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‘THE COLLEGE NEWS
2-616
VOL. XXIX, No. 2
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BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1942
goohy Cant,
Sryn Mawr College, 1942
Trustees of
PRICE 10 CENTS
/ Freshmen’s Song
-Parodied by °45
‘At Parade 7
-Torchless Juniors Worcs
With Sister Class
To Fire
The Freshman song was well-
known to the Sophomores by the
time Parade Night actually rolled
around. The only thing that wor-
ried them’ was whether the Fresh-
men knew that they knew and
had changed the tune. Mr. Her-
man Giersch, leader of the band,
would not yield an inch. He said
he had led the band for thirty-five
years and never told on the Fresh-
men yet.
When the procession really got
under way, a group of Sophomores
who had been hanging around Pem
Arch asking questions, making
speeches about 6.30 A.-M. classes
for Freshmen the next day, and
generally being a nuisance, rushed
down and told the ring around the
fire the good news. Apparently, it
all started with Sylvia Brown, ’45,
getting the idea of playing Fresh-
man, and it worked. There was
the song to greet the mob, a hun-
dred and fifty-eight strong, that
charged down the hill. One happy
innovation was the Juniors’ flares.
They didn’t smell of sulphur (vital
war material) and they burned
brightly while they burned; which
was about half way down the hill.
The Freshman song was to the
tune of Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho:
Heigh ho, Heigh ho,
Parading we must go
From Pembroke Arch
We start the march
To meet the foe, Heigh ho.
Oh forty-six
We really know the tricks
We're big and tough
We may get rough
Those sophs we'll fix.
Sophomore parody:
Heigh ho, Heigh ho,
We’ve got you fooled and so
From Pembroke Arch
We too can march
To meet our foe.
On forty-five
Come on and let’s get jive
We’ve had enough
Of your cheap stuff
You:can’t survive.
| Shortage Results in
Gloomy Food Outlook
As Quantity Lessens
While fuel rationing will have
ittle effect on the campus, the food
situation is less optimistic.
We will keep warm this winter.
Whi'e the Theatre Workshop and
some of the faculty houses are
heat d by oil furnaces, the other
buildings burn bituminous coal.
As regards food, meat rationing
has not gone into official effect, but
many varieties of meat are diffi-
The
prices of pork and beef are the
same as last year, but very little
There is no salmon
cult or impossible to obtain.
s available.
on the market, says Miss Batchel-
der, college dietitian, and tuna fish
is 29 dollars a case, in contrast to
the nine to 12 dollars of last year.
Institutions ‘are allowed 75 per
cent the amount of sugar used
last year, and 50 per cent of the
coffee. The local rationing board
has requested students to turn in
sugar ration books, and notices to
that effect. will -be issued soon.
here is little supply of tea in the
country and no more is coming in.
lhe Tetley Tea salesman now sells
dehydrated soups.
Prunes and raisins are virtually
of the market, and Miss Batchel-
der has been unable to obtain cur-
vants for three years. As time
zoes on, it will be more and more
| difficult to purchase many foods at
any price, and the cost of food has
‘isen rapidly. Fewer college-spon-
orcd refreshments insure more
noney for regular meals, and Miss
3atchelder urges that the students
ooperate and avoid waste in the
in ng rooms.
Opportunity Knocks
Juniors and Sophomores!
Any of you who have the
journalistic urge, stop wast-
ing your talents and come to
the News’ try-outs in Good-
hart on Thursday, October
8, at 4.30. Free cokes! Free
food! The News will give you
details on further require-
ments. Try-outs will continue
for three weeks. If you are
unable to attend, please no-
tify Naney Evarts, Merion.
Redbirds Slam Homers in Yanks’ Backyard;
Cards Take Series With 4 Out of 5 Games
By Jacqueline Ballard, ’43
The Yankee monopoly is broken.
The hypnotic ‘spell last year’s
Champs cast over their World
Series rivals has been shattered
. by an infant team, the St.
Louis Cardinals, taking four out of
five games
The Cayinal rooters will say
it was tional League speed and
pitching over American League
brawn and batting power. Yankee
fans will insist the Cards just got
the breaks. We say it was a St.
Louis brand of enthusiasm tem-
pered with earnestness that rode
the Redbirds to the top.
At the last game on
couldn’t help f utter confi-
dence in Southworth’s men. Let
Rizzuto hit a home run, the Cards
would get back. And so it was,
a see-saw tilt, tied one all in the
fourth by Slaughter’s mighty
round-tripper. And again the
Yanks go ahead in their half of
th2 fourth, but the Cards tie it in
the sixth.
When Kurowski ect his sights
6
onday we
@
on Ruffing’s second: pitch in the
ninth no one could doubt that the
new World Champions had been
born. Whitey had been aiming
for the left field stands all after-
noon, ‘
Not enough praise can be given
the twenty-three-year-old rookie
right-hander, Johnny Beazley, who
never faltered ,when his team-
mates’ support might have been
less faulty. He showed magnificent
control. in his second Series start,
his second victory.
Sidelights on the final game:
The Cards beat their opponents
at their.own game, hitting two
homers to the Yankees’ one. -And,
needless to say, the greatest thrill
of all is the Cardinal theme: song,
“We beat them in their own back-
ecg . ‘4 ‘ : The record library in the
ee he: West Wing has everything
Our nomination for t Most+?" ¢.0h: Gershwin to Shostak
Valuable Player of the Ydar award
is Terry Buford Moore, |sparkling
Redbird center fielder.
* * *
Mrs. Joe DiMaggio sat a few
Continued on Page Six .
Marriages
Elizabeth Berryman, ’43,
to George Puckhafer.
Gisela Bolton, ’44, to. Lt.
Daniel Hogan, USNR.
June Hahn, ’44, to Robert
Whitehill.
Margaret Hammonds, ’43,
to Ensign Robert McCul-
lough, USCG.,
Sally Jacob, ’48, to Ensign
Craig’ Kuhn, USNR.
Jessie Kauffmann, ’44, to
Lt,. Henry L. Hoskinson,
USN.
Betty Kramer, ’42, to Stu-
art Brown, Aviation Cadet,
USA.
‘Virginia Lovell, ’44, to Lt.
John M. Nelson, USNR.
Jane McAllen, ’43, to Carol.
_ M, Holt, USN.
Cynthia - Nichol, ’43, to
Royal Zuckerman.
Lloyd Pierce, 748, to En-
sign—-Maleolm....K..... Smith,
USNR.
Carolyn Strauss, ’43, to
Richard A. Bloomberg.
Ann Updegraff, ’42, to Lt.
Frank Allen, USA.
Marian Wallace, ’45, to Lt.
Edward Stanard, USA.
Engagements
Mary Gwynn Carman, ’43,
to Quentin E. Erlandson.
Miriam.Ervin, ’44, to Fred-
erick Clark.
Lila Labowitz, ’44, to Har-
vcy Satenstein.
Miriam Wurtsberger,
to Richard Seidman.
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Alliance Board Plans
Intensive War Work
In Coming Semester
The Alliance Executive Board
October
mapped out a comprehensive plan
the
Several details remain to
met on Monday, 5, and
for intensified war -.work for
year.
be arranged, but the Alliance has
already set aside Thursday and
Friday of this week for registra-
tion for war courses. As its head-
quarters the Alliance has taken
over the former Defense Room in
the West Wing of the. Library.
The Alliance urges everyone who
pla|s to register for a war course
to attend regularly and to regard
attendance as a war responsibility.
The Executive Board stresses the
') special importance of the Nurses’
Aid and the Industrial Training
courses, since they answer an im-
nediate and specific necd. “Regis-
‘ration will take place in the Al-
l'ance Room on Thursday, Octo-
bar 8, from 8.30 A.-M. to 5 P. M.,
and on Friday, October 9, from
3.30 A. M. until 2 P.M. There will
be a registration fee.
The fo'lowing ‘courses are being
offered:
First Aid (to be given only in
first semester) Miss Yeager
Advanced First Aid (only
first Semester) Miss Yeager
Nurses’ Aid..Bryn Mawr Hospital
Industrial Training (eight
hours .a week)...In Philadelphia
Office Techniques...Mrs. Anderson
NOTION ..6. ccc hs Mrs. Towey
Community Service...Miss Kraus
The Industrial Training course,
which is given in Philadelphia by
the Government, involves learning
Continued on Page Three
_ Record Library
vitch. There are over a thou-
sand records, which may be
taken out. Membership fee
is a dollar.
—
Mrs. Harriet Thon, a hearer, and
Demand for Colle
Senior Elections
The class. of 1943 take
pleasure in announcing the
election of Harriet Case as
President, Catherine Clement
as Vice-President and Treas-
urer, and Mary Elizabeth
Sica as Secretary.
Several of Faculty
Leave for Different
In addition to the changes in the
Administrative Staff of the college,
there have been several new fac-
‘ulty_appointments. Many members
of the f
engaged “4n full-time or part-time
ulty are now actively
war work.
The following faculty were ab-
and will remain
away during 1942-43: Mr.
of Political
ence, is now serving on the Inter-
sent last year,
Fen-
wick, Professor Sci-
Brazil. Mr. Michels,
ment service-in Washington. Mr.
{tory of Art, is a Captain in the
| Marines. Mr. Anderson, Associate
| Professor of Economics, is Econo- |
mist in the Office of Price Adminis- |
tration. He returns to Bryn Mawr
-dvanced economies. Mr.
stitute for Mr. And2rson.
Thece
are on partial or full leave of ab-
members of the _ faculty
sence for the year: Miss Frederica
de Laguna, Assistant Professor of
Anthropology, is a Lieutenant (j.
g.) in'the WAVES. Miss de La-
guna’s course in Anthropology will
be given by Dr. Mary Butler Lewis.
The course in American Archae-
ology is omitted this year. Mr.
of Bi-
ology, is conducting vital defense
Doyle, Assistant Professor
research under the National De-
fense Research Committee.
work is being gtven vy Professor
Laurence Irving and Dr. Robert K.
Types of War Work
American Juridicial Committee in|
Associate |
Professor of Physics, is on govern- |
Soper, Associate Professor of His- |
once a week to give his course in|
Reder, 4
His |
ge Graduates
Stressed by President McBride
Trained Personnel Found
Vital to Effective -
War Effort
Goodhart, 80.—Col-
lege graduates are in urgent de-
September
mand, said President McBride, ad-
dressing the students and faculty
|assembled for the opening day of
college. The ‘stiff training college
| gives is directed at the intellectual
| vigor and accuracy without which
our war effort must be a failure.
There are certain jobs to be done
The respon-
sibility for these jobs lies largely
in the training which this college
and others of like purpose have to
offer, continued Miss McBride, as
|She stressed the principle that
trained minds are paramountly es~
sential for victory in the war and
in the peace.
The jobs to be done are of many
i different kinds, Miss McBride
added. The problem of choosing a
field of work is as difficult as ever.
The reason for this is that knowl-
edge’ and skill must be brought to
bear where they are most needed.
Individual abilities and interests
have to be recognized, as a person
'who will be highly productive on
one job will fail on another.
This does not mean that we
| should coddle ourselves as we did
before the war in the extent to
which we tried to adjust the work
| to the individual. We must plan
/our work in relation to our own
interests and purpose only in as
far as to guarantee the highest
which must be done.
Instructor int«Economics, will sub- | efficiency.
Efficiency is of supreme value to
the war effort, said Miss McBride.
It is important to know how to
analyze a problem, how to organize
material for its presentation, and
how to check the conclusions to be
drawn in its solution. This is the
type of training which college
gives.
Bryn Mawr is not following some
of the colleges who have this year
introduced a prescribed course for
the Freshman’ year: English,
American History, Mathematics,
and Physics or Chemistry. Such a
prescribed course neglects the ex-
istence of individual abilities.
The demand for trained minds
is not being met. We have the
skill for it, and the equipment.
Continued on rage Four
Enders, of the Biology Department
This is the end of an active sum-
Continued on Page Three,
Tradition Overturned as Undergraduates
In Radnor Get Queer Looks But No Keys
By Elizabeth Boudreau, ’45
This is a year of overturned tra-
ditions, at Bryn Mawr and every-
where else. Bedmaking by the
students is only symptomatic of
this disturbance, but the entire col-
lege has been tearing its hair, and
wondering what the world is com-
ing to, at the mere mention of un-
dergraduates~ living in Radnor,
sacrosanct to brains.
Since the authorities are evi-
dently somewhat chary of allowing
unhardened Freshmen to come in
contact too abruptly with the acme
of Bryn Mawr’s rarefaction, only
transfers are at present living in
Radnor; three Juniors, Marian
Neustadt, Honora- Thompson, and
four Sophomores, Barbara Sincoff,
Barbara Buchanan, Mary Wood,
and the Misses Parke and Mce-
Bride—Nancy and Maragrete, re-
ively. Mrs. Thon also func-
tions- as the Warden of Under-
graduates in Radnor.
However, despite their having an
undergraduate warden, Radnor’s
minority is disciplined. Unlike
graduate students, they have no
keys—that is, officially. But—and
I quote an eminent, if recent grad
—*it’s very easy.”
In spite of this seemingly idyl-
lic state of affairs, all these for-
gotten women are waiting, with
bated breath, for eight undergrad-
uates to flunk out, get married, or —
be drafted. One or two is not
enough, because they must all move
at the same time; one or two can-
not be left alone in' Radnor, a prey
to the Radnorian dissensions caused
by the insistence of the more fri-
volous elements on playing Strauss
waltzes, instead of confining them-
selves to Hindemith and Stravinski.
Besides, as one of the oppressed
minority put it, “You get awfully
queer looks when you say you live
in Radnor.”
ad
~
en,
which there exist difference of opinion are first, our state of pre-
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| Mixed Group Study | |rown: 45; Disguised a3 Freshman, Inspires
Found Unsuccessful
By College Professor
By the Associated Collegiate Press
Colleges accelerating their pro-
| grams might do well to have their
men and women students study in
unmixed groups to avoid ° time-
wasting.
That is the opinion of Dr. F.
| Kenneth Berrien, of Colgate Uni-
. versity, who draws his conclusion
from a psychology department re-
port on How Quickly Do Students
Start Studying?, as compared with
a similar suryey conducted by D.
C. Troth, of the University of Il-
linois.
Studying the behavior of 100
students, 50 men and 50 women,
during the first ten minutes after
-By pretending to be a Freshman.
Confidence and Steals Parade Night Theme
By Barbara Kauffman, ’43
Parade Night revealed a new
heroine. To a lot of Freshmen it
also revealed a new Sophomore.
Sylvia Brown, ’45, discovered the
Parade Night Song for the benefit
of the Sophomore Class which
promptly parodied it im the tradi-
tional fashion. How she did it?
they believed it.”
Last Tuesday, she began to work
out her plan. She told Freshmen
that, what with living in Low
Buildings, she had not heard the
words to the Parade Night Song
and asked them if they would tell
them to her. Unfortunately, the
Freshman Class had been eareful.
Not all the Freshmen knew the
“Tt was all very simple, in theory,|song. Sylvia tried again and
at least,” she says. ‘You see, Ijagain. “I am sure that they were
was in the Infirmary last May and not suspicious, but simply didn’t
had to defer two exams. So I; know the song,” she says. “I be-
came back early and stayed in | gan to feel that I was up against
Low Buildings. It was then that a stone wall. The worst blow’ was
the idea came to me. I carefully | when I finally found one girl that
told the Freshmen ‘when they came! knew it. She began to tell me and
that I was also a Freshman, but got to the middle of the first verse
had registered late and that con- | when we were interrupted. I was
| reading letters and ‘just looking
; around.” None of the 100 students,
they had seated themselves in the
University of Illinois library read-
ing room, Mr. Troth learned they
spent 40 per cent of the time con-
versing, aimlessly leafing books,
using vanity cases, writing or
men,
. The Colgate study, based on ob-
servation of 75 men under condi-
tions as similar as possible to those
he discovered, spent the entire ten|at the University of Illinois,,'
minutes in study. Moreover, the
women in the group were more
given to non-academic activities in
the-ten-minute period. than__the
the students began concentrating |
on their studies as soon as they!
[were seated in the library. |
|
Our Responsibility
How far should college equip the student for a specific war
job? The work is there, and it will have to be done by the girls
graduating during the next few years. In ordinary times, obviously
orily students with specialized interests would take a course such
as Photogrammetry. Now, faced with the country’s growing need,
many students will take.such a course, preparing themselves for a
definite war time job. Few would deny that this is the wise solu-
tion for the majority of us.
Yet higher education, as it has been understood at Bryn Mawr,
is something far different from special training for a special job.
What it means is the development of general abilities and general
knowledge to be directed towards any one of a number of specifie
ends. The method of approaching any problem, analyzing it, ‘and’
drawing conclusions from it, is distinctly more valuable in the long
run than a detailed knowledge of one problem. A varied intellectual
background serves more uses than one that is limited, however
thorough it may be.
This has been Bryn Mawr’s concept of higher education, and
Miss McBride was right to stress it. She herself proved that that
ideal is no less valid today than in the past when she discussed the
records of Bryn Mawr’s graduates. What holds good for them
holds good for the students still in college. The entering class will
not, and cannot, follow exactly the same plan. They must take
some time to serve more immediate and pressing needs. Yet if
they are to follow the graduates in their success, the best method
must be to follow them, as much as possible, in their training as well.
Second Front
There is complete agreement ‘among all win-the-war elements
of the’ American people that a Second Front should be opened,
simply because anyone who has thought about the question sees quite
clearly that it is only by actual invasion of the European Continent
that final victory can be won. Not only do the people support the
Second Front, but, also, to open it is the declared policy of our
government, as expressed in the Roosevelt - Churchill - Molotov
Agreement of June, 1942. Everyone, moreover, would like to see
the Second Front opened as soon as possible. The only points on
paredness, and second, the role of the ordinary civilian in helping
to launch the invasion.
We are not military “experts,” although we question the au-
thenticity of this term in its application to certain journalists and
lecturers who predicted the fall of Russia within three weeks, or
three months at the most ; who placed boundless faith in the Maginot
Line; and who were complacent about our defenses in the Pacific.
However, we believe that certain phases of the war effort not only
deserve our activity and participation, but also demand it.
Before considering the questions posed it is necessary to point
out that wars have never been fought and won by armies, generals
and peoples who did not wish that they were better prepared. War,
in_short, is always a risk. MH we were absolutely certain of Victory,
the Axis would be left no choice but to surrender. This is an ele-
mentary point which is sometimes forgotten. In this same category
belongs the importance of remembering that the time which we use
to prepate for an offensive,.of whose success there. could be no
question, is being used by the Axis also, not only in preparation to
resist ouf attack, but also to continue its own offensive in the East.
Concerning the actual state of our preparation, the statements
from authorities. are conflieting. The relative validity of these
various statemerits is a subject in itself. However, a point in this
SIDELINES
These are my observations of two and a half months in a war
plant working as a clerk. I made limited contacts, and was confined
largely to one floor of one” building of a plant which sprawls over
about eight city blocks,
In this job, all kinds of corresportdence went through my hands.
The office force, I learned, had been tremendously enlarged to cope
more effectively with the ever-increasing volume of work, It seemed |
that the girls in the office finished the work they had to do on time, |
although the general atmosphere in the office was happy-go-lucky.
The engineers worked the hardest of all, although there was plenty
of “kibitzing” among them too.
The company; which is-a monopoly in its field, was very pater-
nalistic. It provided athletic facilities, regular dances, picnics and |
other entertainment for the workers. The plant was organized by
the CIO after a big strike in the depths of the great depression.
The union, according to the workers, has done much to improve
both the wage scale and the working conditions. But with recovery
the workers lost thé tremendous interest in it which they had dis/
played when it first arrived. ~The workers-do-not dislike the union.
They won’t forget what it did for them. But they associate the
union primarily with their struggle for better economic conditions.
In the correspondence I have found frequent concern on the part
of executives for the new competition’ developing with the war.
For this reason they wanted to maintain some production for non-
war purpose.
I, perhaps, have painted a picture'that is not very encouraging.
It should be pointed out that I had no criterion of judgment and
also that the plant is turning out huge quantities of war material.
It received the Navy “E” and one of its divisions was awarded the
President’s flag, given monthly to the best division throughout the
country. Jessie STONE, 44.
connection that can be considered here is the alternative to the
immediate opening of the Second Front. Despite the fact that we
do not have exact figures on the number of troops Hitler has in
the West as compared to the number in the East, there is no dis-
agreement on the contention that Russia is engaging the greatest
number and best trained of the Nazi armed forces. To delay the
invasion is to gamble dangerously on the ability of the Russians to
continue to hold most of Hitler’s forces in the East, and also on her
ability to launch an offensive when the landing finally takes place.
Despite the gallantry and the epic-making resistance of the Red
Army, it has slowly been giving ground and losing tremendous num-
bers of men. As this trend continues Hitler adds more and more
grain, oil, coal and iron to his war machine. To delay, therefore, is
to gamble with enormous odds against us.
What, then, are we to do about-it? Is the Second Front a
question for military experts alone? Or is it not rather a military,
political and psychological issue combined? What did Wendell
Willkie mean when he said, as the official representative of our
Commander-in-Chief, that our military leaders need some “public
prodding” to open the Second Front? The columnist, Sam Grafton,
made an excellent point recently when he said that public clamor
for the invasion was the highest expression of the morale we’ve
been trying to build, that Hitler would probably give his right arm
to have the German people come out in the streets shouting “On to
Moscow!’ We do not propose that the people plan the technical
details for launching the invasion, but we do think with Vice-Presi-
dent Wallace and countless other Americans that this is largely a
political war, and that vocal popular support of it is essential for
that reason. =p |
showed that only ‘11 per cent of!
sequently there was no room for in despair.”
me and I had to live in Low Build-|
ings. It was a plausible story and |
Bravely, she wert on, however.
Tuesday night, she found another
Freshman. And the girl, thinking
that it was only her duty to tell,
repeated it carefully. “She wouldn’t
let me write down the words,
though,” Sylvia explained at an in-
terview yesterday. “I had to argue
and argue until finally she let me
write the first letter of each word.
That was after I had told her that
I had a very bad. memory, which is
one of the few true things I have
said in the past two weeks.”
Sylvia then rushed off to Lydia
Gifford, president of thé’ Sopho-
more Class, and read off\the song.
She didn’t help.-to make up--the
parody, however, because by that
time, she really thought that she
had better get some studying done.
“It’s funny,” Sylvia said, “I have
| never been ‘able to lie. well before.
But really this time I told the most
terrific whoppers. I went around
with a completely vacant stare and
apparently did it so well that some
Seniors took pity on me and asked
if they could help me find my way
around. I-even asked someone if
she knew where the Dean’s office
was.”
“I was really worried, though,”
she confessed, “when the upper-
classmen began to come _ back.
Vociferous greetings by returning
friends were hard to explain, but I
somehow managed to make my
stories seem credible. Then, after
I had found the song, I got terribly
afraid that the Freshmen would
get suspicious and change it. It
was just luck that they didn’t.”
“The only thing that worries me
about this is that it does seem to
give me a very black character,”
Sylvia added. “The Freshmen
now think that the whole affair is.
a good reflection of Sophomore
morals and I am afraid that even
now, I am not quite forgiven.”
Menace From Enemy
Haunts Reading Room
By Lenore O’Boyle, ’43
‘Our .worst suspicions have been
confirmed. For some time the
more acute observers of our varied
and fascinating campus life have
been denouncing fifth columnists.
These denunciations have been
greeted by raucous laughter, on
the grounds that there are no Ge-
stapo agents in the stacks. Tues-
day, at precisely twelve thirty,
exponents of the fifth column
theory received what they interpret
as definite proof.
There is a carrier pigeon on the
campus who, this morning, amid
girlish screams, flew into the read-
ing room. At first if was. un-
noticed, as one of our more in-
telligent witnesses felt that if she
only kept quiet and didn’t notice,
it would keep quiet and not notice...
However, just as it began to edge
toward her left shoulder, it was
seen by a. student with tendencies
toward hysteria. While patriotic
persons endeavored to seize it, sev-
eral cowards climbed onto their
desks. One imaginative soul did
what she apparently considered a
realistic imitation of a bird in
__, Contitued on Page Six
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Page Thre:
Upperelassmen Reta With ‘Aching Sacks.
Memories of Serew Drivers and Fly Spray)
Calendar
Thursday, October 8 *
&
By Anne Denny, ’43
The upperclassmen have come duced slashed skulls and inflamed |
back this year four months wiser. | appendices at the most awkward |
Jobs were plentiful this summer, |
and the plans- made last spring old, had few worries beyond those
turned out even more interesting of keeping herself from getting |
than promised. The college popula- ; too sunburned and passing | cock-_
tion worked with its hands, its ‘tails at a
brains, and its college training. |
|
Some Bryn Mawrters maintain
of work.
A group of Land Corps volun- | were deferred males. Bobby Kauff- |
teers, proudly displaying blisters | man, ’43, worked for the Herald|
and callouses, tell tales of the joys Tribune, and wrote up countless |
of working outdoors, and of the: sermons, |
agonies of aching backs. Ginny |
Fulton, ’43, worked on the assem- | ties for the British Raw Materials |
She | Mission, and brings us the fascinat- |
bly line of the Bendix plant.
| with college courses, such as lab |
that the best vacation from brain | jobs and secretarial jobs in various ,
work at college is a little “honest: offices.
sweat.” Farming and factory work | ‘search in chemical labs which pro- |
were the chief items in this type | | vided gaiety as well as experience |
News Try-outs. Common
|
.of four English children. who pro- | Room, 4.30 P. M.
Friday, October 9
Square Dance.’ Gym, 7.30 °
+e
Saturday, October 10
French Oral. Taylor,
| A. M.
... Sunday, ‘October 11
Rev. A. Grant Noble. Mu-
sic Room, 7.30:'P. M.
Monday, October 12
Self-Government Exam for
Freshmen and Transfers.
Taylor, 7.30 P. M.
;moments. . On the other hand, one |
girl, watching over a fourteen-year- |
9.00
ppropriate monients. |
Other jobs were more connected |
5 ~
Several Seniors did re=|
| because ‘most’ of their occupants |
Barbara Gumbel, ’44, did statis-| WIT 2S END
Knowing, as~we do, that our
became intimate with the manipu- ing bit of information that 300,000 | gracious readers ‘are awaiting this
lations.of a screw driver, and found
muscles she never iene she had
before.
the services of Jean Franklin, ’45,
who says she spent the summer
gazing fondly into the depths of
gas storage tanks in the bulk plant.
Taking care of children is an-
The Puroil Company had |
other category of summer work in- |,
dulged’ in by several members
the college. Alice Iseman, °43,
piloted twenty-three nursery school
children through Central
saw that:they were fed, and, she
says, spent most of the time in the
At
: “Let me tell you about what hap-|
Park, |
gallons of fly spray are used in one | | information in breathless suspense,
month in the Middle East. The! we start the year with a definite
Red Cross volunteers also had an) stand, We, and all other students
interesting summer, complicated |. a
“What shall we do with the blood?”
plasma which sat in the office for | faces 8s, are going to be the eighth
some time without a shipping order. | column; Our activities to consist
“What shall we do with the blood,” of sabotaging any constructive ac-
became the watchword of the office. [tivities of the fifth sixth, and sev=
Everybody is proud of her job, | enth columns.
The fifth column is easy to iden-
pened in my office this summer,” tify. Anyone whose birth certifi-
and “That’s what they tell me dow ni ‘cate is in Munjch is obvious. Then |
loose mores and _ dissipate
at the office,” have become idioma-| there is the girl who boasts that |
bathroom. Another girl took care
The college student ‘is no | her brother is on a German sub- |
|marine. This story will soon get
|around campus, and at the end of |
tic.
longer in an ivory tower.
Alliance Board Plans
Intensive War Work
Continued from Page One
“to operate machines used in War |
Industry, with the ultimate re
personnel
of entering industrial
positions. Miss Fairchild urges all |
students seriously interested in this
work, and able to spare eight hours
a week, to register for this course,
since. the need for industrial per- ,
thirty to spend the day in the corn- | less driving, and when we find out
sonnel workers with knowledge of
machine work is pressing. Miss
Fairchild also offered to conduct
-about-six classes in personnel work
for registrants in this course. It
is expected that Miss King and
Miss Fehrer will join in conduct-
ing this class.
The other important unit of Al-
liance war work is the Volunteer
lowing group projects: (1) The
Scrap Drive, (2) Farmers’ Aid
(apple picking, corn husking, etc.),
headed by Lucia Hedge; (3) Col-
lege Grounds Squad
snow, rolling tennis courts, etc.),
(shoveling |
at husking the big ears and storing | consistently avoid.
B.M. Land Army Helps
| 9
‘the Liseter farm near Newtown | from any war?
| the year the girl will get a marvel-
lous job in Washington as an in-
| terpreter, which is all the more
| reason why if you want to sabo-
| tage her at all do it quickly. Be-
Farmers Husk Corn, |
Stores Bumper Crop
| the enemy is listening. Do you
A Bryn Mawr version of the | have .any Japanese decorations |
‘from the Russo- -Japanese war?
Did you ever
Land Army put in a day’s work at |
know Mata Hari?
Square, last Saturday. Eight
Sev- |
Arch with Miss Yeager at eight- | enth column is influenza or reck- |
fields, where they were initiated | ‘will be time enough to worry. The |
| real menace is the sixth column.
into the art of: husking-pegs and | This is composed of the girls w bel
the methods of identifying differ- sing in the morning, eat a hearty
ent varieties of corn. They were breakfast of oatmeal, and keep
under the guidance of Mr. Allyn, | | smiling, just keep siniling. These ,
| the farmer in charge, and Mr. Wil- ‘girls develop their muscles, would
cox, the county agent, who was ex-| sooner be dead than polluted by
(4) Filter Station in Philadelphia |
(tentative),, and (5) Committees
Assistant to the Board, the Blood
Bond Drive, led by Bebe Biberman.
The Blood Donating Committee
intends to maintain a regular group |
Bebe Biberman is mak- | | very acute at, present, since farm-
ing plans for a War Bond Drive | Owners cantly afford the wages |
The Executive Board | being paid
of the Alliance urges that Volun- | This is a bumper year and there |
teers for these divisions, who will iS all the more need for harvesting |
be registered on Thursday and Fri- t hands,
day also, accept their registration | 4¢ranged, Bryn Mawr should be
as a promise to participate in the, able to do a great deal in this di-
work, since they will be expected ‘rection,
of donors.
on campus.
to report.
|
Besides these projects the Alli- ‘to Miss Petts or Lucia Hedge in|
ance is composing a list of guest, Pembroke West.
lecturers on topics of current in-
terest.
cussion of present day political and |
social issues.
Students interested in further |
information on the Alliance or in
working with any particular Ex-
ecutive Board member, are invited
to contact one of the following peo-
ple, according to their particular
interests: Betty Nicrosi, President;
Catherine Clement, Chairman of
War Courses; Rosalind Wright,
Chairman of Alliance Debating So-
ciety and Guest Lecturers, and Jes-
-sie Stone, Chairman of Publicity.
The Alliance also wens to initi-
sunburned and tired by the end of | shaking.
‘tion. | Lacrosse
The need for help of this sort is This is ideal lacrosse
weather! If fifteen more
It also plans to launch an ate correspondence with students in|
informal Debating Society to pro- China, Russia and Great Britain. |
vide opportunity for student dis- Jt hopes to publish these letters.
eee:
Division, which comprises the fol- | V@Tious types.
perimenting with the yield of) liquor, haven’t gone ‘out since
| January when they became en-
Betty Gundersen proved to be an| gaged to good old Joe Blow of the |
expert at managing the team of | forty-sixth division now stationed
two grays, Carlotta and Duke, | in Oregon.
while the rest of the group man-| And the eighth column? We are
aged to become moderately efficient | the girls whom all three, columns |
We kick the
Though | right leg forward and come up
For this did we rise
the day, the Bryn Mawr Farm | from the ape.
them in the corn crib.
donating Committee and the War! Unit felt that it had earned its pay |
and was ready for another expedi-
people sign up on the bulletin
boards in the halls, we can
start this week. We will play
Saturday mornings, so don’t
worry if you’re taking hockey
as well,
industrial workers.
If transportation can be
Those who are seriously
interested in helping should speak |
We want to buy a child’s bi-
cycle for Judith, age 7
Have you one?
Paul Weiss, Bryn Mawr 0291-]
ware of the girl who denies that |
We personally have never been |
‘would-be farmers left Pembroke | able to decide whether the
New Foreign Stuilents Reveal Impressions
Of American Girls; Show Interest in Science
By Elizabeth Watkins, ’44
* . !
| “American girls are more so- | but
{ment to make about it in general,
hopes that not everything
\phisticated but less mature than | ™M0Ves as quickly as it does in New
«
.
| European”—“American girls
socially more mature.” Thus, you
| see that the impressions of Bryn
Mawr’ s foreign-born Freshmen are
| different and original. - And since
_most of them are united on using
their education for’ yeconstruction
“ence predominates in their fields of
interest.
| The majority of the girls have
had a year or two-at American
private schools before entering ¢ol-
lege,
minia Malaret met each other at
Baldwin and ended. up as room-
mates in Denbigh. Ann-Marie hails
from Zurich, Switzerland, which
she left in a great hurry at eleven
o’clock one evening in 1940. On the
boat from Genoa, she made her
first bow to Philadelphia society by
| York City.
’ | summer
Hannah spent the
untangling New York’s
subway system and taking a course
in Photography. This is her hobby
and she is well versed in all its
mysteries. Another inhabitant of
New York City is Irene Melup.
Irene came to the Unitéd States
work in their own countries, sci- |
‘to eontinue
/ around
Ann-Marie Block and Her-
sharing a cabin with the Wana- |
‘makers.
‘either Psychology or Sociology.
Her talent for singing blends. in
very well with her roommate’s
dancing ability.
“Mickey”
She plans to major ‘in|
Malaret came -to~ the
United States in 1940 as a repre-'
/sentative from Puerto Rico to the
Junior Red Cross Convention, and
|stayed to finish her education.
| American customs offered some
| difficulties to “Mickey.” She found
herself following chaperones too
closely, and preparing to take her
paar with every utterance of that
‘exclamation of disgust — ‘“Good-
night. ” “Mickey” plans to major
|in biology as posSible preparation
'for work in cancer research.
Hannah’ Kaufman arrived in
Weer York after a harrowing trip
from Basel, Switzerland, through
| France and Spain to Lisbon. Han-
‘nah has been in the United States
| for over a year. She has no state-
from Danzig, stopping for four
months in London. She is anxious
her studies in Psy-
chology
Titia Hoven practically travelled
the world to ‘reach the
neighborhood of Bryn ' Mawr..
Titia was born in Java but re-
turned to Holland a few years ago.
Her journeys led her to India,
where she stayed a,year before
setting out for America via routes
east. Titia is fascinated by travel
and would love to become an ex-’
plorer. She plans to use her study
of history in work in Holland after
the war. Grace Lew also comes
from the eastern part of the world.
Grace in five years was bombed or
burned out of three homes in
Chungking, Peiping and Shanghai.
She is-interested in both-sciences
and literature.” She feels that
teachers of biology will be in great
demand in China after the war and
plans to make that her field.
These students were all impressed
by the great amount of social free-
dom that the American girl has
in comparison to the European.
Many remarked on the quick tempo
of American life and on its large
scale. European public schools
seemed much harder than the pub-
lic or private schools in America,
but Arnerican schools allow more
choice of subjects. They all seem
to find at Bryn Mawr the oppor-
tunities which will enable them to
help their own countries when the
war is over.
‘Demand for College
Graduates Stressed
tie ued from ave One
mer for Bryn Saar. Stated Miss
McBride. The American Friends’
Service Committee held an Insti-
"o
tute of International Relations here °
for nine days during the summer.
The members of the Institute were
housed in Rockefeller and _ the
| lectures and conferences were held
in Goodhart.
Two courses were given during
‘the summer under the U. 8; Office
‘of Education, Engineering, Sci-
‘ence, and Management of Defense
Training=-one in Surveying, Map-
ping and Photogrammetry, the
other in Analytical Chemistry.
Both the Air Corps and the Navy.
Yard: were very much pleased with
| the results of these courses. The
| Air Corps has asked to have an-
other group trained at once.
One of the War Activities on the
|campus this summer was the three
‘months’ Bryn Mawr College Sum-
mer School of Nursing at which |
‘eighty graduates were given their |
| pre-clinical nursing training.
| Miss McBride gave some sta-
‘tistics as proof of increased under-
|graduate representation at Bryn
Mawr. The fact that there are 172
‘students in the entering class—the —
largest number in’ the history of
|the college—indicates, she
‘that the youth of the country is
| anxious to help the war effort in|
| arrintelligent way.
said, |
Chapel
The Reverend Grant Noble
will conduct the service at
Chapel on Sunday, October
11. In addition to his duties
as Rector of Saint John’s
Church in Williamstown,
Massachusetts, he has also
attended the Northfield Girls’
Conferences. Through his
course in Public Relations, he
has become one of the most
popular speakers at the Con-
ferences. His knowledge and
experience in this field will
make his message to Bryn
Mawr unusually interesting.
Mr. Noble has been one of
the most popular speakers at
Bryn Mawr. His personality
and. his deep interest in col- .
lege students and their prob- ,
lems have made, him ex-
tremely well-liked.
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
a.
Unsophisticated Freshman Class Presents
Superlative Statistics, Unusually. Low Ages
By Ruth Alice Davis, ’44 | tle more than 11 per cent, while
Illustrative of the unsophistica- | the southerners make up 7 per cent.
ti € this vear'a Wreahinan Class | Those from the Middle States con-
wisest gis ees : i stitute 6 per cent of the total Fresh-
is the story one.of our reporters|ion enrollment, and the western-
tells. It seems that she was met | ers 5 per cent. There’ ar nine
by a Freshman who_ queried, foreign students, now resident in
“Should I ask Dean Grant if my the United States; two students
man may stay in her house for from Canada, and one each from
‘the night?” Of course, the dis- | Puerto Rico and Argentina. Switz-
turbed reporter could say nothing lerland, England, -France, Turkey,
but a wondering “Why?”, where- | Java, Germany, Cuba, China, and
upon the Frosh replied, rather dis-| Poland are the countries repre-
appointed at this ignorance of the ‘sented by the students of foreign
supposedly omniscient upperclass- | birth.
man, “Well, it’s the Deanery, isn’t | Of the 190 in the new class, there
TB ae é ‘are 21 daughters of Bryn Mawr
The class of "46, despite incidents ‘alumnae, among them a set of
such asthe above, has started itsitwins. The fathers of 85-members
college career with a record of jof the class are engaged in pro-
superlatives.” ’Forty-six is one of fessions. It is interesting to note
the largest incoming classes in the |that’ 11 are in Government Service,
history of the college, 190 entering, | including the United States Army
including 21 transfers. This exceeds and Navy. The remainder are in
last year’s Freshman enrollment! various. businesses, manufacturing
by one. The ages range from the;and merchandising, brokerage, in-
unusual low of just 15 to 19 years|surance, sales, real estate, and
and 10 months, the average being’ finance included.
17 years and 10 months. There is diversity in religion, as
One of the most interesting com- | well, for the class contains no few-
mentaries on the new class per- er than 19 religious denominations,
tains to only two of its members. | the largest group being Episco-
There were two newcomers who ar- | palian.
rived at college late, and, strangely | One hundred ten schools and 20
enough, their names were Miss Mc- colleges are represented by the
Bride and Miss Parke. They even | incoming class; 28.5 per cent of the
roomed together.
The geographical distribution of from public schools, 55.3 per cent
the class, as a whole, is much the/from private schools, and 16.1 per
same as usual. Approximately 51;cent from both.
per cent are from the “home quad-| Not fully realizing what the fu-
rangle” — bounded by New York | ture held in store, ’46 romped mer-
City and its suburbs on the north, rily through Freshman. Week,
Washington, D. C., on the south,'!feted from one end of campus to
and Paoli, Pa., on the west. New)|the other, toasted with tea weak
England and the Middle West have from priorities, precious coke and
about equal representations, a lit- | jiffee coffee.
5 Natural Wimory Hal
In Print Is Now Open for All
D. Daiches “Virginia Woolf”
Found Sensitive, Valuable,
Competent
Students interested in ornithol-
jogy and general zoology have at
|their disposal free this year for
ithe first time the new Audubon
By Lenore O’Boyle, ’43 | Bird Hall of the Academy of Na-
David Daiches’ Virginia Woolf | tyyal Sciences of Philadelphia,
is primarily. an analysis of tech- | Nineteenth and the Parkway.
nique. ‘The’ “structure of Mrs.| - situated on thé third floor of the
Woolf’s novels is not the chrono- | :
: ; ‘ |; Academy, Audubon Hall displays
logical time table of nineteenth | :
‘ : |the birds of the whole world, to-
century fiction, and Mr. Daiches : ee
: | gether with exhibit cases on evolu-
has given a competent and some- |‘. : : :
A ae ; 'tion, fossil birds and extinct
times sensitive explanation of the| ‘
; ; ii | species,
reasons behind this rejection of |
accepted forms. Virginia Woolf| Audubon Hall opens to the pub
faced the” problem, or so she | lic October 8 and may be visited
thought, of writing for an audi- free from 9 until 5 and on Sundays
ence without a common background | from 1 until 5.
of belief. “Her solution was to| m addition to the advantages of
pattern events according to her | Audubon Hall, the Academy offers
own vision of life, and that vision|t® members its library of natural
focused on the ‘individual sensibil-| History, which includes 130,000
ity in its relations to the world, | Volumes, together with periodicals.
These relations do not depend on| Membership is ten dollars a year,
| permitting withdrawal of books.
time or place in the ordinary sense.
Emphasis is shifted from the ex-|
ternal to the internal. Rather than,jin relation to other literature of
reacting to purely concrete happen-|the same period, literature which
ings, the individual molds and syn-!similarly attempts to picture life
thesizes experience in a creative lin terms valid for the time.
way. As a result, Virginia Woolf
was forced into a new handling of
chronology and plot, if she would |
present a truthful picture of life. |
The study of this attempt in|
terms of style forms thé main part |
of this book. Mr. Daiches’ re- |
marks on Mrs. Woolf’s concept of
the individual caught in the flux |
of experience, are illuminating, and |
his. treatment of the devices)
through which this concept is ex-
pressed is*valuable. It is unfor-
BUY
WAR BONDS
and
STAMPS
‘preparatory school graduates are |
OPEN LETTER
The Alliance wishes to announce
its support of the News editorial
calling for a Second Front now.
Since this is an all-out war, a war
of ideas, and since the military | ology,
phase of the War is in this sense | wenvien
an instrument for carrying out a|_
political object, ‘we would like -to|°Ve? by Dr. Emmet ‘Dunn, of Hav-
|Several of Faculty
Continuea from Page One
at’ Swarthmore College. Mr. Dry-
den; Associate Professor of Ge-
absent for
is government
His work will be taken
lowing activities: (1) talking to | Albigese, Instructor in Geology at
friends about the Second Front, | Bryn Mawr.
opening of the Second Front, (3) igave for a project under the Na-
| passing resolutions urging the op- | tonal Defense Research Commit-
| ening of the Second Front, and (4) | tee. His work is to be given by
|'Dr. Edwin Newman, of the Psy-
jsending letters of support to the
Commander-in-Chief. 'chology Department of Swarthmore
Certainly, petitions to Congress | College; one Psychology course will
| to Bryn Mawr. There can be no
doubt that, were petitions voicing
support of the struggle against
a thousand fold more important
a thousand-fold more . important
| will return at intervals to supervise
ihis advanced students. Mrs. Mi-
chels, Assistant Professor of Latin,
‘is on. sabbatical leave, and Miss
of the Alliance ' , hi
of English Composition, is on sab-
batical leave for the first semester.
OPINION
'Ways of Helping War Effort
By Keeping Strong Faith
Stressed
| with the War Production Board in
! Washington. She is returning once
course in Industrial Organization.
| Students in Money and Banking
| will take this course at Haverford
To the Editor of the College News: | with Dr. Fetter.
Though these times are uncer- | on
tain, it seems to me that we must |
Little Chapel
Services are held in the
Little Chapel from 8.45 to
9.00 every morning from
Monday through Friday. The
Little Chapel is in the small
wing of Goodhart on the
campus side. Services con-
sist of readings. by students.
| 30 on living as though they were |
normal, in that we are sure of our |
faith and our ideals. If we are|
sure of ourselves, and of our faith, |
we can go on living in this turbu- |
lent world, facing it with the se-
renity and fortitude which is very
inecessary at present. People, when |
Rana
strong in themselves, with God’s }
help can face any shocks and yet'| Compliments
can go on living useful lives. They |
rom the
are able to look with more calm- | i .
ness on what is happening in the |
world; then they do what they can |
to help its condition and continue |
“GREEK’S”
Lancaster Avenue
Leave for War Work
stress the importance of the ‘fol- |erford College, and Miss Muriel |
Mr. Helson, Profes- |
(2) attending rallies. urging ‘the | Sor of Psychology, is on partial.
‘and to. the President are not new | be given by Miss Mary Henle, In-"
structor-in Psychology; Mr. Helson.|
now in. this.crucial hour. Jean Holzworth, Instructor in|
The Executive Board Latin, will substitute. Miss Cor-
nelia Meigs, Associate Professor
] . . .
Miss Northrop, Associate Profes- |
sor of Economics, is an economist
a week to give the second year:
Paying Campus Jobs :
Incréase as Stress
Of War Life Grows
This year Bryn Mawr offers a
greater number
of student jobs
In addition to
the compulsory bed-making inno-
than ever before.
| vation, there are numerous and
varied paying positions.
The most popular jobs for which
students applied were waiting on
table in the Deanery, library wérk,
and reading aloud. Other available
work~ includes:. addressing en-
velopes, caring for children, com-
puting, fashion, lantern slides,
mimeograph, addressograph, office
work (other than typing), phono-
\graphic records, playing piano,
violin, etc., posing (portrait heads) ,
proofreading, tutoring, typing,
| selling. Answering bells and
switchboard operating may be in-
cluded later, Additions te this list
|and suggestions will be much ap-
preciated.
The News will carry a voca-
tional column in each issue. Pro-
_fessors or others who wish to em-
ploy students either privately or
under N. Y. A. are urged to get in
touch with Miss King or the News.
| Miss King is in her office in Room
H, Taylor Hall, from nine until
five o’clock, Monday through Fri-
‘day, and from nine until one on
Saturday. During these hours she
‘will give vocational advice to
students,
Dinah Frost’s
Bryn Mawr, Pa.
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to live. |
If girls wish to marry, I think |
that they should do what they think |
best, but that they should ‘consider |
such a question very carefully be-|
fore doing anything in a hurry.|
And also if girls are not fitted for
studying sciences, why should they
do so? Should not those who are
fitted do so? If a girl is a good
student of Fine Arts, why should |
she not study them? She can help
toward the war effort in other
ways. For when the war is over,
we shall need to have good stu-
dents of creative subjects to build
up what has been destroyed.
Thus to go on living sure of |
our beliefs and our faith will make
us happy. If we know that we;
are doing the very best we can, we |
shall be glad in that; and we shall |
‘face the world with a clear head |
and a calm mind.
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to evaluate this vision of life that
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Wisely, at the same time that
he emphasizes the genuine beauty
of her work, he acknowledges its
limited nature. But his interest
in style draws him away from a
thorough study of those -: limita-
tions. The question of whether
the content of Virginia Woolf’s
work was equal to the style is|
- mever really considered. Nor is
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
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Faculty Spends Busy
Summer in Teaching
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And Preparing Becks
Summer activities of. the Bryn
Mawr faculty seem to have centered
mostly on the college campus. Mr.
Watson heads the list with
course in mapping and photogram-
his |
Present, Day Capitol
By Barbara Gumbel, °44
“Tf not a child of light the sum-
mer worker in Washington is at
east a chi'd of hoat. She throws
metry for the Army Air ‘Corps, | herself into her room at night with
which kept him busy from nine. A.!luxurious abandon, sighing ‘How
Me-to six Ps OM:
found a moment, he located water
Grounds in Maryland. Somewhere
he managed to find time to get a
five-day vacation.
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Whenever he }.freshing—it is barely 103 here!’
: “As she trips down Pennsylvania |
wells at the Aberdeen Proving re P :
nue to work in the morning,
she is comparatively carefree; ‘her
greatest problem to secure a path
bchind some swivel-chair Colonel
The, chem'stry department spent. that she may receive the salutes of
the summer training analysts for | all the--marines-.she—meets.
the Philadelphia Navy
She ,
Yard. | crosses the street twice to get a
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| September 28, — The annual
i Freshman-Faculty baseball classic |
/ was definitely of the amateur Sun-| you take the German Oral?
Washington in 1918 : Faculty Wallops "46; ‘Nur
Is Contrasted With | Game Unspectacular|
To Correct Florence Nightingale’s Mistakes
By Mary Virginia More, °45
Attention, Nurses’ Aides!
s | . a . .
day afternoon variety. It ended) not, seize this opportunity to’ bene-
in a faculty blitz at 26-6 score.| fit from some of Florence Night-
Everybody had a good time but)ingale’s experiences in nursing as
new Varsity material seemed to be |
at a minimum; two rookie pitchers, |
Kreiselman and Franck, were the,
only standouts. A lack of initiative | lege.
interpreted by Freshmen and Grad-
uate Students of Bryn Mawr. Col-
Thé
*of base running was the: chief |shine is the point in—and this we
Freshman. difficulty.
into centerfield, causing
and ballet steps, but no spectacular
catches,
Mr. Berry was the heavi- |
The Faculty | can say emphatically—question.
made their usual quota of wallops |
screams | ‘ ”
: |works only at its strength.
“One means truly that the sun
These
words, we presume, are to be taken
est hitter of the day, while Mr. for the inviolable truth. But watch
ss |
High school graduates with one !petter view of a foreign officer in| Gates was.a master at being caught | your step now, and be sure you
year of chemistry, could take the ja buff coat and grips her neigh- | |
couse and the sixteen students out hor’s arm excitedly when she sights; W@5 4 resounding black eye re-.
|ceived by the Freshman catcher in |
of the eighteen enrolled are all'the President’s motorcycles.
work:ng in Philadelphia now. Miss} “The place that knows her most [the seventh inning. The line-up)
Lehr taught mathematics for the next to her office is the cafeteria.
photogrammetry course and then| Washington cafeterias are of two
rested up from it in Maine.
The Biology Department was less |hours and gets what one wants, and |
hours Berry, 1b
want. | Faris, p
class, | Miller, 3b
which | Lattimore, ss
_ Gates, If
patriotic and concentrated on its'those where one waits for
own research. ‘However, Miss;and gets~what one doesn’t
Gardiner got her self attached to | The victim of the second
the Casualty Station of Sector K \tightly grasping a tray on
and went out on mock leap per forks and tumblers rattle, usu-
with the home guard...Mr. Doyle}ally..meets.her fate_at the ‘steam
left in July to work with several |tab‘e.’ *Whatil ..YOU . have?’
other scientists on some unmen- | screams the proprietress. ‘Hurry
tionable government project. Miss | up, line’s waiting.’ ‘A-a-clam
Oppenheimer is at New Haven en- | chowder and ginger ale,’ stammers
joying her Guggenheim Fellowship |her customer, and passes on swift-
and Mrs. Shippen Willing (Martha|ly, only to wonder sadly, ‘Why
Kent) is now with her husband in|didn’t I order scalloped fish and
iclasses—those where one waits for | S¢ribner, ¢
Texas and expects to come back | milk.
That would have been 28
sometime in November after her|cents and this is 39!’
husband’s ship has been commis-
sioned: Mr. Patterson spent his
summer here teaching optics and
mechanics to three undergraduates
. who were accelerating, while Mr.
Oxtoby taught them calculus.
Mr. Chew prepared a series of
six lectures, The Pilgrimage of Hu-
man Life in the Elizabethan Imagi-
nation, which he will deliver at the
Pierpont Morgan Library in New
York starting October 10. He also
completed a portion of.a history of
English literature which he is writ-
ing in collaboration with four other
scholars. Miss Linn, one jump
ahead of the rest of the college,
studied Russian at Harvard Sum-
mer School. Mr. Sprague spent
half of the summer in Cambridge
and half of it here writing his
book on Shakespeare stage busi- ;
ness. Miss Gilman finished reading
the proofs of her book, Beaudelaire,
the Critic, which will appear in
November.
The History Department kept
itself well occupied. Mr. Miller
taught American History at the
Haverford summer session and
completed his book on The Origins
of the American Revolution, while
Mrs. Manning worked on Canadian
history. Mrs. Cameron did some
research ‘on Anglophobia among
the French in the nineteenth and
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“Tho feeling of ind2pendence
achieved by the Washington sum-
mer colonist is no small part of
her joys. She even smiles in a
superior way when she overhears,
as one did on her way home from
the office, ‘I wish these government
twentieth centuries.
Miss Reid was active in the
Politics Department, teaching two
graduate courses at the summer
session of Syracuse University.
Mr. Fenwick is lost in a maze of
Latin-American _ relations. Mr.
Wells says of him: “We suppose he
is still working on the Interameri-
can Juridical Commission in Rio,
but no one has heard from him
since late in August.”
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between bases. The only casualty | vot the portent of this: “The sun
is merely a- source of illness, but
‘also a building up factor.” (You
rare my: Sunshine!)
FRESHMAN | We regret to say that any advice
Fries, ¢ ‘given can’t be of exactly current
Castles, If ‘use, as we are told that “the sun
Behrens, 1b jonly appears ‘in the summer. This
Ashodian, 2b |i8 not the way in the fall.” How-
Mezger, 3b ever, it is well to realize that the
Potter, ss jsun “exerts a mechanical influence
Schweppe, rf |0n'the human body similar to the
was:
FACULTY
Broughton, 2b
| to bed for the sun, she is instead
Did | put in the room when the shade
If ; had set in it, as she leaves him in
;a room” (this is all very_right and
proper) “after the sun has gone
away”; or if this is clearer: “Pref-
erably for the patients surrounded
by sun indeed after the confine-
‘ment of the rooms, if the condi-
tions warrant it, when to let it into
the the
|The treatment of the sick has its
room - after sun. is “set,”
paradoxical qualities, hasn't it?
There is one procedure which
seems to be generaily advocated.
i “Then if the morning and noon
sun. which the sick certain'y. not
l yet outside bed find, then a wall
must be broken down, more impor-
tant than the afternoon sun.”
Therefore (2?) “in a sick room or
in subway tube the shadowed win-
dows should never be closed.”
We even find out that “the con-
dition of, dark rooms or corners is
indeed also.” This seems to sum
up the situation. Is there anything
else you’d like to know? You'd
better take the German Oral next
time!
Square Dance
Swing your’ Haverford
Mott, cf Rebman, cf | influence on the photographie
Boal, rf Hoisington, ss, Plate.”
Seihe Kreiselman, p Now that our preliminary ground
Kent Subs jis cleared we can investigate the
Behrens Blommers ‘actual application of technique:
Franck “Rather than putting th2 patient
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workers would wear uniforms, |2'ns meal is enjoyed in the quiet |
Then you could tell them from the | Seclusion of the home base. And
, Some bases are quite intriguing,
j : |too—a medley. of four administra-
This was in a 1918 College News, | ane ;
statisticians, executives and
; : itors
but.just let us tell you how times | ae : .
such this summer occupied a Turk-
have changed. |
Wain wow eG me earetice trip- | ish bazaar with carved doodads,
pings down Pennsylvania Avenue, | hangings, sculptures, brass gongs,
A standing ride on a swaying bus | Oriental rugs, etcetera, ad infini-
is what confronts the wilted-collar- | tum ea And others indubitably
girl —always provided that the: 2re living ” Places: just aerieee!
blooming thing doesn’t go by with Priguing. All we all, ve oe
its nose in the air and a sneering ferent, but we like it .
9 99
ladies!
partner at the gala square
dance this Friday night, at
eightsthirty in the gym. Re-
freshments will be served to
the tune of 25¢ and a hill-
billy orchestra. Here’s a
chance to relax and widen
your circle of acquaintances
at the same time. This is
the first of a series of en-
tertainments on the campus
sponsored by the Undergrad-
uate Association. Watch for
movies and bridge tourna-
ments to follow.
“Bus Full” sign in front.
As for ladies, well, we know of
four class of ’42’s who roam around
the ‘Streets at 12 o’clock’ at night‘
on their way home from those
gruesome Navy Department shifts,
and we still like to think of them
as ladies.
The cafeterias? They are all
very well. for lunch, but the eve-
Being apart from familiar surroundings
saps morale. But all that is erased—the
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tave Six THE COLLEGE NEWS ,
ose a VA ! . \ ee oS oe “ te : the Tinkés Cli er with a tid
Ballad 4 Bryn Mawr Girls | MOVIES Redbirds Slam Homers pr “PP .
“There is still the same amount | . | In Philadelphia | In Yanks’ Backyard|" EEN
of beard on campus.” oe Dr. | Divide Dante Award’ Earle Theatre—Alvino Rey and | Awarnedk tel ’ AY the ‘last
Sprague. | the Four King Sisters on the stage, | ' Continued from Page One ee ee
Four Bryn Mawr students won
the essay contest this year organ-
ized by the Dante Society of Cam-
It was a night in mid-July. The|
air was hot and still. |
There was ro’sound within the |
room, but scratching of a quill. bridge, Massachusetts. The con-
Two scholars sat in work absorbed. | test requires a paper on some as-
Their outlines could be seen.
One tall and lanky bearded scribe, ' the first prize, in previous years,
« one pudgy with chin clean. , has usually gone to a Harvard
So hot the night, the hairy gent student.
was bothered by his fur. | For the first time Bryn Mawr
Mosquitoes pricked persistently at entered papers in the contest. There
chin of rotund sir. ‘| were~four undergraduates in last
With single mind they both looked year’s Dante class and all four
up. An idea there was born. students wrote such excellent
A scissors grasped, a moments papers that each paper was sent to
time, the bearded one was shofn. Cambridge. @
And on the other’s glassy jaw, with |
aid of glue and wire,
There grew a modest foliage, that the world. It was organized in
made the bugs retire. | Longfellow’s time and has long
The mystery is explained .here of been distinguished for its publi-
the sight we found disturbin’ cations, The Cambridge Society
How nature covered Weiss’ jowl corresponds here to the famous Ox-
with hair from Dr. Herben. _/ ford Dante Society in England.
ALICE ISEMAN, ’43. | The prize was divided for the
i first time between four people. The
| Bryn Mawr students and the works
Menace From Enemy
Haunts Reading Room|
| front are disclosed to the German
: i|High Command, we will know
Continued fiom Page Two | :
flight, under the delusion that the | Whom as blame. On the other
pigeon would take the-hint...-With | hand, there is always the Fi soo
the result that the bird got away, | bility that a second front will be
This fat and repulsive animal | 0Pened oh Merion any day ah al
showed up again late in the after- |The whole business may well give
noon, this time in Merion. Whether you food for thought.
there is any genuine significance |
in this fact we for one will not
attempt to decide. However, an
astonishing lack of pub’ic_ spirit
was again displayed. After walk-
ing slowly through several rooms
the bird final'y left. All we have
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|pect of Dante or his works, and,
The Society is one of the most’
‘eminent authorities on Dante in'
1 ’43, “The Imagery in the First Two
‘time the Yankees were vanquished
{in a World Series-was -by their
in person. A Haunting We Will go, ‘seats belaw us. But even her
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— ee ing R d Ske. | Monday’s gloom. . Her husband| 1926 the’ Cards did it the hard
Cen wane gearee, We icou'dn’t drive in a run. His team- way, playing the full seven games.
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Seville—I Married An Angel;
Nelson Eddy, Jeanette MacDonald.
which received the honor were:
Joanne Loewe, ’42, “Four Illustra-
tions of Dante”; Frances Lynd,
en:
Cantiche of the Divine Comedy”;
Sally Alexander, ’43, “Dante and
Wordsworth: A Study in Nature
Poetry,” and Florence Newman,
43, “The Francesca. da Rimini
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