difficult runs and high
notes in the Canzonetta wére well-
handled. During the last part of
the final Allegro vivacissimo, Miss
Glenn was. self-assured and com-
pletely in control.

A group of three pieces opened
the latter half of the program,
Bloch’s Nigun, Chopin’s E Minor
Nocturne arranged by Auer, and
Sonatensatz by Brahms. Miss Glenn
was well supported by her accom-
panist, William Schatzkamer, in
rendering the peculiar harmonics
and model feeling of the Nigun.
The Nocturne was one of the high
spots of the evening.* Sustained
and rich tone were achieved despite
an inferior instrument which re-
quired constant tuning. The phras-
ing was particularly effective, and
showed a good musical understand-
ing. Sonatensatz was vigorously
played, and marked the point in
the program when both Miss Glenn
and the audience began to enjoy
themselves.

The Jota (De Falla-Kochanski)
which followed was a_ strongly
rhythmic and well-contrasted Span-
ish Dance. Miss Glenn’s pizzicato

was precise and strong and gave
a guitar-like effect to the piece.

from. the. purely. rhythinic work,
andthe muted close was most effec-
tive. The audience was so enthusi-

astic that Miss Glenn repeated the
selection.

In Ravel’s Piece en forme de
Habanera, the lovely melody on
muted strings was played with
feeling by Miss Glenn. The fa-
miliar Danse Espagnole from “La
Vida Breve” by De Falla has been
arranged for violin and piano by
Fritz Kreisler, and Miss Glenn ren-
dered it with spirit. :

Of the three encores, Melody
from “Orpheus” by Gluck, Kreis-
ler’s Schon Rosemarin, and Wie-
niawski’s Obertasse, the Kreisler
was especially good. Miss Glenn
and Mr. Schatzkamer played this
lilting waltz lightly and charming-
ly: The “hiccups” of the Ober-
tasse were most amusing, especially
after Miss Glenn’s explanation of
the ‘‘overflowing cups.” Miss Glenn
showed real talent and musician-
ship in her short selections, and
her future should be a bright one.



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