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College news, October 7, 1942
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
Bryn Mawr College (creator)
1942-10-07
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Weekly
6 pages
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North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 29, No. 02
College news (Bryn Mawr College : 1914)--
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BMC-News-vol29-no2
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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-
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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!
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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 .
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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-
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